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Daily Review 26/05/2016
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Budget Live
Live coverage of the budget starts around 2pm. Check out: Scoop: Budget 2016 - Scoop Full Coverage Stuff: Budget 2016: Live coverage as Bill English reveals his spending plan Herald: Bill English delivers 2016 Budget - Live coverage, news updates and analysis Other links and…
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Pre-budget reading
Budget day! Here's a little light reading to get us started. Budget 2016: The risk of not investing in children Budget 2016: An opportunity to put children first Budget 2016: Everything you need to know What we know about Budget 2016 Budget 2016: Can we…
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Paid parental leave bill progress towards anti-democratic veto
Sue Moroney's bill to extend paid parental leave passed its second reading last night - bravo to all those who supported it! Unfortunately the bill is progressing towards inevitable veto: Increased paid parental leave a no-go as Government promises to veto it Getting 26 weeks…
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Open mike 26/05/2016
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Daily Review 25/05/2016
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Bennett’s housing “announcement” is a re-announcement and a lie
"News" today: Social Housing Minister: Homeless could be offered up to $5000 to leave Auckland Homeless people could be offered up to $5000 to leave Auckland and resettle in a state house in the provinces, Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett has confirmed. The policy was…
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Newshub poll – Key’s government has failed on housing
Quite apart from falling to his lowest level ever as preferred PM, the Newshub poll had more bad news for King John: John Key's Govt has failed New Zealand on housing The verdict is in: John Key's government has failed the New Zealand public when…
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The Government thinks that poverty is the fault of the poor, and some budget advisers
The Government is engaged in a review of budget advice services offered throughout the country and some of the services' funding is threatened. The review involves the use of classic Orwellian doublespeak. From Radio New Zealand: Budgeting services are facing an uncertain future, as the government…
benefits national poverty same old national spin uncategorized welfare you couldn't make this shit up
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Bennett admits she was wrong
Paula Bennett sought leave yesterday to make a personal explanation to Parliament so that she could correct an answer that was, how do you say, incorrect. She said this: In response to a supplementary question asked during question No. 5 on 10 May, I said…
class war housing national paula bennett poverty same old national spin the praiseworthy and the pitiful you couldn't make this shit up
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Budget choices – ignoring domestic violence refuges
Budgets are about priorities and choices. NZ is the worst country in the world for domestic violence, but the budget is going to ignore on-the-ground support organisations. Green Party MP Jan Logie calls out the Nats in this piece on Stuff: Govt delivers 'devastating news'…
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Open mike 25/05/2016
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Daily Review 24/05/2016
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Newshub poll – Key falls to lowest popularity
Latest Newshub poll shows little change in the party standings and Winston still kingmaker. It also shows that Key "plummets" to his lowest level ever. Key's popularity plummets to lowest level ... John Key's popularity as Prime Minister has dropped to its lowest point since…
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Caption competition
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Apparently the housing crisis surge is a figment of our imagination
Nick Smith is on a roll. Hard on the heels of his success in delivering 0.75% of the new homes he promised for Auckland he has declared that the surge in the housing crisis is a figment of our imagination. Just as well he has…
making shit up national same old national spin the praiseworthy and the pitiful you couldn't make this shit up
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Another strong piece from Little
Andrew Little had an excellent piece in The Herald yesterday: Govt's priorities to blame for housing crisis Over the past week, New Zealanders have been horrified to learn the extent to which families are being forced to live in garages and cars because of National's…
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William Gibson on Donald Trump
https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/734417289219473408 https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/734418193649930240 https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/734418933332070400 William Gibson, creator of Cyberpunk, the person who came up with the word cyberspace, author of Neuromancer which is credited with inspiring the Matrix movies as well as much more, is worried that Donald Trump may be the American fascist real deal. Hat…
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Nick Smith 0.75% successful on Auckland housing!
Yesterday Nick Smith announced - Deals signed off for 740 more Auckland homes The Government has signed off deals to build 740 homes on spare land in Auckland, some of which must be sold for "affordable" prices. Housing Minister Nick Smith confirmed this afternoon that…
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Open mike 24/05/2016
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Daily Review 23/05/2016
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Latest Roy Morgan Poll
The latest Roy Morgan opinion poll result is out. Taking the numbers at their face value and ignoring the margin of error suggests that National is up 3% to 45.5% although half of this came from its allies and from the Conservative Party. Labour is…
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Trump overtakes Clinton on average of polls
After small leads in a flurry of recent polls, Trump has overtaken Clinton on average polling for the first time: Trump overtakes Clinton in poll average for first time Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has overtaken Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in an average of…
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Grant Robertson’s pre-budget speech
Grant Robertson has just delivered his pre-budget speech. One takeaway message: "Labour's finance spokesman Grant Robertson says Labour will set out a tax package before the 2017 election to set out how it will raise revenue to address issues in education, health and housing". Today…
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Guest Post: Dancing to the Neo-Liberal Songbook
Reflections on Noam Chomsky’s ‘Requiem for the American Dream.’ A Guest Post by Tony Veitch. In his powerful 2015 documentary, Requiem for the American Dream, Noam Chomsky delineates 10 principles that motivate the Neo Liberals in the United States and, indeed, all over the world.…
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Little’s $50 a week message getting through
Good coverage for Andrew Little's speech on Sunday. Stuff: Labour leader Andrew Little: Kiwi families' pay packets $50 a week worse off under National A squeeze on "middle New Zealand" means the average Kiwi family has missed out on more than $13,000 in wages since…
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Open mike 23/05/2016
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Budget 2016 – the real deal
While the corporate class will be poring over the budget 2016 analysis from the financial elite, one organisation - the Council of Trade Unions - produces an on the day analysis of the budget's impact on the rest of us and on the public services we…
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Andrew Little’s pre-budget speech
Thanks so much for coming along today, and for giving up some of your weekend. Today, I want to talk about the type of Budget that New Zealand needs to see this coming Thursday. As every Kiwi family knows, setting Budgets is about making choices.…
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Structural injustice
Structural injustice is everywhere around us. But sometimes simple cases highlight it so clearly (ht marty mars). Compare: Outrage over teenagers' sentence A sentence of home detention for four Northland teenagers for a burglary spree totalling nearly $80,000 in stolen property has been met with…