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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. We've all been giving Richard Prosser such a hard time this week, but he's actually done us a favour. Thanks to Prosser's intemperate language and offensive views…
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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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Don't you love hearing the rich say the working poor can't have more pay? The faux concern that higher wages cost jobs from the same people who support huge executive pay packets and tax cuts? If you really believed higher wages meant fewer jobs, you…
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From I/S at No Right Turn: Unconstitutional and dangerous That's the Ombudsman's view of National's plan to exclude its charter schools from the Ombudsman's and Official Information Acts: The bill exempts partnership schools from the Ombudsman's Act and the Official Information Act, but Dame Beverley Wakem…
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What's up with the Treasury and Reserve Bank presenting clearly trumped up, fake numbers to pretend the economy is doing better than it is? Wheeler was caught out claiming the banks weren't excessively profitable by international standards - they are. Treasury said private electricity suppliers…
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The Nats like to accuse their critics of "the politics of envy", so in the spirit of fair play I think it's fair to characterise their raison d'être as "the politics of greed". It's all about the money, making more money, and never mind the…
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For those of you who've missed it Colin Espiner is back on the NZ interwebz with a new Stuff blog, the (rather earthily titled) Bull-Dust. Colin was a bit of a pioneer of journalist blogging in New Zealand. He was, I believe, the first Gallery…
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The Herald reports that the Supreme Court will not meet the Government's timetable for its decision on the Maori Council's challenge to Asset Sales. It may only delay things a couple of weeks, but it all adds pressure to the Government's timeline - every little…
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Thanks to stargazer at The Hand Mirror for permission to reprint this piece... questions that were never asked since there's no avoiding it, i thought i may as well do a post about a certain mr prosser. contrary to what it might, my post of…
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The first State of the Union of Obama's second term was widely anticipated. He can't seek re-election, he now has experience, he understands futility of expecting cooperation from Republicans, he has four years to act. So what is he going to do with his final…
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The Living Wage Coalition has released the results of their research, calculating that a wage of $18.40 is needed for workers and their families to have a decent life and participate in society. About 40% of workers currently earn less. The pressure is now on…
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It's an occupational hazard of being political obsessives of course, but we (bloggers / writers / commenters) tend to over react to individual polls. Polls come with built in "noise", error that means that the figures quoted can only be approximate. The last Roy Morgan…
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As ever, too much National to complain about, too little time. So just 3 quickly - Wrong: As excellently covered by Karol, but too quickly dropped by our papers, the Salvation Army's excellent annual State of the Nation report gives the Government a D on…
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Yes, the Nat's economic policies are a crime against common sense and the vast majority of the people. But currently in the news is the other kind of economic crime - white collar crime - fraud and tax evasion. We have a new report on…
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The Salavation Army "State of the Nation" report is out today, and, as Metiria Turei says, it makes depressing reading. It confirms what many of us have been seeing and discussing for a few years now. Kate Chapman says on Stuff, The Government is not doing…
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It's not often I agree with Judith Collins but when she describes Richard Prosser's racist filth as an "international embarrassment" I couldn't agree more. That said, her government's collusion in the Pacific Solution is probably even more damaging to our international reputation. New Zealand has…
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Good for Damien O'Connor. He's calling for an enquiry into possible mis-selling of interest rate swaps to farmers. Good on Fairfax's Rob Stock too, who has written extensively about this issue in the Sunday Star-Times. In Britain, it's a huge story; their Financial Services Authority…
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Prosser, just f*cken resign. There's no place for the likes of you. You've been elected purely to make up numbers for Peters. And you couldn't even do that without being a disgusting bigot. You're not the only rightwinger playing up race fears. Hooton claims Indonesia…
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The concept of a living wage is one that just makes good sense to me. A wage should be enough to live on, right? Because it's a wage? Because what's the point if it doesn't? Because ... because we have to work to support ourselves…
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Bomber Bradbury today steals The Pope's limelight by announcing that he is stepping down from Tumeke. But fear not Lefties - it's for a good cause... Why I'm stepping down from Tumeke - what I have in common with the Pope today Dear blogging whanau.…
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Bad jobs numbers and a succession of collapses of major businesses weighing your government down? You need: distraction! How about an old classic from the New Zealand politician's playbook - the Yellow Peril! Passed on by Richard Seddon and Winston Peters, Yellow Peril's now being…
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John Key, as expected, failed to take any sort of lead - or even fast following - on the Living Wage campaign. It's "a matter for them" - businesses and workers - not something for a mere Prime Minister to be interested in. He thinks…
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There's a lot of talk about the benefits of moving to a green, sustainable economy but details on what that looks like in practice in New Zealand are often frustratingly thin. Greenpeace is releasing a report - The Future is Here - that puts meat…