Shearer was repeatedly asked that given the government was selling the shares wouldn't he prefer they remain in the hands of NZ investors - a classic Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife Question and thus classically unanswerable. To my mind he should simply...
The Canadian experience is salutory. http://richardschmitt.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/do-you-think-that-globalcorporations.html The prevention by big drug companies of the Canadian manufacture of generic drugs (what price Pharmac?); the enforcement of toxic ...
Quite the contrary, they're doing an excellent job of ruining the economy.
Even if Key were driven to relieve Banks of his ministerial portfolios, there is no guarantee Banks would consequently resign his seat. Key cannot kick him out of Parliament, and Banks would probably have the chutzpah/arrogance and delusions of a change in...
Somebody in this morning's Press pointed to the nice irony of Maurice Williamson's announcing the Crafar sale while wearing an ANZAC poppy made in China...
Sounds like a return to provincial government...
Does anybody else get tired of the meme “efficiencies” being trotted out so regularly as an adjunct to the announcement of job cuts in the public service. Why can’t they tell the truth? A reduced work force whether front or rear line necessarily equates to...
Who on earth would be surprised? Straight out of the Shock Doctrine Handbook!
This would have to be on the BBC. Under NZ's commercial broadcasting model there is no place for "full-length television intervews" especially with a politician. We might get the odd sound bite followed by vox populi reaction in a supermarket and even ...
To be honest? So passe. Actually, the term du jour is ak-shully.
It would be interesting to know just how many more mine inspectors they propose to cut...
Actually it was demonic environment, I thought he said.
I keep hearing that John Key is the Nat's Biggest Asset. Surely it would make sense then to sell him as well? Or, perhaps, he's already been sold.
And so weaselly done...
We know how the "free market" is coping with Christchurch. Insurance companies running for cover and every shabby bolthole they can find to avoid their obligations, especially when it comes to providing the mandated insurance for new buildings or new ...
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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