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Thousands came to Newtown today for the Annual Fair on a beautiful sunny Wellington day. The Labour party stall was right in the middle and instead of handing out lots of leaflets had a big sign saying "Tell us what you think." …
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Most of the attention on today's episode of Q&A focused on the two biggest issues in NZ politics at the moment - the Northland by-election and Nicky Hager's most recent GCSB revelations. But in Andrew Little's interview with Heather du Plessis-Allan - amongst her blatant, failed attempts to get…
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Andrew Little on TVNZ's Q&A: Andrew Little gives big hint to left voters on Peters support Labour leader Andrew Little has given a strong hint to left-leaning voters that they can be "realistic" and back Winston Peters in the Northland by-election. Mr Little told TVNZ's…
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National are in a full panic about Northland: The National Party is scrambling all jets to bolster Northland byelection candidate Mark Osborne as polling shows NZ First leader Winston Peters has a chance of taking the traditionally safe National seat. Prime Minister John Key will…
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The Sunday Star Times this morning has published further articles based on the Snowden leaks. They deserve to be read in full. They include this one which details the setup in Waihopai (aka Ironsands), the fact that it is one of many bases throughout the world using…
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Today is International Women's Day: International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. Helen Clark is the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, the first woman to lead the organization,…
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For any accounts from the TPP protest marches today. DUNEDIN An excellent turnout in Dunedin, more than 1000 people in a lively march down George St, with speeches, music and poetry in the Octagon. MPs Metiria Turei and Clare Curran addressed the crowd, along with…
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Tomorrow is International Women’s Day. A good day to ask why the gender pay gap in NZ is still growing. One of the first legislative acts of the current National government was to abolish the Department of Labour’s Pay and Employment Equity Unit. (This action…
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Two interesting changes in the Northland by-election overnight. Firstly, John Key has realised that National are in trouble. He has now scheduled three visits to the electorate in the next two weeks, which strongly suggests their own polling has confirmed the TV3/Reid Research result that…
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Employment Minister Michael Woodhouse has employed the term ["flexibility"] liberally already, and no doubt he'll wheel it out on several more occasions. Wait to hear it too, again and again, from anyone defending the right of companies to operate according to the intent of the…
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An extraordinary interview with former director of the GCSB Sir Bruce Ferguson on RNZ this morning: GCSB in mass collection of Pacific data: Ferguson A former director of the GCSB says there is mass collection of emails and communications in the Pacific, but the spy…
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The first published poll on the Northland by-election is grim reading for National Party strategists. 3 News have Winston Peters on 35%, National’s Mark Osborne on 30% and Labour’s Willow-Jean Prime on 16%. I understand these numbers are broadly similar to polling conducted by UMR…
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Thanks to the heroic Edward Snowden, top New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager launched his slow-reveal of yet more stunning examples of John Key's simpering compliance with Barrack Obama's instructions. And what good timing. Currently, the MSM is dripping with soft-sell encouragement for New Zealanders…
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Yesterday morning's revelation that data collected from the Pacific Islands is being handed over to the Americans is opening up many interesting legal issues. One that is of interest to me is what happens to data collected from New Zealand citizens while they are in the…
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Fine work form David Fisher at The Herald. Does Key get to lie and deny his way through yet another crisis? John Key failing leadership test with terrorists-under-the-bed response John Key worked to undermine the spying revelations before he knew what they were. Even before…
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With a caucus of 59, the National Party must have at least one person on the roster who understands basic employment law. The received wisdom is that National is the party of business, the party of employers, the party of job creation; there should be any…
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Today is not a good day for workers. Here's a press release from Labour's Iain Lees-Galloway that I'm going to reproduce in full: Life to get harder for zero hour workers Wednesday, 4 March 2015, 9:17 pm Press Release: New Zealand Labour Party Employment law…
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The Herald this morning has reported on the latest analysis of New Zealand's data gathering role based on Eric Snowden's files. The story is bound to have a profound effect on New Zealand's relationship with its Pacific neighbours. Essentially New Zealand has been collecting data…
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' The “divide and rule” strategy has been used to impose and maintain control over human beings for countless years. Capitalists are past masters at applying it to their workforce via the “management vs worker” cleaver but, no matter the resulting tension, it was always…
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Rob at Polity makes some observations on the Herald's columnists pontifications on what Labour should have done in Northland. This morning's Herald has not one but two opinion pieces on the Northland by-election. First, here's Bryan Rudman: The March 28 Northland byelection had the makings of…
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I've seen family members on zero hour contracts and its no way to live. Campbell live (best journalism on TV) had a welcome focus on the issue yesterday: Zero-hour contracts leave Kiwi families struggling But there's an entire industry in New Zealand paying minimum wage…
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There has been a lot said about National's decision to go to war with ISIS. In the past week the MSM has fallen in behind and supported Key. Fran O'Sullivan in the Herald and Paddy Gower on TV3 have both provided solid support. And Josie…
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Reposted from Local Bodies. The development of new knowledge and technology is growing at a faster rate than ever before and successful businesses generally have to remain at the cutting edge of their industries to survive. We are now operating in a global, interconnected economy…
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Reposted from No Right Turn One of the predictions about climate change is that climate change-induced drought and famine will lead to more wars. Sadly, it turns out that what is happening in Syria is one of those wars: Drawing one of the strongest links…