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No Right Turn makes a good point about the government's $700 million innovation fund for the agricultural and food sector: I'm a little surprised that its the government doing this. We have a number of large companies involved in these sectors, and under competent managers,…
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The ABC reports: "Today Australia becomes an official member of the Kyoto club after the initial ratification documents were lodged with the United Nations 90 days ago. And a new poll has found that 64 per cent of Australians support Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's act…
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Speaking of humour, that joke of a newspaper the NBR has had a crack at us again. According to them The Standard is "a blog which tests Labour lines in advance". So much for the NBR's self-lauded connections: we don't test Labour's lines, we write…
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At lunchtime today it is expected that the government will announce a major funding boost to promote innovation in food science, agricultural research and production. So can we expect National to support the plan? At least Mr Key has been given the heads up to…
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Tomorrow - ‘Slavery: it wasn't so bad when you think about it'
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In an article on the economy that would have had my high-school economics teacher in fits, Bill Ralston says that it is hypocritical of the Government to block the sale of Auckland Airport because it is a strategic asset while the Government-owned New Zealand Superannuation…
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The latest Roy Morgan poll is out, covering the period February 18 - March 2. The poll shows National still able to govern alone, but after John Key's performance last week it's looking increasingly unlikely that National will be able to hold onto its 15…
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At 30%, the corporate tax is lower than or equal to most developed countries'. Our GST is only 12.5%, in most developed countries it is 15-25%. The economy has grown every year for a decade Inflation has averaged below 3% for over 20 years Workforce…
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Polling consistently around 1% ACT have decided that the only way forward is rejuvenation and fresh ideas.
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A trusted source tells us that following their most recent failed EFA protest, Cameron Slater (Whaleoil) and National Party blogger David Farrar might be considering buying TV time as part of their civil disobedience campaign. The production company has evidently worked hard to stay true…
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According to the Herald some people marched down Queen Street against the Electoral Finance Act on Saturday. Apparently they were protesting the removal of their right to political expression, which was taken off them as of January first this year. Signs compared the government to…
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On the 20th of December, John Key was reported in the Bay Report as saying "we would love to see wages drop" while talking to a Kerikeri businesswoman. The story broke nationally three weeks ago and Key offered several, conflicting explanations - he was joking, he was…
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AYB's confidence in English as a frontman for National may already have taken a knock as the second half of the dynamic duo has successfully managed his own John Key moment within hours of taking over the reins. When asked on NewstalkZB today whether National…
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No surprise to see English fronting the Toll debate given Slippery John's abysmal performance this week. Check out Bill in the background of this shot, are those daggers coming out his eyes? To his credit English gave much straighter answers about Toll than we would…
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There is more to the John Key "we would love to see wages drop" story than you have been able to read in the blogs or the mainstream media. We've been in contact with a large number of people who have been connected at various…
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The two major dailies have been running bizarre editorial lines against the government's intervention to block the sale of Auckland Airport, even as their letters columns fill up with people supporting the move. The Herald called it 'xenophobia'. Of course, the Herald would know a…
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Last night we published a tip-off saying the New Zealand Herald planned to report that its APN stable-mate the Bay Report would be correcting its story where John Key said 'we would love to see wages drop.' That story was published by the Herald this…
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It is looking more likely that the Government will buy back New Zealand's rolling rail stock from Australian-based Toll. Toll has been a classic asset-stripper: buy a key piece of infrastructure that should never have been sold, take as much profit as possible with minimal…
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Poor old Gordon Copeland. Yesterday he had one of his few questions in the House. And he had a big issue to talk about: goats, the culling of. But all the other parties wanted to talk about was some airport. A reader supplied this.
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The Maori Party has reacted angrily to Key's unilateral decision that National would abolish the Maori seats some time around 2014. Newsroom reports (not online): 'The Maori Party is threatening protest and strike action on a scale never seen before in New Zealand if any…
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Bill English must just be sitting there in his office cringing as he listens to interviews like these. Sean Plunket spoke to Slippery John this morning about his latest policy flip-flops. It was a trainwreck. Have a listen - the text below is just a…
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John Key is clearly missing Kevin Taylor, his chief spin doctor. When Taylor is around, Key is ‘Mr Teflon' but, with Taylor on holiday at the moment, we have seen the real Key: uninformed, incoherent, inconsistent, ‘Slippery John'. John Key, it must be remembered, is…
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Today in Parliament Bill English made a very interesting comment which, if true, raises some very concerning questions about either his own honesty or the editorial integrity of APN, publishers of the New Zealand Herald. Referring to a quip from Michael Cullen about John Key's…
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In this afternoon's debate Gerry Brownlee tried to have the word "slippery" ruled unparliamentary in relation to John Key. Proof, if any were needed, that Cullen had hit a nerve perhaps? Also interesting to see John Key leading off General Debate in the House -…
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Further to Dancer's post below, this morning on Breakfast John Key claimed that National never had a deadline for settling Treaty claims and instead only had a deadline for lodging them. This was possum-in-the-headlights stuff, continuing an extraordinary run of gaffes from slippery Mr Key.…
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Mr Key announced new National policy this morning. After a morning TV interview National now have no date to settle historic Treaty Claims: Presenter: National used to have a date, didn't they? John Key: No, what they said was they wanted the claims lodged, and…
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The International Transport Workers' Federation is holding an international day of action tomorrow calling for the release of Mansour Osanloo, an Iranian trade unionist and bus driver imprisoned by the state for engaging in independent trade unionism. Osanloo earned the ire of the Iranian authorities…
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From John Key's State of the Nation speech in January: The Youth Court currently has the power to place young offenders in youth justice residential facilities for a period of up to three months. Many are released after just two. Last year, long-overdue legislation was…