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One aspect of our health system that I think is handled very poorly is the provision of dental assistance. If you break a leg and are under severe pain you can be seen quickly and be assisted with competent medical treatment. If you are suffering from severe…
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The damage from Key's harassment of a waitress is immense: Ponytail antics fuels succession talk in National ...There is no suggestion of a leadership challenge. But Key is losing his Midas touch: he declared that Winston Peters had "zero" chance of taking the Northland seat…
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3 News Yesterday: PM hopes ponytail-gate hasn't embarrassed NZ John Key ... hopes he hasn't embarrassed New Zealand in the wake of the embarrassing saga, which made headlines worldwide Embarrassed? Embarrassed? Why ever should we be embarrassed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihReeJg08ns
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The Fabian Society invites all those interested to join a discussion with Sir Michael Cullen, Peter Harris, Sarah Helm, Tracey Martin MP, Richard Harman and Lyndy McIntyre at St Andrew's on the Terrace, Wellington, on Sunday 10th May at 1pm. Ideas on strategy, economy, party…
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Let me see if I can make this clear enough for the non-tech public and jonolists, and for the techheads amongst you. The search engine on this site is run by Sphinx search. This is an open source general purpose package that every 7 minutes…
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Reposted from Polity Rodney Hide and David Farrar have jumped on the Hooton-on-Labour bandwagon over the weekend. According to them, there was one big loser out of the Northland by-election - where National conspired to lose one of its historically safest seats through wave upon…
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For the background please read the first post in this series: Rachinger on dirty politics. Demonstrating yet again the vital role of independent media, Scoop has taken up the story: "I Am Rawshark" - Ben Rachinger's Sequel To "Dirty Politcs". Thompson writes: Arguably therefore this…
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(Full disclosure: I'm a member of the WRC governance group on a voluntary and unpaid basis.) This week is Wellington Rape Crisis' annual appeal. Despite being an organisation which provides vital crisis and ongoing support services for survivors of sexual violence and their loved ones,…
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On Radio NZ this morning Prime Minister John Key gave a mumbling, stumbling response to the admitted assaults on a female Auckland cafe staff member. Questioned by Guyon Espiner, his position was that the assaults were humorous and we live in a global world. Or…
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Oh to be a fly on the wall at National's next Caucus meeting. [audio:http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mnr/mnr-20150504-0711-prime_minister_regrets_misreading_ponytail_saga-048.mp3] John Key was interviewed by Guyon Espiner this morning on morning report. Gone was the cocksure arrogant Prime Minister who has with a huge amount of teflon coating avoided scandal and…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike … lprent: There was an minor outage last night (yawn).
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The UK general election looks slated to deliver a hung parliament. The SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Greens have all said they will vote down a Tory Queens Speech. Given the projected numbers, that means that Labour delivers a Queens Speech, gets the support of…
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For the background please read the first post in this series: Rachinger on dirty politics. Ben's story has reached an interesting point, check out the new posts (9, 10, 11) on his blog. Ben is producing more evidence, and making claims that can be checked.…
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I have thought this for a while. Ever since POAL have spent huge amounts of public money to try and rid the Auckland Port of union labour I have thought that they were out of control and should be replaced. The Standard covered this issue in…
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I'm currently 25,000 words into writing a new book that is particularly taxing on the brain. By the time I get back home I've been thinking hard for around six or seven uninterrupted hours and my brain feels like it has been replaced by jelly!…
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California is a climate change "canary in a coal mine" (the links with coal particularly apt). There are many other vulnerable regions around the world of course, but California is particularly important because it is an American canary, and (in general) Americans only care about…
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No matter how much Key's more "devoted" spinners would wish, Key's problems aren't going away any time soon. Case in point: Ponytail pulling saga keeps on tugging The waitress at the centre of a ponytail-pulling saga is refusing to cooperate with a private prosecution against…
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Missed this in the commotion this week - interesting post from I/S at No Right Turn. National wants to jail people who expose politicians Today, thanks to a post on The Daily Blog, we learned that Prime Minister John Key is a creep. The post…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don't forget to be kind to each other.
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Stephen Joyce has spent $1,248 keeping a taxi waiting for him in Sydney for nine hours. His excuse was that he saved money by not staying in a hotel and using a crown limo would have cost a similar amount. The excess spend could have…
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Some commentary has suggested a clean sweep for the SNP in Scotland in the UK General election. That would entail the party winning 59 seats next week, up from 6 seats in 2010. So, is the Labour Party in Scotland about to be euthanased? Well,…
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https://twitter.com/CampbellLiveNZ/status/593915344248418305 In other news, the axing of CL is delayed - for now.
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Ben Rachinger is an ex Young National member and was a big fan of John Key. He's a self professed computer security expert. He's a controversial and polarising figure in social media (claims and counterclaims abound). For some time Ben has been claiming to have…
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It is always difficult for a leader visiting or negotiating with a country with a poor human rights record. Domestic expectations demand that issues be "raised" / "discussed", and so it is dutifully claimed. But are they really? If they are I doubt that it…
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