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I hope this post does not dissuade him. But I doubt that Brian Tamaki reads the Standard. And I hope he gets together a party and runs for Parliament next year. Because the MMP system allows extremist groups to gather together small groups of people…
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The release of the report into Parliament's culture was pretty dramatic. The basic conclusion is that the halls of Parliament is full of awful people who treat their staff and workers very poorly. I was not surprised. Politics has this unfortunate habit of attracting some…
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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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As everyone gets their head around what happened in Australia news is coming out about the role that social media played. And it was not a positive role. This tweet caught my interest: https://twitter.com/vanbadham/status/1130381691384606720 The responses are concerning. The spread of misinformation appears to have…
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This was a graduation ceremony with a difference. Watch the video showing the end of his speech to see why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5FO4oWrKJ4 MSN has the details: Billionaire investor and philanthropist Robert F. Smith was giving the commencement speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday, when…
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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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National will be licking its lips and thinking that the Australian election will provide them with a roadmap to how to succeed in 2020. There are a few takeaways. They need to make sure that a right wing megalomaniac controls the majority of the media…
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Commiserations to all Australian progressives, not to mention all Australian endangered species and the Great Barrier reef. I mean WTF just happened? This was meant to be a resounding Labor victory after the appalling disunity of the last three years of Liberal disunity. There were…
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Every day, millions of people flock online and to Social Media. In fact, some seem to be almost permanently connected. People go online because they want to be entertained, not informed, and to be excited, not educated. Because there is so much visual stimulation in…
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This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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The Australian election is on today. Is this the end of Scomo and the Liberals? Is Tony Abbott goneburger? Will the last act of Bob Hawke's life push Labor over the line? Counting should start this evening 9 pm NZ time. This is a discussion…
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Forestry is forcing an important tilting point between mitigating climate change and land use, and it’s going to affect the viability of some North Island towns. The Minister of Forestry Shane Jones made a pre-budget announcement this week that Te Ururakau/Forestry New Zealand will receive…
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I bet this is a headline that you never expected to see on the Standard but when someone does something deserving of praise they should receive it, even if they are Judith Collins. The context is David Seymour being a dick about Golriz Gharaman and…
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Looks like National has conceded that the nascent Blue Green party is a no goer. The Herald has reported that National is considering allowing Alfred Ngaro to form another break away party this time with a definite christian conservative bent and also to take over…
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The Germans and the Dutch have suspended training Iraqi soldiers citing increased tensions in the area. What do they know that Ron Mark doesn't? Cabinet is due to make a decision shortly on our long-planned decision to withdraw, and Ron seems to want us to…
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Jacinda Ardern has shown true international leadership by achieving considerable international consensus to effecting change in the way that social media operates. She also persuaded the major tech companies, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Amazon to sign up to proposals that include updating their terms…
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For some time the right have been making this loud noise about Labour’s student loan policy and how it has failed because the number of students have not increased dramatically. The manufactured narrative has persuaded some in the media. They have bought into the premise.…
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