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  1. Mining secret agenda emerging

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 11:51 pm, March 29th, 2010 -  12 comments
    Categories: Mining, national
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    It’s becoming clear that National had their policy to mine on protected land all planned before the election and hid the truth from the public because they feared it would make them unelectable. National needs to front up with the records of their pre-election discussions with the mining industry. Labour should challenge them to come clean in the House today.

  2. Coddington: exposing secret agendas = bad, attacking sex victims = meh

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 3:17 pm, January 17th, 2010 -  29 comments
    Categories: activism, spin
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    Deborah Coddington, former ACT MP and author of the filthy racist article “Asian Angst: Is it time to send some back?” that killed North & South’s reputation, waffles on about ‘snitches’ in her Herald on Sunday article. Coddington says snitching – informing the public or the authorities when someone is doing something bad or illegal in secret […]

  3. Brash speech confirms National’s secret agenda

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 5:04 pm, July 30th, 2009 -  79 comments
    Categories: national/act government
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    This is simply stunning. Don Brash, our new productivity tsar, has just released a speech where he proves he hasn’t changed a bit from the nasty, bigoted far right radical of the Douglas-Richardson era. It’s a typically long and long-winded speech, but in the first two paragraphs he shows how unsuited he is to fill […]

  4. This is the secret agenda

    Written By:  IrishBill -  Date published: 10:13 pm, July 23rd, 2009 -  28 comments
    Categories: privatisation, same old national
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    Remember the mantra about John Key being a centrist? Doesn’t get much play nowadays does it? And it shouldn’t. Not with the government cutting spending while unemployment rises, dragging Brash and Rankin back from the grave, spending large on private schools, contracting out public services, tax cuts for the rich and the snouts-in-troughs sham that […]

  5. Another Nat secret agenda tape

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 3:19 pm, November 4th, 2008 -  121 comments
    Categories: activism, election 2008, national
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    The Herald campaign updates reports that Clark has just had a private interview with TV3, appearently getting her response to the latest secret agenda tape. Guess that means it will be on TV3 tonight. According to the Herald, a reporter at the conference asked the PM if she thinks the public is sick of having […]

  6. Nearly half of voters think Nats have secret agenda

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 4:53 pm, August 26th, 2008 -  21 comments
    Categories: youtube
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    Here’s TV3’s coverage from last night. They’ve just completed a poll in which 45.7% of those surveyed think National has a secret agenda.

  7. Kiwis waking up to Nats’ secret agenda

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 10:29 am, August 26th, 2008 -  96 comments
    Categories: election 2008, national, slippery
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    According to the TV3 poll last night, 46% of voters believe National has a secret agenda. And why wouldn’t they? We’ve had Bill English talking about a secret agenda to ‘sort out’ Working for Families and sell Kiwibank while being recorded, on the same recordings, we’ve had Lockwood Smith talking about the need to adopt popular […]

  8. 3 more points on the secret agenda tapes

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 1:25 pm, August 11th, 2008 -  61 comments
    Categories: national, privatisation, slippery
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    1) A secret agenda is not something that people talk about in public or when they know the information will get to the public. Therefore, the only way to expose a secret agenda with definite proof is by recording that evidence when the target does not know they are being recorded. The Police can’t just […]

  9. 08wire on Nats’ Kiwibank secret agenda

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 9:48 am, August 6th, 2008 -  Comments Off on 08wire on Nats’ Kiwibank secret agenda
    Categories: assets, bill english, blogs, flip-flop, national, privatisation
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    08wire.org, your videos make me smile.

  10. Trump’s Secret Sauce Hits NZ

    Written By:  Mountain Tui -  Date published: 7:50 pm, April 6th, 2025 -  11 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, Donald Trump, Media, media abuse, nicola willis, social media
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    What is Trump’s secret sauce? And what parallels and lessons can we draw in Aotearoa New Zealand, before it’s too late?

  11. Reti secretly wants to privatise Health

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:20 am, November 30th, 2024 -  23 comments
    Categories: david seymour, Economy, health, politicans, Privatisation, Shane Reti, uncategorized
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    Shane Reti has said publicly that privatising health is not his overt policy. Which suggests strongly that it is his covert policy, especially given that he wants to increase the relationship with and outsourcing to private operators.

