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There is one thing that you can say about the National party and their media sycophants is that they are routinely wrong about Auckland city. Auckland really can't go wrong by simply implementing whatever plan they are currently railing against. For instance this classically wrong cartoon accurately expresses…
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Looks like exploiting petrol station workers by docking their pay for circumstances beyond their control was just the tip of the iceberg of this kind of behaviour. Today: Checkout girls made to pay for theft Checkout "girls"?? A supermarket boss told teenage checkout girls to…
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Open mike is your post. The Standard is not a conspiracy – just a welcome outlet for the expression of views. Leaders that command respect will not be undermined by this. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the…
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John Key's election as chair of the International Democratic Union, decided at its Leaders' meeting in Seoul this week, is a significant event, not just a compliment. Key succeeds John Howard, who has led this organisation of 80 right-wing parties for the past 12 years.…
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I didn't have a strong preference in the recently completed Labour caucus leadership contest. I marginally favoured Andrew Little, but also didn't know very much about him. Now the media are looking to find out more about him. Andrea Vance has an informative article about…
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Open mike is your post. The Standard is not a conspiracy – just a welcome outlet for the expression of views. Leaders that command respect will not be undermined by this. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the…
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The excellent Clarke and Dawe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTfSZ0D39AI
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Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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Reposted from Polity. Recently Treasury has published a paper showing that most people do not stay at the same point on the income scale for an extended period. That is assuredly true, and is also a good thing in as far as it goes. DPF…
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We all know that Child Poverty is one of New Zealand's major problems. In an attempt to finally get a response from the National government to the problem ex-Family Court judge Graeme MacCormick has issued a "Children's Plea" to get the government to do something…
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Recently I wrote a post on the Nats' economic "genius" in our property market. Yesterday a report from the NZ Super Fund (Cullen fund) provided further evidence of their incompetence. The highlights: Fund size: NZ$27.11 billion Fund return: 1.47% during October Total return of 9.92%…
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Open mike is your post. The Standard is not a conspiracy – just a welcome outlet for the expression of views. Leaders that command respect will not be undermined by this. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the…
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I was just having a look through the connections between this site and others (and contemplating how to increase it). I thought others might also be interested. This is from wordpress stats, which is moderately accurate but does rely on javascript reporting, so some of…
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Reposted from No Right Turn Community groups have a vital role in New Zealand. In addition to speaking out on social problems such as poverty, mental illness and addiction, they also often have a direct role in fixing them via government funding. Unfortunately there's an…
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Twitter today is finding its own way to express exasperation with John Key declaring that Aotearoa was peacefully settled. Apparently the New Zealand Wars were just another Rugby analogy to John Key. Parihaka was a Herbs song. Gate Pa? Well he probably hasn't heard of…
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Politicians can wreck economies and get a knighthood and a cosy diplomatic post. Bankers can loose billions and get a government handout and nice fat bonuses. But, as always, it's different for us ordinary folk: Workers charged for petrol drive-offs Low-paid workers at a petrol…
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All the usual suspects are lining up to give advice to new Labor leader Andrew Little. Why shouldn't we have a go? Here's my top ten, Andrew little should... Expect and receive the support of every Labour MP. Put together a front bench team based…
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Open mike is your post. The Standard is not a conspiracy – just a welcome outlet for the expression of views. Leaders that command respect will not be undermined by this. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the…
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Reposted without permission from Hot Topic (just like last time). CROWDFUNDING THIN ICE: THE FINAL PUSH GARETH on NOVEMBER 19, 2014 http://player.vimeo.com/video/43012596 The Kickstarter campaign to get climate documentary Thin Ice shown on public TV in the USA is closing in on its target. At the time of writing, the…
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I have no real opinion about the details of the complaint against Roger Sutton, there simply isn't enough information in the context. That would require seeing the report. Which of course is why authors have been circumspect about writing about this topic. However I do have…
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Labour's leadership contest boiled down to Robertson vs Little. Little represents the unions, in a sense "old Labour". Robertson projected a more modern, urban image, and very literally represented Young Labour. We the Party have chosen, by the very narrowest of margins, the old Labour…
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Open mike is your post. The Standard is not a conspiracy – just a welcome outlet for the expression of views. Leaders that command respect will not be undermined by this. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the…
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Sunday 21 September: After the election result last night showed how divided the country is, it is unclear how the nation can unite behind John Key to let him be Prime Minister. Key got less than half the vote, with more of the public not…
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On October 4th Andrew Little was looking to see if he was even going to be in Parliament because he hadn't won the provincial seat of New Plymouth. He was at the bottom of the possible MPs coming in off the list and only got back into…
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Vernon Small has tweeted that Andrew Little has been elected as the new leader of the Labour Party. Update: The result has been confirmed. From party president Moira Coatesworth: “The Labour Party congratulates Andrew Little, who has been elected as party leader in a robust…
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Reposted from No Right Turn The Herald this morning reports that New Zealand is near the bottom in global R&D spending: New Zealand's world ranking for research and development spending continues to drop, despite increased incentives for companies to invest, according to a report by…
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In an incredibly unfortunate example of timing John Key announced yesterday that the report on Gerry Brownlee's Airport Security difficulties would be announced today. It is bad timing because the news will be drowned out by other news of another significant event that occurs today and during…
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John Key is a well intentioned politician. As best as I can tell anyway, I don't actually know the guy. But certainly most of the blue side of the House will actually be doing their best for the country. They may be wrong in their ideas…
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Russell Brown had a good post last week about National's dodgy use of statistics in the interest of pushing their gang legislation. Jarrod Gilbert is understandably not pleased, having tried to correct the figures at the time. Russell also cites the false Media7 figures used…