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NRT: A lawless multinational

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:15 am, March 30th, 2018 - 5 comments

Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn on Facebook and the Privacy Commissioner.

End Oil

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:05 am, March 30th, 2018 - 9 comments

Gareth Hughes explains in just over 1 minute why we can’t use the fossil fuels we’ve already found, let alone any we might go exploring for.

Open Mike 30/03/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, March 30th, 2018 - 282 comments

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Daily Review 29/03/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, March 29th, 2018 - 40 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 …

Megan Woods’ speech to the Petroleum Conference

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 12:49 pm, March 29th, 2018 - 18 comments

The text of Energy Minister Megan Woods’ speech to the recent petroleum conference where she outlined the Government’s approach to the oil industry and the Government’s intention to achieve sustainable change.

Open Mike 29/03/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 29th, 2018 - 275 comments

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Daily Review 28/03/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:21 pm, March 28th, 2018 - 87 comments

Who cares about personal privacy? Not Facebook

Written By: tracey
Date published: 1:30 pm, March 28th, 2018 - 42 comments

Not the National Party and 3 of its most senior MPs.

Joyce may have been right about the Fiscal hole

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 8:30 am, March 28th, 2018 - 100 comments

Steven Joyce’s prediction of a $11.7 billion deficit in the Government’s finances may be true. But this is because the last Government has underfunded health and hidden problems.

Writehanded: A sea change – or just more weasel words?

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:26 am, March 28th, 2018 - 69 comments

A few weeks ago Sarah Wilson at Writehanded looked at the promise in Labour’s welfare policy and whether we are going to be disappointed.

Open Mike 28/03/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 28th, 2018 - 163 comments

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Daily Review 27/03/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:59 pm, March 27th, 2018 - 37 comments

An Orwellian Minister for Open Government

Written By: Matthew Whitehead
Date published: 1:46 pm, March 27th, 2018 - 257 comments

The Minister for Open Government has been caught organizing a secret meeting, and it has led to the resignation of an RNZ manager who covered for her. Is it time to kick Curran out?

Finlayson found to have breached Dotcom’s rights

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 7:13 am, March 27th, 2018 - 59 comments

The Human Rights Tribunal has found that the last Government and Chris Finlayson breached Kim Dotcom’s rights in not providing him with information requested by him. And awarded him $90,000 for the breach.

Local Bodies: NZ Politics, a rocky road ahead.

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:25 am, March 27th, 2018 - 29 comments

Dave Kennedy at Local Bodies looks at the tough task ahead for Labour, and where retired MPs are landing.

Julie Anne Genter: Working for Women’s Rights on the World Stage

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:08 am, March 27th, 2018 - 71 comments

The Minister for Women on her recent trip with the NZ delegation to the UN.

Open Mike 27/03/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 27th, 2018 - 185 comments

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Daily Review 26/03/2018

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, March 26th, 2018 - 17 comments

overpopulation myth

Written By: stargazer
Date published: 9:00 am, March 26th, 2018 - 189 comments

Conversations on overpopulation are so often framed in a way that is racist and fail to acknowledge the unfair distribution and use of resources. With the added dimension of seeking to punish the poor for problems created by the economically secure.

Kiwibuild kicks off

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 8:59 am, March 26th, 2018 - 218 comments

The first big Kiwibuild announcement, 3 to 4,000 houses in Mt Albert has been made. And National has responded that it was all their idea and they did not want to announce it because it would be seen as pork barrelling.

“Fight for your lives before it’s someone else’s job”

Written By: weka
Date published: 6:15 am, March 26th, 2018 - 32 comments

Two speakers from yesterday’s March for Our Lives.

Open Mike 26/03/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, March 26th, 2018 - 61 comments

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Underpants not Underarm

Written By: Mike Smith
Date published: 9:45 pm, March 25th, 2018 - 17 comments

In the days of the British Raj unsportsmanlike behaviour was condemned by saying “it isn’t cricket.” Australian batsman Cameron Bancroft hiding ball-tampering sandpaper in his trousers in a forlorn attempt to avoid the cameras showed that for Aussies “it is cricket.” We’ve seen it before of course with the Chappells. Heads must roll.

Doofus of the week – March 24, 2018

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 7:56 am, March 25th, 2018 - 20 comments

This weeks award goes to Jonathan Coleman for failing to know that a leaky building crisis existed in Manukau DHB, and for then refusing to talk about it and hanging up on Suzy Ferguson of Radio New Zealand.

Marilyn Waring still takes no prisoners

Written By: weka
Date published: 6:30 am, March 25th, 2018 - 59 comments

Unpaid labour “is the single largest sector in any nation’s economy and the whole of the market economy only is able to function on top of that.”

Jane Kelsey: Shane Jones’ AirNZ demands would breach the TPPA

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:05 am, March 25th, 2018 - 94 comments

“Article 17.4 says the government must ensure that SOEs like Air New Zealand act solely in accordance with commercial considerations, unless there is an explicit public service mandate for services that operate purely within the country. There is no such mandate for Air New Zealand.”