Written By:
Guest post -
Date published: 12:46 pm, May 13th, 2023 -
33 comments
Categories: Deep stuff, elections, electoral systems, local body elections, MMP
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A guest post by Seddonville Miner outlining the history of voting rights in New Zealand and how Christopher Luxon’s recent claims about our voting system are hopelessly incorrect.
Written By:
Enzo -
Date published: 8:00 pm, November 29th, 2017 -
24 comments
Categories: labour, Left, liberalism
Tags: enzo giordani, Introductions, Social Democracy
Hi. I’m Enzo (yes that’s my real name) and I write for The Standard now. Just thought I should introduce myself and tell you a little bit about my background – so hopefully it doesn’t become A THING. No, I have not defended war criminals in Rwanda, secretly taped staff members in an electorate office, […]
Written By:
Stephanie Rodgers -
Date published: 8:30 am, April 23rd, 2015 -
10 comments
Categories: The Standard
Tags: anthony robins, authors, blog stats, lprent, mickysavage, mike smith, stephanie rodgers, tracey
A brief numbers-y overview of what your honoured authors have gotten up to since September.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 2:55 pm, December 14th, 2011 -
50 comments
Categories: election 2011, labour
Tags: auckland
micky savage writes about Labour’s results in Auckland. There were some stunning results, particularly in South Auckland where Labour’s share of the vote increased by 10.2% in Mangere, 7.3% in Manukau East and 5.2% in Manurewa. And in Phil Goff’s Mount Roskill it increased by 1%. These were very good results in an election where the tide was going out.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 3:00 pm, September 27th, 2011 -
55 comments
Categories: law, national, police, same old national
Tags: law commission, operation 8, search and surveillance, supreme court
mickysavage at Waitakere News blog has an analysis of the legal and unconstitutional implications of the Nationals dubious plan to override the courts with poor kneejerk legislation. It is rather disturbing as the action appears to have more to do with electioneering than actual legal need.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 10:55 am, March 5th, 2010 -
10 comments
Categories: education
Tags:
mickysavage reports on Anne Tolley’s meeting in West Auckland. He relates her complete inability to understand the issues. He concludes that national standards was a dog whistle policy that in action will actually only consist of spending $50 million a year on reports with pretty graphs and standardising grading for writing. Everything else is already standardised. There will be no improvements in education standards.< more>
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 3:30 pm, January 29th, 2010 -
43 comments
Categories: admin, blogs
Tags:
Ok, I promised a review of the comments in 2009. Here are the usual suspects with both the number of comments and the number of bytes in the comments so you can see who talks a lot and how much. This was a little tricky because I used the e-mails to select the top e-mails, […]
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:41 pm, December 5th, 2025 -
8 comments
Categories: climate change, ETS, national, same old national, science
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Count them and weep.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 11:00 am, January 2nd, 2021 -
24 comments
Categories: drugs, making shit up, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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Simon Bridges has spent the last week casting aspersions on people who have tragically died at Music Festivals in an attempt to score culture war inspired political points and undermine the Government’s new pill testing law.
Written By:
weka -
Date published: 12:20 pm, August 5th, 2020 -
123 comments
Categories: election 2020, greens, labour, MMP, national, nz first, winston peters
Tags: how change happens
With the left’s political fortunes having changed greatly in the past three years, and with more change on the way, does the left still want MMP?
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 10:10 am, May 16th, 2018 -
21 comments
Categories: admin, Dirty Politics, internet, The Standard
Tags: cameron slater, Dermot Nottingham, phil quin
Phil Quin has been his usual dickheaded self on the net. Trying to bully people about material that they probably didn’t write on this site is not a way to get it looked at. For that everyone need to follow the procedures detailed in our contact page and the pages linked to it. The alternatives aren’t nice. Ask Dermot Nottingham. Updated
Written By:
Matthew Whitehead -
Date published: 4:00 pm, April 18th, 2018 -
78 comments
Categories: greens, labour, national, nz first, polls
Tags: colmar brunton, labour-green government, labour-green-NZF government, pollwatch
In this third edition of Pollwatch, we note Simon Bridges’ leap out of the gate to a hiss and fizzle, and with Roy Morgan still on an unexplained hiatus, our second poll of the year has arrived from Colmar Brunton, with the government’s support down very slightly, but its support partners both in a much more stable position.
Written By:
Anthony R0bins -
Date published: 12:20 pm, June 23rd, 2017 -
48 comments
Categories: national, racism
Tags: don brash, hobsons pledge, old white racists, racism
Ex Nat leader Don Brash, of racist Orewa speech and Iwi/Kiwi fame, is still out there fanning the flames of division in NZ.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 7:01 am, February 6th, 2017 -
19 comments
Categories: history, leadership, Maori Issues
Tags: Treaty of waitangi, waitangi day
Well the lead-up to Waitangi Day this year has certainly had its fair share of drama!
