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"Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland in search of our better selves?" - Mad Max, 2015 After the 2008, 2011, and 2014 national defeats, and through many specific losing campaigns since, it's not unreasonable to slip from melancholy to utopian unreality. In…
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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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So John Key and the new Oz PM are having a chat today and good ol' JK will be mentioning the issue of "New Zealanders" who are being detained for deportation after a prison sentence. People who are being detained in police stations without exercise or…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b00cqGY6XBU The final episode for 2015. Check out the full White Man Behind a Desk channel.
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Has John Key had a wank recently? I don't want to know. I'm pretty sure you don't want to know. But apparently this is a question we ask in the media nowadays. Remember when the office of PM used to have a little dignity? I…
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Helen Kelly has stepped down from the Council of Trade Unions. She's helped thousands over workers over the last eight years as President. (The Hobbit dispute, CMP lockout, Auckland port dispute, Talley's Affco lockout, Pike River, the forestry health and safety campaign etc etc etc.) Here's…
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Read it here And for those who dismiss her arguments with ad hominem and the ridiculous "she never supported a single FTA", let me remind you a Judge agreed with her arguments. Oh, and Wayne Mapp? You never opposed a single FTA, so you and…
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Yesterday there was another draw of member's bills, and Labour (leaders!) had the best of it. Here's I/S at No Right Turn: Drawn A ballot for four member's bills was held today and the following bills were drawn: Education (Restoration of Democracy to University Councils)…
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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 believe Christine Fletcher was one of the better National MPs. She had a liberal view of the world and thought deeply about political issues. She was Minister of Local Government, Women's Affairs and Cultural Affairs but resigned in protest at the Government's plans to sell Auckland Regional Services…
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As recently covered here, the High Court has upheld Jane Kelsey’s application for a declaration that the Government and Tim Groser improperly considered her application for information concerning the TPPA negotiations. The Nats aren't happy: Govt considers TPP OIA appeal The government is considering whether…
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An anonymous editorial in The Herald this morning is a mostly well balanced discussion of the issue of Labour's deputy leader: Little facing dilemma over deputy choice Labour's leader, Andrew Little, faces a dilemma over what sort of deputy he needs. Probably he would be…
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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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So the Government books are back in black although for how long we do not know. From TV3: The Government's books are back in surplus, posting a profit after six years of deficits. Treasury's final accounts for 2014/15 showed a modest surplus of $414 million.…
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Speechnotes from CTU Website, image from Unite Union. It great to see you all here at our conference and its great we all have this chance to again together reflect on the last couple of years and see what we learned and achieved but most…
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As is being well covered in the news this morning: Jobseeker benefit for cancer patients 'ludicrous' Hundreds of cancer patients are being placed on the Jobseeker benefit while they are getting treatment. The Cancer Society calls the system ludicrous and says it forces people with…
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I/S at No Right Turn writes: Dictatorship in Canterbury, dictatorship in Parliament National's Environment Canterbury (Transitional Governance Arrangements) Bill, which extends the Canterbury dictatorship through a mixed elected / appointed council, is currently being debated in the House. But as if continuing to deny Cantabrians…
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Yesterday morning I wrote that Key's convenient "ignorance" of a report into the conditions at Taji camp in Iraq was just a bit too cute. In later developments that day Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee said that Key had indeed been briefed. Then he (how unexpected…
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It seems like Andrew Little and a Labour Government will keep the TPPA as negotiated by National. As quoted from RNZ: The Labour Leader Andrew Little says his party is not in a position to oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership deal, but a Labour government…
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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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In breaking news Jane Kelsey'a High Court application for a declaration that Tim Groser improperly treated her application for details of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement has essentially succeeded. The decision is here. The synopsis of the decision is as follows: [1] The applicants have…
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I posted about this earlier and suggested that the Government is trying to blame Child Youth and Family for its inability to handle the tsunami of social problems caused by child poverty. The appointment of an advisory panel was evidence of this. The role of these…
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A while back I linked to AUT's Briefing Papers. They have been busy lately - check out: Wealth Inequality: Who Owns How Much? by Max Rashbrooke Perceptions Of Inequality by Peter Skilling An Egalitarian Society? by Brian Easton The Global Refugee Crisis by Love Chile…
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Key is recently back from visiting troops at the Taji base in Iraq (you've probably seen the pictures). Credit to him for going, like Helen Clark's trip to Afghanistan, I think it is fitting that someone who decides to send troops to a dangerous environment…
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