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There's another sign National is getting a bit desperate at the beginning of election year 2014, as they reach in to the Tory trick-bag of voter suppression in the revised Electoral Amendment Bill reported back to the House on 18 December 2013. The Select Committee's…
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Trickledown is one of the most hated phrases in the progressive lexicon. It is based on the premise that to improve the plight of everyone all that we need to do is give the already wealthy more and the benefits will trickle down to everyone…
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...... more equality is better for everyone. With John Key misleadingly trying to deny the significance of the inequality gap, and David Farrar falsely claiming that poverty doesn't have a profound impact on education, it looks like this is likely to be an important…
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Continued from. /ubi-2-why-should-we-push-for-a-ubi-universal-basic-income/ An often repeated argument against increases in welfare, including UBI, minimum wages, or payments to alleviate poverty, is that it will fuel inflation and most will end up no better off. (More market advocates don't seem to have the same faith in…
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There is a magazine in NZ for logging. The NZ Logger magazine . It has published attack after attack on us in its monthly editions since about August of last year. You have to read them to believe them. Industry players and Editorials suggesting we are…
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It would suit the right-wing of politics to ignore the profound impact of poverty on education. Nat blogger DPF ran the line, complete with his usual bombastic ignorance, just yesterday: Let’s put this one to bed. Even if this was true (it is not), this…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step right up to the mike … And for those living in Dunedin local standardnistas are meeting at 1pm at the bandstand in the Dunedin Botanics.
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The Auckland Action Against Poverty (AAAP) is inspiring, as well as doing important work at the grass roots: direct action, advocacy programmes for beneficiaries, education workshops on benefits, capitalism and more, networking with unions, and low waged workers, pickets, street demonstrations, providing information to the…
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Key's office yesterday released another of their Dear-Leader graphics, this one featuring an "inspirational" quote on education. Here's a blank version for you to add your own. It will be hard to beat this contribution (via Twitter) from Mike Kilpatrick:
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Following on from Karol's post I thought I should offer a few random observations on National's announced education reforms: At a political level the proposals are good, they combine an impression of action man, concern for children and a desire to improve education. Who could…
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Rob Salmond points out how "careful" John Key was in his recent speech when looking at how National has been "helping" the people of NZ financially. He and his government have helped themselves and their affluent mates while screwing everyone else. It is pretty clear…
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I was going to write something based on this press release from the greens "National’s mismanagement sees asset sales cost balloon to $440m". But what more needs to be said 1. National has cost taxpayers over $440m so far with its asset sales policy, Green Party…
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John Key has presented one great idea instead of a full election agenda: he has latched on to one aspect of education in isolation from the wider context. This policy announcement is a desperate attempt to stop the decline in his government's popularity and related…
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Pablo's post about the (alleged) sad state of the left in NZ, posted on Kiwipolitico, raised some issues that got a response from Chris Trotter. Pablo then replied to that - with some mentions about the responses to his first post on the Standard's Open…
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The Herald continues this morning its tabloid-style vendetta against Len Brown by serving up non-news in a shock-horror frame designed to make the mayor look bad. The article begins by noting the number of Aucklanders who face rates rises this year of more than 2.5%…
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All parliamentarians prance to the tuneful pipes of corporate and financial overlords. Some, it has to be said, jig much too enthusiastically. Others have the decency, at least on the rare occasion, to be dragged to the floor somewhat reluctantly. Then sometimes, despite all the…
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The MSM are talking up the contest between the up-coming 2 speeches by John Key today, and David Cunliffe on Monday. Both are targeting West Auckland for their first speech, setting the platform for their upcoming election campaigns. Key was chosen the Trusts Stadium in…
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The Labour Party is a broad church and its members hold a diversity of views. For instance Pacifica are amongst the strongest supporters of the party but their christian conservatism can cause tension with some of the more socially progressive policies that other members of…
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The first Roy Morgan poll of the year is out. Labour + Green is at 46% and National is at 43.5%. Labour is on 33.5% and the Greens are on 12.5%. Support between these parties is still bouncing around. The Maori Party is at 2%,…
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I’d just like to say thanks for all of the feedback The Standard’s community gave in the recent post about my upcoming state of the nation. Many of the comments reflect my own thoughts, and also gave me new insight into New Zealanders' concerns. More…
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Flip (now at FlipNZ) has been continuing his investigations into a universal basic income (also UBI) by looking at the impacts on income and tax to see how we could use a UBI to create a greater income equality. He has allowed us to reprint…
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Commenting on National's strategy after the 2008 election, Steven Joyce said the first principle of campaigning was 'Don't go fighting the last war.' No re-run of the "teapot tapes' fiasco is presumably the reason for John Key's early announcement of the parties National could go…
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No Right Turn writes on the Oxfam report about the deliberate concentration of wealth by subverting the political process towards the inequality levels displayed in the movie Elysium. Today's shock statistic: the 85 richest people in the world control as much wealth as the poorest 3.5…
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Simon Collins reports in the NZ Herald that an Australian Company has been awarded a(pilot) contract to find work for Kiwis. They get a big sum of money for each Aucklander with "mental health" conditions or who is a sole parent, that they ssuccessfully get…
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The original of this post is at Polity. This certainly adds some grist to the debate on unconditional basic income (UBI) and how to raise kids with fewer problems. Do cash grants to the poor mainly feed their sinful desires? The Cherokee will tell us.…
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How times have changed. In 2008 and in 2011 Key adopted what some thought was a position of principle and ruled out National going into coalition with NZ First, specifically Winston Peters. But it seems that National's dwindling prospects at this year's election have made…
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