He did deliver a gloating victory speech on election day, after all.
Look at what happened to NZF came out of a coalition with National very scathed, United Future are effectively dead, the Maori Party are out of parliament and ACT is potentially dead in the water, having spent the last few election cycles as a puppet party...
Probably from the Fairfax article that identifies the agency this Scarlette woman got sacked from was called Strippers R Us, but the agency through which the Chiefs booked her was an entirely different one. '"It was not a job through me," Kirk said. "It ...
If you could kindly point out where the NZRU have done anything wrong on this issue, or what Steve Hasnsen said, when asked about it at a press conference mind you, that was wrong, then that'd be grand, thanks.
It's not his call to make anyway.
Did you actually read the articles on it? She worked for multiple agencies anyway, and the one that gave her the sack wasn't the one that arranged her for the Chiefs. She was fired because the agency that she worked for had a strict no-touching policy, ...
I know that due to the size of the sport here, rugby union is an easy target, but can you not paint them all with the same brush? The NZRPA and the NZRU are two distinct organisations, and the NZRPA is basically an advocacy group for players. There's no ...
It really does feel like a reverse of impact of Reagan and Thatcher on political rhetoric in the west. I hope it lasts.
Every female opposition MP with long enough hair should wear their hair in a ponytail in parliament this week. Edit: or every MP with long enough hair, period.
Maggie with neither the wit nor the charm. Exactly.
The sudden and conspicuous increase in mentions of Collins this weekend was certainly curious, to say the least. And then there was the Audrey Young story on Saturday. I wonder if there has been some talk going on between Collins and some sections of the ...
There are way too many holes in Rachinger's story to make it fully believable. He probably was fairly cosy with Slater, and he probably did talk to the police in the downlow, but due to the gaps, it makes me wonder what he might be omitting. If it means ...
It strikes me as having a lot of stuff omitted that could seriously implicate Rachinger as being a bigger player than he portrays himself as, assuming there is truth to his blog posts. I wouldn't be too surprised if Slater goes on to claim this is the case...
As far as we can tell, at least he hasn't, well you know... I don't know how to complete that sentence without getting myself and possibly others into trouble.
Shearer actually is correct though. Providing free food is only a band aid solution, and there needs to be a long-term or permanent fix that allows the affected communities to be able to become self-reliant rather than permanently dependent on others, and ...
The main responsibility should lie with Parata, TBH. While the deal with Talent2 was signed back in 08 by Trev (IIRC) and developed while Tolley was Minister, it was Parata that removed the safeguards that were there to minimise damage should the system be...
Plus, you now, Armstrong going mental over Cunliffe writing a "letter" that was apparently a resignation level offense. Holy double standards, Batman!
Fuck, man, the Springbok tour is the sort of thing that kids CURRENTLY in secondary schools would explain which side they would have been on had they been alive at the time. Hell, it's taught at the Y9 level at some schools. What's Key's excuse?
Here's the transcript of it, which seems accurate enough. Espiner asked Key a question to that effect, and Key basically gave a very incoherent answer to it. ESPINER: So this, this is just a way that dir, that politics is, now is it? This is dirty politics...
Guyon Espiner in the RNZ interview basically asked him why he won't ask Collins for the details. His voice went up a pitch and he made a very feeble attempt at blustering. To sum up, he "doesn't know the details" and there's no way in hell he's going to ...
Micky, you talk about Slater's freedom of speech, but let's not forget that freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequence. At the end of the day, when you've stepped on as many toes as Slater has, this sort of thing was going to be inevitable ...
Not only that, but there's also a very high likelihood that he'll lose the biggest weapon in his arsenal - his ability to appear not to be a typical politician. The fact that he's pretty much explicitly stated he is open to talks with NZF after such strong...
I see you still haven't really provided a compelling alternative reason as to why Dotcom would donate to John Banks beyond "shared political views and ideologies." "He donated to Banks because reasons" isn't really much of anything.
He's got Martyn Bradbury and Chris Trotter involved, yet donated a not insignificant amount of money to John Banks. I'll let you draw your own conclusions from that. Maybe he wasn't complicit in Banks' attempt at hiding the sources of his donation, but the...
I would find it odd, if I were in Dotcom's position at the time, that he's requesting the donation to be split into two. But then again, I've never had the finances to donate $50K to a right-wing douchebag politician like Banks so there's that. I'd also ...
To be honest, I suspect the party will struggle to even break 1 percent in the polls on voting day. Let us also not forget that it's being set up by a guy who donated to known ratbag John Banks' mayoral campaign in 2010, and went along with Banks' scheme ...
The coverage wasn't exactly the most flattering now, was it?
You're acting like they're actually listening to what Williams has said.
Have I missed something, or is everyone freaking out over something that someone who hasn't really been relevant to the party for a while suggested? Has this become actual official policy for either Labour or the Greens? Have they actually suggested they ...
Which raises the obvious question of "well, who else is there, then?"
Well, neither of our assessments are inaccurate based on what's in the C-B poll. Either way, I think we can agree that the Fairfax-Ipsos poll may be a rogue poll, or another example of its history of being somewhat inaccurate. Roy Morgan should have one ...
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