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Open mike 29/06/2022

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 29th, 2022 - 128 comments

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Daily review 28/06/2022

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, June 28th, 2022 - 23 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 …

Hey Free Speech Union, Simon O’Connor is being muzzled

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 9:05 am, June 28th, 2022 - 41 comments

Someone should send out the free speech police. Simon O’Connor has been muzzled and is being stopped from saying what he thinks.

Open mike 28/06/2022

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 28th, 2022 - 118 comments

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Daily review 27/06/2022

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, June 27th, 2022 - 22 comments

Christopher Luxon’s many and varied abortion takes

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 8:42 am, June 27th, 2022 - 103 comments

National leader Christopher Luxon who has been previously reported as believing that abortion is murder, issued three public statements over the weekend trying to distance himself from the controversy caused by the US Supreme Court overturning of Rowe v Wade.

Open mike 27/06/2022

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 27th, 2022 - 233 comments

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Open mike 26/06/2022

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 26th, 2022 - 120 comments

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The US abortion bans and women’s rights

Written By: weka
Date published: 12:22 pm, June 25th, 2022 - 103 comments

We have abortion rights by the grace of men.

Mick Lynch is a working class hero

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 10:50 am, June 25th, 2022 - 30 comments

In the UK Rail Maritime and Transport boss Mick Lynch has caused a media sensation by strongly and clearly advocating for workers rights as the Conservative Government aims to deal with inflation by eroding further workers wages and job conditions.

Open mike 25/06/2022

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 25th, 2022 - 137 comments

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Matariki and Prime Minister Ardern

Written By: advantage
Date published: 10:16 am, June 24th, 2022 - 73 comments

Plenty of experts will tell you about what Matariki ‘means to us’. Here’s what it means to Ardern.

Open mike 24/06/2022

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 24th, 2022 - 147 comments

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Daily review 23/06/2022

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, June 23rd, 2022 - 25 comments

Open mike 23/06/2022

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 23rd, 2022 - 269 comments

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Daily review 22/06/2022

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, June 22nd, 2022 - 11 comments

Luxon has been Susied on National Radio

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 11:04 am, June 22nd, 2022 - 68 comments

This morning on Morning Report Christopher Luxon was well and truly Susied as Susie Ferguson asked him how can we have tax cuts yet improved public services.

Open mike 22/06/2022

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 6:00 am, June 22nd, 2022 - 133 comments

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Daily review 21/06/2022

Written By: notices and features
Date published: 5:30 pm, June 21st, 2022 - Comments Off on Daily review 21/06/2022

Should our future lie with NATO?

Written By: Mike Smith
Date published: 3:23 pm, June 21st, 2022 - 62 comments

Not content to stay in the North Atlantic, NATO is shortly about to reveal in Madrid its next ten-year plan to contain China. Jacinda Ardern will be there, who knows why. Are we nailing our colours to a flag at half-mast?

How Democracy Weakens

Written By: advantage
Date published: 1:45 pm, June 21st, 2022 - 31 comments

It’s pretty commonplace now to observe that Prime Minister Ardern is doing well overseas but tanking at home.

The dodgy Auckland Mayoralty Curia poll

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: 8:58 am, June 21st, 2022 - 104 comments

An Auckland Ratepayers Alliance Curia poll that was trumpeted as claiming that Efeso Collins and Leo Molloy were neck and neck in terms of public support has attracted criticism after it was disclosed that the poll of 500 persons had 53% stating that they did not know who they would vote for.