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We were partners in crime, Helen and I. We worked together on so many campaigns - from the Hobbit campaign, to the Port of Auckland dispute, to Jobs that Count, to health and safety, to a video about ACC cuts that included a mate of…
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Staunch Trade Unionist and Standard author Helen Kelly has died. Just 52 years old, Helen battled her illness the way she took on the fights in her life, on the front foot, never flinching. It's a tribute to her ticker that she took up the…
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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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It seems that the strip mining of Housing Corporation so that the Government could declare a surplus is reaching its logical conclusion. Treasury is forecasting Housing Corp to be out of money by next February. From the Herald: The Government's state housing agency is set…
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National has this tactic that it uses all the time. Despite being in power for the past eight long years, whenever a problem arises it is always someone else's fault. For instance with the housing crisis it is all the fault of Auckland Council and a…
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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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New Green MP Barry Coates who makes his inaugural speech today. 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…
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One day after the Labour-Green-Maori Party inquiry into homelessness's recommendations have been announced and the Government is busily moving to implement one of the recommendations, or at least a watered down version of it. From Radio New Zealand: The government is going to become a…
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This is a blog post I started to write a couple of weeks ago but it was temporarily lost in the heat and chaos of the local government campaign ... Who would have thought that a surge in homelessness would result in a spike in…
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The National Government has decided to outflank NZ First and target the families of Asian immigrants to make it look like it's doing something about immigration and the linked housing crisis. It has temporarily frozen the 'parents' category for immigration, blocking the parents and grandparents…
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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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I spotted this article in Zero Hedge this morning. The guts of it is that seven out of ten Americans are an inch away from poverty, live hand to mouth, and do not even have one thousand dollars (USD) in their savings account. Even worse,…
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You and I, and just about everyone, knows that capitalism's going over the cliff. When it does, the various institutional memories and purposes that make up current political, cultural and economic realities, that together by the way they inform and interact with one another give…
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Radio NZ reports: Thousands of fast-food workers are about to get fully guaranteed work hours for the first time in decades. Unite Union has reached a new collective agreement with Restaurant Brands, which scrapped zero-hour contracts last year, to ensure further certainty around workers' hours…
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From Newshub: A company that supplies products for a number of popular advertorial brands is facing increased pressure to budge on work hours and pay, after workers launched their third strike in five days. Employees at the distribution centre of Brand Developers TV Shop, which…
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Don't get me wrong, I love idealists. I like boosters who tell me it's not as bad for Progressives as things may appear. Utopians. Happy people. Party campaigners. Change the country. Win the battles. Love them all. And then after we've finished campaigning in poetry,…
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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 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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Junior doctors are planning strike action as they fight for safer rosters: Junior doctors who voted to go on strike say they have no choice, because the exhaustion caused by long working hours is putting patient safety at risk. And they're facing bullying and threats…
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Press release from the Labour Party website. Labour, the Green Party and the Māori Party are calling on the Government to immediately adopt the 20 recommendations set out in today’s Ending Homelessness in New Zealand report. This morning, the Cross-Party Inquiry into Homelessness has released…
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Guyon Espiner wrote this interesting recent article in the Listener. The article was written before Justin Lester bet Nick Leggett for the Wellington Mayoralty and reads like a promo piece written by a Leggett publicist. In it Espiner talked about the utopians and pragmatists. Amongst the ranks…
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October 8 – 10th is four International Days of Prayer and Action with Standing Rock on stepping up as Protectors of Water. Background and ways to take part are outlined here. This post is in support of that. Two articles on community at Standing Rock. "This is how we should…
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The second of three Presidential debates kicks off at 2PM NZ time. The format is different this time, it's more of a town hall style meeting with a combination of set questions from the moderators (ABC's Martha Raddatz and CNN's Anderson Cooper) and random impertinences…
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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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As a professional computer programmer and someone who has been involved in politics for decades, I'm always amazed at fools like this idiot Malcolm Alexander talking about something that they clearly don't understand the technicalities of. Local Government New Zealand chief executive Malcolm Alexander said it was…
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Final results are still pending but already it is clear that the local government elections are very good for Labour and horrendous for National. In Auckland the Auckland Future team failed to fire spectacularly. The team had problems from the start. Selecting a candidate who…
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October 8 – 10th is four International Days of Prayer and Action with Standing Rock on stepping up as Protectors of Water. Background and ways to take part are outlined here. This post is in support of that. In following what is happening at Standing Rock, one of the things…
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The following is a Guest Post from Robert Guyton and is part of a series appearing over 12 Sundays. Other parts can be seen here. Robert is a sustainability pioneer who along with his family grows the oldest food forest in NZ. A long time organic gardener, permaculturist and heritage…