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Steven Joyce has announced (because Key likes to stay clear of bad news) that SkyCity will not be seeking public funding for its convention center, so looks like it will be Key's "eyesore". This is mostly being described as a "backdown", but there are other…
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Well that happened quickly. I have dreamt since day one back in November 2008 that this National Government would revert to form and that people would see it for what its historical mission always destined it to be, a party for big business by the…
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Apart from lprent and Mike Smith, I am (I believe) the longest serving current Standard author, and by some margin the most published. I have some idea how the place works. Which is one of the reasons why I find external commentary on The Standard…
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So much to sell, so little time... When this Government is finished selling, we will have sold our right to make laws for ourselves too. Be under no doubt, if the effect of bringing in a law for the health and well being of Kiwis…
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Yesterday and today was / is global divestment "day": We are demanding institutions do what is necessary to avert the climate crisis by divesting from fossil fuels. Together, we are making fossil fuels history. From the NZ page: Investing in climate change doesn’t add up….…
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[With apologies to BLiP - this should have gone up yesterday. That would have made made an interesting juxtaposition with TRP's post - for all those that believe that writers at The Standard represent a single view!] Slowly seducing New Zealanders' into assisting with the…
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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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I/S at No Right Turn adds some detail to Matthew Hooton's extraordinary piece at the NBR. "Close to corruption" That's Matthew Hooten's view of National's dodgy Sky City deal: The procurement process for the Auckland centre was a farce and as close to corruption as we…
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Twitter became quite excited yesterday. It was disclosed that Paula Bennett (or at least someone in her office) used a Crown Credit Card to withdraw $1,200 in cash against all the rules imaginable. Initially reports suggested that she had done this. Subsequent reports suggested that…
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Iraqi foreign minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari is expected to ask New Zealand to join the international fight against ISIS when he meets PM John Key, Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully and Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee in Auckland. Our Government is expected respond positively and to make…
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I spent some of Waitangi weekend cycling bits of the Otago Rail Trail. Everything was parched and brown (29 degrees - why is it always uphill in to a head wind?). Locals are calling it The Big Dry. Now the official drought has been declared,…
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The focus group results are in and John Key is backing off from the Government injecting further money into the SkyCity convention centre. Vern Small in stuff has stated: Prime Minister John Key has toughened up his opposition to putting taxpayer cash into the planned SkyCity convention…
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Iain Lees-Galloway, Labour's spokesperson on Labour Issues, has lodged a member's bill which would ban the use of zero-hour contracts: “Unlike casual agreements that provide flexibility for both employer and employee, zero-hour contracts require employees to be available for work at all times but place…
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One law for the rich, another for the poor. If you're a regular person with a regular job, governments will chase you to the ends of the earth for their taxes. In the case of our own Nats, up to and including paper boys/girls. But…
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This is what John Key said two days ago in Parliament about ISIS: This will be a government that will take seriously its responsbilities when it comes to standing up to ISIS. As I said at Waitangi I will not as leader of New Zealand stand…
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Imagine this - a society where women and men are afforded equal rights and decisions are the result of deeply participatory and grassroots democratic procedures. Believe it or not, that’s the case in Syria today within the autonomous cantons of Efrin, Kobane and Cizire where…
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The Labour Party is organising a petition against the $140 million bailout SkyCity is demanding - and John Key is insisting we have to pay to prevent getting an "eyesore" of a convention centre. You can sign the petition here.
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This morning the Salvation Army released their state of the nation report - A Mountain All Can Climb. From the excellent coverage on Stuff, here's the bottom line: THE COUNTRY'S REPORT CARD OUR CHILDREN Child poverty – C- Children at risk – C+ Children and…
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https://twitter.com/CampbellLiveNZ/status/565036624640090112
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Sky City crying too poor to build a bigger casino - give us a break, please! The extra pokies and license extension they negotiated was estimated (by casino expert Sudhir Kale, not the noddies the government used) to be worth an extra $35million a year…
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Well ok, after the election I figured that I could shift the site to some slower storage with a whole lot of redundancy in a RAID6 array of slower drives. We'd have a lot fewer readers than our peak for about six months after post election, right? Nope…
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Sir Edmund Thomas will discuss this topic in Wellington at Connolly Hall, Guildford Terrace, tomorrow Wednesday 11th at 5:30pm. All welcome - see synopsis - if you would like to come please register here. Sir Edmund Thomas argues that the gross inequality in income and…
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I/S at No Right Turn on the most interesting event at the first session of Parliament for 2015. The Speaker's actions open up a complicated can of legal worms, and it will be interesting to see how they are reported, but note that we will…
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John Key is softening us up for the prospect of more Government money being paid to SkyCity for the Convention Centre on the grounds that a convention centre reliant on the proceeds of gambling may be a bit of an eyesore. From Radio New Zealand: John…
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As usual, Gordon Campbell has written the best commentary on current events: Gordon Campbell on the Maori “separatism” bogey Leadership requires the leader to set aside self-interest. It is a concept that sometimes seems quite alien to Prime Minister John Key – who has reached…