Except her story didn't stand up to scrutiny. When the media started asking her questions that should have been forseen and answers prepared she basically made up a story. She was asked about the family of the father of her child and why did she not ask ...
Nothing the Govt has done in the past few months would have caused the economy to contract. That is more a factor of decision taken (or not taken) by the previous Govt as well as global economic conditions. If the economy is still contracting by the end of...
The most likely outcome in my view will be to reduce the size of any tax cut given they have also promised not to cut Health, Education, or Superannuation. Personally I would raise the age of eligibility for Superannuation to 67 but that would be gradual ...
What are your views on import duties? Do you think they lead to increased costs to consumers in NZ? If we had a 25 % duty on Mobile phones coming into the country and then cut the duty completely would you expect Mobile phones to drop in price or to stay ...
Ummm...bringing in less revenue is one of the major points of (most) tax cuts. What is affordable or not is actual spending. What I believe you are really arguing is that you think there are areas the Government should spend money on that may not be ...
There is no cost in giving tax cuts. There is a loss of revenue. The idea that Government is unable to do something as a result of spending money on not bringing in as much tax is disingenuous. There is also this dangerous idea expressed by people on the ...
Seems like the Hurricane management might disagree with that position.
The Hurricane's management it seems " However, Hurricanes chief executive, Avan Lee, said he wasn't aware of the team's plans to use the haka. He said the franchise will apologise to the government. "Certainly disappointed. There was no discussion, no ...
Kind of like how the Hurricanes had a word with the team to advise them not to do it and they then went ahead and did it again.
He didn't state that. He merely stated a commonly held view by MANY religious people that Homosexuals will go to Hell. It isn't very nice admittedly but it is his strongly held conviction which he expressed in a personal capacity not while he was doing ...
Why are they not an average employee? They are paid to play the sport of Rugby Union. That is their job not to make political statements.
They are entitled to have the view (and act on it) that on work time and on work resources they should have a say in what I communicate to the wider public expecially if I am using my position as an employee to get a larger audience and make a bigger ...
What I find curious about the Hurricane's womens team continuing to use their Haka before the game to make a political point is why noone in the media (that I am aware of) has raised the issue of them as employees abusing their roles. I know I have a ...
A Ministry is not the same as a Minister.
There will be greater restrictions placed on Competitive shooters around keeping semi-automatic rifles than we currently have in place. If there are issues with this group (not general firearm owners) giving weapons to criminials there should be evidence ...
I have no idea because I am not a competition shooter. However people involved with competition shooting obviously do think it can provide some advantages to them. Have you ever thought of asking people involved with competition shooting? I know someone ...
Do you have actual evidence that criminals were getting semi-automatic rifles from competition shooters or are you just making this up?
There would be no Productivity commission without the ACT party requesting it as part of their agreement with National post the 2008 election. The reason ACT set it up was to identify areas of the economy that had barriers to improving productivity. It was...
Seems lots of competitive shooters around the World will disagree with you as evidenced by the extract from this article "The type of action is also an important consideration when choosing a rifle for competition shooting. The action refers to the ...
This is why legitimate firearm owners were so insensed at the law changes that the last government implemented. The VAST majority of firearm owners are law abiding people who either use their firearms to assist them in their jobs (e.g. farmers), provide a ...
I don't believe Competitive shooters shoot at other people. I believe they shoot at targets. Why do you object to people doing this?
Ummm... The Productivity Commission was subverted by the previous government and moved away from it's original remit. Much of the original purpose of the Commission is now going to be handled by the Ministry for Regulation. There is therefore no need to ...
Yes. The original purpose of the Productivity Commission was purely focused on looking at how the value add componment of the economy could be enhanced rather than maximising non economic activities such as the environment and social well being. The last ...
If you are correct then the rest of the Labour party caucus was full of idiots. Neo-liberal economic policies were well known in 1984. Margaret Thatcher had been in power in the UK since 1979 and Reagan since 1980. Even Australia under Hawke Keating ...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/510362/productivity-commission-head-hits-out-at-cruel-and-thoughtless-way-it-has-been-axed Ganesh Nana moaning to RNZ National about something that should have been entirely predictable to him. He completely subverted ...
I have no idea what you a referring to when you mention the "‘Tenths’ instrument derived in 1940?" or why it is relevant. Perhapos you should explain the reason you think it is something I should investigate then I can answer your question on it. The ...
Question for you Micky - Do you think the Treaty of Waitangi establishes that if you are able to link to a Hapu/Iwi in NZ via whakapapa this means you currently have greater rights than a New Zealander who does not have that linkage in terms of governance ...
I think you have little evidence there is any significant funding from Atlas to the TPU who gets the vast majority of funding from NZ based sources and largely (from what I've read) from small scale donations and subscriptions. If you have any hard ...
What a ridiculous view. ACT is not an extreme right organisation seeking to eliminate surplus population. That sort of demonising rhetoric is hardly conducive to civil discourse. If you really think that then the logical next step is to call for parties ...
He's answered specific questions posed to him just recently on how he is going to remove the obvious inequities impacting sections of society. He stated he wants to focus on need not race and will target areas such as education, housing, and job creation. ...
Why would it be stupid for Atlas to fund ACT? It isn't illegal so long as it is disclosed. In fact trying to hide funding is illegal so doing it in a surreptitiousway would be more stupid because if it ever got out they open themselves up for prosecution. ...
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