Daily review 13/02/2020

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  1. James 1

    https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/1-news-colmar-brunton-poll-national-and-act-hold-numbers-form-government?auto=6132080631001

    National and act have the numbers to create the next government according to the latest poll.

    awesome news.

    • Sacha 1.1

      Bankers rejoice!

    • Cinny 1.2

      Just want to point out it will be a very different election because of the referendums. Some people who don't usually vote will this year.

      Back to the poll, simon is on 11%, so 89% of the country does not want him as PM, that in itself speaks volumes.

      • James 1.2.1

        1 – the preferred PM poll is just that and means nothing. The fact that people (in this poll) prefer the party that has him as leader says a lot more. Still I guess Jacinda can take her preferred PM poll when she’s out after one term.

        2 – it’s also preferred PM – does lot mean that people don’t want him as PM. That’s why the party still gets sooooooo many votes.

        • McFlock 1.2.1.1

          lol so many votes, so few friends.

          Maybe they can govern alone based on that poll, maybe the margin for error still puts them as the biggest loser…

          • James 1.2.1.1.1

            Lol. You assume MOE can’t go the other direction.

            • McFlock 1.2.1.1.1.1

              Maybe they can govern alone based on that poll […]

              Included in that bit.

              National have two possibilities:

              • Govern alone (plus the Echo from Epsom); or
              • be in opposition (probably as the biggest loser).

              Labour have:

              • govern with the Greens (yay);
              • govern with NZ1 (boo);
              • govern with NZ1 and the Greens (bugger);
              • go into opposition.

              MMP politics is the art of making friends. National No-mates forgot that years ago.

        • ScottGN 1.2.1.2

          Ardern’s personal numbers have improved by 6% on her already high result from the last poll James. Even your sainted Key never managed that sort of improvement from one poll to another in his heyday. And certainly not what you’d expect if the country was in the mood to throw out the government.

          • James 1.2.1.2.1

            No. Because his were higher.

            • Incognito 1.2.1.2.1.1

              Link please showing Key's approval rating around the same time in the election cycle; you have the advantage of having three to choose from.

              • alwyn

                In the 1 News, CB poll at the corresponding time in his first term we had

                19 December 2010 Key on 49.1%

                20 Feb 2011 Key on 48%

                10 April 2011 Key on 55%.

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2011_New_Zealand_general_election#Preferred_Prime_Minister

                Seems to favour James' opinion wouldn't you think?

                • Incognito

                  Thank you so kindly, Alwyn, I know you are trying to be helpful. However, you seem to have missed the point, which is that James was meant to back up his ‘opinion’ with a link/source in the first place and you have now pre-empted James correcting his accidental omission.

                  • McFlock

                    lol I think a few folk could hear the Jaws theme start up after the second request for links…

                  • alwyn

                    Oh, how careless of me.

                    To think that I considered you were genuinely interested in the answer to the question? My apologies to James for spoiling his chance to be the first one to provide you with the information.

                    Oh well I guess the comment I made can be taken as information for ScottGN who claimed that

                    "Ardern’s personal numbers have improved by 6% on her already high result from the last poll James. Even your sainted Key never managed that sort of improvement from one poll to another in his heyday. "

                    He will see that he is quite wrong as Key went up by 7% between consecutive polls by the same Organisation on 20 Feb 2011 and 10 April 2011.

                    I'm sure that ScottGN will be interested to see that his unsupported claim was wrong.

                    • Incognito

                      Answers are important, debate is more important, behaviour is most important and they are not mutually exclusive, Alwyn; I can be genuinely interested in all three simultaneously. James has form with stirring and making up shit, which is why he tends to attract the attention of Moderators.

      • New view 1.2.2

        The last election was all about the leader Cinny. In the mean time the voting public are realising that the leader is a front person and nothing more. Bridges is who he is and doesn’t come across well but the Nats are realising that their team is still strong. Ask yourself Cinny why are so many NZrs prepared to Vote National. They’re not all nasty right wing aresoles they can’t be. There must be another reason Cinny. I know it’s hard for you but what could it be. A Government trying to buy this election like it did the last. Problem is more and more people don’t believe them any more and are concerned about trusting them for six years let alone nine.

