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Mountain Tui: Crashing New Zealand’s health system is not the way to prosperity, Prime Minister

Written By: Mountain Tui
Date published: 2:44 pm, July 16th, 2024 - 15 comments

The drumbeat of health warnings continues from hospitals, doctors and nurses. But is the Government prepared to listen?

Remember that time we had a global pandemic?

Written By: weka
Date published: 11:19 am, July 16th, 2024 - 5 comments

how’s it going five years on?

Open mike 16/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, July 16th, 2024 - 36 comments

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Daily review 15/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, July 15th, 2024 - 26 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 …

Government wins pay dispute with police: National Party 1, Police 0, Public -1

Written By: Mountain Tui
Date published: 3:53 pm, July 15th, 2024 - 25 comments

The National Government has won in its long standing pay dispute with New Zealand police. With Australia offering $20,000 cash bonuses and attractive packages to poach our cops, what’s going to happen to an already demoralised and stretched police force?

Mountain Tui: Trump’s shooting reveals a hidden danger for New Zealand too

Written By: Mountain Tui
Date published: 10:00 am, July 15th, 2024 - 73 comments

Trump’s shooting has left the world shocked and bewildered. But what, if anything, does it mean for us here in New Zealand?

Open mike 15/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, July 15th, 2024 - 22 comments

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Trump shot

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 11:37 am, July 14th, 2024 - 142 comments

In breaking news Donald trump has been shot in a Pensylvania. Film suggests that he is fine although suffered a wound to his ear. The implications for the US elections are profound. This is a post for general discussion and will be updated as matters develop. Updates 1305: BBC interviewed a witness who is talking […]

Government is paying lip service to climate change

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 11:29 am, July 14th, 2024 - 6 comments

This week Change Minister Simon Watts showed the depth of the Government’s thinking by releasing a three page brochure outlining its collective thoughts. If the Government is at that level of thinking the country is well and truly stuffed. And meanwhile ACT’s Mark Cameron wants to prevent local government from considering climate change when formulating regional plans.

Open mike 14/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, July 14th, 2024 - 32 comments

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Open mike 13/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, July 13th, 2024 - 64 comments

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Daily review 12/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, July 12th, 2024 - 4 comments

Conflict what conflict?

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 1:22 pm, July 12th, 2024 - 16 comments

National activist Sunny Kaushall is to head a committee with a budget of $3.6 million over two years to advise the Government on complex legal and privacy issues for which Kaushal’s qualifications are not clear.

Mountain Tui: When is an independent expert or advisory group “independent?”

Written By: Mountain Tui
Date published: 11:06 am, July 12th, 2024 - 5 comments

As reports confirm that the Government intends to sell off Kiwirail ferries, the question has to be asked: “Why is the Government paying thousands of dollars to former National Party members for advice” and when is independent advice not reliable?

Open mike 12/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, July 12th, 2024 - 45 comments

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Daily review 11/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, July 11th, 2024 - 10 comments

Winston Peters – lazy hypocrite on ferries

Written By: lprent
Date published: 11:33 am, July 11th, 2024 - 15 comments

My ire was raised this morning when I read a pile of PR drivel from acting PM Winston Peters about the Interislander. If he wanted to be useful looking at “critical part of our infrastructure” – then there are number of better things he could usefully do – rather than chasing headlines.

Mountain Tui: The Kiwirail Interislander saga continues

Written By: Mountain Tui
Date published: 7:57 am, July 11th, 2024 - 40 comments

Nicola Willis’s decision to cancel the Kiwirail i-Rex contract without a back up plan is coming back to bite. As costs pile up for the taxpayer, we have already lost half a billion dollars, but that won’t be the final bill. And there are still no ferries.

Open mike 11/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, July 11th, 2024 - 30 comments

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Daily review 10/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, July 10th, 2024 - 19 comments

The best carbon capture device is a tree

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 11:06 am, July 10th, 2024 - 18 comments

The Government is hoping that Carbon Capture and Sequestration will reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emission levels. But it is refusing to protect forests and trees, which are the best Carbon Capture and Sequestration devices going.

Open mike 10/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, July 10th, 2024 - 38 comments

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Daily review 09/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, July 9th, 2024 - 9 comments

Quality of candidates – start with “are they human?”

Written By: lprent
Date published: 10:34 am, July 9th, 2024 - 12 comments

With all of the issues about Green party MPs, who have been having issues recently, I was intrigued to run across the article in the Guardian “Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people” after the recent election in the UK.

Open mike 09/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, July 9th, 2024 - 48 comments

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Daily review 08/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, July 8th, 2024 - 9 comments

Open mike 08/07/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, July 8th, 2024 - 34 comments

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Code Pink at NATO: Negotiate for peace.

Written By: Guest post
Date published: 2:10 pm, July 7th, 2024 - 53 comments

When NATO leaders meet in Washington, what they should be doing, apart from figuring out how to comply with Article 33(1) of the UN Charter, is conducting a clear-eyed review of how this organization that claims to be a force for peace keeps escalating unwinnable wars and leaving countries in ruins.

Sham consultation – sham contracting

Written By: darien fenton
Date published: 10:59 am, July 7th, 2024 - 11 comments

Minister for Workplace Relations and Health & Safety Brooke van Velden hasn’t met with the CTU Te Kauae Kaimahi since November last year. And has announced major proposed changes to workers rights and job conditions.

Mountain Tui: New Zealand deserves better than marketing

Written By: Guest post
Date published: 10:58 am, July 7th, 2024 - 6 comments

Last week the Coalition Govt said they were doing away with the name “fast-track.” This is a Govt of professional lobbyists so I am not surprised by their attunement to marketing. “Fast-track” became bad for business. The name had to go. They have also weakened regarding fast-track because of opposition.