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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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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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Ministry apologises after beneficiary told food ‘not an essential need’
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Ministry apologises after beneficiary told food ‘not an essential need’
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Ministry apologises after beneficiary told food ‘not an essential need’
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Ministry apologises after beneficiary told food ‘not an essential need’
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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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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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"... 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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"... 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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"... 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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"... 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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"There's no god given right for a major party to stay a major party. You have to earn that."
#HelenClark, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
You listening to your former leader Labour? If you don't step up next year - much more ambitiously than in 2020-23 - you've earned exactly what will follow.
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"Now what happens to Winston Peters doesn't matter. But what happens to the people does."
#WinstonPeters, Juggernaut 2, ep 2, 2025https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
It's hard to believe now given the smiling crocodile he's become. Political principles up for auction, doing whatever is best for Winston Peters and bugger anyone else. I think at the time he really meant this.
His corruption is perhaps the saddest political story of NZ corporatism.
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"Now what happens to Winston Peters doesn't matter. But what happens to the people does."
#WinstonPeters, Juggernaut 2, ep 2, 2025https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
It's hard to believe now given the smiling crocodile he's become. Political principles up for auction, doing whatever is best for Winston Peters and bugger anyone else. I think at the time he really meant this.
His corruption is perhaps the saddest political story of NZ corporatism.
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"Now what happens to Winston Peters doesn't matter. But what happens to the people does."
#WinstonPeters, Juggernaut 2, ep 2, 2025https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
It's hard to believe now given the smiling crocodile he's become. Political principles up for auction, doing whatever is best for Winston Peters and bugger anyone else. I think at the time he really meant this.
His corruption is perhaps the saddest political story of NZ corporatism.
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"Now what happens to Winston Peters doesn't matter. But what happens to the people does."
#WinstonPeters, Juggernaut 2, ep 2, 2025https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
It's hard to believe now given the smiling crocodile he's become. Political principles up for auction, doing whatever is best for Winston Peters and bugger anyone else. I think at the time he really meant this.
His corruption is perhaps the saddest political story of NZ corporatism.
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"More than a million people are affected by the cuts. The worst hit are 20-24 year olds on the dole. Their benefit drops by 25%, to $108 a week. Adjusted for inflation, that would be about $235 in 2025.
Sickness beneficiaries under 25 lose 20% of their income, down to $130 a week. $282 in today's money."
#TobyManhire, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
Sound familiar? So far NatACT First have come for 100% of 18-19 year olds' dole. But ...
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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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Some of the government’s earliest decisions are coming back to bite it
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/03-10-2025/hindsight-is-2020-and-that-was-five-years-ago
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"... I used to study medicine, I was training to be a doctor. But I couldn't actually afford my rent because it was London, so I had to work in marketing on the side. Then I started to really get into marketing to the point where I actually left medicine ..."
#AndrewTindall, System1, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-09-2025/the-fold-myths-and-truths-in-modern-advertising
His job could have been saving people's lives, but instead it's persuading them they want stuff. That's heartbreaking.
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"... I used to study medicine, I was training to be a doctor. But I couldn't actually afford my rent because it was London, so I had to work in marketing on the side. Then I started to really get into marketing to the point where I actually left medicine ..."
#AndrewTindall, System1, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-09-2025/the-fold-myths-and-truths-in-modern-advertising
His job could have been saving people's lives, but instead it's persuading them they want stuff. That's heartbreaking.
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"... I used to study medicine, I was training to be a doctor. But I couldn't actually afford my rent because it was London, so I had to work in marketing on the side. Then I started to really get into marketing to the point where I actually left medicine ..."
#AndrewTindall, System1, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-09-2025/the-fold-myths-and-truths-in-modern-advertising
His job could have been saving people's lives, but instead it's persuading them they want stuff. That's heartbreaking.
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"... I used to study medicine, I was training to be a doctor. But I couldn't actually afford my rent because it was London, so I had to work in marketing on the side. Then I started to really get into marketing to the point where I actually left medicine ..."
#AndrewTindall, System1, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-09-2025/the-fold-myths-and-truths-in-modern-advertising
His job could have been saving people's lives, but instead it's persuading them they want stuff. That's heartbreaking.
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Fonterra’s sale of Anchor, Mainland and Kāpiti to a French dairy giant, explained
This is the piece of journalism on the Fonterra sale I have been waiting for.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/kai/04-09-2025/fonterras-sale-of-anchor-mainland-and-kapiti-to-a-french-dairy-giant-explained
#TheSpinoff #NZ #Fonterra #Lactalis #Dairy #Food -
Every chocolate milk in New Zealand, ranked from worst to best
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Just catching up with Bernard Hickey's Dec 6 episode on the iwi building papa kāinga housing on a Motueka marae;
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/when-the-facts-change
(The Spinoff's podcast pages seem custom designed to make it impossible to link to specific episodes 🤷♂️)
This episode includes multiple examples of what iwi can do for their people, when they get their land back, and the funding they need to make use of it.
#podcasts #TheSpinoff #WhenTheFactsChange #housing #marae #PapaKāinga
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Was the hīkoi New Zealand’s largest-ever protest?
The Spinoff https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/20-11-2024/was-the-hikoi-new-zealands-largest-ever-protest
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What’s going on at The Warehouse?
I'll tell what's wrong at The Warehouse. We haven't bought anything there for ages. Why? They don't sell anything we want. Lost the plot comes to mind.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin/16-07-2024/whats-going-on-at-the-warehouse
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Want a laugh? Then take a look at this. 😁
https://thespinoff.co.nz/live-updates/05-05-2023/a-haunting-friday-afternoon-image
#TheSpinoff #ChrisHipkins #SausageRolls #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
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The great cellphone tower in the sky
https://thespinoff.co.nz/internet/06-04-2023/the-great-cellphone-tower-in-the-sky
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The shutdown of Today FM is Mediaworks admitting its best days are behind it
I guess they shut it down today because it was the last day of the month, and it works better for the beancounters. Just imagine if they did it tomorrow April 1st.😀
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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?!?