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Dotcom
Written By: - Date published: 1:51 pm, February 9th, 2012 - 82 comments
There’s a few interesting threads to the Kim Dotcom saga. Should merely providing a tool that can be used for piracy be a crime? Did the alleged offences justify a 70-strong armed police raid or was this more heavy-handed showing off by the cops? And, if Dotcom really is such a bad guy, why did National let him come to live in New Zealand in the first place?
Crafar vs Cameron
Written By: - Date published: 8:49 am, February 2nd, 2012 - 119 comments
Spot the difference: Mega-corporation with close ties to foreign dictatorship that has a policy of securing strategic resources buys swathes of New Zealand farmland after a bid by a company directly owned by the dictatorship was rejected. New Zealand public company to become the foreign company’s tenant. vs New resident in New Zealand buys farm.
More lameness from the man with no ideas; wave goodbye to Aroha
Written By: - Date published: 2:19 pm, November 20th, 2011 - 74 comments
John Key has announced today that if Winston is re-elected, New Zealand will be forced to go back to the polls within weeks.
Meanwhile elsewhere on the limping catastrophe that is the John Key Campaign, Aroha Ireland has decided to leave New Zealand and join the record numbers of kiwis leaving permanently for a Brighter Future in Australia.
Polls good for Left
Written By: - Date published: 1:30 pm, November 3rd, 2011 - 80 comments
There’s a TVNZ poll out tonight and a Herald poll tomorrow morning but, ahead of them, here’s some other new polls results that point to trouble for the Nats. 27% of young people want to leave New Zealand. 82% of people oppose farm sales to foreign buyers. 24% of people will change their vote over the Rena.
Chart o’ the day: Wave goodbye to everybody
Written By: - Date published: 12:33 pm, September 28th, 2011 - 22 comments
Australia bound?
Written By: - Date published: 10:11 am, August 31st, 2011 - 20 comments
Some advice if you are planning on joining the many kiwi’s that have left the country to go to Australia since National made it their aspiration to do something about that migration trend. They certainly have massively increased the outflow – one of their few success stories. But where to go to in aussie?
The violent right
Written By: - Date published: 8:26 pm, July 25th, 2011 - 316 comments
The kind of racist right wing opinions held by the Norway shooter are shared by quite a few New Zealand bloggers and commenters. Many of the same bloggers are now claiming the massacre is somehow the Left’s fault. We should be concerned that there are people with such hatred and self-delusion among us.
River of Kiwis now flood to Oz
Written By: - Date published: 2:29 pm, June 22nd, 2011 - 56 comments
3300 Kiwis left for Australia last month, breaking a 32-year-old record. Remember when John Key promised to stop the flow of Kiwis across the Tasman? Well, now it’s a flood…
[and mostly it’s not from Christchurch either]
Chart o’ the day: getting the hell out of dodge
Written By: - Date published: 11:43 am, June 22nd, 2011 - 18 comments
Easy passports for the rich
Written By: - Date published: 9:11 pm, May 7th, 2011 - 26 comments
The National Government has relaxed the rules for so-called business migrants, those who can get easy access to a passport by investing in New Zealand. The Minister is proud that the scheme has now raised $562 million. He says it is part of the government’s economic growth programme.
Labour exposes planless Key
Written By: - Date published: 12:04 am, March 16th, 2011 - 128 comments
There’s been increasing concern over the past week or two that not only has the government failed to communicate its plan for the Christchurch recovery, it doesn’t actually have one, and isn’t particularly worried about getting one. Yesterday in the House, Labour took Key to task on this important issue. And he was found terribly wanting.
Xenophobia
Written By: - Date published: 7:41 am, July 7th, 2010 - 81 comments
John Key is claiming that we need to defend our shores against a coming wave of boat people by buying into a detention center in Timor.
I don’t know whether he’s trying to flank Winnie or whether he’s just shooting off at the mouth after being influenced by the Aussies but whatever the reason the idea is plainly racist.
How’s that change coming? – Emigration
Written By: - Date published: 12:02 am, April 7th, 2010 - 16 comments
That Nice Mr Key promised that, through the power of tax cuts, he would stop so many Kiwi emigrating to Australia. Well, we had tax cuts so what happened to the number of Kiwis heading over the ditch? Must have dried up, right? Sorry kids, after a recession-induced lull, emigration is climbing as Kiwis seek greener pastures in the red country. Just one more promise Key couldn’t keep.
The lucky country: Aussie tax system more progressive than NZ’s
Written By: - Date published: 10:25 am, January 21st, 2010 - 57 comments
It fascinates me that in all this talk about ‘catching up with Australia’ via tax cuts, nobody bothers to look at the Aussie tax system to see what they’re doing. Keith Ng has a cool interactive graph on the portion of all income earnt by different income groups and the tax they pay. He compares what […]
Blast from the past
Written By: - Date published: 3:56 pm, October 9th, 2009 - 37 comments
I see Winston Peters is trying to resurrect his political career with another racist rant about immigration. I don’t think there’s much point in giving the man any more attention. My views are pretty much the same as No Right Turn. All I’d add is that it’s actually kind of tragic to see Winston carry […]
More National sleeze
Written By: - Date published: 8:58 am, August 19th, 2009 - 62 comments
There’s been an attempt to force Peter Goodfellow, the brand new President of the National Party, to step down. The move came from the party’s board, worried that negative news around Goodfellow would damage the party if he hangs around. However, it looks like John Key has decided to back Goodfellow and that’s put the […]
What price citizenship?
