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This recent article by #DuncanGreive of #TheSpinOff is worth a read but ...
"[The Common Room] does present a fairly coherent contemporary right wing ideology (free speech is important, small government is good, identity politics is too reductive etc)..."
I don't disagree with the first and third of these, as stated, so that makes me right wing now?!?
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Grain of salt warning:
TheSpinOff aligned writers often seem to swallow the big lie of neoliberal coups; we're in a crisis, There Is No Alternative (sound familiar?). But their Juggernaut podcast about the 1984 election can be found here;
https://open.spotify.com/show/14elyKUvT9NNvkyGl6mTze
FYI It seems to focus on the Rogernomics labour government (1984-90), not the Ruthenasia National government (1990-99), which was just as crucial to the degraded state the country is in today.
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As #MaxRashbrooke pointed out on TheSpinoff;
"Our spending is not really the problem: our failure to raise enough tax revenue is. The projections of a surplus by 2027 rely on the annual allowance for new spending shrinking from the current $3.5 billion to just $1.6 billion in 2026 (once existing commitments are factored in)."
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As #MaxRashbrooke pointed out on TheSpinoff;
"Our spending is not really the problem: our failure to raise enough tax revenue is. The projections of a surplus by 2027 rely on the annual allowance for new spending shrinking from the current $3.5 billion to just $1.6 billion in 2026 (once existing commitments are factored in)."
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As #MaxRashbrooke pointed out on TheSpinoff;
"Our spending is not really the problem: our failure to raise enough tax revenue is. The projections of a surplus by 2027 rely on the annual allowance for new spending shrinking from the current $3.5 billion to just $1.6 billion in 2026 (once existing commitments are factored in)."
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As #MaxRashbrooke pointed out on TheSpinoff;
"Our spending is not really the problem: our failure to raise enough tax revenue is. The projections of a surplus by 2027 rely on the annual allowance for new spending shrinking from the current $3.5 billion to just $1.6 billion in 2026 (once existing commitments are factored in)."
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How to watch #NZVotes23 : https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13-10-2023/saturday-night-and-sunday-morning-where-to-watch-election-2023 . Radio NZ on Youtube probably the best option for international folks: https://www.youtube.com/user/radionz #nzpol
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Just listening to Duncan Greive's 7 May special edition of The Fold on the government's decision to abolish the BSA;
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/the-fold
I stand corrected on my suggestion that the BSA could theoretically accept complaints against podcasts. Greive mentioned that "on demand" services are specifically exempted from BSA jurisdiction. Confining them to regulating only live broadcasts.
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Just listening to Duncan Greive's 7 May special edition of The Fold on the government's decision to abolish the BSA;
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/the-fold
I stand corrected on my suggestion that the BSA could theoretically accept complaints against podcasts. Greive mentioned that "on demand" services are specifically exempted from BSA jurisdiction. Confining them to regulating only live broadcasts.
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I’m listening to the excellent #juggernaut2 podcast series from #TheSpinoff about the 4th National Government.
The thing that has struck me the most so far is the absolute callous disregard that #RuthRichardson appears to have toward the vast numbers of Kiwis hurt in the welfare cuts she undertook.
#JimBolger has always been an empathetic figure given the way that he talks about his government’s cuts. He did what he believed was necessary and yet seems genuinely concerned about the wellbeing of New Zealanders.
Richardson on the other hand comes across as gleeful when talking about the enormous cuts to the welfare state. An absolute zealot who seems to not care about the human cost of pursuing “balanced books”.
And rather than being consigned to an unfortunate and socially damaging part of our history, she’s unfortunately now the chair of the astroturf “Tax Payers Union”.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut#6348 https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut#6348
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I’m listening to the excellent #juggernaut2 podcast series from #TheSpinoff about the 4th National Government.
The thing that has struck me the most so far is the absolute callous disregard that #RuthRichardson appears to have toward the vast numbers of Kiwis hurt in the welfare cuts she undertook.
#JimBolger has always been an empathetic figure given the way that he talks about his government’s cuts. He did what he believed was necessary and yet seems genuinely concerned about the wellbeing of New Zealanders.
Richardson on the other hand comes across as gleeful when talking about the enormous cuts to the welfare state. An absolute zealot who seems to not care about the human cost of pursuing “balanced books”.
And rather than being consigned to an unfortunate and socially damaging part of our history, she’s unfortunately now the chair of the astroturf “Tax Payers Union”.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut#6348 https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut#6348
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I’m listening to the excellent #juggernaut2 podcast series from #TheSpinoff about the 4th National Government.
The thing that has struck me the most so far is the absolute callous disregard that #RuthRichardson appears to have toward the vast numbers of Kiwis hurt in the welfare cuts she undertook.
#JimBolger has always been an empathetic figure given the way that he talks about his government’s cuts. He did what he believed was necessary and yet seems genuinely concerned about the wellbeing of New Zealanders.
