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Creating a life is a uniquely pleasant experience. There is nothing like it. Not just at the time of conception. So, having deliberately conceived children, then watched them grow and finally “leave the nest”, go out and conquer the world then form their own family,…
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Sometimes during union bargaining that has hit a wall, workers will vote to 'work to rule' - ie not do extras beyond the terms of you contract. It's perfectly legal. In fact, it should be what we all do every day. Working beyond rule is…
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Unemployment's up, wages are flat, retail and export prices in freefall. Last week, the government didn't get enough bids on its debt issue - usually it gets bids totaling 3 or 4 times what its issuing. Last budget National promised 4% this year - it's…
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Remember when John Key said he'd love to see wages drop? Yep. How about when Bill English claimed our low wages were our competitive advantage. Uh-huh. Well the changes they're bringing in to undermine working Kiwis' bargaining power will do exactly that. In particular the…
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For all that we give the Nats a hard time here at The Standard, we're also careful to give credit where it's due. So I guess we should give credit to National, in this time of economic stagnation, for the one and only growth industry…
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An interesting press release from David Clark, sponsor of the "Mondayisation" bill: True ‘cost’ of Mondayisation deliberately hidden John Key’s calculations around the cost of Mondayising public holidays read like Maths 101 gone wrong, says Labour MP David Clark. The Holidays (Full Recognition of Waitangi Day…
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1 in 80 New Zealanders left for Australia last 12 months. Emigration so far this year is 15% higher than the same months in 2011. 6,000 people attended the 3rd Aussie jobs expo in Auckland in 18 months this weekend. The question is becoming not…
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Gay marriage. There's been plenty of coverage in the American media, with echoes here in NZ. As reported by 3 News last night, it looks set to become a "key election issue" in the Obama vs Romney presidential contest. How utterly depressing. There are major…
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Remember National's 'fiscally neutral' tax cuts? Turns out they've cost $2 billion in their first 18 months (previously, we only knew they had cost $1.1 billion in their first 9 months). Without those reckless tax cuts, we wouldn't be facing zero budgets. Now, the Right's…
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I chuckled to read Fran O'Shillivan on Sunday: "John Key has made a strategic decision to burn some political capital and front-foot major Government decisions" - yeah, all those major decisions: $1m for contraception, 'tackling cyber-bullying', a petty pokies for convention centre deal, even their…
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