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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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Safeguard magazine recently wanted to know more about which values properly embed health and safety in the workplace. They put it to us that "the necessary precondition for genuine worker involvement in health and safety is trust". Sure, I thought, trust is important. But trust…
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Keep it seemly.
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Time has named "The Silence Breakers," their term for members of the #MeToo campaign and other people breaking the silence about sexual abuse and assault, as its people of the year. This is an incredibly welcome change from last year's neo-nazi of the year, President…
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Projections for future levels of warming are calculated from “best guess” estimates around climate sensitivity. Climate sensitivity rests on some complex stuff, such as how changing cloud cover might affect the dynamics of warming. In essence, the lower that climate sensitivity is taken to be,…
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If you ask a Primary School teacher what has been the most retrograde step the last Government took in the education sector it would be National Standards. It sounded great. Instant ranking of your kid amongst their peers so you would know if they were…
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Donald Trump is expected to announce today that the US embassy will be moved at some stage from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and that the US of A recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. From the New York Times: President Trump plans to recognize…
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Surprise surprise - Bill English is still whining that that 44.4% should really be counted as 50.1% - https://twitter.com/NewshubPolitics/status/938164185669672960 Comments on that tweet are blunt - "He’s gutted he can’t round his way up to a majority. What a tosspot". "Breaking: Opposition Leader Does Not…
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George Monbiot is an informed, fearless and independent journalist. This is what he has written recently about climate change. Which of these would you name as the world’s most pressing environmental issue? Climate breakdown, air pollution, water loss, plastic waste or urban expansion? My answer…
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Ok, so I know I’m rather late to the party on this but I figured that equality is timeless and it would be a pity to resist using this bully pulpit I have access to now as a vehicle to advance my pet topics. So…
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Cross-posted from blog.greens.org.nz, Green MP Gareth Hughes writes: _________________________________________________________________________________ I was really looking forward to playing the new Star Wars: Battlefront 2 game. It looked pretty cool and I liked the first instalment. But when I checked out the reviews online, nobody was talking about the…
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Free study for everyone from next year, for first year. No age restrictions. Apprentices get two years free. 80,000 people starting off a new life, aiming for higher productivity. Prime Minister Ardern, launching it at Aotea College, said to the 500-odd students in the assembly:…
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I would have loved to have been watching the face of Peter Dutton as this happened. Although like Supreme Court decisions not going his way he probably will choose to ignore the advice. Because the Australian Parliament voted to accept New Zealand's offer to take…
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