TV3 Leaders Debate is about to start (hopefully Gower is less unwatchable than Hosking): http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/election/2017/09/livestream-newshub-leaders-debate.html [edit] livestream is working now, I missed the opening question but quality seems...
You don't see the problem , nothing I'm going to type can convince you. So I can't be bothered with this anymore: Whatever.
DtB I entirely agree that there should be a moratorium on publishing polls after writ day. Not just because of the bandwagon effect, but also because of the amount of limited political reporting space they take away from other events. However, I am not so ...
Ironic much? Spokesman and former Act MP David Garrett said... "We don't have to be a society which aids and abets or even tolerates those that sneer and laugh at its most basic values." https://www.odt.co.nz/news/election-2017/bennett-apologises-pm ...
You could try reading the thread up at comment 6,
This was supposed to be out in April, but it took the Green Party to release it (and I imagine, someone in the Environment Ministry frustrated with the long delay to leak it to them). It is long (284 pages, though the last 26 are references - I've copied ...
Also the systematic underfunding of the health system by billions of dollars can be seen as a tax paid in human misery. Similarly with the asset sales of state housing at a time of housing crisis. But these taxes don't appear as accounting items on ...
This twitter feed had a link to the longer version of that video (on facebook). It is also well worth following for the artwork emphasising the written accounts of some other experiences with the; “toxic culture at Work and Income" (though it does make cut...
Thanks for the analysis as always swordfish. It is a shame it was posted at eleven on a Sunday night, so might be missed by many - hopefully you can cut and paste it in a dedicated poll thread later. I found this interactive graph while looking about for ...
ScottGN That is a good point. One thing no political poll captures (that I know of - maybe Horizon with being online rather than via phone), is the voting intentions of those overseas. This is a part of the electorate the GP strongly targets, and have ...
alwyn "Private cars are very little used"? Except, of course, for those reduced to living out of their vehicle - the current housing crisis would be much worse if that wasn't an option. Also, even standing still; they do act as additional storage space for...
I saw that it was Boag and Pagani and just couldn't be bothered watching that video; Right and Righter. She really compared Ardern to Trump? Wow. If we're doing Trump comparisons, then Key is a much better fit; disregard for truth, excessive wealth (though...
lurgee It is strange how; "adult" has come to mean; juvenile titillation, for example; "adult films" which are only watchable by adolescents. That's not your fault of course, but it does mean that the phrase; "adult fidget spinner" is an unfortunate one to...
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/q-and-a Coleman seemed to do better than yesterday - his voice not so croaky and a bit more comfortable anyway. [At 6:06] "I get dozens of letters from people who are uh absolutely pleased with the care they are getting", is ...
No one who has met her, or even heard her talk.
There is video, but I couldn't stomach watching it. Also a longer summary, but I thought this from Henry Cooke (at 11:22am) was pithier That was a phenomenal press conference. Paula Bennett said drug dealers have "fewer" human rights than others and the ...
That Sunday Star Times piece of Milne's seems to be an edited version of this longer article that I read earlier this morning: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96339415/the-deeply-private-life-of-winston-peters Of the two, I think I prefer the ...
Cinny Thanks for the panel discussion link, I turned off after the debate. Had caughtup on the starting few minutes of the debate already, but good to get the timecode for Gowers smirk to the camera (at 14:55) after his; "good ideas don't cost money" line....
Ethica Clark was good, Coleman seemed a bit rattled (or maybe; ironically, had a cold - something was off with his voice anyway), but he's never been good at fronting up to the camera. One thing you missed about Clark's history is that he was Associate ...
lurgee Really? You think calling Adern; "a new shiny object", is less objectifying than; "a sparkly young thing". Wow - just wow! As for; "adult fidget spinner", you do get just how obscene that sounds, don't you? [this paragraph then continued into ...
Do people often compare blokes to bread? Oh right; "stale" rhyming with male (as you did in the previous paragraph). Lots of other things than bread can go stale - cake, beer, causal objectification of a person as a; "thing", the phrase; "for goodness sake...
I missed the start, but it is on now - Clark vs Coleman (Gower moderating, but seeming more at home in studio than hall): http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows.html
Cinny I can't see a link on the Newshub/ Nation site, may check again at 9:30 to see if it is livestreamed (no TV unless I go visiting which mightn't be appreciated this early on a Saturday morning). Hopefully, someone (probably Clark) asks Coleman about ...
dou You started off; "predicting the final result from the the latest polls" for the GP. That is exactly why I have been discussing the period a month out from the election: on election day 6% would be nirvana as the usual Greens dropoff from the polling ...
dou A “month out” not; "specifically for the last polls", that; "We are... 3 weeks away" is precisely the point that you so spectacularly missed. Also note than we had an election in 2014 not 2015; even primary school level reading should be able to tell ...
The Real Matthew Are you serious, or is this a comedy portrayal of how an total greedhead would react to poverty? I really can't tell. Green Party policy would... create massive division in our society between those who work and those who don’t. Did the ...
dou A "month out" not; "in [the] last month". Also; " the dropoff was less noticeable", not undetectable. Sigh. Well if you need someone to do the work for you, in 2011: 9.5% Roy Morgan 26 September – 9 October 9.5% Roy Morgan 10–23 October 9.5% Herald-...
Ovid When doing the rounds of the students in Dunedin last election (I haven't been able to do it this time due to life circumstances), we found that a lot them were enrolled in their parent's electorates. That is probably still the case this time around -...
dou That is only if you go off the polls immediately preceding the election. If you take the ones from a month out, the dropoff was less noticeable in 2014 (except the 16% Roy Morgan, all the rest are nearer to the 11% the GP ended up with). In 2011 there ...
The one advantage I can see to voting NZF is that they are solidly against the TPPA, so are the GP of course, but not so much Labour. https://itsourfuture.org.nz/ten-demands/ If Labour have the option it would seem most likely to deal with both; the GP (...
McFlock Labour do have form when it comes to; "mass confiscation of assets and land", the Seabed and Foreshore act was exactly that to many Māori. Not that I recall the tories have much problem with this, and the concessions in the Marine and Coastal Area ...
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