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Ministry advised against concurrent referendum/election
In line with Ministry of Justice advice, the Government has decided not to hold the child discipline referendum at the same time as […]
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How to harm your brand
Kiwibank, New Zealand’s supreme award winning Sunday Star-Times/CANNEX best value bank for the third year in row, the Socialist Bank of Jim Anderton, the one doomed […]
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Not funny
Kiwiblog now has a cartoonist and it’s simply disgusting stuff. I’m not going to post the cartoon because I don’t want the image […]
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On the perils of polls
We’re used to hearing that a poll has a margin of error but what does it mean? A margin of error of 3% […]
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Down the club
National party activist and spokesperson David Farrar has surpassed himself this time with a post attacking Helen Clark for not having children that […]
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The Ministry of National Affairs
Here’s a good ten minutes from the middle of Winston’s post budget address yesterday. The highlight is around four minutes in, on National’s burgeoning bureaucracy: Did […]
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Media policy
As The Standard has grown, we’ve started to receive inquires from the media and requests for a comment or interview. We’ve been a […]
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Child beating petition falls short
Family First’s petition for a referendum on reversing the amendment to s59 of the Crimes Act that removed the defence of reasonable force […]
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Mistakes, I’ve made a few
David Farrar’s three more prominent weaknesses came together in a speculator PR disaster yesterday. The weaknesses are his ego, his trick of using […]
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Bad politics
National’s current attempt to stop the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union from registering as a third party pretty much proves what we all […]
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Fair and balanced
The Herald could barely contain its self-satisfaction when National’s David Farrar complained to the Electoral Commission that the country’s largest private sector union, […]
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Davey gets it wrong again
David Farrar’s latest political campaign on behalf of the National Party has, like so many of them before, foundered on the sharp rocks […]
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Scum
Cameron Slater’s co-blogger Steady Eddy is back to his creepy brownshirt tricks again and this time his target is Labour Party candidate Kate […]
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Lies, damned lies, and statistics
David Farrar appears to be throwing his weight in behind National Party’s “New Zealand Sucks” campaign with another misleading post on migration to […]
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John Ansell’s reverse Midas touch
Oh dear. It started with Roger Douglas and now political ad-man John Ansell has got on board the ACT train to electoral oblivion […]
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Ralston’s hyprocrisy hyperbole
In an article on the economy that would have had my high-school economics teacher in fits, Bill Ralston says that it is hypocritical […]
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Free Speech Coalition TV spot
A trusted source tells us that following their most recent failed EFA protest, Cameron Slater (Whaleoil) and National Party blogger David Farrar might […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Peas in a pod: Family Fist, National, DPF
National Party blogger David Farrar points to a criticism of the repeal of s59 by Sacha Coburn (“a Christchurch businesswoman, lawyer and mother”): […]
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Filth
It looks like the nasty little insecure creeps who inhabit the Kiwiblog Right are creeping into the mainstream. I mean, take a look […]
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Bursting the bauble
While the David Farrars and Fran O’Sullivans of this world have been trying to create a storm over Owen Glenn’s recent comments, real […]
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Labour with its claws out
The Press has a good article on the political blogs. The Standard and our mates Kiwiblogblog are referred to as “Labour with its […]
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Owen Glenn
John Armstrong’s opinion is that: It is inconceivable that Helen Clark would have blithely offered a wealthy donor to Labour Party coffers a […]
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Coming unstuck
Only days after trying to eat a plate, in yet another freak (can I call him that?) accident, National Party blogger David Farrar […]
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PM announces plan to tackle graffiti
Helen Clark has just announced a range of measures aimed at cutting down on graffiti vandalism. Presumably the initiative will be supported by […]
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National seeks to stop free speech
Vernon Small reports today that National party blogger David Farrar has taken out a complaint against the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union’s registration […]
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Curia-ser and Curia-ser
You’ll probably know about the rumour around the traps that blogger David Farrar is running his polling company Curia out of National Party […]
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Push polling
Tony Milne responds to National Party blogger, David Farrar’s recent post on push polling. Tony points out that any push polling undertaken during […]
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SST: Nats call in secret donations
The Sunday Star Times reported yesterday that “The National Party pulled in 11th-hour funding from its secret trusts and anonymous donors in a […]
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DPF takes the moral highground
As you will know National Party Blogger David Farrar gave us a wee razzing for publishing an out of date list of Bob […]
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Apologies for Burqa Bob
It would appear David Farrar is deeply concerned about the amount of traffic his mate Bill has been drumming up for The Standard […]
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An emerging threat to MMP?
After Brash and the extreme right were exposed in The Hollow Men the Nats changed their leader hoping for a fresh start. What’s […]
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Same old faces, same old tactics
Well it looks like Free Speech Coalition founder Cameron Slater has taken a break from stalking John Minto and photoshopping underage bloggers’ faces […]
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Interesting times…
It seems the cats at newzblog have decided to bring our old mate Robinsod on board as a blogger and his first shot […]
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What’s National cooking up for 2008?
Well, I saw my first Farrar billboard in the real two days ago and I gotta tell you I laughed. I was with […]
