Archive for November, 2008
Friday, November 28th, 2008
Famous fictional boss CJ didn't get where he is today by not planning for a financial crisis
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On paper, the new government’s reaction to the global financial crisis - namely, a $7 billion ‘stimulation package’ of government spending spread over the next two years - looks like ...
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
By Gordon Campbell
Local Government Minister Rodney Hide talks about slashing red tape on Close Up 25.11.08
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Giving the local government portfolio to Rodney Hide creates some management challenges for John Key. Can Key really afford to let Hide loose down the privatising track in local government – which ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
Image: APEC
The clip on last night’s television of George W. Bush genially patting new boy John Key on the back at the APEC gathering in Peru was not only embarrassing to watch. It was a reminder that a change of government is not just about policy settings. It ...
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Prime Minister in waiting John Key announces his Cabinet
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The new Cabinet has been greeted with such hosannas from the mainstream media we can only assume some of those articles were really job applications, disguised as commentary. Get a grip. Has there ever been an incoming administration that ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
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Despite sitting outside Cabinet, Rodney Hide, Roger Douglas and their ACT Party mates are positioning themselves to be the bean counters in the new government, by controlling the reviews of government spending and regulation.
In particular, John Key has agreed to adopt Hide’s New Zealand Taxpayers Bill of ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
The premise of Labour’s election campaign was that John Key was either (a) a vacuum waiting to be filled by political expedience or (b) a secret hardliner masking his real intentions until he could gain power.
Both ways, the assumption was that something akin to an anti-government, free ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Not unexpectedly, Phil Goff’s first press conference as Labour leader did include a mea culpa of sorts for the “disconnect’ that had occurred in Labour’s relations with the New Zealand public - although the who, how and why of this inexplicable fault in the wiring was not fleshed out ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Gordon Campbell on John Key’s peculiar government, and its response to the economic crisis
That John Key certainly is a joker. In the face of the biggest global economic crisis in 80 years, the new government has come up with a governing structure whereby….either and probably both Rodney Hide ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
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From now on, this 2008 election can serve as the poster child of MMP. In future, anyone who wants to seriously diss MMP – or hold a referendum to get rid of it – will have to grapple with Saturday’s compelling evidence for the defence. ...
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Live blogged by Scoop Co-editor Alastair Thompson
Postscript - 11am 9 November 2008 - Historically speaking the scale of National's 45.5% vote share in this election is remarkable. It is far and away the largest MMP majority ever achieved, and high even in FPP terms. Labour achieved a little over 41% ...
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