Rachel Glucina leaves Herald and joins Mediaworks
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Date published: 5:38 pm, June 18th, 2015 - 27 comments
Rachel Glucina is off to Mediaworks to run a new digital entertainment platform.
A partial list of current scandals
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Date published: 9:01 am, June 18th, 2015 - 64 comments
For those of you who are keeping score at home.
#Sheepgate the cabinet papers
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Date published: 8:26 am, June 18th, 2015 - 18 comments
The Sheepgate cabinet papers have now been released and show no sign of a legal dispute between the Saudi Sheep farmer and the Government, let alone one that required a payment of $4 million dollars. And there are concerning reports that three quarters of the ewes on the “model farm” have died.
Open mike 18/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 18th, 2015 - 155 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 …
Scary programmer
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Date published: 3:35 am, June 18th, 2015 - 17 comments
As some of you will be aware, I’m a dedicated computer programmer. So the Underhanded C Contest is just fun. That is to write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must fail to perform at its apparent function. To be more specific, it should do something subtly evil. This years winner really takes the cake on that.
Daily Review 17/06/2015
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Date published: 6:30 pm, June 17th, 2015 - 29 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.
National to extinguish private property rights!
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Date published: 3:23 pm, June 17th, 2015 - 41 comments
Shocking news I think you’ll agree.
Southern DHB sacked
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Date published: 12:36 pm, June 17th, 2015 - 53 comments
Southern DHB sacked – scapegoats for systematic underfunding of the health sector.
Then they came for the cartoonists
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Date published: 11:34 am, June 17th, 2015 - 59 comments
More bad news about our media.
The death of trickle down economics and the mess we’re in
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Date published: 7:11 am, June 17th, 2015 - 139 comments
Trickle down economics is pronounced dead by the IMF. Housing, the working poor and the economy – the policy settings are wrong everywhere.
Open mike 17/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 17th, 2015 - 109 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 16/06/2015 #CampbellLives
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Date published: 6:30 pm, June 16th, 2015 - 18 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.
Pope Francis on Climate Change
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Date published: 1:07 pm, June 16th, 2015 - 66 comments
No beating about the bush.
Deadly “social bonds”?
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Date published: 11:57 am, June 16th, 2015 - 56 comments
The Nats want to turn over social problems to the private sector for profit. This account from the UK should give them pause.
Culprit for Nats’ housing fiasco located
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Date published: 10:39 am, June 16th, 2015 - 40 comments
You’ll never guess!
The Government’s Auckland Housing policy fiasco grows
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Date published: 7:59 am, June 16th, 2015 - 20 comments
The Herald has reported that, contrary to John Key’s assurances that the Government did not have to do so, one of the pieces of land set aside for the Government’s affordable housing partnership with private developers has already been offered to iwi under right of first refusal.
Ghost houses and the invisible hand
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Date published: 7:01 am, June 16th, 2015 - 243 comments
Auckland has an urgent deficit of 20,000 to 30,000 houses. Meanwhile 22,000 houses are sitting empty. Behold the efficiency of the market!
Open mike 16/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 16th, 2015 - 45 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 15/06/2015 #CampbellLives
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Date published: 7:00 pm, June 15th, 2015 - 32 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.
Peter Talley on health and safety law: unions are evil, workers’ lives cheap
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Date published: 2:00 pm, June 15th, 2015 - 116 comments
Whenever unionists talk about the bad employers who put profit over people’s lives, the right wave it away as fear-mongering. Well, here it is straight from the horse’s mouth.
It’s just too expensive to act on climate change
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Date published: 1:30 pm, June 15th, 2015 - 187 comments
Imagine Wellington without coastal roads. Of course, it’s just too expensive to take action on our greenhouse gas emissions…
Snakeheads
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Date published: 12:17 pm, June 15th, 2015 - 30 comments
It is looking likely that the Australian Government has broken its own laws and international treaties by paying off people smugglers. Did John Key know? Did he approve of what may be criminal activity?
Smith embarrassed as Iwi propose legal proceedings over Auckland housing
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Date published: 7:51 am, June 15th, 2015 - 60 comments
Ngati Whatua and Waikato-Tainui have announced that they will seek a declaration from the High Court on their rights to participate in the constructing of social housing on Crown land in Auckland. Their proposal that the Crown joins with them in making a joint application is a good one. Surely Nick Smith will agree to this.
Affordable – in your dreams
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Date published: 7:03 am, June 15th, 2015 - 69 comments
Even under the best assumptions National’s “affordable” houses in Auckland are not actually affordable for the average paid worker. Nick Smith is dreaming.
Open mike 15/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 15th, 2015 - 82 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 …
Costly government
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Date published: 3:00 pm, June 14th, 2015 - 43 comments
This is the true irony of National governments. Their entire platform is one of “fiscal responsibility” and “good economic management” yet time and time again they spend money the way I did when I was a teenager: false economies and short-term wish fulfilment.
The third way according to Tony Blair
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Date published: 9:06 am, June 14th, 2015 - 70 comments
Supporters of Tony Blair’s third way and the need for Labour to be aspirational should reflect on recent reports of his huge wealth earned with taxpayer support while he has been engaged on official business.
The Responsibilities of Government
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Date published: 9:00 am, June 14th, 2015 - 45 comments
The death of Emma-Lita Bourne is not just a personal tragedy for the family: it is an event that should make New Zealand angry with the powerful people in our society who control the purse strings. They are responsible for condemning thousands of children to life-threatening conditions. And they are doing it in our name!
Open mike 14/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 14th, 2015 - 75 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 …
Heartless government
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Date published: 3:00 pm, June 13th, 2015 - 123 comments
A few stories of recent weeks which show exactly what kind of government we have.
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