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Date published: 7:15 am, September 27th, 2019 - 55 comments
Countrywide events for today’s Strike for Climate.
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Date published: 7:10 am, September 27th, 2019 - 1 comment
Resources for progressive voters, on candidates in the 2019 local body elections.
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 27th, 2019 - 32 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 26th, 2019 - 31 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 …
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Date published: 12:15 pm, September 26th, 2019 - 21 comments
It’s local voting time again, and more councils are using STV- while the Electoral Commission will tell you how to rank candidates, they won’t tell you how to vote effectively. Should you leave candidates off your list if you know what relative order they would go in?
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Date published: 11:19 am, September 26th, 2019 - 29 comments
National has chosen to attack Jacinda Ardern on her trip to New York for doing too much and not enough at the same time. It seems to be a pattern.
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Date published: 8:41 am, September 26th, 2019 - 13 comments
The Civilian ‘reports’ in “Trump repeatedly asked Ardern if New Zealand gives asylum very often”. Oh shit! We need to reverse National’s large donation policy and proactively and preemptively pass a law against bolthole refugees.
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Date published: 7:15 am, September 26th, 2019 - 11 comments
Marama Davidson: renting has to be a valid way of life.
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Date published: 7:10 am, September 26th, 2019 - 23 comments
Tech is cute, right?
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 26th, 2019 - 65 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 25th, 2019 - 8 comments
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Date published: 9:48 am, September 25th, 2019 - 7 comments
“How dare you pretend that this can be solved with just ‘business as usual’ and some technical solutions?”
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 25th, 2019 - 196 comments
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Date published: 1:03 am, September 25th, 2019 - 75 comments
Lady Hale and the UK Supreme Court have torpedoed Boris Johnson’s cunning plan to prorogue Parliament. His request to the Queen was “unlawful, void, and of no effect.” Her Maj will not be pleased. Johnson is now boxed in – ask for an extension to Brexit, or resign.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 24th, 2019 - 28 comments
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Date published: 8:13 am, September 24th, 2019 - 67 comments
Greta Thunberg has spoken at the UN Climate Change summit and has warned the world that it is stealing the dreams and hopes of young people through its failure to address climate change.
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Date published: 7:15 am, September 24th, 2019 - 16 comments
There’s good news and there’s bad news in the landmark United in Science report.
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 24th, 2019 - 80 comments
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Date published: 5:28 pm, September 23rd, 2019 - 22 comments
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 23rd, 2019 - 125 comments
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Date published: 3:45 pm, September 22nd, 2019 - 26 comments
In a striking example of the typical climate change denier, the “Australian Young Coal Coalition” released a photo bemoaning the mess left by friday’s climate change strike rally in Hyde Park. Pity that it was a lying fake. Being put out by climate change deniers, of course it was just a lie. That is all […]
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 22nd, 2019 - 12 comments
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 22nd, 2019 - 104 comments
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Date published: 7:48 am, September 21st, 2019 - 19 comments
National has displayed a concerning level of rhetoric this week involving a misrepresentation of the GDP figures and the attacking of a board appointee who cannot respond.
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Date published: 7:05 am, September 21st, 2019 - 33 comments
The global School Strikes this week and the upcoming International Rebellions are part of a large wave of change that gives us a chance at preventing the worst of climate disaster.
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 21st, 2019 - 105 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 20th, 2019 - 11 comments
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Date published: 8:47 am, September 20th, 2019 - 19 comments
“New Zealand does not face stark choices between having a dairy sector versus having clean waterways. Experience shows that, by focusing on profits, not production, farms can increase their economic returns and reduce their impact on the environment.”
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 20th, 2019 - 187 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 19th, 2019 - 11 comments
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Date published: 7:57 am, September 19th, 2019 - 14 comments
Even though New Zealand is one of the most oil-reliant countries on earth, the Government has a disturbing lack of a plan for security of supply.
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