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I kid you not. The wealthy in Australia want to avoid publishing corporate tax information because of the threat of kidnapping. At least this is what they are saying ... From the Guardian: The assistant treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, told the Coalition party room on Tuesday…
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A guest post from Megan Woods, Labour's MP for Wigram. This week the Environment Minister, Nick Smith, has said democracy 'carried too much risk' for Canterbury. After delays, he has finally showed his hand and announced that it was not a return to democracy that he…
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Over at The Wireless, Pencilsharp has put up a longish cartoon about this daft public relations stunt by John Key and his minons on changing the flag. As he points out (click on image to go to the Wireless), it appears that the main reason that John…
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The pre-election, headline-grabbing, so-called “rock-star economy” may be less in evidence today, but there is still a good deal of self-congratulation about an annual GDP growth-rate of over 3%. There is general agreement that the New Zealand economy is doing pretty well, particularly when compared…
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Labour, in 1984, with Richard Prebble and Roger Douglas, promised that if we adopted their prescription we would have a "Brighter Future". Ruth Richardson in the 90's promised a "Brighter Future". Again in 2014 John Key's National promises a "Brighter Future". A "Brighter Future". For…
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Mike Sabin has a prominent chin - A Poem for Northland Mike Sabin has a prominent chin, John Key has a nice green tie, This poem came to me in a flash last night, I'm sure that I can't say why. Mike Sabin is looking…
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Keith Locke has created a "Not in our name" petition: Petitioning the governments of Japan, China, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Pacific Island nations We ask that you accept this apology from concerned New Zealanders for our government's illegal spying on your nations' electronic communications. It…
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The "last decent liberal" to serve as Australian PM has died, RIP Malcolm Fraser.
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February's Roy Morgan had National down 3% and Labour up 4%. The March poll just released has National down a further 2.5%, and Labour up 1%. Margin of error stuff and nothing to get excited about, but certainly not bad news. Today’s New Zealand Roy…
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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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One of National's big claims in the buy election was that they had created 7500 new jobs in Northland. The claim featured prominently on National's buy election page - as preserved by Google: That's the electorate candidate clearly claiming jobs created in the electorate. Lies…
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In 2010 National did away with democracy in Canterbury, and in 2012 they extended their dictatorship for a further 4 years. The Press: Black day for democracy in Canterbury and the nation The brief statement announcing the continued suspension of democracy at Environment Canterbury will…
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One of the legacies of Mike Sabin's time in Parliament has resurfaced. He claimed to be responsible for the development of a private member's bill where the right to silence would be compromised if the complainant was charged with certain offences against children. If the bill…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWBhoK2fqH0&feature=youtu.be
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Minister for Disability Issues, Nicky Wagner recently wanted to hear from families, children and service providers involved with supporting disabled children as part of a voluntary review. In fact she may have been so busy gathering information (see previous link) that she failed to catch…
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There are many failings outlined. Police were found to have largely treated women and girls with respect and compassion but their investigations were not robust or thorough, inadequate follow-up enquiries... Partial speech by Carruthers is here. Links to speech notes and report here
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There's an odd trend among National Party backbenchers. Slipping in on the list, or shunted into safe seats by a party at the height of its power, they've bought all the spin and never been told the cautionary tale of the dark days of 20.93%.…
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The desperation is showing. Clearly National thinks that it is going to lose the Northland by election and it is pulling out all stops. We had the promise of ten bridges being two laned at a cost of $69 million dollars. I wonder how other regions…
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Last night in Parliament National voted down Harawira / Turei's Feed the Kids Bill, David Shearer's Food in Schools Bill, and Phil Twyford's Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill. Shame shame shame. https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/578047966507720704 https://twitter.com/FoxyLustyGrover/status/578113107244949504 https://twitter.com/janlogie/status/578117469740535808 https://twitter.com/ImperatorFish/status/578120631893397504
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Courtesy of Bryce Edwards. (See also here, here, and the truly horrifying here.)
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Yesterday in the House, John Key admitted that it's "no" coincidence that our deployment to Iraq is scheduled to end at the perfect moment - right before the 2017 election. Andrew Little : Why has he declared that the deployment to Iraq will end, whether…
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Yesterday morning we went though 900k comments. We have done another 100k comments in 188 days since the 800k at September 10th. In the meantime we have had an election, its aftermath, and the summer break. Looking against Eddie's graph, I am pretty sure that we aren't…
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I/S at No Right Turn on Key in Parliament yesterday... Who is lying here? New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions have been growing. Yes, they dropped in 2007 due to the recession, but since then they have continued to grow, from 41.27 MTCO2-e in 2008 to…
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Len Brown's chances of re-election appear to be miniscule. Bernard Orsman in the Herald reported this morning: Auckland Mayor Len Brown has lost the backing of key members of his campaign team, who are turning their attention to other left-leaning candidates at next year's local body…
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3 News had a piece last night on the possible eventual charging of GST on online / international purchases. Interesting topic, worthy of debate. John Key was quoted as saying it was "inevitable". Then he managed to completely put his foot in it: "If you…
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