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The future is ... unwritten. This post is intended to be a place for discussion of the way forward. The idea comes from an exchange on Open Mike a few weeks ago. TS regular Robert Guyton suggested we have a dedicated thread where “the way…
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The Government has kicked off a debate about the future of education with some radical proposals for change. The proposals are recorded in the report prepared by the Tomorrow's Schools independent taskforce. One of those taskforces that the opposition loves to hate on the grounds…
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I like my Huawei phone. Apparently the US National Security Agency can't break its encryption. That's presumably the "security" issue why Spark is being blocked from using Huawei here, and why Meng Wanzhou is held hostage in Canada at the behest of US neocons. Ironic…
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The Court of Appeal has dismissed the Talley’s owned AFFCO’s latest attempt to prevent justice for the workers they were found to have unlawfully locked out in 2015. In 2015, AFFCO unlawfully locked out Meat Workers Union members at Rangiuru, Feilding and Moerewa plants after…
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"I never knew there was a law against sounding vulnerable. And anyway, personal politics are part of the human condition, so what could be more political than human relationships? Many of those songs are more about not having love, the downside of things. I heard…
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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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National and ACT have both come out against the UN Global Migration Pact. National has even started a petition. Simon Bridges gives the reasons why: National would pull New Zealand out of the UN’s Global Compact on Migration because of its potential to restrict New…
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Way, way back in the day, there was a Prime Minister called Robert Muldoon who made himself the Minister of Finance. As a total control freak he was the epitome of a leader dominating a command-and-control economy and society. He had a lot of pretty…
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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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Yesterday was shaping up to be a particularly bad day for National. The leaks were continuing with suggestions that the recent Colmar Brunton poll result for them was overly optimistic and the anonymous caucus texter or another anonymous caucus texter had resumed contact with the…
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This is a circumstance that I see all of the time on this site. As a moderator I help to preside over the unruly robust debate on political processes. To achieve this we have rules and policies that are there to bind the moderators to…
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It was two years ago today ... 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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Keep it seemly.
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It’s likely that the new Child Poverty Reduction Bill will get through its third reading by the end of this year. Here’s the text. There’s a pretty good chance now that National will also support this bill. When it comes to the final vote on…
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Memo from Crosby Textor To senior office holders in the National Party As part of this firm’s intelligence gathering role we have kept up to date with New Zealand politics even though our professional services are not currently required. We have prepared this memo because…
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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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Someone claiming to be a National Party MP has sent media outlets more embarrassing internal information from the Tory caucus. A few days ago, it was last week's Curia polling (Labour 44, Nats 41) and a now, a handy set of talking points on how…
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Maggie Barry has been the subject of fresh allegations of bullying, this time from an anonymous source previously employed within her Ministerial office. From Anna Bracewell-Worrall at Newshub: Speaking to Newshub anonymously, the source said Ms Barry would lash out at staff and that she…
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Tracy Watkins is in Korea paid for by the US to head off any support fro President Moon's visit here. US security chiefs are here in Wellington today with the 40-grit sandpaper on Huawei. A high-ranking Russia "expert" from the UK was here last week…
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When Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) won the Mexican Presidential race, I commented that he was probably no more than a Jacinda Ardern in terms of being "left" but that seeing as how we were talking about Mexico, that was quite a big thing. I…
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On the first day of Christmas someone's editor said to them: Bring me a story that is guaranteed click bait and that will cause huge dissent between the conservative block that hates change and the progressive block that embraces change, diversity and doing things to…
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