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		<title>MMP in NZ is really safe</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/mmp-in-nz-is-really-safe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/mmp-in-nz-is-really-safe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=5296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve said before, Peter Shirtcliffe&#8217;s campaign to scupper MMP (again) is probably a blessing in disguise for the electoral status quo in New Zealand. If any further evidence were required, the following should suffice for now:

The speech bubbles are blank because Peter is running a caption competition to find a punchline. Demonstrating piercing insight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between the Devil and the deep blue sea</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/06/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=5006</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
(Image, &#8220;Road to Hell&#8221;, stolen from Alexander West.)

And I did not mean to shout, just drive
Just get us out, dead or alive
The road&#8217;s too long to mention, Lord, it&#8217;s something to see
Laid down by the Good Intentions Paving Company
(Joanna Newsom)


John Key&#8217;s government is starting to play for keeps after a year and a bit warming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A walking, talking, living advertisement</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/a-walking-talking-living-advertisement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/a-walking-talking-living-advertisement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[An inclusive society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; for why civilised societies which hope to remain civilised don&#8217;t lock violent children up with hardened criminals in the hope that they&#8217;ll magically reform into model citizens.
I&#8217;m talking about Bailey Junior Kurariki, whose latest offences, according to criminologist John Pratt, are a sign he has become institutionalised. Of course, his victim&#8217;s mother doesn&#8217;t think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s official*</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/its-official/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4025</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[* (As official as a 1,000-person phone poll can be, anyhow.)
Māori support for Phil Goff after &#8220;blue collars, red necks&#8221; is very low &#8212; 18% among all respondents, and 36% among Labour voters. That&#8217;s dire. (Full Digipoll results here.)
So, if these numbers are to be believed, (also with the proviso that this rot probably began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great prospects</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/01/great-prospects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4015</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hat tipped to Paul McBeth for this one. 
As one side engages in some tentative but hugely premature triumphalism, and the other side points the accusatory finger, a sleeping giant awakes. This man &#8212; our Nixon, in whom we apparently see ourselves as we really are &#8212; has rekindled the fire which once consumed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More flaggery</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/12/more-flaggery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3914</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting discussion about flags going on at John Ansell&#8217;s blog and Kiwiblog and elsewhere. Go and vote on your favourite fern flag. I&#8217;m all for a new flag, but these designs are too logo-ish for my taste. Flags seem to me like the sort of things which ought to be made up of geometric fundamentals. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bhadge</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/12/bhadge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been very busy again this past week, and so the list of things I want to write about copiously exceeds my ability to write about them. My promised post about internecine disputes is in very early draft form but I&#8217;ll try and get it finished soon. I still have a post planned looking at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protesting a little bit too much</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/protesting-a-little-bit-too-much/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/10/protesting-a-little-bit-too-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DPF published two posts yesterday about prominent lefties comparing righties to fascists: Minto comparing Bush to Hitler and Amin, and Carter comparing Key to Mussolini. I agree with him that both comparisons are entirely unjustified, and do a great disservice to political discourse in this country. 
But without taking away from that, let&#8217;s not forget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Headline battle!</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/headline-battle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/headline-battle/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/bleg-what-do-people-want-in-an-electoral-system/#comments</comments>
		<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>The hits keep coming</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/the-hits-keep-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/the-hits-keep-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tara Te Heke has been reading from the Ayn Rand playbook with her idea of a DPB party. Classic troll, and devastatingly effective. There are some truly vile things being said there, and in amongst it, the earnest lunacy of a 3,000-word biblical anti-sermon apparently intended as a sort of Turing test. There&#8217;s so much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DPF pulls pin, leaves town</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/dpf-pulls-pin-leaves-town/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/dpf-pulls-pin-leaves-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3079</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and the resulting explosion is nothing short of spectacular. 
Tara Te Heke is one of David&#8217;s four guest posters holding the reins while he&#8217;s on holiday. She is a single mum on the DPB who had three kids with a violent partner who left her in the lurch. Her story illuminates one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contrasting examples of cultural difference</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/contrasting-examples-of-cultural-difference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/contrasting-examples-of-cultural-difference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two very different perceptions of the way cultural difference operates. From Tauhei Notts, commenting on Kiwiblog&#8217;s thread about the guilty verdict returned against Taito Phillip Field:

I believe that the jury was not culturally sensitive. Many people in Foreign affairs who dosh out us taxpayers’ funds to Polynesian nations are aware that what Field did was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On media bias and distortion</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/on-media-bias-and-distortion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BK Drinkwater has posted a good response to some of the comments on Bryce Edwards&#8217; synopses of chapters from the book Informing Voters? Politics, Media and the New Zealand Election 2008 (edited by Chris Rudd, Janine Hayward and Geoff Craig of the University of Otago Politics department). In comments to BK&#8217;s post, Eric Crampton recommended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aren&#8217;t they precious?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/07/arent-they-precious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DPF is trying &#8211; on an experimental basis, mind, without any predetermined outcome in mind, no horse-scaring intended &#8211; to impose standards on his comment threads at Kiwiblog. The proposed standards are not especially onerous:

Respond to the topic and the arguments
Don&#8217;t get personal

Even these are too much for the commentariat on the announcement thread (which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The role of the judiciary is to judge</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/07/the-role-of-the-judiciary-is-to-judge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over Dame Sian Elias&#8217; remarks about the prison muster. Nevertheless, this is what Chief Justices (and their equivalents elsewhere) do from time to time &#8211; make pronouncements about the law and the state of the justice system, which carry no policy mandate but tend to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protesting too much</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/04/protesting-too-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t mean to post on Kiwiblog so frequently, but oh well &#8211; there&#8217;s a lot to post on.
Annette King (or the minions who write her press releases) appear to have jumped the shark, intimating that a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy is behind David Farrar&#8217;s release of two of David Shearer&#8217;s old papers advocating the use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cry havoc</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/04/cry-havoc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DPF is up to his old tricks again &#8211; this one about Hone Harawira is content-free and David&#8217;s own comments are typically innocuous, but it functions very well indeed as a bone for the slavering mastiffs of the KBR to gnaw upon, making him look like a sensible moderate, if you squint a bit. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ink by the barrel</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/04/ink-by-the-barrel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an interesting range of responses to the Tony Veitch guilty plea of reckless disregard causing injury to Kristin Dunne-Powell, his conviction and sentence to a fine and community service.
Some are baying for blood. The KBR aren&#8217;t quite unanimous that he should go to jail, but they&#8217;re close (though there is a foul stench of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Very sadly ironic, indeed</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/02/very-sadly-ironic-indeed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/02/very-sadly-ironic-indeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DPF has just blogged on the murder of Aasiya Hassan. He comments on the irony of an apparently reformist Muslim beheading his wife in a way resembling an honour-killing. The irony he doesn&#8217;t seem to see is that he is guilty of doing the very thing he claims is a problem, when he says
The problem [...]]]></description>
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