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Tracy Watkins tells us in today's Dom-Post that John Key may have taken a beating in the stock market lately. He wouldn't say how much he lost, but did admit, 'I'm worth less than I was.' And, I'll bet some in his Caucus would agree.…
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I've just got back from a small but very vocal picket outside Spotless' corporate HQ on The Terrace in solidarity with the 800 cooks, cleaners and orderlies from hospitals around New Zealand who began 24 hours of strike action today. They're striking because despite agreeing…
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Duncan Garner kept Copperfield diners entertained yesterday by teasing Simon Power about the implications of National's $50 conviction levy. We're told that in response Power threw his hands into the air and exclaimed loudly that the policy wasn't "his". What an odd thing for the…
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Keith Ng of Public Address has a long-standing commitment to improving the quality of journalism in this country. Now, he is proposing a non-partisan wiki-style forum for fact-checking politicians' statements. It seems like a great idea. We constantly see politicians making statements that are not…
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The Council of Trade Unions has given Bill English a good slapping over his false allegations in Parliament yesterday that the peak union body had broken the Electoral Finance Act. English accused the CTU of failing to include the home address of its financial agent…
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Do you think our politicians are unpopular? This story from the Washington Post puts any of those thoughts in perspective: There's a reason President Bush almost never appears before members of the general public: They really don't like him. Despite the delirious mood of Washington…
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Following the first incident of a New Zealand vehicle being attacked by an improvised mine, National's Defence Spokesman Wayne Mapp has attacked the Government over the fact the NZ military in Afghanistan do not have any of our new LAV armoured vehicles. The problem with…
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Lockwood Smith gave us student debt. Maurice Williamson gave us traffic jams. Now they want to give us global warming. Just days after Al Gore launched his $300m worldwide climate change campaign National retreads Maurice Williamson and Lockwood Smith are refusing to answer questions about…
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Perhaps he's still getting into the swing of things after his Aussie holiday or perhaps he just doesn't want to take on Cullen - either way, it's a little odd that John Key doesn't have any oral questions in the House today. On a day…
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Now this is rich. National, the party that gave New Zealand its low wage economy, is running the line that the trans-Tasman wage gap is "Labour's legacy". You'd think such a shameless rewriting of history would be laughed off in a second, but it seems…
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The latest Police statistics show crime is still dropping. Crime dropped from 1013 offences per 10,000 people in 2006 to 1008 in 2007. There was a dramatic reduction in homicides (down 10.1%, following a 10.2% drop in 2006), sex attacks were down 2.3%, and ‘Dishonesty'…
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Al Gore has just launched a $300 million, bipartisan campaign to try to push climate change higher on the nation's political agenda. The website is www.wecansolveit.org - you can see the debut ad, "Anthem," here. The campaign plans to bring together "unlikely bedfellows" of differing…
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Transport for London have recently launched a campaign to raise drivers' awareness of cyclists. Try the test below. You can read about what's going on here.
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Today is a big day for government policy affecting Kiwis' incomes: The minimum wage is now $12 an hour, up from $7 when Labour gained power. Youth rates have been effectively abolished, meaning young people will get the same pay for the same work. From…
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I wonder if the ACT Party Secretary's authorisation, top left, will make it harder for ACT to deny, as they have in the past, that ACT on campus are outside their control. (Hat-tip: Alex N)