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Open mike 30/08/2014
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‘Malevolent males’, ‘Mistress Collins’ & a ‘free press’
Nicky Hager has long been concerned about the need for journalism to be in the 'public interest', and to critically speak truth to power, in order to enable democracy to thrive. His latest book, Dirty Politics, shows why we need a news media, or at…
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Key can’t work with the Greens because…
Those pesky Greens and their caring about the nation's children! If we could just fob them off with a few environmental bribes things would be fine, but tackling child poverty? Are you serious? Why should I care about that? Of course if you want to…
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Cyberflailing
Judith Collins has re-entered the election campaign. John Key's little helper is back. Collins now justifies her release of the name and contact details of a public servant to Cameron Slater on the basis that he already had the name and she only released private…
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NRT: Kiwis care about inequality
Reposted from No Right Turn. Inequality has emerged as the key issue in the election campaign: The gap between rich and poor is by far the biggest issue facing New Zealand three weeks before election day, a new poll has found. The Roy Morgan Research poll…
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Weekend social 29/8/2014
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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Peters v Collins
Who to believe, who to believe? Prime Minister John Key has dismissed Winston Peters' claim that he was approached by someone who asked him if he would work with Judith Collins if she was National Party leader. However Key did add it would "theoretically" be…
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National: Not Our Future marches across New Zealand Aotearoa
Three weeks before the election, action is being taken across the country voicing a rejection of the National Government's track record and direction. Rallies are being held in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin to oppose National's attacks on workers, abuse of the environment, inequality, cronyism…
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Does Key want it?
There's been a couple of stories from pundits recently questioning how much Cunliffe "wants it". But last night, there was only one participant in the debate who looked disinterested and unhappy to be there, and it was John Key. Has he had enough? Is he…
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Cunliffe 1 Key 0
Two days with two polls and starkly different conclusions drawn. The Herald yesterday did something I have never seen it do before. It urgently released the results of its latest poll. It was released at about midday and accompanied by multiple tweets. My normal impression is that…
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Open mike 29/08/2014
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And the winner is…
According to the Herald: 3-1 to Cunliffe; Fran O'Sullivan, Toby Manhire and John Armstrong say Cunliffe, Audrey Young went for Key. TVNZ: Corin Dann says Cunliffe on points. Fairfax: No authoritative verdict, but the article says Key rattled, Cunliffe composed, so apparently Cunliffe. Text poll:…
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I think that most New Zealanders…
Our PM is fond of telling us all what we think. In the wake of Dirty Politics he is working it overtime, telling us all that we believe his spin. Interesting then to get some actual data on what (extrapolating from a sample) most New…
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The first head-to-head debate – tonight!
The first head-to-head debate between David Cunliffe and John Key (tonight, 7pm, TV One) could be a real turning point of the election. (Yes, I'm very biased.) But the fact is - ignoring questions about Mike Hosking's moderation, and the issues many people raise about…
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When will they ever learn?
@peace's fantasy song about killing the PM is offensive. Maybe not as offensive as Eminem's song where he describes in detail the fantasy beating, kidnapping and murder of his wife - and National still decided to use his music for their campaign ad - but still indefensible.…
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Open mike 28/08/2014
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Streaming Nicky Hager lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUc14Bbcnfk#t=1m22s Updated: It was a good lecture. Definitely worth watching. By the sound of it, the video should be available tomorrow at Live News Updated with a Mr News (Vincent Eastwood) video of the lecture.
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Bizarre attack on Cunliffe
Andrea Vance has filed a strange bit of copy 'Homes still out of reach under Labour' (although it's not clear who that's a quote from). Her opening gambit is that Labour's campaign is lacklustre and it's because Cunliffe isn't hungry to win. Now I may…
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Careering to the right
In May 2013 Andrea Vance wrote an article about far-Right National Party member and political strategist, Simon Lusk. Four of Lusk’s clients in 2008 and three in 2011 were successful in being selected as National Party candidates. These included Nicky Wagner, Sam Lotu-liga, Chris Tremain…
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Supporting all the colours of the rainbow
[Content note: this post deals with issues around gender, transphobia and gender policing. Stay safe.] In utter defiance of the Prime Minister’s insistence that the left doesn’t want to have a policy debate, Labour has continued to release policies, and yesterday’s was rainbow-coloured. But first,…
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Polity: Herald on Labour
Here is today's New Zealand Herald's editorial on Labour's self-imposed fiscal haircut (well, it is more of a bread trim, but there you go...): The Labour Party has broken new ground in election campaigns by announcing cuts to spending that it had not announced. Leader David Cunliffe…
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Judith Collins raises doubt about which dimension she occupies
Judith "Tipline" Collins is really growing on me. She has been able to keep stories surrounding Dirty Politics alive by throwing petrol onto a fire which may otherwise have been burning out. Last night she claimed that she had been exonerated by the Privacy Commissioner of…
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All Antennae – No Compass
Duncan Garner lets it all out of the bag. Part of the problem is that under any normal circumstances Cabinet Minister Judith Collins would have been sacked for trading dirty secrets with Cameron Slater, the low-life blogger WhaleOil. But none of this is normal. Because…
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Open mike 27/08/2014
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Condemning the obvious
David Farrar and others on "the right" (hi guys) look pretty stupid trying to claim the moral high ground in the middle of the dirty politics shitstorm. From an exchange on twitter last night: Of course I and other Standard authors (by all means comment…
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They eat their own
Brent Robinson is rightly peeved. He was at the end of an internal smear campaign orchestrated by Slater and Lusk, and had the media (following Whaleoil's every word) hounding him at his door. Now I may not agree with Robinson's politics, but he deserved a…
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Caption competition
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Anne Salmond on our tarnished democracy
New Zealander of the Year, Dame Anne Salmond, on how dirty politics tarnished our democracy. Go read the full piece in The Herald: The Dirty Politics saga cuts to the heart of political life in New Zealand. Over the past 10 years there has been…
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Polity: Hooton on Key on SIS: Bullshit!
Reposted from Polity. On Radio New Zealander yesterday, Matthew Hooton made two important points. First he - along with pretty much everyone else - poured cold water on the idea that John Key was a virginal innocent in the selective release of SIS documents to Whaleoil.…
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60 tweeps to follow this election
Bryce Edwards had his go at a list of the top 100 tweeters to follow this election, but with only 24 women making the cut he faced terrible accusations of "a perceived lack" of gender balance. The silver lining is that his follow-up post was…