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If one were to boil down the harvest of promises, ripe hopes, and vintage-deep beliefs from the late 1980s and 1990s by our political leaders, business leaders and their spokespeople, endless columnists, think-tank writers and quangoes, you’d find the following. The power of the nation-state…
capitalism Deep stuff economy Globalisation International Politics
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Act minister Karen Chhour has recently adopted the mantle of victimhood and claimed that she has been under attack and feels unsafe in Parliament. From Radio New Zealand: "It no longer feels like I can walk [Parliament's] corridors without fear of personal attacks from either…
act crime Maori Issues maori party Parliament political parties Social issues uncategorized
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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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God Bless the ALP (Australian Labour Party), Bill Shorten and all the Labour MP’s across the ditch for tackling the real issues facing people with disabilities in Australia. It takes courage, fortitude, a good heart to seek redress to wrongs done to the weakest amongst…
australian politics Christopher Luxon erica stanford International Politics
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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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Excerpt cross posted from Mountain Tui‘s substack post. The curious case of Health NZ versus the National Party continues as a former Board member accuses the government of spreading intentional "disinformation." Let’s do a quick recap of how we got here - On 16 July,…
Dirty Politics health national national/act government nicola willis Shane Reti
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Yesterday in Parliament was pretty weird. Act MPs staged a show down event and expressed increasing dissatisfaction with their Government's speaker Gerry Brownlee. They tried to table correspondence between the party and the Speaker's office but were prevented from doing so by other parties. They…
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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 …