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The Fonterra fiasco is turning into a genuine crisis and a huge risk to our economy. The latest this morning: Fonterra powder recalled in Sri Lanka Fonterra has been forced to defend its brand once again amid fresh claims milk powder from the company, being…
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Following a successful application to access a sacked employee's bank statements, Air New Zealand has had its right to insert a prima nocta clause into all of its employment agreements backed by the Employment Relations Authority. The clause, which gives Air New Zealand senior management…
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National is utterly predictable. Bash beneficiaries, weaken employee protection, attack the trade unions, and trash the environment represents for it business as usual. Yesterday it announced its proposal for further changes to the Resource Management Act. Most of the changes are technical and it will…
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A Sunday feature - each week a random section scanned from a copy of The Standard, September 15th, 1938. Find out more here. Click on the image for a bigger version.
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The Nixon link...
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My colleague Eddie had a go at Phil Goff this morning for dickish remarks, and fair enough too. But in the interests of keeping things in perspective, just a reminder as to which is the sexist party here. In National's cabinet just 1 of the…
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Labour has an open and active policy process - with all its democratic advantages and political risks. National is run by money from the top down. It makes National conferences dull affairs. Here's The Herald's Armstrong on National's current Conference in the context of a…
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It doesn't suit the Labour Party narrative - and indeed it's not their espoused philosophy - but every now and then National can't help but be "hands on". We've had the South Canterbury Finances in the past (won't somebody think of the shareholders!), but this…
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The stupidity of Phil Goff's misogynist taunting of Chris Finlayson has been compounded by his refusal to apologise. Unfortunately Phil has a track record for this kind of transparent and disingenuous rationalising of his bad calls. Having notoriously tried to claimed he accepted SkyCity corporate…
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Last week the Child poverty action group released, in two parts, a report into the links between poverty and child abuse (Part 1 pdf, Part 2 pdf). The media were (quite rightly) busy chasing the various spying scandals, so the reports didn't get the attention that…
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Note also that Campbell Live/3 News is running a major poll on the Bill.
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John Key is a bully who uses the powers of his office inappropriately. Every now and then someone calls him on it - Mike Joy, Jon Stephenson, Andrea Vance and Bradley Ambrose being examples. Now it is the turn of Law Society member Rodney Harrison…
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Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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The Governments attack on workers pay seems even more nasty given the stats released this week that show wages stagnating as prices increase especially those prices that workers spend their money on - housing, power, food etc. But the changes to the ERA going through…
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Very early on in the Fonterra scandal there was speculation as to whether the cause of the contamination would be shown to be a product of deregulation. Sure enough, Stuff's Pattrick Smellie makes a good case: Is this a Pike River moment for food safety?…
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Yesterday John Key gave $30 Million of tax payer's money to Rio Tinto in order to prop up its electricity deal with Meridian - and thus to prop up his privatisation ideology. (I note in passing that Rio Tinto just posted a 6 monthly profit…
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Another good policy announcement from David Shearer: Labour pledges $6m for Plunket Labour would inject an extra $6 million into Plunket if elected, leader David Shearer announced today. Shearer called Plunket ''a national treasure'' that needed more money to build on its tradition of helping…
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John Key - financial speculator, gambler, spinmeister, PM as Brand Key - is a walking example of the economic and cultural shift that occurred with the 1980s "neoliberal revolution": The rise of Rogernomics, Thatcherism and Reganism was part of a shift away from the focus…
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John Key just spent another $30 Million of tax payer's money to prop up his privatisation ideology: Tiwai Pt power deal done - Meridian Meridian Energy has resolved its negotiations with Rio Tinto subsidiary New Zealand Aluminium Smelters locking in the Tiwai smelter until at…
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"He is completely and utterly wrong as per normal," Mr Key said. The PM responds to Winston Peters' allegations that the Police considered seizing his phone records in Key's teapot tape witch-hunt with his usual sophistication and class. Key's comments raise an important question: 'would…
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In an otherwise dull piece in The Herald recently, Bob Jones finished up with a typically blunt assessment of the impact of Labour and National governments on the economy: It's no secret the commercial property industry, numbering over 100,000 people in all of its ramifications,…
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http://youtu.be/a6ne08HW56g Hot on the heels of Peter Dunne's privacy problems another MP claims to have had an attempt made to breach his rights of privacy. As noted by Idiot Savant Winston Peters has made some startling claims in Parliament this afternoon. He asked the Prime…
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So the economic data is out and unemployment is up and wages are flat - the lowest rate of wage increase since 2010 (1.7%). 45% of employees didn't get a pay rise, and the gender pay gap is now up to 13.24%. Pacific unemployment increased…
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Last night the filibster of the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill - Committee Stage - Part 1, delayed the passing of the Third reading until at least 20 August. Last night's speeches put the hypocrisy of John Key and Peter Dunne under…
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Yesterday Opposition parties filibustered, and successfully delayed the passage of the Key-Dunne spying Bill (linked article includes clips of some of the speeches). This buys more time to protest, and to put pressure on MPs. We have never before seen in New Zealand such a…