Articles by Jack Tame
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Opinion
Jack Tame: Learning a new language is humbling but so rewarding
Saturday, 12 October 2024, 9:50amAs someone who considers themself at least semi-literate, with the benefit of a reasonable education and at least a passing...
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Jack Tame: Mysterious locations and places of intrigue
Saturday, 5 October 2024, 10:14amYou know my idea of fun? You’re expecting me to say sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, wild parties, cocaine-fuelled late-night...
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Jack Tame: Governments alternative plan with school builds
Friday, 4 October 2024, 3:31pmIt's been inevitable for months now that the Ministry of Education would lose responsibility for building and maintaining...
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Jack Tame: Casey Costello and the efficacy of heated tobacco products
Friday, 4 October 2024, 4:35pmI've had a bit of time now to look at the so-called 'independent advice' released by Casey Costello on the efficacy of heated...
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Perspective with Jack Tame: Here's one interesting takeaway from the Census data
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 5:54pmThe latest Census data is out, with numbers for all sorts of data points from ethnicity, home ownership and income to gender...
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Perspective with Jack Tame: I don't have an issue with higher parking fines
Tuesday, 1 October 2024, 7:31pmIf you were in a bit of a rush yesterday morning, I dunno - perhaps somehow you were caught out by daylight saving and you...
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Jack Tame: The Working from Home directive seems reasonable to me
Saturday, 28 September 2024, 10:18amMy take on working from home versus working in the office is you can’t really say any one model is perfect for everyone in...
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Jack Tame: This Bledisloe clash doesn't feel like much of a contest
Saturday, 21 September 2024, 10:26amOff the top of your head, where do reckon the Wallabies currently sit in the World rankings? Sure, they’re behind us. They’re...
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Jack Tame: Should we try banning social media for kids?
Saturday, 14 September 2024, 10:23amI’m a slave to social media and it drives me nuts. I feel compelled to have Twitter and Facebook for work. Instagram for...
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Jack Tame: Would you go for a space flight?
Saturday, 7 September 2024, 9:41amCan you play Bananagrams in space? Something tells me that with the whole gravity situation, they perhaps don’t recommend...
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Jack Tame: The contrast between Hillary Clinton's run and Kamala Harris'
Saturday, 31 August 2024, 10:39amI have this photo from the night of the US election, eight years ago. It was a graffiti stencil, taken right outside where...
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Jack Tame: The handling of Leon MacDonald's departure has been strangely refreshing
Saturday, 24 August 2024, 10:36am13-year old Jack Tame would never have believed that Scott Robertson and Leon MacDonald weren’t getting along. The year...
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Jack Tame: The enduring impact of Raygun's Olympic performance
Saturday, 17 August 2024, 10:20amOf all the global stars to rise from this year’s Olympic Games —Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, Dame Lisa Carrington— 36-year-old...
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Jack Tame: My takeaways from the Paris Olympic Games
Saturday, 10 August 2024, 10:14amI don’t want it to end! Has two weeks really passed that quickly? Honestly, my entire life and the daily rhythms of our...
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Jack Tame: I absolutely love the Olympics
Saturday, 27 July 2024, 10:02amIt’s upon us. We are exactly eight minutes away from the conclusion of the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympic...
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Jack Tame: Tech outages can affect us all
Saturday, 20 July 2024, 12:38pmApart from my beautiful wife, of course, the last person I thought of before I dozed off last night, was Dave. Dave had texted...
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"Seaweed Tea": Potash Fertilisers In Winter
Saturday, 20 July 2024, 8:58amYou’ve heard me talk about the winter months for Yeeaaars! The big message is one of slowing things down and protecting your...
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Jack Tame: The Greens can own the hypocrisy and push Tana out
Wednesday, 17 July 2024, 7:01pmThe Greens have released the Executive Summary of their report into Darleen Tana, and it's pretty clear in asserting that...
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Jack Tame: The Biden problem isn't going away
Saturday, 13 July 2024, 9:55amIt’s two weeks since Joe Biden and that disastrous debate, and still the drum steadily beats. I’m obsessed with this story....
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Jack Tame: Making amends with Mother Nature
Saturday, 6 July 2024, 10:40amIt was Ruud Kleinpaste who inspired me. Even since my fiasco with the trees in my backyard, in which I inadvertently oversaw...
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Jack Tame: The Democrats need a new candidate
Saturday, 29 June 2024, 9:45am“I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.” That was it....
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Jack Tame: The Interislander ferry situation could've been so much worse
Saturday, 22 June 2024, 9:53amHow much worse could it have been? I don’t want to speak too soon. A refloating mission is underway. But from what we know...
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Jack Tame: What would you do if you won Lotto?
Saturday, 8 June 2024, 10:30amHow much wealth is just the right amount of wealth? How rich is too rich? I had a successful businessman friend tell me...
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Jack Tame: America’s great divide grows a little bit deeper
Saturday, 1 June 2024, 10:10amThere is no one on this planet who is yet to form an opinion of Donald Trump. No one. No one who doesn’t know him. No one...
