Women who describe themselves as ballsy are saying they are like men. That's the point of using that term. Hence the post - Goff is deliberately using a term to that describes strength in terms of gender. He could just have easily used a gender-neutral ...
Uppity wimmin with no sense of timing derailing faultless Labour on the Brink of a Brilliant Come Back. Next thing you know they'll be wanting wimmin's issues like abortion back on the agenda. Feck'n bad sports ruining everything. Why don't they just STFU ...
I'm afraid I have to go with Matthew Hooten's assessment (see Dim Post): "National was deliberately trying to kill the audience for Labour and the Greens. Brilliant strategy, executed even better." Because nothing else makes sense.
Yep all those no hoper solo teenage mums like Metiria Turei, sitting on their arses at the taxpayers expense, breeding for business. Wot they need is someone to crack down on them. (But seriously - the DPB is on a par with those who have been successful? ...
His supporters don't care about the policy details, just so long as he promises to give young people and beneficiaries a hard time. I mean, if they cared about the details they would know it is illegal for any retailer to sell anyone under 20 alcohol and ...
Why is everyone assuming these are by Labour/the left? I an just as easily see them being spread by a pissed-off Rodney Hide supporter, or a supporter of ACT who is annoyed at how their party has been taken over by Brash and Banks.
Urm, back to Don Brash - scouting around for a new job at an international agency/bank?? Sees no future deserving of his talents in NZ?
They're both in the fulltime paid work force so the kid goes to daycare no matter who pays. Just now it's free - i.e. paid for by taxpayer - giving them a bit of extra money each week for their hobby of property speculation. Far better that money goes ...
"I don’t recall any middle income tax cut and I don’t recall any structural budget deficit (we were still paying off debt post 2005). It’s my understanding that our economic woes spring not from re-distributive policies, but from a speculative housing ...
It's okay, I've had a vasectomy you know.
Close the gap with Australia
High standards for his ministers
Not to cut any frontline public services
Yep, because our approach to alcohol has been *such* a success!
Efficiency is desirable but not at the expense of effectiveness. Which is why each case needs to be looked at on its merits - there are some examples where small independent agencies have a purpose that is lost if they lose their size and independence* - ...
I think the problem here is one of ideology and fashion. First, it was fashionable to point out all the problems of scale and conglomeration. And the fashionable solution was to decentralise. Then the problems of decentralisation were identified and so ...
Shame they didn't get him to say "interest rates"
What makes more noise than one dinosaur...?
Thanks Wikileaks. Again.
Fran recommends he becomes the next Roger Kerr: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10721683 I'd vote for that!
The Waitangi Day celebration should be moved around the country. Every ten years back at Waitangi them off to a Marae in Invercargill, Hamilton, Christchurch, Napier, Dunedin, New Plymouth, Picton, Palmerston North, Greymouth before going back to Waitangi ...
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