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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. As pre-registration opens for the Mighty River Power offer, people all around the country are gearing up to take shares in the company. The official…
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Chavez was too young to die, but he is a significant figure in South American politics Chavez has been a controversial figure in Venezuela. The full story has yet to be written of his contribution to his country and his impact on the left and…
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I know we're meant to make do with what we have. Sometimes wonder what we would have if a couple more MPs had thought beyond themselves, given the party membership the choice. Here's two guys. One talking Labour values, recognising injustice arises from an unjust…
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Now that the government has ignored the opposition to their ill-fated asset stripping of SOE value, it appears that someone in the government is leaking private information from the sale. Is there a kickback system in operation? Perhaps to help fund the exorbitant upfront costs of sale?…
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Amidst the froth of predatory "excitement" about the sale of our power generation assets, it was refreshing to read in The Herald yesterday a single lone voice who was thinking long term. Thank you Wayne Cartwright: Wayne Cartwright: Asset sale is 'strategic blunder' The Government's…
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That's how much we're paying for Lesley Longstone's being forced to resign on 19 December last year, hidden in the Christmas rush. At the time Hekia couldn't comment because she was going on holiday, was on holiday, was just back from holiday, was busy with…
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A useful note from NRT (we should have covered this last week). The Constitutional Conversation The Constitutional Review launched its "Constitution Conversation" website [last Thursday], seeking submissions on key constitutional questions such as the length of the Parliamentary term, the role of the Treaty, and whether to…
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A round of TTPA negotiations is underway in Singapore. The excellent Jane Kelsey is leading the critical discussion here in NZ. Meanwhile there is some disturbing information from across the ditch in Aussie, raising the issue of corporate dominance over women's health provisions and the…
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A new Australian report has coined the phrase "angry summer": Angry Summer' made worse by climate change: Commission The latest report from the Federal Government's Climate Commission says the weather extremes experienced around the country this summer were made worse by climate change. The report…
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National's going to spend a million taxpayer dollars just on advertising trying to convince Kiwis to sign up to buy something we already own and just in the 'pre-registration' phase of the Mighty River sale. God knows what the full cost of the sale will…
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Got word of this late - sorry for the short notice. 4 March, 2013 No More Novopain pickets happening all over New Zealand Educators are taking the message that relief from Novopain is urgently needed directly to National MPs tomorrow, with pickets taking place outside…
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After reading Queen of Thorns complaint about the limited gender options in the census, I was considering the census. For me and almost everyone else I know (apart from my brother and a few others) we are devotedly irreligious. But every census they ask us that same…
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Question 25 of the 2013 New Zealand Census asks: Are you: male female Spot the problem. In response to queries on the topic, the very-helpful 2013 Census Twitter account @2013Census has said: We just ask that people mark the response that shows how they are living…
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National have issued the Order in Council to start the sale of Mighty River Power today. So now we get the $1 million dollar advertising campaign starting tomorrow - the only announced progress towards keeping shares in NZ hands. There's still no details about the…
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp are selling their shares in NZ Sky TV. What does these mean for the on-going decline of public broadcasting, and related rise of global corporate control? It will be interesting to see where the shares go. It is possibly part of…
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One of the promises that Key made about asset sales was that Kiwis would be "at the front of the queue". For the past several days, however, there has been speculation that Mighty River Power shares would be listed in Australia: Mighty River shares to…
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The NZ Forestry Sector is completely unmonitored – It is one of our most dangerous industries and no one seems to know what is going on. From my perspective it appears within officialdom and the Forest Owners themselves, no one really cares. There are myths…
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This teaser on the front page of the (digital) Herald, and the article that it links to, really really annoy me: Let me count the ways: (1) It turns welfare, an important safety net and part of the social fabric / contract of our country,…
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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: Killer robots,…
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How much power should the ruling faction in a country / political system have? Should it be relatively unfettered, as it is NZ, or buffered by "checks and balances" as it is in the USA? Each approach has its risks. The risk of the former…
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Family First have responded to the moving-forward of the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill in their usual calm and logical manner, by issuing a press release screaming that the words "husband" and "wife are to be removed from our marriage-related legislation, and thus will obviously…
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I've got to stay that I stand in awe of this latest tax policy suggestion from the IRD. Simple, fair, easy to implement, it will be wildly popular. I think the Nats should adopt it at once. They'd sew up the 2014 election right here:…
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In recent posts in this series we've focused on the Children’s Social Health Monitor 2012 Update Report, see the the full report (pdf) here. Today we look at the next Health and Wellbeing Indicators. INFANT MORTALITY AND SUDDEN UNEXPECTED DEATH IN INFANCY Poverty stories and statistics…
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This is what it looks like when a "country" (in this case Britain) takes a serious look at the impact of it's ageing population structure: Ageing population will have huge impact on social services, Lords told Startling details about Britain's rapidly ageing population and its…
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