Where else in the world would this happen. Nation A celebrates its independence from Nation B and Nation A’s citizens hold those celebrations in Nation B.
Good question, but I doubt we are the first. There must be many former colonies that have more citizens living in the former colonial power than at home. The Surinamese in Holland spring to mind, buts that only because I’m looking forward to a Dutch team with a large percentage of players of Surinamese heritage winning the Euro’s.
I had an opportunity to ask Bill English directly what the National position was on including all parties in the flexi-super discussion.
English on flexi-super discussion: “we’ll certainly meet the terms of our agreement with United Future”. No enthusiasm for anything beyond that.
And his closing comment on Super: “but the government is not going to change it’s position.”
His failure to know some basic facts probably indicates an indifference to dealing with Super: “No one’s proposing significant change in the next fifteen years”.
2027 is in fifteen years. UF’s flexi-super could take effect immediately, Labour proposed a phase in starting in 2020, and Act supported that (they would probably prefer an earlier start).
But there’s an opportunity to ignore the Key brick wall and build the discussion around it.
No, whether it’s the right approach or not – that needs to be debated but there’s quite a bit of tentative interest (including from Labour) – doesn’t matter.
It has a guaranteed Governmemt forum, probably the only one before 2015. How more relevant could it be?
The UF proposal is fiscally neutral, yes. But that doesn’t fix that as the only way it can be implemented. Discussion can include reducing costs and raising average age of entitlements, if that’s what is ultimately decided.
A choice of age is by far the best approach I’ve seen yet to dealing with demographics with varying life expectancies, and I think Laour should at least give it serious consideration.
A discussion is for discussing different options and finding out what is wanted, what is practical and what may be possible. The more parties involved the better.
Flexi super may be “fiscally neutral”, but it could still be a useful way of smoothing out the baby boomer bump since many superannuitants will die before the deferreds take up their super.
You know, surprisingly often when the blood starts to boil due to Key’s deceptive, shallow, arrogant and other entirely useless manner, the most descriptive word that pops to mind to describe him is … wanker
I’ve never thought of Freeview as actually free… I have to choose between a new TV ($600 or so) or a set top box + aerial ($200). So free? Er – I don’t think so…
At least that doesn’t fit my definition of free! 🙂
Remind me again why John Banks and Don Brash were never CHARGED as former fellow Directors of Huljich Wealth Management (NZ) Ltd for signing Huljich Kiwisaver Scheme registered prospectuses dated 22 August 2008 and 18 September 2009 which contained untrue statements?
Does David Shearer really have the emotional heft of a Norman Kirk? I don’t think so.
More and more Labour is beginning to resemble those dementia patients at Silverstream Hospital.
Some of Labour’s caucus, like Trevor Mallard, are prone to violent episodes; others, like Shane Jones, test the boundaries of political probity in the most disconcerting fashion.
The most pitiful to contemplate, however, are the likes of David Cunliffe and Grant Robertson. They know there are alternatives out there, they can see them, but their colleagues will insist on hauling them back to their beds.
How sad it will be if New Zealand’s oldest political party is forced to end its days looking out at a world it is no longer able to change; weeping tears of silent rage as younger politicians, with the courage to look beyond tomorrow, get ready to inherit today.
You have to read the whole post to get the Silverstream connection.
Pete, I am sure you make good points, but I deeply resent your put-down through discriminatory remarks concerning dementia patients anywhere, let alone Silverstream hospital. You might be one of them not too far hence.
DTit seems pompous git already has medium and short term memory loss wasn,t the hair piece in coalition with labour not that long ago. Has PG forgotten to be mister agree with everybody and sit on the fence all the time.Sounds like they’ll need all the kings horses and men to put pg back on the fence again.
Dr Terry, I have no idea how you see “discriminatory remarks concerning dementia patients” in what I wrote, which was very little, most of that is Chris Trotter’s post.
We had a discussion the other day about Whanau Ora funding $60,000 to a rugby club (the A Modest Proposal post). Lots of people took Winston Peters’ word that the funding was for ‘economic and sociological research’, and assumed that the club didn’t have the skills or knowledge to make good use of the funds. The media spent a day or two cut and pasting what Peters had said.
By yesterday National Radio had managed to find out some actual, real details about the projects that the funding was for (as opposed to Peters’ self-serving spin). Hateatea posted a link to this yesterday, but I see that no-one has replied, despite there having been over 90 comments on this subject. So in case anyone missed it, here is what National Radio reported.
Rahui Rugby and Sports Club in Otaki is defending its use of a Whanau Ora grant which is facing political criticism. For two days running New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has attacked the funding during Question Time in Parliament. But the club says it’s justified in receiving the $60,000.
President Rex Kerr says the money was used to secure the right to host a Heartland Cup game between Ngati Porou-East Coast and Horowhenua-Kapiti.
Alongside that game a special Maori rugby festival was run to capitalise on the Rugby World Cup visitors, and celebrated all things Maori.
He says many Maori groups were there, as well as organisations who promoted healthy living, budgeting, and the campaign against family violence.
Mr Kerr says people were also able to receive a free health check during the event.
He says the money was also used to fund research, which looked at how whanau work together, their involvement in sport, and their interaction in community.
The study was carried out by Te Wananga o Raukawa, the Maori tertiary provider in Otaki. The money was made available through the Whanau Innovation, Integration and Engagement Fund.
There is a bit more in the article with comments by Turia on Whanau Ora.
How much of the funding was used to acquire the hosting rights?
What were the intended benefits of using the game to connect with the community? How effective was the outreach in terms of good outcomes for Maori in the area?
If you don’t want to allow Maori themselves to determine the best way to reach their people and effect change, how would you suggest that the govt do this? We know that mainstream social and health services are failing Maori, because too often they’re not being offered in culturally meaningful ways, so what should happen instead? Please be specific in this, give examples, because the rugby club projects information looks specific enough to compare to.
This fits in well with other health and social promotions that take health out of the doctor’s surgery and into the places people are – especially important for hard to reach populations. The best examples of these are promotions for men in pubs that have been going on in the UK and Ireland for a few years and have been picked up in NZ. For example this in Christchurch in 2010
A series of talks at Bailie’s Irish Bar in Christchurch’s Cathedral Square will promote men’s health as part of International Men’s Health Week.
Event organiser Donald Pettitt, of Canterbury Men’s Health, said similar events in England and Ireland had been successful.
Among topics covered in the 7pm talks today, tomorrow and Thursday are heart and prostate health and how men get over health challenges.
“Most people tend to blame men, but I say the health systems haven’t reached out enough. We’ve neglected men,” Pettitt said.
A great initiative by the rugby club – men and Maori – 2 hard to reach populations in one go – or maybe even 3 – seems there would be a fair few rural people in those teams.
How much of the funding was used to acquire the hosting rights?
That is irrelevant, it shouldn’t have been used to buy the hosting rights at all. The clubs would have been having the game anyway and so that extra subsidy wasn’t needed. All the rest seems like good spending it just should have been at whichever club won the hosting rights.
Actually, Draco, it was an inter-provincial game so would normally have been held at the Horowhenua Kapiti homeground where ever that is (probably Levin) so it is possible that in order to have the game in Otaki and attract more people to their festival event, it may have been necessary to compensate the other ground. I am only guessing, I don’t know the details.
Choosing the game with Ngāti Porou East Coast was a brilliant idea as the Ngātis travel en masse and create a real buzz. Although I couldn’t find a report on the game that wasn’t behind a paywall, Hekia Parata’s newsletter would indicate that there was a good turnout and a number of well health and social service providors who were there to promote their services and messages.
It saddens me that there are so many here who would rather believe Winston Peter’s dog whistle than congratulate an effective initiative by a small community. Does it matter that it was initiated by a rugby club? Really?
it was an inter-provincial game so would normally have been held at the Horowhenua Kapiti homeground where ever that is (probably Levin) so it is possible that in order to have the game in Otaki and attract more people to their festival event, it may have been necessary to compensate the other ground.
