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Open mike 26/12/2021
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Die Hard is a Christmas movie
Here at the Standard we choose to debate the important issues of the day. What needs to be done about climate change, how the Country's covid response is going (remarkably well and don't believe the naysayers), and which National faction is leaking and undermining which…
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Open mike 25/12/2021
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Daily review 24/12/2021
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The pandemic is resiliency training
The pandemic shows no sign of ending. There are some hopeful signs with the idea that omicron will turn out to be a milder illness and once it becomes the dominant strain we will be able to adapt to a different, kinder kind of pandemic…
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Open mike 24/12/2021
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Daily review 23/12/2021
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Our Energy Upheaval
On the 9th of August this year the North Island of New Zealand had a power blackout on the coldest night of the year. It was the first time such an event had occurred since the electricity market was formed in 1996. According to the…
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Open mike 23/12/2021
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Daily review 22/12/2021
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Revisiting Riverton: the Longwood Loop food resiliency project
Joanna Macy, elder of the transition movements based in life-affirming models of our future, has a threefold model of change: Holding Patterns (think conventional protest movements), Alternative Structures (eg Doughnut economics, community gardens, regenerative agriculture), and Shifting Consciousness (eg the applied philosophies of deep ecology,…
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Open mike 22/12/2021
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Daily review 21/12/2021
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Can Labor Win Australia Back?
Coming up surprising quickly in 2022 is the Australian federal election – and Labor has a good shot. This matters for a whole bunch of reasons to us and on multiple policy fronts, not only the rapid rise of gangs and violent crime in west…
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Open mike 21/12/2021
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Daily review 20/12/2021
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Long covid, omicron and the precautionary principle
I'm relieved to see New Zealand starting to look at long covid. Our relatively low covid infection rate has meant this hasn't been prominent in the pandemic response debate. The arrival of the very fast spreading omicron variant points to now being the time to…
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Open mike 20/12/2021
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