Relationships Aotearoa to close today
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Date published: 8:50 am, June 9th, 2015 - 19 comments
Relationships Aotearoa is closing its doors today, as a result of ineptitude and indifference on the part of the Government. Claimed safeguards are looking incredibly shaky. Only three of the five organisations touted to take up the work are prepared to do so. And MSD has caused upset to the Privacy Commissioner by misrepresenting his views.
Flip Flop isn’t just another word for a Jandal
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Date published: 7:08 am, June 9th, 2015 - 69 comments
IN a breaking news update, the New Zealand Prime Minister has a revelation on Health and Safety
Open mike 09/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 9th, 2015 - 113 comments
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Daily Review 08/06/2015 #CampbellLives
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Date published: 7:00 pm, June 8th, 2015 - 21 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.
Predictable collapse in TV3 numbers
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Date published: 4:47 pm, June 8th, 2015 - 73 comments
“Prime News outrates TV3 as audience numbers halve”
Anti-union rant in The Herald
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Date published: 12:43 pm, June 8th, 2015 - 72 comments
An anonymous editorial in The Herald this morning really is atrocious. Apparently the limited uptake one of the Nats’ pet education policies is all the fault of the unions.
Little weighs in on dirty politics
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Date published: 11:21 am, June 8th, 2015 - 104 comments
Andrew Little on the latest round of dirty politics.
“It beggars belief any politician – like John Key and Judith Collins – wants to have anything to do with him [Cameron Slater].”
Cameron Slater’s statement on Ben Rachinger
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Date published: 8:10 am, June 8th, 2015 - 77 comments
Cameron Slater has posted one statement in response to Ben Rachinger’s allegations. It was by way of a jpg and was not searchable. As a public service broadcast I thought that New Zealand should have the benefit of the text of his response.
Open mike 08/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 8th, 2015 - 86 comments
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Helen Kelly Q+A on health and safety
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Date published: 12:02 pm, June 7th, 2015 - 15 comments
Update on dirty politics developments
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Date published: 11:37 am, June 7th, 2015 - 189 comments
A brief roundup of coverage and developments in the latest dirty politics revelations.
Murdoch on state houses then and now
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Date published: 10:51 am, June 7th, 2015 - 4 comments
Open mike 07/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 7th, 2015 - 51 comments
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We need to ACT on the innumeracy of MPs
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Date published: 11:08 am, June 6th, 2015 - 113 comments
After a mere 5 years, some numerically and legally challenged current and ex-MP have been demonstrating their inability to understand their Three Strikes stupidity. They seem to think that people who have probably been in court or banged up in prison for violent offences have had time to go to court three times. FFS: these dickheads need mandatory remedial maths.
What does courage look like?
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Date published: 11:00 am, June 6th, 2015 - 189 comments
I hesitated before writing this. I knew that nothing I could write would do justice to the courage of Ms Seales and her family and supporters. The recent decision of Justice Collins on assisted death makes legal sense to me. I struggled to understand prior to his decision how he could legally support Ms Seales’ […]
Welcome to The Standard
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Date published: 10:13 am, June 6th, 2015 - 87 comments
Welcome to any new readers checking out this blog today as a result of the “dirty politics” segment on The Nation. Here’s a bit about us…
Update: For those that didn’t see The Nation, there is a summary in The Herald.
The shame of poverty in NZ
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Date published: 7:11 am, June 6th, 2015 - 30 comments
According to the Ministry of Social Development child poverty is worse in NZ than in any European country. According to the Child Poverty Action Group new figures are going to show an increase in poverty. According to the coroner a damp unhealthy state house contributed to the death of a child. Welcome to the “brighter future”.
More dirty politics revealed on The Nation today
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Date published: 6:15 am, June 6th, 2015 - 218 comments
You might want to tune in and watch The Nation this morning at 9:30.
Open mike 06/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 6th, 2015 - 20 comments
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Daily Review 05/06/2015 #CampbellLives
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Date published: 6:15 pm, June 5th, 2015 - 48 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.
De Boni on privatising mental health
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Date published: 11:38 am, June 5th, 2015 - 26 comments
A superb piece by Dita De Boni on the Nats’ plans to privatise mental health. See also (and sign!) Labour’s open letter opposing the “social bonds” scheme.
O’Brien on health and safety
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Date published: 9:22 am, June 5th, 2015 - 22 comments
Tova O’Brien has written an excellent piece on squabbles within National over health and safety legislation, calling it a disgrace and a power-play by the Collins faction.
Kia kaha Mihingarangi Forbes
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Date published: 7:39 am, June 5th, 2015 - 29 comments
Mihingarangi Forbes resigned yesterday as a reporter for Marae Televison apparently because of managerial interference in a story she intended to run. In the week since Aotearoa lost Campbell Lives it has now lost arguably the best investigative reporter that the country has.
Government buys a fight with iwi
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Date published: 7:11 am, June 5th, 2015 - 57 comments
The Nats seem determined to buy a fight with iwi over Auckland land, practically challenging them to court action. Do they really think this is going to end well for them?
Open mike 05/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 5th, 2015 - 43 comments
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Daily Review 04/06/2015
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Date published: 7:00 pm, June 4th, 2015 - 39 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.
Sheepgate and National’s last defence: Labour does it too
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Date published: 11:51 am, June 4th, 2015 - 43 comments
John Key yesterday went on the attack and implied that Labour did something about Sheepgate in 2007. What it was he did not say but the implication was that Labour did it too. A brief review of dirty politics shows that this is alway’s National’s desperate last line of defence. Update: Labour tried to table in Parliament the Cabinet Paper that John Key talked about yesterday and National refused leave …
Herald supports Greens on climate change
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Date published: 9:12 am, June 4th, 2015 - 96 comments
Even an anonymous editorial in The Herald supports The Greens’ proposal for discussions with National on climate change. Key needs to acknowledge the facts, get some guts, and stop playing politics with the issue.
Geddis on Auckland housing land
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Date published: 8:25 am, June 4th, 2015 - 54 comments
Yesterday we covered National’s blunder in not considering Treaty settlement obligations in its plans to free up state land for Auckland housing. Today you can read someone who actually knows what they’re talking about on the issue, check out Professor Geddis’ piece at Pundit.
Open mike 04/06/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 4th, 2015 - 138 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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