Chickens Coming Home to Roost
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Date published: 1:18 pm, June 12th, 2015 - 101 comments
“Rock-star economy” is a catch-phrase that has served very well to persuade us that we are doing well in economic terms. But “chickens coming home to roost” and “living in a fool’s paradise” may be nearer the truth about our economic performance.
Nick Smith strikes out on housing land
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Date published: 8:56 am, June 12th, 2015 - 51 comments
Happy Birthday Scoop!
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Date published: 8:39 am, June 12th, 2015 - 4 comments
Sixteen years of Scoop. Good stuff!
Bravo big business!
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Date published: 7:11 am, June 12th, 2015 - 87 comments
Bravo to those “big business” leaders who have come out in support of strong universal health and safety legislation. Shame on the Collins faction in Cabinet who are fighting to water it down.
Open mike 12/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 12th, 2015 - 267 comments
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Daily Review 11/06/2015 #CampbellLives
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Date published: 7:00 pm, June 11th, 2015 - 16 comments
Slightly redesigned in support of #CampbellLives.
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Labour. Horse. Water.
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Date published: 5:45 pm, June 11th, 2015 - 97 comments
Sometimes…often…I just can’t get my head around people who make obvious and simple things kinda difficult and fraught.
R.I.P Peter Conway
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Date published: 3:17 pm, June 11th, 2015 - 5 comments
Someone who used his skills and intellect to fight in their corner. Someone who could go anywhere and do a good job on behalf of them
#Sheepgate – it was the official’s fault
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Date published: 1:51 pm, June 11th, 2015 - 48 comments
National is appearing to be changing tack and trying to now blame a junior official rather than the Labour Party for the failure to complete the Gulf Free Trade Agreement. And the promised release of the relevant cabinet papers proving it was all Labour’s fault has still not occurred.
TPP designed to cripple our health system
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Date published: 10:31 am, June 11th, 2015 - 80 comments
“[The TPP] appears to be designed to cripple New Zealand’s strong public healthcare programme and to inhibit the adoption of similar programmes in developing countries.”
Nick Smith on housing then and now
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Date published: 7:02 am, June 11th, 2015 - 66 comments
In 2013 Nick Smith promised an effective housing WOF. Yesterday he said “People dying in winter of pneumonia and other illnesses is not new.” Has National ever kept a constructive sounding social policy promise?
Open mike 11/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 11th, 2015 - 167 comments
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Daily Review 10/06/2015 #CampbellLives
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Date published: 7:00 pm, June 10th, 2015 - 31 comments
Slightly redesigned in support of #CampbellLives.
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Spark sponsoring hate blogger
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Date published: 12:17 pm, June 10th, 2015 - 82 comments
Hey Spark – this is a terrible, terrible decision…
OECD sounding the alarm
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Date published: 10:26 am, June 10th, 2015 - 84 comments
Freeing up Auckland land for private development and sale at market rates isn’t going to cut it.
Is this progress?
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Date published: 8:40 am, June 10th, 2015 - 259 comments
Richard Harman has broken a story about the formation of a Blairite third way think tank within the Labour Party. Those involved include Stuart Nash, Phil Quin, Josie Pagani and Nick Legget.
Open mike 10/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 10th, 2015 - 123 comments
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Daily Review 09/06/2015 #CampbellLives
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Date published: 7:00 pm, June 9th, 2015 - 19 comments
Slightly redesigned in support of #CampbellLives.
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Another death linked to cold state house
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Date published: 5:03 pm, June 9th, 2015 - 127 comments
This should not be happening in New Zealand.
Petition for safer workplaces
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Date published: 2:04 pm, June 9th, 2015 - 13 comments
Helen Kelly: “Sign our petition and tell John Key that you support better health and safety in workplaces!”
NRT: Half-measures on housing quality
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Date published: 2:00 pm, June 9th, 2015 - 71 comments
I/S at No Right Turn: “Any improvement is better than what we’ve got now .. At the same time, we should recognise that this is pathetically weak.”
The myth of “Retirement Savings”
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Date published: 10:18 am, June 9th, 2015 - 101 comments
Advocates of Kiwisaver and other funded “retirement savings” schemes perpetuate the fundamental misunderstanding that “conventional” in New Zealand’s case “neo-liberal” economists, speculators, finance companies, politicians and those with a lot of share holding wealth in non-productive enterprises like to perpetuate.
Relationships Aotearoa to close today
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Date published: 8:50 am, June 9th, 2015 - 19 comments
Relationships Aotearoa is closing its doors today, as a result of ineptitude and indifference on the part of the Government. Claimed safeguards are looking incredibly shaky. Only three of the five organisations touted to take up the work are prepared to do so. And MSD has caused upset to the Privacy Commissioner by misrepresenting his views.
Flip Flop isn’t just another word for a Jandal
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Date published: 7:08 am, June 9th, 2015 - 69 comments
IN a breaking news update, the New Zealand Prime Minister has a revelation on Health and Safety
Open mike 09/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 9th, 2015 - 113 comments
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Daily Review 08/06/2015 #CampbellLives
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Date published: 7:00 pm, June 8th, 2015 - 21 comments
Slightly redesigned in support of #CampbellLives. Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other.
Predictable collapse in TV3 numbers
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Date published: 4:47 pm, June 8th, 2015 - 73 comments
“Prime News outrates TV3 as audience numbers halve”
Anti-union rant in The Herald
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Date published: 12:43 pm, June 8th, 2015 - 72 comments
An anonymous editorial in The Herald this morning really is atrocious. Apparently the limited uptake one of the Nats’ pet education policies is all the fault of the unions.
Little weighs in on dirty politics
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Date published: 11:21 am, June 8th, 2015 - 104 comments
Andrew Little on the latest round of dirty politics.
“It beggars belief any politician – like John Key and Judith Collins – wants to have anything to do with him [Cameron Slater].”
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