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Wow. Day one and already David Cunliffe is in sprint mode. He has rightfully calculated that he has maybe a short honeymoon period and he may as well take advantage of it. He has started to use the language of battle to describe the contest…
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So David Cunliffe is now leader. The scale of the win is somewhat overwhelming. He had significantly greater support from members and affiliates than his competitors. And the vote in caucus was closer than some had predicted. Winning on the first ballot was not expected…
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For many years there used to be a blog site called The Thordon Bubble1, that was dedicated to the minutiae of the political scene as seen from a small area in Wellington. I always thought it was a perfect name for the thermocline difference of…
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Today is the 75th Anniversary of the 1938 Social Security Act, one of Labour's finest achievements that shaped our modern society. As Michael Joseph Savage said during the passage of the Bill: There is enough of the best for all of us, and I want…
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The stunning levels of naked media dishonesty and bias we've seen in the coverage of David Cunliffe, his campaign, and now his election, call for a special tribute! This post is for us dear readers, to assemble links to examples of those who write in…
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Well, didn't that work well? For the past three weeks, Labour has dominated the political news with three contenders show-casing its values. There was remarkably little aggro - witness Tracy Watkins' desperate scratching for any time conflict story. David Cunliffe has emerged with the legitimacy…
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It's official David Cunliffe is Labour's new leader. And, having been democratically elected by Labour's Parliamentary, Party, and industrial wings in the first round, he carries the strongest mandate of any leader in the party's history. It's a great day for democracy. But not as…
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One from each side of the politician-journalist relationship, both from one article... Firstly Tracy Watkins on a Grant Robertson win: That could see more ill-feeling spill over in public at the November conference, and reopen the wounds from last year when rank-and-file members revolted against…
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Julia Gillard on power, purpose, and Labor's future. Well worth a read.
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The election of a new Leader today will be a historic moment in the history of the New Zealand Labour party. Regardless of the result, or who you voted for, this is a day to celebrate the party's new democracy. Update: from an email from…
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For progressives the recent Australian election was a relative disaster. It was not as bad as it was predicted to be, and this may explain Kevin Rudd's rather jubilant concession speech on election night, but nevertheless Labor lost over 20 MPs from the House of…
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John Armstrong gets it right: David Cunliffe's going to win tomorrow and if he doesn't it will only be because the caucus has stymied the will of the members, which will kill Labour. But he also gets it really wrong. Armstrong cooks up a conspiracy…
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I'm not usually one to comment on individual polls as I can't see that a single poll means much. Given that each of our media outlets only seeks to poll once every blue moon, their data isn't great. In fact the only poll that is…
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Labour's General Secretary Tim Barnett says: All Party members who are eligible to vote should now have received voting papers in the mail, or if requested via email. If you are still to receive your voting paper, it is not too late to re-issue you…
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Auckland Action Against Poverty did another 3 days of advocacy action this week, this time in New Lynn, as explained in their pre Impact Action press release: “At least 9 out of every 10 people seen by our advocacy service have been incorrectly or unfairly…
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Of all the self-hating "Lefties" who comment on politics, Bryce Edwards has got to be one of the worst. Here's a gem from his latest NZ Politics Daily: Blogs have, of course, weighed in heavily on Labour’s contest. Traditionally The Standard has been the main…
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Metiria Turei's appearance this week on the anti-current events, infotainment show The Vote, has raised the issue of how oppositions parties will talk about their housing policies, as we count down to next year's election. As some commented under my post yesterday, the left needs…
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I was going to have a blog free day today but TV3 has woken me from my slumber and made me compelled to comment. Its latest article on the Labour Leadership contest posted today says this: The winner could hinge on which of Mr Cunliffe or…
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James Dann at Rebuilding Christchurch has picked up on some seriously concerning signs of political partisanship from CERA. The government agency's twitter and facebook account have been publishing John Key's earthquake political advertising: But this isn't a single lapse of judgement: It appears the offending…
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Max Rashbrooke - editor of a highly acclaimed new book Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis - will be touring parts of New Zealand in September talking about New Zealand’s rising income inequality. Napier: Thursday 12 September, 5.30pm Venue: Beattie & Forbes Booksellers, 70 Tennyson St, Napier Gisborne: Friday September 13, 5.30pm Venue: Muirs Bookshop, 62 Gladstone Rd, Gisborne Please use the shop’s back entrance, from Gisborne Herald car park, off Lowe Street. Rotorua: Monday 16 September, 5.30pm Venue: Bainbridge Centre, 187 Old Taupo Road, Rotorua Hamilton: Wednesday 18 September, 6pm…
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Amy Adams is having a bad week. Today the Axe the Copper Tax campaign is being announced. The Government is proposing to prevent the cost of copper broadband connections to retail users being reduced to the fair price determined by the Commerce Commission. It is estimated that around…
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I voted for Cunliffe, Robertson, and Jones in that order. My reasons are in this post. It is unnecessary for people to speculate on additional motivations. But if Clare Curran, Trevor Mallard*, Patrick Gower or anyone else wants to run a politically based smear on…
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Patrick Gower, 'Voters view Cunliffe as negative leader', report on 3 News last night. What a shocking piece of manipulative reporting about a dodgy poll, using a dodgy analysis. It's called a "3 News Special Poll", and it seems to have focused on asking questions…
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With the Labour leadership race all but over and the votes now coming in, let's have a look at how the contenders fared against their objectives: Robertson had to show some flare, show he's more than an affable apparatchik, that he's capable of wowing crowds…
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I was chatting with some friendly folk and they were saying how much the Labour leadership contest is making Key look like a lame-duck PM. All the media is about appointing his successor. There's been a National agenda to use this contest to continue their…