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The Whaleoil blog is in court on Monday to determine if it is a news media under the Evidence Act. There is a full day session in the High Court in Auckland looking at the appeal by Cameron Slater against Judge Blackie's decision in the District…
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Back in 2007/8, I was still heavily involved as a volunteer with the analysis of canvassing data for the NZ Labour Party. This meant that I was around a lot of the campaigners in various parts of the country, either physically or virtually. Less so…
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Bryan Gould writes on this in the latest post on the AUT Briefing Papers website. He joins recent posters Ranginui Walker and Natalie Jackson. Gould quotes Elizabeth Warren's classic "Nobody got rich on their own. Nobody." Gould's conclusion - A renewed debate about the purpose…
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David Cunliffe's message to members and supporters (repost from email) It's been a tough couple of days for everyone in Labour, but I have been greatly heartened by the messages of support that my Caucus and I have received from members and supporters. As I've…
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David Cunliffe forgets an eleven year old pro-forma letter. John Armstrong calls for him to resign. Then it turns out this was a National Party smear campaign. John Armstrong says he should still have resigned but y'know only to prove the confidence of his caucus.…
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At the last election, the high non-vote spoke to one important truth – many voters saw no reason to turn out. The media had told them that National would win by a landslide and they either didn’t mind or thought that one vote wouldn’t make…
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Reposted from No Right Turn So it turns out that Immigration released letters from David Cunliffe and Chris Carter in support of Donghua Liu, but kept letters from government MPs secret: Letters of support from two Government MPs for Donghua Liu's citizenship bid have been kept…
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John Key's alleging that hundreds of thousands flowed to Labour from Donghua Liu, but as the Nat's smear campaign unravels, even the $15,000 can't be found. Who do we trust - an unnamed 'party source' in the Herald (of unknown reliability or motive), or Party…
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Overshadowed by the political smears that have dominated the past few days, the Tick for Kids campaign was launched (video) to put our children at the centre of the election campaign. In their media release supporting the campaign, the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services…
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Reposted from Local Bodies. We all know from reading Nicky Hager's The Hollow Men (or watching the documentary) that the National Party actually advocates for a small section of society. Their policies rarely support most New Zealanders and after each period of a National led Government we…
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Rob Salmond at Polity offers this advice to the National smear team. As the confusion settles this week, it has become clear that the Beehive was central in enlarging and promoting the Cunliffe / Liu letter story. National certainly knew about it well before anyone…
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It is interesting to compare the media's treatment of David Cunliffe this week with its treatment of the smear campaign against him. Labour has this year attacked National for its rather cavalier treatment of donors. Firstly a senior Minister used her ministerial position to benefit the company which…
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Interesting. My comment at The Daily Blog responding to a section of one of Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury's post got moderated out. No matter. Apart from anything else it does rather reinforce the basis of my comment, so I will repeat and enhance it here. A…
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So, the Deputy Prime Minister insists that no-one from the ruling National Party knew of an eleven year old letter from Labour’s David Cunliffe asking Immigration about time frames for decision making. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister states he knew of the letter for some weeks.…
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There is a very long but worth reading post over at The Political Scientist. If you're serious about campaigning in NZ at present, then it is definitely worth setting aside the time to ponder it. In particular the demographics and the occupational changes across Christchurch…
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Rob Salmond at Polity looks at the significiant lack of quid pro quo that NZ brings to any bilateral or even multilateral free trade deals. Here’s Tracy Watkins Stateside: Around the world we're known as free trade fundies - pious, hectoring even, in our search…
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Yesterday looked like it was going to be a pretty bad day. There were scandalous revelations, blatant lies, unrestrained corruption gnawing at the very heart of the left. At least, that’s what we were promised. But in the end what we got was a pretty standard, decade-old…
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I don't have much time for a lengthy post, but I just want to express and ree-confirm my committment to the values of the left. The last 24 hours have renewed my motivation to contribute my energies for a change of government, and a better…
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First things first, this Donghua Liu thing is a set-piece smear from the National party, it could be nothing else. The classic signs of National's comms stick out like dogs balls.... timed the breaking of the story for when John Key is out of the…
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No Right Turn on our already secretly changed foreign policy. Yesterday, we learned that the government was reviewing its future contribution to peacekeeping missions, with an eye to turning us into an American footstool. As I pointed out, this would be a major shift in our foreign policy,…
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Lincoln Kidd was killed in a forest just before Christmas last year. He was 20. Rebecca Macfie wrote powerfully about him and his family in this Listener article. The new health and safety organisation Worksafe had six months to press charges in relation to this workplace…
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I have been around at the Mt Albert electorate office over the last 25 years voluntarily helping them out with their balky computer gear many times. So David Cunliffe is possibly wrong when he said that he dealt with Donghua Liu. A letter has mysteriously appeared…
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So apparently forgetting about signing a form letter for a constituent 11 years ago is a resignable offence now. It seemed odd when the donation story came out - even if Liu (probably) donated to Labour, cash for access (as we've been seeing with the Cabinet…
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John Key on Iraq in the Herald today: We are not a country out there looking for a fight. John Key on Iraq 2003: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpIXgJ7r2vU
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