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The government is "consulting" we the people on New Zealand’s climate change target: Consultation on setting New Zealand’s post-2020 climate change target The Government is seeking views on New Zealand’s post-2020 climate change contribution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This…
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When Labour presented its capital gains tax policy it spent months in development. It consulted widely and presented a robust policy that won the media battle (despite National's usual hysterics). In contrast, The Nats have rushed and bungled the process (all the while assuring us…
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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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John Key is now arguing that black is white - that a Tax on Capital Gains isn't a Capital Gains Tax. "Typical politician" many will say - and that shows how far John Key's skills have fallen. When he first arrived on the scene he…
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Photo stolen from 3 News - Low turnout at first public flag-change meeting
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The neoliberal reforms of the 80's and 90's left this country with sharp increases in poverty and inequality. The last Labour government improved matters a little, mainly via Working For Families (which John Key called "communism by stealth"). The current National government is making things…
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The National Party has announced a new tax on the sale of properties. It will apply to all residential rental properties bought after 1 October 2015. If you buy a residential rental property on or after 1 October, and then you sell it again within…
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So ... Remember all the attacks that Labour sustained because it proposed a Capital Gains Tax so that something could be done about addressing spiralling house price speculation and the lack of investment in Aotearoa's productive sector? Remember back in 2012 when John Key said that…
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' The video featured at The Standard on Saturday which showed Fox News abusing poor people was shocking. Will we see the same thing happening here? Well, the local MSM does love putting the boot into beneficiaries on behalf of National Ltd™, and there's certainly…
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John Key in 2012: I hate capital gains taxes – I just don’t like them. The reason I don’t like them is that, in political terms I don’t think they work. If government was prepared to do with a capital gains tax what had been…
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The latest right wing meme is that angry left activists cost Labour the English Election as well as the last local election and if only they were more moderate and reasonable everything would have been fine. This analysis of course ignores completely the result in…
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' You're on a plane that crashed in the Sonora desert. The pilot and co-pilot are dead, but you and your classmates are unharmed. Your plane was 70 miles off the course that was filed prior to take off and you crashed 50 miles southwest…
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Simon Bridges is an idiot. He thinks that Auckland's congestion can be solved by focussing less on the CBD and large rail projects and more on local roading projects in the outer suburbs of the city and bus infrastructure. Of course this will solve congestion problems which…
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One of the inquiries into issues arising from Dirty Politics has come to a very unsatisfactory conclusion. Concerns were raised by the Greens about former National MP Katherine Rich. She is now the chief executive of the Food and Grocery Council whose roles include lobbying for the alcohol,…
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We've had pre-budget speeches from Andrew Little and from Grant Robertson. Given the diversity of views of The Standard authors and community, the speeches have received mixed reception here. What's your speech? What's the core of what you would propose if you were leader 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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Labour's Finance spokesperson Grant Robertson gave his pre-budget speech this morning. "So, what would a responsible government be doing in the Budget next week?"... Speech to the Otago Chamber of Commerce by Grant Robertson on May 15, 2015 Thank you very much for the opportunity…
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David Farrar has a bad case of STD (Standard Titillation Disorder). He seems to find us endlessly fascinating, if the desire of him and his Dirty Politics mates to spy on / hack this blog are anything to go by. Take this post on us…
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Give it a rest Graham: Ponytail-gate: McCready files new case The legal assault on the Prime Minister is underway again but private prosecutor Graham McCready wants it known he's not a "vexatious masked crusader". The Hamilton-based litigant filed a case with the Human Rights Tribunal…
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Guyon Espiner landed a doozie on Chris Finlayson this morning. He quizzed Finlayson on why the GCSB was used to spy on New Zealand's trading partners to help Tim Groser's WTO campaign. Espiner posed this question: When this became public in the New Zealand Herald one comment…
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All the best to those coping with the wild weather or its aftermath. With talk of Wellington being "cut off" some are using it as an excuse to politic over Transmission Gully, but there's nothing that we can build that isn't vulnerable to nature. With…
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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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All strength to Spy watchdog Cheryl Gwynn. She is probably going to drop off John Key's christmas card list for doing so but she has announced an investigation into the GCSB's spying on friendly nations to help Tim Groser's tilt at the top trade job.…
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Given that Amanda Bailey asked McCready to withdraw his case, this is good news: Updated 11.57am: A judge has rejected serial litigant Graham McCready's attempt to privately prosecute John Key over repeatedly pulling the ponytail of Auckland waitress Amanda Bailey. ... Amanda Bailey has been…