Is Justice Binnie vindicated by the Teina Pora decision?
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Date published: 4:48 pm, August 30th, 2017 - 53 comments
What we can learn about Collins, Adams and the national Cabinet from Teina Pora’s Judicial review win.
“All I can do … is tell the Truth”
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Date published: 2:47 pm, August 30th, 2017 - 50 comments
“Our integrity and our role as Ministers in holding confidential information is absolutely pivotal to our role” Bennett 2017
Vote for NZ Labour if…
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Date published: 1:00 pm, August 30th, 2017 - 53 comments
- You want a TPP Agreement.
Dear Winston.
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Date published: 11:28 am, August 30th, 2017 - 136 comments
How many of these did you receive over your 7 years of over-payments?
Mike Hosking feels used and wants to take a shower
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Date published: 9:30 am, August 30th, 2017 - 48 comments
Mike Hosking is decrying National’s cynical election campaign and release of its paid parental leave policy and claims that it is nothing more than a corrupt retail exchange.
Real video from National’s campaign launch
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Date published: 8:55 am, August 30th, 2017 - 8 comments
The Standard has received real video from National’s campaign launch
How to vote from anywhere
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Date published: 7:14 am, August 30th, 2017 - 3 comments
The Greens have produced a video on what you need to do to vote internationally.
No one can have any confidence in a Nat NZF coalition
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Date published: 7:01 am, August 30th, 2017 - 45 comments
Peters is enraged by the presumed Nat hit on him over super. Earlier he was calling on Bill English to resign over the Barclay scandal. Given these conflicts, no one can have any confidence in a post-election Nat NZF coalition. They hate each other.
English coverup of Barclay scandal gets worse
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Date published: 6:42 am, August 30th, 2017 - 32 comments
New documents released under the OIA show that Bill English fought hide his involvement with the Todd Barclay scandal from media and the public. Coverups and lies, English is unfit for office.
Open Mike 30/08/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 30th, 2017 - 77 comments
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Public Event in Christchurch
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Date published: 7:35 pm, August 29th, 2017 - 16 comments
Thursday August 31 Cardboard Cathedral at 7pm Meteria Turei speaks about the importance of addressing poverty, for all of us. See you there.
Daily Review 29/08/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 29th, 2017 - 53 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 …
Caption competition
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Date published: 1:34 pm, August 29th, 2017 - 47 comments
National announces free house for everyone!
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Date published: 1:19 pm, August 29th, 2017 - 16 comments
Effective 2020. Terms & Conditions apply. House may or may not resemble the one pictured. Must prove you voted National in Election 2017
National does u turn on paid parental leave
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Date published: 12:16 pm, August 29th, 2017 - 16 comments
National has announced a policy of increasing paid parental leave after complaining last year that it was unaffordable.
Labour announce affordable tertiary education
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Date published: 10:05 am, August 29th, 2017 - 54 comments
As the Nats stand exposed in another apparent dirty politics hit, Labour gets on with the job of winning the election. Jacinda Ardern today announced new policy: Making tertiary education and training affordable for all.
Tourism and Conservation Fund policy from Labour
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Date published: 7:50 am, August 29th, 2017 - 7 comments
Labour has announced a Tourism and Infrastructure fund policy which will raise funds for conservation and infrastructure.
National is telling fibs on housing
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Date published: 7:30 am, August 29th, 2017 - 16 comments
During the weekend one of National’s rising stars Amy Adams debates housing with Labour’s Phil Twyford. Adams was supremely confident but the data she relied on appears to have problems …
National’s political hit job on Winston Peters
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Date published: 7:22 am, August 29th, 2017 - 231 comments
The hit job that has just been performed on Winston Peters is a sign of how desperate National is to divert attention from Jacindamania. But I suspect the attempt will backfire.
Review: Loading Docs
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Date published: 6:30 am, August 29th, 2017 - 5 comments
These three-minute documentaries focus on ‘diversity’, which is probably not a bad thing to ponder in the run up to an election.
Open Mike 29/08/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 29th, 2017 - 82 comments
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Daily Review 28/08/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 28th, 2017 - 56 comments
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Blue Dragons
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Date published: 5:08 pm, August 28th, 2017 - 30 comments
Mark Jennings: ‘A hundred or so young Chinese wearing blue T-shirts with “Blue dragons” written on the front marched in to the stadium in a highly-organised fashion. I randomly asked two of them why they had come. They seemed to find the question confusing but told me they were overseas students.’
WINZ and Super Scandals
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Date published: 11:40 am, August 28th, 2017 - 138 comments
Here’s the scandal.
Bomber Bradbury wins privacy complaint against Police
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Date published: 9:32 am, August 28th, 2017 - 47 comments
Bomber Bradbury has succeeded in getting the Privacy Commissioner to rule that Police accessing his bank records without a search warrant was illegal.
Labour’s Christchurch policy
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Date published: 8:43 am, August 28th, 2017 - 21 comments
More new policy from Labour yesterday on Christchurch. Giving locals a say in the decision making process – what a radical new idea!
Peters in super trouble
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Date published: 7:24 am, August 28th, 2017 - 207 comments
Newsroom and Newshub have broken a story about Winston Peters receiving, for the last 7 years, a single person’s super payment that he was not entitled to because he was living with an (undeclared) other person. Peters denies this but has already payed back the excess from an “innocent mistake”.
Open Mike 28/08/2017
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 28th, 2017 - 178 comments
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Nats double down on failed national standards policy
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Date published: 2:05 pm, August 27th, 2017 - 124 comments
The centerpiece of National’s campaign launch was an education package that doubles down on the demonstrably failed national standards policy. Out of ideas.
Middle East Changes
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Date published: 1:58 pm, August 27th, 2017 - 70 comments
If there is a change of Government what should Labour do about requests for military assistance in the Middle East?
Greens announce plan to turn trash into cash
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Date published: 11:17 am, August 27th, 2017 - 22 comments
The Green Party today announced a progressive plan to protect our oceans and the places we love with a ban on plastic bags, refunds on drink containers, a phase-out of plastic packaging, and a commitment to sending zero waste to landfill by 2050.
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