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Daily Review 20/10/2015
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I LOVE these kinds of stories
"“We had an 83-year-old man walking in here to vote for the first time in his life,” she said from near a polling station in Tsuut’ina Nation, near Calgary." The article is about under estimating the number of First Nation voters, so ballots ran out…
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Oh Canada oh Canada
At last one of Crosby Textor's client states is turning left. In Canada it appears that the conservative Government of Stephen Harper is on the way out and not even Crosby's advice to wedge the electorate using blatant dog whistle racist tactics has worked. Justin…
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John Oliver on Key: Every pic is a dic pic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGqQr8RnRRA
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TVOne’s reporting of the latest Colmar Brunton Poll result
I try to avoid commercial television and radio. Too many egos and the commercial agenda is too transparent. This is why I believe state media has such an important role to play. Radio New Zealand for instance does a very good job in providing in depth…
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Obesity policy ignores elephant in the room
Obesity is a difficult topic to write about, so some quick preliminaries. First, people have a lot of natural variation in healthy body shapes and types, it is perfectly possible to be "fat" and healthy. Second, obesity is in part a socioeconomic issue and a…
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Open mike 20/10/2015
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Daily Review 19/10/2015
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Kelvin Davis on Christmas Island
Yesterday I wrote about our lack of influence on Australia on the detention and deportation of Kiwis. Today Key is trying to dress up Aussie platitudes as scraps of progress. But Labour MP Kelvin Davis is taking action: Christmas Island 'just like a prison' Mr…
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Future Auckland
I hear that National is planning something quite radical for next year’s Auckland’s local body elections. There are plans for a new regional vehicle, Future Auckland, to contest various elections in the super city. The reason for the change is that National understand how important Auckland is…
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Another financial crisis?
There has been plenty of chatter recently over a Goldman Sachs report. Here's one example summary: GOLDMAN SACHS: The GFC is back Remember the 2008 financial crisis? Well, it’s back. The financial disaster, which started seven years ago with the US real estate and investment…
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Open mike 19/10/2015
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Cameron Slater back in court
For the observers of the continued disaster that is Cameron Slater, here is a snippet observed in the High Court list for tomorrow that someone observed and told me about. First call... That has to be yet another new action from Matthew Blomfield against Cameron Slater…
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Argghh! The comment bug
I have spent a few hours been chasing the bug that has been causing people to go into moderation automatically. Found it, killed it, and I thought I'd share it with you. It was in Wordfence, a great security program for the site. Essentially it is…
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Labour’s position on TPPA
The last fortnight has not been a great time for Labour when it comes to the TPPA. But I wonder if a couple of imprecisely worded comments have had far too much read into them. And if the left and the media have fallen into…
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Our influence in Australia
The Australian detention and deportation of Kiwis is a nasty business. The latest example in The Herald this morning is a shocker: Australia dumps tetraplegic Australia extradites wheelchair-bound Kiwi under controversial new law. A tetraplegic sent to New Zealand after 36 years living across the…
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Rugby or global leadership?
At the same time as New Zealand's multilateral leadership efforts fail in security, trade, and the environment, we reserve our true global leadership effort for Rugby. We're on the Security Council warming the seat. This New Zealand government has made the most spectacular bungle of…
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Open mike 18/10/2015
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Collins touting cars with her buddy Cam
Scoop broke the story last week - MP Judith Collins "Brand Ambassador" For Car Dealer. Lovely euphemism, "Brand Ambassador", don't you think? Almost as good as The Herald's "Brand Insight". Money rules. But I digress. Stuff followed up the story yesterday - National MP Judith…
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John Armstrong – a person worth disagreeing with
In the pages of The Standard there is one journalist who has generated or been referenced in more posts than any other. Today John Armstrong published his swansong at the NZ Herald. He is losing his long battle with Parkinson's disease. Like most things that John wrote, it is…
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Keeping going
"Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland in search of our better selves?" - Mad Max, 2015 After the 2008, 2011, and 2014 national defeats, and through many specific losing campaigns since, it's not unreasonable to slip from melancholy to utopian unreality. In…
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Open mike 17/10/2015
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Daily Review 16/10/2015
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Are you Newstralian?
So John Key and the new Oz PM are having a chat today and good ol' JK will be mentioning the issue of "New Zealanders" who are being detained for deportation after a prison sentence. People who are being detained in police stations without exercise or…
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WMBAD: Prison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b00cqGY6XBU The final episode for 2015. Check out the full White Man Behind a Desk channel.
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Has John Key had a wank recently?
Has John Key had a wank recently? I don't want to know. I'm pretty sure you don't want to know. But apparently this is a question we ask in the media nowadays. Remember when the office of PM used to have a little dignity? I…
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Surplus explained
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#hereforHelen
Helen Kelly has stepped down from the Council of Trade Unions. She's helped thousands over workers over the last eight years as President. (The Hobbit dispute, CMP lockout, Auckland port dispute, Talley's Affco lockout, Pike River, the forestry health and safety campaign etc etc etc.) Here's…
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Jane Kelsey on Groser’s proven breach of duty
Read it here And for those who dismiss her arguments with ad hominem and the ridiculous "she never supported a single FTA", let me remind you a Judge agreed with her arguments. Oh, and Wayne Mapp? You never opposed a single FTA, so you and…
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Lucky Labour – disgraceful Speaker
Yesterday there was another draw of member's bills, and Labour (leaders!) had the best of it. Here's I/S at No Right Turn: Drawn A ballot for four member's bills was held today and the following bills were drawn: Education (Restoration of Democracy to University Councils)…
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