Fact checking Key on government performance
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Date published: 7:01 am, September 21st, 2015 - 22 comments
A year after the last election John Key lists his government’s achievements. It’s a pretty desperate effort.
Open mike 21/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 21st, 2015 - 50 comments
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Briefing Papers (AUT)
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Date published: 12:09 pm, September 20th, 2015 - 5 comments
As our media becomes increasingly shallow, you might be looking for some solid content reading on a quiet Sunday. Check out Briefing Papers from AUT.
Twelve long months
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Date published: 9:03 am, September 20th, 2015 - 103 comments
Twelve months on from the last election and that brighter future we were promised has not happened.
Open mike 20/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 20th, 2015 - 73 comments
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The Nation: On Paddy Gower being impatient
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Date published: 3:36 pm, September 19th, 2015 - 59 comments
The Nation has been putting highlights up on Youtube. The one that caught my attention was Paddy Gower not listening, and redefining his question partway through. Eventually Andrew Little had to force the ever interrupting Paddy Gower to stop and listen to the answer.
Bugger the Truth – Getting elected means fooling the poeple
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Date published: 1:15 pm, September 19th, 2015 - 34 comments
So, its is not that the voters are idiots, as some suggest the Left are claiming, it is that the Right deliberately lie and mislead to get a vote, on false pretenses. It is the Right who constantly treats voters as gullible idiots, And a media, strangled by shrinking budgets and reduced personnel with less and less time to research rather than regurgitate. Couple that with an increase in non-journalists hogging the space set aside for reporting and elucidating news events… what chance the voter?
Cameron Slater – still technically (and legally) incompetent
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Date published: 12:31 pm, September 19th, 2015 - 17 comments
Loaded with paper and irrelevant arguments, Cameron Slater managed to add 7 counts of contempt of court to his every growing sheet of convictions. It is a pity that he doesn’t put that level of effort into the technical job of policing his site. I look at 6 of those convictions.
Economic doldrums
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Date published: 9:56 am, September 19th, 2015 - 16 comments
Two pieces this week on how National’s mismanagement of the economy has left us in the doldrums.
The Roy Morgan roundabout
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Date published: 7:26 am, September 19th, 2015 - 17 comments
The “Roy Morgan roundabout” poll has swung round to the left again, with National at 44.5% (down 6), Labour 31% (up 4) and Greens 15% (up 4).
Open mike 19/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 19th, 2015 - 56 comments
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Daily Review 18/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, September 18th, 2015 - 43 comments
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More Herald journalists sacked
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Date published: 3:39 pm, September 18th, 2015 - 67 comments
Very bad news for all those losing their jobs, commiserations to you. It’s a pretty heartless economy out there, and pretty soon there won’t be anyone left to comment on it. Consumers of celebrity gossip will still have it good though, so I guess that’s something.
Weekend social 18/09/2015
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Date published: 2:00 pm, September 18th, 2015 - 6 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?
WMBAD: The TPP
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Date published: 1:45 pm, September 18th, 2015 - 3 comments
The White Man Behind a Desk takes on the TPP.
Herald gets it wrong on flag referendum
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Date published: 10:16 am, September 18th, 2015 - 50 comments
The Herald editorial this morning suggests that Andrew Little is handling the flag referendum poorly but makes some stunningly simple mistakes that undermines its conclusions.
Refugees Welcome celebration Aotea Square this Saturday
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Date published: 9:00 am, September 18th, 2015 - 21 comments
For all progressives in Auckland Tamaki Makaurau this Saturday the left is running a fundraiser for the Auckland Refugee Council.
Nat insider condemns flag jack-up
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Date published: 7:04 am, September 18th, 2015 - 75 comments
Grant McLachlan (a former Parliamentary researcher and a Nat campaign director) calls National’s flag process “a jack up”, and says “Everything the National Party has done around the flag debate is dodgy”.
Open mike 18/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 18th, 2015 - 71 comments
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Daily Review 17/09/2015
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Date published: 6:42 pm, September 17th, 2015 - 21 comments
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Sale of Lochinver Station declined
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Date published: 12:58 pm, September 17th, 2015 - 38 comments
The government has overruled the Overseas Investment Office and turned down a bid to buy Lochinver Station. It’s the first time a bid for a significant landholding has been rejected since 2012.
Tsunami warning
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Date published: 12:24 pm, September 17th, 2015 - 21 comments
Tsunami warning for the East Cape, Chatham Islands, Coromandel and Banks Peninsula after #chile quake. http://rnz.to/1UVX5BY
The strip mining of Housing Corp is accelerated
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Date published: 10:16 am, September 17th, 2015 - 33 comments
Not only is Housing Corp planning to pay a $118 million dividend to the Crown this year but hidden away in its accounts is the payment of a further capital contribution of $336 million. Talk about strip mining …
Paid parental leave bill progresses – towards veto
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Date published: 7:02 am, September 17th, 2015 - 30 comments
Last night in Parliament Labour MP Sue Moroney’s bill extending paid parental leave to 26 weeks passed its first reading by one vote, with only National and ACT opposed.
Open mike 17/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 17th, 2015 - 168 comments
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Daily Review 16/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, September 16th, 2015 - 26 comments
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NRT: The Great WINZ ripoff
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Date published: 3:15 pm, September 16th, 2015 - 17 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on the WINZ underpayment fiasco.
Corbyn rides a commie bike!
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Date published: 9:46 am, September 16th, 2015 - 100 comments
The subtle and not so subtle demonisation of Jeremy Corbyn by England’s establishment media is going to be something to behold.
This Government’s priorities
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Date published: 7:52 am, September 16th, 2015 - 37 comments
In recent news it has been stated that the Government has let Serco off fines totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars while at the same time it is sneaking through retrospective changes to the law to deny thousands of beneficiaries money they are otherwise entitled to.
Open mike 16/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 16th, 2015 - 142 comments
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