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Open mike 22/07/2012
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Paula Benefit Distractions
Today's big announcement from Paula Bennett at the National Party Conference was that those on the run from police will have their benefits stopped. But the question needs to be asked: how many people on the run are collecting the benefit? (Even if they're on…
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Nat conference protests
This weekend the National Party is holding its annual conference at SkyCity (how appropriate) in Auckland. Protests are planned: Press Release – Aotearoa Is Not For Sale The weekend of July 20-22 is the National Party’s Annual Conference in Auckland. Actions are being held by…
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Open mike 21/07/2012
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Caption Competition
Hat-tip: @DavidClarkNZ requesting fashion advice
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Stranded in suburbia
We know that more sprawl is actually twice as expensive to the rate- and tax-payer than increasing density within existing urban limits because of all the additional infrastructure that's needed. But there's added cost to the residents of the sprawl as well. Not just more…
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Weekend social 20/07/2012
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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End game in Syria?
In the dictatorship game, you know that you're in trouble when you're shelling your own capital. That's what Syria's Assad has been reduced to as the rebellion rolls on. Initially, it appeared the fighting in Damascus could have been a repeat of Homs - drawing…
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An Auckland view on Labour’s changes
Here's a guest post from an Auckland Labour Party member with a different take on the constitutional changes. It's interesting and challenging. Good food for thought. - Let us consider Labour's proposed constitutional reforms in its moment. New Zealand's progressives continue to splinter, just as…
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Two face
John Key really is the master of being whomever his audience wants to believe he is. For years, he talks positively about Maori water rights and interests to Maori. But, when an opportunity comes to split the Maori and Pakeha opposition to asset sales, he's…
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Open mike 20/07/2012
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What does Key’s promise mean?
Two interesting comments in another post deserve to be a post of their own: gobsmacked: Looks like last night’s piece of paper is going to be even more short-lived than the one Neville Chamberlain waved at the airport. No peace in our time … From…
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NRT: Privileged!
From I/S at No Right Turn: Privileged! Gerry Brownlee's appalling performance in the House yesterday over the cancellation of the Levin - Otaki Road of National Signficance has already attracted criticism elsewhere, and now Labour's Phil Twyford has responded by lodging a complaint for breach of Privilege. Obviously, Brownlee's…
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Welded to National
So over the last few weeks Maori in general, and the Maori Party in particular, have been: Insulted - PM's Waitangi Tribunal comments 'insulting' - Maori Party Kept waiting for a week - Key too busy to meet Maori party this week Insulted again -…
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A golden age that will never end
Whether you accept the evidence that the consumption of oil is currently peaking or not, it is undeniable that a) the world's fossil fuel resources are finite and we've already consumed a large fraction of it and b) we won't keep consuming evermore per day…
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Open mike 19/07/2012
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$444m for road consultants, $128m out of poor kids’ mouths
Never let this scumbag government tell you that they're making responsible cuts in tough times. When the Greens tried to amend the social welfare bill currently before Parliament to ensure no kids would "unduly suffer", National vetoed it saying that would eliminate $128m of the…
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Environment groups oppose EEZ Bill
Media Release: The Environmental Defence Society, Forest & Bird, WWF-New Zealand and Ecologic have released an open letter to the Hon Amy Adams, Minister for the Environment, expressing "profound concerns" with the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Bill. "The open letter from…
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ImperatorFish: Treasury Report To Prime Minister On Meteorite Activities
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. This report has been prepared for the purposes of verifying the Prime Minister's statement on Tuesday 17 July 2012 that it was…
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“Free” market? No: Tournament
There's a great piece in Harper's Magazine about modern day America's monopolies and cartels. Google, Apple, Intel, Pixar and other Silicon Valley corporations have formed a labour cartel, refusing to poach each other's staff so that they can keep wage costs down and hours worked…
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Life outside the blog
One of the characteristics of this blog is that we really don't emphasize the ego of the authors that much. We're here to provide our opinions and the argument that supports them and to let everyone have a good go at arguing about them robustly.…
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Asset sales policy burning up
Key says the odds of a delay in the sale of Mighty River are like the "chance a meteorite will hit the Earth this afternoon”. It turns out, that's a near certainty. So, Key was accidentally, telling the truth - the odds of a delay in…
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“Opportunistic”
Our PM seems determined to insult Maori at every turn at the moment. What to make of this odd little outburst last night? Maori claims 'opportunistic' – Prime Minister The Prime Minister has hit back at the Maori Council, describing its Waitangi Tribunal claim for…
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Open mike 18/07/2012
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Labour’s review – a good job well done
I've just got my summary report on Labour's organisational review, emailed to me as a member from President Moira Coatsworth, with a link to the website - things have certainly got better since my day! On a quick first look, it seems to be a…
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Dunne clears the competition for his backers
A cynic might ask if Peter Dunne is out to eliminate the competition of his mates and (it is widely thought) donors in the alcohol and cigarette industries by setting ever higher barriers for other legal highs. And I'm that cynic. I'm not against anyone…
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100 academics opposed to league tables
School league tables are harmful to education. Tables based on "ropey data" are even worse. In this open letter 100 academics speak out against league tables. We are a group of New Zealand academics teaching and researching in universities. As a group we are very…
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Health & Safety
Right now 28 miners are stuck down a Waihi mine with a fire causing noxious gases. 15 people are being decontaminated at Tiwai Point after an 'incident'. At 3.30am the driver of a truck-trailer loaded pressurised cylinders died after crashing into Bulls RSA - probably…
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Denialists set to make monkeys of themselves
Could we be about to have our very own Scopes trial? In that famous Tennessee Court Case, the State prosecuted a teacher for teaching evolution. He walked free (on a technicality) and it was a decisive moment in mainstreaming evolution and making the creationists the…
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Not with a bang but a whimper
There's some interesting speculation that the Government could collapse within months. The theory goes that the Government could lose its majority due to 1) the Maori Party walking away over the water rights issue and 2) John Banks being forced to resign over illegally anonymised…
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