How To Get There 16/12/18
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Date published: 6:55 am, December 16th, 2018 - 112 comments
Categories: Economy, Environment, human rights, political alternatives, Social issues
Tags: big ideas, the future
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
The SPOTY’s 2018
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Date published: 1:10 pm, December 15th, 2018 - 33 comments
Categories: class war, Europe, greens, Iain Lees-Galloway, International, jacinda ardern, labour, Media, national, nz first, Parliament, Politics, Russia, Shane Jones, Simon Bridges, The Standard, uk politics, us politics, winston peters
Tags: donald trump, jamal khashoggi, labour, national, politicians
Here’s your chance to vote in the Standard’s Politician of The Year awards. The SPOTY’s are recognised worldwide as the leading indicator of political success in NZ and have been awarded annually for over two hundred years.
Now it’s your turn to prick the Thorndon Bubble, dear reader. Who’s your Politician of the Year?
You are stealing our future
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Date published: 9:51 am, December 16th, 2018 - 12 comments
In a powerful speech a young 15 year old woman from Sweden has told the world’s leaders why action against climate change is urgent and that if the political system is preventing the necessary action from being taken then it is time for system change.
Open Mike 16/12/2018
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Date published: 5:49 am, December 16th, 2018 - 63 comments
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Labour’s budget wellbeing objectives
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Date published: 6:46 am, December 15th, 2018 - 12 comments
The Government has announced that the next budget will include well being objectives as well as fiscal objectives.
Open Mike 15/12/2018
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Daily Review 14/12/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 14th, 2018 - 46 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 …
Trump’s smocking gun
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Date published: 9:09 am, December 14th, 2018 - 81 comments
This week in America former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen admitted electoral finance violations by using campaign money to pay off two hookers to stop them going public during the last election campaign with news about Trump’s infidelity. And Russian national Maria Butina was convicted of conspiring to infiltrate the NRA.
Open Mike 14/12/2018
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Date published: 5:49 am, December 14th, 2018 - 141 comments
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A Right Shambles
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Date published: 9:48 am, December 13th, 2018 - 34 comments
With the UK Tories self imploding, the US President contemplating jail time, Angela Merkel moving on and the conservative parties on both sides of the Tasman looking increasingly irrelevant, what should the left do to fill the gap?
National’s Sroubek fizzle
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Date published: 7:40 am, December 13th, 2018 - 159 comments
National are trying to manufacture a conspiracy out of revelations that someone who knows Karel Sroubek and has met Jacinda Ardern sent her a text.
Open Mike 13/12/2018
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Daily Review 12/12/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 12th, 2018 - 24 comments
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Let it Be
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Date published: 8:44 am, December 12th, 2018 - 56 comments
Letting fees are a thing of the past. Labour’s Phil Twyford has outlawed the practice of charging tenants an upfront fee for a non existent service. It’s about fairness and it’s about time.
US turnout – the single advantage of having a stupid elected monarch
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Date published: 7:27 am, December 12th, 2018 - 18 comments
The voter turnout in the US mid-terms was the highest that it has been in a hundred years. For the first time that I think Donald Trump, the elected monarch of the strangest “democracy” on the planet actually achieved more than boasting and meaningless hand-waving. Of course that appears to have been an unwelcome accident to him.
You’ve got to lively up yourself …
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Date published: 7:18 am, December 12th, 2018 - 44 comments
National have responded to the Government’s medicinal cannabis law by suggesting hordes of cancer sufferers will hang around schools smoking joints.
Open Mike 12/12/2018
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Daily Review 11/12/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 11th, 2018 - 53 comments
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Praying for Grace
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Date published: 9:10 am, December 11th, 2018 - 153 comments
There will be vigils for murdered tourist Grace Millane over the next few days. The grief we have shown over her death reflects the best of NZ. However, the routine violence inflicted on so many other women and children here in Aotearoa is our real shame. What are Kiwi men going to do about it?
The Air New Zealand Industrial dispute
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Date published: 7:49 am, December 11th, 2018 - 53 comments
Air New Zealand has provoked industrial action from its workers by trying to wind back wages and conditions at a time it is making near record profits.
Open Mike 11/12/2018
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Daily Review 10/12/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 10th, 2018 - 83 comments
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On the first day of leakmas …
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Brexit vote on Tuesday
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Date published: 7:30 am, December 10th, 2018 - 41 comments
With a vote on the Brexit deal soon and with defeat a distinct possibility both Labour and the Conservatives need a Plan B and they need it inside 48 hours.
Open Mike 10/12/2018
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The Future Is …
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Date published: 9:54 am, December 9th, 2018 - 288 comments
HOW TO GET THERE
Go to the end of the path until you get to the gate.
Go through the gate and head straight out towards the horizon.
Keep going towards the horizon.
Sit down and have a rest every now and again,
But keep on going, just keep on with it.
Keep on going as far as you can.
That’s how you get there.
Labour’s education reforms
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Date published: 9:08 am, December 9th, 2018 - 58 comments
The Government has released a discussion paper proposing radical change to our education system, including the establishment of regional hubs to improve cooperation between schools and provisions to strengthen the proposition that kids should attend their local well resources and well run school.
Open Mike 09/12/2018
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Safe from prying 5Eyes
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Date published: 10:22 pm, December 8th, 2018 - 62 comments
I like my Huawei phone. Apparently the US National Security Agency can’t break its encryption. That’s presumably the “security” issue why Spark is being blocked from using Huawei, and why Meng Wanzhou is held hostage in Canada at the behest of US neocons.
Three years on, will Wairoa AFFCO workers finally be paid?
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Date published: 9:27 am, December 8th, 2018 - 26 comments
Meat company AFFCO has lost yet another court case over their unlawful lockout of workers in 2015. Will the penny ever drop for the Talley family?
Open Mike 08/12/2018
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