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Five and a half years ago, Labour's Electoral Finance Bill was subject to strong criticism, including from the Human Rights Commission, which said it was an unwarranted impingement on freedom of expression. The Herald launched its 'Democracy Under Attack' campaign to drive Labour from office.…
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An article about the editing of Judith Collins Wikipedia page has just been published on the NZ Herald site. Author Phil Taylor makes a creditable effort to maintain some balance, pointing out the apparent biases of both Brooking and Clarke43. He is asking for the…
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John Key does not seem to have a very high opinion of law. He thinks that legal opinions are something that can shopped around for and if he does not like an opinion he just needs to go out and get another one. The Human…
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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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The excellent journalism of the Campbell Live segment (Wednesday July 10, 2013) on the changes to the GCSB bill, and the Key government-Dotcom-GCSB timeline, brought the role of Eric Holder to the fore. Eric Holder's connections with his New Zealand counterparts shows how much Holder's…
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The knuckleheads (tm John Key) in the parliamentary press gallery are concerned about their privacy: Parliamentary press gallery raises concerns over swipe card data Representatives from the parliamentary press gallery have raised concerns with Speaker David Carter over Parliamentary Service releasing the swipe card information…
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Robert Wade will speak on "Inequality and the We st" in Christchurch tomorrow Friday - 4pm in Lecture Hall A3, Arts Centre, University Drive, Christchurch. His lectures in Auckland and Dunedin have been packed - had to move the venue in Dunedin and could have…
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Today, a passenger on the bus I was travelling on, had a fit or seizure of some description. Luckily for them, they slumped sideways into the recovery position and the bus was stationery, having just pulled into a bus stop. The driver and another passenger…
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This is incredibly stupid PR of a quality we have not seen for a while. Sky City has threatened to pack up all its toys and go home if the pokie machines and human misery bill, also known by its subtitle of "a bill to…
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One of the Nat/SkyCity (same thing?) lines in the pokies debate was that the new machines would be in a monitored and controlled environment. That appears to be bullshit: #SkyCity #dirtydeal allows pokies to be installed in Auckland InterCity Bus Terminal. http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2013/0140/latest/DLM5362254.html … Pokies in bus…
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I/S at No Right Turn on Transmission Gully... Transmission Gully: A $2 billion scam Last year, the government announced that doing Transmission Gully using a Public-Private partnership would cost $300 million more than if the government built it. That's bad enough, but it's worse than that.…
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Excellent reporting on Campbell Live last night, with a detailed look at the timeline of events surrounding the GCSB Bill, the Kim Dotcom raid, the appointment of Key's school chum to head the GCSB, and certain visits between Washington and NZ. See the video here…
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I am doing a speech on health and safety tomorrow. Been thinking about Pike. Bernie Monk rang yesterday. Bridges is in Gisborne Herald today saying all the reports needed on Forestry have been written. In my speech tomorrow I Will read this bit out from…
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There is clear evidence that a full, independent inquiry of the GCSB is needed before the law/s related to NZ intelligence gathering are changed. The Green Party called for such an inquiry in May 2013. They argued that the inadequate report by Paul Neazor indicated…
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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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Multiple reports on Twitter that Key's grubby Sky City Bill will be a conscience personal vote. If true, I'm surprised, given the fragile majority Key has on this issue. Now I guess we get to see if any Nat MPs have a conscience: Thousands more…
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Apparently there was a coup in Labour last night. Missed it? So did Labour. The coup seems to have taken place largely in the mind of Duncan Garner, with the assistance of well-known Labour insider Cameron Slater. Let Twitter tell the tale: Duncan Garner 9:05pm:…
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You have to hand it to John Key and this National Party. It appears that they are economic miracle makers, able to make money go way further than it should do and capable of, a la loaves and fishes, making what is left more than…
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Can democratic parties be successful major parties in modern politics? The media's drooling obsession with the "man ban" really makes me wonder. Labour is a democratic party. It develops its policy in the open, via a remit system and conference. It recently became a lot…
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The 'Pakeha Party' has the most Facebook followers of any New Zealand political movement (excepting John Key's page) That's in one day of publicity. They're seriously talking about forming an actual political party. Should we be worried about this apparent reactionary force? Nah. The creation…
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This just up on Stuff, about Edward Snowden making links between US and NZ intelligence services, as well as between other "5 Eyes" participants. The article, taken from The Sydney Morning Herald, begins: United States whistleblower Edward Snowden has disclosed a link between New Zealand…
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Key has started making concessions in an effort to pass his GCSB bill to spy on Kiwis: Key forced to change spying law Under Mr Key's original law, spying warrants would be issued by one commissioner. Mr Dunne wants a panel of three distinguished New…
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We have very good climate scientists in New Zealand, but the government isn't exactly promoting them. Wanting us to be followers rather than leaders, taking us out of Kyoto 2, diluting our ETS into a polluter-subsidy scheme, getting us fossil awards, even only having an…
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Late last Friday during the man ban beatup and the finalising of the Sky City deal a further event occurred. The Government released a stack of papers relating to the 2013 budget. This morning on Morning Report Clayton Cosgrove was interviewed and commented that the…
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