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Disgraceful
A Standard reader emails: Today at the beginning of question time a minute silence was observed for Mary Bachelor former MP for Avon who died recently. John Key spent part of the minute running through his notes. Disgraceful.
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Oh Johnkey Donkey!
We've been outed! By none other than Thelma (or was it Louise?) A promotional video for climate action, voiced by Susan Sarandon for Greenpeace in the US, holds New Zealand up as a beacon of hope on a sickly earth praising the former Labour Government's…
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National gives animal rights the chop
Looks like National has more than workers' rights on the chopping block. Animal rights activists are up in arms at Agriculture Minister David Carter's plan to scrap the six-year moratorium on live sheep exports. Live sheep exports were stopped in 2004 after 5000 sheep died on…
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Pinch me
A cyclist and Standard reader writes: Pinch me. Maybe I'll wake up in a world where a cycleway isn't the government's flagship idea for getting us out of the recession. You've got three more years of this mate.
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Stunning
This is just stunning: Mr Key was yesterday questioned about an employment situation where a person was offered a job paying $40,000 a year and told that the fourth week of leave would have to be included in this or the job would go to…
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Clawback
That's John Key speaking about Labour's new fourth week of leave legislation back when the Nats thought they were going to win in 2005. His plan was to take your fourth week off you before it started happening in 2007 because that way you wouldn't…
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Gustafson on National’s strategy
Not many people know more about the National Party than Barry Gustafson, so I found it interesting to read his take on the Nats' 'softening up' strategy in the Sunday Star Times [offline*]: A new govenment tries to "discredit things that you know you are…
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Three strikes and you’re garrotted
The Toad's 'interview' with ACT's David Garrett is so good we had to steal it. Like all good parody, it's easy to believe it could be real. An interview with ACT Party Law and Order spokesperson David Garrotte Toad: David, for many people, you first…
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Ralston
Bill Ralston: Key used a great example at a Combined Trade Union conference on productivity when he pointed out only 10 luxury 7 series BMWs were sold in the whole of the USA last month. Ah, so that's what CTU stands for. Why would anyone…