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Open mike 13/03/2012
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Organisational review – Auckland
Just a reminder that Auckland's first organisational review meeting is tonight. Please encourage as many Labour members as possible to come along and contribute to the discussion. TONIGHT: 6.30- 8.30pm Ngatapuwae Community Centre, Buckland Road, Mangere. David Shearer and I will be there and would…
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ImperatorFish: Won’t Someone Think Of The Lamingtons?
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. -- A guest post from the CEO of For the Sake of Our Cakes Trust I picked up the newspaper today, only to immediately regret…
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Shearer taking shape
It's been encouraging seeing a bit more of David Shearer recently. His leadership is slowly taking shape. His proposed bill on foreign ownership, putting in place a stricter test on benefits to NZ, will be very popular - "Shearer's law would close door on most…
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Why I think that Auckland is getting scammed
I have been looking for an online copy of a article that was in one of the sunday papers (see below), which curiously doesn't appear to have made it online. However the important points as far as I am concerned are: It wasn't a report…
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Incompetent management forces Shearer & Brown off fence
After months on the side-line, David Shearer and Len Brown have been forced to choose a side in the Ports of Auckland dispute by the irrational and unreasonable behaviour of the Ports management (not to mention a fair amount of public pressure). Shearer has come…
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Overseas investment must show real gains
David Shearer's private member's Bill on foreign investment is pure common sense: unless foreign ownership actually adds something substantial to the economy that cannot be supplied by local owners then all foreign investment brings is higher land prices, locking out Kiwis from ownership. Overseas buyers…
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Open mike 12/03/2012
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No country for old bigots
What is it about New Zealand media? Seems if you're an old, privileged white man, you get a podium to say whatever nonsense you want - Henry, Laws, Armstrong, George, Du Fresne. And Deaker. The old twerp's latest is to attack Sonny Bill Williams saying…
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Some people just don’t learn
The support for the workers at POAL is growing by the day. Thousands of people turned out to march yesterday and the mainstream media has woken up to just how vicious the port's tactics are. But it's not just the public support that is with…
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Dunne has no mandate to vote for asset sales
"What the public of New Zealand really do not like is politicians who say one thing before an election and do something else after it. And I invite every member of this House to look at every statement United Future made prior to the election…
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Open mike 11/03/2012
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Port protest gone international
The labour dispute is turning into a fiasco for Ports of Auckland. Today thousands of people marched through Auckland in protest: Thousands rally for sacked Ports workers ... ONE News reporter Stephen Smith said around 5000 protesters, including firefighters, meat workers, rest home nurses, even…
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Lamington’s Stupidity (and why I hate the rent-a-crowd)
I’m no fan of the people who threw the Lamington at Len Brown. They are the same crew who waltz into every social movement in Auckland, suck the life out of it and move on. (And, those of you who read my Dear Len letter…
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Postcards from the “brighter” future
Treasury warns of deficit blowout Treasury says the government's corporate tax take may miss forecasts for the rest of the financial year, leaving the Crown vulnerable to a bigger-than-expected annual deficit. The government's tax revenue was 2.9 percent short of forecast at $31.36 billion in…
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Pressure mounts on Dunne
David Cunliffe turned his sights on Peter Dunne in the first reading of the Mixed Ownership Bill (which Winston Peters said should be called the 'National Party makes Quisling look like a Patriot Bill'), pointing out that Dunne has the single vote that determines whether…
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Pagani: love that workforce casualisation
Josie Pagani has this to say about casualisation and the POAL dispute: On Sean Plunket's ZB show today. Talking about the ports. 'Casualisation' scares us because it sounds like short hand for bad hours, low pay and no annual leave. It sounds like life in the…
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Open mike 10/03/2012
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ImperatorFish: English Says Asteroid Strike Good For Country
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. The Finance Minister said this morning that the asteroid speeding towards the country presented opportunities for New Zealand. Scientists yesterday announced that a giant asteroid is…
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Weekend social 09/03/2012
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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ImperatorFish: Dick Fritter’s Salute to John Key
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. It was another masterful display in the House yesterday, as the Prime Minister ran rings around the Opposition yet again. First up was a question…
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Labour’s diminishing vision
Labour leaders face a problem across the world. Ed Miliband, David Shearer (and Phil Goff previously) and Julia Gillard all seem to be unable to create a lasting and inspiring approach to engages volunteers, activists and voters in a vision. Len Brown had it- his…
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The press release Len Brown should be issuing
A contrite Mayor Len Brown today offered his apology to Port workers for causing their redundancies by demanding higher port profits then giving them the cold shoulder. "I turned my back on the working class I claim to represent. That 'we're on a journey' BS…
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Meeting a need
Can anyone tell me why the Nats are spending $300m to build and $36m pa to run a 960-bed PPP prison when there are 2000 spare beds in the system and prisoner numbers are projected to fall? Or why Joyce is cutting a dirty 'convention…
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Key’s tarnished crown
I only recall ever picking up Management magazine once. It was back in 2009, I think, and John Key was on the cover. The article was like Playboy for managers, porn for stuffed suits. Breathless adoration of their god-king. Now, even the capitalist class is…
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How history will remember Len Brown: scab, coward, judas
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Open mike 09/03/2012
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Work needed
Does anyone have a job for a 60 year old? Job experience as follows: 7 years on the Alcoholic Liquor Advisory Council (maintains strong industry relations), Minister of Revenue with 3 governments (4-time winner of least memorable minister award), member of 4 political parties (proven…
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Women kept out of the boardroom
Stuff has a report telling us what we already know: an old boys' network keeps women out of the boardroom in Australia and New Zealand. This clubbiness is just one of the reasons we're such an unequal country. A small network of white middle-class males…
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Management incompetence costs POAL millions
Ports of Auckland wants to increase profits by slashing pay-packets by 20% - $6m. It won't make the containers move faster. It will increase profits only by taking bread out of the mouths of port worker families So far, the process has cost them at…