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Newshub: Greg O'Connor has been confirmed as a Labour's candidate for Wellington's Ōhāriu electorate. The former Police Association president has previously stated he has a close connection to the Ōhāriu community, having lived, worked and played for sports teams in the area. "Standing in that…
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In 2017, this happened: Putin signs law reducing punishment for domestic battery Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that decriminalizes some forms of domestic violence, according to state-run news agency Tass. Dubbed the "slapping law," it decriminalizes a first offense of domestic violence…
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Mr Low Taek Joh may not be a familiar name to many here, but he is a very concrete example of how this current New Zealand government's weak regulation has enabled the super-rich to get legal advice from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, set up trusts…
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Senior Lecturer and tax law expert Deborah Russell has won the Labour selection for New Lynn - congratulations! You're going to make a fantastic MP! Home team candidate Greg would also have made a fine choice, alas that only one of them can represent the…
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You gotta laugh right? The Netherlands started the trend with their video response to Trump, The Netherlands Second. (Very funny, it's huge, your gonna love it.) All sorts of other countries started getting in on the act. The New Zealand version (via Jono & Ben)…
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If you didn't catch up with this in The Herald this week - Under The Bridge - you should take a look now. An excellent piece of long-form journalism (great work Kirsty Johnston and team): Under The Bridge: 'What I'm seeing is a frightening disparity…
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https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceNZ/status/829523344319864832 Nathan Guy, Minister for Primary Industries: For the sake of our rivers, our land, our climate and farmers, I call on you to cancel any further plans to fund industrial scale irrigation. Sign the petition here. Industrial dairying is failing. It’s failing people who…
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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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Inspirational and heroic acts - big ones and smaller ones - by people old and young. Last March, 77 year old Brian Quail (pictured) waited for the 'green man' to cross the road, and then lay down and brought a nuclear convoy to a halt.…
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Naughty ACT Party, exposing one of the National Party's many lies. Contradicting the Nats on this explosive issue, what was ACT thinking? Interim PM Bill English is unable to maintain the control exercised by his predecessor. With this vicious infighting exposed the government is clearly…
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The Herald's front-page plug to get Roughan's book off the remaindered list informs us that Key is going on the speaking circuit and will go back into finance (not that he ever left). One political role he will carry on since he walked out of…
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We're preparing for one of the biggest legal threats to our wild places for many years. Help us defend nature. - Forest and Bird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7Fgnspt-LY From the Forest and Bird website, Environmental organisation Forest & Bird has released a video showing some of the public…
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University of Queensland Professor John Quiggin, author of Zombie Economics, will speak on this topic for the Fabian Society in Wellington on Monday 13th and Auckland Thursday 16th of this month. All welcome, details and registration inside. Will be interesting. Wellington Monday 13th at 5:30…
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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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Press release on the Labour Party website, I met with Willie Jackson last night and we had a robust and honest conversation about the concerns I had raised last weekend. I made the offer to meet Willie and I was pleased that he accepted. I…
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The South Coast Environment Society has been running the Riverton Environment Centre for 21 years. The Centre has been in its current location for 15 years and now has one month to secure the funding to buy the building. Robyn Guyton explains the situation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L-K9hjXcjY Further…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0pVDMiJutk In The Herald: New MP Michael Wood fears housing costs will result in 'homogenised' neighbourhood Newly fledged Mt Roskill MP Michael Wood has delivered his maiden speech to Parliament, saying he was concerned the cost of housing in his electorate would "homogenise" the diverse…
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For Trump supporters right now surely you’re feeling pretty good? You were joyous Hillary lost. You may have hailed the Muslim-dominant country ban as basic common sense. Perhaps the responding chorus of complaint from Washington institutions and experts and other know-it-alls like judges, academics, corporate…
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From Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University, Gabriel Nathan Rosenberg, one of the more thought-provoking descriptions I've seen for one set of dynamics behind the Bannon/Tr*mp presidency. Probably some lessons for NZ, in obvious and more subtle ways. Needless to say there are massive socioeconomic and…
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Naughty Chester Burrows - National MP condemns Trump's ban, but PM won't National MP Chester Borrows has publicly condemned the immigration ban enacted by US President Donald Trump. It's a stronger stance on the issue compared to that of Prime Minister Bill English - who…
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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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The Pike River families picketing the gates to the mine where their dead men lie have set up a devastating demonstration of what they've lost. https://www.facebook.com/StandWithPike/videos/402557026759497/ The Solid Energy workers who have been crossing the picket line daily to do "gas monitoring" at the mine…
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The Salvation Army has just released its own annual "state of the nation" report. While news is mixed, the overall finding is that we are "off the track" and without a plan. From the report (pdf): Introduction ... However, in some of our most critical…
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The Government is set to announce a reform to medicinal cannabis law. From the Herald: The Government will announce tomorrow that it is removing a significant hurdle to getting access to medicinal cannabis in New Zealand. It is understood doctors will be given the right…
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James Shaw's 2017 Parliamentary Commencement Speech: what's wrong with National's NZ, what the Greens' vision is instead, and where Kiwis are already 'doing well, by doing good', E te Māngai o te Whare, tēnā koe. Ki a koutou ōku hoa Pāremata, huri noa i te Whare,…