Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:33 am, December 5th, 2023 - 75 comments
Categories: budget 2023, grant robertson, labour, making shit up, national, nicola willis, same old national, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags:
…. In the last National Government Nick Smith specialised in bogus figures and… there was a crisis with ACC funding when it was clear…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, October 18th, 2016 - 58 comments
Categories: ACC, Economy, Financial markets, national, national/act government, Politics, same old national
Tags:
… of not so good news. ACC had actuarial losses of $5… being applied was described by Nick Smith as a financial crisis. National… debt increasing and forecasts for ACC, the Cullen fund and the…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:05 am, January 24th, 2015 - 26 comments
Categories: journalism, local government, Media, national, newspapers, Politics, same old national
Tags: nick smith
… presciently said about Smith: Part of Nick Smith’s problem is …past Standard posts about Nick Smith and the ACC. The collection provides…so much trouble finding. Smith seized on Motu Research estimates… It is notable that Smith restrained himself and chose …
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 11:25 pm, July 28th, 2014 - 66 comments
Categories: national, scoundrels
Tags: nick smith
… the meeting where Dr Smith is accused of making… The notes say Dr Smith referred to billboards erected …." The notes say Dr Smith told council members "not…we meant to believe? Nick Smith can only ever have been… after his interfering in ACC for a friend, and…
Written By: karol - Date published: 10:43 am, May 24th, 2013 - 31 comments
Categories: ACC, accountability, auckland supercity, Conservation, greens, housing, john key, labour, Mining, same old national, slippery, sustainability
Tags: nick smith
…Bronwyn Pullar, ACC case, which resulted in Smith resigning from…voice choking with emotion, Nick Smith resigned his Cabinet portfolios, … friend with an ACC claim, Smith spent his flight … of other areas. Nick Smith on checkpoint Smith adds that anyway,…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:35 am, April 10th, 2013 - 63 comments
Categories: accountability, public services
Tags: clueless, leaks, privacy
… Keith Ng last year • the ACC breach in 2011 where details… resulted in the resignations of ACC minister Nick Smith, ACC chair John Judge, two…
Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 5:28 pm, February 2nd, 2013 - 48 comments
Categories: accountability, national
Tags: judith collins
… trouble Nick Smith got himself over his conflict of interest in ACC. I…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 12:21 pm, January 24th, 2013 - 15 comments
Categories: national/act government
Tags:
… culture of privacy invasion in ACC and, in an effort to… else int he vicinity from Nick Smith to various board members and…
Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 12:25 pm, January 2nd, 2013 - 18 comments
Categories: national, Politics
Tags: beltway
… Cabinet. Losing Nick Smith was a blow but Smith has used the…hard out (including feeding the ACC debacle). However he appears … be fair, she followed Nick Smith who was across the portfolio…probably bring Bridges in and Nick Smith back. That'll appease the …
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:01 pm, August 20th, 2012 - 37 comments
Categories: Ethics, national
Tags: local bodies
… could Nick Smith have ever believed that writing letters to ACC on behalf… that it is reasonable for ACC case workers to be paid…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 10:35 am, June 28th, 2012 - 50 comments
Categories: alcohol, health, national, scoundrels
Tags: cronyism, katherine rich
… in their fifties and on ACC, and wont get jobs in… on their whiskers. As the Nick Smith affair shows, when one of…
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 7:02 am, June 25th, 2012 - 42 comments
Categories: accountability, community democracy, democracy under attack, local government, national, privatisation
Tags: david carter, nick smith
… an invented crisis, as is Nick Smith's way. He produced “figures…. Nick Smith has of course been moved on due to the ACC scandal…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 7:00 am, June 14th, 2012 - 58 comments
Categories: bill english, Hekia parata, john key, Judith Collins, national, Steven Joyce
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… Collins' bigger problem is the ACC debacle. She was given that… to the privatisation reforms that Nick Smith had lacked (it's typical of… and it was revealed that ACC has spent $89,000 on… sizes debacle, the implosion of ACC will stick to Collins for…
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 4:05 pm, June 12th, 2012 - 26 comments
Categories: john key
Tags:
… about class sizes, asset sales, Nick Smith, ACC, picking the pockets of paperboys…
Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 12:19 pm, April 21st, 2012 - 94 comments
Categories: brand key
Tags: john key
… reign Collins in over the ACC debacle or to stop the…, he looked weak on ACC from dithering over Nick Smith, he's been damaged…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 7:15 am, April 10th, 2012 - 63 comments
Categories: bill english, john key, Judith Collins, national, Steven Joyce
Tags: National's civil war
… firmly anti-Collins after the Nick Smith resignation, she doesn't have the… the public arena over the ACC affair, and this race has…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 4:03 pm, March 31st, 2012 - 77 comments
Categories: ACC, john key, Judith Collins, kremlinology, national
