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Date published: 6:48 pm, April 26th, 2016 - 329 comments
The latest Roy Morgan poll results and National’s support has plunged.
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Date published: 6:00 pm, April 26th, 2016 - 18 comments
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Date published: 3:23 pm, April 26th, 2016 - 4 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on the renewables target and futility of targets without plans.
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Date published: 1:55 pm, April 26th, 2016 - 4 comments
Well nothing apart from …
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Date published: 8:18 am, April 26th, 2016 - 126 comments
John Key is preparing the ground for a reversal on National’s refusal to do anything about Auckland’s housing crisis.
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Date published: 7:30 am, April 26th, 2016 - 23 comments
Preliminary evidence shows how social media giants like Facebook and Google could influence elections. Should we be worried?
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 26th, 2016 - 23 comments
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Date published: 5:59 pm, April 25th, 2016 - 48 comments
Still out of touch and running out of time.
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Date published: 6:06 am, April 25th, 2016 - 62 comments
Today is Anzac Day, 101 years since ANZAC forces began the Gallipoli campaign.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 25th, 2016 - 108 comments
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Date published: 2:01 pm, April 24th, 2016 - 35 comments
The Standard has obtained a copy of a Crosby Textor memo concerning risks posed by Murray McCully’s handling of issues surrounding the awarding of the contract for the Niue resort.
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Date published: 10:56 am, April 24th, 2016 - 60 comments
Hide’s Herald piece today is straight out of Dirty Politics Farrar’s playbook.
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Date published: 8:30 am, April 24th, 2016 - 22 comments
Jim Parker criticises the actions of a Channel Nine film crew whose involvement in an international attempted kidnapping of two children raises ethical and legal issues.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 24th, 2016 - 92 comments
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Date published: 10:48 am, April 23rd, 2016 - 61 comments
Back in my youth I decided that there were things that were worth fighting for when it became necessary. It is a viewpoint that I have never had to change, and it shows in what I do. If you want a society worth living in, then you need to make sure that it either stays that way, or moves towards it. Less memorials and more effort is a better way to remember our dead and maimed.
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Date published: 9:30 am, April 23rd, 2016 - 43 comments
A recent post from Salon. Robert Reich believes that the left and right have more in common than they think.
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Date published: 8:34 am, April 23rd, 2016 - 18 comments
NZ under the Key government has hit new depths of ignominy as per capita the world’s biggest climate change cheat. And we plan to keep using the fraudulent “credits” we have purchased.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 23rd, 2016 - 24 comments
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Date published: 6:00 pm, April 22nd, 2016 - 9 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: 4:10 pm, April 22nd, 2016 - 26 comments
I don’t like to boast, but I have solved the housing crisis.
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Date published: 9:22 am, April 22nd, 2016 - 89 comments
“My message to the gangs is clear. This Government is coming after your business and we will use every tool we have to destroy it. We will be ruthless in our pursuit of you and the evil drug you push.”
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Date published: 9:02 am, April 22nd, 2016 - 201 comments
The New Zealand Initiative has produced a research paper attacking the proposal for a sugar tax. But who is it and who is it speaking on behalf of?
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Date published: 7:11 am, April 22nd, 2016 - 85 comments
I/S at No Right Turn the “data supermarket” and privacy concerns. “The government wants to be able to effectively spy on and database everyone, so they can save a few dollars here and there.”
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 22nd, 2016 - 51 comments
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Date published: 6:00 pm, April 21st, 2016 - 40 comments
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Date published: 10:59 am, April 21st, 2016 - 122 comments
Little is doing his job. Dirty Politics Farrar is spinning like mad. The real questions are – who knew about the donations, when did they know, and were they involved in awarding the contract?
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Date published: 10:44 am, April 21st, 2016 - 86 comments
Oravida is in the news again. It is exporting hundreds of millions of dollars of fresh water and the cost to the authorities of $500 per year.
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Date published: 9:14 am, April 21st, 2016 - 66 comments
Received political wisdom is that NZ is a conservative country, tending to the right. Interesting then, to see this data on our voting preferences re American presidential candidates.
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Date published: 9:00 am, April 21st, 2016 - 199 comments
John Key, explaining why he had an account with tax avoidance specialists Antipodes Trust Group, said he used the firm because his long-term friend, Ken Whitney, is a principal at the firm and has been his private lawyer for many years. The flaw in that theory is that Whitney is not currently a lawyer.
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 21st, 2016 - 50 comments
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Date published: 6:00 pm, April 20th, 2016 - 54 comments
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