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Rebekah Brooks, once Rupert Murdoch's favourite editor, is in the dock in London charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice. Rupert meanwhile has turned his attention to his former home, Australia, again focussing the weight of his tabloids on Labor, first Gillard then…
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So, the same people who were so incensed by the democratic capabilities of MMP, that they launched an (entirely unsuccessful) campaign against it, are now launching a "union" for the greedy and self interested taxpayers. Such people who most usually are anti-trade union, must surely…
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Fairfax suffered the double indignity of first having its poll contradicted by One News' hours later and then Key himself mocking the idea that National is on 50%. Still rogue polls happen. That's statistics. But we can try to look through the variation in single…
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lprent: BLip is well known on this site for his ever-growing linked lists of the lies of John Key (skycity for instance). But it appears he has been branching out into the role of reporter in this account of the swearing of the Auckland council…
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Delegates at the Labour Party Conference in Christchurch will be asked to vote on cutting back NZ Superannuation entitlements as part of Labour's 2014 policy platform. In my opinion, the response from the floor must be an unequivocal “NO WAY: find real alternatives.” Delegates will…
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So the US military/diplomats has decided that we should be friends again after nearly 30 years. Whooptee do! Who really gives a pigs arse? Since the USA decided that our domestic policy of banning the use of our territorial waters to vessels carrying nuclear weapons and…
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The asset sales have been an unmitigated failure. They've raised less money than expected, they've cost more than twice as much as National said they would, no 'mums and dads' have shown up to buy the shares, and the public is waiting for its referendum.…
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This just in from Stuff: If Solid Energy was partly privatised, it probably would not be in the mess it is in now, Prime Minister John Key says. Continuing to defend the Government's sell-down of state assets, Key said today a deal to bailout Solid…
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I wonder who decided to include such a divisive piece of artwork on Queen's Wharf on Auckland's waterfront? Sir Bob Harvey seems to be a spokesperson in relation to it, but I would have expected him to have known better. At least if they were…
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So, we now have a charity taking on the funding of the essential work on monitoring poverty, in the face of Paula Bennett, Bill English and John Key failing to do their job: a job that should be looking to ensure all Kiwis are adequately…
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From the movement that brought you equal pay, the weekend, minimum wages, child protection laws, injury prevention, the right to organise ...
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The final Fairfax poll before the last election had National on 54%. At 6.5% off, that was the least accurate of the bunch. The drop from that poll to now in the Fairfax is 4.5%. If you translate that to the actual starting point, National's…
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Over the last week or so, further revelations of the extent of the NSA's surveillance reach, in conjunction with at least one of its 5 Eyes' partners (UK's GCHQ) are breath taking in scope. As Seumas Milne wrote last week in The Guardian, its about…
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I posted previously on how the fallout from the attempted ousting of Len Brown by forces associated with the National Party and the fight back by the civilised wing of the party was evidence of major internal party dissent. This week things went really strange. Occasional…
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And so it continues. Inside the Palino-Wewege-Cook-Slater camp, every one is pointing the finger at everyone else and putting the blame elsewhere for the clumsily executed smear campaign against Len Brown. Over at Stuff, Chuang is claiming that Luigi Wewege used private naked photos of…
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Joe90 in open mike this week posted a reference to an interesting article in New Scientist. The article was written by a mathematician called Peter Turchin. The essence of his article is that he considers that mathematics can predict events such as the recent constitutional…
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John Banks' lawyer David Jones QC has consistently argued that Banks could not have signed a false declaration of election donations because he did not read it before he signed it. He simply signed it relying on the assertion of his campaign manager that it…
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John Armstrong, Tracy Watkins, and Fran O'Sullivan all write today about National's plunging polls and the growing likelihood that this will be the first two-term National government. They take different approaches - Armstrong: there's nothing for Key to worry about, Watkins: there was a problem…
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In what could be a further challenge to John Key's parliamentary majority the Maori Party and the Mana Party have agreed to have discussions on areas where they can work together. Two weeks ago Mana Party president Annette Sykes raised the possibility of reunification of…
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Steven Joyce seemed somewhat complacent in his RNZ interview this morning on Radio NZ. His argument seemed to mirror some of the points I and others made with my post yesterday on NZ's struggling screen industry. However, Joyce's version seemed to be rather a shallow…
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Granny supported little Johnny's plan to go off to market and sell the family's cash cow. But even she's furious that what he's come back with amounts to nothing more than a hill of beans. If Key and co couldn't get a good price for…
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There are many troubling things about the Meridian share float. Blowing $1.1 billion of our equity as well as the cost of selling the shares is just the start. But you have to wonder if the price is too cheap. For instance why wasn't the…
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So three years on from the Hobbit dispute, and the NZ screen industry is in a precarious state. The outcome of that dispute, engineered by John Key, was to pander to the demands of the US film corporates at the expense of New Zealand workers…
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