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Date published: 10:22 am, January 2nd, 2026 - 3 comments
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What will election year 2026 bring to Aotearoa?
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 2nd, 2026 - 21 comments
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Date published: 11:44 am, January 1st, 2026 - 13 comments
Israel bans 37 NGOs from Gaza including the world renowned medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontière)
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Date published: 9:44 am, January 1st, 2026 - 7 comments
Happy New Year to all the readers, commenters, and fellow authors/mods at The Standard
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 1st, 2026 - No comments
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Date published: 9:39 am, December 31st, 2025 - 3 comments
Chris Bishop is thought by some to be the politician of the year, mainly for drafting a couple of bills plaigarised from the work of David Parker and untested promises to build hugely expensive roads of National significance. But they are ignoring the most extraordinary performance by an opposition leader in recent decades.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 31st, 2025 - 5 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 30th, 2025 - 33 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 29th, 2025 - No comments
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Date published: 10:29 am, December 28th, 2025 - 13 comments
“It was a year of people power, hard-fought wins, and standing up against political and corporate harm.”
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 28th, 2025 - 9 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 27th, 2025 - 5 comments
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Date published: 8:49 am, December 26th, 2025 - 2 comments
“This book will lift your spirits and give you hope”
– Brian Eno
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 26th, 2025 - 5 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 25th, 2025 - 4 comments
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Date published: 7:54 am, December 24th, 2025 - 22 comments
“National preferred doing a quick, low-quality deal over doing the hard work necessary to get a fair deal that delivers for both New Zealanders and Indians.”
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 24th, 2025 - 23 comments
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Date published: 12:03 pm, December 23rd, 2025 - 11 comments
Advantage gets out the crystal ball and postilated what may happen next year.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 23rd, 2025 - 9 comments
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Date published: 12:00 pm, December 22nd, 2025 - 13 comments
Some of the best video media coverage of a terrorism event I’ve seen, from the human side.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 22nd, 2025 - 19 comments
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Date published: 11:36 am, December 21st, 2025 - 9 comments
National’s Ministerial Retail Advisory Group leader Sunny Kaushall has hit the headlines for huge catering costs inluding paying $9 for bottles of coke worth $5.50. But the deeper story should be why his activity, which is clearly political in nature, being funded by a fund set aside for victims.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 21st, 2025 - 30 comments
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Date published: 9:50 am, December 20th, 2025 - 13 comments
The plan ignores standard traffic planning practice, takes no account of predicted sea level rise and will be obsolete before the last stone is turned.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 20th, 2025 - 13 comments
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Date published: 2:06 pm, December 19th, 2025 - 18 comments
the US administration stresses that countries like Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan will need to militarise as never before in peacetime to keep China in its place.
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Date published: 11:55 am, December 19th, 2025 - 6 comments
The Taxpayer’s Union campaign against Nicola Willis’s Socialist handling of the economy, complete with novelty fudge has crashed unceremoniously. The sponsors have clearly spoken.
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Date published: 7:31 am, December 19th, 2025 - 3 comments
Masterton hospital has been deemed structurally unsafe with money awarded for its remediation after a long court case.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 19th, 2025 - 13 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 18th, 2025 - 27 comments
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Date published: 8:10 pm, December 17th, 2025 - 22 comments
The last poll of the political year and it is a doozie. Labour is 8 points ahead of National.
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