Richardson on the other hand comes across as gleeful when talking about the enormous cuts to the welfare state. An absolute zealot who seems to not care about the human cost of pursuing “balanced books”.
And rather than being consigned to an unfortunate and socially damaging part of our history, she’s unfortunately now the chair of the astroturf “Tax Payers Union”.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut#6348 https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut#6348
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Ministry apologises after beneficiary told food ‘not an essential need’
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Finally got to the end of season 2 of Juggernaut, show covers the 1990s National government, and from 1996, the first Nat-led coalition resulting from MMP elections;
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
The contrast between the sound bites from veteran economist Susan St John and from former finance minister Ruth Richardson couldn't be more stark.
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Finally got to the end of season 2 of Juggernaut, show covers the 1990s National government, and from 1996, the first Nat-led coalition resulting from MMP elections;
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
The contrast between the sound bites from veteran economist Susan St John and from former finance minister Ruth Richardson couldn't be more stark.
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Finally got to the end of season 2 of Juggernaut, show covers the 1990s National government, and from 1996, the first Nat-led coalition resulting from MMP elections;
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
The contrast between the sound bites from veteran economist Susan St John and from former finance minister Ruth Richardson couldn't be more stark.
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Finally got to the end of season 2 of Juggernaut, show covers the 1990s National government, and from 1996, the first Nat-led coalition resulting from MMP elections;
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
The contrast between the sound bites from veteran economist Susan St John and from former finance minister Ruth Richardson couldn't be more stark.
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This week's edition of The Fold discusses the Oz ban on (some) social media companies allowing under-16s to access their platforms;
https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-12-2025/the-fold-australias-big-tech-revolution-rolls-on
On one level, I'm playing the world's smallest violin for the DataFarming platforms targeted. I'm also relieved that the ban doesn't seem to apply to fediverse services, and other not-for-profit online services that clearly could be put in the "social media" bucket if the politicians were so inclined.
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This week's edition of The Fold discusses the Oz ban on (some) social media companies allowing under-16s to access their platforms;
https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-12-2025/the-fold-australias-big-tech-revolution-rolls-on
On one level, I'm playing the world's smallest violin for the DataFarming platforms targeted. I'm also relieved that the ban doesn't seem to apply to fediverse services, and other not-for-profit online services that clearly could be put in the "social media" bucket if the politicians were so inclined.
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This week's edition of The Fold discusses the Oz ban on (some) social media companies allowing under-16s to access their platforms;
https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-12-2025/the-fold-australias-big-tech-revolution-rolls-on
On one level, I'm playing the world's smallest violin for the DataFarming platforms targeted. I'm also relieved that the ban doesn't seem to apply to fediverse services, and other not-for-profit online services that clearly could be put in the "social media" bucket if the politicians were so inclined.
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This week's edition of The Fold discusses the Oz ban on (some) social media companies allowing under-16s to access their platforms;
https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-12-2025/the-fold-australias-big-tech-revolution-rolls-on
On one level, I'm playing the world's smallest violin for the DataFarming platforms targeted. I'm also relieved that the ban doesn't seem to apply to fediverse services, and other not-for-profit online services that clearly could be put in the "social media" bucket if the politicians were so inclined.
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NZ got proportional representation elections, in the end, kind of by accident. With 1980s Labour PM David Lange misreading his notes and committing to it, and when Labour reneged, National leader Jim Bolger promised a referendum on it. Thinking kiwis would never vote for it.
Juggernaut talks about all this in s02e04;
https://www.thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
What Juggernaut doesn't cover in any detail is the years of grassroots campaigning that preceded all this.
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NZ got proportional representation elections, in the end, kind of by accident. With 1980s Labour PM David Lange misreading his notes and committing to it, and when Labour reneged, National leader Jim Bolger promised a referendum on it. Thinking kiwis would never vote for it.
Juggernaut talks about all this in s02e04;
https://www.thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
What Juggernaut doesn't cover in any detail is the years of grassroots campaigning that preceded all this.
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NZ got proportional representation elections, in the end, kind of by accident. With 1980s Labour PM David Lange misreading his notes and committing to it, and when Labour reneged, National leader Jim Bolger promised a referendum on it. Thinking kiwis would never vote for it.
Juggernaut talks about all this in s02e04;
https://www.thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
What Juggernaut doesn't cover in any detail is the years of grassroots campaigning that preceded all this.
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"... you have politics litigated on the platforms where young people are - everyone kind of is but particularly young people - and all the incentives of those platforms are to practice politics as this kind of bombthrowing exercise. Where the ... policy outcomes and how it might ultimately reach you feel a long way down the list, if they're on it at all."
#DuncanGreive, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/the-fold
They're not. The Algorithms do not care about policy.
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I presume anyone who wants to understand NZ politics has listened to The Spinoff's Juggernaut podcast, about the 1984-90 Labour government. But did you catch up with the fact that the second season of Juggernaut is out, telling the story of the 1990s National government?
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
The first 3 episodes are out now.
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