Tags: andrew little, bronwyn pullar, corruption, cronyism, Michelle Boag, nick smith, resignation, simon lusk, trevor mallard
…this email was leaked. The Smith–ACC letter: On March 20, the… letter that then ACC Minister Nick Smith had sent to ACC in support of… her ACC claim. This was…other links to Pullar did Nick Smith have that needed to be…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 2:18 pm, March 28th, 2012 - 96 comments
Categories: ACC, national
Tags: bronwyn pullar, cameron slater, judith collins, Michelle Boag, simon lusk
… confidential and not passed to ACC. Sources say that, seeing …jumped into the then nascent ACC leak calling for prosecutions although…the leak to end in Nick Smith's resignation. Her target was…the well-liked and experienced Smith as collateral damage in her…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 8:53 am, March 26th, 2012 - 58 comments
Categories: ACC
Tags: bronwyn pullar, judith collins, Michelle Boag, nick smith
…somehow) the largest leak in ACC and passed to the media… insurance (it's clearly her, ACC wouldn't do it). Collins' position…of Pullar's information led to Nick Smith's resignation. That's one hell…to find the leak within ACC. Here's what the Cabinet …
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 11:45 am, March 23rd, 2012 - 78 comments
Categories: ACC
Tags: bronwyn pullar, judith collins, leaks, nick smith
Nick Smith's handpicked chair of ACC, John Judge, denies that ACC leaked Bronwyn Pullar's… expected it to result in Nick Smith's resignation. But I doubt…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:54 pm, March 22nd, 2012 - 4 comments
Categories: ACC, corruption
Tags: nick smith
…. The demise of Nick Smith has been spectacular, …Nick Smith. "Dr Smith may have deliberately manufactured a financial crisis within ACC…somewhere… what? What's that? Nick Smith? No, no, he's… the resignation of Nick Smith from his ministerial positions…
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 8:29 pm, March 21st, 2012 - 83 comments
Categories: ACC, john key, slippery
Tags: bronwyn pullar, cover-ups, nick smith
… did Key express confidence in Smith in the morning having read… person who got the largest ACC leak in history? The two… a coincidence? What deal did Smith get to stay in Parliament… been closing the gap on Smith who has huge personal support…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 3:00 pm, March 21st, 2012 - 15 comments
Categories: local government
Tags: nick smith
It's a shame Nick Smith is all over the political…at the moment for his ACC botch up because he …a-vis his letter to ACC to help friend Bronwyn …Pullar with her ACC claim while the minister of… ACC is not important. But …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 12:07 pm, March 21st, 2012 - 18 comments
Categories: local government
Tags: lies, nick smith
Part of Nick Smith's problem is that he … backfired in the debacle over ACC levy changes when he provoked…, it's happening with local government. Smith claims that local government rates… councils have pointed out that Smith is using the wrong figures…
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 7:45 am, March 21st, 2012 - 218 comments
Categories: ACC, corruption, john key
Tags: nick smith
…. He would have sized up Nick Smith weighing his value as a… let private companies compete with ACC and is currently being caught… reform as he was with ACC levy hikes – against the …skeletons stay in closets Update: Smith has been summoned to Wellington…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:52 am, March 20th, 2012 - 56 comments
Categories: corruption
Tags: ACC, conflict of interest, nick smith
… woman has problems with ACC, and just happens to… personal friend of the ACC Minister at the time…. The said ACC Minister writes a letter …the woman. The said ACC Minister then denies any … more staggering is that Nick Smith is now denying any …
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 9:08 am, March 20th, 2012 - 88 comments
Categories: ACC, scoundrels
Tags: nick smith
Nick Smith, while Minister for ACC wrote a letter in … special treatment. And that Smith usd his power to try…linked to the Minister for ACC, who had previously been making…private information of ACC clients in history? [Bunji: Now Nick Smith has admitted…
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 11:52 am, July 12th, 2011 - 14 comments
Categories: ACC, election 2011
Tags: nick smith
…. In truth, the 'crisis' at ACC was only ever the decrease… ol' National is cutting your ACC levies, back to where they…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:30 am, May 30th, 2011 - 85 comments
Categories: ACC, privatisation
Tags: chris hipkins, nick smith
On Wednesday this week, Nick Smith is going to announce what…will only get worse under Nick Smith’s privatisation plan. When HIH… Nick Smith has gone to some lengths to manufacture a crisis in ACC… week, ACC is in pretty good shape and Smith’s scaremongering…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:50 am, May 2nd, 2010 - 10 comments
Categories: Deep stuff, Left
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… Owen Woodhouse, the architect of ACC. I'm pretty sure they're not… read the patsy questions on ACC to Nick Smith as he dismantles the…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:03 am, April 23rd, 2010 - 71 comments
Categories: ACC, privatisation, same old national
Tags: john judge, nick smith
Last year, Nick Smith argued until he was red … insurance executive Gordon Smith, and Smith's man in ACC John Judge. They've… PriceWaterhouseCooper report says that privatising ACC will deliver $200 million in…
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