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Turnoff
UPDATE: Thanks to commenter T-Rex for reversing the cartoon to show workers taking a disastrous right turn. Far too much time on your hands brother...
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Hit and miss
Let's look at some of the issues National has hit and run on. They were all you heard from the Nats for a while and then they were dropped when their marketing usefulness wore off. "Power crisis" - dropped in June when it started to…
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Blueprint for a Crosby/Textor campaign
While trying desperately to paint Crosby/Textor as ‘just ordinary consultants' and argue that C/T does nothing that polling and research companies do, National allies like the Herald have also puzzled over why National won't just admit to being C/T clients. The answer is simple: C/T…
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Havoc interviews Hager
Hager confirms that his info comes from a leak from within the National Party, not as the Nats would have you believe, a devious external computer hacker intent on exposing them.
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Nats spending your money to build “Brand Key”?
Looks like John Key might be a little less "self-made" and a little more "taxpayer-made" than he'd have us believe... click the image for a larger version.
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Broadcasting policy broadly outlined
National's Jonathan Coleman has announced a bullet-point excuse for a broadcasting policy. Essentially, it adopts the status quo but moves TVNZ charter funding to NZ on Air's control (there goes any hope of TV1 ever becoming a proper public broadcaster) and preps the ground for…
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Sacked
In perhaps the most unsurprising announcement of the year, National has let slip it's going to maintain its 90 day no rights policy, which basically means your boss can sack you for whatever reason he likes within the first 90 days of your employment. Don't…
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The Girl Effect
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Introducing 08wire
Well, as promised 08wire launched today - "The Smartest Political Fun in the Galaxy.' After you've joined their Facebook group check out their first video - John the Chameleon...
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Havoc interviews Key on Crosby/Textor
Here's some great audio of Key running Crosby/Textor lines to avoid answering Havoc's questions. Around the half way point my personal favourite C/T line even makes an appearance: "I intend to run a positive upbeat ambitious campaign; I think it reflects my personality". As Havoc…
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Nats’ NGO policy, give the money to Aussies
Charities are voicing fears that under a National Government public funding for NGOs would be administered by an Australian NGO called Mission Australia with dire consequences for small charities here. The NGOs say Key thinks there are too many NGOs here and wants to starve them of…
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The right incentives?
National tells us that, if we put the right incentives in place, people will work harder and their incomes will go up. National opposes the 39 cent tax bracket because they argue people would be incentivised to work more and earn more if incomes over…
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Beyond the political showboating
Ok. Now that the political theatre is done maybe National and its allies would like to engage in proper debate on the freight trucking industry. Here's some issues for debate: Road user charges are less than 10% of costs and the increase, half what was…
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Who are National’s moles?
The information being leaked to Nicky Hager is obviously coming from well-placed sources inside National The idea of hacking is farcical (Lyndon Hood mocks it beautifully). In the Hollow Men, Hager refers to his sources as ‘six senior National figures', in the SST article he…