https://www.healthcoalition.org.nz/protect-our-school-lunches/ [petition link] I hope the new scheme has more success. I hope any new scheme provides nutritious food for more hungry kids - time will tell. Minister using outdated information to justify ...
A definitive list of woke and non-woke foods [8 May 2024] In announcing changes to the school lunches programme, David Seymour said kids would no longer be served ‘woke’ foods. I'd liken Seymour to a worm, except worms are useful. Does he fear 'woke' food...
How an unreliable boat makes Chatham Islands life harder [19 Nov 2023] The new MP for the Chathams – part of the Rongotai electorate – visited the island this week. Julie-Anne Genter, from the Green Party, said her priority is finding out what's going on ...
No, they were bullied into that view by effectively 2 people. There's a big difference. Anyone can have a belief about why the VU managers came to a different view, but come to a different view they did - it's just a fact. Btw, did those Jonathan Rauch ...
You are assuming that the additional participants add diversity of opinion. Just as I assumed that each of the original five panellists had distinct views/perspectives/opinions/knowledge to contribute. Of course, you might assume that the original five ...
On Friday morning, Victoria University Vice-chancellor Nic Smith said the debate's line-up had been expanded to include a "very balanced panel" with the addition of a Māori political commentator, rainbow community and inclusivity advocates and additional ...
Liked by Gary Judd KC: This person is obviously a classic Marxist... Toxic & deluded are terms that spring to mind. Scared too. It's beyond me how intellectually moribund toerags such as this Quince person appears to be, manage to inveigle themselves into...
Top scientist Mike Joy loses role at Victoria University [31 May 2023] Joy has previously received Forest & Bird’s Old Blue award, the Ecology in Action award from the New Zealand Ecological Society, and the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Charles Fleming ...
In this blog post, through an analysis of the disinformation-based campaign I have personally experienced since October 2023 mobilised by the communicative ecosystem of the Free Speech Union (FSU), I will attend to the lifecycle of disinformation in ...
Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment—an attitude that has never again left me, even though, later on, it has been tempered by a ...
Local Water Done Well Well Well. Water: What are National and Act doing in the shadows? National and Act’s policies on drinking water would reduce protections and ignore the recommendations of the inquiry into the Havelock North campylobacter outbreak ...
That's debating - win some, lose some - good call by Vic Uni management, imho. Salient visited the Provost/Acting Vice Chancellor, Bryony James, for a kōrero. The conversation was productive and wide-ranging, and revealed a genuine desire from James and ...
Two and a half years on from that ODT article, failure to launch 3Waters is coming back to bite ratepayers. Repeal - delay - let's go back to the drawing board and get our country back on track. Fiddling while Aotearoa's water infrastructure degrades. The ...
the denial I referred to was your representation of NZ’s problems as somehow aligned to everyone else’s. Can'r help observing that some of NZ's current problems - say high inflation/cost of living/interest rates - are common to many countries, and ...
... then I all ears. See your GP about that, then get a second opinion just to be sure
...’s an entitlement and I’m entitled to it [2 March... with no guaranteed outcomes. I’m no expert, but I know...
So you're now not denying there's a problem, but you don't like the current remedy? @Traveller - What denial? We agree it'll be 'tough' for many Kiwis. And Kiwis see our CoC govt's landLord tax cut for the 'remedy' it is. Government by the wealthy, for ...
Coalition's dirge of austerity and uncertainty is driving the economy into a deeper recession [28 April 2024] Surprise: Landlord Tax Cuts Don’t Trickle Down [30 April 2024] Our CoC government is a landLord government. This government has taken their ...
This is a problem for your argument... That our CoC govt's austerity puts some Kiwis on a backward track? I thought we were agreed on that. Cuts come with consequences. Most macroeconomists now agree that the austerity programme pursued by the Coalition ...
What I do know is that NZ faces some significant economic challenges, some of our own making, some not. One of those is inflation. Another is structural deficits. What I know is NZ isn't alone in facing the challenges of unemployment, inflation and ...
Sure, but smashing windows and burning down buildings is a bit OTT don't you agree? OTT for me, now? Sure (I've a bit to lose), and the future beyond a decade (two at the most) isn't a personal concern - "For the times they are a-changin'." Political ...
We've had levels of unemployment considerably higher than 6% for long periods in the past 40 years, (https://tradingeconomics.com/new-zealand/unemployment-rate) and we haven't had windows smashed or social welfare buildings being burnt down. Otoh, ...
This incident doesn't dent my respect for Genter, but it's not a good look - only hope Parliament doesn't make a mountain out of a molehill, and that Doocey and Genter get any assistance/support they need. “But I’ve made very clear my reservations about ...
“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.” - Einstein https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/16-08-2022/the-side-eyes-two-new-zealands-the-table Seymour mingy? Maybe - he understands the 'benefits' of keeping some Kiwis hungry. Why poverty ...
... I was younger back then ... Weren't we all, Jimmy, weren't we all.
Uffindell? Wooden, I reckon. He also doesn't come across as someone you'd be scared of getting a beating from. Maybe if you'd had the opportunity to get to know him better
It is unlikely to be the case this year as we try and kill the bout of inflation Robertson's policies have kicked off. And consider the global reach of Robertson's policies - mind-blowing! Monetary policy responses to the post-pandemic inflation: ...
I would go so far as to say they are 'bouncing' around. In leaps and bounds
So did Key donate 'a good part' of his salary to charity or not? Good question. No idea, nor what "a good part" amounts to, year-on-year. I'm just curious if anyone was ever able to verify it. Honest John could verify it, unless he can't recall which ...
Quite right alwyn, it was "a good part", not 'entire'. Key said that while leader of the opposition, and committed to continuing the practice if he became PM. Key pledges PM's salary to charity [31 Jan 2009] New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said he ...
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