"I already know how my kids are doing because I live with them – sometimes I even talk to them! You would literally have to have nothing to do with your child for a primary age NS report to be of any use and to this day I still don’t understand why anyone ...
They've died before
Message or messenger? Are you saying this story isn't true, that it has no validity.
"Dispatched by Mr Key" ? Don't think so. Cunliffe had far more opposition from his own caucus than he ever had from Teflon John.
This is interviewing 101. So much political discourse - left vs right is based on reaction of a politician based on their response to a subject raised by the journalis. The response is reported out of context and unfavorably if it looks like being a ...
1: Open door immigration keeps house and land prices soaring. 2: The well-off have nothing to fear for either their socio-economic or social status - they're both enhanced. 3: More people = bigger market to sell to/buy services Not surprising to me that ...
If any elected official at local government level solely reflects a party's line rather than those of their constituents, they do get dealt to. Thank goodness we don't have the cursed MMP at local government level with the party faithful given jobs for ...
I get what she is saying. The ACC is centre-left dominated and surely that dominance must serve to counter rampant Remuera-ites from blighting other lesser suburbs with shoddy buildings to line their pockets while insisting their own sections remain at a ...
If THAT is her argument it is spurious. Where's the proof that it is Remuera residents who build Leaky Apartments more than residents in other areas? Remuera has, rightly or wrongly, a reputation of snobbishness and by extension NIMBYISM. Remuera is one of...
Anne, I see the politicising as being entirely driven by the left. The anti flag changers are predominantly left wing activists who correctly identified this as a way to attack everything they hate about Key and his National Government. I am pro change ...
So, a third term democratically elected Govt under a MMP system is a dictatorship. What is your preferred method of governance then DTB?
Why would we not lower taxes to the people to pay in good faith for specific purpose, if obligations are being more than met at any given time? It would be cynical for the "fuckwits" as you call them to continue high taxation and then them for a purpose ...
If I remember rightly Slater showed people how to go into the Labour website and access the open files.
In preparing our children for their future we need to dispel the myth that slow and healthy food ways is expensive. It is not expensive to live frugally and healthily - not in the least. Fresh bread can be made, rather than bought for less than a dollar a ...
Sorry to disappoint but long before last election the government was involved in this. The Government Conservation Minister of the time Kate Wilkinson attended the Pew Foundation's sponsored Kermadec ART exhibitions in January 2012 following on from an ...
It's ridiculous Tracey. On the same theme. I see Warwick University is banning Iranian-born secularist Maryam Namazie from speaking due to her anti-religious views. Lest it offend. What have we come to? http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/...
The flag is an anachronism, looks Australian :) , maintains the Union Jack (a potent symbol of colonialism and oppression) and does not reflect either our independence nor how we see ourselves. It's beyond time that Kiwis pick a flag rather than rely on ...
..and dare I say it but exactly the same thing happens when Labour is in power. While we all lament the lack of cross-party cooperation, it's a vital part of getting things done and when it works it works for the people. Good gain for Kiwis living in ...
We all know that the retirement industry is essentially in the business of real estate. However, the lifestyle afforded to the residents is pretty damned good and I feel a poll of most of the elderly ensconced in these places would call it a win/win.
(On Private Retirement facilities) My parents are quite vulnerable and live in assisted care apartment in a retirement village and I consider their care is stellar. The few so-called 'foreign" ESOL workers I've met speak good English and more importantly ...
Not at all Rosemary. You tell me what you think is wrong with the private elderly care model?
The idea that the state is the only body capable of formulating and implementing ideas to advance care of the vulnerable in an efficient, effective and caring manner is wrong. The superb job done and the fulfillment of our elderly in the profit-driven ...
Mr Shaw will win Wellington Central and he is the embodiment of the growing demographic - that of the environmentally and socially aware, the aspirational and the professional left wing voter. Not good for Labour's share of that demographic's vote IMO, but...
Campbell Live was dropped because a privately owned company was not getting bang for it's advertising buck in the 7.00pm time slot. JC was approached to be part of a changed platform and for reasons known only to himself (possibly his personal branding/...
Thank you Tracey for this.
My opinion. Mr Bank's career, that of his wife and the lives of his children have been at best strained by vexatious litigation that looks corrupt to me. Subterfuge and obfuscation were employed by the Crown in collusion with their witnesses. The charge ...
Key has two sisters - but is an only son
Mediaworks are not public TV despite generous program funding and a bail out. If you're not bringing in viewers in the 7.00pm slot then simple economics demands they change it up. In that time slot on TV1 it took Seven Sharp well over a year to settle on a...
It's not just Ryan in my books, she's not bad, even though I did and do prefer Kim too. It's so many of the Media across all disciplines. They're the story, they're the star, they're a brand. They wonder why blogs have become so widely used across the ...
So Key's not a handyman and doesn't care less. Like so many boys in NZ these days he grew up in a female household. He had a working Mum and two sisters and didn't have his father around for long. It seems that when Daddy was there he was a hopeless ...
You said: " In the past we had people who were economically conservative but still valued the community and social services (ie it’s not all about money and the market). What’s happened to them?" My point is those people are still (like all members of our ...
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