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Troy Bowker has been in the news recently. I had a check through Standard posts and it looks like he has attracted our attention in the past. For instance in 2014 Bowker paid for a report strategising the setting up of a centrist party in…
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The last couple of weeks of Aotearoa's culture wars has been interesting. On Wednesday the Government brought back into Parliament the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Bill for its second reading. There may have been background negotiations because the debate went remarkably smoothly. National…
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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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A guest post by DB Brown. Down With Farmer Bashing Nonsense. We've all heard (at least in the NZ version of events) about how cows and farmers are to blame for climate change and that's simply not true. For oil and agricultural giants to shift…
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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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From RNZ this morning, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the government are this morning responding to a report from its Covid-19 advisory group on re-opening Aotearoa's borders. New Zealand will begin testing self-isolation instead of MIQ for vaccinated people this year, with a new border…
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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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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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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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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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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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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 …