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One of the aspirational founding principles of the USA, was the right to "life, liberty and the Pursuit of happiness". It doesn't say, "unless you are black, poor or otherwise undeserving". Similarly, the New Zealand Labour Party has their own Version. "All people should have equal access…
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There is nothing quite like Establishment praising Establishment and making a few gentle suggestions on how to tackle the mushrooming housing crisis. The IMF released a report on Friday on NZ’s economy and it contained a lot of praise of NZ Government but was critical…
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Poor Chris Bishop. He is clearly smarting the loss of the Hutt South seat to Labour's Ginny Andersen and is trying to manufacture scandals. The essence of the latest scandal he has manufactured is as follows. The New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union owns an office…
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Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn wrote on Tuesday: A few years ago, David Wallace-Wells warned that climate change risked making a huge chunk of the planet literally uninhabitable. One of the mechanisms for this is the combination of heat and humidity, which if high enough…
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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 good news is that Auckland has moved to Alert Level 1 at midday. It was to be expected, as there had not been any new cases detected in the community for a week [Correction: it has been 14 days since the last community case].…
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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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Expecting a bit much aren't you? We haven't had that since Muldoon. There were issues with his plans, but at least he had them. If the Government “interfered with the" sacred “free market’ the same people asking for a plan would be screaming about…
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Scott Morrison, or more aptly named Scotty from marketing, is at a superficial level your typical right wing leader. He jokes a lot, tries to be a lad, you cannot take him too seriously, but beneath that bluster filled affable superficial veneer lurks an evil…
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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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Minister Parker is firing an 18 inch gun round that he's ready to take on all with his call-in of the Otago water rights plan change. Because their plan had been outed by the Minister as crap, Otago Regional Council proposed a plan change to…
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National's review of its 2020 election performance has been completed. The contents are that bad that it will not share the results with its members and you get the feeling that hard copies only will be given to caucus members, complete with data that will…
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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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So Newstalk ZB is shocked, I tell you, shocked that Jacinda Ardern will no longer regularly appear on the Mike Hosking show. For me I am shocked that she took so long to make this decision. His show is the closest equivalent we have to…
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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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No, it’s not how you keep a 99-year-old racist alive in both public and private hospitals while the rest of the U.K. watches the deliberate destruction of the National Health Service. It’s not how you treat the memory of the most popular royal in a…
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