What shit am I making up, Draco? I ‘opined’ or ‘speculated’ that there may have been a cost to have a game that would normally have been held on the Horowhenua Kapiti’s home ground played on a club ground. The union would miss out on the income generated from a game that has such appeal that several bus loads travelled from Gisborne to attend. It would not be unreasonable for the union to seek compensation given the straitened circumstances that many unions find themselves in at the moment. Anyway, why should my logical ‘speculations’ be less credible than those of Winston Peters??
You’re making up the idea that having it at a specific location resulted in more people attending. And you just contradicted it with The union would miss out on the income generated from a game that has such appeal that several bus loads travelled from Gisborne to attend.
It would not be unreasonable for the union to seek compensation given the straitened circumstances that many unions find themselves in at the moment.
Actually, it would be. The competition should have gone ahead as per normal with the research added on top. That would have produced an accurate result. Changing the outcome of that result changed the result of the research making it inaccurate and thus worthless.
Anyway, why should my logical ‘speculations’ be less credible than those of Winston Peters??
Because they’re only speculations. Winston Peters raised questions which need to be answered – your speculations don’t do that.
EDIT:
You don’t do research by guaranteeing people who wouldn’t normally be there turn up.
Or how about this idea: Everyone gets a free bi-annual check-up based upon the beginning letter of their last name. And, being risqué, we’ll even supply a few Gingernuts for the trouble of turning up at your local GP.
“Winston Peters raised questions which need to be answered”
No he didn’t. He manipulated the situation by grossly distorting reality. The only questions that got asked were ones about things that didn’t even exist (a rugby club doing ‘sociological and economic research’). And no-one is really trying to answer them, apart from that bit on RNZ. It was a setup, intended not to generate true knowledge, but instead to fuel Peters career, and racism in general.
I don’t know how competition rugby works, or the geographies involved, so I don’t follow the rest of your argument. But I can’t help but wonder if a similar thing is not happening again. Judgement on things that we don’t have enough information for.
…that didn’t even exist (a rugby club doing ‘sociological and economic research’)
A rugby club isn’t set up to do research – they’re set up to play rugby thus a rugby club asking for funds to do research should, be automatically refused.
I don’t know how competition rugby works,
That’s obvious. Having a game has financial “ups” for the place that the game is held at and so clubs and other bodies try to get such games happening where they are. The point being that if you want research then you don’t influence the decision about where it’s to be by supplying funds but accept where it’s to be held within normal operating process.
But I can’t help but wonder if a similar thing is not happening again.
Of course you don;t as that would mean accepting that you were/are wrong.
I still don’t see anything that tells us enough information to know whether the research was compromised by the funding being given to a rugby club. You’re guessing on that Draco. My point all along has been that we don’t have enough information to make sound judgement.
(I also disagree that ‘ticket clipping’ by the club is wrong. It depends on what they do with the money and how successful they are in their project).
The other day you were convinced that the sports club shouldn’t have been given the funding. Now, with a bit more information, you agree that some of the project was validly funded. This is my whole point: that in order to judge the situation we need detail. We would need to see the actual project proposal as well as the funding one.
In the absence of that it does of course make sense to ask questions (I asked quite a few in the course of this discussion). It doesn’t make sense to make accusations based on guessing, and in the cases of some people, prejudice.
It’s unfair to characterise this as a refusal to see anything negative in Maori. I’m just not willing to go straight to that on the basis of no evidence.
we’ll even supply a few Gingernuts for the trouble of turning up at your local GP.
For lots of reasons people don’t turn up to the GP, Draco. Not even for free gingernuts. e.g. GPs are part of officialdom in some peoples’ minds – meaning they can report you to social welfare, immigration, your parents maybe police. Or they may tell give you messages you don’t want to hear, or something/someone is preventing you getting to the GP….. and so on.
That’s the whole point of a going to a setting people normally use.
I still don’t see anything that tells us enough information to know whether the research was compromised by the funding being given to a rugby club.
Research is inherently compromised if that research affects the outcome. Giving money to shift the social action studied affects the results.
The other day you were convinced that the sports club shouldn’t have been given the funding. Now, with a bit more information, you agree that some of the project was validly funded.
No, I still think that the sports club should have been given none of the money.
Now, with a bit more information, you agree that some of the project was validly funded.
No, I agree that the objective was valid but that the objective was ruined by the money given to the sports club to shift it.
I’m just not willing to go straight to that on the basis of no evidence.
There’s plenty of evidence – money given to a sports club for research is prima facie evidence of corruption.
except that it wasn’t the place that people normally use
I used the word ‘setting’, not ‘place’ deliberately.
And people going to the doctors almost always hear things they don’t want to hear.
You might be right… or not – a lot of people might be pretty relieved when they are reassured about something by a doc. The thing is there is a lot of research out there showing that some groups won’t go to see the doctor or other health professionals. They especially don’t go to see a doctor for check-ups, advice, family or mental health problems – men, Maori, and young people are 3 such groups – so a doctor needs to go see them in a neutral setting.
I reckon a rugby club is a pretty good way to test if the message can get to target audiences outside a usual professional setting.
I don’t mind it being at the rugby club grounds, I mind that the limited funds available was used to move the place where the game would normally be held. This changes the results of the research which was supposedly part and parcel of the funding as well.
I may have misread the comments from the President of the rugby club but I picked up that there were several components to the funding application, ie the research, the ‘fee’ for the rugby game and the festival / health promotion event.
Nowhere did it say that the research was carried out at the rugby / festival / health promotion. You infer that it was and that the results were therefore skewed. I picked up something different.
Either way, just sitting here at my computer, I discovered that there was far more to the story than Winston Peters’ beatup. You choose to still see merit in his rants while I see that there is far more going on.
You are not interested in a positive slant to the story. Fair enough, I would rather communicate with someone who has a more open mind. Enjoy your weekend. I intend to enjoy mine
The point is that the match wouldn’t have happened at the place it did have without the funding thus making the research inaccurate. Research is supposed to be about what happens, not influencing what happens.
You choose to still see merit in his rants while I see that there is far more going on.
I still see merit in his questions. Sure, there was more going on but that doesn’t outweigh the need for answers.
Fair enough, I would rather communicate with someone who has a more open mind.
My mind is open, the problem is that your mind is closed to anything that may construe Maori in a negative light.
Typical to pick out only one phrase of the whole report and turn that into proof of a rort thus excluding all the commentary on the free health checks and other community outreach that was attached to the day.
Perhaps you have to be part of Heartland rugby and, in particular, familiar with the passion that is integral with Ngāti Porou East Coast and Horowhenua Kapiti. It must have been a cracker game, they are marketing dvd’s of it!
Peters will continue to attack Whanau Ora for any reason he can find – like Brash he doesn’t like any policies targeting Maori, however much such policies might be needed.
Privatising space
There has to be something interesting to do with all that wealth sloshing round in the top 10% of the financial system. It so exceeds what is needed by prudent saving individuals, or countries etc.
There used to be devaluation of currencies, and I remember reading how many Russians under Communism had managed to hide undeclared earnings which were reduced to rubble (rouble?) by an official change in money value. Sounds like a good idea to level the playing field somewhat. Let’s go back to the good old past, with bad old practices that weren’t so devastating to our world and living conditions.
I understand that one of the factors driving up prices of famous original paintings is that criminal-gang treasurers find them secure investments for their extorted heaps of cash and credits. The wealth out there enables the plutocrats to buy the land under our feet, the sky over our heads, the necessities of life while denying even the comparatively small necessary portion for people’s humble needs to enable them to live simply.
I don’t have kids, but would love kids to be well educated to pay higher taxes when I retire.
I find that cutting teachers and claiming they will produce better quality to be an oxymoron.
