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Open mike 29/01/2013
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Minister Tin-Ears
New Zealand's remaining world-class manufacturers are saying today they are sick of being told by politicians that they need to work harder when they have been doing that for years, but face a huge headwind from an over-valued dollar. Not a good time for Minister…
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Some free advice for Mr Fixit
Steven Joyce, as one of the few apparently competent Nats, is called by some "Mr Fixit". He's about to severely tarnish that reputation by making the wrong decision about Novopay: Joyce: Novopay likely to stay Teachers and school staff look likely to be stuck with…
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More Queensland floods
As widely reported, Queensland is getting hammered again by bad flooding: Three dead as record-breaking rain falls Three people are dead as wild weather continues to batter south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales, authorities say. The region is struggling with an unfolding weather disaster…
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Good coverage for Shearer
David Shearer's opening speech for the year has received good media coverage. From One News: Fired up Shearer outlines party agenda Job creation and housing were big issues in David Shearer's state of the nation address at a rugby club in Wainuiomata today. ... With…
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Key’s ‘big’ new policy
Because of the scale, it's hard to tell, but the $145m cuts to trades training are 12 times larger than the extra 'Reboot' money.
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Open mike 28/01/2013
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States of it – Turei and Shearer
Metiria Turei and David Shearer have today given their State of the Planet and State of the Nation speeches respectively. There's a lot of commonality, which is good. A critique of the government is solidifying and it's centred on jobs, housing, and the environment. The…
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Shearer promises active government
David Shearer has just made his opening speech of the year at the Labour Party Summer School. There's no new policy to give the speech real heft, but (given the significant policies already out there, the stage of the electoral cycle, and the lack of…
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Sunday Reading
My 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:…
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The heart of darkness
I wondered why the Herald had given a column to a barely literate liquidator, until now. They say sunlight is the best disinfectant, and running Damien Grant's hateful, self-centred pieces exposes the ugliness at the heart of the neoliberal capitalist class. The titles alone are…
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Green Party “I’m in – for the future”
Lately I have often disagreed with Matt McCarten. However, certainly agree with one part of his column today. The column is largely about John Key's fail at Ratana, plus his other struggles this week. McCarten then says in contrast it was a good week for Labour and…
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Open mike 27/01/2013
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And now from the real Labour Party…
It's been a good few days. Ratana on Thursday and Friday, and Young Labour Summer School today and tomorrow. And then there is David Shearer's speech to come on Sunday, at the end of the Summer School. The Ratana Church gathers to celebrate the prophet's…
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Remembering John Key
As New Zealand collectively rolls its eyes at the paucity of ideas and vision, and surfeit of excuse-making and responsibility denying in Key's state of the nation speech (it was so bad John Armstrong wrote a third piece on how great the reshuffle was, instead…
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Key’s speech bereft of vision
Key's opening speech for the year is a dreary, dishonest, and vacuous affair, completely bereft of vision. I haven't seen an enthustastic response reported anywhere yet. At time of writing: 3 News headlines one of National's biggest problems "Will Key's State of the Nation stem…
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Open mike 26/01/2013
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Tell the truth
Zetetic’s telling porkies. His talk of a rift in the Labour Party is crap. He hasn’t got a clue about what went on the Party conference – the idea that there should be a membership-wide vote on the leadership was voted down at the conference…
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This
David Clark (who I otherwise have a lot of time for) comments in a Herald interview today: Herald: What MP outside your party impresses you? David Clark: Kevin Hague [Green]. Kevin is impressive in that he has been able to walk a line where he…
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Weekend social 25/01/2013
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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For a February leadership vote
No one in Labour can deny there’s a real issue with internal disunity. Not only is the caucus divided (and more than ever since the Shearer camp’s handling of the conference fallout), but there’s a major breach between the membership and the caucus. Unless this…
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Cunliffe rules out challenge
Tucked away on the One News site last night... Labour leadership bid ruled out by Cunliffe David Cunliffe has unequivocally ruled out standing for the Labour Party leadership again. Cunliffe was demoted by Labour leader David Shearer in November for refusing to rule out a…
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Annette Sykes: a future MP?
The future of the Maori Party, and its leader/s, seems in doubt. Yesterday, Eddie posted on The Standard, that the Maori Party is now in terminal decline. Also yesterday, Anthony Robins posted on The Standard, that, "A merger with Mana seems to offer the most viable…
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‘Nuff said
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Complementary Housing
It's great to see the Greens' new housing policy nicely complementing Labour's affordable housing policy. Labour's policy would get a lot of middle-income people into homes, and reduce the costs for medium-to-lower-priced homes generally by greatly increasing the supply (prices in Herne Bay will probably…
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Open mike 25/01/2013
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Marriage equality and polygamy
Another week, another homophobic crywank by Bob McCoskrie - wait, no, that's Garth McVicar! Saying marriage equality will lead to a gay crime wave! This isn't predictable and boring, this is fantastic! Anyway, to continue: ... another pointless, copy-pasted "but what about POLYGAMY?????" derail on…
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Late analysis on the reshuffle
I'll say this for Key's media people, they're masters of the undersell when it comes to the insubstantial. And they know the media love to be surprised. John Armstrong gushed "Key has displayed all the sentiment of a corporate restructurer. So ministers are given the…
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Key’s brighter future
"I'd love to see wages drop". Remember when John Key said that? Well now our glorious PM is getting all excited about how we can attract investment with our low wages and lack of employment protections. To quote the Herald: John Key says Hollywood finds…
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Tickets to the Laneway Festival
I have 3 tickets in my hot hand to give away to the Laneway Festival (the one that we have been advertising for months). It is at Silo Park down at the waterfront in Auckland on the Monday the 28th of January. I'll hand out tickets…
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