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Date published: 6:32 am, November 25th, 2015 - 151 comments
Late yesterday Turkey (a NATO member) shot down a Russian jet, either inside its airspace (Turkey claims) or over Syria (Russia claims).
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 25th, 2015 - 118 comments
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Date published: 6:00 pm, November 24th, 2015 - 34 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 …
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Date published: 3:39 pm, November 24th, 2015 - 33 comments
This morning Greenpeace activists occupied a NIWA oil and gas exploration vessel. #ClimbItChange
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Date published: 1:30 pm, November 24th, 2015 - 28 comments
If this was not so tragic it would be absurd. Radio New Zealand has reported this morning that CABs are receiving referrals from Housing New Zealand of people requiring emergency housing.
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Date published: 1:00 pm, November 24th, 2015 - 35 comments
What to do with these ballot papers that just arrived in the mail?
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Date published: 10:30 am, November 24th, 2015 - 28 comments
The Blueskin Bay settlement north of Dunedin provides an example of people working collectively at a local level to live sustainably.
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Date published: 9:52 am, November 24th, 2015 - 38 comments
“Jonah Lomu tribute shows need for a new flag, PM says”.
Well that’s a new low.
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Date published: 9:40 am, November 24th, 2015 - 22 comments
Max Rashbrooke has another excellent piece in The Guardian, on inequality and on the ways he has been attacked for his writings on this issue.
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Date published: 7:03 am, November 24th, 2015 - 131 comments
Andrew Little is planning to speak up for the rights of Kiwi expats on his trip to Australia. Key clearly doesn’t like being shown up, so out come the desperate accusations.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 24th, 2015 - 122 comments
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Date published: 9:07 pm, November 23rd, 2015 - 28 comments
It has been one of those days …
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Date published: 9:37 am, November 23rd, 2015 - 13 comments
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Date published: 8:31 am, November 23rd, 2015 - 42 comments
Phil Goff has formally announced that he is seeking the Auckland Super City Mayoralty as an independent.
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Date published: 7:02 am, November 23rd, 2015 - 28 comments
Was Key’s bizarre rant in Parliament – accusing Labour of supporting rapists and murderers – a deliberate “dead cat” strategy? If so then it has backfired badly. Still in the headlines 2 weeks later, and probably costing him in the polls.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 23rd, 2015 - 60 comments
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Date published: 7:39 pm, November 22nd, 2015 - 427 comments
Dunedin’s most active and most innovative Labour Party branch is going into recess.
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Date published: 6:51 pm, November 22nd, 2015 - 29 comments
The latest Reid Research/3News poll is out. Key gets nothing from the RWC, and the rapist remarks turn out not to have helped his popularity either. There was a time when talkback radio style outbursts used to make him look strong. Nowadays, not so much. Meanwhile, the opposition are just 1 seat behind …
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Date published: 11:33 am, November 22nd, 2015 - 21 comments
Quick notes on some pieces in The Herald this morning, featuring Audrey Young’s almost epiphany on Nice Mr Key.
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Date published: 9:19 am, November 22nd, 2015 - 41 comments
Nationwide protest marches are planned in New Zealand on November 28 in the run up to the Paris Climate Change talks to give the message to world leaders that real action to address climate change is required.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 22nd, 2015 - 182 comments
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Date published: 12:32 pm, November 21st, 2015 - 123 comments
Not exactly light or cheerful Saturday morning reading – but we should all read it anyway. Stuff’s (Katie Kenny & Blair Ensor) excellent special investigation on child abuse in NZ.
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Date published: 8:38 am, November 21st, 2015 - 10 comments
An International Labour Organisation (ILO) report warns that austerity measured are an international threat to jobs and growth.
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Date published: 7:34 am, November 21st, 2015 - 135 comments
The delivery of the ballots in the first first flag referendum is getting a bit of attention from bored journalists. We the people don’t seem to care much though.
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 21st, 2015 - 172 comments
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Date published: 6:00 pm, November 20th, 2015 - 18 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 …
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Date published: 1:38 pm, November 20th, 2015 - 71 comments
The way to keep people occupied during this period of “Pretend and Extend” is to keep a steady stream of establishment fairytales (and horror stories) flowing.
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Date published: 11:56 am, November 20th, 2015 - 27 comments
Donald Trump won’t rule out “tracking Muslim Americans in a database or giving them “a special form of identification that noted their religion””. Brings to mind an F word.
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Date published: 11:23 am, November 20th, 2015 - 29 comments
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Date published: 10:37 am, November 20th, 2015 - 43 comments
Cameron Slater and his associates are legal morans. This has been extensively investigated and judged on by the Court of Appeal in a judgement released yesterday. I have a wee look at it and the steaming heap of faecal matter that these idiots tried to get the judges to consume.
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Date published: 10:09 am, November 20th, 2015 - 54 comments
The fifth anniversary of the Pike River disaster has just occurred. This post records some comments made by Andrew Little on his recollection of the day after.
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