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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 24th, 2025 - 17 comments
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Date published: 4:48 pm, July 24th, 2025 - 67 comments
Guest post from Louisa Wall. The government’s decision to scrap Sport New Zealand’s transgender inclusion guidelines for community sport is not leadership. It is exclusion by neglect.
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Date published: 12:01 pm, July 24th, 2025 - 11 comments
Winston Peters’ recent “sausage” insults distract From Regulatory Capture in our government. Opinion/analysis by Mountain Tui
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Date published: 11:20 am, July 24th, 2025 - 11 comments
For some time now National has been crowing about how they have solved the emergency housing problem in Aotearoa. But a recent report suggests that their policies have cause a surge in the number of homeless kiwis.
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 24th, 2025 - 27 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 23rd, 2025 - 2 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: 8:57 am, July 23rd, 2025 - 50 comments
None of National’s policies are working. But the time of Labour’s policy vacuum needs to be over. It’s time to make their mark and take Luxon front on and win.
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 23rd, 2025 - 50 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 22nd, 2025 - 2 comments
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Date published: 10:22 am, July 22nd, 2025 - 9 comments
The Commerce Commission has dismissed Federated Farmers’ claim that banks offering lower interest rates to clients who meet greenhouse gas emission targets are engaging in cartel type behavior.
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 22nd, 2025 - 58 comments
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Date published: 7:09 pm, July 21st, 2025 - 23 comments
National Party Ministers have been goading Labour to share policies for a while now. Why?
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 21st, 2025 - 3 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: 1:15 pm, July 21st, 2025 - 9 comments
You have 2 days more to submit on ACT’s Overseas Investment Act changes
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Date published: 6:05 am, July 21st, 2025 - 43 comments
Chloe Swarbrick and the Greens are changing the narrative on what tax is for.
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 21st, 2025 - 8 comments
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Date published: 7:47 pm, July 20th, 2025 - 25 comments
Tasman, Top of the South Island patiently waits after National raided $6 billion infrastructure fund
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Date published: 9:41 am, July 20th, 2025 - 39 comments
… before the election starts to get real.
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 20th, 2025 - 57 comments
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Date published: 1:23 pm, July 19th, 2025 - 11 comments
we don’t have to, but we probably should.
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 19th, 2025 - 41 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 18th, 2025 - 2 comments
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Date published: 8:08 am, July 18th, 2025 - 69 comments
“I did my own research”!
“I did my own research”? No. You didn’t. You can’t!
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Date published: 7:18 am, July 18th, 2025 - 12 comments
Again, we were woken up by a bunch of hoodrats drifting on the intersection by our house. Great clouds of smoke and lots of noise. As you do at three o clock in the morning, my brain started tying this together with recent articles about private helicopters in urban areas, and other forms of antisocial “Fuck You’s” to the rest of us.
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 18th, 2025 - 74 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 17th, 2025 - 2 comments
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Date published: 11:59 am, July 17th, 2025 - 5 comments
Judith Collins was briefed in March 2025 that David Seymour and Bryce Wilkinson’s proposal is incompatible with safeguarding the country from espionage, sabotage and terrorism.
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Date published: 11:51 am, July 17th, 2025 - 19 comments
The incongruence of transgender fear
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 17th, 2025 - 31 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 16th, 2025 - 10 comments
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Date published: 12:25 pm, July 16th, 2025 - 23 comments
* according to Seymour when it comes to International and Domestic condemnation of his Regulatory Standards Bill.
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