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Open Mike 28/10/2017
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Strewth, Aussie Government loses majority
This will teach the LibNats to attack Jacinda and Labour. Deputy Prime Minister Baranaby Joyce, who had been nominated for the kiwi of the year award, has been declared ineligible to be elected to the Australian Parliament because he is a kiwi. And so his…
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oh fuck
Surface air and sea temperatures of today's global warming are typically compared to past global temperatures, and the comparison is then used to judge how severe current warming is. The commonly held view is that 100 million years ago, the world's oceans were about 15…
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Overseas land sales, Landcorp land sales, and the environment
Stuff are reporting that Jericho Station near Te Anau in Southland is being sold by Landcorp. An offer had been accepted from an overseas investor while an offer from a Southlander has been rejected even though it was only around $200,000 less. The bid is…
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No Right Turn: Here’s hoping
Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn writes: _____________________________________________________________ Back in May, National, ACT and United Future got together to vote down Jan Logie's Equal Pay Amendment Bill. The bill would have provided greater information and transparency around gender and pay, allowing discrimination to be uncovered and…
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Open Mike 27/10/2017
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Daily Review 26/10/2017
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Who are the most influential in Wellington now?
If you wanted to get stuff done, who would get it done for you? I'm not going to cover them all of course, but here's a few highlights in both winners and losers. RISING Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet In this first half of…
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Spare a thought for Steven Joyce
Spare a thought for the intellectual titan that is Steven Joyce. He is getting something of a bad rap lately ... Yesterday the High Court ruled that National's use of a piece of music for its 2014 election campaign described as being "eminem esque" was…
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Loans to feed kids are income and disqualify benefit, says MSD
Cross-posted with permission, this post is by Barrister and journalist Catriona MacLennan. _________________________________________________________________ Beneficiaries who borrow money to feed their children should have their benefits cut but those who borrow to buy shares should be entitled to benefit support, according to the Ministry of Social Development. The Auckland…
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Critiquing A Modest National Party Proposal
There's been a lot of noise about how "unfair" it is to National for them to win a plurality of the party vote in this election, but not have succeeded in forming a government, necessitating some other pretty interesting smackdowns of that meme. I'm not…
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Open Mike 26/10/2017
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Daily Review 25/10/2017
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The Great Australian Bight honest Government ad
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National loses itself
National's week from hell just got worse. The High Court has declared that it effectively ripped off Eminem's song Lose yourself for its 2014 campaign ad. From the start it seemed to me that National had overstepped the mark. Here is something I wrote in…
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An Introduction: Matthew Whitehead
While others step back, new faces will step forward. I'm Matthew Whitehead, and have been contributing guest posts for a while courtesy of our friend Weka, and was recently extended an invitation to contribute more directly here at the Standard, and I thought it would…
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The new cabinet
Portfolios are listed in the left-hand column. Other responsibilities assigned by the Prime Minister are listed in the right-hand column. CABINET MINISTERS Portfolios Other responsibilities 1 Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister for National Security and Intelligence Minister for Child…
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Better roads rather than fighting to maintain them against trucks.
For me, the vivid image of pigs rooting around in a trough of food is the image that comes to mind every time I hear the powerful trucking lobby group speak. Their ex-Act MP head put out a press statement yesterday, as reported by Politik's…
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Begone, capitalism! You don’t own me
This is a long post that undoubtedly contains many errors and misconception on my behalf; it is my rant against what I see as the single biggest problem of our time: capitalism. My aim is for each and all of us (realistically: some of us)…
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Say goodbye to roads of national significance
One of the most appalling wasteful destructive things that National did when it was in power was to invest in so called roads of national significance. They were huge boondoggles, kept the base happy, provided high quality ribbon cutting opportunities, gave the impression that the…
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Open Mike 25/10/2017
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Daily Review 24/10/2017
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Labour Green confidence and supply agreement released
The text of the agreement is available here. The policy programme is: Sustainable Economy 1. Adopt and make progress towards the goal of a Net Zero Emissions Economy by 2050, with a particular focus on policy development and initiatives in transport and urban form, energy…
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Labour – NZFirst deal details announced
From the Herald: NZF coalition agreement with Labour, at a glance: • Regional development: A $1 billion per year Regional Development (Provincial Growth) Fund • Rail: Significant investment in regional rail. • Forestry: Re-establish the New Zealand Forestry Service, and planting 100 million trees per year in a Billion Trees Planting…
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The new cabinet
Details are slowly emerging about the makeup of the next Cabinet. From the Herald: Winston Peters is set to become Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the new Labour-New Zealand First coalition government. He is set to be named as Deputy Prime Minister on…
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A Sugar Coated World
According to this study carried out over a 27 year period on nature reserves in Germany, the volume of flying insects in summer has plummeted by about 80%. Quite a few articles of late have made the observation that the days of the car windscreen…
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Open Mike 24/10/2017
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Reflections of a retired blogger
Time for me to step down as a writer here. I’ve been doing it too long, and through some pretty bleak times. But now we have a new government, and that should bring a new wave of energy and engagement. It’s good time to make…
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The mess that the new government inherits
This post is too long to read. Its purpose is to serve as reference material, a "one stop" snapshot of where we are as a country. The mess that the new government inherits. The consequences of the nine long wasted years of National. The magnitude…
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Labour Day
We’ve written a bit about Labour Day over the years - see the archives for the origins, history, and importance of the day. Enjoying your weekend? Thank a unionist! Labour Day is extra sweet this year. Check out Labour's workplace relations policy page: Backing fair…