        • Blazer 1.2.2.1

          trying to figure out which Natz M.P's have really made an impression in the last 2.5 years=0.

        • Cinny 1.2.2.2

          newview, are you saying that having a popular leader makes no difference? national never won an election under bill english and he was their least unpopular leader.

          nat's pointing fingers re buying elections…. now that's funny as, they are possibly the worst out of the lot for it.

          Around 25% of their sitting MP's are leaving, so ask yourself newview, is that a sign of a strong party?

          • Cinny 1.2.2.2.1

            Edit… I mean billenglish was their most unpopular leader, not least lololz 🙂 Least popular, yes

        • Incognito 1.2.2.3

          Bridges is who he is and doesn’t come across well but the Nats are realising that their team is still strong.

          With 13 gone since last election that’s almost a quarter of the ‘team’ gone, which is a big churn.

          A Government trying to buy this election like it did the last.

          Please elaborate how the Winston Peters ‘stole’ government away from National’s greedy grip and made Jacinda Ardern the ‘accidental PM’ translates into the current Government “buying” the election in 2017 after nine years of National Government. How much did the Greens put on the table to seal the deal with the electorate?

          Some Nats still reel from their ‘loss’ in 2017 like some Lefties still reel from 1984.

          Problem is more and more people don’t believe them any more and are concerned about trusting them for six years let alone nine.

          Instead, they trust a party and leader whose MO is attack ads full of fake!?

          • New view 1.2.2.3.1

            Well Incognito, you may be right about those Nats leaving weakening the team or you could be wrong but 46% of voters are prepared to stick by or join National. You tell me why that is. To me Labour bought the last election last time by mouthing a long list of “we will do this” via JA. National didn’t try to outbid labour in that election. That list of promises was the ticket to the election but they had to to come good on their extravagant claims, and I believe that 46% of voters think that they haven’t come good on enough of them. You tell me why 4% more voters are prepared to vote National. I’m well aware it’s only one poll but the public won’t be to keen on more promises from labour.

            • solkta 1.2.2.3.1.1

              "Ten bridges, ten bridges, ten bridges", said Bridges.

              And a motorway, for some long long distant day.

              "People know our track record in the North" he said.

            • Incognito 1.2.2.3.1.2

              National didn’t try to outbid labour in that election.

              Well, Joyce promised us a big hole and that never eventuated. Anyway, he’s gone.

              They also underbid in the negotiations with NZF and lost out on their fourth term. Arrogance personified.

              It seems they have learned from their mistakes by keeping it real and keeping the cat-flap open for a coalition with NZF.

              National’s team, if there was any to start with, is crumbling and their captain is not seeing the icebergs. They are good with attack ads, fakery, and misleading Facebook messages, which bodes well for them governing our country.

              Are you suggesting people will vote National (again) so that they can and will solve the housing problem as well as child poverty? Or because Simon is now promising a tunnel instead of ten bridges? How is this for an empty promise:

              When we say we’ll do something, we’ll do it

              Let’s do it, Simon, this time, or maybe next time or maybe never …

              • New view

                I’ve given you my take on the situation. You tell me why you think National are doing so well in the polls.

                [Fixed typo in e-mail address]

    • McFlock 1.3

      Excellent. Gives no-bridges enough oxygen to stay the face of the nats for a while longer.

    • Ad 1.4

      An excellent reminder to all Labour supporters and Labour MPs that they cannot rely on Ardern alone to get back into power.

      Also a timely reminder to the Green Party that if they really want more actual influence that the crumbs they accept at the moment, they will have to work a whole lot harder in the media to get above 5%.

      There is 9 months of hard political work ahead for us all, if this is to be more than a lackluster and overhyped one-term government.

      • pat 1.4.1

        7 months….hopefully

      • McFlock 1.4.2

        I am sure the Greens thank you for your campaigning advice.

        Here's my prediction for the campaign, and we don't need a telescope to see it:

        the nats are going to sling as much shit as possible, and will have zero friends other than their gun-nut Echo from Epsom.

        Labour will try to stay positive, will do better than last time, but will still need friends (and some "left" commenters here will shit on every policy announcement they make, but they'll live).

