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Another grilling for Quilae Wong and the Opportunity, this time from Mihingarangi Forbes;
A good interview for those who question whether Opportunity can really be described as "progressive".
#MihingarangiForbes #Mata #RNZ #podcasts #Opportunity #NZElection2026 #NZPolitics
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Another grilling for Quilae Wong and the Opportunity, this time from Mihingarangi Forbes;
A good interview for those who question whether Opportunity can really be described as "progressive".
#MihingarangiForbes #Mata #RNZ #podcasts #Opportunity #NZElection2026 #NZPolitics
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Another grilling for Quilae Wong and the Opportunity, this time from Mihingarangi Forbes;
A good interview for those who question whether Opportunity can really be described as "progressive".
#MihingarangiForbes #Mata #RNZ #podcasts #Opportunity #NZElection2026 #NZPolitics
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Another grilling for Quilae Wong and the Opportunity, this time from Mihingarangi Forbes;
A good interview for those who question whether Opportunity can really be described as "progressive".
#MihingarangiForbes #Mata #RNZ #podcasts #Opportunity #NZElection2026 #NZPolitics
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"... the Department of Corrections had posted a procurement notice on the website of GETS, the Government Electronic Tenders Service. Which is often scanned by journalists looking for stories about budget government spending."
#ColinPeacock, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=1ba02017-cc5b-4b48-b24a-b600be58987c
Not really a secret. So Mitchell not knowing about it is just more evidence that he's not paying attention to what's happening in his portfolio. The kneejerk response is typical though.
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"People can not afford the basics. They do not want to have to rely on food banks. They do not want to have to come to social services. They want to be able to provide for themselves, from their incomes ..."
#BonnieRibinson, Salvation Army, 2026
Why? Either way we're not talking about growing all our own food. That's possible, on a strict vegan diet, if most of your waking hours involve gardening. But not practical.
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#FoodBanks #UnquestionedAssumptions #FocusOnPolitics #RNZ #podcasts
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"Fisheries Minister Shane Jones overrode official advice a $50,000 fine for leaking footage from fishing boat cameras - five times the penalty under the Privacy Act - would be 'unreasonable'."
#RussellPalmer, Political Reporter, #RNZ, 2026
Overriding official advice to pass deeply corrupt policy into law seems to be a hobby for NatACT First. It's like they're trying to fill a bingo card, by ignoring advice from every government department.
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The Nats are stuck between a rock and a hard place with their vacuous leader;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=9b2d99b4-c151-457e-8dea-47701f053f44
They have a deeply unpopular leader who the electorate have got to know very well. A smug, entitled reciter of empty talking points, fairly unlikable and mostly disliked.
But if Nats replace CLuxon with someone whose personality isn't pasted on, it might lift their party's polling, but either Rimmer or Peters could trigger an early election
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"Dr Bryce Edwards is a transparency campaigner, used to run a thing called the Integrity Institute, which had backing to research these issues, now it's called The Democracy Project ..."
#ColinPeacock, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=e7df26f7-0add-4051-a4ac-36568ba69994
Really? It's news to me that The Democracy Project is a rebranding of the Integrity Institute. I thought the latter was a newer initiative. Can anyone confirm?
#MediaWatch #IntegrityInstitute #DemocracyProject #RNZ #podcasts
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This week's Focus On Politics looked at NZ politicians' comments on Orange Stalin's threats to destroy civilian infrastructure like bridges and power plants, if the Iranian government doesn't give the MAGA cabal what they want;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=9971aef4-ac4d-4585-8a11-cb17f03fd460
Orange Stalin's post on lies.social wasn't just "disgraceful". Threatening civilian populations with violence to achieve political aims is the definition of *terrorism*.
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"When ad spend on media peaked 20 years ago, advertising accounted for 1.25% of our entire GDP. But now, in this increasingly digital days, it's around 0.75%."
