The Standard

Roy Morgan says…National governs alone, again.

Written By: Colonial Viper
Date published: 2:17 pm, November 14th, 2015 - 199 comments

National on 49%, GR + LAB 41.5%. Government confidence rating up 9.5 to 131.5.

Paris

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 11:09 am, November 14th, 2015 - 246 comments

Hopefully not ushering the beginning of the end for the European public’s recent empathy for refugees.

A government of spin

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 8:00 am, November 14th, 2015 - 52 comments

Two recent articles suggest that this Government is more interested in spin and PR than in achieving good. And one of the articles previously posted in the Herald has mysteriously disappeared.

NZ Herald: Damning report rewritten after ‘war-room’ meeting

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 7:53 am, November 14th, 2015 - 17 comments

The Herald seems to have accidentally deleted the online version of yesterday’s big story from Kirsty Johnson on how the government manipulates media perceptions. However could that have happened?

Open mike 14/11/2015

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, November 14th, 2015 - 62 comments

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

Daily Review 13/11/2015

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 pm, November 13th, 2015 - 17 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 …

Power Corruption and Lies

Written By: te reo putake
Date published: 1:04 pm, November 13th, 2015 - 78 comments

A National List MP has been snapped trying to heavy the Housing Ministry into funding a lift in her personal profile. Remember John Key’s ‘higher standards in Government’? Nick Smith’s Ministerial office apparently doesn’t care too much about about such trifles. Worse, the Housing Ministry has been caught trying to cover up for the Tories by redacting an OIA request. Here’s your Brighter Future, folks. Enjoy.

Petition: It’s Not OK Prime Minister

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 10:37 am, November 13th, 2015 - 46 comments

This petition at ActionStation is closing in on 5,000 signatures.

Groser flips the bird to the Judiciary and NZ Laws

Written By: tracey
Date published: 9:04 am, November 13th, 2015 - 13 comments

The Law? That’s not for Cabinet Members, the Law is for the lazy malcontents who don’t want to work hard.

TPPA national day of action

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 8:00 am, November 13th, 2015 - 26 comments

Saturday November 14 is a national day of action against the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. Details of all protests are set out in the post.

New Zealanders who may have committed horrendous crimes, such as murder and sex offences – I’ve still been standing up for them and getting them a better deal.

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 7:47 am, November 13th, 2015 - 39 comments

john-key1

You won’t believe this Herald hack’s hilarious homophobia!

Written By: Natwatch
Date published: 7:35 am, November 13th, 2015 - 87 comments

Really Fran?

Open mike 13/11/2015

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, November 13th, 2015 - 47 comments

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

Making the Opposition the Enemy –

Written By: tracey
Date published: 1:00 am, November 13th, 2015 - 18 comments

It takes fortitude to admit you are wrong. That’s right, not weakness but, strength, courage, resilience, grit, determination, endurance, guts, and staying power. When you won’t admit you are wrong you end up having to justify wrong decisions. That takes time and energy (and money) away from what actually needs to be done for the greater good. John Key won’t admit he is wrong. Because of this he has to keep going down several paths of “wrongness”, and because he is Prime MInister, he is taking us all with him. Some people think he does admit he made mistakes. But when you examine the few instances closer (if you can find them), it looks like something else.

Daily Review 12/11/2015

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 pm, November 12th, 2015 - 18 comments

Social media disasters – Paula Bennett tweets

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 2:30 pm, November 12th, 2015 - 27 comments

The first of what may be an ongoing series of posts where social media interaction by Politicians ends in disaster.

When survivors speak out

Written By: Stephanie Rodgers
Date published: 2:00 pm, November 12th, 2015 - 45 comments

Previously posted at Boots Theory. Content note: discussion of sexual violence and the experience of survivors. Yesterday I did a round-up of the women’s voices on Twitter talking about recent events in Parliament, where women MPs from the Opposition, many of them survivors of sexual violence, were thrown out of the House for taking exception […]

EPA to be gutted – for doing its job

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 10:40 am, November 12th, 2015 - 24 comments

Looks like National is planning to take over the Environmental Protection Agency.

Who would James Bond vote for?

Written By: advantage
Date published: 10:00 am, November 12th, 2015 - 28 comments

Ad poses the theoretical question of which political party the current James Bond would support.

There are no kiwi rapists on Christmas Island

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 8:23 am, November 12th, 2015 - 169 comments

John Key’s claim that Labour and Greens support the rapists on Christmas Island has struck a snag. There are none. And the brave action of progressive women MPs talking publicly about the sexual abuse they have suffered has shown how morally bankrupt Key’s politics are.