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5:30 pm, November 21st, 2025 - 8 comments
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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 …
Michael Wood is going to stand for Parliament in Mt Roskill for the next election.
He was a promising minister for workers when he inexplicably didn’t get rid of some shares. I hope he’s learned from that mistake.
Cometh the hour…
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/8/2308758/-The-Woody-Guthrie-of-Our-Times-Jesse-Welles-SpaceXplosion
Born in the USA, you can get a job removing people from the USA who were not.
The US Coast Guard is expanding its pool of recruits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/20/coast-guard-swastika-noose/
Friday news
The government fund for new social housing will routinely (at first by precedent) exclude Kainga Ora.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360895164/governments-new-flexible-fund-social-housing-locks-out-kainga-ora
Fact Check on the article claims of Bishop.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/labour-delivers-12000-more-public-homes
Labour was claiming 13,000 more by September 2023.
440 drivers are out of work because of an administrative change (requiring tonnages of vehicles driven overseas to be specified).
An audit in July 2025 found that 440 drivers whose licenses were converted to drive here did have this type of documentation.
The Minister says it’s a ministry issue.
No, the amount of time that passed before the audit and thus the numbers involved make it something else.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/indonz/579636/warning-over-looming-driver-shortages-following-commercial-licence-revocations
Goodness, what a mess.
It looks as though there were some documents which were fraudulent (or at least obtained, from a scammer, for a fee) – while others were legitimate.
And NZTA have swept up everyone with UAE accredited documentation in the same basket.
Given that all of the drivers have passed the required NZ driving tests, and have been driving safely on NZ roads for some time – it would seem sensible to extend a probation period. So they can continue to work, while their documentation is individually reviewed, and any required additional certification is gained.
While I feel for the drivers concerned – who have had their livelihoods overturned by what appears to be a draconian reversal of a previously accepted practice; I have much less sympathy for the trucking firms concerned. Really? It was impossible to find or train NZ truck drivers? Perhaps it was the pay and conditions on offer which were the issue. Smacks of an immigration boondoggle.
I can’t see that there’s any political advantage to the government in encouraging or mandating this crackdown. In fact, the only political advantage appears to be for the ACT MP who’s championing their cause. Which isn’t something that Bishop would want to be encouraging.