You can read Andrew Little’s thoughts on the day here: Andrew Little: Waitangi a day for all of us to come together
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 7:49 am, January 26th, 2017 -
103 comments
Categories: election 2017, elections, labour, MMP
Tags: claire trevett, Deborah Russell, granny herald, Greg Presland, mickeysavage, new lynn, stuff
Greg Presland has been daft enough put his hand up for Labour candidate in New Lynn. That would be unfortunate for this site. But my advice for Labour and New Lynn is to grab him. Media say that the leading candidates are him and Deborah Russell. Regardless of a her competence, a non-Auckland resident is a big ask in the era of MMP seats.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 8:00 am, December 31st, 2016 -
8 comments
Categories: Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, The Standard, The Standard line, you couldn't make this shit up
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The Standard’s ten most popular posts of 2016.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:07 am, December 30th, 2016 -
7 comments
Categories: The Standard, The Standard line
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The list of the top ten commented on posts for 2016.
Written By:
Natwatch -
Date published: 4:04 pm, March 24th, 2016 -
82 comments
Categories: crime, national
Tags: chester borrows, dangerous driving, protest, tpp, TPPA
Nat MP Chester Borrows has injured a TPP protester with his car. Not the first time this sort of thing has happened.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 8:30 am, December 30th, 2015 -
10 comments
Categories: the praiseworthy and the pitiful, The Standard
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The ten most popular Standard posts of 2015 based on page views.
Written By:
Bunji -
Date published: 9:12 pm, July 31st, 2015 -
55 comments
Categories: crime, labour, police
Tags: cameron slater, Hacking, jason ede
Astonishing release late on a Friday afternoon (dump time!) that the police will not be pursuing any action against Slater/Ede for hacking Labour’s website. Given a whole year to investigate, they didn’t manage to find out how to spell Nicky Hager or Tim Barnett’s names.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 11:21 am, June 8th, 2015 -
104 comments
Categories: blogs, Dirty Politics, Judith Collins
Tags: #dirtypolitics, dirty politics
Andrew Little on the latest round of dirty politics.
“It beggars belief any politician – like John Key and Judith Collins – wants to have anything to do with him [Cameron Slater].”
Written By:
Anthony R0bins -
Date published: 10:13 am, June 6th, 2015 -
87 comments
Categories: The Standard
Tags: the standard, vanity posts
Welcome to any new readers checking out this blog today as a result of the “dirty politics” segment on The Nation. Here’s a bit about us…
Update: For those that didn’t see The Nation, there is a summary in The Herald.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 8:25 am, May 27th, 2015 -
101 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, corruption, john key, national, Politics, Public Private Partnerships, same old national, Steven Joyce
Tags: sky city
Sky City has managed to persuade the Government to allow it to build a cheaper building while retaining the same valuable gambling regulatory concessions. Update: and the Government appears to have made further contractual concessions to Sky City.
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 8:45 pm, January 21st, 2015 -
80 comments
Categories: blogs
Tags: bomber, Martyn Bomber Bradbury, scoop, The Daily Blog
I have pointed out before that Bomber Bradbury is wee bit unsuited to the two way dialogue of the blogs. A fragile prima donna who doesn’t like to be contradicted by the people he gallantly slags off in his routine piques of bitchy ranting. Updated with Bomber proving the point as his manufactured myths fall apart.
Written By:
karol -
Date published: 5:15 pm, November 8th, 2014 -
129 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, activism, climate change, democracy under attack, exports, Japan, jobs, us politics, workers' rights
Tags: TPPA
Thousands of people protested and marched around the country against the secret and anti-democratic TPPA negotiations. Reports & pics. Updated
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 2:18 pm, October 4th, 2014 -
216 comments
Categories: election 2014
Tags: election 2014
The final results are out – National lose a seat (and their majority), Greens gain a seat, Andrew Little is safe.
Written By:
Anthony R0bins -
Date published: 8:22 am, September 18th, 2014 -
79 comments
Categories: election 2014, greens, labour, national
Tags: change, stability, vote positive
This election there are two very different visions of the future on offer. I know which I prefer.
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 11:27 pm, August 14th, 2014 -
72 comments
Categories: Steven Joyce
Tags: dirty politics, national radio, pete george
There has been a bit of pestering of authors by media in the last few days and some inadvisable waffling by fools ignorant of the blogging world about this site. I’ve had to bestir myself to talk about it. I’m not too happy about the time wasting. But on a happier note, the site is performing superbly under load..
Written By:
Stephanie Rodgers -
Date published: 5:00 pm, May 30th, 2014 -
136 comments
Categories: democratic participation, mana, Media, MMP, nz first
Tags:
Allow me to fly in the face of an accepted truth in NZ politics by saying this: there is absolutely nothing undemocratic about the MMP “coat-tail” rules.
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 12:46 pm, April 25th, 2014 -
32 comments
Categories: admin, The Standard
Tags:
We hit 14 thousand posts since the site started this morning. As is usual I’ve been digging through the stats on the site to look for things we need to change. So there are a few graphs looking at what has been going on numerically. It isn’t too bad. We do need some more people posting is about the only thing. They’d needed to replace the usual pre-election year issue of those who looked at the upcoming election year and said that they really don’t have the time….
Written By:
Guest post -
Date published: 2:20 pm, January 3rd, 2014 -
127 comments
Categories: blogs, labour
Tags: Josie Pagani, mickysavage
Josie Pagani objected to mickysavage’s post objecting to her post at Pundit, and wanted to publish this as a right of reply. That is something that doesn’t exist on this or any blog. After all there is always another site to put content up on. However the ongoing debate going on here about how the left and the labour movement should operate and communicate (from many different angles) makes it of interest.
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