National Ltd™ Enabling Corporate Murderers
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Date published: 7:17 am, August 14th, 2015 - 12 comments
But wait there’s more . . . National Ltd™’s attitude to worker safety has, it seems, been successfully installed into the very government agency responsible for holding employers to account for worker deaths.
Open mike 14/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 14th, 2015 - 47 comments
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Daily Review 13/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, August 13th, 2015 - 27 comments
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Climate change – New Zealand not even a fast follower
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Date published: 10:14 am, August 13th, 2015 - 48 comments
Recent analysis of different Governments’ greenhouse gas reduction pledges for the Paris Conference suggests that New Zealand’s is behind that of Windmill hating Tony Abbott’s Australia.
TPPA Protests this week – Its our future
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Date published: 9:00 am, August 13th, 2015 - 33 comments
A large anti TPPA protest is scheduled for Saturday in Auckland and throughout the country during this week.
David Seymour is a Puppet
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Date published: 8:07 am, August 13th, 2015 - 77 comments
Bruce Robertson and Key have played Seymour like a Puppet. It’s like this was all ready to go. Just needed the right person and the right time. And what better day than a day when Westpac again issues a warning about the predictable downturn in the economy that this Government has simply ignored while telling […]
Open mike 13/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 13th, 2015 - 90 comments
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Corbyn and the Overton Window
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Date published: 4:09 am, August 13th, 2015 - 100 comments
A recent YouGov poll in the Times predicts Jeremy Corbyn will win the UK Labour leadership on first preferences alone. If he does win, Corbyn will shift the “Overton Window” of acceptable ideas leftward in the face of formidable opposition.
Daily Review 12/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, August 12th, 2015 - 9 comments
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Andrew Little on climate change
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Date published: 4:00 pm, August 12th, 2015 - 51 comments
The Labour Leader gave a powerful speech to the Environmental Defence Society conference today.
Labour did it too
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Date published: 3:00 pm, August 12th, 2015 - 13 comments
Tautoko Mangō Mata has discovered the words to a mystery song buried deep in a Crosby Textor staff manual.
Free beer for all
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Date published: 10:46 am, August 12th, 2015 - 191 comments
Diversion alert. The Government considers that urgency should be given to changing the law to allow more beer to be drunk when the All Blacks are playing during the Rugby World Cup.
#Sheepgate and the war of metaphor
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Date published: 7:57 am, August 12th, 2015 - 96 comments
The war of metaphor requires the continuous repetition of a simple statement in the hope it becomes the accepted truth. Most of the time it works. But with #sheepgate it is starting to unravel.
Open mike 12/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 12th, 2015 - 103 comments
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Daily Review 11/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, August 11th, 2015 - 53 comments
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Sunshine Coast holiday a life changing experience for our Children
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Date published: 9:37 am, August 11th, 2015 - 139 comments
…is swimming all day in a pool at the luxurious Denarau suite of high class hotels a learning experience? Spending days in water parks in Queensland life expanding? Is this sufficient to justify thumbing your nose at our education system, its principles (and principals) and making teachers re-teach these children to catch them up? What happened to the notion of “one law for all”?
Open mike 11/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 11th, 2015 - 100 comments
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Daily Review 10/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, August 10th, 2015 - 34 comments
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“A new union to fight for the future of work”
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Date published: 5:00 pm, August 10th, 2015 - 48 comments
The two largest Labour Party affiliated unions are going to merge.
Colin Craig’s electoral return
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Date published: 4:32 pm, August 10th, 2015 - 43 comments
John Stringer has accused Colin Craig of filing a false electoral return. But even now it looks like the complaint may be doomed to failure.
#Talleyban. Standard Exclusive: MWU Blacklisted by Boss
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Date published: 10:07 am, August 10th, 2015 - 83 comments
Talleys has de-recognised the Meat Workers Union and refused to bargain with them. They have told the workers to set up a new, yellow union. Or else. Brighter Future? Not under National. This is what the recent changes in employment law were intended to achieve. It’s union busting in a brutal, thuggish form.
Jon Stewart – Bullsh$t is everywhere
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Date published: 8:25 am, August 10th, 2015 - 9 comments
From John Stewart’s last show a brief explanation of the Crosby Textor approach to politics.
Open mike 10/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 10th, 2015 - 186 comments
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Zero by 50
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Date published: 5:34 pm, August 9th, 2015 - 139 comments
In Copenhagen, our government committed itself, and by extension, us “To hold the increase in global temperature below two degrees Celsius and to take actions to meet this objective, consistent with the science and on the basis of equity”
And yet…
National’s terrible deal making
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Date published: 10:20 am, August 9th, 2015 - 114 comments
A brief analysis of a number of deals that National has negotiated suggests that its reputation as a supposedly tough dealmaker is misplaced.
Open mike 09/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 9th, 2015 - 80 comments
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Amy Adams is confused about Judicial appointments
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Date published: 11:12 am, August 8th, 2015 - 19 comments
Amy Adams has congratulated Chris Finlayson’s commitment to equality in Judicial appointments for the first all female Court of Appeal sitting. However each of the Judges had been appointed to the Judiciary by the last Labour Government. And Finlayson’s history of judicial appointments still favours male appointments.
250 to 300 Job Losses at Unitec in Auckland
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Date published: 10:23 am, August 8th, 2015 - 84 comments
Under Unitec’s new vision students will be known as Customers. Student services will be outsourced (overseas)
Aspiration statementTo be a world leader in contemporary applied learning and an agent of positive economic and social change.
Open mike 08/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 8th, 2015 - 96 comments
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Daily Review 07/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, August 7th, 2015 - 8 comments
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John Key’s brighter future
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Date published: 3:39 pm, August 7th, 2015 - 97 comments
As milk prices plunge and Fonterra’s expected payout is cut to a level that will cause most farms to run at a loss John Key’s promised brighter future is disappearing fast.
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