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Remember all the doom and gloom about the country's economic future and how the economy was going to hell in a hand basket and how business confidence was crashing? Moodys must have missed the memo because they have recently confirmed New Zealand's Aaa AAA credit…
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The noose is tightening. And time is ticking. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers money are being spent via the Leader's office fund to expensive accountancy and law firms to find out who someone is that it took a couple of days for the…
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This week Phil Twyford announced that Housing Corp would do the right thing and consider requests for compensation for those affected by Housing Corp's and the last Government's meth hysteria. From Interest.co.nz: Housing NZ is to compensate hundreds of former tenants who were evicted from…
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It’s hard to go past the rant of Newsroom’s Managing Editor Bernard Hickey about how depressing is the interim report of the Tax Working Group. The die was essentially cast when Sir Michael Cullen was appointed chair. For nine years as Finance Minister in the…
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The Prime Minister has made the right call by deciding to sack Whaitiri. The public details are not clear but it appears that Whaitiri and a staff member were involved in a physical altercation and although the details are disputed it seems that both parties…
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Gross Domestic Product in the June quarter rose 1.0%, exposing the ANZ Bank’s Business Outlook confidence survey as little more than a National Party and big business propaganda tool. At an annualised growth rate of 4.0%, the economy has been expanding well beyond what the…
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Yesterday was a day to rejoice, to celebrate the fact that 125 years ago our democracy was the first in the world to give women the vote. Such forward looking liberal policy is rightfully celebrated. But Simon thought it was all about him with as…
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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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News of the Coalition's bad health appears to be something of a beat up. Exhibit A is this tweet. https://twitter.com/winstonpeters/status/1041864866166788096 Four contentious items out of 1,0595 in total is not many. And they appear to be resolved as time goes by. For instance today it…
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When Ireland voted "the wrong way" on the Lisbon Treaty in 2008 and on the Nice Treaty in 2001, on both occasions, Irish voters were sent back to the polls for a second shot at coming up with the "correct" answer. The same "opportunity to…
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Donald Trump’s chances of boosting his popularity (and by extension, that of the Republican Party) before the US mid-terms by being all macho on Syria just got torpedoed by Turkey and Russia agreeing on a way to not blow the crap out of Idlib. Though,…
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A recent survey conducted by IPSOS shows New Zealanders are feeling more positive about the Labour-NZ First coalition government than they were the previous one. The IPSOS survey showed that housing was the most pressing issue with 50% of those surveyed considering it to be…
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Yesterday, a piece by Stuff Circuit questioned whether an activist by the name of Laurie Moore was in fact a spy for the New Zealand Police or Thompson & Clark back in 2003. New Zealand is a really small place, and we figure that someone…
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I had an interesting discussion the other day with a regular TS contributor. The subject and substance of the exchange is not what brings me to write this post, so I'm going to skip the details. It was the commenter's use of information from right…
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Amnesty International is petitioning the Government to hold an official inquiry into the actions of Thompson and Clark and their involvement in police activity. That firm's behaviour towards Standard author and well known political activist Rochelle Rees is a catalyst. From Amnesty International's website: Rochelle…
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National's latest attempt at winning the political debate is to engage in white noise. Say things loudly and continuously and hope that the media follow course. The last few days have shown the latest iteration of this tactic. Get the media to question why Jacinda…
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