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Ad Homonym: MandM are not suing the National Party

September 17th, 2014 Comments Off on Ad Homonym: MandM are not suing the National Party

For the record MandM are not suing the New Zealand National Party over their election advertisement. Rumours to the contrary we hereby reject as an ad homonym.

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Dear Mr McCully,

August 26th, 2009 5 Comments

The law criminalises smacking, the best and most faithful reading of the law deems any use of force for the purposes of parental correction criminal; experts in legal interpretation agree on this. The people have objected loudly and all you have done is issue a promise to not enforce the law; a promise that can […]

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So What if She Wore the Same Jacket Twice?

November 23rd, 2008 6 Comments

When I first read reports on the blogosphere about the NZ Herald commenting on Bronagh Key’s wearing the same jacket twice, I thought that the article everyone was linking to must have been related to John Key’s swearing in, where she wore the offending jacket the second time and the fashion comments had to be […]

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And United Future’s Baubles Are…

November 16th, 2008 4 Comments

National and United Future’s confidence and supply agreement is out. Portfolios outside Cabinet:Peter Dunne gets Minister of Revenue and Associate Minister of Health. Policy Concessions Include: Maintain the policy, research and advocacy role of the Families Commission whilst seeking to achieve administrative efficiencies between the operations of the Families Commission and the Office of the […]

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And the Maori Party gets…

November 16th, 2008 Comments Off on And the Maori Party gets…

National and the Maori Party’s confidence and supply agreement is out. Two Maori Party MP’s get portfolios outside Cabinet:Dr Sharples gets Maori Affairs Minister, Associate Education Minister and Associate Corrections Minister.Tariana Turia gets Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector, Associate Health Minister and Associate Social Development Minister. Policy Concessions Include: National offered a review […]

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Sometimes the Left are Right: The Right-Wing 5 Headed Monster

November 14th, 2008 Comments Off on Sometimes the Left are Right: The Right-Wing 5 Headed Monster

One of the things I am loving about not being affiliated to any party is that I can criticise my own ‘side’. It is a liberating thing. I stumbled accross this on The Standard and I have to say I agreed with it. Well, most of it. Definately did not agree with the last line… […]

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The Voting is Over

November 8th, 2008 4 Comments

Curiablog‘s final results: National 59 (46.8%)Labour 44 (34.6%)Green 10 (8.1%)ACT 3 (2.6%)Maori 4 (2.4%)United Future 1 (0.5%)Progressive 1 (0.2%) There will be an overhang so the magic number to chase is a majority of 122 seats. Most likely formulae are: National+ACT+United Future = 63 seatsLabour+Prog+Greens = 55 seats Other possibilities could happen. The next days […]

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