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Open mike 14/07/2020
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Daily review 13/07/2020
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SFO to Investigate Labour Donations
The Serious Fraud Office has started an investigation into donations made to the Labour Party in 2017. Annoyingly, they have given few details, so speculation will be rife. They say: "The SFO is presently conducting four investigations in relation to electoral funding matters. A fifth…
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National’s ethics
There is a particularly resonant piece by Tim Watkin in Pundit. "National's problem with privacy and privilege". I'm only surprised that he seems to think that the National party is at all redeemable. Personally I think he is somewhat to charitable. I think that the…
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Of course it’s dirty politics
National's latest attempted spin is to try and suggest that last week's clusterfuck of rolling events did not involve in any way the slightest trace of dirty politics. From Spinoff: Nikki Kaye, speaking on Q+A on TVNZ, acknowledged “the perception was that Todd hadn’t received the…
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Open mike 13/07/2020
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Greens policy announcement: Our Clean Energy Plan
https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/1282101888956035073 From the Green Party website, The Green Party has always been clear that climate change needs to be tackled now, and we’ve done more in the last three years than the past 30 years of government combined. We know we need to go further…
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The Christian Right and the 2020 election
One thing I have never understood is why the religious right have not been able to get its act together and achieve a proper Parliamentary presence. I know there was United Future in 2002 under Peter Dunne. But that was a marriage of convenience, a…
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Open mike 12/07/2020
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Union peak bodies: a beacon of hope for all workers
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog: The role of the Union peak body is to provide national or international leadership for all union members. The union movement structure in NZ and many other countries is to have several sector-specific unions, which then affiliate to a…
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Open mike 11/07/2020
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Local Government: crucial and undervalued
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog Local Government provides some of the most crucial and front-line public services we have in society. Yet internationally, voter turnout and engagement with Local Government is generally abysmal. The services provided by local and central government vary from country to…
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Daily review 10/07/2020
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Jian Yang announces retirement so he can spend more time with his family
Can I ask National to slow down the bad news as I am trying to do some work. But this is very significant, Jian Yang, he with impeccable Chinese Communist Party links and of formidable fundraising ability, has announced that he is is retiring from…
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Did any National MP not receive confidential information from Michelle Boag?
Yesterday I posed a number of random impertinent questions about Michelle Boag and the handling of sensitive confidential information. One of them was: Who else has she forwarded these reports to? Well this morning that question has been answered, at least in part. Michael Woodhouse,…
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Everybody gets a road
If you think that Covid 19 is bad, global warming is the next great crisis waiting around the corner to whack humanity. This cartoon sums it up well. Spurred on by Pacific nations begging for their survival the world decided not so long ago to…
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Open mike 10/07/2020
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Daily review 09/07/2020
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Requiem for a smelter
New Zealand was always a odd place to have a aluminium smelter. The only natural advantage we had was a untapped hydroelectricity capacity at the bottom of the world. Thousands of kilometers from raw material sources. Tens of thousands of kilometers from the major markets.…
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Some Random impertinent questions about Michelle Boag’s access to confidential medical information
No doubt these are matters that the Heron inquiry will delve into. But Michelle Boag's self serving press release from two days ago raises more questions than it answers. Especially after yesterday's announcement by the Helicopter Trust that information it holds on patients is private…
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Open mike 09/07/2020
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Daily review 08/07/2020
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Walkergate: MP Quits
Embattled Tory MP Hamish Walker has announced that he will not contest the September election for National. Ironically, the Covid 19 privacy breacher only became an MP when the incumbent, Todd Barclay, was caught breaching privacy and was forced to stand down. This will not…
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Trashing the country’s Covid response for political advantage
Yesterday was a pretty spectacular day. It was the day that the country learned conclusively that for National winning political advantage was more important than keeping the population safe from Covid. I don't know what other interpretation to put on it. Two weeks ago I…
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Open mike 08/07/2020
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Clusterfuck
The golden rule is never call an inquiry if you don't know what the result will be. Which suggests that Chris Hipkins may have had more than an inkling that National was involved in the leaking of sensitive material to the media concerning returning kiwis…
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Daily review 07/07/2020
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Open mike 07/07/2020
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Daily review 06/07/2020
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National’s dilemma – business as usual is failing them.
Audrey Young's take in Granny Herald to Jacinda Arden's weekend speech was interesting. "No ordinary Labour speech by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern". Centring an election campaign on recent tragedies may seem like a potential problem for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.How far does one go in…
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