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A win for workers at the Wairoa freezing works with a lockout ruled illegal: Wairoa meat workers lock out deemed illegal A lockout of Wairoa freezing workers who refused to sign individual contracts has been deemed illegal. The Employment Court issued a statement on Tuesday…
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The severed limbs of National's Dirty Politics machine are still twitching: Phil Twyford won't be intimidated by smear campaign Labour MP Phil Twyford says he will not be intimidated by an alleged smear campaign that is apparently backed by foreign property speculators. Labour's housing spokesman…
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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 up to the mike …
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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 …
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I/S at No Right Turn: Urgency for abuse The House has just gone into urgency for two key (for the government) bills - the first to punish retroactively people who have already been punished, the second to steal from the poor. The first bill is…
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Keith Ng has been wading through some not-previously-released material on the Rawshark Rachinger Slater affair. No useful way to summarise it - go read it on Keith's blog.
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In The Herald this morning: Labour's finances in the red The Labour Party has run at a deficit for at least two years, forcing it to dip into its cash reserves and highlighting one of the problems the party faced in last year's election. A…
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Radio New Zealand broke a story recently about how beneficiaries had been underpaid because WINZ had wrongly calculated when a stand down period ended. Instead of paying a benefit from the day the stand down period ended it paid the benefit from the day after. The…
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I guess this was predictable: NZ fear over secret communication following Paris attacks The Government and security experts say they are concerned about the ease with which the Paris attackers were able to communicate without being detected. ... Changes in technology, such as new encrypted…
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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 up to the mike …
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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 …
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So it continues, Spinoff has the story: Lawyers Called in as the 3D Investigative Team Resists Shutdown Plan The recently-announced proposal not to renew TV3’s flagship current affairs show 3D is now subject to fierce resistance from the show’s journalists, who have assembled a legal…
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I posted recently about a Herald article describing how an ERO report was rewritten to present the Minister of Education in a better light. The article subsequently disappeared and I wondered why this had occurred. Well the reason is now pretty clear. It must have been withdrawn after pressure…
articles censorship Deep stuff democracy under attack Media national same old national spin you couldn't make this shit up
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It is the last day of Scoop's fundraising campaign at PledgeMe: Scoop is Crowd-funding for the establishment of the Scoop Foundation for Public Interest Journalism. We are looking for a further 600 Kiwis who believe in democracy, freedom and the importance of a free media…
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The fallout from the Paris attacks continues. In the USA, the country that is arguably to blame for much to the world's current instability, the political reaction from Republican candidates has been completely predictable: Republican Candidates Urge Aggressive Response After Paris Attacks. In particular Donald…
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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 up to the mike …