Written By: - Date published: 2:29 pm, August 3rd, 2009 - 36 comments
“What price citizenship?“, asks Heather Roy. “$10 million“, says Jonathan Coleman.
The scandal that wasn’t there and the one that was
Written By: - Date published: 7:58 am, June 19th, 2009 - 15 comments
The Herald really really wants to uncover an expenses scandal like in the UK. Think of the fun they could have. But they’re not finding anything for two reasons: 1) our expenses system is much tighter than the UK’s 2) MPs in the UK are paid £67,000, not much by London standards, while the $131,000 […]
Compare and Contrast
Written By: - Date published: 4:32 pm, April 5th, 2009 - 4 comments
Prior to the last election our fearless MSM media uncritically repeated Key’s ‘NZ Sucks’ Crosby/Textor attack lines, framing an historically unremarkable rise in emigration, as evidence of Labour’s failure and general perfidy. Lots of examples abound, this being fairly typical. Of course since November emigration numbers peaked in January (and have fallen since in line […]
Emigration still trendy
Written By: - Date published: 1:15 pm, February 27th, 2009 - 23 comments
Herald: “Almost 1000 a week leaving for Australia. The flood of migrants across the Tasman continues unabated, with latest figures showing New Zealanders leaving at a rate approaching 1000 a week, breaking a 20-year record.” But, guys, come back. We’ve got a National government. No more of ‘that woman’, no more CFLs, no more nanny state and we’ve […]
English pulls a Lockwood
Written By: - Date published: 2:28 pm, October 29th, 2008 - 64 comments
Oh dear. In the same week Lockwood Smith made his racist remarks and Maurice Williamson committed the gaffe of talking openly about National Party policy, it appears Bill English pulled a wee Lockwood of his own. According to the Ashburton Guardian, English complained to a local Greypower meeting about the Filipino ‘invasion’ in his home […]
Scratch a Tory…
Written By: - Date published: 9:27 am, October 22nd, 2008 - 40 comments
…and you still reveal a bigot, it seems. Here is National’s Immigration spokesperson, Lockwood Smith, (he who likes to swallow dead fish) on taking more Asian seasonal worker migrants instead of Polynesians: “There are some skills in the vineyard that some people are perhaps better at, for example some of the pruning … some of […]
Nats relying on ignorance
Written By: - Date published: 12:43 pm, September 22nd, 2008 - 47 comments
It’s really easy to present misleading statistics. David Farrar shows how it’s done with a post on migration today. Note how his figures only go back to 2003. Why is that? Well, it just so happens that 2003 was the last low point in the migration cycle. So, if you show just the last five […]
Kerr shows how the Right lie to themselves
Written By: - Date published: 5:33 pm, September 21st, 2008 - 42 comments
The Business Roundtable held another in their series of forums on political issues targeted at young people on Thursday. The aim is obviously to get along the type of kid who goes to his (sorry for the gendering but they were 90% male) commerce classes in a suit that he can’t yet fill and give him an […]
Growing opposition to Immigration Bill
Written By: - Date published: 12:07 pm, July 14th, 2008 - 13 comments
Nick Butcher has produced this excellent video opposing the Immigration Bill (which we blogged about last week and is covered in more detail here). There’s also a website and an ipetition. This really is an appalling Bill and I take my hat off to Nick and co for having the initiative to organise public opposition […]
Drop the Immigration Bill
Written By: - Date published: 2:46 pm, July 9th, 2008 - 77 comments
The September 11 attacks were used as cover to pass draconian laws around the world, particularly concerning immigration. The Government is, once again, following suit with the new Immigration Bill. It’s a shockingly bad piece of legislation that gives broad powers to immigration and other government officials (read SIS), removes judicial oversight, and allows personal […]
More migration mythbusting
Written By: - Date published: 2:21 pm, June 26th, 2008 - 7 comments
From Brian Fallow in The Herald on migration and immigration: …Statistics New Zealand has been comparing last year with previous peak gross outflows, allowing for changes in population size and age-structure. In unadjusted terms, permanent and long-term departures for Australia last year were just 7 per cent lower than the 1979 peak, but 20 per […]
The grass isn’t greener across the ditch
Written By: - Date published: 12:05 pm, June 23rd, 2008 - 72 comments
The cornerstone of National’s ‘New Zealand sucks’ campaign is that Australia is much better (and we have to lower taxes and slash work rights to catch up). Now, the Sunday-Star Times produced a well-researched article on standards of living here and in Australia. A year late, but good to see, nonetheless. The conclusions: Your tax […]
More bluster, still no policies
Written By: - Date published: 4:01 pm, June 20th, 2008 - 49 comments
Every month, Stats releases migration figures. Each month, they show little change in the pattern from last month. And each month, National comes out all in a fury over the figures as if they herald Armageddon while offering no substance, just a lot of bluster. Nothing has changed from April. In the month of April, […]
Clydesdale report rubbished
Written By: - Date published: 10:56 am, May 28th, 2008 - 29 comments
Greg Clydesdale’s report that labelled Pacific Islanders a ‘drain on the economy’ has been rubbished as a lazy, intellectually dishonest piece of work by fellow academics. The report concludes that Pacific Islanders make no net contribution to the economy but the substance of the report does not justify that conclusion in the slightest. Moreover, it […]
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