        The Greens will run a solid campaign and try to push things left, and this time will probably not have a clusterfuck a few weeks out. Which means they'll probably do better than 5% (a level they last hit 15 years ago).

        The only doubt is about NZ1, but they still have a miles better chance of getting 5% than ACT.

        Does this guarantee another Lab-led coalition? Of course not. Complacency is a fast track to obscurity. But I reckon everyone on the left know their job, and it's doubtful that the current nats have anything original in the pipeline.

        edit: oh – and further JLR fallout might drop at any time.

        • weka 1.4.2.1

          Also, NZ likes to elect three term govts.

          Can't see the Green vote going up from anywhere other than Labour (maybe a sprinkling of the non-vote), which means for Labour to do better they'd have to get the NZF vote and more swing votes than last time. Seeing if Lab votes switch to the Greens is going to be interesting.

          • McFlock 1.4.2.1.1

            There the cannabis referendum, which might bring some alienated non-voters out. And I reckon the Greens will do well with the youth vote – better than usual, I mean.

            I am not sure that the nats are sparking with their supporters 100% – if some of those don't go to NZ1, they might not bother driving to the polling booth.

            At 70% turnout, it might not be so much "swing voters" who come into play, it might be which party's fairweather supporters feel like going into town that day.

        • Gabby 1.4.2.2

          Must be about time for some more natcrony led public service funkups to embarrass ministers.

    • Robert Guyton 1.5

      Awesome! Like James, I'm totally convinced of success for the Tories!

      Break out the G&T's!

    • ScottGN 1.6

      Looking at the trend over the last 3 Colmar-Bruntons, Labour is rising (albeit slowly) and National are dropping by the same amount. Also CB has been off a bit as far as the rest of the polling goes.
      Ardern’s personal numbers have rebounded in this poll too, she’s up 6% so that augurs well

      Maori Party is 0.2% away from having 2 MPs if they win an electorate. Given that they have said they’re most likely to support Labour in the next parliament is might well be in Labour’s interest forthem them to win one of the Maori seats back. That could change everything.

  2. Peter 2

    America shows the way. They have a simpleton. We usually follow them. Simon's a shoe in.

    • Anne 2.1

      err… a shoo in? Of course you might mean… a shoe in the door. Only a shoe mate? The rest of the body's got to squeeze through too. Ahhh… I somehow suspect that's too tall an order… even in bare feet. 😉

    • alwyn 2.2

      We are a bit quicker than that Peter. It took us just under a year to follow them wouldn't you say?

      They had an election in 2016 and elected Trump. We had an election in 2017 didn't we? That was just under a year for us to follow their example.

  3. James 3

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12308449

    Winny admits NZ First photographs journos investigating NZ first foundation which “somehow” end in on the new Whale blog beefdee (I assume the correct spelling will block).

    that’s not a good look at all.

    • james 3.1

      Will be very interesting to see what Jacinda says about this.

      The Deputy Prime Minister in her government taking photographs of jurno's and sending them to a website linked with Dirty politics.

      Im guessing she will just say its a matter for NZ first. No leadership at all.

      Does anybody on here think that this was a good move by Winston?

      • McFlock 3.1.1

        She ain't the NZ1 leader.

        But nah, a pretty stupid and petty move, IMO. It looks to me like someone's having a paranoid meltdown, maybe Winston or maybe a senior NZ1 person/collective decision.

        • james 3.1.1.1

          No – She is not the NZ1 leader. But he IS the Deputy PM in her government.

          He admits that "we" took the photographs. He never said "we" was NZ1st – for all we know it could be the government.

          (although I assume it is NZ1).

          Still – this is not acceptable from the Deputy PM – and he cannot take that hat off on this one. no matter how hard he tries.

          • ianmac 3.1.1.1.1

            Wasn't the photo more about the bloke who was talking to the journalists?

            People take photos of people on the street all the time.

            Look at any newspaper and there will be passers by featuring every day. So what?

            • Pete George 3.1.1.1.1.1

              The photos were used on Dirty Politics 2.00 to attack the journalists and an ex party official as part of an ongoing campaign to defend Peters and NZ First and dump on anyone seen as opponents or critics or whistleblowers.

