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Last week I posted on Finsec's petition to make job protection a condition of the Government's bank guarantees. Today Finsec are delivering that petition to Parliament, along with more than 10,000 signatures in support. Great stuff to all of you who signed the sheet and…
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The unseemly haste with which the National/Act Government is pursuing its undemocratic supercity is causing more and more people to wake up to the con job they are pulling. A Reid poll (ignored by the Herald but run by the community newspapers) shows where just…
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It's a few days late but last Saturday's Herald story about Air New Zealand preparing strikebreakers for the Zeal 320 strike this weekend depressed the hell out of me. What exactly is our national carrier, which is more than 80% publicly owned, doing boasting about…
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Bill English seems set to suspend the government's contributions to the Cullen Fund. Here's a little-known fact, one that Bill English probably doesn't want you to know: The Cullen Fund made money in March, the sharemarkets are rising and we're making money on that. In…
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A while back we heard a rumour that National had already printed its billboards for the Mt Albert campaign - with Melissa Lee as the candidate. We decided not to run it. It was too implausible to think they would run the risk of doing…
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I had the pleasure of meeting lauded climate activist and author Bill McKibben this morning. McKibben is in New Zealand as part of a tour encouraging action on climate change, in the lead up to the big UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December. He's…
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I see Russel Norman is now describing Labour's Mt Albert Candidate, David Shearer, as the "grey" man. Now I haven't been around as long as I have without being able to spot a "line" and that is certainly a line, and one of the attack…
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The Quarterly Employment Survey out today shows that 46,700 jobs disappeared between December and March. That's 2.6% of jobs gone in a single quarter. Unemployment is probably well over 6%, we'll find out exactly what it is later this week. 47,000 jobs lost while the…
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It was deeply depressing to wake up this morning to the sound of Russel Norman running National Party attack lines on Radio NZ. For a party that has the best policy by far on how to deal with the huge economic and environmental challenges we…
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Rodney Hide would have us believe that a supercity is the way of the future. He says "Auckland cannot become a world-class city without change". Funny, because it's already the 4th best city in the world, along with Vancouver which is also not a supercity.…
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Here's the cover of Ian Wishart's latest piece of scientifically illiterate climate change denialism, Air Con: And here's the poster for World Fair Trade Day 2008: It seems an unlikely coincidence. [Hat tip: forgetaboutthelastone in the comments.]