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As it is the end of the working week many people are likely in need of a good laugh. With the budget due out next month it's worth reviewing the words of well known comedian and magician (able to make economic growth disappear before your…
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As I move around the Wairarapa electorate people are telling me the same story. They are struggling just to make ends meet. It is something I am aware of personally. My Subaru costs me around $110 to fill the tank. Last year it cost only…
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Another week, another massive corporate bailout as National reaches into our pockets to aid a company. He's got the pot out and is saying 'right, I need another $125 each from you, but keep your wallets out, it could be $250 in the end'. Whatever…
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Christchurch. Quake + 45 days and counting: Homeless may have access to campervans "within a week", with costs starting at $190 per week. Temporary houses are planned, with a decision on who gets the contract to build them expected "within a week". Japan. Quake +…
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Danyl and Lew have already made very good posts about the end of NZPA. I'd only note that the closure is bad for our democracy as NZPA is one of the only media outlets that covered every bill and provided an encompassingly broad first draft…
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John Armstrong is losing patience with the Nats: John Armstrong: Age of Austerity? We're still spending on plastic So much for Bill English's much-heralded Age of Austerity. The close to $2 million in taxpayers' money for Auckland's "plastic waka" suggests the Old Age of Waste…
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hat-tip: BR for the comparison
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Wgtn Public Meeting & Fundraiser – After the quake: community responses in Christchurch Public Meeting 7pm, Friday April 8th Upstairs @ Thistle Hall (cnr Cuba and Arthur Streets), Wellington Entry by koha Following the devastating earthquake in Christchurch on February 22nd, a number of organisations…
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The PSA is the frontline in our fight against National's plans to savagely cut our public services. Much in the same vein as the sticker campaign that Eddie posted on yesterday, the PSA has used humour to get across an incisive message: what the rich…
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If you'll oblige me, this post is largely by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF - an institution famed in the past for forcing third world countries to sell off their water supplies etc on the grounds that the market knows best... IMF press release…
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Meant to write about this at the time. Tuesday evening, the top two headlines on Newsroom were as follows: CURRENT HEADLINES at 5:57 pm, 05 Apr 2011 QUAKE RECOVERY: Dole Numbers Unknown - Social Development and Employment Minister Paula Bennett says she has not sought…
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Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee has unveiled plans to construct a giant inflatable plastic CBD and inflatable plastic suburbs to replace buildings damaged in the Christchurch earthquake. The inflatable CBD will include a number of office buildings and a bouncy castle. To save costs, the…
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The New Zealand Press Association is to be closed down: NZPA to close down, 42 jobs will go The New Zealand Press Association, the organisation that services newspapers with news, is to close down after more than 130 years. The organisation will wind up its…
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Really exposes the failure of Brand Key to deliver on the big promises, eh? [h/t. Dim-Post] [photo: Thomas Beagle]
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Shivering in your earthquake-damaged home, wondering how you'll come up with $190 a week for a campervan after your emergency benefit ends? Living on cat food because GST and price hikes put real food out of reach? Don't worry, Pita Sharples to the rescue: he's…
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Before the last election the usual right wing spinsters tried to paint Labour as financially incompetent for buying back KiwiRail. Never mind that we had to rescue this vital piece of infrastructure from oblivion. Never mind that spending on KiwiRail became part of the stimulus…
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John Key says the thousands of Kiwi families turning to foodbanks to get by are made 'poor choices'. Among the 'poor choices' that poor people allegedly make according to righties is spending all their money on alcohol and cigarettes, rather than on food. As with…
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Actually Phil Goff has it right - these clowns should resign - all they seem to be able to do is screw the economy and cut juicy public-money deals for their mates. Oh yeah, and photo ops. Can't forget the photo ops.
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As I've pointed out previously "Steven Joyce: still living in the 20th century", virtually every Aucklander I have spoken to about a new harbor crossing is aghast at the attitude of National MP's in Wellington. Even considering putting in a new harbor crossing without the…
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A unemployment disaster is slowly unfolding in Christchurch. For now, the tide of job losses is being partially held back by wage subsidies supporting nearly 70,000 workers, but those will be phased out by June. Then, all hell will break loose. The Government has no…
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MartyG raises some very important points in his latest post here. Transport is Auckland’s biggest issue right now. The emerging Labour-Greens-NZF popular front absolutely have to pick up on this if they want to win in November. By dying in a ditch over roads with…
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Stuff is reporting that Christchurch residents who have been displaced from their homes will have to pay a minimum of $190 a week, two weeks bond, insurance and power if they want to get into one of the campervans set up as emergency housing. Never…
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One of the Nats' minor propaganda lines at the last election was drumming up hysteria about crime, particularly youth crime. John Key said they would "act now to defuse these unexploded human time-bombs, who are on the fast-track to Paremoremo". It was mostly just rhetoric,…
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Last year, the New Zealand Institute lambasted the Nats' 'aspiration' to catch Australia by 2025 with a report entitled 'A goal is not a strategy'. Did the Nats change? Of course not. Yesterday, their energy strategy was released. It offers some goals but is mute…
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Kiwis are voting with their feet, or rather their arses. Patronage of public transport is skyrocketing to the point of overcrowding while state highway use is falling among except for freight. You have to wonder why the government keeps building expensive highways that will be…
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