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Taihoa on AUKUS Pillar 2

Written By: Mike Smith
Date published: 10:16 pm, April 24th, 2023 - 63 comments

Andrew Little says our government is willing to “explore” participating in AUKUS Pillar 2, but “foreign or local voices would not be a factor.” Our leaders will decide he says. I say “taihoa.”

Daily review 24/04/2023

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, April 24th, 2023 - 4 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 …

Debate of the Day: should farms be regulated to centre climate action and nature?

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 10:57 am, April 24th, 2023 - 44 comments

In election year, National’s farming regulations bonfire flies in the face of climate action and ecological restoration.

Open mike 24/04/2023

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, April 24th, 2023 - 50 comments

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The Murdoch’s very bad week

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 12:58 pm, April 23rd, 2023 - 16 comments

The Murdoch family’s decision to pay record damages to Dominion Voting Systems and to capitulate in its defamation case against Cricky Media suggest that they have had a very bad and a very expensive week.

The patriarchy is not inevitable

Written By: weka
Date published: 8:51 am, April 23rd, 2023 - 40 comments

One of the prime tasks of feminism is to teach women that the patriarchy is not inevitable.

Open mike 23/04/2023

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, April 23rd, 2023 - 49 comments

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Much ado about nothing

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 11:16 am, April 22nd, 2023 - 44 comments

Right wing twitter thought it was onto something big yesterday after there were revelations that Human Rights Commissioner Meng Foon had donated funds and cheap premises to Kiri Allan’s election campaign in 2020. But there was one rather significant problem with this expose, he had also donated to the National candidate in the same election.

Open mike 22/04/2023

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, April 22nd, 2023 - 145 comments

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Daily review 21/04/2023

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, April 21st, 2023 - 3 comments

National despairs as inflation rate drops

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 8:24 am, April 21st, 2023 - 36 comments

Yesterday Statistics New Zealand dealt a rather large blow to National’s election chances when it announced that the latest rate of inflation was 6.7%, a significant drop below the previous rate.

Open mike 21/04/2023

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, April 21st, 2023 - 66 comments

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Stephen Jack is cancelled by the National Party

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 8:38 pm, April 20th, 2023 - 28 comments

So National has yet another candidate problem. His name is Stephen Jack and he clearly has difficulties in negotiating reality.

Really Small States in Really Big Conflicts

Written By: advantage
Date published: 7:50 pm, April 20th, 2023 - 10 comments

We didn’t need the Russian invasion of Ukraine to tell us that great power competition is back, since China and the United States and Russia had been going at it well before even COVID temporarily messed up the multilateral trade system upon which we had built our little country. But it’s made it worse, and so we’re picking a side, and that side is NATO.

Daily review 20/04/2023

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, April 20th, 2023 - 173 comments

Open mike 20/04/2023

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, April 20th, 2023 - 73 comments

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Daily review 19/04/2023

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, April 19th, 2023 - 17 comments

Open mike 19/04/2023

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, April 19th, 2023 - 126 comments

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Daily review 18/04/2023

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, April 18th, 2023 - 11 comments

Some People Say Silly Stuff

Written By: Incognito
Date published: 2:48 pm, April 18th, 2023 - 33 comments

To err is human and human error is triggerroring, so let’s err on the side of caution and stop erring altogether.

Open mike 18/04/2023

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, April 18th, 2023 - 127 comments

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Daily review 17/04/2023

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, April 17th, 2023 - 11 comments

Lonely on the right side of history?

Written By: Mike Smith
Date published: 11:07 am, April 17th, 2023 - 18 comments

Musing after the recent IMF/World Bank meetings, Former White house economist and US Treasury secretary Larry Summers said “it’s looking a bit lonely on the right side of history..as others are increasingly banding together in a whole range of structures.”