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  1. The great big list of John Key’s big fat lies (UPDATED)

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 7:00 am, January 27th, 2016 -  79 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, activism, alcohol, assets, auckland supercity, benefits, brethren, business, child welfare, christchurch earthquake, climate change, Conservation, crosby textor, cycleway, Dirty Politics, disaster, economy, Economy, education, employment, energy, Environment, equality, exports, farming, farming, Financial markets, flip-flop, food, global warming, Globalisation, greens, health, health and safety, human rights, infrastructure, International, john key, Keynes, kiwisaver, labour, loan sharks, manufacturing, Maori Issues, minimum wage, Mining, Minister for International Embarrassment, Minister for Overseas Holidays, Minister for Photo-ops, monetary policy, national, national/act government, overseas investment, Parliament, political parties, Politics, poverty, privatisation, Privatisation, Public Private Partnerships, public services, racism, schools, science, scoundrels, slippery, Social issues, socialism, spin, Spying, superannuation, sustainability, tax, telecommunications, tourism, trade, transport, treasury, treaty settlements, unemployment, Unions, wages, workers' rights, you couldn't make this shit up
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    How many more lies will John Key tell today in his so-called State of the Nation address? Virtual chocolate fish to whomever guesses the closest number.

  2. TPPA ‘National Interest Analysis’ – get both sides

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 1:27 pm, January 26th, 2016 -  86 comments
    Categories: accountability, capitalism, colonialism, economy, Globalisation, trade, us politics
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    The Government has released a TPPA ‘National Interest Analysis’. It should be read along with TPP Legal’s extensive analysis of the costs and risks.

  3. Key deserved boos for his TPP lies at Ratana

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, January 25th, 2016 -  114 comments
    Categories: accountability, capitalism, class war, human rights, john key, Maori Issues
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    Key’s “strident” defence of the TPP was booed at Ratana yesterday. With good reason, because his glib assurance that “Not a single part of TPP cuts across the Treaty of Waitangi” is yet another Key lie.

  4. Skill shortages and reaping what you sow

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 10:00 am, January 18th, 2016 -  114 comments
    Categories: economy, education, employment, tertiary education
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    Data released to the Sunday Star-Times shows a huge decline in numbers of tertiary students, including declines in many key skills and fields. Various explanations are offered, only one of them makes sense…

  5. New Zealand’s alternative 1984

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:00 am, January 14th, 2016 -  76 comments
    Categories: Economy
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    What would have happened if in 1984 David Lange had exerted control and appointed a centrist rather than right wing Labour cabinet?

  6. Education mess

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 10:37 am, December 12th, 2015 -  14 comments
    Categories: accountability, education, national, schools
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    Details of a mess in tertiary education published yesterday. On top of the mess in charter schools. National aren’t very good at this.

  7. Use of Teach First (NZ) illegal

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 8:02 am, December 7th, 2015 -  113 comments
    Categories: Hekia parata, jobs, Kelvin Davis, labour, privatisation, Privatisation, uncategorized, Unions, workers' rights
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    To date, TeachFirst(NZ) has received more than $6.4 million dollars of public money and, as a result, has infested 18 schools with dozens of so-called “teachers”.

  8. The great greenhouse gas research funding switcherooni

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:56 am, December 2nd, 2015 -  19 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, farming, global warming, john key, national, same old national, science, slippery, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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    John Key has announced an increase in funding on research into the reduction of agricultural emissions of greenhouse gasses of $20 million over four years or $5 million a year.  Which is the amount the Government cut from this research two months ago.

  9. Labour’s reshuffle announced today

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 8:30 am, November 30th, 2015 -  250 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, labour
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    Who will be the big winners from Andrew Little’s caucus reshuffle – and who will be the big players taking Labour into the 2017 election?

    UPDATED: With new rankings/portfolios and media release.

  10. Labour, identity, class and winning

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 2:00 pm, November 9th, 2015 -  54 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, capitalism, class war, equality, feminism, gay rights, identity, labour, Left, patriarchy, Social issues
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    The question of identity politics and Labour’s direction just never go away. But maybe we’re just thinking about it all wrong.

  11. Andrew Little’s speech to the Labour 2015 conference

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 12:07 pm, November 8th, 2015 -  182 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, labour
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    Details of Andrew Little’s speech to be delivered today to the Labour Party conference.

    Updated with the full text of the speech.

  12. The left in Auckland

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:00 am, October 25th, 2015 -  15 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, greens, labour, local government, political parties, Politics
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    Ad comments on the change of National’s approach to local government in Auckland and suggests that there should be cooperation amongst the parties on the left locally and between the central organisations of the parties.

  13. Christine Fletcher’s dear Phil letter

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:48 pm, October 15th, 2015 -  17 comments
    Categories: len brown, local government, phil goff, Politics, supercity
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    Christine Fletcher has penned an open letter to Phil Goff where she criticises in trenchant terms super city’s current performance and offers some thoughts on where improvement can be made.

