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Daily Review 10/03/2016
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RB snaps awake, jolts markets
Guest Post: By Simon Louison Seemingly asleep-at-the-wheel, Reserve Bank Governor, Graeme Wheeler, apparently snapped awake today when he announced a surprise quarter point cut to the Official Cash Rate to 2.25 percent. Wheeler finally realised things were that bad, realising more stimulatory medicine was needed…
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TPP to criminalise ordinary viewers
A lot of people out there couldn't give a stuff about the TPP because they don't see it affecting them. This might change their minds: Watching US Netflix looks set to become an offence Getting around blocks on overseas online television services such as the…
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Intergenerational theft
Earlier in the week The Guardian published this very interesting piece: Revealed: the 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Y’s income Exclusive new data shows how debt, unemployment and property prices have combined to stop millennials taking their share of western wealth We all know…
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Nats think “pretty legal” is good enough…
In 2014 the Nat party campaign video used music that sounded a lot like Eminem's "Lose Yourself". Eminem sued. Campaign manager Steven Joyce (aka Mr Fuxit) famously described their actions as "pretty legal". National clearly think that's good enough, but the court might beg to…
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Open mike 10/03/2016
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“The greatest polling error in primary history”
Bernie Sanders has just won the Michigan Democratic primary. Polling guru Nate Silver of 38degrees said that given that Sanders was behind by an average of 21.3% in all polls leading up to the vote, if Sanders won Michigan it would count among "the greatest…
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Daily Review 09/03/2016
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New report on GCSB spying powers
A Government-ordered review (by Sir Michael Cullen and Dame Patsy Reddy) of NZ's spy agencies has just been released: GCSB may be given permission to spy on Kiwis' private information New Zealand's foreign intelligence agency should be able to spy on Kiwis' private communications, a…
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Health law expert on the TPP
A good piece by Dan Satherley on Newshub: Health law expert rips into TPP The recently signed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will "dramatically" restrict access to affordable medicine in every country that ratifies it, according to a US law expert. Writing in scientific journal PLOS Medicine,…
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Imperator Fish: John needs this too
By now you’ll probably have received your voting papers for the flag referendum, and I know that a lot of you won’t be bothering to vote, or will be voting to stick with the current flag. I have already tried to explain how important this…
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Health Ministry lost the plot and heads should roll
This is appalling: Health Ministry sought to recoup costs of $18m bungle from DHB budgets Treasury was forced to object to the Health Ministry recouping the cost of an $18 million blunder, over an office refurbishment, from District Health Boards (DHBs). So "serious financial mismanagement"…
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Government plans RMA power grab
The Government is proposing sweeping changes to the Resource Management Act. They had planned for even more radical change but the support parties refused to commit so the proposal to weaken the goal of environmental protection by merging sections 5 and 6 of the RMA…
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Open mike 09/03/2016
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Daily Review 08/03/2016
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Fonterra faces liquidity issues as rivers of “white oil” dry up
Guest Post: by Simon Louisson Pundits, most residing in the National Party, just three years ago predicted the economy would surf high on “rivers of white oil” flowing from the dairy industry, but they now have cow pats splattered on their faces as Fonterra today…
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Labour and Lees-Galloway secure end to zero hours contracts
The Government has buckled and agreed to changes proposed by Labour to Employment Law to do away with zero hour employment contracts. Congratulations to Labour and especially Iain Lees-Galloway for achieving this. From a Labour press release on stuff: Changes demanded by Labour to new…
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How is homophobia still a thing?
St Matthew-in-the-City is a liberal Anglican church in the middle of Auckland city. Its theology is to encourage liberal thinking and progressive theological exploration. It states that its hospitality is to welcome all people, no exceptions, to the table. Its justice statement says that the church…
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Todd Barclay imploding in Clutha-Southland
Standing a 23 year old Nat Party insider and ex tobacco lobbyist in the safe National (ex Bill English) seat of Clutha-Southland was always an insult to the electorate, but the good burghers loyally voted for the blue gumboot. (Labour's Dr Liz Craig would have…
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Victoria University Chancellor Neville Jordan spits the dummy
' This article appeared in the 21 February issue of Victoria University's student magazine Salient - and University Chancellor, Neville Jordan, couldn't handle the jandal so lost the plot and spat the dummy. Big time. The spoof Q&A has Jordan saying that both the best and worst part of his…
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Routine incompetence
From the party that brought you the Novopay debacle, the Auckland IT costing blowout, the unachievable Christchurch rebuild plan, the MBIE cost extravagances, the bungled charter schools mess, the embarrassing Auckland housing nonsense, the SERCO prison failures, the abolition of democracy in Canterbury, the Solid…
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Open mike 08/03/2016
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Daily Review 07/03/2016
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NRT: A waiting list by another name
I/S at No Right Turn writes... A waiting list by another name When National was in opposition, it rightly attacked the then-Labour government over the size of hospital waiting lists. People were suffering in pain, sometimes for years, because DHB's were not meeting patient needs.…
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The All Powerful Labour Party
The flag change campaign has reached truly epic levels of shrill hysteria. It's hard to move without tripping over a celebrity or journalist ranting about the flag. Apparently we need a new flag to represent who we are, it's the last chance for a generation,…
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Stacey Kirk’s Stuff Up
Is Stacey Kirk NZ's nastiest journalist? The Fairfax hack has just been forced to admit that she published an unsubstantiated smear against a group of women dying of cancer. Yes, you read that right. The target of her vile attack were the women who went…
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police and african youth
Having been away for the weekend, I hadn't had time to write about this piece of research by Camille Nakhid, showing that the police are using "derogatory insults or comments, dismissive behaviour and even excessive force by the police". The police immediately went into defensive mode,…
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Open mike 07/03/2016
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Auckland Council IT Blowout; Guest Post
Guest Post from SaveNZ: The massive budget blow out in Auckland Council’s IT budget is the direct result of the incompetent way in which the NACT government set up the SuperCity. It was made worse by the way council ran the NewCore project, using mates…
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Medical cannabis review
In January Helen Kelly wrote a powerful post on her use of medical cannabis. In February her application to legally access cannabis for medical purposes was rejected. Peter Dunne should have showed more initiative, but to his credit at least he initiated a review of…