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David Cunliffe has done the maths. National wants to sell $6.8 billion worth of assets and it says they would be bought up by 'mums and dads'. How much would each household have to invest to keep hold of the assets we already own? Over…
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No it's not a virus. It's our dollar surfing on a dumper. Here's how Neville Bennett describes it: There is increasing evidence that New Zealand is ailing. The symptoms are a high exchange rate, excessive foreign debt and a decline of the manufacturing sector. This…
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My producer partner Lyn spent last week extracting herself from Eire where she was showing their documentary and looking at documentaries to bring here. Now she has a theatrical release underway in NZ. If you have missed seeing this to date, then it is well…
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Here is my one small example of what people in Christchurch are going through. I have been battling EQC for reimbursement of an account for an emergincy chimney demolition, after the September 2010 earthquake. I paid to have the chimney taken down, as it was…
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I remember a certain PM who used to claim to be "ambitious for New Zealand". In the real world, it seems that was all just talk. Because given the choice between investing in New Zealand industry and workers, and perhaps (in the short term) saving…
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The Roy Morgan Polls are all over the place, at the moment (see May 23rd, June 9th). Just as Trev warned us, the latest Roy Morgan has the Left once more at the bottom of the roller coaster: Support for the government is at 59.5%…
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Gerry Brownlee says an announcement on Christchurch's land will be made "very, very soon" but testily refuses to give a date, or even a real timeframe. I have a sinking feeling this is all a PR exercise. Just as Brownlee has got everyone really agitated,…
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The Te Tai Tokerau by-election has the potential to be a game-changer. If it comes off for Kelvin on Saturday the result may shake up a few other predictions for the general election - another example of the wisdom of Harold Wilson's famous remark that…
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NZX Chairman Andrew Harmos has come storming out of his boardroom to position himself in the apparent war of rhetoric surrounding what the New Zealand public generally know as state asset sales or the mixed-ownership model. He appears to offer some reasonable banter about the…
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Phil Goff has just announced that Labour is putting up a private members' bill to entrench SOEs. This would mean they could only be sold either with 75% support of Parliament, or with majority support in a referendum. Great stuff. That effectively means any asset…
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Labour proposes a new law to stop asset sales. More like this please! Labour proposes a new law to stop asset sales Monday, 20 June 2011, 10:32 am Press Release: New Zealand Labour Party Labour is introducing a new private members bill to prevent the…
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The Magic market should be left alone, it will self correct the Nact's say. Look at what Nature does when it's left alone, It tries to revert back to what it was before, it regenerates, yes we cut all the trees down, burnt, sprayed, killed…
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The "cast in stone" permanent obligations of majority New Zealand ownership and free local calls will be removed from law after the government dropped a last minute Special Order Paper[SOP] on the Telecommunications Amendment Bill last week: In the explanatory notes in SOP No 247,…
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Are we "roaring out of recession"? No. Is there an "aggressive recovery"? No. What's going wrong? The problem is that the Nats are squeezing the life out of the economy. I've written on one aspect of this before. The Nats believe that the correct response…
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