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Daily Review 31/05/2016
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Labour Green announcement – working together to change the government
https://twitter.com/NewshubNZ/status/737480060186152962 https://twitter.com/patrickgowernz/status/737480433483423745 I very much hope that Gower is right - let's wait and see... https://twitter.com/ChrisBramwell/status/737483202000883715 Livestream here. Little: A memorandum of understanding - Labour and Greens to work together to change the government. Inspired by last week's failed budget. Labour and Greens have reached…
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Labour builds the houses (yet another Key lie)
Good work by Geoff Simmons at the Morgan Foundation: Fact check: John Key & Steven Joyce on housing In a speech on Friday, Prime Minister John Key claimed that under National, twice as many new houses were being built as under Labour. Steven Joyce followed…
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America votes for…
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Family or Shopping?
National's Employment Minister Michael Woodhouse has introduced a Bill, The Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill, to give councils the right to open shops on Easter Sunday. That would mean retail workers all over the country losing one of just three and a half days in…
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National party to be banned from future budget lockups
Well Oops - https://twitter.com/TheNBR/status/737118709081354241 Note that the wifi network and password to access budget resources are visible on the monitor and this was posted during the strict embargo period. Brilliant! Given recent events, Bernard Hickey was moved to observe - https://twitter.com/bernardchickey/status/737126634684174336 But It's OK because…
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Fine for fox to guard henhouse – says fox
Well they would, wouldn't they: Government rejects 'fox in the henhouse' criticism The Government is rejecting claims its monitoring of over-fishing has been compromised by awarding a contract for video surveillance to a company owned by the fishing industry. Greenpeace says cameras to be installed…
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A scene from the National War Cabinet in September 2014
News broke this morning about a major mistake by the Ministry of Social Development that caused the underpayment of benefits to tens of thousands of Kiwis. From Radio New Zealand: Almost 90,000 beneficiaries have been paid incorrectly, totalling millions of dollars, due to an automatic payment mistake…
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Open mike 31/05/2016
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Daily Review 30/05/2016
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Watkin on the Nats’ housing blame game
Excellent piece on Saturday from Tim Watkin at Pundit: Housing game-changer: Spreading the blame Housing remains the government's biggest weakness and so National is redoubling its efforts. No, not to build houses, but to contain the political damage I can't give you a precise day…
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Housing should not depend on charity – but this is an emergency
John Key's glib advice to the homeless is to go and see WINZ. This is a WINZ that (while no doubt containing caring individuals, as an institution) has been deliberately set up to be as slow, difficult and unpleasant to access as possible, and will…
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More Panama papers and other dirty money
One News has a scoop this morning: Panama Papers: Kiwi trust rules help exiled Kazakh leader keep luxury London mansion The details are complex and not likely to attract much excitement in NZ, but once again we have been shown to be involved in dirty…
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Open mike 30/05/2016
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Indigenous Perspectives
Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe mother of three, environmentalist, indigenous rights’ activist, economist, writer and past two time vice-presidential candidate (with Ralph Nader). In a speech last year, LaDuke presented an overview of the key areas of expertise that indigenous peoples bring to the table.…
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Time to wake up to the Electricity Authority
In June there are workshops being held about the Electricity Authority’s transmission pricing proposal. Yawn, perhaps, until you get the power bill. Check the relevant dates in the link, and show you can attend by confirming to this email address. They will of course be…
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Auckland’s housing crisis is just like Christchurch’s except …
Can you believe this? The Government is lurching from there is no housing crisis to it is all Auckland Council's fault to it is like Christchurch's housing crisis and the Government solved that one. Between the there is no problem to the we will sell…
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Open mike 29/05/2016
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Labour should front-foot tax
Good advice for Labour from Standard author Simon Louisson, writing on The Spinoff: The left will go on losing as long as it is so muddled and apologetic on tax National gets away with mixed messages over tax cuts because Labour has failed to grasp…
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Screw democracy – Auckland to get the Canterbury treatment
We all want a solution to the housing crisis. But this isn't the way: Key gets tough on Auckland with new policy forcing councils to release land The Prime Minister has come down hard on Auckland saying a new policy will force the city's council…
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Open mike 28/05/2016
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Daily Review 27/05/2016
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Housing policy omnishambles
Homeless could be offered up to $5000 to leave Auckland Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett announced in Parliament yesterday that homeless families would be offered up to $5000 to move to empty state homes outside Auckland. $3000 offer for beneficiaries to move The Government will…
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Trump In, Bern Out, Hillary Home and Hosed?
It appears that Donald Trump has finally secured the Republican Party nomination, with the latest estimate of delegate numbers confirming he has achieved an outright majority. Bernie Sanders appears to be on the brink of defeat, with Hillary Clinton only a handful of delegates short…
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The humour and wit of Joanne Hayes
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Key’s powerful speech on the urgent housing crisis
John Key has given a powerful speech on NZ's housing crisis: Today, I want to talk in some depth about the declining rates of home ownership in New Zealand. ... It wasn’t so long ago, in the 1990s, in fact, that New Zealand had a…
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Budget 2016 – F for Fail
As MS has already noted, Deborah Russell has the best summary of the budget: Russell's piece is here: Budget 2016 - How do we look after all New Zealanders? Very quietly, a cut here and a decrease there, a failure to keep up with inflation…
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John Key used to be ambitious about dealing with poverty in New Zealand
The 2016 budget has been delivered. The best analysis has been provided by Deborah Russell. Her conclusion is captured by the opening paragraph of her article published in the Herald. Crosby Textor dreams of having this quality of succinct analysis. The added bonus is that it is…
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Open mike 27/05/2016
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The Mother Budget
All budgets, whether actually implemented by Government, or those of Opposition Parties highlighting their priorities and strategies, are contingent upon the only budget that really matters these days. Oddly enough, from all I’ve read, our leaders and would be leaders, have been assiduously ignoring the…
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