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Daily Review 07/07/2015
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Deconstructing the government’s report card
The government has awarded itself a nice report card: Crime and welfare-dependency down - Government report card The number of children living in benefit-dependent households has dropped by 42,000 in three years, new government figures show. Some of the specific indicators are good. But with…
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Common People; Yanis Varoufakis is all Class.
The most stunning moment in the Greek referendum result was the immediate resignation of Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. He had already said he would quit if the referendum was lost; nobody expected that he would go after such a convincing win. But Varoufakis is not…
Annette King capitalism class war clayton cosgrove david cunliffe david shearer International labour phil goff politicans Politics socialism
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Police using “sealed” Hager documents?
From Stuff yesterday: Police undertaking to Dirty Politics author Nicky Hager allegedly broken Police broke their undertaking not to use information seized from the home of Dirty Politics author Nicky Hager, the investigative journalist's lawyer claims. ... Hager wants the High Court to review the…
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Open mike 07/07/2015
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Lets restrain those damnfool knights eh?
A few weeks ago, The Economist led with this paragraph. THE struggle has been long and arduous. But gazing across the battered economies of the rich world it is time to declare that the fight against financial chaos and deflation is won. In 2015, the…
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Daily Review 06/07/2015
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other. Update: For BM's education ...
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An idea that could catch on
https://twitter.com/charlesfrith/status/617665034815062016 And while we're on the subject... https://twitter.com/beingrichard/status/617777592184242180
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Bill English’s groundhog decades
Bill English talking about dairy and recession on Q&A yesterday.. "It's about 5 to 6 per cent of the whole economy. It's only 20 per cent of our exports. The other 80 per cent will be starting to enjoy the benefits of the lower exchange rate,…
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School lunches – Key vs data
All the way back in March the Nats (along with ACT and Peter Dunne) voted down the "feed the kids" bill. Better to spend money on a flag change that no one wants, rather than feeding hungry kids, apparently. Part of Key's argument against the…
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Open mike 06/07/2015
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The Greek referendum
(Photo from AFP) By the time you read this the Greeks will have voted in a referendum on whether or not they should accept austerity. The stakes are high. Next week either they resign themselves to continuous austerity imposed hardship or they move into unchartered waters and…