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Today Green MP Holly Walker dragged out of Judith Collins that the NAct government will not be implementing the recommendations of the Electoral Commission on MMP. Then Collins goes on to defend her position with reference to the lack of "consensus", clearly associating this with…
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Since Joyce's and Key's announcement yesterday of the dirty SkyCity deal, there have been some well informed responses, indicating just how un-ethical and anti-democratic the deal is. There have also been responses from people with law backgrounds that support the Green's position that a future…
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Aaron Gilmore has promised 'utu', or reciprocation, against a select band of National insiders including Cameron Slater and Andrew Riches. But what does Slater have to do with Riches? The link is National's dirty campaigner, Simon Lusk, who regularly works with Slater. The word is…
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As widely discussed, we the people of the planet have passed a dangerous and depressing milestone: Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a…
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Over at Kiwiblog David Farrar's having a big cry about the Greens indicating they'd legislate against the dodgy contract this government has struck with Sky city. To David, the property rights conveyed by contract law are paramount above all other rights. Including the rights of…
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Jeff Price and Rachel Warren of the Tyndall Institute have just published a rather upbeat piece of research. The good news is that 60 per cent of the projected climatic range loss for biodiversity due to climate change may, in fact not be lost and…
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After a brutal smear-campaign from Key, Gilmore is gone. Nothing he did made him unfit to be an MP ,* but lying to Key meant Key had to get him out of the caucus or look weak. And the only safe way to do that…
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Who was missing from the Mighty River sale announcement last week? Who was missing from the SkyCity dirty deal announcement this morning? Being seen at the front of positive government stories is a big part of the PM's job, unless concerns over protecting Brand Key…
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Danyl at Dim-Post hit the nail on the head with this classic image and post last week: Two comparisons Back in 2007 the Labour Party introduced the Electoral Finance Act, the main effect of which prevented organisations that weren’t registered political parties from spending more…
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John Banks has announced that he will stand in Epsom again at the next election. That is, of course, always assuming that he doesn't get chucked out of Parliament first: I haven't committed any offence': ACT leader Banks faces a charge of filing a false…
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SkyCity will get more pokies and cashless gambling in return for building the convention centre that it always wanted to build. (...excuse me, I'm just trying not to puke watching Len Brown on Breakfast as he shrugs off the problem gambling increase from this deal...)…
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So John Key's (and Stephen Joyce's) National party made sure Gilmore was out of the way before they announced their dubious Sky City for (more) pokies deal. The pokies system in NZ is rife with dubious goings on. An article this morning on Stuff, reports…
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