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Everyone says they want to support good journalism. Here's you chance! Journalism: A New Model - The 2016 Scoop Foundation Membership Drive The Scoop Foundation is seeking public support to safeguard the future of public interest journalism in New Zealand. To ensure public access to…
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No country with record, climbing debt and homeless living in cars should be considering tax cuts. Bill English was right to rule them out for this term: Budget 2016: Government rules out tax cuts The Government says tax cuts are now off the table in…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas 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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April 2016 - the average combined ocean and land surface temperature for this April was 1.29°C above the historical average land and ocean surface temperature for April. And this April was by far the hottest April on a record running back to 1880. March was…
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National's 2017 campaign strategy is now out of the bag. An earlier report by Richard Harman (paywalled) that Bill English was predicting a Government surplus in the billions is now being backed up by discussion of a possible tax cut in next year's budget. From…
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New Zealand’s fishery catch has been estimated at a staggering 2.7 times more than reported, over a 60 year period, according to a new, long-term, peer-reviewed study. New Zealand’s fishing quota system has been paraded as an international success story of how a national fishery…
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Some excellent pieces on Auckland's housing over the weekend. From The Nation: Auckland's hidden homeless A growing numbers of families are being forced to live in cars because of unaffordable housing. Families living in their cars. Brighter Future! Government figures show rents for three-bedroom houses…
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Size of the circle represents the named profession's proportion of occurrence in the Panama Papers - Shocking, right? Actually, this data is probably unreliable - "Some people may see that politicians are the largest group, but that might simply be an artifact of the notability…
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Bryan Bruce, the award winning documentary maker, noted today on his Face Book page that Andrew Little had given permission to Phil Goff to cross the floor and vote with the Key government last week in support of the TPP. Bruce asks a simple question:…
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As reported by the Sunday Herald. Alex Salmond wants Tony Blair to face international criminal proceedings over Britain's involvement in the Iraq War - if the Chilcot inquiry finds the former British Prime Minister made a secret commitment to US president George Bush to support…
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Sunday 9:30 an on TV3, Mihingarangi Forbes fronts an excellent current affairs show, The Hui. This morning was a special report on poverty. From the Facebook page: Coming up on #TheHui.. Doing it tough.. We come face to face with some of Aotearoa’s most desperately…
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This tweet caused me some surprise when I first saw it. I respect the quality of Radio New Zealand's reporters and its commitment to the concept of quality journalism. But I scratched my head when I saw this tweet because the conclusion seemed completely overblown and so…
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The economic leadership that New Zealand has continues to come out of the Reserve Bank, rather than this government. The Reserve Bank has sent out yet another warning about New Zealand's exposure to debt from the dairy industry and from housing in Auckland. It is…
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Long time, regular commenter at The Standard, Travellerev, recently interviewed William Black. Travellev reports . . . ' "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system…
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In London Cameron's anti-corruption summit made some modest progress: World leaders pledge to tackle corruption at London summit David Cameron and John Kerry have warned that corruption and terrorism are dual threats to the world’s economy and security, at a summit aimed at tackling graft…
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The Commerce Commission has repeatedly proved it is more lapdog than competition watchdog, and you can safely bet it will stay true to form to approve the proposed merger of Fairfax Media NZ and NZME, leaving us essentially with one owner of all newspapers in…
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Prof Michael Hudson, economist, 1/8th Chippewa indian, whose father was a Trotsky stalwart, recently appeared on RT's Keiser Report. Hudson was promoting his new book "Killing the Host," on how financial parasites and debt bondage is destroying the civilised world. The following is my interpretation…
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Ironically the title is a very hearing idiom to use when I want to talk about an issue for the Deaf. It's that time of year, we get to recognise the 20,000 odd Kiwis who can't hear, it's New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) week. Yes,…
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Second in a series of obvious questions, why doesn't Key just commit to fixing our tax haven loopholes? What's the downside? A few lawyers lose an easy few million, but that isn't worth the damage to the country. So why not act? Toby Manhire puts…
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With the heavily opposed TPP Bill passing its first reading in Parliament last night it's time to take a look at its sister deal, Europe's TTIP. Not good: Leaked TTIP documents confirm major risks for climate, environment and consumer safety ... From an environmental and…
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No doubt someone will accuse me of suffering from Key Derangement Syndrome. But something he said today is rather odd. He was asked about his being thrown out of Parliament yesterday and chatted about a previous occasion. From Stuff: Funnily enough Helen Clark got thrown…
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National Party President Peter Goodfellow, may be selling out of Sanford Ltd, the giant, family-controlled fishing company, flicking a good chunk of his holding to Japan’s biggest seafood company, according to a report in the Nikkei Asian Review on Monday. Veteran New Zealand journalist Mike…
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But how do they achieve that? Watch and Learn The online version is written bullying. The patronising part is the same.
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The Welsh Assembly is deadlocked. Labour have 29 seats while Plaid Cymru, the Tories, UKIP and the Lib Dems have 31 seats between them. As reported by the Guardian, two people stood for the position of First Minister - Plaid Cymru's Leeane Wood and Labour's…
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