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Andrea Vance has filed a strange bit of copy 'Homes still out of reach under Labour' (although it's not clear who that's a quote from). Her opening gambit is that Labour's campaign is lacklustre and it's because Cunliffe isn't hungry to win. Now I may…
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In May 2013 Andrea Vance wrote an article about far-Right National Party member and political strategist, Simon Lusk. Four of Lusk’s clients in 2008 and three in 2011 were successful in being selected as National Party candidates. These included Nicky Wagner, Sam Lotu-liga, Chris Tremain…
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[Content note: this post deals with issues around gender, transphobia and gender policing. Stay safe.] In utter defiance of the Prime Minister’s insistence that the left doesn’t want to have a policy debate, Labour has continued to release policies, and yesterday’s was rainbow-coloured. But first,…
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Here is today's New Zealand Herald's editorial on Labour's self-imposed fiscal haircut (well, it is more of a bread trim, but there you go...): The Labour Party has broken new ground in election campaigns by announcing cuts to spending that it had not announced. Leader David Cunliffe…
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Judith "Tipline" Collins is really growing on me. She has been able to keep stories surrounding Dirty Politics alive by throwing petrol onto a fire which may otherwise have been burning out. Last night she claimed that she had been exonerated by the Privacy Commissioner of…
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Duncan Garner lets it all out of the bag. Part of the problem is that under any normal circumstances Cabinet Minister Judith Collins would have been sacked for trading dirty secrets with Cameron Slater, the low-life blogger WhaleOil. But none of this is normal. Because…
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David Farrar and others on "the right" (hi guys) look pretty stupid trying to claim the moral high ground in the middle of the dirty politics shitstorm. From an exchange on twitter last night: Of course I and other Standard authors (by all means comment…
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Brent Robinson is rightly peeved. He was at the end of an internal smear campaign orchestrated by Slater and Lusk, and had the media (following Whaleoil's every word) hounding him at his door. Now I may not agree with Robinson's politics, but he deserved a…
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WTF?
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New Zealander of the Year, Dame Anne Salmond, on how dirty politics tarnished our democracy. Go read the full piece in The Herald: The Dirty Politics saga cuts to the heart of political life in New Zealand. Over the past 10 years there has been…
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Reposted from Polity. On Radio New Zealander yesterday, Matthew Hooton made two important points. First he - along with pretty much everyone else - poured cold water on the idea that John Key was a virginal innocent in the selective release of SIS documents to Whaleoil.…
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Bryce Edwards had his go at a list of the top 100 tweeters to follow this election, but with only 24 women making the cut he faced terrible accusations of "a perceived lack" of gender balance. The silver lining is that his follow-up post was…
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Post links to ones we've missed. There was a good "movie poster" - Key & Collins, At the End of the Day, if anyone has a link....
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So National are both so out of ideas and so desperate to take the spotlight off their Dirty Politics that they're now promising tax cuts. Tax cuts straight after we have a panel of our most prominent economists warning that the 'rock star' economy is…
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Billed as "Decision 2014 Part 1", Here's Michael Hurst staring as John Key's office... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNGrI7evk8o
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In the wake of the publication of Dirty Politics, I have been pondering on the urgent need for a revitalised public service broadcasting and online media. Our media largely works within a corporate context, driven by commercial considerations. This provides a context where dirty…
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Nicky Hager - Auckland Public Meeting Monday, 25 August 2014, 2:41 pm Press Release: Bruce Jesson Foundation Nicky Hager - Auckland Public Meeting A public meeting meeting with Jesson Prize winner Nicky Hager will be held Wednesday 27th August, 7.30pm, at the Mt Eden War Memorial…
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The kind of waffle John Key is trying to spin around the topic of tax cuts is breathtaking. There might be room for tax cuts, but he can’t promise anything, but maybe they’ll see, and Bill English saying there won’t be tax cuts was both…
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Labour's candidate for Ōhāriu, Virginia Andersen, is hosting a public meeting in Wadestown this Wednesday where Maryan Street will talk about the future of the public service under Labour. 7:30-9:30pm Wednesday 27 August St Luke's Church, Wadestown You can RSVP on the Facebook page.
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Labour has the policies to take New Zealand forward into the 21st century - National's "same old same old" will see the Kiwi skiff swamped. That was the clear conclusion from the debate between David Parker and Bill English on National Radio this morning. Parker's…
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Reposted from Polity. Over the weekend, National said it would help 90,000 people buy their first home in the next five years. For this post, I'll leave aside the macro-effects of their policy. (Short version: addressing a supply-side problem on the demand-side is a band-aid, not a…
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Everyone who has to deal with the labour.org.nz site is probably aware of just how naff the thing is. I guess that is what happens when you have the traditionally technophobic like MPs involved in whatever committee makes the site. For a start, they don't…
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National and Mana had their campaign launches yesterday. Mana's launch was problematic. KDC hinted that he may or may not be @whaledump and of course the media became excited. Who can blame them? Then Pam Corkery said a few things and became part of the…
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I am (shamelessly) reposting this for the week day shift. I have added BLiP's comment from the first posting to the end of it. There's a confusing amount of detail swirling around the release of SIS briefing notes to Cameron Slater - one of the…
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For me the funniest thing that happened last week was Cameron Slater proudly announcing that he'd put in a privacy complaint about the someone hacking his data. Three days later he finds out that he was the target of a privacy act prosecution for doing essentially the same…
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So National has announced its flagship policy, enhanced assistance for first home buyers through increased grants through Kiwisaver. It is interesting that policies that Labour introduced and National opposed such as Working for Families, interest free student loans and Kiwisaver have all become mainstream policies…
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Would it not be a hallmark of a dictatorship if a government twisted systems of governance to discredit political opposition while simultaneously bending the very same systems in a different direction to protect its own? Would it not the hallmark of a dictatorship if TV,…