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Petrol hits record
Z has set a new record for petrol prices with 91 up to $2.23. The others are expected to follow. We are in a new oil shock due to peak oil. The once unimaginable $2 a litre is now the low price. Ironically, the high…
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Open mike 22/08/2012
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On decile ratings of schools
Interesting piece on Stuff this morning: ERO drops decile ratings from reports The decile rating of schools has been scrapped from Education Review Office reports. ERO chief review officer Dr Graham Stoop made the surprise announcement yesterday in an effort to "correct the stereotype that…
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Towards a metric for Prime Ministerial decision-making
So, a pre-planned trip to watch a son's baseball and a week's holiday in the States is more important than attending 2 soldiers' funerals. But attending 3 soldiers' funerals outranks attending the Pacific Island Forum attended by the region's leaders. A question for the reader:…
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Gear change Labour
It was standing room only in Auckland last night to hear David Parker, introduced by David Shearer, on Labour's economic policy. Over 200 people packed the Polish society clubrooms in Morningside, and gave Parker's ideas a warm reception, with plenty of good questions and answers…
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10 Jacks are as good as their master
Compare the latest figures on CEO pay to the median income of New Zealanders and to the minimum wage. It isn't a pretty picture. The average CEO gets 10 times the pay of a full-time minimum wage worker or the income of the typical Kiwi.…
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Open mike 21/08/2012
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Losing a generation
There are just short of 630,000 people aged 20-29. A net 33,000 of them have left for Australia under National - 13,000 in the last year. That's twice the rate of emigration under Labour. There's also twice as many unemployed in this age group -…
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15 Ethical “Fails” Under National!
Reprinted with permission from Dave Kennedy (bsprout) at Local Bodies: 15 Ethical "Fails" Under National! What is ethical behaviour? Answer Ethical behaviour is characterized by honesty, fairness and equity in interpersonal, professional and academic relationships and in research and scholarly activities. Ethical behaviour respects the…
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Structural discrimination
Structural discrimination is alive and well in NZ. It makes nonsense of all the right-wing "one law for all" and beneficiary bashing rhetoric, but anyone with two honest brain cells in their head knows that it's true. A new report from the Human Rights Commission…
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Another dark day for NZ in Afghanistan
3 New Zealand soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. 5 dead in a fortnight. That's a big cost. All in the same area of Bamiyan Province. John Key has used American chickenhawk language saying "we won't cut and run". Actually, we're…
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Three more Kiwi deaths in Afghanistan
The media is reporting that three more Kiwi soldiers have been killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan. Our hearts go out to their family and friends.
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Open mike 20/08/2012
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