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Open mike 09/02/2012
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Save our Port
It's slipped down the news agenda but is about to come back up it: The Ports of Auckland Dispute. The next round is beginning as the dispute is only just warming up. The Maritime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) has had leaflets in suburban newspapers…
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How to wreck your brand in one easy step
Publicly attack an All Black and loving father for how he chooses to raise his child. This isn't about the rights and wrongs of breast vs formula vs expressing. I can't speak to the science of that. But I'll tell you that La Leche, Plunket,…
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ImperatorFish: Each Time We Say “Protect The Environment” Steven Joyce Eats A Baby
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here Steven Joyce writes in the Herald that the answer to our economic woes is to open up resources to entrepreneurs, and to hell with the…
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Congrats on raising the minimum wage John
Shame you couldn't raise it to a living one though. The working poor will appreciate the extra $1000 per year coming this April, but it still won't cover their bills... I guess we'll be aiming for $14 by the 2014 election. Too little. (But still,…
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Steven Joyce and the ‘can’ts’
Steven Joyce reckons that the 'can'ts' are holding us back. I agree, just look at these facts: National can't create growth - the economy has expanded less than 0.1% per quarter on average under the Nats. The weakest growth record since the previous National government.…
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A sustainable future
The UN High Level Panel on Global Sustainability has delivered a report that combines pretty much all the big issues of our time. The Panel is chaired by Finnish and South African Presidents Tarja Halonen and Jacob Zuma. It contains the likes of Kevin Rudd and…
business climate change education equality health International sustainability water
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Open mike 08/02/2012
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Resignation-watch: Tariana Turia
Tariana Turia is making hollow threats to leave the government but she might be pushed first. Winston Peters has wasted no time showing how opposition politics is done, using his first question time back to skewer Turia, exposing the massive rorting her Whanau Ora programme.…
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Time for an anti-asset sales coalition
Mana, NZF, the Greens, and even the Maori Party, are suddenly grabbing the asset sales issue from Labour, just when it actually started to be a really valuable issue to lead on. Shearer should stop playing pundit on whether the Maori Party will go and…
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Caption contest
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Inequality: a big issue for our time
The Herald looks like it has an excellent series this week, on Auckland: A city divided by income. It's an issue that has been waiting to be examined in the local context in more depth. It's been quite a big issue in the UK for…
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Open mike 07/02/2012
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Epsom government – unstable and unequal
I've just watched John Key say on Sky Australia "We don't need the Maori Party - we have the votes for stable government." But without the Maori Party, all we've got is an Epsom government. It hangs by the thread on the meeting over the…
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Not a bad idea
David Shearer wants to move the New Year's and Queen's Birthday honours to Waitangi Day. I reckon that's a goer. If honourees were advised ahead of time, they could attend a public ceremony at Waitangi, to add to all the other events. With thousands there,…
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Super sized problem
I feel a bit sorry for Key and co. The coming term isn't going to be nearly as much fun as the first one. Here, for example, is one issue that they'd desperately like to go away. But Treasury have dumped it right in their…
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Key gets what he wants at Waitangi
While Key was away on his 4-week holiday in Hawaii, the world economy deteriorated, reports on the dire state of poverty in our country came out, and access to strategic resources became a pressing issue - both with our farmland being bought and Iran threatening…
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Open mike 06/02/2012
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Key runs from Waitangi
All the indications were that Key was in for a rough ride at Waitangi this year. And sure enough, John Key chased from Waitangi (video link). In other Herald coverage: Prime Minister John Key and fellow politicians were verbally abused by protesters during ugly scenes…
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Fran O’Sullivan: a shill with diversions
In her recent columns, and particularly yesterday, Fran O'Sullivan has been going quite quite strange I experienced a bit of this myself last week when the website, thestandard.org.nz, branded me an "enemy of the people" for supporting the sale. Well the site didn't, RedLogix did…
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Hickey on playing by the rules
While the rest of the world is moving away from the 'hands off' monetary policy that became fashionable in the 80s, our government insists on playing by the outmoded neoliberal 'rules' of a clean float. Well, what happens when everyone else 'cheats' by printing free…
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Open mike 05/02/2012
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More columns from O’Sullivan, please
Every time some rightwing ideologue calls 80% of New Zealanders racist or xenophobic because we don't want to lose control of our future and sell our strategic assets to fall into the hands of a foreign dictatorship that is going around the world buying up…
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MoT reveals massive budget shortfall from peak oil
Almost missed among all the blacked out paragraphs of the Transport Briefing to the Incoming Minister are 2 interesting graphs. While not explicitly mentioning peak oil, the graph of the National Land Transport Fund shows a massive shortfall in revenue in a 'high oil price,…
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Open mike 04/02/2012
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Truly touching
After the horrifying attack on a 5-year old tourist in Turangi in December, Kiwis showed their compassion, and their shame, by donating over $62,000 to the family. Now, the family has said they don't blame the community and have used some of the donations to…
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TEU: Treasury’s attack on ordinary Kiwis
Public education is the cornerstone of a good country and a buoyant economy. And New Zealanders have long enjoyed the benefits that come to them individually, to their families, their communities, their country, and the economy from having access to quality public education. But all…
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Citizens on the Internet
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ImperatorFish: Call Me, John
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here John Banks says Catherine Isaac is qualified to oversee the trial of Charter Schools because the ACT list candidate "loves education", and spent six years…
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Weekend social 03/02/2012
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?