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3-time election loser Don Brash spoke at the ACT conference on the weekend. It was an attempt to revive the Owera days with an anti-Maori speech. When he made a 'they don't know how lucky they are' reference to how Australians used to "shoot the…
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For the second time in 14 years, the Saudi monarchy has sent troops into Bahrain to crush protests by the Shi'ite majority against the Sunni monarchy. Having intimidated their own people into silence on Friday, the Saudis now want to bring the Bahraini Shi'ites to…
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So, how are you enjoying your brighter future? Not too flash, eh? GST up. Wages down. No jobs. More crime. Earthquakes. Oil and food shocks. No bloody cycleway. Discretionary income (after tax, housing, food, transport) is down about 15%. No wonder Kiwis don't believe Key…
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Hone Hariwira will win his electorate in 2011, and if at that time he is a member of the much touted new Left party then it may be that other MPs will follow him in to Parliament. Yesterday Phil Goff ruled out working with such…
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Forty two Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) workers left New Zealand this morning for Japan. Straight off the back of three hard weeks in the rubble of Christchurch, they are flying in to help out with an even bigger disaster. Just as the world rallied…
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The destruction wrought by the 9.0 Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami is truly appalling. Untold lives have been lost. Thousands of square kilometres were obliterated by the water which swept up to 20km inland. The death toll officially stands at 1,000-2,000 but it must really be…
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Here's the kind of headline you really really don't want to wake up to: Japan on brink of nuclear meltdown Desperate attempts are being made to cool a Japanese nuclear power plant crippled by the country's huge earthquake and tsunami - but indications are that…
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So, the other day I was arguing something around $100 a barrel oil equals a global recession. I wanted to get more precise: is there a certain price of petrol in New Zealand, above which the economy goes into recession? It turns out there is,…
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Stung by Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee's admission that the eastern suburbs had been neglected after the Christchurch Earthquake, John Key is redoubling his efforts: "For the first few days, I stuck my head down and got on with designing the emergency benefit policy but,…