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Two news snippets yesterday seemed to me to capture the essence of John Key PM. The first: Govt rejects 'fairer' pension scheme suggestions The Prime Minister said he has "too much on his plate" to act on recommendations to make the pension scheme fairer. This…
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118 years to the day when NZ became the first country in the world to give women the vote. You can imagine how incredibly proud Kate and the sisterhood must have been. You can imagine them lifting their eyes to the future and seeing women standing shoulder to…
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We're going to need a lot of innovation to survive the coming decades. I'm going to feature the kinds of clever ideas that will help as posts whenever I see them (I started with this one a while back). Today's innovation (ht to AAMC in…
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We already knew that voters prefer Labour's policies to the Nats. Capital gains tax vs. asset sales. A focus on children and poverty vs. an abdication of responsibility. A real youth training program vs. ineffectual bootcamps. In short, policies that help us to Own Our Future.…
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The Campaign for MMP has a series of vids that we'll be running. This one looks at how MMP has lifted the representation of women in Parliament. Makes you wonder about the people who want to send us backwards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wvQGvAfZeo By the by, due the…
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The Press reports: "The Central Christchurch recovery is under threat as quake-weary property owners start using their insurance money to buy new buildings in Auckland and overseas." Hmm. If only they had been repeatedly warned about this for the past seven months. /tag/christchurch-rebuilding/ /tag/christchurch-rebuilding/page/2/ /tag/christchurch-earthquake/…
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