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My weekend viewing highlighted the differences in power and resources available to the top percentage of wealthy international banksters, and the powerless people struggling to support young families in NZ. On Al Jazzerra, a special report on "Goldman Sachs: The Bank that Rules the World"…
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A guest post from Poto Williams, Labour's MP for Christchurch East I am attending the Independent Forestry Safety Review consultation and am lucky enough to participate with forest owners, forest managers, contractors and government officials to discuss the factors influencing Health and. Safety in the…
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So it appears the intended non-partisan deeper engagement with politicians that is the Otago University Vote Chat has been taken over by the National Party. This is very disappointing as you expect academic independence from universities, not a partisan production. The 3 Producers are local…
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I wonder if the poster on the left was inspired by the poster on the right?
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Rob Salmond at Polity on what has landed in his mail box paid for by your GST and also close to the wrong side the permissible limits of Parliamentary Services funds. Or perhaps this is something for "NZ Taxpayers Union" to moan about wasting taxpayers money…
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Wayne Mapp has a post at Pundit "Free trade: The end of the cosy arrangement?" about the possibility of Labour backing away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). For decades now National and Labour have had a cosy little arrangement when it comes to free trade.…
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“There seems little prospect for better wage growth if the Reserve Bank is to be believed”, says CTU Economist Bill Rosenberg. “It says the slow wage growth is because of more people wanting jobs, rapid immigration growth, and the high unemployment rate.” “This is a…
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Reposted from Imperator Fish. The ACT Party today released its employment relations policy, which focuses on providing both employees and employers with flexibility in how they arrange their workplaces. ACT leader Dr Jamie Whyte said the policy would look to the past in helping New…
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David Farrar in his usual burst of hypocrisy and curious selectiveness about detailed numbers is proclaiming a headline rise in manufacturing. As is usual he is only interested in the top level numbers and doesn't provide a link to even the summary data. I guess…
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The Insurance Council and National are desperately trying to pour cold water over Labour's earthquake court policy, a policy which would speed up the backlog of insurance claims and give people a fair chance against the power of the insurance industry. The insurance claims have…
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Reposted from Polity. There has been plenty of discussion about electorate "cup of tea" deals recently, in which a large party agrees to give a small party an easy run in an electorate, so that the small party is more-or-less guaranteed seats in Parliament when…
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Reposted from No Right Turn. Earlier in the month, the Greens promised to scrap the gutted and ineffective Emissions Trading Scheme and replace it with a carbon tax. The government immediately claimed that the sky would fall if we stopped subsidising polluters and allowing them to rort us. So…
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I have always been proud to be a westie. In West Auckland, or as I prefer to call it Waitakere, there is an exquisite combination of natural beauty, wonderful communities and utterly decent ordinary people. Ethnically the area is diverse. Although there are pockets of…
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Reposted from No Right Turn. Writing in the Herald, Fran O'Sullivan tells us what we all knew: that political donors have expectations, and want favours in exchange for their cash. She's too polite (and Establishment) to call it corruption, but that's what it is. Naturally, this being…
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A repost from Local Bodies about Hekia Parata attempting to sneak some fake 'consultation' on the changes to the way that schools are run. bsprout is both a teacher and list candidate for the Greens. Classroom teachers, the New Zealand Educational Institute, the New Zealand…
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For the past five years the left has pilloried Paula Bennett for her hypocrisy. She is something of a poster child for the National Party, someone to persuade the electorate that National is not full of rich white males wanting to increase their control of…
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Scott Yorke at Imperator Fish is well known for his inciteful insightful analysis of many issues. However he has really really outdone himself in this repost of his original work. With its clarion call for rioting clarity it will bring war unity to all parts…
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John Key has been making a joke of the electoral system in recent days with his support of criminal MPs and his veiled attempts to foist the crazy Conservatives on various electorates. But he was quick to pour scorn on a very popular micro-party who were less…
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There is this strange process occurring in New Zealand politics whereby right wing parties are clearly entering into accommodations and understandings but are denying that negotiations are happening. The latest example of this involves the Conservatives. Colin Craig was interviewed on Radio New Zealand this…
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Hey, we won't get in the way of a good stoush on the net about Labour's policies, in fact we will encourage it. Here is Rob Salmond's response to Idiot Savant's post at No Right Turn. NRT's post was going up later in the day,…
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Yesterday something unusual happened. In the most closely watched electorate battle in the country TV3 hosted a debate amongst the candidates and the candidate from the currently largest polling party did not show up. Unbelievable you may think but it is true. Even though he…
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This repost from No Right Turn looks at the process of National trying to rewrite political history. Yesterday John Banks accepted the inevitable and announced that he would resign from Parliament. Good. His continued presence there debased the House and brought it into public contempt, and I…
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For the second time in as many weeks, David Farrar has lied to his readers over at kiwiblog. The first lie was that David Cunliffe had pledged to change electoral law under urgency with no consensus . That is complete and utter bollocks, Cunliffe said…
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