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It's 120 years since women got the vote - what are you doing to celebrate? There's a number of events going on around the country organised by everybody from the CTU to Hamilton Council. Sue Moroney is having a 26 for Babies picnic on Parliament's…
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Ok, I'm very pleasantly surprised. David Cunliffe has made a very interesting choice for chief of staff. Based on what I know about the task, she looks like a damn good fit for the role. In fact I'm just surprised that he managed to attract…
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What seems to be the defining feature of this government is in providing corporate welfare to incompetents who underbid their competition for government work or want bigger subsidies at the taxpayers expense. Give them the vaguest excuse and Key or Joyce will wilt like a…
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The MSM, especially TV One and TV 3's 6pm news, reported on Cunliffe stumbling over the word Chorus in his first question yesterday to PM Key. They failed to significantly report on the substance of Cunliffe's question, that exposes Key's prevarications on the costs to…
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Yesterday Paula Bennett introduced the First Reading of the Vulnerable Children Bill. There is no doubt action is needed to deal with New Zealand's appalling record of violence against children. However, as opposition MPs argue, it needs to take into account the bigger picture of…
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Paddy Gower's gleeful predictions of 'blood on the floor' of caucus didn't happen. Tracy Watkins' unrealistic demand that Grant Robertson (whom she incorrectly thought would win the leadership race) be retained as deputy was never going to happen. What we saw was a neat, least…
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I see both Fairfax and the Herald quote extensively from John Key on the inner workings of the Labour Party - he has all the inside gossip apparently. Trevor, Grant, David, David, David, they may all play their hands close, but when it comes to…
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What comes first – the economy or the society? The only point of having a good economic policy is because you have a strong vision for society to which the economy contributes to build. The media keep saying David Cunliffe has a left wing economic…
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Breaking: Stuff is saying that Cunliffe has asked David Parker to be his deputy in a Breaking banner. Audrey Young at the NZ Herald is claiming this will be Cunliffe's recommendation to caucus. Labour leader David Cunliffe has recommended David Parker as his deputy leader.…
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John Key and his ministers certainly don't like democracy. This is shown yet again with their rush to sell Meridian. Opposition Parties are lining up to tell it as it is. RNZ reports: Opposition parties say the Government is being arrogant as it pushes ahead…
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This may be shades of getting over-Apple'd as they mercilessly flay people on iTunes with their gargantuan pile of boilerplate each time they change a word (does anyone actually read that crap?). A good reason not to use the worthless and unworkable lump of bloatware.…
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Wow. Day one and already David Cunliffe is in sprint mode. He has rightfully calculated that he has maybe a short honeymoon period and he may as well take advantage of it. He has started to use the language of battle to describe the contest…
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So David Cunliffe is now leader. The scale of the win is somewhat overwhelming. He had significantly greater support from members and affiliates than his competitors. And the vote in caucus was closer than some had predicted. Winning on the first ballot was not expected…
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For many years there used to be a blog site called The Thordon Bubble1, that was dedicated to the minutiae of the political scene as seen from a small area in Wellington. I always thought it was a perfect name for the thermocline difference of…
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Today is the 75th Anniversary of the 1938 Social Security Act, one of Labour's finest achievements that shaped our modern society. As Michael Joseph Savage said during the passage of the Bill: There is enough of the best for all of us, and I want…
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The stunning levels of naked media dishonesty and bias we've seen in the coverage of David Cunliffe, his campaign, and now his election, call for a special tribute! This post is for us dear readers, to assemble links to examples of those who write in…
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Well, didn't that work well? For the past three weeks, Labour has dominated the political news with three contenders show-casing its values. There was remarkably little aggro - witness Tracy Watkins' desperate scratching for any time conflict story. David Cunliffe has emerged with the legitimacy…
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It's official David Cunliffe is Labour's new leader. And, having been democratically elected by Labour's Parliamentary, Party, and industrial wings in the first round, he carries the strongest mandate of any leader in the party's history. It's a great day for democracy. But not as…
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One from each side of the politician-journalist relationship, both from one article... Firstly Tracy Watkins on a Grant Robertson win: That could see more ill-feeling spill over in public at the November conference, and reopen the wounds from last year when rank-and-file members revolted against…
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Julia Gillard on power, purpose, and Labor's future. Well worth a read.
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The election of a new Leader today will be a historic moment in the history of the New Zealand Labour party. Regardless of the result, or who you voted for, this is a day to celebrate the party's new democracy. Update: from an email from…
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For progressives the recent Australian election was a relative disaster. It was not as bad as it was predicted to be, and this may explain Kevin Rudd's rather jubilant concession speech on election night, but nevertheless Labor lost over 20 MPs from the House of…
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John Armstrong gets it right: David Cunliffe's going to win tomorrow and if he doesn't it will only be because the caucus has stymied the will of the members, which will kill Labour. But he also gets it really wrong. Armstrong cooks up a conspiracy…
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I'm not usually one to comment on individual polls as I can't see that a single poll means much. Given that each of our media outlets only seeks to poll once every blue moon, their data isn't great. In fact the only poll that is…