Matthew Hooton and Fran O'Sullivan have recently published articles in the Herald criticising Labour's decision to stop off shore oil exploration. Hooton thinks it was part of a nefarious plot designed to divert attention away from other issues and O'Sullivan thinks it was "disturbingly Orwellian".…
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We are in the last couple of days of the Northcote by election with tomorrow being voting day. If you want to help Shanan Halbert get elected Labour will be maintaining a full get the vote out system. You can sign up to help here.…
As we enter the era of relative world wide population declines (apart from Africa), we are are also seeing the era of populist movements trying to put the finger in the dike. The two are related. Many in the big cities beset by congestion and…
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CTU President Richard Wagstaff has a great opinion piece in the Dom Post this morning pointing out why Fair Pay Agreements are good for business as well as Kiwi workers: Remember when you could pay a mortgage, keep the kitchen cupboard full, take the kids…
It seems like an employee at the US consulate in Guangzhou heard himself losing his marbles. Seriously. As reported by The Guardian, dutifully echoing and reinforcing a The New York Times article, he had "been hearing sounds like “marbles bouncing and hitting a floor” since April last year."…
Minister Shaw has just put out his discussion paper for the Carbon Zero legislation. Sometimes you never know what difference your voice is going to make. I know from working in both central and local government that since the late 1990s, public submissions really do…
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What do you do if you are a member of a political party that has just been turfed out of office and a major fiasco emerges which shows that your party's decision making while in office was less than perfect? Like you blew $100 million…
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The methamphetamine scandal continues day after day. I almost feel sorry for National waking up to the same bad news of incompetence, lack of understanding and anti poor people belligerence their handling of the issue clearly displays. And unlike days of yore where they had…
At the moment, the United States of America is headed towards full employment. Quibble about the stats if you like, but President Trump has been there long enough to make a difference irrespective of how much is directly attributable. He also seems to be making…
Labour and Iain Lees-Galloway have managed to score the biggest up yours in politics for decades with the announcement that former National Prime Minister Jim Bolger has been appointed to a group tasked with returning industry wide bargaining. And the Nats are spitting tacks. From…
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The Northcote by election ought to be a walk in the park for National. It has been a Nationally held seat since 2005 and Jonathan Coleman's 6,210 candidate vote majority ought to be plenty. But things are getting quite strange in Northcote. There is clearly…
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On the face of it this is really disturbing behaviour. It has been alleged that National MP Parmjeet Parmar threatened to tell the employers of submitters to the Education and Workforce Select Committee what they had said in evidence if they did not withdraw their…
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