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The race to be Auckland's mayor has become very interesting. This week deputy mayor Desley Simpson announced that she would not be running for the mayoralty and said that she would support current Mayor Wayne Brown instead. A clearer message that National will throw its…
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The world's richest man has fallen out with the President he helped elect. Elliot Crossan asks: does this mark the beginning of the end for Trump 2.0? And might we hope for the same fate to befall the NZ Coalition Govt? January 2025. The richest…
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Excerpt reposted from Mountain Tui It’s hard to tell what’s worse: the National government persisting in prioritising money and non-existent1 “growth” over lives and well-being, or the many people that believe this is the way to succeed. Homelessness spiked up 53% over a few short…
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Never mind the two overly emotional, sociopathic, super egos having a cock fight on social media, here's one of the wealth class talking about his infection with Democracy Addiction Syndrome and laying out argument after argument against Trump and Musk. Love the old school male…
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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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Jacinda Ardern talked to The Rest Is Politics a few days ago about her book A Different Kind of Power, why she left politics, what New Zealand is (good and bad), and her Prime Ministership. This is just over an hour of essential viewing, with…
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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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David Seymour has blamed the overwhelming opposition to his Regulatory Standards Bill revealed by the consultation on AI bots. Not the appalling nature of his proposal, nor the clear groundswell against his Atlas inspired piece of legislation. But AI bots. From Ella Stewart at Radio…
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New Zealand has a deep connection with the sea, and this is reflected in the narratives and naval mythologies of the coalition parties. The waka of the National Party is a slick shiny speed machine that is built for speed and efficiency. It has a…
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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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By Louisa Wall - reprinted with permission In a previous column, I called the proposed suspension of Te Pāti Māori MPs unprecedented, disproportionate, and democratically dangerous. Since then, the debate has been adjourned—but the threat remains, both to Māori political expression and to the democratic…
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Workplace Relations and Safety minister Brooke van Velden has announced major changes to the way that Workplace safety is managed in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her highlight policy is a road cone hotline. Engaging in useless culture war policies is obviously not below her. The net…
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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 want to share a writer’s journey – of living and writing through the Genocide. Where I live and how I live could not be further from the horror playing out in Gaza and, increasingly, on the West Bank. Yet, because my country provides military,…
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This excerpt is from a discussion at the Festival of Debate in Sheffield, England, the largest annual politics festival in the UK (a non-partisan event "that encourages active citizenship and democratic engagement that anyone can contribute to"). The discussion breaks through our cognitive dissonance about…
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