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Daily Review 29/11/2017
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All aboard for awesome public transport
‘It’s less fuss, take a bus’ is a tagline for public transport campaigns from Hamilton to Northampton. And it’s true, buses, trains and ferries are not only better for the environment, if run well they are cheaper and faster than being jammed in motorway gridlock…
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Progress from the Labour led government
The best way to restore faith in the idea of a good state doing good for the country is to deliver on your promises. With the six-month fiscal update coming on Friday (remember that $4.1b surplus?), we need a summary. 1. Make the first year…
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Open Mike 30/11/2017
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Introductory ramble to save you Googling me
Hi. I’m Enzo (yes that’s my real name) and I write for The Standard now. Just thought I should introduce myself and tell you a little bit about my background – so hopefully it doesn’t become A THING. No, I have not defended war criminals…
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Key and Mass Surveillance: Was this the reason for the Golriz distraction?
Doncha love the media and the right's ability to throw them tidbits and getting some of them barking and howling and chasing cars? When more important stories involving serious journalism are somehow put into the background mainly because the stories are complex and cannot fit…
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Daily Review 29/11/2017
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Joyce’s multi billion dollar budget hole
It appears that Steven Joyce's claim of a multi billion dollar hole in the Government's finances may have been true after all. Just that it was $14 billion in health spending. And $20 billion in defence. And it was in National's own forecasts. From Politik:…
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Phil Quin: our media’s goto dogwhistling Aussie
One thing that always disappoints me in NZ is the complete stupidity of who our local media consider are 'left' or 'labour' commentators. They are, almost without exception, just outright strange and weird relics of left behind history framing their commentary in terms of long…
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Open Mike 29/11/2017
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Daily Review 28/11/2017
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Thank-you Golriz
I generally like being a New Zealander, but fuck we're an embarrassment sometimes. In the last 24 hours a national debate has broken out about whether war criminals on trial should have legal representation. Micky has covered the basics of the beat up story here. Yes, NZ is still…
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Up the spout, round the bend and down the tubes.
Maybe you jump in the car to pop down to the dairy, or round to the supermarket, or whatever. It's inconsequential and yes, you care about global warming. So, let's assume the total trip there and back amounts to 5 km of driving. No big…
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Right loses its shit after former criminal lawyer discovered to have acted for bad people
It is going to be a long three years if the events of the past 24 hours are anything to go by. The right have leapt into shock horror mode and proclaimed that SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT IN VERY LOUD VOICES because former Criminal lawyer…
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Can a Labour led Government win the tax debate?
Form a committee, form a committee. That’s the standard answer we now have to any tax issue arising in New Zealand, because that is what this government has stated. Tax cuts are good. That’s the standard answer we get from National. It’s a resoundingly simple…
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Why New Zealand should support the Tongan League team and forget about the Americas Cup
If you wanted to see a clear example of sport and class then the last weekend provided the perfect example. On one side was the Tongan Rugby League team whose ranks included talented professionals who chose to give up well paid gigs and potential big…
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Open Mike 28/11/2017
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Daily Review 27/11/2017
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Breaking: Libertarian opposes free speech
Don Brash has emerged from his crypt once again to tackle the greatest problem facing New Zealand today (in his strange little world) – ‘Maori privilege’. Apparently he’s "utterly sick" of the likes of Guyon Espiner speaking Te Reo on air because only “one listener…
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Appalling men and great art
Great to see more and more bad men being taken down with sex scandals, more damaged women standing up for themselves and each other. It’s like a little bit of a catchup for all of the times women were shamed out of the film industry.…
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National spams the Beehive
Her Majesty’s opposition is doing what it said it would do and creating more tension and more pressure in Parliament for the Government. Bill English said it was not National's job to make Parliament run properly and the last week has shown that National is…
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Open Mike 27/11/2017
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Once again: National lost the election
I can't believe we're still relitigating this stuff. Micky provided us a screencap earlier of a letter Nick Smith sent to the Nelson and Tasman areas, claiming that: Election 2017 resulted in an unusual outcome where National won the election[1] but lost the MMP negotiations.…
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Net Neutrality and New Zealand
The US internet has been mourning recently the announcement by that-guy-who-everyone-hates-at-the-office-but-thinks-he's-the-cool-boss, Ajit Pai, of the forthcoming death of Net Neutrality regulations in the USA, and I thought it would be timely to write a little about what that means for New Zealand, what the state…
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Invisibill
The media is starting to ask where's Bill and noting that the pretenders to his throne are starting to act up and trying to get noticed. From Jo Moir at Stuff: Parliament was in recess this week so it's perfectly normal to only see the…
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Open Mike 26/11/2017
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Doofus of the week – Nick Smith
No competition in this one, Nick Smith for showing that despite the 27 long years he has spent in Parliament he still has no idea how our electoral system works and for claiming there is an electoral convention that simply does not exist.
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Labour to seek consensus over child poverty
One of the most important developments during the election campaign was National's commitment to actually doing something about child poverty. The focus groups were clearly speaking really loudly. Child poverty existing in the land of milk and honey is a travesty. Any Government worth its…
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Revisiting the Chinese-sounding-names story
Russell Brown has a post up at Public Address revisiting the Chinese-sounding-names debacle in 2015. It's based on a talk between Brown, bFM reporter Jogai Bhatt and data journalist and former Herald reporter Harkanwal Singh. Singh was working at The Herald when the Chinese sounding names story was…
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Open Mike 25/11/2017
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