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		<title>Carter&#8217;s Par Avion Putsch &#8212; politics interruptus</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/carters-par-avion-putsch-politics-interruptus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/carters-par-avion-putsch-politics-interruptus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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Leaving out the utter incompetence of how Chris Carter&#8217;s abortive coup &#8212; and I hope I&#8217;m the first to coin it the &#8220;Par Avion Putsch&#8221; &#8212; was conducted, his egregious damfoolishness for following such a course of action in the first place guarantees that Phil Goff&#8217;s leadership of the Labour party is now safe, though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Diplomatic Dilemma: Kowtow or Confront?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/a-diplomatic-dilemma-kowtow-or-confront/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/a-diplomatic-dilemma-kowtow-or-confront/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The manhandling of Green Party leader Russell Norman by Chinese security guards as they escorted a high-level delegation into Parliament raises some thorny questions for the government. Norman was protesting in favour of a free Tibet when his flag was taken from him and he was shoved to the ground. Technically speaking, he was exercising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John 8:7-11 (a.k.a. I don&#8217;t care about Shane Jones&#8217; movie viewing)</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/john-87-11-a-k-a-i-dont-care-about-shane-jones-movie-viewing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/john-87-11-a-k-a-i-dont-care-about-shane-jones-movie-viewing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To all the people to whom I have said today &#8220;Yes, I am a feminist, but I really don&#8217;t care&#8221; I would like to offer this longer explanation&#8230;
I care a great deal about how politicians behave in the roles, and how they spend public money – what they do with their credit cards and their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire in the House</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/fire-in-the-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/fire-in-the-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 09:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opposition was strong in Parliament today. I&#8217;m stuck for time, so what follows is somewhat stream-of-consciousness.
Front and centre was the government&#8217;s failure to perform on unemployment and wage growth, the subject of criticism from both flanks. Bill English had led off with &#8220;the budget will be about the many, not the few&#8221;, and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apologies to those who hate rugby metaphors</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/04/apologies-to-those-who-hate-rugby-metaphors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/04/apologies-to-those-who-hate-rugby-metaphors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; but they&#8217;re really useful. Here&#8217;s another one.
After the election, I ruminated upon the future of the Labour party, employing a fairly hackneyed rugby analogy to describe the crossroads at which they stood. I&#8217;ve been meaning to follow it up and write about the fact that they&#8217;re very much playing the Crusaders game, rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing Counter-Espionage.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/outsourcing-counter-espionage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/outsourcing-counter-espionage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SIS recently released its 2008-2009 annual report. I will be analyzing it in further detail in a future &#8220;Word from Afar&#8221; column over at Scoop. However, I thought I would provide readers with a glimpse of one aspect of its activities that called my attention.
On page 14 (out of 29) of the report, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The limitations of N.8 wire, and how the political/policy talent bench is so thin.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/the-limitations-of-n-8-wire-and-how-the-politicalpolicy-talent-bench-is-so-thin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/the-limitations-of-n-8-wire-and-how-the-politicalpolicy-talent-bench-is-so-thin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As some may remember, I have been in NZ on a mix of research and personal business (truth be told, I am in NZ accompanying my partner on her research leave. The title of this post is her idea, with a hat tip to Brian Easton). As part of my project on the security politics of peripheral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let it burn</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/let-it-burn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
At the head of a large army [Po-ts'ai] was besieging Ch&#8217;ang-she, which was held by Huang-fu Sung. The garrison was very small, and a general feeling of nervousness pervaded the ranks; so Huang-fu Sung called his officers together and said: &#8220;In war, there are various indirect methods of attack, and numbers do not count for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life mimicking art: Heatley&#8217;s resignation</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/life-mimicking-art-heatleys-resignation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/life-mimicking-art-heatleys-resignation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The extravagant mea culpa does strain belief just a little. The only way it could have been weirder is if Key and Brownlee had joined in the self-flagellation. Or if there&#8217;d been a musical accompaniment.