              It looks very bad for any MP let alone the Deputy Prime Minister to be associated with anything like this. And by association this also raises risks for coalition partners Labour and the Greens, especially if they do or say nothing top condemn this sort of dirt mongering.

            • McFlock 3.1.1.1.1.2

              The issue for me isn't so much the photos – fair call for a leak investigation to link former associate with the journos running the story.

              but using someone like Slater to run the pics instead of owning them outright? And a coincidental run of stories to deflect from bad news/possible corruption? Pretty slimy slithering, IMO.

              Not a government-breaker. But it makes things less chummy.

              • I don't think it's been Slater who has been driving the pro-NZ First agenda at BFD. he was dumb enough to allow himself to be used by various people in the past, but he seems to have been largely sidelined. The investigation should be looking into who has financial and political links with both NZ First and BFD.

                • McFlock

                  Investigation?

                  Meh. Not much to look at, really. Looks, quacks, and smells like pay for play. Might be a long bow to hit anything illegal, though. Although it's not the nats in the line this time, so the cops will probably be more diligent in determining what crimes have likely occurred.

                • Sacha

                  Is that hunting chap 'coaching' their MPs now?

          • McFlock 3.1.1.1.2

            lol how times change – now party leaders are always wearing their Cabinet hats, eh…

      • Incognito 3.1.2

        Please show us your evidence that Winston Peters personally took those photos and sent them to WOII.

      • Gabby 3.1.3

        Maybe she'll take a leaf out of surjongkyponyboy’s book jimbo.

    • Moote on this from

      One News: 'No interest' – Winston Peters backtracks on photos taken of journalists investigating NZ First Foundation

      During an interview with Magic Talk Radio this week, Mr Peters discussed the photographs.

      When it was raised to him, he responded: "We took the photograph just to prove that that's the kind of behaviour going on."

      But tonight, after the RNZ story was published online, Mr Peters distanced the party from the photographs.

      "In response to media inquiries, I can confirm that NZF has no interest in following Guyon Espiner or any other journalists. In fact, the very reverse applies," he told 1 NEWS.

      "No private investigators have been engaged to follow Mr Espiner or anyone else.

      "A supporter did think it odd when they saw ex-president Lester Grey with Mr Espiner so took a photo. Simple as that."

      But it isn't that simple. There was also a video taken. And then the "supporter" seems to have passed the photos and video on through the party ending up at The BFD in a dirty politics style post.

    • David Mac 4.1

      I'm a firm advocate for giving women what they're asking for.

      I can't recall the last time I was disappointed in doing so.

      Someone looking for a fair go isn't looking to take advantage of anyone, they're just looking for a fair go.

    • Cinny 4.2

      Wow!!!! Dang! Is he OK? Crikey, Murica.

    • McFlock 4.3

      [headdesk]

      Another Republican representative for the state of Gilead.

    • David Mac 6.1

      If that's the going rate I guess that's what the tax payers of Waikato need to stump up for his enlightened guidance. If he is an inspirational boss that ignites projects, I can see the value.

      In my experience, power-house inspirational leadership isn't punching clock at the council chambers. In those halls it's politics, micro politics, relationships, politics, gossip, politics and then 'Getting stuff done.'

  4. Cinny 7

    I wonder why simon has allowed gang violence to esculate in Tauranga for so long…. have also been wondering if mikehosking has a passport.

    • David Mac 7.1

      Hosking spitting on Auckland today. The city that has enabled him to be the Mike Hosking.

      I like him, wish he was my mate, I'd razz him like there was no tomorrow.

      "Lets warm up your Ferrari and go and run-down poor people Mickey?"…."How much do you reckon I could get for that pic on my phone of you snorting?"

      I think Mike is alright, he chases a false God, I think he will evolve and come to see what's important. Give up his trappings as the tat it is and embrace divine contentment. Feeling great has little to do with $.

  5. Herodotus 8

    Where do these senior ministry officials come from and with what skills do they posses – Common sense is not one of them !!!, if our Min of Ed does not get involved then he deserves to go, as any inaction by him is support to such a MAD decision.

