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    Helen Clark on Checkpoint



    I’ve just been listening to the Prime Minister’s interview with Mary Wilson this evening and have got three comments I’d like to make.  First she said in relation to her not disclosing her knowledge about the conflicting evidence in relation to Mr Peters’ story relating to Mr Glenn’s $100,000 donation: It wasn’t my job to hold [...] read more
    September 12, 2008 7:47 pm - 38 Comments
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    It’s the 8th!



    The Prime Minister has finally announced what we mostly knew already. Time to set your timers… read more
    September 12, 2008 1:00 pm - 7 Comments
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    What if?



    I wonder if the Prime Minister is looking back at the quiet issue-focused way the Greens have gone about getting their policy implemented over the last 3 years and is now ruing the choices she made putting together her governing arrangements back in 2005 with Winston Peters’ NZ First Party and Peter Dunne’s Untied Future [...] read more
    August 29, 2008 7:59 am - 34 Comments
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    Honour



    Here’s the Prime Minister discussing Winston Peters’ donation from Owen Glenn on Morning Report this morning. “If we take Mr Peters at his word, and I must as an honourable member, and I take his lawyer at his word, then Mr Peters would not have been in the loop on the source of the funding.” (And she [...] read more
    July 22, 2008 9:11 am - 4 Comments
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    The PM’s Carbon emissions speech



    Right, I’m back from the Green Party conference.  (Oh, talking of which you should listen to Kiwi FM’s Wallace Chapman talking to Scoop’s Selwyn Manning on the Greens’ Conference over the weekend). Seems the one of the big news stories for the week will be World Environment Day.  The Prime Minister, gearing up for World Environment [...] read more
    June 4, 2008 4:13 pm - 6 Comments
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    Two questions in Parliament from Jeanette today



    It’s not often the Greens get allotted two questions in one day at Parliamentary question time. (I think today’s double dose might have come about due to some horse trading with the Maori Party?)  Anyway, they’re both good ones: Question 1 – Jeanette Fitzsimons to the Prime Minister Does she still aspire for New Zealand to be [...] read more
    May 29, 2008 11:27 am - 24 Comments
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    It’s not my fault



    The Prime Minister is in this morning’s Press telling Colin Espiner that the government’s woes are not its own doing: “It’s made a particularly tough challenge because you have an international economic slowdown, the fallout from the subprime crisis in the United States which has impacted on mortgage rates here without the Reserve Bank lifting a [...] read more
    May 20, 2008 8:35 am - 6 Comments
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    The real cost of climate change



    Phew, it seems like everyone money to lose is joining the Prime Minister in her fleet-footed race from facing up to the costs of implementing the Emissions Trading Scheme. (I wonder where Rio Tinto got the impression it could bully the Prime Minister into backtracking on climate change legislation?) So what is the biggest cost associated with [...] read more
    May 14, 2008 8:42 am - 7 Comments
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    The guessing game



    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 [...] read more
    May 12, 2008 10:34 am - 10 Comments
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    Press freedom in China



    Here is the first question to be asked in Parliament this afternoon. Keith Locke to the Prime Minister: ‘Will she ensure journalists travelling with her, as part of the delegation she is leading to China next week, will enjoy normal press freedoms as outlined in international human rights treaties; if not why not?’ read more
    April 1, 2008 12:42 pm - 5 Comments
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