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Mike Hosking should not be TVNZ’s frontman

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:00 am, June 19th, 2016 - 128 comments

Liz Gunn sets out why Mike Hosking needs to be removed as TVNZ’s frontman.

I think we can all agree that Paula Bennett is the real victim here

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:30 am, June 18th, 2016 - 56 comments

Te Puea Marae, whose only “crime” in this the Brighter Future was to try and help the homeless, “has fears of ‘smear campaign’ “. Naturally Paula Bennett is the real victim here. And furthermore, it’s all Labour’s fault.

90 day trial – no lie too outrageous for National

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:22 am, June 18th, 2016 - 52 comments

For eight long years National have been telling us that the 90 day trial (fire at will) law was all about creating jobs. Yesterday a new Treasury report showed that it had failed to do so. RNZ: “The government now says its 90-day trial period was never about increasing the number of jobs in New Zealand”. Of course.

Tweets from a Donald Trump meeting

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:30 am, June 17th, 2016 - 88 comments

Jared Yates Sexton tweets about a recent experience he had when attending a Donald Trump meeting. We should all be worried.

National is missing Cameron Slater

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:05 am, June 15th, 2016 - 33 comments

The ham fisted attack on Hurimoana Dennis by Paula Bennett’s office must make National yearn for the heady days when Cameron Slater was in charge of their smears.

Kiwi Values

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 10:35 pm, June 13th, 2016 - 62 comments

Epsom hologram David Seymour reckons we need to force refugees to pledge allegiance to what he calls ‘values’. Of course, ACT don’t know value, they only know price. And haven’t we heard this sort of thing from another party in years gone by?

There is no housing crisis in New Zealand *

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:55 am, June 10th, 2016 - 52 comments

* according to Nick Smith and Paula Bennett.

The Sky City ghost jobs

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:39 am, June 8th, 2016 - 63 comments

Radio New Zealand has reported that the promised jobs relating to the construction of the Convention Centre are appearing. But in Thailand, not New Zealand. Updated with comment on the terms of the supplemental agreement.

The election campaign, the $6,000 toaster and the media beat up

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:02 am, June 5th, 2016 - 24 comments

In Australia in the midst of the election campaign an ordinary Australian, Duncan Storrar, talked publicly about how difficult it was to live and support his children on the minimum wage. The response of the right through News Corp was to attack and humiliate him.

Let them eat cake

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:13 am, June 4th, 2016 - 50 comments

key homeless don't want help

Glorifying ignorance (and why the death of the MSM won’t be all bad)

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:02 am, June 2nd, 2016 - 80 comments

Hey Mike Hosking – how many dead and deformed babies is the precious Olympic schedule worth to you anyway?

Why is it that?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:49 am, June 1st, 2016 - 205 comments

Why is it that elements of the media always claim that any sort of cooperation between Labour and the Greens will be disastrous for both parties?

National party to be banned from future budget lockups

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 9:55 am, May 31st, 2016 - 6 comments

After a significant security leak National will be forced to ban itself from future budget lockups.

A scene from the National War Cabinet in September 2014

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:52 am, May 31st, 2016 - 38 comments

News broke this morning about a major mistake discovered in September 2014 during the height of an election campaign. But it was hidden from view until now. It makes you wonder how the news could have been hidden for so long.

Auckland’s housing crisis is just like Christchurch’s except …

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:20 am, May 29th, 2016 - 38 comments

Steven Joyce has claimed that Auckland’s housing crisis is like Christchurch’s. Has Auckland recently had two disastrous earthquakes?

Screw democracy – Auckland to get the Canterbury treatment

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:24 am, May 28th, 2016 - 172 comments

It’s naked panic now. In response to the crisis that isn’t a crisis Key is going to overrule the council that his government created and screw over Auckland democracy just like he screwed over Canterbury. What do you think of that Aucklanders?

Housing policy omnishambles

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 2:45 pm, May 27th, 2016 - 19 comments

The Nats will pay you $3000 to move to Auckland and $5000 to leave it. This is what happens when you have no vision, no plan, and no NFI what you’re doing.

The humour and wit of Joanne Hayes

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:51 am, May 27th, 2016 - 43 comments

Another National Backbencher has shown her prowess with social media.

Key’s powerful speech on the urgent housing crisis

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:12 am, May 27th, 2016 - 41 comments

John Key has given a powerful speech on NZ’s housing crisis: “This is an issue that should concern all New Zealanders. It threatens a fundamental part of our culture, it threatens our communities and, ultimately, it threatens our economy.”

John Key used to be ambitious about dealing with poverty in New Zealand

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:30 am, May 27th, 2016 - 23 comments

A read of John Key’s state of the nation speech from 2007 suggests that he was really ambitious to do something for the poor in New Zealand. And something weird is happening to his speeches on his website. They are disappearing.

The Mother Budget

Written By: Bill - Date published: 6:21 pm, May 26th, 2016 - 89 comments

There are budgets and there are budgets. And for all the presence or absence of bright ideas, there’s a budget that threatens to subsume all others…

The Government thinks that poverty is the fault of the poor, and some budget advisers

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:29 am, May 25th, 2016 - 121 comments

The Government is planning to change funding for budgeting services and to require providers to become “financial mentors” rather than “budgeting advisers” as if this will improve things.

Bennett admits she was wrong

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:01 am, May 25th, 2016 - 18 comments

Paula Bennett has basically apologised to Parliament for claiming that National would create 3,000 new social housing beds when all that it was doing is funding existing beds to make sure they did not disappear.

Apparently the housing crisis surge is a figment of our imagination

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:32 am, May 24th, 2016 - 51 comments

Nick Smith thinks that the recently developing housing crisis is a figment of our imagination.

John Oliver: Scientific studies (or why media are so useless at it)

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:35 pm, May 20th, 2016 - 6 comments

John Oliver takes a good solid swing at the media who suck up shit press releases designed by institutions to get funding and interest groups doing marketing for their products, and the idiotic consumers of schlock ‘facts’. Or John Key who apparently thinks that money magically changes physics.

John Key’s dead cat strategy

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:14 am, May 12th, 2016 - 52 comments

National is hoping to avoid a proper debate about issues raised by the Panama Papers by raising a series of idiotic diversions.

Random impertinent question: Did Cameron breach his own name suppression order?

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 8:00 am, May 11th, 2016 - 7 comments

Has Cameron Slater created legal history by being a party to the breach of his own name suppression order?

John Key chickens out of #panamapapers interview

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:31 am, May 9th, 2016 - 37 comments

This morning John Key refused to be interviewed on Radio New Zealand after learning that they intended to ask him questions about the Panama Papers. And some elements of the media are for some strange reason trying to say there is nothing to see because he personally has not been implicated.