The Jackel’s week in review this week looks at single-parent families, drug laws, nuclear power in the wake of Fukushima, corruption in international carbon credit markets, cuts to DoC, the SAS’s handling of prisoners, skin cancer, NZ music month, food security, the Syrian uprising, and the Libyan bombing campaign. phew!
National/ACT won the election, fair enough. They won the right to govern and attempt to pass their laws. What they did not win […]
At the election, National won a mandate for its platform to review the Work Account of ACC, to see whether privatisation might make […]
The Standard Week has been on hiatus due to a combination of elections, forgetfulness, and binge drinking but it’s back. This week saw […]
Two more examples of senior Nats hiding their conflicts of interest, in violation of Parliament’s rules, were revealed on The Standard this week. […]
National’s MPs might be considering spending the next two weeks in bed, dreaming of victory. Because it seems every day they go out, […]
The polls are closing, National dropped 7% and 4% in the Roy Morgan and TV3 polls, respectively, as the full impact of Key’s […]
National finally released their tax cut policy this week. If you earn less than $14,000 a year, it’s the same as Labour’s cuts. […]
So, there’s no articles on Key in this edition of the Standard Week. I know! Hardly believable. But there’s a reason for that. […]
Slippery John does it again. Asked a clear question by a reporter, he lied to her face. It was only when Fran Mold […]
Work rights and judgement look to be central issues in the campaign. The Greens set the standard by putting forward a fantastic work […]
The election date was announced as November the 8th. Everyone had worked that out based on the available dates. But that didn’t stop […]
As always at The Standard, we’re interested in the issues that affect people’s lives. So, rather than endless posts on who said what […]
It’s all been on this week. Maurice Williamson promising $50 tolls and more before being forced to retract, a poll showing more Kiwis […]
As expected, the polls out last weekend did not show National being hit by the secret agenda tapes scandal because they were conducted […]
Quite a quiet week after the excitement of the secret agenda tapes last week. The Tories are keeping up their hunt for the […]
What a week. National has been in meltdown over the secret recordings. Bill English’s incredible initial reaction seemed like the launch of a […]
Another week of gonzo journalism and you can understand why people get turned off politics. While the press gallery concentrated on which of them was most […]
The big story of the week is National’s work rights policy that does nothing to further workers’ rights and actually undermines them in […]
Finally, policy. National has two policies which, by all rights, ought to be election losers: the 90 day no rights policy and the […]
Every time Bill English goes on Agenda, he lets a bit of National policy slip (anyone who thinks it’s an accident probably also […]
A big week in politics. The rail system is back in public ownership as KiwiRail, Nicky Hager exposed Brand Key as a Crosby […]
Three events this week epitomised the benefits of nine years of centre-left government: the continuing fall in benefit numbers, the Government’s moves to […]
Both major parties show-boated over getting tough on crime this week. The only difference being Labour actually had policy; National, just slogans. We generally steer […]
Another week of shadow boxing, as National tried to keep its policy secret and hints leaked out. But it gave us the chance […]
We know that if you miss a couple of days of The Standard you can have 15 posts to read. Even though we try […]
