Daily Review 19/10/2016

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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 19th, 2016 - 33 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 …

DHBs telling porkies about junior doctors’ strike

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Date published: 3:00 pm, October 19th, 2016 - 44 comments

Junior doctors are speaking out against the misinformation being spread by DHBs.

Heck Yeah! Hekia Parata to Leave Parliament

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Date published: 12:07 pm, October 19th, 2016 - 80 comments

Hekia Parata is to leave Parliament next year. The bad news is that she is probably going to stay on as education minister till then.

Vincent O’Malley: wars we choose to remember and forget

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Date published: 12:00 pm, October 19th, 2016 - 9 comments

Vincent O’Malley writes at The Guardian about how we should, or don’t, remember the New Zealand wars.

Bernie Sanders on…

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Date published: 10:51 am, October 19th, 2016 - 16 comments

Excerpts from a lengthy Bernie Sanders interview published in the ‘New Republic’.

Protecting the seabed and foreshore

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Date published: 9:34 am, October 19th, 2016 - 7 comments

With the sudden departure of deep sea drilling company Statoil from Northland here’s a timely look the role of community action in that, the state of play in NZ and what is next.

Tax cuts hard to sell

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Date published: 8:32 am, October 19th, 2016 - 8 comments

Herald: “…the Government ought to be banking surpluses, just as Sir Michael Cullen did during the boom of 2000-2007”.

Key could still win and here’s why

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Date published: 8:00 am, October 19th, 2016 - 163 comments

Deep into its third term and despite its many transgressions National still remains relatively popular. What gives?

Open Mike 19/10/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, October 19th, 2016 - 144 comments

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The US election daily discussion post

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Date published: 5:55 am, October 19th, 2016 - 158 comments

Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.

Fifth Labour Govt – Challenges and Lessons

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Date published: 8:04 pm, October 18th, 2016 - 7 comments

Michael Cullen and Margaret Wilson will speak at the Fabian Society Seminar “5th Labour Government – Lessons from a time of Challenges” at Owen Glenn Centre, Auckland University, Grafton Road on Sunday October 30 from 1-5pm. Mike Williams, Dot Kettle and David Parker will be on the panel. Everyone welcome to discuss and debate. Guaranteed to be interesting – details inside.

Daily Review 18/10/2016

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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 18th, 2016 - 11 comments

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One Billion Dollars

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Date published: 1:57 pm, October 18th, 2016 - 6 comments

Treasury papers just released show National’s Housing Infrastructure Fund to be everything you expected it to be: a quickly cobbled together headline.

Tax-cuts or… Health

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Date published: 8:16 am, October 18th, 2016 - 135 comments

Health – particularly mental health – is underfunded, resulting in strikes over patient safety and units shutdown due to staff shortages. And unnecessary deaths. So why is the government even thinking about tax-cuts when our services need investment?

There goes the surplus

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Date published: 8:00 am, October 18th, 2016 - 58 comments

The media last week reported extensively an operating surplus of $1.8 billion dollars. But they missed the not so good news that the value of ACC’s assets took a $5.1 billion hit, the Super Fund lost $2 billion, the Crown’s liability under the ETS increased by $1.5 billion and net Crown debt increased by $1.3 billion.

The US election discussion post

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Date published: 6:05 am, October 18th, 2016 - 167 comments

Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.

Open Mike 18/10/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, October 18th, 2016 - 161 comments

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Daily Review 17/10/2016

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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 17th, 2016 - 22 comments

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The Age of the Bitch.

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Date published: 3:03 pm, October 17th, 2016 - 113 comments

– time for misogynists to feel our anger.

unCOOL

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Date published: 1:35 pm, October 17th, 2016 - 6 comments

In August Hekia Parata announced her new COOL solution, that distinctly isn’t what it says on the tin.

Now’s your chance to submit your feedback on her proposal.

‘Too busy’

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Date published: 12:16 pm, October 17th, 2016 - 61 comments

National ministers have a habit of not wanting to turn up to the ‘hard’ questions, but Paula Bennett has been severely caught out by RNZ

Poverty is too difficult in Key’s New Zealand

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Date published: 8:59 am, October 17th, 2016 - 47 comments

Key is out of touch. But not so out of touch that he doesn’t know about the poverty crisis in NZ. The denial and evasions are deliberate.

Open Mike 17/10/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, October 17th, 2016 - 223 comments

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Hickey on debt

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Date published: 10:33 am, October 16th, 2016 - 31 comments

Hickey in The Herald on Sunday: “Our household debt to income ratio of 165 per cent is now about 5 per cent above those previous highs of 2008 and rising quickly as debt rises around twice as fast as incomes.”

Jill Stein: a Clinton Presidency could mean nuclear war with Russia

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Date published: 9:45 am, October 16th, 2016 - 219 comments

Hillary Clinton’s no-fly zone policy for Syria as declared in the second presidential election means air war with Russia.

Is this why the Donald has not completely crashed and burned … yet?

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Date published: 8:31 am, October 16th, 2016 - 173 comments

Bobby Azarian, an American Neuroscientist offers an interesting perspective on why Trump supporters continue to support him despite his clear weaknesses and failures.

Open Mike 16/10/2016

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Date published: 6:00 am, October 16th, 2016 - 196 comments

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Statoil leaves Northland, Greenpeace announce summer of Climate Action

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Date published: 6:00 pm, October 15th, 2016 - 14 comments

Congratulations and thanks to the people of Northland!

Working with Helen

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Date published: 12:34 pm, October 15th, 2016 - 17 comments

I worked with Helen at the CTU for about seven years from 2008.

The Essential Forest-Gardener – chapter 2

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Date published: 12:05 pm, October 15th, 2016 - 20 comments

Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.

National’s HCNZ cash problem

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Date published: 12:03 pm, October 15th, 2016 - 13 comments

On Thursday National announced a really big budget cash surplus but it became apparent that Housing Corp has a really big cashflow problem.

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