Adrian Orr’s war with the Banks and why it matters
The spectre of the last crash and how close it came to plunging the NZ Shire into Mordor haunts The Reserve Bank, Orr can’t forget that fear as he battles the banks.
New Zealand Politics
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Break open the Champagne.
Why so quiet Minister Sepuloni? This is amazing and was found by chance on your department’s website. Is vindication for the small group of superannuitants affected by the Spousal Provision applied under section 70 of the Act imminent?
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I’ve never seen so many Green and Labour supporters rush to defend the bloody Treasury before in my life
Labour & Green voters don’t need to be so tribal about this – Treasury fucked up, not the Government!
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Pink on Pink friendly fire only helps Bishop Brian
Brian Tamaki is not the messiah, he’s just a very stupid boy but the only winner of pink on pink friendly fire is him – he comes across as less nasty than the latest rainbow schism – it’s like social media was created to show us at our worst to our political enemies.
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For those who say I am being too critical of the Government’s ‘wellbeing budget’…
Tribalism aside – If you look at the fine print, the budget was NOT transformational and it makes the politics of kindness seem like a sick joke.
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I think almost everyone on the Left who are trying to underplay what Treasury did hasn’t read this…
I’m not nearly as clever as my woke comrades on Twitter, but wtf is ‘beltway’ about Treasury knowing they weren’t hacked but then telling everyone they were? Shouldn’t we be incandescent with rage at such a manufactured deception by one of the most powerful Government Departments?
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Saudi Call For Getting Tough On Terrorism Case Of Serial Arsonist Taking Over Fire Department
So I see King Salman of Saudi Arabia’s kicked off Saudi’s chairmanship of the OIC by demanding that the world (and the Muslim world in particular), get tough on the supporters and enablers of terrorism. The country-level supporters, financiers, directors and enablers of terrorism.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Too many chicks in the nest
It is not that we did not know overturning thirty years of neo-liberalism would be a huge job. But last week’s budget began to bring into focus how big the gap is between a decent society and the rampant inequalities, shortcomings, failures to provide and so on that we currently have.
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Budget 2019: Funding an industry to pick up the pieces at the bottom of the cliff
The only transformation in the budget is a transformation in the meaning of transformation.
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The People’s Budget: Hosted by Bryan Bruce
Can Neoliberalism build a wellbeing budget? Has the Government been transformational?