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So far the results are looking good for Labour. RNZ reports: Labour Party candidate Poto Williams is leading in the Christchurch East by-election, with 20% of the votes counted. New Zealand Snapper tweeted: Over a quarter of all the votes counted, ACT has 12 votes.…
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Anyone got any good reasons as to why people who can’t walk, or why people pushing prams, or whatever, shouldn’t be able to access buildings and move around city environments with ease? I can think of a few shit reasons – thoughtless planners and penny…
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Today's NZ Herald editorial willfully distorts the facts behind the Citizens Initiated Referendum on asset sales. It so doing, it's main focus serves to discredit the referendum, encourage people not to vote, and thus implicitly supports the Key government's asset sales programme. It does all…
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Like many other baby boomers I found that my political activism owed a lot to Rob Muldoon. He was a disgusting figure. He was a bully, had strong fascist tendencies and was totally clueless on how to run New Zealand. Our current problems can be…
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Comments on this post will not be allowed until 7.01 pm, then after that knock yourselves out! The legal restriction on campaigning on election day means that even online campaigning during election day is not allowed. So check back at 7:01 pm and discuss what…
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The Electoral Commission has reported receiving and processing nearly quarter of a million referendum votes per day on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Those were the first two day big days allowing time for the ballots to there through the post. With smaller numbers getting…
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In the Budget, the Government said asset sales would increase the net worth of the Crown by half a billion dollars because eager mums and dads were going to snap the shares up for more than they were worth on the government books. As we…
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Something momentous happened today. John Banks and Hone Harawira are on the same side of an issue, Peter Dunne is doing something sensible, and the Greens and New Zealand First as well as Brendan Horan agreed on something. And David Farrar and Matthew Hooton are…
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There is some truth to Tracy Watkins claim (in an op ed piece a week ago explicitly labelled Opinion) that the Law change removing HNZ tenants' right of tenure passed into law with "barely a ripple". She ends the piece with a reference to National's sly style…
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As the Christchurch East by election draws to a close National's candidate Matthew Doocey has done something quite unusual, he has not fronted up to an important public meeting to discuss that most vital of local issues, insurance cover for earthquake damage. From the Christchurch…
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Everybody is talking up the Conservatives as a partner for National after 2014 to save Key from being the least successful National PM ever. But there's one problem: they don't agree on anything. The Conservatives are reactionaries, the Nats are neo-libs - and they agree…
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The latest Roy Morgan poll results are out. Labour is up 2% to 34%, National down 1% to 44.5%, Greens down 1.5% to 11% and the Conservatives are on 2%. Labour/Green is just ahead of National. And Matthew Hooton has tweeted about Labour/Green being on…
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The Conservatives have a significant constituency and pose an interesting dynamic for the future of NZ politics. Their constituency will mostly come from National and NZ First thus possibly letting the left in or result in them sharing power on the right. The Conservatives are…
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In October the CTU launched its report on Insecure Work Its a big problem - contractors are squeezed to squeeze workers, training is often minimal as smaller companies can't manage the responsibility, health and safety obligations are confused, and workers can't plan or budget. And…
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On the site we now have a a simple little graphic that shows how much heat has accumulated on our planet. It is expressed as multiples of of the heat energy of Hiroshima sized A-bombs. I've picked 1979 as being the start year because that…
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I heard Duncan Garner on the radio the other day mocking Napierites' opposition to being forced into a Hawke's Bay-wide super-council. 'Why should there be 2 mayors within 21km of each other?' he asked. Nah. The question is: 'why not?' If they want to keep…
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From the you must be out of your freaking mind file comes this gem from England. Boris Johnson thinks that the upper rich are a put upon bullied minority and that they deserve our thanks and gratitude. He is not talking about any old wealthy individual…
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The Police investigations into both the teapot tapes and the GCSB's unlawful spying on Kim Dotcom came down to the same section of the Crimes Act, 216B. That makes it a crime to intentional intercept a private communication without lawful excuse. In both cases, the…
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Ok, I know this image has a lot of issues. It is a 256 color gif which means it is dithered to hell. Whoever took it has issues with colour balance, tilt and even the focus point. But none of that matters. It certainly makes…
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By Tracey Watshite, Cadet Reporter. In a surprising development, John Key has taken to bringing “a friend” with him to serious media interviews. In the last week, Key has been interviewed by Tracy Watkins twice and appeared on the cutting edge TVNZ political programme Q…
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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. It’s getting harder and harder to be a white man in this world. I feel threatened and challenged everywhere I go. No matter where I…
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The Christchurch East by election has entered the final week and this time next Sunday the result should be known. The campaign has been lower key than some other recent by election Campaigns. The Mount Albert by election in 2009 had intensive media coverage but…
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I’ve been thinking about what next years’ election is going to be like. Not like 2011 that’s for sure. Labour was in the doldrums and ran a largely negative campaign around asset sales that failed to fire, resulting in the worst election result in history.…
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It's not often that you'll see a Herald editorial quoted at length here, but when they're right, they're right: Key [is] dead-set on forging a governing coalition with the Christian-Lite Conservative Party and its troublingly dim leader, Colin Craig. Craig is a man who doesn't…