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Statement sourced from barrister Felix Geiringer on twitter and the Herald: Full text of Police acknowledgement and apology 1. Mr Nicky Hager has instituted High Court claims against the Crown resulting from: 1.1 the search of his property at Wellington on 2 October 2014 after…
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I have mixed views about this. I can understand how annoyed Winston Peters must feel that his private information was leaked during an election campaign for political purposes. And his political targets, Anne Tolley and Paula Bennett, must be first on the list of whodunnit,…
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Keep it seemly.
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If someone had said two years ago that the President of the United States would be picking a fight with Canada while at the same time buddying up to North Korea they would have been met with ridicule. And questions about their sanity. But this…
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The 1991 “Mother of All Budgets” led to welfare reforms that are responsible for Aotearoa New Zealand’s growing poverty and inequality. The reverberations of those reforms are reflected in our current negative statistics and the numbers of families living in hardship. That hardship began during…
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It’s a question that most books on business etiquette don’t really cover. Maybe that’s why Wellington Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive John Milford seemed to bring it up. It’s uncharted territory. Speaking on behalf of Business NZ at the announcement of the the panel considering…
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Matthew Hooton and Fran O'Sullivan have recently published articles in the Herald criticising Labour's decision to stop off shore oil exploration. Hooton thinks it was part of a nefarious plot designed to divert attention away from other issues and O'Sullivan thinks it was "disturbingly Orwellian".…
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We are in the last couple of days of the Northcote by election with tomorrow being voting day. If you want to help Shanan Halbert get elected Labour will be maintaining a full get the vote out system. You can sign up to help here.…
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As we enter the era of relative world wide population declines (apart from Africa), we are are also seeing the era of populist movements trying to put the finger in the dike. The two are related. Many in the big cities beset by congestion and…
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CTU President Richard Wagstaff has a great opinion piece in the Dom Post this morning pointing out why Fair Pay Agreements are good for business as well as Kiwi workers: Remember when you could pay a mortgage, keep the kitchen cupboard full, take the kids…
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It seems like an employee at the US consulate in Guangzhou heard himself losing his marbles. Seriously. As reported by The Guardian, dutifully echoing and reinforcing a The New York Times article, he had "been hearing sounds like “marbles bouncing and hitting a floor” since April last year."…
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Minister Shaw has just put out his discussion paper for the Carbon Zero legislation. Sometimes you never know what difference your voice is going to make. I know from working in both central and local government that since the late 1990s, public submissions really do…
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What do you do if you are a member of a political party that has just been turfed out of office and a major fiasco emerges which shows that your party's decision making while in office was less than perfect? Like you blew $100 million…
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The methamphetamine scandal continues day after day. I almost feel sorry for National waking up to the same bad news of incompetence, lack of understanding and anti poor people belligerence their handling of the issue clearly displays. And unlike days of yore where they had…
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At the moment, the United States of America is headed towards full employment. Quibble about the stats if you like, but President Trump has been there long enough to make a difference irrespective of how much is directly attributable. He also seems to be making…
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Labour and Iain Lees-Galloway have managed to score the biggest up yours in politics for decades with the announcement that former National Prime Minister Jim Bolger has been appointed to a group tasked with returning industry wide bargaining. And the Nats are spitting tacks. From…
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The Northcote by election ought to be a walk in the park for National. It has been a Nationally held seat since 2005 and Jonathan Coleman's 6,210 candidate vote majority ought to be plenty. But things are getting quite strange in Northcote. There is clearly…
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