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The Herald Digipoll does not exactly have an impressive record of accuracy, but for what it's worth the numbers in the current poll (compared to the previous in August) are: National is on 48.5 (up one); Labour 36.4 per cent ( up 4.4); the Greens…
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3 News reports: No inquiry into Solid Energy Solid Energy will not face a Select Committee Inquiry after Government MPs voted against it this morning. The state-owned energy company is $389 million in debt and despite bosses fronting up to the commerce select committee and…
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When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondmen from the…
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The current Speaker in the House, David Carter, is a disaster. Yesterday was beyond a joke as he let the government get away with avoiding providing serious answers to important questions. It began with a question that had been diverted from the PM to the…
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3 News' Patrick Gower seems to be incensed by the latest Dotcom revelations: Dotcom: A systematic cover-up by police and spies It is sad to say, but it is becoming increasingly clear there was a cover-up by our spies and the police in the Dotcom scandal. I…
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There's this almost puritan kind of myth that we've got so much international debt as punishment for our spendthrift ways. We 'live beyond our means', apparently. But it's not true. If 'our means' is the money we make in exports, then most of the time,…
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I "attended" a fascinating "town hall" meeting last week of artists from around the world in the Visual Special Effects sector. Ignited by the failure of the company Rhythm and Hues (despite recently completing most of the special effects for the film The Life of…
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The Social Security (Benefit Categories and Work Focus) Amendment Bill is up for its second reading in the House this afternoon. It is first up on the provisional order paper for today (i.e. probably some time after 2pm, which would likely be after Question Time…
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Key hid his Tranzrail shares while asking questions about Tranzrail because he's a sneaky, avaricious bastard. Banks filed a false election return keeping his big money donors secret because he's corrupt. Shearer forgot to declare his UN Bank account because he's a bit of a…
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The Nats are in trouble with their budget deficits and looking to raise money via increased taxes. But they are tinkering at the edges of the problem, with their petrol tax, and the proposed car park and gadget ("iPad") taxes. The latter proposals were so…
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February's Roy Morgan had the Nats up and Labour down, prompting Zetetic's post "Latest Roy Morgan… a bit shit". The Roy Morgan out yesterday had National down 4 to 43.5, Labour up 2 to 32.5, Greens up 1 to 13.5, and overall a projected win…
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Our wee James Bond wannabes had a code name for Kim Dotcom (you know, in case their comms were intercepted by the bad guys). They called him Billy Big Stepper. So witty! But Labour's uncovered something more serious too. It seems that the GCSB was…
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[Trigger warning: rape, rape culture, victim-blaming] I was honestly surprised to learn that two of the boys heroes football players men charged in the Steubenville rape case had been convicted (albeit sentenced to paltry terms with the possibility of serving longer). I was honestly completely unsurprised to…
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Connect these dots. One: Foreign students turned off by NZ Labour blames dodgy education providers and agents for drop in fee-paying customers from abroad. Immigration "hiccups", dodgy education providers and unscrupulous student agents are damaging New Zealand's export education reputation, says Labour export education spokesman…
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The withdrawal of News Corp from SkyNZ, and the recent deal about press regulation in the UK is a symptom of the demise of media moguls, like Murdoch and a shift of balance between the corporate media and politicians. It is part of the demise of…
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I/S at No Right Turn on the insanity of scrapping the home insulation programme. Insanity The Warm Up New Zealand / Heat Smart home insulation program is one of the government's few policy successes, producing health benefits four times greater than its costs. So naturally, they're…
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So, some Republican Senator has become the first of his ilk to, um, come out in favour of marriage equality after he learned his son is gay. Apparently, this is just lovely. The man wrestled with his prejudices and his Christian love and tolerance won.…
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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. Labour Party leader David Shearer has moved quickly to discipline one of his MPs for failing to declare a pecuniary interest. "I expect high standards…
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So much for all this propaganda about the asset sales being all about deepening markets here and giving Kiwis a chance to invest. When it came to building the website for the pre-registration, where did the Nats go? To Aussie. They got an Aussie company…
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Apparently the government is concerned for the general health of people in New Zealand. Apparently, an expression of this concern is the roll out of policy initiatives that will result in New Zealand being smoke free by 2025. As a fairly heavy smoker of some…
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Irrelevant fringe group "Family First" really only has one drum, so I guess that they have nothing better to do except continue to beat it. But they really are (to mix my metaphors) flogging a dead horse: Poll: People want smacking law changed Better headline…
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Micky savage of Waitakere News looks at John Key's involvement in the Solid Energy fiasco. National's undeserved reputation as sound economic managers takes another hit... Has John Key jumped the shark? Happy Days was a highly successful American sit com that screened for a decade.…
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Corin Dann interviewed Bill English very well on climate change and the drought yesterday on Q+A. It was clear that English has his head in the dust. Despite claiming that the government is leading on climate change, English would barely let the 'cc' words pass…
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I've just been alerted to the fact that Danyl from the dimpost has a novel out called Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley. If it's as entertaining as his blog it'll be a must read. I'm looking forward to getting a copy.
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The Draft Auckland Unitary Plan, which was released this week, is a massive endeavour with much to commend it. It focuses on resource management and links in with the Auckland Plan that was released last year. Like the Environmental Defence Society, I am pleased with…
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