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I'm always surprised at how short a memory many media have. For instance at Radio NZ on Morning Report I saw this dumb description.. Provincial mayors not happy despite extra money ( 3′ 11″ ) 06:39 Some provincial mayors are feeling hard done by, despite a National Party promise of an extra…
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vto has been drawing attention to some comments made by Bill English, about how a third term Key government would majorly reform the government's budgeting and spending. English's comments on this does raise some serious concerns that deserve to be examined in depth. The way…
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Reposted from Local Bodies. In the 1980s and early 90s the wisdom of the day dictated that our small (in a global sense) New Zealand owned banks were unsustainable. We lost the BNZ to the National Australia Bank group and our Trust Banks to Westpac. All…
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Reposted from Polity. National's announcement yesterday of $212 million for 14 roading projects around regional New Zealand hits a lot of bad notes. I think it is a strategic mistake. First, New Zealanders value their environment, take climate change seriously, and worry that National are…
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Last night the Sunday show screened an expose of a Christchurch pig farm using footage provided by Farmwatch New Zealand. I was part of the investigation which resulted in this show and thought I would provide a more personal perspective on this story. I will…
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Firstly, it’s really good to be back at the Standard - in the last few weeks our opponents have made it clear that they're going to play a rough game this election. But we are strong enough to withstand dirty tricks and to focus on…
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Reposted from Bryan Gould's website. Bryan Gould was a British MP, contender for the British Labour party leaders position, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waikato. This article was first offered to the NZ Herald as an opinion piece. For some reason they declined to…
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National's conference is being held this weekend and some of the details of their campaign have been disclosed. Firstly it lives and dies on the personality cult that surrounds John Key. He is National's strength but also its weakness. I suspect that from now to the…
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How to make your very own New Zealand Prime Minister. Credit. http://voiceofthemonkey.com/uncle-sam-looking-little-jumpy/
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It seems to be the season of books and faux book covers movie posters. Mary-Ellen O'Connor has published a Nats' cook book. Proceeds of the sales will apparently be donated to the "centre left". Kim Knight reports on Stuff: Energy and Resources Minister Simon Bridges…
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For all of you John Key arselickers (like John Roughan) out there, go forth and help fight poverty. Here is your chance to bid up some second hand toilet paper. Text reads:- As new, unwanted gift from a smartarse. John Key Portrait of a Prime…
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Reposted from The Irascible Curmudgeon. It looks like the powers that be on the Herald's editorial board are starting to realise that being a paid shill for the Key owned National Party is not as wise a move as they thought. Particularly as the realisation that the…
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Reposted from Local Bodies. In 2004 Green Party Co-Leader Rod Donald made the following in committee speech in regard to the Public Finance (State Sector Management) Bill: ROD DONALD (Co-Leader—Green) : It is also a pleasure for me to be back after a spirited night last night. I would…
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Reposted from No Right Turn. Labour has announced another part of its package to fix Christchurch: an immediate crash home-building plan: A Labour government would build 100 "high-quality modular" houses for Christchurch in its first four months and have a further 300 of its Kiwibuild homes…
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David Cunliffe will be putting up a post on Sunday earlier on Sunday. He will be around for some two way interaction at about 4pm-5pm. It will be similar to the previous session last month. However he has put more time in his schedule. But I'd…
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Various excepts of John Key's hagiography have been doing the rounds in recent days, in the lead up to it's release. There was one line that particularly stuck out for me, as a Cantabrian and South Islander: His problems continued to mount during 2012 -…
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Reposted from No Right Turn. By advocating for a controversial policy, Labour has managed to win public backing for it: Once regarded as a political poison, public opinion has moved in favour of Labour's capital gains tax since it was announced three years ago and…
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Lprent has posted already on the Herald editorial this morning. Whoever wrote the editorial has tried to downplay the clusterfuck that is the Herald handling of the Donghua Liu issue. The comments to the editorial on the NZ Herald website should be read to believe. There…
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Reposted from Polity. In amongst all the OTT bluster, here is the most important line from today's New Zealand Herald editorial: We regret having reported inflated and conflated dollar figures. That is a good start, at least. I expect there will be more expressions of regret,…
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There is a self-serving anonymously authored editorial in the NZ Herald this morning "Editorial: Cries of bias will not stop reporting". Well for a start the problem isn't with the Herald reporting. The problem is that it's reporting on this story appears to have been performed by…
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Reposted from No Right Turn Yesterday, the Hawkes Bay Regional Coucil voted to invest $80 million in the Ruataniwha dam. Today, the board of inquiry upheld its resource consent decisions, effectively shitcanning the project: The Board of Inquiry into the Ruataniwha Dam has upheld strict conditions which…
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Dear John I read your column this morning in the New Zealand Herald and I must admit that I was surprised. Yesterday's revelation that Donghua Liu had confirmed that he never actually bought a bottle of wine for $100,000 at a Labour Party fundraiser and that most…
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Reposted from No Right Turn Last week, The Intercept published details on the NSA's programs with partners to tap international communications cables. Most of the article focused on a program called RAMPART-A, which seems to involve Denmark and Germany, with each helping the NSA to spy on the…
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Reposted from Imperator Fish. #98473550 / gettyimages.com Dear Jared Savage I don’t know if you read the blogs. You should, because they’re dead good. Especially Kiwiblog and Whaleoil. Anyway, I’ve got another scoop for you. Please let me know when you plan to publish. MY…
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Reposted from Polity I show that a large-scale equities investor in New Zealand can pay less than 10% in income tax. Some commentary on my post yesterday about tax rates suggested that, while New Zealand has relatively low headline tax rates for top earners, the various exemptions…