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Today marks the day 50 years ago when former Labour Prime Minister Norm Kirk died. The following is an email sent by Labour President Jill Day to mark the occasion. "Today, Saturday 31 August, mark exactly 50 years since one of the saddest days in…
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Gerard Otto recently posted on his Facebook page an account of a Labour Party meeting, held on Waiheke, in which David Parker discussed taxation and ways in which Labour might address growing income inequality in New Zealand. That post has been taken up subsequently in…
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Reposted from Mountain Tui Substack post One of the things that has got me interested recently is updates about Māori wards. In April, Stuff’s Karanama Ruru reported that ~ 2/3 of our 78 councils had adopted Māori wards in NZ. That meant that under the…
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Here are some snippets from Wednesday's Parliamentary sitting. I thought others might find some clips of interest. Kieran McNulty urges the Government to tell Kiwis the truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-WQOfJmDYI Louise Upton fires up after being called "heartless" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWBGl-VGybc Casey Costello gaslights the opposition yet again, daring…
benefits corruption labour national/act government Parliament same old national Tobacco
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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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Dan Bidois has unwittingly disclosed National's approach to all problems. Basically everything can be traced back to giving police greater powers to deal with gangs and take their guns off them. And it is all the fault of pesky judges, some of them who are…
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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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Cartoon: Emma Cook Last week, King Luxon and his steady Page, Sir Simeon, were out in the Kingdom to visit their lands and instruct the serfs. "Thou shalt do away with thy fantasies, peasants!" The bald headed King screamed, his head turning red and redder.…
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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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We are in a power crisis and the government has had to respond, but will their response make any difference? We should set out that the power supply+price spike is real. As Minister Shane Jones warned Parliament just over a month ago, soaring power prices…
Abuse of power Christopher Luxon national Politics same old national Shane Jones simeon brown
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Energy Minister Simeon Brown is peddling lies about Aotearoa having a gas shortage. The country exports around 40 percent of its annual gas production as methanol, while another large chunk is used to make 260,000 tonnes of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, a nasty contributor to our…
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Today, the Casey Costello tobacco saga continues. Despite trying to close the chapter on her pro-tobacco record, saying "we've traversed this issue many times already" and refusing to answer questions fulsomely in Parliament, Costello is not having that much luck closing it all down. Today,…
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It won’t come from the working class. But we know where it will come from. No one wants to be “working class”. It means "employed as unskilled or semi-skilled manual or industrial work”. None outside the chatrooms of an immaterial activist cabal now refer to themselves as…
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There is increasing concern that recently introduced policy changes by National have made housing for the most needy amongst us more tenuous. On Morning Report Prime Minister Christopher Luxon was asked last Monday to point to a specific policy that had improved race relations rather…
Christopher Luxon housing national same old national spin you couldn't make this shit up
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By Elliot Crossan – Cross-posted from post at System Change According to the Douglas doctrine, you move in quantum leaps. By the time your opponents catch up with what you’re doing, you’re on to the next thing. That’s how Toby Manhire summarised Roger Douglas’ approach to economic reform in The…
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German navy ship with a captain who has a sense of humour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t86HI4yajZQ
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Increasingly, in New Zealand we have been seeing the rising influence of culture wars that tend to mask, distract, and divert away from our most pressing socio-economic issues. They seem to be coming from the US where hotly debated topics such as race, gender, sexuality,…
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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 …