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In Parliament there are a number of pictures. Many of them have been hanging for decades. Old white men still tend to dominate and there are a remarkable number of overseas people featured. You would think that as time goes by older pictures should be…
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New Zealand has one of the most concentrated and oligopolistic economies in the world, and also one of the least commercially protected societies. Will we ever be able to break out of it? If you look across our society, it is the relationships of less…
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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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Minister Woods and Prime Minister Ardern have been reduced to asking a series of questions about why Transpower got major electricity providers to drastically cut power last night. As storms go it wasn’t a major. The cold snap was easily forecast in the www.metvuw.co.nz 10…
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There's so many of them here - Guyon Espiner, Anna Fifield, Lucy Craymer, Sam Sachdeva, Laura Walters, John Daniell, Emile Donovan, Paula Penfold, reef fish with the same few sources. Australian Paul Strutynski provides the textbook in his "Guide for budding foreign policy journalists wanting…
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the IR6 Report yesterday, The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple…
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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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I feel like I write too much about National's problems. But the problem is they keep offering up material. Their party is clearly in deep, deep trouble. This weekend the party held its Unity Conference. If this was a Unity Conference I would hate to…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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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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Back in the day National used to have a strong urban liberal wing. John Key was responsible. He realised that National's traditional support base would not deliver power. So he set out to broaden its appeal. One of the early signs was when he had…
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Yesterday Micky put up a post about the good changes happening with employment rates and wage increases: Aotearoa New Zealand approaches full employment. There are important points in the post and comments, about managing the economy, the EMA's position of wanting 5% unemployment to help…
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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 one of the most outstanding economic statistics ever in my time on this earth for Aotearoa New Zealand was released. The features were: In the June 2021 quarter, compared with the March 2021 quarter: unemployment rate fell to 4.0 percent underutilisation rate fell to 10.5…
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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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The nasty, brutish and short meme is a failure of imagination. I often think about why it’s so hard for people to see the value in the Powerdown. If the capitalism-driven climate and ecological crises have the distinct possibility to end human civilisation (this is…
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So yesterday as news of a rather large drop in Labour's support washed through Judith Collins and National put their thinking caps on. What issue could they raise to really sock it to Labour and prove to the electorate that National is indeed born to…
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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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This will have the conspiracy theorists spinning. Youtube have stopped Murdoch's Sky News Australia from uploading videos for the next seven days after the channel uploaded videos questioning Covid and advocating for the use of alternative medicines including Donald Trump's favourite hydroxychloroquine. From the Guardian:…
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Many argue that the current crop of politicians are self-serving troughers whose property portfolios earn more than the average Kiwi and more than enough to make them feel comfortable and relaxed about the problems that the average Kiwi is facing. As the narrative goes, politicians…