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  1. 60 tweeps to follow this election

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 9:30 am, August 26th, 2014 -  4 comments
    Categories: election 2014, Media, twitter
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    Bryce Edwards had his go at a list of the top 100 tweeters to follow this election, but with only 24 women making the cut he faced terrible accusations of “a perceived lack” of gender balance. The silver lining is that his follow-up post was chock-full of the women who complained! Pesky, pesky women, as […]

  2. The opening addresses of Election 2014

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 10:00 am, August 24th, 2014 -  32 comments
    Categories: colin craig, conservative party, election 2014, greens, internet mana party, labour, mana, national, nz first, united future
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    Last night the opening party political addresses were broadcast on TV One, simultaneous with an All Blacks match and a live-tweeted crowd viewing of Labyrinth. So if you missed out (and don’t follow my every thought on Twitter), here’s my reaction! [Update: more links to videos!]

  3. NRT: Why foreigners are buying up New Zealand

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:20 am, August 22nd, 2014 -  5 comments
    Categories: overseas investment, tax
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    “Why would an overseas buyer pay more for an asset than a New Zealander? … But Chalkie reckons one reason stands out – tax. There are huge tax advantages available to overseas investors that simply cannot be accessed by locals.”

  4. NRT: Politics does not have to be dirty

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:34 am, August 20th, 2014 -  30 comments
    Categories: accountability, Politics
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    Writing in The Press yesterday morning, Chris Trotter argues that politics is essentially dirty. No Right Turn rejects that. So do the authors on this site. None of us do this kind of crap. Nor do most people in the political arena. Why taint us with the brush of John Key’s blackops team.

  5. ImperatorFish: Dirty Politics book raises suspicions of broader hacking agenda

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 5:27 pm, August 19th, 2014 -  7 comments
    Categories: crime, Politics, Satire
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    Scott investigates a crime wave that may or may not have any connection with Nicky Hager.

  6. The Left on policies and values

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 7:53 pm, August 16th, 2014 -  6 comments
    Categories: david cunliffe, democratic participation, election 2014, greens, internet mana party, john key, labour, Left, Metiria Turei, news, tv
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    In spite of what John Key & some of the media claim, Labour & the Greens have continued to campaign positively on policies and values throughout the week.  The Greens officially launch their campaign tomorrow.

  7. Shadow play: Key’s 2-track politics

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 11:31 am, August 16th, 2014 -  40 comments
    Categories: accountability, blogs, brand key, class war, crosby textor, democracy under attack, election 2014, john key, news, same old national, slippery, spin, Spying
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    Nicky Hager’s Dirty Politics tells of the “two track strategy” of John Key’s leadership of the National Party & the country: a smiley nice front, & vicious, covert black ops behind the scenes.  Key has overseen one of the darkest, nastiest periods in NZ politics. Vote Left for necessary, democratic change, for people-centred governance.

  8. Freedom for Palestine – National day of action

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 5:00 pm, August 15th, 2014 -  8 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    Nationwide protests in support of Palestine are planned for this weekend.

  9. But the door was open…

    Written By:  rocky -  Date published: 5:00 am, August 15th, 2014 -  277 comments
    Categories: accountability, brand key, corruption, David Farrar, democratic participation, election 2014, Ethics, john key, Politics, spin, Steven Joyce
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    The intention of this post is to examine the similarities and differences between the hacking of Cameron Slater’s communications on the one hand, and the hacking of the Labour Party donor database on the other. There are two important issues to determine in both cases and I will cover them separately. The first is the legality of the hacking and the second is the ethics of using the resulting information regardless of whether the obtaining of the information in the first instance was unlawful.

  10. ImperatorFish: A message from the CEO of the Taxpayers’ Onion

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:12 pm, August 14th, 2014 -  2 comments
    Categories: parody, Satire
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    Scott brings us this important info on how to set up your totally independent lobby group successfully.

  11. Dirty Politics: The preface

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:17 pm, August 13th, 2014 -  57 comments
    Categories: blogs, David Farrar, national
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    I do so want to read this book right now. I can hardly wait. The preface is online… http://dirtypoliticsnz.com Nicky Hager is way way more of a gentleperson than I am. Explaining the material that is not in the book – “The fact that Slater and his associates have made a career of exposing the very private details of other people’s lives does not make it right to do that to them.”

  12. Foolishly banning satire

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 7:33 am, August 13th, 2014 -  86 comments
    Categories: election 2014, electoral commission, john key
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    What the hell? This isn’t an election advertisement. This is someone expressing their views in music and video. This judgement by the Electoral Commission doesn’t appear to have any real basis behind it. Quite simply they are  wrong.

  13. The right’s lack of diversity

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 12:00 pm, August 12th, 2014 -  46 comments
    Categories: act, conservative party, election 2014, national, nz first, united future
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    On the right there’s one big party who have the lion’s share of the vote, and a smattering of odd little parties at the kids’ table fighting for scraps and key electorates. It’s one of the reasons National continues to poll so highly: if you’re a rightwing voter, you don’t have any other viable options.

  14. The bottomless Labour-Green divide

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 12:00 pm, August 11th, 2014 -  82 comments
    Categories: election 2014, greens, internet mana party, labour, Left, Media, MMP
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    It seems like every time Labour (or the Greens) announce a policy the first question (after “what does John Key think about this?”) is “But the Greens (or Labour) have a different policy to the one you just announced! How can you possibly work together in government?”

  15. How Labour and the Greens win it from here

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:20 am, August 11th, 2014 -  81 comments
    Categories: act, conservative party, david cunliffe, don brash, election 2014, greens, hone harawira, labour, Metiria Turei, national, Steven Joyce, winston peters
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    A great campaign launch from Labour on the weekend, a couple of bad weeks for National and suddenly there is a chance that David Cunliffe may be our next Prime Minister.  But how does he succeed and what can progressives do to help?

