Minimum wage myths: unemployment
One of the old saws that the Right brings out whenever the topic of increasing the minimum wage comes up is ‘oh no, […]
Speak up, Pita. We can’t hear you
TVNZ reports: “Associate Education Minister Pita Sharples has labelled the National Standards policy as damaging to Maori but later refused to comment after […]
Reminder – Drinking Liberally Auckland
The first Auckland Drinking Liberally of 2010 takes place TODAY upstairs at The Purple Bar @ The Naval and Family and features new […]
Open mike 02/02/2010
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the […]
XT Outages
Last week thousands of Telecom XT network customers were without service, some for three days. This comes just weeks after a similar outage […]
Anonymous Dom editor has a cry
I see the DomPost is running a sniveling editorial claiming Labour’s commitment to raising the minimum wage can’t be done. It then breaks […]
Tim Watkin slams tax cuts for tax cheats
On the Q+A blog, Tim Watkin rips into the proposed tax changes. Part of the post: …You might think that such a new […]
Colin James on Labour’s election record
Dancr linked to Colin James’ piece in the Press the other day, in which he writes: Here’s Labour’s record for the five decades […]
Police recruitment campaign steps up a gear
It was probably well intentioned – and to be fair we don’t know the full facts yet – but on the face of […]
That made my Auckland anniversary day
Peter Dunne on his record against Jeanette Fitzsimmons is really an exercise in ego instead of substance
Penny-wise, pound foolish in Afghanistan
Foreign Minister Murray McCully is refusing to contribute any New Zealand money to a fund that will buy-off the Taliban’s foot soldiers. The […]
Goff on Q+A
A good appearance from Phil Goff on the first Q+A of the year. I liked this part especially: Guyon Espiner: You spoke in your […]
Open mike 01/02/2010
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the […]
Colin James on Labour 2010
I know Standard readers follow politics closely almost by definition, but for those who don’t here’s Colin James’ observations on the year ahead […]
Government by knee-jerk
John Key has told us that his government’s unrelenting focus this year will be the economy. He has also said his government will […]
Nats’ polling
Fran O’Sullivan wrote about how she was called by David Farrar’s Curia, National’s polling company, recently. What she was asked is revealing. She […]
The Great Giveaway
From where I’m sitting the Left will never be back in power, not because they will never win elections, but because the power […]
John Key – still clueless
John Key is now stands as being first in NZ for being ‘clueless’ on searches in Google. He is number seven in the world as being clueless. The google-bomb is still running! It will be interesting to push him to number one in the world.
Open mike 31/01/2010
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the […]
Key, the ABs, & the election date
I’ve been talking with some people about when John Key will call the next election. Two common points emerge: 1) it will be […]
Charlie Brooker’s school of news production
His formula appears to have been faithfully replicated here. Our only significant divergence is the recent inclusion of a live cross to the […]
Open mike 30/01/2010
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the […]
The Public Domain Manifesto
The public domain, as we understand it, is the wealth of information that is free from the barriers to access or reuse usually […]
Obama’s State of the Nation
I suspect more than one reader of the Standard would have been glued to the live stream yesterday of Obama’s state of the […]
Discussion: The usual suspects in 2009
Ok, I promised a review of the comments in 2009. Here are the usual suspects with both the number of comments and the […]
Steven Joyce and the new Think Big
The first half of an excellent piece by Kent Dunston of Save the Basin (which is opposing the construction of flyovers around the […]
Goff: no GST hikes or tax cuts for rich
In his speech yesterday Phil Goff articulated Labour’s position on tax in no uncertain terms and came out very strongly against wealthy tax dodgers […]
Turei pushing me back to RAM
Check out this exchange between Trevor Mallard and Metiria Turei on his Facebook page (great how the new media allows these spur of […]
The joy of tory trolls
One of the great pleasures I get from writing for The Standard is making the trolls scream. There’s no better sign that you’re […]
Thanks Jeanette
So Jeanette Fitzsimons is, as expected, resigning from Parliament. After 13 years her last day will be February 11th. Parliament will miss her […]
Goff advocates real solutions to crime
Goff and his advisers knew that the wage cap on public service CEOs would be the headline grabber of his widely praised speech. […]
Maintenance time
On Friday at 7 p.m the server is getting kernel upgrades and other maintenance upgrades. They reckon that it will take 10-15 minutes. […]
Open mike 29/01/2010
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the […]
Keys ‘Master Brand’ marketing.
The John Key led National Ltd® government lands yet another axe blow on our 100% Pure brand by cancelling a scheme recognised internationally as a best practice model. This latest announcement caps off a busy year for National Ltd® on the environmental front. Its list of actions include spending millions on establishing the 100% Pure Brand as the “Master Brand†of Aotearoa while simultaneously it has:
The many. Not the few
Phil Goff has just delivered his first major speech of the year to state what Labour stands for and where it is going. […]