#ColinPeacock, 2026
So what does this tell us? What all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the big DataFarms hoovering up most of the remaining ad spend obscures or avoid admitting;
Advertising is a dying industry. Has been since the net went mainstream.
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"As for the government, the plan is now clearer, and they're spending less than ... might have been expected under Labour."
#RussellPalmer, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=a06dda4a-e2dd-410a-8afc-bf71d5cfa749
I'm sorry, what?
Hasn't your colleague at TVNZ, Jack Tame, reported figures that show NatACT First spending and borrowing *more* than Labour, while *not* governing through a disease pandemic?! Instead giving away huge wads of public money to landlords, corporations, and white elephant projects
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"NZers are fair-minded people, we're always focused on helping those in need. But we also need to reclaim our main streets and town centres for the enjoyment of people who live here, people who visit, people who work here, and want to be able to work and operate in a safe and welcoming environment."
#PaulGoldsmith, NZ Minister of inJustice, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=e5d39797-5bff-4381-96d5-9fbe3f883b83
This made me swear loudly at my longsuffering podcast app
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Intriguing how when it comes to a fossil fuel project, NatACTs can grasp the logic that increasing public spending on infrastructure in the short term can result in future savings for the public;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=9fff2be2-c439-4427-93bc-2c43daf79584
A shame they didn't apply that logic to;
* canning prescription charges
* EV subsidies
* iRex
* hospital rebuilds
* public housing builds
* National Resilience Fund
* etc... and particularly in this case climate change mitigation.
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Speaking of economic astrology ...
"... Without doubt, the number 1 thing is to make sure the economy is growing, and that people are feeling it."
#CLuxon, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=8ea2a808-b255-4337-88d0-1ab609252fde
As a statement, "the economy is growing" is about as meaningful as 'Jupiter is in retrograde'. After decades of financialisation and the FIRE economy, number-go-up in neoclassical economic measures has no relationship to citizens' standard of living.
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"Councils will meet [the state-imposed rates cap], because they would be required to meet it under legislation. It will mean that we are saying no to our communities more often, and it will mean that we are deferring projects that they wanted to see go ahead.
But that might be ok, if it means they've got more money in their back pocket, because their rates bills aren't rising at such a significant rate.
#Tamah Alley, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=3ca9302f-cf98-42e3-b73c-a13df8cd06a5
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Now it seems like we're looking at another round of forced amalgamation of local bodies, with Auckland's "supercity" council as the model. The first step being arbitrarily firing all regional councillors and adding their responsibilities to the jobs of city and district mayors.
Two RNZ shows have reported on this over the last week or so, Focus on Politics;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=ad5c05a5-7472-48fe-b6c8-f13f997ef2aa
... and The Detail;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/the-detail?share=58b425f8-6bc9-4e38-adf8-d9f921904eb9
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"What's I'm doing is focused very much on my job. As I keep saying; polls, commentariat, rumours, my job is to get on with the country, and getting it sorted for people."
#CLuxon, speaking to Ryan Bridge in 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=8e7b038f-039b-4c10-86c4-cb2a67ad34af
Oh dear. The political truism regurgitation machine has started stringing random clauses together into vaguely sentence-shaped objects, which don't really hang together (they also don't mean anything but that's not new.
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"I tried, I'm disappointed too, but I wasn't prepared to hold up the entire Arms Act [rewrite] to fight over it, when there's a good win for everybody in it."
#NicoleMcKee, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=cf65a0e8-c8c6-43a1-82a3-0d61c93372a4
I've made some very strong criticisms of this firearms industry lobbyist turned ACT MP. But credit where credit is due; this is a really generous and pragmatic way for a politician to describe not getting exactly what they wanted from a bill.
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"All Labour has done is chosen a group of people that can be marginalised and be taxed without - they hope - fear of electoral retribution."
#MattBall, NZ Property Investors Federation, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=72dfab42-b0de-46f3-9958-29494bf53211
You mean Māori? Beneficiaries? Women getting pay equity? Unionised workers? Trans people? Oops, sorry, he's taking about *Labour* there. My bad.
