Why no punishment for Westpac?
You would have seen that Westpac was found to have undertaken the largest theft of tax money in New Zealand history. From 1998 […]
Open mike 13/10/09
We’re trying a daily “Open mike”. This is a place for anyone to post comments on topics that might be of interest, and […]
Lee admits she stole taxpayer money
Just two hours after TV3 revealed that Melissa Lee had stolen $100,000 from NZ on Air, Lee announced she will pay the money […]
A quick question
Do any health insurance companies fully fund long-term claims in the way ACC is being asked to?
Lee’s fingers in the till covered up by Coleman
A leak has revealed that Melissa Lee is under investigation for pilfering taxpayers’ money. Before the Mt Albert by-election she was cleared of a […]
Electoral SM
Philip Temple makes some good points in the Herald today: The Minister of Justice, Simon Power, indicated that he would soon present a […]
Nick pulls a Bill
Nick Smith has taken a leaf out of the Double Dipton school of politics, calling journalists and swearing at them when the coverage […]
Paula, honestly, put away the champagne
So, in the week to October 2, 1950 people signed up to the dole and 2040 went off it. Time to celebrate according […]
ARC threatens to terminate NZ Bus contract
ARC chairman Mike Lee has delivered a blunt ultimatum to NZ Bus as its lockout of drivers reaches day five. “We have had […]
Nats find no government waste
I missed this one a few weeks ago but it’s worth pointing out. National spent $300,000 hiring half a dozen supposed business geniuses […]
First, manufacture a crisis…
The first thing you need to understand is ACC is not spending more money than it is taking in through levies. It is […]
War on P
Did John Key pick up a pair of cowboy boots on his latest trip? Because he’s come back talking like some kind of […]
Open mike 12/10/09
We’re trying a daily “Open mike”. This is a place for anyone to post comments on topics that might be of interest, and […]
Money and justice
Jenny Ruth has the best comment I’ve seen on Philip Field’s sentence in today’s Sunday Star-Times – not available on the paper’s website […]
Some advice for the Greens
The Greens are continuing their idiotic policy of “neither left nor right” today with a calculated smear of Sue Bradford in the Sunday […]
Open mike 11/10/09
We’re trying a daily “Open mike”. This is a place for anyone to post comments on topics that might be of interest, and […]
Dead peasant insurance
In case you needed reminding how completely deviod of morals and ethics unbridled capitalism is, meet dead peasant insurance. Here’s Mark Ames of […]
“Blow out” more like Blowup
Readers of a certain age will remember an Antonioni film called Blowup. The title conceit involves a photographer who finds what appears to […]
Give peace a chance
So President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace prize: OSLO – President Barack Obama on Friday won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize […]
Open mike 10/10/09
We’re trying a daily “Open mike”. This is a place for anyone to post comments on topics that might be of interest, and […]
The blue greenwash
Mike Britton, the general manager of the Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society, writes today in the Dom about the gap that appears […]
Blast from the past
I see Winston Peters is trying to resurrect his political career with another racist rant about immigration. I don’t think there’s much point […]
Too late 3
I know I’m banging on about it this week, but it’s rather an important topic! This clip from Wake Up Freak Out is […]
Trans-Tasman picks Power
Some of you will get the Trans-Tasman emailed to your work each Thursday. For those of you who don’t know it, it’s a little rag […]
Shame on you, TVNZ
I’ve just seen in the Herald that TVNZ has been using one of their TV ‘psychics’ in the Aisling Symes case. It’s bad […]
The bizarre world of sensible sentencing
Stabbing a kid to death is OK because it’s: “expressing frustration over [tagging]” Taking away people’s access to the most effective ‘flu and cold […]
30 years without smacking
Sweden has had a smacking ban for 30 years. How is that working out? Stockholm When celebrating the 30th anniversary of the world’s […]
Open mike 09/10/09
We’re trying a daily “Open mike”. This is a place for anyone to post comments on topics that might be of interest, […]
The Bridgeman Concrete lockout ends successfully
The Bridgeman Concrete workers locked out for nine days hardened their picket last week. Two concrete trucks couldn’t leave the depo, costing the company $3,000 […]
Photos from the Auckland bus driver lockout
Some photos from the Auckland bus driver lockout. The drivers showed up to the depots today to demonstrate they were willing to work, […]
Nanny State
Under new laws proposed by John Key we’re going to need a prescription to get any cold medicine with pseudoephedrine in it. Anyone […]
Labour needs to get beside the workers
You know, if you look back to all the elections since 1957, there’s only three you would say the Left lost outright – […]
Anniversary-gate?
The Standard would like to wish Mrs Mavis Lawson many happy returns on her 100th birthday yesterday. We also had a chuckle when […]
Infratil / NZ Bus striking for more profits
Well the intransigent owners and managers of Infratil / NZ Bus finally went on strike this morning in their quest for higher profits. […]
Time to wake up from the neolib nightmare
Back in the 1980s, some people who had read too much Milton Friedman and had drunk too much whiskey at Backbone Club meetings, […]
Too late 2
From Inter Press: Climate Change: Food Supply Hangs in the Balance Uxbridge, Canada – Rocketing food prices and hundreds of millions more starving […]