Women’s Day
A dedicated space on The Standard for women’s debate.
Why Not Support The Farmers?
The Groundswell farmers movement want the new freshwater policy scrapped, the “ute tax” removed, lots of imported labour for farm work, parts of the ETS dumped the new Significant Natural Area policy dumped, the draft policy on indigenous biodiversity scrapped and Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill stopped. How likely is this?
Open mike 17/07/2021
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Daily review 16/07/2021
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If a thousand baby flamingos die in the desert does anyone hear them howl?
Farmers aren’t the problem here, they’re the mirror New Zealand is holding up to itself. We say we want change, despite the evidence.
The problem with English Soccer
Last week’s final between England and Italy showed that there is still an ugly racist underside to what should be a beautiful game.
The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill
Why the proposed changes to the law relating to gender identification is not such a bad thing. The law allowing this has been in place since 1995, but the process is confusing, intimidating, and time-consuming.
Open mike 16/07/2021
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Daily review 15/07/2021
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Minister Robertson’s Economic Development Strategy
Minister Roberston’s recent speech to the Trans Tasman Business Circle sets out both how this government is using the pandemic to reset whole sectors of the economy, and also how it is getting its head around economic and social challenges. The points made were unsurprising, but his intended direction was unclear.
Open mike 15/07/2021
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Daily review 14/07/2021
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Rare misstep
Simeon Brown in his attack on the Government for allegedly funding the Mongrel Mob has shown a disturbing ability to understand how Government works and an even more disturbing inability to perform basic maths.
Open mike 14/07/2021
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Daily review 13/07/2021
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Demand the debate
In two separate leaks it has emerged that Judith Collins privately briefed Don Brash on National’s demand the debate campaign and that Brash wrote to wealthy donors seeking $300,000 for an Iwi Kiwi style billboard response.
Open mike 13/07/2021
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Daily review 12/07/2021
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The billionaire race into space
UK billionaire Richard Branson has won the rich man’s pissing competition by being the first billionaire into space even though 12 months ago he was urgently seeking Government grants while at the same time paying no tax because of his tax residency status.
Open mike 12/07/2021
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The Covid Crisis – the perils of half hearted responses
The New South Wales’ half hearted response to community outbreak has seen infected numbers increase while in the UK Boris Johnson is planning to remove all restrictions something top scientists describe as “dangerous and premature”.
Open mike 11/07/2021
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An outage (in more ways than one)
First off – my apologies for letting the site drop out over the past days. We had several outages, computer and human. The human one was the worst. We seem to have had a few new bugs making the rounds since we bubbled with aussie.
Daily review 07/07/2021
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Open mike 07/07/2021
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Daily review 06/07/2021
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About the Hate Speech law changes
The debate about the Government’s consultation on proposed changes to hate speech laws continues, with the level of heat increasing, but the level of actual understanding of what is being proposed in critical shortage.
No Right Turn: Climate Change: Legal action
Lawyers for Climate Action are taking the Climate Change Commission to court over their lax budgets and dodgy accounting.
Open mike 06/07/2021
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Daily review 05/07/2021
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Open mike 05/07/2021
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America’s Democratic Decline Really Matters
With the United States Supreme Court allowing individual states to choke voting rights into bare consciousness, that country is accelerating its democratic decline. That matters for every democracy including ours.
All the right words on climate have already been said
So I was just driving around thinking, “Ugh it’s hot. Ugh there’s a new fire starting near me at least every other day. Ugh, how is this my life, also this is just the beginning, I feel like I should be waking up from this nightmare at some point and yet I am not,” when the editor finally reached me.
Open mike 04/07/2021
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Open mike 03/07/2021
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Daily review 02/07/2021
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