Written By: - Date published: 9:05 am, October 18th, 2011 - 38 comments
Last election it was “Time for a change”. After three years of incompetence and inaction, our priorities should be different this time…
Written By: - Date published: 7:17 am, October 17th, 2011 - 137 comments
Part of a worldwide phenomenon, the Occupation has reached Aotearoa New Zealand. Anyone who thinks that they know where all this will end is fooling themselves.
Written By: - Date published: 2:09 pm, October 16th, 2011 - 37 comments
Here we are again. This time its ABs vs Wallabies 9:00 pm at Eden Park. May the best team win (but it better not be Wallabies!).
Written By: - Date published: 11:37 am, October 15th, 2011 - 42 comments
3News reports that: Key dismisses Goff’s oil drilling moratorium as ‘pure politics’. He’s right. But not in the way he thinks.
Written By: - Date published: 6:15 am, October 15th, 2011 - 17 comments
By the time this post appears a showdown will have taken place in New York. Check out the morning media, there should be plenty of coverage of events as they unfold.
Written By: - Date published: 9:20 am, October 14th, 2011 - 14 comments
Thanks also to the volunteers who are turning up in their hundreds for the Rena cleanup effort. We’re lucky to live in a country with such a generous and active volunteer tradition.
Written By: - Date published: 2:17 pm, October 13th, 2011 - 78 comments
It’s the one week anniversary of Bomber Bradbury’s appearance on RNZ’s the Panel, and his subsequent shameful banning from same. The usual media commentators have been conspicuous for their silence.
Written By: - Date published: 7:16 am, October 13th, 2011 - 213 comments
One of the turning points of Bush’s presidency was the failed non-response to Hurricane Katrina. It’s starting to look now very much as if the wreck of the Rena is John Key’s Katrina moment.
Written By: - Date published: 2:10 pm, October 11th, 2011 - 47 comments
Mana has proposed lowering the voting age. I’m in favour.
Written By: - Date published: 11:48 am, October 11th, 2011 - 10 comments
No wonder politicians get such a bad rep.
Written By: - Date published: 10:01 am, October 10th, 2011 - 145 comments
Martyn “Bomber” Bradbury has been banned from appearing on RNZ after strongly criticising Key’s behaviour in the throat slitting incident (video). Rumour now has it that Key is intending to sue Bradbury for defamation. Listen to the audio and judge for yourselves.
Written By: - Date published: 4:37 pm, October 9th, 2011 - 14 comments
The ABs play Argentina tonight, 8:30 pm at Eden Park.
Written By: - Date published: 11:00 am, October 9th, 2011 - 151 comments
John “throat slitter” Key behaved disgracefully in Parliament this week. But apparently criticising him for it will get you banned from RNZ.
Written By: - Date published: 8:07 am, October 8th, 2011 - 15 comments
If we can’t deal with a small oil leak from a grounded ship, what are we doing planning deepsea drilling on a grand scale?
Written By: - Date published: 3:22 pm, October 7th, 2011 - 27 comments
Speaker Lookwood Smith is getting a lot of flak for his decision to punish The Herald for publishing a photo (taken in violation of Standing Orders) by banning their reporters from Parliament for ten days.
Written By: - Date published: 9:10 am, October 7th, 2011 - 48 comments
Looks like the RWC isn’t going to be the economic stimulus that we hoped. We’re stuck in the doldrums, and (just like in England) the government’s austerity programme is exactly the wrong response.
Written By: - Date published: 7:27 am, October 6th, 2011 - 124 comments
In the last few days Key has refused to accept responsibility for NZ’s credit downgrades, stated that he is “not concerned in the slightest” about his possible breach of electoral law, and used an unfortunate incident in Parliament to launch an ugly attack on Labour. John Key is no leader.
Written By: - Date published: 11:43 am, October 5th, 2011 - 18 comments
Will double dipping double downgrade Bill English have the guts to heed his own warning?
Written By: - Date published: 7:22 am, October 5th, 2011 - 27 comments
The Nats most recent attack on democracy – the Video Camera Surveillance (Temporary Measures) Bill – was outrageous in many ways. It was almost universally condemned, and now Labour has secured significant concessions.
Written By: - Date published: 8:44 am, October 4th, 2011 - 54 comments
The credit rating downgrades have been quite a political earthquake, and the aftershocks are going to continue for some time.
Written By: - Date published: 2:13 pm, October 3rd, 2011 - 16 comments
The Occupation, now into its third week, seems to be growing. As is the Police response. In the latest development police have arrested more than 700 protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Written By: - Date published: 8:25 am, October 3rd, 2011 - 70 comments
What a bizarre week of polls. The Fairfax poll and the Roy Morgan polls both showed swings from National to Labour. The TVNZ poll and the TV3 poll did not. (Hey TV3 – that’s some pretty sloppy writing!) In other news, Key finally equalled Helen Clark’s peak rating as preferred PM.
Written By: - Date published: 10:39 am, October 2nd, 2011 - 56 comments
The weeks of the RWC were supposed to be a politics-free zone. Bread and circuses. It hasn’t turned out that way, as both Armstrong and O’Sullivan point out in weekend opinion pieces. The credit downgrades have dropped a bomb in the middle of the political landscape. But I think that both are wrong in expecting any action from the Nats.
Written By: - Date published: 11:22 am, October 1st, 2011 - 86 comments
Like the recent Fairfax poll, yesterday’s Roy Morgan shows a significant swing from National to Labour.
Written By: - Date published: 10:30 am, October 1st, 2011 - 19 comments
Another in what looks like becoming a regular series.
Written By: - Date published: 7:39 am, October 1st, 2011 - 17 comments
The Nats have indulged in a long series of boastful posturings and dire warnings about the risks of a credit downgrade, many of them as recently as August 10th. Now that they have suffered not one, but two separate credit downgrades, Mr Smile and Wave has some explaining to do.
Written By: - Date published: 8:44 am, September 30th, 2011 - 101 comments
Grateful citizens rejoiced this week at the passage of the VTM (Voluntary Taxation Mechanism) bill.
Written By: - Date published: 10:32 am, September 29th, 2011 - 39 comments
Have you heard of Occupy Wall Street? If you are one of the 99%, you should have…
Written By: - Date published: 2:31 pm, September 28th, 2011 - 17 comments
Some day this country needs to have a proper debate about decriminalising marijuana. Don Brash’s politically ill-advised blurtings on the topic have damaged the prospects of such a debate.
Written By: - Date published: 9:01 am, September 28th, 2011 - 56 comments
The latest Fairfax poll has the Labour – National gap closing a bit.
Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, September 27th, 2011 - 55 comments
One of the big stories last night was the anti-VSM protest at Auckland Uni. Was it the last one we will see in NZ? That would suit the Nats very nicely – sheep will be so much easier to fleece…
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