Radiolive has tweeted “A prominent New Zealander’s due back in court today on 12 charges of indecent assault – the case is subject to heavy suppression orders”
The clues that a further hearing was scheduled for today in a certain District Court were there in the various media reports on previous hearings, including the urgent Auckland HC hearing of the appeal against the lifting of name suppression.
First – this media report on the Feb 18 DC hearing indicates that the next hearing was probably scheduled for today in what it says re remand on bail:
Several of the media reports of the urgent HC appeal hearing also suggested that the extension of name suppression was granted until the trial commences – eg this one:
So it will be interesting to see what today brings. However, as discussed here, today may just turn out to be a short hearing to extend the remand period ….
I am waiting for the sky to fall on my head as I too agree with her and I never thought I would say that! My only quibble is that more wasn’t made of the cross party unity amongst female mp’s on this issue. We could do with much more of that.
Sweetie Pie Judith! Though let’s remember her catty remark last year about Metiria Turei’s ugly” jacket. Now she wants to defend all females from comments about appearance.
Oh, I don’t for a moment think she has reformed but at least she had a moment of sisterhood. Tomorrow, or even today, it will be the Crusher we know and dislike. 😉
And so it starts. The ‘nice’ Judith Collins takes that first step to leading the National Party. The photo, the hands, the slightly messy hair, more casually dressed than usual. It’s all about winning hearts and minds.
It’s an interesting one with chess to be sure. Very difficult to tease out the effects of inate ability vs cultural expectations and so forth. However, the broad brush strokes are very clear.
Only one woman currently makes it onto the ‘mens’ list. Yifan Hou at #59. Meanwhile, the only woman to ever seriously compete at the highest levels (and qualify for a World Championship for example) is Judit Polgar – who along with her two sisters Susan and Sofia were essentially part of an educational experiment by their father who trained them at home from a very young age. Even so, the highest Judit ever made it on the overall rankings was 8th.
The stuff article, and the global reactions to Short’s statements are highly sensationalised. The media’s play has been to fan the flames of controversy by making it seem Short is sexist, whereas his position would likely best be summarized by this quote:
“One is not better than the other, we just have different skills. It would be wonderful to see more girls playing chess, and at a higher level, but rather than fretting about inequality, perhaps we should just gracefully accept it as a fact.”
We have no issue differentiating between the masculine and feminine on the physical plane. Pointing out a physically strong woman is no argument against the fact that men are typically stronger and are genetically predispossed to be so. Somehow when discussing the field of chess, where the general trends are almost as stark, it’s sexist to point out that men seem to have an advantage.
I feel the issue boils down to our society’s perception of intelligence as falling on a linear spectrum. I’m ‘more intellegent’ than him, and she’s ‘more intelligent’ than me. This is heavily reinforced throughout our childhood by our education system (and exam scoring in particular). Chess has been heavily associated with intelligence for yonks (even to the extent which intellegence is improved in games like ‘The Sims’ by playing Chess). So the by pointing out that, generally speaking, men seem better suited to chess than women, there is also perception of a sexist implication that men are more ‘intelligent’ (whatever it is that means). Intelligence is of course much broader than analytical ability, but we’re still labouring under that narrow view in many ways.
By devolving into an argument about sexism, we cut ourselves off from examining what’s really happening, and the insights that we can have about our own thought patterns and those of the opposite gender simply by sitting down and playing a game of chess with them.
I was impressed by Judit Polgar. Thank you for the link. Just goes to show that women can be as good as men.
I think the real question is not so much about their intelligence, but more about the mystery of why so few women take up the great sport of Chess as a serious endeavour, challenge or hobby.
Here is some info about Judit from your link:
‘Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is the strongest female chess player in history.[1] In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. She is the only woman to qualify for a World Championship tournament, having done so in 2005. She is the first, and to date, only woman to have surpassed the 2700 Elo rating barrier, reaching a career peak rating of 2735 and peak world ranking of #8, both achieved in 2005. She was the number 1 rated woman in the world from 1989 (when she was 12 years old) up until the March 2015 rating list, when she was overtaken by Chinese player Hou Yifan.
She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U.S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.
Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a reigning world number one player, and has defeated eleven current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.‘ Wow! That IS impressive!
