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Even John Key is now admitting that the asset sale program is facing a serious legal challenge: John Key concedes likely asset sales delay Prime Minister John Key has conceded the first asset sale could be delayed because a legal challenge from Maori over water…
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Which will be remembered as the greater crime in Key's legacy: selling off our strategically vital and profitable energy assets leading to higher power prices or standing by and doing nothing while another housing bubble fueled by cheap foreign credit leaves us more indebted and…
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RNZ is reporting that National has spent $216m just on the investigation and design stage of its Roads of National Significance so far (and that's only 5 of the 7 projects). Most of it on outside contractors Look, I get this kind of shit can be surprisingly expensive.…
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Darkhorse writes amazingly insightful economic pieces on his ‘How Daft’ blog (the title gives you a clue as to what he thinks of the current state of affairs). The neoliberal experiment has been an abject failure by any rational measure. And there are alternatives. Darkhorse…
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Now the Nats want want editorial control over the school newsletter: Minister to schools: keep politics out of newsletters Education Minister Hekia Parata has told the School Trustees Association to keep politics out of school newsletters. Or - what? What is the threat here? Cuts…
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The latest Roy Morgan poll has Labour+Greens neck and neck with National again on 45.5%. The trend is quite clear just looking at the Roy Morgan graphs. National is going down, Labour+Greens is going up. And when you look at the key levels that the…
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The Government announced that it was withdrawing its Alcohol Reform Bill today and introducing prohibition after it realised that alcohol was used by the 'Beast of Blenheim' to stupefy young girls. "It's what we'd do if it was any other drug, particularly as it's associated…
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Old rich man, Don Brash, arch-advocate of private property rights, on Q+A arguing against the property rights of iwi because they're Maori. He says we shouldn't have race-based ownership. No-one's arguing for that. Only the Right are making this about race. Iwi are arguing for…
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I’m going to try and put up a piece each Sunday 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…
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I joined Mighty River Power today. They visited and offered me $150 incentive payment, no contract and a cheap rate guaranteed until April 2013. So, I intend to use them through winter, use up my $150 credit, then switch back to powershop when their rates get…
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Reports of a good turn-out around the country, although bad weather has obviously kept many more indoors. Funny, weren't pro-Government media saying all the fuss would die down after the legislation was passed...
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When you have the legal power to control aspects of how something is used, those are property rights, and when you have the legal power to exclude use of something by someone -for instance, by allocating exclusive usage rights to someone else - that's ownership.…
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The Government has binned part of the Northern Wellington Corridor 'Road of National Significance' - the four-lane expressway between Otaki and Levin that would have cost $400m. The government's not getting enough road tax revenue and they had already cut all other transport funding to…
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So the plan to screw down police wages isn't working, and National are having to keep going with their other approach. But not everyone is taking death by 1000 cuts lying down. So apparently the police is no longer a service and should be run…
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There's an extraordinary row going on in the ALP at the moment, with right faction leaders attacking the Greens as financially incompetent and politically marginal. The NSW Labor conference this weekend will debate a motion by the State Secretary Sam Dastyari that Labor not automatically…
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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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Last month, Social Development Minister Paula Bennett caused outrage when she suggested somehow banning child abusers from having children. The suspicion at the time was that this was a desperate and cynical attempt to distract the public from the government's hypocritical and deeply unpopular plans…
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Now, I'm no big city lawyer, but it seems to me that John Key may be walking on some mighty thin ice by telling prospective investors in Mighty River not to worry about the Maori Council's water claim. If it goes wrong, isn't he exposing…
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John Key has been saying variants of this a lot lately: "I'm the Government's major spokesperson and I need to spell out the Government's position, and the Government's long held, and very strongly held, view is that nobody owns water." Key's just being cute with…
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Climate change is causing the world's temperatures and seas levels to rise but this isn't a steady process. Instead we see more frequent and more extreme weather events. The record-busting heatwave in the US and floods in Russia are examples. So, a few people die…
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In what passes for political comment in today's increasingly anorexic DomPost, we read that David Parker issued a speech that "criticised National for failing to boost imports and control housing prices." That didn't sound like David Parker. Sure enough, his speech actually put the finger…
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Seeing coverage of the apparently unhurried steps towards Labour party members having a say in future leadership bids made me want to stop and ask some questions about whether they are telling the full story: 1) Will members have the same say as MPs? And…
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Some of the media reckon that Key slagging off the Waitangi Tribunal was an accident of honesty: he was just stating reality that the Tribunal's findings aren't binding, he didn't realise it would provoke a firestorm of reaction. Others say he knew exactly what he…
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