Even if the articles themselves can be criticised - haven't there been instances of "import delays" on the docks in China when some one has been displeased? And Hong Kong has certainly suffered with the rules that where set up not being respected. IMHO we ...
While a totalitarian state may have made progress over a 100 years so have a lot of other states with different governing systems. Any where other than the Standard and I'd be looking for a sponsored content tag. [Oh dear, not again! From the Policy (https...
I looked at this. As far as I can make out these are the "working poor" who are being stuck with this. But I can't see why the state should stick up social housing for them, because that is a straight and large subsidy to employers from the taxpayers. ...
Why don't we know more about this. Are they visitor visa's with no family exemption attached so they cannot be used for a holiday. Are they residency visas in which case should they not be issued after any investment and local jobs have occurred?? If they ...
There doesn't seem to be any reason, other than tradition, that allows employers to hang onto things like holiday pay redundancy etc. IMHO they should have to pay these amounts over to the IRD as they are accrued or the worker becomes eligible not leave ...
I read the stuff story about the police turning back the girls protest. Must have missed it at the time. I found it didn't leave a good taste - feeling that it delivered a very authoritarian message to the female protest. along the lines "you are only ...
So if we have no ability to crack down on off shore non compliance then the whole thing is a waste of time basically. A large loophole for the professional rabble rouser
Do nooot laugh about community boards. Aren't Mickey Savages chickens back in Titirangi? The community board has my complete sympathy on that unsolvable issue.
So I'm sitting offshore in some cosy location from which I cannot be extradited with a NZ domain name available to me spreading some thing not so great and joined by others. Now how does this law get to me - or an offshore newspaper that decides to run ...
Sheesh I find myself in some sort of agreement with Gosman. Never thought that would happen. Gives a whole new meaning to "where there's life there's hope"
A briefing says it all doesn't it really! Do what we say, don't bother about a democratic community discussion.
The fluoride claim was advanced in this which conflates the 6500 children needing hospital dental care with no fluoride supplies Were they all from those areas? or a large proportion. The claim further down about better dental health rests on some evidence...
Aha a doom scroller or doom booker or doom commentator. I had to look it up of course but now understand "the end times are near"
I disagree. The s.58 changes were pretty clear cut. To put assaults on children on the same legal footing as assaults on adults and remove the "reasonable in the circumstances"test -which IMHO should have been dunked by the courts long before. It was ...
Well it would help if the government and councils stopped promoting false and slanted facts. - All water supplies need fluoride to stop tooth decay. Now this is not anti- fluoride but conflating the two issues over the whole country comes pretty close ...
And this solves what exactly? And delivers what to local communities? Why not form a Ministry of Works - water division - that has some decent engineers and goes around councils sorting out the technical problems of water delivery and implementation and ...
From a Human Rights act perspective I have no trouble protecting things that basically a person cannot change or modify significantly - like skin colour, race ethnic or national origins, gender sexuality and the expression of it, disability (and maybe age ...
Yeah Isee this as fake consultation at its absolute best if you can't even tell us how "religion" is defined. It's not as if the various authorities were not warned but chasing animal activists who might take some photo's of pigs or chickens was so much ...
They want more cohesion? And to give the cops the right to make criminal charges for insulting language??? Maybe the government needs to stop spying on us and lying to us. When did it become acceptable to see every ordinary citizen as a potential criminal ...
Yep and it's not something our cops have a great record on is it.We'd just get their prejudices and they seem to have enough trouble in that area already. Plus why do we have to treat the whole population as if they are "criminals in waiting".
Thinking I'll get me a burner phone for govt comms. And never answer it.
While the ratepayers spend their time hoping the money is spent well. Seems to be a vast increase in style over substance in some areas. The courageous always makes me laugh - what are they expecting - everyone to wade through a crocodile infested swamp?
Had some further thoughts about this and to date the protected classes are things that basically you are born with and can't really change. Skin colour, gender, ethnic group . I cogitated about allowing religion onto the list because basically it is a ...
Hey Anker that was helpful. I noticed Sacha below used a Venn diagram analogy so we are looking at discussing which public activities intersect the men or women circle and which remain outside. with different levels of support etc? When it comes to some ...
Why on earth would the government want to make scanning in compulsory around what appears to be Wellington. They can just go down to the SIS and watch the camera's since it looks like they are carrying out a warrentless surveillance of the whole town. Who ...
So the government is going to hand out free phones.Wheee. Much better idea than closing the travel bubble, All this sounds horribly detached from peoples real lives. And I can't say I liked this Jacinda comment on any level. you know privacy, commercial ...
Car free Manners Mall ( now used by buses) was a dogbox but now much better. The bottom end of Cuba Street is deserted pretty much - people don't even walk through there
This little proposal is worse than that. Yes anyone who can't walk a reasonable distance or climb on a bus can forget it under this. But the underlying study focused on only three parts of the day, morning and evening rush times and the lunch break. Now to...
Maybe we really need to prioritise a green EV car fleet. Local conversion? Putting in private forms of transport that no one really seems to want to use leaving a lot of empty space is just hardening a lot of attitudes in the worse possible way. And the ...
I am totally confused about this debate as I think are many others. So i'll ask for a little information. Setting aside what people do in the privacy of their own homes (who cares about how many Teddy bears they share a room with) what are the issues when ...
A lot of the discussion on these housing changes was based on some very high future population estimates. Don't know if he had a hand in them but yes there are a lot of people in Wellington - regardless of the decision- who are pretty upset about how the ...
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