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The government is proud of their surplus, which at 0.7% of GDP isn’t quite as dramatic as the 9% of GDP deficit they had in 2011. But as soon as we have a surplus, National starts salivating over tax cuts. But may I continue on…
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https://vimeo.com/102441715 Remember Darren Watson's Planet Key song Planet Key that the Electoral Commission deemed was an electoral advertisement and banned it in the lead up to the 2014 election? I wrote this just over a year ago: Also last year the Government chose to through proxies attack…
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This week we are trialling something new. In order to free up Open Mike and Daily Review for other conversations we are asking that all discussion, posting of links etc on the US election goes in the daily dedicated thread rather than OM or DR.…
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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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The final Presidential debate kicks off at 2PM NZ time, live from Las Vegas. The format is similar to the first debate, with pre-set topics. There will be six 15-minute segments. Moderator Chris Wallace, from Fox News, will open each segment with a question, after…
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Statoil retreating from Northland may well feel like a victory against oil. But it's a tiny illustration of a broadly accelerating trend. Statoil have currently stopped all new exploration worldwide. Shell's long since stopped exploring Taranaki, and walked away from the sub-Arctic. This week BP…
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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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This week we are trialling something new. In order to free up Open Mike and Daily Review for other conversations we are asking that all discussion, posting of links etc on the US election goes in the daily dedicated thread rather than OM or…
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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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District Health Boards seem to be playing fast and loose with the truth, and junior doctors have had enough - even though some have been threatened with professional consequences for taking industrial action. From Facebook (anonymised to protect the doctors involved): We are striking to…
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In a surprise announcement, the Minister of Education, Hekia Parata, has announced she will not be standing in the next general election. No word on whether she will do the kids of NZ a favour and give up her ministerial post while she counts down…
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At The Guardian: For many Pākehā (non-Māori) New Zealanders the wars were part of a troubled past they preferred to forget. Anzac Day, by contrast, provides a ready opportunity to rally around the flag, patriotically remembering those who died at Gallipoli or on the Western…
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The 'New Republic' has published a fairly wide ranging interview with Bernie Sanders. It's worth the read...well, maybe not the first half a dozen cringe worthy paragraphs that preface the interview proper. I've only picked out a few passages, some tasters of what he has…
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On Waitangi Day last year constitutional and Treaty lawyer Moana Jackson talked about how one of the reasons the Crown passed the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed legislation was because they knew that while Māori had the seabed and foreshore it would not be exploited and…
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A (mostly) good piece by an anonymous editor at The Herald this morning: Govt should use extra to cut debt, not taxes The Prime Minister, an endlessly agreeable politician, Yeah Duncan Garner has something to say about that. ...entertains talk of tax cuts whenever the…
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What makes this government popular, deep into its third term? What makes it so hard to corrode their popularity? There’s no conspiracy to it. This is no ordinary small-or-large c conservative government. This is a very clever government. And in order to win the people,…
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This week we are trialling something new. In order to free up Open Mike and Daily Review for other conversations we are asking that all discussion, posting of links etc on the US election goes in the daily dedicated thread rather than OM or DR.…
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Michael Cullen and Margaret Wilson will speak at the Fabian Society Seminar "5th Labour Government - Lessons from a time of Challenges" at Owen Glenn Centre, Grafton Road, Auckland on Sunday October 30 from 1-5pm. Michael and Margaret will be joined by Mike Williams,…
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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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Treasury papers just released show National's Housing Infrastructure Fund to be everything you expected it to be: a quickly cobbled together headline. For National's party conference they needed to come up with a big sounding number so that they could appear to be doing something about Housing. Treasury…
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The government is proud of their surplus, which at 0.7% of GDP isn't quite as dramatic as the 9% of GDP deficit they had in 2011. But as soon as we have a surplus, National starts salivating over tax cuts. Not sensible things like investing…
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With great fanfare last week the Government announced what it wanted to suggest was a stonking big operating revenue surplus in the country's accounts. We are finally in the black to the tune of $1.8 billion dollars. This headline was obliterated by other news released that day…
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This week we are trialling something new. In order to free up Open Mike and Daily Review for other conversations we are asking that all discussion, posting of links etc on the US election goes in this dedicated thread rather than OM or DR. The…
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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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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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Vonny Moyes is an arts journalist and social activist. She's a weekly columnist in The National, regular commentator and head of digital communications for an environment agency There are lots of things going on in the world right now, but it feels rather like we’ve…
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In August Hekia Parata announced her new COOL solution, that distinctly isn't what it says on the tin. While research shows that peer-to-peer learning is amongst the most effective, and parents are working on reducing class sizes to increase teacher contact, Hekia has worked out…
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You can only piss the journos off for so long... National ministers have a habit of not wanting to turn up to the 'hard' questions, but Paula Bennett has been severely caught out by RNZ: Back in August RNZ's Insight programme spent two weeks chasing…