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All the indications were that Key was in for a rough ride at Waitangi this year. And sure enough, John Key chased from Waitangi (video link). In other Herald coverage: Prime Minister John Key and fellow politicians were verbally abused by protesters during ugly scenes…
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In her recent columns, and particularly yesterday, Fran O'Sullivan has been going quite quite strange I experienced a bit of this myself last week when the website, thestandard.org.nz, branded me an "enemy of the people" for supporting the sale. Well the site didn't, RedLogix did…
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While the rest of the world is moving away from the 'hands off' monetary policy that became fashionable in the 80s, our government insists on playing by the outmoded neoliberal 'rules' of a clean float. Well, what happens when everyone else 'cheats' by printing free…
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Every time some rightwing ideologue calls 80% of New Zealanders racist or xenophobic because we don't want to lose control of our future and sell our strategic assets to fall into the hands of a foreign dictatorship that is going around the world buying up…
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Almost missed among all the blacked out paragraphs of the Transport Briefing to the Incoming Minister are 2 interesting graphs. While not explicitly mentioning peak oil, the graph of the National Land Transport Fund shows a massive shortfall in revenue in a 'high oil price,…
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After the horrifying attack on a 5-year old tourist in Turangi in December, Kiwis showed their compassion, and their shame, by donating over $62,000 to the family. Now, the family has said they don't blame the community and have used some of the donations to…
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Public education is the cornerstone of a good country and a buoyant economy. And New Zealanders have long enjoyed the benefits that come to them individually, to their families, their communities, their country, and the economy from having access to quality public education. But all…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here John Banks says Catherine Isaac is qualified to oversee the trial of Charter Schools because the ACT list candidate "loves education", and spent six years…
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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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No Right Turn has a look at two of the incoming minister briefings impacting on climate change. They are incoherent and it is clear that neither ministry talks to the other. If it wasn't affecting a important long term issue, it'd be as funny as a…
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The Briefings to Incoming Ministers, which government departments produce after each election, give the public (via the media) an insight into on coming challenges in portfolios, elaborate on how election promises will be converted into real policies, and - most importantly - reveal things the…
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I've heard that POAL has private detectives following union officials around and taking photos. I'd imagine that's where "scoops" like this are coming from. I think it's about time POAL management stopped messing about with their sleazy and incompetent campaign and started negotiating in good…
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According to TVNZ, the Prime Minister said section nine of the SOE legislation, referring to the Treaty of Waitangi, was "largely symbolic" because it had not been enacted since it was drawn up in 1986. It wasn't a felicitous phrase; he might well find Maoridom's…
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At least, that's what I read from their latest pronouncement. Treasury - the government economic and fiscal agency that couldn't forecast its way out of a paperbag - has blown the dust off its 1980s economics textbooks and offered the same failed recipe for growth…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here Labour Party MPs are said to be red-faced, after discovering that prominent blogger David Farrar is not the Prime Minister of New Zealand. Mr Farrar…
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A remarkably nice worker/boss story from across the ditch: Australian Ken Grenda may have sold his bus company, but his staff of almost 2,000 are smiling. Mr Grenda gave cash bonuses totalling A$15m ($16m, £10m) from proceeds of the sale to employees of his 66-year-old Melbourne-based…
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Spot the difference: Mega-corporation with close ties to foreign dictatorship that has a policy of securing strategic resources buys swathes of New Zealand farmland after a bid by a company directly owned by the dictatorship was rejected. New Zealand public company to become the foreign…
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It's tough getting a job in the Key economy. There's 80,000 more people wanting work since Key came to office and 43,000 fewer jobs. Fortunately, there's always a do-nothing government job going ... if you know the right people. Eh, Catherine Isaac? The ACT leader-in-waiting…
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Embattled Christchurch City Council CEO Tony Marryatt was asked on Campbell Live last night if he is worth his $500K salary. He said it is the market rate (in fact, its 100K over the median) and he would do the job whether the pay "was…
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There was some maintenance done on the main NZ server last night. All looked ok when I went to sleep at about 6am, but appears to have started having problems from about 8:30 onwards with intermittently waiting on some network resource. Problem looks external to…
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The Maori Party is threatening to leave the government over the asset sales legislation removing the companies' Treaty obligations under the SOE Act. Key knows their threat is hollow. He just got away for 3 years of insulting Maori and worsening Maori statistics - only…
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