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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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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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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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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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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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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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Socialism has to work with capitalism – if we want to keep both democracy and the states’ redistributive goods and services. The name for that work is social democracy. Straight socialism is deeply unpopular and isn’t coming back in our lifetimes. Our current coalition government…
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I thought the Supreme Court judgment released yesterday that the decision to allow Peter Whittall to walk away from prosecutions relating to the death of the 29 miners in Pike River was completely just. I can understand the rationale of the original decision in a try…
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Earlier today, the Guardian was reporting that PNG police and paramilitary had descended on the Manus Island detention centre and given refugees one hour to leave. From The Guardian report... Amnesty International said serious injuries were entirely foreseeable, and the PNG government was “knowingly placing…
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Statistics NZ has released the latest nett permanent and long term migration figures for the year to date at October 2017. There is a slight fall from a few months previously. But they remain at the sustained high that has been putting major pressure on…
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The first post election poll results are out. And subject to all the usual caveats I suspect those of us on the left will be quietly smiling. The poll reports that Labour is at 39.5%, up 2.6% from the election results. The Greens have also…
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The Queensland election is turning into one of those rare and weird ones in which a large-scale environment-versus-economy fight looms largest. They go to the polls on November 27th. There’s around 200,000 New Zealanders in Queensland, with plenty more who used to be. At stake…
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Back in 2013 National leader John Key (remember him) offered to Australia to take 150 refugees stationed at Manus Island. He repeated the offer on a number of occasions. The offer was referred to in this article from the Herald in 2016: New Zealand would…
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https://twitter.com/bologna_g/status/932931832932429824 Translation: beyond the steel cage of consumerism Tim Jackson in Prosperity Without Growth on John Stuart Mill's quote: John Stuart Mill's quote in context.
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Andrew Little has been performing some outstanding work in his new minister's role. He has already made some significant decisions, decided that justice for Teina Pora required an increase payment, and has met with Ngāpuhi in an effort to get its treaty claim back on…
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Housing is making us sick. For the 120,000 Aucklanders, like me, who looked online at what their house is "officially" worth yesterday, you have again been affirmed by the state as middle class. Whether you feel like it or not, you exist in privilege. Every…
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Five days ago, military spokesperson Maj Gen SB Moyo said the following in a speech broadcast on Zimbabwean state TV Firstly we wish to assure our nation, His Excellency, the president of the republic of Zimbabwe and commander in chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces,…
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Robert Mugabe has refused to stand down during a recent televised speech despite conjecture suggesting that he would. From Radio New Zealand: Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe defied expectations he would resign, pledging to preside over a Zanu-PF congress next month even though the ruling party…
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Congratulations to Tonga for making the semi final of the World Cup and deservedly beating the Kiwis in round robin and for beating Lebanon in the quarter finals. Congratulations also on having the most passionate fans. The sea of red seen at the venues brought…
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