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Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog There is plenty of criticism about the role that Social Media plays in democracy. There have been plenty of high profile cases such as the Cambridge Analytica where people’s personal data from Facebook had been used without people’s consent. This data…
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Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog Accusations of media bias are nothing new. It is impossible to be totally objective, and to claim otherwise is simply misleading. In a democracy, the role of the forth estate is critical. Media are one of the main ways people…
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So to recap. There is a major party accused of running a Foundation that means it can hide the identity of donors and present a misleading picture to the public. And during the last election it funnelled most of its payments for electorate campaigns through…
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https://twitter.com/mrbenjaminlaw/status/1197344181103935488 https://twitter.com/isobelroe/status/1197235272645169152 https://twitter.com/ClimateHuman/status/1197400240489299968 Shit keeps getting more real. Despite the immensity of what we face, I am less concerned about us having the technical skills to transition than I am about the number of people still thinking that green BAU will save us. I wonder…
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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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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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LPrent has posted this morning on the latest involving the New Zealand First electoral donations problem. I set out my initial view yesterday that the arrangement appeared to be cute but legal. There was a further disclosure this morning, that the foundation paid for the…
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Politics is bloody hard and often brutal, and Labour cop a fair amount of shit, some of it deserved, some not. So it's great to see something like this being done so well. Fuck the tourism angle, the value I see here is New Zealanders…
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It has been ironic looking at the basic hysteria that our media are having about the NZ First foundation and its loans to the NZ First party. I suspect that it is likely to be legal - but that is because our legal structure has…
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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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Questions have been raised about New Zealand First's party financing arrangements after it was disclosed that the party was receiving loans from a party aligned foundation. From Guyon Espiner at Radio New Zealand: A mysterious foundation that loans money to New Zealand First is under…
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The government announced new tenancy protection regulations yesterday. From RNZ, The proposed changes include: Limiting rent increases to once every 12 months Banning rental bidding Ending no-cause evictions An increase to financial penalties Tenants will be able to add minor fittings and improvements, such as…
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Since I've been complaining about lack of structural reform from this government, I felt it was time to test an idea out. I thought I'd sketch out a common accountability framework for the government. It goes like this: 1. WHY If the goals of eradicating…
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Originally Posted on Nick Kelly's blog My previous post talked about the 2008 financial crisis and the long shadow it casts over politics and society still a decade later. In the UK, the financial crisis was followed by a decade of austerity. These policies included significant cuts…
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In this interview with Stuff journalist Henry Cooke, Gareth Hughes talks about wanting to spend time with his kids while they're still young, and his frustration with the slowness of change in the face of the enormity of the climate and other crises we are…
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I seem to have been saying this about American politics for the past couple of years or so. But what an amazing week it was in American politics. And the question has to be asked, how is it that Donald Trump is still President? All…
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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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It is official, we’ll have to cope with two referendums at the General Election (GE) next year. One will be asking us whether cannabis for recreational use should be legalised and the other whether voluntary euthanasia should be allowed. One argument against having these referendums…
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Originally published on Nick Kelly's blog. During the 2019 UK general election there will be new issues and developments on a daily basis. But there is a major issue this election isn’t new, but remains highly relevant. The 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent policies…
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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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There was a small protest at Parliament yesterday. The participants were from farming backgrounds and were complaining about the Government's apparent intention to destroy farming communities throughout the land. What could they have been referring to? Collette Devlin filed this backgrounder. The article contains this…
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