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Simon Bridges – pants on fire
It looks like it's not just workers' rights, and health and safety that Simon Bridges has truth issues with...
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Unbelievable
No Right Turn points out how useless our security minister is. To say this is astonishing would be an understatement John Key's chief justification for his spy law giving the GCSB the right to spy on all New Zealanders is cost: it would apparently cost…
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Keeping it in the Family Commission
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Tale Two – The Death of Shane Frater. Killed 1 May 2009 – Struck by Flying Debris.
I have collected up the available documentation on the men killed in the forest since 2008. I am going to try, using the documents I have, to tell their story – one at a time. I haven’t been able to contact all the families of…
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John Key, Crosby & corporate lobbyists
In the last week there has been some news coverage of UK PM David Cameron's links to corporate lobbyists. There is strong criticism of his links with big tobacco lobbyists, via his Conservative Party's election adviser, Lynton Crosby of Crosby Textor notoriety. This link is…
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Generation Zero: What’s the holdup?
The Generation Zero speaking tour kicked off last night to a packed house in Dunedin. Generation Zero are asking - "What's the holdup?" Why is there no action on carbon emissions and climate change? Right now, we have the opportunity to lead the way to…
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Len is standing again
Len Brown formally announced on Sunday that he will again seek the Auckland Super City Mayoralty. His chances appear good. His opponents to date include rich American John Pallino, who is not known locally and whose comments are simplistic in the extreme, John Minto whose…
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Open mike 16/07/2013
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Lusk/Slater to run negative Auckland campaign
According to the tip line the farcical duo of Lusk and Slater will soon be kicking off a large negative campaign against Len Brown. (Apparently John Slater is right-wing candidate John Palino's campaign manager.) Recall that Lusk was after big American money trying to interfere…
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Defending democracy – then and now
Way back before the 2008 election the Labour led government was criticised by the Human Rights Commission, among others, over the first draft of the Electoral Finance Bill (EFB). The response of that government was to revise the Bill - largely (though not completely) to…
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War on social security: demonisation of beneficiaries
Today the Nact governments war on beneficiaries steps up a gear with widespread changes to the social security system. Fronted by John Key and Paula Bennett, who got a great start in their adult lives from the social security system that was developed in the…
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How the Right makes people believe lies
A UK study has found that public perceptions of key issues that the Right tries to win votes on are vast exaggerations of reality. People think 24% of benefit money is obtained fraudulently, when it's actually 0.7%. They think there are twice as many immigrants…
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Open mike 15/07/2013
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