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Date published: 11:23 am, August 9th, 2017 - 76 comments
Labour has announced its water policy. Details include higher swimming water quality standards, a work task force to get young people off the dole replanting riperian margins and charges for commercial consumers with the royalties being paid to regional councils.
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Date published: 10:00 am, August 9th, 2017 - 21 comments
Some of Bill English’s texts have been released. And they are not what you might expect.
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Date published: 9:43 am, August 9th, 2017 - 5 comments
“Here’s a new idea for the Tories: Why not ask a simple question every time you propose a course of action: Is this morally just?”
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Date published: 8:12 am, August 9th, 2017 - 27 comments
It’s time to hear what poor people have to say about being poor.
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Date published: 7:05 am, August 9th, 2017 - 24 comments
Last night all the excitement finally caught up with them, leading to calls for Paddy Gower to resign and for MSM organisations to delete their social media accounts.
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Date published: 7:02 am, August 9th, 2017 - 48 comments
Much has been written about the Jacinda Ardern effect that has put Labour so enthusiastically back in the game. But the appointment of Kelvin Davis as deputy is also looking like a very smart move.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 9th, 2017 - 80 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 8th, 2017 - 28 comments
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Date published: 12:05 pm, August 8th, 2017 - 70 comments
Matthew Whitehead on what’s going on with the Greens.
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Date published: 10:38 am, August 8th, 2017 - 45 comments
The missing Newshub poll question has appeared at last, showing that Bill English has been damaged by his handling of the Barclay scandal. 56% of Kiwis (even 36% of Nats) have lost some trust in English. Updated: The texts have been “deleted”. English refusing to answer questions.
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Date published: 8:42 am, August 8th, 2017 - 277 comments
Shaw in his own words on where the party is at.
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Date published: 8:00 am, August 8th, 2017 - 45 comments
Is Jacinda Ardern’s rise to power evidence of a change of approach to political campaigning by Labour?
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Date published: 7:30 am, August 8th, 2017 - 22 comments
Act has announced a policy that would undermine current protection given to the Waitakere Ranges. If it gets a chance …
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Date published: 6:52 am, August 8th, 2017 - 45 comments
Yes. Quite seriously.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 8th, 2017 - 38 comments
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Date published: 6:23 pm, August 7th, 2017 - 405 comments
Newshub is reporting that two Green MPs have quit in protest at Metiria Turei remaining co-leader.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 7th, 2017 - 44 comments
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Date published: 2:58 pm, August 7th, 2017 - 17 comments
A major piece by Jessica McAllen in The Listener out today. Cash-strapped hospitals are using unsafe hardware-store versions of proper surgical-grade equipment, and reusing “single use” devices.
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Date published: 7:02 am, August 7th, 2017 - 49 comments
A week is a long time in politics, as the saying goes. The election has been turned upside down. The long pent-up mood for change has found its champion.
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Date published: 6:45 am, August 7th, 2017 - 31 comments
From the letter – “Prime Minister Bill English is asking National voters in Ohariu to support National with their Party vote and Peter Dunne with their Electorate vote as this year’s General Election.”
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Date published: 6:29 am, August 7th, 2017 - 126 comments
No doubt those purity pledge campaigners who rained stones on Metiria Turei will be just as keen to get to the bottom of all this, and no doubt Paula Bennett will be keen to take personal responsibility and clear her name.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 7th, 2017 - 135 comments
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Date published: 1:30 pm, August 6th, 2017 - 102 comments
Labour has announced its Auckland Transport policy.
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Date published: 8:33 am, August 6th, 2017 - 15 comments
In an attempt to take the thunder away from Labour’s Auckland Transport announcement National’s offer was leaked this week to the Herald. But it is uninspiring, and shows a continued commitment to roading as providing a solution.
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Date published: 8:25 am, August 6th, 2017 - 83 comments
Back in May the Nats chose Nikki Kaye as their vehicle to attack Jacinda Ardern. It didn’t work so well. This time round they’ve lead with Paula Bennett. According to Bennett, Ardern lacks the right kind of brain. Keep talking Paula…
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 6th, 2017 - 72 comments
An experimental post on The Standard, providing a discussion space for left-wing people only.
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Date published: 6:59 am, August 6th, 2017 - 107 comments
Kōrero Pono writes about the class divide within the parliamentary Left and the importance of the wider Left’s message in this election.
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 6th, 2017 - 78 comments
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Date published: 8:54 am, August 5th, 2017 - 20 comments
I was a participant in last weekend’s Newshub poll. Along with the question on Metiria Turei’s actions I was asked a similar one whether Bill English was correct and honest in his handling of the Todd Barclay scandal. We’ve heard a lot about the answer to the first question, nothing at all on the second…
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Date published: 7:02 am, August 5th, 2017 - 47 comments
Consider the sharp contrast between the lies and dirty politics that the Nats have brazened out in the last 9 years and the way that Metiria Turei fronted up and took responsibility for decades old youthful mistakes. Gower is right that it has headed off the Nats’ attack lines and they will be fuming.
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