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David Shearer's delivered his second "Vision" speech. As a vision speech it is of course light on concrete ideas, but it certainly paints a different picture to a National New Zealand. It's largely "Mom and Apple Pie" to us here on The Standard - but…
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When it comes to doing dirty deals with a casino, selling our law so that it gets a convention centre and more profits from gambling addicts, National's willing to die in a ditch. But when there was an opportunity to save and expand our high-tech,…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. So it turns out that John Key was the one who came up with the idea of giving a bunch more pokie machines to Sky…
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There is to be a Hikoi of Protests against the Government's Asset Sales agenda. Starting from Waiora Marae on 24 April, the full itinerary is here, and a full list of the protest marches in towns along the way is here. Every day has at…
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The counter on the Wordpress stats clicked over to more than 400,000 comments yesterday. I'd noted late last week that we were about to hit it and that I should really stop working for long enough to celebrate the event with some stats and explanations.…
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You don't get fat off the crumbs from someone else's table and you don't get rich by being someone else's butler. No country ever got rich taking a few menial jobs from its wealthy neighbour. Countries get rich by having a strategy to out-compete others…
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As part of the Nats' pre-Budget framing, English's mate Farrar is running graphs meant to show a blow-out in spending under Labour. Problem is, he hasn't adjusted for GDP growth, or even inflation. How dumb does he think we are? (source: PREFU 2011) It wasn't…
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Long time Labour Party stalwart Murdo MacMillan died this week - his funeral will be at St Peter's Church on Friday 20th at 10am. Son of a seaman and ex-wharfie, rock-solid in his values, Murdo made a huge contribution behind the scenes to Labour's successes…
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Back before John Key's political nous deserted him (circa mid-November 2011), he would have run a mile from the dirty pokies deal with SkyCity. Instead, he's claiming the dirty deal as his own and SkyCity's chairman bragging about his access to Nat ministers. All to…
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Anyone else see the irony in the 'bureaucracy-slashing National Government'TM reacting to delays in the Christchurch rebuilding - partly caused by lack of coordination between the local bureaucracy, the existing central government bureaucracy, and the bureaucracy National created especially to deal with the rebuild -…
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City's rental crisis 'at breaking point' Virtually no rental homes free in city Rental crisis hampers Christchurch rebuild Rental shortage: 'State must step in' Christchurch rental crisis accelerating Intervention needed for Chch rental crises 'Pontius' Brownlee sees no rental housing crisis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXut2nDaFKg
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David Shearer's created an easy way to send John Key a message about selling the law to SkyCity. If you think changing the law to suit a particular commercial enterprise is all, well, a bit Banana Republic, click the link and have your say. Sky's…
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Don't know if you saw Ruth Richardson's wee rant in the Herald yesterday. Never realised she was such a bad writer. That was awful. Just a bunch of catchphrases and insensitive mention of Christchurch so she could use earthquake metaphors. Her thrust seems to be…
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Despite 22 member states confirming the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement, the EU's parliament is looking like it might reject the treaty, on the grounds of it curtailing civil liberties. The EU's first rapporteur MP on the treaty resigned in protest at the plans and member states'…
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The Nats are ideologically blind when it comes to education. Pressing ahead with National Standards, when all the evidence and advice shows that they're bad for kids. They're repeating exactly the same mistakes when it comes to charter schools: Charter schools 'harmful' says study ...A…
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SkyCity seems to be feeling the pressure of public concern over their dodgy deal with the Nats, which will ramp up the number of addictive pokie machines in their casino. Yesterday we were treated to his media blurt: Lotto worse than pokies - SkyCity boss…
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Matt Wuerker has won Politico's first Pulitzer for his excellent editorial cartoons. They certainly capture something...
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The Greens have revealed that criminals are laundering millions of dollars through SkyCity, taking their gambling losses as the price of coming out with clean, untraceable money. The Government's sleazy 'law for sale' deal with SkyCity would only make it worse by allowing more anonymous,…
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When political lobbyists and campaign "donations" dominate the political process, is it really a democracy any more? Case in point, America, democracy or a plutocracy in Cartier drag? Like most democracies, NZ is some way down that path. But The Greens have proposed taking at…
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The government has splurged $20m putting 3,300 unemployed people through 6 week-long military 'boot camps (the $6K per head cost is the same as 6 months on on dole). Result: up to 3 years later, only 19% have jobs. Compares to the typical stint of…
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A day after a Sunday Star Times piece about how racism is getting worse in New Zealand comes the apparent proof. You can't read anything scientific into a self-selecting online poll, but there's no reason to think that someone would bother deliberately skewing this one.…
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The Right tells us that selling all our stuff and letting the profits flow offshore is great because we get foreign capital and knowledge flowing into the economy (apparently,we can't just buy that stuff rather than permanently lose our wealth base). The Government says 30%…
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Ports of Auckland management admit they gave Slater/Lusk the confidential employment details of a worker who criticised the bosses' disastrous bargaining strategy. At least 2 other workers were victims of the same misdeed. CEO Tony Gibson needs to sack the senior staff responsible. If he…
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Looks like the Nats are going to use the bridge washout on the Gisborne-Napier rail line as an excuse to close it. Despite wagon volumes growing 12-fold this year. The wall of wood has to come out somehow. The roads can't handle the trucks. Madness…
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Having had 4 weeks off at New Years, a week fluffing around in Korea, and a week's holiday in Europe, Key is in Indonesia, where his first order of business was a round of golf followed by a BBQ. While searching for an image of…
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I'm going to just repost in full a post by guest author Hugh Pickens on Slashdot: Dr. James Hansen, director of the NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who first made warnings about climate change in the 1980s, says that public skepticism about the threat of…
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