NOx-ious shit all around.
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Date published: 7:49 am, September 25th, 2015 - 109 comments
Been trying to get my head around the implications of Volkswagen’s rigged diesel performance tests. Predictably, and unlike most stories covering this, I couldn’t give a rat’s arse for the financial woes the company might be facing.
The political machinations of the flag debate
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Date published: 7:23 am, September 25th, 2015 - 276 comments
The Green’s agreement with National to allow for Red Peak to be a referendum candidate potentially helps John Key out of a major difficulty and raises issues about the state of the Labour-Green relationship.
Welcome returns
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Date published: 6:42 am, September 25th, 2015 - 7 comments
Great to see two much needed voices back on line, Dita de Boni now writing for TVNZ, and John Campbell doing what he does best for RNZ. (Update with Andrea Vance’s more to TVNZ).
Open mike 25/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 25th, 2015 - 57 comments
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Daily Review 24/09/2015
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Date published: 6:13 pm, September 24th, 2015 - 83 comments
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OIA on Zero Hours reveals just what an attack on workers it is.
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Date published: 11:39 am, September 24th, 2015 - 53 comments
We have the documents leading up to the what can only be described as a dreadful piece of law legalising employment agreements which tie workers to an employer without any of the reciprocity of guaranteed hours of work. At a time like now – where work in this country is so badly paid, with so little protection – we get this.
Auckland Council Mayoral candidates – Mark Thomas
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Date published: 9:00 am, September 24th, 2015 - 21 comments
Mark Thomas who has close ties with the National Party has announced that he is going to run for the Auckland Mayoralty next year.
Government by Twitter
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Date published: 7:02 am, September 24th, 2015 - 66 comments
We have passed an interesting milestone in the evolution of NZ politics. Key’s poll-driven pandering has just been taken to the next level. Political / media dinosaurs will never be able to dismiss “The Twitterati” again.
Open mike 24/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 24th, 2015 - 122 comments
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Daily Review 23/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, September 23rd, 2015 - 28 comments
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Flagging a dead horse
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Date published: 12:31 pm, September 23rd, 2015 - 213 comments
Gareth Morgan pulls no punches on the flag fiasco, and a breaking story on the Greens’ move to add Red Peak.
Paula Bennett’s loopy rules do not actually exist
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Date published: 9:30 am, September 23rd, 2015 - 26 comments
The Government has admitted that at least some of the loopy rules mentioned by Paula Bennett in support of the Loopy Rules review do not actually exist.
Increase productivity. Make builders subject to criminal charges.
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Date published: 8:51 am, September 23rd, 2015 - 97 comments
Nick Smith is being his usual dickhead self again suggesting that self-certifying electricians, directly subject to criminal prosecution, are the same as self-certifying builders who do not. The Government’s rules reduction taskforce is repeating the same mantras from the 1990s that lead directly to the destruction of productivity by National’s policies to create leaky buildings.
Folding on the TPP
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Date published: 7:02 am, September 23rd, 2015 - 39 comments
As last ditch efforts to pass the TPP continue, Key is softening us up to sign a bad deal. Coincidentally, two articles yesterday highlight the risks to NZ.
Open mike 23/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 23rd, 2015 - 22 comments
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Daily Review 22/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, September 22nd, 2015 - 13 comments
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Pandas for everyone
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Date published: 1:25 pm, September 22nd, 2015 - 56 comments
John Key is trying to divert attention away from the numerous problems the country is facing by talking about pandas.
Let Ioane Stay
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Date published: 12:18 pm, September 22nd, 2015 - 35 comments
Ioane Teitiota lives with his family in New Zealand, he works in New Zealand and his children were born in New Zealand but he does not have residence in New Zealand. The Government wants him to return to Kiribati even though that Island is suffering from climate change. Updated with comment from John Key.
Is this what Key meant by investing in research?
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Date published: 8:56 am, September 22nd, 2015 - 32 comments
Yesterday Key listed, among the “achievements” of his government for this term: “investing in … research and development”. Was this an example of what he had in mind?
Housing Corp’s privatisation by stealth
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Date published: 7:47 am, September 22nd, 2015 - 15 comments
One News has discovered that over the past five years Housing Corporation has divested itself of 2,472 houses at the same time that the need for social housing has escalated.
Open mike 22/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 22nd, 2015 - 234 comments
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Daily Review 21/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, September 21st, 2015 - 18 comments
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Cameron’s political pork
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Date published: 11:52 am, September 21st, 2015 - 102 comments
David Cameron is having a bad day. A very bad day.
The flag poll
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Date published: 7:47 am, September 21st, 2015 - 90 comments
OK I confess I’m only writing this post because the chance to use that title tickled my fancy. But anyway – almost 70% of us oppose changing the flag.
Fact checking Key on government performance
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Date published: 7:01 am, September 21st, 2015 - 22 comments
A year after the last election John Key lists his government’s achievements. It’s a pretty desperate effort.
Open mike 21/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 21st, 2015 - 50 comments
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Briefing Papers (AUT)
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Date published: 12:09 pm, September 20th, 2015 - 5 comments
As our media becomes increasingly shallow, you might be looking for some solid content reading on a quiet Sunday. Check out Briefing Papers from AUT.
Twelve long months
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Date published: 9:03 am, September 20th, 2015 - 103 comments
Twelve months on from the last election and that brighter future we were promised has not happened.
Open mike 20/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 20th, 2015 - 73 comments
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The Nation: On Paddy Gower being impatient
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Date published: 3:36 pm, September 19th, 2015 - 59 comments
The Nation has been putting highlights up on Youtube. The one that caught my attention was Paddy Gower not listening, and redefining his question partway through. Eventually Andrew Little had to force the ever interrupting Paddy Gower to stop and listen to the answer.
Bugger the Truth – Getting elected means fooling the poeple
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Date published: 1:15 pm, September 19th, 2015 - 34 comments
So, its is not that the voters are idiots, as some suggest the Left are claiming, it is that the Right deliberately lie and mislead to get a vote, on false pretenses. It is the Right who constantly treats voters as gullible idiots, And a media, strangled by shrinking budgets and reduced personnel with less and less time to research rather than regurgitate. Couple that with an increase in non-journalists hogging the space set aside for reporting and elucidating news events… what chance the voter?
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