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After Lyn's 6 year time commitments to her documentary have subsided, we didn't need the space to produce and then market it around the world. So nearly two months ago we moved out of the larger rental we'd had for the last 3 years back into my old apartment in…
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Just a quick note on this story - about how for many of us the 40-hour week is but folklore. 13% of Kiwis are working more than 50 hours / week (that's paid work, all you volunteers out there won't count...). Waikato University labour market expert…
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My regular Sunday piece of interesting, longer, deeper stories I found during the week. It’s also a chance for you to share what you found this week too. Those stimulating links you wanted to share, but just didn’t fit in anywhere (no linkwhoring). This week:…
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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. Questions were again raised about the leadership of David Shearer today, after a giant robot army descended from the skies and laid waste to…
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Welcome to Poverty watch, a weekly update on the National government's lack of response to the urgent and growing issue of poverty in NZ. A lot of background issues and links are set out in Poverty Watch one two and three. Wednesday (17 October) was…
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In 1840 NZ workers won the right to an 8 hour working day. Yet this Labour Weekend kicks off with news that Kiwis (on average) work longer hours (above 50 hours per week) than the OEDC average. Times have certainly changed since 1840. Not only…
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Following on from the funding shortfall at Wellington Rape Crisis, now it's Auckland's turn. The HELP Foundation take 12,000 calls a year, and despite government promises to assist them ... yep, they're in trouble. More info and account details to make a donation in this article - please…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZQnyn4XXlA Good work by Glenn Rowlands.
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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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Revolutions, political movements and protests are fueled by songs. They bring people together in common cause, draw attention to devastating conditions, tell stories of unbearable hardship, reassure the oppressed that they are not alone, and inspire people to take political action. I woke up the…
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Two years on and the chief executive of the Canterbury District health board David Meates has started to see some worrying trends showing up in Christchurch/Canterbury. 'We've seen a drop off in the number of prescriptions being picked up. People aren't following or completing courses…
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A great piece by Byran Gould yesterday on National's refusal to acknowledge the jobs crisis in manufacturing, even as the ANZ says unemployment is on its way up to 7%. National is really on the wrong side of public perception and the wrong side of…
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I see David Farrar's retailing the rumour that's been doing the rounds in Wellington over the last week. I'll forgive him for trying to pretend it's some brilliant insight. We all need a bit of self-promotion from time to time. Anyway, the rumour goes that…
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So apparently John Key failed to be "precise enough" when he said he voted for the drinking age to be 20, and actually voted for it to be 18. I'm sure many a finance company director would follow his reasoning, but to most of us…
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Well colour me surprised. Signs of independent and rational thought in the Nat caucus?! The issue is superannuation and whether, with NZ's changing population structure, super is affordable in its current form. We all know the background. Voters support change - raising the age of…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of these posts here and here. 8:54 am So John Tamihere wants to stand against me in Waitakere. Well good luck to him, I say, because the people of…
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This afternoon David Shearer gave a speech at the Hornby Workingman’s Club. It's exactly the kind of speech I want to hear from the Labour leader, with plenty of substance to add weight to rhetoric. Here are some extracts: Jobs that work for you ...When…
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Paid parental leave, Charter schools, compulsory early childhood education for beneficiaries, family poverty, hungry children (Turei's Child Payment Bill): it's all about the(ir?) money as far as NAct is concerned. So much so that Bill English has been trying to use dodgy figures to justify…
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There's no class war in New Zealand. It's not class war when the company that is laying off workers boosts its directors' pay by 28%. It's not class war when rich Tories who have given themselves massive tax cuts deny people on benefits are in…
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Capitalism, government, whatever... I can't recall...
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Key's just straight up lying to the media now on easily verifiable facts. A 3news poll shows 57% said Parliament got it wrong keeping the drinking age at 18%. Key says: “That's one of the reasons I voted for it to go to 20 –…
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One of the fishy elements of the GCSB-Dotcom-Key saga (along with the literally unbelievable ineptitude of the GCSB, the timing of Key's visit to the White House coinciding with the denial of Dotcom's OIO application, time timing of the ministerial certificate when Key was again…
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Against (almost) all precedent, the presidential debates seem to matter this time round. Obama v Romney, the second debate, is in progress. Check out live coverage at The Guardian.
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Yesterday, John Key told Parliament in endless detail exactly what the GCSB did trying to check if there is any video of him talking about Dotcom (there doesn't seem to be, but that doesn't mean he didn't). He knew all of that front to back.…
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The Pike River tragedy is an ongoing source of grief to the families and the community. While public attention has moved on, their struggle to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones continues. There are many around the country who have not forgotten them. Key…
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Well, Fran Mold has done it now. It was surprising to many that she kept her job as Labour's head spin doctor after her part in Labour's worst election performance in generations. But this tops it. She's got Shearer to go large based (it is…