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I/S at No Right Turn: National's new Muldoonism What's National's plan for the economy? Apparently, it is to suspend all environmental law for their cronies: Forest & Bird can reveal that for 18 months, the Government investigated creating ‘Special Economic Zones’ to push through contentious…
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In railing against Labour's targeted assistance to low income families, ACT's David Seymour showed us yet again the ugly side of tory politics: https://twitter.com/actparty/status/884933052228677632 OK then. Poor people shouldn't be allowed to have kids. That probably sounds very familiar, and so it should, because the…
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Some of the best tweets on the latest chapter of the Trump tragedy. We never expected the smoking gun to be friendly fire. Will Republicans meekly swallow this too? Unbelievable: https://twitter.com/AP/status/884793163268993024 https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/884826103067533312 https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/884888626093592576 https://twitter.com/yashar/status/884900796957171712 https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/884789418455953413 https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/884789839522140166 https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/884816540473995264 https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/884736141391536128 https://twitter.com/natefernald/status/884613581031034882 https://twitter.com/andymoney69/status/884800341086265344
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The recent TVNZ Colmar Brunton poll has caused plenty of discussion here in the last few days. Here's an interesting angle to consider, courtesy of Toby Manhire on The Spinoff: The latest poll offers little for anyone to crow about [...] ... But how good…
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https://twitter.com/Forest_and_Bird/status/884612659961667584 https://twitter.com/Forest_and_Bird/status/884613389951016960 _________________________________________________________________________________ Forest and Bird Press Release July 11, 2017 OIAs reveal Government plans to circumvent rules for new coal mines Documents released to Forest & Bird under the Official Information Act show the Government has been working to circumvent environmental protections and public…
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https://twitter.com/MxJackMonroe/status/880377209843789824 That's the challenge for journalists. But what about the rest of us? We like to criticise the MSM for the loss of investigative journalism and neutral reporting in NZ, and rightly so. But I also think it’s important we don’t lose sight of where…
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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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Labour's announcement is here. As covered by Vernon Small on Stuff: Labour to prioritise families and scrap Budget tax cuts Labour is promising to scrap National's Budget tax cut plan. Instead it will funnel the cash into higher Working for Families payments and extra help…
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Thank you Mark Dunajtschik: Businessman to donate $50m for new children's hospital A wealthy property developer is to build and gift a new $50 million children's hospital in Wellington. Mark Dunajtschik signed an agreement with Capital & Coast District Health Board this morning to build…
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The fact that UK businesses are against Brexit is hardly surprising: UK business leaders to call for indefinite delay in leaving single market Business leaders are to demand that ministers agree an indefinite delay in Britain’s departure from the European single market and customs union…
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Another poll: The Maori Party is up to 2 per cent, and Gareth Morgan's Opportunities Party is steady on 1 per cent. Act and United Future don't feature. PARTY VOTE National 47 per cent (down 2) Labour 27 (down 3) Greens 11 (up 2) NZ…
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In a wtaf? moment, power companies in Otago are doing day long power cuts for maintenance in the middle of winter. On Monday, More than 700 South Dunedin households were without power for much of today as Aurora energy crews replaces power poles https://twitter.com/southernscoop/status/884216748613881856 It's…
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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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A minor blip on the electoral radar this weekend as Metiria Turei called out Peters' "very racist approach to immigration", and Peters responded with denials and warnings of "consequences". Before anyone gets too excited about this friction between possible coalition partners, do recall that in…
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Thirty two years ago today New Zealand suffered the most egregious attack on its sovereignty that it has ever suffered. A group of foreign agents snuck into the country and attached two bombs to a ship berthed at Auckland. The first was meant to be…
Conservation crime democracy under attack Environment Europe International the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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https://twitter.com/publicaddress/status/883904795873992704 https://twitter.com/AmarAmarasingam/status/883835812370153472 ABC news political editor Chris Uhlmann's report went viral and was picked up by international media, Speaking on Sunday from the G20 conference in Hamburg, Uhlmann said Trump had shown “no desire and no capacity to lead the world” and was himself…
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https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/883870864868913152 That's an immediate 10 cent/litre levy on water bottling and exports and a moratorium on new bottling consents until water protection is sorted out properly. The gist of the overall policy is to reprioritise the integrity of water ahead of commerce. This is a values based…
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Stalemate. Draw. Seedless grapes. OMG. Like, a grand coalition of forces who never thought they'd really deep down win, plays their hearts out against a team that barely makes a mistake. Toe to toe and match them point for point. National deserves the win for…
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David Fisher in The Herald, continuing great work on Operation Burnham: Investigation: NZDF blunders again over NZSAS raid as fresh details emerge There has been a second embarrassing blunder over photographs taken during the top secret NZSAS raid in Afghanistan called Operation Burnham. First the…
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The Minister of Conservation has failed in her attempt to swap a pristine piece of conservation land for a cow paddock so that the ill conceived Ruataniwha Dam can proceed. I am not surprised. The Ruataniwha Dam proposal is an appalling waste of resources and…
Abuse of power bill english Conservation david parker Environment farming farming labour national national/act government Politics same old national water
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No Right Turn: Climate change: Ending oil Fossil fuels are the primary cause of climate change. A significant chunk of those fossil fuels are burned in cars, so if we want to beat climate change, we need to stop doing that. And today, the French…
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The Newshub article seemed straight forward enough. Nick Smith had yet again been caught out directly contradicting reality. He had said that there was no film showing any Pike River bodies when the police and Solid Energy said there was. But then the article disappeared.…
Abuse of power disaster Mining national national/act government nick smith same old national you couldn't make this shit up
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Updates from the #debarclay: Under-investigation MP Todd Barclay has dropped off the public radar ... More than two weeks ago the disgraced MP announced he would not seek re-election for the National strong-hold he represents following a scandal over a recording he allegedly made of…
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There's a very interesting long read in The Guardian on the dangerous "weaponising" of cynicism by climate change deniers. It's a worrying but insightful piece, well worth your time. I have some issues with aspects of the framing - it seems to give too much…
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