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Open mike 20/06/2012
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Phony Tony
The Herald reports that Tony Ryall "went on the attack about asset sales outside the House, saying that Labour had a history of privatising state owned assets, often doing so under urgency in Parliament back in the 1980s and early 90s." Ryall was elected to…
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ImperatorFish: The Dog Has Eaten John Key’s Budget Surplus
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. Few people would be surprised to learn that the budget surplus we were promised again and again now looks to be only a distant hope.…
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1600 dead, power prices 2/3 higher than Oz/US: Market working – Ryall
Independent energy analyst Molly Melhuish is putting out some facts that Tony Ryall will not find comfortable. While Ryall is spouting that 400,000 New Zealanders switching electricity provider proves that the market is working, Molly points out that we pay on average 28.1c per kWh…
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Caption Contest
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Standing for nothing
So National are shelving their plan to get out of deficit by 2014/15. Which was their only goal left. They'd shelved stopping the exodus to Australia, stopping high unemployment, getting better public services, fixing our current account deficit, returning to growth, proper ECE funding (and…
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Policy on the hoof
John Key wants to debate school league tables. Presumably he thinks that this will do the double whammy of getting middle class parents back on his side in the education debate, and distract from asset sales. But he's not checked with his Minister, or the…
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Wave goodbye to National’s last promise
The last time Treasury did an economic and fiscal update outside of its use two-per-year schedule, was December 2008, the depth of the recession. So, it's telling that, just 4 weeks after the Budget, Treasury is looking at doing a revision of its numbers. One…
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Know when to fold ’em
Key's ditched the surplus target that was so important - yet another casualty on the way to the brighter future. The Queen may have asked him why he didn't see European contagion coming. More likely he is following George Osborne who has ditched "austerity for…
david parker david shearer Economy Europe exports john key monetary policy Privatisation
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Good on the Greens
The Greens have hired the equivalent of 8 full-time staff for two months to get their signature collecting as part of the Keep Our Assets Coalition rolling. It comes out of the fixed budget allocated to the party's leaders' office - not one additional cent…
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Open mike 19/06/2012
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ImperatorFish: Teacher Development and Smaller Class Sizes: We Can Have Both
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. It’s not often that I get grumpy enough to take a Herald on Sunday columnist to task over their opinion piece. I would certainly never…
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Scraping cents, but costing us dollars
Another day another story of National scrimping short term savings that will cost us much more in the long run. This time, they're scrapping free sex advice for teenagers. If that lack of advice causes an increased rate of teen pregnancies, they will of course…
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Taxing the super-rich
Interesting article in the Weekend Herald: Super-rich tax probes net $500m New Zealand's richest people have paid more than $500 million in extra tax after an Inland Revenue crackdown. The unit was set up in 2003 and has collected $467 million so far. This year…
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How the Greek Right screwed the scrum
You know how the Greek's have this weird 'winner's bonus' - 250 seats are proportionally allocated but the largest, and even by one vote gets another 50 seats. The rightwing got the bonus by a couple of percent over SYRIZA by screwing the scrum. How?…
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Open mike 18/06/2012
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