Drinking Liberally Wgtn – Thursday
Drinking Liberally is taking place again in Wellington this Thursday with guest David Shearer. He’ll be talking about his experiences overseas and on […]
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Bridging the Big Ditch
Mr Key is off in Australia this week promoting further measures to bind the two countries into a single economic market, and slash […]
Nip it in the bud
Reading the Herald on Sunday piece about this senior political figure in the domestic violence dispute, I’m surprised his party hasn’t made him step down […]
Kohia te kai rangatira, ruia te taitea
For just a moment today, perhaps set aside a little time for reflection on, or to lift a glass and toast those New […]
Malthusian merriment
In the wake of a rather nasty piece of ‘satire’ on another blog earlier this week, I’ve been thinking about over-population. It’s a […]
Flippin’ Bill
According to the Companies Office, Bill English lives at an address in Karori in Wellington. This address is publicly available on the Companies […]
DL Dannevirke (I kid you not)
The Drinking Liberally empire keeps on growing. Tomorrow there’s an event in Wellington, and Dannevirke, the newest chapter, has its first event on […]
DL Wellington with David Cunliffe
Drinking Liberally is on again in Wellington this Thursday (that’s tomorrow), with guest speaker David Cunliffe on the opposition’s inquiry into bank profiteering. […]
Accountability
According to the Herald Paula Bennett has said she will apologise if the complaint to the privacy commissioner is upheld. I would have […]
Fishy
Here’s one of the solo mothers targeted by Bennett appearing on Checkpoint last evening. She’s angry and eloquent and clearly aware of the […]
DL Wgtn and Palmy tonight
No Right Turn reminds us: Drinking Liberally is happening tonight in both Wellington and Palmerston North. In Wellington, the guest speaker will be […]
UMR has Len Brown ahead of Banks
UMR’s just released a poll showing Manukau mayor Len Brown as the preferred mayor of the Auckland Super City, slightly ahead of John […]
DL Wgtn this Thursday
Short notice, but just got this in from the Drinking Liberally Wellington crew: This week Drinking Liberally is hosting Geoff Keey from Greenpeace. […]
Roundtable dog-waggers come back!
Roger Kerr, official spokesman for the ACT-National-Roundtable government, today announced the formation of a Productivity Commission to be headed by Don Brash, a […]
Drinking Liberally Palmy
Drinking Liberally Palmy’s having their first event of the year at the Brewers Apprentice bar on July 23. Head over, have a pint […]
Right headings, wrong policies
John Key’s speech on the economy, billed as the way to close the 30% wage gap with Australia, had six policy headings – […]
The Daily Refrain on swine flu
Sometimes writing is hard. Especially when one is hungover for the third morning in a row. Thank God for Youtube. This one goes […]
2020 target talks draw numbers
Seems the Government’s public consultation over an emission reduction target for 2020 is having quite an impact. Hundreds of people have turned up […]
Drinking Liberally Wgtn
Just received this from Drinking Liberally Wellington: We hope you’ve enjoyed our unannounced winter break. We’re back this Thursday, at 5:30 at the […]
OIA confirms: No reason to cut Cullen Fund contributions
Well, we told you so. The Nats lied for weeks that a credit rating downgrade would be imposed on us if we didn’t […]
The price of fear
It’s hardly controversial to comment that our media peddle fear. Nor uncontroversial to comment that a cowed individual is a controllable individual. Many […]
National Government’s “drum roll” for privatisation
Fran O’Sullivan had some interesting things to say in today’s Herald on Mark Weldon’s recent address to SOE board members, telling them to […]
Justifying the unjustifiable
Spending time with DC neo-cons must be going to Farrar’s head. I thought better of him than supporting the Honduran military’s overthrow of President Manuel […]
Banks and tax avoidance
The appeal by the BNZ against the IRD assessment of $466 million for avoiding income tax has wound up in the High Court […]
Nats ignored Treasury’s warnings on cancelling Cullen Fund payments
In the newly released Budget papers Treasury acknowledges that cancelling the Cullen Fund contributions would only reduce debt by 5% (more than offset […]
Tax cuts, one-off payment, or something better?
Budget papers just released reveal that Treasury recommended a package of measures to reduce debt including an 8-year suspension of the Cullen fund […]
Cash (for the rich) in Auckland’s attic?
The soften up for the next big fire-sale of Kiwi assets is well under way in Auckland, as Rogernomics morphs into Rodneynomics. On […]
Treasury on swine flu
Here’s the key part of Treasury’s report on the impact of swine flu, released on Friday: Typically Treasury, it’s more interested in GDP […]
Focussing on the things that matter – to the Aussie banks
What on earth is going on between the National Party and the banks? The week before last Key and English were waxing hot […]
Priorities
Noticed this comment in the Dom this morning [offline] about National’s decision to slash funding for night classes in the Budget: Finance Minister […]
Swine flu information pack
It’s appalling that if you go to the Ministry of Health or Beehive websites there is nothing easy to find about how we […]
Glitch
There has been a domain registrant glitch that has had the server unavailable. Fixed now.
Break the Power of Money.
For some weeks our media has been distracted by various sideshows. Worth, Swineflu, Mt Albert, Flight 447 and of course David Bain, have […]
Pontius John
How extraordinary of John Key to align himself with western history’s most notorious coward in his statement that he had “washed his hands” […]
Cameron Slater gets it wrong
Cameron Slater (WhaleOil) gets it wrong again in his post about me today. On the upside he managed to write his post today […]
