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Kiwiblog’s tomato disaster
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The view from the back of the National class….
Last night's debate on the Youth Minimum Wage Bill was (as noted earlier) a triumph for progressive politics and for young people. It was not such a triumph for David Bennett, who apparently is National's MP for Hamilton East. His speech (mp3 - 2MB) during…
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National and climate change
Greenpeace seems strangely surprised at John Key's statement that George Bush and John Howard are "going in the right direction" on climate change and his refusal to criticise them for not signing up to Kyoto. Here's Greenpeace executive director Bunny McDiarmid: John Key's support for…
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Fairer pay for youth workers
The Herald has the story: Workers aged 16 and 17 will earn the adult minimum wage once they have been in the job three months or worked 200 hours under a law change yesterday. Currently, those under 18 must be paid 80 per cent of…
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GS-what?
I'd nearly forgotten until I read this that the Nats forgot to pay slithered out of paying their GST for their broadcasting at the last election. Under the supposedly economically literate Don Brash, the Nats, you'll remember were allocated $900,000 inclusive of GST by the…
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What else have the Nats got to hide?
The Herald ran an article yesterday detailing the Nat's refusal to support legislation that would strengthen the Auditor-General's powers to investigate MP's lists of assets and interests. Cosgrove and Cullen both point out that this is a last minute u-turn, the Nats having supported the…
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130,000 people have enrolled with Kiwisaver
Here's the press release with a bit more detail.
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Your mum was right – sharing’s good
That's why we've just installed "Share This" - a blog plugin that should make it easier for you to share our tasty content with your friends (and the world). As soon as we put up a contact form you'll be able to tell us if…
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National’s trusty donors
The Tory blogworld went apoplectic over Tane's comment that it was no surprise Bell Gully lawyers opposed the Electoral Finance Bill because the National Party got $62,000 from the Bell Gully Trust Account in 2005. National Party insider David Farrar gave us a down-the-nose lecture…
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He’s whatever you want him to be – except if you’re a worker
John Key's swallowed a lot of rats to make National look electable: nuclear free, war in Iraq, fighter jets, paid parental leave, climate change etc,etc. But you can always trust a Tory to stay true to type over the one thing that they care about…
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English plays the long game
People the country over were puzzled by the odd choice of Key's entrance music to the National Party annual conference last month. Originally we were told that Key was holding a competition to choose the song. Next it seemed that Kevin Taylor might be the…
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Double triplespeak
Hi. Mike Moore here. Today I'm in Uzbekistan adding value to their goat herd. I woke early and checked the nasty emails from home. I went back to sleep, woke up, cried, went back to sleep, woke again, cried, had a wank and a fag,…
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Stood up, fought back
The National Distribution Union's put a together a bit of a clip showing some of the struggles its members have been through over the past year. And what a year it's been. Faced with a month-long supermarket lockout, an attempt by National to strip them…
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True blue genius
The depth of National's talent is a constant source of amusement. Jackie Blue, allegedly one of National's slightly-brighter-than-average young things (speaking of, has anyone heard a Chris Tremain speech recently? Truly mindboggling), has decided to attack the Ministry of Women's Affairs over the success of…
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Jordan Carter on electoral finance
Jordan Carter at Just Left injects some sense into the debate on the Electoral Finance Bill running at Kiwiblog: In 2005 National tried to steal the general election. It did so by hiding its links with a shadowy sect, the Exclusive Brethren, with whom it…
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Snake oil
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A sudden end to the Schadenfreude
From bFM yesterday - Mickey Havoc interviews John Key... Mickey Havoc: "But you wouldn't compare her to Muldoon? That's what I'm asking..." John Key: "No" Mickey Havoc: "Alright" powered by ODEO
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Key: style over substance
The Press ran a story today in which they claim that: Labour polling conducted by UMR Insight, excerpts of which were leaked to The Press, show that while National was ahead by a healthy margin, voters were increasingly critical of Key. Labour's poll, which asked…
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Armstrong changes his mind?
That clipping's from the Herald on the 23rd of this month. Yesterday on RNZ John Armstrong appeared to backtrack over whether Labour holding John Key to account for his numerous inconsistencies really is a "personal attack": Kevin: People have talked a lot about personal attacks…
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National fights for its right to outspend others?
I was having a look at David Farrar's National Party blog this morning and I came across an interesting comment from one of Farrar's regulars about why National might be so keen to knock over the Electoral Finance Bill. I'll make it quite clear right…
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Mo(o)re on “personal attacks”
Item on Stuff yesterday interviewing Barry Gustafson, the author of His Way, a biography of Robert Muldoon (Auckland University Press, 2000): Professor of politics Barry Gustafson said Miss Clark seldom indulged in personal politics and the attack was a bit unfair. "If anyone has been…
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Online polls
National Party blogger David Farrar writes: "The poll had Key leading Clark by 2:1 consistently all of Tuesday. Then a huge splurt of votes today with 85% of them being for Clark. The Herald should publish the IP addresses of any mass multiple voting." What's…
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John, I am your father
There's been a bit of excitement round the traps today over this picture from Stuff.co.nz, which tries to merge Helen Clark's face into Rob Muldoon's. Naturally, National Party blogger David Farrar has been wallowing like a pig in shit over Mike Moore's comments in the…
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Family-friendly facade
Yet another policy inoculation today from the Nats, this time on paid parental leave. Judith Collins is now "generally not against it" and in typically decisive fasion John Key "thinks" he's for it. What's really astounding about this u-turn is how many of their MPs…
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Key on economic management
Presenter: "Where. do you see it [the NZ dollar]?" John Key: "Hard to pick actually at these levels. um, yeah there's just so much volatility in there and I'm really, I'm really [sic] not as sure as I was a while ago when I thought…
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Behind the veneer
Russell Brown writes in Hard News: "It was always odds-on that Judith Collins MP would top her previous efforts at public nastiness - and already, she's come though for the punters. 3 News ran a story on Friday night claiming controversy over the hiring of…
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National: policy free zone
From Morning Report (full audio) earlier today: Sean Plunket: Final question when do we get to see your party's ah local government policy? John Key: Well we've, we've already ah, you know, made quite a lot of things clear. We're going to release um a…
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Gateway Hotel workers still standing strong
Just got these photos in from the picket line at the Airport Gateway Hotel in Auckland, where a dozen low-paid staff have now been locked out for nearly a month for wanting a collective agreement. As you can see from the photos they're still in…
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Why does John Key want to sell Air NZ?
This morning Air New Zealand announced an annual profit of $268 million. The New Zealand public owns 80% of the national carrier, which means a good chunk of that profit is ours to spend on things like health, education and family tax credits rather than…
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If you can’t take the heat…
The National Party have been complaining about the increasing scrutiny on John Key's business dealings. First, his association with the "Earl of Auckland" property development firm that's attempting to go into liquidation to avoid leaky building costs and second the nature of his involvement at…