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I think our democracy is in for a rough time. I get the feeling that the right in Aotearoa New Zealand and elsewhere think that the truth is a nice to have, and not a necessity when it comes to campaigning. Clearly winning is more…
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Craig Murray reports on the horror of Julian Assange's treatment by British so-called "justice." Read it and don't weep. You can see why Murray resigned from the UK foreign service; their diplomacy is just as bad. On the International Day in Support of Torture Victims…
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The Sky City National Convention Centre fire brings the Government Auckland relationship to a very sharp edge. It was tense before. It's worse now. They are both co-investors in City Rail Link. It's the biggest single project risk either of them have taken. It will…
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Housing has not been a simple issue for the Government. Initial expectations were sky high and progress of Kiwibuild has been slow. On the up side the five year bright line capital gain policy and the policy setting restrictions on overseas ownership have been working…
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From Joe Carolyn at Unite Union. Workers in SkyCity have just come through a traumatic few days. The massive fire at the Convention Centre was seen by many of our Christian union members as an act of God – “Babylon is burning”. A company that…
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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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Only that didn't happen. Instead, the New Zealand Parliament is going to let the voting public decide next year if we should have the right to kill ourselves if we are terminally ill. I'm theoretically in favour of right to die legislation and state support…
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One of the less endearing traits of National is their ability to screw almost anything up for short-term advantage regardless how it impacts those that they are purportedly trying to protect. Usually this comes from the results of in-fighting within the party. Luke Malpass and…
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So National has decided to really play politics on law and order and in as cynical an example of politics as you can imagine has backed down from a previous promise to support the introduction of the Terrorism Suppression (Control Orders) Bill. Jane Patterson at…
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The Government's Zero Carbon Bill has been reported back and the contrast in responses between Labour/Green and National is fascinating. And National's response is utterly predictable. The report is interesting. The majority has proposed technical changes which go some way to addressing concerns raised about…
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That the media in the country and others, especially now free-to-air TV, are getting creamed doesn't surprise me. That TV3 is essentially being given away (or closed) having apparently been separated from the still lucrative radio doesn't surprise me. Blame the broadcast model, the pain…
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There were revolutionary scenes at the New Zealand First conference on the weekend as the party's youth wing forced the party to back away from a really retrograde position on drug testing at music festivals. The need and virtue of this testing to me is…
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"Boris Johnson Sends Letter to E.U. Asking for Brexit Delay" is the understatement by some of the journalists in the US. Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a stinging defeat on Saturday as Parliament rebuffed his campaign to take Britain out of the European Union by…
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