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Like the rest of the population I have watched with interest the revelations that have occurred during the Williams v Craig defamation case. I sense that the media have had a wonderful time and I cannot think of another case where so much detail has…
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Young people, union members, and other Aucklanders will meet in Aotea Square tomorrow today to make some noise about the devastating Auckland housing crisis. Stand Up Youth Union Movement and Unions Auckland are hosting the Monopoly-themed event, which will highlight the damaging effects of the crisis…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas 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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Ann Pettifor, in New Zealand for lectures on the state of the financial world, talks to Nine-to-Noon about its most pressing problems. The UK economist was one of the few to predict the 2008 GFC, and now says our biggest problems stem from economists and the finance sector…
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Before you vote make sure you check out the Jobs that Count endorsement list. These are candidates who have signed the pledge to bring democracy back to their communities. If that's not worth voting for, we don't know what is. The full list is here And…
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Red/Green/Independent Brendon Bonner is a candidate for the Southern Ward in the Wellington City elections. PSA staffer and declared socialist, he would like Wellingtonians to know that he too supports the Living Wage. His campaign video is here and a list of the policies he…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas 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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Watch Elizabeth Warren strip Wells Fargo Chairman and Chief Executive John Stumpf alive at a Senate hearing enquiring into Wells Fargo's 'cross-selling' of bank products customers didn't need. Wells Fargo, one of the US' biggest banks, was fined $185million and 5300 employees at branch and…
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Vic Crone is trying to make a story out of the fact that Phil Goff is against foreign ownership of our housing stock, but accepted $250,000 from the NZ Chinese community at a fundraiser. Does she not see a difference between NZ Chinese and foreigners? $150,000…
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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 Standardistas 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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Via Scoop: Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little has today appointed Neale Jones as Chief of Staff and Mike Jaspers as Chief Press Secretary. Neale Jones presently works in the Leader’s Office as Political Director. Mike Jaspers currently works for New Zealand Rugby in a…
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A stunning victory for the people of Canterbury was announced last night by Mayor Lianne Dalziel. At a candidates debate in Christchurch she promised that there would be no sell off of the Christchurch council's assets. The Christchurch council has built up a substantial portfolio…
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Via Newshub: Hundreds of Māori from around the country have cancelled trips to Wellington to witness the signing of Treaty settlements at Parliament on Friday. New Zealand First has pulled its support for the settlements and that move led to a tearful and angry Māori…
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You have to wonder about the quality of some of the economic process control that goes on for National's politically important subsidies to the farming industry. Idling through the email this morning, I ran across an economic review of a Wairarapa Water application for second stage feasibility…
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Green MP Kevin Hague has delivered his valedictory speech. https://youtu.be/s4XdMz-vI8w He made a special point of mentioning his regrets on Pike River: "I have felt a heavy responsibility for that work. I have been pleased to contribute to a major overhaul of workplace health and…
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With the TPP slipping away the masks are coming off - PM warns US could lose clout in Asia-Pacific if it doesn't ratify TPP. Yes, never mind the "free trade" fluff, this is about geopolitics. Key has a lot invested - Soper calls it "his…
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From this week you'll be receiving voting papers in the mail with a booklet full of 150-word blurbs by people you've probably never heard of. How to make sense of it all? Well, plenty of organisations have been compiling their political naughty-or-nice lists, and because…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas 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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During the week someone alerted me to Rod Oram being interviewed by Lynn Freedman on National Radio. One particular moment jumped out as Rod went silent and seemed to wrestle with what he was about to say. It immediately brought to mind a piece I…
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Paul Romer is an economist highly respected by his peers, and about to become the Chief Economist at the World Bank. He's also just published a paper rubbishing the last 3 decades of macroeconomics. Starting with "For more than three decades, macroeconomics has gone backwards",…
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Donald Trump now accepts that one of the most idiotic unproveable falsehoods ever said by by him, and there are a few, is not true. Barak Hussein Obama was born in America and is entitled to be the President of the United States. But Trump…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas 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 National Party smorgasbord of measures that will improve housing supply is being rolled out and will make a vital contribution to solving this most pressing of issues. Or will it? The latest measure announced by Paula Bennett is the purchase of a Motel to provide emergency beds. But a…
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The government didn't make much of a show of Conservation Week - which was probably for the best the Conservation stories coming out weren't exactly positive for it. The US potentially banning our fish from its market if we don't improve our protection of Maui…