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In phenomenally good news for the country and the Government and pretty well everyone but the National Party the country's unemployment rate has, checks notes, declined. From Liam Dann at the Herald: Unemployment dropped to 4 per cent in the June quarter, official labour force…
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I thought I would have a dive into National's announced policies to see what they are proposing. It did not take me long. For a party that promised to be a policy factory it was a real disappointment. They do have a vision statement. It…
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She is one of the less noticeable of the current list of Labour MPs. She has been in Parliament for a long time, has given sterling service, has kept the Port Hills electorate safely red and has served the Labour Party organisation at the highest…
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Why have we fallen into the most boring and predictable election we've had since Bolger's second term? Neither National nor Labour have put out fresh policy in months. New roads don't count as fresh anything. Nor do medium-scale regional projects. Labour are still working on…
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The ratio under this tweet is as beautiful as the tweet itself. For non-twitter folk, the ratio is when a much larger number of replies go against a tweet and its likes, although in this case the likes are likely to be people agreeing that…
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National has a crop of new candidates in Auckland all wanting to be in Parliament. But judging by what has happened so far you have to wonder if there are further allegations that may emerge which may ankle tap carefully stage managed campaigns. In the…
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And I thought last week was a bad week for National. It looks like they are facing even more problems. This morning in paywalled articles Bernard Orsman and Richard Harman have laid open a really messy situation relating to National's Auckland Central candidate selection. The…
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I do not think in all my years of interest in politics that I have ever seen a more disorganised week from National. Last Sunday it started with a horror poll suggesting that Labour could conceivably not require support parties and National plunging to levels…
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Trump has announced he will ban Tik-Tok from the United States. It's Chinese-owned so there. Or maybe he will force it to be sold to Americans. Don't think security is the issue; kids used it to stuff up his Tulsa rally. And it is good…
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Three years ago I wrote a post "Ok, I’m pissed off with the Labour caucus again. Time to switch". While I am still totally surprised at just how successful Jacinda Ardern has been at pulling both the country and the Labour caucus together, I am…
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Environment Minister Eugenie Sage this week announced the beginning of the end of Aotearoa’s unfortunate experiment with free-market waste management that has trashed our environment. The introduction of the Regulated Product Stewardship Scheme is the beginning of the end of Aotearoa of local councils and…
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With the growing assertions by the Chinese government across the eastern Pacific including in Hong Kong and our own repudiation of an extradition treaty, there are now calls to expand the Five Eyes intelligence network to include Japan. There's been discussion about this since at…
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A justified operation, no organised cover-up, but serious failures in senior defence personnel's denial and misrepresentation, and serious failures by the intelligence agencies in handing over a suspect to torture. The Inquiry called for a review of Defence administration, an Inspector-General of Defence, a Defence…
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The Heron report inquiring into National MP Hamish Walker and Michelle Boag's misuse of confidential health information has been released. And it is frustratingly short of detail. It reads like a collation of press releases augmented with some carefully prepared statements and topped off with…
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Another day, another poll! So, we can see from the party vote trend here that CB is sharply disagreeing with the other two regular pollsters over what's going on in this election. My internet access is still spotty for another week, so apologies if there's…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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TVNZ's latest Colmar Brunton poll is released at 6pm. This post will be updated with the results then. In the meantime, some context: The June Colmar Brunton saw a 9% swing from Labour to National under the exciting new leadership of Todd Muller. However, if…
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Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Linda Reynolds were invited to travel to the US this week to meet face-to-face with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Minister Mark Esper. In what was clearly a follow-up to recent speeches on China…
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I'm reasonably happy with where the government wound up on the quarantine cost recovery. It sends a clear economic signal to businesses and the fools who want to travel during a global pandemic. That will make the cost / benefit calculation for businesses clearer. It…
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https://vimeo.com/442599119 Sarah Dowie, National's Invercargill MP gave her valedictory speech yesterday and it was a very, very good speech. She was frank and to the point and spoke from the heart. She is clearly happy to be going. From Hansard: When I started my parliamentary…
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There is a suggestion before Parliament that electors should be able to switch between the European roll and the Maori roll more regularly. Currently this option can only be exercised every five years with the census. And given our MMP system you would have to…
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