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The Maori Party conference finished yesterday. There were several articles (mostly from Audrey Young) reporting different stories arising from the conference. It's not good news for the Maori Party. Party seeks help from 'Maori Dotcom' Maori party members are crying out for a "Maori Dotcom"…
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Unfortunately I don't think the latest Roy Morgan is a rogue poll. But I also don't think that it's the result of David Shearer's GCSB fiasco as the electorate doesn't tend to make up its mind on single issues. Rather, I think that the electorate…
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On Planet Key there are no toilets. Natural body processes are considered irrelevant and nature only exists in the highly tamed and controlled form of a golf course. No wonder, then, that the government and its cronies are disconnected from the natural rythms associated with…
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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. This week, two very…
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This is something of a response to Zetetic's post, which in some part I agree with - BAT's ads are just stupid. And too long, especially since half your audience already know if they agree or disagree with it five seconds in. (And I think…
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The latest Roy Morgan poll has Labour down 4.5% to 29%. There’s no way to varnish it, this is a very bad poll for Labour, particularly for David Shearer. Yeah, it’s just one poll, and it does come off the back of the GCSB tape…
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The bad news they expected to hear. The Greymouth community got the news it had been dreading yesterday. Solid Energy has decided to mothball the Spring Creek mine, making around 220 workers redundant. This is devastating news for the miners and their families. It also…
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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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I've just seen the cancer-mongers' latest ad against plain packaging In the ad, an eyeless person trying to buy booze looks horrified when there's no logos and colourful labels on the beer bottles. Some of the bottles read 'I don't mind if alcohol is next'....…
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Detective Inspector Grant Wormald and his Organised and Financial Crime Agency appear to be a rogue police unit that thinks it's above the law. They acted illegally in the Dotcom raid, they had GSCB illegally spy on Dotcom, Wormald appears to have committed perjury by…
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New Zealanders understand that unemployment costs, so it's worth spending to prevent it. They also understand it's not inevitable, it's caused by factors the Government can influence. Even the new Reserve Bank Governor says "the high New Zealand dollar is undermining export earnings and encouraging…
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I have never understood voting for conservative "small government" types. Why vote for a government that wants to do nothing? Why surrender power to "the market", which is run by faceless, unelected entities? It is surrendering the power of your vote. If the government goes…
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Two recent posts from NRT. Slipping The World Economic Forum has released its annual Global Gender Gap Index , and the news is again bad. After years of steady progress under Labour, our score first stagnated, and has now actually dropped slightly. The reason? National's sexist candidate…
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According to Maori Party policy: We aspire to work together to make the economy great but not at the expense of our environment. Climate change affects us all and the biggest emitters must take responsibility to change the way they do business. Any cost they…
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Here's Business NZ's shill on extending paid parental leave: "Employers who have been forced to bear considerable replacement costs, or to find those amongst their other employees willing to provide cover, may well think hard before again employing a woman of child-bearing age". 1) that…
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Police deserve better representation than a gild that insists no cop can do any wrong. All Police are tainted by the illegal, unethical actions of the few, which the Police Association under Greg O'Connor endorses, defends, and tries to cover-up. O'Connor's latest outrages are dismissing…
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A TV3 poll shows that 49% to 46% of people believe National is failing to build its promised "brighter future". The two big weaknesses: jobs and education. By nearly 2 to 1 margins, people believe that National is failing to provide full employment (it says…
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I wasn't going to post on the never ending stream of privacy breaches and kiosk vulnerabilities that have come to light recently. The latest is WINZ using printed personal details as scrap paper - and handing them over to a member of the public. But…
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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. Security experts were being rushed to the ninth floor of the Beehive this morning, after a malicious hacker accessed the Prime Minister's brain. Experts…
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The government is vulnerable around the Paid Parental Leave Bill. They don’t want it to pass, but they risk losing support from women for not supporting it. A financial veto of an entire Bill has never been done before, and it’s experimental for the government.…
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Great to see Drinking Liberally starting up again in New Zealand. And in a new city, Hamilton. Here's the invite: You are all cordially invited to the first meeting of Drinking Liberally, Hamilton. Drinking Liberally is an informal, non-programmatic gathering of like-minded left-leaners, an opportunity…
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Housing is too expensive. It has been driven up by 'investors' in pursuit of a safe, hands-off, tax-free return. 8% of the people own about 40% of the houses. That's the problem - over-allocation of savings from the upper-middle class into housing pushing prices up,…
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The Nats have decided to try to lean on the judiciary to get asset sales handled the way they want. The Judge is 'Red Ron'. The Court shouldn't try to decide water rights at a level of general principle. The Maori Council mustn't get legal…
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The moment has finally arrived. Microsoft's irritating Internet Explorer browser is not the top browser in New Zealand any more according to StatCounter... And worldwide it hasn't been so for five months. It is a slow day on the site according to the readership stats. Looks…
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As expected, the High Court has recommended a hold on the sale of Mighty River Power. 3 News reports: Mighty River Power sale delayed by High Court The Government’s asset sales plan has again hit turbulence with Cabinet delaying the removal of Mighty River Power…
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