Daily Review
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Date published: 6:00 pm, December 2nd, 2015 - 11 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 …
Deportee
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Date published: 12:48 pm, December 2nd, 2015 - 103 comments
Standard Exclusive:
Te Reo Putake interviews one of the first batch of deportees from Australia under the Liberal Government’s hardline approach to Kiwis who serve jail time in the lucky country.
Good reviews for Little’s reshuffle
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Date published: 12:20 pm, December 2nd, 2015 - 80 comments
A couple of good reviews for Little’s reshuffle of the Labour lineup.
Our man in Paris
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Date published: 9:23 am, December 2nd, 2015 - 17 comments
Some time today, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, John Key, will be wandering around the hallways of his Paris hotel in his underpants. Or maybe his swimming togs.
The great greenhouse gas research funding switcherooni
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Date published: 7:56 am, December 2nd, 2015 - 19 comments
John Key has announced an increase in funding on research into the reduction of agricultural emissions of greenhouse gasses of $20 million over four years or $5 million a year. Which is the amount the Government cut from this research two months ago.
Police raiding journalists is a thing now
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Date published: 7:03 am, December 2nd, 2015 - 132 comments
Yesterday the police raided the home of a 3 News journalist. This seems to be quite a trend in the Brighter Future.
Open mike 02/12/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 2nd, 2015 - 186 comments
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Daily Review 01/12/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, December 1st, 2015 - 27 comments
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Chris Cairns: Song of the Tall Poppy
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Date published: 10:12 am, December 1st, 2015 - 111 comments
The Chris Cairns trial verdict seems to have surprised Kiwis. And some people don’t seem to want to accept he is not a match fixer. Are we that fooled by modern media that our usual decency and sense of fair play has deserted us?
Coleman to regulate high sugar industry
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Date published: 9:37 am, December 1st, 2015 - 32 comments
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman said there is a voluntary regime in place for the manufacture and sale of high sugar food but where there is is self regulation it is often ignored.
Because of the danger high sugar foods potentially pose it’s important to have a regulatory body and licensing/education regime to ensure manufacturers and retailers only provide food that has healthy outcomes.
The official New Zealand COP21 negotiating guide
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Date published: 9:00 am, December 1st, 2015 - 13 comments
The Youth Delegation at COP 21 has secured a copy of the Government’s negotiation guide and has published it …
New Zealand shamed at Paris
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Date published: 8:24 am, December 1st, 2015 - 67 comments
New Zealand provides over $80m in production subsidies for fossil fuel industries.
My Labour Party Caucus and Rankings
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Date published: 7:39 am, December 1st, 2015 - 61 comments
I’ve just finished reading all the comments on the reshuffle thread. It gave me an idea. Post here YOUR rankings of the top 20 Labour Party MPs, the role you would give them and WHY. So that is 3 criteria for posting Rank the top 20 of current Labour Party MPs; and The Role […]
Nats failing Christchurch and lashing out at Treasury
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Date published: 7:02 am, December 1st, 2015 - 128 comments
A Treasury report calls the Christchurch rebuild plan “unachievable”. Gerry Brownlee immediately springs in to action – attacking Treasury. Christchurch deserves better than this…
Open mike 01/12/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 1st, 2015 - 123 comments
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Daily Review 30/11/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, November 30th, 2015 - 23 comments
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Duncan Garner and the great Christmas beatup
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Date published: 12:56 pm, November 30th, 2015 - 114 comments
In which Duncan Garner goes trolling with a great Christmas beatup, and gets taken to task for it.
Trans Tasman make fools of themselves with MP “rankings”
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Date published: 12:11 pm, November 30th, 2015 - 11 comments
There’s a rubbish publication called “Trans Tasman” which gets some attention once a year when it publishes “rankings” of MPs. These rankings are pretty much always blue-tinted nonsense. But this year Trans Tasman have really made fools of themselves…
The ALP’s climate change emissions reduction target
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Date published: 9:04 am, November 30th, 2015 - 10 comments
The Australian Labor Party will today announce its goals for emissions reduction with a plan for zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Labour’s reshuffle announced today
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Date published: 8:30 am, November 30th, 2015 - 250 comments
Who will be the big winners from Andrew Little’s caucus reshuffle – and who will be the big players taking Labour into the 2017 election?
UPDATED: With new rankings/portfolios and media release.
Open mike 30/11/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 30th, 2015 - 86 comments
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Allahu Quackbar!
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Date published: 10:55 pm, November 29th, 2015 - 70 comments
4chan bombs Isis. Now that’s the way to hurt them!
House arrest for Paris activists
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Date published: 11:24 am, November 29th, 2015 - 21 comments
Why are the so called leaders meeting at COP21 so afraid of public demonstrations? Let the people have their say…
Jarrod Gilbert 1 – Windmills 0
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Date published: 7:09 am, November 29th, 2015 - 22 comments
About time the Police got around to becoming a “very evidence based” service. Building great relationships with academia is a sensible way to start.
Open mike 29/11/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 29th, 2015 - 145 comments
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Nats positioning for 2017
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Date published: 8:15 am, November 28th, 2015 - 48 comments
Nothing Matthew Hooton says can be taken at face value, but perhaps there are rumblings within National about 2017.
Open mike 28/11/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 28th, 2015 - 56 comments
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International law and the Turkish shootdown of the RuAF Su-24
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Date published: 8:49 pm, November 27th, 2015 - 117 comments
Assuming the Russian jet did enter Turkish airspace for 17s, was there really no recourse for Turkey other than using lethal force?
Daily Review 27/11/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, November 27th, 2015 - 6 comments
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Weekend social 27/11/2015
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Date published: 2:23 pm, November 27th, 2015 - 4 comments
Weekend social is for non political chat. What’s on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can’t we all just get along?
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