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  1. Craig wins rehearing in Williams defamation case

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 5:09 pm, April 12th, 2017 -  18 comments
    Categories: colin craig
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    Colin Craig has had a major success in court with Justice Katz ordering a retrial on the basis that the award of damages by the Jury was excessive.

  2. Warnings on Auckland Housing

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:03 am, March 31st, 2017 -  60 comments
    Categories: housing
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    Warnings on the state of the Auckland housing market are coming thick and fast now. People who bought recently (at the peak of prices and low interest rates) are likely to get burned.

  3. China is in New Zealand to stay

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 1:06 pm, March 28th, 2017 -  39 comments
    Categories: China, Globalisation, International, us politics
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    At a time when the United States is reducing its diplomatic capacity and its willingness to enter into International Treaties New Zealand’s willingness to deal with China places it in an almost unique position in the western world.

  4. Spinoff series – rent week

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 12:51 pm, March 27th, 2017 -  58 comments
    Categories: class war, housing, journalism
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    While much of the coverage of the housing crisis focuses on buyers, the situation facing renters is just as bad. Last week The Spinoff ran an excellent series on renting in NZ: “It’s getting desperate out there”.

  5. Nick Smith is a disgrace

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 1:00 pm, March 14th, 2017 -  32 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Environment, national, Parliament, Politics, same old national, sustainability, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    In a functioning democracy Nick Smith’s handling of the Resource Management Bill should result in him losing his ministerial warrant.

  6. International Women’s Day, 47 years on, how far have we come?

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:22 pm, March 8th, 2017 -  50 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, feminism
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    Test of a speech given by feminist icon Sandra Coney on the state of the feminist movement in 2017

  7. The gender pay gap – grandstanding but no action

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:10 am, March 8th, 2017 -  73 comments
    Categories: gender, human rights, paula bennett, sexism, wages
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    A new report has some really interesting findings on the gender pay gap. Paula Bennett engaged in a bit of grandstanding, but it rings completely hollow given National’s history on the issue.

    Happy International Women’s Day.

  8. Slightly smug about MMP

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:00 am, March 4th, 2017 -  22 comments
    Categories: accountability, Deep stuff, democratic participation, election 2017, International, MMP, Politics, uk politics, us politics
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    2017 will be New Zealand’s eighth election under MMP, over 22 years. With very strong democratically elected governments appearing right across the world digging in for the long term, it’s useful to take a moment for MMP.

  9. Green Party Member’s Bill to protect freshwater

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:35 am, February 27th, 2017 -  16 comments
    Categories: Environment, farming, greens, water
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    The Green Party has launched a member’s bill that will keep water from underground sources, called aquifers, safe from pollution and contamination.

  10. He Kawenata ki Waenga i Te Roopu MANA me Te Paati Māori

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 5:51 pm, February 20th, 2017 -  54 comments
    Categories: election 2017, elections, mana-party, Maori Issues, maori party, Maori seats, MMP, Politics
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    The agreement between the Mana Movement and the Māori Party.

  11. Government will not support victims of domestic violence

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:33 am, February 14th, 2017 -  19 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, greens, labour, maori party, national, peter dunne, same old national, united future
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    The Government is refusing to support Jan Logie’s bill aimed at helping the victims of domestic violence despite the bill receiving support from the ANZ and Business New Zealand supporting the bill going at least to select committee.

  12. Is this the impossibility turning point?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:11 am, February 14th, 2017 -  49 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, democratic participation, Economy, Globalisation, labour, national, poverty, workers' rights
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    There’s a wonderful fiction still propelling the world that the 21st century will bring an ever-expanding arc of freedom and prosperity to the vast majority of humanity but the reality seems to be anything but.

  13. Sad

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:30 am, February 9th, 2017 -  109 comments
    Categories: afghanistan, us politics, war
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    Ad wonders how left wing Trump supporters are now feeling.

  14. Minimum wage increase doesn’t meet real costs (the CPI is broken)

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, January 25th, 2017 -  53 comments
    Categories: class war, cost of living, national, poverty, spin, wages
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    Any increase in the minimum wage is better than nothing, but National’s increases have not kept pace with the real cost increases (notably housing) faced by low income earners. That is why we are seeing the rise of the working poor, and increases in homelessness and poverty.

  15. Pauline Hanson declares jihad on Vegemite

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:59 pm, December 27th, 2016 -  37 comments
    Categories: australian politics, International, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Pauline Hanson is upset that vegemite has achieved Halaal status.

  16. Israel threatens sanctions against New Zealand

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:31 am, December 27th, 2016 -  132 comments
    Categories: International, us politics
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    Israel has responded to New Zealand’s principled stand in seeking to uphold the rights of Palestinian citizens by threatening sanctions.

