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Open mike 21/06/2021
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Social insurance, a premium not afforded to all.
Budget this year delivered in ways that many of us have been waiting for. Community groups, Iwi, beneficiaries, environmentalists and more, all agreed on Budget Day that they were quietly pleased to see groups they represent receive funding. For many, that funding is just a…
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What does The Standard mean for you?
The Standard provides a free forum for all for reading and commenting. I like to think it is quite a special and unique site in the NZ social media space that provides an unmatched opportunity for opinion and discussion of NZ politics, society, culture, and…
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Open mike 20/06/2021
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Open mike 19/06/2021
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Daily review 18/06/2021
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Make the film and be damned
A company wants to make a film about the Christchurch mosque massacre on 15 March 2019. It's about time. Both the Prime Minister and the Mayor of Christchurch have proposed that the film should not be made because there are other stories that ought to…
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Open mike 18/06/2021
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Daily review 17/06/2021
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Public transport, to complement cycling?
By Jenny How to get thereThe other week the NZ Herald ran a large full page opinion piece by Simon Wilson calling for, a lane of the Harbour be turned into a bike-way. Complete with an artist's impression of what it would look like.Simon Wilson:…
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The America’s Cup is just another spinoff
The America’s Cup competition now looks likely to head offshore. The Minister of Economic Development Stuart Nash was remarkably sanguine: At the end of the day the America’s Cup is a global commercial operation. It is an international business as much as a sporting contest.…
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Open mike 17/06/2021
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Daily review 16/06/2021
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Climate transition transport and the rural road tumbleweeds
The Greens put out a press release a few weeks ago, "welcoming the Government’s renewed commitment to safe walking and cycling across the Waitematā Harbour, but warning that new highway investment puts our response to the climate change emergency at risk." Good stuff for where…
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Open mike 16/06/2021
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Daily review 15/06/2021
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Fear and loathing in cycleland
I am pleased the right have moved on from overtly racist attacks on minorities. But I am bemused by the current level of vitriol that has been thrown at a group who apart from wearing lycra is doing nothing wrong. It seems that instead of…
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Government to issue an apology for the dawn raids
Wonderful news, the Government is going to apologise for the dawn raids in the 1970s that targeted Pacifica. I was a young teenager at the time and I grew up in Mangere. I went to a Catholic School and attended a Catholic Church. My father…
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Open mike 15/06/2021
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Daily review 14/06/2021
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The Government’s Feebate scheme
Part of the difficult delicate job of becoming carbon neutral is the need to fundamentally transform the country's car fleet from gas guzzlers to clean electric vehicles in a fairly quick time. For a while Labour and the Greens have wanted to install a feebate…
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Open mike 14/06/2021
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Open mike 13/06/2021
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Open mike 12/06/2021
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Daily review 11/06/2021
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Auckland’s Northern Pathway
Last week's announcement of major changes to the New Zealand Upgrade program in my view was welcome. Some major road projects were canned. Mill Road in South Auckland was one of them. A cost blow out from $1.3b to $3.5b was too much to bear. …
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Open mike 11/06/2021
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Daily review 10/06/2021
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Greenpeace on the cow shaped hole in the Climate Commission report
Press release from: greenpeace.org Climate Commission final report more concerned about placating dairy industry than tackling climate crisis - Greenpeace Aotearoa 4-5 minutes Greenpeace says there is still a cow-shaped hole in both the Climate Change Commission’s advice and the Government’s approach to climate action,…
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Open mike 10/06/2021
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