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I attended the Living Wage People's assembly this week in St Matthews in the City. The idea behind the meeting was to get Mayoral and Waitemata ward candidates to express their views on the living wage proposal as well as improved public transport services and rental accommodation…
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The Festival runs today and tomorrow. Unfortunately, I don't live in Sydney. However, there is a satellite link for two of the presentations "Break a Rule a Day" from Lionel Shriver and "The Government We Deserve?" by Annabel Crabb and David Marr It looks as…
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A protest is planned in Auckland today by local progressive activist Julia Schiller against Wilson Security for its continued management of the Nauru and Manus Island refugee detention centre. Wilson Security is an Australian firm and is related to Wilsons Parking in New Zealand. In…
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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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India's tourism minister Mahesh Sharma stated this week that tourists would be handed a list of do's and don'ts at airports that would advise them "not to wear skirts" or "venture out alone in small cities." Cue outrage on Twitter. He clarified later that he…
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. Killed in their pyjamas by father in frenzied attack – before mother-in-law found note. That's the headline from an Irish newspaper reporting the murder of a mother and her four children by her husband and children's father and I'm quietly wondering how many minds…
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In a world where the world's overall population levels are steadily descending to steady or declining state, the National dipshits have decided to start a new growth industry. They importing unskilled people to extract their savings and using them to generate artificial heat in the economy and to…
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So bang on cue, just when NZ has been hitting the front pages of international newspapers because of the water contamination in Havelock North; and just when the possibility of a national discussion around our abysmal levels of negligence and stupidity might be about to…
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Democracy doesn't belong to government or Prime Ministers, it belongs to the people. We have a House of Representatives and if it's going to represent the people it needs to know what they're thinking and the best place to find that out is from the…
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Linda Burney, the newly elected MP for Barton, gave an historic, powerful maiden speech yesterday. I enter this place as a representative of the people of Barton, a community I have been proud to live in for almost 20 years. If there is a god…
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The EU and the EC just sent a major pro-unity signal to the world. One of the reasons countries group together is so they can ward off predatory multinational corporations, as Ireland is finding out. Yesterday the European Commission released the results of its investigation…
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There doesn't seem to be any level that National won't stoop to in order to make excuses for plundering and polluting the environment. I've heard some nonsense in my time, but this... Swimmable lakes would require a bird cull - Smith It's impossible to make…
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