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This is a government of excuses, not results. In their first term they blamed our economic doldrums on the global financial situation. This despite the fact that they were elected on the promise that their policies took the financial crisis into account, and were going…
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Police numbers are going to be slashed. Diplomats too. And nurses. All up, 2,500 jobs gone so far for $20m saved. And it turns out more than half the government's new doctors don't exist. Big public sector strikes may be coming. Every time you read…
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Union's have gone global in response to global financial capital's push to drive wage costs to the bottom. Canadian United Steel Workers (USW) will meet local workers in Invercargill on Thursday at the Working Men's Club at 8pm and picket outside Rio Tinto office in…
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What ideas has National had to grow the economy? There was the promise that tax cuts would magically do the trick, but that was never anything more than a blatant election bribe. There was the cycleway, but that's a joke. There was tearing up our…
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Here's the trend for the past six months of Roy Morgans projected to the next election. I made this graph, not to piss Righties off with its obvious outrageous-ness (OK, not just to piss Righties off) or even to point out how steep National's current…
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Confirmation that a petition for a citizens initiated referendum is to be launched by a coalition led by Grey Power, the Greens and Labour. The word is it has been very complex getting wording agreed by all the groups. There's still going to be a …
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Maritime Union of New Zealand Help Save Our Port - Join us to rally to Save Our Port and stand up for job security for the port workers and their families and for a publically owned sustainable and successful port. This is an issue for…
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The Nats have announced their asset sales legislation. Mum and dad aren't at the front of the queue. No provisions to ensure 85-90% stays in Kiwi hands. Nothing to stop the companies being sliced up and sold after partial privatisation. No real way to stop…
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Of course there is widespread shock and disappointment at the decision not to rebuild the Christchurch Cathedral. But it's hardly unexpected. The building is stuffed. And even if rebuilt at massive expense, who could guarantee its future safety? I grew up in Christchurch. Many's the…
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In my previous post I laid out the reasons why a NATO/US intervention in Syria is unlikely, even though the alternative will almost certainly be defeat of the freedom fighters and even more mass murder by the regime. There's no strategic gain from the Right's…
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Labour has obtained a cabinet paper showing the Nats' plan to introduce a 'two-tier' immigration system - those with money go to the front of the queue. It's more evidence of how everything is for sale under National - our employment laws, our power plants,…
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Anyone saying there are plenty of jobs, people are just to snobby (ie lazy) to take them, has to explain why 90,000 people suddenly got lazy between 2008 and 2009 as 80,000 jobs disappeared.
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Wikileaks have given us another glimpse at the reality behind the curtain of international diplomacy. For all the smiling photo-ops, the reality is, of course, that NZ is an insignificant blip in the middle of nowhere. Anthony Hubbard and Nicky Hager give us a summary:…
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