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Maybe the Taxpayer's Union should think of an offshoot, the freeloaders' union. After a long battle and industrial action the Teachers Unions have succeeded in obtaining a significant improvement in wages and conditions for their members. But not everyone is happy. Some teachers who do…
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Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, has permanently suspended the legislative proposal to enable extradition of Hong Kong people to among other places mainland China. Hundreds of thousands of people had taken to the streets of Hong Kong to oppose this bill. Previously she had not…
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A 0.4% of the electorate party is looking to increase its reach by proposing a rather strange thing to advocate for, the absolute right for people to insult. From Radio New Zealand: Leader David Seymour said the government was planning to restrict speech laws, and…
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So Mark Richardson thinks he may have a future career, from overpaid TV personality to overpaid public representative. And he claims that he has finally picked a side, although to most of us it appears that his decision was made some time ago. From Stuff:…
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Being a public servant at the highest level takes incredible fortitude. Only a few stand out. Gabriel Makhlouf leaves shortly as the Treasury Secretary. He has led the formation of a framework that has restructured how the government spends public money from the ground up.…
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Boris Johnson declared his candidacy today. The Guardian's Tom Kibasi speculates on his strategy - pick a fight with the EU, make Brexit the issue and call an election. Do a deal with Farage and save Britain from Corbyn. Will it work? A poll in…
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Yesterday Ed posted this comment. I thought it summed up National's current budgetgate problems perfectly and deserved a post of its own. I was surprised to hear on the news (Radio NZ) that there is still discussion of a purported accusation by Grant Robertson that…
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Andrew Little's letter to the Select Committee on election interference puzzled me - it seemed to be out of the blue and not particularly relevant to our system. Then I read about a meeting on the Gold Coast last year and it became clear as…
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So yesterday this happened: Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki has laid into New Zealand's Islamic community in an interview with Middle Eastern broadcaster Al Jazeera.Tamaki courted controversy soon after the attacks on two Christchurch mosques where 51 people died, when he tweeted his anger at…
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We had both major polls out yesterday, as noted in previous stories, and boy were the results a doozy! In addition to twice my usual talk about models, we're going to get into the assumption some people are no doubt already making- that one of…
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The past week we have experienced a terrifyingly disturbing array of views on climate change. The first came from the President of the United States who thought that things were fine and America has the best climate. From the BBC: "I believe that there's a…
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I attended Te Pai Court in Waitakere last Wednesday where I had the privilege of watching a presentation on the Wellbeing budget. Local MPs Carmel Sepuloni, Phil Twyford, Peeni Henare and Deborah Russell all spoke. They were committed, knew their stuff and presented really well.…
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