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It appears that National's dream of an alternative Green party that would drive the real Green Party below the threshold is in tatters with news that Sustainable NZ is on the skids. From Sam Sachdeva at Newsroom: Fledgling political party Sustainable New Zealand has been…
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It’s probably time to notice why Jones’ Provincial Growth Fund had to step in and provide several million of funding to patch up the water supply emergency in Northland. We are in the most serious drought the upper North Island has had in recorded history,…
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https://twitter.com/TeAoWithMOANA/status/1229467588339453953 Full interview with Moana Maniapoto from Te Ao with Moana, from Facebook
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National has nothing to fear about the SFO charges relating to two $100,000 undeclared donations made to it. Neither Simon Bridges, nor the National Party have been charged following an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. Simon had nothing to do with the donations. The…
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Name suppression has been lifted for the four people charged by the Serious Fraud Office over two dodgy donations to the National Party. Three are businessmen: Yikun Zhang, 48, Shijia (Colin) Zheng, 34, and Hengjia (Joe) Zheng, 34. The fourth is National Party bag man…
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Today we may know the identities of three of the four people charged with illegal partitioning of the loan to National. The disclosure that there is a second donation that was partitioned makes you wonder if this is a serial problem for National. I thought…
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Press release from greens.org.nz February 17, 2020 10:43 AM The Green Party are calling for an independent citizens’ assembly to investigate cleaning up political donations, including public funding for political parties during election campaigns. “It’s clear that Parliament is incapable of meaningful reforms to…
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In a dramatic twist in the investigation into the missing $200k donated to National under the table (or possibly under many smaller tables) Simon Bridges told radio station Tragic Dork FM that the leader of the opposition needed to stand Simon Bridges down…
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This November will see the election of the next President of the USA. Assuming the election will be between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump (that's what's stacking up) then a question or three arises about how liberal mainstream media will report on the race. See,…
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Now, you may well think: why does this matter to me? Thousands of households across New Zealand heard the announcement of the complete death of the Holden marque this week, as the death of one of the greatest binaries and one of the most closely…
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Maybe we now know why National's economic policy release was such a fizzer. They were all preoccupied with news of more donation scandal affecting the party about to emerge. I was doing my best to write something deeper about tax cuts when this nuclear bomb…
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This will be a very short post. The big economic policy announcement has been made by National leader Simon Bridges and it is, how do I put this, underwhelming. There are five bulletpoint policies which I have summarised for you: PlatitiudePlatitiudePlatitiudePlatitiudePlatitiude One of them involves…
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We are sprinting into election year and the policies are starting to emerge. And today Simon Bridges and National are going to announce a new policy that will surprise and astound you. Yes we are talking about tax cuts! Who would have guessed? From Derek…
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This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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I have never been a big fan of NZ First. Occasionally they come out with good ideas. Most of the time they resemble a bunch of swaggering wide boys. They have held back the Government from following really progressive action on poverty reduction. But they…
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The rapid demise of the single use plastic bag has just left one hole in my life. I haven't (so far) been able to replace the one and only second life use that I ever found for them. They were great at keeping the broccoli…
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The coronavirus outbreak that exploded three weeks ago in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has prompted the most severe Chinese government actions in three decades. Cities are closed down, transport links broken, and tens of millions of people effectively quarantined. At a time when…
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Colmar Brunton released a poll result last night. The results were quite different to the recent Reid Research poll and were remarkably stable to the last Colmar Brunton poll which was conducted last November. The Reid Research Poll had National at 43.3% and Labour on…
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