I personally don't see tax cuts happening (short term) under a change of government. Robertson's eleventh hour ploy to voters that he is fiscally competent smells of another Labour party success story (Phil Goff) when he left the Auckland mayoral. I ...
I couldnt watch him every night but like i said he nails it here and for MSM he quite often does imo [Please, fix your user name – Incognito]
Written By: Water Watch - Date published: 7:30 am, September 15th, 2017 - 15 comments
Categories: Conservation, disaster, Environment, farming, sustainability, water
Tags: ecan, mike joy
Massey University's Dr Mike Joy has been awarded the inaugural Critic and Conscience of Society Award for his work on water quality in rivers and lakes. The Critic and Conscience of Society Award, sponsored by the Gama Foundation, acknowledges academic …
Written By: Water Watch - Date published: 3:26 pm, July 9th, 2017 - 117 comments
Categories: disaster, election 2017, Environment, greens, water
Tags: bottled water
https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/883870864868913152 That's an immediate 10 cent/litre levy on water bottling and exports and a moratorium on new bottling consents until water protection is sorted out properly. The gist of the overall policy is to …
Written By: Water Watch - Date published: 6:34 am, July 5th, 2017 - 71 comments
Categories: disaster, Environment, sustainability, water
Tags: bottled water, Waikato
https://twitter.com/moanatribe/status/881125831518507009 https://twitter.com/nonplasticmaori/status/881545813469536256 NZ Pure Blue wants to build 'the largest water bottling plant in the southern hemisphere' in Putaruru The same water bottling company …
Written By: Water Watch - Date published: 8:17 am, June 10th, 2017 - 12 comments
Categories: Conservation, disaster, Economy, election 2017, Environment, farming, Maori Issues, sustainability, water
Tags: choose fresh water, freshwater rescue plan
Meanwhile, back in NZ, a league of concerned scientists and groups has come up with a bold, no nonsense plan to do the right thing by our freshwater. From RNZ A cross-sector group says successive governments' inaction on degraded waterways has spurred them…
Written By: Water Watch - Date published: 7:30 am, June 6th, 2017 - 8 comments
Categories: Environment, farming, Maori Issues, sustainability, water
Tags: catherine delahunty, Mataura, southland
This is a repost from the Green Party blog On June 1st the Greens swimmable rivers tour visited the Mataura river and communities connected to it. All we need now is a Government willing to set clear strong rules and support the new conversation about …
boldsirbrian said: Labour also has the power to make this term, Dunne’s last No - it will be the Nats who kill off Dunne in 2017. Understand what happen in Oharui this election is that Dunne only got 4k odd party votes & created a parliament overhang of ...
Hope he loses both cases. On the Blomfield case Slater needs to lose (and go to jail) otherwise using someones data without their permission is now legal. On the gmail/facebook access of Slater accounts ...... if he losses then Awww I coming for you ...
Then there is the issue of jurisdiction: the gmail and facebook servers are not within the jurisdiction of NZ’s civil system, and there is no proof that whoever hacked Slater’s accounts is, either. UglyTruth has asked a couple of good questions. Regarding...
I thought the Hollywood action was a civil case & nothing to do with the extradition? While the FBI case was criminal one & the extradition being sought is part of a NZ/US extradition agreement? Can anyone be extradition to/from NZ for a civil case?
the issue of “none of the above”. I think that this is the key to compulsory voting. The second key is to make the 'none of the above' vote mean something. Otherwise this will become a one election thing. By this I mean if 'none of the above' get say get ...
A party with 10,000 members Your model based on membership is something from the 1960's. Although you may believe that democracy grassroots is a goer the public is not interested in officially joining anything. It's so last century This is not only ...
It would be good if all political polls (i.e who are you going to vote for) were banned for the period of 6-9 months leading into an election How would this work - how would you stop an Aussie based company (Ray Morgan) from calling from Oz and publishing...
MS - this is how politics is run.. If its sport or business or negotiations between parties or your world of law/courts you cannot complain if the other side does not adhere to how you see things should be done. Remember Graham Henry in the lead-up to the ...
whilst not a politican dressing up in a nazi uniform hasn’t seemed to harm Prince Harry too much The point is Harry is not a wannabee politician. If William or Charles had dressed up in a Nazi uniform I expect a number of countries would reject them as ...
Reading through the comments above - I am going really. It all about association & Nazi stuff is a killer. Give me an example of a politician who has been associated with any Nazi connection (i.e. wearing a uniform to a dress up party) & survived. MS who ...
Not sure if you should take what happen in 2011 as applying to 2014, as: Katrina Shanks chased the electorate vote quite hard as her days as a list MP were numbered. This pissed off the Nats & we know what happen next. In 2011 the Nats were going to win by...
bad12 - technical question? Did Horan do a weka jump or was he kicked out of his party. So if the weka jumping legislation was still current would it have applied to Horan?
Doesn’t look good for Key. I think that he has just made sure that Winston both gets back into parliament AND distrusts John Key and/or National… What we see in the media & blogs, what we see in interviews, what we see in statements, what we are told is ...
left out a not in one sentence which changed the context - should have read The kids really did not rate the two teachers as equals & made it known.
Because logie97 the school my kids attended has tried this due to circumstances & it didn't work. However, your comment "shared planning more opportunity for preparation" doesn't fit into what Karol is proposing. Its not a case of a teacher in class for 3 ...
Karol, Are you suggesting schools go to a 3 day week ....... or would schools work to the same 3 day week as parents working timetable, or kids at school Mon to Wed & my 3 days is Wed to Fri ........do kids have two teachers with split teaching As a parent...
Outside of the political world Kim Dot Com & Colin Craig have actual entertainment value. Only Cunliffe, Brown and Key are going to get more media space that these two guys. I wouldn't be surprised if both of them pick up a some of the media space that ...
Te Reo Putake Your one line comment is direct & on target, and taken out Colonial Viper A sentence always beat an essay.
Never heard of Rob McCann and he maybe a creditable candidate but these two statements from his press release sum up the Labour party selection processes that is not engaging with voters. He was a press secretary to Ruth Dyson in the last Labour Government...
yeah some of us dont treat politics as some hive mind thing and can figure out that the two parties can agree and disagree without the whole house of cards collapsing Not sure if I agree with that statement. It true that political activists would say what...
Now that NZ is, officially, the least corrupt country in the world! You need to sit down and discuss this with people that actually have worked in various countries around the world. You maybe surprised.
Every ratepayer who has an income that is less than the “Living wage” should be exempt from rates. Why should people living on the pension ...... have to pay more in rates someone alwyn, do you really know how rates work. Do you own a house & pay rates? ...
phillip ure that is your best post on TS that I have read. Its all about what happen next. There is accumulative effect of a control here, a bit more tomorrow. Anyhow Iprent or mickysavage can you confirm my understanding that the issue facing Slater is ...
... if any minister on their watch would sign off his citizenship...
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