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• The worst behaved in Parliament list

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 633
  The Herald reports : United Future leader Peter Dunne has given up on his annual list of worst-behaved MPs, saying Speaker Lockwood Smith’s reign has ushered in a new era of dignity and propriety. To be fair, I think the absence of Winston helps also. But the House has been a far less toxic place this year. ...
  9 hours ago

• One person, one vote

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 588
  The above is the core principle of democracy. Everyone is morally equal, and so their voices should count equally in choosing a government. Unfortunately, its not a principle we respect in local government. In local elections - but not national ones - we have a special class of "ratepayer electors" , non-residents ...
  2 days ago

• Submitting in your summer holiday

  
  frogblog — Authority: 543
  As I predicted last week , the Government has allowed only a very short time for submissions on the Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill – submissions close on 12 February 2010. This is one of the oldest political tricks in the book – introduce unpopular legislation just before the summer recess and ...
  3 days ago

• Cactus says FAIL, I say FRO

  
  Whale Oil Beef Hooked | Gotcha! — Authority: 144
  Cactus Kate has a post on the failed leadership coup mounted by Roger Douglas. I say Roger Douglas because I scarcely can believe that Heather Roy would have the gumption to mount a horse let alone a coup. John Boscawen was the third plotter but didn’t have the stones to go through with it. Cactus is right when ...
  3 days ago

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  BIG NEWS — Authority: 129
  So, what would happen? Referring to this story , what would happen if Rodney Hide was to resign from Parliament, and Winston Peters was to win the subsequent by-election as NZ First leader?
  4 days ago

• An attempted ACT coup

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 633
  The Herald has a stunning story : Act founder Sir Roger Douglas, with deputy leader and Consumer Affairs Minister Heather Roy, is understood to have led moves in the party against Mr Hide during the controversy over the international travel costs of his partner. The Act board was told the caucus had issues over ...
  4 days ago

• Government barely survives first year

  
  The Standard — Authority: 594
  Audrey Young finally gets around to mentioning how close the government came to imploding last month: Rodney Hide survived moves to oust him as Act Party leader last month after Prime Minister John Key privately indicated National’s deal with Act would be off if the minister were dumped. And it is believed that ...
  4 days ago

• Rampant Rodney rogers Auckland

  
  frogblog — Authority: 543
  If anyone had any doubt about what the Minister of Overseas Bonking Local Government has planned for Auckland following the gerrymander favouring right-wing voting areas , that doubt should now be dispelled.  Rodney Hide has introduced the third supercity Bill, the Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill , ...
  1 week ago

• Andrew Williams - North Shore Mayor

  
  Get the Skinny from Skinny — Authority: 99
  Andrew Williams appeared with Mike Hosking tonight on Close Up defending his position over the rumoured late night texts. It’s one of those situations of either you believe him, or you don’t. Each side seemed to have evidence that supported their own claims. Rodney Hide, Andrew Williams, John Key Everyone ...
  1 week ago

• $100,000 for 10 hours work

  
  The Standard — Authority: 594
  No, this post isn’t about the 2025 Taskforce, it’s about Rodney Hide’s round the world holiday with his girlfriend on your dime. Heavily censored official papers reveal that on this 12-day, $100,000 trip (not including the salaries of Hide and the two officials who went with him), Hide spent just 10 hours ...
  1 week ago

• Value for money?

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 588
  Back in September, Local Government Minister Rodney Hide took an official trip with his partner to London, Toronto, Portland and Los Angeles. The trip took a week, and cost taxpayers $100,000. So, how long did he spend on official business during this vital fact-finding mission? Only nineteen hours , or about two ...
  1 week ago

• CLIMATEGATE – Rodney applies the blow torch

  
  Whale Oil Beef Hooked | Gotcha! — Authority: 144
  Rodney Hide is applying the blow torch to Nick Smiths nuts, such as they are. 18894 (2009). Hon Rodney Hide to the Minister for Climate Change Issues Will he ask NIWA to release the full data on which NIWAs official time series of the mean annual temperature over New Zealand from 1853 to 2008 is based, together ...
  3 weeks ago

• Key tops Listener power list

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 549
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Who writes Rodney’s rubbish?

  
  Hot Topic — Authority: 586
  Who’s this supporting the NZ C”S”C’s idiotic attempt to cast doubt on the NZ temperature record? Why, it’s none other than Rodney Hide, leader of the ACT Party, and Minister of Local Government, Associate Minister of Commerce, Minister of Regulatory Reform and Parliamentary principal climate crank. Hide has ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gerrymandering Auckland city

  
  The Standard — Authority: 594
  Due to recovering from a cold over the weekend, I haven’t had time to blog about the super-shitty electoral boundaries released on friday in traditional style. However jarbury has done a great analysis over at the Auckland Transport blog . If you look at the all-important councillors, the striking thing is the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Arise, Sir Rodney Bjelke-Petersen

  
  g.blog — Authority: 121
  Sir Joh would have been proud. Back in the1970s and 1980s one of New Zealand’s more infamous emigrants, the corrupt and racist Queensland Premier the late Sir Joh Bjelke-Peterson held onto power by what became known as the Bjelke-mander under which electorate boundaries were drawn so that rural electorates ...
  4 weeks ago

• On the drivel of rock stars and actresses

  
  No Minister — Authority: 541
  In this mornings Sunday News , a guitarist for a rock band who is related to Rodney Hides girlfriend, was interviewed over his thoughts on Rodney Hides recent use of travel perks. In next weeks Sunday News, Rodney Hide will be interviewed over his thoughts on Phil Busckes guitar playing ability, and the lifestyle of ...
  4 weeks ago

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