I'm putting up a post every Monday dedicated to taking action on climate and ecology. The posts are for discussing action, talking about how to manage, developing strategy, telling the stories of how things can be different and how we can make that happen right…
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Mike Hosking had this spectacular rant about the media this week. He said: Not remotely surprised trust in media is falling. It's falling, according to the authors of this week's latest report into the industry, at "an alarming rate." This is the AUT Trust in…
With a sense of regret for many of us Ashley Bloomfield announced his pending resignation as Director General of Health. Some of us, probably most of the country, think Ash should be honoured for his contribution to Aotearoa and for seeing us through Covid. There…
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There is a strong expectation here that commenters don’t just post and run. Next time you come back to the site you should look at who is replying to you. This is common courtesy to the person you spoke to and to the wider community,…
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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 …
This is awkward. Hot on the heels of news that Act has recently received a number of significant donations comes news that it may have spent some of these funds on buying social media followers. From Ireland Hendry-Tennett at Stuff: ACT leader David Seymour says…
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 …
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 …
https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/1511788331696209922 Tēna koe Prime Minister, Our homes are where we share kai with whānau, where we teach our children to walk and talk, where we shelter, and where we recover our health. Over the past year, landlords have hiked up rental prices like never before,…
If the 3 Waters reforms can survive its attacks and be implemented, a consequence will be that we are going to have a most enormous nationwide economic argument about the price of water and who pays for it all. The politics of water will be…
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 …
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 …
Tues 5th April, early evening, I'm trying to decide if I can write a post about the latest IPCC report on climate change and its warning to humanity. I google some basics. It's overwhelming. Instead I'm thinking of stories of acquiescence. There's a scene in…
You get to a point – and Ardern must be close – where the most you can do is hang on. Her two terms leading the country have been beset by successive crises, each apparently greater than the previous. March 2019 saw a massacre on…
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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 …
National's friends are in unison complaining that the Government should be announcing now when we will be back into Orange. It seems that every day different media interview restaurant owners and business owners complaining about the lack of certainty. Opposing voices are few and far…
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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 …
We are in the long emergency, the ground of which is the climate and ecological crises. This requires change across all sectors of our communities if we are going to have any chance at averting the worst case scenarios (6C rise in global temperature means…
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If you’re out there in ZB land and believe that water management should be democratically elected, you won’t find respite here. The 3 waters are stormwater, drinking water, and wastewater. About 85% of this is currently managed by Councils. Of all those who do a…
This week National found itself the centre of media suggesting that its treatment of women is still not acceptable. A couple of Young Nats were outed as being behind the trolling of Christchurch left wing female politicians. Christchurch city councillor Sara Templeton was on the…
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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 …
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 …
Last week I posted about how Act had within the past few weeks received $950,000 in donations. National has guzumped this and has just announced that it will shortly be filing declarations announcing that it has received $1.8 million in donations all of which were…