Everything. In the world of Shane Jones, Chris Bishop and Simeon Brown, the environment is to be exploited. Prove me wrong.
For anyone interested in getting some answers about what the Government is (not) trying to achieve, New Zealand First are having public meetings this week. Public Meetings
Liz Truss lasted all of 50 days. Nicola Willis has lasted a bit longer than that, but should we be marking the day of the Fiscal Budget this year as potentially the last day of her as Finance Minister? And if so, who would replace her?
Should we be concerned that District Councils, despite not yet knowing the final form of the Fast Track Approvals Bill of Parliament, have been shoulder tapped for quick fire approvals? A quick look at the list picked up Whakatane and Buller District ...
I have written my own submission. The number of Acts of Parliament being shafted is too many to adequately cover in the time available, so I've gone with the R.M.A. as I studied it whilst doing postgrad at University.
Max Rashbrooke says that the Coalition of Chaos have managed to tank the E.V. market. I am not sure why they thought this would be a good idea - E.V.'s are, for all their environmental short comings (e-waste and so forth) a horse that has long since fled ...
Around the corner from my place are some state houses. They sit next to some that were flogged off in the early 1990's and became private property. A couple of months ago one was boarded up and fenced off. A few days ago its neighbour joined it. Just down ...
For us to have a sustainable environment, we need an environmental framework that is fit for the 21st Century. The Resource Management Act is great. It really is. It might be 33 years old and disliked by every party in Parliament, but it is an Act that I ...
National, after years of being that conservative yet quite respectable relative at family gatherings, have become the xenophobic drunk waxing lyrical about things most are horrified by. Here might be something better to wax lyrical about instead.
I will be at the Christchurch event. Will send pics if I can. I went to one last year, which was well organized and wound up at the City Council offices.
I am in two minds about Hipkins' speech. On one hand a lot of it made sense, but on the other this Government is like an out of control scrub fire at the moment, with no obvious fire service to bring it under control. Are we going to have to watch vast ...
Thanks Weka. We are in big trouble as a species and Earth as a planet. The geological sciences community are generally in agreement that the scale of humankind's impact on Earth is so profound that the next geologic epoch will be called the Anthropocene. ...
We will be worse off for one of the sanest, most sensible and - for the most part -very likeable Members of Parliament in my time. I was not a massive fan of the centrist incrementalism that he sometimes espoused, but I did not know what he was dealing ...
Winston Peters has always been racist, but since the 2020 election in a bid to deprive A.C.T. of votes - Winston genuinely dislikes Seymour - he has gone full racist in ways that those who have followed his career for the duration he has been in politics ...
Biden has the power to ring Netanyahu and tell him to stop or have U.S. aid cut. We don't need to debate the probability that that will never happen. Whilst this brings aid to Gaza and is going to be a significant U.S material contribution, you cannot put ...
Maybe us New Zealanders are not as fully independent in terms of foreign policy as we think, but Resolution 2334 at the United Nations, which we helped sponsor in 2016 was a good case of us pushing back against the U.S./Israeli hegemony in the Middle East....
HAMAS were declared a terrorist entity on 29 February 2024 by this Government. HAMAS do not recognize Israel point blank. No one should be sorry that they have been declared a terrorist entity. As long as they refused to recognize Israel in any shape or ...
If Labour want to be a true party of the left, they need to ditch the entire neoliberal economic model that they are as guilty as National are of foisting on this nation. To make the socio-economic progress that the left wing of New Zealand want us to, we ...
For anyone not familiar with hydro-electric infrastructure in the South Island, Ruataniwha is also the name the control dam impounding an artificial lake on the hydro canals in the Mackenzie Basin. Max Smith is something of a legend in Twizel because he ...
If the Government try to privatize 3 Waters, I am fairly sure the WAI2358 claim on water and geothermal resources will be complicated. Stage 1 is complete and Stage 2 was meant to be down by 2019. Stage 3 does not yet have a due date for a report, so I ...
The recent concerns about how New Zealand treats this who cannot work, or need social assistance just to do basic activities, reminded me of my own time dealing with Work and Income New Zealand. It reminded me of the culture of treating clients with ...
Are there possibly other reasons not to trust this story as well? Maybe Novichok is the most toxic poison in the man made world. Drop for drop in the natural world the Inland Taipan has by far the most toxic snake venom - one drop can fell 100 adult humans...
I think honestly Ron Mark probably knows a lot of this, but he is hamstrung in that a coalition Government is at LEAST a two way - in this case three way - compromise on policy. Yes, the N.Z.D.F. needs to grow and adapt but with the weight of the Greens on...
The Fiscal Budget was an honest start at addressing a set of problems that were allowed to grow under National. And their reaction to the Budget tells me they are no closer to understanding well being than they were the day they left the Beehive in 2017. ...
Did you read the article? Obviously not. So, here is the basis of my commentary. ---- No doubt the investigation will look at the Crimes Act and specifically section 179 which prohibits inciting procuring or counselling suicide and the Harmful Digital ...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/110093611/jamilee-ross-to-return-to-parliament-as-police-probe-text "He says she told him in that text to kill himself. The night police picked him up he had texted her telling her "you get your wish" and that was ...
It might not be an offence to say someone deserves to die, but it is certainly questionable grounds. It is however certainly an offence to actively aid and abet suicide. Section 179 of the Crimes Act says so. Dowie could be in very big trouble here. http...
It is not excusable. It might not be an offence to say someone deserves to die, but it is certainly questionable grounds. It is however certainly an offence to actively aid and abet suicide. Section 179 of the Crimes Act says so. http://www.legislation....
Most are probably fairly decent, but as with any sector there will be employers who will refuse to be decent. Hypocritical because that refusal of common decency results in the current attrition rates experienced across the farming sector.
An opinion with evidence to back it up. If National wanted to cut A.C.T. they would have done it by now. They could have for example asked people to vote for Paul Goldsmith in Epsom so that David Seymour would lose the race and be made to exit Parliament. ...
How long though can the Federal Government remain shut down before a large portion of its work force are simply no longer available - i.e large numbers start quitting to find alternative work simply to survive? Can they do that? And what about short term ...
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