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Transtasman Political Letter – 18 October Digest
Transtasman Political Letter – 18 October Digest
Transtasman is a subscriber newsletter published weekly and read widely in New Zealand and abroad. The following is a summary of this week's edition. To subscribe and read the full newsletter see.. http://Transtasman.co.nz
18th October
2007
Poll’s bad news for Govt, puts more
backbenchers on death row...Have cops found another Osama
Bin Laden in the Ureweras...
Aust & NZ share Pacific
discomfort...But Cullen refuses to take a leaf out of
Howard’s book on tax cuts...
Just what will the Finance
Minister do with his petty cash, all $500m of
it...
Expect a better relationship between Auckland and
Wellington after local body elections...
And power shocks
keep coming.
Morale Sinks On Labour’s Backbenches
The Colmar Brunton poll this week delivered a hammer blow to those Labour MPs, who had convinced themselves the Govt had regained political momentum in the wake of its new climate change policy and energy strategy.
Govt Feels A Backlash From Energy And “Terror” Decisions
While the Govt’s
emissions trading scheme announced last month won broad
public acceptance, its energy strategy unveiled last week
has produced more of a political backlash.
Tax
Cuts Back On Political Agenda
The Labour-led coalition may have thought it had de-fused tax cuts as an election campaign target for National, by virtually promising them in next year’s Budget, following disclosure of another fiscal surplus far larger than forecast.
Expect New Auckland-Wellington Relations Post Elections
Auckland has a new power game to play with Wellington in the wake of Saturday’s local authority elections.
CAPITAL
TALK
Helen Clark must have been a
bit peeved when Fiji’s coup leader Frank
Bainimarama was given a rousing welcome at the Pacific
Island Forum meeting in Tonga this week.
Play Of
The Week: The “Yeah, Right” Factor
The
mind-numbing tedium and slack-jawed apathy which were the
local body elections were barely over before the smashing of
a window in a crash pad for activists in central Wellington
leapt onto our screens.
Transtasman is a subscriber newsletter published weekly and read widely in New Zealand and abroad. The above is a summary of this week's edition. To subscribe and read the full newsletter see.. http://Transtasman.co.nz
Ramzy Baroud: The World Owes Palestine This Much - Please Stop Censoring Palestinian Voices
Dee Ninis, The Conversation: Why Vanuatu Should Brace For Even More Aftershocks After This Week’s Deadly Quakes: A Seismologist Explains
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Meditation Without A Method
Ramzy Baroud: Israel To Annex The West Bank – Why Now? And What Are The Likely Scenarios?
Binoy Kampmark: The Strawman Of Antisemitism - Banning Protests Against Israel Down Under
Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Empty Gestures, And Abortion Refusal As The New Slavery