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Date published: 7:42 am, May 29th, 2017 - 6 comments
Apparently the Nats can’t even run a lolly scramble.
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Date published: 6:45 am, May 29th, 2017 - 150 comments
Wondering about what the Greens are voting for? It might not be what you think.
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Date published: 6:25 am, May 29th, 2017 - 13 comments
Despite rumours to the contrary, the Green Party was highly critical of National’s Budget.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 29th, 2017 - 27 comments
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Date published: 12:22 pm, May 28th, 2017 - 49 comments
A quite remarkable interview of Michael Fallon by Channel 4 News in the UK.
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Date published: 11:56 am, May 28th, 2017 - 138 comments
The Green Party caucus decision to support the Government’s tax reduction legislation is hard to comprehend and has created a perception of messiness in the way the Labour-Green MOU operates.
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Date published: 9:59 am, May 28th, 2017 - 3 comments
Last Sunday I recycled an old book review. Here’s another one from the vaults, “Eaarth”, by Bill McKibben (of 350.org). It doesn’t pull any punches.
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Date published: 7:19 am, May 28th, 2017 - 141 comments
How nice of the government to help out property investors.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 28th, 2017 - 55 comments
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Date published: 11:44 am, May 27th, 2017 - 26 comments
Full speech given by Jeremy Corbyn yesterday.
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Date published: 10:32 am, May 27th, 2017 - 14 comments
Each in its own way a masterpiece character study.
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Date published: 9:07 am, May 27th, 2017 - 19 comments
Rohan Lord this week pulled out from being a Labour candidate because he thought his prospects of being elected were remote because he was a white middle class male. His comments displayed a complete lack of understanding of how the Labour Party works and ignores the fact that having a truly representative caucus is a virtue.
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Date published: 8:13 am, May 27th, 2017 - 74 comments
The cigarette crime spree is a real problem for National. Their “law and order” credentials are in tatters.
Ban cigarettes, find a way to compensate dairy owners for a transitional period.
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Date published: 7:05 am, May 27th, 2017 - 31 comments
Campbell: “As I asked Joyce at the Budget lockup: ‘What is to stop landlords from treating this increase as a green light to hike up rents?’ … In reply, Joyce said that the government would be ‘keeping an eye’ on landlords, to ensure they did not abuse the situation.”
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 27th, 2017 - 31 comments
Drilling for oil we shouldn’t use, in a place that should remain untouched. Is this really what NZ wants?
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Date published: 6:47 am, May 27th, 2017 - 61 comments
The chronically erratic Roy Morgan poll is out again, with Nat vs Lab/Green in a dead heat.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 27th, 2017 - 101 comments
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Date published: 5:33 pm, May 26th, 2017 - 32 comments
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Date published: 3:01 pm, May 26th, 2017 - 8 comments
I/S at No Right Turn writes: “The Court has ruled that the High Court was right to declare that National’s 2010 prisoner voting restrictions (the ones which were so shabby and shoddily passed that they brought Parliament into disrepute) were inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act“
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Date published: 12:21 pm, May 26th, 2017 - 133 comments
How (According to The Guardian) a neo-nazi turned Islamist flipped terror narratives upside down.
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Date published: 10:03 am, May 26th, 2017 - 72 comments
James Shaw on National as the masters of the shell game.
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Date published: 7:02 am, May 26th, 2017 - 72 comments
It was National’s best budget. Which means there are only three critical areas of failure.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 26th, 2017 - 60 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 25th, 2017 - 16 comments
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Date published: 3:12 pm, May 25th, 2017 - 129 comments
Andrew Little calls it the ‘The One Dollar Bill Budget’, a $1 tax cut for cleaner on minimum wage.
As usual it is the already well off who do the best out of National’s election year tax cut bribe.
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Date published: 8:31 am, May 25th, 2017 - 25 comments
From pre announced budget initiatives it is clear that today’s budget will provide National the opportunity to announce watered down insipid versions of current Labour Party policies.
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Date published: 7:31 am, May 25th, 2017 - 23 comments
A useful piece from Keith Ng on myths about tax. It’s an extract from The PSA’s “Progressive Thinking: Ten Perspectives on Tax” booklet.
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Date published: 6:04 am, May 25th, 2017 - 20 comments
Budget Day.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 25th, 2017 - 57 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 24th, 2017 - 39 comments
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