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A nice win for Labour and an all too rare example of MMP working as it should. News today... Mondayising bill expected to pass into law Mondayising Anzac Day and Waitangi Day is all but a reality after Prime Minister John Key confirmed this morning…
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So, John Key is heading back from yet another overly long 'trade mission' that seemed to involve little in the way of actual meetings and a lot in the way of trying on silly hats. While in Latin America, he somehow managed to snub our…
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The Keep Our Assets petition will be submitted today at 12.30 at Parliament with approximately 400,000 signatures -get along if you can for the presentation. It is the largest petition in New Zealand history. The referendum that will follow will test National's mandate for asset…
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Barring a miraculous outbreak of common sense the sale of at least some state owned assets is going ahead. Should the parties of the Left continue to oppose the process? Lew At Kiwipolitico (loudly cheered on by Bryce Edwards) doesn't think so. I think Lew…
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The NZ Herald states New Zealand banks face what's expected to be the biggest class suit the country's seen over $1 billion in default fees claimed by lenders over the past six years. Three of Australasia's biggest law firms will announce the class suit to…
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Reading the Economist this morning and saw the pseudonymous Free Exchange blog post on the economics of internet - specifically "How to quantify the gains that the internet has brought to consumers". It was followed up by a post by Hal Varian, the chief economist at Google.…
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OK "smarter" is the wrong word - the Brits are more politically engaged than us. That's just a personal opinion, having lived in both places, but it seems to be that the British are more interested and more critically engaged in their political process than…
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