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After TV Two's successful series of 'allo, allo, allo, allo based at the Whale Oil Cafe, a pilot series "Raw Shark - the Cafe" will be screening on TV Two in October. Written by cadet reporter, Tracy Whatshite each episode stars two left wing celebrities…
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Reposted from The Jackal It's unfortunate that those involved in the Dirty Politics scandal have taken National's election win as some sort of vindication of their devious tactics. However, the business as usual approach people like Cameron Slater and David Farrar are taking, so soon…
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Yet another election, yet another National victory. Despite all the scandalous allegations (some proven) levelled at the incumbent, the King of Teflon reigns yet again. John Key must be secretly grateful to the big gabbling marshmallow from Germany for poisoning the left and for taking…
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Yes the Left have taken a drubbing, but never mind, time to pick ourselves up off the floor, patch up our wound pride, dust ourselves off, cast around for our friends and allies, and re-enter the fray. Lots of work for us to do, no…
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From Facebook last night: This evening I announced my intention to put my name forward for the leadership of the Labour Party. Now is our opportunity to revitalise our party and to renew our connection with New Zealanders. We must be relevant to their lives, hopes…
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One of the few bright spots for Labour on election day was Dunedin, with both North and South returning Labour candidates (David Clark and Clare Curran respectively, congratulations to both). Dunedin North (provisional results) even gave the party vote to Labour by a narrow margin,…
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Latest developments in Australia are relevant in the context of the recent focus on surveillance in NZ. The entire Australian web can be monitored Australian spies will soon have the power to monitor the entire Australian internet with just one warrant, and journalists and whistleblowers…
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David Cunliffe will not go quietly. Although he has resigned as Labour's leader he intends to stand again for the position. He has made the following statement: I have today decided to resign the leadership of the Labour Party, effective from the end of caucus…
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Labour's Council is currently meeting. David Cunliffe is expected to make a statement today at 2:30. It will be covered live by RNZ, 3 News and other outlets. Update: David Cunliffe has announced his resignation from the leader's position but will contest the vacant leadership.…
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This post by Stephanie Rodgers originally appeared at Boots Theory. You can follow Stephanie on Twitter. It wasn’t at all surprising to me that David Farrar is scathing of students who have to seek hardship grants to pay their bills, categorising them as bludgers who “say yes…
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National's attack on Kim Dotcom during this election was as viciously personal as it was effective. Nice to see one Journalist speaking up about it: Dita De Boni: Kim Dotcom - the unwanted entrepreneur ... The National Party spin doctors have been hard at work,…
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So National will continue their rorts by giving ministries to their tame poodles, Rimmer and the Hair. Despite each making the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party look like it has a serious electoral mandate. I guess it makes it look like National has friends, and Act…
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I admit that I was disappointed and slightly gutted that I wasn't part of the new Green Caucus this week, the way we were polling the week before it looked as though I had a real chance. It never happened and the celebratory feeling at…
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So there's a serious disconnect between Labour gaining 5 electorate seats and getting their worst result since 1922. Is that just because Labour failed to ask hard enough for the party vote? When I stood as a candidate in 2011 the perceived wisdom was that…
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Labour lost the party vote, but retained the electorates. Looking at the results it is pretty clear that this appears to have been a deliberate decision by Labour's remaining electorate MPs. With the exception of the six Maori electorate MPs, Damien O'Conner on the West…
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Someone tell the Taxpayer's union. The New Zealand taxpayer is going to be ripped off. There is within Parliament a rort occurring that will increase a brand new MP's salary by about $75,000 and will give his minnow party resources that it does not deserve. It…
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National's dirty politics blogs continue in full effluent flow. In the last two days one of Farrar's targets, Dr Gilbert (a lecturer at Canterbury) has updated his story. In a first post: Proof of David Farrar’s deception: my own experience of Dirty Politics In the…
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A train is travelling through a nasty thunderstorm. It’s an express train; it’s late at night, and it’s travelling fast. The bad weather unnerves the driver. He’s had several close calls already. He squints through the small window in the cab, at the curve ahead…
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travellerev in comments. Just a word of warning. A facebook group called “John Key has let down New Zealand” has just been closed for violations of the user agreement. This group had 16.000 members and was one of the most active political facebook pages in…
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Not that you'd know it from most media coverage, but National has been steadily cutting funding to health and education in real terms (not keeping up with inflation and rising demand). Today yet another doctor broke: Orthopaedics chief quits, slams health board Orthopaedic surgeon Associate…
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We have a situation where 4 or 5 blokes with longstanding one-day-i'll-be-the-prime-minister fantasies all pathetically fight each other for a go as captain of the titanic. I suggest we lock them up in a room with a keg of Emersons so they can get drunk,…
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Reposted from No Right Turn While the left lost the election, it looks like we've won another battle in the war of ideas, with John Key being forced to at least pretend he wants to do something about child poverty: Prime Minister John Key has…
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Labour now has a choice. Spend the next 3 months in naval gazing about "why we lost" and "how to appeal to voters", and playing musical chairs with the leaders. Again! Then wait patently for your next "turn" in Dictatorship. Or join the Greens in…
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It’s great to see John Key taking a sudden interest in addressing child poverty in New Zealand. In Parliament in 2012, when Metiria Turei produced a graph showing how fast inequality was growing, his response was: That graph looks like the National Party’s poll ratings…
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Unity is much easier to call for when your faction is doing the leading and the calling. It is much harder to provide when your faction is not doing the leading, and feels wronged. Whatever the outcome of Labour's current leadership debate, many of us…