Going through the RNZ Business section is definitely depressing: Not a single positive headline... all doom and gloom. Who was talking pre-election about the negativity in the country... Chris Luxon: he [Luxon] was caught by a microphone saying: “We have ...
There are some good points in this article (don't like the title though): Stuff - Has Christopher Luxon caught the incumbency curse? It's mainly down to cost-of-living at the moment and that didn't improve (yet): It’s unsurprising that New Zealanders are ...
Good point. Had a similar thought after pressing “Submit”. talking about unelected people pulling the strings of government. Is Bill English, the minder of the useless finance minister, paid by the tax payer, the National Party or by the financial ...
She chose a career as “unelected bureaucrat”, how nice for her. I guess trying to win a mayoral election was in the too hard basket.
Same with the petrol price… it’s nearly funny how there’s no mention of high oil / petrol prices compared to pre-election. The media, especially in NZ, is such a joke.
They should have called it "Ministry of Administrative Affairs" - Yes, Minister
Damian Grant? Luckily, the headlines of his Stuff "Opinion" pieces are so ridiculous, that you can smell the bullshit on the other end of the internet. Funny, that Stuff claims they don't allow "Climate Change deniers" but put the piece you've mentioned ...
And we have the highest concentration of greenhouse gases ever: Guardian - Scientists confirm record highs for three most important heat-trapping gases So we're going the wrong direction globally (and in NZ). We have to reduce emissions nearly 50% (...
Also the petrol price is slowly moving up towards previous highs. Before the election there were near daily articles about high petrol prices, while it's very quiet about it at the moment (at least on NZ Herald and Stuff).
Without ever studying economics, I find it very hard to believe that an investor doesn't try to optimise the returns / profits on an investment. The purpose of an investment is to generate profit: Investment (noun) 1. the action or process of investing ...
All the big talk about the "cost-of-living" crises before the election and so far not much happening to resolve the crises... even Tova O'Brien starts asking questions after so much "action" under urgency: Ultimately, to date, no one (or very few) appears ...
Thanks, I knew you would say that... Oh, I'm a ratepayer, too... and hoping one day this city sees the light and pushes all the polluting cars out of the CBD and make it finally people-friendly. After I saw a picture today with the Wellington CBD water ...
What a pleasant surprise...
Did you follow the UK in recent years? The Conservative Party has a big majority under FPP - soon to be history, the majority, not FPP - and yet small radical splitter groups (some can be considered "lunatic") appear to drive policies: ERG (European ...
It sounds similar what I had in mind: Environmental Impact Charge. The charge (per driven distance, like 1,000 km) depends on: Emissions, like CO2, NOX, particles (pollution and climate change) Weight (road damage) and size (required parking space) Noise (...
Unbelievable. Wondering if she has any regrets saying it. How much does she value her own life, the life of a family member or a friend, how much of a neighbour, her own doctor... I can't see any of those people being impressed by such talk. Going forward ...
Maybe this one: Guardian - Thatcherism isn’t working – it never did
Yay, new Kiwis in Wellington: Guardian - Kiwi chicks born in Wellington for first time in a century
Apart from our infrastructure shortfall (and required renewal), this country has to transform major industries to avoid climate breakdown, like: Transport Tourism Farming Energy (luckily we have already a high use of renewable energy) How is this possible ...
One person's freedom (in your case a worker joining a union) will ultimately impact someone else's freedom (in this case employer's freedom to sack the worker, underpay the worker, make the worker work on the weekends...).
Additional thoughts... maybe we should prepare a list of industries (companies) that probably did their best funding the election campaigns of "The Coalition": Tobacco Oil/Gas Pharmaceutical Real Estate Industrial Farming / Food Car dealerships (we don't ...
Agreed, I'm not sure how this reconciles with ACTs / Coalition (of Chaos) smoking policies: the downstream impacts and costs to patients and their families, the wider health system and the economy Maybe, they are just hypocrites.
When working for a power company here in NZ a CEO or CIO suggested in an internal post that NZ should follow Norway in fossil fuel extraction. So I had a look into the Norwegian oil industry (as a comparison to UK for example). As a summary, I pointed out ...
Talking "smoke and mirrors". I guess this is Chris Bishop's work: The Act-National agreement also commits to repealing smoking laws that limited nicotine levels in cigarettes, and from the start of this year, meant that only a limited number of retail ...
You couldn't make this up. Is the "Ministry for Regulation" the equivalent of "Ministry for Administrative Affairs"? Is Peter Seymour a modern day Jim Hacker "cutting red tape everywhere"? One would think you trust your colleagues in cabinet to do their ...
Probably another drop in inflation coming, amazing work by the CoC (Coalition of Chaos)... or so they say.
Hello… is it me you looking for (Lionel Richie)
How much time is left to reduce our pollution / emissions to zero? Looking into this article Guardian - Climate crisis: carbon emissions budget is now tiny the answer is not much more than a decade. Obviously dependent how much risk / destruction mankind ...
The people who voted for Tamatha Paul re-elected her as councillor and now voted her for MP. So one can only assume she achieved the things she was voted into those positions for, like the cycle network. From what I've seen in my time here in Wellington, ...
I really doubt Luxon and the National (Polluter) Party will do anything to water down their and coalition partners' pro-pollution policies, mainly around farming and "individual transport", any time soon. Looks like the "net-zero" greenhouse gas emissions ...
Yep. I thought the wealth tax the Green Party proposed showed the right direction. One could argue about threshold... Even the EU slowly figures it out: Guardian - EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income
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