Andrew Little on Pike River

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Date published: 10:09 am, November 20th, 2015 - 54 comments

The fifth anniversary of the Pike River disaster has just occurred. This post records some comments made by Andrew Little on his recollection of the day after.

Hikoi for Homes.

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Date published: 9:45 am, November 20th, 2015 - 12 comments

Saturday in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

National willfully stupidly blind on climate change

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Date published: 7:01 am, November 20th, 2015 - 98 comments

As the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment warns of the risks of sea level rises and recommends action, National are clear that they will take none. They are determined to leave all the risks and costs of climate change to future governments.

Open mike 20/11/2015

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 20th, 2015 - 58 comments

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Daily Review 19/11/2015

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Date published: 6:00 pm, November 19th, 2015 - 11 comments

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Ground troops to Iraq – PM please explain

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Date published: 2:10 pm, November 19th, 2015 - 26 comments

PM please explain, what the hell good would sending a few Kiwi ground troops to the ongoing disaster of the Middle East achieve? Is it the whole cost of being in the club thing again?

Towards banana republic status

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Date published: 9:30 am, November 19th, 2015 - 43 comments

National has passed legislation with retrospective effect under urgency to change previous legislation also passed under urgency so that the law says what it thinks the law should have said, despite the existing law being abundantly clear.

Imperator Fish: the Terrorist Test

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Date published: 9:00 am, November 19th, 2015 - 22 comments

Following from a tweet from Josie Pagani Imperator Fish has designed this handy quiz so that protesters can work out if they prefer ISIS to the TPP.

Chris Trotter is on fire

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Date published: 8:32 am, November 19th, 2015 - 160 comments

“What differentiates the Left from the Right is the former’s fundamental rejection of the strongest human-beings’ proclivity to dominate, coerce and exploit the weakest. Without this proclivity, none of the economic and social systems elaborated by armed minorities throughout history could have endured.”

Indeed.

The third Industrial Revolution

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Date published: 7:30 am, November 19th, 2015 - 107 comments

The Paris climate change talks will force leaders to confront climate change and the threat of terrorism at the same time.  Can they show the same determination to deal with the gradual but inevitable threat of climate change as they purport to show to deal with the immediate threat of terrorism.

Open mike 19/11/2015

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 19th, 2015 - 62 comments

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Daily Review 18/11/2015

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Date published: 5:25 pm, November 18th, 2015 - 52 comments

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His name was Jonah Lomu

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Date published: 4:10 pm, November 18th, 2015 - 26 comments

Ad provides some thoughts on the death of Jonah Lomu.

Homeless children

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Date published: 12:55 pm, November 18th, 2015 - 75 comments

RNZ covered a Salvation Army report on housing this morning. These figures are a national disgrace.

That would explain a lot

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Date published: 9:32 am, November 18th, 2015 - 27 comments

key Czech

Something Smells, Honest John

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Date published: 9:10 am, November 18th, 2015 - 53 comments

Seems Ms Adams is the latest prepared to jump under a bus to save the beloved Honest John. Self interest is strong in this one.

AFFCO workers win

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Date published: 8:37 am, November 18th, 2015 - 23 comments

A win for workers at the Wairoa freezing works with a lockout ruled illegal.

Twyford to be smeared

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Date published: 7:06 am, November 18th, 2015 - 54 comments

The severed limbs of National’s Dirty Politics machine are still twitching, with TV3 reporting plans to target Phil Twyford.

Open mike 18/11/2015

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 18th, 2015 - 184 comments

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Daily Review 17/11/2015

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Date published: 6:00 pm, November 17th, 2015 - 8 comments

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NRT: Urgency for abuse

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Date published: 4:59 pm, November 17th, 2015 - 20 comments

I/S at No Right Turn: “The House has just gone into urgency for two key (for the government) bills – the first to punish retroactively people who have already been punished, the second to steal from the poor.”

More Rawshark Rachinger Slater stuff

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Date published: 3:12 pm, November 17th, 2015 - 25 comments

Keith Ng has been wading through some not-previously-released material on the Rawshark Rachinger Slater affair. No useful way to summarise it – go read it on Keith’s blog.

Labour fundraising

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Date published: 12:04 pm, November 17th, 2015 - 63 comments

The Herald has a piece today on Labour’s finances. You can donate to Labour here, or better yet join and set up a regular donation here.

Removing Beneficiary rights retrospectively

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Date published: 11:49 am, November 17th, 2015 - 309 comments

There is a suggestion that the Government may move to retrospectively take away the rights of beneficiaries and former beneficiaries to claim for benefits properly owing to them.

Paris as an excuse for more useless surveillance

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Date published: 7:02 am, November 17th, 2015 - 67 comments

The Paris attacks are being used as an excuse for another ill informed debate about surveillance and encryption – which doesn’t address the communication channels that terrorists are actually using. The tools that our governments want can be used very effectively to spy on you and me though (as Key effectively acknowledges in passing).

Open mike 17/11/2015

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 17th, 2015 - 115 comments

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Daily Review 16/11/2015

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Date published: 6:00 pm, November 16th, 2015 - 19 comments

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Death throes of journalism at TV3

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Date published: 12:15 pm, November 16th, 2015 - 56 comments

Spinoff has the story.

A Government of spin redux

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Date published: 10:40 am, November 16th, 2015 - 26 comments

The Herald has withdrawn a story that reported on Government pressure on the ERO to rewrite a report after what appears to be pressure from the Government to do so.

Last day to support Scoop

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Date published: 10:27 am, November 16th, 2015 - 9 comments

It is the last day of Scoop’s fundraising campaign at PledgeMe, and they are less than $1,000 from their goal. Why not help them over the line?…

Paris 3 – common sense from Democrats

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Date published: 8:32 am, November 16th, 2015 - 161 comments

The fallout from the Paris attacks continues. The American political reaction is as important as it is predicable.

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