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John Key has stated that Judith Collins was cleared by the Cabinet Office of any conflict of interest, with respect to her visit to Oravida in China: a company for which her husband is director: Justice Minister Judith Collins has been cleared of any conflict…
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By Susan Nact and Tracy Whatshite The Taxpayers Union has hit out at Prince George for wasting tax payers money by accompanying his parents, The Prince and Princess of Cambridge on their Royal Visit to New Zealand. Spokesman for the TPU, Jordan Williams lashed out…
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In a surprise move Conservative leader Colin Craig has announced that he is suing John Key in defamation. Lawyers for Mr Craig, who leads the Conservative Party, have written to Mr Key asserting that recent comments made by Key and reported in the NZ Herald…
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Judith Collin's endorses a company, Orivida, that her husband is a (presumably paid) director of. That same company has previously made political donations to the National Party. That's a conflict of interest. One that's particularly sharp given the previous use of John Key's image to…
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After having the past five and bit years with National's negative policies about anything to do with new technologies, it is really nice to see some effective red-tinged morning ideas appearing on the sky's horizon. Of course that they were accidentally released because of a…
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When I first heard a labour staffer had accidentally sent Amy Adams' office a document on ICT my first thought was "here we go again." But then I heard Adams' weird and defensive interview on Checkpoint. So I took a look at the actual paper…
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No Right Turn succinctly points out the impact of the International Monetary Fund changing its mind on the adverse effects of inequality in the economic sphere. A case of an accumulation of facts overriding dumb ideology. We've known for a while that inequality is bad…
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Colin Craig has announced that he has commenced proceedings against Russel Norman, or at least I think this is what he has done. From his press release: Craig Continues Push for Honesty Colin Craig today advised that the defamation claim against Russell Norman will be…
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Looking back at the 1980s from the second decade of the 21st century, NZ's bold nuclear free stance seems like a bit of an illusion, or at best, a temporary bright spot. Two news items this week have NZ looking like a client state of…
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Rob Salmond at Polity points to the right wing publicists who pose as independents, set up publicity shells for nutters, and who seem to make outright lying their hallmark. Perhaps it is time that journalists start describing them as they are rather than quoting them…
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John Key is attacking David Cunliffe for using a trust to obscure some donations - whilst repeating the word 'tricky' about Cunliffe as many times in one sound-bite as humanly possible. It's an astonishingly brazen stone to throw given National's glass house. Do no reporters…
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I commented a few weeks back that I’d become bemused by Mark Ames commentaries on Snowdon and the NSA leaks. The reason I became bemused was because Ames used to write stuff I considered informative and worth reading. Now, it seems, he’s on a mad…
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The Taxpayer's Union is one of the first astroturfing organisations we have seen in Aotearoa. Nominally independent it has as its members the Government's chief blogger, and is based in the law firm of Franks & Ogilvie whose partners include former ACT and National candidate…
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UK Labour's special conference yesterday changed the Party's rules for leadership selection, and the basis for affiliate involvement. One-person-one-vote is the general rule, and block voting for leadership and selection by affiliates including unions is replaced by individual and intentional involvement. The vote for change…
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All is not well in the current state of NZ broadcasting. Trisha Dunleavey of Victoria university has a very good article on Open Democracy (24 February 2014), on the past and possible future of NZ public broadcasting. The article is promoted thus: In the sorry…
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This discussion has had a few really good goes on open mike. Labour's policy is to gradually change the age of retirement to 67 with an allowance made for those aged 65 who can no longer work. There are passionate views in support of this…
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In the United States, the street beggars have great patter. Despite what South Park would have us believe, when you walk down the main street of a major city, you don’t get hordes of people shiftlessly shaking cups at you, asking for “change?” There are…
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It has taken me a couple of days to absorb the implications of this story. On Thursday this week Stuff reported that "Treasury and Statistics New Zealand today admitted a major error in its calculations of household disposable income, which overestimated incomes among poorer households.…
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Following the attack by Judith Collins on the CTU and Business NZ Health and Safety Training we have had lots of interest in how the courses we run are recognised and funded etc. The NZCTU has been running the courses on contract to ACC since…
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The original of this post is here at No Right Turn Today's Treasury fuckup: they underestimated the number of children living in poverty by 20,000: A breakdown in communication between Statistics New Zealand and Treasury saw the number of children living in poverty underestimated by tens…
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Our mainstream media is essentially an assembly line of propaganda that routinely renders complex foreign events down to simple and misleading binaries of ‘us’ versus ‘them’. So with regards to the Ukraine, events are reported in terms of defeat or victory for either ‘them’, Russia…
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I tend to be wary of militarism, while also recognising that there is an important role for the NZ military in the 21st century. Necessary military services include practical provisions to deal with disasters at home and abroad, as well as to provide security for…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. A new feature that aims to demystify the political process. In this edition, it’s all about the kids. Labour: feed the kids. Conservatives: smack the kids. Maori…
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What can one say about Maurice Williamson. Is he really as much of a comedian as he appears. Well he pretty much had me in stitches of laughter yesterday morning heading to work. I mean that it is good that he is looking at the…