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Date published: 1:02 pm, October 16th, 2015 - 2 comments
Team White Man Behind A Desk are back with their final episode for 2015.
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Date published: 11:42 am, October 16th, 2015 - 42 comments
Apparently this is a question we ask in the media nowadays. Remember when the office of PM used to have a little dignity?
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Date published: 11:03 am, October 16th, 2015 - 26 comments
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Date published: 10:09 am, October 16th, 2015 - 3 comments
Details of a social media campaign to celebrate Helen Kelly’s contribution to the Trade Union movement.
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Date published: 9:34 am, October 16th, 2015 - 24 comments
“Throughout the TPPA negotiations Minister Groser sought to justify their obsessive secrecy with a mantra that ‘it’s always done this way’. That was parroted unquestioningly by every fellow travelling journo and politician, and others who were unwilling to challenge the Minister, despite being told that was untrue.
Groser changed his tune during the case, arguing that ‘every agreement is different’ and the TPPA is special. Why the shift?
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Date published: 7:01 am, October 16th, 2015 - 37 comments
Three of the four member’s bills drawn yesterday were sponsored by Labour leaders. What followed was one of the most disgusting maneuvers ever pulled by this government, justifying the headline – Nats play politics while Kiwi kids die in homes.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 16th, 2015 - 90 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 …
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Date published: 6:41 pm, October 15th, 2015 - 44 comments
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Date published: 6:00 pm, October 15th, 2015 - 21 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: 2:48 pm, October 15th, 2015 - 17 comments
Christine Fletcher has penned an open letter to Phil Goff where she criticises in trenchant terms super city’s current performance and offers some thoughts on where improvement can be made.
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Date published: 10:44 am, October 15th, 2015 - 23 comments
The High Court recently found that Government and Tim Groser improperly considered Prof. Jane Kelsey’s application for information concerning the TPPA negotiations. The Nats aren’t happy. The Ombudsman isn’t happy. Tough.
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Date published: 10:08 am, October 15th, 2015 - 85 comments
An anonymous editorial in The Herald this morning is a mostly well balanced discussion of the issue of Labour’s deputy leader.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 15th, 2015 - 118 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 …
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Date published: 6:00 pm, October 14th, 2015 - 8 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: 1:45 pm, October 14th, 2015 - 91 comments
The Government books have hit surplus. But it looks like treatment of the financials for the Canterbury Earthquake may account for pretty well all of it. Update: Underspending on special education accounts for much of the “surplus”.
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Date published: 1:01 pm, October 14th, 2015 - 16 comments
Speech notes from Helen Kelly’s address to the CTU Conference given today where she talks about the importance of the union movement and some of the achievements she has been involved in over the past few years.
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Date published: 10:45 am, October 14th, 2015 - 73 comments
We need a welfare system that acknowledges the realities of cancer and other major medical conditions. That isn’t “special treatment”, it is basic human decency.
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Date published: 9:21 am, October 14th, 2015 - 9 comments
I/S at No Right Turn writes on the continued suspension of democracy in Canterbury.
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Date published: 7:03 am, October 14th, 2015 - 7 comments
The Nats changing lines on the Taji report look like just another routine coverup of just another routine lie. At least, I hope so, because not knowing / caring about the report would be worse.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 14th, 2015 - 140 comments
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Date published: 8:02 pm, October 13th, 2015 - 287 comments
Today, Labour showed the commercial world that its non-negotiable “bottom lines” are actually very negotiable, and even disposable.
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Date published: 6:00 pm, October 13th, 2015 - 14 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: 12:39 pm, October 13th, 2015 - 61 comments
The High Court has upheld Jane Kelsey’s application for a declaration that the Government and Tim Groser improperly considered her application for information concerning the TPPA negotiations.
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Date published: 12:21 pm, October 13th, 2015 - 40 comments
Radio New Zealand has reported that Paul Rebstock, chair of the Government appointed committee engaged in the review of Child Youth and Family, is being paid $2,000 a day to perform her job. This is the equivalent to the daily pay of thirteen social workers.
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Date published: 9:59 am, October 13th, 2015 - 9 comments
Briefing Papers have been busy recently, check out some recent articles. How long can wealth keep sucking up before a society breaks down completely?
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Date published: 7:02 am, October 13th, 2015 - 17 comments
An American report which came out shortly before Key’s visit to our troops at Taji camp in Iraq is strongly critical of conditions there, and of the efficacy of the training process. Key claims he didn’t know, yet another of his outbreaks of “convenient ignorance”.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 13th, 2015 - 259 comments
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Date published: 10:24 pm, October 12th, 2015 - 49 comments
Oh look, Whaleoil sponge Pete Belt has faked an Amazon review of Slater’s “book”.
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Date published: 6:00 pm, October 12th, 2015 - 19 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: 4:05 pm, October 12th, 2015 - 50 comments
Helen Kelly calls for the government “to get real about medicinal cannabis”. Seriously – what are we waiting for?
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Date published: 11:08 am, October 12th, 2015 - 13 comments
Journalist Jonathan Pie presents the real news.
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