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Champions for Children
The Greens have started a new programme - Champions for Children. See their press release, and 3 News coverage: Greens want your help to end child poverty The Green Party is calling on ordinary New Zealanders to join a new campaign to tackle child poverty.…
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Money Week: avoid getting ripped off
The inaugural Money Week has just ended. A week of events and activities to raise awareness about how people can better manage their money (if they have any) and get help to do so. With so many financial instruments out there all prostituting themselves for…
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Joyce floundering on manufacturing
Talk fast, shoot the messenger, and spin like a top. That's Joyce's style, trying to defend the indefensible; National's neglect of New Zealand's manufacturing industry. He tried it on the Nation a couple of weeks ago, and again on Morning Report this morning. Amidst all…
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Energy efficiency
If Europe can ban incandescent light bulbs, if America can legislate to require 54.5 MPG fuel efficient cars, why can't New Zealand make some progress on energy efficiency? After all, these days we don't have a lunatic leader of the opposition who would rant something…
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Nats in denial about education and poverty
Shearer's speech on Sunday has sparked the discussions that this country needed to have about education, about poverty, and about the sad link between them. With every statement the Nats show how deeply in denial they are about these issues: Labour says New Zealand needs…
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We need a government that gives a f*ck
The paper mill at Kawerau is halving its production, and its workforce. Another hundred plus jobs gone. Meanwhile, Norske Skog, which owns the mill, is expanding production at its paper mill in Tasmania. The expansion, part-paid for with government money will allow Australia to produce…
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Open mike 11/09/2012
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How long have they been sitting on that?
Shearer gets some traction with a policy that neatly targets parents' concerns about education, hits a link in the poverty cycle, and is third way enough that National can't really object. And what happens? National runs a little beat up on how Shearer's masters thesis…
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“Kiwis targeted by John Key scammers”
Headline in the new Herald website. That's all of us.
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CIR & the silience of the citirats
The Nats' lines on the citizens-initiated referendum on asset sales are very weak: 'we don't care because we have a mandate' and making up stories about invalid signatures. Those lines will only hold until the petition is certified by the Clerk of the House later…
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Who’s heading in the right direction?
While Labour and the Greens are laying out concrete policies to tackle poverty and its consequences that lead to life-long problems (child payment and home insulation from the Greens, food in schools and reading recovery from Labour), National MPs are acting as slum landlords, refusing…
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Education, evidence, and a tale of two leaders
In case you missed it in the weekend, on Sunday David Shearer gave an excellent speech on education, which has been (as far as I can tell) universally positively received. The headline items are free food in low decile schools, and extending the reading recovery…
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Open mike 10/09/2012
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