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For the first time since it floated the New Zealand dollar is heading for parity with its Aussie equivalent. Some of the commentary is pretty naff, describing the situation in testosterone flavoured terms. The New Zealand dollar is "strengthening" while the Australian dollar is "weakening".…
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I was reading this piece on the current state of telecoms companies in NZ. It's an interesting topic of course, but the bit that really stood out for me wasn't about telecoms at all: Spark boss Simon Moutter complained before Christmas that the combined annual…
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Here's some slow Monday reading to ponder, on political trends in America: 7 of the Biggest Reasons America Is Screwed Why the wealthy and the right always prevail. By Robert Kuttner / The American Prospect Reason One. The Discrediting of Politics Itself. The Republican Party…
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No, not a typo. Just in case you're short of things to worry about, you can add soil to the list. George Monbiot last month in The Guardian: We’re treating soil like dirt. It’s a fatal mistake, as our lives depend on it ... Landowners around…
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I was a relatively early user of the internet. I can recall clearly in 1994 when I managed to get a browser to work and marvelled at how a page containing information in the South Pole appeared somewhat slowly via modem on my computer screen.…
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An excellent piece by Rod Oram in the Sunday Star Times: Government sledges the RMA, but the facts tell a very different story ... Various ministers are angry. They say the RMA is impeding New Zealand’s progress. Bill English believes the RMA is the main reason…
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Last week, very reluctantly 1, I have coughed up the money for a development version of the mobile system used on The Standard. About a quarter of our readers primarily use mobiles to read the site these days. When you add tablets it gets closer to 40%. Users…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc6YH4-IHME&t=12m15s Britain is going to the polls on May 7, 2015. Current polling suggests that the main parties are neck and neck. But the vagaries of FPP and a surge of nationalism in Scotland mean that the result is becoming utterly unpredictable. The one and only…
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Both the Herald and the Dominion Post have opinion pieces published today on the medium term implications of Winston Peters' win last Saturday in Northland. John Armstrong's analysis is that long term this presents a significant threat to National as its previously stronghold provincial seats…
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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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For some completely unknown and inexplicable reason, California is in the grips of a massive drought: California restricts water as snowpack survey finds 'no snow whatsoever' Governor Jerry Brown orders unprecedented and mandatory water regulations on residents to reduce statewide water use as drought stretches…
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More economic genius from the Nats. This time featuring Bill English: Ministers pressured Solid Energy, Parliament told Labour has tabled documents in Parliament showing that ministers put pressure on Solid Energy in 2009 to increase its debt levels and pay bigger dividends, despite warnings a…
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This is an experimental post to see how a second open mike type post would work. 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…
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Turns out that "Planet Key" is not an election advertisement after all. The Electoral Commission got it wrong (on two counts) - and should so some serious thinking about this bungle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv25tcS6J-s
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Last month in perhaps the biggest comeback since (according to some) Lazarus returned from the dead the Queensland Labor Party won back power in the state. The party had slumped to 7 seats out of 89 at the previous election but thanks at least in part…
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Check out Media Take, Tuesdays on Maori TV: A media commentary show with Russell Brown and Toi Iti, who analyse the weekly news to determine a lack of balance, inaccuracies or lies plaguing the media world. The most recent show (S02E02) was on the GCSB…
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The Government has announced plans to review Child Youth and Family. Anne Tolley has said that the Department is eight to ten years behind in its thinking in areas such as how children in state care are supported. Since National has now been in power for approaching…
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Interesting piece (ht Ruminator) at Science Daily recently: Generous welfare benefits make people more likely to want to work, not less Generous welfare benefit levels make people who are not in employment more likely to want to work rather than less, new research suggests. ...…
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FIRST Union reports: Workers from the Cotton On distribution centre are welcoming substantial improvements in wages and working conditions says FIRST Union General Secretary Robert Reid. “This morning workers from Cotton On distribution centre in Auckland ratified the first ever collective agreement between Cotton On…
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One of the problems with writing anything on April 1st is that it can be misconstrued. But surely everyone must realise that this cannot be when I say that Pete George was released from his ban this morning. Something that he was clearly bracing himself for…
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Media release from The Standarista Collective 1st April 2015 The Standardista Collective today announced plans for a massive new media venture, Fruukd. "This analogue-digital-quantum platform will take social media, big data, ultra-fast broadband and Web 3.0 to new levels of excellence in the production and…
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There's strange rumour going around about who will fill the NZ First list seat vacancy created by Winston Peter's stunning win in Northland. Ok, it kinda started from Matthew Hooton, but it's grown legs in the last couple of days. Next on the list is…
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The Key government's cover story for doing nothing on climate change is that NZ should not lead, we should be "fast followers". Well, we're not even that. James Shaw tweeted this morning: NZ amongst the many nations to fail the first test of the Paris…
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