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In the United States, the street beggars have great patter. Despite what South Park would have us believe, when you walk down the main street of a major city, you don’t get hordes of people shiftlessly shaking cups at you, asking for “change?” There are…
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It has taken me a couple of days to absorb the implications of this story. On Thursday this week Stuff reported that "Treasury and Statistics New Zealand today admitted a major error in its calculations of household disposable income, which overestimated incomes among poorer households.…
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Following the attack by Judith Collins on the CTU and Business NZ Health and Safety Training we have had lots of interest in how the courses we run are recognised and funded etc. The NZCTU has been running the courses on contract to ACC since…
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The original of this post is here at No Right Turn Today's Treasury fuckup: they underestimated the number of children living in poverty by 20,000: A breakdown in communication between Statistics New Zealand and Treasury saw the number of children living in poverty underestimated by tens…
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Our mainstream media is essentially an assembly line of propaganda that routinely renders complex foreign events down to simple and misleading binaries of ‘us’ versus ‘them’. So with regards to the Ukraine, events are reported in terms of defeat or victory for either ‘them’, Russia…
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I tend to be wary of militarism, while also recognising that there is an important role for the NZ military in the 21st century. Necessary military services include practical provisions to deal with disasters at home and abroad, as well as to provide security for…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. A new feature that aims to demystify the political process. In this edition, it’s all about the kids. Labour: feed the kids. Conservatives: smack the kids. Maori…
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What can one say about Maurice Williamson. Is he really as much of a comedian as he appears. Well he pretty much had me in stitches of laughter yesterday morning heading to work. I mean that it is good that he is looking at the…
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What do you call someone who knowingly relies on false information to defend his case? Bill English. The OECD pointed out before Christmas that Treasury data was wrong, double-counting the accommodation supplement, and was presenting people to be doing better than they are. This year,…
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This original of this post is here at No Right Turn When the government dropped charges against former Pike River boss Peter Whittall over the Pike River mine explosion, they claimed that the simultaneous announcement that he would pay compensation to the families of the 29 men…
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Tony Ryall has announced that he will not seek re election at this year's general election. From Radio New Zealand: Cabinet minister and Bay of Plenty MP Tony Ryall has announced he will retire from politics at this year's election after 24 years in Parliament.…
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With breathless excitement Scott Yorke at Imperator Fish broke this EXCLUSIVE story 13 hours ago. Scott has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts. Breaking: These Germans will be defeated. In an exclusive report, Imperator Fish can now confirm that the Allies won World War Two.…
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Local Bodies put this post up last week. I see that Dave Kennedy, aka the author bsprout (no relation to The Sprout), has also announced that he is the Green's candidate for Invercargill. Good luck. With the retirement of the National incumbent, the seat is…
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Bill English yesterday announced that the sale of up to 49% of Genesis Energy's shares will start from next month. But this time things will be different from the other sales. It appears that the Government is preparing itself for the likelihood that demand for…
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… has been announced. It is Matt McCarten. Matt has a huge amount of experience in NZ politics. He started off in the Labour Party but like many of us (me included) he left the party because of Roger Douglas and the fourth Labour Government’s…
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Rob Salmond at Polity has some changing thoughts on the subject of poll bias. Whenever the media report on polls, they get accused of all manner of biases by the blinkered commentariat. Most of it is nonsense, of course. But some criticism of the polling…
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At the end of last week Treasury announced that they were surprised by the lower than predicted tax take. I wasn't, and I suspect that no-one who is involved in businesses would have been. I am anticipating quite a lot of faux surprise this year…
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I did a email interview with Damien Venuto of StopPress (an online advertising industry mag) a few weeks back. It has now been put up online if anyone outside of that industry is interested. I'm in my usual pleasant, widely expansive and egotistical best with my beautific…
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The Edward Snowden leaks have provided extensive information about how the US, NSA (National Security Agency) surveillance uses the internet for widespread surveillance. The NSA dominates the "5 eyes" network that includes NZ's GCSB and the UK equivalent, the GCHQ. Some of these techniques could…
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This is a guest post by Deborah Russell who the Labour Party candidate for Rangitikei. She holds a BCom (Hons) in Accounting and Finance, and a PhD in Philosophy. She has worked as an accountant in the private sector and the public sector, and she has…
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In my previous post "UBI: Addressing Inequality" on how a UBI would address inequality, it turns out I figured out something that is already known as a measure of inequality called the Gini coefficient and the Lorenz curve. A lower Gini coefficient is better and represents…
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I sense a certain lethargy creeping into the continuing debates on opinion poll results. The polls bounce all around the place. One minute there is the euphoria of a likely change of Government this year to the forces of light and goodness and then there…
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It appears that parliament doesn't have a need to know on our security services for something so basic at their funding? As usual John Key was lying. No Right Turn describes how the lie was revealed. Last year John Key passed a spy bill granting vast…
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In our celebrity culture, music and songs can be PR vehicles for consumer society and celebrity culture. But down among the folk where life's struggles often go unnoticed, songs and music can bring people together, they can heal, they can express the frustrations, heartaches, anger,…
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