2024 in review « The Standard
4 天之前 · It is that time of year when during the brief hiatus of civilisation known as the holidays we get the time to reflect on what has happened over the past 12 months. Just over a year ago National and its allies had assumed power and were engaged in a blitzkrieg of change. Essentially they wanted to ...
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Written By: lprent Date published: 5:38 pm, December 30th, 2024 - 4 comments Categories: act, australian politics, Economy, employment, International, law, mark mitchell, national, nz first, Social issues, workers' rights Tags: camilla belich, court, Ibrahim Omer, mark patterson, Theft by Employer, wage theft In Australia, the Fair Work Act is enhanced to …
Politics - The Standard
The Pogues wrote the best Christmas song ever. Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:21 am, December 25th, 2024 - 16 comments. It is Christmas time and the eternal debate about who wrote the best Christmas song ever is being debated yet again.
Where’s the “Oomph”? « The Standard
2024年10月6日 · NAct's raison d'etre is to feed greed, hence the ever more urgent self-serving need to offer up public services/assets to private capital, with inequality as a byproduct. [2013] Minister of Finance English [also author of a scathing 2024 'independent' review of Kāinga Ora's supposed ills – the cure being (surprise) privatisation] and Minister for State Owned Enterprises Ryall, discussing ...
The more difficult end to the vaccination programme
… it is a choice, or is it?. A choice for most Kiwis, imho, and an easy choice for me.. This epidemic, which isn't yet (and hopefully won’t become) the deadliest in NZ in my lifetime, poses a serious public health risk if global ‘COVID numbers’ are to be believed. Most Kiwi's have made good choices so far – let's keep calm and carry on vaccinating, washing hands, wearing masks ...
Daily review 06/12/2023 « The Standard
2023年12月6日 · 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 ot…
2020 - The Standard
2020年12月31日 · Parihaka. Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:09 am, December 30th, 2020 - 8 comments. A post reflecting on the history of the Parihaka settlement, how local Taranaki Iwi were treated appallingly by the Crown and the Government, and how the settlement amount paid is but a miniscule amount of the damage actually caused.
news – The Standard
Youtube punishes Murdoch’s Sky News for pedalling Covid misinformation. Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:44 am, August 3rd, 2021 - 38 comments. This will have the conspiracy theorists spinning. Youtube have stopped Murdoch’s Sky News Australia from uploading videos for the next seven days after the channel uploaded videos questioning Covid and advocating for the use of ...
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The unusual feature of Taxpayers Union’s latest Curia poll. Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:03 am, December 11th, 2024 - 11 comments. Unlike two other recent polls the latest Taxpayer’s Union poll reports a surge to Act happening during the time the Treaty Principles Bill was introduced.
Environment - The Standard
2024年12月23日 · 2024 in review. Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:01 am, December 31st, 2024 - 5 comments. It is that time of year when during the brief hiatus of civilisation known as the holidays we get the time to reflect …