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We need more useful rich. New Zealand’s rich are endlessly fascinating, but as wealth concentrates ever tighter we are poorer. The wealthiest New Zealand are about 40,000 people out of about 5.5 million of us. 70% of all the shares in our sharemarket are owned…
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National's 100 days action plan is frankly performative nonsense. They were elected on a platform of helping the squeezed middle. So far they have studiously avoided them. The topics for urgent action in Parliament were to get rid of fair pay agreements, something that could…
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Wanaka banned single-use coffee cups this year. The purpose of everyone in New Zealand is to keep Wanaka pure. In Wanaka when you buy your third free trade single source coffee, they bring you the Guyanan slave you're about to set free, and a selfie.…
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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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It is Christmas time and the eternal debate about who wrote the best Christmas song ever is being debated yet again. For me there is only one possible contender. I have always been a fan of the Pogues. They were an interesting combination of traditional…
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Someone should tell the Taxpayer's Union. Some Local Councils are planning to put rates up by double digit figures next year. And the Government is planning on exempting them from discussing this with ratepayers. Local Government Simeon Brown is to blame. He has written to…
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Unlike Mike Smith and other noisy members of the imperialist support group, I applaud that NZ foreign policy has remained consistent in upholding UN and ICC policies against invasions and forced annexations. Christopher Luxon has finally managed to do something that wasn't simply blindly negative…
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Progressive-minded Kiwis after the 2023 election are in the throes of a rude awakening. Despite Chris Hipkins remaining at its head in its worst thrashing since 2014 and Greens and Maori Party making gains, unity across progressive forces at the end of 2023 shows no…
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It is not clear exactly who persuaded Luxon to put Zelensky on his Xmas calling list. It might have been Albo or MFAT, no doubt on orders from the US, who are desperate to keep the illusion of victory alive until after the US Presidential…
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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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The Minister of Health, Dr Shane Reti, wants to lift child immunisation rates, particularly for Māori children. This health target may even result in improved health outcomes. It’s also an uncharacteristically forward-looking move by the coalition government to ensure there’ll be enough healthy smokers to…
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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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The coalition government is already showing strong (and stable) anti-democratic tendencies. Democracy, by definition, is a collective and deliberative system of actions by the people, with the people, for the people. Ideologies and parties that favour and prioritise personal freedom and choice, and the corresponding…
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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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Don't let anyone be fooled this Christmas dinner by what National is setting out today. This National-led coalition are transfixed by tax cuts and are cutting everything they can find to get enough cash together to prepare their May 2024 budget over the next 2 months. There…
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So National's shock and awe campaign is under way. And one of the first targets is Kainga Ora. Under this Government's usual Te Reo policy it should actually be called Homes and Communities but it appears there is an important exception to this policy. If…
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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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The world has changed, rejecting in large part the social and economic commitments of the Keynesian era (1930s-1970s) and, since the 1970s, held in the embrace of divisive market economics. The world today is divided into two spheres. The one, broadly bounded by the state,…
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