    "Some families living across the road from their local primary school at Hobsonville Point in Auckland will be shut out under a proposed zoning change."

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12308297

  6. joe90 9

    I hope Ms. Bitecofer is right.

    https://twitter.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1145636460684566529

    What if everything you think you know about politics is wrong? What if there aren’t really American swing voters—or not enough, anyway, to pick the next president? What if it doesn’t matter much who the Democratic nominee is? What if there is no such thing as “the center,” and the party in power can govern however it wants for two years, because the results of that first midterm are going to be bad regardless? What if the Democrats' big 41-seat midterm victory in 2018 didn’t happen because candidates focused on health care and kitchen-table issues, but simply because they were running against the party in the White House? What if the outcome in 2020 is pretty much foreordained, too?

    To the political scientist Rachel Bitecofer, all of that is almost certainly true, and that has made her one of the most intriguing new figures in political forecasting this year.

    […]

    The classic view is that the pool of American voters is basically fixed: About 55 percent of eligible voters are likely to go to the polls, and the winner is determined by the 15 percent or so of “swing voters” who flit between the parties. So a general election campaign amounts to a long effort to pull those voters in to your side.

    Bitecofer has a nickname for this view. She calls it, with disdain, the “Chuck Todd theory of American politics”: “The idea that there is this informed, engaged American population that is watching these political events and watching their elected leaders and assessing their behavior and making a judgment.”

    “And it is just not true.”

    […]

    In 2016, the pollsters had the race largely wrong, but the academic forecasters got it mostly right, even though many ended up doubting their formulas after they spat out a likely victory for Trump, since such an outcome seemed impossible.

    But even the more academic forecasts, like the polling models, are based on longstanding assumptions about why and how candidates win elections. And sometimes an event occurs that blows up those assumptions.

    In Bitecofer’s experience, that event wasn’t Trump; it was the Tea Party. She was still a graduate student in 2010 when a wave of conservative populism returned the Republicans to power in the House. According to any conventional theory of politics, that wave made no sense. Two years prior the GOP had run the economy into the ground; under a Democratic president and a fully Democratic Congress, the economy had stopped its slide and begun to recover. How could the Democrats lose 63 seats in a brutal shellacking two years after totally routing the Republicans?

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/06/rachel-bitecofer-profile-election-forecasting-new-theory-108944

  7. joe90 10

    Halberg Sportsman of the Year Israel Adesanya!

    If they win, we win. If I win, you win. Understand that.

    https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/sport/other/mma-fighter-israel-adesanya-awarded-sportsman-year-halberg-awards

    • David Mac 10.1

      If we lived in some countries Clarke Gayford would be the Halberg Sportsman of the Year.

      Israel is fabulous, I dig him lots, but…cage fighting?

      I think the Halberg should go to an ambassador, someone that can tour schools etc. A shining Silver Fern would be good.

      • joe90 10.1.1

        In the eye of the beholder, I guess, but I'd rather chopped up faces and crooked snouts than catastrophic lower limb injuries.

    • Cinny 10.2

      What a speech! Good on him.

  8. Peter 11

    Colmar Brunton poll:

    Refused to answer (3%) undecided (13%) = 16%

    No idea if that's historically significant but surely it is significant.

    • ianmac 11.1

      Well that would be 160 voters in your group out of 1,000 polled. Yes significant proportion I reckon Peter. But what does it mean? Dunno.

    • Adrian 11.2

      Refused to answer is bullshit, thats just not giving an A, B or Undecided', its still an answer.

      Now hanging up is another thing altogether, in Britain it was apparently in the 80 percentile according to a UK pollster I heard on Nat Rad last year.