Uneducated even.
Key PR is designed to make us like his policy because he had to lose face and back down to just cutting up to two teachers. Does he think we are still living in the 90s! When such PR gimmicks were used to redirect policy rather than cut back core funding.
Yesterday I wrote an open letter to John Key with regards to his fact finding mission to Europe. He wants to get first hand information as to the state of Finance of Europe. He will also meet with the head of NATO and the unelected president of the European Union amongst others. In my open letter I argue that he has no real reason to go to Europe and that he already has first hand information about the financial situation in Europe.
If you like this open letter I hope you will copy and paste it and send it to everyone you know. Especially to those still thinking the suns shines out of Johnnie “Derivatives” Key’s behind.
Cant be bothered with the Sir this and Lady that crap either. I know people who have selflessly worked and contributed to their community for eons yet will never get a gong.Its all a load of crap.
I am appalled to learn that Cullen should have so much as considered this spurious “honour”. But one can be sure that he “feels humbled” and that it “really it belongs to others” etc,. plus all that usual humbug.
So you know its wrong, it will endanger the children, but it can wait…
A boy racer was raging his car in his driveway, two children a few metres away looked on.
Lucky for us noise regulation don’t apply to boy racers, and young 7-8 year olds can call
noise control when the noise is too loud, and hell kids that age can’t be harmed, noise
doesn’t impact on them until they intentional harm themselves by pushing the volume high
on the walkman when their adults.
When the adults, the parents of our planet, sit around the kitchen table and worry about
the finances while ignoring their other roles as guardians of children, why should I
care if some boy racer is destroying the eardrums of his cousin and their sleepover friends?
When a plastic soup swills around the pacific, who gives a crap that it breaks down and enters
our kids food chain. As long as we have a zero quality budget, what’s it matter.
We have science, we have noise laws, not so that egotistical narissitic can prove how capable
they are at ignoring their responsiblities to themselves, their families, their environment,
just its their right to use their money to shove it in everyone’s
faces and ignore the consequences because it makes them feel powerful – like the raging car
they own.
As a commentator recently claimed on National Radio, if you don’t pay income tax then you
are a bludger and dont merit a mention, despite the fact that those making paper capital gains
profit because its so lucrative to do so in NZ have too much say in keeping it that way.
While National have shifted the weight of tax capture to the poorest, raising GST and lowering
the amount of progressive taxes the wealthy must pay for a fair society (which I might add
did not create growth when the taxes dropped, but just bailed out the most indebted a bit longer
and accelerated the inequality gap).
We are entering a period of peak oil which means that much of the valuation and
estimation of wealth is wrong, and with so many large claims (money) in circulation there
is always going to be a judgement day, when inflation hiding fails. And the real cost of
not culling the boy racer mentality that pervades our child endangering ruling elites, media and society, falls due.
Moro could tomorrow stop letting right wing tweeps talk nonsense, but that would lead to the moron class
calling him a left wing ideologue, which is absurd since they went extinct in the 80s with the rise
of Murdoch.
In the week when parents took their kids to a creche in the Middle East Mall, and didn’t wonder
or were concerned about the fire exits, fire drills, of their kids creche in the heart of a
building, why? because it looked well looked after, like our nations fiscal books. Because the
managers had gone to PR classes to dress up a pig and sell it as an angel? Like so many in
governments across the world. Its us that are so gullible, and our gullibility is killing the children,
and Key naffy nats will continue shonkey policies that solely worry about keeping the books looking
perfect. What’s the olde saying, …while rome burns.
It appears that the Justice and Electoral Committee are finally getting pissed off with the police failing to prosecute people and parties for breaches of electoral law:
There has been further criticism of the police for delays in investigating electoral law breaches and calls for the job to be handed to another body.
Electoral law expert Graeme Edgeler told a select committee inquiry into the 2011 election that police were quick to consider issues such as people voting twice, but when more complex issues were sent to police “it seems very little happens because police perhaps do have more serious things to do”.
Mr Edgeler said minor breaches should be dealt with by a fine so police time was not wasted but candidates would realise there was a consequence for breaching the rules.
The Electoral Commission has made a similar call in its report to the committee on the election, saying it was concerned about the priority police gave to referrals on more complex electoral law issues. It suggested another enforcement agency or a Crown solicitor be charged with investigating breaches.
And I/S has a good point at the bottom as well:
Pretty obviously, the police are not up to the job. Time to give it to someone who is. The question now is whether our politicians want the law to be enforced, or whether they will act out of self-interest to support the current farce.
It’s obvious that the present system isn’t working and so it’s time for a change.
According to Jim Moira’s panel this afternoon, the best way to score drugs in a new place is to hitchhike.
They also discussed whether it’s more dangerous to hitchhike now than in the past. Their guest seemed to think it was very risky for pretty young women to hitchhike now, but I’m wondering how he or anyone would know (and whether ugly or older women are therefore safe). Does anyone keep statistics on how many people (young, pretty, female or otherwise) hitchhike, and compare that to the number of assaults, thefts and deaths now and in the past?
“Clear farmer mandate vital’ or the share trading scheme will not go ahead.
‘50% or just over is not a clear mandate’ says the co-op chairman Henry
Van der Heyden.
Key always states that he has a ‘mandate for asset sales’ because he won
the election,perhaps key should ponder that he actually scapped in and
took two swans that wouldn’t be in politics anyway if it wasn’t for
questionable antics,so has he a mandate to ‘sell nz off’ the answer is no,
most nzers will be here when he is long gone from these shores,so what
does he care.
Just heard the sport nitwit on 3 News say after an item “Oh we still love George W, don’t we?” and just as I thought ‘what the…?’ one of the women said “steady on”!
I have always assumed that loving Dubya would be a prerequisite for a job with MediaWorks and it appears that I was right…
Now this is going to have sweeping effects across the world:
But on Thursday, Judge William Alsup ruled that Oracle does not have the exclusive rights to the structure, sequence, and organization the 37 Java APIS in question.
“To accept Oracle’s claim would be to allow anyone to copyright one version of code to carry out a system of commands and thereby bar all others from writing their own different versions to carry out all or part of the same commands,” read the ruling from Alsup. “No holding has ever endorsed such a sweeping proposition.”
Oh yeah, that effectively means that people can create their own versions of MS APIs. Goodbye Windows monopoly.
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In the ever-evolving world of technology, server-based computing has emerged as a cornerstone of modern digital infrastructure. This article delves into the concept of server-based computing, exploring its various forms, benefits, challenges, and its impact on the way we work and interact with technology. Understanding Server-Based Computing: At its core, ...
The absolute brass neck of this guy.We want more medical doctors, not more spin doctors, Luxon was saying a couple of weeks ago, and now we’re told the guy has seven salaried adults on TikTok duty. Sorry, doing social media. The absolute brass neck of it. The irony that the ...
Buzz from the Beehive Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones relishes spatting and eagerly takes issue with environmentalists who criticise his enthusiasm for resource development. He relishes helping the fishing industry too. And so today, while the media are making much of the latest culling in the public service to ...
Having written, taught and worked for the US government on issues involving unconventional warfare and terrorism for 30-odd years, two things irritate me the most when the subject is discussed in public. The first is the Johnny-come-lately academics-turned-media commentators who … Continue reading → ...
Eric Crampton writes – Kainga Ora is the government’s house building agency. It’s been building a lot of social housing. Kainga Ora has its own (but independent) consenting authority, Consentium. It’s a neat idea. Rather than have to deal with building consents across each different territorial authority, Kainga Ora ...
Muriel Newman writes – The Coalition Government says it is moving with speed to deliver campaign promises and reverse the damage done by Labour. One of their key commitments is to “defend the principle that New Zealanders are equal before the law.” To achieve this, they have pledged they “will not advance ...
