Explore the archive
Find articles and conversations by date, subject or search expression.
Searching: posts Sorted by: newest Results: 151–180 of 198
Post
Yesterday Paula Bennett engaged in a bit of grandstanding: Call to action on closing the Gender Pay Gap. It's a bit hollow after eight long years. It's a bit hollow after the Nats abolished the Department of Labour’s Pay and Employment Equity Unit. It's a…
Post
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 …
Post
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 …
Post
https://twitter.com/AndrewLittleMP/status/838860944780341248 https://twitter.com/nzlabour/status/838863335110012928 https://twitter.com/TrevorMallard/status/838862835996241920
Post
The crisis around English's amateur-hour handling of the super announcement is an opportunity for Judith Collins. Pretty much the last one, after this it will be too late to change leaders before the election. The Collins surrogate blog is raining down the hate on English,…
Post
Sometimes your best friends have to tell you straight. Click through to see Hosking rip English apart: Other coverage: Rachel Smalley: National made a bungle of announcing plan to lift retirement age English's Super policy may not survive election Claire Trevett: Winston Peters was right…
Post
As quoted during the election campaign, Donald Trump said "I think Islam hates us." Now-President Trump’s approach to Islam and Islamic immigration in to the United States is cataclysmically wrong. His first bungled measures against Muslim-dominant countries, and his new version announced yesterday, illustrates where his…
Post
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 …
Post
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 …
Post
In what seems to have been a panicked reaction to a disastrous series of interviews ("wait and see"), English has just announced that the age of eligibility for super will rise from 65 to 67, phased in from 2037. TVNZ has the early scoop. https://twitter.com/NewshubPolitics/status/838567404854661120…
Post
I/S at No Right Turn writes... The banality of evil Last week the Ombudsman formally warned that people were being subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in our prisons. Corrections tried to pretend that it was a matter of medical care (as if that…
Post
Hats off to Jane Bowron for saying what needed to be said: Shame on Bill English for his stoner/loser youth claim Prime Minister Bill English's reputation as a safe pair of blands taking the reins after the mysterious disappearance of John Key took a dive…
Post
Some more social media lessons for prospective politicians. Rule number 2 is never delete something unless there is no alternative and you don't mind looking like a fool. Rule number 3 is know what social media your staff is putting out. A very clear test…
bill english john key national same old national social media lolz the praiseworthy and the pitiful you couldn't make this shit up
Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRq6K8Z0hvM (we can help wmbad pay the rent here)
Post
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 …
Post
What to do with the helpless anger generated by such a statement - Looking backwards won't help future state abuse victims - English Future state abuse victims. The only thing that will help them is to learn the lessons of the past, and apply them…
Post
https://twitter.com/GCSBIntercepts/status/837059653997494272 https://twitter.com/nzlistener/status/837391075786424320 https://twitter.com/NOCONSPIRACY1/status/837377169995096064 https://twitter.com/domesticanimal/status/838116724813635585 https://twitter.com/rodemmerson/status/836649171381673984 https://twitter.com/MargeInovera/status/838140909241806849
Post
Nick Smith's water policy announcement just keeps getting worse and worse. It was always obvious that the 2040 deadline was just kicking the can down the road so nothing had to happen now (same as the predator free by 2050 scam). Then the "swimmable" standard…
Post
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 …
Post
First they came for the budgeting services. Now we know that every social service agency has to provide clients' private personal data to the Ministry of Social Development or get no funding. Apparently it's essential to Bill English's much-touted and little understood "social investment" strategy,…
accountability Annette King benefits bill english child welfare discrimination employment equality Ethics families human rights poverty Social issues Spying unemployment welfare
Post
In what was apparently a pretty dire interview on The Nation this morning, Bill English dropped one bombshell: Bill English won't make same superannuation promise as John Key ... Talking to Three's The Nation, Prime Minister Bill English said people need to know what's happening…
Post
Labour Party General Secretary Andrew Kirton recently sent out a message to Labour Candidates which of itself was a lesson on all things social media. The text was to warn them to review their social media and delete all the stuff that might be embarassing.…
Post
A Guest Post from Matthew Whitehead (original is at Le Matt Juste). [links in post fixed now] ________________________________________________________ Or maybe there are? If you're on New Zealand Twitter, you've probably already been following this story. If not, a bunch of Auckland University students have decided to…
Post
2017 will be New Zealand’s eighth election under MMP, over 22 years. With very strong democratically elected governments appearing right across the world digging in for the long term, it’s useful to take a moment for MMP. One of the lessons of very strong and…
accountability Deep stuff democratic participation election 2017 International MMP Politics uk politics us politics
Post
This report makes for depressing reading: UN report lays bare the waste of treating homes as commodities A massive shift of global capital investment has left homes empty and people homeless, argues Leilani Farha, UN special rapporteur for housing The UN special rapporteur for housing,…
Post
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 …
Post
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 …
Post
Direct democracy doesn’t mean a referendum, nor does it mean consensus. It can take a number of forms depending on the issue. That's something I could, and have written in discussions about democracy here on 'the standard'. And of course, it's a million blue miles…
democratic participation drugs political parties Politics social democracy Social issues
Post
Watching Steve Brannon and his alter ego Donald Trump operate from a long way away is almost amusing. When I saw this today:- Speaking on a trip to an aircraft carrier in Virginia on Thursday, Mr Trump said he had "total confidence" in his attorney…
Post
I remember going to see new Minister of Employment Annette King in 1989 to ask for support for group apprenticeship in the motor industry. "Seems like a good idea, we'll put up $50,000." she said. I nearly fell off my chair. It was not the…