Daily Review 05/09/2016
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Kevin Hague to leave Parliament
In breaking news Kevin Hague has announced that he is to leave Parliament to head Forest and Bird.
Take the power back
The Jobs That Count campaign isn’t just about Talley’s AFFCO. It’s about getting local councils that work for all of us and make sure that the big businesses in our communities give back to us.
Will Shane Jones stand for NZ First in Whangarei?
Rumours suggesting that Shane Jones will stand for New Zealand First in Whangarei at the next election have resurfaced.
Open Mike 05/09/2016
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The Mayoral candidates and the living wage proposal
I attended the Living Wage People’s assembly this week in St Matthews in the City. The idea behind the meeting was to get Mayoral […]
Open Mike 04/09/2016
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Festival of Dangerous Ideas
The Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) brings leading thinkers and culture creators from around the world to the Sydney Opera House stages and online to discuss and debate the important ideas of our time.
Close the camps Australia
A protest is planned today in Auckland against Wilson’s Parking for its parent company’s management of the Nauru and Manus Island refugee detention centre.
Open Mike 03/09/2016
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Daily Review 02/09/2016
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Women wearing clothes
In France and Italy there have been recent examples of men telling women what they can and cannot wear.
Disturbing.
Given the topic of this post, it seems appropriate not to attach an image.
Only unsustainable net migration fuels “growth”
Our National dipshit ministers have decided to start a new growth industry. They importing low-skilled to extract their savings, using them to generate artificial heat in the service economy and to slow wage growth. On the way through they’re also screwing the housing market. Our current net permanent long-term migration is completely unsustainable. Perhaps it is time to vote NZ First?
Open Mike 02/09/2016
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World Water Week
Never heard of it? Neither had I.
Democracy doesn’t belong to government…
42 years on, Norman Kirk’s words and work remain a beacon.
Aussie gets its first federal Aboriginal woman MP
Linda Burney, the newly elected MP for Barton, gave an historic, powerful maiden speech yesterday. I enter this place as a representative of […]
European Union v Apple and the US
And in Europe the EU has taken steps against Apple for rampant tax evasion and an EU-US free trade deal appears to be dead.
Water quality too important for bird-brained excuses
Nick Smith’s latest excuse for inaction on water quality is birds. Yes birds. You couldn’t make this shit up.
For a dose of blessed sanity, watch the (10 min) webcast by Dr Mike Joy explaining what the real problem is.
Open Mike 01/09/2016
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Daily Review 31/08/2016
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NRT: A death-knell for Ruataniwha?
I/S at No Right Turn writes: If the ruling stands, it won’t just kill the dam, but also National’s policy of trying to crack open reserves for development through an ideology of “net conservation gain”.
The elephant in the room
Supported autonomy
Philip Patston writes about the important difference between autonomy and independence.
Mt Roskill by election – cooperating parties cooperate shock!
If Phil Goff wins the Auckland mayoralty there will be a by-election in Mt Roskill. Building on their MOU, Labour and the Greens may cooperate. Good!
Open mike 31/08/2016
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Daily review 30/08/2016
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The right for Spy’s to break the law, bill.
No Right Turn has reminded me that the deadline for submissions on the Spy bill is 7th October 2016. Submissions. can be made […]
Nats cut police resources then demand the impossible
We have had years of systematic under funding of the police and front-line numbers are falling. None the less police are now expected to attend every burglary. For the sake of this exercise in public perception other areas of police wrok will suffer.
Nanaia Mahuta: “I refuse to engage in the politics of desperation”
The MP for Hauraki-Waikato has responded strongly to the latest jibes coming from the Māori Party.
Labour’s Auckland Push
Matt McCarten is to head a new Labour party office in Auckland. The party is going to take to fight to National in the city that decides the election. Yet another bold step from Andrew Little, who is looking more and more like the next PM.
Key finally admits there is a housing crisis but says it is all Labour’s fault
John Key has used some very dodgy figures to claim that the housing crisis was worse under Labour than it is now.
Key: Crisis? What me worry?
John Key is defending his handling of Auckland’s housing crisis on the grounds that Auckland’s prices have only risen as much under him as they did under Labour.
So the prices that he said were a crisis in 2007, have risen by as much again, and thus… no problem?
Open mike 30/08/2016
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Roy Morgan August; Nat’s Down 7%
The latest Roy Morgan is out. A solid 7% drop for National.