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Matt McCarten: A New Year pledge: stay away from fat Germans
NZ First party leader Winston Peters can’t believe his luck. Photo / NZ Herald By Matt McCarten Email Matt 5:30 AM Sunday Jan 6, 2013 We resolve to do better to improve the things we have control over...
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Matt McCarten: Poor foot bill for asset gluttons
The Government is going ahead with asset sales, despite opposition. Photo / Jason Dorday By Matt McCarten Email Matt 5:30 AM Sunday Mar 3, 2013 This week, the Government confirmed it really is going to...
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Matt McCarten: Living wage a moral entitlement
Lower paid workers are constantly fighting for a better standard of living. Photo / Natalie Slade By Matt McCarten Email Matt 5:30 AM Sunday Feb 17, 2013 For three decades now, right-wing ideologues...
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Matt McCarten: Some more equal than others
If Longstone was incompetent or insubordinate, taxpayers shouldn’t pay out anything. If she just up and left, why do contracts allow a payout? Photo / NZ Herald By Matt McCarten Email Matt 5:30 AM...
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Matt McCarten: Big tick for new TV debate show
By Matt McCarten I was a ring-in for a full dress rehearsal last week for TV3′s new debate showThe Vote. It goes live this Wednesday. The original concept was devised over a beer between Duncan Garner...
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Matt McCarten: Ministers without a clue
By Matt McCarten Apr 14, 2013 Every time I drive over the bloody Auckland Harbour Bridge in the morning it’s gridlocked. The motorway is backed up as far back as I can see. In the middle of the night I...
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Matt McCarten: An energy plan to hit profiteers
Just when we thought the sell-off of our public utilities was inevitable, the Labour and Green Party jointly announced on Thursday that if they become government next year, they will create an agency,...
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Our Afghanistan embarrassment
By Matt McCarten Last Sunday morning I was on TVNZ as a Q+A panelist. One of the guests was Major General Dave Gawn, the head of our army. He was asked, now we are leaving, whether our more than...
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Matt McCarten: Salt in wounds on workers’ day
By Matt McCarten Sunday May 5, 2013 Demonstrators cheers as they parade down Broadway during a May Day march in New York. Photo / AP Last Wednesday was International Workers’ Day. May 1 is when workers...
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Another crisis, another Key bumble
By Matt McCarten, Sunday May 12, 2013 Aaron Gilmore’s blunder hijacked National’s media time. Photo / Getty Images By the law of averages, in any representative democracy a few narcissists will be...
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My Budget would do the trick
By Matt McCarten, Sunday, May 19, 2013 Despite all the political and media posturing over Thursday’s Budget, nothing much really happened – again. For 14 years, five under Bill English and nine with...
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So dumb… and they’re in charge
By Matt McCarten Sunday Jun 16, 2013 Peter Dunne Sometimes I despair at the stupidity of some of the people who run our country. Peter Dunne built his reputation over three decades as someone smart and...
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No need for casino to gamble
By Matt McCarten Herald on Sunday Jun 23, 2013 Instead of fewer pokies, poor communities are weighed down under more. Photo / Derek Flynn I was in an elevator with a senior gambling executive five...
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Mandela’s dream yet unfulfilled
By Matt McCarten Herald on Sunday June 30, 2013 Nelson Mandela’s dream of one person, one vote is still a work in progress. Photo / AP Nelson Mandela lies on his deathbed, rightly honoured for his...
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Petty scandals cloak real horrors
By Matt McCarten Herald on Sunday July 14, 2013 I shared a car trip with Helen Kelly, the Council of Trade Unions president, on Thursday. Inevitably, we got talking about the state of left politics. We...
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Save your tears, Prime Minister
By Matt McCarten Herald on Sunday July 21, 2013 So, 29 innocents are dead and entombed at Pike River by the greed and negligence of others, and yet this week police shrug their shoulders and say no...
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PM’s weakness good for Peters
By Matt McCarten Herald on Sunday, July 28, 2013 New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. Photo / Mark Mitchell Three politicians had big wins this week. What was in Prime Minister John Key’s head when...
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It’s you and I who pay the price
By Matt McCarten Herald on Sunday, August 11, 2013 Quite rightly, the main news over Fonterra’s infected products has been the physical threat to the customer. Or more importantly, the children of its...
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I spy cause for serious concern
By Matt McCarten Herald on Sunday, August 18, 2013 The GCSB bill is due to be passed into law on Tuesday by a single vote. The conventional wisdom is that opposition to the changes is a beltway issue,...
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Kingmaker Jones stealing show
By Matt McCarten Herald on Sunday 8 September 2013 I haven’t had a conversation in the past fortnight where the Labour Party leadership contest doesn’t come up. So I popped into the two Auckland Labour...
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