NRT: Parliamentary Privilege vs Suppression Orders
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Date published: 4:08 pm, February 10th, 2015 - 27 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on the most interesting event at the first session of Parliament for 2015. The Speaker’s actions open up an interesting can of legal worms…
The SkyCity Deal
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Date published: 1:11 pm, February 10th, 2015 - 76 comments
Eighteen months ago Stephen Joyce said about the Sky City Convention Centre deal that anything not written down was not happening. It appears that he was wrong as John Key softens us up for more public money being spent on a private convention centre.
Campbell on separatism scaremongering
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Date published: 10:36 am, February 10th, 2015 - 35 comments
The excellent Gordon Campbell on Key’s divisive and opportunistic lines on “Maori separatism”.
The Sallies do not like Government’s housing policy
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Date published: 8:30 am, February 10th, 2015 - 61 comments
The Salvation Army has all but ruled out being involved in the Government’s Social Housing unless it is provided with capital. And if divestment occurs it considers that tenants should have a role in governance of the houses they live in.
How does #nzpol do on Facebook?
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Date published: 8:30 am, February 10th, 2015 - 19 comments
Feinstein Doak has a post up with the Top Political Facebook Posts of 2014, and the results are interesting.
Open mike 10/02/2015
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Date published: 6:40 am, February 10th, 2015 - 186 comments
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Captain’s Call
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Date published: 7:32 pm, February 9th, 2015 - 53 comments
Leaving Mike Sabin in charge of the Law and Order Select Committee was certainly a captain’s call by John Key. Just like Tony Abbott’s award of a knighthood to the Duke (as if he needed more fruit salad), this was a judgment call. And it does call Key’s judgment into question. It’s not about when he knew what he knew, it’s about what he did when he knew.
Locking in housing inequality
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Date published: 3:20 pm, February 9th, 2015 - 37 comments
We are in the process of locking in inequality through the intergenerational ownership of housing, thus squeezing more and more mobility out of society.
Cult of “personality”
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Date published: 8:36 am, February 9th, 2015 - 56 comments
The latest bout of National’s cult of “personality” was on show at yesterday’s Big Gay Out
Hide vs Armstrong on Sabin
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Date published: 7:11 am, February 9th, 2015 - 114 comments
In which Rodney Hide writes the column that The Herald’s senior political reporter should have written…
Open mike 09/02/2015
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Date published: 6:30 am, February 9th, 2015 - 330 comments
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The War Club Family
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Date published: 7:35 pm, February 8th, 2015 - 73 comments
There’s a fascinating article in the latest New Statesman titled “An Empire that speaks English: the right’s dream of a new world order.” Suddenly UK Foreign Minister Philip Hammond’s recent visit here makes sense. So does John Key’s references to sending troops to Iraq on behalf of the “club” or the “family” – he’s at the heart of the Empire.
Is Tony’s tenure terminal?
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Date published: 2:41 pm, February 8th, 2015 - 47 comments
Over in Australia a spill motion scheduled for tomorrow may end Tony Abbott’s reign. Former PM Julia Gillard who famously lectured Abbott on his misogyny must be grinning from ear to ear. Update: Abbott has survived with the vote reported to be 61-39 against a spill. I suspect the left will be pleased …
Tino Rangatiratanga
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Date published: 7:51 am, February 8th, 2015 - 309 comments
It has been claimed that Andrew Little has advocated for Maori to have law making powers. What he has done is reflect on a recent Waitangi Tribunal decision which concluded that Maori never ceded sovereignty to the Crown and properly concluded that this is an issue that needs to be considered.
Open Mike 08/02/2015
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Date published: 7:16 am, February 8th, 2015 - 80 comments
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A concise description of the problems in the Middle East
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Date published: 5:18 pm, February 7th, 2015 - 40 comments
The complexity of the current Middle East situation explained in a single letter to the editor.
17 year old kiwi sits atop the world
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Date published: 4:17 pm, February 7th, 2015 - 15 comments
The only person to receive 100% in the world for her work was a young kiwi with only two years background. Read more here.
Police told the Government about Sabin’s problems
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Date published: 7:30 am, February 7th, 2015 - 218 comments
Police Commissioner Mike Bush has essentially confirmed that under the no surprises policy the Police told either Anne Tolley or Michael Woodhouse or both about the Police investigation into Mike Sabin. The issue will be when they were told. If this occurred before the time that Labour told the Prime Minister’s office about Sabin’s difficulties the veracity of what John Key has told us will have to be questioned.
Open mike 07/02/2015
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Date published: 7:15 am, February 7th, 2015 - 135 comments
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Weekend social 06/02/2015
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Date published: 2:00 pm, February 6th, 2015 - 28 comments
Weekend social is for non political chat. What’s on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can’t we all just get along?
Guest Post – Waitangi Day, build a bridge and get over it
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Date published: 8:48 am, February 6th, 2015 - 30 comments
A Guest Post by David Meech presenting an irreverent view of Waitangi day, and New Zealand history and culture.
Open mike 06/02/2015
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Date published: 7:00 am, February 6th, 2015 - 230 comments
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Better to Jaw Jaw than War War
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Date published: 5:36 pm, February 5th, 2015 - 112 comments
Perhaps John Key should consider a Churchillian thought before he rushes to send our young to die in Iraq.
A calculated feeding of the beasts within
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Date published: 2:13 pm, February 5th, 2015 - 76 comments
The social democracy of my youth has radically collapsed into our current culture of individualism, privatisation and personal greed.
The lie about productivity and wages
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Date published: 12:30 pm, February 5th, 2015 - 49 comments
The Productivity Commission has a new report out which looks at changes in the labour income share, or LIS, from 1978 to 2010. The labour income share is described in the report’s summary as: The labour income share (LIS) measures the split of national income between workers who supply labour and the owners of capital. […]
Orewa – 11 years on
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Date published: 9:48 am, February 5th, 2015 - 51 comments
Has it really been 11 years since Brash’s infamous Orewa speech? Yesterday Gareth Morgan gave a very different kind of speech there…
AFFCO Talley’s and Jobs That Count
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Date published: 7:21 am, February 5th, 2015 - 9 comments
Darien Fenton at Jobs That Count brings us the details of the fight for decent pay and conditions at Talley’s meat processing plants
Open mike 05/02/2015
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Date published: 6:40 am, February 5th, 2015 - 256 comments
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Local Leadership
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Date published: 10:26 pm, February 4th, 2015 - 3 comments
The Labour Local Government Council ran a hui last Friday in Wellington. I went along and it was one of the better Labour events I have been to in a long time – community-based organisers sharing and discussing what works. Crosby/Textor is onto it too.
Just what Christchurch needed
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Date published: 4:25 pm, February 4th, 2015 - 14 comments
Our thoughts are with Christchurch as a huge fire rages to the west of the city.
So now it’s a family not a club
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Date published: 3:48 pm, February 4th, 2015 - 114 comments
John Key wanted to be in the Five Eyes “club”, but I guess that didn’t focus group well, so now we’re being fed a new line – “family”.
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