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I hope everyone has a thoughtful and fulfilling Anzac day. If you have not already attended a dawn parade there are a number of remembrance events throughout the country. It is a day to reflect on what our ancestors did for us in their hope…
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Simon Collins in today's NZ Herald reports on some damning revelations that Phi Twyford exposed via an OIA (Official Information Act) request for documents. Some of the intent to use finance gained at the expense of the government's run-down of state housing never eventuated. However,…
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While I know many on here aren't sad to see Shane go, I think he's a lost voice for Labour - and we'll need others to step up into his place. I also think we might be a little less visceral and personal in our…
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So Shane Jones is going. He was a real enigma. He was entertaining, a great orator and someone who when he got his teeth into an issue, such as the Supermarket corruption issue, wrecked havoc and caused all sorts of consternation to those in his…
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Local Bodies provides this interesting comparison on John Key compared to some of the more ethical leaders of our past. Suffice it to say that the ever forgetful John Key doesn't measure up to past standards. He is really only distinguished the his sustained level of…
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For any long-suffering political activist, it is difficult to argue with what Rob Salmond says about Shane Jones and his less than elegant exit. Unless they wrap their own party of the single personality around them, politics isn't really the place for a caucus prima donna with an appetite for awkwardly…
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No Right Turn is critical of the implementation aspects of the Greens' internet bill of rights. Looking at his points about its flaws, it does appear that it has few real teeth. Today the Green party released their draft Internet Rights and Freedoms Bill. The bill…
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No Right Turn points out the other issue with Shane Jone's "new" job. The jobs for cronies with taxpayer money. Another angle to the Shane Jones resignation: Mr Jones said he would leave Parliament next month after he was shoulder tapped by Foreign Minister Murray McCully…
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There's a lot of skewed headlines from the MSM, showing their anti-Labour bias. But I have been really impressed with the united way Labour has swung in behind the change from Jones to Kelvin Davis. Jones has been talked about positively, and given best wishes…
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Yesterday Rob Salmond commented on Labour’s two likeliest options for coalition partners after the 2014 election, and had some interesting things to say about New Zealand First and the Greens. But I must beg to differ on the suggested advantages of offering a plum deal…
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One News has just revealed that Shane Jones is standing down as an MP. Apparently he will not be standing for any other party. More as news comes to hand. NZ Herald - Jones to leave politics at the end of next month. He has…
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Rob Salmond at Poliity has a post here on how he sees the next government. David, Winston, and the Greens up a tree. G O V E R N I N G. Some of the commentary over Easter has focused on a supposed strategic conundrum for…
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This morning on Morning Report Judith Collins is reported as acknowledging that something that she said to Parliament last Thursday was not true. Last week she said she did not remember discussing matters with the New Zealand Ambassador to China, this morning she said that…
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Now I'm going to predict we'll have a few trolls who read the title of this and comment about how this is the politics of envy without bothering to read the actual post. I'm tempted to give a code word somewhere near the bottom and…
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It's a slow news day, and I was browsing some overseas newspapers. I came across this article on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald: "Greed is the market's forgotten vice" by Ross Gittins. It's an op ed review of a book, Beyond greed…
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Last November a New Zealander known as Muslim Bin John was killed by a US Drone strike. At the time he was apparently travelling in a colony of cars with Al Quaeda operatives in Yemen. You would expect that the extra judicial killing of a New…
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On Al Jazeera NewsHour this morning, there were two reports on environmental issues in different parts of the planet. Both stories focus on the tension between pursuit of economic "growth" and the destruction of the environment. In one country the cultural heritage of a small…
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A recent article by Jesse Columbo in [published on the website of] that doyen of capitalist magazines Forbes about New Zealand's housing market is a very interesting if somewhat terrifying read. Although he is not the first to claim that our property market is unsustainable he…
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One of the most annoying things I read on the internet is when right wingers offer apparently sincere advice to the left on how the left's electoral predicament can be improved. The advice drips of passive aggressiveness and when you boil it down basically they…
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Rob Salmond's take on the boundary changes announced yesterday. As he (and Ben yesterday) point out in a MMP election system the actual electoral boundaries usually only really matter to a few MPs. It isn't likely to make much of a difference unless National manages…
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This site gets rather a lot of comments. Every time a comment is made the page it is on has to be regenerated, which limits the amount of static caching that can be done. So on a dynamic site like this one we require rather a…
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This week had everything, It started off with John Key challenging David Cunliffe to a debate on housing, Cunliffe eagerly accepting and then Key backing out quickly. The media then said that it was Cunliffe who was afraid for not turning up to Parliament on…
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