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Daily review 31/05/2019
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Budget commentary
Clearly this week's commentary on the budget can be divided on a partisan basis. There was the frankly bizarre. Like this effort from Maserati driver Mike Hosking. His last few budget headlines have been: Govt's wellbeing budget a looming disasterGrant Robertson's Budget is full of…
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Open mike 31/05/2019
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Daily review 30/05/2019
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The Wellbeing budget
So what is in the Wellbeing budget and what do you think about it? Update: The details are rolling in. Increased funding for schools $1 billion for rail Indexing of benefits to the average wage and removal of punitive measures $1.9 billion over five years…
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The Treasury website hack that wasn’t
So yesterday we had peak media angst day and the media spent all day talking about how Simon Bridges said Grant Robertson said one thing and Grant Robertson said he said no such thing. Why couldn't they just actually analyse the evidence and make a…
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Same old dirty National
Somehow, and we may never know exactly how, some information landed in the hands the Leader of the Opposition. It may be that the infamous leaker in the National Caucus leaked in for a change and put it on the desk of his esteemed Leader,…
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Open mike 30/05/2019
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Daily review 29/05/2019
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Whale Oil – the book
Just finished Whale Oil by Margie Thomson. about the Blomfield vs Slater case. It was a case now lost by Cameron Slater because after 7 years of trying to delay it, before a judge who was finally able to look at his 'proofs', he was…
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Who did the Treasury Hack?
I was writing a post about the release of National's culture review which is one of the most bland management speak documents that I have ever read, but there is only one story right now, who hacked Treasury's server. Treasury head Gabriel Makhlouf was on…
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Open mike 29/05/2019
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Simon Bridges – criminal receiver
You have to wonder about what kind of law Simon Bridges, a former criminal prosecutor, actually practiced. Should we start an inquiry into his former cases? Because given the events of today - it seems questionable if he understands the legal basis of our criminal…
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Daily review 28/05/2019
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The false left anti road narrative
There is nothing worse than commentators with historical links to the left reinforcing right wing talking points. The latest example of this has come from Shane Te Pou writing in Newsroom. My attention to the article was caught by this tweet: https://twitter.com/PouTepou/status/1132742255851081728 And this is…
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Open mike 28/05/2019
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Daily review 27/05/2019
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Will National do a deal with the Coalition NZ Party?
What a difference a few years and a change of leaders makes. Back in 2011 we had this: Now we get this: https://twitter.com/NewshubNZ/status/1132738175678504960 Would National really do a deal with Destiny to gain power? And I wonder how Alfred Ngaro is feeling?
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Bridges’ dodgy crime statistics
Holy lauranorda. Simon Bridges has chosen to try and deflect away from problems caused by the Tamaki inspired Coalition New Zealand announcement by getting on the crime bandwagon. He has come out with some statistics and then claimed that crime is out of control. From…
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Open mike 27/05/2019
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Open mike 26/05/2019
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How To Get There 26/5/19
This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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Mayhem in the UK
So Theresa May is on the way out. The Guardian has the details: Theresa May has given an emotional farewell to “the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold”, pledging to step aside as Conservative leader on 7 June and kicking…
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EU elections
We will get the results of the European parliament elections in the next day or so. It’s the first election they’ve had since the refugee crisis, the Brexit referendum, and the election of U.S. President Donald Trump. There’s a reasonably high chance that the far…
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Open mike 25/05/2019
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Daily review 24/05/2019
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Religion and the threshold
It has been quite amusing watching a new generation of journalists waffling on about possible religious parties maybe entering parliament as offside stooges for National. Don't these dimwits ever look at history? Religious party - please meet the threshold... It is 5%, or if National…
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Labour to relax fiscal responsibility rules
Huzzah. Grant Robertson has announced that the Government will relax the fiscal responsibility rules, although not until after next election. Thomas Coughlan at Newsroom has provided this perceptive comment on what has happened: The Government will scrap specific debt targets in favour of moving towards…
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Open mike 24/05/2019
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Daily review 23/05/2019
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