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Date published: 7:20 am, August 13th, 2017 - 28 comments
The Green party resets its election campaign.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 13th, 2017 - 125 comments
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Date published: 3:00 pm, August 12th, 2017 - 60 comments
Donald Trump may not know it but Koreans certainly remember the last time the United States unleashed fire and fury over North Korea. In the 1950s, B-29s used bombs and napalm to flatten every North Korean city. Gen Curtis Lemay boasted that the USAF killed off 20% of the population. That’s why this time they have nuclear weapons.
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Date published: 12:15 pm, August 12th, 2017 - 4 comments
Great (Aussie) video on the gender pay gap… [twitter_video id=”895540259642986497″]
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Date published: 10:01 am, August 12th, 2017 - 29 comments
CTU President Richard Wagstaff writes on today’s actions about his opposition to the government attempt to dismember the historic decision in the Court of Appeal for pay equity by Kristine Bartlett and E tū. National has distorted the recommendations of the Joint Working Group to restrict or even eliminate equal pay for equal work.
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Date published: 9:09 am, August 12th, 2017 - 9 comments
The subversive power of collective joy is maximised when it occurs in public, politicised spaces as an affirmation of collective identity.
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Date published: 7:52 am, August 12th, 2017 - 2 comments
…the original black & white art for page 152 of Dylan Horrocks’s graphic novel Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen (published 2014, nominated for an Eisner Award)
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Date published: 7:01 am, August 12th, 2017 - 104 comments
Newshub reports a surge in nominations for Metiria to be the New Zealander of the Year.
I just love this idea and would encourage others to nominate her too.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 12th, 2017 - 52 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 11th, 2017 - 44 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: 9:03 am, August 11th, 2017 - 141 comments
I have been impressed with James Shaw lately. The Greens may have lost Turei, but they have seen Shaw grow in stature.
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Date published: 9:00 am, August 11th, 2017 - 69 comments
In the interests of keeping it simple, an obvious fact or two and a basic proposition.
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Date published: 8:43 am, August 11th, 2017 - 104 comments
Here’s a prediction for you.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 11th, 2017 - 144 comments
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Date published: 9:59 pm, August 10th, 2017 - 36 comments
An excellent account of her time as the longest serving woman MP in the NZ parliament.
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Date published: 7:05 pm, August 10th, 2017 - 39 comments
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Date published: 1:29 pm, August 10th, 2017 - 81 comments
“Hosking is an inappropriate choice to present the election debates in a fair, unbiased manner.”
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Date published: 11:49 am, August 10th, 2017 - 33 comments
“Mike Hosking will present the TVNZ election debates again”.
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Date published: 11:44 am, August 10th, 2017 - 35 comments
“Newshub political editor Patrick Gower has apologised to Green Party leader James Shaw for suggesting a bad poll result drove his co-leader to quit.” If you are angry about this – use your vote…
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Date published: 10:45 am, August 10th, 2017 - 90 comments
“We will not forget the thousands of you who came to us with your stories of hardship”
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Date published: 9:01 am, August 10th, 2017 - 69 comments
If Jacinda Ardern’s Labour can get a jump to 33-36% in the polls in just one week, how high can it go for the election? We need to see further gains coming from National – and they will. We need to see the Green vote recover – and it will…
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Date published: 8:39 am, August 10th, 2017 - 16 comments
Lots of big stuff going on at the moment, but other stories are significant too. The extent of the coverage of this blunder will be worrying the Nats.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 10th, 2017 - 98 comments
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Date published: 11:26 pm, August 9th, 2017 - 92 comments
If you want to know why the right is farting so much personal smoke, take a look at the poll trends 2011, 2014, 2017. It’s not a pretty picture for the Nats.
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Date published: 7:05 pm, August 9th, 2017 - 95 comments
Two polls out tonight show a big surge for Labour and Jacinda Ardern. But we need a strong Green vote too. To those whom Metiria inspired – please don’t give up on voting. The Greens need you now more than ever!
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Date published: 6:58 pm, August 9th, 2017 - 79 comments
There comes a point…
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Date published: 6:17 pm, August 9th, 2017 - 13 comments
This post was written and ready to go and then news of Metiria Turei stepping down hit. Some of it might read a little strangely because of that. I’ve changed some of the tenses used.
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Date published: 5:36 pm, August 9th, 2017 - 30 comments
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Date published: 5:14 pm, August 9th, 2017 - 195 comments
Metiria Turei has just announced that she will stand down as leader of the Green Party and she may relinquish her position on the Green list.
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Date published: 4:00 pm, August 9th, 2017 - 29 comments
Keep it seemly …
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