Open mike 20/09/2015
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The Nation: On Paddy Gower being impatient
The Nation has been putting highlights up on Youtube. The one that caught my attention was Paddy Gower not listening, and redefining his question partway through. Eventually Andrew Little had to force the ever interrupting Paddy Gower to stop and listen to the answer.
Bugger the Truth – Getting elected means fooling the poeple
So, its is not that the voters are idiots, as some suggest the Left are claiming, it is that the Right deliberately lie and mislead to get a vote, on false pretenses. It is the Right who constantly treats voters as gullible idiots, And a media, strangled by shrinking budgets and reduced personnel with less and less time to research rather than regurgitate. Couple that with an increase in non-journalists hogging the space set aside for reporting and elucidating news events… what chance the voter?
Cameron Slater – still technically (and legally) incompetent
Loaded with paper and irrelevant arguments, Cameron Slater managed to add 7 counts of contempt of court to his every growing sheet of convictions. It is a pity that he doesn’t put that level of effort into the technical job of policing his site. I look at 6 of those convictions.
Economic doldrums
Two pieces this week on how National’s mismanagement of the economy has left us in the doldrums.
The Roy Morgan roundabout
The “Roy Morgan roundabout” poll has swung round to the left again, with National at 44.5% (down 6), Labour 31% (up 4) and Greens 15% (up 4).
Open mike 19/09/2015
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Daily Review 18/09/2015
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More Herald journalists sacked
Very bad news for all those losing their jobs, commiserations to you. It’s a pretty heartless economy out there, and pretty soon there won’t be anyone left to comment on it. Consumers of celebrity gossip will still have it good though, so I guess that’s something.
Weekend social 18/09/2015
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WMBAD: The TPP
The White Man Behind a Desk takes on the TPP.
Herald gets it wrong on flag referendum
The Herald editorial this morning suggests that Andrew Little is handling the flag referendum poorly but makes some stunningly simple mistakes that undermines its conclusions.
Refugees Welcome celebration Aotea Square this Saturday
For all progressives in Auckland Tamaki Makaurau this Saturday the left is running a fundraiser for the Auckland Refugee Council.
Nat insider condemns flag jack-up
Grant McLachlan (a former Parliamentary researcher and a Nat campaign director) calls National’s flag process “a jack up”, and says “Everything the National Party has done around the flag debate is dodgy”.
Open mike 18/09/2015
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Daily Review 17/09/2015
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Sale of Lochinver Station declined
The government has overruled the Overseas Investment Office and turned down a bid to buy Lochinver Station. It’s the first time a bid for a significant landholding has been rejected since 2012.
Tsunami warning
Tsunami warning for the East Cape, Chatham Islands, Coromandel and Banks Peninsula after #chile quake. http://rnz.to/1UVX5BY
The strip mining of Housing Corp is accelerated
Not only is Housing Corp planning to pay a $118 million dividend to the Crown this year but hidden away in its accounts is the payment of a further capital contribution of $336 million. Talk about strip mining …
Paid parental leave bill progresses – towards veto
Last night in Parliament Labour MP Sue Moroney’s bill extending paid parental leave to 26 weeks passed its first reading by one vote, with only National and ACT opposed.
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 on the WINZ underpayment fiasco.
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.
Good question
This Government’s priorities
In recent news it has been stated that the Government has let Serco off fines totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars while at the same time it is sneaking through retrospective changes to the law to deny thousands of beneficiaries money they are otherwise entitled to.
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
UPDATE You can read the non gender specific Bill here
Hot hotter hottest
Plenty of distractions in the political circus at the moment, but meanwhile…
The Attack
And they’re off!
All the left wants is a clean contest of ideas
Josie Pagani yesterday chose as a left wing commentator to condemn Jeremy Corbyn’s politics as being based on narcissism where hard decisions never need to be made, and the unpopularity of a policy was evidence not of its failure but of its virtue. She should have analysed his history before making these claims. And in the interests of balance the media really needs to choose left wing commentators who will proudly stand up and support progressive ideals rather than repeat right wing attack lines.
Open mike 15/09/2015
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Daily Review 14/09/2015
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Breaking: Abbott leadership challenge
Seems to be a leadership challenge against Abbott in Australia, a conference at 6pm our time…
Update: Abbott is gone, Turnbull won 54-44.
Making Like Private Frazer
Political awakenings.