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In Melbourne last week for the Australian Fabians AGM I picked up a copy of Lindsay Tanner's book "Sideshow". According to the back cover, Tanner "lays bare the relentless decline of political reporting and political behaviour that occurred during his career. Part memoir, part analysis,…
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Gordon Campbell, as ever, is there with the insightful commentary: Gordon Campbell on John Key’s assault on the welfare system If John Key is the face of moderation, there’s not much room left on the margins for the extremism of Don Brash. “Moderation” evidently means…
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This government's got a real talent for manufacturing crisis to suit them. The debt disaster is a classic - in order to get out of debt we have to cut public spending to the tune of almost $1billion and sell assets. Far from being in the same…
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My contribution: Key does the vertical plank. Not pictured, National's economic plan .
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If there is one silver lining to the cloud of a National government, it is that the MMP referendum has come up on their watch. It rather cripples their attack lines. • They can't claim that MMP creates weak government -- without condemning their own government…
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Elect a Labour-led government. Create 100K jobs. ['Main benefits' are: unemployment, sickness, invalids, DPB. Also added a table of benefit costs]
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike...
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Having starved the economy and created record unemployment the government is now preparing to stick the knife into the Kiwis it has failed - if they can't find a job in this broken economy they'll see their benefits reduced. Of course like all welfare policies…
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So it appears that John Banks, having applied for his Epsom candidature and ACT party membership at the same time, will get to face his mayoral campaign manager, Aaron Bhatnagar, as National candidate for Epsom. Banks was able to assure everyone on Morning Report this…
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A Herald poll asked people their views on raising the retirement age. Surprisingly, support was strong - 52.3% think the issue needs addressing National whines the country is broke so they have to cut public services and sell assets (while keeping on borrowing for tax…
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Plenty of polls lately. Do we really need so many? Last night we got a 3 News / Reid poll: National slips a little in poll, but still going strong National has taken a hit in the polls, following its budget which made cuts to…
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On Wednesday this week, Nick Smith is going to announce what amounts to the effective privatisation of a large part of ACC. You won’t hear the word privatisation uttered from his lips, he’ll use all sorts of other words like ‘competition’ and ‘market discipline’, but…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike...