There's a certain grinding down of particular comments and commenters here on The Standard. It is relentless. Some of us are hovered over. That's fine because I should and do have better things to do that advocate for the socially responsible left on my ...
Holding neurodivergent people to exactly the same standard as the justified and monied elite of Karori and Remuera does not do neurodivergent people any favours. Get back to us here in good faith once you have wiped off the RW talking points. Thanks in ...
Belladonna will be furious with this post. According to David Farrar, David Farrar's polling methods and results are beyond reproach!
David Seymour this morning spoke to a group of academic kids at a particular Auckland school. I have it on good authority the main thrust of his talk was to suggest NZ cannot and should not be active in climate change mitigation efforts because the rest of...
Incredibly, the Taxdodgers Union/Curated poll has reverted to publishing actual results which largely agree with the independent pollsters in NZ rather than publishing false results designed to influence public opinion. ACT suddenly drops 4% and the Greens...
I did not realise Three Waters was environmentally damaging.
You are literally parroting lines from David Farrar and that's fine, but it's important to recognise. The comparison is a typical Farrar propaganda trick*, a straight reversal without even considering the likelihood of the reverse happening. In his and ...
Suddenly realised she's gone too far with her crusade. Obviously the targeting of the kid and his family is why name suppression is important, but some just won't have it...
This really is so depressing. Young people from wealthy families are already corrupted by dishonest parents who think it's fine, if not virtuous, to rip off the taxpayer simply because you can. You'd be stupid not to, right? No doubt these are the same ...
Lindisfarne College students are publicly funded: Meanwhile, funding of state and state-integrated schools in 2019 was an average of $8475 per student. That's an average of state and state-integrated, but I know a similar state-integrated school in ...
Read what I wrote. I said name suppression is vital because of angry people*. Not my fault if you read that that's what the court said. *Of course both deputy prime ministers have been whipping up this anger on X and through proxy statements by backbench ...
It's not for once, unfortunately.
No it's not. That might be a convenient distraction and simplification which the far right are using at the moment but it's important to recognise what the speech is: One is harmful to private individuals simply because of their sexual identity. The other ...
I can't accept the premise of your argument equating Folau's homophobia with Maori and PI women from disadvantaged backgrounds criticising this reckless government. It's pretty disgraceful really. Being gay isn't a choice, is it? Ripping out support for ...
There's some amazing stuff going on at the moment. Not only are we no longer able to express political views if employed as a publicly funded academic (Joanna Kidman), but we are also not allowed to express political views if employed by a sponsored sports...
Not sure, but if it wasn't it should be.
The judge's decision doesn't seem to be out of line in the circumstances of this offence. The diversion + apology + reparation + counselling + community work seems normal for a first time offender. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-posie-parker-...
I believe Judith Hobson also travelled several hundred km, by plane, in order to stop transgender people living their lives with dignity. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/nana-bashed-at-posie-parker-rally-outraged-over-sentence-of-her-young-attacker/...
There was a protest at the weekend: Before their Super Rugby Aupiki season opener against the Chiefs Manawa, the Wellington-based team used an altered haka which included the words "karetao o te Kāwana kakiwhero", translating to "puppets of this redneck ...
NZ politics live: Christopher Luxon’s allowance saga shows an ‘entitlement mentality’, Labour MP says. Unlike Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, other MPs who receive the accommodation supplement for the places they stay at in Wellington have mortgages to ...
I think you are reaching a bit there. I'll go out on a limb here and say most, nearly all, violence by men towards women is domestic/sexual in nature. The violence in this case was not, it was at a protest where the perpetrator and victim did not know each...
Also what should have been considered in the granting of name suppression is danger to the individual. We've already seen Leo Molloy harass and threaten him outside court and now the deputy PM is whipping up fear and hatred.
Tax relief for all they said. Here's another 22 cents a litre, muppets. Joyce 2016: lets cut car regos by $50 Brown 2024: lets increase car regos by $50 Make up your minds, idiots. Wait for the GST announcement, everybody...
TVNZ is not government funded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVNZ#:~:text=TVNZ%20is%20state%2Downed%20but,or%20a%20fully%20commercial%20network.
Yes, I totally agree there is a concerted campaign to get Campbell. It's an example of RW activists and politicians working in concert to seed media and public opinion that Campbell has to go. I suspected @3 on this thread that these are new tools, ...
The focus of that hit was David Parker because Seymour and his fellow travellers are absolutely terrified of CGT and wealth taxes. Not only because of what they mean to property grifters and the idle rich, but because they are a thing in many countries and...
Not a great start for Mellisa Lee, losing one of New Zealand's two 6:00pm TV news programmes, that's 50%. She's also has now to fend off the idiot duo deputy PMs who both want the other one to be demolished. Unfortunately these two are just going to laugh ...
Indeed. A centrist by definition will agree with some policy from both sides, and disagree with some policy from both sides. Evidenced by that person's comment history, Belladonna can in no way claim to be a centrist, at least on this forum. I'm not sure ...
Simple, no nonsense stuff from Barbara Edmonds. Be afraid Willis will jack up GST to 17.5%, and yes, we are considering a, "fairer and more progressive tax system". Deal with it. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/03/why-labour-s-new-finance-...
An important in depth piece by Katie Newton here. Apart from the dereliction of duty by the associate health minister, it looks at the tobacco industry and their lobbyists: The tobacco industry has long since moved on from the days when it tried to ...
In my experience, people who claim they are centrist are invariably right wing (this despite the outlandish claim in the report associated with your link, equating “Centre” with “Middle leftish”). You, yourself are one of the best examples of that ...
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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