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RNZ's flagship Morning Report was particularly bad today, especially in this 8-minute item, titled on its website "UN expert on Palestinian rights cries for children killed." The headlined expert is Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Human rights. However the first half of the clip…
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Christopher Luxon has always talked the big talk about his corporate experience and his time at Air New Zealand. In fact it became something of a joke so often did he make this comment. Of course Government is an entirely different beast. Instead of being…
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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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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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56 UK Labour MPs including 8 front-benchers defied the Leader and the Whip and voted for a SNP amendment to the King's speech calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. Karma for Starmer, who previously had to row back from saying Israel had a right…
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Originally posted on Nick Kelly's Blog One has to really feel for those trying to write political satire these days. How can a satirist be more ridiculous than many of our political leaders they wish to lampoon? Case in point, yesterday's "resignation letter" from sacked…
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We are further away from peace in parts of the world than a decade ago. But pessimism about peace isn’t a foregone conclusion. Since there appear so many apparently intractable international conflicts occurring now, it is worth reminding ourselves of what successful peace processes have…
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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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Keep it seemly.
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So the coalition negotiations are going as well as I thought they would. Yesterday the parties each gathered in Wellington so that negotiations continue. But there was a notable exception. For some reason Winston Peters did not travel to Wellington to be with his NZ…
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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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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 attended the Palestine protest in Auckland last weekend. It achieved a certain amount of notoriety. My mate Phil Twyford attended and was booed off stage. It was not all his fault. The first speaker railed against Labour and National. She referred to Chris Hipkins’…
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Cross posted from Pearls and Irritations for Armistice Day. “Jewish people exterminating men, women and children in a concentration camp is _______.” How do you finish a sentence like that? The words should fall like acid into your ear drums. It should be an impossible…
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Two days ago the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano announced a major treaty. The two big significant elements are that Australia is offering permanent residency to people affected by climate change, and is also making a security guarantee…
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One of the most democratic changes that Labour made to the electoral system was to allow people to enroll and vote on election day. The right hate it. All those young and/or people who are slightly disorganised because of life's issues get to have their…
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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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