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There used to be a webcam in the Beehive Theatrette run by R2 that broadcast the PM's Post-Cabinet press conference. Anyone who wanted to could go to the site and watch the press conference live and uncut. It was direct access for the public, the…
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They've already been dubbed NZ's David and Ed Milliband. Brothers David and Ben Clark will both be standing for Labour in the 2011 general election. David is standing for the safe Dunedin North seat, while Ben will be taking on Wayne Mapp on the North…
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You may have seen ads on the site recently for a comedy play called Gagarin Way, which opens in Auckland this Wednesday. As part of the Scoop ad cartel, we have four pairs of tickets to give away. Here's the game: best - ie most…
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Wikileaks' latest coup is the release of a database of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables between American embassies, up to and including the highest security level "Top Secret". The material was first released to selected newspapers, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, El País, and…
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In the annual Trans-Tasman 'roll-call', amongst the normal love-struck schoolboy prose that we expect from the Trans-Tasman when referring to any National leader, is this judgment on the PM: "Key needs an agenda, not just the consensus he is building around personal trust." In other…
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A couple of comments by one of the commentators on the Standard stuck in my mind. Jenny drew attention to the fact that the Commissioner for the Environment had pulled the "Lignite and Climate Change: The High Cost of Low Grade Coal" report that was…
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So, I was going to do a post about Don Brash's latest Orewa blurt. Looking round at the headlines it has all the right ingredients for a nice juicy post: Brash attacks Maori - again Brash takes aim at Key in race speech Don Brash’s…
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Matt McCarten is doing the dance of the seven veils on the issue of a new Left Party. He and the other players have been denying they have anything planned but, at the same time, have spoken of the need for such a party, as…
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It's dismaying to see a few rightwing commentators using the Pike River disaster to attack restrictions on mining in national parks. The claims are baseless and crassly opportunistic. One expects the like of Matthew Hooton, Whaleoil, and Paul Holmes to try to score political points off…
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After the shallowness of the MSM this week, I noticed an important issue being raised by Brian Gaynor. The question of "Crisis of accounting's double standards". This is a problem that has both an immediate and long-term concern for the confidence of investors in New…
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I was immensely disappointed by David Cunliffe's recent announcement that Labour is considering private public partnerships. Not only because PPPs essentially involve privatising business gains and socialising the losses, or because they've been an abject failure almost everywhere they've been tried, but because one of…
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