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Of the 1,916 special votes reported on the night a bare 769 made it into the final results. Of which Hone Harawira got 454 and Kelvin Davis got 204. This slightly increased Hone's majority by 250 over election night, but there really isn't anything in it with a…
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What keeps our governmental 'Dream Team' of Bill Key and his sidekick Johnny English so busy that they can't comment on anything to do with their government (like why growth is even lower than forecast at the height of the financial crisis or why debt…
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There's an odd contradiction in right-wing 'thought'. On the one hand, they're Randian heroes, the wealth creators, modern day Atlases who support the world while 'parasites' try to take their wealth and bring them down. On the other hand, they're victims who need subsidies and…
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Retiring National MP John Carter has revealed that he has consumed $77K of public assets for no reason. But it's all such a funny lark! Carter permanently housed two cars at Parliament for 16 years. Hardly drove them. When he got in trouble for using…
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The buzz around the traps is that Labour will be announcing a capital gains tax next week. The journos are already calling it a bold move and John Key is ranting hysterically. That Labour's winning the media battle is great but, more importantly, this is…
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New revelations out today that hacker Glenn Mulcaire who bugged celebrity phones for Murdoch's News of the World also hacked into the phone of murdered teenager Milly Dowler after she went missing. NoW journalists deleted messages which gave Milly's parents false hope that Milly might…
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First, Key denies the SAS were in the Kabul hotel gunfight. Then, media reveals they were there and were injured. Key admits that but denies it was friendly fire. Now, media says SAS got an apology. Key 'can't rule out' friendly fire and is launching…
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There's a march in Auckland on Saturday, to protest the government's massive cuts to the quality and funding of Early Childhood Education sector, and proposal to end 20 hours free for 3-4 year-olds. This protest was meant to be in February, but then the Christchurch…
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Peter Shirtcliffe's Vote for Change is reeling. On Sunday, they had to boot out Alex Fogerty after the Young Nat's neo-Nazi affiliations were made public. Yesterday, they lost their token Leftie, Bob Harvey, when he realised that being used by a collection of capitalist elitists…
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Well, our hard working authors have pumped more than 8000 posts into The Standard since August 2007. A thousand of those have been done in the last 150 days (we passed it on Saturday) since Feb 2nd. This is a pretty awesome performance considering that…
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Bomber beat me to breaking the Alex Fogerty story. Peter Shirtcliffe's Anti-MMP Vote For Change group has just 16 members and one of them has turned out to be a neo-Nazi. Is it a case of being so short of mates they'll accept anyone who…
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No Confidence Written by The Jackal at 4:51 PM Steven Joyce was asked some hard questions today by Labour Minister of Communications and Information Technology David Cunliffe concerning Nationals Privatisation plans for New Zealand’s SOEs. Once again the speaker of the house Lockwood Smith came…
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A good piece of detective work by Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury at TUMEKE! has revealed that one of the founding members of the anti-MMP group "Vote for Change" is a white supremacist: So the usual list of National and ACT Party right wing money men are…
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John Key's government celebrated KiwiSaver's 4th birthday on July 1 with cuts to your entitlements. Your $20/week government top-up of your savings will halve, and you'll start paying tax on your employer's contribution. This was the budget that was originally touted as the 'savings' budget,…
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"Goodness" said the shocked TV3 news presenter tonight at protests against Prince William and Kate's visit to Canada. What's really shocking? That ordinary people protest these 'special' people living, literally, the life of royalty on the public purse and providing nothing in return, or members…
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Bravo France, the first country in the world to ban fracking: The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other…
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The Herald today has a piece by Mark Lister bemoaning the lack of investment in the productive economy, with too much cash going into housing instead. On Thursday, Brian Fallow wrote how Kiwis are being shut out of home ownership by investors who see capital…
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Yesterday was crunch day for schools who oppose the governments ill-conceived national standards, and a surprising number have made a very bold stand: Schools protest national standards More than 100 defiant schools today submitted school charters without the required references to the new national standards.…
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Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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From today, the government's contribution to your Kiwisaver has been cut in half. 'What?', you say, 'Didn't they say that would only come in if they got re-elected?' Yeah, nah. They were lying to you. From today on, the government contribution is a maximum of…
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The latest Herald poll shows Labour + Greens at 42.7%, with National + ACT at 53.1% - the gap is down to 10.4% from 16.9% in May. That confirms the trend we're seeing in the Roy Morgans as well. Interesting to note that the gap…
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Treasury has confirmed that National's plan to sell public assets would need foreigners to buy a lot of the shares because domestic demand would be too small for the government to make as much money as it is counting on. Forget 'mum and dad investors',…
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Reprinted from No Right Turn: Back in April, Jonathan Coleman appointed Richard Griffin to chair the board of Radio New Zealand. It was a nakedly political appointment; Griffin used to be Jim Bolger's press secretary back in the 90's, and therefore someone who shouldn't be…
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Today the Nats' early childhood education (ECE) cuts kick in, and in response there is a national day of protest: Children have hand in protest Ako Early Learning Centre, in Dunedin, is putting its weight behind a New Zealand Educational Institute initiative to oppose cuts…