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1 week ago | thestandard.org.nz | Blake Johnson |Astrid Young |Nick Rockel |Karl Gading Sayudha

Gordon Campbell Werewolf: “a home for longform journalism on politic, art, and culture.”Clearly, the world needs to stop talking about Israel’s right to defend itself, and start talking about the world’s need to defend itself against Israel. Gaza, Lebanon, Iran….these have become the stepping stones in Israel’s plan to expand its rule, unrivalled, over all the land between the river and the sea. Iran was on the cusp of making a nuclear weapon?

1 month ago | thestandard.org.nz | David Slack |Linus Cohen |Astrid Young |Alice Wai

Daily review 29/05/2025 Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, May 29th, 2025 - No 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). Don’t forget to be kind to each other … Related Posts

1 month ago | thestandard.org.nz | Astrid Young |Nick Rockel |Stephanie Cullen |David Farrier

Last night I couldn’t find the Green Party video from yesterday’s Green Budget announcement, which might be a good thing because I ended up watching the BHN episode where Pat and Chewie talk with Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson (video below). I’ve been increasingly finding my eyes glazing over at much of the Greens’ speechifying. Their policies still look good, but somehow the rhetoric hasn’t been landing for me personally.

1 month ago | thestandard.org.nz | Astrid Young |Nick Rockel |Stephanie Cullen |David Farrier

Reprinted with permissionIt’s not often I find myself needing to respond to a sitting Minister of Finance. But when Nicola Willis dismisses decades of feminist struggle for gender pay equity as “a grievance industry” and calls a journalist’s pointed social commentary “sexist slurs,” it becomes clear we’re not dealing with a reasoned policy debate. We’re witnessing a deliberate, ideologically motivated reframing of fairness as fiscal burden—and that’s something I cannot stay silent about.

1 month ago | thestandard.org.nz | Bart Hogeveen |David Slack |Graeme Dobell |Astrid Young