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		<title>The Legacy of a Dismantled Prime Minister &#8211; Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2018 18:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[. . Following John Key&#8217;s sudden (and largely unexplained) resignation on 5 December 2016, I wrote a piece lamenting that...]]></description>
		
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		<title>National pissed off: Labour is nicking John Key&#8217;s dodginess!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When it comes to dodgy deals done behind closed doors - or at "informal" events - nobody does it better that National.
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		<title>Observations on the 2017 Election campaign thus far… (toru)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2017 17:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The leaking  of Winston Peter's superannuation over-payment is well known. Also known is that Ministers Paula Bennett and Anne Tolley were briefed by Ministry of Social Development and State Services Commission, respectively, on Peters' private details regarding the over-payment before it was leaked to the media and made public knowledge.
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		<title>The Legacy of a Dismantled Prime Minister</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2017 21:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Following his unexpected announcement to resign as New Zealand's Prime Minister on 5 December last year, much  has been said of Key's "legacy". Pundits have been scratching their heads, trying to figure out what  "legacy" can be attributed to eight years of a Key-led administration.
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		<title>An earthquake separates John Key and &#8216;The Iron Lady&#8217;, Margaret Thatcher</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Only people, working collectively for the greater good, can achieve mutual support - quite often for no personal benefit or gain.
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		<title>National and the Reserve Bank &#8211; at War!</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/national-and-the-reserve-bank-at-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2016 23:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Open warfare has broken out between the National regime and  the Reserve Bank. Recent media statements indicate that we are seeing an increasingly bitter  war-of-words; a battle of wills, taking place over the growing housing crisis.
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		<title>John Key &#8211; we will not be held to ransom!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2016 23:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When news of the kidnapping of Australians and a New Zealand citizen in Nigeria hit our headlines, our esteemed Dear Leader's response was unequivocal;
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		<title>The slow dismantling of a Prime Minister &#8211; downward slide continues</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/the-slow-dismantling-of-a-prime-minister-downward-slide-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2016 01:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[National now finds itself trapped by it's own free-market dogma. Historically, only Labour governments have built housing, whilst National busied itself selling off state houses; implementing market rentals for Housing NZ tenants (in the past); and otherwise leaving it to the free market to meet demand.
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		<title>Hooton and Farrar slag Key &#8211; With friends like these&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2016 22:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Panama Papers continue to simmer and National's greatest fear is that the public will link tax-dodging to the current government. (Up-coming political polls will be interesting to see.)  But that is not all that National's hierarchy has to worry about.
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		<title>That was Then, This is Now #28 – John Key on transparency</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2016 20:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[that was then, this is now]]></description>
		
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