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Date published: 7:59 am, September 1st, 2017 - 38 comments
A lot of politics and political blogging is all about the details. This includes National’s pollster David Farrar who falsely asserted yesterday that Winston would have received 7 annual letters about his superannuation status. So why is National trying to irritate their only possible coalition partner?
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Date published: 7:40 am, September 1st, 2017 - 5 comments
The lulz don’t stop there. Read through the various tweets and you’ll find “Check The Facts” has been well less than accurate in its portrayal of what constitutes a “fact”.
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Date published: 7:01 am, September 1st, 2017 - 77 comments
Labour has polled ahead of National for the first time in 12 years. It is only one poll and others may differ, but it has shattered a huge psychological barrier. We’re in a new political world. Time to go hard.
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Date published: 6:36 am, September 1st, 2017 - 6 comments
The best debate zinger didn’t come from anyone on the stage.
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 1st, 2017 - 117 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 31st, 2017 - 85 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: 3:18 pm, August 31st, 2017 - 203 comments
The first debate between Jacinda Ardern and Bill English is tonight at 7pm (with a poll due at 6).
Update: CB Poll puts Labour ahead of National, and Ardern ahead of English. Crikey!
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Date published: 11:57 am, August 31st, 2017 - 13 comments
Nicky Wagner seems to shy away from the hard stuff. First gazing dreamily out a window wishing she was somewhere else (when being addressed by Disability groups) and now a no-show at a debate about her City and Portfolio.
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Date published: 10:35 am, August 31st, 2017 - 25 comments
In Government the the Greens will create a blue whale sanctuary and a local ecotourism industry – to replace seabed mining and oil and gas.
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Date published: 10:13 am, August 31st, 2017 - 5 comments
Denis Tegg reports that the Government is hiding a second critical report on climate change until after the election.
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Date published: 9:35 am, August 31st, 2017 - 55 comments
National’s campaign video was created using actors who were not paid but handled petrol or shopping vouchers and wanted a young boy of “mixed blood” …
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Date published: 8:39 am, August 31st, 2017 - 32 comments
Take it with a bag of salt, but it certainly isn’t bad news for Labour.
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Date published: 7:04 am, August 31st, 2017 - 48 comments
Two excellent but very disturbing pieces in The Herald yesterday. This crisis in poverty, housing and health is a national disgrace. It is why we desperately need to elect a Labour led government in September.
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Date published: 7:02 am, August 31st, 2017 - 65 comments
I know I shouldn’t sweat the small stuff, but this piece by Rachel Smalley is full of lies about Labour. We deserve better journalism than this.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 31st, 2017 - 130 comments
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Date published: 6:30 pm, August 30th, 2017 - 62 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: 6:02 pm, August 30th, 2017 - 17 comments
Liberals depart and Liberals tank.
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Date published: 4:48 pm, August 30th, 2017 - 53 comments
What we can learn about Collins, Adams and the national Cabinet from Teina Pora’s Judicial review win.
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Date published: 2:47 pm, August 30th, 2017 - 50 comments
“Our integrity and our role as Ministers in holding confidential information is absolutely pivotal to our role” Bennett 2017
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Date published: 1:00 pm, August 30th, 2017 - 53 comments
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Date published: 11:28 am, August 30th, 2017 - 136 comments
How many of these did you receive over your 7 years of over-payments?
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Date published: 9:30 am, August 30th, 2017 - 48 comments
Mike Hosking is decrying National’s cynical election campaign and release of its paid parental leave policy and claims that it is nothing more than a corrupt retail exchange.
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Date published: 8:55 am, August 30th, 2017 - 8 comments
The Standard has received real video from National’s campaign launch
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Date published: 7:14 am, August 30th, 2017 - 3 comments
The Greens have produced a video on what you need to do to vote internationally.
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Date published: 7:01 am, August 30th, 2017 - 45 comments
Peters is enraged by the presumed Nat hit on him over super. Earlier he was calling on Bill English to resign over the Barclay scandal. Given these conflicts, no one can have any confidence in a post-election Nat NZF coalition. They hate each other.
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Date published: 6:42 am, August 30th, 2017 - 32 comments
New documents released under the OIA show that Bill English fought hide his involvement with the Todd Barclay scandal from media and the public. Coverups and lies, English is unfit for office.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 30th, 2017 - 77 comments
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Date published: 7:35 pm, August 29th, 2017 - 16 comments
Thursday August 31 Cardboard Cathedral at 7pm Meteria Turei speaks about the importance of addressing poverty, for all of us. See you there.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 29th, 2017 - 53 comments
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Date published: 1:34 pm, August 29th, 2017 - 47 comments
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Date published: 1:19 pm, August 29th, 2017 - 16 comments
Effective 2020. Terms & Conditions apply. House may or may not resemble the one pictured. Must prove you voted National in Election 2017
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