Polgar certainly is amazing and testament to the fact that men and women share the same potential. Though I would say the fact that she remained the #1 rated woman for so long is a testament to quite how unusual she is. If you take a look here: http://ratings.fide.com/top_files.phtml?id=700070
You can see that Polgar retained the #1 spot until March 2015 despite playing very little chess since late 2011. Infact, if you scroll down a little, you can see that she stopped playing large numbers of games soon after breaking into the overall top 10 in 2003. It’s taken 12 years since that point for another woman to surpass her on the list.
As for why fewer women play chess, I think on one level the answer is fairly straightforward: fewer women are interested in playing chess. Just as fewer women are interested in mathematics and other endevours requiring that ‘churning analytical frame of mind’ if you will. It’s a frame of mind that is especially well honed and enjoyed amongst individuals in the autism spectrum (such as myself), due to having less focus on other perspectives. Males fall within the autism spectrum 4.3x more often than females, and this is part of the reason there are far more males in these fields, even as the women within the fields may be just as capable.
Of course, one also cannot understate the impact of the expectations we continue to place upon young girls continues to play a part in the paths they decide to take in life (young boys too, who are much more likely to be sheparded in that direction if they show promise).
Lastly, there’s a much more nebulous idea that I’ll put forward anyhow. Males seem much more hardwired for the instinct to compete with one another – the urge to dominate other males and all that. This acts both as a tremendously powerful motivator, and method of improvement. After all, word ‘compete’ comes from the latin ‘competere’ which means ‘together strive’. I feel, though am happy to be corrected on this, that typically women require a different motivational force in order to channel the total concentration required day after day, year after year in order to reach the top.
Judit Polgar shows that men and women have the same potential in chess, but ultimately it’s just far less likely to be unlocked with women, for a wide variety of factors.
Typed out a big reply that unfortunately didn’t end up being posted when I clicked submit, so I’ve lost it!
My basic position was that the likes of Judit Polgar show that men and women have the same potential when it comes to chess. However, a variety of factors make that potential less likely to be unlocked:
-There’s the link between chess/maths/analytical logical frame of mind and autism – which is 4.3x more prevalent in males than females.
-There’s the ever present weight of expectation on our young boys (who are encouraged when they show aptitude in these areas) and young girls (who typically are not).
-There’s the male instinct towards competing with other males for dominance, which, when channeled towards chess is an intensely powerful motivator, and tool for improvement in a field where virtually the only way to improve is to play people better than you over and over and hence lose again and again. One feels males are typically more bloody minded about overcoming those who have beaten them without losing motivation and moving on to something else. Females are just as capable of taking the requisite pounding, but probably typically require different motivation, hence making the required comittment to chess to reach the top statistically less likely.
Actually BOTH your long excellent replies are showing up!
Thanks for your detailed response. It was a pleasure to read, learn and agree with your points. Top marks! Looking forward to see more of your views on various topics. Cheers!
Speaking purely for myself, I don’t think that women cannot play chess and play it well should that be their thing, rather that, there are other things in life attracting their attention.
People are either drawn to chess or not. I am in the not category. However, it doesn’t surprise me to hear that some chess players are misogynists. Perhaps the two men concerned have discovered that the women of the world aren’t all that interested in Grand Masters of Chess and them in particular and putting all women down because some of us haven’t been suitably worshipful!
However, it doesn’t surprise me to hear that some chess players are misogynists. Perhaps the two men concerned have discovered that the women of the world aren’t all that interested in Grand Masters of Chess and them in particular and putting all women down because some of us haven’t been suitably worshipful!
I guess the “misogynist” word is quite fashionable to throw around nowadays. Has it replaced the sharing and discussion of insights into the differences between men and women? And your assumption of heteronormative desires is both blatant and disgusting.
I don’t think there’s any need for that CR. As I pointed out earlier, a quick skim read of the article, without knowing the context, would lead to the conclusion that he and other top players are misogynistic.
I’m more inclined to blame The Telegraph for writing such sensationalised rubbish, and Stuff for reprinting it than Hateatea. Though perhaps a degree of admonishment for leaping to conclusions is appropriate.
I may have leapt to a conclusion that was unjustified but I also had some personal experience of highly competitive chess players and gamers to base my comment on. If I have done these two individuals an injustice I freely apologise.
