Daily review 08/03/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 8th, 2021 - 90 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 …
How to Put A Stake Through Our Monarchy’s Heart
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Date published: 2:13 pm, March 8th, 2021 - 31 comments
The Monarchy’s attacks on Meaghan Markle may backfire spectacularly.
Open mike 08/03/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 8th, 2021 - 117 comments
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National is focused on the issues that matter to Kiwis
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Date published: 9:22 am, March 7th, 2021 - 39 comments
National MP Barbara Kuriger has seized on the decision of the owners of Dr Seuss’s copyright to discontinue the printing of six Dr Seuss books with questionable content as evidence of cancel culture and has misrepresented which books are being discontinued.
So, You Want To Buy Your First Home?
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Date published: 7:00 am, March 7th, 2021 - 75 comments
Money does not grow on trees, it grows on houses. It is pure magic!
Open mike 07/03/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 7th, 2021 - 31 comments
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UBI experiment success
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Date published: 11:11 am, March 6th, 2021 - 46 comments
A newly published report in the United States on a two year UBI trial shows remarkable results. Is such a trial possible in New Zealand?
Sugar is evil
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Date published: 9:18 am, March 6th, 2021 - 20 comments
With the recent High Court trial brought by three academics highlighting the undeserved attacks on their reputations by entities associated with the food industry now having concluded it is time for the Government to think about banning sugary drinks from schools. And a sugar tax.
Open mike 06/03/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 6th, 2021 - 38 comments
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Daily review 05/03/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 5th, 2021 - 27 comments
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Biden can reset with China
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Date published: 10:36 am, March 5th, 2021 - 43 comments
New Zealand should resist China’s authoritarian ways, and U.S. President Biden should too. But it’s all in how he does it.
Open mike 05/03/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 5th, 2021 - 87 comments
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Daily review 04/03/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 4th, 2021 - 16 comments
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Dirty politics denouement
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Date published: 10:27 am, March 4th, 2021 - 29 comments
Another chapter of dirty politics has reached its conclusion with Carrick Graham offering an abject apology to Doug Sellman, Boyd Swinburn and Shane Bradbook for smearing their reputation via the Whaleoil website.
Open mike 04/03/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 4th, 2021 - 68 comments
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Daily review 03/03/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 3rd, 2021 - 23 comments
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Senior Business Leaders Call Out To Government. Again
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Date published: 8:12 am, March 3rd, 2021 - 41 comments
Senior business leaders have called for more openness and clarity from the Government on its plan for getting New Zealand to “COVID normal”. But have failed to say what they would do to contribute or what they are doing to help.
Open mike 03/03/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 3rd, 2021 - 74 comments
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Daily review 02/03/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 2nd, 2021 - 29 comments
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Post Carbon Institute: Capitalism, the Doomsday Machine (or, How to Repurpose Growth Capital)
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 2nd, 2021 - 21 comments
Foundational Capital and Growth Capital, and what we should be doing with both.
Open mike 02/03/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 2nd, 2021 - 102 comments
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Daily review 01/03/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 1st, 2021 - 14 comments
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Open mike 01/03/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 1st, 2021 - 51 comments
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No Right Turn: Give the Rangitata back
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Date published: 12:10 pm, February 28th, 2021 - 28 comments
If we want to protect our environment and ourselves, we need to scale this back. And the easiest way to do that is give the river back: remove or massively scale back those consents, and let the rivers flow.
Level 3 again … be kind
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Date published: 10:16 am, February 28th, 2021 - 136 comments
Auckland is back into level three lockdown.
Open mike 28/02/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 28th, 2021 - 121 comments
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Open mike 27/02/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 27th, 2021 - 125 comments
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Amandla …
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Date published: 9:07 am, February 26th, 2021 - 5 comments
David Seymour and Act have likened the institutional suppression of people based on the colour of their skin with a desire to ensure local government representation for Tangata Whenua.
Open mike 26/02/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 26th, 2021 - 177 comments
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Open mike 25/02/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 25th, 2021 - 195 comments
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The case for mandatory legislative review
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Date published: 9:12 am, February 24th, 2021 - 15 comments
You can’t read legislation for very long without finding instances of weird edge cases. But is also why we have kids trying to walk or bike on gravel roads with no sidewalks to get to school. When modern cars travel these narrow lanes at up to 100km/hour. Parliament has no systematic way to review obsolete legislation.
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