Labour will have to pledge significant workplace reform if it wants to be elected in 2014...

Labour will have to pledge significant workplace reform if it wants to get elected next year. Since unionism went voluntary workplaces have gone back to the early 1900's, wages have been reduced, conditions have deterioated and the attitude to workers is becoming like servants and masters...

No fool like an old fool Peter Dunne - you really did it....

                                                                    Political career leaks and  peters out...

http://thejackalman.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/irrelevant-right-wing-propagandists.html

http://www.3news.co.nz/Another-blow-for-Peter-Dunne/tabid/1607/articleID/300941/Default.aspx

http://www.3news.co.nz/Peters-Dunnes-leak-illegal-totally-improper/tabid/367/articleID/300949/Default.aspx

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Frank Mackasy: Week Watch - 7 June 2013 - What was the MV Rena carrying when it run aground in Tauranga Harbour?

MV Rena 2011

Just what was the MV Rena carrying when it run aground in Tauranga Harbour?  The Ombudsman wouldn't release information even under the Official Information Act. Just why not?



http://fmacskasy.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/week-watch-7-jun

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Pete's week went from bad to worse - he went and Dunne it - resigned from cabinet

English: Peter Dunne (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=168185

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Will there be a coup in the National Party presidential palace?

English: New Zealand National Party Cabinet minister Judith Collins, at the National War Memorial - Wellington - 15 Sep 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Is history about to repeat itself in the National Party Government? Is Judith Collins going to do a Jenny Shipley against the neo-Jim Bolger, John key? Is this all being orchestrated by Simon Lusk who is connecting the US Republican Party with the National Party here? Is there a coup being contemplated in the presidential palace?

http://thejackalman.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/lusk-lies-and-leaks.html

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When the blood in your veins returns to the sea...

A few good ideas gleaned from the Daily Blog...

                                      NZ after six years of John Keynesian....

A financial transactions tax, feeding every poor kid, 12 month maternity leave, living wage, equal pay, abortion rights, respecting our minority citizens, protecting the environment, real affordable housing, legalizing medicinal cannabis, a green economy, some type of compulsory Union fee, better public services and curbing corporate power while standing up to America and China is about as dangerous as we get.

http://www.leftfootforward.org/2013/05/a-mandatory-living-wage-the-debate-we-need-to-have/

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