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https://twitter.com/ColeyTangerina/status/940152703992262657 Support ALRANZ's social media campaign for Saturday by sharing the message via Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr here. On 16 December 1977, the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act received assent. Its main purpose was to grudgingly permit abortions, but only in some circumstances. Forty years on,…
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It’s great to see Chris Hipkins abolishing ‘National Standards’ as a matter of priority. This policy was nothing but an unfortunate bit of populism from the previous government, and a Prime Minister in John Key who specialised in band-aid solutions to problems that required stitches. While…
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There is a fascinating electoral contest in the US of A today in Alabama where a rootin tootin child molesterin former District Attorney Roy Moore is seeking the seat as a Republican candidate. He is up against Doug Jones who is the Democrat nominee and…
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It is going to be a long three years plus if this keeps up. The Herald has suggested in this article the author has not put their name to that Jacinda Ardern is a Marxist, but the logic used is sadly lacking. The evidence that our…
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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 wrote this post back in March, the week Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson published Hit and Run, and FJK left parliament. It didn't get published for a number of reasons, but now seems an opportune moment. _______________________________________________________ I know there is a convention for parliamentarians…
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It was one year ago today that John Key formally resigned as Prime Minister.
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An in-depth piece from Newsroom: We know the seas are rising, yet we’re still building large developments within a few metres of present-day sea levels. The tough decisions faced by one coastal council illustrate the struggles going on around New Zealand, report Eloise Gibson and…
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MMP elections are always tight. It normally boils down to a couple of seats. In 2005 for instance when Labour won perhaps its most outstanding election victory a coalition of the unwilling could still have formed a new government. If the Greens or New Zealand…
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Last Friday, China’s foreign ministry in Beijing issued the strongest rebuke yet of the Australian Prime Minister’s view that Chinese interference was the justification for its tough new security laws. "This kind of statement caters to the irresponsible reports by the Australian media that are biased…
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In doing my media rounds today, I noticed that there has recently been a UK Freedom of Information request that revealed that 40% of council houses1 sold under Thatcher's "Right To Buy" policy have now made their way into the hands of landlords who are…
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https://twitter.com/WeBeneficiaries/status/939020011800117249 From the Give a Little page: We need your help to cover the costs of printing the report, and travel to Wellington (from Auckland). We are a group of artists continuing the conversation Metiria Turei started when she was an MP about the social…
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Rebecca Solnit has a piece in the Guardian on how #MeToo is being hi-jacked for political ends by “people who don’t understand it and by people who oppose it. [and] against people who are feminists and allies". Was this not predictable? Wasn't the fact that liberal…
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One of the worst consequences of nine long years of National rule presented by that well known left wing periodical the Financial Times.
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The latest Colmar Brunton poll has been released and there has been little movement since the election. The figures are Labour 39%, National 46%, Greens 7% and NZ First 5%. Improvements for the major parties have been at the expense of minor parties and New…
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This was one of those news articles (The Independent)...yeah, I don't even really know how to begin unpacking it. I've done a quick check on Kim Sengupta, (the author of the article) and they don't seem to be given to penning complete bullshit for The…
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And with a late run Bill English clinches the award with his incredibly uncaring indifferent statements today regarding the housing crisis. From Stuff: Bill English has denied leaving Labour in the lurch, saying the housing shortage and prison overcrowding are nothing new. Lisa Owen questioned…
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Politics and economies It’s interesting in 2017 how little effect political destabilisation in Spain, Australia, Germany, and the United States has had on any of their economies. It seems that in many parts of the developed world, we may well continue to see political fragmentation,…
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Voltairine De Cleyre was born in 1866 in the town of Leslie, Michigan, and died in 1912 at the age of 45. She was...remarkable. And then she was forgotten. This post is a bit different to “The Standard's” normal posts. The intention is to generate…
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One of the stupidest most inhumane things the last Government did was to develop a tough on tenants policy regarding methamphetamine. Not on cooks, but on people living in flats where minuscule traces of methamphetamine were found. They were summarily evicted. Bad enough that proof…
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https://twitter.com/NewshubPolitics/status/938268289490227200 That's an opinion piece from Lloyd Burr, where he is trying to make out that the Green Party has changed its welfare policy. It hasn't. https://twitter.com/Megapope/status/938344614032838656 Burr quotes James Shaw, Our policy is what the Government's policy is. So now we're in Government, we…
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