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If there was ever a phrase that this Government keeps reminding me of, it's "couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery". Today, on the eve of what will be a particularly important Budget for our country, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance aren't…
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As well as the usual pre-Budget announcements there have been a number of leaks. A quick review: Good Home insulation package: this is the Greens' baby and could well be a highlight of the Budget in a sea of negatives. It would have been better…
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The irony is that Melissa Lee's campaign manager, Mark Thomas, is no stranger to campaigns that start off with a hiss and a roar only to collapse when abandoned by National's leadership. Thomas was National's candidate for Wellington Central in 1996, the first MMP election,…
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We need to keep paying into the Superannuation Fund. Never heard anything so dumb as the idea of stopping making payments right now. Invest now and make a tidy sum to pay for super in the future. If we don't we'll have to put up…
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One of the oldest tricks in the book for a government that's cutting public services is to say ‘we're not cutting, we're spending more in our budget than ever before' while not mentioning that their spending ‘increase' doesn't match inflation and population growth. We need…
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Referendum 2009 - Unicef NZ The Vote Yes campaign is about preserving s59 of the Cirmes Act, which gives children the same right as adults to not be assaulted. More information here. [just a couple of quick suggestions to the Vote Yes people: 'Vote yes,…
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It's good to see Green MP Sue Kedgley calling on John Key to personally fix the abuse of pigs in sow crates. The chair of Nawac appears incapable of seeing that there's even a problem, and the Minister of Agriculture has already been caught misleading…
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This morning's NZ Herald was interesting. I picked it up while waiting for the bus, rather than reading it on the iPhone in the mobile edition as I usually do. It has fewer ads. I realized yet again that the NZ Herald editorial staff do…
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It seems the Minister of Agriculture David Carter misled the public regarding his knowledge of the use of sow crates in pig farming, when he stated on the Sunday Programme on May 17th, "No I didn't know to the extent to which they were confined…
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Collins has given us a little teaser of what's in her car-crushing law. As any fool could have predicted the fascist in her couldn't stop just at crushing the cars of repeat traffic offenders who don't pay their fines. A new penalty for illegal street…
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It's a disgrace that the supercity agenda is being foisted on Auckland undemocratically, and it is an additional disgrace that it is being bulldozed through uncosted. The government cannot tell Aucklanders what this reorganisation is going to cost them on their rates bills - though some…
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Watch as the Tories try to distance Key from Lee. Remember that Lee was Key's personal choice. Young, pretty, smiley, not too sharp on the detail - he must have seen a lot of himself in her. He believed that she would win on the…
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Nothing tops a lamington on the head, but still, here's Mt Albert candidate Jackson Wood pounding the streets of Wellington to drum up support:
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National has belatedly woken up to the fact that not all Kiwis are middle aged white males, and has been trying to make much of its new found diversity. It showcased supposed star Melissa Lee in the high profile Mt Albert by-election, and has trumpeted…
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It's pretty clear how Key and English plan to spin their budget. They will use the bogeyman of a credit rating downgrade to justify doing what they want to do cutting contributions to the Superannuation fund and spending on core services like health and education.…
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Some great photos from yesterday's hikoi from Squirrel. Click the thumbnails below to view photos, or see the whole set at the Resistance Photography channel on flickr.
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A few good posts today that are worth a look if you missed them: Chris Trotter reckons the police and the media are grossly underestimating the turnout at today's hikoi. If we assume lower Queen Street to be roughly a kilometre in length and about…
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Thanks to a reader for sending in these photos from today's hikoi: If anyone else has photos or youtube send them in and we'll put them up.
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The Herald Online has some great video from today's hikoi here and here, and some photos here. The videos really are worth a look. They manage to give a sense of the atmosphere on the ground while at the same time giving voice to the…
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Last year a small number of truck companies held the 'truck strike', they got 4000 trucks to jam the CBDs of every major city in New Zealand because they were unhappy about a 1% increase in their costs from higher Road User Charges. The Right…
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Remember - March against National's undemocratic supercity today 25th, noon, Queen St [More info] Thousands of protesters take to the streets of Auckland today to save local democracy. Key's response: 'let them eat oysters' Nah, what he said was the hikoi is "unlikely to make…
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Remember - March against National's undemocratic supercity today 25th, noon, Queen St [More info] Today in the Herald John Key is talking tough, dismissing the Super City hikoi before it's even begun: Today's hikoi against the proposed Auckland Super City is unlikely to make a…
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As the wheels have come off National's political agenda in the past few weeks, their fanboys have wailed in anguish. Lee, Rankin, the supercity, Waterview, the Budget are not policy problems to the minds of Hooton, Ralston, Armstrong et al. They're ‘political management' problems. Let's…
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Remember - March against National's undemocratic supercity today 25th, noon, Queen St [More info] Accepted truths are funny things. For example, everyone has just accepted that the local government mergers in 1989 saved money and that costs are out of control now. From these premises,…
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The modern blitzkrieg [lightning war] was first tested in the Spanish civil war, refined in the invasions of European states that marked the beginning of WWII, and applied successfully in more recent invasions in the Middle East. A blitzkrieg's success comes from the speed of its prosecution, from…
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No, not because we've overtaken Kiwiblog in readership just yet (although ours is growing at a healthy 10% a month) but because I don't think we can call Kiwiblog a political blog any more. 1) A blog is meant to be writers giving their views…
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John Armstrong seems to be shaking off his Key honeymoon, and has written a detailed and interesting piece on Carter's role chairing the select committee on Auckland: The Labour Party is absolutely correct. With the connivance of Act, the National minority Government is riding roughshod…
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Herald: Key negotiates talks in Hillary papers dispute Stuff: PM wants the facts on Veitch What's next? Key joins hunt for couple who fled with $10 million? Key's wasting his time getting involved in minor stories he saw in the news. Meanwhile, our country's losing…
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Tumeke has put together this handy map of tomorrow's hikoi with the meeting places across Auckland. You can view the full size version by clicking on the image below and there are more details at the hikoi organisers' site here. Get on down if you…