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The day there was no news
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Key lacks leadership on climate change
National has pulled its support for the emissions trading scheme which is intended to set limits on the emission of greenhouse gases and penalise polluters. This is the latest in a long line of Key's shifting positions on climate change. First climate change was a "complete…
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National: we’ll borrow for tax cuts for the rich
Discovering National's policy is a bit like the old art of Kremlinology, when Western intelligence agencies would attempt to discover the inner workings of Soviet politics by looking at who stood next to whom in pictures, and what hand politburo members carried their briefcases in.…
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Getting the facts straight
When asked on Morning Report (MP3 link) today why National was bringing up the issue of MMP now, Key remarked: "[the public] were promised a referendum on MMP". He's wrong. Nigel Robert, Professor of Political Science at Victoria University points out: "A referendum wasn't promised…
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Key’s green mask slips
Last year John Key announced National's ‘Blue-Green' Strategy. It contained the first shadow of acknowledgment from National that climate change is a serious issue: a target to reduce greenhouse gas emission to 50% of 1990 levels by 2050. Of course, setting a target for a…