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Bernard’s pick 'n' mix for Monday, May 6

The Kaka’s diary for the week to May 12 and beyond

Bernard’s dawn chorus for Saturday, May 4 and pick ‘n’ mix for the weekend

Bernard’s pick 'n' mix for Friday, May 3

The Hoon around the week to May 3

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Agribusiness following oil and gas playbook

Bernard’s pick 'n' mix for Thursday, May 2

Infrastructure & home building slumping on Govt funding freeze

Business confidence sliding into winter of discontent

Bernard’s pick 'n' mix for Tuesday, April 30

Worst poll result for a new Government in MMP history

Bernard’s pick 'n' mix for Monday, April 29

Coalition's dirge of austerity and uncertainty is driving the economy into a deeper recession

'Lacks attention to detail and is creating double-standards.'

Bernard’s pick ‘n’ mix of the news links for Wednesday, April 24

Both Parliamentary watchdogs hammer Fast-track bill

Bernard’s pick ‘n’ mix of the news links at 6:36am on Tuesday, April 23

Bernard's six-stack of substacks for Monday, April 22

An announcement about an announcement

Bernard’s pick ‘n’ mix of the news links at 7:16am on Monday, April 22

The Kaka’s diary for the week to April 29 and beyond

'This bill is dangerous for the environment and our democracy'

The Hoon around the week to April 19

The ‘Humpty Dumpty’ end result of dismantling our environmental protections

Study sees climate change baking in 19% lower global income by 2050

Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links

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Should the RBNZ be looking through climate inflation?

Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links

Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links at 6:06 am

Bernard's six-stack of substacks at 6:26 pm

Is saving one minute of a politician's time worth nearly $1 billion?

Govt ignored economic analysis of smokefree reversal

Auckland faces 25% water inflation shock

The Hoon around the week to April 12

Antarctic heat spike shocks climate scientists

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Like sand through an hourglass* - trust leaks away

Standby for bad things

Bernard's Top 10 'pick 'n' mix' at 10:10 am on Thursday, April 11

When 'going for growth' actually means saying no to new social homes

Bernard's six-stack of substacks at 6:06 pm on Wednesday, April 10

Bernard's Top 10 'pick 'n' mix' at 10:10 am on Wednesday, April 10

Bishop more popular than Luxon in Curia poll

Back to the future, with a 2032 deadline

The hunt is on for an asterix for farm emissions

The Kaka’s diary for the week to April 15 and beyond

Dawn Chorus for Friday, April 5

The Hoon around the week to April 5

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New oil and gas to quadruple by 2030, threatening climate goals

Media News You Need - Theoretically

Shit happens; China calls out US on spying

Confidence in Government collapses

Dawn Chorus for Wednesday, April 3

The debt rules being used to strangle NZ

The Kaka’s diary for the week to April 8 and beyond

Failing to internalise new realities

The Hoon around the week to March 29

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Curated World-Who to believe on Moscow?

Borrowing $15b more to pay for $14.9b of tax cuts

The elephants still in Chris Bishop’s infrastructure room

Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 7:06pm

Bernard's Top 10 @ 10:10am pick ‘n’ mix for Tuesday, March 26

GDP-per-hour worked stagnant at 2012 levels

The Kaka’s diary for the week to April 2 and beyond

Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 6.26pm

Simeon Brown threatens councils on water reform

Bernard’s 6-stack of substacks at 6.16 pm on Friday, March 22

Paying for tax cuts by not funding insulin pumps and glucose monitors for disabled kids

The Hoon around the week to March 22

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IMF calls for capital gains and land taxes

Funds for disabled suspended to pay for tax cuts

Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 6.06 pm on Tuesday, March 19

Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' at 10:10am on Tuesday, March 19

Bernard's six newsy things on Tuesday, March 19

Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 6.06 pm on March 18

Bernard's six newsy things at 6.36am on Monday, March 18

The Kaka’s diary for the week to March 25 and beyond

Bernard’s Dawn Chorus with six newsey things at 6:46am for Saturday, March 16

Bernard’s six stack of substacks at 6pm on March 15

Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' for March 15

The day Wellington up-zoned its future

The Hoon around the week to March 15

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Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' for March 14

No, Prime Minister, rents don’t rise or fall with landlords’ costs

Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' for March 13

Funding hole for tax cuts growing by the day

How strangling housing supply is killing our capital city

Why isn’t the funding on the same fast track?

The Kaka’s diary for the week to March 18 and beyond

The Hoon around the week to March 9

Public infrastructure and service potholes under massive population pressure

The National Development Act (1979) redux

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'Couch surf. It's better than motels & cheaper for us'

Our nation of inflation displacement

Simeon Brown’s road-taxing bait-and-switch

Luxon's housing-market-with-bits-tacked-on moment

The Hoon around the week to March 2

Migration surge reduced inflation, says Orr

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RBNZ's dovish pivot revives rate cut hopes

Bishop wants house prices to halve vs income

Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 am 'pick 'n' mix' for Feb 27

The day our infrastructure deficits came home to roost

Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 am 'pick 'n' mix'

Will the RBNZ upset NZ Inc's applecart?

The Hoon around the week to Feb 23

Child poverty progress reverses to 2019 levels

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Govt's Budget 'just like a household,' says Willis

S&P slams new Govt's council finance vacuum

We’re not as fragile or as lazy as Luxon says

Is 2.8% per year population growth too much?

The Hoon around the week to Feb 16

The Dawn Chorus for Friday, February 16

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Tax cuts paid for by up to 13k more kids in poverty

Mortgage rates seen high for even longer

The holes in National’s water reform pipes

Kicking down and pulling up the ladder

Looking at clouds from both sides now

The Hoon around the week to Feb 9

The Dawn Chorus for Friday, February 9

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Watching the ladder being pulled up in real time

The magical thinking is still strong in Wellington

This Government has an inflation problem too

Notice of no Hoon today

'Please manage and fund our climate retreat'

Dawn Chorus for Wednesday, January 31

Dawn Chorus for Tuesday, January 30

When a few climate sceptics skew debates and elections

The Hoon around the week to Jan 26

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Dawn Chorus for Thursday, January 25

The years of living dangerously

Dawn Chorus for Tuesday, January 23

Dawn Chorus for Monday, January 22

The Hoon around the week to Jan 20

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EVs to be taxed twice as hard as petrol cars

Dawn Chorus for Wednesday, January 17

Why The Kākā is staying on Substack

Dawn Chorus for Monday, January 15

Dawn Chorus for Friday, January 12

Dawn Chorus for Thursday, January 11

Dawn Chorus for Wednesday, January 10

Dawn Chorus for Tuesday, January 9

10@10 for Monday, January 8

Dawn Chorus for Monday, January 8