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Bennett admits she was wrong

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:01 am, May 25th, 2016 - 18 comments

Paula Bennett has basically apologised to Parliament for claiming that National would create 3,000 new social housing beds when all that it was doing is funding existing beds to make sure they did not disappear.

Apparently the housing crisis surge is a figment of our imagination

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:32 am, May 24th, 2016 - 51 comments

Nick Smith thinks that the recently developing housing crisis is a figment of our imagination.

Dodgy Niue deal back in the headlines

Written By: Natwatch - 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.

John Oliver: Scientific studies (or why media are so useless at it)

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:35 pm, May 20th, 2016 - 6 comments

John Oliver takes a good solid swing at the media who suck up shit press releases designed by institutions to get funding and interest groups doing marketing for their products, and the idiotic consumers of schlock ‘facts’. Or John Key who apparently thinks that money magically changes physics.

Jonathan Pie has election anger

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 4:50 pm, May 20th, 2016 - 8 comments

Jonathan Pie rails against media attempts to attack Jeremy Corbyn and Labour over the recent local body election results.

Vernon Small on Key’s fiscal Tardis

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:22 am, May 19th, 2016 - 21 comments

Small: “Only this week Prime Minister John Key managed to spend one, save it and outline a plan to give it back to taxpayers all at the same time.”

Tax cuts! No! Yes! Maybe! Look over there!

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:02 am, May 17th, 2016 - 90 comments

English is right, Key is lying and he knows it. But Key would rather we were talking about the mirage of tax cuts (again) than current events like the protection of corrupt tax havens or our homeless living in cars.

John Key’s dead cat strategy

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:14 am, May 12th, 2016 - 52 comments

National is hoping to avoid a proper debate about issues raised by the Panama Papers by raising a series of idiotic diversions.

Random impertinent question: Did Cameron breach his own name suppression order?

Written By: Natwatch - 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?

John Key chickens out of #panamapapers interview

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:31 am, May 9th, 2016 - 37 comments

This morning John Key refused to be interviewed on Radio New Zealand after learning that they intended to ask him questions about the Panama Papers. And some elements of the media are for some strange reason trying to say there is nothing to see because he personally has not been implicated.

If we tax the multinational corporations will they leave?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:27 am, May 8th, 2016 - 151 comments

Rodney Hide thinks that making multinational corporations pay their fair share of tax will make them leave.

A week is a long time in politics

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:36 am, May 5th, 2016 - 17 comments

Over the past week the Government has gone from “there is no problem with the Overseas Investment Office” to announcing an urgent review and a staffing boost to make sure that approvals of foreign purchases of land are being properly processed.

Compass serves up very little tax

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:10 am, May 3rd, 2016 - 66 comments

Radio New Zealand has reported that Compass, supplier of our substandard hospital food, appears to be taking steps to minimise the tax it pays locally.

If you need a good laugh this morning

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:30 am, April 29th, 2016 - 71 comments

“Nick Smith reckons Akld housing’s more affordable now than before National came to power”

Memo from Crosby Textor: Murray McCully and the Hagaman donation

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:01 pm, April 24th, 2016 - 35 comments

The Standard has obtained a copy of a Crosby Textor memo concerning risks posed by Murray McCully’s handling of issues surrounding the awarding of the contract for the Niue resort.

Rodney Hide – stupid, corrupt or both?

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 10:56 am, April 24th, 2016 - 60 comments

Hide’s Herald piece today is straight out of Dirty Politics Farrar’s playbook.

The failed estate: Tick Tick Tick

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:30 am, April 24th, 2016 - 22 comments

Jim Parker criticises the actions of a Channel Nine film crew whose involvement in an international attempted kidnapping of two children raises ethical and legal issues.

Who is behind the New Zealand Initiative?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:02 am, April 22nd, 2016 - 201 comments

The New Zealand Initiative has produced a research paper attacking the proposal for a sugar tax. But who is it and who is it speaking on behalf of?

Trying to spin the Hagaman donation

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 10:59 am, April 21st, 2016 - 122 comments

Little is doing his job. Dirty Politics Farrar is spinning like mad. The real questions are – who knew about the donations, when did they know, and were they involved in awarding the contract?

John’s Key’s “lawyer” is not a lawyer

Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 9:00 am, April 21st, 2016 - 199 comments

John Key, explaining why he had an account with tax avoidance specialists Antipodes Trust Group, said he used the firm because his long-term friend, Ken Whitney, is a principal at the firm and has been his private lawyer for many years. The flaw in that theory is that Whitney is not currently a lawyer.

Coming Down To Beijing

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 7:03 pm, April 19th, 2016 - 85 comments

Our Glorious Leader John Key Il is considering a formal extradition treaty with China. No doubt some genuinely bad people will be sent back, but China’s definition of ‘criminal’ is very, very broad. Why are we sucking up to a country lacking both democracy and a legitimate judicial system? Could it be the money? Could it be the pandas?

We used to be better than this. And not so long ago. Where did we go wrong?

Kiwi workers are pretty damned hopeless – says Bill English

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 4:03 pm, April 13th, 2016 - 205 comments

National are now so convinced of their invulnerability that they have taken to actively insulting us. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

How much do you give John?

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:30 am, April 13th, 2016 - 30 comments

Maybe this is why John Key does not want to release his tax returns.

Return of the living dead

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:41 am, April 12th, 2016 - 37 comments

Don Brash has been resuscitated and is complaining about privilege and preferential treatment. Not of rich old white people like himself but because Maori rights to Taonga may be recognised.