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Daily review 29/10/2020

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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 29th, 2020 - 32 comments

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 …

Could the real Labour Party please stand up

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Date published: 8:21 am, October 29th, 2020 - 35 comments

We need to get the Labour government to focus on decreasing inequality and poverty in all its forms and effects. The new government needs to show that Labour has changed the country for good. Otherwise there’s no reason to vote for them in 2023.

Aotearoa New Zealand is a hell hole paradise dystopian democracy

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Date published: 8:09 am, October 29th, 2020 - 55 comments

Fox News has seized upon a four month old video of Jacinda Ardern to suggest that New Zealand has a terrifying new response to the disease and are throwing people into quarantine camps.

Open mike 29/10/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, October 29th, 2020 - 24 comments

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Trump Hacked.

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Date published: 7:54 pm, October 28th, 2020 - 8 comments

Had to laugh, albeit with a resigned anger, when I saw this in my emails today. This afternoon, the official Trump campaign website was hacked and defaced.

Daily review 28/10/2020

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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 28th, 2020 - 29 comments

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The boy from Matamata

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Date published: 8:28 am, October 28th, 2020 - 43 comments

Trump deputy chief of staff Chris Liddell, who is also a Kiwi, has announced his candidacy to be head of the OECD.  The Greens have announced their opposition because he has been part of inhumane decisions and also decisions that undermine international institutions.  The right back him because he is a kiwi.  What should Labour do?

Justice Coney Barrett appears to be a climate change denier

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Date published: 7:00 am, October 28th, 2020 - 10 comments

Newly appointed Republican and Trump supported Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is not convinced that humans are changing the world’s climate.  Meanwhile China and Japan are convinced and have announced dates by which time they intend to be carbon neutral.

Open mike 28/10/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, October 28th, 2020 - 59 comments

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Daily review 27/10/2020

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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 27th, 2020 - 13 comments

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A bit about how The Standard works

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Date published: 12:08 pm, October 27th, 2020 - 16 comments

Mostly about moderation.

Melbourne gets on top of Covid

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Date published: 8:36 am, October 27th, 2020 - 15 comments

Yesterday the city of Melbourne recorded its first day of no new reported covid infections in nearly five months. At the same time in America the White House has effectively said that control is too difficult and that it is giving up.

Open mike 27/10/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, October 27th, 2020 - 185 comments

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Labour day

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Date published: 8:54 am, October 26th, 2020 - 41 comments

Enjoying your weekend? Thank a unionist!

Open mike 26/10/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, October 26th, 2020 - 156 comments

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Large caucuses can be devilishly dangerous as National showed

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Date published: 12:19 pm, October 25th, 2020 - 17 comments

A post mortem of the 2017-2020 parliament shows that far from being the “opposition from hell” as they had threatened, National’s caucus was as ineffective as Donald Trump dealing to Covid 19. It is a salutary lesson for the new Labour caucus which has won 64 seats in the new parliament. There may be many backbench MPs who are underemployed.

What should Labour do in the next three years?

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Date published: 10:01 am, October 25th, 2020 - 74 comments

With the hand brake gone and the Government’s policy platform already complete what should the Labour Government set out to achieve this term?

Kelvin for DPM

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Date published: 9:13 am, October 25th, 2020 - 16 comments

Some thoughts on who the country’s Deputy Prime Minister should be.

Open mike 25/10/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, October 25th, 2020 - 150 comments

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Rangitata and the Future of the National Party

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Date published: 8:49 am, October 24th, 2020 - 42 comments

As National reels from the disastrous 2020 election result could a policy based on high tech agriculture represent a way back?

Open mike 24/10/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, October 24th, 2020 - 126 comments

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Daily review 23/10/2020

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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 23rd, 2020 - 20 comments

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The Trump Biden debate

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Date published: 2:02 pm, October 23rd, 2020 - 21 comments

Discussion post for this afternoon’s live US Presidential debate.

Why Can’t The Ministry of Works Just Build Houses Like 1935?

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Date published: 7:34 am, October 23rd, 2020 - 32 comments

We don’t have a government like the Labour government that formed in 1935.

Open mike 23/10/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, October 23rd, 2020 - 28 comments

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Daily review 22/10/2020

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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 22nd, 2020 - 16 comments

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Show us the plan Labour

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Date published: 10:19 am, October 22nd, 2020 - 154 comments

Labour want to govern based in stability for all New Zealanders, but how does that work when your grand narrative has massive plot holes around ending poverty?

Some consequences of Chloe Swarbrick’s win

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Date published: 9:49 am, October 22nd, 2020 - 41 comments

What are the lessons to be learned from Chloe Swarbrick’s election night win of Auckland Central.

Open mike 22/10/2020

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Date published: 6:00 am, October 22nd, 2020 - 60 comments

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Daily review 21/10/2020

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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 21st, 2020 - 52 comments

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Will Labour go it alone?

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Date published: 7:42 am, October 21st, 2020 - 99 comments

Tova O’Brien has suggested that a Labour Green joined at the hip coalition is not going to happen.  So what will the next Government look like?