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Hamilton City looks like it'll be the first Council to pay a Living Wage as the appropriate sub-committee voted for it today. It will need to be confirmed by the full council, but should proceed. Currently 80 staff are paid less than the $18.40 living…
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Regular readers will all know BLiP, a long time commenter who methodically documents the performance of the government. Yesterday BLiP posted the following in Open mike, it deserves to be a post of its own. Read on for an account of National's environmental record... …
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Yesterday NZ's Fair Deal Coalition launched a new website, ourfairdeal.org, aimed at networking globally with others concerned about the secretive negotiation of intellectual property matters in the TTPA (Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement). This includes a range of significant organisations with diverse, and possibly conflicting, interests.…
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Key is busy explaining that his petrol tax increase won't just be funding his pet highway projects - the 'Roads of National Significance'. He says it'll go on public transport, too. Well, yeah, maybe. But the truth is that National is slashing public transport funding…
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New Zealand has soaked up a lot of constitutional arrogance from this National government (see here, here), but Key might have gone too far this time. On 17th May Geddis posted this on Pundit: I think National just broke our constitution In the wake of the budget, the…
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That's what Mighty River stocks closed at today. Down on their issue price within ten days. And there's a strong chance that the Meridian float will sink the price of Mighty shares even further - they're companies with similar profiles, are regulated in the same…
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In the UK the latest political scandal is the alleged description by a senior Tory of some of the Conservative Party's activist supporters as "mad, swivel-eyed loons". PM Cameron is thoroughly implicated in the mess, having apparently used similar language on a previous occasion. Shades…
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The Right's fairytale machine makes a lot of Key's supposed ability to charm foreign leaders and open doors for Kiwi trade (despite the fact that none of the FTA talks he has begun show signs of conclusion). Well, the door slammed shut for meat exports…
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I had heard that National's internal polling was showing they were becoming vulnerable on social equity issues. For some reason New Zealanders are coming to think of them as a government that looks after its rich mates at the expense of everyone else (who would…
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It's how they roll.
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As I/S pointed out yesterday, the Government's "innovation" agenda is nothing more than a cuts to R&D and hidden subsidies. Today in the Herald that's confirmed by the Associations of Scientists President, Shaun Hendy. there is also a strong primary sector flavour to several challenges…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike...