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Date published: 11:02 am, October 28th, 2016 - 35 comments
Key’s India trip started off going nowhere fast, and ended up the same way. Gotta love the spin though.
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Date published: 8:24 am, October 28th, 2016 - 182 comments
Trump is the “human molotov cocktail” that many Americans have been waiting for.
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Date published: 8:24 am, October 28th, 2016 - 6 comments
National’s dangling tax cuts, but there are far more important things to be spending public money on. Today: Education.
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Date published: 8:03 am, October 28th, 2016 - 15 comments
Updated with video of the service. Details of the memorial service celebrating Helen Kelly’s life scheduled for today.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 28th, 2016 - 142 comments
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Date published: 5:37 am, October 28th, 2016 - 22 comments
Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 27th, 2016 - 25 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 …
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Date published: 5:10 pm, October 27th, 2016 - 84 comments
Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee says our training mission to Iraq is undergoing a transformation. We were warned when the troops first went that the mission was always intended to be looser than Brownlee publicly claimed at the time. And so it has turned out to be.
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Date published: 12:19 pm, October 27th, 2016 - 25 comments
Paula Bennett is currently acting Prime Minister.
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Date published: 11:18 am, October 27th, 2016 - 4 comments
All are warmly invited to hear Sir Michael Cullen, Hon Margaret Wilson, Hon David Parker, Mike Williams, and Dot Kettle reflect on the experiences of Helen Clark-led three-term Labour government – its achievements and its legacy and discuss its lessons for the future. Sunday 30 October 1pm-5pm Owen Glenn Centre, Auckland University, Grafton Road. Please register here.
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Date published: 9:04 am, October 27th, 2016 - 65 comments
Police subjected a group of elderly people attending a meeting on assisted dying to random breath tests so that they could collect the identities of each person who attended.
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Date published: 8:59 am, October 27th, 2016 - 54 comments
Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.
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Date published: 7:56 am, October 27th, 2016 - 29 comments
Why has Housing NZ ignored repeated advice and misused meth tests to evict tenants? RNZ: “Drug Foundation executive director Ross Bell said Housing New Zealand had caused a huge amount of harm by knowingly misusing the guidelines.”
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 27th, 2016 - 161 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 26th, 2016 - 31 comments
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Date published: 3:00 pm, October 26th, 2016 - 63 comments
What contribution can a blog make to activism?
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Date published: 11:22 am, October 26th, 2016 - 29 comments
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Date published: 9:26 am, October 26th, 2016 - 25 comments
No, not in NZ, of course. With bonus notes on a “grotesque folly”.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 26th, 2016 - 103 comments
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Date published: 5:55 am, October 26th, 2016 - 81 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 25th, 2016 - 23 comments
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Date published: 10:36 am, October 25th, 2016 - 49 comments
Latest fear mongering sounds like a rerun of the jihadi brides lie, which as an editorial summary put it – “raises serious questions about the accuracy of claims made by John Key, SIS boss Rebecca Kitteridge and Security Intelligence Minister Chris Finlayson.”
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Date published: 8:52 am, October 25th, 2016 - 128 comments
Before National get too excited about tax cuts, perhaps they should sort out some of the more pressing issues in the society they govern – like all those kids in poverty.
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Date published: 8:00 am, October 25th, 2016 - 11 comments
Barry Coates is the new incoming Green Party MP following the resignation of Kevin Hague. Here is his report on his first weeks in parliament, along with his maiden speech.
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 25th, 2016 - 69 comments
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Date published: 5:51 am, October 25th, 2016 - 45 comments
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Date published: 8:52 am, October 24th, 2016 - 26 comments
From the movement that brought you equal pay, the weekend, minimum wages, child protection laws, injury prevention, the right to organise …
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 24th, 2016 - 74 comments
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Date published: 5:48 am, October 24th, 2016 - 31 comments
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Date published: 9:16 am, October 23rd, 2016 - 198 comments
Convincing workers not to organise in their own best interests is one of the great successes of right-wing politics.
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Date published: 8:11 am, October 23rd, 2016 - 16 comments
Some inspiration for the activists in the audience.
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