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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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