Written By: - Date published: 2:06 pm, April 12th, 2012 - 26 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, April 12th, 2012 - 46 comments
Parliament is supposed to be the sovereign body in our government. So, how come the Executive has an unchallengeable power to veto any legislation it chooses? As I/S explains, the roots of the financial veto go back to when Parliament was a servant of the Crown, but its legislative justification has been repealed. Time to drop the archaic, undemocratic financial veto.
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 12th, 2012 - 92 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 11th, 2012 - 156 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 10th, 2012 - 78 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 9th, 2012 - 100 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 8th, 2012 - 79 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 9:30 am, April 7th, 2012 - 14 comments
No Right Turn on another sad chapter for democracy in NZ.
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 7th, 2012 - 121 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 2:00 pm, April 6th, 2012 - 33 comments
Here’s a puzzle for Friday…
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, April 6th, 2012 - 13 comments
Weekend social is for non political chat. What’s on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can’t we all just get along?
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 6th, 2012 - 86 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 12:29 pm, April 5th, 2012 - 77 comments
Green Party MPs Catherine Delahunty and Gareth Hughes invite you to a series of hui to discuss the Government’s broad “drill it, mine it” agenda for Aotearoa – what’s happening, what does it mean to our environment and communities and how do we stop it.
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 5th, 2012 - 84 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 11:09 am, April 4th, 2012 - 31 comments
Against the will of the Fonterra farmer Shareholder’s Association, National is trying to destroy Fonterra’s cooperative model on vague grounds about access to capital. The end result will be the one world-leading, world-scale company we have, which brings in 20% of our export earnings, will start sending it profits offshore. David Cunliffe makes the case passionately and eloquently.
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 4th, 2012 - 85 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 2:54 pm, April 3rd, 2012 - 8 comments
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A predicted massive hike in legal costs to the Crown has forced Treasury to take another look at the Government’s accounts.
Written By: - Date published: 8:39 am, April 3rd, 2012 - 34 comments
Kiwis oppose asset sales two to one. And they will only happen if one man, Peter Dunne, votes for them to happen. Dunne was too cowardly even to speak to TVNZ on the issue last night. But you can still make him listen. You have 10 days left to make an online submission to the select committee here. It’s a two minute job – just tell them that New Zealand isn’t for sale.
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 3rd, 2012 - 164 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 2nd, 2012 - 99 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 9:17 am, April 1st, 2012 - 10 comments
The police have announced that they will not be laying charges over John Key’s pre-election radio show. Their reason? “Insufficient evidence”.
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 1st, 2012 - 99 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 8:24 pm, March 31st, 2012 - 31 comments
OK – so we’re a bit late with this – but it’s Earth Hour, 8:30 – 9:30pm NZ time.
Written By: - Date published: 10:50 am, March 31st, 2012 - 16 comments
Punching above our weight will never be the same again …
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, March 31st, 2012 - 44 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 2:00 pm, March 30th, 2012 - 40 comments
Weekend social is for non political chat. What’s on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can’t we all just get along?
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, March 30th, 2012 - 69 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 1:29 pm, March 29th, 2012 - 29 comments
The right to choose to end our lives is back on the political agenda with Maryan Street’s private member’s bill on euthanasia going into the ballot. If it’s drawn, it will be the third time in 17 years such a Bill has come up. The first one was voted down 2 to 1, the next lost by 3 votes. This time, success seems highly likely.
Written By: - Date published: 11:55 am, March 29th, 2012 - 20 comments
ACT-crony Catherine Isaac will head the implementation of the government’s unmandated charter schools programme. Isaac has no relevant expertise to justify this appointment. She has been given the position (and a generous public salary) solely on the basis of ideology and party affiliation. That is not how our public service is supposed to work.
Written By: - Date published: 11:03 am, March 29th, 2012 - 6 comments
Apparently the Auckland Council doesn’t know how much the POAL fiasco is costing. Rough estimates suggest that the cost is at least $400,000 a day, probably significantly more. No wonder the Council doesn’t want to know.
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