Chris Trotter writes – The absence of anything resembling a fightback from the public servants currently losing their jobs is interesting. State-sector workers’ collective fatalism in the face of Coalition cutbacks indicates a surprisingly broad acceptance of impermanence in the workplace. Fifty years ago, lay-offs in the thousands ...
Mariupol, on the Azov Sea coast, was one of the first cities to suffer almost complete destruction after the start of the Ukraine War started in late February 2022. We remember the scenes of absolute destruction of the houses and city structures. The deaths of innocent civilians – many of ...
Lindsay Mitchell writes – Ten years ago, I wrote the following in a Listener column: Every year around one in five new-born babies will be reliant on their caregivers benefit by Christmas. This pattern has persisted from at least 1993. For Maori the number jumps to over one in three. ...
Climate change is expected to generate more and more extreme events, delivering a sort of structural shock to inflation that central banks will have to react to as if they were short-term cyclical issues. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāMy pick of the six newsey things to know from Aotearoa’s ...
It’s a simple deal. We pay taxes in order to finance the social services we want and need. The carnage now occurring across the public sector though, is breaking that contract. Over 3,000 jobs have been lost so far. Many are in crucial areas like Education where the impact of ...
Hi,A friend had their 40th over the weekend and decided to theme it after Curb Your Enthusiasm fashion icon Susie Greene. Captured in my tiny kitchen before I left the house, I ending up evoking a mix of old lesbian and Hillary Clinton — both unintentional.Me vs Hillary ClintonIf you’re ...
This is a re-post from Andrew Dessler at the Climate Brink blogIn 2023, the Earth reached temperature levels unprecedented in modern times. Given that, it’s reasonable to ask: What’s going on? There’s been lots of discussions by scientists about whether this is just the normal progression of global warming or if something ...
The schools are on holiday and the sun is shining in the seaside village and all day long I have been seeing bunches of bikes; Mums, Dads, teens and toddlers chattering, laughing, happy, having a bloody great time together. Cheers, AT, for the bits of lane you’ve added lately around the ...
Today in our National-led authoritarian nightmare: Shane Jones thinks Ministers should be above the law: New Zealand First MP Shane Jones is accusing the Waitangi Tribunal of over-stepping its mandate by subpoenaing a minister for its urgent hearing on the Oranga Tamariki claim. The tribunal is looking into the ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. ...
Citizen Science writes – Last week saw two significant developments in the debate over the treatment of trans-identifying children and young people – the release in Britain of the final report of Dr Hilary Cass’s review into gender healthcare, and here in New Zealand, the news that the ...
One night while sleeping in my bed I had a beautiful dreamThat all the people of the world got together on the same wavelengthAnd began helping one anotherNow in this dream, universal love was the theme of the dayPeace and understanding and it happened this wayAfter such an eventful day ...
This is a guest post by Oscar Simms who is a housing activist, volunteer for the Coalition for More Homes, and was the Labour Party candidate for Auckland Central at the last election. ...
Turning what Labour called the “holiday highway” into a four-lane expressway from Auckland to Whangarei could bring at least an economic benefit of nearly two billion a year for Northland each year. And it could help bring an end to poverty in one of New Zealand’s most deprived regions. The ...
Tonight’s six-stack includes: launching his substack with a bunch of his previous documentaries, including this 1992 interview with Dame Whina Cooper. and here crew give climate activists plenty to do, including this call to submit against the Fast Track Approvals bill. writes brilliantly here on his substack ...
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
You're in the mall when you hear it: some kind of popping sound in the distance, kids with fireworks, maybe. But then a moment of eerie stillness is followed by more of the fireworks sound and there’s also screaming and shrieking and now here come people running for their lives.Does ...
Karl du Fresne writes – There’s a crisis in the news media and the media are blaming it on everyone except themselves. Culpability is being deflected elsewhere – mainly to the hapless Minister of Communications, Melissa Lee, and the big social media platforms that are accused of hoovering ...
I don’t normally send out two newsletters in a day but I figured I’d say something about… the news. If two newsletters is a bit much then maybe just skip one, I don’t want to overload people. Alternatively if you’d be interested in sometimes receiving multiple, smaller updates from me, ...
Buzz from the Beehive David Seymour and Winston Peters today signalled that at least two ministers of the Crown might be in Wellington today. Seymour (as Associate Minister of Education) announced the removal of more red tape, this time to make it easier for new early learning services to be ...
Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. Our political system is suffering from the ...
David Farrar writes – The Broadcasting Standards Authority ruled: Comments by radio host Kate Hawkesby suggesting Māori and Pacific patients were being prioritised for surgery due to their ethnicity were misleading and discriminatory, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has found. It is a fact such patients are prioritised. ...
PRC and its proxies in Solomons have been preparing for these elections for a long time.A lot of money, effort and intelligence have gone into ensuring an outcome that won’t compromise Beijing’s plans. Cleo Paskall writes – On April 17th the Solomon Islands, a country of ...
Is speeding up the trip to and from Wellington airport by 12 minutes worth spending up more than $10 billion? Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The six news items that stood out to me in the last day to 8:26 am today are:The Lead: Transport Minister Simeon Brownannounced ...
You're a fraud, and you know itBut it's too good to throw it all awayAnyone would do the sameYou've got 'em goingAnd you're careful not to show itSometimes you even fool yourself a bitIt's like magicBut it's always been a smoke and mirrors gameAnyone would do the sameForty six billion ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The June general election in Mexico could mark a turning point in ensuring that the country’s climate policies better reflect the desire of its citizens to address the climate crisis, with both leading presidential candidates expressing support for renewable energy. Mexico is the ...
2024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay.Do you give up yet? It seems to ask.No? How about this? Or this?How about this?When I say 2024 I really mean the state of humanity in 2024.Saturday night, we watched Civil War because that is one terrifying cliff we've ...
Buzz from the Beehive A pet project and governmental tunnel vision jump out from the latest batch of ministerial announcements. The government is keen to assure us of its concern for the wellbeing of our pets. It will be introducing pet bonds in a change to the Residential Tenancies Act ...
A recent report generated from a Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) survey of 1,224 rangatahi Māori aged 11-12 found: Cultural connectedness was associated with fewer depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms and better quality of life. That sounds cut and dry. But further into the report the following appears: Cultural connectedness is ...
David Farrar writes – The Herald reports: From the gory details of job-cuts news, you’d think the public service was being eviscerated. While the media’s view of the cuts is incomplete, it’s also true that departments have been leaking the particulars faster than a Wellington ...
Remember the good old days, back when New Zealand had a PM who could think and speak calmly and intelligently in whole sentences without blustering? Even while Iran’s drones and missiles were still being launched, Helen Clark was live on TVNZ expertly summing up the latest crisis in the Middle ...
Costello did not pass on analysis of the benefits of the smokefree reforms to Cabinet, emphasising instead the extra tax revenues of repealing them. Photo: Hagen Hopkins, Getty Images TL;DR: The six news items that stood out to me at 7:26 am today are:The Lead: Casey Costello never passed on ...
True loveYou're the one I'm dreaming ofYour heart fits me like a gloveAnd I'm gonna be true blueBaby, I love youI’ve written about the job cuts in our news media last week. The impact on individuals, and the loss to Aotearoa of voices covering our news from different angles.That by ...
While commentators, including former Prime Minister Helen Clark, are noting a subtle shift in New Zealand’s foreign policy, which now places more emphasis on the United States, many have missed a key element of the shift. What National said before the election is not what the government is doing now. ...
A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 7, 2024 thru Sat, April 13, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week is about adults in the room setting terms and conditions of ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
Māori are yet to see anything from this Government except cuts, reversals and taking our people backwards, Māori Development spokesperson Willie Jackson said. ...
The Coalition Government’s refusal to commit to ongoing funding for social housing is seeing the sector pull back on developments and families watch their dreams of securing a home fade away, says Labour Housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty. ...
