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Yesterday Phil Twyford debated Amy Adams on the housing crisis (transcript, video). Take home message: Nats alone in denying housing crisis - Twyford The Salvation Army says we've got "the worst homelessness in living memory", but the Government is still refusing to call it a…
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Labour rising, National falling in the latest poll: Labour's polling closes gap on National The Labour Party will hold its campaign launch today with its own poll putting it just three points adrift of National - and bringing heartening news for Labour's potential support partner…
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A few weeks ago we had a post dedicated to left-wing discussion. It went well so I thought we'd try another. The rules are: – To comment you have to be left wing. – No personal attacks at all (not even if they are hidden in…
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Godwin's Law asserts that, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” In the wake of Charlottesville Mike Godwin was approached for his view on usage of the Godwin's Law. He was asked, 'Mr. Godwin, pardon…
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This is a re-post from 2013. Unfortunately the need to talk about poverty is even greater now. Right wing excuses reasons, for not doing anything about children in poverty. 1. “It costs too much”. 2. “Taxation is theft”. 3. “They are not as poor…
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Steve Bannon is gone from his position as White House Chief Strategist. He joins a whole parade of people who have been hired and shortly thereafter fired or who resigned before they were pushed. People like the following: Michael Flynn, former national security adviser, fired…
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https://twitter.com/katieabradford/status/898695431433080832 The National Party just tried to casually bribe Dunedin voters and got chased out of town instead by women in pink hats. If that's not a potent symbol of the end of National's government I don't know what is. Video is here. Local women…
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Jacinda Ardern in person. Billboard posters across central Auckland. This Sunday 20th of August, 1pm. This is the moment for you all to come down from the Far North, from Kaitaiai and Whangarei, from Dargaville, come up from Morrinsville, from Raglan, from Hamilton and Thames,…
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Yesterday was the MSM going hard on how the Greens were doomed. They must have missed this from Jacinda Ardern, James Shaw says the Greens hit rock bottom in Thursday night's shock poll but he thinks they can climb out of the hole they're in.…
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' In a stunning display of cynical politics, the sort only National can do so well, Paula Bennett announced yesterday that now is the time for her government to "own" the conversation on environmental isues. If Bennett is suggesting that National "own" the conversation on…
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I arrived in NZ in 1989 emigrating from Holland and quickly fell in love with the NZ way of live and I fell in love with a kiwi. More than 25 years later I’m still married to that same kiwi, and we have a son…
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As expected - Government faces legal action over Afghan civilian deaths The Kiwi lawyers representing Afghan villagers at the centre of claims New Zealand SAS troops killed civilians in 2010 have filed proceedings against the Government in the Wellington High Court. Top lawyers Deborah Manning,…
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Labour has really hit the ground running. These are messages to vote for:
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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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Cross posted from lemattjuste.wordpress.com There has been some discussion on Twitter recently about how to describe what happens if the Greens don’t clear the 5% threshold, which is beginning to look like a real possibility and not just right-wing trolling. To illustrate this, I’m going to…
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https://twitter.com/1NewsNZ/status/898372235689205760 https://twitter.com/katieabradford/status/898339075941294085
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Early days I know but barring a disaster it looks like Labour is going to have a fresh surge of talent make their way into Parliament soon. I am sure the Greens will bounce back from their current polling. I thought that Matthew Hooton and…
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Last night's 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton poll confirmed Labour's momentum and, crucially, showed a fall for National. Jacinda Ardern and Bill English are tied as preferred PM. It's anyone's election. What Jacinda Ardern has accomplished here is nothing short of astonishing. As a one-off bump…
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Marama Davidson has been doing the mahi on helping people enrol to vote in the 2017 General Election. https://twitter.com/MaramaDavidson/status/895794030218321920 She wrote on FB recently, Today I spoke to people waiting in the long lines outside of both the Manurewa and the Clendon offices of Work…
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Green Party press release: Greens commit to Tauranga – Hamilton – Auckland passenger rail service Julie-Anne Genter MP on Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 07:48 The Green Party today announced that it will trial a passenger rail service between Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga starting in…
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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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With the current dialog about welfare, It is time to look at the people who are the real beneficiaries, of the welfare system. Who use the educated and healthy workforce, the safe environment and the functioning infrastructure, our taxes and work, provides. The people who…
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In the wake of devastating earthquakes in Canterbury, National's treatment of mental health needs in the region has been absolutely shameful. Headlines like these are far too common: Christchurch's mental health crisis Canterbury's mental health funding to be cut Chch mental health cuts 'put lives…
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Are Government-business “Think Tanks” worthwhile? The Trump Presidency’s American Manufacturing Council and its Strategic Policy Forum have, as of this week, been abruptly disbanded by the President. Both of them were a collection of chief executives and financiers of some of the largest and most…
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Expect plenty of Nat boasting on "the economy" in the election campaign. They'll be desperate to hide the inconvenient fact that ordinary workers are going backwards. There's a lot of detail in this excellent piece: Brian Fallow: Something is missing in Govt success story ...…
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The Spinoff has an interesting piece by Nicky Hager: Sunlight did what sunlight does: Nicky Hager on Dirty Politics, three years on Three long years ago, during the last election campaign, the book Dirty Politics revealed a political dirty tricks campaign being run out of…
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