New Zealand starting to feel the pointy end of the climate crisis By: weka - 10:26 am, July 14th, 2025 - 57 comments Categories: climate change, disaster - Tags: floods, just transition, Nelson, ...

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 other ...

Ministers Shane Jones and Chris Bishop continued to make decisions about several fast-track projects despite their respective parties receiving donations linked to the applicants. One political ...

Six months ago, the Trump administration paused almost all foreign assistance. As more than US$60 billion of programs suddenly stopped, we predicted that people would die, the world would become less ...

The line that all the things NACTFirst embrace are "imported culture wars" is a cop-out. eg Labour & the GP imported the current transgenderist lines ( from US: self ID, pronoun enforcement, ...

True blue genius By: Sam Cash - 9:26 pm, September 3rd, 2007 - 4 comments Categories: national - Tags: national ...

A few hours ago, it was shared with me 1 that Paul Goldsmith’s voting electoral reform affects ~560,000 voters 2 Here are the details 3: Election day registration: 110,000 Voting period registration: ...

Gerrymander alert – Government running scared By: Mike Smith - 3:49 pm, July 25th, 2025 - 9 comments Categories: Abuse of power, campaigning, democracy under attack, democratic participation, Dirty ...

Only a dropkick would want to make voting harder By: mickysavage - 1:31 pm, July 25th, 2025 - 42 comments Categories: david seymour, elections, electoral systems, paul goldsmith - Tags: ...

Since when did "sports including everyone" mean women must open up their sporting category to everyone? Women have no obligation to compete with people who "identify as women". It makes a mockery of ...

In politics, regulatory capture is a form of corruption of authority that occurs when a political entity, policymaker, or regulator is co-opted to serve the commercial, ideological, or political ...

Faced with the undeniable reality of what is happening Potaka has morphed from “we have solved homelessness” to “homelessness is complex and there are a number of different causes”. The report he ...