Changes to minimum wage and benefit indexation means many New Zealanders will get less this year, as the Government gives a big tax break to landlords instead. ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today paid tribute to Singapore’s outgoing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Meeting in Singapore today immediately before Prime Minister Lee announced he was stepping down, Prime Minister Luxon warmly acknowledged his counterpart’s almost twenty years as leader, and the enduring legacy he has left for Singapore and South East ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. While in Singapore as part of his visit to South East Asia this week, Prime Minister Luxon also met with Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and will meet with Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has made further appointments to the Board of Antarctica New Zealand as part of a continued effort to ensure the Scott Base Redevelopment project is delivered in a cost-effective and efficient manner. The Minister has appointed Neville Harris as a new member of the Board. Mr ...
Finance Minister Nicola Willis will travel to the United States on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Five Finance Ministers group, with counterparts from Australia, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. “I am looking forward to meeting with our Five Finance partners on how we can work ...
The coalition Government has today announced purrfect and pawsitive changes to the Residential Tenancies Act to give tenants with pets greater choice when looking for a rental property, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Pets are important members of many Kiwi families. It’s estimated that around 64 per cent of New ...
State Highway 1 (SH1) through Wellington City is heavily congested at peak times and while planning continues on the duplicate Mt Victoria Tunnel and Basin Reserve project, the Government has also asked NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) to consider and provide advice on a Long Tunnel option, Transport Minister Simeon Brown ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters have condemned Iran’s shocking and illegal strikes against Israel. “These attacks are a major challenge to peace and stability in a region already under enormous pressure," Mr Luxon says. "We are deeply concerned that miscalculation on any side could ...
Hundreds of people in little over a week have turned out in Northland to hear Regional Development Minister Shane Jones speak about plans for boosting the regional economy through infrastructure. About 200 people from the infrastructure and associated sectors attended an event headlined by Mr Jones in Whangarei today. Last ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti has today thanked outgoing Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora Chair Dame Karen Poutasi for her service on the Board. “Dame Karen tendered her resignation as Chair and as a member of the Board today,” says Dr Reti. “I have asked her to ...
The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has signalled their proposed delivery approach for the Government’s 15 Roads of National Significance (RoNS), with the release of the State Highway Investment Proposal (SHIP) today, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Boosting economic growth and productivity is a key part of the Government’s plan to ...
New Zealand is renewing its connections with a world facing urgent challenges by pursuing an active, energetic foreign policy, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “Our country faces the most unstable global environment in decades,” Mr Peters says at the conclusion of two weeks of engagements in Egypt, Europe and the United States. “We cannot afford to sit back in splendid ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced the Australian Governor-General, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley and his wife Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley, will make a State visit to New Zealand from Tuesday 16 April to Thursday 18 April. The visit reciprocates the State visit of former Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy ...
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced that Medsafe has approved 11 cold and flu medicines containing pseudoephedrine. Pharmaceutical suppliers have indicated they may be able to supply the first products in June. “This is much earlier than the original expectation of medicines being available by 2025. The Government recognised ...
New Zealand and the United States have recommitted to their strategic partnership in Washington DC today, pledging to work ever more closely together in support of shared values and interests, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “The strategic environment that New Zealand and the United States face is considerably more ...
April 11, 2024 Joint Declaration by United States Secretary of State the Honorable Antony J. Blinken and New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs the Right Honourable Winston Peters We met today in Washington, D.C. to recommit to the historic partnership between our two countries and the principles that underpin it—rule ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced further New Zealand cooperation with the United States in the Pacific Islands region through $16.4 million in funding for initiatives in digital connectivity and oceans and fisheries research. “New Zealand can achieve more in the Pacific if we work together more urgently and ...
COMMENTARY:By Eugene Doyle Helen Clark, how I miss you. The former New Zealand Prime Minister — the safest pair of hands this country has had in living memory — gave a masterclass on the importance of maintaining an independent foreign policy when she spoke at an AUKUS symposium held ...
The government's released the list of organisations provided with information on how to apply - just hours before public submissions on the bill close. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Before climate change really got going, eastern Australia’s flash floods tended to concentrate on our coastal regions, east of the Great Dividing Range. But that’s changing. Now ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Finkel, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University Sia Duff / South Australian Museum In February, the South Australian Museum “re-imagined” itself. In the face of rising costs and inadequate government funds, CEO David Gaimster, who took the reins last June, declared ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Pearce, Professor, School of Allied Heath, Human Services & Sport, La Trobe University, La Trobe University This week, Collingwood AFL player Nathan Murphy announced his retirement, brought on by his concussion history and ongoing issues. The 24-year-old’s seemingly sudden retirement, ...
The Mental Health Foundation provides support and resources for those facing the loss of their job, so it’s wrong in the very week the Government adds another 1000 jobs to its tally of cuts, that this is happening. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney Daniel Boud/Sydney Theatre Company Decay, terror, revulsion. These are three of the central themes of Thomas Bernhard’s rarely performed play The President. The Austrian is one of the greatest ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ye In (Jane) Hwang, Postdoctoral Research Associate at School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock You’d be hard pressed to find any aspect of daily life that doesn’t require some form of digital literacy. We need only to look back ten ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says threats by ministers Shane Jones and David Seymour to reform or close down the Waitangi Tribunal were “ill-considered”, as legal experts say the ministers may have breached Cabinet Manual conventions. “I think those comments are ill-considered and we expect all ministers to actually exercise good ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Newton, Professor of Exercise Medicine, Edith Cowan University Pexels/RDNE stock project You’re not in your 20s or 30s anymore and you know regular health checks are important. So you go to your GP. During the appointment they measure your waist. ...
A new poem by Evangeline Riddiford Graham. Mitochondrial Problem I. It was long drive to Kansas for the man and his dog but you have to understand he said She doesn’t fly. Which calls to mind not carsick shitting barking or whining but a dog who chooses not to as ...
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.AUCKLAND1 Hemingway’s Goblet by Dermot Ross (Mary Egan Publishing, $38)Hot off the press, this debut ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Wajnryb McDonald, PhD candidate in Criminology, University of Sydney Less than 24 hours after Ashlee Good was murdered in Bondi Junction, her family released a statement requesting the media take down photographs they had reproduced of Ashlee and her family without ...
Chief executive Shaun Robinson said it has not had any government funding cut, but government-funded contracts have not kept pace with rising costs. ...
The Ministry of Health has delayed the release of its evidence brief on the safety, reversibility and mental health and wellbeing outcomes for puberty blockers. While we wait, Julia de Bres speaks to those with firsthand experience. Best practice gender-affirming healthcare is based on trans people’s self-determination and agency. The ...
Barcelona’s city streets have gone from traffic-clogged to pedestrian-friendly. How? Superblocks. Ellen Rykers explains. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. Last week I read a great interview with renowned urbanist Janette Sadik-Khan by The Spinoff’s Wellington editor Joel MacManus: “You can reimagine streets, ...
Student groups ‘Climate Action VUW’, Schools Strike 4 Climate and VUWSA will be on the street in Wellington today, the last day for submissions on the Fast-track Approvals Bill, with a message that the fight against the Government’s ‘War on ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sofia Ammassari, Research Fellow, Griffith University Since 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity has grown exponentially – and so has the formidable organisational machine of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). These two factors will be key to delivering the BJP a ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendon Hyndman, Associate Professor of Education (Adjunct) & Senior Manager (BCE), Charles Sturt University During COVID almost all Australian students and their families experienced online learning. But while schools have long since gone back to in-person teaching, online learning has not gone ...
Yes, they’re better for the environment. No, that’s not a good enough reason for me to use them. Once every 26 days or so, my period arrives, and if struck by an act of God, I am caught red-crotched without products. How, after 17 years of this, do I still ...