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  • New Rail Operations Centre Promises Better Train Services
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  • Bernard's six newsy things at 6.36am on Monday, March 18
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    1 day ago
  • Geoffrey Miller: Wang Yi’s perfectly-timed, Aukus-themed visit to New Zealand
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    Democracy ProjectBy Geoffrey Miller
    1 day ago
  • The Kaka’s diary for the week to March 25 and beyond
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    1 day ago
  • Bitter and angry; Winston First
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    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    1 day ago
  • 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #11
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    1 day ago
  • Out of Touch.
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    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
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  • Bring out your Dad
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    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    2 days ago
  • Bring out your Dad
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    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    2 days ago
  • Bring out your Dad
    Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    2 days ago
  • The bewildering world of Chris Luxon – Guns for all, not no lunch for kids
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    Frankly SpeakingBy Frank Macskasy
    3 days ago
  • Expert Opinion: Ageing Boomers, Laurie & Les, Talk Politics.
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    3 days ago
  • Manufacturing The Truth.
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    3 days ago
  • A Powerful Sensation of Déjà Vu.
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    3 days ago
  • Can you guess where world attention is focussed (according to Greenpeace)? It’s focussed on an EPA...
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    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    3 days ago
  • Further integrity problems for the Greens in suspending MP Darleen Tana
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 days ago
  • Jacqui Van Der Kaay: Greens’ transparency missing in action
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    Democracy ProjectBy bryce.edwards
    3 days ago
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    3 days ago
  • How Did FTX Crash?
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    PunditBy Brian Easton
    4 days ago
  • Elections in Russia and Ukraine
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    4 days ago
  • Bernard’s six stack of substacks at 6pm on March 15
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    4 days ago
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    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    4 days ago
  • National’s clean car tax advances
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    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    4 days ago
  • Government funding bailouts
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    4 days ago
  • Two offenders, different treatments.
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    4 days ago
  • Treaty references omitted
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    4 days ago
  • The Ghahraman Conflict
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    4 days ago
  • Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' for March 15
    TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read: Climate Scorpion – the sting is in the tail. Introducing planetary solvency. A paper via the University of Exeter’s Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.Local scoop: Kāinga Ora starts pulling out of its Auckland projects and selling land RNZ ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    4 days ago
  • The day Wellington up-zoned its future
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    4 days ago
  • Weekly Roundup 15-March-2024
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    4 days ago
  • That Word.
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    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    4 days ago
  • The Hoon around the week to March 15
    Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the last week included:PM Christopher Luxon said the reversal of interest deductibility for landlords was done to help renters, who ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    4 days ago
  • Labour’s policy gap
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    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    4 days ago
  • Skeptical Science New Research for Week #11 2024
    Open access notables A Glimpse into the Future: The 2023 Ocean Temperature and Sea Ice Extremes in the Context of Longer-Term Climate Change, Kuhlbrodt et al., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: In the year 2023, we have seen extraordinary extrema in high sea surface temperature (SST) in the North Atlantic and in ...
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  • Melissa remains mute on media matters but has something to say (at a sporting event) about economic ...
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    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    5 days ago
  • The return of Muldoon
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    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    5 days ago
  • Will the rental tax cut improve life for renters or landlords?
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    5 days ago
  • Geoffrey Miller: What Saudi Arabia’s rapid changes mean for New Zealand
    Saudi Arabia is rarely far from the international spotlight. The war in Gaza has brought new scrutiny to Saudi plans to normalise relations with Israel, while the fifth anniversary of the controversial killing of Jamal Khashoggi was marked shortly before the war began on October 7. And as the home ...
    Democracy ProjectBy Geoffrey Miller
    5 days ago
  • Racism’s double standards
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    5 days ago
  • It’s not a tax break
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    5 days ago
  • The Plastic Pig Collective and Chris' Imaginary Friends.
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    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    5 days ago
  • Who is responsible for young offenders?
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    5 days ago
  • Gordon Campbell on National’s fantasy trip to La La Landlord Land
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    5 days ago
  • Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' for March 14
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    5 days ago
  • No, Prime Minister, rents don’t rise or fall with landlords’ costs
    TL;DR: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said yesterday tenants should be grateful for the reinstatement of interest deductibility because landlords would pass on their lower tax costs in the form of lower rents. That would be true if landlords were regulated monopolies such as Transpower or Auckland Airport1, but they’re not, ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    5 days ago
  • Cartoons: ‘At least I didn’t make things awkward’
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  • Solving traffic congestion with Richard Prebble
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    Greater AucklandBy Patrick Reynolds
    5 days ago
  • I Think I'm Done Flying Boeing
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  • Invoking Aristotle: Of Rings of Power, Stones, and Ships
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    6 days ago
  • Van Velden brings free-market approach to changing labour laws – but her colleagues stick to distr...
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    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    6 days ago
  • Why Newshub failed
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    6 days ago
  • Māori Party on the warpath against landlords and seabed miners – let’s see if mystical creature...
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    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    6 days ago
  • There’s a name for this
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    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    6 days ago
  • Echoes of 1968 in 2024?  Pocock on the repetitive problems of the New Left
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    6 days ago
  • Two bar blues
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    6 days ago
  • Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' for March 13
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    6 days ago

