What have the unions ever done for us?
(Hat tip: Robert Owen – via comments)
Union bogey blunder backfires
Liberal Party advertising in the Australian election looks desperate, and judging by the polls is ineffective. Witness this effort, using the old demon-union-official […]
Debate allegedly turns physical
The Press reports that Trevor Mallard allegedly slapped or hit Tau Henare after the National MP made references to Mallard’s personal life in […]
Up-Skilling Skilling
The NZ Institute needs to look a bit more closely before leaping into print. The strangest thing about its exhortation that NZ should […]
Elephants ‘do a Blumsky’
The Guardian reports that “Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India’s remote north-east”. No […]
National’s challenge
With the British conservatives looking strong (and Labour embarassed by the costs of an election that never was) and the fresh new blood […]
Outage
Some server issues outside our control caused a bit of an outage this afternoon. We’re up and running again now though, as you […]
Lights out San Francisco
Lights Out San Francisco is a citywide energy conservation event next scheduled for March 29, 2008. On this night, they invite the entire […]
NZ Institute turns up the heat
The New Zealand Institute has come out imploring us to be a “fast follower” rather than a leader in the race to reduce […]
Mashup
We love remixes (well all except those German house ones of classic 80’s pop). Imagine our delight when we found this in out […]
YouTube campaigning
Mark Torley filed this piece on “YouTube campaigning” for One News last night.
FreeRice
FreeRice is a vocabulary game. For each word you correctly identify, they’ll donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help […]
New hybrid Crown limos announced
In an effort to play an even larger part in the fight against global warming the New Zealand government today announced the purchase […]
Blind ideology
Tempting to leave this one to Kiwiblogblog but perhaps they need a break… DPF writes this morning: As I have said many times, […]
Political pants
The website Twisted Twee is selling these babies nappies. The site warns “price fluctuates weekly depending on my swinging political opinion. This week […]
More lies from National and their Brethren
Last year Gerry Brownlee told TVNZ that there was “no formal connection” between National and the Brethren. Last week John Key told a […]
Social report
The Ministry of Social Development’s Annual Social Report is worth a read. It shows good progress across a range of social indicators, but […]
Protests
The Herald reports that “As many as a thousand people joined a march in Whakatane to complain about children being caught up in […]
Sweden catches the Key desease
I know there is occasionally talk in New Zealand about “becoming the Sweden of the South Pacific” but this may just have us […]
National: it’s not worth the pay cut
The National Party are clearly worried. They’ve done pretty well so far with the populist rallying cry of tax cuts, but they always […]
Creative Commons: Wanna work together?
Relief?
Look Mike, I know you know about the polls and I know you’re probably thinking about what you can do to turn things […]
Hager’s response to Key
I’ve just listened to the audio and it doesn’t sound like Nicky Hager’s too happy with Key’s claims made on RDU last week. […]
Unions to encourage election participation
The Herald reports that new CTU president Helen Kelly envisages a more centralised union election campaign, “getting members to talk about politics and […]
Defining political conservatism
A month or so ago we posted on a study that appeared to show that the brains of conservative and liberals differed. A […]
Key’s flip-flops for sale on TradeMe
The entry reads: These won’t be comfortable to wear or even be long-lasting but they do come with an interesting provenance. They are […]
First woman CTU president
Congratulations to Helen Kelly, the first woman to lead the Council of Trade Unions. Helen replaces Ross Wilson, who’s been CTU President since […]
Not my family, bro
Radio Live reports that Richard Lewis and his Destiny Party have decided to form a new Christian party, this time without Gordon Copeland. […]
Trotter in the Independent
Apologies to The Independent Financial Review and to Chris Trotter for this rather large cut and paste from the second half of his […]
Can you save the rabbit?
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Anne Enright wins Booker Prize
Well I must admit to having been excited about the prospect of congratulating Lloyd Jones on winning the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. […]
Cash in envelopes and the Brethren in politics
A fascinating piece from the ABC programme Four Corners details exactly how the Brethren funded ads in support of the Liberals in Australia. […]
Aussie workers worse off under Howard
A new report (PDF) by the University of Sydney shows Aussie workers are doing markedly worse under a Howard government. His desperate bid […]
Nat censorship
In light of National’s recent censorship demands regarding the photo of John Key on our petition (see below), an inquisitive reader has asked […]
Levin: hotbed of Tory militancy?
Just had this sent through to me by a Levin reader. The reference to the Federation of Labour and getting the army in […]
Go the reds!
Stuff reported yesterday that the New Zealand Kiwi Foundation is warning that “New Zealand’s national icon, the kiwi, could face extinction within the […]