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Dirty pictures
Post links to ones we've missed. There was a good "movie poster" - Key & Collins, At the End of the Day, if anyone has a link....
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Look over there! Tax cuts!
So National are both so out of ideas and so desperate to take the spotlight off their Dirty Politics that they're now promising tax cuts. Tax cuts straight after we have a panel of our most prominent economists warning that the 'rock star' economy is…
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Interview with “Key”…
Billed as "Decision 2014 Part 1", Here's Michael Hurst staring as John Key's office... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNGrI7evk8o
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Open mike 26/08/2014
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Tapping the media: subverting democracy
In the wake of the publication of Dirty Politics, I have been pondering on the urgent need for a revitalised public service broadcasting and online media. Our media largely works within a corporate context, driven by commercial considerations. This provides a context where dirty…
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Nicky Hager public lecture Wednesday
Nicky Hager - Auckland Public Meeting Monday, 25 August 2014, 2:41 pm Press Release: Bruce Jesson Foundation Nicky Hager - Auckland Public Meeting A public meeting meeting with Jesson Prize winner Nicky Hager will be held Wednesday 27th August, 7.30pm, at the Mt Eden War Memorial…
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Tax cut cynicism
The kind of waffle John Key is trying to spin around the topic of tax cuts is breathtaking. There might be room for tax cuts, but he can’t promise anything, but maybe they’ll see, and Bill English saying there won’t be tax cuts was both…
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The future of the public service – public meeting in Ōhāriu
Labour's candidate for Ōhāriu, Virginia Andersen, is hosting a public meeting in Wadestown this Wednesday where Maryan Street will talk about the future of the public service under Labour. 7:30-9:30pm Wednesday 27 August St Luke's Church, Wadestown You can RSVP on the Facebook page.
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Parker nails English on economic policy
Labour has the policies to take New Zealand forward into the 21st century - National's "same old same old" will see the Kiwi skiff swamped. That was the clear conclusion from the debate between David Parker and Bill English on National Radio this morning. Parker's…
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Polity: Smoke and mirrors on housing
Reposted from Polity. Over the weekend, National said it would help 90,000 people buy their first home in the next five years. For this post, I'll leave aside the macro-effects of their policy. (Short version: addressing a supply-side problem on the demand-side is a band-aid, not a…
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Labour policy
Everyone who has to deal with the labour.org.nz site is probably aware of just how naff the thing is. I guess that is what happens when you have the traditionally technophobic like MPs involved in whatever committee makes the site. For a start, they don't…
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Just answer the questions John
National and Mana had their campaign launches yesterday. Mana's launch was problematic. KDC hinted that he may or may not be @whaledump and of course the media became excited. Who can blame them? Then Pam Corkery said a few things and became part of the…
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Timeline: Key responsible for SIS release
I am (shamelessly) reposting this for the week day shift. I have added BLiP's comment from the first posting to the end of it. There's a confusing amount of detail swirling around the release of SIS briefing notes to Cameron Slater - one of the…
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Slater’s privacy conundrum
For me the funniest thing that happened last week was Cameron Slater proudly announcing that he'd put in a privacy complaint about the someone hacking his data. Three days later he finds out that he was the target of a privacy act prosecution for doing essentially the same…
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Open mike 25/08/2014
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Labour’s housing plan is much better
So National has announced its flagship policy, enhanced assistance for first home buyers through increased grants through Kiwisaver. It is interesting that policies that Labour introduced and National opposed such as Working for Families, interest free student loans and Kiwisaver have all become mainstream policies…
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Questions
Would it not be a hallmark of a dictatorship if a government twisted systems of governance to discredit political opposition while simultaneously bending the very same systems in a different direction to protect its own? Would it not the hallmark of a dictatorship if TV,…
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Q&A – independent media?
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The opening addresses of Election 2014
Last night the opening party political addresses were broadcast on TV One, simultaneous with an All Blacks match and a live-tweeted crowd viewing of Labyrinth. So if you missed out (and don't follow my every thought on Twitter), here's my reaction! (Screenshots nicked and cropped from Asher Goldman on…
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The Greens & Dirty Politics
The NZ Herald poll made a certain amount of sense. Sure they've probably over-estimated National's current support as they always do (see DimPost's poll work), but National down more than 5% and Labour not making traction in the wake of Dirty Politics shouldn't be surprising.…
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Open mike 24/08/2014
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An ethical example
So National's membership database isn't so secure. A hacker found an easy hole to look at who members (and their photos are). So, having found the back-door left open, what do you do? You report it. So all the time Key was going on about…
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Green Opening Address
http://youtu.be/3Nqisrbw8IA [update: to put it somewhere, the InternetMana one has highest fun value] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYTACE7X9KI
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Labour Opening Address
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0hmCt_OPrM
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We Are Asking the Wrong Question
The charge sheet against John Key could hardly be more serious. If it could be shown that he had misused his position as the Minister for the security and intelligence services to discredit his political opponents and had then lied about doing so, it is…
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Watkins – independent media?
So, in the midst of a massive dirty politics scandal involving assorted nats and their attack bloggers Slater and Farrar - who does Tracy Watkins turn to to provide commentary? Why, Farrar himself, of course. Classy.
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Timeline: Key responsible for SIS release
There's a confusing amount of detail swirling around the release of SIS briefing notes to Cameron Slater - one of the main issues summarised in Dirty Politics. I was certainly confused earlier in the week, so I set out to pull together a timeline of…
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Hacked election
John Key says the election is in danger of being stolen by a hacker and some left wing activists. What he is afraid of is that the election is going to be "stolen" by the truth. Nothing will be actually stolen, we all still get…
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Open mike 23/08/2014
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Looking at the big policy picture
Despite John Key’s key message du jour, the parties of the Opposition are talking policy. A (totally unscientific) look at party websites reveals Labour and the Greens have put out hundreds of pages of policy information – compared to National’s 26. But a word count…