Open mike 14/07/2016
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Daily Review 13/07/2016
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Panama Papers – Nat U-turn complete
Having ignored the IRD and other advice, having insulted calls for transparency as “barking mad”, today the Nats’ U-turn on disclosure for foreign trusts is complete.
Corbyn is in
With a rush of sanity to the head, the UK Labour Party has ruled that Jeremy Corbyn is automatically on the leadership ballot, as a straightforward reading of the rules suggests.
Do you pray to take on crushing debt for the rest of your life?
Pathetic tinkering with loan limits does nothing realistic for first home buyers, but it does add more fuel to the debt fire. We need to actually build some affordable houses. If only there was a party that would do that…
We truly are being run by a bunch of clowns
National is flailing around attempting to divert attention from its failure to do anything meaningful about the homeless crisis.
Open mike 13/07/2016
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Daily Review 12/07/2016
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Borrows charged for injuring protestors
Nat MP Chester Borrows has been charged over injuring two women with a car during a TPP protest.
Farewell Cameron – doo, doo, doo, doo!
Of some politicians it can be said that nothing in his career became him like the leaving it. We won’t even manage that for David Cameron.
Nats on HNZ dividend – Yes! No! Maybe!
That’s three positions in 2 days. Stay tuned to see what these headless chooks come up with tomorrow!
Open mike 12/07/2016
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Daily Review 11/07/2016
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Maori health and children not a priority
Essential reading, two pieces highlighting institutional racism today. Someone needs to ask the Maori Party how proud they are to be propping up this government.
What – you mean – the lefties were right?
Inequality, poverty, the rise of the working poor – people are pissed. Lefties have been saying it for a long time, but now Serious Market People can see it too.
A tale of two housing policies – Steven Joyce writing National’s on Twitter
In some kind of panic over Labour’s housing policy package, Steven Joyce was writing Nat policy on Twitter yesterday. The promise to forego 2 years of HNZ dividend appears to have been made up on the fly.
America
Open mike 11/07/2016
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Eagle vs Window Pane
So Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has been openly challenged.
Andrew Little’s speech: Backing the Kiwi dream of home ownership
Text from Andrew Little’s speech today given in New Lynn to announce Labour’s latest housing policy.
Be Like Dad, Keep Mum (in fear).
Temuera Morrison has made a powerful video for the Women’s Refuge annual appeal. He’s making a difference. You can do something the Key Government won’t do. You can make a difference. You can stop keeping mum about domestic violence and you can help fund your local refuge.
John Roughan on Labour’s birthday
In the Herald John Roughan has offered some very positive comments about the Labour Party and what it stands for.
Open mike 10/07/2016
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Labour announcement: Labour will require Housing Corporation to use dividends to build state houses
Andrew Little has announced at the Labour Party’s 100 year special conference that Labour in Government will require Housing Corporation to instead of paying dividends to instead build houses.
Open mike 09/07/2016
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Dallas
5 law enforcement officers shot dead in Dallas. The city’s worst day in 5 decades.
Daily Review 08/07/2016
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Reserve Bank gives Key the fingers on housing crisis
In The Herald Liam Dann asks – Did the Reserve Bank just give two fingers to the Prime Minister?. That would be a “yes”.
Judith Collins is losing a PR battle with a patched Gang Member*
*title borrowed from @shakingstick.
What I would like from the Labour Party Conference
Some thoughts on what this weekend’s centennial Labour Party conference might achieve.
Open mike 08/07/2016
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Helen Kelly; A Work of Art.
The NZ Portrait Gallery’s latest work is of unionist Helen Kelly. It’s great.
Daily Review 07/07/2016
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Helen Clark on Iraq
Thirteen years ago Helen Clark said despite intense pressure that the threshold for the use of force against Iraq had not been met. How right she was.
Jeremy Corbyn apologises for Blair and Bush’s Iraq War
Jeremy Corbyn’s full response to the Chilcot response. Corbyn says that the Iraq war “was an act of military aggression launched on a false pretext” and that he apologises for it on behalf of Labour, who was in Government at the time.
The Chilcot report
The Chilcot report is out and it’s more damning of the decision to invade Iraq than expected.