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Date published: 10:10 pm, March 3rd, 2016 - 73 comments
Turnout may be very important in the US presidential election – not good news for Hillary though.
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Date published: 6:00 pm, March 3rd, 2016 - 8 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: 11:52 am, March 3rd, 2016 - 48 comments
Any campaign against cyberbullying is going to need a more plausible figurehead than Key.
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Date published: 9:05 am, March 3rd, 2016 - 7 comments
The current closing date for public submissions on the TPP is Friday March 11th. Labour’s David Clark is calling for an extension.
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Date published: 7:30 am, March 3rd, 2016 - 104 comments
Why Hillary Clinton should be the Democratic nomination for this year’s American Presidential elections.
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Date published: 7:03 am, March 3rd, 2016 - 108 comments
Key is running from the flag debacle, further evidence that “preferred PM” and “popular” are not the same thing.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 3rd, 2016 - 81 comments
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Date published: 6:00 pm, March 2nd, 2016 - 3 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: 1:11 pm, March 2nd, 2016 - 78 comments
Iain Lees-Galloway on Labour offering tentative support for the Employment Standards Legislation Bill.
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Date published: 11:50 am, March 2nd, 2016 - 66 comments
In a shock horror expose Andrew Little has been exposed as having had dinner with people who work for drug companies. Clearly according to some it is better for him to never meet these people. Or to stop having dinners.
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Date published: 9:35 am, March 2nd, 2016 - 30 comments
Strange days indeed.
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Date published: 7:30 am, March 2nd, 2016 - 19 comments
Imperator Fish analyses the implications of that restaurant guy’s announcement that he will also seek to become Auckland super city’s next mayor.
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Date published: 7:02 am, March 2nd, 2016 - 70 comments
The real costs of the Auckland IT merger are at least six times higher than National’s original $200 million estimate. This significantly alters the economic case that was made for the “supercity”. Was National’s estimate deliberately wrong, or was it just incompetent?
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 2nd, 2016 - 94 comments
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Date published: 6:00 pm, March 1st, 2016 - 23 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: 1:25 pm, March 1st, 2016 - 19 comments
Stephanie Rodgers analyses two mayoral races and asks why the right in Auckland is so messy. And why Wellington looks more settled.
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Date published: 12:42 pm, March 1st, 2016 - 36 comments
A media release from Medicines New Zealand: “While New Zealanders wait for 81 medicines, PHARMAC gives money back”…
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Date published: 8:06 am, March 1st, 2016 - 232 comments
A term made up by the usual suspects to mock and belittle any criticism of their primary asset.
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Date published: 7:01 am, March 1st, 2016 - 110 comments
Credit where it’s due for an increase in the minimum wage – but the gap between that and a living wage keeps growing…
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 1st, 2016 - 101 comments
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Date published: 9:13 pm, February 29th, 2016 - 37 comments
Lying, incompetent or duped. One of these descriptions applies to Transport Minister Simon Bridges. He’s been sprung allowing Kiwirail to mothball a rail line he has repeatedly said was not under threat. What did he know and when? If he didn’t know, why the hell didn’t he know?
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Date published: 6:00 pm, February 29th, 2016 - 28 comments
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Date published: 11:04 am, February 29th, 2016 - 11 comments
Dr Ranginui Walker, leader, academic and writer on Māori issues, has died aged 83.
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Date published: 7:15 am, February 29th, 2016 - 30 comments
Charter schools showered with even more money for missing their targets. Something to do with forests, apparently.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 29th, 2016 - 210 comments
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Date published: 10:04 am, February 28th, 2016 - 159 comments
Next week the voting on part two of the Key Legacy Project © begins. We’re being given a choice between the outdated and the bland. The Butcher’s Apron or the Tea Towel. Do you care?
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Date published: 7:31 am, February 28th, 2016 - 107 comments
Ad on why the left should look at Trump’s populism and adopt some of the better parts.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 28th, 2016 - 200 comments
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Date published: 2:35 pm, February 27th, 2016 - 74 comments
As with Corbyn, and as with Syriza, the US oligarchy is now finding out that ordinary people are refusing to buy into the status quo regardless of how much big money spin is being spun.
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Date published: 1:39 pm, February 27th, 2016 - 13 comments
John Palino has all but announced that he will also stand for the super city Mayoralty and there is a rumour that Simon Lusk will be his campaign manager.
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Date published: 8:30 am, February 27th, 2016 - 72 comments
David Seymour will at ACT’s conference today outline why ACT and not the Greens is the real environmental party.
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