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Seven of New Zealand's most prominent environmental organisations have written an open letter to the leaders of the four largest political parties, thanking them and reminding them that the electorate now has high expectations of whoever forms government to work seriously on climate, water and…
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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 Nats are desperate to make big concessions for a coalition with the Greens. The establishment is lining up in The Herald to beg for this to happen. So - Nats will strengthen environmental and social policies in order to cling to power - but…
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I just listened to Bill English being interviewed on Radio New Zealand. He disclosed that he had rang Winston Peters personally on the weekend but that Peters had not returned his call. He also talked around and then gave a really weak response to the…
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This Guest Post is by The Standard regular commenter Incognito. __________________________________________________________________________ This post is about the Green Party, mainly ... (1) It is written in a state of puzzlement by opinions I have read from both Left and Right. Opinions that suggest or strongly argue…
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The following partial transcript comes from interviews contained in this, unfortunately rather poorly put together youtube up-load.* For the sake of space, I've linked to the bios of each interviewee where possible. I'll simply comment that the air of fatalism that comes across in the…
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This weekend we have had the full court press as the Herald threw article after article at the preposterous notion that Winston may go into coalition with Labour. First to address what is their primary claim, that the largest party has first claim to forming…
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The election has revealed how, apart from a handful of seats, the party vote is really all that matters. The Labour surge of ten points may have provided it with an extra 13 seats – but they made a net gain of just two electorate…
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Happen Films made this 6 minute short about Wairarapa Eco Farm. It looks at how the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model allows small farmers to step out of the market limits imposed by the agribusiness wholesale model in NZ, and how this fosters sustainable farming…
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Hi, just a quick post about what might be happening inside the National party. We've seen the approach to the Greens in the media via Paula Bennett and commentators have pointed out that this would be good for National as it would do several things…
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You know that old saying about how generals always prepare to fight the last war? That's National and their FPP election campaign. You can see it in their tactics. How they treated their coalition partners. How they attacked Peters and NZF at every opportunity, leaking…
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Matthew Whitehead from lemattjuste.wordpress.com writes from a Green perspective about the whys and why nots of a National/Green deal. ______________________________________________________________________________ So, the usual right-wing suspects are fomenting mischief about a possible National-Greens coalition, and it’s definitely not going away, at least not until Peters announces his decision,…
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It's been a long election and we're currently in political limbo. Writers are taking it easy. Time to revive weekend social? This post is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro,…
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National's one and only strategy this election was lying about Labour, specifically Labour's budget and their tax policy. The $11.7bn hole lie just made the Nats look stupid, but the evidence suggests that the tax lie did real damage. Why are we so angry about…
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We are right in the middle of a balancing point. The New Zealand political order is in a formless and non-functioning state, yet when I walk outside our entire society is functioning as before. It can take a lot for national-level politics to actually affect…
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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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There's been chatter on Twitter, and not so dissimilar talk around my office among 'ordinary' (probably on average right-leaning) people, about why National and the Greens can't get together. Why the Greens can't 'stick to the environment' and get some wins there, as a compromise.…
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Wondering wtf is going on with all this National/Green hooha? Me too. The Greens aren't going to support a National government, so why is there so much push to make it look like it might happen? This popped up on twitter night before last, https://twitter.com/LewSOS/status/912476862571352064…
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If this phrase rings a bell with any of you, it might help save some from the madness they are descending into over who the Greens will go with, will not go with and so on. This was Labour's tagline during the campaign once…
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A significant and positive development late yesterday: Winston Peters hints at backing down over Māori seats The biggest block to a Labour-NZ First coalition could be removed, with Winston Peters hinting at a backdown on a Māori seat referendum. ... The only thing Labour leader…
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Nats and their proxies continue to try and drag the Greens into negotiations with National. The Greens of course say no. I guess Nat types just can't conceive of a party based on principal. A party that exists for something other than the pursuit of…
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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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Those of you who are keen op shoppers will have been following the explosive story of SaveMart employees over the last few weeks. John Campbell on Radio New Zealand first aired the allegations that employees in the New Lynn store were being made to sort…
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If you wanted to know all that is wrong with New Zealand right now recent publicity about Fonterra's boss Theo Spiering's salary provides a perfect example. The boss of the organisation owned by farmers who complained bitterly at how cleaning up our rivers that they…
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