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Open mike 26/01/2013
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Tell the truth
Zetetic’s telling porkies. His talk of a rift in the Labour Party is crap. He hasn’t got a clue about what went on the Party conference – the idea that there should be a membership-wide vote on the leadership was voted down at the conference…
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This
David Clark (who I otherwise have a lot of time for) comments in a Herald interview today: Herald: What MP outside your party impresses you? David Clark: Kevin Hague [Green]. Kevin is impressive in that he has been able to walk a line where he…
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Weekend social 25/01/2013
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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For a February leadership vote
No one in Labour can deny there’s a real issue with internal disunity. Not only is the caucus divided (and more than ever since the Shearer camp’s handling of the conference fallout), but there’s a major breach between the membership and the caucus. Unless this…
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Cunliffe rules out challenge
Tucked away on the One News site last night... Labour leadership bid ruled out by Cunliffe David Cunliffe has unequivocally ruled out standing for the Labour Party leadership again. Cunliffe was demoted by Labour leader David Shearer in November for refusing to rule out a…
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Annette Sykes: a future MP?
The future of the Maori Party, and its leader/s, seems in doubt. Yesterday, Eddie posted on The Standard, that the Maori Party is now in terminal decline. Also yesterday, Anthony Robins posted on The Standard, that, "A merger with Mana seems to offer the most viable…
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‘Nuff said
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Complementary Housing
It's great to see the Greens' new housing policy nicely complementing Labour's affordable housing policy. Labour's policy would get a lot of middle-income people into homes, and reduce the costs for medium-to-lower-priced homes generally by greatly increasing the supply (prices in Herne Bay will probably…
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Open mike 25/01/2013
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Marriage equality and polygamy
Another week, another homophobic crywank by Bob McCoskrie - wait, no, that's Garth McVicar! Saying marriage equality will lead to a gay crime wave! This isn't predictable and boring, this is fantastic! Anyway, to continue: ... another pointless, copy-pasted "but what about POLYGAMY?????" derail on…
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Late analysis on the reshuffle
I'll say this for Key's media people, they're masters of the undersell when it comes to the insubstantial. And they know the media love to be surprised. John Armstrong gushed "Key has displayed all the sentiment of a corporate restructurer. So ministers are given the…
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Key’s brighter future
"I'd love to see wages drop". Remember when John Key said that? Well now our glorious PM is getting all excited about how we can attract investment with our low wages and lack of employment protections. To quote the Herald: John Key says Hollywood finds…
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Tickets to the Laneway Festival
I have 3 tickets in my hot hand to give away to the Laneway Festival (the one that we have been advertising for months). It is at Silo Park down at the waterfront in Auckland on the Monday the 28th of January. I'll hand out tickets…
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Maori Party in terminal decline
What a mess. The Maori Party is in its final phase as the vultures move in to fight over the corpse. Katene wants Turia's job but will she be the one given the tap or will it be a member of the Turia clan? Flavell…
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You say ‘flexible labour market’, I say ‘workers’ rights’
So John Key says Hollywood likes New Zealand because of weak unions, low fringe benefit costs and the 'flexible labour market'. In other words they can get their wage slaves to work longer for less with fewer complaints. They don't have to pay for health…
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Let it go Pita
Pita Sharples should step down as a leader of the Maori Party and let someone else have a go. The Party under Sharples and co-leader Tariana Turia has been a failure, falling in share of the Party vote (down from 2.39% to 1.43%), number of…
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Greens offer pathway to home ownership, better renters’ rights
The Greens have launched a big new housing policy (interest.co.nz has the most comprehensive report so far, Herald piece here) called Home for Lifethat fixes KiwiBuild and gives renters more rights. The problem with Kiwibuild is a lot of the target families can't afford the…
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Open mike 24/01/2013
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Sick
Bill English's priority in 2013 will be to "bed in" welfare reforms. Because that's where the big fiscal savings lie. He's hoping to cut 44,000 beneficiaries and save $1.6 billion by 2016-17. Which would be fantastic if this was a jobs government focussed on employment…
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ImperatorFish: John Key’s Reshuffle Analysed
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. Prime Minister John Key today announced a reshuffle of his Cabinet, as well as a number of changes in the organisation of some government ministries.…
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Jobs(.govt.nz) to Australia
Danyl at Dimpost has discovered that National is so serious about (enhancing) the drain of jobs and Kiwis to Australia that they've actually outsourced the Government Jobs website (http://jobs.govt.nz/) to... Australia. While I love irony, surely this says everything about National's actually commitment to the…
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NZ economic forecast “deteriorating”
Another day, another report on the ongoing failure of the global economy - "Stagnation until 2017 tipped for world's economies". Despite the massive bail-out from government / tax payers, our current systems (designed to enrich the 1%) are not delivering. Perhaps it's time for a…
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Drive-by posting
Like I said he would Bridges has got the Labour portfolio. I expect he'll do exactly what he's told by Joyce. It's how he's got where he is thus-far. Unfortunately the source on Shearer's plan to put his leadership to the party didn't pan out…
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Open mike 23/01/2013
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Media Bias & Democracy II: beyond 2 sides
Democracy needs that news media that provide in-depth and well-researched coverage of a diversity of political perspectives, as I argued in Media Bias & Democracy I. Attempts to ensure impartiality have been most often become a formula for presentation of two sides around a very…
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Hello everybody! Hi Dr Nick!
So Nick Smith is to be returned to cabinet after spending nearly a year on the bench for his ethical flaws. Presumably 10 months on the back benches heals all those desires to abuse your powers to try to help your friends get money. He…
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Bugger the environment
Back in October it was reported that the government was canceling the standard five-yearly State of the Environment Report. Can't have the messy facts making nonsense of the 100% Pure marketing campaign can we, so in typical Nat style they hope that the facts will…
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Open mike 22/01/2013
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Action: Stop Charter Schools
The chance to submit your opposition to Charter Schools closes this Thursday 24 January. Our country's teaching professionals are pretty much united in opposition to Charter Schools - where they have been tried overseas they are seeing (as with National Standards) a decline in relative…