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Open mike 18/08/2016
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Daily Review 17/08/2016
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The Christchurch Commons
Ko au te wai ko te wai te au I am the water, the water is me Christchurch Dilemmas is a rolling series of documentaries about issues facing Christchurch five years on. Made by independent, award-winning filmmaker Gerard Smyth with backing from NZ On Air and…
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NRT: Against anti-whistleblower laws
I/S at No Right Turn does great analysis of legislation. His coverage of the new spying laws has been excellent. Here he is on National's clumsy and misguided attempt to re-impose official secrets: Against anti-whistleblower laws Yesterday the government introduced new spying legislation into Parliament.…
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Affordable housing fail – we can’t rely on the private sector
To the complete surprise of absolutely no one: Land-bankers fail to build affordable housing Affordability requirements in up to half of Auckland's special housing areas look set to lapse because developers have not even applied for consents ahead of the areas disappearing next month. The…
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Grant Robertson on the adjusted unemployment figure
Today the Household Labour Force Survey is released. The method used to calculate the headline unemployment figure has changed since the previous release. This caused some discussion on Twitter yesterday, and Grant Robertson posted the following on Facebook: Tomorrow the latest Household Labour Force Survey…
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Open mike 17/08/2016
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July 2016 was the hottest single month recorded since 1880
And 2016 will almost definitely be the hottest year yet Time Magazine reports on data provided in the last day or so by both NASA and JMA. July 2016 was the warmest month ever recorded, the latest in a slew of new temperature records set…
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Daily Review 16/08/2016
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New Zealand’s most shameful secret: ‘We have normalised child poverty’
New Zealand making front page news in international media again. This time in a piece by Eleanor Ainge Roy in the Guardian. Below are some quoted excerpts from a piece that really should be read in full. One-third of the country’s children, or 300,000, now…
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Richard Wagstaff: “Things need to change”
The inaugural CTU organisers' conference is being held in Auckland this week, bringing together organisers from across the CTU affiliated unions to discuss the future of the movement. CTU President Richard Wagstaff opened the conference this morning. E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā…
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Spy vs Us
No Right Turn on National's next step in spying on NZers. Against domestic spying. Last year, National held a strapped-chicken review into "our" intelligence agencies. In March, it duly reported back with the expected results, recommending more money, more powers, and fewer legal restraints for…
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Another Key lie is why this government can’t be trusted with increased spying powers
As widely reported yesterday the Nats plan to rewrite the law to allow the GCSB to spy on NZ citizens. Coincidentally yesterday another spying story broke. I/S at No Right Turn summed it up perfectly, so his post is reprinted (with permission) here: John Key…
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A UK Labour Split
If there’s one lesson New Zealand Labour can give to UK Labour after another catastrophic loss, it’s this: look disunited and die. So I think it’s time for Jeremy Corbyn to split. If Mr Corbyn sees off Owen Smith as leader of the Labour Party,…
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Open mike 16/08/2016
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Daily Review 15/08/2016
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Shit in the water
The Havelock North "gastro" outbreak is all over the papers - Gastro outbreak hits Hawke's Bay 'Widespread' vomiting and diarrhoea gastro outbreak in Havelock North Animal faeces in water supply may be causing Havelock North gastro outbreak Gastro bug in Hawke's Bay water may have…
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In praise of David Shearer
Yes you read this correctly. One of the writers on The Standard, the blogsite erroneously reputed to be the cause of David Shearer's demise as Labour Party leader, wishes to praise Shearer in the way he has talked about the Nauru asylum seeker detention crisis. From Newshub: Australia…
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Spark – kudos
Remember how so many NZ employers are saying they can't afford to increase wages (some of them while booking massive profits)? Nice to see that there are some companies taking a more constructive approach to wages: Spark pays full-time workers $40k minimum Spark will now…
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The housing crisis and the diseases of poverty
One of the consequences of poor, overcrowded housing is an increase in the incidence of preventable "diseases of poverty". This was highlighted as a national issue in the run up to the 2011 election with the Inside Child Poverty documentary: Shock look at NZ’s child…
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Open mike 15/08/2016
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This is the face of the failure of globalisation
This man, Mohammad Jamal, like many others in proto-industrialised countries, is a support worker for the West. He works in a, to Western eyes, make-shift aluminium processing plant. According to this photo essay in the Guardian, he last saw his 2 day old daughter…
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Why do right wing politicians like stealing dead babies identities?
This may be the start of a pattern. First there was David Garrett, list MP for ACT and former legal adviser to the Sensible Sentencing Trust who stole the identity of a dead baby admittedly years ago, was then convicted of assault in Tonga and…
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NZ at the Olympics
Congratulations to all the athletes representing NZ at the Olympics. There have been surprises and upsets, and the usual gutsy performances. Women dominate our medal tally so far (well done Valerie Adams!). And of course Pacific greetings and congratulations to the Fiji Sevens! May the…
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Globalisation and global incomes (the “elephant graph”)
Every now and then there an insight, theory, or visualisation exposes a brilliantly clear understanding of a complex situation or set of phenomena. Serbian economist Branko Milanovic's graph of the change in global income between 1988 and 2008 by percentile (called by some the "elephant…
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Open mike 14/08/2016
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Taonga tax
A great suggestion from The Greens, as reported on RNZ: 'Taonga tax' proposed for international visitors The Green Party is pushing for a tourism tax to pay for much-needed regional infrastructure and the government's predator-free plan. The Taonga Levy - which would cost between $14…
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Auckland Future’s fuster cluck of a campaign
The nominations are in and the lists have been published. There are a couple of candidates whose applications I believe are still being processed but otherwise what we see is what we are going to get. Auckland Future was National's brave effort to maximise the…
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Left Militant
With wars breaking out at an alarming rate and democracy going backwards in much of the world currently, lefties need to face the idea of military intervention squarely. Push aside the U.S. election for a moment, and engage the complexity and scale of chaos on…
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Open mike 13/08/2016
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