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Daily Review 08/03/2016
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Fonterra faces liquidity issues as rivers of “white oil” dry up
Guest Post: by Simon Louisson Pundits, most residing in the National Party, just three years ago predicted the economy would surf high on “rivers of white oil” flowing from the dairy industry, but they now have cow pats splattered on their faces as Fonterra today…
debt / deficit Economy farming john key national sustainability tax
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Labour and Lees-Galloway secure end to zero hours contracts
The Government has buckled and agreed to changes proposed by Labour to Employment Law to do away with zero hour employment contracts. Congratulations to Labour and especially Iain Lees-Galloway for achieving this. From a Labour press release on stuff: Changes demanded by Labour to new…
Andrew Little business class war Economy employment labour national
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How is homophobia still a thing?
St Matthew-in-the-City is a liberal Anglican church in the middle of Auckland city. Its theology is to encourage liberal thinking and progressive theological exploration. It states that its hospitality is to welcome all people, no exceptions, to the table. Its justice statement says that the church…
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Todd Barclay imploding in Clutha-Southland
Standing a 23 year old Nat Party insider and ex tobacco lobbyist in the safe National (ex Bill English) seat of Clutha-Southland was always an insult to the electorate, but the good burghers loyally voted for the blue gumboot. (Labour's Dr Liz Craig would have…
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Victoria University Chancellor Neville Jordan spits the dummy
' This article appeared in the 21 February issue of Victoria University's student magazine Salient - and University Chancellor, Neville Jordan, couldn't handle the jandal so lost the plot and spat the dummy. Big time. The spoof Q&A has Jordan saying that both the best and worst part of his…
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Routine incompetence
From the party that brought you the Novopay debacle, the Auckland IT costing blowout, the unachievable Christchurch rebuild plan, the MBIE cost extravagances, the bungled charter schools mess, the embarrassing Auckland housing nonsense, the SERCO prison failures, the abolition of democracy in Canterbury, the Solid…
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Open mike 08/03/2016
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Daily Review 07/03/2016
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NRT: A waiting list by another name
I/S at No Right Turn writes... A waiting list by another name When National was in opposition, it rightly attacked the then-Labour government over the size of hospital waiting lists. People were suffering in pain, sometimes for years, because DHB's were not meeting patient needs.…
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The All Powerful Labour Party
The flag change campaign has reached truly epic levels of shrill hysteria. It's hard to move without tripping over a celebrity or journalist ranting about the flag. Apparently we need a new flag to represent who we are, it's the last chance for a generation,…
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Stacey Kirk’s Stuff Up
Is Stacey Kirk NZ's nastiest journalist? The Fairfax hack has just been forced to admit that she published an unsubstantiated smear against a group of women dying of cancer. Yes, you read that right. The target of her vile attack were the women who went…
Abuse of power articles Dirty Politics Ethics making shit up Media same old national
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police and african youth
Having been away for the weekend, I hadn't had time to write about this piece of research by Camille Nakhid, showing that the police are using "derogatory insults or comments, dismissive behaviour and even excessive force by the police". The police immediately went into defensive mode,…
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Open mike 07/03/2016
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