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We’ve seen a fair few construction companies go under or get close to it recently. It’s the right thing to happen. It’s going to happen often. And it’s the right time to happen. Construction here, as elsewhere, is a totally cutthroat business. It’s all about…
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There's this thing called "fair use" when using copyrighted materials without permission. So, for example, if a video clip is used, and the intent is review, report or criticise current events, then (according to guidelines issued for the UK by the UK government), there is…
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Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux are coming back to New Zealand to give a talk. Such will be their commitment to free speech that entry to their event will be heavily regulated. At the event those wanting to exercise their rights to free speech in…
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In 2010 the ACT Party with the help of National managed to pass a piece of legislation that damaged student democracy, and blatantly ignored public opinion. Voluntary Student Membership or VSM sounds like a horrendous STI, and its impact has been to screw student democracy.…
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From the you have to be freaking kidding file. Simon Bridges office just sent out this tweet: https://twitter.com/simonjbridges/status/1024442638731112448 The actual background does not seem to be that dire. From Statistics NZ: The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 4.5 percent in the June 2018 quarter,…
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A wee word on Serco. They operate in NZ and have this on their vacancies page (Justice and Immigration) At Serco, you’ll be part of a team of more than 50,000 people delivering essential services on behalf of governments and organisations around the world. We…
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It's been a naff week for Simon Bridges (you know the guy, current National leader, eyes like the last puppy in the pet shop). Last weekend's National party conference tried to put the me into meh and predictably failed to ignite the nation. Bridges looks…
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So it appears that one reason the right is so keen on charter schools that do not have properly qualified teachers or the need to comply with a state curriculum is so they can teach all sorts of things. Like creationism. From Farah Hancock at…
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Unite Union's Mike Treen has been arrested in International waters by Israeli forces for being part of a flotilla that wanted to deliver medical supplies to Gaza. From Daily Blog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ7prhn5eMc Mike Treen is the National Director of the Unite Union, and a veteran human…
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At a time when UK Labour should be confidently demolishing the shambles that is the Conservative/DUP Government the party finds itself unable or unwilling to defend itself against charges of anti-Semitism. Clearly Jeremy Corbyn is no bigot. He's spent his whole adult life opposing racism.…
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White supremacy, male supremacy and western cultural supremacy are, or so it seems from a quick read, the basic foundations on which Molyneux and Southern have built their cash grabbing and fifteen minutes worth of fame grabbing act. Those things are also the basic foundations…
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I was hoping to present a detailed analysis of Simon Bridges conference speech and what he was proposing by way of education policy. I could not however because it was nowhere on the web, at least as far as I could tell. When I went…
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Reading the media leading up to this weekend's National Party Conference I could not believe how uniform the analysis was. Basically cheerleading stuff. Everything is fine. National's polling was great and it is early days for Simon Bridges. It brought back for me strong memories…
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Way I see it, nursing is one of those occupations where, if nurses pay was doubled, it wouldn’t be too much to be giving them. There are a few other occupations like that. But it seems from feedback and posts across facebook pages, that nurses…
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So National be getting pretty liberal with the Marijuana stuff. National's cannabis announcement reminds me for some strange reason of that infamous Simpsons episode where Chief Wiggums discovers the magic of ganga. It was a scene where not much happened apart from him singing to…
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It looks like NZ will be blessed with the presence of Canadian bigots Molyneux and Southern after all. The hate speach tour organiser, Axiomatic, claim a secret venue has been found and the emissaries from the Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment will be crossing…