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"The government this month announced its plans to change pig welfare regulations including around the use of the crates ...
Documents have shown the government's own animal welfare experts disagreed with the approach taken, which were developed after eight meetings with NZ Pork."
#RussellPalmer, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/577252/no-consultation-on-pig-welfare-regulation-changes-spca
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"There are recurring themes, the most dominant of these is probably reining in the overuse of Parliamentary Urgency, including skipping or curtailing the Select Committees process.
Ideas to curb urgency include automatic expiry dates for laws passed without full process, governments needing to convince the Speaker that urgency is necessary, and select committees undertaking post-hoc reviews of laws that bypass them."
#PhilSmith, 2025
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The Tories are virtue signalling around climate policy to shore up their rural vote;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=0fdf10db-6e5c-4b60-a29d-0acfd02449e0
But considering all the things they could have done - and that ACT and Winston First would have done given the chance - what they've done is pretty weak tea. Which suggests a significant majority of kiwis support strong climate protection policy, and NatACT First know it.
#podcasts #RNZ #FocusOnPolitics #ClimateChange #AgriculturalEmissions
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Political talking points - or "key messages" as Nicky Hagar called them in The Hollow Men - are a cancer on political communication. Expressly designed to allow politicians to make public statements without actually *saying* anything.
There's some great examples in yesterday's FOP on RNZ, where CLuxon and Rimmer vomited up and ate the same verbal hairballs they've been retaining since 2023;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics/2025/FOCUSDISCONTENT
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People talking about fixing an economy that's bleeding out, with more cutting of regulation and public spending, is like a doctor proposing to save a person who's bleeding out, by doing more bloodletting.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=3bb48a4d-e5cb-4fd1-bd2b-209f8458de06
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Mögt Ihr Sagen und Geschichten?
Dann ist folgender Podcast über den Odenwald evtl. etwas für Euch:Podcast: Sagenhafter Odenwald
#Sagen #Geschichten #Odenwald #Baden-Württemberg #Mythologie #RNZ #2025-08-17 @badenwuerttemberg
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Wow, the world is really waking up to the reality of Bibi's New Clothes;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=36b614ea-2ca6-43a1-a900-293694ea3e30
Intriguing to compare the rhetoric that led up to Irish independence with the rhetoric around the recognition of Palestinian statehood. Right down to the way they used the IRA as an excuse to refuse independence. Avoiding talks for handover to a transitional government by accusing people involved of being with the IRA ("we don't negotiate with terrorists")
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"I'm not taking any lectures from frick'n Chris Hipkins."
#CLuxon, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=e209c491-f7d1-421e-abf2-a68afd0c9b0b
Ooh, the nice guy mask is slipping. CLuxon is rattled!
The NatACTs are running scared. Which is presumably why they've turned to blatant voter suppression, in a desperate attempt to avoid being turfed out in 2026.
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/07/an-attack-on-free-and-fair-elections.html
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This is the talking point #CLuxon pulls out when asked about health system failures;
"Basically I think that's the hangover of a Labour government that didn't care about Auckland, focused on Wellington, shut the joint down for 2 years."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=7c69e0c3-ba0e-47f7-a4fd-7b37a9e604d1
I'm just imagining the next tory PM blaming the previous government for health failures in Otago. Blatantly ignoring consecutive tory governments delaying and *defunding* the Dunedin Hospital rebuild.
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"In references how in the past, major drug seizures would have a clear impact on consumption. That's no longer the case. According to the National Drug Intelligence Bureau, there was a 96% increase, in 2024, of the minimum annual consumption of methamphetamine compared to 2023."
