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The Auckland Town Hall was full - nearly 2000 people - for the GCSB protest last night (with more people being turned away at the doors). Update - full video of the whole event (all speakers) is now up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsn3VXl2xE0 This meeting comes…
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Not the usual Roy Morgan post on a poll, but this summary of recent polls contains previously unpublished data to August 11. National 44 (down 7) Labour 34 (up 5) Greens 14 (up 4) No significant changes in the other parties Roy Morgan is an…
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Final reminder of the pro-privacy anti-spying meeting tonight. Also worth noting in this context is Alastair Thompson's excellent open letter to Peter Dunne. Read it. Will Dunne be a hero?
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As inspired by Toby Manhire...
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The second of the weekend's must-read pieces. This one is by Vikram Kumar (CEO of Mega) published in the NBR. Here are some extracts: Revealed: govt plans secret orders to service providers once spy bill becomes law [Since the the first draft of the legislation,…
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National's desperately racing to lock in Transmission Gully and the Puhoi to Wellsford Holiday Highway ahead of the election, in case they lose. Those two projects are nearly half of their $12 billion 'roads of national significance', 300km of roads costing an outrageous $40,000 per…
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The first of two required reading pieces from the weekend. Financial journalist Rod Oram sums up the Nats' economic performance in an excellent piece in the SST. Here are some extracts: Full speed going backwards ...Our driverless Government is taking us for a ride. Guided…
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Happy Marriage Equality Day everyone! Here are a couple of tweets form last night...
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Paula Bennett wants to introduce a new regime that screens all government employees to stop child abuse. MPs have a lot of interaction with children. So will they be regularly tested? And if not, Why not? Hattip: DV
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My semi-regular Sunday piece of interesting, longer, deeper stories I found during the week. It’s also a chance for you to share what you found this week too. Those stimulating links you wanted to share, but just didn’t fit in anywhere (no linkwhoring). This week: capitalism, fraud,…
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The SST is reporting this morning that the Government intends that any public servant who refuses to take the proposed anti child abuse screening test will be summarily sacked. From the article: The new child-protection laws will trump existing employment legislation, removing the need for…
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Out west there are two seats in the Waitakere Ward, a seat in the Whau ward and a seat in the Rodney ward up for grabs. The Whau ward contest is quite straight forward. Labour is running a branded campaign in the ward and its…
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A Sunday feature - each week a random section scanned from a copy of The Standard, September 15th, 1938. Find out more here. This week - more from "The People's Safety Valve" - the comments section of its age! Click on the image for a…
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Two weeks ago the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) released, in two parts, a report into the links between poverty and child abuse (Part 1 pdf, Part 2 pdf). I covered Part 1 last week, today for Part 2. This document is called "Child abuse: an…
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So, the Nats finally work out what every project manager, and indeed most householders, already know. The "cheapest" tender is not necessarily the best tender (or the cheapest, in the long run). It is to weep: Huge cost of rotten school alters Govt views on…
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I thought I would do some posts about the Auckland super city elections. This is the first of five intended posts and will deal with the Mayoral candidates. The other four will deal with the Councillor elections on the North Shore, out west, in Auckland…
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Another quake near Seddon that shook Wellington hard. Various reports of strength, probably 6.2 at 8km. Hope all are well... Multiple aftershocks - check out http://wellingtonquakelive.co.nz/ and #eqnz.
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Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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Percent of Auckland City Mission food recipients who are working: 25%
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Key and his cronies have a long history of passing laws that give themselves sweeping powers and promising (honestly, truly) that they won't use them. How many times has King Brownlee found himself in court for abusing his dictatorial powers, despite the ouster clauses in…
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Stuff's polls aren't usually known for their left-wing bias. Indeed there's a tendency for them to pitch the other way. Which is why I clicked on the results button for their latest (self-selected) poll with some trepidation. after all the question was "Should doctors be…
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On Campbell Live, and on other occasions, John Key has claimed that critics of the GCSB spying bill were all wrong. The Human Rights Commission - wrong. The Law Society - wrong. The Privacy Commissioner - wrong. Dame Anne Salmond - wrong. Everyone else wrong…
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This is a work in progress - taking some time to write up the transcript and my not finish it in the next few hours. So I'll update it later today, along with further comments. Transcript completed. The interview of John Key on Campbell Live…
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Jon Stewart is on leave, but John Oliver is doing a great job filling in on The Daily Show. Here he is enjoying some of the nonsense coming out of the current Australian election campaign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx9eH3qOJXw
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