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Rob Salmond highlights some of the drug-laden smoke waffling out of National and greedily getting snorted up by some of the more credulous media. Claire Trevett's sources have told her porkies about Labour's internal polling numbers. She reports: List MPs were doing the numbers as internal…
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The very impressive Ginny Andersen topped a strong group of candidates at yesterday's Wellington list conference. She's worked for the police for the past eight years in policy and community work, is married with four children, one very new. She is also Labour's candidate for…
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Yesterday's and today's Heralds have a fascinating collection of articles all suggesting that patience with this Government is running thin. Firstly more questions relating to Donghua Liu's extraordinary treatment by Maurice Williamson were raised. Adam Bennett reported that Williamson had in the past lobbied three different Ministers…
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OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER FROM DAVID CUNLIFFE, LABOUR LEADER Rt Hon John Key Prime Minister Executive Wing PARLIAMENT 9 May 2014 Prime Minister A PROPOSED RESPONSE TO FLOODING No-one could have foreseen what Cantabrians have and are still facing. This is made worse…
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Today the District Court of Rotorua gave the CTU leave to take a private prosecution against the employer of forestry worker Charles Finlay for failing to take all practical steps to keep him safe. Charles got home at 6pm the night before he was killed…
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Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder was voted NBA Most Valuable Player by 119 votes to 6 for LeBron James who had won the award in the previous three years. If you want a lift, his acceptance speech is well worth a watch -…
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Whether or not the National Party has done anything illegal with its Cabinet Club/s fundraisers, there are wider issues about values, who the National government represents, and how they insert themselves within networks of influence. A major part of the opposition and media focus has…
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As Judith Collins enters her second day of lying low it's instructive to look at the wider picture of National's internal politics, in particular the careful way in which the establishment Nats are slowly and strategically removing Collins' influence so they can ditch her safely.…
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No Right Turn looks at the Australian and UK problems with cash-for-access to ministers. New Zealand isn't the only place currently seeing a cash-for-access scandal. In Australia, the federal Treasurer has a similar arrangement to the National Party, selling access to a donors by membership of…
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With the government increasingly on the back foot over its lack of integrity, and the Morgan poll indicating a possible shift in sentiment, now is the perfect time for Labour to come out with a succinct and positive programme for its approach to alternative government…
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The original of this post by Rob Salmond at Polity is here. Yesterday, John Key lied to Parliament. He made a very specific claim about a set of official documents, and those same documents show clearly that the claim was false. First, here’s Key’s statement in…
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Yesterday the global dairy trade auction was held. This is the market place that tends to drive the internationally traded price of dairy products. Prices are still going down as they have since Feburary. The rate of decrease was less than previous drops. Only 1.1%…
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The latest Roy Morgan poll is out and the results will be of concern to the Government. Labour is up 2.5% to 31%, the Greens are up 3% to 14.5% while National is down 6% to 42.5%. It appears that the beneficial effect of the…
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So Colins survived Parliament yesterday. Some of the papers are talking as if the opposition had a chance yesterday to force Collins' removal as Minister but this was never going to happen. Instead Collins managed to get through question time, deflect answers and create the impression…
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No Right Turn points out that depressing fact that "Still 42,000 (more) out of work under National". Tories don't really care until they have to pay taxes for the debt. But hey they voted themselves a tax cut in 2008 - so they're still happy…
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The announcement from National that they'd bribe unemployed beneficiaries to go to Christchurch was "An empty grab for headlines" as No Right Turn eloquently put it. It looked more like an attempt to divert attention away from the continuing disaster of Judith Collins. National has…
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http://youtu.be/YPKgpHelkiA We still don't know why Joyce is pushing on with the move to shut Invermay, Dunedin's impressive AgResearch centre, but it's still not too late to stop him and the AgResearch board. Last week, one of the biggest breeds of sheep, Texel breeders voted no…
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It now appears that Judith Collins would have to commit murder to be relieved of her ministerial warrants - or perhaps not. I was reading George Monbiot's latest column - about how Britain is becoming the land of impunity - and saw too many parallels.…
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Yesterday Judith Collins announced that she was quitting Twitter. Embattled justice minister Judith Collins is abandoning Twitter, and Prime Minister John Key says he backs her decision because it's full of "trolls and bottom-feeders". Key said he had not given Collins an edict to stay…
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Tova O'Brian has broken a story about National's "Cabinet Club" fundraising programme. The concept is straight forward: pay a fee and get face time with Ministers. Except Ministers aren't supposed to use their position to promote fundraising. It's a breach of the Cabinet Manual. National's…
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When John Key said he wouldn't like to be in her shoes if anything more came out about Judith Collins, he presumably just meant that they looked uncomfortable. I mean high-heels, who invented those? Crazy. Since then we've had far more details showing just how…
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David Cunliffe has announced a reshuffle of Labour's Caucus rankings and Portfolio allocations. Details are as follows: 1 Cunliffe Security and Intelligence Regional Development 2 Parker Finance Attorney General 3 Robertson Shadow Leader of House Economic Development, Employment, Skills, Training Assoc Tertiary Education Assoc Security…
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So it has come to this. The self styled crusher of boy racer's cars, the politician who joked about rape in prison, the Minister who smashed up the Family Court and trampled over David Bain's rights of Natural Justice is having a bit of time out. She…
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