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An afternoon excursion.

lprent — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 04:18:52 +0000

About now or very shortly, Trevor Mallard and Cameron Slater should be dismounting from the cycling race that has obsessively awaited by the right on the blogosphere. I've been aware of that this 'political' event was going to happen because of the frequent waffling that shows up on posts from the right. But it was nice day - I went along to exercise the car and to see the start.

Update: Trevor won..

FFS

IrishBill — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:40:18 +0000

It's bad to have a senior frontbencher attack the media.

It's really really bad when that frontbencher is in charge of your election campaign.

Mallard/Pagani: Soft headed lefties

the sprout — Fri, 06 May 2011 20:42:45 +0000

The semi-hysterical responses of some of the unreconstructed left and pseudo-left about some at the Standard supporting Hone Harawira and the Mana Party has really been quite revealing. They seem to think, with a clarity of logic Garth George would surely envy, that refusal to endorse a public burning of Harawira constitutes some kind of crazily misplaced ...

Anatomy of a lie

IrishBill — Thu, 05 May 2011 08:51:20 +0000

Hone Harawira left himself open to attack with his comments on Te Karere.

But that doesn't excuse the disgraceful beat-up executed so well by the right's smear machine.

If this is how the election is gonna play out it'll be no good for anyone.

Get well soon, Trev

Eddie — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:47:47 +0000

As you know, Trevor Mallard is a keen cyclist. He touched wheels with another competitor in the R&R sports tour on Saturday. 3 cyclists went down at 40km/hr. Trev broke his femur and shoulder blade. It looks like he's dealing with it OK. Maybe he should stick to leisurely rides on the John Key Memorial Cycleway in future.

Brownlee in gun for misleading the House

Zetetic — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:45:09 +0000

Mallard has laid a Privileges complaint over Brownlee's Hobbit lies. Good. Brownlee and Key deserved to be hammered for their part in the Warners/Jackson shake-down that cost just $34m and work rights. Lockwood won't uphold the complaint though. He hates Brownlee. Not enough to severely embarrass his party in election year though.

Key: up to Labour to stop us rorting

Eddie — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:33:07 +0000

With Pansy Wong in hiding on John Key's orders, rort-buster Pete Hodgson laid the blame her corruption and all the other rorts squarely on Key yesterday. In question after question, Key couldn't make a serious defence of his record. Then, he made an extraordinary admission: his ministers will keep on rorting - it's up to Labour to catch them.

Public holiday on All Whites win?

Eddie — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:28:47 +0000

Asked if a win against Paraguay should warrant a public holiday, John Key replied "Damn fine idea. I want the country to enjoy this. They'll be dancing all over the place". Trevor Mallard has taken up the cause and will ask Parliament's permission for it to debate a Bill that will create a one-off public holiday on Friday if the All Whites win. There's strong public support.

Petitioning for education

Dancr — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:32:41 +0000

Good to see that the Greens presented to Parliament today a 37,000 signature petition expressing concern about the Government's National Standards policy...

‘Oh, oh’: sound of a minister floundering

Marty G — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:23:29 +0000

Which minister will be next to go? Rodney Hide or Anne Tolley? If competence was a condition of keeping their job, both would be long gone. But doing a good minister has never been a job requirement in John Key’s government. It comes down to which of them makes a spectacular mistake so serious that ...

Trev nails Tolley, other Lab MPs fail

Marty G — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:00:09 +0000

Success for Opposition frontbenchers largely consists of embarrassing their opposite number by forcing them to answer questions they would rather not. Labour showed both how to do that and how not to do it in the House yesterday.

Signs of a more confident Labour

Marty G — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:28:08 +0000

Labour is a pretty risk-adverse organisation. Making those two unorthodox attacks on those two ministers, and pulling it off both times, shows that Labour has got the measure of Key's drop-kick ministers and is feeling more confident in itself.

Pansy Wong bids for worst minister award

Marty G — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:22:04 +0000

When you've got a Finance Minister who can't get stats right, a Social Welfare Minister who can't define her flagship policy, and an Education Minister who can't explain her flagship policy, it's easy for an incompetent Women's Affairs Minister to slip through.

Labour pins clueless Nat ministers

Eddie — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:23:05 +0000

It's hard to decide which is worst: Do Nothing John Key flouncing around the country while thousands of Kiwis lose their jobs, the Joyce cabal pushing their hard-right economic agenda, or the rest of them who don't have two brain cells to rub together.

Turei pushing me back to RAM

Zetetic — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:23:30 +0000

Check out this exchange between Trevor Mallard and Metiria Turei on his Facebook page (great how the new media allows these spur of the moment debates): Trevor Mallard: 25c/hour. $10 week for 40 hours then minus tax, extra acc, ets charges. Not fair John Key. It should be $15 Metiria Turei: Trevor, with genuine respect, ...