School support staff fighting for a fair deal
Cut public spending then we can have tax cuts! It’s such a nice, appealing slogan when you say it fast without engaging the […]
Fringe candidates: The spammer from the city of hot-air.
Ok I give up, the craziest Mt Albert candidate isn’t John Boscawen urging National to declare support for an above-ground motorway in Waterview. […]
How Hyde is wasting my taxes on an uncosted project
It appears that the propaganda campaign from Rodney Hide to push his proposal of the super-city has cost $533,000 in PR costs in […]
The challenges for the Mt Albert candidates
Bit of a group effort this one. John Boscawen MP – Boscawen is mad as a hatter and pretty damn ignorant. So he […]
New Kiwi blog
Zealgirl, a blog from a Zeal flight attendant involved in the current industrial dispute at Air New Zealand. [Hat tip: The Hand Mirror]
Not my Leaders
Hide and Banks do not strike me as the kind of men you feel safe about having too much power. They never have […]
Herald cracks down on free speech
Sick of the Herald? Try Editing the Herald instead. With intelligence and wit, James lays out the daily journalistic disgraces of our beloved […]
See no evil
The Fire at Will law has been in place for two months. It’s still very early days but how is it going? Are workers […]
Lobby group wants motorways to drive over locals
Owen McShane’s lobby group the Centre for Resource Management Studies has a set of questions up about the Waterview Tunnel option of SH20. […]
Key decked over supercity
A much better performance from Goff today in the House today. Finally, after weeks of fluffing, he managed to score a direct hit […]
Courage under fire
Last week Russel Norman, Wellington resident and Green candidate for Mt Albert, publicly labelled Aucklander David Shearer, Labour’s candidate, as “a grey machine […]
TVNZ upholds Paul Henry complaint
I see TVNZ has upheld the complaint against Paul Henry over his disgraceful abuse of a guest on his show. TVNZ spokeswoman Megan […]
Public want banks pulled into line
Last week I posted on Finsec’s petition to make job protection a condition of the Government’s bank guarantees. Today Finsec are delivering that […]
Backlash building on supercity
The unseemly haste with which the National/Act Government is pursuing its undemocratic supercity is causing more and more people to wake up to […]
National carrier? National disgrace more like
It’s a few days late but last Saturday’s Herald story about Air New Zealand preparing strikebreakers for the Zeal 320 strike this weekend […]
Suspending the Cullen Fund
Bill English seems set to suspend the government’s contributions to the Cullen Fund. Here’s a little-known fact, one that Bill English probably doesn’t […]
Oh dear.
A while back we heard a rumour that National had already printed its billboards for the Mt Albert campaign – with Melissa Lee […]
Retrograde NZ
I had the pleasure of meeting lauded climate activist and author Bill McKibben this morning. McKibben is in New Zealand as part of […]
Greens go grey
I see Russel Norman is now describing Labour’s Mt Albert Candidate, David Shearer, as the “grey” man. Now I haven’t been around as […]
Quarterly Employment Survey
The Quarterly Employment Survey out today shows that 46,700 jobs disappeared between December and March. That’s 2.6% of jobs gone in a single […]
Progressive?
It was deeply depressing to wake up this morning to the sound of Russel Norman running National Party attack lines on Radio NZ. […]
The super-con
Rodney Hide would have us believe that a supercity is the way of the future. He says “Auckland cannot become a world-class city […]
Coincidence?
Here’s the cover of Ian Wishart’s latest piece of scientifically illiterate climate change denialism, Air Con: And here’s the poster for World Fair Trade […]
Mt Albert candidate selected
David Shearer has been selected as the candidate for Labour. Congratulations to all of the candidates [updated: The vodem was a bit slow. […]
Book review of the insane
Robinsod is no longer here to do the book reviews of Wishart‘s latest insights into the world of the paranoid. As he said […]
The interesting selection
The National selection in Mount Albert will be going down to the wire with the inevitable split between the locals and the regional/national […]
The republic can wait
No Right Turn highlights Thursday’s Herald editorial calling for our political leaders to step up and take some leadership in the republic debate. […]
Say goodbye to Nanny State
Stepfather State’s taken over. Our new parent likes to keep his distance…he usually comes home after work at the office…but only for a […]
One of these things is not like the other IV
One of these things is not like the other… One of these things is not quite the same. Can you guess which one […]
Herald preaches class warfare
If you’d told me the Herald would use International Workers’ Day as an opportunity to preach class warfare I wouldn’t have believed you. […]
The RTF tries another RUC rort
Tony Friedlander of the trucking lobby and architect of the famous ‘truck strike’ (remember that? man that was weird when you think about […]
Politicising the public service
During the last Labour government the Kiwiblog Right used to call Wellington ‘Helengrad’, a play on Leningrad. Ironic then that, after the election […]
International Workers’ Day
If you’re in Auckland tonight get along for the annual May Day march up Queen Street. Poster below. More events, including for other […]
The real hustle
National introduced legislation yesterday that will create a 10% bonus for voluntary repayments of student loans. Repay $1,000 above your compulsory repayments, get […]
Farewell Michael
Well the other shoe has dropped, and Michael Cullen has now left parliament. His valedictory speech is classic Cullen – best line (re […]
