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New Zealanders understand that unemployment costs, so it's worth spending to prevent it. They also understand it's not inevitable, it's caused by factors the Government can influence. Even the new Reserve Bank Governor says "the high New Zealand dollar is undermining export earnings and encouraging…
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I have never understood voting for conservative "small government" types. Why vote for a government that wants to do nothing? Why surrender power to "the market", which is run by faceless, unelected entities? It is surrendering the power of your vote. If the government goes…
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Two recent posts from NRT. Slipping The World Economic Forum has released its annual Global Gender Gap Index , and the news is again bad. After years of steady progress under Labour, our score first stagnated, and has now actually dropped slightly. The reason? National's sexist candidate…
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According to Maori Party policy: We aspire to work together to make the economy great but not at the expense of our environment. Climate change affects us all and the biggest emitters must take responsibility to change the way they do business. Any cost they…
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Here's Business NZ's shill on extending paid parental leave: "Employers who have been forced to bear considerable replacement costs, or to find those amongst their other employees willing to provide cover, may well think hard before again employing a woman of child-bearing age". 1) that…
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Police deserve better representation than a gild that insists no cop can do any wrong. All Police are tainted by the illegal, unethical actions of the few, which the Police Association under Greg O'Connor endorses, defends, and tries to cover-up. O'Connor's latest outrages are dismissing…
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A TV3 poll shows that 49% to 46% of people believe National is failing to build its promised "brighter future". The two big weaknesses: jobs and education. By nearly 2 to 1 margins, people believe that National is failing to provide full employment (it says…
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I wasn't going to post on the never ending stream of privacy breaches and kiosk vulnerabilities that have come to light recently. The latest is WINZ using printed personal details as scrap paper - and handing them over to a member of the public. But…
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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. Security experts were being rushed to the ninth floor of the Beehive this morning, after a malicious hacker accessed the Prime Minister's brain. Experts…
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The government is vulnerable around the Paid Parental Leave Bill. They don’t want it to pass, but they risk losing support from women for not supporting it. A financial veto of an entire Bill has never been done before, and it’s experimental for the government.…
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Great to see Drinking Liberally starting up again in New Zealand. And in a new city, Hamilton. Here's the invite: You are all cordially invited to the first meeting of Drinking Liberally, Hamilton. Drinking Liberally is an informal, non-programmatic gathering of like-minded left-leaners, an opportunity…
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Housing is too expensive. It has been driven up by 'investors' in pursuit of a safe, hands-off, tax-free return. 8% of the people own about 40% of the houses. That's the problem - over-allocation of savings from the upper-middle class into housing pushing prices up,…
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The Nats have decided to try to lean on the judiciary to get asset sales handled the way they want. The Judge is 'Red Ron'. The Court shouldn't try to decide water rights at a level of general principle. The Maori Council mustn't get legal…
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The moment has finally arrived. Microsoft's irritating Internet Explorer browser is not the top browser in New Zealand any more according to StatCounter... And worldwide it hasn't been so for five months. It is a slow day on the site according to the readership stats. Looks…
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As expected, the High Court has recommended a hold on the sale of Mighty River Power. 3 News reports: Mighty River Power sale delayed by High Court The Government’s asset sales plan has again hit turbulence with Cabinet delaying the removal of Mighty River Power…
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I notice that DPF is pushing data supposed to show the success of charter schools in New York (and of course pushing his anti-teacher agenda at the same time). The source is the WSJ: New York City recently released official progress reports for the city's…
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The third and final debate kicks off in about 2 hours. A summary from Stuff is here, and as always, check out The Guardian live blog. The focus is foreign policy, which would seem to play well to Obama's strengths, and may well show up…
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Union members are the ones who win decent wages and conditions for everyone. And the good news is union membership is increasing, despite rising unemployment. So much for the Right's attempt to frame workers who stand up for themselves and their families as a dying…
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Labour MP Shane Jones appeared on TVNZ's Q&A show over the weekend to debate with Gareth Hughes over plans for a Ross Sea marine reserve. Despite not being Labour's spokesperson on conservation or fisheries (he's not the party's spokesperson on any issue, after being stood…
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I've been thinking about what you might call a 'good problem' for the Left.. but it leads me to a 'problem problem'. OK, so let's say we win the next election - as the Left must do and should do given how unpopular the Nats'…
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Slavery was abolished in the 19th century, wasn’t it? From wage-slavery to human-trafficking, modern day forms of slavery have many faces, all in the interests of some people making a profit out of the hardship of others. These various faces of modern day slavery range…
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This speaks for itself really: Courts tougher on benefit fraud than tax dodging – study New research reveals tax dodgers are ripping off the country at up to 150 times the rate of welfare fraudsters, but are being jailed much less often. ... Last year,…
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After Lyn's 6 year time commitments to her documentary have subsided, we didn't need the space to produce and then market it around the world. So nearly two months ago we moved out of the larger rental we'd had for the last 3 years back into my old apartment in…
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Just a quick note on this story - about how for many of us the 40-hour week is but folklore. 13% of Kiwis are working more than 50 hours / week (that's paid work, all you volunteers out there won't count...). Waikato University labour market expert…
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My regular Sunday piece of interesting, longer, deeper stories I found during the week. It’s also a chance for you to share what you found this week too. Those stimulating links you wanted to share, but just didn’t fit in anywhere (no linkwhoring). This week:…