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Twitter became quite excited yesterday. It was disclosed that Paula Bennett (or at least someone in her office) used a Crown Credit Card to withdraw $1,200 in cash against all the rules imaginable. Initially reports suggested that she had done this. Subsequent reports suggested that…
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Iraqi foreign minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari is expected to ask New Zealand to join the international fight against ISIS when he meets PM John Key, Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully and Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee in Auckland. Our Government is expected respond positively and to make…
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I spent some of Waitangi weekend cycling bits of the Otago Rail Trail. Everything was parched and brown (29 degrees - why is it always uphill in to a head wind?). Locals are calling it The Big Dry. Now the official drought has been declared,…
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The focus group results are in and John Key is backing off from the Government injecting further money into the SkyCity convention centre. Vern Small in stuff has stated: Prime Minister John Key has toughened up his opposition to putting taxpayer cash into the planned SkyCity convention…
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Iain Lees-Galloway, Labour's spokesperson on Labour Issues, has lodged a member's bill which would ban the use of zero-hour contracts: “Unlike casual agreements that provide flexibility for both employer and employee, zero-hour contracts require employees to be available for work at all times but place…
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One law for the rich, another for the poor. If you're a regular person with a regular job, governments will chase you to the ends of the earth for their taxes. In the case of our own Nats, up to and including paper boys/girls. But…
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This is what John Key said two days ago in Parliament about ISIS: This will be a government that will take seriously its responsbilities when it comes to standing up to ISIS. As I said at Waitangi I will not as leader of New Zealand stand…
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Imagine this - a society where women and men are afforded equal rights and decisions are the result of deeply participatory and grassroots democratic procedures. Believe it or not, that’s the case in Syria today within the autonomous cantons of Efrin, Kobane and Cizire where…
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The Labour Party is organising a petition against the $140 million bailout SkyCity is demanding - and John Key is insisting we have to pay to prevent getting an "eyesore" of a convention centre. You can sign the petition here.
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This morning the Salvation Army released their state of the nation report - A Mountain All Can Climb. From the excellent coverage on Stuff, here's the bottom line: THE COUNTRY'S REPORT CARD OUR CHILDREN Child poverty – C- Children at risk – C+ Children and…
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Sky City crying too poor to build a bigger casino - give us a break, please! The extra pokies and license extension they negotiated was estimated (by casino expert Sudhir Kale, not the noddies the government used) to be worth an extra $35million a year…
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Well ok, after the election I figured that I could shift the site to some slower storage with a whole lot of redundancy in a RAID6 array of slower drives. We'd have a lot fewer readers than our peak for about six months after post election, right? Nope…
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Sir Edmund Thomas will discuss this topic in Wellington at Connolly Hall, Guildford Terrace, tomorrow Wednesday 11th at 5:30pm. All welcome - see synopsis - if you would like to come please register here. Sir Edmund Thomas argues that the gross inequality in income and…
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I/S at No Right Turn on the most interesting event at the first session of Parliament for 2015. The Speaker's actions open up a complicated can of legal worms, and it will be interesting to see how they are reported, but note that we will…
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John Key is softening us up for the prospect of more Government money being paid to SkyCity for the Convention Centre on the grounds that a convention centre reliant on the proceeds of gambling may be a bit of an eyesore. From Radio New Zealand: John…
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As usual, Gordon Campbell has written the best commentary on current events: Gordon Campbell on the Maori “separatism” bogey Leadership requires the leader to set aside self-interest. It is a concept that sometimes seems quite alien to Prime Minister John Key – who has reached…
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John Key's state of the nation announcement of the Government's intention to divest itself of state houses to help social housing providers has struck a problem. The Salvation Army, touted as one of the likely recipients, has expressed significant reservations. From the Herald: A charity tagged…
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Feinstein Doak has a post up with the Top Political Facebook Posts of 2014, and the results are interesting: John Key, unsurprisingly given that his Facebook page has over 180,000 likes, dominates with 5 of the top 10 posts But the top post - with a…
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Leaving Mike Sabin in charge of the Law and Order Select Committee was certainly a captain's call by John Key. Just like Tony Abbott's award of a knighthood to the Duke (as if he needed more fruit salad), this was a judgment call. And it…
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A good piece by Maria Slade in the weekend on the way in which housing is becoming a matter of intergenerational wealth: Bank of mum and dad now a home truth ... A survey by real estate agency Barfoot & Thompson shows almost half of…
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I sometimes wonder if it bothers any of the free-thinking rugged individualists of the political right that they are expected to line up like sheep behind John Key. Repeat after me - "I'm a Key person!". Baaaaa! The latest bout of this cult of "personality"…
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The Sabin issue is a slow burning crisis for National, and it's interesting the things that you learn about people in a crisis. We learn, for example, that National will never have a more loyal supporter than John Armstrong: Frenzy over Key's knowledge of Sabin…
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There's a fascinating article in the latest New Statesman titled "An Empire that speaks English: the right's dream of a new world order." Suddenly UK Foreign Minister Philip Hammond's recent visit here makes sense. So does John Key's references to sending Kiwi troops to Iraq…
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The Australian Liberal Party vote tomorrow on a spill motion that could see Tony Abbott deposed as Prime Minister. The reasons are clear to see, the shortest political honeymoon on record, adverse polling with support for Abbott down to 27% and the Queensland State election…