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Who will be to blame if a bridge collapses?
Written By: - Date published: 10:15 am, August 1st, 2016 - 93 comments
Who will be to blame if untested, undetected, weak steel causes the collapse of a structure?
Republican circus
Written By: - Date published: 2:28 pm, July 19th, 2016 - 52 comments
The Republican convention circus is under way, a four day parade of ignorance and prejudice.
Borrows charged for injuring protestors
Written By: - Date published: 11:48 am, July 12th, 2016 - 114 comments
Nat MP Chester Borrows has been charged over injuring two women with a car during a TPP protest.
Maori health and children not a priority
Written By: - Date published: 3:20 pm, July 11th, 2016 - 77 comments
Essential reading, two pieces highlighting institutional racism today. Someone needs to ask the Maori Party how proud they are to be propping up this government.
Reserve Bank gives Key the fingers on housing crisis
Written By: - Date published: 11:17 am, July 8th, 2016 - 14 comments
In The Herald Liam Dann asks – Did the Reserve Bank just give two fingers to the Prime Minister?. That would be a “yes”.
National’s strike-breaking fail
Written By: - Date published: 3:21 pm, July 5th, 2016 - 23 comments
The Police want no part of the Nats’ plan to use them as airport security. Perhaps instead of bungled attempts at strike-breaking the Nats should consider – dealing fairly with aviation security staff concerns?
Give it a rest Newshub
Written By: - Date published: 9:04 am, June 30th, 2016 - 47 comments
After their ridiculous Andrew Little witch-hunt blew up in their faces yesterday, Newshub still can’t let it go. Sad.
Who is knifing Nat MP Paul Foster-Bell?
Written By: - Date published: 1:52 pm, June 27th, 2016 - 56 comments
Foster-Bell seems to be a cross between Aaron Gilmore (vanity), Todd Barclay (people skills) and Bill English (high on the hog). No surprises there then, Nat MP, ho hum. The more interesting question is – who is out to knife him? Two hits in two days?
Dirty Politics Farrar and freedom of speech
Written By: - Date published: 1:45 pm, June 22nd, 2016 - 119 comments
There’s a petition – Get Rid of Hosking – it’s closing in on 16K signatures. Dirty Politics Farrar is a mite agitated about it, so let’s all give the Streisand effect a big hand.
ECAN turning a blind eye
Written By: - Date published: 12:56 pm, June 21st, 2016 - 41 comments
Is ECAN just another typical Nat party fuckup, or are they deliberately turning a blind eye?
The strange case of the disappearance of a Stuff article critical of Lord Mike Hosking
Written By: - Date published: 10:13 am, June 20th, 2016 - 54 comments
Are we doing censorship to protect the government’s media assets now?
Housing policy omnishambles rolls on
Written By: - Date published: 8:25 am, June 16th, 2016 - 64 comments
The government that will pay you $5000 to leave Auckland and $3000 to move to Auckland has been selling state houses so recklessly that it is now considering building temporary ones. Headless chickens make more sense.
Dodgy Niue deal back in the headlines
Written By: - Date published: 7:17 am, June 16th, 2016 - 107 comments
As Bryan Gould put it – “In any other country, and especially in those where such deals are commonplace, no one would be in any doubt as to what had really happened. In New Zealand, however, we are naively inclined to accept the blank-eyed, slack-mouthed assurances that it was all a coincidence and that nothing untoward had happened.”
Paula Bennett leaking to smear again?
Written By: - Date published: 2:52 pm, June 14th, 2016 - 61 comments
Has Paula Bennett leaked details of a police investigation into Te Puea Marae’s Hurimoana Dennis?
Update: Bennett has admitted that “her office” leaked. She should resign.
Key on Pulse nightclub massacre
Written By: - Date published: 10:45 am, June 14th, 2016 - 83 comments
FIFY: Bennett too embarrassed to visit marae
Written By: - Date published: 2:58 pm, June 9th, 2016 - 72 comments
Why not just – build some damn houses?
Written By: - Date published: 3:46 pm, June 2nd, 2016 - 91 comments
Today the Nats released a National Policy Statment (NPS) on housing. It formalises their recent strategy of incorrectly blaming local councils – and it doesn’t build anything.
Key’s housing plan “moronic”
Written By: - Date published: 2:51 pm, June 1st, 2016 - 25 comments
It isn’t often that you here such a blunt assessment of Nat policy. It’s moronic because it isn’t a housing policy at all, it’s a blame deflecting plan.
National party to be banned from future budget lockups
Written By: - Date published: 9:55 am, May 31st, 2016 - 6 comments
After a significant security leak National will be forced to ban itself from future budget lockups.
Housing policy omnishambles
Written By: - Date published: 2:45 pm, May 27th, 2016 - 19 comments
The Nats will pay you $3000 to move to Auckland and $5000 to leave it. This is what happens when you have no vision, no plan, and no NFI what you’re doing.
Nick Smith 0.75% successful on Auckland housing!
Written By: - Date published: 7:18 am, May 24th, 2016 - 27 comments
One year later Nick Smith has delivered three quarters of 1% of his promised 430 ha of new Auckland housing land. The Brighter Future strikes again.
Dodgy Niue deal back in the headlines
Written By: - Date published: 11:03 am, May 21st, 2016 - 200 comments
Good of the hotel to keep the Nats’ dodgy deal in the headlines. Andrew Little has called their bluff – of course.
The real reason that politicians will take no action on tax haven corruption
Written By: - Date published: 8:04 am, May 16th, 2016 - 22 comments
Random impertinent question: Why did Cameron get diversion?
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, May 11th, 2016 - 32 comments
Why did the police offer Cameron Slater the soft option of diversion when he doesn’t qualify?
Random impertinent question: Did Cameron breach his own name suppression order?
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, May 11th, 2016 - 7 comments
Has Cameron Slater created legal history by being a party to the breach of his own name suppression order?
Peters vs Carter
Written By: - Date published: 7:58 am, May 6th, 2016 - 17 comments
Winston Peters is already wielding his kingmaker powers. If National roll over over, I wonder what else Peters can get out of them over the next few months?
Key’s sloppy trust
Written By: - Date published: 12:45 pm, May 5th, 2016 - 7 comments
An editorial in The Herald today keeps the pressure on Key. Meanwhile his “lawyer” can’t be happy, and Key hits peak condescension.
Key and McClay sorting out their lines
Written By: - Date published: 9:12 am, May 4th, 2016 - 16 comments
On the nobbled IRD tax haven review Key has been sorting out his lines. Then he had to feed McClay his. The concept of just telling the truth probably never occured to either of them.
The wheels on the bus go round and round
Written By: - Date published: 3:28 pm, May 3rd, 2016 - 18 comments
Key chucks his “lawyer” under a bus – Part 2.
Key chucks his “lawyer” under a bus
Written By: - Date published: 10:04 am, May 2nd, 2016 - 125 comments
Key has form on lying, you’d hope that his “lawyer” does not.
Rodney Hide – stupid, corrupt or both?
Written By: - Date published: 10:56 am, April 24th, 2016 - 60 comments
Hide’s Herald piece today is straight out of Dirty Politics Farrar’s playbook.
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