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The housing crisis played out in question time again today. According to Labour: Hundreds of state houses empty during housing shortage Despite the housing shortage, more than 250 state houses have been sitting empty for over a year as Bill English tries to sell them,…
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Green MP Jan Logie has a private member's bill due for its first reading in the next couple of weeks. The intent of the bill, called the Domestic Violence - Victims' Protection Bill, is to give victims of domestic abuse 10 days of paid leave to…
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This morning, Politik reported on their email feed (I can't see it on their site) that :- GREEN LIGHT FOR HOUSING IN AUCKLAND A series of court challenges to the Auckland Council’s Independent Hearings’ Panel Review of the Auckland Unitary Plan were denied yesterday by…
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Bravo to The Greens: Greens step aside in Ohariu to help Labour's O'Connor - despite misgivings The Greens have dropped any plans to run a candidate in the Ohariu seat in a move aimed at giving Labour's Greg O'Connor a better chance of winning the…
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There’s a wonderful fiction still propelling the world that the 21st century will bring an ever-expanding arc of freedom and prosperity to the vast majority of humanity. Can we stay liberal, rich, and democratic? As during the oil crisis of the 1970s, we appear to…
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There has been an unfortunate trend developing in recent weeks, of negatively labelling people who dare to have a different opinion on equality to the labeller, as identarian. I would argue that far from being an insult, this description is actually something to be appreciated…
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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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According to Labour - Housing shortage growing by 40 homes a day We're short of houses. Lots of houses - NZ needs 60,000 more homes, ANZ says New Zealand is up to 60,000 houses short, with Auckland needing as many as 35,000 homes, estimates in…
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Story keeps on rolling - Panama Papers: Law firm bosses arrested Prosecutors in Panama say they have formally arrested the partners of a law firm at the centre of last year's Panama Papers scandal, in which thousands of documents related to off-shore accounts were leaked.…
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Why so quiet Bill?: Bill English's faces unfamiliar territory with his first Big Gay Out He's the new Prime Minister and things are going to be different now. Prime Minister Bill English faced unfamiliar territory today - his first Big Gay Out. Unlike his predecessor…
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Newshub: Greg O'Connor has been confirmed as a Labour's candidate for Wellington's Ōhāriu electorate. The former Police Association president has previously stated he has a close connection to the Ōhāriu community, having lived, worked and played for sports teams in the area. "Standing in that…
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In 2017, this happened: Putin signs law reducing punishment for domestic battery Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that decriminalizes some forms of domestic violence, according to state-run news agency Tass. Dubbed the "slapping law," it decriminalizes a first offense of domestic violence…
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Mr Low Taek Joh may not be a familiar name to many here, but he is a very concrete example of how this current New Zealand government's weak regulation has enabled the super-rich to get legal advice from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, set up trusts…
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Senior Lecturer and tax law expert Deborah Russell has won the Labour selection for New Lynn - congratulations! You're going to make a fantastic MP! Home team candidate Greg would also have made a fine choice, alas that only one of them can represent the…
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You gotta laugh right? The Netherlands started the trend with their video response to Trump, The Netherlands Second. (Very funny, it's huge, your gonna love it.) All sorts of other countries started getting in on the act. The New Zealand version (via Jono & Ben)…
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If you didn't catch up with this in The Herald this week - Under The Bridge - you should take a look now. An excellent piece of long-form journalism (great work Kirsty Johnston and team): Under The Bridge: 'What I'm seeing is a frightening disparity…
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https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceNZ/status/829523344319864832 Nathan Guy, Minister for Primary Industries: For the sake of our rivers, our land, our climate and farmers, I call on you to cancel any further plans to fund industrial scale irrigation. Sign the petition here. Industrial dairying is failing. It’s failing people who…
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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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Inspirational and heroic acts - big ones and smaller ones - by people old and young. Last March, 77 year old Brian Quail (pictured) waited for the 'green man' to cross the road, and then lay down and brought a nuclear convoy to a halt.…
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Naughty ACT Party, exposing one of the National Party's many lies. Contradicting the Nats on this explosive issue, what was ACT thinking? Interim PM Bill English is unable to maintain the control exercised by his predecessor. With this vicious infighting exposed the government is clearly…
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The Herald's front-page plug to get Roughan's book off the remaindered list informs us that Key is going on the speaking circuit and will go back into finance (not that he ever left). One political role he will carry on since he walked out of…
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We're preparing for one of the biggest legal threats to our wild places for many years. Help us defend nature. - Forest and Bird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7Fgnspt-LY From the Forest and Bird website, Environmental organisation Forest & Bird has released a video showing some of the public…
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University of Queensland Professor John Quiggin, author of Zombie Economics, will speak on this topic for the Fabian Society in Wellington on Monday 13th and Auckland Thursday 16th of this month. All welcome, details and registration inside. Will be interesting. Wellington Monday 13th at 5:30…
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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 …