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Don't know if you saw Ruth Richardson's wee rant in the Herald yesterday. Never realised she was such a bad writer. That was awful. Just a bunch of catchphrases and insensitive mention of Christchurch so she could use earthquake metaphors. Her thrust seems to be…
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Despite 22 member states confirming the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement, the EU's parliament is looking like it might reject the treaty, on the grounds of it curtailing civil liberties. The EU's first rapporteur MP on the treaty resigned in protest at the plans and member states'…
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The Nats are ideologically blind when it comes to education. Pressing ahead with National Standards, when all the evidence and advice shows that they're bad for kids. They're repeating exactly the same mistakes when it comes to charter schools: Charter schools 'harmful' says study ...A…
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SkyCity seems to be feeling the pressure of public concern over their dodgy deal with the Nats, which will ramp up the number of addictive pokie machines in their casino. Yesterday we were treated to his media blurt: Lotto worse than pokies - SkyCity boss…
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Matt Wuerker has won Politico's first Pulitzer for his excellent editorial cartoons. They certainly capture something...
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The Greens have revealed that criminals are laundering millions of dollars through SkyCity, taking their gambling losses as the price of coming out with clean, untraceable money. The Government's sleazy 'law for sale' deal with SkyCity would only make it worse by allowing more anonymous,…
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When political lobbyists and campaign "donations" dominate the political process, is it really a democracy any more? Case in point, America, democracy or a plutocracy in Cartier drag? Like most democracies, NZ is some way down that path. But The Greens have proposed taking at…
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The government has splurged $20m putting 3,300 unemployed people through 6 week-long military 'boot camps (the $6K per head cost is the same as 6 months on on dole). Result: up to 3 years later, only 19% have jobs. Compares to the typical stint of…
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A day after a Sunday Star Times piece about how racism is getting worse in New Zealand comes the apparent proof. You can't read anything scientific into a self-selecting online poll, but there's no reason to think that someone would bother deliberately skewing this one.…
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The Right tells us that selling all our stuff and letting the profits flow offshore is great because we get foreign capital and knowledge flowing into the economy (apparently,we can't just buy that stuff rather than permanently lose our wealth base). The Government says 30%…
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Ports of Auckland management admit they gave Slater/Lusk the confidential employment details of a worker who criticised the bosses' disastrous bargaining strategy. At least 2 other workers were victims of the same misdeed. CEO Tony Gibson needs to sack the senior staff responsible. If he…
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Looks like the Nats are going to use the bridge washout on the Gisborne-Napier rail line as an excuse to close it. Despite wagon volumes growing 12-fold this year. The wall of wood has to come out somehow. The roads can't handle the trucks. Madness…
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Having had 4 weeks off at New Years, a week fluffing around in Korea, and a week's holiday in Europe, Key is in Indonesia, where his first order of business was a round of golf followed by a BBQ. While searching for an image of…
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