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Emerson on privatisation
Emerson from The Herald on privatisation:
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Port’s paid propagandist says cut workers’ pay
They say that the nice thing about Cameron Slater is he'll believe whatever he's paid to believe. Yesterday, I asked whether Slater is being paid to run dirt stories for Ports of Auckland. He didn't deny it. So what is the Port's propagandist up to?…
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Summer service: open mike 11/01/2011
As usual, it's reduced service over the summer break, unless anything big happens. We hope you'll get a good break with those dear to you, and that we'll have some decent weather to enjoy. And if you still need your politics fix... Open mike is…
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Job system & RA in need of reform, not benefits
Other day, Curran asked what they should do with Red Alert. Now, Mallard's again using it, in conjunction with Pagani on his blog, to try to do an end run around his own party to promote benefit 'reform'. Leaving aside the fact it's the employment…
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What’s really going on at Ports of Auckland 2
Since my post yesterday, Ports of Auckland has upped the ante threatening to sack all its workers and contract out (to quick and loud cheers from the National-aligned blogs they are working with - Cameron Slater's rate is $10,000 for an operation like this). What…
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Summer service: open mike 10/01/2012
As usual, it's reduced service over the summer break, unless anything big happens. We hope you'll get a good break with those dear to you, and that we'll have some decent weather to enjoy. And if you still need your politics fix... Open mike is…
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What’s really going on at Ports of Auckland
The Right is up to its old tricks over the Ports of Auckland. It's the usual pattern: make up some bullshit about how the workers are spoiled and unreasonable, cry that the sky will fall if the company doesn't get its way, and (this is…
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Home advice better for Shearer
Here we go - the DomPost offers advice to Shearer on welfare policy, based on a Guardian article by Liam Byrne, British Labour shadow welfare spokesperson. The editorial is a disguised invitation to good old beneficiary-bashing, using the frame of welfare dependency. Trevor Mallard, New…
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The political year ahead
Here's a few guesses about what'll happen in the year ahead in politics. Shearer will cement his leadership by turning his back on the old guard who put him there. The Greens will hold on to their gains. National will go hell for leather. Mana…
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Summer service: open mike 09/01/2012
As usual, it's reduced service over the summer break, unless anything big happens. We hope you'll get a good break with those dear to you, and that we'll have some decent weather to enjoy. And if you still need your politics fix... Open mike is…
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Summer service: open mike 08/01/2012
As usual, it's reduced service over the summer break, unless anything big happens. We hope you'll get a good break with those dear to you, and that we'll have some decent weather to enjoy. And if you still need your politics fix... Open mike is…
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2012, more of the same?
After blissful isolation in the bush, it's a shock to come back and read of more earthquakes, the government bullying the media, port workers having to strike to get an inflation-rate pay raise, more road deaths, and today's balloon tragedy in Carterton. Not to mention…
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Summer service: open mike 07/01/2012
As usual, it's reduced service over the summer break, unless anything big happens. We hope you'll get a good break with those dear to you, and that we'll have some decent weather to enjoy. And if you still need your politics fix... Open mike is…
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Post-xmas blues
I'm unhappy to be back in the muggy Auckland weather. After blobbing out in sunny Invercargill and Dunedin I don't want to back at work!. I see that they're calling it a drought down there. I have left, it is now permissible to rain in…
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Summer service: open mike 06/01/2012
As usual, it's reduced service over the summer break, unless anything big happens. We hope you'll get a good break with those dear to you, and that we'll have some decent weather to enjoy. And if you still need your politics fix... Open mike is…
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ImperatorFish: Spill the Beans, Now!
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here I don't know about you, but I find it most inconvenient that just as I have some leisure hours to spend blogging about politics and…
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Summer service: open mike 05/01/2012
As usual, it's reduced service over the summer break, unless anything big happens. We hope you'll get a good break with those dear to you, and that we'll have some decent weather to enjoy. And if you still need your politics fix... Open mike is…
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ImperatorFish: New Year Bombshells Rock Nation On Edge
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here Hard-hitting Herald journo Bevan Hurley reports: Wedding bells have been ringing out across the country in what's shaping up as a summer of celebrity love. All…
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Waiting for the other shoe to drop
I read Colin James's piece on the need for a resilient economy/society in yesterday's ODT. A competent explanation of a risks facing New Zealand and an acknowledgement that New Zealand needs to design itself to withstand and exploit them. Nothing new to readers of The…
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Summer service: open mike 03-04/01/2012
As usual, it's reduced service over the summer break, unless anything big happens. We hope you'll get a good break with those dear to you, and that we'll have some decent weather to enjoy. And if you still need your politics fix... Open mike is…
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Tax-take bullshit
An earlier post by Mike Smith on inequality referred to a claim by Geoff Vincent that 12% of the taxpayers were paying 49% of the the taxes. Now this was patently a spinners interpolation on the tax data and shouldn't be part of the debate..…
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The Governor-General’s message.
Kia ora. Nga mihi o te tau hou. Greetings to you all for the New Year. It's an honour, as Governor-General and representative of Her Majesty the Queen of New Zealand, to give my first New Year message. The start of the year is a…
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Summer service: open mike 01-02/01/2012
Happy New Year! As usual, it's reduced service over the summer break, unless anything big happens. We hope you'll get a good break with those dear to you, and that we'll have some decent weather to enjoy. And if you still need your politics fix…
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Happy New Year!
To everyone in the Standard community - Happy New Year! We hope 2012 finds you all safe and well and ready for another year of arguing about politics ;)