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Daily Review 14/12/2016
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Lotu-Iiga is going
The clearing of the decks continues. Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga has announced that he will stand down at the next election and will no doubt lose his Ministerial warrants this weekend when Bill English announces his cabinet reshuffle. To be honest I consider his retirement will…
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Fare well David Shearer
David Shearer is off to take charge of the UN's mission in South Sudan. He made his valedictory statement to Parliament yesterday: He ended by wishing his fellow parliamentarians well. "And whoever wins next year, and no prizes for guessing who I'll be backing, take…
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This pattern of Kiwi’s exploiting migrants is shameful
Unfortunately this won't be news to a lot of people (good work by Olivia Carville in The Herald): Uncovered: Exploitation of migrant workers rife in NZ Widespread migrant exploitation has been uncovered in New Zealand with a new report stating workers have been unpaid, denied…
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Open Mike 14/12/2016
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Daily Review 13/12/2016
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Expert report shows urgent need for Pike River re-entry discussions
A media release from Stand With Pike. Pike Families have today released a new plan for safe re-entry of the Pike river drift written by Dr David Creedy, Vice Chair of the UN Group of Experts on Coal Mine Methane, and Bob Stevenson, former UK…
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Andrew Little: Middle New Zealand needs answers from English
Text of an opinion piece that appeared today in Stuff. Over Christmas, Bill English needs to come up with a plan to tackle the real issues facing middle New Zealand. John Key's promises – to lift up the underclass, to fix the housing crisis, to…
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The cusp of something “special” in Auckland
Is this the "cusp of something special" that Key was talking about? Auckland housing market change confirmed A change in Auckland's residential property market has now been confirmed by three separate organisations this month. Yesterday, the Real Estate Institute said Auckland house prices had fallen…
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The B Team
https://twitter.com/CTrevettNZH/status/808086738379735040
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Govt response to poverty report will tell us all we need to know about Bill English
The 2016 Child Poverty Monitor Technical Report is out today. A summary of the graphics from the Child Poverty Monitor is attached at the end of this post. Here is some of the media coverage. RNZ: Third generation of Kiwi children face life of poverty…
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Open Mike 13/12/2016
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StandWithPike – it’s always “later”
Bill English tells the families he'll meet them "later". They've waited for justice for six years. It's always "later". https://youtu.be/727ww9RuYZw
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Daily Review 12/12/2016
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Caption competition
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Time for cross party accord on super
English is not making the same stupid pledge as Key, to let superannuation consume the future. Good. (Time to start repayments to the Cullen fund while you're at it Bill.) Labour campaigned on restructuring super (raising the age of eligibility) in 2011 and 2014. But…
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Out with the old – in with the old
So today Key's 8 long years draw to a close. More than enough has been written on his legacy of nothing, I'm not going to add to it. Bye John, out with the old. And in with the old. Shortly the Nats will anoint the…
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Whaleoil and Rachinger – the final chapter starts
In the Manakau District Court later this morning the trial of Ben Rachinger on fraud charges related to a admitted solicitation attempt to hack this site by Cameron Slater begins. The trial is set down for 5 days. Unfortunately I won't be there. However there aren't…
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Open Mike 12/12/2016
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Stand With Pike: You shall not pass
Patrick Gower has broken the story about the latest turn of events down at Pike River: Newshub can exclusively reveal efforts to seal the Pike Rive mine now face a legal and physical roadblock, with the victims' families taking legal control of a privately owned…
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Climate change change vs scaremongering
I've been arguing for a while that Guy McPherson is as much a problem as Climate Change deniers. I won't read his work now for a number of reasons. It is scaremongering at its worst and I don't need to be more alarmed about CC…
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Nats continue to have a quid each way on tax cuts
Key was always pushing tax cuts, English was always cautious. Was it incoherence or was it a deliberate cop bad cop routine? Either way we seem set to continue with this sort of nonsense. English remains realistic - Bill English gives financial update, says reducing…
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The great US climate scientist witch hunt
Some on the left thought we had nothing to fear about Donald Trump. He was just all bluster. He was saying things to get support amongst his base. He would never actually do the things he said he would. As a for instance it was said…
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The Essential Forest-Gardener – the humus factor
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 orchardist,…
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Open Mike 11/12/2016
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Cabinet reshuffle – Haere ra McCully?
Bill English finally gets to name his own cabinet on Monday. It will be interesting to see what happens to Murray McCully. In February McCully announced his intention to stand down in East Coast Bays and that he would seek a list place, but only…
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Denis Tegg: How earthquake safe are the mine tailings dams at Waihi?
Reprinted with permission from Denis Tegg's blog Tegg Talk. The two tailings dams near Waihi are some of the largest structures in the country. Should either of these dams fail in an earthquake, we could be facing potentially New Zealand’s worst ever environmental disaster, and…
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The Political Scientist: Is that all there is?
Reprinted with permission from the Political Scientist. Apparently, McDonald’s hamburgers are the result of the best technology that food and taste engineers can provide. All ingredients and processing events are managed to within an inch – maybe less – of their lives. The consumable item is…
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Open Mike 10/12/2016
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Opinions
From an old but useful piece on how all opinions aren't created equal, something for us here at The Standard to think about. Every year Deakin University philosophy lecturer Patrick Stokes says something like this to his students, I’m sure you’ve heard the expression ‘everyone is entitled…