RNZ-Reid poll happy dance
This is good. It’s one poll, trends are better, but what it gives left wing parties and volunteers a big confidence boost twenty […]
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Green Party policy: Reconnecting Aotearoa
The Greens’ transport policy introduces a quantum leap on climate and public good.
Opportunity’s five bottom lines
This is OP practicing what they preach: rebuilding trust in politics. It looks odd because we are so used to Peters’ centrist grandiosity, power-mongering and manipulating MMP while actively undermining other parties. OP are doing something completely different.
Talking up the left
Do we want a change of government or not?
Is the Opportunity Party left wing?
With Opportunity Party consistently polling above the 5% threshold, the left should be looking at who OP is and what their policy is instead of just reacting against them.
The robots are coming to get us
AI techies are sound the alarm on where AI is going and how dangerous it will be. We can and should act now to prevent that.
The mythological climate saviour
Carbon capture and storage is bullshit, another lie from the fossil fuel industries so they can keep making money instead of reducing emissions
Defusing the goddamn ticking time bomb
Our reliance on fossil fuels is a ticking timebomb, There Are Real Alternatives, and the Green Party have a plan
The Greens: Kiwipower and Power for All of Us
The Greens’ energy policy is about reducing costs to citizens, and making our generation system more resilient
Fuck this shit
It’s not enough to say fuck this shit, but it’s necessary to start with. We then have to tell a different story, one that people want, that inspires hope, and opens the door to something better than denial or doom.
Labour: Solar without the Upfront Cost
This is a very impressive policy from Labour
The Greens’ new tax policy: A tax system for all of us
“Enough is enough. No more tinkering around the edges. It’s time for the super-rich to pay their damn taxes”
Does the centre left need Te Pāti Māori to win the election?
Does the centre left need Te Pāti Māori to win the election?
Changing government in 2026
We need to stop slagging off the people who have the only chance of forming a centre left government this year.
A change of government this close or this far away…
reasons to feel hopeful but not complacent.
“The future of everything is in New Zealand-made energy”
This is the kind of Just Transition story that turns us in the right direction.
The oil crisis: what we should be doing now
Responses to the government’s National Fuel Plan.
The Government’s National Fuel Plan
Nicola Willis and Shane Jones present the details in the current plan for the Hormz oill crisis.
The oil crisis: “We live in challenging times”
The government has shifted position and is now directly talking about the need to plan and prepare for a potential crisis and doing so for the worst case scenario.
The oil crisis: she’ll be right?
“Every emergency plan principle that I’m aware of says you communicate early, honestly and with a plan.” – Nathan Surendran
The Opportunity Party still hates beneficiaries
If you dismantle welfare, you push many New Zealanders into desperate poverty.
AI and The Standard (prelude)
Why are the mods grumpy about AI use on The Standard?
Are whales people? The Green Party Bill to give whales personhood
Save the whales! (and ourselves)
Game on: Labour and the Greens speak to media from Waitangi
Chris Hipkins, Marama Davidson, and Chloe Swarbrick speak on unity, working together while being separate partners, and the upcoming election.
The Mount Maunganui disaster and climate responsibility
Bryce Edwards’ piece and key mainstream media articles on how the Maunganui disaster happened are the start of a long, complex conversation about New Zealand’s precarity and the urgent need to change.
Happy New Year from The Standard
Happy New Year to all the readers, commenters, and fellow authors/mods at The Standard
Ozzy Man on Bondi
Some of the best video media coverage of a terrorism event I’ve seen, from the human side.
Wealth taxation as national self-interest
Is it only the uber wealthy and politicians that don’t want a wealth tax? Guyon Espiner talks with ex trader, now people’s economist Gary Stevenson.
Labour Day: the working class and civil emergencies
On this Labour Day, a massive shout out to all the workers in Southland, Otago and other areas affected by the storms last week. Paid and volunteer, obvious and those in the background doing support for the frontline workers.
Understanding the shooting of Charlie Kirk
Some of the kids aren’t alright. What if Charlie Kirk’s murder wasn’t from the left or the right, but something else entirely?
Metiria Turei was right but did we learn the lesson?
In 2017 the Greens shifted the Overton Window on a compassionate response to poverty, but where are we now?
Because it makes so much more sense to destroy communities and fund hospitals instead
Another day, another stupid consequence of NACTFirst’s mongrel government policies. North Shore hospital has dedicated a ward for patients who would normally be […]
Old fast track, new fast track
What are Labour’s intentions towards protecting communities and the environment?
Queenstown as an exemplar of the limits to growth
We are Queenstown.
What is the point of taxation?
Chloe Swarbrick and the Greens are changing the narrative on what tax is for.
Do humans have to respect the limits to growth?
we don’t have to, but we probably should.