Open mike 21/04/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 21st, 2016 - 50 comments
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Daily Review 20/04/2016
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Date published: 6:00 pm, April 20th, 2016 - 54 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 …
Gould on Nats’ sleaze and corruption
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Date published: 10:29 am, April 20th, 2016 - 138 comments
Bryan Gould has some choice words on the latest Nat donations scandal.
Stalled global economy and helicopter money
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Date published: 10:08 am, April 20th, 2016 - 21 comments
The global economy has been stuck in an ongoing crisis since 2008. Printing more money won’t fix it, but it looks like we’re going to try it anyway.
National gets a smacking on the housing crisis
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Date published: 7:21 am, April 20th, 2016 - 59 comments
Fair to say that Simon Bridges’ claim that there is no housing crisis has – not gone down well. National – you have a problem.
Open mike 20/04/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 20th, 2016 - 71 comments
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Coming Down To Beijing
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Date published: 7:03 pm, April 19th, 2016 - 85 comments
Our Glorious Leader John Key Il is considering a formal extradition treaty with China. No doubt some genuinely bad people will be sent back, but China’s definition of ‘criminal’ is very, very broad. Why are we sucking up to a country lacking both democracy and a legitimate judicial system? Could it be the money? Could it be the pandas?
We used to be better than this. And not so long ago. Where did we go wrong?
Daily Review 19/04/2016
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Date published: 6:00 pm, April 19th, 2016 - 8 comments
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Going electric
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Date published: 10:40 am, April 19th, 2016 - 70 comments
Old Zeeland showing New Zealand the way.
The whiff of corruption follows McCully around
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Date published: 9:09 am, April 19th, 2016 - 89 comments
There is a clear conflict of interest in the Niue resort case.
Saving the town
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Date published: 8:30 am, April 19th, 2016 - 78 comments
What do you do for a town when the company that provides all the jobs shuts down?
Housing crisis
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Date published: 7:34 am, April 19th, 2016 - 57 comments
Housing is very much in the news again. Short term profit and bugger the consequences!
Open mike 19/04/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 19th, 2016 - 84 comments
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Daily Review 18/04/2016
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Date published: 6:00 pm, April 18th, 2016 - 32 comments
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Bowron on a tired government
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Date published: 2:53 pm, April 18th, 2016 - 349 comments
Jane Bowron writes in the Dominion Post: “Two things happened this week that could signal the beginning of the end of John Key and his government.”
McCully, the National Party donation and the Niue resort
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Date published: 10:05 am, April 18th, 2016 - 57 comments
Murray McCully has assured New Zealand that there is no link between the granting of valuable rights to manage a luxury resort in Niue and the making of large donations to the National Party.
Climate change – that ship has sailed
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Date published: 9:55 am, April 18th, 2016 - 57 comments
Our models and our plans for responding to climate change are already out of date.
What tax evasion robs us of – in NZ
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Date published: 7:07 am, April 18th, 2016 - 111 comments
Gareth Morgan estimates that NZ could be missing out on up to 25% of total income tax because the rich aren’t paying their fair share. What could a government do with an extra $7.5bn a year?
Open mike 18/04/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 18th, 2016 - 94 comments
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London – tens of thousands march against austerity
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Date published: 1:05 pm, April 17th, 2016 - 9 comments
In the UK, Cameron’s latest cuts have provoked a very public response.
Opinion pieces on Labour
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Date published: 12:29 pm, April 17th, 2016 - 51 comments
Two opinion pieces on Labour this weekend offer a full spectrum from insight to inanity.
Towards a new economic order
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Date published: 8:40 am, April 17th, 2016 - 222 comments
George Monbiot in the Guardian gives a precise and accurate description of neoliberalism and asks the question why has the left not come up with a modern alternative?
Open mike 17/04/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 17th, 2016 - 55 comments
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Michael Wood standing for Mt Roskill
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Date published: 3:30 pm, April 16th, 2016 - 17 comments
Michael Wood has announced his candidacy to be nominated as the Labour candidate for Mt Roskill when Phil Goff vies for the Auckland Mayoralty. I can’t think of anyone better for that role or for winning the electorate for the left. Go young Michael. This is an unsolicited and possibly unwanted endorsement from me.
A big thank you to IDG from thestandard.nz
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Date published: 9:52 am, April 16th, 2016 - 15 comments
Why we all, readers and authors, should praise IDG Communications for the generous gift of shortening this sites domain name.
Job losses everywhere
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Date published: 8:29 am, April 16th, 2016 - 57 comments
Brighter Future. Cusp of Something Special. Tell it to the newly jobless.
Only way to deal with tax evasion
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Date published: 7:38 am, April 16th, 2016 - 78 comments
Post everyone’s tax details publicly. Everyone.
Open mike 16/04/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 16th, 2016 - 60 comments
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Daily Review 15/04/2016
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Date published: 6:00 pm, April 15th, 2016 - 11 comments
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The secrecy uprising
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Date published: 2:59 pm, April 15th, 2016 - 29 comments
It is clear from John Key’s irresponsible reaction to accusations of NZ being a loosely controlled tax haven, that we are becoming an international target. Contrast that with European reactions, and then have a look at the David Brin’s prophetic reasons for the fictional Helvitica War…
The solar surcharge
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Date published: 2:39 pm, April 15th, 2016 - 98 comments
Profit gouging or genuine need?
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