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Reposted from Polity. There was a fascinating review of new research into minimum wages in The Age last week, written by the Sydney Morning Herald’s business editor: When the Fair Work Commission announced a 3 per cent increase in the national minimum wage to more…
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Over at the NBR Standard lurker and occasional commentator Matthew Hooton has provided a perceptive view into the workings of the Government and the handling of the Dotcom fiasco with a headline "Nats in crisis over Dotcom SIS file". The article is behind the paywall. In…
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The FBI had been working with the New Zealand authorities for a year before he was arrested. They wanted to arrest him on his birthday "because it would be a big party and all the assets would be there."A Department of Justice official revealed this…
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It looks like I'll be able to head to the New Zealand First conference at Alexandra Park racecourse on the weekend as media. In this election the position of NZ First party members is probably going to be crucial for any coalition that forms. Colin…
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"Difficult cases make bad law" is an old saying I first heard in Law School. The essence is that a case with difficult facts may cause the decision maker to prefer to side with the party who invokes sympathy, rather than the party who may have…
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Reposted from No Right Turn. The National government's policy for economic growth has been simple: pump up dairy production, export more low-value milk powder, and keep low-value farmers as the "backbone of the economy". To achieve this, they've dismantled democracy in Canterbury, pillaged rivers, thrown…
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Reposted from Polity. Over the weekend John Armstrong had a column about youth voter turnout in the upcoming election. Much of the material was familiar – young people don’t vote so much – nobody talks their language, yo! – parties are Trying Very Hard, but they…
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You know the large German Industrialist who gave Auckland $500,000 for a fireworks display and John Banks $50,000 for his Mayoral campaign? The man whose house was raided by helicopter riding armed police for the heinous offence of breaching copyright? The man who the Government has been…
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Reposted from Polity. Last week, new information became public about potential stat-juking by our Police. The practice of reclassifying hundreds of "burglaries", which appear in the crime statistics, as "incidents", which do not, has the effect of artificially reducing the apparent crime rate. This practice…
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This past week has seen both mainstream media and political blogs of all persuasions, opine on the reversal of the burden of proof in sexual offence cases, based primarily on Andrew Little’s sound bites (or somewhat unsound bites) on Labour’s Policy “Eliminating Violence Against Women…
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I am really sorry to see the return of the Worm this election. And even more sorry to see the great institution of Scoop involved in its return. It's bad enough we have way more polling than we need, interfering with democratic process. Now we…
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So Palestine is in the news again. Ever since the end of the second war and the creation of the Israeli state the Middle East has experienced difficulties. The creation of the state of Israel over part of what was previously the state of Palestine has made…
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I posted previously on an apparent anomoly where the reported number of domestic violence offences had decreased significantly even though the number of investigations into domestic violence incidents had increased. This morning the Herald on Sunday is reporting on another anomaly where South Auckland police…
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Tomorrow Today the Green Party is launching launched the first of it's election priorities in Hamilton at 11. 00 am. The focus is on building a cleaner, fairer, smarter New Zealand. Green Party Facebook pages have this notice: With 10 weeks until the election on September 20th,…
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Some of Labour's Pasifika and Maori candidates. Reposted from the Daily Blog. John Key and National have recently been claiming that Pasifika are leaving Labour en masse and are heading towards National. I am sorry John but there is no chance of this happening. But…
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If you ever wanted an entertaining, succinct, yet devastating critique of the media handling of Climate Change then John Oliver's recent attempt from his Last Week Tonight show should be compulsory viewing. Here it is ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuGCJJUGsg&feature=kp
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Reposted from Polity. Here is Vernon Small this morning: The Government rejected plans to include beneficiaries in a package to help families with newborn babies, despite official advice they were the most vulnerable. Budget papers show that last November, Treasury, Inland Revenue and Social Development…
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I was chuffed to see this in this morning's Stuff "Today in politics" Journalist Jon Stephenson’s defamation claim against the Defence Force and its former chief, Lieutenant-General Rhys Jones, can go intact to a second jury, a judge has ruled. Stephenson sued because of a…
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Reposted from Polity. As fellow anoraks will know, there is a bit of debate around about the political leanings of the people who voted in 2008 but not in 2011. Are they right-leaning sympathisers, kept at home in 2011 by complacency? Or are they ex-Labour…
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This morning Labour will be announcing it's Digital Economic Upgrade (ICT policy). "Streamed live to the world" at 8am at the link above. As a dedicated member of the programming fraternity and often aghast at the stupidity of the how the government treats the digital…
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(This was originally posted at Boots Theory yesterday when The Standard was down.) It’s headline news: Labour supports re-starting a Law Commission review initiated by Simon Power to investigate possible changes in our judicial system including the option of adopting an inquisitorial approach in cases of sexual violence.…
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Reposted from Polity. Even the government's own advisors think the "net tax" figures have been brandishing in recent years are a crock. Here's an exact from page 20 of MSD's Household Incomes Report out yesterday: For half of households with dependent children the amount received…
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The next time the Herald or any other organisation is contemplating a New Zealander of the year award they should have Tania Billingsley at the top of their list. She is the complainant in the Malaysian Diplomat assault with intent to rape case. She has…
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Tania Billingsley has waived her right to name suppression in the case against the Malaysian diplomat accused of attempted rape - and a Minister of Foreign Affairs who wants the finger pointed at anyone but him. In an interview and statement (pdf) to 3rd Degree she's laid…