According to this article switching years in the url isn’t what happened: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/390846/budget-breach-didn-t-break-the-law-treasury They relied on searches turning up preview information in the search results, not switching ...
“the media spent all day talking about how Simon Bridges said Grant Robertson said one thing and Grant Robertson said he said no such thing” This is exactly why I’ve increasingly turned away from mainstream NZ media. There’s absolutely zero thought process...
Don’t be stupid, someone with obvious malicious intent performs a dedicated 2000 searches to glean summary search results from a website and the head of the agency should lose their job?! I’ve worked on web design and work with a web team to update content...
It’s good that treasury have been so onto it and figured out what happened quickly and put it out publicly, stops National in their tracks and days of media coverage of speculation.
I don’t see what the big disagreement is about - in fact, it seems that everyone is on the same page on what they want (the rapist reported to Police) just not how to get there. The problem is it’s a report where people were assured they could ...
Interesting post. I started reading the Magic Weapons paper in order to see what all this was about. I say started as I never mustered the strength to keep going. I work in science and have spent about half my life training in or working in a university ...
Oh no. Here I was being all happy with the the way the government has been governing and then this comes out of the blue. In my mind it’s the first major drop of the ball since they’ve been in power. The only upside is the National won’t be able to CGT dog...
And we have a winner :)
This is a bit harsh. Obviously the government are disgusted at the livestream and are well aware of needing to change the system. The Australian law has been described as law in paper only and unworkable in the real world. Passing something like that isn’t...
It’s not so much the name, as their mascots being guys dressed up in medieval gear, swinging swords and riding out on horseback. Even before the mosque attacks I’d see that and go “ummm...okayyy, whose idea was this?”
I was curious what these six countries were that didn’t arm police, so followed the link, but the article is completely unrelated?
Thanks to The Guardian we know one of their funders is big tobacco, but of course there must be others.
I see this just out today too: https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/383318/poor-housing-conditions-costing-taxpayers-more-than-145m I don’t know if the government were involved in the timing of this release, but if they were - well played. It leaves a ...
First of all, genuine question, I don’t get how this different from the insulation requirements coming in on 1 July: https://www.tenancy.govt.nz/maintenance-and-inspections/insulation/ Basically from 2021 the addition is a heat pump (if not already present...
Not representative either, never said it was. If you think either of these reflect a cross-section of wider NZ society you’re dreaming.
“I can’t see this being popular, from Kiwiblog” Kiwiblog of course being a reliable reflection of NZ at large
As a scientist myself this idea that science and innovation is going to save us from climate change and resource depletion really grates. I’m glad Naomi Klein called it out as BS in This Changes Everything. I don’t know what’s worse - Vernon peddling the ...
“Any support will come from “bewildered and befuddled” Nat supporters” This. Unless, or until, the National party acknowledge the overwhelming scientific evidence that the climate is changing and human activity is the cause, any Blue-Green party or ...
No I get thestandard.org.nz showing in the address bar as fully loaded, but nothing at all in the browser window.
A site issue doesn’t mean it happens to everybody - it would be pretty obvious if no one could access these posts. I used to work in web design and maintenance. If it happens to one person chances are it happens to more who don’t report a problem because ...
Sorry when I said “every now and then” I meant it doesn’t happen on every article on The Standard but just some of them. Some articles just come up as blank pages. In the past I’ve ignored it as it’s only been the odd article, but now there’s 3 in the last...
I get an error on some pages on The Standard where the page loads, but is completely blank. It’s always happened every now and then but is currently happening on the pages “Russell Brands New Year Revolutions”, “Julian Assange and the Barbara Streisand ...
Keep up the good work! Although I don’t post much the site is a daily source of news for me, and is sorely needed given the MSM long ago gave up.
I doubt there’s 17 billion in additional taxes, sounds like he’s still stuck using Joyce’s math fail as a sound bite.
I used to read some of Bryce’s pieces - at least during the Key days it offered something a bit more neutral than the pro-National media. But yeah, now he seems to have become another one of the small pool of “go-to” political commentators that the MSM ...
Looking over this sun-thread it seems one point to keep in mind is that the Left/Right division is encumbered with slightly different weight in Latin America than here or in “the West”. During the military dictatorships there left-Wing groups were killed, ...
I find the appearance and background to the Newsroom article pretty suspect: “Over the past year, Newsroom investigations editor Melanie Reid has been looking into the background and behaviour of former National MP Jami-Lee Ross” Really? Over the last year...
Agree. I just had a look at Kiwiblog and Whale Oil, Kiwiblog has a rambling post from first thing this morning about JLR but nothing on today’s events. Whale Oil doesn’t have anything remotely related. The National PR gang had obviously been caught well on...
Agree, this is brutal. Ross waits until National are bound up in a caucus meeting then announces, and holds, a meeting with the press, while they’re holed up talking about whether to fire him. In that time, he resigns, announces he’ll still be fighting the...
Time to get some popcorn :)
We all knew National looked to the Republican Party for inspiration, and Key was on a mission to turn NZ into another US state, but seriously, gun forums?!
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