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A dog of an idea

homepaddock wrote 2 days ago: In a list of Labour’s spending excesses, Duncan Garner writes: Michael Cullen spent twice what … more →

Tags: Politics, Duncan Garner, Joanne Black, kiwirail, Labour, University of Otago, whaleoil

Cullen on Brash3 comments

adamsmith1922 wrote 6 days ago: A letter to the Editor of The Dominion Post on the Brash 2025 Report 2025 Task Force chairman Don Br … more →

Tags: Economics, Politics, 2025, Dominion Post Letter Writers, Don Brash

They spent the lot5 comments

homepaddock wrote 1 month ago: It pains me to say this but Michael Cullen got something right. After last year’s budget he sa … more →

Tags: Politics, Economy

Only one of the guilty in the dock2 comments

homepaddock wrote 2 months ago: Former MP Phillip Field was in the dock. But the Dominion Post editorial makes it clear he wasn … more →

Tags: Politics, ethics, Crime, David Farrar, Helen Clark, Dominion Post, Phillip Field, Ingram inquiry

What's sauce for the geese becomes sauce for the porker3 comments

poneke wrote 4 months ago: What goes round comes around. During the Helen Clark years, right-wing bloggers delighted in regular … more →

Tags: Blogosphere, Politics, Bill English, Helen Clark

Foreshore & seabed victory for nats and maori1 comment

JakeQuinn wrote 5 months ago: The review panel has concluded that the controversial Foreshore and Seabed Act should be repealed an … more →

Tags: NZ Politics, Race Relations, John Key, National Party, Maori Party, Foreshore and Seabed Act, Labour Party

SOS: save our savings from Cullen's sorcery

Alf Grumble wrote 5 months ago: The Kiwisaver scheme, proudly introduced by Michael Cullen when Clark and her coven were running the … more →

Tags: Savings, Kiwisaver, Retirement Commission, Superannuation, Research New Zealand, Lianne Dalziel

Imagine3 comments

homepaddock wrote 6 months ago: Imagine what New Zealand might have been like if the last nine budgets hadn’t been covered in … more →

Tags: Politics, Economy

Ghost of Budget's past2 comments

homepaddock wrote 7 months ago: Oh, no – not again, TVNZ reports that: Finance Minsiter Michael Cullen will deliver the 2009 B … more →

Tags: media, Politics, Budget, TVNZ, big news

Not a watch but time bombs1 comment

homepaddock wrote 7 months ago: A letter to the editor of the ODT: Well, sadly, it is goodby to Helen Clark and Michael Cullen. I am … more →

Tags: Politics, Helen Clark, John W. Stephen, National, odt

Gang insignia, genitals and whanganui

JakeQuinn wrote 7 months ago: The Wanganui District Council (Prohibition of Gang Insignia) Bill passed its third reading last nigh … more →

Tags: NZ Politics, Labour, National, Whanganui, gang patches, A.C.T., rodney hide, genitals, John Boscawen

P J O'Rourke and Bill English's mojo

adamsmith1922 wrote 7 months ago: Fran O’Sullivan wrote in her column, NZ Herald yesterday, about the P J O’Rourke lecture … more →

Tags: Politics, Economics, New Zealand, Social commentary, Life, Management, Waste, Employment, Jobs

Blame Michael not Bill for the budget1 comment

adamsmith1922 wrote 7 months ago: Bill Ralston in the HoS addresses the issue of how Governments get to ensure their will is carried o … more →

Tags: Politics, Economics, Social commentary, Life, Management, Employment, Jobs, Bill English, Wasteful Bureaucracy

Quotation for Today, Sunday 3 May1 comment

adamsmith1922 wrote 7 months ago: Knauf and I would probably agree that Cullen’s management of the country’s economy was e … more →

Tags: humour, History, Quotations, Paul Moon, Jason Knauf, Cecil B. DeMille, epic of decline

'a hilarious, caring, clever, compassionate smart-arse'4 comments

adamsmith1922 wrote 7 months ago: As we all know by now SuperHelen, GLNZ, is off with the UNDP in New York . This week her Deputy Mich … more →

Tags: Politics, humour, History, Social commentary, Public Service, Helen Clark, Life, wit, Vernon Small

Labour's newest MP brings diversity to caucus1 comment

homepaddock wrote 7 months ago: Labour’s newest MP isn’t brand new, Damien O’Connor was the MP for West Coast Tasm … more →

Tags: Politics, Labour, Damien O'Connor, West Coast-Tasman, Chris Auchinvole

Quotation for Today, Friday May 1

adamsmith1922 wrote 7 months ago: “You have been doing very well, … You should just lie back and enjoy it.” Michael Cullen - NZ … more →

Tags: Quotations, Political Quotations, Humourous Quotations

Knauf takes a fisking from Moon

JakeQuinn wrote 7 months ago: Hilarious. Paul Moon, a “professor of history” at AUT University, takes Mr Knauf to task … more →

Tags: NZ Politics, humour, Jason Knauf, Paul Moon

Staitsm and Sanctimony1 comment

homepaddock wrote 7 months ago: Brilliant column from Rob Hosking in the NBR: Statism and Sanctimony – the Clark-Cullen Years. … more →

Tags: Politics, Economy, Labour, NBR, Helen Clark, Bill English, Rob Hosking


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