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Yup, for anyone who had any faint remaining doubt, confirmation that Don Brash has completely lost it: Don Brash hurls Nazi slur at bureaucrats Act Leader Don Brash has used Nazi analogies to attack local body bosses. In a speech today to the Federated Farmers…
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The Department of Conservation does a wonderful job maintaining our country’s parks and walkways for all of us, and our tourists. Its workers are low-paid, passionate people who really care about our environment. They’re the caretakers of our wild places - places that people from…
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We all have our vices: some of us enjoy the occasional cigarette; others prefer a nice beer after a hard week at work. These vices have developed as a way of dealing with the realities of life, allowing us to escape our often stressful and…
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National thinks more roads will fix the economy. Problem is: traffic volumes are falling. It's called Peak Oil. Means they can't come up with any projects that make sense. Puhoi to Wellsford would cost $1 for every 80 cents of benefit. The next 4 National…
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We have a government which is committed to chip chip chipping away at employment law (they call it a "flexible labour market"). Perhaps we as a country need a reminder of just why employment law is necessary: Defence Force cuts condemned The way in which…
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Good piece in today's Herald by John Armstrong focussing on Vote for Change's declaration that they are not in favour of any particular form of electoral system at this stage. He doesn't find it believable, and nor do I. His take is that "Vote for…
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A commenter, MarkM, accused me, and the Left more broadly, yesterday of not wanting to engage in any intellectual debate on the merits of MMP vs the other systems on offer. Not true! It's just we have been through this already and MMP won because…
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Some uni political hacks arguing, calling each other names, on Facebook is nothing new. The Actoid telling the Greenie to "get raped" was beyond the Pale. Don't think we've ever had to delete a comment that bad here. But the response from ACT on Campus's…
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Ahh the Nats. Nothing if not screaming hypocrites. Audrey Young writes: Nats, Act spend up large with your cash National and Act, the parties that kicked up a stink in Opposition about Labour's taxpayer-funded election advertising, are engaging in their own taxpayer-funded binge this month.…
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By its own admission, Vote for Change is anti MMP. Its website homepage has "More Accountability" as its first principle. It is also an Incorporated Society. So I had a look at its rules - you can find them here by entering "Vote for Change"…
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Why is it the Australians are getting better coverage of Pike River than we are? The Australian, for example, ran a story yesterday asking some hard-hitting questions about safety at the mine including the lack of remote gas measurement and a second escape route. Perhaps…
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Over at Pundit Rob Salmond has taken a look at the rules of the latest anti-MMP outfit, Vote For Change. And it turns out that not only is it "supported" by the usual lineup of weird rightwing oiks but that, as fifty percent of the…
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For those of you who have clicked into the various ads for NetHui that we've been running as freebies, and registered. Just a reminder* that it starts tomorrow in Auckland and runs until Friday. Russell Brown wrote about it earlier today - so read that…
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Reprinted from No Right Turn: One of the reasons the New Zealand public have such a dim view of politicians is because they have shown time and again that they are cheats and liars. They set themselves performance targets (whether explicit or implicit) in opposition,…
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OK. Bit of a cheat. The May figures were out yesterday. But the trend is up for other months. Real point is tourists from India are just 1% of the total. If best Key can promise for the economy is an increase in a tiny…
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Peter Shirtcliffe's latest attempt to destroy MMP has finally launched. The man who spent a million dollars in 1993 is a shadow of his former self. Now, he and his cronies are so despised he can't front the organisation himself, he's got some kid doing…
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Labour shouldn't get distracted trying to stop a few votes going to Mana. (or racing benefit rorting bloggers, for that matter). If the worse thing post-election is needing Mana's support to govern, Labour would be ecstatic. Concentrate on the real fight: getting back the 100K…
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The weekend found Matt McCarten in a pensive mood: We've failed our kids and they're off to Oz In three weeks my daughter flies to Melbourne with a group of her mates to start a new life. All of them are young university graduates in…
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As has been said since before the announcement, Option 1 isn't enough to get people back into the situation they were in before the quake - which Key and Brownlee promised. A hell of a lot of land was valued well below market price. Not…
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It's a story that just keeps getting more and more bizarre. Employers and Manufacturers Association head Alasdair Thompson's sexist outbursts have drawn near universal condemnation, and are likely to cost him his job. Surely getting pelted with tampons represents some new kind of absolute career…
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