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Daily review 18/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, June 18th, 2024 - 8 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 …

Who would have thought that he used to run an airline?

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 2:06 pm, June 18th, 2024 - 26 comments

Last year Christopher Luxon said that he would not use Defence Force planes to travel internationally if elected as prime minister. Turns out that this is not actually true.

Open mike 18/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 18th, 2024 - 48 comments

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Daily review 17/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, June 17th, 2024 - 11 comments

Open mike 17/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 17th, 2024 - 37 comments

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Safer streets or unsafer streets?

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 9:56 am, June 16th, 2024 - 18 comments

The Government is planning to reverse Labour’s previous policy relating to permanent safe speeds around schools. The change will decrease safety and walking and cycling and increase car use. And the upside is?

Do the EU elections matter in Britain?

Written By: nickkelly
Date published: 9:03 am, June 16th, 2024 - 15 comments

Last weekend the EU elections saw a significant increase in support for the populist/alt-right in European elections.
I deliberately avoid using the term far-right. It would be too simplistic and inaccurate to paint a picture of Europe re-living the 1930s and entering fascism. It is not.

Open mike 16/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 16th, 2024 - 15 comments

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Health & safety of workers is apparently about Cones

Written By: darien fenton
Date published: 11:19 am, June 15th, 2024 - 37 comments

The Government’s latest announcement about worker safety is about business, not people.

Open mike 15/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 15th, 2024 - 3 comments

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Daily review 14/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, June 14th, 2024 - 6 comments

Open mike 14/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 14th, 2024 - 48 comments

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Daily review 13/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, June 13th, 2024 - 5 comments

National announced more subsidies in farming for capital gains

Written By: lprent
Date published: 2:29 pm, June 13th, 2024 - 19 comments

National and their minion parties just announced another massive $400 million R&D subsidy for agricultural greenhouse gases by taxpayers for the low profit industry of pastoral farming. This joins the other large and hidden subsidies levied on tax and rate payers to support rural and state roads capable of sustained heavy agricultural and forestry trucks.

Haere ra He Wake Eke Noa

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 1:42 pm, June 13th, 2024 - 21 comments

It was always going to happen but it still rankles that an attempt to get farming to at least confront the damage it causes to the climate is being put on hold.

Open mike 13/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 13th, 2024 - 63 comments

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Daily review 12/06/2024

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

Open mike 12/06/2024

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 12th, 2024 - 50 comments

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Daily review 11/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, June 11th, 2024 - 4 comments

Open mike 11/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 11th, 2024 - 71 comments

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UK General Election – the mood on the doorstep

Written By: nickkelly
Date published: 10:04 pm, June 10th, 2024 - 12 comments

The UK still has the First Past the Post Electoral system. Something New Zealand should have absolutely no nostalgia for. This means that, while the campaign is UK-wide, a lot of campaign activity is directed into constituencies that are deemed marginal. In marginal constituencies, a General Election brings a conveyor belt of the good and the great supporting their prospective parliamentary candidate. In “safe seats” voters get much less attention.

Daily review 10/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, June 10th, 2024 - 22 comments

Open mike 10/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 10th, 2024 - 67 comments

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Respect existence or expect resistance

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 11:08 am, June 9th, 2024 - 16 comments

Yesterday’s Greenpeace’s War on Nature protest in Tamaki Makaurau suggests growing unity on the left and an increasing determination to stop the Fast Track Projects Bill from being passed.

Open mike 09/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 9th, 2024 - 10 comments

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Fast-Track to Fast-Fail

Written By: Incognito
Date published: 7:33 pm, June 8th, 2024 - 35 comments

Only a fool insists on furiously flogging a dead horse to go faster on the track.

Open mike 08/06/2024

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 8th, 2024 - 5 comments

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NATO escalation danger

Written By: Guest post
Date published: 3:17 am, June 8th, 2024 - 26 comments

The destruction on 23 May of a key part of Russia’s nuclear defence means the Doomsday clock is ticking closer to midnight. A Ukrainian/NATO drone attack on the Armavir radar station north of Georgia attcked a Voronezh-DM radar which is designed to detect incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.