Behind National’s emigration wailing
National likes to talk down New Zealand, to portray this great country as underperforming, to exaggerate our problems, and to cast our unique […]
Politics
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Winston tears Paul Henry a new one
I’m as sick of the Owen Glenn saga as the next guy, but Winston Peters’ tussle with failed National Party candidate and Close […]
How would Key make wages drop?
Having read our coverage of John Key’s ‘we would love to see wages drop‘ line my brother asked ‘but how can a government […]
For the record
Like most of his policy positions John Key’s story on his comment “we would love to see wages drop” just keeps on changing. […]
What’s the future of Working for Families?
One consquence of the expectations around tax cuts is an examination of some of the policies already have in place – Working for […]
Joining the (blue) dots
Perhaps you’ve heard about the Blue Chip blues? The company is in the news again today, and not just for allegedly breaking a […]
Bill’s Wikipedia edits
Again from a Parliamentary address, the following passage was deleted from Bill English’s Wikipedia entry in June last year: He married a Catholic […]
National’s history of rewriting history
You think they’d learn. Wikiscanner reports that someone in Parliament has been busy – busy expunging potentially embarassing facts about a variety of […]
Rod Oram: Insight into 2008
For those who are looking to the Beehive to bring some single minded focus to the current situation Labour finds themselves in, this […]
Key’s shameful attack on journalist
One of the more unsavoury aspects of Key’s “we would love wages to drop” saga is the unwarranted attacks by Key and his […]
Espiner on National’s hypocrisy
From Colin’s blog: It’s time for National to put its mouth where its money is. After a week of climbing into Labour boots […]
NSW Liberals want an Electoral Finance Act
In an ironic twist, the Sydney Morning Herald reports today that the New South Wales Liberal Party has called for reform of campaign […]
Jones to Key: say it to our faces
Far North Labour MP Shane Jones laid down the gauntlet to Key over the ‘we would love to see wages drop‘ scandal. Jones […]
Transcript proves Key is lying
When it was revealed that John Key had told a business leader he ‘would love to see wages drop‘ it undermined everything he’d […]
The deafening silence
At a meeting in Kerikeri last year with a business leader, in the presence of journalist Greg Robertson, National Leader John Key said […]
Tail-spin
While National is trying to pretend John Key’s quote that “we would love to see wages drop” is a non-issue, behind the scenes […]
Filth
It looks like the nasty little insecure creeps who inhabit the Kiwiblog Right are creeping into the mainstream. I mean, take a look […]
Key incoherent on pay cut plans
Following the revelation that John Key told a business audience “we would love to see wages drop“, bFM asked him to elaborate [MP3, […]
Margaret Wilson to stand down
Speaker of the House Margaret Wilson has announced she will not be seeking a position on Labour’s list next election. This won’t come […]
MPs respond to Key’s wage drop wish
Following revelations that John Key told a business audience “we would love to see wages drop“, I sent an email to all 91 […]
On the record
There are some out there claiming Key’s statement that he “would love to see wages drop” is out of character. Now I’m always […]
Key: pay cuts for you, backhanders for my mates
Even as he flounders from one excuse to the next over his ‘we would love to see wages drop’ statement, it has emerged […]
Doing the rounds
Looks like John Ansell’s finally got his mojo back. Hat tip: Ant.
Key resorts to “memory lapse” defense
So without Bill to run interference like he did in the House yesterday, John Key has resorted to the age-old “memory lapse” (aka […]
Key squirms under scrutiny in the House
Key’s comment that “we would love to see wages drop” to a group of business-people last year has come under increasing scrutiny in […]
John Key’s plan to cut your pay
“We would love to see wages drop”. You would think that given the simmering debate about our wage gap with Australia at the […]
Labour with its claws out
The Press has a good article on the political blogs. The Standard and our mates Kiwiblogblog are referred to as “Labour with its […]
The baby bounce
When a society goes through trauma, one of the first results is a drop in the birth-rate. People choose not to have children […]
Tim Barnett to leave parliamentary politics
The Press reports that “Christchurch Central MP Tim Barnett has announced he will not stand as a candidate for any seat in the […]
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Many, many years ago lived an emperor, who thought so much of new clothes that he spent all his money in order to […]
National’s lack of ambition
A bang and a fizz and another sort of a bang, and then it was gone. Does anyone know the whereabouts of John […]
Claims of Aussie brain drain a myth
Refreshing to see the fourth estate challenging the political spin from time to time. The Independent Financial Review has this on the myth […]
Colmar Brunton poll
The polls seem to be all over the place at the moment, with last night’s TVNZ/Colmar Brunton poll showing National out to a […]
And the Nats want this man in parliament?
I was just checking out the blogs and discovered this little gem on Kiwiblog: # Stephen Franks Says: February 16th, 2008 at 7:18 […]
Katherine’s tangible policy presence
It’s been a few days now since the announcement of Katherine Rich’s decision to stand down from politics, but articles such as in […]
The power behind the Nats’ message discipline
Had to laugh at this in The Herald on Rich’s retirement: She has told all her caucus colleagues only that morning that she’s […]