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David Shearer has been selected as the candidate for Labour. Congratulations to all of the candidates [updated: The vodem was a bit slow. So I've now updated the post with links to the byelection campaign site after I got home.]
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Robinsod is no longer here to do the book reviews of Wishart's latest insights into the world of the paranoid. As he said before pronouncing his severe disappointment with Wishart in his last book.. I had high hopes for Absolute Power, I really did. If…
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The National selection in Mount Albert will be going down to the wire with the inevitable split between the locals and the regional/national organisations going to show on their monday selection. Patrick Gower had a good piece in the Herald yesterday - National torn over…
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No Right Turn highlights Thursday's Herald editorial calling for our political leaders to step up and take some leadership in the republic debate. The Herald argues: If republican sentiment is to blossom, it needs to be galvanised from above. Such a process, done well, would…
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Stepfather State's taken over. Our new parent likes to keep his distance...he usually comes home after work at the office...but only for a quick bite to eat...he ignores the kids, yells at the Mrs and kicks the dog on the way out to the club…
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One of these things is not like the other... One of these things is not quite the same. Can you guess which one is not like the other... Can you tell me before I finish the game?
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If you'd told me the Herald would use International Workers' Day as an opportunity to preach class warfare I wouldn't have believed you. But there's really no other way to describe today's editorial. We all know the Government is running a large deficit at the…
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Tony Friedlander of the trucking lobby and architect of the famous 'truck strike' (remember that? man that was weird when you think about it) was on the TV last week arguing that we should get rid of road user charges and replace them with a…
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During the last Labour government the Kiwiblog Right used to call Wellington 'Helengrad', a play on Leningrad. Ironic then that, after the election of National, David Farrar humorously changed the name to 'St Johnnysburg', based on the Russian city's czarist name. Because the Nats are…
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If you're in Auckland tonight get along for the annual May Day march up Queen Street. Poster below. More events, including for other centres, are listed here.
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National introduced legislation yesterday that will create a 10% bonus for voluntary repayments of student loans. Repay $1,000 above your compulsory repayments, get $1,100 taken off your loan. Sounds like a good deal. Well, not for people who can't afford to make voluntary repayments but…
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Well the other shoe has dropped, and Michael Cullen has now left parliament. His valedictory speech is classic Cullen - best line (re his new role at NZ Post) "When I attacked National last year for swallowing so many dead rats little did I think…