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Mission On is off
Without any fanfare, or it would seem, media interest SPARC have decided to discontinue the Mission On initiative. The Mission On website received many column inches of bad press in the lead up to the 2008 election when John Key criticised the expenditure on the website. SPARC, due to the political nature of their funding […]
National, All Blacks, Labour, France
Image via Wikipedia I’m half way through reading Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner‘s book Freakonomics. The book is tagged with the line “A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything”. Levitt poses the weirdest questions, which he already knows the answers to, such as: What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How […]
Rodney Hide and a National Government
Is anyone worried about Rodney Hide? I watched him on Sunday tonight – what an arrogant and demanding man. No grace, no poise – this is what we want and this is what we’ll get. John Key stared blankly back. I’d live to know what was going on in his mind… Compare Rodney’s performance to […]
New Zealand Election Results 2008
10.20pm: The election result is panning out as the media has been predicting – a victory for National. Winston Peters is delivering his concession speech – beaten resoundingly by the young Simon Bridges (majority of 10,862 to national with 89.5% of the vote counted). Winston delivered a gracious speech congratulating Tauranga for voting in a […]
National and their not-so-secret conversations
National continues to try to out the person who did the secret taping at the National Party conference last weekend. I can’t work out why. Is it because they want to prosecute the person responsible? If that were the case surely they’d be laying a complaint with the police who would then be able to […]