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Like many of you, I stopped watching Breakfast after Paul Henry left* but an alert reader sent me this interview with John Key on the show yesterday. It's the one where he makes weak excuses for not Mondayising public holidays but, before that he says…
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John Key says he needs 'advice' on Mondayising ANZAC Day and Waitangi Day. The fact is the move would be right and popular but his business mates are too cheap to pay an extra 4 days every 7 years. Key's just playing for time. Key…
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At his 'Blue-Green' conference Nick Smith talked up the Nats' environmental credentials. Proclaimed a marine reserve ... where commercial fishing will still be allowed. And pushed new air quality standards from 2013 to 2020. That will cost 635 lives and a million sick days. Smith…
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Russel Norman followed Phil Goff and John Key's state of the nation speeches with the annual Greens state of the planet address. The capital gains tax initiative grabbed headlines but there's a lot more going on beneath the surface. As we face myriad economic and…
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I had set my mind to writing this article a few weeks back after IrishBill said some charming things to me on my own blog. Then, because this is how the Universe works some days, the very issue came up on Kiwipolitico when Pablo sought…
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I read a good book over the break. Here on Earth: An Argument for Hope, by Tim Flannery (author of The Weather Makers). I was immediately attracted by the subtitle. Ever since the failure of the Copenhagen summit on climate change I have been less…
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