I think the National Government broke the Constitution. John Key thinks it didn't. We both may be right.
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National's final asset sale justification is proved false
Research by the Greens into just who bought the Mighty River Power shares show that those Mum and Dad investors were more like 'Mummy and Daddy dahling' investors
Read MoreMore bad process - is this the new National normal?
A week of poor process continues for the government as it side-steps consultation with its decision to approve mining on the Denniston Plateau
Read MoreI think National just broke our constitution
Our constitutional arrangements work on an implicit bargain - the principle of comity - that the Courts and Parliament don't mess with each other's turf. I think that bargain just got broken.
Read MoreGovernment thinks growth needs to slow down?!
One take out from today’s budget says it all.
Read More15 things you need to know about Syria
Since Bosnia and Rwanda, it's been clear that the international community disgraces itself when it stands by and let's blood flow at the hands of murderous state thugs. Here are the arguments for and against intervention in Syria. You decide.
Read MoreStop wasting our time
The National Government isn't going to bother even thinking about the Electoral Commission's recommendations to reform MMP. I wish that they'd told us this was the plan before we spent our time and effort engaging with the issue.
Read MoreStare decisis
Now that we're in the business of guaranteeing winners by making public policy in their favour, the sky is the limit.
Read MoreThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
The Crown won't be able to change Sky City's gambling concessions without paying for it. But it isn't the Crown that would do so.
Read MoreHousing affordability is about inequality
Increasing the supply of housing is only part of the solution. Demand needs to be shored up. That means changing incentives so that wage earners can compete with investors.
Read MoreGilmore game about numbers, not lies
John Key now has no choice but to act on Aaron Gilmore, but at the same time has to protect is narrow majority in parliament. Someone has to hatch a deal
Read MoreThe Mighty River Power – unanswered questions
All the parties have reasons to feel satisifed with the first state asset float. But why is it OK to intervene to boost the markets, but not to boost families?
Read MoreFor there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
In the different stories being told about the sell-off of Mighty River Power, not even numerals mean the same thing to everyone.
Read MoreChildren's Commissioner fronts for Nats on food in schools: Corporate agenda rules
Food in schools – Russell Wills now Key’s puppet – targeting, corporatisation and the charity model rule
Read MoreMemory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin
Just because Aaron Gilmore said things happened in a particular way doesn't mean we shouldn't believe him when he now says those things happened in a different way. Right?
Read MoreNot so happy Gilmore
Is Aaron Gilmore the Reese Witherspoon of New Zealand's Parliament?
Read MoreThe frayed orthodoxy
Beyond the cries of 'Muldoonism' and 'North Korean', the Labour-Greens power announcement is an important landmark on the road to the 2014 election – a challenge to orthodoxy and the rise of an alternative
Read MoreIf we're really, really going to be honest, we might as well be brief
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Read MoreStanding on the wobbly constitutional deck
Why the constitutional review panel is a bit like getting a few mates round at the weekend for some DIY
Read MoreColin Craig, Chapman Tripp and the Streisand Effect (Updated)
They that live by the law, die by the internet
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