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Open mike 07/11/13
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Sir Edmund Thomas: “Reducing Inequality” – new ‘Values’
Sir Edmund Thomas's recent Bruce Jesson lecture, "Reducing Inequality: A Strategy for a Cause' is available online now: abridged version (h/t greywarbler). He outlines the key elements of "neoliberalism" that have resulted in vast inequalities that are damaging to our society and it's future. I particularly like…
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Everything you wanted to know about the Chorus deal …
The Chorus fibre roll out deal with the Government is one of those issues that promises to embarrass the Government deeply, more deeply than us lefties may think. Because amongst the ranks of this Government's supporters are those who hold close to principles. They may…
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Couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery
National was warned not to give the main ultrafast broadband contracts to Chorus. All it would do would restore and strengthen the monopoly that had kept prices too high ever since Telecom was privatised (and which David Cunliffe did such good work to break up).…
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Open mike 06/11/2013
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Gambling harm: “commercially sensitive”
Given this, are we to expect that next time a cigarette company wants to withhold the evidence that smoking will take 11 years off the life of every second smoker, they just need to do a dodgy deal with National to build a convention centre…
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Don’t Wring Your Hands.
The attitudes put on display by the young men calling themselves the ‘Roast Busters’ aren’t a glitch or the product of some unsavoury sub-culture. Those young men and the attitudes they hold are the product of very long and complex processes whereby some very fucked…
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Does Key want to nationalise Chorus Soviet style?
I blogged previously about Chorus and the Commerce Commission. The draft decision from the Commission would have seen a significant reduction in broadband prices. Chorus complained, Amy Adams brought out a discussion paper suggesting the Government would not follow the decision, and John Key suggested…
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ImperatorFish: Please, please, stop your raping
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. A message from the New Zealand Police The New Zealand Police take sexual violence very seriously, and so we are disturbed by reports of a…
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Open mike 05/11/2013
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ImperatorFish: Revolution!
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. Welcome, Comrades! It’s always exciting when a group of people get together to create something new. This week we learned about the creation of a…
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Populists v Plutocrats
There's an interesting article in today's DomPost headlined "Delight and horror at rise of 'comrade'". It details how Democrat Bill de Blasio is almost 40 points clear of his Republican rival in the race for Mayor of New York City. Bill de Blasio is no…
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It’s not just about cyber-culture, Judith
The news reports about the Roast Busters are chilling. Watching 3 News tonight was very upsetting. There has much been said online that is relevant. The most important immediate question is - how hard have the police and authorities worked to support the woman who…
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Govt responsible for 7 NZ deaths
Over 2 years ago the government was passing legislation and Labour tried to amend it to lower the drink drive limit from 80mg to 50mg in line with most other countries. Never one to affect the booze barons' profits too much, National voted it down.…
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The Kiwibuilt announcement
Yesterday Labour announced further Housing Policy. The announcement was handled by David Cunliffe, David Parker and Phil Twyford. It is good to see these announcements being shared around. The proposals are: 10,000 affordable houses to be built in Christchurch in the first four years of…
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Doing what works
One of Steven Joyce's favourite refrains is that Labour is trying to take us back to the 1970s. You know, those dark days when unemployment was near non-existent, wages were high, growth was strong despite external shocks, we had nearly no foreign debt, profits stayed…
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Why the 2013 Labour Conference set course for Government in 2014
We finally found someone better than Helen Clark. Plenty of things David Cunliffe can’t do, crack jokes, discuss All Black winger prospects. But what he does is set pieces that rock the house like New Zealand hasn’t seen since Billy Graham toured New Zealand in…
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National: the party the insurance companies bought
National and the Insurance Council are in lock-step in their opposition to KiwiAssure (though their terror at the prospect of a new insurer rather makes a lie of their claim that the insurance market is competitive). That's no coincidence, the two are very closely linked.…
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Open mike 04/11/2013
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While Labour Burns Bright…
This weekend, TEPCO is going to try and begin the process of removing spent fuel rods from a cooling pond at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4. The fuel rods are about the thickness of a human thumb and 15 feet long. There are 1533 of them…
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Insurance Council goes Galt
Well that didn't take long. The Insurance Council has come out attacking Labour for KiwiAssure. Which is odd really, given the claim that there's already a competitive market. You'd have thought they would welcome a new member to the industry. Wouldn't you? Or alternatively, they've…
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Video of David Cunliffe’s speech to the 2013 Labour Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9CRHikbOzw&feature=youtu.be Enjoy ...
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“The purists can weep”
Labour's new KiwiAssure policy has been welcomed by John Armstrong as good politics. And it is. But it's also good policy - at the same time we've got a government hell bent on making sure electricity profits flow to overseas investors, David Cunliffe's policy is…
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Kiwiassure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisKm6_qk7E And from David's speech ... Just as KiwiBank gave us a customer-focused, low cost Kiwi-owned bank, KiwiAssure will give everyone a choice for better service, competititive premiums and local ownership that keeps profits here. KiwiAssure will be a sister company to KiwiBank, within the…
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“A Tale of two countries” – NZ/Aotearoa
Two news items in this morning's NZ Herald online cause me to feel despair for the current state of New Zealand after a couple of decades of "neoliberalism". People can debate some of the detail with respect to the policy direction indicated in Cunliffe's speech…
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Open Mike 03/11/13
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Take us this day our daily statins
For as long as I have been around the Labour party conferences there has been a steadily greying of the members as the slow influx of younger members was outweighed by the aging of the stalwarts. That seems to have finally changed. As David Cunliffe pointed…
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David Cunliffe Speech to 2013 Labour Party Conference – Building a future for all
E nga mana o tenei rohe Ngai Tahu Tatou katoa te whanau o te reipa Tena koutou katoa It’s great to be here with you today, with Christchurch’s new Mayor Lianne, our wonderful President Moira, our fantastic candidate for Christchurch East, Poto Williams, and…
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The prescient oracle
Over the last year or two, our prescient oracle Irishbill has been writing posts on need for the Labour party to make themselves relevant. This post from October last year "The Year Ahead" where he said... Rather, I think that the electorate has simply run out…
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Labour conference 2013 – day two
The social was rather packed last night. Unlike the 2012 conference where I started optimistic and wound up as depressed the following day after an evening where caucus members were chasing voting delegates around a nearly empty social. This was followed by a incredibly silly set…