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Daily Review 31/01/2019
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Fair Pay Agreements
The Working Group set up in June 2018 to consider reform of the wage bargaining system in NZ industry has reported back to the Minister, Iain Lees Galloway. The Minister says that the Coalition Government "has committed to improving incomes and working conditions for New…
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Show us the money Simon
National has laid out what will be its big policy next election and wouldntyaknowit it's a tax cut. Or more accurately changes to the tax system so that bracket creep does not occur. But get this. Not only is National going to build more motorways,…
auckland supercity Economy grant robertson Media national newspapers same old national Simon Bridges tax the praiseworthy and the pitiful transport you couldn't make this shit up
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Open Mike 31/01/2019
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Daily Review 30/01/2019
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A detailed analysis of Simon Bridges’ state of the nation speech
Tax cuts good. That's it.
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The world cannot afford to have billionaires
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has achieved a great deal of prominence with her claim that it is immoral to have a world that allows for billionaires. From Amanda Marcotte at Salon: ... Ocasio-Cortez attended a symposium where author Ta-Nehisi Coates asked her if it was moral to have "a…
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Open Mike 30/01/2019
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Daily Review 29/01/2019
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Does the West Coast Regional Council Exist?
SUBMISSION: Zero Carbon Bill In my submission on the Zero Carbon Bill (ZCB), which I believe appears to be well-intentioned, I'm going to focus on fairness and justice for a largely remote region dependent on mining, farming and forestry. That region is, of course, New…
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Open Mike 29/01/2019
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Take the oil!
Before he was elected President, Donald Trump's approach to United States illegal attacks on Iraq and Libya was that their only mistake was that the US didn't "take the oil." After becoming President, his approach to oil-rich Venezuela was "can't we just invade them?" Persuaded…
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I’m so tired of you America
With Rufus Wainwright coming to town in early March, here's a song about the politics of the United States that's a decade old, but has weathered well into the age of Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtVyl402W5s You can decide if you prefer the orchestrated George Michael version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DZJQjn3jV8 It's not…
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The Blue Green oxymoron
There has been a lot of conjecture recently on the possibility of no friends National creating a puppet party like ACT so that it has friends. Except this one would try and create warm obligation free fuzzies about the environment. Although as Idiot Savant puts…
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The Power of Anger
We’ve all felt it, anger, simmering or raging inside us. We have experienced it, at the hands of parents, partners, friends, teachers, colleagues, bosses, strangers, you name it. Most of us do almost anything to avoid it, to risk confrontation with another angry person or…
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Open Mike 28/01/2019
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About that $100,000 National Party donation
In a recent Herald article Fran O'Sullivan asks a very pertinent question, what has happened to the investigation of the $100,000 donation made to National that was partitioned so that it did not have to be reported? The background was described in this way in…
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Roastbusters redux
In what was very unfortunate timing for John Tamihere's launch of his Mayoral campaign the Roastbusters issue is back in the public eye. To recap the roast busters were a group of young predominately westie males who used to get young women drunk and then…
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Open Mike 27/01/2019
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How To Get There 27/1/19
This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. This post is prompted by TS regular Robert Guyton who suggested we have a dedicated thread where “the way forward can be discussed, within parameters such as doable suggestions, successful examples, contributions from readers…
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Trump’s Worst Day
Pear shaped President Donald Trump has had a pear shaped day. Before dawn, armed FBI agents took Trump advisor Roger Stone off to court, where he arrived in handcuffs to face multiple charges of lying to the Mueller enquiry. Later in the morning, Trump caved…
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Open Mike 26/01/2019
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Daily Review 25/01/2019
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Herald names Dowie as the sender of that text to Jami-Lee Ross
The secret is now out. A few of us on the left have known the identity for months but have chosen not to publish it. The next time that someone says the left is just like the right remind them of this. David Fisher in…
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Taxpayers Union receives funding from British American Tobacco
I don't know what it is about the Taxpayer's Union (*not a real union) but they really annoy. Perhaps it is the use of the word "Union". You can imagine Jordan Williams, David Farrar and various other doyens of the right sitting around a table…
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Open Mike 25/01/2019
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Daily Review 24/01/2019
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Stuff is now an official mouthpiece of the National Party
Fark me. Last night when perusing twitter I came across a Stuff article which had this headline: Justice minister's UN speech compared to David Cunliffe apologising for being a man This bought up a flood of memories. I recall clearly the day David Cunliffe said…
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Venezuela Coup
Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó has declared himself interim President in an attempt to force recently re-elected President Nicolás Maduro from office. The apparent coup was immediately welcomed by Donald Trump who said he would use the “full weight” of US economic and diplomatic power…
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That federation campaign
There's an ad campaign that says "New Zealand is doing Australia better than Australia is", and recommends federation of New Zealand with Australia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUrliRmhiyA And proposes Jacinda as Prime Minister of them all. Imagine. Australia recompenses every single Aboriginal group and they get to tell…