Archive for 2020

Open mike 09/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, August 9th, 2020 - 200 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 …

July 2020 Roy Morgan Poll

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 7:11 pm, August 8th, 2020 - 45 comments

The latest Roy Morgan poll is out.

Crusher?

Crushed!

Jacinda’s speech to the Labour campaign launch

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:09 pm, August 8th, 2020 - 94 comments

Jacinda Ardern’s speech to the Labour 2020 campaign launch.

Open mike 08/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, August 8th, 2020 - 209 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 07/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, August 7th, 2020 - 31 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 …

The return of John Key

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:10 am, August 7th, 2020 - 110 comments

In a sign of desperation National has trotted out John Key to campaign that the country’s success in containing Covid should be put to risk because of a misguided perception that it would be good for the economy.

James Shaw, comedian

Written By: weka - Date published: 10:35 am, August 7th, 2020 - 21 comments

A bit of shade, some Dad jokes, and the serious business of what the Greens have done.

Open mike 07/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, August 7th, 2020 - 239 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 06/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, August 6th, 2020 - 47 comments

The fragility of our food supply

Written By: weka - Date published: 11:11 am, August 6th, 2020 - 98 comments

As climate, ecological, pandemic and neoliberal pressures put our food security at risk, we can take heart from the many people who have been developing and practicing sustainable and resilient food growing.

The Covid election

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:40 am, August 6th, 2020 - 73 comments

I normally do not do this, tempting fate and all that. But the forces behind this election are so strong that it would take a really dramatic event to change current momentum.

Open mike 06/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, August 6th, 2020 - 212 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 05/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, August 5th, 2020 - 38 comments

The test of MMP

Written By: weka - Date published: 12:20 pm, August 5th, 2020 - 123 comments

With the left’s political fortunes having changed greatly in the past three years, and with more change on the way, does the left still want MMP?

Who are you going to trust with your job, Jacinda or Judith?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:17 pm, August 5th, 2020 - 16 comments

Defying expectations official labour force data from Stats NZ released today shows that the unemployment rate dropped to 4 per cent from 4.2 per cent in the June quarter.

National’s policy platform

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:35 am, August 5th, 2020 - 45 comments

For a party that promised to be a policy factory National’s policy offerings are severely deficient.

Go Well Ruth Dyson

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:44 am, August 5th, 2020 - 10 comments

Ruth Dyson has given a very funny very incisive valedictory speech in Parliament and will bow out of politics at this election. She deserves our thanks.

Open mike 05/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, August 5th, 2020 - 108 comments

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Daily review 04/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, August 4th, 2020 - 34 comments

Falling into a coma

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:20 am, August 4th, 2020 - 92 comments

Why have we fallen into the most boring and predictable election we’ve had since Bolger’s second term?

Taxpayers’ Union promoting Green Party policy

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:10 am, August 4th, 2020 - 26 comments

Learning to love the tax.

Open mike 04/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, August 4th, 2020 - 70 comments

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Daily review 03/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, August 3rd, 2020 - 36 comments

National seats at risk in Auckland

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:54 pm, August 3rd, 2020 - 33 comments

National has a crop of new candidates in Auckland all wanting to be in Parliament. But judging by what has happened so far you have to wonder if there are further allegations that may emerge which may ankle tap carefully stage managed campaigns.

National’s Auckland Central problem

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:27 am, August 3rd, 2020 - 45 comments

National is facing another PR disaster with reports of an increasingly hostile Auckland Central candidate selection process and with allegations that National’s head office has misapplied the party’s constitution.

Open mike 03/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, August 3rd, 2020 - 88 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 …

National’s week from hell

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 6:01 pm, August 2nd, 2020 - 34 comments

A review of National’s week which is as bad as any week I can remember.

Tick Tock Tik-Tok

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 5:37 pm, August 2nd, 2020 - 5 comments

Trump has announced he will ban Tik-Tok from the United States. It’s Chinese-owned so there. Or maybe he will force it to be sold to Americans.Don’t think security is the issue; kids used it to stuff up his Tulsa rally. And it is good for mockery, as clips about Trump and Pompeo show. Don’t think that will stop if Americans own it.

Mea culpa

Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:48 pm, August 2nd, 2020 - 33 comments

Back in 2017 I was upset, we had a leadership vote only in caucus – just before the election. I didn’t realise at the time that Andrew Little was actually stepping down in favour of Jacinda Ardern. She’d had the potential, but I hadn’t realised that Little thought she was up for the task. I’m delighted with the result. Thank you Andrew.

Open mike 02/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, August 2nd, 2020 - 71 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 …

Aotearoa’s free-market waste experiment dumped

Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 3:00 pm, August 1st, 2020 - 13 comments

Environment Minister Eugenie Sage this week announced the beginning of the end of Aotearoa’s unfortunate experiment with free-market waste management that has trashed our environment. It may be just a baby step, but moving away from a failed free-market approach seems a good first step.