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"Tolley finds ally in school mum" screams the headline of Audrey Young's piece today. You might think things are pretty desperate when the Herald is devoting pieces to each individual parent who support Tolley but it turns out this mum at no point expresses support…
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The world's economy has not truly recovered from the recession, it has just been artificially reanimated by vast injections of Government bailout money. Capitalism has been rescued by good old fashioned Socialist Big Government, and the bill is being sent to we the taxpayers. What…
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John Armstrong has chucked John Key's promise to end whaling down the memory hole and, instead, comes out swinging against those who don't want to give up the commercial whaling ban: "the plan [will] allow commercial whaling for a 10-year period, but with big cuts…
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So Steven Joyce's big bright idea for tertiary education (which he recently inherited from the hopeless Anne Tolley) is to punish institutions with low pass rates by cutting their funding. Now, I'm no big city psychologist but I think I can pick how academics will…
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Michael is dead right. The most important thing about the Hollow Men is not how Nicky Hager got the information but what the information is. It reveals National's modern politics in all its unprincipled ugliness. It shows National as a party that wants power for…
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John Key doesn't need evidence. He just knows stuff. John Key just knows that Don Brash's emails were stolen by a mysterious hacker - "but I can't back that up". Well of course he can't back it up, no one can, there's no evidence at…
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Remember how a couple of months back National set up NationalMPs? It was meant to be their answer to Red Alert, Labour's frequently raucous, unstagemanaged blog where Labour's MPs write what they want. The problem is, either the National leadership doesn't trust its MPs not…
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When you talk to some Wellingtonians they like to tell you their city is different to others in New Zealand because because it's a bit more metropolitan and sophisticated than towns like Hamilton, Palmerston North or Mosgiel. My response is generally to point out the…
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There are 276,000 jobless Kiwis. The seasonally-adjusted trend on dole numbers is still on the rise. Many other people fall through the gaps and are unable to get public assistance in their time of need. What better time for the Minister for Social Development to…
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I said that when things got too hot Cameron Slater would call on Daddy to save him. Sure enough. Slater has been exploiting the suffering of sexual abuse victims to get his fifteen minutes of fame. It's sad stuff from a sad individual. And it's…
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Last week I wrote about how the total sum of all wages paid to workers in Australia grew 2.5% last year while the national pay packet shrank by 0.4%. On a similar note, the Sunday-Star Times had a piece on the average full time equivalent…
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The leaked emails which helped bring about the downfall of former Nat leader Don Brash hit the headlines again today, for all the wrong reasons. Journalists have already forgotten the insidious tricks and dodgy connections still maintained by the top echelons of the National Party.…
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Happy International Women's Day. If only there was something to celebrate: Minister needs to deliver for NZ women too Monday, 8 March 2010, 9:23 am Press Release: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions The Council of Trade Unions wants the Minister of Women's Affairs to…
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You've really got to hand it to the Greens and Labour. They have completely defied expectations on the whaling issue. See the simple option that most political parties would go for would be to be seen to stand by their principles - loud and proud.…
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This month there is a series of screenings of The End of the Line around New Zealand. This acclaimed documentary looks at how overfishing is destroying fish populations and ultimately endangering the industries and cultures that depend on them. The positive thing about overfishing is…
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Australia is aghast over New Zealand's sudden back-flip over whaling. Together, our two countries have been the lynch-pins in the anti-whaling lobby for decades. The ban on commercial whaling that we won reduced the number of whales killed each year from 10,000 per year in…
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