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The PM Should Be Shaking in His Boots
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The PM Should Be Shaking in His Boots

Graham Adams commonroomnz.com Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This article was first published at The Common Room After a Budget that failed to excite voters and a lacklustre party conference where his senior colleagues faintly praised him for

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Will the Maori Party Make or Break the Labour Party?
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Will the Maori Party Make or Break the Labour Party?

Graham Adams commonroomnz.com Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This article was first published by The Common Room. Chris Hipkins must be fast realising that with friends like Te Pati Maori he really doesn’t need enemies. In fact,

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Demonising the Rich Is a Risky Gamble
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Demonising the Rich Is a Risky Gamble

Graham Adams The Common Room Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This article was first published by The Common Room. Chris Hipkins and David Parker have handed the Opposition a stick to beat them with until the election. When Chris

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Labour’s Three Waters Refresh Is a Joke
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Labour’s Three Waters Refresh Is a Joke

Graham Adams commonroomnz.com Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This article was first published by The Common Room. Last week, we watched the Prime Minister rebrand the contentious Three Waters project with a name so banal it is surprising

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What Hipkins Doesn’t Want to Tell Us about Three Waters
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What Hipkins Doesn’t Want to Tell Us about Three Waters

Graham Adams commonroomnz.com Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This article was first published at The Common Room The clock is ticking. October’s election is just over six months away. But despite the Prime Minister’s assurances in

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This Govt’s True Legacy

Graham Adams commonroomnz.com Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This column was first published at The Common Room, commonroomnz.com Even if Chris Hipkins is no longer the Prime Minister after October’s election, his legacy will be locked

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Ardern Pins Hopes on a Managed Retreat
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Ardern Pins Hopes on a Managed Retreat

A tactical withdrawal is said to be the most difficult of all military operations. A commander has to take his troops backwards while maintaining contact with the enemy and not being pushed into a headlong retreat. The challenge is to not lose discipline during the operation. It can become necessary

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Nothing to See Here Move Along

Nothing to See Here Move Along

Information Opinion In the eyes of Jacinda Ardern’s substantial global fan base, she remains a beacon of hope in a dark and chaotic world — a source of inspiration and a humble force for good amongst often tawdry, self-serving politicians. For them, her address to the United Nations late last

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Ardern Has Nothing Good to Say So She Says Nothing at All
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Ardern Has Nothing Good to Say So She Says Nothing at All

As meagre information about the appointment of Nanaia Mahuta’s younger sister, Tipa, to a pivotal role in Three Waters is gradually prised out of the government, it is becoming clear the Prime Minister has no intention of letting the public know exactly how that shell game played out. What

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Free Speech or a Career? Choose.

Free Speech or a Career? Choose.

If anyone ever believed universities are institutions where academics can speak their minds freely and openly, the stoush sparked by the letter that seven University of Auckland professors sent to the Listener last July should have thoroughly disabused them of that notion. What should have been an uncontroversial statement – that

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If NZ’s Royal Society Won’t Stand Up for True Science Who Will?

If NZ’s Royal Society Won’t Stand Up for True Science Who Will?

The stoush over whether matauranga Maori should be taught in the school NCEA science syllabus — sparked by a letter to the Listener by seven emeritus professors last July who asserted that indigenous knowledge isn’t scientific — has reached a stalemate. The Royal Society Te Aparangi has extricated itself from what

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