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From the Herald's Your Views on Waterview: HammerHead (Wellington City): No they should replace it with a cycleway. This would prevent criminals coming from South Auckland, as most don't have bikes. This would also reduce the crime rate in the area. Have you ever tried…
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Over at Red Alert, the Labour MPs' blog, Trevor Mallard points out that nominations for the Mt Albert by-election don't close until next week. If John Key, as Mallard puts it, "has the balls" he can tell Melissa Lee to stand down and the National…
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Just in from the Wellington DL crew: For our next Drinking Liberally we are honoured to have Prof. Philippa Howden-Chapman speaking on "Healthy homes for a sustainable society". Philippa is a member of the NZ Heart Foundation Scientific and Population Health Committee and on the…
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Green MP Catherine Delahunty is running an e-card campaign to support public sector pay equity after National announced it would be cancelling pay equity reviews and sacking the team responsible for them. It's a stark reminder that nothing has really changed since National dumped pay…
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Labour's just launched an interactive Google map showing National's plans for the Waterview connection. Click the map below to check it out.
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Melissa Lee's recent interviews on Q+A, TV1, TV3 and RNZ proved once and for all that being able to read an autocue doesn't mean you're any good at handling the media. When Lee put her hand up to rob the hapless Ravi Musuku of any chance…
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And the ticking timebomb goes off. From Not PC on last night's Mt Albert candidates' debate: Most of what every mainstream candidate had to say on the night was both instantly forgettable and intended only for short-term political advantage. But there was one thing one candidate…
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National has released its Waterview plan. Basically a trench rather than a tunnel, and a few hundred more homes knocked down. They reckon it will cost $1.4 billion. What's missing from the costing? Financing costs were included in the cost of the tunnel to inflate it…
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Labour asked for an urgent debate in the House today on the Waterview announcement. Smith denied it because the announcement hadn't then taken place. A minute later Joyce made the announcement. Labour then asked leave of the House for an urgent question to Joyce, Brownlee…
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Here's Melissa Lee explaining on Checkpoint how her staff volunteered their time to produce a video for National Party list candidates: LEE: Well we were doing a launch, you know, for the Asian campaign and I thought it might be a good, fun thing to…
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I must say, TVNZ's belt tightening is certainly having an impact on their journalism, at least in the online presence. It was one thing for them to still think Richard Prebble is a Member of Parliament in a piece on Saturday (for the record, Richard…
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A recent piece in the New York Times highlights the absurdity of going backwards with the apparent reorganisation of the Families Commission around nuclear families. Gender involves a lot of gray area. And efforts to legislate a binary truth upon the wide spectrum of gender…
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I figure the very least the Nats could do after spending our money on their asian-voter campaign video is to share it with us. Strangely, I couldn't find it on the National Party website as referenced by last night's Campbell Live piece. Fortunately the YouTube…
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Most of us work for a living, and worry about money measured in tens, hundreds, or thousands of dollars. For myself, I find the numbers involved in the economic crash and the bailouts to be so insanely huge as to be meaningless. This article summarises…
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A mate put me onto the "story of stuff" the other day. It's an excellent Green-Left critique of our economic system pitched toward kids. After all, they're the ones who are going to have to deal with the mess. The youtube version is below or…
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An interesting story on TV3 last night about potential for conflict of interest relating to Asia Down Under, a broadcasting company owned by Melissa Lee which produced a political documentary during the last election. Even more interesting was what was revealed about a video about…
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Despite four days of strike action and growing public outrage over Air New Zealand's treatment of its Zeal320 flight attendants, CEO Rob Fyfe is still refusing to even start closing the glaring pay gap between these workers and those employed directly by AirNZ. Why is…
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Yesterday the long wait for a decision on the Waterview Connection somewhat ended. The full picture will become more obvious today, once NZTA release their prefered alignment for the route, and how much of it - if any - will be trenched or tunneled. For…
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Here's a trick you can all play at home. You'll need several different plans for a major motorway project produced by NZTA and a compliant Treasury ready and willing to alter figures to make your preferred option look better than it is. Now, you want…
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I don't know about you guys but when Family First says something is great I get worried. So when those reactionaries say NACT has strengthened the Families Commission with its new appointments it's worth having a second look at what's going on. The Families Commission is…
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Makes you wish we had some good political satire here.
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We got a guest post a fortnight ago that we keep meaning to put up with the title "Worth fails to cock-up for a week, apologises to PM". Lucky we didn't speak too soon. The background is this. Chris Hipkins, like any good MP does,…
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When I first started writing for The Standard way back in August 2007 I never envisaged it would become what it is today, nor that it would take up anywhere near as much of my time as it does. A year and half later, I've…
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Now before you start thinking the Standard has started spruiking for the National Front I should make it clear that the title quote of this post comes from Christine Rankin in 2007. She was talking about child abuse and claiming that Maori are the problem.…
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The government has announced its legislative plan for the supercity in a press release from John Carter, rather than Rodney Hide whose arrogant mishandling of the issue is privately blamed by National for the growing unrest in Auckland. The press release says: Now that the Government…
auckland supercity democracy under attack democratic participation
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In east Antarctica, the sea ice sheets have been larger recently. Predictably this has been seized on by the scientifically simple-minded climate change deniers (CCD's) as evidence that climate change models are incorrect. This is despite it being predicted very closely by the same climate…
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If you're in Auckland on Thursday pop along to this in your lunch hour and help support low-paid cleaners: Hat tip: The Hand Mirror.
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Anyone remember Helen Clark's announcement during Labour's election campaign that there would be no new significant spending promises: "We have judged it not prudent at this present time to make those sort of commitments." We've now got Key justifying his inevitable-looking betrayal of his campaign tax…
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Here's a question for Mr Key but you can play along too. What if you could buy into an asset that performs well usually but had a very bad year last year? Because of that bad year, the price is now at historically low levels…
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Well that didn't take long. Bosses 'using recession' to squeeze staff: Bosses being accused of using the recession to exploit workers by driving down wages, forcing unrealistic productivity targets on staff and creating an environment where stressed staff will leave without waiting to collect redundancy…