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Celebrating success: National’s jobs record
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The real story of the ports dispute
MUNZ workers and their families explain in their own words how changes being promoted by management of the Auckland City owned Ports of Auckland will affect their families. Watch this video to find out what the Ports of Auckland dispute is really about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTsm90fuXdM&feature=player_detailpage
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Does working pay?
Maybe it's the influence of Bill 'Guess' English but National has this strange habit of only doing half the sum. Paula Bennett counts people going off the benefit, but not people going on. John Key looks at normal job creation but ignores normal job destruction.…
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Nats try to confuse between churn & real job growth
There are quarter of a million jobless people. In a typical quarter, about 250,000 people start new jobs. Does that mean we can eliminate joblessness in a quarter? Of course not, but that's what National is telling you when they rabbit on about there being…
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Why the Right wants to deny that unions increase wages
Cameron Slater was a bit embarrassed when it was pointed out to him that the 'fast rising wages' he claimed showed there was no wages crisis were in fact union wages and non-union wages are rising more slowly. So, he's trotted out some other dodgy…
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Open mike 29/02/2012
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Jobs Summit: Celebrating 3 years of success
A comment from BLiP: Don’t panic. It's three years since the National Ltd™ “Job Summit”. Won’t be long now . . . I’m really looking forward to the 3000km Kaitaia-to-Bluff cycle way, the nine-day fortnight, and the $1 billion contribution from the banks plus $8…
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Whale discovers that joining the union pays
Cameron Slater reckons he's cracked it; wages are growing after all. What's his proof? A graph from the EPMU that shows wages have risen 17% and inflation only 15.7%. Wages are up, no crisis! But the man-boy genius needs to check his info better. Turns…
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Looking for solutions in all the wrong places
So, naturally, the answer is to spend a whole lot of money forcing solo mums to spend their time looking for jobs that aren't there.
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Open mike 28/02/2012
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Where’s Murray?
As controversy swirls over Murray McCully's leaked emails and the government's secret position on "restraining China" and McCully is nowhere to be found to answer questions, John Key says "I have absolutely no clue where he is". Funny, cause he was the one who approved…
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Key on leadership ballots
"I've been around these votes before when at the last moment they change" John Key said today about the ALP leadership ballot. He certainly has; in 2003 he promised Bill English his vote then shifted at the last minute to Don Brash who won narrowly.…
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Gillard slamdunks Rudd
Official result has 71 for Gillard and 31 for Rudd in the leadership ballot. Not a base for a comeback for Rudd. He must now be asking why he did it - he won't be very popular. A few others will also be wondering why…
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Private sector can’t compete with ACC
Government documents from last year reveal a plan to make ACC boost its levies and pay the government a dividend so that private insurers can compete. But that wasn't enough. Now, the plan seems to be to exclude ACC from workplace injury insurance altogether. Private…
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Bosses move to drive wages down
John Key said he "would love to see wages drop", and his government has achieved that (funny, can you think of anything else they've achieved?) but they're just getting started. This is the year when the gloves come off. Ports of Auckland is trying to…
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No solutions, more bashing
332,000 people are on benefits, up by 60,000 under National. Coincidentally, there are 250,000 Kiwis who want work but can't find it, up 82,000 under National. Probably a lot of cross-over between those two groups, eh? So, you can understand why National's solution is to…
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Open mike 27/02/2012
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Fabians in Auckland and Wellington Tuesday 28th
Rick Boven in Auckland - Global environmental trends Global environmental trends will affect New Zealand's future. In his forthcoming lecture to the Fabian Society, Rick Boven of the New Zealand Institute will summarise the high-level trends, identify implications for New Zealand, explain obstacles to an…
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All in the family
A couple of months after Hekia Parata was promoted to Education Minister (seemingly solely on her showing in Mana, certainly not on the strength of her performance as Acting Energy Minister), her sister has been promoted to a very senior position in the Ministry of…
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The courage of their convictions
While most of us talk about "saving the world" some people act. I have a lot of respect for the Greenpeace activists, including headline-woman Lucy Lawless, who are occupying a Shell Oil drilling ship, to prevent its departure to start drilling operations in the Arctic.…
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Open mike 26/02/2012
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Eat your fast-food and don’t think
National's man in NZ on Air, John Key's electorate chairman Stephen McElrea, was terribly worried about New Zealanders seeing a documentary about child poverty before the election. Informative TV has no place being funded with the public purse in National's New Zealand. But no such…
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A question
If "you don't wear your guns on the outside", where do you wear your guns?
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The real crims wear white collars
Directorships are the golden ticket in the world of the business elite. You attend maybe 10 meetings a year, sign whatever's put in front of you, typically get paid $3-4K a pop, and do it over again half a dozen times or more for various…
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Open mike 25/02/2012
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Shearer makes a difference
David Shearer spoke to Greypower in Auckland today about the difference between Labour and National: The difference between Labour and National is this: They want to continue with the tired ideas of the past, just selling and cutting. We want the government to work in…
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The biggest party are non-voters.
Danyl's Chart of the Day a few days ago had this chart saying.. So here’s the list results for the last four elections, but instead of calculating the percentage of votes each party received, I calculated the percentage based on the total number of voters…
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Weekend social 24/02/2012
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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No time like the present
Google news has 1.5 pages of articles mentioning David Shearer to John Key's 13 in the past week. The only ones directly about Shearer or Labour are saying 'where's Shearer? He's wasting his honeymoon'. Since that honeymoon is with the press, when they start saying…
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Syria
In a perfect world, we would all live free, in some kind of ideal democracy. We're not there. But what we and the rest of the developed world have is a hell of a lot better than what the people of Syria have: despotic rule…