  12. A lesson for the Secretary of Education

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 11:27 am, November 2nd, 2012 -  50 comments
    Categories: class war, education, poverty
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    Buried in Audrey Young’s puff piece on Secretary of Education Lesley Longstone is an interesting insight into Longstone’s thinking on poverty and education. Longstone tries to downplay the link. Ignorance, or overt right-wing agenda?

  13. The zero growth agenda

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 6:43 am, May 14th, 2012 -  68 comments
    Categories: benefits, corruption, Economy, law and "order", privatisation, workers' rights
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    I chuckled to read Fran O’Shillivan on Sunday: “John Key has made a strategic decision to burn some political capital and front-foot major Government decisions” – yeah, all those major decisions: $1m for contraception, ‘tackling cyber-bullying’, a petty pokies for convention centre deal, even their centrepiece policy – asset sales – won’t benefit the economy a jot.

  14. Secret moves to censor the net

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 10:27 am, July 16th, 2009 -  34 comments
    Categories: interweb
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    Does it seem odd to you that on March 20th 2009 the Minister for IT & Comms, Mr Steven Joyce, said the following: “We have been following the internet filtering debate in Australia but have no plans to introduce something similar here. … The technology for internet filtering causes delays for all internet users. And unfortunately those who are […]

  15. Right-wing Herald element goes OTT

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 8:29 pm, December 10th, 2011 -  61 comments
    Categories: national/act government, privatisation, schools
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    John Armstrong’s column today – not yet on website – is extraordinary. “Elements on the left cried wolf about National having a secret agenda” Armstrong’s faux outrage is generated by the fact that National’s charter schools policy was not part of any election mandate, and some people have pointed this out. Funny how people on the left are always “elements” – couldn’t possibly have a mind of their own.

  16. Only chumps tick Tory

    Written By:  Zetetic -  Date published: 11:43 am, November 24th, 2011 -  128 comments
    Categories: election 2011
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    The old timers say never trust a Tory. Can see why. Exclusive Brethren. Hollow Men. Tranzrail shares. Secret agenda tapes. Teapot tapes. Suppressed asset sales advice. Climate change ‘hocus pocus’. Police hiring freeze. We keep on discovering their secret agendas. If you care about integrity, if you’ve got enough pride not to put up with being lied to, you won’t be voting National. Only chumps tick Tory.

  17. Roger Douglas Has a Lesson for the Left

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 12:33 pm, August 25th, 2024 -  28 comments
    Categories: act, Austerity, Economy, labour, MMP, roger douglas
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    Roger Douglas, the most revolutionary minister in the postwar history of Aotearoa, knew how to exert change in three years. Rogernomics transformed the economy with dizzying speed, from protectionist welfare state to a neoliberal free market. Elliot Crossan argues that the left needs to take the same approach to end the era of neoliberalism.

  18. Blogging isn’t the problem Mr Key

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 1:49 pm, September 3rd, 2014 -  26 comments
    Categories: blogs, john key, Judith Collins, national
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    John Key has been pushing the “they blog on the left too” line, but he’s deliberately missing the point.

    It’s ethics that matter.

    lprent: I add my little bit at the end about pseudonyms

  19. Paul Goldsmith and the bag of flour

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 1:34 pm, June 9th, 2014 -  34 comments
    Categories: act, election 2014, greens, labour, national
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    Yesterday TV3 on the Nation hosted a debate between the candidates for the Epsom seat. Unbelievably National’s Paul Goldsmith did not show up. Labour’s Michael Wood produced a bag of wholemeal flour and has promised to take this bag to every public event and to put it where Goldsmith should be every time he does not show up. I suspect we are going to see this particular bag of flour a lot …

  20. Give us the names or pay the money back, John

    Written By:  Zetetic -  Date published: 11:59 am, March 8th, 2014 -  157 comments
    Categories: accountability, same old national
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    John Key has taken at least $165,000 in anonymous donations through secret dinner donations.

    Will he follow David Cunliffe’s example and either name names or pay the money back? Or is Key too tricky for that?

