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Date published: 8:27 am, December 16th, 2014 - 89 comments
As anticipated, the Sydney cafe siege was caused by a lone nutter with a dubious history. He committed suicide by cop apparently after killing a hostage. Meanwhile we have had opportunistic jerkoffs like National MP Mark Mitchell displaying their paranoid fantasies (probably as urine dribbles down their leg) to justify recent poorly written and rushed legislation.
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Date published: 8:11 am, December 16th, 2014 - 84 comments
The Sydney siege has now finished. Three people including the gunman are dead. And it is clear that the siege was caused by a lone person rather than a terrorist group.
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Date published: 6:45 am, December 16th, 2014 - 75 comments
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Date published: 1:39 pm, December 15th, 2014 - 246 comments
Up to 20 civilian hostages are being held in a Sydney chocolate shop in a developing hostage situation.
Update: The siege is over, reports suggest two dead and three injured.
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Date published: 12:51 pm, December 15th, 2014 - 6 comments
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Date published: 10:00 am, December 15th, 2014 - 6 comments
Well worth a look. A straight talker, with a sense of humour, freshness and vigour.
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Date published: 8:49 am, December 15th, 2014 - 155 comments
The Nats have finished focus-grouping their attack line on Andrew Little and are moving in to deployment. As narrated by Twitter this morning…
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Date published: 8:16 am, December 15th, 2014 - 12 comments
John Key’s only formal apology this year was to serial privacy breacher Cameron Slater for breaching his privacy. Not to any of the victims of dirty politics or to any of the victims of this Government’s policies. Why is it that National is continuing to allow Slater to undermine the Prime Minister’s position so effectively?
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Date published: 6:08 am, December 15th, 2014 - 84 comments
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Date published: 8:55 am, December 14th, 2014 - 65 comments
Inequality has been very much in the news recently. Friday saw the publication of two really excellent pieces that between them provide a comprehensive, if depressing overview.
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Date published: 7:48 am, December 14th, 2014 - 70 comments
While I have come to expect nothing from the annual climate change talks, this years’ failure is particularly galling because of the active role that NZ played in it.
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Date published: 7:00 am, December 14th, 2014 - 117 comments
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Date published: 10:24 am, December 13th, 2014 - 65 comments
Two New Zealands will shortly celebrate Christmas, the poor and the rich. Here’s a crazy thought…
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Date published: 8:50 am, December 13th, 2014 - 28 comments
Herald journo John Drinnan seems all excited about Freed. That’s the dirty politics model that you’re celebrating John. You really want journalists to become pawns to paid attack politics? WTF?
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Date published: 7:30 am, December 13th, 2014 - 120 comments
The last Roy Morgan poll for the year provides Andrew Little and Labour with welcome news.
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Date published: 7:00 am, December 13th, 2014 - 48 comments
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Date published: 2:06 pm, December 12th, 2014 - 26 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?
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Date published: 9:39 am, December 12th, 2014 - 16 comments
On RNZ this morning PSA National Secretary Richard Wagstaff criticised Bill English for his misleading rhetoric about rises in “average wages”. NZ’s income and wealth gaps have increased in recent decades. The lowest income remain low; the top earners get big salary increases.
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Date published: 7:50 am, December 12th, 2014 - 181 comments
Message to today’s anonymous Herald editorialist – competition doesn’t close the inequality gap, it widens it. In other news, black is black not white, and water is wet. How can you write such drivel?
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Date published: 6:30 am, December 12th, 2014 - 136 comments
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Date published: 4:18 pm, December 11th, 2014 - 55 comments
New author Mandy Hager joins us with some reflections on having become a grandmother: “So that’s why I’m speaking out now, every opportunity I get. Not because I like the exposure (shudder), but because I love this tiny little person and I will fight for his future, come what may. It’s the right thing to do. …”
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Date published: 12:12 pm, December 11th, 2014 - 272 comments
Andrew Little has wasted no time in making his mark, not just on the Labour Party but on New Zealand politics. What is already clear is that here is a Labour leader who is thinking seriously about what it means to be in government. A striking instance of this hard-headed approach to his job as […]
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Date published: 10:45 am, December 11th, 2014 - 56 comments
finally, we have the release of the report that documents interrogation techniques carried out by the CIA. it’s pretty awful stuff.
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Date published: 9:18 am, December 11th, 2014 - 31 comments
The lied about surplus in the run up to the 2014 National Election is looking like matching Penn and Teller for magical skills. It’s the ultimate disappearing act. Unlike bad economic figures when Labour is in Government, this isn’t National’s fault. Bill English says so. It’s all down to a whole lot of unusual and […]
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Date published: 8:25 am, December 11th, 2014 - 17 comments
A good speech from Green MP James Shaw in Parliament’s closing session yesterday.
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Date published: 6:30 am, December 11th, 2014 - 219 comments
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Date published: 10:45 pm, December 10th, 2014 - 36 comments
Various Tory voices, fresh from finding Len Brown guilty of needing a wee; now find he’s to blame for failing to get his visionary Central Rail Loop started on time, with its delayed start to 2018. But surely the blame lies not with him, but squarely with National and Key for refusing to pay their share until 2020.
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Date published: 3:11 pm, December 10th, 2014 - 4 comments
A last-minute, urgent appeal from Phil Twyford – oppose the sell off of state houses – today!
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Date published: 3:05 pm, December 10th, 2014 - 95 comments
A guest post from BLiP on Labour’s support for the “terrorism” legislation.
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Date published: 1:58 pm, December 10th, 2014 - 85 comments
The normal rules apply.
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Date published: 12:09 pm, December 10th, 2014 - 16 comments
Right-wingers recently got all hot and bothered about the idea of “recall elections”. Perhaps we do need them, not for the scandal of a Mayor having a bathroom, but for governments that systematically and cynically deny the truth, to the detriment of us all.
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