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The latest Colmar Brunton poll is out. NZ First are the big winners on 11%, up 2%. Labour are down 3% to 26% (the lowest they have polled in the Colmar Brunton since 2014), and the Greens are up 1% on 13%. In my view,…
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Remember John Key's claim that all the homeless had to do was pop down to their local WINZ office to access help and how there were flying squads of public servants dealing with the crisis? Well whatever the Govern doing it is not working and things…
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His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy, there's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti... and Joyce hasn't even gone in to court to defend National from their theft of Eminem's music with his 'pretty legal' defence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e25YmpQiEEY The court date's been set down for…
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Some recent media comment on crime statistics has passed unnoticed which is a shame. They deserve greater publicity because they suggest that there is something deeply wrong with the reporting of crime in New Zealand. Two years ago Eugene Bingham broke a story about how Papakura Police…
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The plan packaging legislation that passed this week through Parliament got me thinking. In 1977, one of Exxon’s senior scientists noted that “the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels.”…
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The Rally for Democracy is an event to bring together people and organisations in a movement to focus on the TPPA, workers' rights, climate action, the environment, te Tiriti, poverty and homelessness, peace and social justice. Our issues are connected, but our voices are not.…
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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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Reprinted with permission from Millenialposse. Prime Minister John Key is making international headlines for all the wrong reasons again. In a recent Radio New Zealand interview he shamed low waged workers, calling them, “drug addicts” and describing them as being “lazy.” Okay, I am one of…
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More good stuff from the ESRA launch in Wellington last week. “If indigenous people were given a space to be able to think about what system would work for them, I don’t think that would look like capitalism” https://youtu.be/0jDbBJb8WrM Find out more at the ESRA…
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You can sign the Open Letter here. Dear New Zealand Rugby management and board members, Right now, thousands of New Zealanders are questioning the culture of our country’s favourite sport and those in charge of it. We are writing to you publicly in the hope…
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If you haven't signed already, help get the petition to 45,000 signatures. SIGN THE PETITION: "For the sake of our rivers, our land, our climate and farmers, I call on you to cancel any further plans to fund industrial scale irrigation." Industrial dairying is failing.…
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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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Rugby NZ's entirely predictably whitewash of the Chief's rugby team's abuse of a sex worker at a post season party means that the game's culture of violence prevails. The rugby hierarchy have exonerated the players involved in the abuse, but bizarrely censured players who weren't…
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Already number 4 for housing unaffordability in the OECD, we're now number 1 for house price rises, beating out 55 other nations! You may not feel rich, but you literally have to be a millionaire1 to get an average Auckland house. Some may even move…
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A presentation by Nick Srnicek at the launch of ESRA in Wellington last week. Some people have already passed judgement on New Zealand's new leftwing think-tank, but see for yourself. “Neoliberalism is dead, and we have an opening to produce something new. We have the…
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A Tory think tank in Britain is proposing their government set up building 75,000 houses per year for the low-paid, with them paying a 'Living Rent'. A Living Rent would be no more than 1/3 the average low wage in the area. The UK have a less-well…
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It may have been brief and passing but yesterday National lost control of Parliament. And it was all their own fault. Two days ago the out of control Nick Smith introduced a bill to do two things, extend the special housing area provisions by a…
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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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Is there a racist element to global warming? Well, if you consider that the majority of accumulated emissions come from nations of richer 'whiter' peoples and that the impacts of climate change will hit nations of poorer 'non-white' peoples hardest, then yes. And so it…
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A Trump win for the Presidency would be one of the most powerful global signals to re-state white racial superiority that the world has seen in many decades. Let's start with the kind of political party a Trump election would encourage in the United States.…
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Despite the large number of people with terrible stories about homelessness to the Labour/Greens/Maori1 Homelessness Inquiry, this Government of Housing Inaction still thinks the problem should be ignored and the Inquiry 'not needed'. Some horrific stories including of burnt out social workers ("I liken it…
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Radio NZ are hosting the first big head to head debate for Auckland mayoral candidates. Hosted by Morning Report's Guyon Espiner at 8am, it features eventual winner Phil Goff and also rans Vic Crone, previous mayoral runner-up John Palino, and local board member Mark Thomas.…
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Capital Coast DHB candidate Eileen Brown chairs the Newtown Union Health Service Board, a primary care service for people on low incomes. For the last 10 years, Eileen has worked for the Council of Trade Unions as a senior policy analyst; previously she worked in…
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