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For some time now National has been quietly making plans to subsume Archives New Zealand and the National Library within the Department of Internal Affairs. That's a dangerous plan for all sorts of constitutional and accountability reasons that can't be justified by any imaginary, vague…
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Key's worried about us being even more bought out by foreigners. Key's in South Korea about to sign a Free Trade Agreement. New Zealand already has nearly no tariffs. Everyone knows the sweetener for the other side in these deals is opening up investment in…
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Economists, bankers, Treasury officials, financial wizards of various kinds, they like to pretend that they know what they're talking about. All too often they don't. There's a reason economics is called the "dismal science". There's a reason why their predictions are usually about as accurate…
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Labour's lineup for the next election is emerging: The Labour Party has moved early to confirm a list of electorate candidates for next year's election. ... Confirmed electorate candidates; Auckland Central, Jacinda Ardern; Christchurch Central, Brendon Burns; Dunedin South, Clare Curran; Hamilton West, Sue Moroney;…
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PM warns against Kiwis becoming 'tenants' - The Herald John Key says that we've got to make sure we don't sell too many of our assets and end up sending the profits overseas. Good stuff, it's exactly what the Left has been saying and the…
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A few weeks ago I wrote a post about some of the risks New Zealand will face when off-shore oil exploration goes ahead. Now Gordon Campbell has published an excellent article at Werewolf that looks at the issue in a lot more depth.... At the…
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Neo-Liberalism is a failure; not just in human terms, but by its own measures. Since the concepts of neo-liberalism were wholeheartedly taken up by Roger & Ruth 26 years ago, up until our current government as the heirs to Rogernomics and Ruthenasia, neo-liberalism has driven…
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Been a bit disappointed that there hasn't been a post up here yet on the news out on Saturday that Steve Chadwick is seeking support for a Member's Bill to make abortion truly on demand in NZ, to 24 weeks. Then I remembered that I…
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TVOne reports: Claims by Social Development Minister Paula Bennett that increasing the cost of tobacco could result in family violence are "pure speculation" according to one expert. In official papers released to ONE News, it's emerged Bennett had concerns in February there would be an…
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There has been extensive coverage recently of universities' tough new criteria to limit the number of students they will take next semester and next year. The universities of Auckland, Massey, Victoria and Otago have all recently announced criteria to limit the number of students they…
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From Bryan Walker at Hot Topic, and republished here with permission. We know that the vast majority of climate scientists support the explanation of anthropogenic climate change set out by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change. That majority is now quantified in the first study…
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Still smells as crap. Roger Douglas has a private members bill to introduce bulk funding. It (hopefully) shouldn't get through - National are unlikely to support it and break yet another election promise. There are other impending private members bills that also aren't going to…
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