“It will cause significant harm to our environment and communities. It is completely at odds with New Zealanders’ relationship with nature and our need for a low-carbon, sustainable economic future." ...
The Chair of the National Maori Authority, Matthew Tukaki, has warned a Parliamentary Select Committee that fast-tracking legislation is a perilous practice that undermines the core tenets of democracy, transparency, and accountability. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Tenbensel, Associate Professor, Health Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images Since coming into power, the coalition government has adopted a simple but shrewd see-how-fast-we-can-move political strategy. However, in the health sector this need for speed entails ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasia Hronis, Clinical Psychologist, University of Technology Sydney Darya Sannikova/Pexels Whether you’re watching TV, attending a footy game, or eating a meal at your local pub, gambling is hard to escape. Although the rise of gambling is not unique to Australia, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Wong, Forrest Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia Have you ever wondered if there are more insects out at night than during the day? We set out to answer this question by combing through the scientific ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carol T Kulik, Research Professor, University of South Australia IR Stone/Shutterstock In Australia, it’s not the done thing to know – let alone ask – what our colleagues are paid. Yet, it’s easy to see how pay transparency can make pay ...
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is sounding a warning to migrants, that running foul of the law may see them leaving the country prematurely. ...
The government’s plan to get 50,000 people off jobseeker support by 2030 has had a rocky start, writes Catherine McGregor in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Beneficiary numbers are up – and so are ...
Raglan Roast is a staple of Wellington coffee culture. But with five branches across the capital, which one is the best? I am a die-hard Raglan Roast fan. It’s consistently the most affordable cafe in Wellington, and one of the only places you can get a coffee after 3pm. So, ...
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Where else in the world would this happen. Nation A celebrates its independence from Nation B and Nation A’s citizens hold those celebrations in Nation B.
Good question, but I doubt we are the first. There must be many former colonies that have more citizens living in the former colonial power than at home. The Surinamese in Holland spring to mind, buts that only because I’m looking forward to a Dutch team with a large percentage of players of Surinamese heritage winning the Euro’s.
I had an opportunity to ask Bill English directly what the National position was on including all parties in the flexi-super discussion.
English on flexi-super discussion: “we’ll certainly meet the terms of our agreement with United Future”. No enthusiasm for anything beyond that.
And his closing comment on Super: “but the government is not going to change it’s position.”
His failure to know some basic facts probably indicates an indifference to dealing with Super: “No one’s proposing significant change in the next fifteen years”.
2027 is in fifteen years. UF’s flexi-super could take effect immediately, Labour proposed a phase in starting in 2020, and Act supported that (they would probably prefer an earlier start).
But there’s an opportunity to ignore the Key brick wall and build the discussion around it.
Details (far too much to post here): National’s toes dug in Super.
Petey you have been told repeatedly that UF’s “flexi-super” policy will not make any difference because it is designed to be fiscally neutral.
So introducing it into the debate does nothing except clog the debate and divert it into an irrelevancy. Doncha think?
No, whether it’s the right approach or not – that needs to be debated but there’s quite a bit of tentative interest (including from Labour) – doesn’t matter.
It has a guaranteed Governmemt forum, probably the only one before 2015. How more relevant could it be?
The UF proposal is fiscally neutral, yes. But that doesn’t fix that as the only way it can be implemented. Discussion can include reducing costs and raising average age of entitlements, if that’s what is ultimately decided.
A choice of age is by far the best approach I’ve seen yet to dealing with demographics with varying life expectancies, and I think Laour should at least give it serious consideration.
A discussion is for discussing different options and finding out what is wanted, what is practical and what may be possible. The more parties involved the better.
Flexi super may be “fiscally neutral”, but it could still be a useful way of smoothing out the baby boomer bump since many superannuitants will die before the deferreds take up their super.
Oh dear: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/537504_10151003966976477_568131476_12027941_571272381_n.jpg
You know, surprisingly often when the blood starts to boil due to Key’s deceptive, shallow, arrogant and other entirely useless manner, the most descriptive word that pops to mind to describe him is … wanker
ha. As someone said on the twitter, our Prime Minister would seem to be somewhat of a dick, au.
Immediately upon seeing that I thought of the Simpsons cartoon character Mr Burns saying, “Excellent”
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn142/torasap/Screenshot2010-07-23at164448.png
Probably the same reasons why Cunners sends his kid there as well.
WTF? How’s this for a total contradiction of it’s mission?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/7026998/Freeview-pay-per-view-may-arrive-in-time-for-Christmas
I’ve never thought of Freeview as actually free… I have to choose between a new TV ($600 or so) or a set top box + aerial ($200). So free? Er – I don’t think so…
At least that doesn’t fit my definition of free! 🙂
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/lombard-directors-pay-ca-120188
Remind me again why John Banks and Don Brash were never CHARGED as former fellow Directors of Huljich Wealth Management (NZ) Ltd for signing Huljich Kiwisaver Scheme registered prospectuses dated 22 August 2008 and 18 September 2009 which contained untrue statements?
‘One law for all’ – sort of thing?
Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption campaigner’
http://www.dodgyjohnhasgone.com
http://www.penybright4epsom.org.nz
Chris Trotter dumps on his granny experience.
You have to read the whole post to get the Silverstream connection.
http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/political-dementia-or-is-labour-in-need.html
Pete, I am sure you make good points, but I deeply resent your put-down through discriminatory remarks concerning dementia patients anywhere, let alone Silverstream hospital. You might be one of them not too far hence.
DTit seems pompous git already has medium and short term memory loss wasn,t the hair piece in coalition with labour not that long ago. Has PG forgotten to be mister agree with everybody and sit on the fence all the time.Sounds like they’ll need all the kings horses and men to put pg back on the fence again.
Dr Terry, I have no idea how you see “discriminatory remarks concerning dementia patients” in what I wrote, which was very little, most of that is Chris Trotter’s post.
We had a discussion the other day about Whanau Ora funding $60,000 to a rugby club (the A Modest Proposal post). Lots of people took Winston Peters’ word that the funding was for ‘economic and sociological research’, and assumed that the club didn’t have the skills or knowledge to make good use of the funds. The media spent a day or two cut and pasting what Peters had said.
By yesterday National Radio had managed to find out some actual, real details about the projects that the funding was for (as opposed to Peters’ self-serving spin). Hateatea posted a link to this yesterday, but I see that no-one has replied, despite there having been over 90 comments on this subject. So in case anyone missed it, here is what National Radio reported.
There is a bit more in the article with comments by Turia on Whanau Ora.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/107125/rugby-club-justifies-whanau-ora-grant
Strangely, I can’t seem to find any other media reports on this update. Now why would that be?
So, as it turns out, the project does look like appropriate use of govt funding.
it says the money was used to buy the right to host a rugby game.
That’s not an appropriate use of social welfare money.
the fact that other services, with separate funding, came along to a separate festival doesn’t make it right.
How much of the funding was used to acquire the hosting rights?
What were the intended benefits of using the game to connect with the community? How effective was the outreach in terms of good outcomes for Maori in the area?
If you don’t want to allow Maori themselves to determine the best way to reach their people and effect change, how would you suggest that the govt do this? We know that mainstream social and health services are failing Maori, because too often they’re not being offered in culturally meaningful ways, so what should happen instead? Please be specific in this, give examples, because the rugby club projects information looks specific enough to compare to.
This fits in well with other health and social promotions that take health out of the doctor’s surgery and into the places people are – especially important for hard to reach populations. The best examples of these are promotions for men in pubs that have been going on in the UK and Ireland for a few years and have been picked up in NZ. For example this in Christchurch in 2010
A great initiative by the rugby club – men and Maori – 2 hard to reach populations in one go – or maybe even 3 – seems there would be a fair few rural people in those teams.
That is irrelevant, it shouldn’t have been used to buy the hosting rights at all. The clubs would have been having the game anyway and so that extra subsidy wasn’t needed. All the rest seems like good spending it just should have been at whichever club won the hosting rights.
