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Open mike 02/07/2014
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Was John Key telling the truth about the Malaysian Diplomat?
This morning in the Herald John Key claimed that New Zealand had demanded the waiving of diplomatic privilege for the Malaysian diplomat charged with breaking and entering and assault with intent to commit sexual violation. From the article: A diplomat who escaped prosecution for sexual assault in…
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Rachel who?
A guest post from Rachel Jones, who is number 25 of Labour's list as well as the Labour candidate for the Tauranga seat. Last Monday was a bit surreal. I was in a shop when I heard Duncan Garner asking on the radio “Who is…
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Mallard’s moa idea is not going to fly
Politics is a funny thing. The most earnest and well constructed of policies by an opposition party are often ignored. Then someone makes a joke or a gaffe or gets caught out in some sort of personal scandal and then main stream and social media…
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Polity: Brownlee burns $100,000 or $5 million, take your pick
Reposted from Polity. Here's Michael Fox at Stuff on the new Motu bridge in Gisborne: The Government has almost finished a $100,000 project to strengthen a bridge it will now tear down and replace as part of its new roading package. Prime Minister John Key unveiled…
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Open mike 01/07/2014
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Provincial councils not happy over roads.
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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Is Bill English’s ‘big data’, Big Brother & privatisation of govt?
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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Local Bodies: Let’s Bring Our Banking Home!
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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Polity: ROPS – Roads of Political Significance
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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Pig Farming Expose – A personal perspective
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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Open mike 30/06/2014
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David Cunliffe Q+A
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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Bryan Gould: An impartial press
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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The #teamkey personality cult
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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A John Key. With assembly instructions.
How to make your very own New Zealand Prime Minister. Credit. http://voiceofthemonkey.com/uncle-sam-looking-little-jumpy/
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It’s the season of books & posters: write your own
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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Open mike 29/06/2014
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Caption contest
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John Key: the unwanted gift
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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Irascible: The Herald and Key duck, scuttle and run as Donghua Liu story loses credibility
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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Local Bodies: Pay Equity, Rod Donald Was Right in 2004
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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NRT: Fixing Christchurch
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 two-way on Sunday at 4pm
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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The reality is we’re pretty relaxed about fixing Christchurch
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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Open mike 28/06/2014
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NRT: Who’d have thunk it?
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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The people respond to the Herald Editorial on Donghua Liu
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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Polity: Herald editorialisal
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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NZ Herald: Be journalists, check before ‘reporting’
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…