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WEBThe Standard. Hurricane Milton: watching the climate train wreck in slow motion. Written By: weka Date published: 1:12 pm, October 10th, 2024 - 52 comments Categories: climate change, disaster Tags: climate corps, Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton, sharon astyk. Catastrophe and meaningful response.
Daily review 10/10/2024 « The Standard
WEB4 days ago · Open mike 11/10/2024. Daily review 10/10/2024. Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, October 10th, 2024 - 10 comments Categories: Daily review - Tags: 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).
Where’s The Opposition? « The Standard
WEB1 day ago · In the 2023 electoral year, National raised $10.3 million, more than doubling the $4.7m raised by Labour. Yeah, the Coalition government’s donations significantly outgunned parties on the left. Paul Goldsmith buried the Independent Electoral Review recommendations ie. canned improving electoral donor transparency laws.
Power and Speed - The Standard
WEBAug 28, 2024 · The amount of natural gas in New Zealand’s reserves has decreased by 335 PJ or 20% between 1 January 2023 and 1 January 2024, to 1,300 PJ. 44% of this reduction is due to gas extracted and used over the course of 2023. The remaining 56% is a result of revisions to reserves figures from gas field operators.
Local Councils Defy Central Government Agenda « The Standard
WEBAug 30, 2024 · 94% of councils that have voted vote to retain Maori wards. Many of them are National background Councillors and previously urged Central Government to not push ahead with the legislation. The forced local referendums are now expected to cost ratepayers and take away from Council workloads.
Bye, Bye Health! « The Standard
WEBSep 26, 2024 · Bye, Bye hospital plans! Today Rachel Thomas reports – $3.2 billion is sleighted to come out of “hospital and mental health infrastructure projects”, and it seems the first formal casualty is Dunedin hospital, South Island.. ODT reports former Labour Cabinet minister Pete Hodgson saying: “At the end of the day, the question is whether or not the southern region will have an adequate ...
How New Zealand Reconnects With the World « The Standard
WEBFeb 3, 2022 · Adding to the more than 17,000 critical workers who have already come to New Zealand since our borders closed. Our Working Holiday Schemes will also reopen in stages from step 2. Step 3 begins from 11:59pm Tuesday 12 April. Here we further extend our border extension to include a large international student cohort of …
Where’s the “Oomph”? « The Standard
WEBOct 6, 2024 · 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 ...
Unions are still relevant « The Standard
WEBSep 7, 2024 · Unions are still relevant. Unions are not for everyone but just shy of half a million (488,700) or j ust under 20% of all paid employees belong to a union (24Q2). Over the last 8 years this percentage has increased, slowly but surely. Union membership is relatively evenly spread between ages 25-64 with union members of each of the 4 …
National is stuffing up health « The Standard
WEB6 days ago · Mountain Tui has posted a couple of really important posts on health recently. His post on how the Government is creating a crisis so that it can privatise NZ healthcare strikes a real chord. We have seen 40 years of this sort of behaviour. The first thing right wing governments do is create a crisis. […]