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The Nation has an interesting article on Hillary Clinton’s floundering nomination campaign, arguing that the mistake she made was not a tactical or strategic one. It wasn’t that she picked the wrong states to focus on, or threw everything into her knock-out punch or fundraised poorly. It was a policy mistake:
The biggest factor […]

Lyndon Hood’s answers to frequently asked questions about the Emissions Trading Scheme is a beaut:
If New Zealand wants to maintain its edge as a clean, green nation, we urgently need to pretend as hard as we can to take decisive action on climate change.
I suspect he was inspired by John Armstrong on Saturday:
The result is […]

The Greens have just announced their candidate list, as voted on by party members:

Jeanette Fitzsimons
Russel Norman
Sue Bradford
Metiria Turei
Sue Kedgley
Keith Locke
Kevin Hague (West Coast, DHB Chief Executive)
Catherine Delahunty (East Coast, activist and chairperson of the Tairawhiti Beneficiary Advocacy Trust)
Kennedy Graham  (Christchurch, senior diplomat and law lecturer)
David Clendon (Auckland, resource management lecturer)
Gareth Hughes (Wellington, climate change campaigner)
Steffan […]

Agaisnt the odds manufacturers are doing some great things in New Zealand.  They often get written off as part of a dying industry but the reality is that manufacturing provides jobs for about 250,000 New Zealanders, and is at the core of our ability to self sufficiently provide for ourselves, give us the type of […]

Dene Mackensie has a go this morning at speculating on the election date in the Otago Daily Times [off line].  He suggests that there will be a 1 October introduction of tax cuts from the government.  This means it will want an election at least four weeks after that to ensure everybody has had a […]