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For the second time, the Labour History Project is running an essay competition to inspire debate on alternative futures. In December 2014, an OECD report ranked New Zealand as the most deeply affected by growing income inequality out of all developed countries. It makes the…
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Announcement here: Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - Investment Chapter WikiLeaks releases today the "Investment Chapter" from the secret negotiations of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement. The document adds to the previous WikiLeaks publications of the chapters for Intellectual Property Rights (November 2013) and the…
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Winston Peters is heading down to the wire. Too little, too late for National - Winston Peters It's too little too late for Prime Minister John Key when it comes to saving his party's seat in Northland, by-election front-runner Winston Peters says. After cutting short…
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' He's been a busy lad, that John Key. Lying pretty much non-stop during the 2014 election campaign with his "left wing conspiracy" mantra, he's slowed down a bit since polling day on 20 September, settling into a more sedate but steady pace. Stretching from the very…
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The latest 3News/Reid Research poll confirms that voters are seeing this as a two horse race. And one of the two horses is decidedly lame. Winston Peters is on 54%, well ahead of National's Mark Osborne (34%) and Labour’s Willow-Jean Prime is coming a distant…
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From I/S at No Right Turn... An unwarranted invasion of privacy The Herald's David Fisher reports that the police are regularly accessing people's private and personal information without any form of warrant or oversight: Broad swathes of people's personal data are being sought regularly by police from…
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The heavy voting in Northland that we pointed out last week is continuing. Its cumulative total as at yesterday at just under 7809 votes is close to double that in the 2014 election when it was about 4387 at the same time in the lead up to the…
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I have changed my mind.* I advocated previously for Northland Progressives to support Willow Jean Prime. While she is still deserving of support I now think that strategic considerations make the defeat of National of utmost importance and, dare I say this, Winston winning is the only realistic…
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UPDATE: Following a sustained Kiwi public backlash against it, Cotton On has now - apparently - backed down in its attempt to force staff at its Auckland distribution centre to negotiate whether or not or when they can have rest and meal breaks.…
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Interesting piece in the NBR today (paywalled): Osborne silent over Te Ahu centre review National’s Mark Osborne is refusing to comment on his role as general manager of the controversial $15 million Te Ahu centre, which is now the subject of a governance and funding…
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Originally posted at Boots Theory. Of course it would be Paula Bennett, the government's most infamous ladder-retracting Minister, getting headlines about irresponsible parenting being the real cause of children going to school with no lunches. "[Voting down the "Feed the Kids" Bill] is absolutely is the…
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A couple of recent events provide an interesting contrast and show how the handling of disclosures under the need to know policy by this government varies. The most recent is that involving Carmel Sepuloni. She learned the day before that her mother was to appear in…
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Cotton On have hit the news for all the wrong reasons, with FIRST Union revealing that they're pushing to remove guaranteed rest and meal breaks from workers in their distribution centre. FIRST General Secretary Robert Reid says: “Breaks are crucial on industrial sites because they…
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In the NZ herald today, Terence O'Brien has been questioned about the recent revelations of spying to get Minister's jobs after politics. Despite a Press Corp being with the PM in ROK, none has yet bothered to as the Koreans, or the former Foreign Minister…
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Via a bemused Lyndon Hood:
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Like Danyl at Dim-Post I find it hard to believe that National could lose Northland. They have huge resources to throw at it, both as a party (massive polling, phone banks, transport, hordes of "Key people") and as a government ($69 million for bridges any…
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A definite inclusion in the I kid you not file. David Fisher in the Herald revealed this morning that not only is the GCSB engaged in the detection of terrorist threats and the protection of national security but also the interception of communications in an attempt to…
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Where does this leave National's "social housing" sell-off? Salvation Army rejects buying state homes: 'Housing NZ is making a mess' Social provider admits it lacks ‘expertise, resources’, leaves field open to property developers, financiers. The Salvation Army has decided against buying state homes off the…
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I kid you not. The wealthy in Australia want to avoid publishing corporate tax information because of the threat of kidnapping. At least this is what they are saying ... From the Guardian: The assistant treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, told the Coalition party room on Tuesday…
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A guest post from Megan Woods, Labour's MP for Wigram. This week the Environment Minister, Nick Smith, has said democracy 'carried too much risk' for Canterbury. After delays, he has finally showed his hand and announced that it was not a return to democracy that he…
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Over at The Wireless, Pencilsharp has put up a longish cartoon about this daft public relations stunt by John Key and his minons on changing the flag. As he points out (click on image to go to the Wireless), it appears that the main reason that John…
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The pre-election, headline-grabbing, so-called “rock-star economy” may be less in evidence today, but there is still a good deal of self-congratulation about an annual GDP growth-rate of over 3%. There is general agreement that the New Zealand economy is doing pretty well, particularly when compared…
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Labour, in 1984, with Richard Prebble and Roger Douglas, promised that if we adopted their prescription we would have a "Brighter Future". Ruth Richardson in the 90's promised a "Brighter Future". Again in 2014 John Key's National promises a "Brighter Future". A "Brighter Future". For…
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Mike Sabin has a prominent chin - A Poem for Northland Mike Sabin has a prominent chin, John Key has a nice green tie, This poem came to me in a flash last night, I'm sure that I can't say why. Mike Sabin is looking…