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Despite their bootcamp policy being a complete failure, National are going to send our most "hardened" youth offenders to the Army to be trained up. If that fails, they'll send them to adult prisons to learn their craft better. How does this make any sense?…
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This is a subject I feel I am able to comment on with some authority. I have worked in the Youth Court as a lawyer representing young people since its inception in 1989. The Government is planning a good old fashioned lock them up and…
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https://twitter.com/ColmarBruntonNZ/status/896477503786582016 https://twitter.com/ColmarBruntonNZ/status/896483977149661184
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There's an interesting piece by Peter Griffin over at Sciblogs on various parties' positions on science in NZ. Well worth a read, I'll quote just the Labour section: The political parties and where they stand on science ... Dr Megan Woods, Labour MP for Wigram,…
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The Green Party is about to relaunch its election campaign. There will be a post up by 1.30pm for the livestream. In the meantime I'd like to get this out of the way. The Greens are an enigma for some, and this is understandable because they…
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The Greens are spending the weekend resetting their election campaign. Now more than ever, we need a green heart in government to tackle climate change, restore our rivers and end poverty. Campaign Relaunch, Sunday 1.30pm via FB live. Tune in! #Green2017 EDIT: Livestream link (Facebook).…
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Donald Trump may not know much about the last time the United States Air Force unleashed fire and fury over North Korea. The Koreans certainly remember it. In the later stages of the Korean war in the 1950s, unchallenged B-29s used bombs and napalm to…
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Great (Aussie) video on the gender pay gap... [twitter_video id="895540259642986497"]
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A week of action on equal pay starts today – there are events all around the country. We’d love to see you there Watching the Minister for Workplace Relations, Michael Woodhouse, introduce the Employment (Pay Equity and Equal Pay) Bill, it struck me that the…
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This article by Janey Stephenson is cross posted from opendemocracy.net (hat tip Bronwyn Hayward). ________________________________________________________________________ The unexpected, spontaneous and pleasantly disruptive nature of collective celebration is one of the great equalisers of social and political struggle. Credit: Sisters Uncut/Jade Jackman. All rights reserved. When you hear the…
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https://twitter.com/dylanhorrocks/status/895760021455228928 This is the original black & white art for page 152 of Dylan Horrocks's graphic novel Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen (published 2014, nominated for an Eisner Award). In this sequence, the main characters find themselves inside the land of Cockaygne, an imaginary…
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Newshub reports a surge in nominations for Metiria to be the New Zealander of the Year. I just love this idea and would encourage others to nominate her too. So even if she's forced out of parliament (I don't say politics, I'm sure she'll still…
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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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I confess that I haven't paid much attention to James Shaw before, but I have been very impressed with him during recent events. He stood by Metiria Turei completely, never wavered, never blinked. He acted decisively on the two dissenting MPs. He has assumed sole…
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First up, poverty isn't a choice. Poverty is a deliberate and predictable systemic effect of liberal capitalism. Second up, ending poverty isn't about providing opportunities. Ending poverty is about governments channelling back to people what the market has taken away. Those are the facts, and…
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Here's a reckon for you. NZF will fall below 5% this election. Winston is swanning about the place still making bold claims, but the latest UMR poll has NZF support cut in half, from 16 percent down to 8. I think as Labour gains strength…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlsEeZXp7C4 An excellent account of her time as the longest serving woman MP in the NZ parliament. (need to skip the first couple of minutes while everyone gets seated ready)
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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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Dear TVNZ, Please replace Mike Hosking as the host for the upcoming election debates on August 31, September 14 and September 20. Hosking is well known for his aggressively right wing views in his segments as a political commentator. As such, Hosking cannot be trusted…
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https://twitter.com/NZStuffPolitics/status/895419951065976833 https://twitter.com/richardhills777/status/895417089585958912
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Just one of many apologies he should be making: Patrick Gower apologises for claiming poll result drove Metiria Turei to quit Newshub political editor Patrick Gower has apologised to Green Party leader James Shaw for suggesting a bad poll result drove his co-leader to quit.…
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We will not forget the thousands of you who came to us with your stories of hardship. https://www.facebook.com/maramadavidsonmp/videos/509111416091996/ edit - (If the video in this post isn't visible to you here is a direct link to FB of Marama Davidson's kōrero from last night).
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If Jacinda Ardern's Labour can get a jump to 33-36% in the polls in just one week, how high can it go for the election? Political commentators are picking over 40%. We need to see further gains coming from National. Jacinda Ardern is the charasmatic…
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Lots of big stuff going on at the moment, but other stories are significant too. The extent of the coverage of this blunder will be worrying the Nats - National's Paul Goldsmith accused of blaming Indians for housing crisis National Party MP Paul Goldsmith has…
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If you want to know why the right is farting so much personal smoke, why David Farrar appears to now be panicking over at Kiwiblog, and why our old trolls appear to have suddenly awoken from their somnolent state at the sewer and started re-appearing…
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Newshub's poll has Labour up to 33% and Jacinda Ardern neck and neck with English in the preferred PM question. The Herald has also leaked a second poll ending today: The Herald can also exclusively report leaked results from the latest UMR poll, which finished…
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