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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…
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The Government's Family Court Proceedings Reform Bill is receiving submissions until this Wednesday, 13 February. For a number of reasons this Bill needs drastic alteration. The women at the Women's Health Action Trust and the Auckland Women's Health Centre have put together an excellent document…
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Convicted fraudster and Herald columnist Damien Grant says 'good riddance' to manufacturing in his latest piece. Apparently, manufacturing dying is just one of those things and, also, it's not dying (it's those contradictions that get you caught, Damien). And we shouldn't do anything to get…
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I know, I know, I've written about the failure of economic austerity before, like a broken record. But the evidence just keeps getting clearer and clearer. Paul Krugmann makes the case in his recent "Looking for Mister Goodpain": Three years ago, a terrible thing happened…
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The living wage campaign is announcing this week the results of its study into the pay that a family needs to afford the basics for a decent life in New Zealand. It'll be around $18-$20 an hour, which is more than 40% of workers get.…
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