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For a guy whose god had two dads, Colin Craig seems pretty worked up about gays. He's raised the spectre of marriage equality leading to polygamous marriage. I'm not sure what's meant to be so scary about that. Polygamous relationships are legal. But Craig seems…
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The Nats are running their various ideological policies in education, claiming (while contradicting themselves in the process) that they are trying to address the "one in five children" who do poorly at school. I've written on the subject of one in five children before, concluding…
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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 Government has decided to change the way it funds Community Law Centres. There are 26 Community Law Centres, and they provide legal…
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Has Fran O'Sullivan been replaced by a communist infiltrator? Today, she gushes over a central government plan to use emergency powers to appropriate land and bypass RMA property rights. She even suggests the Government could use such powers to redesign other CBDs according to its…
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The Nats are in a hurry: We're not waiting, Govt tells tribunal Mr English said he had asked the tribunal to deliver its findings by August 24 because the Government would need to make decisions by the first week of September if it were to…
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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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Anyone else taking a perverse pleasure in the Pullar-Collins-Boag-Judge affair? They're all Tory villains. And they're eating each other alive. Judge was handpicked to privatise ACC. Now, Collins is trying to stick the Boag email leak to him, Did he do it? Who knows. The…
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So, the Nats want unqualified teachers teaching the country's most disadvantaged kids in charter schools. This is meant to close the gap with rich kids. Oddly, private schools opt for trained teachers. Also, oddly, it was only 2 months ago that the Nats were saying…
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The Nats forced perfectly good state schools to use national standards as a "solution" to the problem that some kids (they claim 1 in 5) leave school without a formal qualification: [Tolley] "New Zealand elected a Government that promised to introduce national standards so that…
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A stockmarket float can't happen at just any time. It needs to be close to the annual report or late enough in the new year to allow new numbers to be made after the Christmas break. So 2 windows a year. 5 to the election.…
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Labour's alternative economic policy got a huge boost last week, courtesy of the Members' Bill lottery. Sue Moroney's Paid Parental Leave Bill and David Clark's Mondayising of holidays Bills were introduced in the House and forwarded to Select Committees. Investment in parents and small children,…
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Reprinted with permission from bsprout at Local Bodies... NZ Charter Schools Defined Despite the fact that education is one of the few sectors in New Zealand that is performing well in international terms this National led Government have spent a good amount of time, money and…
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There are many similarities between the foreshore and seabed debate, and the current events unfolding around Maori water rights. In dealing with these National has two big advantages compared to the previous Labour government. First, the experience of watching Labour navigate the foreshore and seabed.…
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Man, this brighter future sure is sweet. In just four short years, all the country's problems are solved and the Prime Minister has literally nothing left to do. For a lark, he spends his time playing DJ. Oh... wait. There's a #DJJohnKey hashtag on Twitter.…
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"In all these roles and at all times, Ministers are expected to act lawfully and to behave in a way that upholds, and is seen to uphold, the highest ethical standards. Ultimately, Ministers are accountable to the Prime Minister for their behaviour." - The Cabinet…
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In a lecture titled "Sovereignty, sustainable development and social justice. Priorities for social democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand," Dr Peter Davis will discuss how we have been here before - our population is bleeding to Australia, we remained locked-in to low-added value commodity production, we…
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As has been well covered in the media, some Auckland ratepayers are in for a rude shock: Aucklanders brace for rates shock More than a quarter of a million Auckland households are in for a shock when rates bills averaging an 8.1 per cent increase…
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There aren't many climate skeptics whose opinions can be affected by mere evidence, so hats off to Richard Muller (ht Joe90). Here's extracts from his piece in the New York Times: The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago…
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If John Key chooses to ignore the Waitangi Tribunal and continue to foment racial division in a desperate bid to split opposition to asset sales, he may be in for a nasty surprise. The Waitangi Tribunal has noted it has the power to make binding…
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Key says the local elections law is an ass. Presumably, he knows what that phrase means: it delivers unjust results. Key thinks its unjust that Banks has escaped justice for his anonymous donation rort. Well, John you're not helpless. Banks lied to media. He lied…
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