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John Key promised a "brighter future" for NZ: one where they wouldn't wave good-bye to loved ones heading to Australia; one where he would require a higher standard of his MPs; one where he wouldn't deliberately avoid telling the truth to the public on controversial…
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Phil Twyford on Red Alert yesterday (ht Anne in comments) posted on an interesting talk: Nicky Hager: Uncomfortable truths, NZ foreign policy in the ‘war on terror’ Author and investigative journalist Nicky Hager delivered this year’s Capt Jack Lyon Memorial Lecture. He draws on his book Other…
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Politicians, journalists and other commentators who support the sale of the powercos, continue to portray the Labour-Green NZ Power policy in terms of political strategy and game-play. In doing this, they avoid having to deal with the guts of the issue: the fact that the…
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In the current series of posts we're looking at the Office of the Children's Commissioner (OCCC) 2012 report "Child Poverty in New Zealand evidence for action". Continuing from last week... Chapter 4 Priority Recommendations This is a short chapter setting out the most important recommendations.…
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Aaron Gilmore, eh? He's clearly finished in the National Party. Not for the view he expressed when he threatened to get a young waiter sacked, but because by doing so he's lifted the veil on the carefully covered elitism that drives the national party's agenda.…
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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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What amounts to "good" vision as part of a political campaign? Is it only in the mind of the holder and skewed by their political position? Or is it a vision that appeals to the majority, in spite of whether they lean left, right, or…
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John Banks is in court to answer allegations over his Dotcom donations and brain fades lies: Loss in court would cost Banks seat ... Mr Banks has been called to court to answer allegations that he received money from internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and SkyCity…
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Yesterday, Phil O'Reilly's Business New Zealand basically declared war on Labour and the Greens. Their 'open letter' demanded opposition parties to withdraw the NZ Power policy or risk a capital strike. Unprecedented in modern NZ history. It was a boots and all attempt by the…
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"MP's 'disgusting' behaviour" "Lawyer 'unfairly tarnished' by Gilmore"
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No Right Turn points out National's inherent strategic coalition flaw after the next election.. Writing on Stuff, Vernon Small highlights what's really at stake in the upcoming Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election: National's future coalition options: If between them he, Mr Jones and the Ikaroa-Rawhiti candidate can further wound the…
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As I posted a couple of days ago, John Key's networks of influence incorporate people and multinational corporates involved in the potentially damaging exploration for oil in NZ. Today Werewolf published a well-researched and damning article by Gordon Campbell. Campbell exposes the false claims of Anadarko Petroleum,…
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The John Key brand used to have a couple of big advantages. First, he was successfully sold as different, not an ordinary politician. Second, he was sold as positive, sunny, optimistic, a nice guy. Well, the first advantage crumbled under the weight of repeated lies,…
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To say Brian Gaynor is excited about the Mighty River sale is an understatement. Of his last five Herald columns, two have been about how great it will be, and two have been about how awful NZ Power is. His other media appearances have been…
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NZ Herald top managers and editors probably think the Fourth Estate is a planned new greenfield development on the outer margins of Auckland: a Dickensian kind of space where people poorly paid wage slaves and those on social security, can be hidden away from wealthy property owners and business…
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While most of the world recognises the 1st of May as International Workers Day, here in NZ young workers have nothing to celebrate. Law changes from the government that would love to see wages drop come in to effect today, as described in yesterday's press…
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A couple of people have questioned this series of posts outing the financial interests of supposedly 'independent' commentators who are coming out against the Green/Labour plan to lower power prices. 'Everyone has links to everyone in New Zealand'. Maybe so, but not everyone is paid…
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Three days after Workers Memorial Day, the Independent Taskforce on Workplace Safety has just released its report. In finding the New Zealand workplace health and safety system is "not fit for purpose" the report provides yet another indictment of so-called light-handed regulation and a policy…
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This was originally posted on The Daily Blog last week. Early last month there was a study published by Marcott et al with a reconstruction of the climate from available proxy data since the last major glacial events which ended about 11,000 years ago. As the editor…
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Hot on the heels of electricity industry funded Lewis Evans publishing an op-ed about how terrible NZ Power is, another academic has popped up to claim the policy is the end of the world. This time it's Dr Allan Miller, whose argument is that it…
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I/S at No Right Turn on the difference between what was promised of the "3 strikes" law and the way it is being used in practice. "The worst of the worst" When National passed its "three strikes" legislation in 2010, they promised that it would…
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An Advantage New Zealand conference is happening at the moment at John Key's favourite conference centre (SkyCity), with major players in the oil and gas industries sharing ideas, and strategies. They are promoting and backing each others' profit-making enterprises, no matter how destructive to our…
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Lewis Evans had an op-ed in the Dompost yesterday. It attacked NZ Power in confused terms. Evans claimed, for instance, that all the savings from lower costs would come from lower dividends to the Government, when a moment's thought shows you that's not true and…
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Geoff Bertram states in today's DomPost (repeated on interest.co.nz) that he advised the Select Committee on the Mighty River Power sale legislation that the excessive profits gained by the power companies were potentially subject to regulatory interest by any government that placed consumer interest ahead…