Shanan's done very well...that's a marginal seat now and we still have the specials to come. One calculation has this as a 5.1% swing to Labour!!
RNZ says "National's candidate is ahead in the Northcote by-election, but only just." Referring to the same margin (790) as the Herald!
No Jonathon Pie says it best (at 1.23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsGVghRBdKI
Exactly so. The Labour male was so pleased with himself at the tactical brilliance of heading off the Maori Party that the deep distress and helpless fury of so many of us about the whole roast buster situation would be totally irrelevant. Good on Willie ...
"Uses" did not develop for all sorts of chicanery but to protect land from the king. It was not possible to leave land to whoever the testator chose...it had to go to the heir (just as the English crown nowadays must still go to the heir). If the heir was ...
Judith Collins has already tried this. After the Court's decisions during the Ports of Auckland strikes and lockouts the court was to be downgraded to a Distrct Court. After Collins fell, the Courts Bill was enacted with the status quo prevailing. But ...
Stuart Nash has never made any secret of the fact that he was ' adopted .
Excellent post , expertly derailed! Strong effective unions are crucial to a strong stable civil society. John Campbell profiles the Meatworkers Union members fighting to defend the right to collective bargaining in Wairoa. They are up against the recently...
For those in need of a hope and inspiration boost....coverage of the British Labour Party conference and, in particular, the Corbyn Leader's address in full. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008108p
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11506105 Comments here demonstrate exactly WHY John Key is so relaxed. Ugly stuff!
Population of Jordan 6.4million. Refugees 623,000 (low estimate) or 900,000 and increasing (higher estimate). Water resources for the whole country under severe strain. Population of New Zealand 4.5 million. Refugee quota 750!
This law firm seems to be a Nelson outfit with Malone as its principal. What can Nelson Standardistas tell us about them?
It seems that the debt relief came first for Germany in the 1950s!! Then the economic miracle followed. Perhaps Germany could return the favour now to the countries which included Greece who wrote off German debt. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/...
But we are forgetting the publicly funded, magnificent Maori TV with actual real people on screen and actual real current events (Native Affairs) and media review (Media Take) and wonderful documentaries (Tuesday) and movies (two recent watches, Jane ...
Anne is right MR. In the couple of years leading up to the 1981 election there was a spate of break-ins which looked politically targeted...including a couple at the Labour Party regional office (in the days when in was owned by the Party and housed 5-6 ...
+100 Jenny. We are nearly at the centenary of the Labour Party, founded by the unions. Unite (though not affiliated to the LP) has just shown how collective bargaining can deal to zero hours contracts. Many of our other major social ills like inequality ...
This link in the response above is a much longer version of the opinion piece in the Herald by Richard Cornes. It makes more sense when you can read the comments by Justice McGrath in detail as given in the article at the link above and below. http://...
From an Otago Uni constitutional law guru: http://pundit.co.nz/content/is-parliament-about-to-drop-our-commitment-to-the-rule-of-law
Petrobras, the company which was supposedly going to safely drill in deep water off our pristine East Coast beaches, is now in deep water itself fouling up the entire Brazilian economy. Petrobras scandal And in a familiar link crony capitalism link, the ...
And we don't need to reinvent the wheel in terms of how to do this stuff. This publication analyses what happens in a range of European jurisdictions and then say what the UK should do. http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/re-regulating-zero-hours-contracts ...
Why are the media at the LP Leadership meetings? I thought you had to be a LP member to attend? This is not a reality TV show for the benefit of smart arse commentators like Gower and Henry. Let's have Gower going home to dinner and the meeting for those ...
Please could you post the link for this. I saw it yesterday morning and was unable to find the article again later in the day.
My comment below when Nanaia stood for deputy still stands! Once again I'm grateful to have a candidate to vote for (rather than trying to decide who is the least bad of an indifferent bunch). Right now it is irrelevant whether ignorant trolls know what ...
Well Ron I think you will find that is not the view of New Lynn Labour. And since we elected him as MP perhaps you could leave the matter to us!
Mike we have a detailed manifest based on the policy platform endorsed by the Party. That is what any leader needs to endorse and implement. The idea that the caucus leader has a free hand to implement their own version of whatever they think the Party ...
And just what exactly do you think has happened to the "respected journos" in the last few years? Why do you think all of us this has had to come from completely independent sources? The "respected journos" have been dealt to big time. Only the survivors ...
Well done David!! We're on the way to government...a real one!
Is Williamson still denying that he was the electorate MP being claimed by Dotcom?
Well done Carmel!!
These factors, which Anne refers to in Campbell's excellent piece, affected McCully's timing but Jones' timing is all down to becoming eligible for parliamentary super. Ambassadorships, directorships and the other opportunities which will be available to ...
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