  17. Well done Murray McCully

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:48 pm, December 24th, 2016 -  287 comments
    Categories: national, national/act government, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    Murray McCully has had New Zealand co sponsor a successful Security Council resolution condemning Israel for violating International Law through its resettlement policy.

  18. Military assessment of climate change

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 12:44 pm, December 2nd, 2016 -  11 comments
    Categories: climate change, defence, disaster, global warming, war
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    Guardian: “Unchecked global warming is greatest threat to 21st-century security where mass migration could be ‘new normal’, say senior military”.

  19. Politik on Labour/ Greens

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 7:57 am, November 24th, 2016 -  18 comments
    Categories: act, greens, labour, mana, maori party, national, nz first, peter dunne, Politics, united future
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    I was rather amused reading Politik’s “Despite the pact Shaw takes on Robertson“ and was struck by the strange way that some political commentators (and probably some politicians) view the world at the political coalface. They really need to start to think about political parties as being like any other organisation. Tactical compromises without a strategic focus will always kill any organisation – eventually.

  20. Beware of Spin Doctors and Spin Professors

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:01 am, November 13th, 2016 -  97 comments
    Categories: making shit up, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter, you couldn't make this shit up
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    On the same day that the pollsters in the world’s most advanced democracy were shown to have got things terribly wrong a Professor in New Zealand says that National will win next year because of polling data.

  21. Labour’s Auckland light rail announcement

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:38 am, October 31st, 2016 -  87 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, infrastructure, labour, national, national/act government, same old national
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    National is criticising Labour for releasing policy during an election campaign.

  22. Tax-cuts or… Education

    Written By:  Ben Clark -  Date published: 8:24 am, October 28th, 2016 -  6 comments
    Categories: education
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    National’s dangling tax cuts, but there are far more important things to be spending public money on.  Today: Education.

  23. Darren Watson 2 John Key 0

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:03 am, October 21st, 2016 -  140 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, brand key, election 2014, john key, Media, national, Politics, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The Court of Appeal has ruled that Darren Watson’s Planet Key song should not have been banned during the 2014 election campaign.

  24. Helen Kelly: Just plain good

    Written By:  Rob Egan -  Date published: 9:00 am, October 14th, 2016 -  41 comments
    Categories: health and safety, leadership, Left, Unions, workers' rights
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    I’m going to miss you, mate.

  25. The crime spike

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:30 am, October 12th, 2016 -  24 comments
    Categories: Judith Collins, national, national/act government, Politics, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    Who would have thought that a surge in homelessness would result in a spike in crime, and that a dramatic increase in the number of people with no or compromised housing situations would cause an increase in burglaries, robberies and assaults.

  26. Chloe King – John Key, I am a low waged worker, and neither “lazy” nor “drug addled”

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:39 pm, September 9th, 2016 -  254 comments
    Categories: business, class, jobs, john key, national, paula bennett, Politics, same old national, unemployment, wages, workers' rights
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    Blogger and social activist Chloe King, one of the hundreds of thousands of low waged workers in this country was devastated by John Key’s comments suggesting that she and others were lazy and had no work ethic. This is her response.

  27. Little’s Big Parliamentary ‘Member’

    Written By:  Ben Clark -  Date published: 11:18 pm, September 5th, 2016 -  32 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little
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    Andrew Little fully fronts up.

  28. Take the power back

    Written By:  Helen Kelly -  Date published: 10:26 am, September 5th, 2016 -  49 comments
    Categories: democratic participation, local body elections, workers' rights
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    The Jobs That Count campaign isn’t just about Talley’s AFFCO. It’s about getting local councils that work for all of us and make sure that the big businesses in our communities give back to us.

  29. Only unsustainable net migration fuels “growth”

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 10:22 am, September 2nd, 2016 -  107 comments
    Categories: accountability, im/migration, national, nz first, Politics, same old national, Social issues, wages
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    Our National dipshit ministers have decided to start a new growth industry. They importing low-skilled to extract their savings, using them to generate artificial heat in the service economy and to slow wage growth. On the way through they’re also screwing the housing market. Our current net permanent long-term migration is completely unsustainable. Perhaps it is time to vote NZ First?

  30. Free Petrol Pt IV

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 6:25 am, August 5th, 2016 -  92 comments
    Categories: climate change, energy, Environment, global warming, infrastructure, political alternatives, science, transport, vision
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    Part IV of IV

  31. Mama said

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:12 am, August 4th, 2016 -  1 comment
    Categories: blogs
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    Mama said was the top blog listed in NZ this month on Open Parachute. I have to say that I loved Emily Writes explanation about her long absence from writing blogs after writing a viral review of Tarzan. But it is just the essence of why most of us blog.

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