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Daily Review 22/10/2015
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Pressure mounts to force Auckland to open up land
Bill English ordered the Productivity Commission do a Report on Housing in Auckland. Nick Smith is particularly excited by this statement from them: The government should be allowed to force local authorities to release land for urban development in the face of rampant house-price inflation…
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Is it time for progressives to love rugby?
1981 marks the point where - for good reason at the time - the left ceded the idea of sport to National. We still begrudge it. We begrudge it even more than the flag debate. We hate it because it's full of mean-old competition, winning…
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The equal pay initiative
Here's a headline to gladden a Leftie's heart: Government hailed for equal pay initiative The Government is winning praise for a move unions hope will lead to equal pay for all working women. ... The country's biggest union, E tu, says it's "a huge step…
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Open mike 22/10/2015
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Daily Review 21/10/2015
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Have a Drink Hoss!
So, by my understanding, in ‘three party’* Canada, the New Democratic Party sought the center and nosedived. Simultaneously, the Liberals moved left and soared. In ‘two party’ England and Wales, Labour sought the center and bumbled and scraped the ground looking for lift off. Meanwhile,…
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Tony Veitch and the power of redemption
There has been some social media chatter about recent comments by broadcaster Tony Veitch. Six years ago he was sentenced to nine month's supervision, a $10,000 fine and ordered to perform 300 hours community service after pleading guilty to injuring with reckless disregard his former…
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Canada and the TPP
From NZ's point of view one of the interesting issues arising from the Liberals' victory in Canada is whether that country will now drop out of the TPP. (This was discussed in comments following yesterday's post, but I think it bears a bit more examination).…
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Open mike 21/10/2015
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Daily Review 20/10/2015
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I LOVE these kinds of stories
"“We had an 83-year-old man walking in here to vote for the first time in his life,” she said from near a polling station in Tsuut’ina Nation, near Calgary." The article is about under estimating the number of First Nation voters, so ballots ran out…
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Oh Canada oh Canada
At last one of Crosby Textor's client states is turning left. In Canada it appears that the conservative Government of Stephen Harper is on the way out and not even Crosby's advice to wedge the electorate using blatant dog whistle racist tactics has worked. Justin…
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John Oliver on Key: Every pic is a dic pic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGqQr8RnRRA
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TVOne’s reporting of the latest Colmar Brunton Poll result
I try to avoid commercial television and radio. Too many egos and the commercial agenda is too transparent. This is why I believe state media has such an important role to play. Radio New Zealand for instance does a very good job in providing in depth…
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Obesity policy ignores elephant in the room
Obesity is a difficult topic to write about, so some quick preliminaries. First, people have a lot of natural variation in healthy body shapes and types, it is perfectly possible to be "fat" and healthy. Second, obesity is in part a socioeconomic issue and a…
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Open mike 20/10/2015
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Daily Review 19/10/2015
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Kelvin Davis on Christmas Island
Yesterday I wrote about our lack of influence on Australia on the detention and deportation of Kiwis. Today Key is trying to dress up Aussie platitudes as scraps of progress. But Labour MP Kelvin Davis is taking action: Christmas Island 'just like a prison' Mr…
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Future Auckland
I hear that National is planning something quite radical for next year’s Auckland’s local body elections. There are plans for a new regional vehicle, Future Auckland, to contest various elections in the super city. The reason for the change is that National understand how important Auckland is…
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Another financial crisis?
There has been plenty of chatter recently over a Goldman Sachs report. Here's one example summary: GOLDMAN SACHS: The GFC is back Remember the 2008 financial crisis? Well, it’s back. The financial disaster, which started seven years ago with the US real estate and investment…
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Open mike 19/10/2015
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Cameron Slater back in court
For the observers of the continued disaster that is Cameron Slater, here is a snippet observed in the High Court list for tomorrow that someone observed and told me about. First call... That has to be yet another new action from Matthew Blomfield against Cameron Slater…
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Argghh! The comment bug
I have spent a few hours been chasing the bug that has been causing people to go into moderation automatically. Found it, killed it, and I thought I'd share it with you. It was in Wordfence, a great security program for the site. Essentially it is…
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Labour’s position on TPPA
The last fortnight has not been a great time for Labour when it comes to the TPPA. But I wonder if a couple of imprecisely worded comments have had far too much read into them. And if the left and the media have fallen into…
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Our influence in Australia
The Australian detention and deportation of Kiwis is a nasty business. The latest example in The Herald this morning is a shocker: Australia dumps tetraplegic Australia extradites wheelchair-bound Kiwi under controversial new law. A tetraplegic sent to New Zealand after 36 years living across the…
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Rugby or global leadership?
At the same time as New Zealand's multilateral leadership efforts fail in security, trade, and the environment, we reserve our true global leadership effort for Rugby. We're on the Security Council warming the seat. This New Zealand government has made the most spectacular bungle of…
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Open mike 18/10/2015
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Collins touting cars with her buddy Cam
Scoop broke the story last week - MP Judith Collins "Brand Ambassador" For Car Dealer. Lovely euphemism, "Brand Ambassador", don't you think? Almost as good as The Herald's "Brand Insight". Money rules. But I digress. Stuff followed up the story yesterday - National MP Judith…
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John Armstrong – a person worth disagreeing with
In the pages of The Standard there is one journalist who has generated or been referenced in more posts than any other. Today John Armstrong published his swansong at the NZ Herald. He is losing his long battle with Parkinson's disease. Like most things that John wrote, it is…
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