Not satisfied with their attempts to annouce their racism towards anyone remotely “asian looking” with the “Fresh off the Boat” series, TV2 have a new show to cover all the angles: “Black-ish”.
This follows closely on the heels of a new word they like to blurt out in news reports…
“… police seen shooting A BLACK MAN after he runs away from…”
It’s like they almost jizz themselves with relief. I would like to offer a new name for all news reports, reality TV, gardening shows, soaps, cartoons, infomercials… anything else on TV, really.
“WHITE-ISH”
(because who can tell them apart? Oh they’re Taiwanese? From here to there they look Cambodian…)
This is the same principle that enables rich overseas investors buy up property here. The relative prices of land in Auckland compared to other cities they can invest in.
A dodgy US businessman now has most of the priceless NZ newspaper archives, and his business has gone bung. the best thing would be for the government to fund scanning and making all of these open access (with a CC-BY licence) so we can share, research and profit from them.
Fairfax obviously had no clue about the value of these objects, and are obviously not competent to deal with them.
“But today, as he unveils a memorial to the mindless destruction of a century ago, Tony Abbott is quietly drawing a veil across the genocide being committed by his own government in Western Australia through the enforced closure of remote Aboriginal communities…
…When John Howard introduced the hated Northern Territory Intervention Plan back in 2007, he earned the universal animosity of Indigenous people the world over as “a racist bastard imposing racist policies on a people who are not in a position to fight back”
Tony Abbott’s backing of Western Australia’s Closure of Remote Communities in 2015 is exactly the same, and deserves exactly the same response – “Tony Abbott is a racist bastard imposing racist policies on a people who are not in a position to fight back”
White Australian governments happily dumped Aboriginals into the outback, out of sight and out of mind – until they realised that they had inadvertently given them rights to millions of acres of land beneath which sat vast deposits of billion dollar minerals and oils.
I am always totally amazed and saddened by the total lack of Aboriginals on the streets of the three cities I have mainly visited, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Once, several years ago when in Melbourne I saw a small group outside the Anglican Cathedral – they were totally out of their minds, bodies and whatever else due to what they had been partaking of – it certainly wasn’t to my thinking, alcohol. They cut a sad sight and were quite agitated. People simply walked around and totally ignored them. On another occasion when staying on the outskirts of Darwin – my partner and I walked to a local shopping centre to purchase something for tea and came across a group by a bus stop. They too were high on something and were crawling around on all fours, probably because they couldn’t stand up. As we walked past, we said ‘Hi’ to them. They looked at us as if we were aliens – probably waiting for us to verbally abuse them! They were totally gobsmacked and said ‘Hello’ back to us before we continued on our way. We were travelling on the Ghan the next day and had a stopover in Alice Springs, where there were several groups plying their wares to us touristy types. I purchased a small painting from one group which sits on a sideboard in our lounge.
@ Jilly Bee: As am I. However having once been an Australian (at a time when one didn’t even need a passport to go there, I was heartened by the increase in numbers I saw in Sydney and Melbourne.
In the late 60’s the only contact I had was babysitting kids during the school holidays when they were ‘treated’ to a holiday in the big smoke by a Swedish Professor from Monash Uni.
Other than that, “Bloody Aboes’ were confined to living it rough in the park and totally absent from the streets.
Recently in Sydney, then Redneckville QLD, it was interesting to see certain racial mixes (Oz Aboriginee/Philipino kids, amongst other things). And I have relatives that are Oz Aboriginee/NZ Maori mix- and they are stunningly beautiful.
Over the past 50 years, there has been a real ‘browning’ of the citizenry – which can only bee a good thing – except for the fact that there’s still a core that do there best to fight against it.
I had a ceremonial ‘burning’ of my Australian passport in the late 70s.
WASHINGTON — As world leaders converge here for their semiannual trek to the capital of what is still the world’s most powerful economy, concern is rising in many quarters that the United States is retreating from global economic leadership just when it is needed most.
The spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have filled Washington with motorcades and traffic jams and loaded the schedules of President Obama and Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew. But they have also highlighted what some in Washington and around the world see as a United States government so bitterly divided that it is on the verge of ceding the global economic stage it built at the end of World War II and has largely directed ever since.
