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Posts Tagged ‘gordon brown’

The moral high ground

Written By: - Date published: 11:05 am, December 5th, 2008 - 15 comments

Murray McCully has just used his recently acquired ministerial discretion to allow Fiji’s under-20 soccer team to enter New Zealand in transit on its way to a tournament in Tahiti. This is broadly at odds with the Labour government’s sanctions following the coup in 2006 (though they did grant the Fiji sevens team permission to …

All the facts

Written By: - Date published: 11:52 am, November 25th, 2008 - 81 comments

National’s David Farrar has been running a series for some time trying to paint NZ Labour as out of step with Labour Parties around the world when it comes to their attitude on tax cuts. His intention, of course, is to portray Labour as extreme left and his mates in National as centrist and middle …

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