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Date published: 9:30 am, January 16th, 2016 - 186 comments
The world is currently facing a problem that even a few years ago was unthinkable. Oil is cheap and demand has dropped out of the market. What are the geopolitical implications of this?
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 16th, 2016 - 76 comments
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Date published: 2:23 pm, January 15th, 2016 - 46 comments
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Date published: 10:38 am, January 15th, 2016 - 76 comments
Now maybe it’s because I’m a bloke, but looking at this graph I couldn’t help but think: wouldn’t it be better to close the pay gap for women by increasing their wages rather than decreasing men’s?
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Date published: 8:49 am, January 15th, 2016 - 17 comments
It’s been a hardy annual finding of late – the pay gap between males and females is getting steadily worse. History suggests that Labour governments have some answers…
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Date published: 7:30 am, January 15th, 2016 - 29 comments
David Farrar has criticised AUSA for refusing to publicly endorse a Pro Life Auckland offer of assistance to solo mother students and thereby stopping assistance occurring. There is one problem though, AUSA did nothing of the sort.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 15th, 2016 - 74 comments
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Date published: 9:55 am, January 14th, 2016 - 91 comments
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Date published: 9:00 am, January 14th, 2016 - 76 comments
What would have happened if in 1984 David Lange had exerted control and appointed a centrist rather than right wing Labour cabinet?
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Date published: 7:01 am, January 14th, 2016 - 203 comments
The new year begins much as the old one ended, with secrets, evasions and dissent over the TPP and what it means for NZ.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 14th, 2016 - 303 comments
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Date published: 11:46 am, January 13th, 2016 - 77 comments
Boots Theory on the American Working Families Charter, how they are trying to move the Democratic Party to the left, and possible lessons for New Zealand.
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Date published: 10:48 am, January 13th, 2016 - 154 comments
The Bank of Scotland has advised advised its clients to brace for a “cataclysmic year” and a global deflationary crisis.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 13th, 2016 - 202 comments
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Date published: 5:56 pm, January 12th, 2016 - 15 comments
Te Reo Putake spins the black circle and has a listen to Bowie’s final album, Blackstar.
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Date published: 11:28 am, January 12th, 2016 - 94 comments
Stephen Joyce has had published an opinion piece in this morning’s Herald which extolls the virtue of free trade and ignores the pitfalls. Such as those shown this week when TransCanada sued the US Government for rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline contract.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 12th, 2016 - 189 comments
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Date published: 8:13 pm, January 11th, 2016 - 59 comments
David Bowie’s death has been announced.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 11th, 2016 - 130 comments
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Date published: 11:42 am, January 10th, 2016 - 46 comments
A recent New Matilda article discusses why at a time of increasing productivity the need to work has increased and not decreased.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 10th, 2016 - 91 comments
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Date published: 11:16 am, January 9th, 2016 - 249 comments
This morning’s Herald contains a story about a young man who with a family gift has managed to purchase eleven houses over the past five years and can afford to pay World of Warcraft all day.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 9th, 2016 - 57 comments
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Date published: 6:08 pm, January 8th, 2016 - 129 comments
I am taking Cannabis Oil to manage my pain as my lung cancer takes over my body. It’s sort of as simple as that really. For some people talking about dying is confronting but actually talking about it allows us to think about how it happens – it is actually as much a social event as a physical one and knowing someone is comfortable, getting good treatment and pain relief is very much part of the social dimension as the physical one.
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Date published: 8:58 am, January 8th, 2016 - 717 comments
Labour Leader Andrew Little has announced that the next Labour led Government will defy the TPPA’s attack on our sovereignty. Good on Labour – that’s the leadership we need.
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Date published: 7:30 am, January 8th, 2016 - 81 comments
Jamie Whyte yesterday wrote an article for the Herald claiming that child poverty does not exist in New Zealand. But he wrote essentially the same article in 2005 about child poverty in Great Britain.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 8th, 2016 - 108 comments
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Date published: 6:18 pm, January 7th, 2016 - 24 comments
The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement will be signed in New Zealand on February 4, 2016. But the Government is not confirming …
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Date published: 10:42 am, January 7th, 2016 - 103 comments
And now for something completely different for the Standard, a film review.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 7th, 2016 - 150 comments
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Date published: 10:47 am, January 6th, 2016 - 113 comments
David Shearer has disagreed with the Greens that New Zealand should suspend negotiations on the free trade agreement with Saudi Arabia until it improves its human rights record.
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