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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>Human face of public service cuts</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/human-face-of-public-service-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Michie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[john key]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[johh key]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good human interest story in the DomPost today about the human costs of public service jobs cuts. A Wellington woman has written a letter to Prime Minister John after her 63-year-old mother learned last week that her position at the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry is to be axed. Staffing cuts after a merger with the Fisheries ...]]></description>
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		<title>National = Ideological Stupidity.</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/national-ideological-stupidity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lprent</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[democratic participation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john key]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[same old national]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=42706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[National have been undemocratically shutting down the avenues to amend their ideologically stupid legislation. They ignore submissions to select committees and abuse the parliamentary process of urgency. The only effective means of diverting them from pushing through unworkable legislation is proving to be protests and direct action. Consequently you can expect to see a lot more of it.]]></description>
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		<title>Kerre Woodham on three strikes law</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/kerre-woodham-on-three-strikes-law/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/kerre-woodham-on-three-strikes-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 01:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>all_your_base</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kerre woodham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talkback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[three strikes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thestandard.org.nz/?p=38951</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kerre Woodham's just penned an endorsement of the three strikes act.

She admits that it probably won't do what it sets out to do. She accepts that it might be unjust. She understands that it will be expensive. Nevertheless she supports it. 

Here's why...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>A love that will not die</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/a-love-that-will-not-die/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/a-love-that-will-not-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eddie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[john armstrong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john key]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=33639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I tried to write a satire of John Armstrong's <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&#38;objectid=10632457">column</a> today along the lines of the '<a href="http://www.thestandard.org.nz/glorious-school-building-opened-by-honourable-leader/">Beloved Key</a>' one I did the other day. But I've had to give it away. It's beyond parody.

So, I guess I'll do some serious analysis instead.]]></description>
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		<title>Herald cans fact-checking, opts for dogwhistles</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/herald-fact-checking-woeful/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/herald-fact-checking-woeful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eddie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[charles chauvel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clint heine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dita de boni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fred phillips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nz herald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stephanie phillips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=33608</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New Zealand Herald has never been shy of attacking blogs for their lack of journalistic standards and editorial rigour, but given some of their recent work you've got to wonder who they think they're kidding.

Take today's woeful <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&#38;objectid=10632523">piece</a> by Dita De Boni pontificating about Charles Chauvel and those screaming kids on his plane.]]></description>
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		<title>But how much did the bus cost?</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/but-how-much-did-the-bus-cost/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/but-how-much-did-the-bus-cost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty G</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anne tolley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nz herald]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=32907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["<a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&#38;objectid=10631063&#38;pnum=0">Tolley finds ally in school mum</a>" screams the headline of Audrey Young's piece today.

When National runs a bus tour the Herald is desperate in its attempts to drum up support, when it's Labour all they want to talk about is how much the bus is costing the taxpayer.]]></description>
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		<title>GST is not a tax &#8211; suck it up</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/gst-is-not-a-tax-suck-it-up/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/gst-is-not-a-tax-suck-it-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John A</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karlo mila]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=30107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The best political commentary these days doesn&#8217;t come from the political journalists. As Zetetic shows, they have turned themselves into government minders. But there are others who tell it like it is. Such as Karlo Mila in today&#8217;s DomPost. The article was headed up &#8220;If you could just suck it up, that would be nice.&#8221; ...]]></description>
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		<title>Anonymous Dom editor has a cry</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/anonymous-dom-editor-has-a-cry/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/anonymous-dom-editor-has-a-cry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IrishBill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minimum wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dominion post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=29294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I see the DomPost is running a sniveling editorial claiming Labour&#8217;s commitment to raising the minimum wage can&#8217;t be done. It then breaks out the dodgy unadjusted maths to claim Labour would never have lifted the minimum wage to $15 if it was in power because it &#8220;only&#8221; lifted it by $5 last time and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Getting it right</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/getting-it-right/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/getting-it-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eddie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[colin espiner]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=27296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Colin Espiner has a piece in the Dom Post today attributing Labour&#8217;s four point rise in the polls to Goff&#8217;s &#8216;Nationhood&#8217; speech. He goes on, in what can&#8217;t help but be interpreted as a wee dig at The Standard: after 30 years in politics, it&#8217;s also possible [Goff] knows the electorate a bit better than ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rod Oram on the Brash report</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/rod-oram-on-the-brash-report/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/rod-oram-on-the-brash-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dancr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monetary policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=26789</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All the arguments in one handy location &#8211; thank you Rod Oram, who in his SSTimes column says: &#8230;All it [the report] can say is: we&#8217;re not sure what the problems are or what we can do about them. But much lower taxes, government spending and regulation will do the trick. It offers no evidence ...]]></description>
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		<title>With some time to consider&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/with-some-time-to-consider/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/with-some-time-to-consider/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dancr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labour]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=26489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about the reaction Phil Goff has had to his Nationhood speech, and whether Team Labour would be happy with the way it&#8217;s rolled out. Got headlines, tick, got commentators to notice, tick, appealed to demographic &#8216;non-Labour voting male&#8217;, tick, made some positioning statements on policy, tick. But what about the down side? ...]]></description>
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		<title>Blame it on the genes</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/blame-it-on-the-genes/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/blame-it-on-the-genes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dancr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[articles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=24015</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The American asks: Who are smarter, liberals or conservatives? This is the kind of question that could spark fierce and endless debates between political opponents, but what if we could know, scientifically, that one side has the edge in brainpower? Should that change how we think about political issues? This interesting article points out that ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Granny&#8217;s waterworks</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/grannys-waterworks/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/grannys-waterworks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty G</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infratil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nz herald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=23974</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think Granny Herald must have shares in Infratil, based on her rubbish editorial today: Particular fervour is reserved for private-sector participation in this sector, perhaps because water is one of life&#8217;s necessities. Rarely is it conceded that, in reality, it occupies the same utility bag as electricity, which in this country and elsewhere has ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>ACC fracas &#8216;truly dumb&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/acc-fracas-truly-dumb/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/acc-fracas-truly-dumb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eddie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tim hazledine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=22833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim Hazledine, a professor of economics at the University of Auckland, has a nice piece in the Herald today that lays out just how absurd National&#8217;s spin about the ACC &#8220;blowout&#8221; really is. Suppose you and your spouse are in charge of a family of, say, three young children. That means you are legally responsible ...]]></description>
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		<title>Images of the &#8217;00&#8242;s</title>
		<link>http://thestandard.org.nz/images-of-the-00s/</link>
		<comments>http://thestandard.org.nz/images-of-the-00s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dancr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[articles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=22770</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pausing for a moment from the steamroller of local politics  &#8211; here we have some of the significant moments of the last nine years, courtesy of the Guardian. They&#8217;ve put together these  images of the &#8217;00&#8242;s. What would a Kiwi version look like?]]></description>
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