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These were publicly released recently and make for interesting reading. And it should be noted that they do not include all donations that a party receives. Non anonymous donations from a person that total less than $1,500 in a year are not recorded in the…
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The atmospheric concentration of CO2 today is 30% higher than when recording began in 1958, and the rate of the increase is faster now than in the last decade. The last time CO2 levels were this high was during the Pliocene 3-5 million years ago,…
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Like everyone these days, I live in a range of widespread cultures. As well as this one, my far flung family, work and a number of others I have been heavily involved in various parts of the computing community for many decades. So there are…
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Question. If I said that someone told me "x", would you report that I was claiming "x" to be true? That's what the Guardian did in headlines just the other day. Skripnals poisoned by novichok dose of up to 100g, watchdog says. My initial thought…
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I am feeling a bit sorry for National. Being in opposition means that you have to always be negative. If Labour announced that it is was as a matter of priority going to cure half of the cancers people are suffering National would say that…
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Once upon a time, there was a fairytale in which the perfect boy met the perfect girl and got down on one knee and pledged everlasting devotion with a fat diamond rock and had an enormous wedding. Boy, meets girl, in the World Series of…
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For some years now, parties of the left in government have done the work of the right. Such is the way of a world gripped by Liberalism. But now, with Liberalism's ascendancy on the wane, the fallout for parties of the left that did the…
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Remember when news broke about how there was sewerage seeping into the walls of one of our largest hospitals? Radio New Zealand reported the news in these rather graphic terms on March 28, 2018: Raw sewage has been leaking into the walls of Middlemore Hospital's…
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Rhys Darby has discovered the real conspiracy facing New Zealand by judicious use of the Internet. And Clarke Gayford does not feature. The real conspiracy is not a bunch of right wing twitter trolls trying to persuade us that Clarke had been prosecuted even though…
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You may have seen the – should we call it news? - floating around about a prospective Nobel Peace prize for Donald Trump. If you missed it, there's some stuff here. And here. And here too. And there's this. And this. My initial reaction was…
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This post is about two ATAPs. ATAP stands for Auckland Transport Alignment Project and is an attempt to reconcile and align Auckland's and the Government's transport aspirations. The first ATAP report was issued in 2016. The results represented a tension between a relatively left wing…
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In a really unusual move the police have emphatically dealt to rumours that have been circulating about Clarke Gayford. From David Fisher at the Herald: Jacinda Ardern's partner Clarke Gayford has been under an unprecedented assault of baseless rumour and false innuendo with the apparent…
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The review into Australia's banking system really matters to New Zealand. The Australian Royal Commission into Banking has held actual inquiries with evidence from actual citizens and customers, and is issuing reports about the performance of each bank. I'll leave you to research the other…
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In an earlier post I wrote about my expulsion and later re-joining of the New Zealand Labour Party. I’ve also written about ideology and some of the limitations this can cause. I have experience of this, as in the years following me leaving Labour, I became active in…
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