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I had a go at TV NZ's new Vote Compass: It aims to provide a check of which party a participant is most likely to vote for. The explanation of purpose says: ONE News is hosting Vote Compass - an interactive online tool allowing voters…
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Aroha mai, Aroha atu. When love is given, love is returned. Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei Address at the Green Party Election Campaign Launch 2014 AUT, 17 August 2014 Aroha mai, Aroha atu. When love is given, love is returned This…
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lprent: Decided to just post this. The Green Party today launched a billion dollar package to significantly reduce child poverty in New Zealand. The details of the plan were released at the party’s campaign launch in Auckland. The plan is the core component of the…
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Apparently Cameron Slater is going to "out" the identity of who got the emails off his system. What is the bet that he has it wrong - again? His track record is that he virtually always gets it wrong when he "outs" people. Look at…
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I'm heading off to get some lunch before going to the Green's campaign launch. It is (for those like me who forgot) at The details are: When: August 17, 2014 at 2pm - 4pm Where: Sir Paul Reeves Building, 86 Governor Fitzroy Pl in Auckland Make sure you put…
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lprent: Rob Gilchrist was a police spy on activists for a long time. He was unmasked by Rochelle Rees (rocky) and Nicky Hager. Being involved in many activist groups around the country he'd known Nicky Hager as a person to send stories to. Rob Gilchrist…
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Reposted from Occasionally erudite Following on from my earlier post regarding Nicky Hager’s new book, Dirty Politics, there’s the issue of Cameron Slater and Jason Ede accessing the Labour Party computer system. The Greens have filed a police complaint, but was a crime committed? In the NZ Herald, John…
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One of the bits of mis-truth that John Key stated in the press stand up last week (as on the TV3 video) was that the Left is into dirty politics because it doesn't want to campaign on policies, and can't win on policies. That is…
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Judith Collins naming the eponymous Simon Pleasants to Cameron Slater as the suspect in a document leak in 2009 is unconscionable behaviour. She cannot now remain a Minister, otherwise Key's claim to a high standard when it comes to Ministerial behaviour is in tatters. This…
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John Key has for the past couple of days dismissed Nicky Hager's book and has claimed that National has done nothing wrong and has nothing to apologise for. It appears that the defence is starting to unwind however and there must be questions about the…
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Forget this week's the Nation panel. Helen Kelly should have been on it. She has read some of Dirty Politics, and was originally booked to be on The Nation's panel. Martyn Bradbury describes what happened: Todays panel discussion on The Nation was a bloody joke. Josie…
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Over at The Ruminator there is a post by Lord Sutch that cuts a big hole in the denials by Judith Collins and Cameron Slater denials about their mutual back-scratching in private vendettas. It came up in comments here and apparently over at Hard News…
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The main narrative that structures Nicky Hager's Dirty Politics is as important as the details of specific events covered in the book. Hager explained this at the book launch as the "two track politics" that is a feature of John Key's leadership of the National…
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The aftermath of Nicky Hager's book rumbles on. The Herald this morning has further coverage on issues arising from the Book. The discussion between Cactus Kate and Slater about Hager's address and how publishing it could put him in some danger is the subject of…
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I don't like listening to talkback radio, it's not my thing. But I was prompted to listen today to a clip of Josie Pagani as she apparently named 3 regular 'anonymous' Standard bloggers. More on that in a bit. Whilst I've got as frustrated as…
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From the NZ Palestine Solidarity Network Facebook ad: "A Nation-wide Day of Action has been called for the 16th of August 2014. Ongoing Israeli aggression and bombardment of Gaza has killed over 1800 people, injured tens of thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands. We are demanding…
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It is possible that a deliberately enabled loophole in our current GCSB law opens the way for the GCSB to legally spy on New Zealanders. Denis Tegg reports that there are problems with the definition of "privacy" in the GCSB Law, following its amendment last year.…
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What a surprisingly even-handed opinion piece from the New Zealand Fox News Herald political commentator John Armstrong about the coming consequences of Nicky Hager's "Dirty Politics". In part, Armstrong writes . . . . . . If John Key wishes to avoid being labelled the…
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So Bill Ralston and Guyon Espiner think it's terrible this pseudonymous blogging. And Lynn gave a good defence - but I felt I wanted to add to it... The thing is being only pseudonymous (like much on the net), all the important details to my…
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It's John Key. In this wide-ranging stand-up interview, he explains how "the left" conspired to ensure over the last three days that they burnt an effigy of him, used a few swear words about him on You-Tube, ran a satirical video, and Nicky Hager launched…
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You can always tell how desperate National has been hurt by a scandal by the ferocity of the counterattack that it and its allies respond with. Based on this it seems the Hager book has done a lot of damage. And it has done so…
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If I forget to lock my front door before leaving the house is that an open invitation to come and help yourself to my worldly possessions? According to the Crimes Act: No. Walking into someone's house and helping yourself to their possessions, even when they…
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I've been getting irritated about some of the comments in the media by ignorant fools1 about The Standard and its authors. So I've changed a long standing policy about talking to the media whilst this continues. I answered Chris Bramwell from RNZ today after they pestered mickysavage2.…
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According to John Key, allegations about Jason Ede's muckspreading activities in cahoots with Cameron Slater are nothing to do with Key and his office because Ede now does not work any more on the 9th floor of the Beehive as chief rubbish-snapper for the Office…
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(Reposted with permission from NZNOblog.) NZNO organiser and our StandUp representative on the Council of Trade Unions Women’s Council, Georgia Choveaux talks about how proud she is that New Zealand women were the first to vote. “You do not have the right to vote.” Can you…
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Scott at ImperatorFish kindly allows us to repost his blogs. Original here. As a totally neutral and non-partisan lobby group, not at all affiliated with any right-leaning parties that have blue in their logos, it’s important for us to get our message across. If there’s…