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Memo from Crosby Textor – Simon Bridges limo expenses
Written By: - Date published: 7:53 am, August 15th, 2018 - 8 comments
The Standard has unearthed advice provided by Crosby Textor to the National Party concerning the leak of Simon Bridges’ travel information.
Simon says it’s all Labour’s fault
Written By: - Date published: 8:20 am, August 14th, 2018 - 96 comments
Simon Bridges has kept the story about his over the top spending on limos and hotels alive by making contradictory statements and by suggesting without proof that the leak of the information is all Labour’s fault.
The end of ACT
Written By: - Date published: 8:03 am, August 13th, 2018 - 237 comments
With his proposal to reduce the effectiveness of Parliament David Seymour is clearly looking for relevance.
Who protects us from water companies?
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, August 10th, 2018 - 78 comments
New Zealand seriously needs a water regulator. Something that will show that each catchment can withstand having that much taken out of it, and that it is being sold for a fair price, and ensures everyone has access to beautiful-quality water.
Of course Judith should #DeleteTheTweet
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, August 9th, 2018 - 69 comments
The Project has called on Judith Collins to delete her tweet retweeting a link to a fake news story falsely claiming that France had legalised paedophilia at the behest of an international network of liberal activists determined to normalise paedophilia.
Dan Bidois just wants to count cars
Written By: - Date published: 7:46 am, August 7th, 2018 - 26 comments
Rookie National MP Dan Bidois has chosen to get up early and count the number of cars using Northcote’s T3 traffic lane.
Reason #73 why charter schools are wrong: they teach creationism
Written By: - Date published: 11:46 am, July 31st, 2018 - 78 comments
Newsroom has reported on claims that Villa Education Trust, which opened up National’s conference singing Hallelujah, has taught creationism in science classes as a preferred theory of evolution.
There’s nothing vague about National’s education policy announcement *
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, July 30th, 2018 - 30 comments
* according to Simon Bridges.
Bridges and his cheerleaders
Written By: - Date published: 9:46 am, July 29th, 2018 - 112 comments
National is pulling out all stops to suggest that Simon Bridges is not so bad as a leader.
National is jamming cannabis law reform
Written By: - Date published: 10:47 am, July 27th, 2018 - 82 comments
So National be getting pretty liberal with the Marijuana stuff.
Sanctions for beneficiary bashers
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, July 25th, 2018 - 76 comments
Simon Bridges, who is clearly struggling for relevance, has decided to try and improve his political position by bashing beneficiaries.
What has happened to Simon Bridges?
Written By: - Date published: 8:40 am, July 19th, 2018 - 42 comments
You would think that while Jacinda Ardern takes time out to properly introduce baby Neve to the world opposition leader Simon Bridges would be striding throughout the country like a colossus and really make a name for himself. But of late he has been rather invisible.
Apparently Labour was to blame for the global financial crisis
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, July 5th, 2018 - 65 comments
These sorts of debates do my head in. Essentially because they are so removed from reality that anyone with any sense would know that Labour was not responsible for the last global financial crisis. But apparently the opposition spokesperson does not understand what happened in 2008. Does this seem a bit harsh? Well it is […]
The teachers’ strike
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, July 4th, 2018 - 56 comments
Teachers have indicated they will also be seeking a significant catch up in salaries and job conditions after a decade of neglect.
Families Package and Auckland Regional Fuel tax kick in
Written By: - Date published: 10:24 am, July 2nd, 2018 - 48 comments
Labour’s Family Package and the Auckland Regional Fuel tax have both kicked in.
Doofus of the week – July 1, 2018
Written By: - Date published: 10:34 am, July 1st, 2018 - 15 comments
The latest in an occasional series where we celebrate the horrendously awful and bizarre behaviour of political figures both locally and overseas.
Shock horror, National is telling fibs about Labour’s Industrial Relations policy
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, June 27th, 2018 - 102 comments
National has claimed that Jacinda Ardern ruled out national strikes during the last year’s election campaign. And has trimmed a video and taken comments out of context to justify its claim.
The right is in disarray
Written By: - Date published: 8:17 am, June 26th, 2018 - 163 comments
David Seymour bombs out of dancing with the stars and Simon Bridges refuses to apologise for calling Neve’s parents “pinko”. Just another week in the train wreck that is right wing politics in New Zealand.
Where have our rights gone?
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, June 20th, 2018 - 49 comments
Great to see that the State Services Commissioner has widened the investigation into the use of private investigators hired by the state against its citizens. But. They should go further.