#LillianHanly, Political Reporter, RNZ, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=0f53fc3a-0d35-4a91-8a3d-e6cdd4ed7d2a
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#podcasts #RNZ #FocusOnPolitics #DrugProhibition #WarOnSomeDrugs #meth #NDIB
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Listening to Guyon Espiner's interview with CLuxon. He starts off sounding a tad more human than he did with Jack Tame, but the chatbot-speak kicks in about 5 minutes in;
"But what we are doing, is we have refreshed all of our Defence leadership, from heads of the Forces, through the Chief, through the Defence Secretary, through to the Minister, obviously. And I've asked them for a new strategy on our defence strategy."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=514c090c-041b-48b6-8c90-bf6986a67eb2
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"This is the trickle-down budget. This is the no ambition budget. This is the ask the lowest paid working women in this country to pay the cost of your unequal economy budget. This is the 'let them eat cake' budget."
#ChlöeSwarbrick, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=e8279efb-5185-496b-9924-5b293c6710eb
Preach.
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"[Pattrick Smellie says of future news outlets] they'll be smaller, driven by editorial concerns rather than advertising imperatives. Today's ... news publishers he said, both in Australia and NZ, have in practice now become real estate advertising platforms, with newsrooms attached."
#ColinPeacock, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=a2db3e6a-d412-44ff-880b-c9c90f7a449f
Burn!
For those who can afford to vault the paywall, Smellie's full piece can be read here;
https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/opinion/the-future-of-news-yet-another-reckon
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seit wann kann man die e-paper der #rnz Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung des letzten Monats einfach runterladen?
#heidelberg #mannheim #rheinneckar #kraichgau #presse #zeitung #epub
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Most depressing podcast episode ever. According to the results of the latest Reid Research Poll (now funded by RNZ), after watching the Coalition of Chaos screw up over and over again for half a term, half the country seems to think they deserve a second one;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=54c19a5d-55a9-4b58-8259-2398f733aaf5/
It's like trying to get a friend to leave their abusive partner. A bouquet of economic green shoots and a promise things will get better, and months of beatings are forgotten.
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"China has the largest navy in the world."
#JudithCollins, Minister of Defence 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=bff71632-e2e7-4fb6-9482-9155d53aeb5e
You'd hope a defence minister would know, but that's news to me. When did China's navy outstrip the size of the US Navy?
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Winston Peters interviewed after his diplomatic visit to China;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=bff71632-e2e7-4fb6-9482-9155d53aeb5e
He sounds tired, and started off the interview unusually subdued.
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"Facing falling poll numbers and focusing squarely on growth, the prime minister's agenda this week has faced multiple distractions ..."
#FocusOnPolitics, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=7c8fabc8-d15a-45b3-84e8-8db9ecd120ce
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"The government also announced its plans to overhaul the school lunch program, only for ACT leader and disproportionate influencer David Seymour to reveal he had the pallette of a preschooler."
CraigMcCulloch, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=336fa4b2-fe44-4e0f-8081-e731727f7276
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"Real democracy is one person, one vote, one opportunity to submit ..."
#DavidSeymour, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=6d064b47-5ac2-450f-9a12-c0ab983e5df5No Rimmer. The core idea of democracy is that government can only be legitimate with the full, informed, and *ongoing* consent of the governed.
As Thomas Jefferson put it;
"... to secure [our] rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/jefferson-on-the-right-to-change-one-s-government-1776
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In yet another example of NatACT First's determination to put foxes in charge of every henhouse in the country, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk is overseeing a return to a system where builders certify their own work. Instead of having it signed off by an independent expert.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=04dadcf1-6e70-4e3b-8fa3-54351c1eb8caThose with convenient cases of political amnesia may not remember that we moved away from this kind of system after the leaky buildings debacle.
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... and the attempted fire sale of public infrastructure begins.
Kudos to the councilors who united across the political spectrum to block the sale of the public stake in Wellington Airport, held in trust by the Wellington City Council;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=0bf2aca9-a697-41a1-9c1a-15bd5025d826I have to wonder what kind of kompromat the city's "green" Mayor was threatened with, to get her to front the bid to sell. Yet another sign of how deeply compromised some greens have become.
