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No Right Turn looks at the Australian and UK problems with cash-for-access to ministers. New Zealand isn't the only place currently seeing a cash-for-access scandal. In Australia, the federal Treasurer has a similar arrangement to the National Party, selling access to a donors by membership of…
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With the government increasingly on the back foot over its lack of integrity, and the Morgan poll indicating a possible shift in sentiment, now is the perfect time for Labour to come out with a succinct and positive programme for its approach to alternative government…
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The original of this post by Rob Salmond at Polity is here. Yesterday, John Key lied to Parliament. He made a very specific claim about a set of official documents, and those same documents show clearly that the claim was false. First, here’s Key’s statement in…
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Yesterday the global dairy trade auction was held. This is the market place that tends to drive the internationally traded price of dairy products. Prices are still going down as they have since Feburary. The rate of decrease was less than previous drops. Only 1.1%…
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The latest Roy Morgan poll is out and the results will be of concern to the Government. Labour is up 2.5% to 31%, the Greens are up 3% to 14.5% while National is down 6% to 42.5%. It appears that the beneficial effect of the…
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So Colins survived Parliament yesterday. Some of the papers are talking as if the opposition had a chance yesterday to force Collins' removal as Minister but this was never going to happen. Instead Collins managed to get through question time, deflect answers and create the impression…
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No Right Turn points out that depressing fact that "Still 42,000 (more) out of work under National". Tories don't really care until they have to pay taxes for the debt. But hey they voted themselves a tax cut in 2008 - so they're still happy…
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The announcement from National that they'd bribe unemployed beneficiaries to go to Christchurch was "An empty grab for headlines" as No Right Turn eloquently put it. It looked more like an attempt to divert attention away from the continuing disaster of Judith Collins. National has…
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http://youtu.be/YPKgpHelkiA We still don't know why Joyce is pushing on with the move to shut Invermay, Dunedin's impressive AgResearch centre, but it's still not too late to stop him and the AgResearch board. Last week, one of the biggest breeds of sheep, Texel breeders voted no…
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It now appears that Judith Collins would have to commit murder to be relieved of her ministerial warrants - or perhaps not. I was reading George Monbiot's latest column - about how Britain is becoming the land of impunity - and saw too many parallels.…
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Yesterday Judith Collins announced that she was quitting Twitter. Embattled justice minister Judith Collins is abandoning Twitter, and Prime Minister John Key says he backs her decision because it's full of "trolls and bottom-feeders". Key said he had not given Collins an edict to stay…
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Tova O'Brian has broken a story about National's "Cabinet Club" fundraising programme. The concept is straight forward: pay a fee and get face time with Ministers. Except Ministers aren't supposed to use their position to promote fundraising. It's a breach of the Cabinet Manual. National's…
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When John Key said he wouldn't like to be in her shoes if anything more came out about Judith Collins, he presumably just meant that they looked uncomfortable. I mean high-heels, who invented those? Crazy. Since then we've had far more details showing just how…
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David Cunliffe has announced a reshuffle of Labour's Caucus rankings and Portfolio allocations. Details are as follows: 1 Cunliffe Security and Intelligence Regional Development 2 Parker Finance Attorney General 3 Robertson Shadow Leader of House Economic Development, Employment, Skills, Training Assoc Tertiary Education Assoc Security…
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So it has come to this. The self styled crusher of boy racer's cars, the politician who joked about rape in prison, the Minister who smashed up the Family Court and trampled over David Bain's rights of Natural Justice is having a bit of time out. She…
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Looks like an interesting week of drawn out misery for someone. Rob Salmond at Polity again. I do not want to talk about Judith Collins’ “private” dinner. There are plenty of people making astute points about her impropriety there already. Instead, I want to draw…
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ImperatorFish generously allows us to repost some of his satire. I want to make it absolutely clear that the National Party are not in any way under the influence of Big Tobacco. There’s nothing sinister in the fact that a tobacco lobbyist for Philip Morris…
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lprent: Rob Salmond at Polity just saved me from having to write something like this post explaining economic basics to Steven Joyce today. Over the weekend Joyce demonstrated again why his tenure at MoBIE has been a failure for the overall economy. He fixates on…
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Let's see if you hold your own people to account, shall we, after what you've done to Maurice. I never thought that I would ever utter the phrase "go Judith go!" but after watching her on TVone and TV3 news last night that phrase left…
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Cameron Slater is having a tough time. There is that particular police investigation which is ongoing. I suspect that the Police will be keen to discover how Slater did come into possession of Matt Blomfield's hard drive. And Judith Collins' Ministerial career is under…
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I haven't seen Mai Chen's new book on Auckland and Wellington. But the NZ Herald integrated review, promo, and interview with Mai Chen, make it all seem like it supports neoliberal capitalist values of big business, competition between powerful entities, and cheerleading for Rodney Hide's…
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In defending himself against allegations of misusing ministerial authority, Maurice Williamson said of the domestic violence charges against Donghua Liu: He had been "shocked" at the charges because Liu had required a clean record to get a New Zealand visa. The logic is this: Liu…
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A classic sign that a Minister is in trouble is if they engage in a Friday afternoon drop of information requested under the OIA. And it seems that Judith Collins is in serious trouble. Because it has been disclosed that she asked for a MFAT briefing…