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5:30 pm, September 9th, 2026 - 1 comment
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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 …
Chatting with a non politically engaged workmate and he told me that he saw an ad on the web that said Labour were going to introduce 7 taxes.
When I asked him what they were he did reasonably well in mentioning 5 of them. When I assured him that wasn't true he came to the conclusion that 'National are lying'.
If, like me you are over the obfuscation, mis and disinformation and outright lying there is a way to push back. The Advertising Standards Authority. OK, they are a tad toothless but if enough of us write a complaint it can become news in itself. Like Catherine Bindon did. She would like an apology but
SlimeySimeon Brown ain't that sort of fella.https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics_election-2026/1311337/asa-partly-upholds-complaint-against-misleading-national-attack-ad
https://asa.co.nz/complaints/make-a-complaint/