NRT: Meh
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Date published: 12:06 pm, September 1st, 2015 - 92 comments
Today the government announced the four candidates for John Key’s vanity flag referendum: three ferns (one of them the logo of Immigration NZ and the Companies Office) and a koru. And really, all I can say is “meh”. So how about defining a good way of doing a informal or invalid vote on this stupid first referendum on selecting John Key’s underwear..
Bread and circuses. Hold the bread.
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Date published: 10:20 am, September 1st, 2015 - 16 comments
Peter Lyons hits the nail on the head in Nothing but spin coming from our Government. Garner misses the point in National gets a case of the dreaded third-termitis.
Key is relaxed about widespread refugee crisis
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Date published: 9:02 am, September 1st, 2015 - 58 comments
John Key has ruled out an emergency intake of refugees and claims that New Zealand is doing its bit and that bit is enough.
Away with the economic fairies
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Date published: 7:02 am, September 1st, 2015 - 40 comments
The ANZ survey shows business confidence at the lowest levels since the financial crisis. Yesterday John Key insisted that it was “reasonably positive”. He was either completely wrong or lying through his teeth. Either way it’s unacceptable.
Open mike 01/09/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 1st, 2015 - 183 comments
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Daily Review 31/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, August 31st, 2015 - 27 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.
Regional Realities.
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Date published: 11:06 am, August 31st, 2015 - 133 comments
FYI. The most populous town in Clutha District is Balclutha, which lies 81km south of Dunedin by road. Balclutha’s population, by the 2006 census, was 4,062 (down from 4,137 in 1996). Other towns are Milton (pop. 1,887), Kaitangata (pop. 810), Tapanui (pop. 744), Lawrence (pop. 432), Owaka (pop. 327), Stirling (pop. 309), Clinton (pop. 291), Kaka Point (pop. 201), and Benhar (pop. 96). For a while in the 1980s Balclutha was New Zealand’s most wealthy town, per capita
The politicisation of the All Blacks
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Date published: 9:22 am, August 31st, 2015 - 224 comments
All Black fan boy John Key opened up Parliament to allow the New Zealand Rugby Union announce this year’s world cup All Black squad on the weekend.
Black Monday wasn’t so bad, John Key is worse
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Date published: 8:51 am, August 31st, 2015 - 37 comments
Black Monday on the casino Chinese stock markets wasn’t a particular problem for NZ. John Key’s short-term thinking government will be. Both us and our next biggest trading partner Australia are now heavily exposed to falling Chinese imports and falling commodity prices. That is going to hurt over the coming years.
Open mike 31/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 31st, 2015 - 79 comments
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Serco – the company that fails at providing public services
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Date published: 11:55 am, August 30th, 2015 - 34 comments
They were, until a few months ago, the biggest company you’d never heard of. They failed in the UK, they failed in Australia and they’ve failed here in our prisons. But they are still making good profits here. They’re a company dedicated, it seems, to making a profit while failing to deliver lots of different public services. We don’t need or want them here.
Imagine if National had not sold the shares in our companies 2015 version
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Date published: 8:08 am, August 30th, 2015 - 55 comments
The latest financial reports for the privatised companies suggests that the New Zealand Government has lost in the past twelve months $470 million in dividends it would have received had it held onto the shares.
Open mike 30/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 30th, 2015 - 188 comments
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Mike Hosking – The case of the vanishing journalist
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Date published: 9:24 am, August 29th, 2015 - 84 comments
To try and excuse his obvious bias Mike Hosking is now claiming not to be a journalist (unfortunate that his bio material says he is). That Hosking would try and disown journalism speaks volumes to his character.
Border Force fiasco – how would NZ respond?
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Date published: 8:02 am, August 29th, 2015 - 128 comments
Yesterday Melbourne stood up for human rights. Would we in NZ have done the same?
Open mike 29/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 29th, 2015 - 76 comments
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70 refugees dead in small truck on Austrian roadside
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Date published: 9:04 pm, August 28th, 2015 - 107 comments
When European and NATO countries participate in destabilising and destroying nearby countries, the human tragedy doesn’t stay neatly confined to the other side of the border.
Daily Review 28/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, August 28th, 2015 - 28 comments
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WMBAD: Trade
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Date published: 2:15 pm, August 28th, 2015 - 1 comment
The White Man Behind a Desk on trade. Reckon we should ask them to do the TPP?
Weekend social 28/08/2015
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Date published: 2:00 pm, August 28th, 2015 - 1 comment
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?
Another farm death
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Date published: 10:01 am, August 28th, 2015 - 23 comments
Last night the Nats passed their widely ridiculed health and safety legislation. This morning a Waikato farm worker died in a workplace accident. Sincere condolences to his family and friends.
No, National shouldn’t have balanced the books.
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Date published: 9:30 am, August 28th, 2015 - 34 comments
Simon Louisson recently made a post about National’s profligacy, and all of the debt they have racked up. Guest poster Michael disagrees with Simon and says that “Yes, National was profligate.” and “No, National should not have balanced the books.”
Finlayson criticises Law Society but gets it wrong
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Date published: 7:39 am, August 28th, 2015 - 38 comments
Chris Finlayson has criticised the New Zealand Law Society for not being aware that a change to the Health and Safety Reform Bill affecting human rights introduced after submissions had been heard was itself being changed. But all this does is reinforce the Law Society’s criticisms that such provisions should have been part of the original bill.
Open mike 28/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 28th, 2015 - 35 comments
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Daily Review 27/08/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, August 27th, 2015 - 27 comments
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Dita De Boni’s last column for the Herald?
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Date published: 2:37 pm, August 27th, 2015 - 42 comments
Dita De Boni’s possibly last column for the Herald is a must read.
Scientists remind dickheads of their inadequecies
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Date published: 11:59 am, August 27th, 2015 - 12 comments
Ever imagine what a bull elephant’s penis looks like? Well wonder no more. Biologists kicked off a #junkoff today with this challenge. I have to say that the local trolls waving their dicks about on this site look poorly endowed and rather unimaginative.
Watkins on health and safety mess
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Date published: 10:02 am, August 27th, 2015 - 17 comments
“John Key’s increasingly lacklustre defence of the shambles consists of answers that sound more like satire by the day.”
Guest post: How the left should respond to financial crises
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Date published: 8:00 am, August 27th, 2015 - 136 comments
In a guest post Ad suggests that in this time of crisis the left should set out a plan for handling the crisis, rather than hoping that a new order will emerge.
Nats losing it on the TPP
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Date published: 7:02 am, August 27th, 2015 - 73 comments
National are trying to evade even the simplest questions on the TPP – because the truth is profoundly undemocratic. As usual Groser and Key turn to insults instead of engaging with people’s legitimate concerns.
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