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This doesn't need any extra comment: New spy laws comparable to Big Brother Planned changes for surveillance a step towards totalitarianism, claims professor New laws to allow spying on New Zealand citizens is a step towards totalitarianism, says a professor of cyber security and forensics.…
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Eddie explored yesterday who stands to lose from falling asset values in electricity companies resulting from lower power prices. The answer: the Crown and foreign investors. Now, JBWere has estimated those book value losses at up to $1.4b for Contact and Trustpower, meaning $4b all…
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So, John Key, Bill English, and Steven Joyce are now devoting all their energy into trying to stop the asset sales programme collapsing after the Greens and Labour gave notice the excessive profits are going to end, and National confirmed they're for real by suspending…
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New Zealand's energy pricing over the last twenty years was thoroughly canvassed by Dr Geoff Bertram last year in a paper presented to the Fabian Society as part of its "Light-handed Regulation" series. The paper can be found here, and in the light of the…
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The government announced about an hour ago, that it has suspended the share offer for Mighty River Power until tomorrow, while it devises a supplementary disclosure in the light of the Labour-Green NZ Power policy. Monday, 22 April 2013, 4:05 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government Minister…
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You know it's getting near time to go. Saturday's DomPost Diary (not on-line) reports : When actress Chelsie Preston Crayford spotted Prime Minister John Key at a recent event, she leapt at the opportunity to get a photo with him - not because she's a…
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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. Energy Minister Steven Joyce has condemned the “socialist lunacy” of both Labour and the Greens, after Labour Party leader David Shearer was spotted buying coffee…
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Aotearoa is Not for Sale is counting down to the National Day of Action this Saturday 27 April. Some people have posted explanations of why they will be participating in the Day of Action. Martyn Bradbury: My disgust at allowing those who have benefited most from tax…
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I just noticed that we passed 12,000 posts a few days ago. Appropriately, it was our stalwart, Anthony, who hit the mark with a post on Mini 'W'. Funnily enough, it didn't get all that many comments. Nowadays, the average post gets over 70 comments…
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The draft Auckland Unitary Plan is a massive (and impressive) collection of documents, and is hard for an Auckland lay person like me to get my head around. One of the main elements of it, is that it focuses perhaps incorrectly, on the presumed continuing growth of the Auckland region.…
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New Zealanders put their trust in John Key. As the 2008 election neared, New Zealanders sensed a positive change was in the offing, a change driven by optimism which held out the reassurance that the darkening and ominous clouds heralding financial meltdown gathering around previously…
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Can there be a greater sign of the threat that National sees in NZ Power than the fact they have put out 5 press releases condemning it in 4 days? Joyce has even come out of his undisclosed location to pooh-pooh it - although he…
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If Labour and the Greens were talking about nationalising the dairies or taking over the factories, I could understand their cries of 'protect property rights' but, actually, Labour and the Greens aren't nationalising anything, they're just changing the system that National invented in the 1990s.…
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