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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 12th, 2016 - 69 comments
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Date published: 1:24 pm, December 12th, 2016 - 87 comments
English is not making the same stupid pledge as Key, to let superannuation consume the future. Time for a cross party accord. Take it off the table as a political football and solve the damn problem.
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Date published: 10:18 am, December 12th, 2016 - 110 comments
Bye John, out with the old. And in with the old. Shortly the Nats will anoint the chosen one, Bill English. A pre-failed leader. Mr 21%. The greedy double dipper. The boring, conservative choice for a boring conservative party.
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Date published: 8:24 am, December 12th, 2016 - 88 comments
In the Manakau District Court later this morning the trial of Ben Rachinger on fraud charges related to a admitted solicitation attempt to hack this site by Cameron Slater begins. The trial is set down for 5 days. Unfortunately I won’t be there. However there aren’t any court orders to prevent me from expressing my views and advice on the trial.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 12th, 2016 - 109 comments
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Date published: 9:24 pm, December 11th, 2016 - 86 comments
Newshub has revealed the attempt to seal Pike River mine is now facing both legal, and physical, roadblocks.
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Date published: 1:19 pm, December 11th, 2016 - 31 comments
Things are too serious to sanction the doom-merchants.
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Date published: 11:39 am, December 11th, 2016 - 15 comments
Tax cuts – the Nats are continuing to rule them both in and out for the election. Incoherence or deliberate strategy? Either way – Key got away with this kind of bullshit for 8 long years – are we going to let it continue?
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Date published: 8:55 am, December 11th, 2016 - 15 comments
Donald Trump’s transition team have been quizzing state employees of the Department of Energy about their beliefs and activities in relation to climate change. Is a clear out of those who believe climate change is a reality possible? And why is he refusing to investigate the possibility that Russia affected the Presidential election in his favour?
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Date published: 7:30 am, December 11th, 2016 - 22 comments
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
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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
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: 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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