Posts Tagged ‘competition’

Competition lapdog a cert to approve newspaper monopoly

Written By: - Date published: 7:43 am, May 14th, 2016 - 43 comments

“The newspaper market is buggered anyway. I wouldn’t expect we will have any daily newspapers in ten year’s time,” says Brian Gaynor.

Will the Republicans have the courage of their gun convictions?

Written By: - Date published: 10:20 am, March 29th, 2016 - 20 comments

Will the Republicans have the courage of their convictions and allow open carry at their approaching Convention?

Competition, cooperation, schools

Written By: - Date published: 12:14 pm, June 27th, 2012 - 12 comments

Competition is the wrong model for education, and National’s nonsense “league tables” are going to make it worse…

A black heart at the Real Estate Institute

Written By: - Date published: 2:36 pm, October 4th, 2007 - Comments Off on A black heart at the Real Estate Institute

I thought I’d dive in with a little post on another subject.just to give John Key a small respite from single-handedly ending the war in Iraq. It seems that the Real Estate Institute, that great business body charged by its members with protecting the interests of.well its members, has taken The Joneses real estate company […]

Free movie tickets (still)

Written By: - Date published: 12:01 pm, September 26th, 2007 - Comments Off on Free movie tickets (still)

ZKM tells me that due to some people’s inability to correctly follow instructions there are still some free movie tickets available. Here’s the original post where you can answer a quick question and get your mitts on some.

Lockwood: feeling it or faking it?

Written By: - Date published: 3:52 pm, September 13th, 2007 - 4 comments

Ok. To celebrate The Standard’s one month anniversary, and to thank you for visiting dear reader, we’re going to run a competition. Forget Deal or No Deal. That’s for chumps. Today we’re launching New Zealand’s hottest online “gameshow” (we use the term liberally) – “Lockwood: feeling it or faking it?” It’s going to work like […]

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