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Amidst all the quake related news yesterday it would have been easy to miss this piece: Confusion over worker pay after quake Wellington CBD workers have been urged to defy bosses ordering them into the office today against Civil Defence warnings. At least one person…
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Predictably, Peter Dunne has caved. Vance and Small with the details: Dunne backs expanded spy powers UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne says he will support controversial legislation to expand spying powers. Dunne said he was willing to vote for the Government Communications Security Bureau Amendment bill…
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The Nats used to make a career out of faux "nanny state" hysteria. My how times have changed: Kindy kids to have ID numbers Identification numbers attached to children as young as three could be used to track and punish their parents. The ID system…
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This research - which really puts the fact cat amongst the conservative prejudice pigeons - needs the widest publicity it can get (bravo Simon Day): Children with gay parents 'happier' - research Children with gay parents are happier and healthier than kids from the average…
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While the MSM is focused on the whole scary central NZ quakes and shakes, let's not forget the GCSB and related surveillance Bills. There's plenty of coverage in the margins today on these Bills. According to Audrey Young, Phil Goff says: Former Foreign Minister Phil…
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Three News' latest poll tonight doesn't look good for Labour: National up 2.4% to 49.5% Labour down 2.1% to 30.1% Greens no change at 12% NZ First up 1.7% to 3.9%
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Venue for discussing the quakes that have hit Wellington and other centers in middle NZ. No news on the major stations yet, but lots of traffic on #eqnz OK - RNZ now has occasional updates, and 3News will be covering it at 6pm. Take care…
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Over the last few weeks Labour has been in a state of agitation as the party, the affiliates and even the caucus have come to the realisation that the Shearer project has failed. This new realisation has been marked by the emergence of leaks from…
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In the United Kingdom as in New Zealand there is a developing debate about the need for a living wage. The Guardian has reported that the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, has condemned the low wages of millions of Britons as a "national scandal" and said that…
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While researching a recent post I happened to type in to Google a query beginning with "New Zealand is". The Google auto-complete suggestions were not flattering: Ouch! Anyone want to try other countries?
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A Sunday feature - each week a random section scanned from a copy of The Standard, September 15th, 1938. Find out more here. Click on the image for a bigger version.
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Yesterday there was a major political announcement across the ditch. Kevin Rudd announced that Australia will no longer consider giving refugee status to people arriving illegally by boat and that Papua New Guinea has agreed to take in any boat person who subsequently establishes that…
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My Poverty Watch post this week took on a life of it's own, and ended up appearing as a separate post on inequality. So here's just a quick thought for this week's edition. Educational outcomes and poverty - they're linked. Obviously - right? - but…
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The latest Ministry of Social Development's report is out: Household Incomes in New Zealand: trends in indicators of inequality and hardship 1982 to 2012. Yesterday The Herald ran two pieces on the report with very different conclusions - Brian Fallow's Rising inequality largely a myth and Max Rashbrooke's Rich…
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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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Recent legislation by the NZ government is resulting in more necessary and basic public services being outsourced to being run by private entities. With this in mind, it is sobering to read a new report on the UK government's extensive "outsourcing" (of public services) programme.…
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National's dirty deal gets worse and worse - see this Green press release: National’s veto power makes SkyCity deal dirtier SkyCity deal documents show how the National Government ignored warnings about the damage its dirty deal with SkyCity would do and instead, focused on getting…
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The latest Roy Morgan poll is mixed news for the Left. National 47% (up 0.5% since June 17-30, 2013) Labour 31% (down 0.5%) Greens 11.5% (down 1.5%) New Zealand First 4.5% (up 1%) Maori Party 2% (up 0.5%) Conservative Party of NZ 1.5% (down 0.5%)…
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I/S at No Right Turn on Street's End of Life Choice Bill. A surfeit of caution When Louisa Wall put up her marriage equality bill, senior figures in Labour denounced it as a "distraction" and a "sideshow" and wanted her to drop it. The bill…
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In trouble over your Sky City dirty deal? Try the benefit fraud card again. Meanwhile, back in the real world...
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Yesterday, National released hundreds of pages of documents on the SkyCity deal. They paint the picture of a government that locked itself politically into getting a deal and locked in SkyCity as the only option then was surprised when SkyCity screwed them for everything it…
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My default mood on politics is a kind of resigned irritation. But this - this makes me genuinely angry: Welfare now has health warning Doctors have been told that putting patients on welfare is akin to putting them on "an addictive debilitating drug ... not…
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National's GCSB legislation's path to enactment is hitting pothole after pothole. Last Friday the Human Rights Commission had its funding threatened after expressing concern at the proposed reforms because, according to John Key, it missed the deadline and misunderstood the law. The only problem was that…
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They say you can tell a pathological liar by the fact they're no longer just lying about the big stuff, but start telling petty, irrelevant lies that hardly even seem worth it. We've all seen Simon Bridges' lies on work rights, health and safety and…