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Three days after Workers Memorial Day, the Independent Taskforce on Workplace Safety has just released its report. In finding the New Zealand workplace health and safety system is "not fit for purpose" the report provides yet another indictment of so-called light-handed regulation and a policy…
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This was originally posted on The Daily Blog last week. Early last month there was a study published by Marcott et al with a reconstruction of the climate from available proxy data since the last major glacial events which ended about 11,000 years ago. As the editor…
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Hot on the heels of electricity industry funded Lewis Evans publishing an op-ed about how terrible NZ Power is, another academic has popped up to claim the policy is the end of the world. This time it's Dr Allan Miller, whose argument is that it…
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I/S at No Right Turn on the difference between what was promised of the "3 strikes" law and the way it is being used in practice. "The worst of the worst" When National passed its "three strikes" legislation in 2010, they promised that it would…
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An Advantage New Zealand conference is happening at the moment at John Key's favourite conference centre (SkyCity), with major players in the oil and gas industries sharing ideas, and strategies. They are promoting and backing each others' profit-making enterprises, no matter how destructive to our…
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Lewis Evans had an op-ed in the Dompost yesterday. It attacked NZ Power in confused terms. Evans claimed, for instance, that all the savings from lower costs would come from lower dividends to the Government, when a moment's thought shows you that's not true and…
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Geoff Bertram states in today's DomPost (repeated on interest.co.nz) that he advised the Select Committee on the Mighty River Power sale legislation that the excessive profits gained by the power companies were potentially subject to regulatory interest by any government that placed consumer interest ahead…
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Parekura Horomia has died following a bout of illness. He was a great Totara in the Labour forest and will be greatly missed. Whano koe ki te rangi ... ki a Tawhirimatea, kia kaha ai koe, kia toa ai koe... kia whai mana ai koe.…
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I/S at No Right Turn on the Nats' excuses and choices as they oppose the extension of paid parental leave. National hates families So, despite massive public support for the bill, National is still threatening to veto the extension of paid parental leave. Their reason? We…
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So the big Aussie banks in NZ are on course for showing they have made record profits in their last financial year, according to Richard Meadows on Stuff: Banking analysts expect record-breaking profits from the ‘Big Four' Aussie lenders this week, but their local offshoots'…
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The Nats' first reaction to NZ Power was hysterical nonsense about North Korea, the 1970s and communists (just like old times - remember when Key said Working for Families was "communism by stealth!"?). That didn't get them very far. So more recently they (and their…
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John Key has committed to giving up the National Party's leadership (and, presumably, politics altogether) if he loses the next election. That didn't stop him from committing the next National Government from reversing NZ Power and putting up electricity prices when it comes to power…
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