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While the corporate class will be poring over the budget 2016 analysis from the financial elite, one organisation - the Council of Trade Unions - produces an on the day analysis of the budget's impact on the rest of us and on the public services we…
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Thanks so much for coming along today, and for giving up some of your weekend. Today, I want to talk about the type of Budget that New Zealand needs to see this coming Thursday. As every Kiwi family knows, setting Budgets is about making choices.…
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Structural injustice is everywhere around us. But sometimes simple cases highlight it so clearly (ht marty mars). Compare: Outrage over teenagers' sentence A sentence of home detention for four Northland teenagers for a burglary spree totalling nearly $80,000 in stolen property has been met with…
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This was predictable: Greenhouse gases hit 25 year high The latest assessment of the country's greenhouse gas emissions shows they are at their highest level since 1990. The agriculture and energy sectors continue to be the highest contributors - making up 89 percent of New…
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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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bIn April 2006, the American PBS network screened the documentary "Dimming the Sun" about the (then) newly discovered phenomena of "global dimming." The documentary claimed that global dimming, where man made pollutants such as soot, ash and sulphur particles in the atmosphere block out solar…
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Remember the Niue deal? Bryan Gould - Niue contract damaging to Govt reputation And then, we have the saga of the political donation and the Matavai resort on Niue. The facts can be simply stated. The owner of Scenic Hotels, Earl Hagaman – a well-known…
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No surprise to find more organisations lining up to run charter schools: ACT's charter school policy will expand with seven new schools budgeted for Seven new charter schools announced by the Government will cost taxpayers up to $600,000 each to set up. The new schools…
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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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This is the most moronic, ironic political slogan I have seen in some time. Who can tell me why? People have short attention spans. The unconscious picks up on words and puts them together in ways which aren't rational. What does the first 2/3 of…
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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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Action Station has a petition: Minister Anne Tolley: Forgive WINZ Motel Emergency Accomodation Debt As Minister of Social Development we call upon Minister Anne Tolley to urgently forgive all debts incurred by people who have been forced to stay in Motels as emergency accommodation, by…
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To repeat something that Anthony Robins commented on John Campbell really is a national treasure. His journalism is of the simple kind, find an event that impacts on ordinary kiwis, talk to them, get them to say how an issue is impacting on them. The reporting…
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In perhaps a glimpse of things to come in Europe, Portugal managed to run for four consecutive days last week on solar, wind, and hydro-power electricity. On Sunday May 15th, Germany's electricity generation went almost-clean, with prices and times turning negative - effectively paying consumers…
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Incoherent, unfair and unaccountable. That is how officials from the Ministry of Social Development described the emergency housing system in a review delivered to Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett.* A year ago. What has Bennett done in the year since, to fix emergency housing? If…
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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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I am preparing a post about a thought experiment that I would like Standardistas to consider over the next few days. This isn't that post. This is the warm up. We're going to think about what reducing NZ's use of fossil fuels by 50% (compared…
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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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If Portugal can go from 50% electricity generation from fossil in 2013 to 100% electricity generation from non-fossil now (less than three years later) then what’s all this talk in New Zealand around whether it's unrealistic or possible for New Zealand to achieve a paltry…
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Oh how I wish I had penned this line! Vernon Small writes: Key is concocting big tax cuts, lower debt and more spending in his fiscal Tardis Boy, these new banknotes are really something aren't they? Only this week Prime Minister John Key managed to…
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Glib words: Speaking to Morning Report today, Prime Minister John Key said it was not acceptable that people were living in cars or under bridges. Mr Key said people in those circumstances should seek help from Work and Income. False hope: Emergency housing beds gave…
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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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Excellent news: We would legalise medicinal cannabis - Labour leader Labour will legislate for medicinal cannabis "pretty quickly" after taking office, leader Andrew Little has confirmed. Little said cannabis products should be available to anyone suffering chronic pain or a terminal condition if their GP…
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In theory our government loves science (good for the economy you know). In practice it ignores or attacks science if the evidence is inconvenient to its ideology. Dita De Boni has a good piece on this today: We love us some science (as long as…
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If you did not hear it you should listen to Paula Bennett's interview on Radio New Zealand this morning if for no other reason to enjoy what happens when Government spin is undone. It appears that repeated requests for an interview with a Housing Minister…
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PRESS RELEASE: Budget 2016 will provide bugger all in additional funding over the next four years to ensure the New Zealand continues to offer a world-class housing experience, Prime Minister and Money Tourism Minister John Key announced today. The lack of investment is part of…
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