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Andrew Little was pushing the Prime Minister today on the fact that he's ripping off workers and businesses to the tune of $350 million in ACC levies in order to generate his much-promised, never-delivered budget surplus. Desperate to throw mud any way he could, Key…
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3 News is advertising a special announcement of "national significance" at 3:45. Live stream here? No, doesn't seem to be working. http://www.3news.co.nz/Video/3NewsLiveStream.aspx Will update post: NZX (the stock exchange) has posted holds on trading for multiple dairy companies including Fonterra - related? Breaking - Police…
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Heather du Plessis-Allan reports that the PM is a sexist git, sorry, can't handle a hammer: https://twitter.com/HDPA/status/575040205759119360 (hat tip Pascal's Bookie!) UPDATE: The Herald reports that the video has received a million hits. About 999, 997 more than the nail. Boom tsssh!
john key Media Minister for International Embarrassment you couldn't make this shit up
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PM won't give assurance NZers not caught in eavesdropping Key says he won't quit if mass collection of Kiwis' communications proved NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER RETRACTS VOW TO RESIGN IF MASS SURVEILLANCE IS SHOWN
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Selwyn Manning's new EveningReport site got off to a massive start last night with a long, interesting interview with Nicky Hager. Take home quote (courtesy Russell Brown): "The GCSB is not a New Zealand operation, in any practical sense". Please post text for any other…
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' What happens when a not-too-bright, out of his depth bloke who has scrambled his way into the executive management team ends up working with a junior but well-qualified, smart, competent woman who can see right through him? Not for the first time, this is…
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Selwyn Manning has set up and will edit a new site http://EveningReport.nz/. Nice to see another progressive net news and current affairs site being set up. You can read the press release here. EveningReport.nz launches tonight (8pm, March 9, 2015) and is established under its 'Independent Interactive…
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This morning we had a perfect example of what so deeply frustrates those of us who keep harping on about pro-government bias in how the mainstream media report political events. After an appalling display of obfuscation and a blatant disregard for public concern from PM…
broadcasting democracy under attack journalism Media radio spin the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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Here, with thanks to Twitter - is our first ever animation for a caption competition! https://twitter.com/sexnap/status/574435557536702464
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Reposted from Polity National has announced: As the Northland by-election campaign heats up, the government has announced it will replace ten single lane bridges on Northland's Twin Coast Highway over the next six years. Roading has been singled out as one of the issues in…
Abuse of power accountability Economy national Politics same old national transport
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Predictably, Patrick Gower has put the boot in to Labour over Andrew Little's comments on the Northland by election: https://twitter.com/patrickgowernz/status/574324299730849792 Now, to be fair to Mr Gower, has has very consistently opposed "dirty deals", and laid into National strongly over Epsom. But he's wrong to…
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I spent some of my teen years living in Titirangi. There's an odd contradiction at play in that part of Auckland: a stark ideological divide between the hippies and greenies who head to the market every last-Sunday for some amethyst jewellery and cumin-speckled gouda, and…
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