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A justified operation, no organised cover-up, but serious failures in senior defence personnel's denial and misrepresentation, and serious failures by the intelligence agencies in handing over a suspect to torture. The Inquiry called for a review of Defence administration, an Inspector-General of Defence, a Defence…
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The Heron report inquiring into National MP Hamish Walker and Michelle Boag's misuse of confidential health information has been released. And it is frustratingly short of detail. It reads like a collation of press releases augmented with some carefully prepared statements and topped off with…
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Another day, another poll! So, we can see from the party vote trend here that CB is sharply disagreeing with the other two regular pollsters over what's going on in this election. My internet access is still spotty for another week, so apologies if there'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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TVNZ's latest Colmar Brunton poll is released at 6pm. This post will be updated with the results then. In the meantime, some context: The June Colmar Brunton saw a 9% swing from Labour to National under the exciting new leadership of Todd Muller. However, if…
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Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Linda Reynolds were invited to travel to the US this week to meet face-to-face with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Minister Mark Esper. In what was clearly a follow-up to recent speeches on China…
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I'm reasonably happy with where the government wound up on the quarantine cost recovery. It sends a clear economic signal to businesses and the fools who want to travel during a global pandemic. That will make the cost / benefit calculation for businesses clearer. It…
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https://vimeo.com/442599119 Sarah Dowie, National's Invercargill MP gave her valedictory speech yesterday and it was a very, very good speech. She was frank and to the point and spoke from the heart. She is clearly happy to be going. From Hansard: When I started my parliamentary…
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There is a suggestion before Parliament that electors should be able to switch between the European roll and the Maori roll more regularly. Currently this option can only be exercised every five years with the census. And given our MMP system you would have to…
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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 …
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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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Believe me I lived through the Labour years of 2008 to 2014. I know what disunity looks like. This term has been a complete shambles for National. And the shambles shows no sign of abating. Because Jami-Lee Ross is threatening to table National's list of…
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According to our Prime Minister, today's announcement that New Zealand is suspending extradition arrangements with Hong Kong is because of our principles. But it is not immediately clear what these principles are, other than falling into line with our Five Eyes spying partners. Some history…
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Radio NZ's Jo Moir has tweeted the polling results be-grudgingly given to the National Party caucus this afternoon after significant rancour in the ranks. The results were presented by David Farrar, the Tory's pollster, ironically meaning that the caucus room briefly contained both the Joker…
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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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Believe me, when things go wrong politically they tend to go wrong big time and you tend to stumble from crisis to crisis. Which is the situation that Judith Collins currently finds herself in. Clint Smith, one of the most incisive of political twitterers dropped…
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Earlier this month, I saw a Reuters article that had the snag paragraphs (my bold). That was written on July 17th and based on stats up to July 13th. (Reuters) - Global coronavirus infections passed 14 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, marking…
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I was astounded when Labour scored 61% in this week's Newshub Reid Research poll. But that astonishment was dwarfed by this result: https://twitter.com/nealejones/status/1287648511488430080 Neale is right. There is this constant rule throughout English speaking western democracies. The electorate always believes that tories are better with…
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Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog In mid-2016 the former president of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Helen Kelly (no relation) came to speak to PSA staff at morning tea. Helen had been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and would sadly die…
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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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Newshub reported an all-time high for the Labour Party in their Reid Research poll today, hitting 60.9% of the party vote. National were already calling it a rogue poll before it's even announced. (it's technically possible, but if it is rogue, it's the type that…
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Tova O'Brien said that it would be a bombshell result and it was. The results of tonight's Newshub Reid Research poll results are: Labour - 61% up 4.4 National - 25% down 5.5 Greens - 5.7% - up 0.2 NZ First - 2% - down…
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The woman who has led us through a terrorist attack, a significant natural disaster and who has safely guided us through an international Pandemic and who has led with aroha and compassion is turning 40 today. Happy birthday Jacinda.
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The Green Party has been busy. And unlike the National Party whose definition of "policy announcement" is to announce a new road, they have come up with an impressive policy document Think Ahead, Act Now: Our Green Vision for Aotearoa which is clearly designed to…
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In the middle of a multi-year global airline collapse... and our worst-ever tourism collapse ... and one of our worst economic collapses... Within 45 minutes of an international airport... and within 25 minutes of another major regional airport... On 700 acres of flat productive farmland…
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