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We need to move away from our reliance on a low-wage economy where companies compete by paying people less. We need to remove the temptation to throw more cheap labour or longer work-hours at a problem, and make investment in skills, productive capital and innovation…
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The 2017 electorate expense returns were made public a couple of days ago. For those tragic politicos like myself they provide a great deal of interesting information and an insight into how the parties are doing. A couple of initial comments. Donations do not include…
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Changing National’s leadership will not help the conservatives regain power if they fail to address questions of why they lost the 2017 election. Many, if not most, Nats don’t accept, or understand, they lost the election. Many still think that because they won 44.4 percent…
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https://twitter.com/MJWhitehead/status/958934853403033600 I protest because dissent & diversity are essential to our democracy, because it is Green, because Kiwis always have. And this government respects that because we are friends. - Golriz Ghahraman In this 2 minute video Ghahraman covers "protest, and dissent, about diversity of thought…
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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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Recent news from Israel makes you wonder about the State of Israel. The first is about Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi. She recently celebrated her 17th birthday but unlike most teenagers she did this from behind bars. Why is she there? Because she hit and kicked…
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They were running late for their next kill. This was an example of anti-humour ;-) Obviously, that is a take on the well-known traffic-safety campaign Speed Kills[See links at the end]. Does or did it (ever?) have the desired outcome? This was a rhetorical question…
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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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https://twitter.com/davidfarrier/status/958537219018448896 (for those that missed it, Jeremy Wells does the Like Mike Hosking impersonations). https://www.facebook.com/sevensharp/videos/10156260343547268/ The rumours are true. We're back Monday 7pm, TVNZ 1. https://twitter.com/publicaddress/status/958512825990656000 Seven Sharp press release, Hilary Barry says, “The Seven Sharp team is one of the best in the business and…
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Spare a thought for Paula Bennett. Looks like her political career is on the long slippery slope to oblivion. And clearly there has been sabotaguing of Bill English's leadership with leaked rumours from within National's Caucus of his leadership being under threat being made on…
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Newshub recently released the latest poll they commissioned from Reid Research, covering the period between Jan 18th and 28th. (I tend to refer to them by the day they're released, however) Let's dive into some analysis of what this means. If you missed the actual…
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In a major speech yesterday on poverty, Prime Minister Ardern has laid out fully and forthrightly what is the problem and what need to be done. The Bill now introduced is described by the Prime Minister as “the framework for measuring and targeting child poverty.…
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Greenpeace climate activists protested oil exploration yesterday: https://twitter.com/ecomanda/status/958423117017182209 https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceNZ/status/958422435753160704 https://twitter.com/RusselNorman/status/958430554885517312 https://twitter.com/SSXfactor/status/958440195577163776 Warrior support vessel as it arrives in port Press release - January 31, 2018 Wednesday, 31 January:Greenpeace activists have boarded the support vessel of the world’s largest seismic blasting ship this morning,and locked themselves…
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