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Yesterday, Tracy Watkins wrote something I found a little confusing - "National is winning the war over wages and the price of cheese". I'm wondering in what way National is winning on wages and food prices. It's not in terms of policy. National doesn't have…
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Australia's ABC has a somewhat unusual online game to explain the impact of individuals on climate change to children. It's called 'Planet Slayer'. The main part of the game involves answering questions (which really only apply to adults) around use of cars, house size etc…
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Gordon Campbell has an interesting take on the political PR we're seeing from National in his latest Scoop column. In it he quotes Salon talking about the marketing of Red Bull to different niches: ' Walker noted that instead of attempting to assert the brand's…
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Buried away in the NZIER's recent TNS survey on the Emissions Trading Scheme was this political poll showing a surprisingly high number of people still undecided on who they'd vote for. You should be aware it's based on some pretty shonky methodology (basically it's a…
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Nick Butcher has produced this excellent video opposing the Immigration Bill (which we blogged about last week and is covered in more detail here). There's also a website and an ipetition. This really is an appalling Bill and I take my hat off to Nick…
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It's sad that Matthew Hooton passes for a political commentator in this country. If he was a blogger, he would be third, fourth tier. Surely, we can do better. Last year in his column, Hooton suggested that there would be no election this year because Labour would stage…
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Yesterday on Agenda, SOE Minister Trevor Mallard said that the Government was undertaking an exploratory study to see whether the factory that currently repairs trains could also be used to assemble trains. If its economical, specialised parts would still be imported but a major manufacturing…