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Daily Review 31/05/2016
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Labour Green announcement – working together to change the government
https://twitter.com/NewshubNZ/status/737480060186152962 https://twitter.com/patrickgowernz/status/737480433483423745 I very much hope that Gower is right - let's wait and see... https://twitter.com/ChrisBramwell/status/737483202000883715 Livestream here. Little: A memorandum of understanding - Labour and Greens to work together to change the government. Inspired by last week's failed budget. Labour and Greens have reached…
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Labour builds the houses (yet another Key lie)
Good work by Geoff Simmons at the Morgan Foundation: Fact check: John Key & Steven Joyce on housing In a speech on Friday, Prime Minister John Key claimed that under National, twice as many new houses were being built as under Labour. Steven Joyce followed…
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America votes for…
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Family or Shopping?
National's Employment Minister Michael Woodhouse has introduced a Bill, The Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill, to give councils the right to open shops on Easter Sunday. That would mean retail workers all over the country losing one of just three and a half days in…
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National party to be banned from future budget lockups
Well Oops - https://twitter.com/TheNBR/status/737118709081354241 Note that the wifi network and password to access budget resources are visible on the monitor and this was posted during the strict embargo period. Brilliant! Given recent events, Bernard Hickey was moved to observe - https://twitter.com/bernardchickey/status/737126634684174336 But It's OK because…
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Fine for fox to guard henhouse – says fox
Well they would, wouldn't they: Government rejects 'fox in the henhouse' criticism The Government is rejecting claims its monitoring of over-fishing has been compromised by awarding a contract for video surveillance to a company owned by the fishing industry. Greenpeace says cameras to be installed…
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A scene from the National War Cabinet in September 2014
News broke this morning about a major mistake by the Ministry of Social Development that caused the underpayment of benefits to tens of thousands of Kiwis. From Radio New Zealand: Almost 90,000 beneficiaries have been paid incorrectly, totalling millions of dollars, due to an automatic payment mistake…
benefits election 2014 national same old national Social issues spin welfare you couldn't make this shit up
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Open mike 31/05/2016
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Daily Review 30/05/2016
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas 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 …
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Watkin on the Nats’ housing blame game
Excellent piece on Saturday from Tim Watkin at Pundit: Housing game-changer: Spreading the blame Housing remains the government's biggest weakness and so National is redoubling its efforts. No, not to build houses, but to contain the political damage I can't give you a precise day…
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Housing should not depend on charity – but this is an emergency
John Key's glib advice to the homeless is to go and see WINZ. This is a WINZ that (while no doubt containing caring individuals, as an institution) has been deliberately set up to be as slow, difficult and unpleasant to access as possible, and will…
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More Panama papers and other dirty money
One News has a scoop this morning: Panama Papers: Kiwi trust rules help exiled Kazakh leader keep luxury London mansion The details are complex and not likely to attract much excitement in NZ, but once again we have been shown to be involved in dirty…
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Open mike 30/05/2016
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …