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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 9th, 2021 - 29 comments
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Date published: 9:08 am, August 9th, 2021 - 25 comments
In an extraordinary move National’s board has reselected Peter Goodfellow as Party Chairperson and this has caused former MP David Carter to resign as board member and express no confidence in the leadership or in National’s chances at the next election.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 9th, 2021 - 99 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 8th, 2021 - 49 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 7th, 2021 - 134 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 6th, 2021 - 3 comments
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Date published: 8:28 am, August 6th, 2021 - 59 comments
Back in the day National used to have a strong urban liberal wing that gave the impression that it was sympathetic to LGBTQI issues. Yesterday that impression was trashed.
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Date published: 6:10 am, August 6th, 2021 - 97 comments
Rather than economics, can we talk about the values that underlie how we manage the country?
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 6th, 2021 - 37 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 5th, 2021 - 9 comments
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Date published: 8:28 am, August 5th, 2021 - 84 comments
Yesterday Statistics New Zealand announced a dramatic drip in the unemployment rate as well as solid increases in wage rates and average weekly earnings for workers. While the Government celebrated Employers thought it was a crisis.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 5th, 2021 - 120 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 4th, 2021 - 7 comments
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Date published: 10:43 am, August 4th, 2021 - 22 comments
The nasty, brutish and short meme is a failure of the imagination. We can have less and still live good lives.
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Date published: 8:04 am, August 4th, 2021 - 43 comments
Judith Collins has decided to attack the Government on the use of the Te Reo name for New Zealand even though the last National Government regularised its use.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 4th, 2021 - 115 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 3rd, 2021 - 35 comments
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Date published: 7:44 am, August 3rd, 2021 - 38 comments
This will have the conspiracy theorists spinning. Youtube have stopped Murdoch’s Sky News Australia from uploading videos for the next seven days after the channel uploaded videos questioning Covid and advocating for the use of alternative medicines including Donald Trump’s favourite hydroxychloroquine
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 3rd, 2021 - 57 comments
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Date published: 7:00 pm, August 2nd, 2021 - 24 comments
With the right people in power, we will get the answers we deserve, and our problems will melt away and scatter in a warm worriless wind.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 2nd, 2021 - 56 comments
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Date published: 8:30 am, August 2nd, 2021 - 134 comments
Last night’s Reid Research poll result suggests that the electorate is reverting back to a more conventional dynamic after the stratospheric heights that Labour enjoyed immediately post Covid elimination.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 2nd, 2021 - 95 comments
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Date published: 1:19 pm, August 1st, 2021 - 58 comments
A dedicated space on The Standard for women’s debate, and introducing the new feminist online space of Women’s Liberation Aotearoa.
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Date published: 10:39 am, August 1st, 2021 - 13 comments
It should be an offence for political parties to deliberately misrepresent law and order statistics as National has done this week. It should be an aggravating feature if the party is a conservative party that champions law and order issues. After all fraud is an offence and if we don’t punish it appropriately then everyone will do it.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 1st, 2021 - 144 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 31st, 2021 - 56 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 30th, 2021 - 12 comments
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 30th, 2021 - 28 comments
NZNO members who work in district health boards (DHBs) have voted by clear majority to reject the latest offer in their negotiations with the DHBs, saying it fails to address the chronic and systemic safe staffing issues in a way that would ensure and protect the future of the health system.
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 30th, 2021 - 59 comments
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Date published: 6:47 pm, July 29th, 2021 - 38 comments
“What will the role of New Zealand be should China invade Taiwan?” was by far the most popular question for Jacinda Ardern after she spoke at a NZIIA seminar last week. Promising to be benign, Ardern said we are “very predictable,” cited alleged human rights abuses in Hong Kong, and went on to say we […]
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