If you prefer, auf Deutsch:




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		<title>Are we?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/are-we/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While at the Save Radio NZ lunch-at-parliament today, it occurred to me that we&#8217;re probably the only country in the first world where you&#8217;re allowed to climb the trees on parliament grounds. Is this true? 
If so, I think it says a lot about us. 
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		<title>You are only as good as your opposition.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/you-are-only-as-good-as-your-opposition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/you-are-only-as-good-as-your-opposition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the years that Labour was in government, I was appalled by the lack of serious discussion on security and defense issues (or any other issue, for that matter). Instead of asking hard questions of the government about defense policy, strategic focus, the military budget, reasons for the TSA,  Zaoui&#8217;s unfair inprisonement, the competency and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;I&#8221; thing</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/the-i-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/the-i-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as there are great expectations on John Key&#8217;s statement to Parliament today, the pressure on Phil Goff is only slightly less. He may not have the responsibility of running a country, but that&#8217;s the problem: little or nothing indicates he will have a country to run in the foreseeable future, the optimism of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislators versus representatives (or, how Scott Brown is about to get schooled).</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/01/legislators-versus-representatives-or-how-scott-brown-is-about-to-get-schooled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/01/legislators-versus-representatives-or-how-scott-brown-is-about-to-get-schooled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Cosmopolitan Magazine nude pinup boy Scott Brown&#8217;s victory in the special election to fill Ted Kennedy&#8217;s Senate seat is a body blow to the Democrats and Obama administration, especially with regard to its attempts at healthcare reform. The pundits have already well dissected the reasons for the first GOP senatorial victory in Massachusetts since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams and realities</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/dreams-and-realities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/dreams-and-realities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning at The Standard, vto* questioned how anyone can figure that the TVNZ7 ad featuring Bill English could be political advertising, since it doesn&#8217;t contain any baldly partisan political statements. 

What is party political about it? Nobody has come with anything specific to support the contention – merely, “it looks political” “I know political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traction</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/traction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The story of Rodney Hide&#8217;s ministerial fundraiser is making headway &#8212; at present, it&#8217;s the splash spot on stuff.co.nz and is pretty prominent on the Herald site as well. 
This image is strong. Close-ups are rarely flattering, and this one has an unctuous, indignant defensiveness which evokes, well, just about every crooked politico in history. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winner does not take all</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/winner-does-not-take-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3570</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Shirtcliffe is furious (audio), and well he might be, because the government&#8217;s plans for electoral reform are eminently sensible, subject to wide bipartisan support, and most critically, not at all hasty. This is electoral reform done right: for change, a majority of voters must reject the status quo system outright at two consecutive general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Headline battle!</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/headline-battle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Within a half-hour, the two leading trumpet-blowers of the blogosphere have favoured us with their interpretations of the latest developments in the Bill English accomodation saga, and their headlines are marvellous. Both are factual; neither contain any misleading or false information, and yet they convey such different things. 
First (chronologically), in the red corner: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sue Bradford: hampered by her own effectiveness</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/sue-bradford-hampered-by-her-own-effectiveness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t had a chance to read much of the matter written about Sue Bradford&#8217;s resignation today, so I apologise if I duplicate things other, wiser, faster people have said. 
Sue will probably not appreciate the comparison, but she is like Roger Douglas in a way &#8212; too effective at driving a radical agenda for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bleg: what do people want in an electoral system?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/bleg-what-do-people-want-in-an-electoral-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote most of this before DPF&#8217;s post on the threshold, including his link to Chris Bishop&#8217;s handy paper on representation and stability went up, so read that first. In fact, you&#8217;d also do very well to look over BK Drinkwater&#8217;s series comparing electoral systems: noise, wastage, proportionality, and a critique of some critiques of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrong objection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Farrar falsely equivocates when he asks the following:

Why do so many people who complain that ACT got five seats in Parliament on only 3.65% of the vote, never complain that the Maori Party got five seats in Parliament on 2.39% of the vote?

The issue isn&#8217;t so much that ACT didn&#8217;t deserve seats for their [...]]]></description>
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