  21. ImperatorFish: Uncle Ernie: Hidden In Plain Sight

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:07 pm, December 16th, 2011 -  53 comments
    Categories: abortion, feminism, gay rights, newspapers
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    Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

    Garth George: Social Engineering is wrong unless it’s my social engineering. Those Greens are sinister and dangerous…

  22. Integrity or hocus pocus

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 9:32 am, November 20th, 2011 -  59 comments
    Categories: climate change, john key
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    I have no sympathy for politicians complaining about their ‘private’ political conversations being made public. What politicians say on politics is inherently of public interest. Don’t say different things in private then in public, and you won’t get caught out. It’s a matter of integrity. We can now reveal what John Key really thinks about climate change.

  23. Banks’ leadership takes battering

    Written By:  Sam Cash -  Date published: 2:40 pm, November 6th, 2009 -  6 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, john banks
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    Fresh from pulling the pin (then blaming others) on a Queen’s Wharf redesign competition he himself conceived, led and championed, Remuera mayor John ‘in your guts you know he’s nuts’ Banks has again flip-flopped on a policy proposal from his council. Yesterday the Banks’ and C&R led proposal for after-hours car parking charges for Auckland’s […]

  24. Who would replace Bill?

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 11:49 am, September 29th, 2009 -  35 comments
    Categories: bill english, national/act government, uncategorized
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    There’s a grim irony to Bill English’s career. Despite being regarded as competent and having a Cullen-like role as the heavy-lifter in this government, he has also been at the centre of the worst National screw-ups of the last decade. As Minister of Revenue, he was heavily involved in the sale of Wellington Airport, which […]

  25. John Key, centrist

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 3:49 pm, July 24th, 2009 -  23 comments
    Categories: brand key, Media, spin
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    IrishBill commented last night that “John Key the centrist” is a narrative we’re not hearing much from the commentariat any more. I thought this was strange given that was the brand they were all so dutifully selling us in the leadup to the election campaign. John Armstrong couldn’t get enough of it. I wondered what […]

  26. Talleys: Corporate scum

    Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 2:14 pm, April 6th, 2009 -  41 comments
    Categories: ACC, business, election funding, workers' rights
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    I’ve long been of the opinion that the Talley family, owners of the Talleys food empire, are a corrosive force in this country who have a complete contempt for their workforce, the public and our democratic institutions. Sure enough, they’re at it again. NZPA reports: The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) plans to call […]

  27. A smoke-screen for the privatisation brigade

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 10:14 am, December 3rd, 2008 -  21 comments
    Categories: ACC, national/act government, privatisation
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    Now that didn’t take long. Well rehearsed from the 1990s, National has already started using the privileged position of government to conjure up bogeymen to get their unpopular privatisation agenda past the public. John Key called an urgent press conference yesterday to beat-up a $1b shortfall in ACC funding. ‘OMG, this ACC thing is out […]

  28. Pigs in muck

    Written By:  IrishBill -  Date published: 10:29 am, November 6th, 2008 -  137 comments
    Categories: election 2008, national
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    Yesterday, John Key was telling journalists that he knew the secret agenda taper, Kees Keizer, was a Labour Party activist. In fact, he knew that wasn’t true, which is why he refused to name him. The Herald has. And what it’s also reveled is a close relationship between Cameron Slater and the National Party research […]

  29. Shock revelation: Taper is Wellington Leftie

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 8:25 am, November 6th, 2008 -  99 comments
    Categories: activism, bill english, election 2008, john key, national
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    The secret taper has revealed himself as Kees Keizer, a leftie from Wellington. I spent quite a bit of time yesterday encouraging Keizer to tell his story, preferably to The Standard or the Herald (more credible), and he steadfastly refused. So imagine my surprise when I see a three page article of him talking to […]

  30. Context

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 6:43 am, November 6th, 2008 -  10 comments
    Categories: bill english, election 2008, iraq, john key, national, youtube
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    Yesterday morning on Sunrise, John Key was moaning that there is no context to the latest secret agenda tape, where Bill English praises the war in Iraq and criticises Bill English’s ‘moralistic’ approach to international relations. Key is right, context helps us undestand information better. Luckily, Scoop’s library keeps every media release, so we can […]

  31. Advertising, getting it right and getting it wrong

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 10:56 am, November 3rd, 2008 -  62 comments
    Categories: election 2008, labour, Media
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    Labour’s new ad is one of the best political ads I’ve seen. It’s just a really well written script: acknowledging the success of the Right’s ‘time for a change’ meme and undercutting it, getting in some positive points on Labour that are forward-looking, and getting in the sting on Key. ‘Mary’ is what National calls […]