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Two articles featured on Stuff today that, at first sight, have very little in common. The first one was entitled Social media making new police recruits ill-equipped for life on the beat. … Millennial rookies were ill-equipped for encounters with criminals and drunk or drugged…
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Reprinted with permission from the Failed Estate blogsite. With Australians trusting media platforms less than do people in just about every other country, why would you set about dismantling the one institution they trust the most? The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, our 86-year-old taxpayer-funded and constantly beleaguered…
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From Truthdig - The official death toll [as of 28th Sept] stood at 384, with all the fatalities coming in the hard-hit city of Palu, but it was expected to rise once rescuers reached surrounding coastal areas, said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. He…
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Like political junkies throughout the world I watched some of the approval hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday. Blame it on my three decades in law or my confessed left wing bias but I could not help but notice the stark contrast in…
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Here is the full text of her speech. E nga mana nui o nga whenua o te ao Tena koutou katoa Nei ra te reo mihi maioha o Aotearoa Tena tatau i…
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National seems to have a major problem respecting the property rights of music copyright holders. There was the great John Key rip off in 2007 when he put out a DVD that had music that sounded suspiciously like Coldplay's Clocks. There was 2014 when National…
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This is the interesting question being posed by Richard Harman at Politik (paid access). The basis of his claim is that on Monday night Boag texted him seeking Politik's email address. He then received an email from Auckland PR consultant, Julie Landry, who is the…
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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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It looks like National's dirty politics team are at it again. It seems pretty obvious that they were leaked a draft copy of the report into Meka Whaitiri, spent Tuesday claiming that she had caused bruising to the complainant and then overnight leaked to Audrey…
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Beyond the baby photos, this is the content of what Prime Minister Ardern said to the United Nations general Assembly yesterday: Mr Secretary-General, Madam President of the General Assembly, distinguished colleagues. I am honoured to be here to mark the legacy of Nelson Mandela in…
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Is this evidence that National has gone full wingnut conspiracy crazy? Or a cynical exercise in harvesting email addresses? Or both? Whatever the reason National has started a petition against a DOC planned Tahr cull. Here is the tweet: https://twitter.com/NZNationalParty/status/1044720483722158082 What was the dastardly Government…
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It has been an interesting week in Politics. Jacinda Ardern is overseas and she and Neve are wowing the world's media. She is reportedly the first world leader to appear at the United Nations with child in tow. For an organisation that is future focused…
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What can one say. Lets try The Daily Mirror for one of the more considered right opinions... United Nations delegates openly laughed at Donald Trump during his keynote speech to the General Assembly. The humiliating moment came just moments into his big speech in New…
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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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If you wanted an illustration of how the patriachy works to keep female voices from being heard, you'd be hard pressed to go beyond Newshub's reporting of the poisoning scare at Carterton South School. As readers will recall, school children reported a bad smell and…
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So Donald Trump has declared round 13 of the war on drugs. His administration has released this one page global call to action which is as indecipherable as it is short. It does a lot of reaffirming of old commitments then has a few platitudinous…
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The government needs to intervene in the Wellington bus fiasco if doesn’t want its bold metropolitan public transport policy to end in tatters. Of all cities in Aotearoa, Wellington had by far the best public transport system, with a high percentage of commuters using trains…
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I'd have to say that the most dumbarse thing I have seen Simon Bridges quoted as saying was in this article about Jacinda Ardern going to the US, and getting invited on to numerous platforms to speak about the NZ position on climate change, probably…
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This series of posts, picking on weird things that National leader Simon Bridges says, is like shooting fish in a barrel. There is so much choice ... Latest is his comments on Darroch Ball's Shoplifting (Offence and Penalties) Bill. First up he cannot do math.…
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