  16. Labour – “Ready to Win”

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:10 pm, August 10th, 2014 -  135 comments
    Categories: david cunliffe, election 2014, labour
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    David Cunliffe’s campaign launch speech.

    Added a video of the speech.

  17. NRT: Cronyism in Christchurch

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:33 pm, August 8th, 2014 -  26 comments
    Categories: national, same old national
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    Yes, National just gave an enormous government contract to an MP’s brother. Now, he may have been the best bidder, but up-front it looks like cronyism, if not outright corruption. Shouldn’t the media be asking some very pointy questions about this?

  18. NRT: The Greens on transport

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 4:24 pm, August 7th, 2014 -  41 comments
    Categories: election 2014, greens, public transport, sustainability, transport
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    There’s a strong element of planning for the future here: peak oil and climate change mean the days of cheap cars (and therefore of massive motorways) are numbered. But it also reflects the changes we’re seeing now. Road usage is already dropping, while Aucklanders are crying out for a better rail system so they can escape gridlock.

  19. Greens: Falling milk prices highlight danger of National’s economic strategy

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:11 pm, August 6th, 2014 -  39 comments
    Categories: China, Economy, election 2014, exports, farming, greens, International, national, same old national
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    This press release from the Greens pretty well sums up the situation that National have left the economy in. Once you remove the rebuild effects from the Christchurch earthquakes, our increasingly undiversified economy is looking in pretty poor shape for the decade ahead.

  20. NRT: 32,000 out of work under National

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:21 pm, August 6th, 2014 -  54 comments
    Categories: election 2014, employment, jobs, national, same old national
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    The latest Household Labour Force Survey was released today, showing a drop in unemployment. But while its an improvement, there is far less employment than when National came into office 5 years ago. That is a monumental fail.

  21. Mihingarangi Forbes v Jamie Whyte

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:00 pm, August 5th, 2014 -  81 comments
    Categories: act, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, tv
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    In a must see interview Native Affairs reporter Mihingarangi Forbes Forbes last night interviewed ACT leader Jamie Whyte with rather startling results.

  22. Polity: Company tax cut-and-slash-and-burn!

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 4:38 pm, August 4th, 2014 -  24 comments
    Categories: act, Economy, tax
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    To say that ACT’s new company tax policy is complete and utter drivelling crap would be a bit of an understatement.

  23. Steven Joyce is a pillock

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:16 pm, August 2nd, 2014 -  131 comments
    Categories: grant robertson, national, same old national, Steven Joyce
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    If you need proof watch this morning’s TV3 debate with Grant Robertson.

  24. NRT: The last day

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:26 pm, July 31st, 2014 -  9 comments
    Categories: election 2014, Parliament
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    Today is the last day of Parliament for the term. After spending the morning on non-controversial legislation, the House will have its last Question Time and then an adjournment debate. And then they’ll be off to campaign for the election. The big triumph here? No last-minute urgency. No “wash-up”. Hopefully it’ll be a permanent change.

  25. Focusing on the issues that matter?

    Written By:  Zetetic -  Date published: 7:10 pm, July 30th, 2014 -  120 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    Everyone’s favourite National Party blogger Cam Slater has posted a sneaky candid shot of Metiria Turei in which he mocks her for *gasp* wearing a hat.

  26. ImperatorFish: I did not order this – again

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:30 am, July 29th, 2014 -  3 comments
    Categories: Satire
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    Scott reposts this Nick Smith classic.

  27. Polity: Bye bye, Colin

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:43 am, July 28th, 2014 -  18 comments
    Categories: colin craig, conservative party, election 2014, john key, MMP, national, winston peters
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    National has all-but confirmed today that there no deal for Colin Craig in East Coast Bays, or for any other Conservative. This was the right thing for them to do, for one simple reason. This decision came down to simple maths. If Key thought the Conservatives could muster double the votes that a decision to back the Conservatives would cost National in the centre-ground, then he should do the deal. If not, he should not. All the stuff about Winston running was a bit of a late sideshow, as the decision had likely already been made.

  28. Mum and Dad Investor?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:39 am, July 27th, 2014 -  124 comments
    Categories: capitalism, class war, national, Privatisation
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    The SST this morning have broken a story about how an American couple were able to purchase $1.6 million worth of shares in Genesis while “mum and dad kiwi investors” had their share allocation limited to $5,000.

  29. Implausible denials

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 8:47 pm, July 25th, 2014 -  56 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    From the Herald today: What Jonathan Coleman said on Monday: “Ministers had absolutely no knowledge of any pending FBI-NZ Police investigation.” What Immigration NZ said on Wednesday: “The general information about the FBI was passed to Mr Bickle who then passed it to the Minister.” Grant Robertson is absolutely right: Former Immigration Minister Jonathan Coleman must come clean about when he was told the FBI was investigating Kim Dotcom.

  30. Thriving children, liveable communities & sustainable resources

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 11:00 am, July 25th, 2014 -  14 comments
    Categories: capitalism, climate change, election 2014, equality, greens, Metiria Turei, poverty, russel norman, sustainability
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    The Green Party’s election focus is on reducing poverty & inequalities (highlighting its impact on children), and developing sustainable communities. 2 recently announced policies are under-pinned by 2 crises: poverty/inequality; and the destruction of our environment (climate change, resource depletion).

  31. Key denigrates All Black jersey

    Written By:  redfed -  Date published: 8:30 am, July 25th, 2014 -  324 comments
    Categories: john key, national
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    John Key is now pretending to be an All Black as part of his campaign for re-election.

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