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Open mike 21/02/2014
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Home thoughts from abroad
Porirua mayor Nick Leggett has put up a couple of interesting posts for an international audience on progressonline, about Labour's prospects in the upcoming election. While I don't necessarily agree with all his specific policy preferences, I think his political message is timely and accurate.…
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David Cunliffe’s home
I have been rather bemused by all this fuss about David Cunliffe’s home. It is no secret that he and I know each other and I have been to said house. It’s a nice house in a nice street, but it’s no mansion. It’s the…
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Polity: Chris Trotter – “gaseous exhalations”
Yesterday, Rob Salmond offered Chris Trotter a bet based on Chris writing an over-excited interpretation of an online poll. Who writes posts on the basis of online polls of less than 400 people? It is the same problem as interpreting small junk "markets" like iPredict…
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Tale of two Irelands
In 2005 Fran O’Sullivan outlined John Key’s plans to "Key chases luck o’ the Irish Key is clearly on a roll as he lists the options New Zealand could explore if it decided to abandon outdated ideology and take a more pragmatic approach to growing…
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Open mike 20/02/2014
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Forestry families bringing their message to Parliament
Readers of The Standard have read and engaged on the campaign for forestry safety. There is now a Review underway and we need to maintain the organising momentum to ensure change is made. On 28 April is International Workers Memorial Day and we have invited the…
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NRT: No justice for electoral fraud
As No Right Turn says, this is an inappropriately short sentence for committing electoral fraud. It is hardly a deterrent to prospective politicians from trying to fiddle the electoral system. What was interesting was the way that the fraud was picked up - using back…
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Polity: Key practices 56% truth inflation
The original of this post is here. Here's the Prime Minister in Question Time yesterday: Hon David Cunliffe: Is he taking economic advice from Colin Craig and are Māori not looking really hard for jobs as the Māori unemployment rate has increased by 3 percent…
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Journalism (The Intercept)
So, for anyone interested in proper, investigative journalism... The Intercept, a publication of First Look Media, was created by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill. It has a two-fold mission: one short-term, the other long-term. Our short-term mission is to provide a platform to…
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Poverty on the agenda
Just when it looks like the right wing smoke and mirror spin in the media is getting even stronger, there are a couple of bright spots in this week's mainstream. A documentary and a Radio Live interview focus on poverty and inequality. Evidence shows that…
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Open mike 19/02/2014
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LB: Greens’ Solar Sense and National’s Nonsense
The original of this post is here at Local Bodies. Russel Norman's recent announcement of the Green Party's solar energy initiative is a fiscally neutral, smart policy. Home owners will access cheap government loans that are attached to the house, not the person, and will be…
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Polity: Fizzy drinks: Tax or no tax?
The original of this post is here at Polity. There has been some discussion recently about whether we should tax fizzy drinks as a threat to public health. Otago University public health people say yes. Various anti-tax groups say no. Here's my 2c: 1. The principle is sound…
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Cameron Slater gets starring role in TVNZ drama
Susan Nact reporting. In a dramatic turn of events, cadet reporter Tracy Whatshite (drinking in a Ponsonby cafe), found an envelope labelled “Top Secret, Property of TVNZ”. We can reveal that inside was a script for a new television series that will be screening on…
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Russel Norman to Colin Craig – Bring it on
With the hope that this comment will not result in a solicitor's letter from Chapman Tripp it seems that Colin Craig is overly sensitive to criticism. He has had Chapman Tripp write to Green's leader Russel Norman seeking an apology and retraction for Norman saying…
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Open mike 18/02/2014
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Easy Vote or Voter Intimidation?
Good to see Labour has stood up against National's "harder-to-vote" Bill. David Farrar went apoplectic when Andrew Little announced Labour would oppose changes to the Electoral Amendment Bill dumping the easier-vote card, and adding a provision making voters state their name as well as have…
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CANA: Bathurst hits its own “perfect storm”
Coal Action Network Aotearoa has this characteristic story of the problems with the cost structure of opportunistic mining in NZ. The current world price of the coal found on the Denniston Plateau has sunk considerably below Bathurst Resources' stated break-even price and shows no signs of rising. What is…
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Plausible deniability: Smoke & mirrors
As Lynn points out in his post today 'National's Herald shows its true colours', the very visible flaunting of connections between National MPS, the ACT Party, an NZ Herald gossip columnist and Cameron Slater is puzzling. This all resulted from the press statements by John…
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National’s Herald shows its true colours
What is happening at the Herald? Suddenly Rachel Glucina is the breaker of very important political news such as the visits to Dotcom mansion by various politicians. Then Cameron Slater lets bygones be bygones and instead of describing her in derogatory terms praises her journalism.…
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Open mike 17/02/2014
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Russel Norman’s Campaign Conference Speech 2014: Going Solar
The original speech is here. Introduction: Standing on the threshold The anticipation in the air at this conference is like no other that I can remember. We are standing on the threshold of history — the moment when the Green Party forms New Zealand's first…
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Positive Things
Nice to see that Russell Brand’s political thought is evolving. In contrast to his stance on a fairly recent interview with Jeremy Paxman where he took aim at the entire concept of democracy, he’s now more targeted insofar as he now states:- “... I’m a…
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Fairfax quotes Government cheerleader
Fairfax yesterday posted this article where business high fliers were asked what they thought political parties should be talking about this election year. I prepared this post as a fictional interview of ordinary people and their thoughts on what the parties should be talking about…
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Open mike 16/02/2014
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The Fairfax Ipsos Poll result
The latest Fairfax Ipsos poll result has attracted attention in Open Mike. Vern Small has interpreted the results as suggesting that National could win 64 seats. He has anticipated that NZ First will not be in Parliament which I think is dangerous. Like all polls…
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John Key, Blogsters and the Dotcom leaks
Another week and more Dotcom related revelations have occurred. Winston Peters has revealed that he did meet with Dotcom three times and asked how Key could have known this. It seems that the story was broken publicly by the Herald gossip columnist Rachel Glucina. She…
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Open mike 15/02/2014
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Rotten
Stuff has an astounding interview with John Key where he reveals he has regular catch-ups with Cameron Slater. We've always known that there were close ties between National and the abomination that is Whaleoil but now we know that the ties go right to the…