Our assumptions about work and workers
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Date published: 9:30 am, June 23rd, 2015 - 51 comments
Beyond discrimination against women, there’s a broader set of assumptions we make about work and workers, and it’s hurting us – workers, society, and business.
Lift the refugee quota
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Date published: 7:16 am, June 23rd, 2015 - 69 comments
Refugees are people, but they get treated as a political football, as recent events in Australia and NZ have demonstrated once again. It is long past time that NZ raised its refugee quota.
Open mike 23/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 23rd, 2015 - 251 comments
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Colin Craig’s Contempt for His Victim
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Date published: 7:30 pm, June 22nd, 2015 - 113 comments
The Conservative Party’s Colin Craig has victimised his former Press Secretary by deliberately breaching a confidentiality settlement in order to frame his inappropriate behaviour as a minor matter they were both equally responsible for. Well, that’s crap, Colin. It’s actually a rich man using his power and privilege to belittle a woman. Again.
Daily Review 22/06/2015 #CampbellLives
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Date published: 6:00 pm, June 22nd, 2015 - 24 comments
Slightly redesigned in support of #CampbellLives. Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas 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.
Polity: Reductio…
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Date published: 2:56 pm, June 22nd, 2015 - 29 comments
Rob Salmond at Polity: DPF and Chris Bishop have conspired to come up with a new canard-of-distraction de jour. Today’s trope: “Labour are the conversatives, National the progressives, and Labour is the party of No.”
Sexism, babies, and our assumptions about work
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Date published: 9:30 am, June 22nd, 2015 - 42 comments
It’s 2015, and we’re constantly told that sexism is over, feminism has had its day – so why can’t this woman find a job?
Open mike 22/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 22nd, 2015 - 89 comments
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A short history of The Standard – Maoriland Worker
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Date published: 3:22 pm, June 21st, 2015 - 43 comments
I saw earlier this month that typically the bombastic one from The Daily Blog Bombast was managing to not mention our site name in a post about hiring a hacker to crack into our site. Of more concern was his lack of local history. Is he too in love with his own voice to learn the lessons of the past?
NRT: Self-serving redactions
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Date published: 2:36 pm, June 21st, 2015 - 54 comments
I/S at No Right Turn. The un-redacted Cabinet papers show that Key flat out lied when he tried to implicate Labour in the Saudi sheep scandal.
The Best of British; The NHS, the Welfare State and David Bowie
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Date published: 12:39 pm, June 21st, 2015 - 24 comments
Massive anti-austerity marches have just ended all over Britain. Tens of thousands of protesters have turned out to let the Tory government know that the fight against the right has not ended with the general election. Welsh singer Charlotte Church told the crowd in London that she is proudly British, but for all the right reasons.
More flooding
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Date published: 10:28 am, June 21st, 2015 - 37 comments
All the best to those affected by the latest round of flooding.
Kiwiblip!
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 21st, 2015 - 16 comments
Either Kiwiblog had a very large social media blip (one million page views in a day is pretty high), or something is really wrong with Sitemeter, or there is a irritating bug somewhere bloating the numbers. I’d like to know one way or another, as I’ve had to deal with some strange spikes like this in the past and they are tricky to track down.
Open mike 21/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 21st, 2015 - 74 comments
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Edwards on politics and the media
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Date published: 9:36 am, June 20th, 2015 - 21 comments
It won’t come as a surprise to any Standardista, but it’s good to see Brent Edwards being up front about some of the systemic problems in politics and the media.
The NRA is a terrorist organisation
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Date published: 8:50 am, June 20th, 2015 - 106 comments
In the land of the free and the brave the NRA is trying to say that the way to stop incidents such as the Charleston Church massacre is to have more guns. And the right are trying to dispute the reality that the incident was caused by racism.
National running short of coalition partners
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Date published: 8:17 am, June 20th, 2015 - 14 comments
There’s a lot of chatter about the Conservative Party at the moment, but the Nats are the only ones who have a reason to care.
Open mike 20/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 20th, 2015 - 52 comments
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Daily Review 19/06/2015 #CampbellLives
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Date published: 6:30 pm, June 19th, 2015 - 26 comments
Slightly redesigned in support of #CampbellLives. Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas 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.
Curtains for Colin Craig’s career?
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Date published: 2:40 pm, June 19th, 2015 - 40 comments
The Conservatives have called a press conference this afternoon and it appears that Colin Craig’s tenure as leader may be terminated. But will he be back?
National muppets
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Date published: 2:40 pm, June 19th, 2015 - 23 comments
It’s not what you think…
Iain Lees-Galloway: how many meathooks to the head will it take?
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Date published: 12:00 pm, June 19th, 2015 - 22 comments
Some strong stuff from Labour’s spokesperson for Labour, Iain Lees-Galloway, in Question Time yesterday.
More Nat infighting
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Date published: 10:57 am, June 19th, 2015 - 24 comments
Williamson lashes out at Bridges. The Nats would usually prefer to handle this sort of conflict behind behind closed doors.
Bridges scandal
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Date published: 9:27 am, June 19th, 2015 - 22 comments
Another Nat scandal to add to the list. Rob Salmond demolishes Bridges.
Keep on rocking in the free world
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Date published: 8:19 am, June 19th, 2015 - 25 comments
Donald Trump has attracted adverse comment for using Neil Young’s song “keep on rocking in the free world” during his campaign launch. There are a number of other examples, both local and in the US, where right wing candidates have misappropriated progressive musicians’ music for campaign purposes.
Open mike 19/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 19th, 2015 - 72 comments
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Enter Sandman
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Date published: 6:57 pm, June 18th, 2015 - 52 comments
Nathan Guy reckons he knows what killed hundreds of kiwi taxpayer funded lambs in the dodgy Saudi Arabian model farm. Believe it or not, this time it’s not Labour! No, it’s the Sanding of the Lambs.
Daily Review 18/06/2015 #CampbellLives
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Date published: 6:30 pm, June 18th, 2015 - 53 comments
Slightly redesigned in support of #CampbellLives. Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas 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.
Bye Colin?
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Date published: 6:22 pm, June 18th, 2015 - 35 comments
According to 3 News Colin Craig is to be rolled as leader of the Conservatives. Hard to imagine, as Colin Craig is the Conservatives.
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