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Making sacrifices: lower quality lunches and higher speed limits. They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and perhaps it’s true. If you saw Davey Seymour’s Disgusting School Dinners yesterday, you couldn’t give that stuff away for free - literally. Mind you, that’s when the…
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lprent: Nick Rockel, author of the Nick's Kōrero has started to re-post some of his substack posts here for your reading, commentary and support/disagreement on his opinions and facts. Usual rules apply about attacking the authors personally. Jones calls climate change 'woke' and says, 'Send…
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The Transport Unions recently engaged Talbot Mills to poll kiwis on their view of the Ferry Fiasco. The latest results are now in and they are pretty ugly for the Government. They were asked about the decision by Willis to cancel "the new Ferries contract…
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Remember Stuart Nash? He was a former Labour MP whose career was complicated. He became an MP in 2008. He missed out in 2011 and instead became Chief of Staff for David Shearer, at least for a while. He then won Napier in 2014. The…
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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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It’s time to highlight what a Labour plan for the New Zealand economy under a 2026 government would look like. And ask questions. On September 11 2023 then-Prime Minister Hipkins released his plan for the New Zealand economy. “Labour’s economic priorities for the next term…
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The PM’s ‘State of the Nation’ speech about the New Zealand economy titled “economic growth the key to better days ahead” was a bag of words with no plan. Turbocharging New Zealand’s economic growth is the key to brighter days ahead for all Kiwis, Prime…
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Note: Since writing this post last night, Luxon has used his "State of the Union" speech to declare his way forward is foreign investment and mining. I wish he weren't so predictable. Yesterday, Trump pardoned the founder of Silk Road - a criminal website designed…
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In 2017, when Ghahraman was elected to Parliament as a Green MP, she recounted both the highlights and challenges of her role - There was love, support, and encouragement. And on the flipside, there was intense, visceral and unchecked hate. That came with violent threats…
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Trump's shock and awe approach made me reflect on what Christopher Luxon did when he gained power. And there are a number of similarities. Since gaining office Trump has: Reversed as many Biden measures as he could. Changed energy policies - drill baby drill. Established…
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For too long, I’ve been very careful not to use the word “fascism” loosely — but do you remember an American government and country like today? But it’s not just over there. The playbook we see here in Aotearoa New Zealand is, in my view,…
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He's baack. The man least suited to running the world's most powerful country is now President again. And this time he is surrounded by hard right operatives determined to move America to the right. There is even a manifesto setting out what this new administration…
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It looks like the internal pressures in National's caucus caused by poor polling are beginning to take effect. Yesterday Christopher Luxon announced a rather significant cabinet reshuffle. The announcement was rather strange and did not go into the detail of some pretty major changes. Melissa…
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Joe Biden's final speech as president included some surprising yet refreshing commentary about the danger that wealth poses to democracy. He said this: That’s why my farewell address tonight, I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern ... and…
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