Daily Review 03/11/2015
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Welcome Marama Davidson
Welcome to new Green MP Marama Davidson.
DoC Staff Striking during Conservation Week
How far removed from a ‘cloth-capped mob of union-stirrers and industrial saboteurs’ would the staff of the Department of Conservation be? These people […]
Whaleoil shall overcome
Cameron Slater has had his advertising income from Google cut off for stating that the only solution is to kill adherants of the Islamic faith before they kill us. And he thinks that fundamental rights are involved …
4 days Left to answer Ombudsmen Survey
People have just four days left to tell the Chief Ombudsman about their experiences of making requests to government agencies under the Official Information Act if they are to inform her enquiry into government agencies’ OIA practices.
Is this our brighter future?
This morning’s media has reports of increased domestic violence being reported by beneficiaries and an increase of the time and resources the police are having to put into helping the mentally unwell. And record profits earned by the Australian banks.
Foxy on John Key and the RWC
If a picture paints a thousand words this cartoon by Foxy paints a million.
Open mike 03/11/2015
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Daily Review 02/11/2015
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Jonathan Pie wants the world economy explained
Jonathan Pie discusses the meaning of the World’s economy in 3 minutes and 11 seconds.
30 Years after ANZUS (and we’re doing fine)
More than a million comments
As at 08:30 NZST 2nd November 2015, we passed having more than a million approved and published comments. It is a little later than was predicted by Eddie back in March 2012, but was a pretty damn accurate estimate given the vagaries of the political cycles.
Dear Stuart Nash
Stuart Nash has criticised members of the Labour and this blog for having open and occasionally forceful debate.
Fouling our nest
New Zealand is a beautiful country, and tourism is our second biggest earner of foreign exchange. We’d be stupid to trash the place, right?
Open mike 02/11/2015
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Muslim Gives Away Medal.
For some, winning isn’t just about grabbing the glory.
Paying a generous wage
Well paid staff are happy, productive staff. Who’d have thought it!
Indonesia is burning
There is a catastrophic event happening in one of the world’s more populous nations which is receiving very little attention from the media. Indonesia is burning and no one is paying attention
Open mike 01/11/2015
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ABs vs Australia
Will the All Blacks be the first team to defend a RWC title?
Finally Fighting for Democracy?
Boots on ground.
Petition on Slater’s hate speech
US ship visit and nuclear free NZ
The US has been invited to send a ship to NZ. One News has a headline about a “nuclear ship”. Explosive if true, but I think this is an error. There is some confusion on the matter, let’s hope it is cleared up fast.
Open mike 31/10/2015
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Daily Review 30/10/2015
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Food Bank Charity
Guest post from Kōrero Pono on the politics and ethics of food banks.
Weekend social 30/10/2015
Weekend social is for non political chat. What’s on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no […]
Dirty Politics was in the public interest
Today’s anonymous editorial in The Herald makes for interesting reading, with the right conclusion in the end – Hager’s Dirty Politics served a genuine public interest, and should be legally protected as such.
Q&A with Scoop’s Alastair Thompson
Scoop’s Alastair Thompson will be joining us live around 10am. Do you have questions on the future of the media, public service journalism, or plans for the Scoop Foundation? Ask them here!
Were people smugglers paid money to take refuges away from New Zealand?
Amnesty International has published a report “By Hook or by Crook: Australia’s Abuse of Asylum-Seekers at Sea” which has rightfully been described as a damning indictment of Australia’s handling of the refugee crisis. But New Zealand benefitted from payments of money to people smugglers. What did the Government know?
Five years as a united Auckland
Auckland Council is delivering a publication to all Auckland households celebrating five years of Auckland super city. But is there any reason to celebrate?
Open mike 30/10/2015
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Daily Review 29/10/2015
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Tomorrow – Q&A with Scoop’s Alastair Thompson
For 16 years Scoop has been making an enormous contribution to the NZ media landscape. On Friday at 10am Scoop’s Alastair Thompson will join us here on The Standard for a question and answer session.
Technology and the law – and going after Hager
A recent supreme court ruling that a “stored sequence of bytes” constitutes property is pretty bizarre – and it seems to be being used to go after Nicky Hager.
Open mike 29/10/2015
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