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No Right Turn is critical of the implementation aspects of the Greens' internet bill of rights. Looking at his points about its flaws, it does appear that it has few real teeth. Today the Green party released their draft Internet Rights and Freedoms Bill. The bill…
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No Right Turn points out the other issue with Shane Jone's "new" job. The jobs for cronies with taxpayer money. Another angle to the Shane Jones resignation: Mr Jones said he would leave Parliament next month after he was shoulder tapped by Foreign Minister Murray McCully…
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There's a lot of skewed headlines from the MSM, showing their anti-Labour bias. But I have been really impressed with the united way Labour has swung in behind the change from Jones to Kelvin Davis. Jones has been talked about positively, and given best wishes…
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Yesterday Rob Salmond commented on Labour’s two likeliest options for coalition partners after the 2014 election, and had some interesting things to say about New Zealand First and the Greens. But I must beg to differ on the suggested advantages of offering a plum deal…
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One News has just revealed that Shane Jones is standing down as an MP. Apparently he will not be standing for any other party. More as news comes to hand. NZ Herald - Jones to leave politics at the end of next month. He has…
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Rob Salmond at Poliity has a post here on how he sees the next government. David, Winston, and the Greens up a tree. G O V E R N I N G. Some of the commentary over Easter has focused on a supposed strategic conundrum for…
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This morning on Morning Report Judith Collins is reported as acknowledging that something that she said to Parliament last Thursday was not true. Last week she said she did not remember discussing matters with the New Zealand Ambassador to China, this morning she said that…
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Now I'm going to predict we'll have a few trolls who read the title of this and comment about how this is the politics of envy without bothering to read the actual post. I'm tempted to give a code word somewhere near the bottom and…
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It's a slow news day, and I was browsing some overseas newspapers. I came across this article on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald: "Greed is the market's forgotten vice" by Ross Gittins. It's an op ed review of a book, Beyond greed…
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Last November a New Zealander known as Muslim Bin John was killed by a US Drone strike. At the time he was apparently travelling in a colony of cars with Al Quaeda operatives in Yemen. You would expect that the extra judicial killing of a New…
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On Al Jazeera NewsHour this morning, there were two reports on environmental issues in different parts of the planet. Both stories focus on the tension between pursuit of economic "growth" and the destruction of the environment. In one country the cultural heritage of a small…
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A recent article by Jesse Columbo in [published on the website of] that doyen of capitalist magazines Forbes about New Zealand's housing market is a very interesting if somewhat terrifying read. Although he is not the first to claim that our property market is unsustainable he…
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One of the most annoying things I read on the internet is when right wingers offer apparently sincere advice to the left on how the left's electoral predicament can be improved. The advice drips of passive aggressiveness and when you boil it down basically they…
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Rob Salmond's take on the boundary changes announced yesterday. As he (and Ben yesterday) point out in a MMP election system the actual electoral boundaries usually only really matter to a few MPs. It isn't likely to make much of a difference unless National manages…
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This week had everything, It started off with John Key challenging David Cunliffe to a debate on housing, Cunliffe eagerly accepting and then Key backing out quickly. The media then said that it was Cunliffe who was afraid for not turning up to Parliament on…
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David Cunliffe has launched Labour's policy to get more manufacturing jobs back in New Zealand: Labour leader David Cunliffe launched the policy to an Auckland business audience this morning, adding the depreciation and procurement policies to the known suite of Labour's approach for manufacturing, including research and…
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ImperatorFish generously allows us to repost some of his posts. It was impossible to resist this satire. I can’t believe I’m having to explain myself yet again. Didn’t I already provide a perfectly clear explanation? These allegations are disgusting and outrageous. How could anyone for a…
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The new electorate boundaries are out. Some noticeable changes around Port Hills, but mainly only tinkering from the previous proposals. So Paula Bennett can go from committed Westie to Shore girl in the new Upper Harbour electorate. Phil Goff & Ruth Dyson aren't having their…
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That's how much National gave away today, by setting the price too low on Genesis. They were scared that they couldn't attract enough buyers and it would be clear how unpopular their policy is, but they made it enough of a lolly-scramble that the few…
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No Right Turn points out here about a select committee filtering out submissions because of language. Parliament has been rejecting select committee submissions for not being written in English or Maori: The Health Select Committee is rejecting 60 submissions against plain packaging legislation because they were made…
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The following is a speech that David Cunliffe has delivered today concerning Labour's Manufacturing Policy. "Today I am announcing Labour’s Manufacturing Economic Upgrade. It’s part of Labour’s strategy to shift an economy that’s merely idling into a higher gear. To an economy that can support…
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Local Bodies has this excellent post on the proposed changes to the Teachers Council that we are happy to repost for more comment. When I first started teaching I spent a number of happy years in rural communities. In the early eighties all teachers were…
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