Actually, Draco, it was an inter-provincial game so would normally have been held at the Horowhenua Kapiti homeground where ever that is (probably Levin) so it is possible that in order to have the game in Otaki and attract more people to their festival event, it may have been necessary to compensate the other ground. I am only guessing, I don’t know the details.
Choosing the game with Ngāti Porou East Coast was a brilliant idea as the Ngātis travel en masse and create a real buzz. Although I couldn’t find a report on the game that wasn’t behind a paywall, Hekia Parata’s newsletter would indicate that there was a good turnout and a number of well health and social service providors who were there to promote their services and messages.
It saddens me that there are so many here who would rather believe Winston Peter’s dog whistle than congratulate an effective initiative by a small community. Does it matter that it was initiated by a rugby club? Really?
You’re making shit up there.
Who’s honesty is above question.
Nope, good on the rugby club, it’s the ticket clipping that I find immoral.
What shit am I making up, Draco? I ‘opined’ or ‘speculated’ that there may have been a cost to have a game that would normally have been held on the Horowhenua Kapiti’s home ground played on a club ground. The union would miss out on the income generated from a game that has such appeal that several bus loads travelled from Gisborne to attend. It would not be unreasonable for the union to seek compensation given the straitened circumstances that many unions find themselves in at the moment. Anyway, why should my logical ‘speculations’ be less credible than those of Winston Peters??
Or indeed Draco’s own speculations.
You’re making up the idea that having it at a specific location resulted in more people attending. And you just contradicted it with The union would miss out on the income generated from a game that has such appeal that several bus loads travelled from Gisborne to attend.
Actually, it would be. The competition should have gone ahead as per normal with the research added on top. That would have produced an accurate result. Changing the outcome of that result changed the result of the research making it inaccurate and thus worthless.
Because they’re only speculations. Winston Peters raised questions which need to be answered – your speculations don’t do that.
EDIT:
You don’t do research by guaranteeing people who wouldn’t normally be there turn up.
Or how about this idea: Everyone gets a free bi-annual check-up based upon the beginning letter of their last name. And, being risqué, we’ll even supply a few Gingernuts for the trouble of turning up at your local GP.
No special subsidies to rugby clubs that way.
“Winston Peters raised questions which need to be answered”
No he didn’t. He manipulated the situation by grossly distorting reality. The only questions that got asked were ones about things that didn’t even exist (a rugby club doing ‘sociological and economic research’). And no-one is really trying to answer them, apart from that bit on RNZ. It was a setup, intended not to generate true knowledge, but instead to fuel Peters career, and racism in general.
I don’t know how competition rugby works, or the geographies involved, so I don’t follow the rest of your argument. But I can’t help but wonder if a similar thing is not happening again. Judgement on things that we don’t have enough information for.
A rugby club isn’t set up to do research – they’re set up to play rugby thus a rugby club asking for funds to do research should, be automatically refused.
That’s obvious. Having a game has financial “ups” for the place that the game is held at and so clubs and other bodies try to get such games happening where they are. The point being that if you want research then you don’t influence the decision about where it’s to be by supplying funds but accept where it’s to be held within normal operating process.
Of course you don;t as that would mean accepting that you were/are wrong.
I still don’t see anything that tells us enough information to know whether the research was compromised by the funding being given to a rugby club. You’re guessing on that Draco. My point all along has been that we don’t have enough information to make sound judgement.
(I also disagree that ‘ticket clipping’ by the club is wrong. It depends on what they do with the money and how successful they are in their project).
The other day you were convinced that the sports club shouldn’t have been given the funding. Now, with a bit more information, you agree that some of the project was validly funded. This is my whole point: that in order to judge the situation we need detail. We would need to see the actual project proposal as well as the funding one.
In the absence of that it does of course make sense to ask questions (I asked quite a few in the course of this discussion). It doesn’t make sense to make accusations based on guessing, and in the cases of some people, prejudice.
It’s unfair to characterise this as a refusal to see anything negative in Maori. I’m just not willing to go straight to that on the basis of no evidence.
we’ll even supply a few Gingernuts for the trouble of turning up at your local GP.
For lots of reasons people don’t turn up to the GP, Draco. Not even for free gingernuts. e.g. GPs are part of officialdom in some peoples’ minds – meaning they can report you to social welfare, immigration, your parents maybe police. Or they may tell give you messages you don’t want to hear, or something/someone is preventing you getting to the GP….. and so on.
That’s the whole point of a going to a setting people normally use.
Research is inherently compromised if that research affects the outcome. Giving money to shift the social action studied affects the results.
No, I still think that the sports club should have been given none of the money.
No, I agree that the objective was valid but that the objective was ruined by the money given to the sports club to shift it.
There’s plenty of evidence – money given to a sports club for research is prima facie evidence of corruption.
That would be nice except that it wasn’t the place that people normally use. It was shifted as a result of the grant.
And people going to the doctors almost always hear things they don’t want to hear.
except that it wasn’t the place that people normally use
I used the word ‘setting’, not ‘place’ deliberately.
And people going to the doctors almost always hear things they don’t want to hear.
You might be right… or not – a lot of people might be pretty relieved when they are reassured about something by a doc. The thing is there is a lot of research out there showing that some groups won’t go to see the doctor or other health professionals. They especially don’t go to see a doctor for check-ups, advice, family or mental health problems – men, Maori, and young people are 3 such groups – so a doctor needs to go see them in a neutral setting.
I reckon a rugby club is a pretty good way to test if the message can get to target audiences outside a usual professional setting.
I don’t mind it being at the rugby club grounds, I mind that the limited funds available was used to move the place where the game would normally be held. This changes the results of the research which was supposedly part and parcel of the funding as well.
I may have misread the comments from the President of the rugby club but I picked up that there were several components to the funding application, ie the research, the ‘fee’ for the rugby game and the festival / health promotion event.
Nowhere did it say that the research was carried out at the rugby / festival / health promotion. You infer that it was and that the results were therefore skewed. I picked up something different.
Either way, just sitting here at my computer, I discovered that there was far more to the story than Winston Peters’ beatup. You choose to still see merit in his rants while I see that there is far more going on.
You are not interested in a positive slant to the story. Fair enough, I would rather communicate with someone who has a more open mind. Enjoy your weekend. I intend to enjoy mine
The point is that the match wouldn’t have happened at the place it did have without the funding thus making the research inaccurate. Research is supposed to be about what happens, not influencing what happens.
I still see merit in his questions. Sure, there was more going on but that doesn’t outweigh the need for answers.
My mind is open, the problem is that your mind is closed to anything that may construe Maori in a negative light.
Typical to pick out only one phrase of the whole report and turn that into proof of a rort thus excluding all the commentary on the free health checks and other community outreach that was attached to the day.
Perhaps you have to be part of Heartland rugby and, in particular, familiar with the passion that is integral with Ngāti Porou East Coast and Horowhenua Kapiti. It must have been a cracker game, they are marketing dvd’s of it!
A link for those who like to research for themselves (I couldn’t seem to find a newspaper report and no time to look for more)
http://www.hekiaparata.co.nz/uploads/ePanui-October1.pdf
Thanks for the information Hateatea.
Good response on this, worth promoting so I’ve repeated it in a post and will circulate it elsewhere.
Sketpticism of Peters’ criticisms is always justified.
PGYou know what you get with peters .
Not like yourself undermining your own leader on the education Farce!
It might help if you use facts to back up your abuse.
I’ve hardly commented on the education farce – I think I said it was a ballsup, but I speak for myself so haven’t got anyone to undermine.
Fair enough.
Dunne has been doing enough undermining of himself on this issue anyway.
What do you think of the way he uses twitter? Pretty negative politics innit?
Sometimes, not something I would ever do of course….
