Hopefully, this post-legislative scrutiny will provide a chance to correct any excesses.
Work ideas
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Date published: 8:13 am, May 22nd, 2020 - 28 comments
Jacinda Ardern has floated the idea of a four day working week and Grant Robertson wants to change the future of work. Maybe they should get on and do it.
Open mike 22/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 22nd, 2020 - 138 comments
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The Colmar Brunton poll
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Date published: 5:55 pm, May 21st, 2020 - 213 comments
Results will be posted as soon as they are through. Update: Simon is in trouble.
Who wants to lead the National Party?
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Date published: 8:31 am, May 21st, 2020 - 93 comments
Tomorrow the National Party caucus meet to decide on a leadership challenge mounted by Todd Muller and Nikki Kaye. Both parties obviously think they have the numbers. Which MPs are misleading them?
No Right Turn on scrutiny of the COVID-19 Bill
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Date published: 7:05 am, May 21st, 2020 - 8 comments
Open mike 21/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 21st, 2020 - 114 comments
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This is exactly why the MSM should be scrutinised as much as the government
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Date published: 2:22 pm, May 20th, 2020 - 37 comments
The Herald’s misleading, clickbait sound-biting of Labour MP Tamati Coffey isn’t even close to what we need in reporting from the Epidemic Response Committee.
The International investigation into Covid-19
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Date published: 10:08 am, May 20th, 2020 - 81 comments
More than 110 nations have backed a call for the World Health Organisation to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 virus outbreak.
Dead man walking
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 20th, 2020 - 106 comments
The media is reporting there will be a vote of no confidence in Simon Bridges’ leadership at next week’s National caucus meeting.
Open mike 20/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 20th, 2020 - 128 comments
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Mark Richardson for National leader!
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Date published: 11:08 am, May 19th, 2020 - 27 comments
Michelle Boag thinks that Mark Richardson should be the next National leader after Simon Bridges. Here at the Standard we wish to endorse this proposal.
Pollwatch for Newshub/Reid Research poll, 18th May 2020
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Date published: 10:00 am, May 19th, 2020 - 53 comments
The latest Newshub/Reid Research poll is a bloodbath for National- but who are the likely victims? Pollwatch is back, this time with a model for electorate winners and losers to add onto the party vote stats.
What does National do in Epsom?
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Date published: 7:00 am, May 19th, 2020 - 33 comments
Last night’s Reid Research Newshub poll result will be reverberating through National’s caucus. And raises the question, do they gift Epsom to ACT and maybe get a right wing MP or do they preserve every seat they can for themselves.
Open mike 19/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 19th, 2020 - 105 comments
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Newshub Poll Shock!
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Date published: 6:30 pm, May 18th, 2020 - 158 comments
The May 2020 Newshub/Reid Research poll is astonishing. You’ve have, quite literally, never seen anything like it.
Open mike 18/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 18th, 2020 - 136 comments
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“Is there even a point in having the Greens anymore?”
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Date published: 12:31 pm, May 17th, 2020 - 104 comments
Yes lefties, there is, and it’s not rocket science.
Liberal redneck on progress in rural America
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Date published: 11:32 am, May 17th, 2020 - 21 comments
Taking a break from the apocalypse to talk about the problem with the Democrats and rural voters.
Open mike 17/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 17th, 2020 - 131 comments
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Should Parents and Teachers Defy the Government?
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Date published: 4:02 pm, May 16th, 2020 - 66 comments
School’s back on Monday, but the medical community is still struggling to understand covid 19
Oh Sweden
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Date published: 9:53 am, May 16th, 2020 - 108 comments
Just when we thought liberal democracies meant real freedom was an absolute written into human rights stone, by mid-March this year almost all OECD countries had implemented the most draconian reversal of lockdowns on every single human to combat Covid19. Except Sweden. How is it working out?
Don’t infect your feline master!
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Date published: 9:29 am, May 16th, 2020 - 16 comments
In terrible news, our feline masters can both get covid-19, and they can infect other cats. Fortunately so far they have largely been asymptomatic apart from some big cats.
We don’t know if there can be cat to human transmission. But I suspect it is likely. Obvious implications about being a issue for breaking transmission chains.
Open mike 16/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 16th, 2020 - 87 comments
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What the Greens did
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Date published: 12:06 pm, May 15th, 2020 - 39 comments
A round up of the Green Party’s achievements in the 2020 Budget: funding for nature, the commitment to ending violence, and public housing and insulation. And a look at the pragmatics of what the Greens can currently accomplish.
Covid-19: may be endemic
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Date published: 8:51 am, May 15th, 2020 - 53 comments
Like measles, covid-19 could become endemic. Never dying out entirely. Needing to be controlled in human denser populations into the indefinite future. That is the warning from top World Health Organisation officials. Like me, they’re looking at reported research into covid-19 immunities and the picture isn’t encouraging. This is no time to be complacent.
Open mike 15/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 15th, 2020 - 121 comments
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Budget 2020
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Date published: 3:37 pm, May 14th, 2020 - 89 comments
The budget site is up and running. Some links here along with Robertson’s speech. This post may get updated if authors feel like it. Otherwise commenters can praise or criticize. Preferably constructively rather than with mindless waffle.
Viruses love liberty – they can breed more.
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Date published: 11:59 am, May 14th, 2020 - 25 comments
Viruses and other diseases simply don’t care about abstractions like ‘human rights’. They just want to breed. We need a better legislative toolkit to deal with epidemics. There is only so long that a draconian state of emergency should be maintained. Like 1918 we need to start thinking about the future Health Act with reserve powers like level 2 and 1. In the meantime, we’ll deal with the virus with this imperfect act as a tool.
Budget 2020: biggest and best from PM Ardern
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Date published: 8:48 am, May 14th, 2020 - 88 comments
Text of a pre budget speech given yesterday by Jacinda Ardern.
Open mike 14/05/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 14th, 2020 - 73 comments
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Jacinda is not like Muldoon
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Date published: 9:49 am, May 13th, 2020 - 97 comments
National has decided to play politics with Covid 19 and is opposing the Government’s attempt to pass legislation to secure level 2 arrangements. And has made the extraordinary claim that Jacinda Ardern is just like Rob Muldoon but with slogans.
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