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Date published: 6:00 am, December 11th, 2016 - 198 comments
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Date published: 9:46 pm, December 10th, 2016 - 31 comments
Bill English gets to name his own cabinet on Monday. It will be interesting to see what happens to McCully. In February McCully announced his intention to stand down in East Coast Bays and that he would seek a list place, but only if he remained as Minister of Foreign Affairs after the next election. It’s an ultimatum he may have cause to regret.
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Date published: 9:00 am, December 10th, 2016 - 18 comments
Denis Tegg has identified how a modest earthquake in the Coromandel could cause massive environmental devastation in Waihi if either of two tailings dams are ruptured.
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Date published: 8:30 am, December 10th, 2016 - 131 comments
Puddleglum has perhaps the most accurate description of the Key years and equates it as the equivalent of a Big Mac, perfectly engineered but ultimately deeply dissatisfying.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 10th, 2016 - 77 comments
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Date published: 8:43 pm, December 9th, 2016 - 162 comments
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to what you can argue for.”
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 9th, 2016 - 16 comments
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Date published: 10:19 am, December 9th, 2016 - 36 comments
Josie Pagani has criticised her friend Nick Leggett for switching to National and not sticking to his principles.
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Date published: 8:58 am, December 9th, 2016 - 110 comments
Charter schools are fiddling their results. Just another example of the way that education for profit is all about profit, with education hardly getting a look in. All of National’s ideological interventions in education are failures.
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Date published: 6:30 am, December 9th, 2016 - 222 comments
Video of left wingers responding to the news that Bill English will be National’s next leader.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 9th, 2016 - 123 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 8th, 2016 - 36 comments
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Date published: 1:59 pm, December 8th, 2016 - 162 comments
Judith Collins has withdrawn from the leadership race and pledged support for Bill English.
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Date published: 11:18 am, December 8th, 2016 - 13 comments
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Date published: 10:13 am, December 8th, 2016 - 22 comments
The EU has had a difficult year and its future looks uncertain. What happens if it goes?
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Date published: 6:56 am, December 8th, 2016 - 167 comments
The Herald has reported that David Shearer is expected to resign, forcing a by election in the new year.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 8th, 2016 - 144 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 7th, 2016 - 33 comments
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Date published: 12:15 pm, December 7th, 2016 - 128 comments
In the spirit of bi partisanship the Standard wishes to offer the candidates for leadership of the National caucus guest post slots and the ability to answer readers’ questions.
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Date published: 9:38 am, December 7th, 2016 - 18 comments
Bill English and Paula Bennett won’t be thinking about it this week, but Auckland’s Housing Crisis continues to get worse.
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Date published: 9:28 am, December 7th, 2016 - 24 comments
The policy wonk, the ambitious change-maker, or the no-bullshit bullshitter – the contenders for National Party Prime Minister set out their stalls yesterday with John Campbell. Just like the Kaikoura quake, their pitches exposed some complex fault-lines. It’ll be a long week in politics.
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Date published: 8:00 am, December 7th, 2016 - 84 comments
Now that we are entering the post Key era the Barbecue season presents the perfect time for all good progressives to talk to everyone about the importance of politics.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 7th, 2016 - 153 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 6th, 2016 - 36 comments
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Date published: 11:08 am, December 6th, 2016 - 48 comments
Key has been so dominant for so long that Nat MPs have become invisible. But now, for one glorious week, they enjoy a brief window of relevance. And the infighting has begun.
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Date published: 8:34 am, December 6th, 2016 - 224 comments
What is John Key’s legacy? Rampant Crown debt, child poverty, homelessness, climate change, dirty politics …
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Date published: 6:49 am, December 6th, 2016 - 145 comments
Key has long craved a “historic” 4th term. Interviewed on 24 September he was still saying he wanted it, he now claims he had already decided to quit. While rumours are hard to believe, something doesn’t add up here.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 6th, 2016 - 66 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 5th, 2016 - 39 comments
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