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Daily Review 17/09/2015
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Sale of Lochinver Station declined
As widely reported: Ministers reject advice - halt China Lochinver Station sale Government ministers Paula Bennett and Louise Upston have gone against a recommendation by the Overseas Investment Office and turned down a $88 million bid by Chinese billionaire Jiang Zhaobai's flagship firm to buy…
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Tsunami warning
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The strip mining of Housing Corp is accelerated
Eight days ago I posted about how National was strip mining Housing Corporation by being paid $118 million in dividends when the need for social housing was so great. Well hang onto your hats because this news is so much worse. From the Labour website:…
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Paid parental leave bill progresses – towards veto
Let's hear it for MMP! Last night in Parliament Labour MP Sue Moroney's bill extending paid parental leave to 26 weeks passed its first reading by one vote (let's hear it for the voters of Northland!). Only National and ACT opposed. Good news: Paid Parental…
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Open mike 17/09/2015
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Daily Review 16/09/2015
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NRT: The Great WINZ ripoff
I/S at No Right Turn... The Great WINZ ripoff You're a beneficiary. Because they're muppets, WINZ overpays you a day's benefit when you start. When they notice, you're forced to repay the money (which is fair enough) - and tagged as a "fraudster" for good…
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Corbyn rides a commie bike!
The subtle and not so subtle demonisation of Jeremy Corbyn by England's establishment media is going to be something to behold. How about this yesterday in The Times? The new Labour leader treated himself to a black cab at his home yesterday, abandoning the Chairman…
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Good question
In New Zealand the figure is 24%.
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This Government’s priorities
In an unfortunate juxtaposition of events it has been shown that this Government is happy to write off debts properly owed to it by Serco but unwilling to pay debts properly owed by it to New Zealand social welfare beneficiaries. Firstly Serco has been let…
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Open mike 16/09/2015
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Daily Review 15/09/2015
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Paid leave for Victims of Domestic Violence
The Big Red Shed, which within its entire group employs 12,000 people, leads the way with an innovative initiative to extend paid leave to those suffering from domestic violence and for those employees supporting someone who is a victim of domestic violence. Read more here…
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Hot hotter hottest
Plenty of distractions in the political circus at the moment, but meanwhile: 2015 and 2016 set to break global heat records, says Met Office Next two years likely to be hottest recorded as the world’s climate reaches major turning point... The world’s climate has reached…
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The Attack
Nicholas Watt in The Guardian The strategy will involve a twin-track approach in which the Tories will speak about Corbyn personally in respectful terms as they pay tribute to his success in securing such an emphatic victory. (...) At the same time as speaking about…
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All the left wants is a clean contest of ideas
The one thing the left wants more than anything else is a clean contest of ideas where all sides of an issue are properly explored. That way the chances of the proper decision being made is maximised. This is an especially important role for the…
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Open mike 15/09/2015
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Daily Review 14/09/2015
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Breaking: Abbott leadership challenge
Update: Abbott is gone, Turnbull won 54-44. https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/643391081946742784 https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/643393860312399872 https://twitter.com/bencubby/status/643392982134095872 Update: This photograph apparently sums up Julia Gillard's current emotional state ...
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Making Like Private Frazer
Project Fear was the label ascribed to the UK establishment’s strategy during the Scottish referendum debate. It worked well – in the space of the campaign period, support for independence more or less doubled. Project Fear (re-dux) was rolled out against Jeremy Corbyn’s bid for…
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Young on Little
While Labour leaders are in the spotlight, a good piece by Audrey Young in the weekend: No bubbly but Little is lifting Labour's game ... Given the party's record, Andrew Little has already been a successful leader. The party is functioning more like a competent…
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Guest Post – Hawkes Bay is GE free
From Open Mike We can now declare at least one region of New Zealand GE free: Hawkes Bay. This is after years of dogged work and really expensive District Plan hearings opposed tooth and nail by Federated Farmers, Scion the tree genetics people, and others.…
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UK – Cameron loses his shit, new members flood to Labour
Last night our time the UK was waking up to the first new day of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party. PM David Cameron lost his shit, in what will I think become one of the most (in)famous political tweets of all time: https://twitter.com/David_Cameron/status/642984909980725248 It is worth…
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Open mike 14/09/2015
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Does the left win by tacking to the centre or by being principled?
Well done Jeremy Corbyn. It is great to see a plain speaking principled politician succeed. Clearly Jeremy and Bernie Saunders in the States are indicative of a growing restlessness amongst activists with political business as usual where careerists using triangulation as their only weapon have been…
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Stuff piece on Red Peak
Stuff has a piece up on how the popular Red Peak / First to the Light flag resembles a logo from a small American engineering firm. (At time of writing Red Peak still dominates the poll.) Oddly there are no Stuff pieces on the things…
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Anti TPP ad (Australian)
https://twitter.com/helenkellyCTU/status/642798852089757696 Here it is then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5StztvYw5SA From the GetUp web page: ***UPDATE: We just received word that Channel 9 banned our new TV ad from airing during the evening news — and they won't say why. We're scrambling right now for ad spots with other…
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Open mike 13/09/2015
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Jeremy Corbyn wins!
Congratulations to Jeremy Corbyn new leader of the UK Labour Party. (Update: Guardian coverage - Corbyn took nearly 60% of the vote "a stunning first-round victory that was bigger than the mandate for Tony Blair in 1994"). Everything about him appeals to me. He really…
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