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A really thoughtful profile of one of New Zealand's new Labour mayors at Noted/The Listener. Why Wellington? “I grew up in Invercargill and hadn’t really left the South Island. We were playing a football tournament in Napier and we came in via Wellington and I…
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Best wishes to all those coping with the floods up north. To state the bleeding obvious, events like this fit a classic climate change pattern, and we can expect more of them. Climate change is here, now. The current floods have showed up real weaknesses…
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We sometimes put comments up as guest posts. Here is another example, from WILD KATIPO in yesterday's open mike: Tenants pay $200-plus to share ‘slum’ with rats – Business – NZ Herald … For sale: the $5m slum Steve Braunias wanders through the grim ……
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A good interview with Andrew Little on The Nation: Lisa Owen talks to Labour leader Andrew Little about his superannuation policy, housing, and how he plans to win the election. Lisa Owen: Can we really afford to pay super to everyone over the age of…
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In a fascinating development Christchurch City Councillor Raf Manji has announced that he will be contesting the seat of Ilam against Christchurch Rebuild Minister Gerry Brownlee in the 2017 election. The seat is and always has been a National stronghold and has been won by…
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What a farce: Fourth group quits water forum Another group that promotes improving water quality has resigned from the government's Land and Water Forum. The Federated Mountain Clubs, which has 20,000 members, has written to the Environment Minister Nick Smith saying it is pulling out.…
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The Māori Party, who purport to be the party for all things Māori, has sunk to a new low this week and Māori voters should take notice. Kingi Tuheitia came out and endorsed the new candidate for the Māori Party, Rahui Papa in the seat…
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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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Remember how the move of Nick Leggett to National was supposed to be some big disaster for Labour? Turns out not so much - Former Mayor Nick Leggett won't run for Parliament Former Porirua Mayor Nick Leggett will no longer seek nomination from the National…
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Good policy from TOP: Ban on fossil fuel subsidies in Morgan party climate change policy Gareth Morgan's The Opportunities Party would ban subsidies on fossil fuels, increase the price of carbon and overhaul energy efficiency efforts under a climate change policy launched this evening. The…
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A couple of racist groups seem to be hawking their wares recently (summarised in the tweets below). https://twitter.com/NZStuffPolitics/status/839752755740733441 https://twitter.com/CherylBernstein/status/839546714327392256 Unfortunately this may herald the start of a dirty election, dragged down by well funded and unaccountable pressure groups (remember the Exclusive Brethren attack on the…
accountability democracy under attack democratic participation election 2017
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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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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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A new group has been formed to protest under-funding in the health system: Health workers, patients protest chronic health 'underfunding' More than 500 Canterbury patients and health workers have shared their experiences of New Zealand's health system to show it has been chronically underfunded for…
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As we know English has been letting rip with the insults, calling Kiwi workers pretty damned hopeless, and claiming they are too drugged to get jobs. Voters - who needs them! Now other political parties are getting the same treatment. Super reaction shows 'brittle, backward-looking'…
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And we have an early contender. It will be difficult to beat this effort. Yesterday, on International Women's day ACT leader David Seymour chose to question what Metiria Turei was wearing. Apparently her T shirt may have had a slogan on it. Seymour choosing to complain…
Metiria Turei Politics the praiseworthy and the pitiful you couldn't make this shit up
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Text of a speech given today by feminist icon Sandra Coney Greetings on this International Women’s Day, a day when we should celebrate the progress of women, but also think about the tasks that are still unfinished and need to be addressed. I have very…
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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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Our supposedly healthy economy is an illusion propped up my immigration and debt. Government debt is at record levels. Household debt has been far too high for far too long. The IMF is warning [the piece has been edited since this note]: High NZ household…
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So the CIA accesses phones and TVs and laptops. And the CIA has been passing its code (more than is used to run facebook) onto private contractors. It's staggering just how far into so many lives the grubby fingers of the CIA can slime. There…
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Bill English's new super plan falls between 2 stools. The super cost crisis that he's trying to summon up, is before 2040 if it exists. The solution was most probably continuing to pay into the Cullen Fund, which English suspended paying into in 2009 to pay…
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Yesterday Paula Bennett engaged in a bit of grandstanding: Call to action on closing the Gender Pay Gap. It's a bit hollow after eight long years. It's a bit hollow after the Nats abolished the Department of Labour’s Pay and Employment Equity Unit. It's a…
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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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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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https://twitter.com/AndrewLittleMP/status/838860944780341248 https://twitter.com/nzlabour/status/838863335110012928 https://twitter.com/TrevorMallard/status/838862835996241920
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The crisis around English's amateur-hour handling of the super announcement is an opportunity for Judith Collins. Pretty much the last one, after this it will be too late to change leaders before the election. The Collins surrogate blog is raining down the hate on English,…
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Sometimes your best friends have to tell you straight. Click through to see Hosking rip English apart: Other coverage: Rachel Smalley: National made a bungle of announcing plan to lift retirement age English's Super policy may not survive election Claire Trevett: Winston Peters was right…