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The proponents of Public-Private Partnerships offer two justifications for the extra cost compared to normal government financing: 1) a mystical claim that the private sector will find efficiencies in a PPP that they wouldn't find if they were just contracted to build a project normally…
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I welcomed Amy Adams independent review of Chorus's financial claims in response to Chorus's sad song. Not something I should say in a left leaning site but it does show an increasing awareness from government of big business endeavours to manipulate NZ to their advantage.…
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So, a second judge has confirmed that John Banks will go to trial for alleged fraudulent electoral returns. NZ Herald reports: The case was taken over by Solicitor-General Michael Heron QC but the Act Party leader filed an urgent appeal to the High Court at…
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Chris Hipkins said in Parliament today that New Zealand's educational standards have dropped rather dramatically in data gathered recently. According to TV3: New Zealand has slipped in OECD education rankings, the Labour Party has revealed. In the House today, education spokesman Chris Hipkins said the…
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Tracey Whatshite, Cadet Reporter. As Greenpeace make a bid in the High Court to challenge the EPA’s decision to grant Anadarko permission to deep sea drill, we can reveal the content of secret documents detailing the contingency plan in the event of a major oil…
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The latest census data is being revealed, and there's a guide available to some of the main findings on Stuff and the NZ Herald's sites. The information is presented in pretty much the same format, indicating that both sites have mostly just re-published Stats NZ's…
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Cameron Slater simply isn't a journalists arsewipe. For him to claim the legal privileges, protections and authority that the journalistic profession holds within our political and economic community makes a travesty of the whole concept of a free and responsible press. Now I'm aware that…
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John Key set us a challenge on the referendum: get more an a million 'no' votes. That would mean more votes against asset sales than National won in 2011 (1,058,636 to be precise). So far, so good. The Electoral Commission has processed 805,204 votes. Doubling…
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There is a saying in the law profession that difficult cases make bad law. The basis for this is that the facts of a case may tug at the heart strings and determine that one result is the just one but if you approached the…
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On Thursday Vernon Small wrote on the Chch East by-election: "Anything above 53 per cent will look like a fine result for Labour, anything under 50 per cent a relative failure. If Doocey can attract 40 per cent of the vote National can be well-pleased.…
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So far the results are looking good for Labour. RNZ reports: Labour Party candidate Poto Williams is leading in the Christchurch East by-election, with 20% of the votes counted. New Zealand Snapper tweeted: Over a quarter of all the votes counted, ACT has 12 votes.…
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Anyone got any good reasons as to why people who can’t walk, or why people pushing prams, or whatever, shouldn’t be able to access buildings and move around city environments with ease? I can think of a few shit reasons – thoughtless planners and penny…
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Today's NZ Herald editorial willfully distorts the facts behind the Citizens Initiated Referendum on asset sales. It so doing, it's main focus serves to discredit the referendum, encourage people not to vote, and thus implicitly supports the Key government's asset sales programme. It does all…
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Like many other baby boomers I found that my political activism owed a lot to Rob Muldoon. He was a disgusting figure. He was a bully, had strong fascist tendencies and was totally clueless on how to run New Zealand. Our current problems can be…
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Comments on this post will not be allowed until 7.01 pm, then after that knock yourselves out! The legal restriction on campaigning on election day means that even online campaigning during election day is not allowed. So check back at 7:01 pm and discuss what…
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The Electoral Commission has reported receiving and processing nearly quarter of a million referendum votes per day on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Those were the first two day big days allowing time for the ballots to there through the post. With smaller numbers getting…
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In the Budget, the Government said asset sales would increase the net worth of the Crown by half a billion dollars because eager mums and dads were going to snap the shares up for more than they were worth on the government books. As we…
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Something momentous happened today. John Banks and Hone Harawira are on the same side of an issue, Peter Dunne is doing something sensible, and the Greens and New Zealand First as well as Brendan Horan agreed on something. And David Farrar and Matthew Hooton are…
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There is some truth to Tracy Watkins claim (in an op ed piece a week ago explicitly labelled Opinion) that the Law change removing HNZ tenants' right of tenure passed into law with "barely a ripple". She ends the piece with a reference to National's sly style…
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As the Christchurch East by election draws to a close National's candidate Matthew Doocey has done something quite unusual, he has not fronted up to an important public meeting to discuss that most vital of local issues, insurance cover for earthquake damage. From the Christchurch…
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Everybody is talking up the Conservatives as a partner for National after 2014 to save Key from being the least successful National PM ever. But there's one problem: they don't agree on anything. The Conservatives are reactionaries, the Nats are neo-libs - and they agree…
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The latest Roy Morgan poll results are out. Labour is up 2% to 34%, National down 1% to 44.5%, Greens down 1.5% to 11% and the Conservatives are on 2%. Labour/Green is just ahead of National. And Matthew Hooton has tweeted about Labour/Green being on…
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