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Twenty five dollars a week can’t be bad, can it? For families on the breadline, it’s surely better than nothing and every little helps. And when the total spend is $790 million, that’s not peanuts, is it? – even if multiplying $25 up to this…
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I was 4 when my family got its first TV - a kitset black & white, one of the earliest available in Christchurch at the time (mid 60s). It was like Magic. After a while it was 2 channels of magic. TV unified the country,…
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Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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Last night over 200 people crowded in to Dunedin's Glenroy Auditorium for the Dunedin meeting in the government's emissions consultation process. I (r0b) will write up my notes for a post over the weekend, but here is the reaction of one person who attended. She…
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An increase to the base rate of benefits is welcome, but it comes with nasty fishhooks. There is the usual (for this government) increased pressure on beneficiaries (source): • Most sole-parents, and partners of beneficiaries, will have to be available for part-time work once their…
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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 Standarnistas 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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Budget debate speeches - Little, Key and Turei. (Gosh but don't certain commentators seem a bit hysterical about Little!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYnD6d9e5zU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpLKAt8rY7A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bzNDRXxJAY
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It's just been announced that John Campbell will leave TV3 and the show that he has fronted superbly for 10 years is to be axed. It will be replaced with a co-hosted current affairs show, but any expectations that it might be any good will…
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The timing is fascinating. On budget day while all media focus is on what is happening in Parliament two other stories have broken. Firstly John Campbell Live is to end. I do not know the details but reports are that he was offered to…
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John Banks, like other citizens is entitled to due process. We have some underlying concepts within our legal system. These include: Innocent until proven guilty The right to not have to give evidence in your own defence (without fear or favour) The right to expect…
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The fate of the TPPA seems to waver day by day. In an interesting development for NZ yesterday Tim Grossing Grosser (who has joined the PM as an international laughing stock) admitted that the TPPA will include the most controversial of provisions: https://twitter.com/helenkellyCTU/status/600879407830470656 These are…
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For background this piece by Professor Geddis should be required reading: "If you want people to believe you are honest, then it's best not to file false donation returns". In comments Geddis sums up: The point here is that by signing the donations return in…
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For latest updates [feel free all] see below. Morning edition But what was probably supposed to be the centerpiece of the budget has apparently been scooped by details pre-released on a website: "'Thousands' of homes could be built on former Crown land in Auckland". It's…
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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 Standarnistas 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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National continue their 75+ years record of not being able to deliver the sort of economic growth for NZ that Labour do... Source: RBNZ
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Only a quarter of the world's workers have permanent jobs. A worldwide trend away from secure jobs risked “perpetuating a vicious circle of weak global demand and slow job creation” that has dogged many countries since the crisis, the UN agency said. You can read the…
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Labour: Net debt goes from $22 billion to $0 National: Net debt has gone back up to over $46 billion Source: Treasury
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Bill English tells us that the promise that they won the election on - that they're the only Masters of Finance who could balance the government books (because that's all that's important... not child poverty, or housing, or climate change, or the current account deficit...)…
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Sometimes for "fairness" and "balance" on a particularly bad day for the Government the media will try to gotcha Labour MPs into providing a sound bite or a headline which can then be spun into a story of disunity. Yesterday was one of those days.…
making shit up Media national same old national sexism the praiseworthy and the pitiful you couldn't make this shit up
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Two posts from Rob at Polity yesterday on National and Housing: Auckland house prices First, here's John Key talking in a speech about a housing crisis in early 2008: Well, I've got a challenge for the Prime Minister. Before she asks for another three years,…
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The Nats are currently "consulting" we the people on NZ's carbon emissions target. As covered yesterday, the consultation document is largely a vehicle for Nat spin and evasion, focusing on the costs of action to reduce our emissions. The costs of inaction are ignored. But…
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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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We haven't cut their funding, there's just been a change in their contract = We've cut their funding $4.8 million These contract changes happen all the time, they should learn to cope with it = You should be able to cope on a budget of…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas 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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Disgraced former National MP, ACT leader and Auckland Mayor John Banks has had his appeal against conviction for electoral fraud upheld and his conviction quashed. He has been formally acquitted and there will be no second trial. The Court of Appeal has accepted that Kim…
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' Creepy Key has dodged questions from the Green Party about any contact he may have had with the New Zealand Fox News Herald in the lead-up to Rachel Glucina's hit job on the cafe worker who's ponytail he pulled. The Green Party asked a…
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There is an old saying that in politics it is wrong to be right too soon. Brand new ideas may be too terrifying or unsettling for the electorate to be popular. They are also easy targets for a calculating opponent wanting to exploit ordinary voter's…
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