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Yesterday morning, John Key expressed his confidence in Heather Roy as a minister. That was later backed up by Bill English, answering on behalf of Key in the House, who said that the Prime Minister always has confidence in his ministers, otherwise they would cease…
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I don't usually read the Dimpost but Not Right Turn put me on to a remarkable post by Danyl the other day. Now, as you know, it's reasonably straightforward to get a reading on people's politics from what they say and I had Danyl down…
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Bill English drew astonished laughs from the House today as he claimed that wages had risen just 3% after inflation during Laobur's years in office and then admitted that he hadn't checked his un-named sources' information. Here's the man you pay quarter of a million…
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The UN says the number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan — an estimated 20 million — could exceed the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. But where there was massive…
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How time flies when you're having fun. We managed to miss The Standard's third birthday a few days ago despite some earlier avowed intentions to make a fuss over it. Our first (visible) post was on the 15th of August 2007 from all_your_base appropriately enough…
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When John Steinbeck said 'No one wants advice - only corroboration' he could well have been describing the numerous working groups the Government has established in many areas of significant economic and social policy. Rather than spending its nine years in opposition developing a detailed…
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Clad in traditional climate change denier headwear, John Boscawen today assumed the role of ACT Deputy Leader. With that surpreme earnestness which is preserved for the truely nutty, Boscawen announced that he would use his new powers to launch a crusade against NIWA until "the…
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In the last seven days a triple-conjunction of political portents has publicly demonstrated just how bankrupt of imagination and policy this current government truly is. The lack of direction and paucity of creative ideas is breath-taking. A "caretaker-government" would be a polite euphemism in this…
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Forget about seabed and foreshore. Forget about rights to plants and animals. And for godssake forget about building consents for confiscated gang headquarters! It's about time some people got their priorities straight. New Zealand as a whole has to take a serious look at its…
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As r0b already mentioned yesterday, NIWA is now being sued by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (NZCSC), on the basis of their stunning research paper "Are We Feeling Warmer Yet? Stunning as in "how could anyone possibly be this dumb?". For what they did…
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OK, that's not the actual title of Peter Dunne's press release. The real title is: Income Sharing could benefit up to 310,000 families (Notice how 'income splitting' has been replaced with 'income sharing', sharing sounds so much nicer and more innocent, more innocent than 'tax…
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Trevor Mallard picked it over at Red Alert yesterday. And Audrey Young at The Herald is carrying the story this morning: Minister faces axe after new Act revolt Act minister Heather Roy is facing the axe from John Key's Administration today, after she is dumped…
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Key said put up or shut up. The CTU and some gutsy workers are putting up. Will Key have the guts to answer them? RALLY 21 & 22 August Auckland * Wellington * Christchurch * Dunedin Auckland 1pm, Saturday 21st August QE2 Square (bottom of…
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Brian Edwards and Bill Ralston give contrasting accounts of Michael Laws' PR handling of his latest relationship issues. Edwards thinks Laws dealt with it well (and reduced the 'story' to a molehill), Ralston thinks Laws cocked-up by preempting any other media coverage and giving more away…
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What do you do when you find science inconvenient to your ideology? Why, you strike it down! Burn the heretics! Or in the modern equivalent, you set the lawyers on them, and try and have the facts declared illegal. What? Yes really - it's happening…
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Odd to see in the Sunday-Star Times that the Government is looking at introducing compulsory superannuation savings, probably by making Kiwisaver compulsory. After all, this is the same government that gutted Kiwisaver and the Cullen Fund just a year ago, saying that super-annuitants were plenty…
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A UK Court has banned the UK military from handing over prisoners to the Afghani government's National Directorate of Security because it tortures its prisoners. It seems our government does not have the same scruples as the UK courts. Wayne Mapp has confirmed that the…
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