Archive for June, 2011
Monday, June 27th, 2011
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In the wake of his victory in the Te Tai Tokerau by-election, Hone Harawira has run strategic rings around the Maori Party by offering an ostensible olive branch to them to work together for the good of Maori, and having that offer soundly rejected by ...
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Friday, June 24th, 2011
Clearly, the deal put on the table for Christchurch yesterday by the government has to be only an opening bid, not a final resolution. Those in the red zone areas will have nine months to consider two options – (a) to sell their house and land back to the government ...
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
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You’d think, given the near bankrupt state of the state of California, that a guy who has served on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Council of Economic Advisers would be wanting to keep a very low profile these days. But not Professor Sebastian Edwards. No, instead, Edwards has ...
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Monday, June 20th, 2011
In recent weeks the military crackdown by the Assad regime in Syria has become a refugee problem for neighbouring Turkey, and a media nightmare for everyone else. Because the Assad regime has denied access by foreign journalists, the international media has largely had to rely on opposition, defector and ...
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
So the long awaited report on land remediation in Christchurch by the consulting engineers Tonkin and Taylor has been delivered to Prime Minister John Key and Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee – who incredibly, have chosen not to share the contents of the report with the people of Christchurch. Christchurch ...
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
In the short term, as CERA chief Roger Sutton claimed yesterday, the collapse of some 50 already-damaged buildings in the Christchurch CBD red zone will speed up the rebuilding process. In similarly upbeat vein at yesterday’s post Cabinet press conference, Prime Minister John Key said that yesterday’s quakes will make ...
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Friday, June 10th, 2011
Given all the other problems facing the New Zealand economy, the exchange rate is among the least likely to engender much sympathy among the ordinary public. And that’s not simply because the latest spike in the exchange rate was entirely self-inflicted – thanks to the Reserve Bank’s signal to global ...
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
For years, government borrowing has been treated as a sign of irresponsibility, of a country living beyond its means, of the policies of borrow and hope etc etc. In the case of the current government, the level of borrowing – decried only last month as running at $380 million a ...
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
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A few months ago, Scoop ran several articles about the Iranian film director Jafar Panahi, who was banned last November from making films for 20 years and sentenced to six years in jail. With the help of Bill Gosden of the ...
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