The US’s drive to enrich the already rich over the last 40 years is destroying the economy and our society with it.
Have I missed something due to my habit of having ‘technology free days’ (whilst I analyse my portfolio and interact with human beings directly?) …….. Anyone know what has happened to Phil Ure?
The options are endless really
– he’s in a pot induced coma
– he got the dog to do the steering on his 50cc moto-sickle whilst on a trek to protest
– he outraged TS people so much he has been banned for weeks or permanently
If its the latter, I haven’t seen him pop up on the alternative hard left-wing kinsprissy thereist sites like TDB.
Hopefully he’s OK – I just happened to notice the absence lately
Isn’t twitter limited to 140 characters, or is that some other site?
Phil wouldn’t get more than two words in at that rate, by the time he put in all the padding characters he seemed to use.
He has a quick comment and points to his whoar blog – which I haven’t looked at to date. Takes up much less than 140 characters – hope it works for him.
National’s housing crisis is causing even further damage with the second consecutive quarter of deflation a genuine concern the Reserve Bank can do little about, as it focusses on Auckland house prices, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson Grant Robertson.
Interesting because the last time I looked two consecutive quarters of decreasing GDP were a recession. A decrease in GDP would normally be concomitant with a period of deflation so we can assume the only reason why we’re not in a technical recession is because of house price inflation.
I suppose that the next thing we”l hear from the RWNJs is that our ‘rock star economy’ is twerking – otherwise known as rock bottom.
“If businesses struggle to sell overseas and their products prices are dropping at home, the economy will get into real trouble.
When are these imbeciles going to realise that we can’t actually export ourselves to wealth?
Take our milk exports. Due to our success there other countries have been increasing production. This is especially true in the US but China and Europe have been doing so as well. That means that there will be no demand for our milk products. Even if we get a FTA with the US we aren’t going to be exporting agricultural products there.
This will happen to everything we make and to every country. It is this reality that capitalism fails to take into account.
Your definition of a recession is correct.
However a decline in GDP is not the same thing as a decline in prices.
GDP is currently increasing quite happily, even though the price level may be declining.
However a decline in GDP is not the same thing as a decline in prices.
And I didn’t say that they were did I? Now go read what I actually said because the implication is that we have increasing GDP while the economy looks to be in a recessionary state.
Liar No. 46 Julia Gillard: “I have got a lot of respect for people who whistle-blow, ummm….” http://thestandard.org.nz/ope-mike-08022015/#comment-965394
Liar No. 45 Zara Potts: “Sir Bob Geldof has assembled the best of modern musicians for this year’s record, including Ed Sheeran and One Direction.” http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-11112014/#comment-924196
More liars HERE….
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-09102014/#comment-907232
Inflation now just 0.1%. That’s right 0.1%. Prices in general are not rising. Sell your overpriced Auckland house and buy four houses. Buy in Masterton, Otaki, Aotea and Churton Park. Be a landlord.
Funny, that is almost word for word what Matthew Hooton said on N2N today, until he lost it that is, and went on an emotionally based rant about Hager. He must be in quite a dilemma. In order to hysterically deride Hager he had to provide a great defence for Key and his lying government.
Funny to see a PR guy falling lock and stock barrel for his own person “hot button” and making himself seem foolish.
That was very “entertaining”. Kathryn Ryan desperately trying to shut him up and Mike Williams unable to get a word in. KR resorted in the end to pointing out “there’s no difference between Nicky Hager and right-wing PR commentators like yourself” which caused him to pause long enough for KR to sign the show off and kill his mike. Just as well otherwise he’d still be there ranting…
Log prices falling .milk prices falling, dollar staying up which will slow tourism the future s not to bright if people put on there glasses and see through the sun shining out of keys arse .
Although more trees, less cows and jets in the air might not be a bad thing.
FBI forensics specialists gave consistently incorrect testimony to juries pre-2000
Including in the trials of 32 people sentenced to death.
Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.
The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison
One of the drawbacks of an adversarial judicial system with prosecutors and judges who are elected or look forward to political careers.
The one that’s really dodgy is actually fingerprint analysis. Pretends to be scientific and often uses the magic of computers, but still needs a proper series of evaluations even after 100 years.
