The results of the American election, the Brexit referendum and the British snap election, show a disconnect between voting results and polling demographics that should favour Labour in our election. However, if the worst comes to the worst and Labour is ...
Breaking news! Steven Joyce has just announced that there is a 12% (11.7%) hole in the recent Colmar Brunton poll and that National is actually standing at 39% +12% = 51%, and could therefore govern alone. When it was pointed out that his numbers added up ...
Breaking news! Steven Joyce has just announced that there is a 12% (11.7%) hole in the recent Colmar Brunton poll and that National is actually standing at 39% +12% = 51%, and could therefore govern alone. When it was pointed out that his numbers added up ...
I opened the google link given by You_Fool at 11.50 am and looked at the items on both the Greens’ and the Nats’ websites that contained the word ‘ban. There were 1680 hits on the Greens and 116 on the Nats. I looked at 2-4 pages on each. On the Green ...
Action Plan for Car and Garage People 1. An appointed Supremo/Suprema goes to all the welfare NGOs and charities, e.g. the Salvation Army, and obtains the names and car locations of all people in their district living in a car or garage, to be collated ...
For me this was the best Opposition speech for a long time: comprehensive in scope, incisive, and blunt. As well as Today in Parliament and more of a worry, why did the MSM not report it? Mind you, I am also wondering whether Gareth Hughes had any help in ...
Malaysia's parliament votes this week to accept or reject the TPP, first the Lower House then the Senate. The scheduling of the voting shortly before signing makes it look as though this will determine whether the government signs or not (Auckland 4 ...
We are forever in your debt, Wayne, for pointing out the kernel of this TPP issue in your comment. Truly, you are an towering beacon of constitutional incandencence; and a steel-trap mind combined with political perspicacity and wrapped up in lapidary ...
In November, MFAT issued a two-page summary of the estimated tariff and non-tariff trade gains from the TPP for the year 2030, when all agreed tariff changes should have been completed. In the column headed “Government treatment of results,” someone has ...
Blooper Alert. I now see that Gabrielle Chan did not write the Asian Trade Centre article that I analysed. This article was authorless whereas Ms Chan wrote an article in the Guardian that the Asian Trade Centre article criticised. My references to Ms Chan...
Response to acrophobic at 1.22 pm, 12 January, just before 15.2.1.2 No, acrophobic, it is about time you explained how countries without an FTA achieved similar major export gains to China in dairy goods as NZ did. Feel free to guess. I am happy with the ...
Dear acrophobic I most certainly did read your citation. Since it was inside an MFAT section headed “NZ-China Free Trade Agreement,” MFAT is clearly claiming that its negotiation of the FTA led to the doubling of the goods trade. Their statement remains ...
I would like to pass on my great appreciation to MickySavage, Lprent, te reo putake, and any other TS people I have probably forgotten, who maintained the daily service over the Christmas New Year period. It must have kept you very busy when everyone else ...
Sorry for the late comment but I thought it better to put it forward because the same argument has been pushed in favour of the TPP elsewhere. It is fatuous to say that the FTA with China is responsible for the doubling of NZ’s goods trade with China ...
More strength to your right arm, Whispering Kate. I thought I was the only one in NZ who thought like this. I really enjoyed Fagan and Karyn. Apart from anything else, every so often he would say something fairly off the planet and she would gently, bit by...
I suggest that we should also look at John Allan. He was appointed CEO of MFAT after being CEO of New Zealand Post. This followed a career in commercial law and to some extent, trade. See: (I think you will have to cut and paste): http://www.mfat.govt.nz/...
From public information on the NZX website, readers will be interested to know that directors of MRP have been buying shares at below listing price in the last few days as follows: James Miller has bought 6,000 shares at $2.47 average between 24 and 28 May...
Brilliant brilliant brilliant and great credit to all who put it together. What I like is that by introducing two simple mechanisms: a) A single buyer in between the generators and retailers (and it’s much used overseas and not radical) and b) An Average ...
Key specifically named John Campbell, Sean Plunkett (who is running a campaign to buy a memory for John Key), Duncan Garner, and Finlay McDonald. The interesting thing is that the first three work for Mediaworks, and RadioLive, on which the interview took ...
Yup, she’s pretty good, although I "corrected" the wrong date. Gordon Campbell today says that the new contract that started in January has a significant kick up in price, which would partly be why Rio Tinto stated squealing last year having signed the new...
Thanks Lanthanide. I hadn’t caught that it was for five years. I think $60 million per year is high because a subsidy of 20% is a heck of a lot but, whatever, there would be a pile of money for retraining, support, industrial development, etc. I think poor...
I’ll second that in spades. Looking at some other numbers, Meridian sold 5,073 Gigawatt hours to the smelter in FY 2012. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/news/print.cfm?objectid=108266619 on 13 August 2012. Jeanette Fitzsimmons, another extremely reliable source,...
Key said clearly on Campbell Live tonight (2 April) that the contract was renewed on 1 January this year to run until 2030 i.e. 17-18 years. He also said that there was a take or pay period until 2016. This means that if Rio Rinto pulled out before the ...
Apart from changing the MOM Act to ensure that the government selected the boards and specified the chairpersons, and strongly regulating prices, as mentioned above by Col. Viper, a Labour govt should reverse some of the other nasties in the MOM Act: make ...
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