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This story didn't get any big headlines. This story slipped by almost completely under the radar. But it's a very important story. Much more important for New Zealand's development than the smoke and mirrors of the do-nothing budget. Because, here's the thing. If you're headed…
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John Key just rumbles on from one lame excuse to the next on putting agriculture in the ETS. First he said that it would raise milk and cheese prices: wrong. Now he's saying both that National won't make our agriculture sector account for their emissions…
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Back in 2008 The Standard put readers' questions to party leaders and then asked those leaders to write a post answering them. To their credit most leaders were happy to provide us with a guest post. Winston politely declined and John Key refused to reply…
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Labour's new online game is hilarious. Choose whether or not to take the options presented and see the results. Politics is all about choices :) And, once you've played, remember to sign the anti-asset sales petition.
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Remember when John Key was promising that he would seek a mandate from the people at the election before starting to sell public assets and cutting Kiwisaver. It was only a week ago. And he's breaking his promises already: the Kiwisaver cuts actually kick in…
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In last year's budget, the Nats awarded a $4.8m contract to an unknown organisation called PEDA without tender and against official advice. The people behind PEDA were apparently tied to Bill English via his wife. The full truth still hasn't come out. Now, the Nats…
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Last week we had National's budget and Labour's conference. A chance for both parties to set out their ideas for the future. National of course, had the bigger opportunity. They get to turn policy in to action. The budget was the perfect showcase for their…
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Visionary climate change scientist James Hansen has written an open letter to John Key. Rt Hon John Key Prime Minister of New Zealand Parliament Buildings Wellington Dear Prime Minister Key, Encouraged by youth of New Zealand, especially members of the organization 350.org, I write this…
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*Key says that we will get to vote on his Kiwisaver cuts in the election. Truth is, they passed the law last week and the tax credits are cut from July 1. The Herald has a good piece on this today. Key says that the…
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The response to two recent posts here at The Standard (yesterday, and the day before) have shown what a contentious topic the minimum wage is. So it's timely that yesterday also saw the release of the CTU's summary of research on Minimum Wage and Jobs:…
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Reprinted from No Right Turn: Climate change: Farmers can afford the ETS Phil Goff's announcement over the weekend that agriculture will be brought into the ETS has met with the usual response from farmers: whining. They can't afford it. It will bankrupt them. We should…
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National are bleating about Labour's Research & Development tax credit - largely because as they have no economic plan of their own, so they can only talk about other parties'. It's a sad sight after 2.5 years of government. Having worked all my life in…
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Steven Joyce has been forced into a embarrassing back-down on giving a regulatory holiday to companies who won contracts for the Government's Ultra Fast Broadband plan. But, you guessed it, Joyce is going to let the Commerce Commission sort things out. The very Commerce Commission…
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Here's a stunning headline from the Herald on the glamour of working at SkyCity casino: Flea collars for SkyCity staff Perhaps next they could introduce compulsory de-lousing baths at the end of each shift?
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Dear Don, I saw your letter week before week; the one to John Key resigning from the National Party. John Key mentioned that he didn’t plan on replying to you; a bit rude, really. But given you did send the letter to every media outlet…
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"The worst display from a Prime Minister since the schnapps election" - that's what a journo said about Key the other day. No, it wasn't about him being a multi-millionaire who gave himself tens of thousands of tax cuts opposing a fair wage increase for…
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The Herald reports some interesting comments made by prominent scientist, Sir Paul Callaghan: Kiwis choose to be poor, laments top scientist Kiwis are poor because they choose to be, says Sir Paul Callaghan, one of the country's top scientists. This assertion was part of a…
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I just love seeing fat, rich men who have received massive tax cuts paid for with borrowed money like John Key and Phil O'Reilly saying that a $15 an hour minimum wage is unaffordable (Key also says governments can't raise wages, yet he claims to…
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The latest Roy Morgan poll is not good reading for the political left. Support for the government is at 57.5% (up 1.5%): National Party 53% (up 0.5%) Maori Party 2% (unchanged) ACT NZ 2% (up 1%) United Future 0.5% (unchanged) Support for opposition parties is…
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Cartoonist Guy Body in The Herald, with one of those pictures that is worth a thousand words...
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John Key thinks he can smile and wave his way through the worst natural disaster this country has faced. It's a stunning dereliction of duty: "Our good friends in the Labour Party, who want to exaggerate everything, run around telling you the worst sort of…
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The Nats think the unemployed are lazy. John Key reckons they need "a kick in the pants" to get them back to work. Paula Bennett reckons their harsh reforms mean that "the dream is over" for beneficiaries. For some, such as sickness beneficiaries, or parents…
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Labour's pledge of a $15 hour minimum wage is worth more than any tax cut - $66 a week net to a full-time minimum wage worker. The right is crying it'll hurt the economy and destroys jobs. That's rubbish. In particular, the history of changes…
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