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According to early reports (Twitter) David Parker is interim leader of the Labour Party, with Annette King as deputy. In my opinion a safe set of hands. Their first task should be to make sure that the leadership contest is positive and constructive, as the…
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Reposted from yesterdays No Right Turn. National signed its confidence and supply agreement with ACT today. The headline news is that David Seymour get more patronage from National, in the form of being appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary to the Minister of Education and Parliamentary Under…
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In a significant development Cameron Slater has brought his application for an injunction and for return of his personal information from various media outlets to and end and has opened himself up to a potentially significant order of costs against him. From Radio New Zealand:…
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Labour's leadership process involves the members - democracy in all its participatory, messy glory. The Nats prefer to do things the old fashioned way - smoke filled rooms, their members content to be dictated to. Speaking of leadership, Key is clearly grooming Bennett for succession:…
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Labour's leadership rules state that if you want to have a vote in this leadership election you need to be a paid-up member by Wednesday 1 October, 11.59pm. https://www.labourparty.org.nz/join If you want to have your say in who we hope to be the next PM…
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Trevor Mallard is known for frequent intervention with points of order in Parliament at Question Time. Mind you, I have sometimes felt when watching that he has derailed one of his colleagues who is in the process of asking a carefully constructed forensic set of…
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Helen Kelly made a point on the Nation the other day when asked what went wrong with Labour this election. She pointed out that whereas in the 1930s the labour campaign spoke directly to people and their immediate concerns, this campaign was too abstract. She…
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Following Labour's disastrous electoral defeat, most journalists are having a fine old time putting the boot in. The party is tearing itself apart, the leadership contest reveals deep divisions, the various camps are plotting against each other, and so on and so on. If Labour…
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After TV Two's successful series of 'allo, allo, allo, allo based at the Whale Oil Cafe, a pilot series "Raw Shark - the Cafe" will be screening on TV Two in October. Written by cadet reporter, Tracy Whatshite each episode stars two left wing celebrities…
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Reposted from The Jackal It's unfortunate that those involved in the Dirty Politics scandal have taken National's election win as some sort of vindication of their devious tactics. However, the business as usual approach people like Cameron Slater and David Farrar are taking, so soon…
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Yet another election, yet another National victory. Despite all the scandalous allegations (some proven) levelled at the incumbent, the King of Teflon reigns yet again. John Key must be secretly grateful to the big gabbling marshmallow from Germany for poisoning the left and for taking…
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Yes the Left have taken a drubbing, but never mind, time to pick ourselves up off the floor, patch up our wound pride, dust ourselves off, cast around for our friends and allies, and re-enter the fray. Lots of work for us to do, no…
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From Facebook last night: This evening I announced my intention to put my name forward for the leadership of the Labour Party. Now is our opportunity to revitalise our party and to renew our connection with New Zealanders. We must be relevant to their lives, hopes…
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One of the few bright spots for Labour on election day was Dunedin, with both North and South returning Labour candidates (David Clark and Clare Curran respectively, congratulations to both). Dunedin North (provisional results) even gave the party vote to Labour by a narrow margin,…
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Latest developments in Australia are relevant in the context of the recent focus on surveillance in NZ. The entire Australian web can be monitored Australian spies will soon have the power to monitor the entire Australian internet with just one warrant, and journalists and whistleblowers…
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David Cunliffe will not go quietly. Although he has resigned as Labour's leader he intends to stand again for the position. He has made the following statement: I have today decided to resign the leadership of the Labour Party, effective from the end of caucus…
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Labour's Council is currently meeting. David Cunliffe is expected to make a statement today at 2:30. It will be covered live by RNZ, 3 News and other outlets. Update: David Cunliffe has announced his resignation from the leader's position but will contest the vacant leadership.…
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This post by Stephanie Rodgers originally appeared at Boots Theory. You can follow Stephanie on Twitter. It wasn’t at all surprising to me that David Farrar is scathing of students who have to seek hardship grants to pay their bills, categorising them as bludgers who “say yes…
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National's attack on Kim Dotcom during this election was as viciously personal as it was effective. Nice to see one Journalist speaking up about it: Dita De Boni: Kim Dotcom - the unwanted entrepreneur ... The National Party spin doctors have been hard at work,…
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So National will continue their rorts by giving ministries to their tame poodles, Rimmer and the Hair. Despite each making the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party look like it has a serious electoral mandate. I guess it makes it look like National has friends, and Act…
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I admit that I was disappointed and slightly gutted that I wasn't part of the new Green Caucus this week, the way we were polling the week before it looked as though I had a real chance. It never happened and the celebratory feeling at…
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So there's a serious disconnect between Labour gaining 5 electorate seats and getting their worst result since 1922. Is that just because Labour failed to ask hard enough for the party vote? When I stood as a candidate in 2011 the perceived wisdom was that…
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Labour lost the party vote, but retained the electorates. Looking at the results it is pretty clear that this appears to have been a deliberate decision by Labour's remaining electorate MPs. With the exception of the six Maori electorate MPs, Damien O'Conner on the West…
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Someone tell the Taxpayer's union. The New Zealand taxpayer is going to be ripped off. There is within Parliament a rort occurring that will increase a brand new MP's salary by about $75,000 and will give his minnow party resources that it does not deserve. It…
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National's dirty politics blogs continue in full effluent flow. In the last two days one of Farrar's targets, Dr Gilbert (a lecturer at Canterbury) has updated his story. In a first post: Proof of David Farrar’s deception: my own experience of Dirty Politics In the…