A reasonable commentary on the consistent scandals befalling the Green Party over the last 6 months. https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2024/05/08/green-party-grapples-with-persistent-scandals/ It's a mighty big rebuild they have to do.
The silence out of Tory Whanau - whose city and project it actually is - must be unnerving since they are both out of the same party. Where is Tamatha Paul on Genter, since she's just come from the City Council and gone into Parliament, within the same ...
It is particularly weird and unsafe for one side to advise the media that they have reached agreement on a ceasefire without the other side at the same media conference agreeing to those same terms. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/6/hamas-accepts-...
Honestly for such a small country, I think our regional Chairs should be MPs as well. We have such weak governance layers, and government goes out of its way to scourge them. Don't have to like his Party, but Mr Arbuckle may be onto something.
Yes agree, and with no mechanism to encourage the aggregation they so desperately need.
An AMP list is not a plan. Don't be fooled by AC implying underinvestment was the fault of legacy councils. Watercare pre and post amalgamation was led by the same people. Watercare still behaves like any utility monopoly: under-invest until it's near ...
They are dreaming. Not comparable.
Though I would correct myself and say that they are great compared to most other NZ metropolitan local authority water entities.
A very good job at upgrading infrastructure? Really? - They still have no water sources north of the Waitakere Dam despite nearly 900,000 people already living in that area and over 500,000 more planned - Quite unprepared for the drought of 2020-21 which ...
People may recall the total crisis Auckland was in during the 2020-21 drought. Poor planning by Watercare following its near-total reliance on low dam investment and high Waikato draw was initially opposed by Maori and Hamilton Council and Waipa. https://...
With this government preparing to pass legislation barring Auckland Council support for Auckland's Watercare, as an alternative to Labour's Three Waters Reform, the smaller weaker councils across New Zealand will only wonder what hostile takeovers they ...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516051/district-mayors-welcome-auckland-s-new-water-deal-with-govt#:~:text=Auckland%20Council%20has%20struck%20a,spread%20over%20a%20longer%20period.
With this government preparing to pass legislation barring Auckland Council support for Auckland's Watercare, as an alternative to Labour's Three Waters Reform, the smaller weaker councils across New Zealand will only wonder what hostile takeovers they ...
Parker at Finance and Sepuloni as Leader.
None of those things are true. So now let me tempt you with Labour out of power until 2029, and the Greens passing on a National "confidence and supply + specific policy areas" agreement. It's a long time to let the climate burn and not be at the ...
There's risk and opportunity to calculate. The risk is that the smaller party gets dragged down. The opportunity is that the Greens don't require Labour. While it is true that the Green membership is its own democratic handbrake, as we saw with the re-...
If Shaw can imagine the Greens going with National, carving out specific policy wins just as they did with Labour, then we get a proper realignment of our politics that threatens NZF, ACT, TPM, and Labour at once. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/...
Labour under Hipkins will seek to win by default. With Labour essentially subcontracting policy formation out to the Greens, there's not a heap of work for Hipkins to do other than be as boring as Starmer and just wait for National to fail.
First step is a digital drivers license. https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/nzta-app-first-step-towards-digital-driver-licence After that a nationwide public transport digital app that only you can use. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300908558/digital-...
Yea day smashed it
You don't even understand the word robust. Weaklings like you never achieve anything in politics.
Treasury are as usual wrong in their forecasts. It will be 7% by end 2024. If you're not aware of windows being smashed you simply have no idea about political life at all.
Also shoutout to Mickey for the heartfelt post. The fire still burns brother.
We don't need to wonder. Shaw got punched in the head just outside. At Foreshore and Seabed hikoi 2004 there were a good few Labour MPs who faced up to that roaring crowd, right to their face. The moment it got a bit far is when a few thousand occupied ...
Stop being such a wet poodle. Why are the right so weak when they're challenged? 7,000 public servants down and counting, rapidly heading from 3 to 6% unemployed inside 12 months. Expect emotion at large scale. In the 1930s this government would have had ...
Just horseshit. We have one of the politest Parliaments in the world. We need more rudeness and fight not less.
That NZFirst donation haul of just $1.8 million and still gets over 6% has to be a super-efficient vote-per-dollar equation. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/election-donations-national-party-raises-massive-104-million-haul-in-donations-for-election/...
With Tangi Utikere barely visible, Genter is by a long way our most important opposition MP in transport. We need more like Genter who are matching the outrage of this government with outrage of their own.
We have had since the late 1980s a public service that is under-led and poorly resourced, with no cross-departmental strategy or even an attempt at it, disaggregated by deep funder-policy-provider spits, under-regulated or worse self-regulating, ...
When our MPs on the Inter Parliamentary Alliance on China are hacked, by China together with our leading China security expert, and our own agency doesn't have the guts to actually inform them, it's probably time for Clark and Carr to just front up and ...
Also HRL Morrison at that level is a whole bunch more useful to the world than Shaw getting recycled into a government entity like NZSuperFund or ACC. Shaw is one of the few elected members on either side of the house who operate outside the Wellington ...
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