Posts by Alfie
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An inquiry into multinationals taking the piss out of the IRD and ripping off NZ taxpayers? Revenue Minister Michael Woodhouse says nah!
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to kw,
Is it unkind to point out that quite a lot more people listen to RNZ than voted for Act?
Not when RNZ outrates ACT by a factor of more than thirty. If ACT were a radio station, it would be Golden Oldie FM coming to you live from Te Kuiti.
ACT total vote 2014 election - 16,689
RNZ 2015 weekly cumulative audience - 564,000 -
Another Todd Barclay staffer has resigned, this time his senior executive assistant in Wellington. And there are accusations within the party that he spends too much time in Queenstown at the expense of the traditional electorate base of Gore.
It is understood the work hours of the electorate agent in Barclay's Queenstown office have increased from about 20 hours a week to 40; and the hours of his electorate agent in the Gore office have been reduced from 40 to 20.
Barclay seems to deny this.
He did not address questions about the changing work hours of his electorate agents, but he said the staff hours in each of the three electorate offices had been either maintained or increased since he became the MP in 2014.
If I was his age I'd probably choose the "glamour and glitz" of QT over Gore any day, however I'm not an MP in a predominantly rural electorate.
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Jacinda Ardern has written an open letter to Mark Weldon.
RE: your destruction of TV3.
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With three resignations so far following allegations of Todd Barclay's "secret recordings", the National Party's Gore branch secretary admits...
The atmosphere in the Clutha-Southland electorate is ‘‘awkward''...
One imagines that's quite an understatement. Police have spoken with Parliamentary Services but oddly, not to Barclay himself. Yet.
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Eighteen months after the illegal Police raid on Nicky Hager's home, his computer equipment will finally be returned today. There will also be some sort of ceremonial destruction of a hard drive and memory card cloned by the cops at the time.
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Earlier today Fairfax announced the canning of 120 editorial jobs in their Sydney and Melbourne newsrooms. This represents around a quarter of the editorial workforce and affects the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Financial Review.
Nek minit... Australian Fairfax staff are out on strike.
More coverage from the ABC.Oddly, Stuff doesn't mention this anywhere on their site. Whatever happened to solidarity?
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Rabon Kan sums up the Kiwimeter nicely.
A giant selfie stick, Kiwimeter is an intrepid journey deep into the Kiwi heart, with you as the expert, and you as the star, but unfortunately via the colo-rectal passage.
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As the "TPPA Benefits" roadshow continues they're finding new and creative ways to effectively exclude the great unwashed.
Today's Invercargill performance was free to members of the Southland Chamber of Commerce, but the public had to pay $45 to attend the talk. Seriously? WTF?
Trade Minister Todd McClay (twisted to "McCLay" in Stuff parlance) told southerners that the TPPA would be good for Invercargill because... the internet. His logic somehow connects 800 million online consumers as justifying the signing of this treacherous treaty.
Sorry Mr McClay, but those 800m people were online before you signed away our sovereignty, and would still have been there if the TPPA never existed. Logic fail.
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After saying on record that Andrew Geddis was wrong to suggest people could bring cannabis products into New Zealand, Peter Dunne has backtracked and confirmed today that he will not be closing the "loophole" which allows individuals with prescriptions to import medicinal marijuana. However any form of "raw cannabis" is still prohibited.