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Illustrator and commentator Toby Morris has animated TA's story: "What do you want most in the world," John Campbell asks TA, who has been living in a van with her family since February. "A library." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLjVc-zNcNQ
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Nat spin is that the ecnomy is "booming". It isn't, we have the illusion of growth due to population gain (and the Christchurch rebuild), but per capita growth is dismal. The weakness of the real economy is reflected in the continuing hollowing out of the…
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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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Green Finance Spokesperson Julie Anne Genter put up a blog post yesterday on Fixing Our Broken Economy. Citing various mainstream sources Genter starts with the demise of neoliberalism. She then moves on to what the real needs are, and then how we can address them,…
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Wow! On The Nation this morning Nick Smith committed to raising average NZ wage to $250,000! Here's how it works: https://twitter.com/TheNationTV3/status/769289155507400704 https://twitter.com/HaydenDonnell/status/769291304102563840 https://twitter.com/bernardchickey/status/769289566415040513 Now I understand Bernard's confusion here. Smith wants house prices to keep chugging along, and he wants a wage / house price…
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https://twitter.com/guardianworld/status/769064108591308800
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Like him or loathe him Matthew Hooton sticks to his guns when his principles are offended. And he has clearly been deeply offended at Murray McCully's antics around sheepgate. Hooton was the person who famously said about McCully that he would find a corrupt way to…
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The Spinoff should be on your daily reading list. Here's another excellent piece: Housing crisis uselessness costing National in Auckland – Spinoff poll ... One intriguing result from this week’s Spinoff-SSI poll of voters is that the Government’s lead in the party vote has fallen…
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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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Abrupt climate change can be considered radical climate change which occurs in just a few short years. The paleoclimate record shows that in the distant past, >10 deg C of warming (or cooling) has occurred in a time frame of only one or two decades…
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Grant Robertson's speech to the Wellington Future of Work seminar as posted by Labour: Lessons from the Future of Work Commission: Building Wealth from the Ground Up Good morning, and thank you for attending today’s Future of Work Seminar here in Wellington. I want to…
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https://twitter.com/bernardchickey/status/768689260421484544
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You know National really have their finger on the pulse with their latest members bills. First was Nuk Korako showing why he's 50 on the list with a bill that seems to not actually affect anything. There don't seem to be any Airports that have…
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The worsening of the homelessness crisis is not just an Auckland phenomenon: Homelessness rising in Dunedin The Government has been accused of avoiding its responsibilities after research showed homelessness rates in Dunedin have increased by 70% since 2001. This comes as Social Housing Minister Paula…
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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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As it should be - Complaint over prison rape joke involving PM is upheld A prison rape joke involving the Prime Minister "went too far and showed poor judgment", the Broadcasting Standards Authority has ruled. The media regulator upheld a complaint about the radio stunt…
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Recently Bowalley Road complained about post-settlement organisations forming a Maori middle class. Like it was a bad thing. I’m also hearing people on the left decry the idea of the state. Being an only slightly repentant modernist statist Labour supporter, I thought I might find…
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Most of the media has reported the Government's "3%" spin on the extent of residential property purchases in NZ going to foreign buyers pretty uncritically. There have been honourable exceptions, and yesterday property editor Anne Gibson in The Herald joined them: Foreigners buying 29pc of…
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Dr Kate Amore and Rev Tric Malcolm will discuss this issue on Friday 26th August at 5:30pm at Connolly Hall, Wellington. Amore's research released today shows "As the housing market gets tighter, single people have more flexibility and potentially more options open to them, whereas…
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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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To spell that out, we are at the point now of legitimising the pollution of rivers by using the rivers themselves as toilet flushing mechanisms. Since the Havelock North gastro outbreak nearly 4,000 people have emailed the Hawke's Bay regional councillors to oppose the…
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Online magazine The Spinoff (recommended!) has a widely quoted piece up today: One in three Aucklanders has recently considered quitting Auckland because of house prices – poll The Spinoff/SSI survey reveals the extraordinary impact of housing crisis on residents of New Zealand’s biggest city –…
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Julian Assange and his organisation Wikileaks has been right on the front lines of the fight against the west's now all pervasive military, security and surveillance state. That position has put him in the firing line of both overt and covert attack by establishment loyalists,…
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One of the first times Key was actually seriously confronted in an interview was on the BBC's Hardtalk in 2011. Among the topics was our "100% Pure" slogan and our water quality. Here's an account in The Listener: The most controversial part of the interview…
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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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It's not April 1st, so I'm forced to conclude that this is a genuine announcement: Students to learn online from home instead of at school under major education reform School-age students will be able to enrol in an accredited online learning provider instead of attending…
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