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The Nats are ideologically blind when it comes to education. Pressing ahead with National Standards, when all the evidence and advice shows that they're bad for kids. They're repeating exactly the same mistakes when it comes to charter schools: Charter schools 'harmful' says study ...A…
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SkyCity seems to be feeling the pressure of public concern over their dodgy deal with the Nats, which will ramp up the number of addictive pokie machines in their casino. Yesterday we were treated to his media blurt: Lotto worse than pokies - SkyCity boss…
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Matt Wuerker has won Politico's first Pulitzer for his excellent editorial cartoons. They certainly capture something...
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The Greens have revealed that criminals are laundering millions of dollars through SkyCity, taking their gambling losses as the price of coming out with clean, untraceable money. The Government's sleazy 'law for sale' deal with SkyCity would only make it worse by allowing more anonymous,…
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When political lobbyists and campaign "donations" dominate the political process, is it really a democracy any more? Case in point, America, democracy or a plutocracy in Cartier drag? Like most democracies, NZ is some way down that path. But The Greens have proposed taking at…
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The government has splurged $20m putting 3,300 unemployed people through 6 week-long military 'boot camps (the $6K per head cost is the same as 6 months on on dole). Result: up to 3 years later, only 19% have jobs. Compares to the typical stint of…
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A day after a Sunday Star Times piece about how racism is getting worse in New Zealand comes the apparent proof. You can't read anything scientific into a self-selecting online poll, but there's no reason to think that someone would bother deliberately skewing this one.…
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The Right tells us that selling all our stuff and letting the profits flow offshore is great because we get foreign capital and knowledge flowing into the economy (apparently,we can't just buy that stuff rather than permanently lose our wealth base). The Government says 30%…
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Ports of Auckland management admit they gave Slater/Lusk the confidential employment details of a worker who criticised the bosses' disastrous bargaining strategy. At least 2 other workers were victims of the same misdeed. CEO Tony Gibson needs to sack the senior staff responsible. If he…
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Looks like the Nats are going to use the bridge washout on the Gisborne-Napier rail line as an excuse to close it. Despite wagon volumes growing 12-fold this year. The wall of wood has to come out somehow. The roads can't handle the trucks. Madness…
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Having had 4 weeks off at New Years, a week fluffing around in Korea, and a week's holiday in Europe, Key is in Indonesia, where his first order of business was a round of golf followed by a BBQ. While searching for an image of…
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I'm going to just repost in full a post by guest author Hugh Pickens on Slashdot: Dr. James Hansen, director of the NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who first made warnings about climate change in the 1980s, says that public skepticism about the threat of…
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We all know that many Kiwis choose to leave and never come back. Student loans have created a new incentive, and a new class of expensively educated loan refugees. Currently we're loosing folk to Australia in record numbers (another "successful" Nat election promise). And now…
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Recall the Nats' promises on the tests for proceeding with asset sales ("mixed ownership model"): The Government’s five tests for proceeding The Government has decided to pursue extending the mixed ownership model after being assured the following five tests can be met: The Government will…
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There is more and more (and more and more and more) evidence accumulating that "fracking" is a Bad Thing. So it's great to see that Christchurch City Council has (unanimously) banned the practice - Christchurch is a frack free zone. A symbolic gesture? Maybe, but…
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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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So Bill English wants to make history and be the first to use the financial veto on a whole piece of legislation. It's only ever been used before on amendments, usually added by oppositions to make a political point. Not on an actual fully-fledged piece…
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Looks like Stuart Nash is going to quit as Shearer's chief of staff and return to Napier. He has 2 solid reasons to do so: his 3 month old and his excellent chance of beating Tremain in 2014. Don't actually think chief of staff was…
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It was a bad day yesterday for the 'heavy hitters' of the Collins faction, Slater and Lusk. First, Ports of Auckland admitted supplying them with a workers' private details. Then, the smear on the Meatworkers that they had orchestrated with Talley's was shot down by…
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Last week, David Farrar demanded to know where the government is getting $62m for youth mental health services... Actually he didn't (they're stealing it from other health funding) but he is demanding Labour explains where it would get $125m a year for extending paid parental…
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Ports of Auckland management have called for facilitation, claiming the union won't shift. By not shift they mean the union won't sign up to a deal that allows the port to contract out whenever it likes. This is an interesting situation. If it goes to…
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If National believe in the free-market like they say they do, they need to send the correct market signals. If there is no cost to farmers polluting, there will be no innovation or strong action on improving their greenhouse gas emissions. Where we could be…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. . .
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Every time Simon Lusk's name gets mentioned, Whaleoil (which is only Cameron Slater and has nothing to do with Lusk </sarcasm>) responds with a vitriolic and revealing tirade. In the latest, Whaleoil insists there are no National factions, before insulting and demeaning each of the…