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Connect these dots. One: Foreign students turned off by NZ Labour blames dodgy education providers and agents for drop in fee-paying customers from abroad. Immigration "hiccups", dodgy education providers and unscrupulous student agents are damaging New Zealand's export education reputation, says Labour export education spokesman…
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The withdrawal of News Corp from SkyNZ, and the recent deal about press regulation in the UK is a symptom of the demise of media moguls, like Murdoch and a shift of balance between the corporate media and politicians. It is part of the demise of…
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I/S at No Right Turn on the insanity of scrapping the home insulation programme. Insanity The Warm Up New Zealand / Heat Smart home insulation program is one of the government's few policy successes, producing health benefits four times greater than its costs. So naturally, they're…
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So, some Republican Senator has become the first of his ilk to, um, come out in favour of marriage equality after he learned his son is gay. Apparently, this is just lovely. The man wrestled with his prejudices and his Christian love and tolerance won.…
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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. Labour Party leader David Shearer has moved quickly to discipline one of his MPs for failing to declare a pecuniary interest. "I expect high standards…
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So much for all this propaganda about the asset sales being all about deepening markets here and giving Kiwis a chance to invest. When it came to building the website for the pre-registration, where did the Nats go? To Aussie. They got an Aussie company…
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Apparently the government is concerned for the general health of people in New Zealand. Apparently, an expression of this concern is the roll out of policy initiatives that will result in New Zealand being smoke free by 2025. As a fairly heavy smoker of some…
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Irrelevant fringe group "Family First" really only has one drum, so I guess that they have nothing better to do except continue to beat it. But they really are (to mix my metaphors) flogging a dead horse: Poll: People want smacking law changed Better headline…
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Micky savage of Waitakere News looks at John Key's involvement in the Solid Energy fiasco. National's undeserved reputation as sound economic managers takes another hit... Has John Key jumped the shark? Happy Days was a highly successful American sit com that screened for a decade.…
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Corin Dann interviewed Bill English very well on climate change and the drought yesterday on Q+A. It was clear that English has his head in the dust. Despite claiming that the government is leading on climate change, English would barely let the 'cc' words pass…
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I've just been alerted to the fact that Danyl from the dimpost has a novel out called Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley. If it's as entertaining as his blog it'll be a must read. I'm looking forward to getting a copy.
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