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Watch Kelvin Davis on Q+A with Hone Harawira. He was superb. He says the message he is giving about being part of the future for Maori is resonating around the Tai Tokerau. I'll bet it is. The by-election result could be very interesting indeed. I…
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Some bloggers are having a bit of a fit over some minutes that were sent to National MP Aaron Gilmore by accident and that include a note of a discussion of parliamentary services resource. While that's a bit of a non-story and Cameron Slater's "big…
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National knows that the public oppose its agenda of asset sales, lower wages, and service cuts. So they're going to campaign dirty. They're running this week's muck-throwing via sickness beneficiary* Cameron Slater. The Nats breached the Labour Party website and stole a list of online…
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Looks like someone in Labour North has been careless and left stuff accessible on line that they shouldn't. The Herald describes the "Labour Party's information breach". That's a serious cockup, especially the personal membership details, and it needs to be fixed yesterday. So now the…
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Amongst the many vacuous claims made in relation to the last budget, this one always struck me as the standout: Greater level of private savings for KiwiSaver 19 May 2011 by Hon Bill English Changes to KiwiSaver will encourage a higher level of private savings,…
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Bill (and John and the entire National caucus) have been telling us that we are required to borrow $380 million each and every week, so that we're scared into accepting cuts cuts cuts to services in their budget. Apparently we aren't required to at all. In…
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Remember John Key's Hardtalk interview? He wilted under real questioning. How would he handle 22 minutes with New Zealand's most feared interviewer, Sean Plunket? Seems the $43 million bailout of Mediaworks bought a lot of soft questions. 22 minutes of pap. If you can be…
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Armstrong is back in fine Key-lovin form today: Selling asset sales is a hard job even for Key Such is John Key's Midas touch, he could probably sell ice-cubes to Eskimos - and at a premium price. Oh please. Did Key sell mining to the…
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More incisive hilarity from Danyl: "It works like this: Paul Holmes gets to live in a state house for a year with a one year old baby, surviving on only the $288 dollars/week allocated to beneficiaries on the DPB, and at the end of the…
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A little over a year ago the biggest single protest march in this country since 1938 put the final nail in the coffin of Gerry Brownlee and the Nats' amateur hour plans to mine our most precious conservation land. Or so we thought. But like…
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A few overlooked videos from plumedekiwi. The short and potty history of the pavlova going to its awful conclusion... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wIyrqA9gLE And a similar look at the Wellywood sign. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Deyi7rSzVZw
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The Right wing gutter of politics is still trying to use the Darren Hughes affair to damage Phil Goff. With no police investigation into Hughes to proceed, the Right try to argue that the story now is all about how Goff "mishandled" it, by not…
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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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Joyce was told that building the new train cars at the Kiwirail workshop in Dunedin would bring half a billion into the economy. Joyce insisted Kiwirail go with the 'cheapest' option. China. Now, another 40 jobs have been axed. Not to mention other economic losses.…
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The Budget is unraveling at a startling rate of knots. Bill English is floundering to explain his dodgy asset sales numbers that don't count lost dividends, sale costs, and foregone capital growth, not to mention a billion in unallocated cuts, and the gap between his…
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This country feels like it is adrift. Wandering without direction. Leaderless. It's coming up more and more often in the media now - almost continuously since the do-nothing budget in fact. Just yesterday in The Herald for example, Nat cheerleader Fran O'Sullivan was bemoaning the…
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The latest Roy Morgan is the first poll taken after the Budget has had time to sink in. Nat+ACT+UF fell from 55.5% to 51% while Lab+Green went from 38% to 42.5%. Labour bounced a massive 8%. I reckon part of that is just correction from…
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While English seeks to pay for prisons by selling our assets - like selling your house to pay for your car (which you're going to let someone else drive...) - it appears he's still fiddling the figures to make things add up. As David Cunliffe…
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Fire at will was meant to help young people into work, wasn't it? [graph should read 'youth rates abolished' not 'introduced'. Sometimes with blogs you get what you pay for. Zet]
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National's election plan is becoming clear. They are going to put a lot of nasty stuff on the table and trust that people love Key's smiling face so much they will still vote National. If they win, they will take it as a mandate to…
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So, that's National's great big plan: get rid of our electricity assets and use the cash to build more prisons. Not much of a brighter future there. National still hasn't come up with a convincing reason why we would sell highly profitable monopolistic companies. Instead,…
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Darren Hughes will not be charged. "After this careful consideration, the allegations do not reach the evidential threshold required to bring charges. As a result, no charges will be brought against Mr Hughes." "Some media outlets received an anonymous letter about Mr Hughes whilst Police…
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I know, let's sell more of our high-return assets offshore. Sourced from stats.
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Do you remember back in the day when Bill English didn't want to put any money into the Cullen Fund? Remember how certain people on the right of the political spectrum started talking about how silly it was to borrow money in order to save…
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I don't have a problem with MPs going to a Destiny Church conference to chase some votes. Attending a group's function isn't an endorsement of its views, although there's obviously a line (eg. neo-Nazi groups). John Key, however, is endorsing of Destiny's politics saying: "National's…
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Is it just me, or is Sue Bradford working harder, and getting more media coverage than all of the Greens put together? See this: National Charges Ahead with Shameful Welfare Programme 'The formation of a ministerial group to implement the shameful Rebstock report on welfare…