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First the Southland District Council plants a block of pine trees many years ago. Then they decide to strip the trees and get to the coal underneath. That’s New Brighton Collieries, owned by Bathurst from the ASX, working with SDC on both ends. The Australians…
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Kei aku nui, kei aku rahi, tena koutou katoa I’m going to start with something that I never thought I would say at a Labour Party conference. I miss remits. I miss remits, because they are indicative of something else that I know we have…
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The Labour Party conference is on this weekend. It is a different event this year and is being held digitally. Last night's events included welcomes, Rino Tirikatene singing a wonderful waiata solo, and senior Ministers answering questions and describing the newsworthy event for them in…
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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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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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Our head of state, Kuini o Aotearoa, aka Queen Elizabeth II of England, looks likely to die relatively soon, yet our government is unprepared as to whether her heir should become our next head of state, one of this country’s highest-ranking former diplomats says. “We…
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Beyond the NGO emotion and singing and joyous arm waving, country leaders at COP 26 actually have to achieve stuff this week. For the smaller nations like ourselves, this is one of the most important trade deals we’ve had to negotiate. All small countries in…
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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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I'm one of the fortunate people to have had a 70s childhood swimming in our local rivers. We freely drank out of the same rivers, didn't think twice about that. We just took all that for granted, and rightly so. It should be the birthright…
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With in-person shopping about to re-start in Auckland next week, this is the best moment we will have to reinvent Auckland: one customer at a time. It will likely not affect our other cities, but Auckland is over 33% of our population and nearly 40%…
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The list of nations who have successfully kept Covid at bay is dwindling. At the beginning of the year China, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam and Thailand were all doing pretty well. I am putting to one side the Pacific Islands who have performed exceptionally…
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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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Politics is a funny beast. It moves around and zig zags and sets of in interesting trajectories depending on what the underlying dominant response is. Logic often does not matter. The two most powerful emotions are fear and hope. And Covid is the mother of…
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Expect lots of blather at the UN climate conference COP26 from the neolib boys who think they know how to run the world and are instead killing it (Fuck Boris) - if we're lucky, a bit more slowly. Back home, Labour are going to try…
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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 show is now on for Conference of Parties 26 (COP 26), where countries show each other how they will achieve the Paris Agreement climate goals. How will we do? Set in Glasgow, it will bring together negotiators from nearly every country on earth to…
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