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	<title>The Standard &#187; Tane</title>
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	<description>The New Zealand labour movement used to have its own newspaper. A group of us thought that now might be a good time for it to be digitally reborn: The Standard v2.0 - now in a new format The Standard v3.0</description>
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		<title>Calling it a day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 21:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vanity posts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started writing for The Standard way back in August 2007 I never envisaged it would become what it is today, nor that it would take up anywhere near as much of my time as it does. A year and half later, I&#8217;ve decided I want my life back. Contrary to the conspiracy ...]]></description>
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		<title>TVNZ upholds Paul Henry complaint</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/tvnz-upholds-paul-henry-complaint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 05:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[scoundrels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paul henry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see TVNZ has upheld the complaint against Paul Henry over his disgraceful abuse of a guest on his show. TVNZ spokeswoman Megan Richards said TVNZ had upheld the complaints against Henry because Ms Mills was treated unfairly. It had written back to the about 30 people who complained and apologised to them, she told ...]]></description>
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		<title>Public want banks pulled into line</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[workers' rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finsec]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I posted on Finsec&#8217;s petition to make job protection a condition of the Government&#8217;s bank guarantees. Today Finsec are delivering that petition to Parliament, along with more than 10,000 signatures in support. Great stuff to all of you who signed the sheet and sent it in. The union&#8217;s position is pretty simple. At ...]]></description>
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		<title>Backlash building on supercity</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/backlash-building-on-supercity/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/backlash-building-on-supercity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 23:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[auckland supercity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy under attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[referendum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john key]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rodney Hide]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=12851</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The unseemly haste with which the National/Act Government is pursuing its undemocratic supercity is causing more and more people to wake up to the con job they are pulling. A Reid poll (ignored by the Herald but run by the community newspapers) shows where just weeks ago the public was split evenly on the proposed ...]]></description>
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		<title>Oh dear.</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/oh-dear-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 04:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mt albert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melissa lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ravi masuku]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=12823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back we heard a rumour that National had already printed its billboards for the Mt Albert campaign &#8211; with Melissa Lee as the candidate. We decided not to run it. It was too implausible to think they would run the risk of doing that before they have their selection process tonight and name ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>Quarterly Employment Survey</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/quarterly-employment-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 02:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national/act government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=12789</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Quarterly Employment Survey out today shows that 46,700 jobs disappeared between December and March. That&#8217;s 2.6% of jobs gone in a single quarter. Unemployment is probably well over 6%, we&#8217;ll find out exactly what it is later this week. 47,000 jobs lost while the government has done next to nothing to create and save ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Progressive?</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/progressive/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/progressive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 23:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[greens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mt albert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david shearer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gordon campbell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morning Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radio nz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russel norman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was deeply depressing to wake up this morning to the sound of Russel Norman running National Party attack lines on Radio NZ. For a party that has the best policy by far on how to deal with the huge economic and environmental challenges we face, it&#8217;s disappointing to see the Greens voluntarily descend into ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>95</slash:comments>
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		<title>Coincidence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 17:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air con]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ian wishart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the cover of Ian Wishart&#8217;s latest piece of scientifically illiterate climate change denialism, Air Con: And here&#8217;s the poster for World Fair Trade Day 2008: It seems an unlikely coincidence. [Hat tip: forgetaboutthelastone in the comments.]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>The republic can wait</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/the-republic-can-wait/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/the-republic-can-wait/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 22:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national/act government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no right turn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nz herald]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=12653</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No Right Turn highlights Thursday&#8217;s Herald editorial calling for our political leaders to step up and take some leadership in the republic debate. The Herald argues: If republican sentiment is to blossom, it needs to be galvanised from above. Such a process, done well, would lead to a seeping into the national consciousness of the ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Herald preaches class warfare</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/class-warfare-from-the-herald/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/class-warfare-from-the-herald/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 02:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nz herald]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;d told me the Herald would use International Workers&#8217; Day as an opportunity to preach class warfare I wouldn&#8217;t have believed you. But there&#8217;s really no other way to describe today&#8217;s editorial. We all know the Government is running a large deficit at the moment. Of course, the deficit would be much smaller (about ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Politicising the public service</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/politicising-the-public-service/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/politicising-the-public-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[public services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=12595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the last Labour government the Kiwiblog Right used to call Wellington &#8216;Helengrad&#8217;, a play on Leningrad. Ironic then that, after the election of National, David Farrar humorously changed the name to &#8216;St Johnnysburg&#8217;, based on the Russian city&#8217;s czarist name. Because the Nats are making Labour look like amateurs when it comes to authoritarianism. ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>International Workers&#8217; Day</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/international-workers-day/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/international-workers-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[notices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=12642</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re in Auckland tonight get along for the annual May Day march up Queen Street. Poster below. More events, including for other centres, are listed here.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Entrenchment back on the agenda</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/entrenchment-back-on-the-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/entrenchment-back-on-the-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maori party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maori seats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mita ririnui]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=12556</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Good to see Labour pursuing a private member&#8217;s bill to entrench the Maori seats. Mita Ririnui, who&#8217;s lodging the bill, says it &#8220;will ensure that the Maori seats in Parliament will not be able to be abolished unless 75 per cent of MPs in any Parliament vote in favour of such a move. &#8216;The only ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lane Walker Rudkin</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/lane-walker-rudkin/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/lane-walker-rudkin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lane walker rudkin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=12536</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I see poor management and a bitter marital tiff have put the jobs of 470 workers at Lane Walker Rudkin on the line and cast doubt on the future of yet another iconic Kiwi company. As the NDU&#8217;s Maxine Gay points out, communities like Timaru, Greytown and Pahiatua simply can&#8217;t afford to take a hit ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>54</slash:comments>
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		<title>On that Trevett piece</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/on-that-trevett-piece/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/on-that-trevett-piece/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[claire trevett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nz herald]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=12495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing with today&#8217;s media criticism theme, I&#8217;ve got to disagree with my comrade Eddie&#8217;s post this morning about the Claire Trevett piece in the Herald where she appears to celebrate John Key&#8217;s obfuscation over his position on the supercity rather than demanding answers herself. While it would be easy to attribute the style of the ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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