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In a land far away and governed by (according to some Labour Party sources) a party wedded to austerity... Any tenancy that starts on or after 1 December 2017 will be a private residential tenancy. This new tenancy will replace the assured and short assured…
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Marama Davidson in parliament this week gave a speech about the central role that women play in their communities. Our role in Government is to protect and support the work that these grassroots influential women are doing. Our role is not to continue to create…
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Early on president Donald Trump was the subject of a number of posts such was the shock and awe at how bad and dangerous a president he was. Then the frequency of posts died down as the novelty wore off. Others have religiously documented everything…
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via Scoop: _______________________________________________________ Thursday, 30 November 2017, 6:25 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government Healthy Homes a milestone for New Zealand Every New Zealander deserves a warm, healthy home to live in, and the Health Homes Guarantee Act will help ensure that, said Minister 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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‘It’s less fuss, take a bus’ is a tagline for public transport campaigns from Hamilton to Northampton. And it’s true, buses, trains and ferries are not only better for the environment, if run well they are cheaper and faster than being jammed in motorway gridlock…
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The best way to restore faith in the idea of a good state doing good for the country is to deliver on your promises. With the six-month fiscal update coming on Friday (remember that $4.1b surplus?), we need a summary. 1. Make the first year…
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Hi. I’m Enzo (yes that’s my real name) and I write for The Standard now. Just thought I should introduce myself and tell you a little bit about my background – so hopefully it doesn’t become A THING. No, I have not defended war criminals…
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Doncha love the media and the right's ability to throw them tidbits and getting some of them barking and howling and chasing cars? When more important stories involving serious journalism are somehow put into the background mainly because the stories are complex and cannot fit…
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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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It appears that Steven Joyce's claim of a multi billion dollar hole in the Government's finances may have been true after all. Just that it was $14 billion in health spending. And $20 billion in defence. And it was in National's own forecasts. From Politik:…
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One thing that always disappoints me in NZ is the complete stupidity of who our local media consider are 'left' or 'labour' commentators. They are, almost without exception, just outright strange and weird relics of left behind history framing their commentary in terms of long…
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I generally like being a New Zealander, but fuck we're an embarrassment sometimes. In the last 24 hours a national debate has broken out about whether war criminals on trial should have legal representation. Micky has covered the basics of the beat up story here. Yes, NZ is still…
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Maybe you jump in the car to pop down to the dairy, or round to the supermarket, or whatever. It's inconsequential and yes, you care about global warming. So, let's assume the total trip there and back amounts to 5 km of driving. No big…
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It is going to be a long three years if the events of the past 24 hours are anything to go by. The right have leapt into shock horror mode and proclaimed that SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT IN VERY LOUD VOICES because former Criminal lawyer…
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Form a committee, form a committee. That’s the standard answer we now have to any tax issue arising in New Zealand, because that is what this government has stated. Tax cuts are good. That’s the standard answer we get from National. It’s a resoundingly simple…
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If you wanted to see a clear example of sport and class then the last weekend provided the perfect example. On one side was the Tongan Rugby League team whose ranks included talented professionals who chose to give up well paid gigs and potential big…
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Don Brash has emerged from his crypt once again to tackle the greatest problem facing New Zealand today (in his strange little world) – ‘Maori privilege’. Apparently he’s "utterly sick" of the likes of Guyon Espiner speaking Te Reo on air because only “one listener…
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Great to see more and more bad men being taken down with sex scandals, more damaged women standing up for themselves and each other. It’s like a little bit of a catchup for all of the times women were shamed out of the film industry.…
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Her Majesty’s opposition is doing what it said it would do and creating more tension and more pressure in Parliament for the Government. Bill English said it was not National's job to make Parliament run properly and the last week has shown that National is…
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I can't believe we're still relitigating this stuff. Micky provided us a screencap earlier of a letter Nick Smith sent to the Nelson and Tasman areas, claiming that: Election 2017 resulted in an unusual outcome where National won the election[1] but lost the MMP negotiations.…
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