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When I heard Winston Peters talking sense about the UN resolution demanding Israel withdraw from occupied Palestine, I thought I'd flipped into a parallel universe, where Winston First decides policy based on verifiable facts and consistent political principles;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=26999a4d-c479-4ed7-a241-57d918ee41e1
... then he moved on to domestic policy and the political gaslighting and doublethink returned to normal levels 🙄
#podcasts #RNZ #FocusOnPolitics #Israel #UN #Palestine #TwoStateSolution #WinstonPeters
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RNZ: 25 Cent Pfand - Edeka verkauft Wein in 0,75-Liter-Mehrwegflaschen
Die erste Supermarktkette stellt Kunden vor die Wahl. Weitere Einzelhändler zögern noch.Die Supermarktkette Edeka verkauft im Südwesten jetzt auch Wein in 0,75-Liter-Mehrwegflaschen. Kundinnen und Kunden müssen an der Kasse für die speziellen Weinflaschen künftig je 25 Cent Pfand bezahlen, wie die Genossenschaft Wein-Mehrweg mitteilte.
Den Betrag bekommen sie dann nach der Rückgabe der leeren Flaschen zurück. "Die 0,75-Liter-Mehrwegflasche lässt sich bis zu 50 Mal befüllen", sagte Chef Werner Bender. Das spare Ressourcen und Energie und vermeide Abfall... (weiter)
Meinung: Das ist ein guter Ansatz der in meinen Augen gesetzlich für alle fest vorgegeben werden sollte. Den die Erfahrung zeigt das der Handel und die Produzenten sonst keine einheitliche Regelung zu Wege bekommen. Wir müssen weg von dem Einwegmist.
#News #Wein #Weinflaschen #Mehrwegflaschen #Glas #Edeka #Meinung #RNZ #2024-10-06
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Maybe we need a long term decision-making process for #infrastructure spending that isn't hostage to the shifting political winds?
What if any capital spending projected to span multiple governments needed a supermajority in Parliament? Or to pass a referendum at an election? Either way, politicians would be forced to take a nonpartisan, long term approach to planning, building and maintaining infrastructure.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=84797662-137a-49de-a8c6-42e15eb957b6
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"Gangs peddle misery and intimidation throughout our communities, and *this* government is determined to give police and the courts the powers *they need* to deal with them."
Some NatACT First demagogue, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=c7b58d8c-3428-4c83-b0a6-b1da92866f10
These governing parties peddle misery and intimidation throughout our communities, and this population is determined to take back the powers *we* need to deal with them.
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The Grocery Commissioner's report presents unambiguous evidence of a total market failure. Does David Seymour speak out against the aggressively anticompetitive gangsterism of the supermarket duopoly? Does he condemn their outright fleecing of customers, with dishonest price labels?
Not a bit. He ignores it all, in favour of a bunch of mealy-mouthed reputation laundering on behalf of the duopoly;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=4b92d4e2-186c-44f9-9489-743c733003aa#podcasts #RNZ #FocusOnPolitics #NZPolitics #ACT #DavidSeymour
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"These days innovating means following the audience and operating online. But those who do are not always rewarded with the required revenue.
Unless you can get enough online supporters or subscribers to pay, which also means trying to secure digital advertising - and the vast bulk of revenue from that goes offshore to the companies which have cornered that market."
#ColinPeacock, 2024
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It's so frustrating listening to RNZ's tech commentator Peter Griffin talking about decentralized social media. At least the fediverse got a mention in this one. But he didn't get the key point across to the host, that you only need one account to talk to people on sites using the same protocol. When he described Mastodon it sounded like he was saying you need an account on each server. Also "the" NZ server...
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CW: fediverse media coverage
I searched the RNZ 'all programs' podcast feed today for coverage of the fediverse. I found this interview with Peter Griffin and Mastodon from 10 days ago (which already feels like a year ago ;)