standard week

National/ACT won the election, fair enough. They won the right to govern and attempt to pass their laws. What they did not win […]

At the election, National won a mandate for its platform to review the Work Account of ACC, to see whether privatisation might make […]

The Standard Week has been on hiatus due to a combination of elections, forgetfulness, and binge drinking but it’s back. This week saw […]

Two more examples of senior Nats hiding their conflicts of interest, in violation of Parliament’s rules, were revealed on The Standard this week. […]

National’s MPs might be considering spending the next two weeks in bed, dreaming of victory. Because it seems every day they go out, […]

The polls are closing, National dropped 7% and 4% in the Roy Morgan and TV3 polls, respectively, as the full impact of Key’s […]

National finally released their tax cut policy this week. If you earn less than $14,000 a year, it’s the same as Labour’s cuts. […]

So, there’s no articles on Key in this edition of the Standard Week. I know! Hardly believable. But there’s a reason for that. […]

Slippery John does it again. Asked a clear question by a reporter, he lied to her face. It was only when Fran Mold […]

Work rights and judgement look to be central issues in the campaign. The Greens set the standard by putting forward a fantastic work […]

The election date was announced as November the 8th. Everyone had worked that out based on the available dates. But that didn’t stop […]

It’s all been on this week. Maurice Williamson promising $50 tolls and more before being forced to retract, a poll showing more Kiwis […]

As expected, the polls out last weekend did not show National being hit by the secret agenda tapes scandal because they were conducted […]

Quite a quiet week after the excitement of the secret agenda tapes last week. The Tories are keeping up their hunt for the […]

What a week. National has been in meltdown over the secret recordings. Bill English’s incredible initial reaction seemed like the launch of a […]

Another week of gonzo journalism and you can understand why people get turned off politics. While the press gallery concentrated on which of them was most […]

The big story of the week is National’s work rights policy that does nothing to further workers’ rights and actually undermines them in […]

Finally, policy. National has two policies which, by all rights, ought to be election losers: the 90 day no rights policy and the […]

Every time Bill English goes on Agenda, he lets a bit of National policy slip (anyone who thinks it’s an accident probably also […]

Three events this week epitomised the benefits of nine years of centre-left government: the continuing fall in benefit numbers, the Government’s moves to […]

Both major parties show-boated over getting tough on crime this week. The only difference being Labour actually had policy; National, just slogans. We generally steer […]

Another week of shadow boxing, as National tried to keep its policy secret and hints leaked out. But it gave us the chance […]

We know that if you miss a couple of days of The Standard you can have 15 posts to read. Even though we try […]