Fletcher Chair resigns but directors retain huge fees despite staggering loss
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Date published: 4:34 pm, February 14th, 2018 - 123 comments
Fletcher announces more huge losses but directors still laughing all the way to the bank
Then there were three
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Date published: 3:54 pm, February 14th, 2018 - 39 comments
Amy Adams has announced that she will also be seeking the leader’s position of the National Party.
No Bridges Bridges announces he will seek National leadership
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Date published: 1:26 pm, February 14th, 2018 - 20 comments
Simon Bridges has announced that he too will be seeking the National Party leadership.
Where’s my share?
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Date published: 11:00 am, February 14th, 2018 - 35 comments
Had anyone with a job (other than the top 2 tiers of management) had a wage increase higher than inflation recently?
Crusher wants to crush
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Date published: 8:59 am, February 14th, 2018 - 90 comments
Judith Collins has announced that she is running for National’s Parliamentary leadership.
Who will be National’s next leader?
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Date published: 7:57 am, February 14th, 2018 - 77 comments
Following Bill English’s resignation the question is who will be National’s next leaders. The Standard authors have put their heads together and come up with some suggestions.
Nationwide public meetings: TPPA-11 update, and what we can do
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Date published: 6:30 am, February 14th, 2018 - 29 comments
Auckland 12 Feb – Wellington 14 Feb – Nelson 20 Feb – Christchurch 21 Feb – Dunedin 22 Feb
Open Mike 14/02/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 14th, 2018 - 199 comments
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Daily Review 13/02/2018
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Date published: 5:35 pm, February 13th, 2018 - 53 comments
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Help for Tonga
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Date published: 3:24 pm, February 13th, 2018 - 10 comments
Cyclone Gita has caused devastation across the Tongan islands, and is being called the worst storm in at least 60 years.
Bill is gone. Free for all spectator time
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Date published: 11:53 am, February 13th, 2018 - 353 comments
Bill English has resigned. Apparently his confidence of last week had a limited lifespan. RNZ has the live feed. Now we can really speculate on which one of the no-hopers will assume the position to fail at the next election.
Stop Using the ‘F’ Word.
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Date published: 6:30 am, February 13th, 2018 - 41 comments
Because words matter.
Open Mike 13/02/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 13th, 2018 - 186 comments
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Knighthood Interrupted, and the curious case of New Zealand Defamation Law
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Date published: 7:36 pm, February 12th, 2018 - 119 comments
Bob Jones is now suing the woman that wants to strip him of his Knighthood over her use of the term “hate speech.” Can we think about perhaps stopping this litigiousness now?
Daily Review 12/02/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 12th, 2018 - 57 comments
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Beg packing
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Date published: 11:52 am, February 12th, 2018 - 50 comments
Two people playing at being poor as part of a sociopolitical stance on economics has angered many New Zealanders.
A storm is coming
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Date published: 11:04 am, February 12th, 2018 - 65 comments
A big storm is set to hit Auckland next week. And it won’t be the last.
Was the political hit on Chris Bishop an inside job?
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Date published: 8:29 am, February 12th, 2018 - 158 comments
The disclosure of Chris Bishop’s snapchat engagement with young teenage females raises the question of who leaked the information to the media and why.
Open Mike 12/02/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 12th, 2018 - 192 comments
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Chris Bishop’s use of snapchat causes problems
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Date published: 2:51 pm, February 11th, 2018 - 153 comments
The Sunday Star Times has reported that complaints were made before the last election about Chris Bishop’s Snapchat messaging to teenagers.
Bio-fuels.
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Date published: 2:15 pm, February 11th, 2018 - 35 comments
Biofuels and fossil. The difference?
The problem with Charter Schools
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Date published: 12:38 pm, February 11th, 2018 - 296 comments
The Government is moving to stop the creation of new charter schools and require existing charter schools to integrate with the public system.
The Housing Crisis.
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Date published: 10:43 am, February 11th, 2018 - 154 comments
Can politics deliver?
Open Mike 11/02/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 11th, 2018 - 189 comments
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Doofus of the week
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Date published: 12:19 pm, February 10th, 2018 - 100 comments
Doofus of the week is Bob Jones for spouting racist nonsense that would have been embarrassing in the 1960s let alone now.
Open Mike 10/02/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 10th, 2018 - 281 comments
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Fonterra a failure in concept and in practice
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Date published: 6:10 pm, February 9th, 2018 - 109 comments
New Zealanders 17 years ago accepted the idea of a national dairy monopoly on the condition it would deliver outstanding returns. The cost has been high — filthy and unswimmable rivers. Now it turns out the result has been a financial fiasco – the whole thing is literally bullshit, or more correctly, cowshit.
Daily Review 09/02/2018
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Date published: 5:31 pm, February 9th, 2018 - 47 comments
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Fonterra and Fletcher Building
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Date published: 2:05 pm, February 9th, 2018 - 54 comments
New Zealand only has two businesses of world-competitive scale that are also majority owned by New Zealanders: Fonterra, and Fletcher Building. And they appear to have lost their way and put much of their value and our wellbeing at risk.
Sticking with Bill is the right move for National
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Date published: 1:37 pm, February 9th, 2018 - 15 comments
National knows what to expect with Bill.
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