That was going to be the whole post. But then there was this, I was doing other things while the debate was on, but could hear the sound. I didn't listen to the content much but did notice the tone. What stood out was how…
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Latest Colmar Brunton results are out and it is grim reading for National. The results: Labour - 48 National - 31 Act - 7 Greens - 6 NZ First - 2 New Conservatives - 2
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National's competency problem has just got worse. Newshub has discovered another alternative budget problem which thankfully for National in numerical terms is not as big as its $4 billion howler. It is quite small, $88 million, but enough to pay the yearly salaries of a…
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This car crash of a campaign for National just got worse. It appears that Paul Goldsmith, financial spokesperson for the party that prides itself on its ability with finances, has made a rather large miscalculation. When creating National's budget he anticipated that stopping contributions to…
Some interesting figures have come out of the Reid Research poll of Auckland Central voters. The candidate vote is not something that Chloe Swarbrick would have wanted. Helen White is well ahead on 42.3%, National's Emma Mellow is well back, 15.7 percentage points back on…
The death of United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a signal of a heroism of endurance and sustained good judgement. When she began in law, women were strictly forbidden from employment in the U.S. Attorney's Office. She explains why here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJs1H5tQlDc She…
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What a surprise! What does a right wing party do when it is facing annihilation but promise tax cuts that favour the rich, even though a month ago it said it would not. From Thomas Coughlan at Stuff from August 6 this year: It has…
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In this election campaign like no other one thing is clear. Judith Collins is not getting traction. She is looking tired and grumpy and pitted against Jacinda Ardern looks second rate. Which makes you think what happens after the election? Judith may hang in there…
Some snips from an interview about steady state economics with Rob Dietz, the Program Director of the Post Carbon Institute and co-author of Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources. You can think of steady-state economics as a sustainable…
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Green Party press release Jan Logie September 14, 2020 Greens will push next term for Government to expand dignified income beyond public service with Fair Pay Agreements The Green Party welcome Labour’s commitment to extend the living wage to Government contractors, but will push for…
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Much has rightly been made of the leadership quality of Prime Minister Ardern this year. But the PREFU results announced today shows that Minister of FInance Grant Robertson is by a long way the most effective Minister of Finance we have had since Dr Michael…
The Prefu is out! And I suspect Judith Collins will be quietly cursing the contents although already National's line is clear, this is the worst PREFU ever. It is also the only PREFU every formulated at a time the world is experiencing a one in…
Just two months before election day, Donald Trump appears to have won a diplomatic coup in the Middle East. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have normalised relations with the state of Israel. But this latest Arab-Israeli entente is neither a bolt from the blue…
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The entity that is full of rabid right wingers but calls itself a union and who believes that strongly in personal responsibility that it took the Government's Covid wage subsidy claims that it is opposed to Government waste. In fact one of its three professed…
Press release from Greenpeace New Zealand by Gen Toop 12 September 2020 Greenpeace celebrates Green Party commitment to phase out PKE Greenpeace is labelling the commitment to phase-out the use of Palm Kernel Expeller (PKE) “bold and transformational”. The commitment has just been announced as…
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