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1.2 million people have voted in the no asset sales referendum so far
But we need more. So persuade your family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances or people that you have a passing relationship to send in their voting papers. Time is running out ...
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Smile and Wave
Confronted with a protest about the government's lack of action on child poverty, John Key's response is: "So yeah, they just protest because that's all they've got to do all day." As though protesting - participating in our democracy - was a particularly unimportant thing…
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ImperatorFish – John Key: I believe the children are our future
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. Prime Minister John Key insists his government is committed to addressing child poverty, despite a damning report on the problem released yesterday. The Child Poverty Monitor…
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The new right wing party
Yesterday on politics from the left and the right on Radio New Zealand Matthew Hooton sounded what may be the death knell for ACT's future. He mentioned how tens of millions of dollars have been spent over the past two decades on a failed political…
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Rent freezes in disaster zones
You need little more evidence of how Gerry Brownlee's lazy-faire approach to the Christchurch rebuild has failed than the story of the (working) single mother forced to live in a tent with her 3 kids because there's no affordable rentals. One of the automatic moves…
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Open mike 10/12/2013
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NRT: Climate change: More windfall profits
The Emissions Trading Scheme was never a particularly good way of curbing greenhouse emissions and the way that National gutted it made it distinctly worse. Now we are in a position where National has found a way to use it to providing even more polluter…
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What chance is there of a bipartisan approach to child poverty?
The findings of the child poverty monitoring report has now been published. The figures are chilling. A quarter of kiwi kids, or 265,000 children, live in poverty, 18% go without need they need, 10% live in severe poverty and three out of five who live…
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Open mike 09/12/2013
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Child Poverty in New Zealand
The Herald on Sunday is reporting today on some worrying trends in child poverty in Aotearoa. The Government has been very careful not to properly measure the problem. The formerly proud to be a westie Minister Paula Bennett has joked in Parliament about how there…
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Open mike 08/12/2013
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Open mike 07/12/2013
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Labour shoot themselves in the foot, again!
Again! Just when you begin to think Labour are looking like a Government, one of the, "past their use by dates", from the Rogernomics era, again! shows that they have NFI how to get elected and they are still clinging desperately to the Neo-liberal paradigm.…
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When the wolf cries boy
Matthew Blomfield, the defamation plaintiff against Cameron Slater who has been exciting the journalistic and blogging communities this week asked to make a statement to clear up some issues that have arisen in the blog space. There was a lot of stupidity and outright bullshit (like…
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Hypocrisy-watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laEXIrKK8rI
Minister for International Embarrassment Minister for Photo-ops
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ImperatorFish: Hekia Parata on the PISA report
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. The Education Minister sets out the government’s response to the OECD’s damning report on New Zealand’s education system There has been a considerable amount of…
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Nelson Mandela has died
From the Guardian: Nelson Mandela, the towering figure of Africa's struggle for freedom and a hero to millions around the world, has died at the age of 95. South Africa's first black president died after years of declining health that had caused him to withdraw…
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The value of Sick Leave
The unthinking publishing of studies like this regularly disappoints me. It's basically taking a press release from business lobby group, Business NZ, and accepting its line. The study Business NZ has paid for is in fact a quick totting up of the gross costs of…
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Open mike 06/12/2013
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Prosecuting Cunliffe
No Right Turn writes on what should happen with David Cunliffe screwing up on election day. Sensible advice and commentary on what looks like a typical example of some of the innumerable silly mistakes and accidents that happen during election campaigns. The reaction of some…
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A tale of two taxpayers
Two recent news reports show a stark difference in treatment of taxpayers by this Government. Sarah Warren is a mother of four who lives in Putaruru. She has struggled to find work because there are no local jobs. She does not want to move because…
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‘Mum & Dad’ right to be angry with Nats
Mighty River, Meridian, and Air New Zealand are all now trading well below their listing prices (Mighty River is down 20%!) costing 'mum and dad investors' tens of millions of their savings. When journalists raise that with National, Bill English's angry response is 'you would…
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A knighthood I would back
I don't support knighthoods. I especially don't support knighthoods being handed out to people who have just done their jobs at the end of their careers. You know, the gongs for ministers and CEOs. But if you are going to have honours, they should go…
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Asset sale disaster
So the government are predictably having to lower their estimates of what asset sales will raise them. They've done a terribly incompetent job implementing a stupid policy. And unfortunately that terrible job has made the stupid policy even worse. When they promised us $10 billion…
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Open mike 05/12/2013
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Time to end perception of degrees for sale
The All Blacks do not give out honorary test caps to the chief financial officer of insurance sponsor AIG. Politicians no longer give seats in a House of Lords to their almsgivers and patrons. Perhaps it is time to question why our most prestigious universities…
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Why New Zealand’s educational standards are crashing
The PISA results are now out. From 2009 to 2012 New Zealand's educational standards have apparently crashed. Our results have gone from seventh in reading and science to 13th and 18th respectively, and from 12th to 23rd in maths amongst the 65 countries engaged in the study. Hekia Parata has…
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John Banks set to quit at next election
From the Herald: Act party president John Boscawen has confirmed John Banks won't seek re-election in 2014. A statement from Mr Boscawen was posted to the Act party website 15 minutes before he and Mr Banks were due to hold a press conference at Parliament.…
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Census 2013: increase in inequality
Yesterday Stata NZ released a lot of data gathered from the 2013 census. I and others queried the income statistics reported yesterday in the NZ Herald. Today Jared Savage in the NZ Herald has provided a more comprehensive article on the growth in the rich…
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