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Is it just me or did the election campaign just get really weird? At least for the right. After a few days attacking the left because of gangs the right started to chill out, mainly because more and more photos of right wing MPs meeting…
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Will a Labour victory in the 2026 election mean an end to austerity? To meet the strict spending targets outlined in their fiscal plan, Elliot Crossan argues that Chris Hipkins and Barbara Edmonds will need to underinvest in health, cut the rest of the public…
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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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In election season, this site gets a certain amount of hacker attention. It drives the usual attempts by hackers wanting to add my systems to their bot nets, AI scanners, and search bots into the background. This year it appears to be somewhat one sided.…
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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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Quick post as a reminder the left can win this election but it's close. https://twitter.com/henrycooke/status/2115498747404918907 Explainer from RNZ is good and covers the overhang and Opportunity's role. Here's the MMP calculator set to these results to play around with the National overhang. This gives Labour…
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There is this outstanding scene from West Wing when Josh Lyman celebrates the picking up of momentum for the Democratic candidate in the US Presidential elections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiEs34TNY6w Momentum is the most important thing in a tight race. A surge in support can be self reinforcing…
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I've long argued that ending the housing crisis requires multiple actions in a holistic strategy, which needs to be based in mass social housing not BUILD MOAR HOUSES for the private market. This is because the private market and the decades long push to get…
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Chris Hipkins will be on BHN live tonight from 9pm We've made space for all the political leaders to have a whole show with us, the conversation will be wide ranging, and you have the opportunity to ask questions in the chat as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1RA2I3Y8Uw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UCu0vkkOME Readers of Mountain Tūī will know that one of the persistent topics I have covered is the privatisation of our healthcare system under the National/ACT and NZ First Government. I first warned about it in 2024, detailing the warnings and signals of where the…
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So we are now in the voting period. But this voting period is different. Last election if you realised leading up to election day, and even on election day, that you were not enrolled then you could cast a special vote and as long as…
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https://twitter.com/FrankMcRae/status/2114450598825537621 This term National passed legislation preventing people from enrolling to vote in the two weeks up to election day. Previously people could enrol on the day they voted, and in 2023 100,000 people enrolled on election day. One of the implications is the defacto…
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