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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Judith Collins has issued a Bill of Rights report which concludes that National's proposed changes to the enrollment electoral laws breach the Bill of Rights Act.

Imported culture wars By: mickysavage - 10:16 am, July 28th, 2025 - 62 comments Categories: nz first, racism, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, winston peters - Tags: ...

If we are to renew the purpose of democracy after this current bunch of old people have had a crack at shrinking it, we need to turn this into something prospective voters can actually hope for: they ...

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: ...