  14. Auckland Council debates the TPPA

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 1:34 pm, October 9th, 2015 -  26 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, supercity
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    Auckland Council yesterday passed some seemingly non contentious resolutions requesting for the text of the TPPA to be released and seeking a response from the Government about resolutions that had been passed a couple of years earlier.  But the resolutions were opposed vigorously by right wing councillors who then complained about the time and expense the debate consumed.

  15. Andrew Little: A better future for Auckland

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 12:30 pm, October 1st, 2015 -  43 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, auckland supercity, Economy, public transport, transport
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    The text of a speech Andrew Little gave to the Committee for Auckland about Auckland’s future.

  16. AgResearch cuts include greenhouse gas research – of course

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 12:28 pm, September 25th, 2015 -  29 comments
    Categories: climate change, disaster, global warming, science, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Cutting research into greenhouse gases? With our emissions profile? Now? This can’t possibly be mere stupidity. This must be willful blindness.

  17. Paid parental leave bill progresses – towards veto

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, September 17th, 2015 -  30 comments
    Categories: babies, child welfare, families, national
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    Last night in Parliament Labour MP Sue Moroney’s bill extending paid parental leave to 26 weeks passed its first reading by one vote, with only National and ACT opposed.

  18. Herald poll

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 11:36 am, August 26th, 2015 -  89 comments
    Categories: polls
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    Another data point from the poll mill.

  19. Signs of a society under stress

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:05 am, August 21st, 2015 -  77 comments
    Categories: capitalism, class war
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    The signs are all around us.

  20. New Roy Morgan: National 50.5% vs LAB/GR 38%

    Written By:  Colonial Viper -  Date published: 6:45 pm, August 20th, 2015 -  138 comments
    Categories: political parties, Politics, polls
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    National is at 50.5%. LAB/GR down 7% to 38%. The Opposition is still struggling to gain positive traction with the voting public.

  21. A thinking opposition

    Written By:  Ben Clark -  Date published: 7:36 am, August 1st, 2015 -  56 comments
    Categories: capitalism, Economy, labour, science, unemployment, wages
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    So the news on Labour’s first paper from its “Future of Work” Commission revolves around “ex-Labour member” Phil Quin noticing some missing quote marks and National making gleeful diversions from it. But of course what is actually important is the content.

  22. New Powers to Ministers to screw Iwi

    Written By:  tracey -  Date published: 10:19 am, July 2nd, 2015 -  25 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, assets, business, capitalism, Economy, housing, Maori Issues, pasifika, poverty, privatisation, uncategorized
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    The Social Housing Reform (Transaction Mandate) Bill allows designated Ministers to sell off state houses. Currently Housing New Zealand has no such power. Interestingly however this Government could introduce a Bill with criteria to enable sales to be signed off by the CE of Housing New Zealand but instead they are seeking that power for themselves. But within it there is a fishhook for iwi. UPDATE: comment from Turei and response from Bennett

  23. A partial list of current scandals

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:01 am, June 18th, 2015 -  64 comments
    Categories: accountability, national
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    For those of you who are keeping score at home.

  24. Kia kaha Mihingarangi Forbes

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:39 am, June 5th, 2015 -  29 comments
    Categories: broadcasting, journalism, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, tv
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    Mihingarangi Forbes resigned yesterday as a reporter for Marae Televison apparently because of managerial interference in a story she intended to run.  In the week since Aotearoa lost Campbell Lives it has now lost arguably the best investigative reporter that the country has.

  25. NZLP Review of Election 2014; the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 5:34 pm, June 3rd, 2015 -  124 comments
    Categories: campaigning, david cunliffe, election 2014, Ethics, labour, Politics
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    The NZ Labour party’s review of election 2015 makes for interesting reading. It’s honest, straightforward and heartening. There is much to be learned from the last election campaign and it looks like the membership have got their points across to the review team. Good work, Labour!

  26. Voices of the people on emissions targets and climate change

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:17 am, June 1st, 2015 -  37 comments
    Categories: activism, climate change, democratic participation, global warming, sustainability
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    A record of the Dunedin consultation meeting on NZ’s emission targets. It was an extraordinary evening. So many people spoke with concern, with intelligence, with anger, with compassion, with emotion. Some spoke with hope, some without.

    Please – make a written submission before Wednesday.

  27. James Shaw responds to Rodney Hide’s Herald column on the Greens leadership

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:46 am, April 12th, 2015 -  41 comments
    Categories: greens, Politics, rodney hide, spin
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    Rodney Hide suggested in the Herald this morning that if James Shaw was leader of the Greens there would be a greater chance they could go into coalition with National.  James Shaw does not think so.

  28. A police investigation – Part One

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 7:00 am, April 12th, 2015 -  84 comments
    Categories: john key, Judith Collins, law and "order", national, police
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    There’s nothing particularly wrong with Bryce Edwards’ article except that it ignores how National Ltd™ Police Ministers have successively sat by and done nothing in response to the on-going police failings.

  29. Then they came for Child Youth and Family

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:05 am, April 2nd, 2015 -  162 comments
    Categories: national, poverty, privatisation, same old national, welfare
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    The Government has appointed Paula Restock to head an expert panel tasked to review Child Youth and Family.  Even now the intent appears clear, outsource functions and cut costs.  But if they were determined to improve matters they should reduce child poverty.

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