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Donations over $30,000 from the same source must be declared to the Electoral Commission within 10 working days. National overstepped the mark in declaring a total donation of $86,005 from Gallagher Industries outside the limit. I can sympathise as I missed a connection once when…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here This morning’s New Zealand Herald editorial wades into the Megaupload case, opining that copyright laws need to be respected and enforced. More disturbing than the…
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...or is National's "Ethnic Team" so tokinist it's kinda racist in its own right? I mean it's not like there's a facebook group for National's Old White Men Team. Oh wait, there is. Hattip: Alex
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The same day as we learn that Labour won't be allowing press gallery journos free access to their wing of Parliament as previously (apparently a desperate attempt at message control by keeping off message MPs and journos apart: someone better tell Fran Mold what a…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here The stock market dipped sharply in trading today, after no stories appeared in any of the major newspapers about Sonny Bill Williams for almost two…
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News in on the Herald says the Maori party are talking the talk over National's latest insult to Maori. As we approach Waitangi Day and the Maori Party are faced with visiting Hone's constituency they are looking to protest National's move to remove Treaty obligations…
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We've been told about how bad poverty is here, and how bad it is for our future by the excellent Inside New Zealand documentary - but will it take an outside view to wake us from our slumber? If so then Christians Against Poverty's John…
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I/S at NoRightTurn says we should hold Key to his latest pathetic excuse making for his inaction on the sale of our farmland overseas --------------------------------- John Key's excuse for the Crafar farms sale? His hands were tied. But he's promising to change the law if…
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Most Kiwis have had no payrise, if they're lucky enough to have kept their jobs, in the past few years. Yet Christchurch City Council CEO Tony Marryatt has kept on getting pay rises on his obscene salary, even as his job performance has declined. Now…
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Pike River boss Peter Whittall, the guy facing charges after 29 of his employees died working in his unsafe, 'profit-over-people' mine, has set up a mining safety consulting company. What's next? A Minister of Tourism who always holidays overseas? A Finance Minister who wants to…
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Danyl at Dimpost says it all succinctly on Crafar Farms: while China is a rising economic super-power and a close trade partner of New Zealand, it’s also a totalitarian military dictatorship. People are allowed to feel apprehensive about such a state building its own vertical…
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Fran O'Sullivan is an enemy of the people. Her article in this morning's Herald will forever brand her as a traitor to this country. She will be shunned and reviled by people who understand what a disgusting sell-out she has become. There is no coming…
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Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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CTU President Helen Kelly talks about the Ports of Auckland and the effects of casualisation on workers and workplace health and safety. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9zMlvqHjG8
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Anybody who has read, or even heard of, The Spirit Level knows that science is finding links between income inequality and the health of the society we live in - and the health of its citizens among other things. In the UK the debate has…
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The tea tapes contain a pivotal exchange where John Banks and John Key talk about "restructuring" ACT - including Banks confirming his orders from Key to make Catherine Judd the new leader. We also learn that National advisors called Key in a panic during the…
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Key didn't exactly live up to his brand as the master politician and numbers man yesterday: Key in the tea tapes: "we will get to 50. 49-50, anything around there will be good enough. When you are where we are the risk is a landslide"…
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The Teapot Tapes have leaked on to the internet. From The Jackal and many other sources. 2Johns2Cups by goldenturkey Please seed it: http://tinyurl.com/goldenturkey I'd have to say after listening to it that I'd prefer that John Banks kept his brown-nosing somewhere well away from me. I'd be worried…
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Dennis Tegg has a good piece on the release of a secret Australian government report that warns peak oil is upon us: The Daily Telegraph has revealed how the Australian government has attempted to suppress its own report on peak oil. The response from the…
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David Farrar is calling for the Christchurch City Council to be sacked on the bizarre pretext that some of them have objected to the council CEO's obscene pay rise. Apparently it's a crime not to express confidence in your CEO if you're an elected representative…
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When he was running for re-election, John Key said he opposed selling the Crafar farms offshore: "I am concerned about the risk that New Zealanders become tenants in their own land". Now he has won what is very likely his last term, he doesn't give…
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I like to think I'm pretty au fait with American politics. A large chunk of my teenagehood was spent in online spaces like DemocraticUnderground and the political "debate" communities on Livejournal. But it wasn't until this post from News With Nipples popped up in my…
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Christchurch has been back in the news recently for all the wrong reasons. First we had the renewed sequence of aftershocks that hit us all from the 23rd of December last year. One consistent thread that has been running through the public narrative has been…
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