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Remember "the underclass"? They were briefly fashionable in National circles in 2007. John Key expressed his oh so sincere concern at their plight in his state of the nation speech "The Kiwi Way: A Fair Go For All". He paraded about the place with the…
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You'll remember that one of John Key's big election platforms was emigration to Australia. Key said too many (white-skinned) Kiwis were going over to Aussie, with the logical collarary that this meant we had to bring in lots of (brown-skinned) non-Kiwis to replace them. Key told us,…
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3News viewers were left wondering if Duncan Garner is still pissed after the long weekend tonight. Using material that has clearly come from Jason Ede in Key's office Murray McCully, Garner played the message-bearer for National's continuing attacks on Labour's gay MPs. So Chris Carter…
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From David Slack on facebook via twitter I'm not taking up that bet. But it made me laugh after a hard weekend. as it perfectly reflects that way I feel about the breed. After dealing with various ACToids here over the years, I'd have to…
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I think they know full well what causes violent crime. They just don't care.
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In 2008, John Key was promising us a brighter future. 18 months on, we're in that future he was talking about and Kiwis are reporting their lives are worse than they were before he came to power. 83% of Kiwis surveyed by ShapeNZ rated their quality…
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From your inner-spring mattress to your car (or even your bike), computer, cellphone and medical equipment; the activities that make up our day and enhance our lives are in most cases only possible because someone, somewhere, has mined something. We're not against all mining everywhere.…
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John Key's National government has, in its infinite wisdom, decided to subsume Archives New Zealand and the National Library within the Department of Internal Affairs. With typical ideological one-eyedness that necessitates a blithe disregard for constitutional values, the merger is likely to have some fairly…
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As I said last post, National's foreshore and seabed offer cannot be acceptable to the Maori Party. The Maori Party was established to win the right for iwi to have what they believe are their rights to use the economic potential of the foreshore and…
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Late last year, we revealed that Rodney Hide and Heather Roy were fundraising for Act at ministerial speeches. A journalist who went to the Hide speech in question recorded him telling audience members that John Key was a 'do nothing' prime minister, and his fellow…
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Lyrics On a field of red one gold star Raised above his head Raised above his head He was not like any other He was just like any other And the song they bled Was a hymn to him Awake my little one The seed…
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John Key makes big promises and he doesn't deliver. Tax cuts North of $50? Jobs summit? Close the gap with Australia? If I was a Texan I'd have to say that John was all hat and no cattle. His rhetoric on crime is another example.…
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Regular readers of The Standard will know that a primary driver of crime is joblessness. It's no surprise, therefore, to see that crime went up in the last year. Fewer jobs to go around = more crime. Crime is a symptom of socio-economic distress. It…
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Predictably, the media has covered the foreshore and seabed issue with lots of pictures of people on beaches and focused on the ‘access for all' guarantee. Nevermind that access to the beaches (at least those that aren't privately owned) has never been in doubt. The…