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Well that was interesting rise in price. A few weeks ago there was a notice in our mail box about the next door apartment going up for auction. Lyn has been looking at getting her toehold into the Auckland property market over the last year. As…
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Unemployment at record highs, current account deficit in trouble, the economy is stagnant, exodus to Australia, National is failing by every performance measure that they set themselves (except enriching the already wealthy of course). No plan when elected, no plan now, nothing to offer but…
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The amount we have to borrow from the rest of the world - because the high dollar is killing our exporters and allowing importers to undercut our domestic businesses - is due to hit $17b a year by 2016. Our current account deficit is already…
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I don't really have time to write something, but there's just too much stupid this morning to let it pass. Nathan Guy apparently thinks being in Chinese Southern's Frequent Flier program is enough kudos to decide you can enter our country. I've just got Silver…
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Didn't it make you sick to your stomach when smug Tories getting fat on quarter of a million dollar taxpayer-funded salaries get up in the House and make jokes to deflect from the dire jobs situation?* Well, I know 410,000 Kiwis who are looking for…
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Politics 101 for Labour leaders: when a right-wing columnist tells you to piss off your party and your base to 'win the centre' she probably doesn't have your best interests at heart. The truth of it is, Labour didn't lose the last two elections by…
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Judith Collins pledged to take Trevor Mallard and Andrew Little to court for defamation after they suggested she was involved in leaking Bronwyn Pullar's name via Slater-Lusk. Today she dropped the suit after a letter from Mallard and Little in which a) don't concede defaming…
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And so Collins' "defamation" case against Mallard and Little ends, not with a bang, but a whimper: ACC Minister Judith Collins' defamation action against Labour MPs Trevor Mallard and Andrew Little has been settled following a hearing in the High Court at Auckland today. ...…
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In a bold and exciting move Labour MP David Shearer stood down at today’s Labour conference and handed the reins to mild mannered media commentator Josie Pagani. Shearer said it became clear he had too much parliamentary experience for the role and the public was…
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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. - A statement from Education Minister Hekia Parata to concerned parents, teachers and children in the Christchurch area I am aware that a lot of…
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It was a bizarre Question Time yesterday with Key, English, and Joyce all answering questions on the dire jobs numbers and giving contradictory excuses. Key said the HLFS unemployment number is the right figure to use but it 'jumps around a lot'. English blamed the…
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I’m not a Labour Party member. I don’t leaflet or campaign on their behalf. And I won’t be exercising any vote at any conference or whatever. But that doesn’t make me or my opinions irrelevant. It simply makes me a left leaning person whose vote…
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A policy focusing on increasing state housing and affordable rents would be a good start. However, my criticism of the current Labour leadership focuses more on the policy direction of the leadership team, rather than solely being on the leader. The neoliberal scam is falling…
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Here's an entry to add to the already very long list of why people move to Australia. Apparently, they have much better taste in media there: Paul Henry's breakfast show axed Controversial broadcaster Paul Henry may be on his way back to New Zealand after…
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So, in an effort to make a post not calling for the head of David Shearer, I decided to take a look at the Labour Party's conference webpages. And oh boy are they a treat. I've blogged before about Labour's (or at least, Shearer's office's) poor grasp…
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Courtesy of interest.co.nz, Here's a special edition of "Shearer Says" - not the weekly newsletter, but a media stand-up on the leadership issue. For all the criticism of his media skills, Shearer's performance here is excellent, clear and focused. (Usually I'd put this up under…
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NZ Herald: 'David Shearer is brushing off a crescendo of calls for him to step down by left-leaning bloggers and commentators, saying it is "nonsense" and should be ignored.'
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Like everyone else, I don't read the Listener or Kiwiblog, so it was 3 months until Anthony drew this article to my attention. Apart from nearly falling out of my chair laughing when Farrar's voice is described as "gravelly" and raising my eyebrows when I…
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The bunker of stupid is where you go to hide from facts you don't like. It's a bit crowded in there at the moment, what with all the climate change deniers, Republican commentators and the like. But somehow there's always room for one or two…
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It's actually a myth that lemmings commit "mass suicide" by hurling themselves off cliffs. Which is a pity really, because as metaphors go the lemming suicide is a pretty damn useful one. It's what we humans are currently engaged in, just for example. A quick…
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After last week's unemployment figures gave us at 7.3% the worst jobless rate since National were last in power 13 years ago - worse than through the whole Global Financial Crisis, 2% worse than Aussie unemployment in their 'slump' - there was more sobering economic…
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Next weekend, the Labour Party has the opportunity to become a truly progressive social democratic party. One that values and wants member input into one of its most crucial decisions: the selection of the leader. For the past year, the Labour Party has been engaged…
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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. I am filled with admiration for our Prime Minister. The latest employment figures are a disaster, and appear to show that this government does not know how…
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No Right Turn on this week's offering from the Nat roulette wheel of political distractions... This week's distraction Unemployment at record levels? A Minister looking whiffy over corruption? An embarrassing contracting-out failure which makes Ministers look incompetent? There's nothing for National to do but spin the wheel! And this week,…
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Since the leadership debacles of the late 80's and early 90's, I've always had a strong dislike of shifting leadership mid-term in coups. The sight of scavengers scrabbling over the corpse of their party is unedifying, distracts from real political work, and above all it…
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Someone tipped me off about this Kiwiblog post where DPF tries to play the wise 'ol political insider: The war against Shearer The Standard has done three posts in two days calling for David Shearer to go, and on who should replace him. While each…
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Tomorrow is the centenary of the death of Fred Evans on 13 November 1912, during the Waihi gold miners strike. Out of this struggle of ordinary, but courageous NZ workers, grew the NZ Labour Party. Who now has such courage to lead NZ politics in…
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