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This weekend, TEPCO is going to try and begin the process of removing spent fuel rods from a cooling pond at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4. The fuel rods are about the thickness of a human thumb and 15 feet long. There are 1533 of them…
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Well that didn't take long. The Insurance Council has come out attacking Labour for KiwiAssure. Which is odd really, given the claim that there's already a competitive market. You'd have thought they would welcome a new member to the industry. Wouldn't you? Or alternatively, they've…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9CRHikbOzw&feature=youtu.be Enjoy ...
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Labour's new KiwiAssure policy has been welcomed by John Armstrong as good politics. And it is. But it's also good policy - at the same time we've got a government hell bent on making sure electricity profits flow to overseas investors, David Cunliffe's policy is…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisKm6_qk7E And from David's speech ... Just as KiwiBank gave us a customer-focused, low cost Kiwi-owned bank, KiwiAssure will give everyone a choice for better service, competititive premiums and local ownership that keeps profits here. KiwiAssure will be a sister company to KiwiBank, within the…
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Two news items in this morning's NZ Herald online cause me to feel despair for the current state of New Zealand after a couple of decades of "neoliberalism". People can debate some of the detail with respect to the policy direction indicated in Cunliffe's speech…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step right up to the mike…
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For as long as I have been around the Labour party conferences there has been a steadily greying of the members as the slow influx of younger members was outweighed by the aging of the stalwarts. That seems to have finally changed. As David Cunliffe pointed…
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E nga mana o tenei rohe Ngai Tahu Tatou katoa te whanau o te reipa Tena koutou katoa It’s great to be here with you today, with Christchurch’s new Mayor Lianne, our wonderful President Moira, our fantastic candidate for Christchurch East, Poto Williams, and…
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Over the last year or two, our prescient oracle Irishbill has been writing posts on need for the Labour party to make themselves relevant. This post from October last year "The Year Ahead" where he said... Rather, I think that the electorate has simply run out…
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The social was rather packed last night. Unlike the 2012 conference where I started optimistic and wound up as depressed the following day after an evening where caucus members were chasing voting delegates around a nearly empty social. This was followed by a incredibly silly set…
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I normally take the Herald with more than a grain of salt. This is the paper which since the creation of the Labour Party has opposed and criticised its policies. It has been consistently critical and the sense of right wing bias is overwhelming. In…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step right up to the mike…
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The resignation announcements of National MPs are coming thick and fast. It shows that National knows that it's going to have fewer MPs are the next election. If it doesn't want all its seats clogged with MPs that are going nowhere, they need to retire…
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Well I made it down to Christchurch to cover the Labour party conference for The Standard. While I'll probably run out a few posts while I'm here, I figure that I'll write a post per day for the more general discussion and impressions. Plus do…
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We are used to command and control politics here in New Zealand, First Past the Post cultures in an MMP reality. The West Wing, The Thick of It, etc. But the lead-up to the Labour conference this weekend shows only a real coalition will get…
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Fairfax (joined to a lesser extent by the Herald) has decided to go a bit mental on Labour and Cunliffe. An endless stream of stories trying to tweak Cunliffe's nose over every little thing. Part of this is covering the embarrassment of their own rogue…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step right up to the mike…