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• Key aids English’s latest rort

  
  The Standard — Authority: 606
  Ministers are given self-drive taxpayer-funded cars for official business in their electorates (in Wellington they have crown limos at their disposal for official business). Pretty logically, the cars were always based at the ministers’ primary place of residence because that’s where they would need it. But ...
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• Earning that reputation IV

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 599
  One of the perks of being a Minister is that you get a car. When youre in Wellington, you get driven around in Ministerial limos (which you get to park in disabled parking spots to show your contempt for the disadvantaged) - so said car is supposed to be used at home. You can see how this would be a problem for ...
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• Opinion: What the Tax Working Group is most likely to recommend and what the government may actually do in 2010

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 576
  By Bernard Hickey Here’s the quick version : Out of the Tax Working Group’s recommendations due later this month, I think the government will look at equalising the top income tax rate with the corporate and trust rates at 30% in the 2010 budget. The NZ$1.6 billion cost of this could be paid for by one or two ...
  6 days ago

• Who runs New Zealand in 2009?

  
  liberation — Authority: 404
  The 6th annual Listener ‘power list’ is out this week – seeking to shine a light on who makes up the modern New Zealand Establishment. This blog post offers an extensive critical summary of, and commentary on, the Listener’s list. Highlights include: * Politicians do well on the power list. Although there ...
  1 week ago

• Undoing the trouser button

  
  The Standard — Authority: 606
  Recall that last week Speaker Lockwood Smith tried to heavy the press, demanding that they stop doing stories on MP’s expenses or he would do away with the Press Gallery. I suspected at the time that this was a tactical blunder, any hack worth their salt should take that as fighting talk! And it may be just a ...
  1 week ago

• Time for a new Finance Minister

  
  Whale Oil Beef Hooked | Gotcha! — Authority: 136
  I have to ask myself, what was the point of the 2025 Taskforce if the Governments two top soft cocks say they are going to ignore it ? New Zealand is ill, it is bloated from 50 years of creeping socialism and sadly the change of government didn’t change anything except the seats on the Titanic. Worse instead of ...
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• Key tops Listener power list

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 516
  It’s no surprise that Prime Minister John Key tops the Listener’s top 10 in its 2009 Power List. The panel says he is: being identified by leadership scholars as pioneering an entirely new style of political leadership in this country. Sceptics may cite his pragmatism as evidence of overt risk-aversion, but ...
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• PUSSIES

  
  roarprawn — Authority: 500
  Now we have been gobsmacked by the lukewarm reception that Brashs 2025 Taskforce report has received. It was the viagran policy we have been waiting for. The one that was going to make us look all fiscally flash like Australia. It was a big hard and very, very exciting in a big swinging economic dick kinda ...
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• 2025 Taskforce report requires tough decisions

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 516
  The 2025 Taskforce chaired by Don Brash has made 35 recommendations to help close the income gap between here and Australia. Most of them require some tough decisions from government and some belt tightening from the rest of us. Finance Minister Bill English said : “Having steered the economy through the ...
  1 week ago

• The Thrill Fades

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 499
  I see the thrill of Phil is fading fast. The latest Colmar Brunton poll sees him sliding down four points to 5%. That’s barely above the margin of error. I don’t think I recall even Bill English ever dipping below double figures in a Colmar Brunton poll. And Labour is now on 31%, which is about where Bill had ...
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• Trivial Pursuit

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 499
  If ever there was a good illustration of the parochial nature of New Zealand’s media, it is the furor over Bill English’s government limo parking on a dotted yellow line . In the grand scheme of things, I would rate this as a 0.5/10 – right up there with “cat gets stuck in tree” ( Daring Rescue of Treed ...
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• No good hairdressers in Dipton?

  
  Grant Robertson - Wellington Central — Authority: 129
  The Dom Post has made quite a bit of a story today about Bill English’s crown car and security car illegally parking in Wellington while the Finance Minister has a haircut. I would actually cut English a bit of slack on being driven the couple of blocks to have his locks chopped in this case as he was suffering ...
  1 week ago

• English signals tough 2010 budget after five year spending splurge (Update 1)

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 576
  Finance Minister Bill English has set the scene for a tough 2010 Budget by detailing “rampant” government spending growth over the last five years that is “unsustainable and cannot continue”. Government spending grew three times faster than the rest of the economy in the last five years, English said. (Update ...
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• Economic Weather Report: Big state sector job cuts not happening…yet

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 576
  Watch video on YouTube here . Watch on our video page here . Bernard Hickey delivers an economic weather report in association with ASB, including a look the latest figures from the State Services Commission showing staff growth in the state sector slowed again in the year to June, but is still growing much ...
  2 weeks ago

• Theater review: ‘She Stoops to Comedy’ West Coast premiere at SF Playhouse

  
  StarkSilverCreek - All Things West Coast — Authority: 142
  “It’s a pseudo documentary about reality in the theater,” says one of the characters/actors in David Greenspan’s She Stoops to Comedy which premiered last night at SF Playhouse.It’s one of several, pithy lines that occasionally inject entertainment value into the otherwise uneven gender-bending ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lunch with the PM

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 516
  I lunched with the Prime Minister on Friday. It was an intimate gathering – just John Key, Deputy PM Bill English, MPs Jacqui Dean, Eric Roy & Michael Woodhouse . . . . . .  National Party President Peter Goodfellow, board member Kate Hazlett, a hundred and something others & me. One of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quote of the week

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 516
  “This Government has the capacity to make its own distinctions between good advice and bad advice,” says English.  ”Advice we disagree with is bad advice; advice we agree with is good advice.” - Bill English quoted in the NZ Herald’s Political Diary .
  2 weeks ago

• Special report: Why NZ needs a bipartisan grand coalition for economic reform, not tweaks to the RBNZ Act

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 576
  Watch video on YouTube here. Watch video on our video page here. Bernard Hickey delivers a special report on Labour’s decision to abandon 20 years of political consensus on monetary policy and start a debate on other ways to manage interest rates, exchange rates and the economy. Labour leader Phil Goff ...
  2 weeks ago

• Broken English

  
  The Standard — Authority: 606
  It looked like a duck. It walked like a duck. It quacked like a duck. Turns out it was a duck. The “Plain English” advertisements were effectively party political broadcasts on behalf of the National Party. (Hardly surprising, as they were coauthored by English and his people). Even TVNZ now admits they ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cry the beloved country

  
  Jack Yan on Vox — Authority: 428
  On Google News yesterday (during the Vox blackout): Nigeria: the Country might have slipped, but I wonder where Nigeria: the Movie is, and Nigeria: the Flame Thrower (the kids love that one). Apparently, we topped this index, which is nice t... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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