Open mike 10/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 10th, 2024 - 64 comments
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Daily review 09/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 9th, 2024 - 3 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 …
Open mike 09/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 9th, 2024 - 89 comments
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Daily review 08/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 8th, 2024 - 3 comments
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How does the left win the Auckland Mayoralty?
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Date published: 11:08 am, October 8th, 2024 - 28 comments
I think the left should find a Mayoral candidate to advance progressive principles and policies. And with a muscular fight on the right there may be the opportunity for a candidate to come through the middle and win.
National is stuffing up health
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Date published: 10:02 am, October 8th, 2024 - 10 comments
The adding of extra costs to the Dunedin Hospital project to make it appear to be unaffordable, the reckless allowance for a tax cut for Philip Morris and the fudging of health figures to suggest there is a crisis all point to gross mismanagement of Health at a time when it is under stress. Is the goal privatisation?
Open mike 08/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 8th, 2024 - 51 comments
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Daily review 07/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 7th, 2024 - 5 comments
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Open mike 07/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 7th, 2024 - 83 comments
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Where’s the “Oomph”?
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Date published: 2:04 pm, October 6th, 2024 - 92 comments
Join us to protest privatisation of health on the 23rd October. But can we have more oomph and co-ordination please?
Open mike 06/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 6th, 2024 - 98 comments
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Open mike 05/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 5th, 2024 - 69 comments
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Daily review 04/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 4th, 2024 - 2 comments
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She did her own research
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Date published: 11:23 am, October 4th, 2024 - 25 comments
It has been revealed that Casey Costello bypassed and second guessed official advice by an internet search and reading a collection of articles that do not way what she thought they said.
Inventing a crisis to privatise NZ healthcare
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Date published: 10:41 am, October 4th, 2024 - 12 comments
Yesterday a former Health NZ Chair said the government is intentionally manufacturing a crisis to privatise healthcare. However privatisation will not solve anything and will only lead to worse financial and health outcomes for all Kiwis as confirmed by Lancet Medical Journal and case studies around the world.
Open mike 04/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 4th, 2024 - 40 comments
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Daily review 03/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 3rd, 2024 - 11 comments
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Open mike 03/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 3rd, 2024 - 62 comments
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Daily review 02/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 2nd, 2024 - 5 comments
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He is wealthy and he is sorted
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Date published: 10:58 am, October 2nd, 2024 - 57 comments
“You just fake it until you make it. I have spent a whole career doing that” – Christopher Luxon.
NZ Right Wing Government Moves to Privatise Health
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Date published: 9:49 am, October 2nd, 2024 - 41 comments
The National-ACT-NZ First government have signaled they want to privatise our health system. It’s a now or never moment.
Open mike 02/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 2nd, 2024 - 69 comments
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Daily review 01/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 1st, 2024 - 13 comments
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When will Costello be sacked?
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Date published: 10:06 am, October 1st, 2024 - 35 comments
Casey Costello’s decision to give Phillip Morris a $216 million tax cut was based on alternative advice that she has received but which she is not disclosing. And Christopher Luxon is comfortable with this.
Open mike 01/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 1st, 2024 - 65 comments
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Daily review 30/09/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 30th, 2024 - 20 comments
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Submit as if your grandkids’ lives depend on it
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Date published: 10:39 am, September 30th, 2024 - 19 comments
The Government plans to smash through the reintroduction of off shore oil and gas drilling under some urgency and has given the people of New Zealand only five days to submit.
Open mike 30/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 30th, 2024 - 33 comments
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Open mike 29/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 29th, 2024 - 81 comments
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The Hospital Dunedin needs?
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Date published: 10:19 am, September 28th, 2024 - 69 comments
The question has to be asked, can we trust National to do anything that it has promised?
Open mike 28/09/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 28th, 2024 - 98 comments
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