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Daily Review 24/06/2016

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Date published: 6:00 pm, June 24th, 2016 - 20 comments

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas 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 …

No accountability under Key

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Date published: 10:03 am, June 24th, 2016 - 63 comments

Rebstock’s report into into leaks from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has been absolutely torn apart by the Ombudsman, with multiple serious flaws identified. This morning Key expressed his continuing confidence in Rebstock. Of course.

Should I stay or should I go?

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Date published: 7:30 am, June 24th, 2016 - 24 comments

Brexit or bremain whatever happens today the United Kingdom will never be the same.

Brexit or Bremain

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Date published: 6:06 am, June 24th, 2016 - 123 comments

Britain is in its final hours of voting in the historic and contentious EU referendum. Will it be Brexit or Bremain? Update: Brexit it is.

Open mike 24/06/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 24th, 2016 - 146 comments

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Daily Review 23/06/2016

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Date published: 6:00 pm, June 23rd, 2016 - 31 comments

Daily review is also your post.  This provides Standarnistas 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 …

The Herald says you don’t want a pay rise

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Date published: 4:09 pm, June 23rd, 2016 - 32 comments

You might be surprised to learn this, but you don’t want a pay rise.

Four personal stories

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Date published: 10:24 am, June 23rd, 2016 - 38 comments

From the “Brighter Future”, four personal stories published recently are all well worth reading.

GPS

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Date published: 8:00 am, June 23rd, 2016 - 219 comments

GPS may offer the perfect way to enforce a fuel tax but how do we feel about the Government knowing where we are and where we are heading every minute of the day?

Panama papers: investors were advised how to avoid Government disclosure obligations

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Date published: 7:23 am, June 23rd, 2016 - 70 comments

Doubt has been cast on the utility of John Key’s claim that New Zealand is not a tax haven because there are disclosure treaties with the revelation that Mossack Fonseca’s primary New Zealand agent instructed clients to avoid investing in those countries.

Open mike 23/06/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 23rd, 2016 - 153 comments

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Stopping the clock

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Date published: 11:11 pm, June 22nd, 2016 - 21 comments

John Key’s refused to stop the clock on Kiwi workers losing a million dollars a day. That’s a mistake.

A Tale of Two Droughts

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Date published: 6:38 pm, June 22nd, 2016 - 44 comments

Climate change is now causing extreme dry weather events and is increasingly blamed for water shortages. But what we are doing on the ground has just as much influence on our experience of drought. As New Zealand farmers call for drought relief this winter, it’s time we looked at how we manage land and water, and the critical role this plays in whether humans can live with variable rainfall in the age of climate change. Here’s a stellar example from India.

Daily Review 22/06/2016

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Date published: 6:00 pm, June 22nd, 2016 - 50 comments

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Guest Post: How to preserve workers’ entitlements to past holiday pay

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Date published: 5:05 pm, June 22nd, 2016 - 9 comments

Eva Hartshorn-Sanders on the background to the Holiday Leave Protection Bill, why it is important for the Bill to be passed into law and what you can do to support it.

Dirty Politics Farrar and freedom of speech

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Date published: 1:45 pm, June 22nd, 2016 - 119 comments

There’s a petition – Get Rid of Hosking – it’s closing in on 16K signatures. Dirty Politics Farrar is a mite agitated about it, so let’s all give the Streisand effect a big hand.

When is a toll road not a toll road?

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Date published: 9:36 am, June 22nd, 2016 - 37 comments

When it is a variable network pricing mechanism …

Our zombie economy

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Date published: 7:04 am, June 22nd, 2016 - 149 comments

It’s basically flat-lining – only partially animated by immigration and a housing bubble.

Open mike 22/06/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 22nd, 2016 - 93 comments

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Daily Review 21/06/2016

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Date published: 6:00 pm, June 21st, 2016 - 25 comments

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ECAN turning a blind eye

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Date published: 12:56 pm, June 21st, 2016 - 41 comments

Is ECAN just another typical Nat party fuckup, or are they deliberately turning a blind eye?

Another shocking environmental record

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Date published: 10:28 am, June 21st, 2016 - 16 comments

The world’s news is full of new environmental records. Here’s a shocker.

Pay up Compass

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Date published: 10:22 am, June 21st, 2016 - 39 comments

Not only has Compass being serving below quality food to hospital patients but it appears that they may not have paid some long term employees what they are entitled to.

Can We Support Phil Goff for Auckland Mayor?

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Date published: 9:00 am, June 21st, 2016 - 59 comments

Every year, Auckland is more of New Zealand. More of its real estate risk, more of its social problems, more of its productivity drag. Just more. And hence more of its politics. This government has long since abandoned policy coherence over any Auckland issue: housing, immigration, innovation, transport, electricity, youth employment, poverty, public health, growth, […]

Open mike 21/06/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 21st, 2016 - 143 comments

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Mission Creep

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Date published: 7:06 pm, June 20th, 2016 - 50 comments

The military mission to Iraq is to be extended by another 18 months, much to nobody’s surprise. John Key has put the creep into the mission.

RM: National Party support falls 2.5% to 43%

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Date published: 7:02 pm, June 20th, 2016 - 138 comments

National support is down 2.5% to 43% in the latest Roy Morgan, just ahead of LAB/GR at 42.5% (up 1%).

Daily Review 20/06/2016

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Date published: 6:00 pm, June 20th, 2016 - 53 comments

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Another day at Te Puea Marae

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Date published: 12:54 pm, June 20th, 2016 - 7 comments

An update on Te Puea Marae, a homeless teen cancer sufferer, and how to help.

The strange case of the disappearance of a Stuff article critical of Lord Mike Hosking

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Date published: 10:13 am, June 20th, 2016 - 54 comments

Are we doing censorship to protect the government’s media assets now?

Hone Harawira is getting the band back together

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Date published: 10:00 am, June 20th, 2016 - 54 comments

It’s useful with controversial politicians to hear what they actually say, and in context too. Here’s Harawira in his own words.