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Why should we care about five dead rich mining executives? Makes me feel pretty sick thinking about the warped coverage these stories get. Deaths of poor dark-skinned people by the hundred are so routinely ignored. And anyone ask what they were mining there? Foreign mining…
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As the old saying has it, the wheels of justice turn slow, but grind exceedingly fine. After many months (ht JAS and BLiP in comments), the Privacy Commissioner has ruled on the Paula Bennett case: Privacy Commissioner Closes Investigation about Hon Paula Bennett Refers Matter…
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Colin Craig: Hello, Colin Craig speaking John Banks: Hi Colin, John Banks here.. Craig: John! Haven't seen you since the anti-smacking march! How are you! Banks: Oh yeah, the anti-smacking march. How many people did you get out in the end? Craig: about 5,000! Pretty…
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Good to see that the Greens presented to Parliament today a 37,000 signature petition expressing concern about the Government's National Standards policy. 'The depth of concern about National Standards shows the Government needs to reflect on the wisdom of ramming them through without a trial,'…
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Hidden assets seem to be a dirty little secret of the National Party. There was John Key's Tranzrail shares and there's the ongoing issue of his blind trust. There's Jonathan Young's undeclared company. And, now, we learn that Attorney-General Chris Finlayson has apparently been failing…
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The New York Times has a excellent article on the failure of the last line of defense on the sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. But at least the US has some rules about safety requirements - we don't. It appears…
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The Right usually argues for limited government. They fear unaccountably state agents abusing their power. It's a justified fear. All power tends to be abused unless you have strong checks on it. Both Left and Right can usually agree on the need to keep an…
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I'm not sorry about Russel Norman standing up to Chinese imperialism, I'm proud that he did. While I don't personally have a lot of time for Norman, I very much respect his willingness to behave like an actual representative of the New Zealand people and voice…
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Despite all of the whinging about "Helengrad" we used to hear from the right their glorious leader and his party seem intent on taking a more authoritarian approach to government than we've seen since, well, since the last National government. Just yesterday we saw this…
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The post-Budget bump for National in the Roy Morgan polls was there but was small and it's already evaporating despite the credit card story. Confidence in government and consumer confidence numbers are also falling. I think we'll see a return to the pre-Budget trend -…
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C. Colin Espiner (today): And it's not appropriate for a politician to be a protester, either. Russel needs to choose, just as his colleagues have done. Sue Bradford was a veteran activist and protester, but she put down the megaphone during her years in Parliament.…
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Not much to say on these two polls. Roy Morgan is moving around: The latest New Zealand Roy Morgan Poll shows support for John Key's National-led Government has weakened to 55.5% (down 2%), comprising National Party 50.5% (down 2%), Maori Party 3% (down 0.5%), ACT…
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Three News reports: Ships carrying uranium allowed to enter NZ There's shock at a decision to allow concentrated uranium ore to be shipped through New Zealand ports, with environmentalists worried it'll jeopardise our nuclear-free status. The Environmental Risk Management Authority has given the green light…
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Health Minister Tony Ryall, like his Education counterpart Anne Tolley, is facing a big fight over wages. The health budget is chock-full of cuts as it is and Ryall says there simply isn't any money to give doctors pay rises as they and other workers…
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A lot of people have been saying the rules on spending on ministerial credit cards are unclear. Maybe they are in some respects, but one thing they are clear on is alcohol, which is a big problem for Tim Groser and Murray McCully. I/S at…
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Many think that Capitalism has been corrupted, socialised. It hasn't - it's been purified. We used to have capitalists that produced things; they weren't the worker's friend, but they did actually serve a purpose, setting up factories, providing the machinery for workers to use. But…
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The stink around the $4.8 million awarded to the Pacific Economic Development Agency keeps growing. Last week, Georgina Te Heuheu revealed that the allocation was pushed by Bill English, not by her as Pacific Island Affairs minister. Which seems very odd. Also, strange is both…