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Video: TV3 on Key’s campaign day 2
Media coverage of the campaign is coming thick and fast - a helpful reader pointed out this excerpt from TV3 on Key's day yesterday.
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The Standard line: ACC
So, you're talking with someone about politics and they say something really dumb and wrong and you know it's wrong but you don't have the arguments and facts at your fingertips to make a decisive point. That's where our election series,The Standard line, comes in.…
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Labour chickens out on $15 minimum wage
Labour, why do you do this to me? One day you're announcing neo-Keynesian policies to help us through the coming recession, then you stand up for the principle that access to education shouldn't be dependent on the wealth of ones parents, and, then, just when…
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Every reason for Key to blitz debate tonight
It is still possible to follow the news without encountering politics at every turn - but it's getting harder. And the journalists are sitting alongside the leaders watching every step along the way. So far we see Otago Uni students giving Helen Clark a "rock…
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Wrong time for short-term thinking
National's Nick Smith has announced that they would cancel the $1 billion fund to insulate New Zealand houses, which the Greens won as part of the Emissions Trading Scheme. This massive programme would improve energy efficiency, create warmer, healthier homes and would provide useful employment during the downturn. A…
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Down with literacy
A crusade on illiteracy, surely. Um, I'm not sure we want to entrust these guys with improving language skills. [Update: true to form, the people in the sector don't know what the hell National is talking about. Teachers say National seems to be taking about…
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Confident or foolish?
So, you're one of the 900,000 Kiwis who have so far signed up to Kiwisaver. You know that you get $1000 on signing up, you put in 4% of your gross income, the Government matches that up to $20 a week, and your employer matches…
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The problem for National in fewer than 100 words
OK - they are not my words. I could do it - but then again I really liked what Gordon Campbell wrote: The financial meltdown poses a basic identity problem for National, the instinctive champion of de-regulation and market solutions. That's a bit of a…
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Daily Show on Fox
Jon Stewart looks at some recent clips from Fox News on the American presidential race. Just incredible.
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‘Give me warning next time’, Key whimpers
While Key was blathering on about who-cares-what yesterday, Clark announced a radical and forward-looking economic stimulus package. Now, Key is having a cry over Clark not notifying him beforehand of the deposit insurance scheme. As if the Prime Minister needs to seek the approval of an…
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Universal allowance – Labour joins rest of Left
Good to see Labour joining the Greens and Progressives with a universal student allowance policy. It has been a crying shame that many people who are trying to get an education and whose parents can't support them have had to borrow to get a fraction…
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Working our way forward
It was inevitable that the focus of media coverage of Labour's announements yesterday would be the deposit insurance, it's a good self-centred middle-class story. But the important stuff, as Irish pointed out last night, is the re-training money, the speed-up of infrastructure construction, the money for sewerage,…
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Labour takes bull by the horns, Nats left standing
One of the first rules of politics is don't set yourself up to be snookered; don't position yourself in a way that your opposition can and will undercut, don't run attack lines that your opposition can and will invalidate. National has repeatedly done this. They…
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Crash and burn
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Guest Post: The Road to Lonsdale Street – Part 1
You're going to love this story. Pay attention, you'll need patience and concentration. It's got the lot - lies, conspiracy, fraud, theft, and a truly good cover up that has stood the test of time (until now). Let's begin. Here's John Key lying to Claire…