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What will happen to the Standard in these post Jacinda days? What I believe is different this year is we really have a fresh government. Different in content and in tone. I don’t believe we’ve had that context for nearly a decade at The Standard. It’s less…
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People trying to smuggle themselves across borders or seas in shipping containers often die. We know this. And I'm not trying to compare what follows to the deliberate killing of hundreds or thousands of prisoners in Afghanistan by way of "transporting" them in container trucks.…
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Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin discuss women's friendship, sisterhood, equality, and the power of women to change the world. https://twitter.com/weldagirl/status/956970396833611776
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There will be debate amongst the different groupings of the left about how far we can trust this Labour-Green-NZ First Government and will they be a bunch of sellout careerists or will they deliver the sort of society that Micky Savage dreamed of. Policy decisions…
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from the Green Party website James Shaw MP on Friday, January 26, 2018 - 10:39 The Green Party will have a new Female Co-leader by April 9, following the announcement today of an early special election for the position and a truncated campaign period of…
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I've noticed a fair few articles in "The Guardian" over recent months on plastic pollution. It tends to be a numbers and weights game - "x" pieces of plastic in the world's oceans, or more tonnes of plastic than fish in the oceans by some…
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Australia Day (January 26th), like Waitangi Day (February 6th) often divides our countries as much in its silence as anything else. I’m heading to my family reunion in the Far North on the family farm. One of those things where it’s a huge bonfire that…
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Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn writes: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ The government today announced some employment relations reforms, including the restoration of meal breaks and the right to collective bargaining. But they also plan to retain 90 day trial periods for small businesses: The Government will ban 90…
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The long and the short of this linked article (The Independent) is that people have been actively leaving containers of water in the southern Arizona desert that they hope might alleviate the suffering of anyone caught out there in temperatures approaching 50 degrees Celsius. For…
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The Government's changes to employment law have been announced. From the Beehive website: The Government has taken an important step toward creating a high-performing economy that delivers good jobs, decent work conditions and fair wages with a new Bill to amend the Employment Relations Act…
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We may be forgiven for thinking that the main reason we got into the TPP in the first place was to enhance our industrial agricultural interests and diversify our trade and investment relationships. Personally I blame the undemocratic process of its formation for this. For…
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Disabled journalist, writer, feminist, social justice campaigner, and poet Sarah Wilson writes about some of the underlying attitudes in the attack on the PM being pregnant and draws comparisons with how beneficiaries and ill people are treated. Cross posted from writehanded.org _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Amid accusations that our…
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Press release from greens.org.nz James Shaw MP on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 11:06 The Green Party’s position on the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is unchanged, Co-leader James Shaw said today. “We recognise Trade Minister David Parker has made significant progress on some…
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https://twitter.com/wekatweets/status/955944528489279489 Obituary from the New York Times: Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like “The Left Hand of Darkness” and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at…
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It appears that the revised TPPA agreement (now known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement) may be signed in March after Canadian concerns have been satisfied. From Radio New Zealand: The revised Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is to be signed in March, the Trade Minister…
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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 female Prime Minister speaks at Waitangi and it feels surprisingly normal. No one loses their shit during the speeches. The only crime is sunburn. The media show examples of the wars of the 1860s and their impact, just like they have for World War…
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Part of the reason I believe Jacinda is doing so well is there is something really fresh in her approach to issues. Her recent announcement concerning Waitangi is a classic example. Rather than show indifference to Ngāpuhi's justified anger over breaches of the Treaty of…
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From the Facebook events page: As the summer break comes to an end, join Marama and whānau for a special announcement at MIT's Ngā Kete Wānanga Marae in the heart of South Auckland on Sun 4 Feb. Marama Davidson is a Green Party MP and…
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Auckland Council has three, yes three, by elections occurring right now with voting papers to be delivered soon. Two are because Denise Lee and Simeon Brown have been elected as National electorate MPs. The third is because Mark Davey, just elected as an Auckland Future…
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