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This afternoon Kim Dotcom is making a submission to the Intelligence and Security Select Committee, which is chaired by John Key (starting 3:30pm). 3 News is livestreaming the session. Update: Apparently Dotcom is scheduled for 5pm. Update: Apparently his time has been cut down to…
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Key is clearly getting nervous about the implosion of his possible electoral partners in 2014. He's running the "largest party has a moral mandate to govern line" again: Nats look to 2014 governing options Prime Minister John Key is mulling his options to form a…
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Yesterday, hearings began on on the Bill amending the regulations related to the GCSB and surveillance. John Key showed complete disdain for the process by failing to ask questions and only intervening to hurry people along. There are good reasons to amend the regulations governing…
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This press release from Brownlee is a truly nauseating effort: Urgency moved with regret Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee says the Government regrets the need to put Parliament into urgency this afternoon, saying his preference was for legislation that will be covered under urgency…
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Good to see that Key is so keenly focused on what matters: Weekly press conferences will show PM in new light Prime Minister John Key is buffing up his television image with a not-so-subtle revamp of the ''look'' of his weekly press conferences. The number…
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The simmering leadership struggle in the National party doesn't get a lot of attention in the mainstream media, but here's an exception: Deputy PM more popular than heirs apparent Steven Joyce and Judith Collins may be involved in an unofficial leadership contest within National to…
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Key's enquiry into the GCSB report leak appears to have broken the law. He doesn't give a damn. What a clear and timely example of exactly why Key and the GCSB can't be trusted with further powers. "Nothing to hide nothing to fear" my arse.…
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Sharples has resigned as Maori Party co-leader. He's leaving politics next year. Flavell will become co-leader, I guess. But who really cares about internal Maori Party stuff? That party's dead. Rightly so for betraying its people. What's more important is how shaky the government's getting.…
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What is it about Simon Bridges and the truth? If he's not lying about employment law, or fibbing about talking to the ILO, he's misleading select committee over what he was told by forestry workers when he went out to talk health and safety. According…
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Over 30,000 aged care workers and tens of thousands of other low paid women workers are awaiting the decision of the Employment Court in relation to an Equal Pay Case heard this week. The Court was hearing a case brought by the Service and Food…
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Generation Zero are a youth-led organisation who see climate change as their problem. They see zero fossil fuel use as 100% Possible in a sustainable Aotearoa. So they're holding a nationwide speaking tour about it - asking "What's the holdup?" on climate change action.…
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National governments always bungle education. So when sometimes they realise the mess that they've made, I really don't know whether to laugh or cry: Parata: tertiary focus skewed New Zealand is in danger of experiencing a shortage of skilled tradespeople with so much focus on…
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There's a lot of talk about a reunification of the Mana and Maori Parties after the Ikaroa-Rawhiti result. The claim that, because the Mana and Maori candidates' joint total was higher than Labour's, they could have won the seat if they were united is, of…
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Gotta love the reporting of the Ikaroa-Rawhiti by election. Here for example is John Armstrong: Little joy for Labour, worse news for Maori parties No good news for the parties that came first, second and third then? Ummm - how did National do exactly John…
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There was a big fanfare about John Key's u-turn embrace of the Auckland City Rail Link. But, as usual with dear leader, it was all smoke, mirrors and sleight of hand stealth of the common good. The construction of the Central Rail Link is so…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. 3 News Political Editor Patrick Gower has been put on notice that his performance must improve if he is to keep his job. A member…
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My semi-regular Sunday piece of interesting, longer, deeper stories I found during the week. It’s also a chance for you to share what you found this week too. Those stimulating links you wanted to share, but just didn’t fit in anywhere (no linkwhoring). This week: Prism, sick…
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A Sunday feature - each week a random section scanned from a copy of The Standard, September 15th, 1938. Find out more here. Click on the image for a bigger version.
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Labour has a strong new addition to its caucus - Meka Whaitiri beat two strong candidate fields, first in her selection and then in today's by-election. Her percentage of the votes cast was higher than Parekura's in his first go in 1999 - I'm picking…
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Today, R0b asked a question that many people have been posing: just how many times does the National Government think it can spend the “profits” it’s “made” by selling off viable money-making New Zealand assets? So I had a wee dig. Bear in mind, I’m…
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The political speculators, and left wing underminers are having a field day, while John Key spins his fiscal irresponsibility, and remakes a distorted version of of Len Brown's popular Auckland transport policies, in his own road-worshiping image. Railways for the post-Key future, to be paid…
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National's spend-up promises in Auckland look like panicky policy on the hoof. Where is all this money going to come from? FUNDING SOURCES ... ''It'll be a combination of funding that'll come from proceeds from the asset sales programme money, that will come from national…
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These Poverty Watch posts have been mostly focused on the New Zealand situation, of course. But it is worth reminding ourselves that similar stories are being played out in similar countries. Take the impact of the politics of austerity in England. Two days ago their…
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Given the embargo on promoting any candidate on election day, please do NOT make any comments relating to the by election anywhere on The Standard until after 7pm on Saturday. Anyone making an inappropriate comment is solely and personally responsible for its contents and any…
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