  • Positive progress for social worker workforce
    New Zealand’s social workers are qualified, experienced, and more representative of the communities they serve, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “I want to acknowledge and applaud New Zealand’s social workers for the hard work they do, providing invaluable support for our most vulnerable. “To coincide with World ...
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    4 hours ago
  • Minister confirms reduced RUC rate for PHEVs
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    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    6 hours ago
  • Trade access to overseas markets creates jobs
    Minister of Agriculture and Trade, Todd McClay, says that today’s opening of Riverland Foods manufacturing plant in Christchurch is a great example of how trade access to overseas markets creates jobs in New Zealand.  Speaking at the official opening of this state-of-the-art pet food factory the Minister noted that exports ...
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    7 hours ago
  • NZ and Chinese Foreign Ministers hold official talks
    Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Wellington today. “It was a pleasure to host Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his first official visit to New Zealand since 2017. Our discussions were wide-ranging and enabled engagement on many facets of New Zealand’s relationship with China, including trade, ...
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    20 hours ago
  • Kāinga Ora instructed to end Sustaining Tenancies
    Kāinga Ora – Homes & Communities has been instructed to end the Sustaining Tenancies Framework and take stronger measures against persistent antisocial behaviour by tenants, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Earlier today Finance Minister Nicola Willis and I sent an interim Letter of Expectations to the Board of Kāinga Ora. ...
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    1 day ago
  • Speech to Auckland Business Chamber: Growth is the answer
    Tēna koutou katoa. Greetings everyone. Thank you to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and the Honourable Simon Bridges for hosting this address today. I acknowledge the business leaders in this room, the leaders and governors, the employers, the entrepreneurs, the investors, and the wealth creators. The coalition Government shares your ...
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    3 days ago
  • Singapore rounds out regional trip
    Minister Winston Peters completed the final leg of his visit to South and South East Asia in Singapore today, where he focused on enhancing one of New Zealand’s indispensable strategic partnerships.      “Singapore is our most important defence partner in South East Asia, our fourth-largest trading partner and a ...
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    4 days ago
  • Minister van Velden represents New Zealand at International Democracy Summit
    Minister of Internal Affairs and Workplace Relations and Safety, Hon. Brooke van Velden, will travel to the Republic of Korea to represent New Zealand at the Third Summit for Democracy on 18 March. The summit, hosted by the Republic of Korea, was first convened by the United States in 2021, ...
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    4 days ago
  • Insurance Council of NZ Speech, 7 March 2024, Auckland
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    4 days ago
  • Five-year anniversary of Christchurch terror attacks
    Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Lead Coordination Minister Judith Collins have expressed their deepest sympathy on the five-year anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks. “March 15, 2019, was a day when families, communities and the country came together both in sorrow and solidarity,” Mr Luxon says.  “Today we pay our respects to the 51 shuhada ...
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  • Speech for Financial Advice NZ Conference 5 March 2024
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    4 days ago
  • Early visit to Indonesia strengthens ties
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    5 days ago
  • China Foreign Minister to visit
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  • Minister opens new Auckland Rail Operations Centre
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  • Celebrating 10 years of Crankworx Rotorua
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  • Government delivering on tax commitments
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  • Significant Natural Areas requirement to be suspended
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  • Government classifies drought conditions in Top of the South as medium-scale adverse event
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  • Government partnership to tackle $332m facial eczema problem
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  • NZ, India chart path to enhanced relationship
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  • Ruapehu Alpine Lifts bailout the last, say Ministers
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    6 days ago
  • Govt takes action to drive better cancer services
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