Sharples: ‘ETS short-sighted, that’s why we supported it’
I could hardly believe my ears when I heard Waatea News on RNZ this morning. Pita Sharples admitted that the Maori Party knew […]
US Style Cow Stalls – what aspiration!
In a year when New Zealand factory farming practices for pigs (and earlier for chickens) have been widely exposed and shocked the country, […]
Getting it right
Colin Espiner has a piece in the Dom Post today attributing Labour’s four point rise in the polls to Goff’s ‘Nationhood’ speech. He […]
Govt stimulus creates 2300 jobs
“Govt stimulus creates 2300 jobs” reads the headline! It’s a bit misleading though. A more accurate headline would have been – “Labour Govt […]
Why deny: the lobby groups/polluters
This is the first in a three part series on the climate change denial industry. I’m trying to understand why there is such […]
Open mike 14/12/2009
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Fomenting happy mischief. Indeed!
David has a new innovation at the sewer. The old comment voting system has been enhanced to, amongst other things, hide comments when […]
Deserted cities
I think it is a pity that the currently dominant country / culture in the world, America, has had such a short history. […]
Open mike 13/12/2009
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Levin Arrest and Police Escort
This is a guest post by Jasmine because I couldn’t be bothered writing it myself đ Today Rochelle and I were hanging out […]
Dual obligations
The more I ponder the scrapping of the TVNZ charter the dafter it seems. There are obvious downsides. What is the upside? What […]
Open mike 12/12/2009
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Drinking Liberally – Auckland
The final Auckland Drinking Liberally takes place NEXT TUESDAY upstairs at THE KINGSLANDER and features political commentator/national campaigns director for Finsec/all round nice […]
Deniers are traitors
Strongly worded piece by Chris Trotter this morning: In the war for nature, the deniers are traitors … The question of why war, […]
Experts: Power reforms wasteful, expensive
Associate Professor Earl Bardsley, Waikato University: taking Tekapo A and B power stations from Meridian and giving them to Genesis means Meridian must […]
Against the atheist bus campaign
I’m sorry, but I just can’t see the point of this atheist bus campaign. New Zealand is one of the most secular countries […]
Key obstructs Copenhagen talks
Thanks to our dear Prime Minister John Key, New Zealand is being branded an international ‘fossil’ on climate change. Stuff.co.nz reports Prime Minister […]
Just asking
It has been treated as gospel that if the Australians, for inadequately explained reasons, drop their corporate tax rate from 30% to 25%, […]
ACC levy hikes another step to privatisation
As expected, Nick Smith has imposed substantial ACC levy hikes on families. For a worker on $40,000 with a car, you’re looking at […]
Call of the week
Fitzsimons: If Barack Obama comes to Copenhagen saying ‘yes we can do much more’ will the Prime Minister say ‘no we can’t, but […]
Open mike 11/12/2009
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$100,000 for 10 hours work
No, this post isn’t about the 2025 Taskforce, it’s about Rodney Hide’s round the world holiday with his girlfriend on your dime. Heavily […]
New Kiwi blog
Sean Makes Crafts. A new blog by Morning Report host Sean Plunket, who writes about his passion for crafts. As some of you […]
Govt spending – the big lie
I’m kind of embarrassed. I should know by now never to trust a word out of Bill English’s mouth. I should have checked […]
Kill your television
So the Nats have decided to kill public service television broadcasting: TVNZ’s charter is to be repealed in a move commentators say will […]
There is power in a union
About a month ago I used the Stats NZ Labour Cost Index to come up with the approximate distribution of payrises for unionised […]
Easter trading defeated (again)
A victory for New Zealand’s 270,000 retail workers and their families last night, with Parliament voting 62-59 to reject National MP Todd McClay’s […]
Goff attacks govt on wages
Check out Phil Goff’s general debate speech yesterday on In The House, a handy new site paid for by the Office of the […]
Brownlee destroys a free market choice. Shut Whirinaki to get it back.
From the Meridian Energy web site. Meridian Energy Limited has confirmed it has suspended offering new Renewable Energy Notes under the investment statement […]
This is climate change
Climate change has melted the sea ice where polar bears catch seals. Starving, they are turning to cannibalism. Here a male bear takes the remains […]
What is Whanau Ora?
Family Commissioner Jan Pryor says she can’t give a definition of Whanau Ora, Tariana Turia’s pet programme that Pryor’s Commission will be helping […]
Open mike 10/12/2009
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No spark in Nats’ power reforms
A friend just texted: “Brownlee’s power reforms look relatively benign, what’s the catch?” It’s true, Brownlee’s reforms are just minor tinkering. The only […]
Driven to corruption
It turns out I understated the latest National ministers’ rort. Not only were the rules changed to allow ministers to have their taxpayer-funded self-drive […]
Shame on Labour for backing Goff
By Andrew Campbell Shame on the Labour caucus. If it’s true that they back Phil Goff’s Nationhood speech without reservations and therefore his […]
Yes he can
In America the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just ruled that greenhouse gases “threaten the public health and welfare of the American people”, […]