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…
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…
...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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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