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		<title>Unions are to capitalism what opposition parties are to politics.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/unions-are-to-capitalism-what-opposition-parties-are-to-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/unions-are-to-capitalism-what-opposition-parties-are-to-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the debates about the proposed labour law reforms there appears to be fundamental misunderstanding or ignorance by National and ACT of the purpose of unions in capitalism. The latter are seen by NACT as at best a source of inefficiency and profit loss; at worst parasitic wealth destroyers. They appear to misunderstand that capitalism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blues go Black.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/the-blues-go-black/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/07/the-blues-go-black/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[An inclusive society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=5361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The announcement that National will undertake labour legislation reform has revealed the dark side beneath its happy face veneer. Riding high in the polls and 14 months before having to call an election, the Key-led government has dropped its populist pretense and unveiled its anti-worker credentials with the thrust of its proposed reforms. It also [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where Entitlements become Rights, and Rights  Outweigh Responsibilities.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/where-entitlements-become-rights-and-rights-outweigh-responsibilities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/where-entitlements-become-rights-and-rights-outweigh-responsibilities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 08:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National identity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Toleration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[identity politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4815</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My partner and I are reaching the end of our sojourn in Greece and will be back in SE Asia by the end of the week. Her data collection and interview schedule have provided the follow-up material needed to finish the Greek chapter of her book (which includes Ireland and Portugal as the other case [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Even Dogs Can Play the Riot Game.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/even-dogs-can-play-the-riot-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/05/even-dogs-can-play-the-riot-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 08:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[comparative politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4804</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since there has been a fair bit of bad jokes in the NZ blogosphere as of late, including here at KP, I thought I would continue the Greek-themed posts of the past few weeks with one that humourosly shows the extent to which demos and riots are part of the Athenian way of life. Check it out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something About the Symbolism of Poppies.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/04/a-note-about-poppies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/04/a-note-about-poppies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National identity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peace Movement Aotearoa is running a white poppy campaign as a fund raiser for its activities. It is doing so one day before the RSA red poppy appeal. Some think the timing is unfortunate in the extreme. Others denounce PMA as &#8220;parasites.&#8221; I beg to differ.
There are obvious freedom of opinion and speech issues involved, all [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>54</slash:comments>
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		<title>Field studying democratic crisis.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/04/studying-democratic-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/04/studying-democratic-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am off to Greece this evening for a one month research and pleasure trip. My partner is working on book that compares family, immigration and higher education policy in three peripheral European democracies, and Greece is one of her case studies. I am tagging along because of our shared interest in studying democracies in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Note on Progressive Praxis in Aotearoa</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/12/a-note-on-progressive-praxis-in-aotearoa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/12/a-note-on-progressive-praxis-in-aotearoa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[An inclusive society]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3859</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent debates engaged here and elsewhere on the &#8220;proper&#8221; course to be taken by NZ Left/progressive politics has given me pause to think about the larger issue of Left/progressive praxis in a country such as this. I am on record as defending the class line-first approach, whereas Lew has quite eloquently expressed the primacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Service and Repair</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/democratic-service-and-repair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/democratic-service-and-repair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

In the shadows of chain-store ghost towns
Where no-one walks the streets at night
A silent nation, hooked on medication
Stares into a blue flickering light.
&#8211; Calexico, Service and Repair


This verse has been on my mind rather a lot since moving to my new exurb (it&#8217;s not quite a chain-store ghost town, although there sure is one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s our public service, why don&#8217;t we get a say?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/its-our-public-service-why-dont-we-get-a-say/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/its-our-public-service-why-dont-we-get-a-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The government is

considering merging a variety of departments,
carving up others,
busy shutting down big chunks of others,
abolishing some services,
taking control of Institutes of Technology and Polytechs away from communities,
studying opening up national parks to mining,
re-re-restructuring the health system,
oh, the list goes on.

Every one of those changes is to our public service and it affects the public, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does New Zealand have Public Intellectuals?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/does-new-zealand-have-public-intellectuals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/09/does-new-zealand-have-public-intellectuals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[An inclusive society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3323</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing that is striking about the tone of contemporary public policy debates in NZ is the absence of intellectuals. Although various academics are trotted out by the media to give sound bites and opinion based on their supposed &#8220;expertise&#8221; in given subject areas, they otherwise do not loom large in the national conversation on [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>95</slash:comments>
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		<title>Voting for participation</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/voting-for-participation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/voting-for-participation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Participation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Referenda]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is rare in NZ that we get a chance to participate simply because people campaigned for that chance, and this referendum is one of those chances. 300,000 people signed a petition and hundreds of people carried those petitions around, arranged for people to sign them, and for them to be returned, counted and presented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suppressing resident participation</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/suppressing-resident-participation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/suppressing-resident-participation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[An inclusive society]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christchurch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clayton Cosgrove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Carter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kerry Prendergast]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Resource Management Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rodney Hide]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=3167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Auckland
The National-Act government are going against the Royal Commission&#8217;s recommendations in an attempt to weaken resident participation, consultation and influence.
Wellington
The National-aligned mayor, Kerry Prendergast, and centre-right Council are trying to remove the public&#8217;s right to be consulted on buildings on our beautiful public waterfront.
Christchurch
Labour MP, Clayton Cosgrove, is trying to remove residents&#8217; right to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allowing people a voice</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/allowing-people-a-voice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/08/allowing-people-a-voice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[An inclusive society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paula Bennett]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=2958</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sam speaks out publicly about the fact that ACC payments for counselling do not cover the full cost of each counselling session and victims of crime like Sam are left to scrape together the difference. What information should Nick Smith be able to release about Sam&#8217;s circumstances? Should that include that Sam, who was sexually [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Just do it! The Auckland referendum</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/04/just-do-it-the-auckland-referendum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/04/just-do-it-the-auckland-referendum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[An inclusive society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliament]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Direct democracy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=1891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If a political party, or combination of political parties, truly wanted a referendum they could just run one. It wouldn&#8217;t be governed by any legislation, but who cares? It would be just as powerful as a CIR (which relies on expressing public opinion and is not binding).
Political parties have access to electoral rolls, parliamentary service [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Second Job of Citizenry</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/02/the-second-job-of-citizenry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2009/02/the-second-job-of-citizenry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Negative campaigning]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=31</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During last year&#8217;s election campaign I was struck by just how few people actually care; the cynicism and distrust of politicians, no-one expects honesty. More and more often I hear people talking about just not bothering — &#8220;It doesn’t matter who you vote for, it’s always a politician who wins.” The reality is that if [...]]]></description>
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