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From Newshub: A company that supplies products for a number of popular advertorial brands is facing increased pressure to budge on work hours and pay, after workers launched their third strike in five days. Employees at the distribution centre of Brand Developers TV Shop, which…
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Don't get me wrong, I love idealists. I like boosters who tell me it's not as bad for Progressives as things may appear. Utopians. Happy people. Party campaigners. Change the country. Win the battles. Love them all. And then after we've finished campaigning in poetry,…
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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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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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Junior doctors are planning strike action as they fight for safer rosters: Junior doctors who voted to go on strike say they have no choice, because the exhaustion caused by long working hours is putting patient safety at risk. And they're facing bullying and threats…
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Press release from the Labour Party website. Labour, the Green Party and the Māori Party are calling on the Government to immediately adopt the 20 recommendations set out in today’s Ending Homelessness in New Zealand report. This morning, the Cross-Party Inquiry into Homelessness has released…
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Guyon Espiner wrote this interesting recent article in the Listener. The article was written before Justin Lester bet Nick Leggett for the Wellington Mayoralty and reads like a promo piece written by a Leggett publicist. In it Espiner talked about the utopians and pragmatists. Amongst the ranks…
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October 8 – 10th is four International Days of Prayer and Action with Standing Rock on stepping up as Protectors of Water. Background and ways to take part are outlined here. This post is in support of that. Two articles on community at Standing Rock. "This is how we should…
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The second of three Presidential debates kicks off at 2PM NZ time. The format is different this time, it's more of a town hall style meeting with a combination of set questions from the moderators (ABC's Martha Raddatz and CNN's Anderson Cooper) and random impertinences…
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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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As a professional computer programmer and someone who has been involved in politics for decades, I'm always amazed at fools like this idiot Malcolm Alexander talking about something that they clearly don't understand the technicalities of. Local Government New Zealand chief executive Malcolm Alexander said it was…
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Final results are still pending but already it is clear that the local government elections are very good for Labour and horrendous for National. In Auckland the Auckland Future team failed to fire spectacularly. The team had problems from the start. Selecting a candidate who…
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October 8 – 10th is four International Days of Prayer and Action with Standing Rock on stepping up as Protectors of Water. Background and ways to take part are outlined here. This post is in support of that. In following what is happening at Standing Rock, one of the things…
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The following is a Guest Post from Robert Guyton and is part of a series appearing over 12 Sundays. Other parts can be seen here. Robert is a sustainability pioneer who along with his family grows the oldest food forest in NZ. A long time organic gardener, permaculturist and heritage…
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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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It is inconceiveable that Americans would consider voting for a violent sociopath like Donald J Trump as President of the United States. The sheer physical violence that Trump exhibits in this clip where he, totally unprovoked, attacks an unsuspecting and defenceless bystander, his willingness to…
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A running post for people to comment on local government election results as they come in. Expect results to come in from 1 pm. Edit: live results on Stuff as they arrive.
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It looks very much like Donald Trump's run at the White House is over. In the fortnight since he was demolished in the first Presidential debate Trump polling has dropped and his rhetoric has flopped. Women, non white and independent voters are flocking to Clinton…
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October 8 – 10th is four International Days of Prayer and Action with Standing Rock on stepping up as Protectors of Water. Background and ways to take part are outlined here. This post is in support of that. Choose Clean Water and Action Station are…
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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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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 neoliberal approach to the privatisation of services that should be performed by the state is well known. First of all get the Government to starve the state institution of resources so that it performs its role poorly. Then make a flashy offer which loses…
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Originally posted at Boots Theory. I know how you feel, team. It's year 8 of a National/ACT government and things are looking pretty bleak. And it's really, really easy to spin down into a spiral of bleakness and anxiety. It's because we care. Because we…
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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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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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Standing Rock is an occupying protest at a proposed oil pipeline crossing native lands and putting the Missouri catchment at risk. It is organised by the water protectors of the Dakota Sioux. See here, here, and here for background. This more than a local water issue,…
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A boat on which Green MP Marama Davidson was a passenger of, bound for Gaza has been intercepted by the Israeli navy. From Radio New Zealand: The yacht sailed by a dozen women was intercepted by the Israeli Defence Forces and was being towed to…
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Labour Party Senior Vice President candidate Eva Hartshorn-Sanders will be holding a meet the candidate event at Galbraith's Alehouse between 5:30 and 7:30 tonight. SVP plays a very important role in the party, so it's well worth checking out the candidates if you get the…
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Over the weekend, some good friends of mine had their house go to auction, and it went for well over $2 million. Foreign Chinese buyer, and welcome to the neighbourhood. This in a suburb where that price hadn’t happened before. A day earlier, the Chinese…
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