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Daily Review 31/08/2018
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Worst campaign video ever?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=5IbT9j30TtM In a somewhat crowded field this campaign video by Repubulican Ron Desantis, who is seeking to be the next Florida Governor takes a lot of beating. He is someone who used the phrase "monkey this up" in a barely disguised racist dog whistle when…
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Parliament and bullying
If you’ve worked in Parliament, or even close to it as a public servant, you will recognise these features: the bully works you really hard with petulant demands at high speed and without mercy or reward the bully never thanks or rewards you the bully…
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Business confidence verses business certainty
Lately the news has been all doom and gloom about business confidence. The gloom does not match the data. Rather it seems to be a fit of pique by a sector that is historically supportive of National and resentful that power has been taken away…
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Facing Meka
Customs Minister Meka Whaitiri is facing an allegation of assault. Various media outlets suggest she is accused of pushing a staff member, physically forcing that person out of an office. If the allegation is proven, then Whaitiri must be sacked as a minister. Serious consideration…
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Open Mike 31/08/2018
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Daily Review 30/08/2018
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Australia bans Manning but lets in Au pair for rich Liberal donors
If it was not clear before it is now clear where the Australian Government's loyalties lie. There has been recent news about how an Au Pair intending to work for a wealthy family known to have made large donations to the Liberal Party had the…
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Simon Bridges says the weirdest things – petrol prices
For a while Simon Bridges has been trying to create a narrative about petrol prices. https://twitter.com/simonjbridges/status/1034577166216749058 But not in Auckland where a healthy dose of competition is keeping prices down. And not according to BP. From Hamish Rutherford at Stuff three days ago: BP said…
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Open Mike 30/08/2018
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Daily Review 29/08/2018
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What’s wrong with asking people for their ideas?
There’s been this strange commentary coming from the National Party opposing the Labour-led coalition Labour’s setting up of working groups, inquiries and councils around future change, including big issues such as tackling NZ’s mental health problems, the future of work, important things like holidays and…
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Let Chelsea Manning speak
We have another freedom of speech tester. This one involves Chelsea Manning. She is well known as a whistleblower and leaker of sensitive US military information. She was sent to jail for espionage after leaking nearly 750,000 pages of information to Wikileaks. She was sentenced…
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Open Mike 29/08/2018
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Daily Review 28/08/2018
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Simon’s first six months
Simon has now been leader of the opposition for six months. How has he been going? Not very well I am pleased to say. Perhaps it is an indication of how well Aotearoa New Zealand is being run currently. The really big issues, homelessness, child…
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Norway’s plastic bottle recycling
I’m not sure how many plastic bottles we all go through per week, but I would like my milk in glass bottles please. In the meantime I’d like to know what our next step in waste minimisation is. Norway is a good example. Granted it’s…
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Litigation and equal pay – a history of the 1950’s equal pay campaign
Forward In 2016 I wrote the below dissertation as part of my History Honours degree at Victoria University. This dissertation explores the 1950s equal pay campaign, and specifically looks at the Jean Parker Case. Jean Parker was a PSA member employed at IRD, who like Kristine…
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Open Mike 28/08/2018
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Daily Review 27/08/2018
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Rental Rights Review
The Labour led Government has announced a review into our housing rental laws. Housing Minister Phil Twyford and Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson released a discussion document on the issue this morning. There are several proposals to modernise tenancy laws including limiting rent increases and…
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National plans to breach privacy rights of all of its MPs to find leaker
Apart from the fact it is showing there is considerable disunity in National's ranks and that Simon Bridges has very poor judgment this story is getting rather tedious. But National seem intent on keeping the who leaked Bridges travel information story alive for a third…
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Open Mike 27/08/2018
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Remembering Chris Morley
On Friday 27 July 2018, Wellington Tramways Union Vice President Chris Morley passed away after a short battle with Cancer, aged 62. Chris had been a Wellington bus driver since 1978, when public transport in the city was run and controlled by Wellington City Council. In 2008…
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Bridges and National keep digging further on Leakgate
I have been following this story with some interest. The original story, that Simon Bridges had spent heaps of money on his tour of the country so that he could meet and greet ordinary kiwis was almost laughable. How could he not understand how bad…
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Period. End. Done.
Given the similarities in population between here and Scotland, it would seem that for the want of about $10 million, the government could put a massive dent in the scourge of period poverty in New Zealand. Class meets gender - what more could we ask…
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Open Mike 26/08/2018
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Australia, New Zealand, and Climate Change Politics
The world’s most stable open society, Australia, as one of the world’s remaining strong, wealthy, and open societies, is having its democracy devastated by the politics of climate change. New Zealand is already dangerously out of step with its (near) parent state on immigration. It…
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Open Mike 25/08/2018
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Clare Curran Demoted
PM Jacinda Ardern has just announced the demotion of Communications Minister Clare Curran. Curran had, for the second time, failed to be transparent about a meeting that should have been recorded in her diary and run by her staff first. Curran will retain some portfolios,…
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