Sage refuses permission to mine conservation land
Written By: - Date published: 10:09 am, June 18th, 2018 - 94 comments
Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage has incurred attacks from the right by refusing to allow the desecration of conservation land on the West Coast.
Does National really want climate change to be a bipartisan issue?
Written By: - Date published: 10:06 am, June 17th, 2018 - 94 comments
National has cautiously pledged to support the Government’s proposed Climate Change Commission. But is it looking for opportunities to delay or weaken urgent action that New Zealand needs to be taking now rather than signing up for urgent action being started now?
Solitary man
Written By: - Date published: 10:45 am, June 14th, 2018 - 30 comments
Gerry Brownlee has been caught playing solitaire during Question Time in Parliament.
Kiwis trust in Government surges
Written By: - Date published: 12:55 pm, June 13th, 2018 - 61 comments
At the same time that business confidence is in negative territory overall trust in the Government has surged. Why is this?
Winston sues
Written By: - Date published: 8:10 am, June 12th, 2018 - 78 comments
Winston Peters has commenced legal proceedings against Anne Tolley and Paula Bennett because of the leaking during last year’s election campaign of private information about a superannuation overpayment he received.
Collins keeps Housing Corp P debacle in news cycle
Written By: - Date published: 7:53 am, June 7th, 2018 - 122 comments
Judith Collins has managed to keep the Housing Corp methamphetamine story alive for another news cycle by attacking poor people who take drugs.
Dud advice
Written By: - Date published: 1:21 pm, June 6th, 2018 - 84 comments
The methamphetamine debacle continues with questions raised about if the Auckland District Health Board provided confidential information to Housing New Zealand about its tenants. And Simon Bridges directly contradicts Bill English by claiming that the last Government had no idea the guidelines were not fit for purpose.
Forward to the 70s
Written By: - Date published: 8:43 am, June 6th, 2018 - 112 comments
National thinks that getting back to full employment, having wages and conditions sufficient to allow a working family to live in decency on one full time wage, and home ownership rates of about 70% are a bad thing.
Boilover in Northcote?
Written By: - Date published: 8:37 am, June 5th, 2018 - 57 comments
With five days to go the Northcote by election result is far from settled. And a surprise may be on the cards.
Were Etu union delegates threatened at a select committee?
Written By: - Date published: 9:07 am, June 4th, 2018 - 133 comments
National MP Parmjeet Parmar has been accused of threatening to tell the employers of submitters to a Select Committee what they had said in evidence if they did not withdraw their statements.
Doofus of the week – June 3, 2018
Written By: - Date published: 10:14 am, June 3rd, 2018 - 44 comments
Finalists this week are David Farrar for recklessly misrepresenting Labour’s view on the three strikes repeal proposal, Judith Collins for thinking a two year old photo used on the Standard was a current photo and evidence of the police being politicised and Paula Bennett for at the same time not knowing and knowing but being unable to do anything about the terrorising of state house tenants. And the winner is …
Simon Bridges, the three strikes law and the Bill of Rights
Written By: - Date published: 8:04 am, June 2nd, 2018 - 17 comments
National obviously desperately want to divert attention away from the Housing Corp methamphetamine fiasco. After five days of continuous bad news who can blame them.
- Sea Path engagement
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16 hours ago - And more cronyism
Labour's cronyism continues. Last week, it was appointing MP's partners to a charity trust. This week, they've appointed former Labour MP Margaret Wilson as deputy chair of the Waikato DHB. As with many crony appointments, its not so much an ...17 hours ago - Some defence!Yesterday Forest & Bird released a report into dirty dairying, showing that some regional councils have been turning a blind eye to pollution. Several regional councils have since tried to quibble over the results - results base don information they ...19 hours ago
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- Policing social media – who is coming next and who is behind it?
Free speech and the problems of deplatforming and censorship are in the public mind at the moment. The banning of the conspiracy theorist outlet Infowars by a number of social media networks is just the latest example concerning many ...23 hours ago - School Bus brouhaha
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- Turning a blind eye to pollutionThe Resource Management Act is our key defence against environmental pollution. But in order to be effective, we need regional councils to enforce it - not just by denying resource consents for polluting activities, but also by ensuring that polluters ...2 days ago
- Light Rail & Pt Chevalier
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The Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill is going through it's final stages, and will likely pass this week.It is going to pass, and amendments - such as a sunset clause - or the exclusion of electorate MPs from its scope - ...3 days ago - Corbyn, Black September Graves et cetera
During the election campaign last year a story surfaced briefly about Jermey Corbyn visiting a cemetery in Tunisia and taking part in a ceremony to honour 'Palestinian martyrs'. The controversial aspect was that - buried in the same cemetery were ...3 days ago - Checkmate In Two Years?
