Political interference at APN
Last night we published a tip-off saying the New Zealand Herald planned to report that its APN stable-mate the Bay Report would be […]
First planes, now trains
It is looking more likely that the Government will buy back New Zealand’s rolling rail stock from Australian-based Toll. Toll has been a […]
Goat-on Copeland
Poor old Gordon Copeland. Yesterday he had one of his few questions in the House. And he had a big issue to talk […]
Hone Te NÄkahi
The Maori Party has reacted angrily to Key’s unilateral decision that National would abolish the Maori seats some time around 2014. Newsroom reports […]
Slippery John: trainwreck on Morning Report
Bill English must just be sitting there in his office cringing as he listens to interviews like these. Sean Plunket spoke to Slippery […]
Key unspun
John Key is clearly missing Kevin Taylor, his chief spin doctor. When Taylor is around, Key is ‘Mr Teflon’ but, with Taylor on […]
Some questions
Today in Parliament Bill English made a very interesting comment which, if true, raises some very concerning questions about either his own honesty […]
Hitting a nerve
In this afternoon’s debate Gerry Brownlee tried to have the word “slippery” ruled unparliamentary in relation to John Key. Proof, if any were […]
Key abandons Treaty settlement deadline
Further to Dancer’s post below, this morning on Breakfast John Key claimed that National never had a deadline for settling Treaty claims and […]
No deadline on Treaty claims – National
Mr Key announced new National policy this morning. After a morning TV interview National now have no date to settle historic Treaty Claims: […]
Free Osanloo
The International Transport Workers’ Federation is holding an international day of action tomorrow calling for the release of Mansour Osanloo, an Iranian trade […]
Playing politics
From John Key’s State of the Nation speech in January: The Youth Court currently has the power to place young offenders in youth […]
Those were the days (all 20 of them)
When I wrote to the MPs asking them for their thoughts on John Key’s “we would love to see wages drop” quote (results […]
Deja vu
Looks like slipperiness runs in the National Party family…
Key caught out
The government’s move to strengthen the Overseas Investment Act on Monday was met with predictable criticism from the ‘markets first, people second’ brigade. […]
Did Key try to get ‘wage drop’ journalist sacked?
Michael Cullen made an interesting remark in the House today in response to a question on John Key’s statement that he “would love […]
National: is there anything they won’t privatise?
Burqa Bob wants to buy heartland rugby. In other news, Bill English plans to sell our sunshine hours to a Finnish consortium and […]
Foreigners think NZ is great, why doesn’t National?
One of National’s strategies is to constantly talk down New Zealand, arguing that other countries have it better, that to catch up we […]
The Maori party and a deal with National
We’ve all seen the polls with National leaping out in front – and over that magical 50% mark. Helen Clark may be saying […]
Key backs the underdog
The latest Newsroom story [subscription only] about the Government’s move to protect Auckland International Airport from sale to the Canadian Pension Fund reports […]
Protecting New Zealand’s assets
The government has made a series of moves to prevent strategic New Zealand assets being exploited by foreign companies. Last week tax law […]
A plea to the Greens
The Greens vex me. Here is a party of grand vision and good science; a party that understands how our current mode of […]
Mao Zedong features as preferred PM
As Helen Clark and John Key continue to jockey for top spot as preferred PM, Mao Zedong has made his first appearance in […]
Herald-Digipoll
The latest Herald-Digipoll shows National continuing its huge lead over Labour. It’s a rather strange looking Parliament, with the Greens dropping below the […]
Maori play it smart
The Marae-Digipoll has the political commentators all excited over what has been accepted fact in the blogosphere for some time: the Maori party […]
They’ve got 18 better than him?
National MP for Northland, John Carter, is ‘up in arms about a decision allowing inmates from Ngawha Prison to play in the Whangarei […]
Behind National’s emigration wailing
National likes to talk down New Zealand, to portray this great country as underperforming, to exaggerate our problems, and to cast our unique […]
Winston tears Paul Henry a new one
I’m as sick of the Owen Glenn saga as the next guy, but Winston Peters’ tussle with failed National Party candidate and Close […]
Talleys in trouble again
NZPA reports that Hollow Men the Talley brothers have been fined $110,000 after eleven workers at their Blenheim plant were subjected to carbon […]
How would Key make wages drop?
Having read our coverage of John Key’s ‘we would love to see wages drop‘ line my brother asked ‘but how can a government […]
For the record
Like most of his policy positions John Key’s story on his comment “we would love to see wages drop” just keeps on changing. […]
Cutting out the middle man
The Herald reports that after questioning by the media, ‘Prime Minister Helen Clark says her criticisms of the New Zealand Herald bear no […]
What’s the future of Working for Families?
One consquence of the expectations around tax cuts is an examination of some of the policies already have in place – Working for […]
Joining the (blue) dots
Perhaps you’ve heard about the Blue Chip blues? The company is in the news again today, and not just for allegedly breaking a […]
someoneorotherisyournewbicycle.com
I bookmarked barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com last week but forgot to post on it in amongst the (not over yet) story of John Key’s admission that: […]