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What was the most significant political event last week? Clearly it was the mini budget and the Labour-NZ First-Green Government's intention to get tens of thousands of kiwi kids out of poverty so their chances of living a rewarding life are significantly increased. Most commentators…
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I don’t often admit that there is anything that the right do better than the left, but, credit where it’s due, there are a few things. Chief amongst them are dog whistling and wedge politics. These are calculated political silencing tactics that use language…
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Idiot/Savant's blog post on submitting on the euthanasia bill: ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday, December 15, 2017 Submit! The Justice Committee has called for submissions on the End of Life Choice Bill, you can either submit using the online form linked above, or by sending two copies to:…
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For much of the week the decision seemed to be an easy one to make. It was going to be Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for the Alabama seat in the senate. In the deepest of red states it should have been a cake walk…
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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 media response to the Labour-Green-New Zealand First has been remarkably positive. After nine long years someone is finally taking the scourge of child poverty seriously. Audrey Young in the Herald was ecstatic. For a package in which there were really no surprises, the Labour-led…
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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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Today is a great test for our Labour-led government. It’s the release of a mini-budget set well in advance of the main budget set for May 2018. This advanced timing sets the government into a much faster pace of delivery than otherwise. You will all…
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https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/940623927809847301 https://twitter.com/PriceofOil/status/940614490399432704 ________________________________________________________________________________ Oil Change International Press Release At One Planet Summit, the World Bank steals the show by phasing out upstream oil and gas finance PARIS, FRANCE — At the One Planet Summit in Paris, France, the World Bank announced, among other positive steps, that they “will…
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https://twitter.com/ColeyTangerina/status/940152703992262657 Support ALRANZ's social media campaign for Saturday by sharing the message via Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr here. On 16 December 1977, the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act received assent. Its main purpose was to grudgingly permit abortions, but only in some circumstances. Forty years on,…
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It’s great to see Chris Hipkins abolishing ‘National Standards’ as a matter of priority. This policy was nothing but an unfortunate bit of populism from the previous government, and a Prime Minister in John Key who specialised in band-aid solutions to problems that required stitches. While…
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There is a fascinating electoral contest in the US of A today in Alabama where a rootin tootin child molesterin former District Attorney Roy Moore is seeking the seat as a Republican candidate. He is up against Doug Jones who is the Democrat nominee and…
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It is going to be a long three years plus if this keeps up. The Herald has suggested in this article the author has not put their name to that Jacinda Ardern is a Marxist, but the logic used is sadly lacking. The evidence that our…
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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 wrote this post back in March, the week Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson published Hit and Run, and FJK left parliament. It didn't get published for a number of reasons, but now seems an opportune moment. _______________________________________________________ I know there is a convention for parliamentarians…
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It was one year ago today that John Key formally resigned as Prime Minister.
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An in-depth piece from Newsroom: We know the seas are rising, yet we’re still building large developments within a few metres of present-day sea levels. The tough decisions faced by one coastal council illustrate the struggles going on around New Zealand, report Eloise Gibson and…
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MMP elections are always tight. It normally boils down to a couple of seats. In 2005 for instance when Labour won perhaps its most outstanding election victory a coalition of the unwilling could still have formed a new government. If the Greens or New Zealand…
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Last Friday, China’s foreign ministry in Beijing issued the strongest rebuke yet of the Australian Prime Minister’s view that Chinese interference was the justification for its tough new security laws. "This kind of statement caters to the irresponsible reports by the Australian media that are biased…
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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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In doing my media rounds today, I noticed that there has recently been a UK Freedom of Information request that revealed that 40% of council houses1 sold under Thatcher's "Right To Buy" policy have now made their way into the hands of landlords who are…
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https://twitter.com/WeBeneficiaries/status/939020011800117249 From the Give a Little page: We need your help to cover the costs of printing the report, and travel to Wellington (from Auckland). We are a group of artists continuing the conversation Metiria Turei started when she was an MP about the social…