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Open mike 25/04/2015
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Anzac Day – 100 years
100 years ago today ANZAC forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. During the subsequent eight month Gallipoli Campaign the Ottoman Empire suffered 174,828 casualties (dead and wounded), and the Allies 187,959 including 28,150 from Australia and 7,473 from New Zealand. Today will see…
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Daily review 24/04/2015
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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Welcome to Wealth Gap Tower
Cartoonist Toby Morris has a great post up illustrating the wealth gap in NZ at The Wireless, based on discussions with inequality researcher Max Rashbrooke. Click through for the whole thing and make sure to share it on social media.
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Weekend social 24/04/2015
Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no ponytails, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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Caption Competition
caption contest social media lolz uncategorized you couldn't make this shit up
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Pillock of the week
This choice is easy. John Key for the most weird bizarre behaviour which more than hints at personal problems. But second by a country mile was Mike Hosking, he who is paid huge amounts by the state broadcaster to shove his opinions down our throats.…
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Hip throw to the lions
I agree with Mike Hosking - the Hip Group cafe owners are also losers in the fallout from John Key's ponytail-pull fetish. But not for the same reasons as Mike. From their own comments, it seems they threw their employee to the lions for utterly…
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Abusive and creepy
< Is John Key a cretin? Fair question, but no. In the case of waitress Amanda Bailey Key's behaviour was abusive and creepy, but he knew exactly what he was doing, he was exercising his power. In the case of all these kids, with photos…
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Campbell Live – Day of Action
Friday is the day of action for 'Save Campbell Live'. Nationwide organiser, Jo Bond, instigated the day of action across a few cities in New Zealand because she believes that good quality investigative journalism is important for a well-functioning democracy. Campbell Live has proven itself…
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Open mike 24/04/2015
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Daily review 23/04/2015
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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NRT: National’s hand-wringing on housing
Reposted from No Right Turn. Auckland house prices have exploded again, and are at the silly stage where the houses actually earn more in capital gains than their inhabitants do in salaries. So what is the government doing about it?Nothing: The Government has effectively left…
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Herald’s interview with the waitress – updated
Last night NZ Herald editor Shayne Currie tweeted: https://twitter.com/ShayneCurrieNZH/status/590827205636132864 Much later Martyn Bradbury: https://twitter.com/CitizenBomber/status/590884444619210753 Bradbury's piece at The Daily Blog is a second statement from the waitress in question. She states that the Herald interview was obtained under false pretences, and she withdrew her consent…
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Chaos and Mayhem at the Herald
What is happening at the Herald? This morning Rachel Glucina wrote an article on the victim of John Key's frankly unacceptable behaviour. Many questions were asked about the appropriateness of this, especially after the victim suggested that her consent to the story was obtained by…
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Andrew Little entrusted with delivering a Gallipoli medal
As reported at Stuff: It was touch and go at Wellington Airport as the great-niece of a Gallipoli soldier raced to meet Labour leader Andrew Little to get him to deliver a medal to Turkey on her behalf. Natasha Narayan is the great-niece of Private…
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Blogging at The Standard since Election 2014
Lprent occasionally posts about some of The Standard’s technical stats, like increased pageviews and commenting milestones. I love that kind of crunchy information, even if sometimes I have to read it a few times to pick up the detail … Anyway, I thought it would…
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National Council of Women open letter to John Key
Dear John. We are disappointed to learn of your unwanted touching of a cafe worker. We appreciate your apology to her and we understand that your actions were well-intentioned and not meant to offend or do the worker any harm. You no doubt know that…
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International laughing stock
John Key has made headlines for bizarre or offensive behaviour before. The Guardian provides its own summary complete with images, video, and ominous parenthetical comment: "John Key: New Zealand prime minister's weirdest moments (so far)". But Key has really outdone himself this time: John Key's…
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Open mike 23/04/2015
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Dear John… UPDATED
Today the National Council of Women and the Equal Opportunity Commissioner and the Human Rights Commission have felt compelled to explain how to behave correctly toward others. To the Prime Minister of New Zealand. To those who say it's a storm in a teacup, an…
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Daily review 22/04/2014
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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Record-breaking Government
Not satisfied with setting records for biggest deficit and largest total deficit over term, the Key government is now going for most deficits in a row. They now look to equal the National government's 7 deficits from 1966-72. And this is the stuff they want…
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Reaction to harassed waitress story
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My Little Ponytail
A rather strange story has been posted on The Daily Blog in which it is claimed that the PM has been physically harassing a female staff member in his local cafe in Parnell. According to the story, John Key has been repeatedly playing with the…
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International interest in Auckland property market
Seems that Auckland property is being marketed in (at least) Malaysia and Singapore in a (presumably new?) advertisement: https://twitter.com/soundbunny/status/590327807072305152 Bernard Hickey links to Audio from a Singapore radio station: https://twitter.com/bernardchickey/status/590478480246079488 Lanthanide in comments transcribed part of that audio [slightly edited here]: "How would you like…
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Open mike 22/04/2015
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Daily review 21/04/2015
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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The decontextualisation of ANZAC Day
Everyone else is giving their reckons on the treatment of ANZAC Day this year, as we commemorate the centenary of the first year of World War I. So here are mine. Growing up, my main impressions about World War I, and specifically the Gallipoli campaign,…
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Dirty Politics on Nine to Noon
Matthew Hooton's attack on Nicky Hager's journalistic credentials on Nine to Noon yesterday (at 21:35) was straight out of the "Dirty Politics" playbook. Kathryn Ryan wasn't impressed and neither was I. Coincidentally Hager spoke last week about his investigative journalism - you can judge for…