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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
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
'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