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Individual polls are nothing to get too excited about, it is the trend over time that matters. That said, the TV1 and 3 News polls tonight were both good news for Labour and Shearer. TV1 has Labour up 3 to 35, and National down 1…
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I see John Tamihere's been let back into the party. On one hand it's just a party membership and Labour's a broad church. On the other hand he's professed a desire to stand for Labour in Waitakeri, has made a big show and dance about…
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My regular Sunday piece of interesting, longer, deeper stories I found during the week. It’s also a chance for you to share what you found this week too. Those stimulating links you wanted to share, but just didn’t fit in anywhere (no linkwhoring). This week:…
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This story reads like a Bond film - with people getting bumped off left, right and centre. And where do they do their money laundering? Good ol' Aotearoa. National made noises about fixing these false shell companies when this story first surfaced 18 months ago...…
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John Armstrong's take on Labour's housing policy, announced by David Shearer at the Labour Party conference, is as follows: For the first time in a very long time, Labour has come up with something radical on the policy front which may grab the public's attention,…
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So Brownlee tried a Simpsons joke in the House and it completely failed (Danyl has clip here). I guess everyone in National wants to emulate the Clown-in-Chief as they audition to succeed him. At least Gerry didn't insult Finland with his 'joke' this time. While…
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Welcome to Poverty watch, a weekly update on the National government's lack of response to the urgent and growing issue of poverty in NZ. A lot of background issues and links are set out in Poverty Watch one two and three. On Thursday Bryan Bruce’s…
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It appears that Murray McCully is up to his clique-ish Murray-knows-best ways again. He's appointed (on Wednesday with a quiet press release in the middle of hobbit fever) his old mate, and Sky political lobbyist Tony O'Brien to the board of Antarctic New Zealand. What's…
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The next round of secretive TPP negotiations is in Auckland next week, 3-12 December. There will be a National Day of Action on Saturday 8 December. It looks like it will be part of a world wide protest march. There are important issues involving NZ's…
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100% Pure no joke Like most Kiwis I’m proud of New Zealand’s strong tradition of conservation and environmentalism. From the heroic efforts to save the Chatham Islands’ Black Robin, to our world-leading Nuclear Free stance and our opposition to whaling, New Zealand has always fought…
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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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Over the past four years 40,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost (and over a thousand manufacturing companies have shut up shop). The government is in full denial, so the opposition parties have set up their own inquiry. The Labour Party, the Green Party, New Zealand…
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From the indefatigable I/S at No Right Turn... Taking on our local tax cheats overseas, governments and media are asking increasingly annoyed questions about tax cheating by multinational companies such as Starbucks,Apple, and Facebook. Now Labour joined the campaign, and has taken up the cry locally: Facebook New Zealand paid…
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Labour may still be well below its 2008 election result, when it was chucked out after 3 terms, but, thanks to the doubling of Greens support, Labour+Green is level pegging with National in the latest Roy Morgan. Add New Zealand First, and the opposition is…
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Here's a solution to the Novopay fiasco. Move all National MP's pay on to that system. Let them go for months with random pay, if they get paid at all. Then you'll see it fixed real fast...
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Chris Trotter, like myself, was at the Labour party conference a week and a half ago. Like myself and damn near every left wing blogger who was there, he saw a massive discordance between what was being reported and what was actually happening in the conference.…
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The big story for the day is the likely change in press regulation as the Leveson Report on questionable media ethics is about to released. But the next couple of stories are also interesting with similar (unresolved) stories here this year. Firstly the Tory Government…
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Anthony has already mentioned the amazing record of us winning both first and second prize in the first Fossil of the Day awards at the Doha climate talks - quite a remarkable achievement, particularly for a nation that trades on its "100% Pure" environmental credentials.…
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Interesting piece in today's Glasgow Herald on the appointment of Mark Carney as the new governor of The Bank of England. It's what you might call 'out of step'. For most of this week, UK press commentary on his appointment has been fairly gushing. But…
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Attacks on the “anonymity" of bloggers by some MPs and journalists, are a symptom of change that threatens to make political participation more democratic. Until the early 20th century journalists were largely anonymous. The rise of “name” journalism and infotainment have increased voter dis-engagement. A critical, independent…
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With unemployment grinding upwards, the economy stagnant, the education system in turmoil, and the exodus to Australia at record levels, the Nats must have thought that at least they had a success story to tell on health. Here's a press release from back in August:…
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Government has a central role in job creation. Just ask National. They'll tell you it's not true, and then proudly proclaim that they got The Hobbit made here (ie. bent to hollow threats from Hollywood), creating 3,000 temporary jobs. According to the New York Times,…
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Earlier this month yet another report on the looming catastrophe of climate change was published. What was particularly notable about this one was that is was from the World Bank (not exactly a hotbed of lefties or environmentalists). The report is called "Turn Down The…
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The relationship between media and politicians in this country has become incestuous and toxic. For much of the time they confine themselves to merely slanting the game with spin and framing language. We've learnt to live with that. But increasingly we are witnessing instances where…
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Dr Russel Norman: Does it not all boil down to the fact that whichever way you cut it, whichever statistics you care to choose, the Government has failed on jobs, unemployment has grown in New Zealand, and the number of jobs in the manufacturing sector…
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