It’s hard not to get sucked into what might attract attention, and then hard to judge how far to go without backlash.
Peters will continue to attack Whanau Ora for any reason he can find – like Brash he doesn’t like any policies targeting Maori, however much such policies might be needed.
Yay! Innovation, exploration.
Boo! The privatisation of space.
Privatising space
There has to be something interesting to do with all that wealth sloshing round in the top 10% of the financial system. It so exceeds what is needed by prudent saving individuals, or countries etc.
There used to be devaluation of currencies, and I remember reading how many Russians under Communism had managed to hide undeclared earnings which were reduced to rubble (rouble?) by an official change in money value. Sounds like a good idea to level the playing field somewhat. Let’s go back to the good old past, with bad old practices that weren’t so devastating to our world and living conditions.
I understand that one of the factors driving up prices of famous original paintings is that criminal-gang treasurers find them secure investments for their extorted heaps of cash and credits. The wealth out there enables the plutocrats to buy the land under our feet, the sky over our heads, the necessities of life while denying even the comparatively small necessary portion for people’s humble needs to enable them to live simply.
Here we go. Dunne & Turia are showing concerns over bigger classes and less teachers.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Backlash-from-Govt-partners-over-education-plans/tabid/1607/articleID/256349/Default.aspx
This Education Policy looks to gain a fail mark with a Capital F.
Panadol for Mr Key, Mr English and Ms Parata?.
This is what Dunne has been saying twitter:
An hour ago: “I am a little concerned most of the messages on education at present are coming from teachers, rather than parents”
https://twitter.com/PeterDunneMP/status/208349360273096706
Yesterday: “Principals show “subdued anger” to Education Minister – would they tolerate same from their students? Double standard?”
https://twitter.com/PeterDunneMP/status/207703119264620545
I don’t have kids, but would love kids to be well educated to pay higher taxes when I retire.
I find that cutting teachers and claiming they will produce better quality to be an oxymoron.
Uneducated even.
Key PR is designed to make us like his policy because he had to lose face and back down to just cutting up to two teachers. Does he think we are still living in the 90s! When such PR gimmicks were used to redirect policy rather than cut back core funding.
You would settle for panadol? How about long lasting anaesthetic?
Yesterday I wrote an open letter to John Key with regards to his fact finding mission to Europe. He wants to get first hand information as to the state of Finance of Europe. He will also meet with the head of NATO and the unelected president of the European Union amongst others. In my open letter I argue that he has no real reason to go to Europe and that he already has first hand information about the financial situation in Europe.
If you like this open letter I hope you will copy and paste it and send it to everyone you know. Especially to those still thinking the suns shines out of Johnnie “Derivatives” Key’s behind.
This years Queens birthday honours are a horror. I don’t even want to link to them – Idiot savant has a link at No Right turn.
The honours always piss me off, but this lot are the nadir surely?
As for Sir Michael Cullen – cognitive dissonance anyone?
Cant be bothered with the Sir this and Lady that crap either. I know people who have selflessly worked and contributed to their community for eons yet will never get a gong.Its all a load of crap.
+1
Especially considering that with a lot of the people that get these honours I’d rather punch than address as sir.
I am appalled to learn that Cullen should have so much as considered this spurious “honour”. But one can be sure that he “feels humbled” and that it “really it belongs to others” etc,. plus all that usual humbug.
So you know its wrong, it will endanger the children, but it can wait…
A boy racer was raging his car in his driveway, two children a few metres away looked on.
Lucky for us noise regulation don’t apply to boy racers, and young 7-8 year olds can call
noise control when the noise is too loud, and hell kids that age can’t be harmed, noise
doesn’t impact on them until they intentional harm themselves by pushing the volume high
on the walkman when their adults.
When the adults, the parents of our planet, sit around the kitchen table and worry about
the finances while ignoring their other roles as guardians of children, why should I
care if some boy racer is destroying the eardrums of his cousin and their sleepover friends?
When a plastic soup swills around the pacific, who gives a crap that it breaks down and enters
our kids food chain. As long as we have a zero quality budget, what’s it matter.
We have science, we have noise laws, not so that egotistical narissitic can prove how capable
they are at ignoring their responsiblities to themselves, their families, their environment,
just its their right to use their money to shove it in everyone’s
faces and ignore the consequences because it makes them feel powerful – like the raging car
they own.
As a commentator recently claimed on National Radio, if you don’t pay income tax then you
are a bludger and dont merit a mention, despite the fact that those making paper capital gains
profit because its so lucrative to do so in NZ have too much say in keeping it that way.
While National have shifted the weight of tax capture to the poorest, raising GST and lowering
the amount of progressive taxes the wealthy must pay for a fair society (which I might add
did not create growth when the taxes dropped, but just bailed out the most indebted a bit longer
and accelerated the inequality gap).
We are entering a period of peak oil which means that much of the valuation and
estimation of wealth is wrong, and with so many large claims (money) in circulation there
is always going to be a judgement day, when inflation hiding fails. And the real cost of
not culling the boy racer mentality that pervades our child endangering ruling elites, media and society, falls due.
Moro could tomorrow stop letting right wing tweeps talk nonsense, but that would lead to the moron class
calling him a left wing ideologue, which is absurd since they went extinct in the 80s with the rise
of Murdoch.
In the week when parents took their kids to a creche in the Middle East Mall, and didn’t wonder
or were concerned about the fire exits, fire drills, of their kids creche in the heart of a
building, why? because it looked well looked after, like our nations fiscal books. Because the
managers had gone to PR classes to dress up a pig and sell it as an angel? Like so many in
governments across the world. Its us that are so gullible, and our gullibility is killing the children,
and Key naffy nats will continue shonkey policies that solely worry about keeping the books looking
perfect. What’s the olde saying, …while rome burns.
It appears that the Justice and Electoral Committee are finally getting pissed off with the police failing to prosecute people and parties for breaches of electoral law:
And I/S has a good point at the bottom as well:
It’s obvious that the present system isn’t working and so it’s time for a change.
How many police had time to work on Key’s spurious complaint about the teapot photographer? When it suits them, they find time.
According to Jim Moira’s panel this afternoon, the best way to score drugs in a new place is to hitchhike.
They also discussed whether it’s more dangerous to hitchhike now than in the past. Their guest seemed to think it was very risky for pretty young women to hitchhike now, but I’m wondering how he or anyone would know (and whether ugly or older women are therefore safe). Does anyone keep statistics on how many people (young, pretty, female or otherwise) hitchhike, and compare that to the number of assaults, thefts and deaths now and in the past?
Protesting University students are blocking streets in Auckland again, this time it appears that some have been arrested.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10810121
Protesting University students are blocking streets in Auckland again, this time it appears that some have been arrested.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10810121
Protesting University students are protesting in Auckland again, this time there have been a few arrests.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10810121
OOPS! Sorry about the extra entries.
Katy. There is a new post on this @ http://thestandard.org.nz/lessons-from-greece/comment-page-1/#comment-477728
Thanks.
“Clear farmer mandate vital’ or the share trading scheme will not go ahead.
‘50% or just over is not a clear mandate’ says the co-op chairman Henry
Van der Heyden.
Key always states that he has a ‘mandate for asset sales’ because he won
the election,perhaps key should ponder that he actually scapped in and
took two swans that wouldn’t be in politics anyway if it wasn’t for
questionable antics,so has he a mandate to ‘sell nz off’ the answer is no,
most nzers will be here when he is long gone from these shores,so what
does he care.
Just heard the sport nitwit on 3 News say after an item “Oh we still love George W, don’t we?” and just as I thought ‘what the…?’ one of the women said “steady on”!
I have always assumed that loving Dubya would be a prerequisite for a job with MediaWorks and it appears that I was right…
Now this is going to have sweeping effects across the world:
Oh yeah, that effectively means that people can create their own versions of MS APIs. Goodbye Windows monopoly.