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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The proponents of Public-Private Partnerships offer two justifications for the extra cost compared to normal government financing: 1) a mystical claim that the private sector will find efficiencies in a PPP that they wouldn't find if they were just contracted to build a project normally…
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I welcomed Amy Adams independent review of Chorus's financial claims in response to Chorus's sad song. Not something I should say in a left leaning site but it does show an increasing awareness from government of big business endeavours to manipulate NZ to their advantage.…
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So, a second judge has confirmed that John Banks will go to trial for alleged fraudulent electoral returns. NZ Herald reports: The case was taken over by Solicitor-General Michael Heron QC but the Act Party leader filed an urgent appeal to the High Court at…
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Chris Hipkins said in Parliament today that New Zealand's educational standards have dropped rather dramatically in data gathered recently. According to TV3: New Zealand has slipped in OECD education rankings, the Labour Party has revealed. In the House today, education spokesman Chris Hipkins said the…
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Tracey Whatshite, Cadet Reporter. As Greenpeace make a bid in the High Court to challenge the EPA’s decision to grant Anadarko permission to deep sea drill, we can reveal the content of secret documents detailing the contingency plan in the event of a major oil…
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The latest census data is being revealed, and there's a guide available to some of the main findings on Stuff and the NZ Herald's sites. The information is presented in pretty much the same format, indicating that both sites have mostly just re-published Stats NZ's…
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Cameron Slater simply isn't a journalists arsewipe. For him to claim the legal privileges, protections and authority that the journalistic profession holds within our political and economic community makes a travesty of the whole concept of a free and responsible press. Now I'm aware that…
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John Key set us a challenge on the referendum: get more an a million 'no' votes. That would mean more votes against asset sales than National won in 2011 (1,058,636 to be precise). So far, so good. The Electoral Commission has processed 805,204 votes. Doubling…
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