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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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There's a thought in some parts of Labour - in fact, only the Leader's Corridor, far as I can tell - that they need to 'put the Greens in their place', then they will get back the votes that the Greens have taken from them,…
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Another day, another example of some unseemly looking stuff from the Nats. This time it's Judith Collins choosing Robert Kee - a friend of her husband - for a $200,000 a year taxpayer funded job. According to Fisher's article in the Herald: Mrs Collins appointed…
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One of the mantras of the current government is the importance of charity in society. The state is not necessarily the best deliverer of social services, they'll tell you. Which is why it's important to get the private sector involved. The assumption is that the…
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Oamaru lost 192 jobs on Thursday as its second-largest employer, Summit Wool Spinners, closed its doors. The knock-down effect could claim hundreds more in a town with a workforce of only 7,000. Events like this can cripple a small town and consign the workers to…
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Here we go with Poverty Watch for another year. December 2012 saw the release of two important reports, the Children’s Social Health Monitor 2012 Update Report, and the Children’s Commisioner Expert Advisory Group’s report on Solutions to Child Poverty (EAG Report). I hope to spend time over the…
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Reprinted with permission from Frankly Speaking. Did we just hear Steven Joyce sh*t all over his colleagues?!?! Full story . Steven Joyce, “Steven Joyce revealed that Education Minister Hekia Parata, Finance Minister Bill English and former education minister Craig Foss approved the use of Novopay despite being…
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Greetings and Happy New Year. We have a big year ahead of us. We will be holding the Government to account and standing up for the hard working Kiwis that this Government has forgotten. But we also need to show New Zealanders there is a…
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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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Some good advice from an anonymous scribe in The Herald this morning: Editorial: Work in jail scheme will do more harm than good ...Then there is the notion of putting prisoners to work while they are behind bars. Not only will they no longer be…
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While National continues to deny there's a manufacturing crisis and the main opposition wastes its time plotting clever procedural tricks the high dollar claims another 200 Kiwi jobs - this time as Summit Woolspinners closes in Oamaru. The really depressing prospect is that this is…
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