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Date published: 10:53 am, February 8th, 2016 - 11 comments
Welcome to a new political blog, Corner Politics – “a point at which significant change happens – by Lamia (@LI_politico).
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Date published: 6:22 am, February 8th, 2016 - 28 comments
Thanks to David Clark, to Grant Robertson, to Labour, and to those who supported the bill…
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 8th, 2016 - 154 comments
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Date published: 7:52 pm, February 7th, 2016 - 101 comments
The Talley’s owned meatworks in Rangiuru is threatening to discipline workers and sue their union if workers choose to observe the Waitangi Day holiday tomorrow. How’s that Brighter Future working out, people?
NOW UPDATED! Hear what Talleys have to say.
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Date published: 3:21 pm, February 7th, 2016 - 81 comments
Key went to the rugby on Saturday, but his grandstanding didn’t go as planned.
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Date published: 11:25 am, February 7th, 2016 - 24 comments
Snippets from recent pieces on the TPP, including The Spinoff’s José Barbosa an his take on the media coverage of the Auckland protest.
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Date published: 9:28 am, February 7th, 2016 - 11 comments
The Whitehead report into the circumstances surrounding the failed waiver of diplomatic immunity for the Malaysian attache charged with sexual assault charges has been released and blames the incident on an inadvertently worded email. But questions remain about why Murray McCully only took active steps after media broke the story and the effects his reorganisation of MFAT has had on its ability to do its job.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 7th, 2016 - 240 comments
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Date published: 10:03 pm, February 6th, 2016 - 69 comments
After Bernie Sanders’ dead-heat with Hillary Clinton in Iowa, the race to the Democrat nomination at the upcoming convention just got much more interesting. A Quinnipiac poll now has him trail her nationally by two points. Just as with Corbyn in Britain, the pundits are tying themselves in knots trying to make sense of it.
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Date published: 8:46 am, February 6th, 2016 - 54 comments
Boring stuff about boring old jobs and wages.
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Date published: 8:00 am, February 6th, 2016 - 108 comments
Advantage asks why is Waitangi Day not treated the same as Anzac day?
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 6th, 2016 - 246 comments
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Date published: 6:00 pm, February 5th, 2016 - 49 comments
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Date published: 2:34 pm, February 5th, 2016 - 50 comments
I went to the anti-Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) protests yesterday to take photos. When I arrived I was immediately struck by the level of Police surveillance. Police photographers were carefully and systematically taking photos of every activist. But this wasn’t what interested me the most. Two police officers were busy scribbling in notebooks throughout the day. […]
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Date published: 9:33 am, February 5th, 2016 - 111 comments
From the archives.
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Date published: 7:03 am, February 5th, 2016 - 230 comments
Despite the travesty inside SkyCity, what was happening outside was in many respects a democratic nation at its finest.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 5th, 2016 - 96 comments
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Date published: 6:00 pm, February 4th, 2016 - 51 comments
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Date published: 4:57 pm, February 4th, 2016 - 161 comments
The coward John Key will not now be going to Waitangi. He’s far too scared to find out directly how his sovereignty sell out has been received by Kiwis.
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Date published: 1:00 pm, February 4th, 2016 - 28 comments
John Palethorpe on the Return of Kings group and plans to oppose their misogynist view and celebrate by way of a peaceful counter protest.
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Date published: 8:10 am, February 4th, 2016 - 29 comments
When the UN is issuing warnings on the TPP, don’t you think it would be wise to listen?
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 4th, 2016 - 224 comments
Undated: The TPPA has now been signed, but not ratified, and not (hello NZ Herald!) “passed in to law”. There have been widespread protests throughout Auckland.
RNZ had live coverage with John Campbell.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 4th, 2016 - 39 comments
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Date published: 7:07 pm, February 3rd, 2016 - 146 comments
When a government prepares to surrender a share of its sovereignty, you would expect a compelling reason for doing so. No country would accept limits on its law-making power without an equal trade-off, surely? Well, no country except New Zealand. The TPPA places substantial limits on the government’s law-making powers while offering very little in return.
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Date published: 2:02 pm, February 3rd, 2016 - 41 comments
No Right Turn (with a side of Bernard Hickey) on today’s unemployment figures.
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Date published: 9:27 am, February 3rd, 2016 - 149 comments
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Date published: 7:04 am, February 3rd, 2016 - 78 comments
Key’s badly dented “political antennae” took another solid beating yesterday, with his second high-profile bungle involving a waitress.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 3rd, 2016 - 140 comments
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Date published: 9:28 pm, February 2nd, 2016 - 34 comments
Apart from being a symbolic fail of epic proportions, the “wrong colour flag” fiasco highlights the fact that the candidate flag isn’t even fit for purpose…
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Date published: 6:00 pm, February 2nd, 2016 - 18 comments
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