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3 days ago - While the Left fiddles, the Right beats their war-drum
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Imagine, if you will, a small class of, shall we say fifteen to eighteen pupils. Perhaps this class is in a small and well-resourced school. Maybe the class has one-to-one devices. In all likelihood this school is a charter school. ...3 days ago - 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #32
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week. Editor's Pick Scientists mock Trump’s tweet on wildfires as ‘comedically ill-informed’ and ‘unmitigated crap’ Trump's climate denial is "a crime against the planet" ...3 days ago - Welcome to the Pliocene
The whole story in a table.... The graphic below (click on it for a large version) is adapted from a table in the supporting information from a newly published paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Trajectories ...4 days ago - Debunking business “confidence.”
One of the more suspect metrics used to evaluate a government’s economic program is so-called “business confidence.” The premise behind surveys of “business confidence” is that business is the motor force of capitalist economies and business leaders are the most ...4 days ago - Better Health & Safety Laws Could Have Stopped The 1981 Tour!
4 days ago - Flashback Saturday: Estimating the economic benefits of speeding up Auckland’s trains
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Stu was first published in January 2017. Introduction If you’ve been reading TransportBlog for a while, then you may have noticed that the term “dwell-times” crops up relatively frequently. The ...4 days ago - New research, July 30 – August 4, 2018
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change Temperature, precipitation, wind Optimal Ranking Regime Analysis of U.S. Summer Temperature and Degree-Days: 1895-2015 Detectable Impacts of the Past Half‐Degree Global Warming on Summertime Hot Extremes in ...4 days ago - Winning Winston
One has been amused by the discovery by so many right-wing commentators that Winston Peters is not the devil incarnate that they have portrayed for twenty-five years and their surprise that he proved to be such a successful acting prime ...4 days ago - What happened when Israeli state thugs attacked freedom ship: an eyewitness account
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Over the weekend, Education Minister Chris Hipkins said he expected there to be fewer polytechnics left once the recommendations of the Tertiary Education Commission’s ITP Roadmap project and the Ministry’s review of vocational education and training were implemented. Two years ago, when Aoraki ...5 days ago - There will be fewer polytechnics, Minister saysTertiary Update – Vol 21 No 15 In an interview on The Nation on Saturday morning, Education Minister Chris Hipkins said he expected there to be fewer polytechnics once the Tertiary Education Commission’s ITP Roadmap project and the Ministry of Education’s vocational ...5 days ago
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5 days ago - Safety finally on the agenda
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- Development update: August 2018
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- DrawnA ballot for two Members' Bills was held this morning, and the following bills were drawn: Holidays (Bereavement Leave for Miscarriage) Amendment Bill (Ginny Andersen) Broadcasting (New Zealand on Air and Te Māngai Pāho Reporting Requirements) Amendment Bill (Melissa Lee) ...6 days ago
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The full text of the canto in Italian/English Il mio bel San Giovanni . My dear, beautiful San Giovanni. Of all the buildings that survive from the time of Dante’s Florence, this is both the most famous and the one ...7 days ago - Support locked-out Atlas quarry workers in NorthlandKia ora koutou, Fourteen quarry workers who took limited strike action last week in pursuit of pay parity with other workers in the industry have been locked out by their boss until Sunday, 12th August. You can support the locked ...7 days ago
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- More cronyismOh look! More cronyism from Labour. This time they've appointed the partners of two former MPs to a charity trust:The partners of two former Labour MPs have been controversially appointed to the South Island's largest charity – the $600 million ...7 days ago
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- “Who Are You Calling ‘Mate’, Mate?”
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- Massey university compromises free speech
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- ‘Good’ is a conversation… what NZ’s weekend of division should teach usThis past weekend my Twitter feed was filled with fear. And some of the anger that stems from it. Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern - thanks for coming. I got bombarded with insults from a handful of people convinced that ...1 week ago
- There’s an easy solution for thatToday, the government finally settled pay talks with DHB nurses, giving them a significant pay rise and boosts to staffing. Meanwhile, another major employer of nurses - rest homes - are whining about it:Rest homes say they are losing nurses ...1 week ago
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- Pare Hauraki sign collective redress Deed...2 weeks ago
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- It’s time for teachers to shine
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