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Open mike 31/05/2025
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Daily review 30/05/2025
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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Seeing Is Believing
A video post with 3 videos available - Luxon's lies not only don't serve Aotearoa New Zealand, his policies are actively harming most of us - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1B--D13RU8 2. Could this be the most racist, anti-Māori NZ government in modern times? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEgnC5yZOX4 3. Nicola Willis says…
budget 2025 chris hipkins Christopher Luxon Dirty Politics Economy Maori Issues maori party nicola willis racism racism winston peters
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Which animal does Labour resemble?
A recent New York Times article made me think. It was about public perception of Republicans and Democrats and what animal people thought each party compared to. The article referred to research by Anat Shenker-Osorio where she asked voters to say what animal they associated…
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Open mike 30/05/2025
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Daily review 29/05/2025
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Open mike 29/05/2025
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Daily review 28/05/2025
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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Nicola Willis’s Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government
In September 2023, Nicola Willis and Grant Robertson joined Q&A to discuss finances and budgets. Many economists had cast doubt on National’s ability to fund their tax cuts. One conservative economist, Michael Reddell, rubbished the foreign buyers’ tax numbers, as well as National’s economic management…
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Migration: the spectre at the feast
Since the 1980s, some free-market economists have argued that the unfettered flow of trade and investment must be accompanied by the equally unfettered flow of labour. In other words, low or non-existent borders for trade and capital must be complemented by the free movement of…
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The Peoples’ Select Committee on Pay Equity
In very bad news for the Government former National MP Marilyn Waring has announced that she will be doing something the Government did not do, organise hearings to consider the Government's sabotaging of Pay Equity. From Russell Palmer at Radio New Zealand: Former National MP…
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Open mike 28/05/2025
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Daily review 27/05/2025
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The weird similarities between the Trump and the Willis budgets
I was writing a long involved post about the recent budget that I may put up in the next few days. But in writing it up what struck me was the weird similarities between this Government's budget which has just passed and Donald Trump's budget…
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Open mike 27/05/2025
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Daily review 26/05/2025
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Open mike 26/05/2025
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