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Slightly redesigned in support of #CampbellLives. 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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Via David Slack:
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Hey Spark - this is a terrible, terrible decision... https://twitter.com/toby_etc/status/608406423945547776 Update: https://twitter.com/publicaddress/status/608442045598961665 So Spark - better put out a statement disclaiming sponsorship then. Update: https://twitter.com/gtiso/status/608452043766947840
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As widely reported this morning the OECD is sounding the alarm on our "rockstar" economy. The Herald: OECD's stark NZ property warning Dramatic house price growth is burdening Kiwi households with debt and putting the nation's financial stability at risk, the OECD warns. ... "Rapid…
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Richard Harman has blogged on Politik on proposals for a right wing third way think tank being formed in New Zealand. The think tank is apparently to be modelled on the British Organisation Progress which is a UK based think tank associated with the Labour Party espousing a Blairite third…
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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 …
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Slightly redesigned in support of #CampbellLives. 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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Duncan Garner does some good work on social issues. His piece today (warning annoying autoplay video) is another sad example of an avoidable death: HUSBAND DIES AFTER PLEAS TO LEAVE COLD STATE HOUSE IGNORED Soesa Tovo died on August 15 last year. ... Doctors and…
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https://twitter.com/helenkellyCTU/status/608039860566425600
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From I/S at No Right Turn... Half-measures on housing quality Last week we learned that a child's death had been explicitly blamed on the poor quality of the state house she lived in. The government's polling must have been telling them about how angry the…
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Advocates of Kiwisaver and other funded "retirement savings" schemes perpetuate the fundamental misunderstanding that "conventional" in New Zealand's case "neo-liberal" economists, speculators, finance companies, politicians and those with a lot of share holding wealth in non-productive enterprises like to perpetuate. In other words all those…
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I blogged about this previously. Relationships Aotearoa will close its doors today and the actions the Government has taken to address related issues are looking increasingly inept. From Radio New Zealand yesterday morning: The Ministry of Social Development has met with five other providers; Barnardos, Presbyterian Support, Stand Children's Service,…
class war john key making shit up national radio you couldn't make this shit up
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UPDATE In breaking news the Prime Minister of New Zealand makes a shocking announcement "There is "no question" that quarries need tighter health and safety regulation, Mr Key said today." THIS is why he is PM people, his mental acuity, his insight, his ability to…
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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 …
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Slightly redesigned in support of #CampbellLives. 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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In entirely predicable: news today: Prime News outrates TV3 as audience numbers halve ...Gillman says it's possible some viewers have tuned out following MediaWorks' decision to axe Campbell Live and the company's perceived lack of commitment to current affairs. "MediaWorks obviously feel comfortable experimenting but…
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An anonymous editorial in The Herald this morning really is atrocious: Mediocrity rules under school plan More than two years have passed since the Government announced an impressive plan for improving schools by paying them to work more closely together. They were to form clusters…
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Andrew Little (who personally shot JFK and who secretly posts on The Standard under the aliases lprent, mickysavage and r0b yeah uh huh definitely) has weighed in on the latest round of dirty politics: Andrew Little: 'Toxic' Cameron Slater not wanted in NZ politics ...…
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As far as I can ascertain Cameron Slater has released one statement about the allegations made against him by Ben Rachinger aired on the Nation last weekend. Slater is a self confessed social media guru. His statement does not appear to be on his own site. He…
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Watch the excellent Helen Kelly on Q+A this morning, discussing workplace health and safety, and the current proposals to water down safety legislation. "The problem is that our workplaces are unregulated and dangerous" "Good economies have both regulated the labour market and health and safety.…
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Yesterday Ben Rachinger's story was told on The Nation - one part of it at least, the allegation (well supported by documentary evidence) that Cameron Slater offered him $5,000 to hack this blog. (Wasted money Cameron, there's nothing here to see!) You can watch The…
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A few days ago, I noticed an article on Stuff on three strikes. It started rationally. The "three-strikes legislation", which passed into law in June 2010 after a push from then-ACT politician David Garrett, gives people who commit violent offences "strikes" when they plead or are…
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I hesitated before writing this. I knew that nothing I could write would do justice to the courage of Ms Seales and her family and supporters. The recent decision of Justice Collins on assisted death makes legal sense to me. I struggled to understand prior…
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Welcome to any new readers checking out this blog today as a result of the "dirty politics" segment on The Nation. (Update: For those that didn't see The Nation, there is a summary in The Herald.)(Update: The Nation story is here). This blog started in…
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A piece in The Herald yesterday outlines the shame of poverty in NZ: NZ children suffer higher relative hardship than 20 European countries The title is confusing. The measures of poverty discussed are absolute, not relative measures. "Relativity" enters in to it when comparing children…
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You might want to tune in and watch The Nation this morning at 9:30. Here's yesterday's teaser: Tomorrow morning on The Nation, an investigation into allegations of more dirty politics by blogger Cameron Slater. A former confidant of Slater’s has supplied The Nation with documents,…
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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 …