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Has it really got the Spark?

by Jacqueline Rowarth August 13, 2014

Changing your business name and branding is a risky proposition. Has Telecom, now known as Spark, made the right choice?

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Tags: brand loyalty, branding, GFC, social media, Spark, Spot the dog, Telecom, Two Degrees

World News Brief, Wednesday August 13

by Daily Digest August 13, 2014

Iraq's political crisis intensifies; US to increase Navy presence in Australia; Indonesia to wade into South China Sea dispute; Liberia to receive experimental ebola drug; Russia sends aid convoy to Ukraine; and more

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Tags: aid convoy, Australia, ebola drug, Indonesia, Iraq crisis, Liberia, Russia, South China Sea, Ukraine, US Navy

Labour sticks to its knitting and wins

by Josie Pagani August 11, 2014

Labour’s campaign launch was a hit yesterday for one reason; Labour does best when it talks about making ordinary people better off.

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Tags: Labour Party, Labour's campaign launch, Labour's health policy, Lochinver, National Party, Shanghai Pengxin
5 Comments

You see? It's okay. He saw it on the television

by Andrew Geddis August 08, 2014

Can TV3 keep Colin Craig out of its debates? Maybe, or maybe not.

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Tags: Colin Craig, Conservatives, election debates, judicial review, TV3
9 Comments

By all means, let's do what the Swedish do!

by Andrew Geddis August 07, 2014

Jamie Whyte thinks Sweden's example of how to approach indigenous peoples is a good one to follow here. That means he supports a separate Maori Parliament for New Zealand.

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Tags: Act, Daily Blog, Dame Susan Devoy, Jamie Whyte, Maori, Race Relations Commission, Sami, Scott Yorke, Sweden
19 Comments

The trouble with Kelvin Davis

by PhilQuin August 07, 2014

Reports of Labour's Kelvin Davis 'going rogue' have been exaggerated

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Tags: David Cunliffe, Hone Harawira, Internet-MANA Party, Kelvin Davis, Kim Dotcom, Labour, Te Tai Tokerau
19 Comments

Dear Taxpayers' Union, please remember that we are not morons

by Andrew Geddis August 07, 2014

If the Taxpayers' Union really want to be taken seriously, they really shouldn't put out press releases that lie to the media. 

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Tags: Health Select Committee, plain packaging, smoke free environment, Taxpayers' Union
2 Comments

Is foreign land ownership the issue to define this election?

by Wayne Mapp August 07, 2014

Is the Lochinver Station sale John Key's 'Corngate'? Voters may surprise us

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Tags: Colin Craig, Corngate, Exclusive Brethren, Lochinver Station, Shanghai Pengxin, Winston Peters
7 Comments

Hold your breath and think of Cairo

by Jane Young August 06, 2014

As of writing the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas holds. It is now up to the negotiations in Cairo to produce something that allows both sides to save face by going home with 'Wins'. Possible? Sure. Likely? Worth holding your breath for. 

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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

by Andrew Geddis August 06, 2014

How far may the Police go in tricking someone to "confess" to murder? Well, I can talk about what happens in Canada ... .

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Tags: evidence, Mr Big, New Zealand police, Supreme Court of Canada, undercover operations
9 Comments

World News Brief, Wednesday August 6

by Daily Digest August 06, 2014

Egypt brokers brief cease-fire in Gaza; China refuses to suspend development in South China Sea; Armenia and Azerbaijan pledge $200 million to fight ebola; and more 

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Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, cease-fire, China, ebola, Egypt, Gaza, South China Sea
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World News Brief, Tuesday August 5

by Daily Digest August 05, 2014

US-Africa summit focuses on ebola outbreak; Japanese PM wraps up Latin America tour; Chinese earthquake kills 400; ISIS captures Kurdish territory; Russia to hold war games near Ukraine border; and more 

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Tags: Chinese earthquake, ebola outbreak, ISIS, Japan, Kurds, Latin America, Ukraine, US-Africa summit, War games

Has the world finally had enough Palestinian casualties?

by Jane Young August 04, 2014

It is now incumbent on the world outside the horror of Gaza to prevent the status quo ante from being reinstated once Israel determines that it has bombed enough tunnels....let alone actual people who have nothing to do with its military ambitions.

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Tags: bombings, deaths, Gaza, high ground, Israel, moral, Palestinian, tunnels
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Winston Peters' line in the sand... or farmland

by Tim Watkin August 02, 2014

We all know New Zealand First takes a hard line on foreign ownership. But with the Lochinver sale that line just got a little bit harder

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Tags: Colin Craig, foreign ownership, Grant Robertson, Lochinver Station, Steven Joyce, Winston Peters
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World News Brief, Friday August 1

by Daily Digest August 01, 2014

Israel vows to destroy Hamas' tunnel network; North Korean companies blacklisted for shipping Cuban weapons to Pyongyang; Sierra Leone declares ebola emergency; militants destroy treasures in Mosul; and more 

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Tags: Cuba, ebola, Gaza, Hamas, Iraq, Israel, Mosul, North Korea, Pyongyang, Sierra Leone, tunnels

And justice has been seen to be done

by Andrew Geddis August 01, 2014

John Banks is now a convicted criminal. Which is a good thing, but maybe not for the reason you think.

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Tags: electoral donations, electoral law, electoral returns, John Banks, justice
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Labour can't keep rewarding failure

by PhilQuin July 31, 2014

Chris Trotter has missed my point. It's not a factional coup d'etat Labour needs but a coup d'élan to jolt the party onto success

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Tags: Chris Trotter, factions, Labour Party
27 Comments

Is the Gaza conflict going to resolve differently this time?

by Wayne Mapp July 31, 2014

The Gaza conflict requires a more creative solution than is on offer 

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Tags: Bill Clinton, Dresden, Gaza, Hamas, Hillary Clinton, Israel, John Kerry, Palestinians, PLO, United Nations, United States, Yom Kippur War
2 Comments

Colin and Jamie walked into a bar ...

by Andrew Geddis July 31, 2014

Colin Craig is making up the law. And Jamie Whyte doesn't think rural people should have access to doctors. Or something like that.

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Tags: Act Party, Colin Craig, colincraig-co-nz, Conservative Party, Jamie Whyte, rural doctors, satire
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World News Brief, Thursday July 31

by Daily Digest July 31, 2014

Russia's central bank promises to help financial institutions affected by sanctions; Chinese Communist Party cracks down on corruption; Uighur people dispute official account of clashes in Xinjiang; airline suspends flights to help stop spread of ebola; and more 

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Tags: Chinese Communist Party, ebola, Russia, sanctions, Uighur people, West Africa, Xinjiang
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