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Open mike 15/05/2020
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Budget 2020
The budget site is up. I've reproduced some of it here. Budget 2020 has also been released on the Budget website: https://budget.govt.nz. A feature of the Budget website is that it organises the Estimates documents by Minister, by vote, by department and by sector. Image from RNZ Budget speech by Robertson
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Viruses love liberty – they can breed more.
Listening to some of the complete bullshit about the legislation to move to level 2 just made me realise exactly how ignorant some people are of our history and basic science. Viruses and other diseases simply don't care about abstractions like 'liberty' or 'inhumanity' or…
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Budget 2020: biggest and best from PM Ardern
Text of a pre budget speech delivered yesterday by Jacinda Ardern. [Today] Budget 2020 will be delivered within the most challenging economic conditions faced by any Government since the Great Depression. The global COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a global economic shock not of our making,…
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Open mike 14/05/2020
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Jacinda is not like Muldoon
National has decided to play politics with Covid 19 and is opposing the Government's attempt to pass legislation to secure level 2 arrangements. From Charlie Dreaver at Radio New Zealand: The Covid-19 Public Health Response Bill, which grants extraordinary powers to both the government and…
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Open mike 13/05/2020
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Bloomfield and the empire strikes back
Poor Simon cannot buy a trick right now. Last week he chose the very unwise tactic of attacking Dr Ashley Bloomfield. From Anna Whyte at Television New Zealand: A fiery select committee meeting today saw National leader Simon Bridges accuse Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield of…
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Covid19 and the Stock Markets
In this time of uncertainty when mass unemployment beckons you would expect that stock exchanges would be plummeting. But think again. Because they seem to be doing fine. Here is a graph of the NZSX over the past 6 months. Bottom line, the market has…
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Open mike 12/05/2020
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Covid-19: down to L2 Thursday
In the ongoing press conference (RNZ): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a staggered move into level 2 starting on Thursday, with schools and bars reopening later and groups limited to 10 people. and She said retail, malls, cafes, restaurants, cinemas and other public spaces…
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Dimwitted habeas corpus duo
The well-known duo of Dermot Nottingham and Robert McKinney were the appellants in habeas corpus High Court case against Arden, Bloomfield, and Stuart-Black over the covid-19 lockdown. As was usual for this pair, the grounds that they made their case on were completely flawed, failed…
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Covid19 is a bastard
We are heading towards decision time. Does Aotearoa New Zealand loosen up and head back to a semi normal life? There are many loud voices supporting loosening things up. Particularly those of the right, National, business interests and owners of suburban shopping malls. Why can't…
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Open mike 11/05/2020
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Israel’s proposed annexation of Jordan Valley
With Benjamin Netanyahu now reinstated as Prime Minister of Israel, the big annexation of the Jordan Valley is gathering momentum. Before I go any further, I like Israeli people. And I’m Catholic, so One Day Jerusalem, One Day. My target here is solely Prime Minister…
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Open mike 10/05/2020
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UK: Too soon to end the lockdown
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's Blog On Sunday UK PM Boris Johnson will be making an announcement about the lockdown. There has been much speculation as to whether the UK could start easing up restrictions just as other European nations such as France and Italy have done this week. A…
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Go Joe.
I guess Joe Biden will try to hang in there. But with Megyn Kelly's interview of Tara Reade about to hit the airwaves, and a court document from the 90s surfacing in which her then husband explicitly references Tara's experience of sexual harassment within Joe…
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Parker gives Bridges a lesson in constitutional law
This week Simon got really stroppy and threatened to summons the Solicitor General to the select committee and require him to hand over legal advice that the Government has received concerning the Health Act Covid 19 notices. I previously wrote this post about Bridges's behaviour.…
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Open mike 09/05/2020
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Open mike 08/05/2020
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UK Labour – the leaked report
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog In the middle of a global pandemic, it seems almost trivial to be writing about internal disputes within the UK Labour Party. Certainly, the UK media seem to have taken this view towards the recently leaked report. I’m sure,…
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MSM asking questions in a democracy
https://twitter.com/Economissive/status/1255423398269915136 https://twitter.com/Economissive/status/1255010678286372864 Economissive's whole twitter thread is worth reading here. Lots of examples, and it's depressing reading. Obviously the MSM play a crucial role in a democracy, and having direct access to politicians is an important part of that. The problem with Tova O'Brien's terrier…
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Transmission Gully PPP
No Right Turn has a piece on the Transmission Gully project - which appears to be turning into mush. The title "A death-knell for PPPs?" says it all. When the then-National government approved a public-private partnership (PPP) funding model for Transmission Gully, it claimed it was…
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Bridges pulls a stunt
One of the first things they teach you in law school is the importance of legal professional privilege. The Cabinet Manual, which I presume that Bridges has read, says this about legal professional privilege. Legal professional privilege is a term applied to the protection of…
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Open mike 07/05/2020
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The Green Party’s proposal on essential workers’ pay
Green Party press release, via Scoop ______________________________________________________________________________ Time to pay essential heroes a decent wage, says Green Party Wednesday, 6 May 2020, 10:19 am Press Release: Green Party 4-5 minutes The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed just how much we rely on our essential workers. The…
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Trump’s not so bad: manslaughter edition
https://twitter.com/Stonekettle/status/1257805941988380679 The task force’s demise would only intensify questions about whether the administration is adequately organized to address the complex, life-or-death decisions related to the virus and give adequate voice to scientists and public health experts in making policy. Can we just get to the…
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Top ten things we have learned already
We can do without fast food and coffee made by someone else, but not forever.What seems to be out of control can be brought under control. This provides a good level of comfort. Even at another extreme event and future policies start to fail, New…
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Open mike 06/05/2020
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