As with fingerprints, not enough research has been done to quantify the probability of error in ballistics matching. So it’s impossible to say with certainty that the marks made on bullets as they are fired are truly unique to an individual gun.
And I’m pretty sure that with modern manufacturing being ever more precise and thus less difference between the same parts on different guns it’s getting even more difficult to say if a bullet came from one gun or another.
until he lost it that is, and went on an emotionally based rant about Hager. He must be in quite a dilemma. In order to hysterically deride Hager he had to provide a great defence for Key and his lying government. he couldn’t be stopped he wound himself up more and more and even Kathryn Ryan almost laughed at him.
Funny to see a PR guy falling lock and stock barrel for his own person “hot button” and making himself seem foolish.
The funniest thing was him attacking Hager as not being a journalist, attacked the media for reporting things he ethically thought they shouldn’t, and attacked the media for deliberately framing things in a particular way. He was frothing so much he lost perspective and couldn’t see the irony of what he was saying, given his job and role.
i am always fascinated that he is described as PR company owner and right wing commentator but not former Nat Party strategist. Him not correcting it is almost, what’s the word? Unethial 😉
You say you didnt hear it until about 3pm and yet you parroted almost his exact words at 14.2
Matthew’s archilles heel is Hager. Hager exposed him as a duplicitous, lacking ethics, self serving person in Hollowmen. He seems to hate him with a passion (which we heard today). Reason goes out the window and ranting take sover, and the volume rises.
extreme
“furthest from the centre or a given point.”
right wing
” the rightist division of a group”
activist
“Someone who’s actively involved in a protest or a political or social cause can be called an activist.”
So, Hoots ranted about Hager being an extreme left wing activist, yet his views on complete lack of government intervention and having worked for the Nats make him an extremist in that party and by being ACT extreme right in NZ, make him, by the definition, an extreme right wing activist.
The BIGGEST difference is that Hager publishes his views, Hoots works clandestinely, for pay, to achieve his ends, until flushed out by Hager
“Groser also said NZ was on target to meet its Kyoto Protocol commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 5% below 1990 levels by 2020.
However, gross emissions in 2013 were 21.3% higher than 1990 and net emissions were 42.4% higher.”
Grosser must be amazing if he’s going to cut emmisions 27% in 5 years,still if the nats have turned us into a failed economy by then we might get close.
Crikey. An important read:
An Andrew Geddis post on the rights we give up in the case for war in “Lest We Forget.” Freedom of Speech. Rights to disagree. Conscription. And of course a different perspective on the standard belief that all those brave boys went off willingly to fight and die in WW1. (From the sidebar on TS thanks.) http://www.pundit.co.nz/content/lest-we-forget
Amidst all the commemorations, and all the tearful invocations of the 18,000 young men who did not “grow old, as we grow old”, it is as well to remember that it is not in the monarchical tradition to ask the King’s (or the Queen’s) subjects if they want to – let alone whether they should! – go to war. It remains a matter for the “Executive” exclusively.
This is as true today, as a much smaller force of New Zealand soldiers prepares to depart for the Middle East, as it was in 1914 when thousands of volunteers embarked for their fateful rendezvous with terror, disfigurement and death on the sheer slopes of Gallipoli.
And after that first bout of enthusiasm for war there wasn’t that many volunteers either.
ianmac, I discovered a book stashed away in a forgotten spot by my father, after his death. It was an anti-war treatise written in the 1920s, with many horrific photos of WW1 death pits, gallows victims in Austria (they hung conchies, had 11,000 gallows it said), of soldiers whose faces had been blown apart but still alive, terrible stuff. I was quite young when I found this, maybe 9 or 10, and I couldn’t read the words because they were mostly not in English. Later I identified them as German but with French, Dutch and English translations. Dad did not go to war (WW2), health reasons apparently, but I still wonder why he had that book and where it came from.
Just had a look at it – by Ernst Friedrich, called Krieg dem kriege! War against war. Plainly anti-capitalist – possibly underground press as it would be regarded as utter treason, especially in the light of that Andrew Geddis article on how legal freedoms were curtailed in WW1. Found a link to pictures, it’s been republished. war against war
It pretty clear the Auckland Council are a bunch of idiotic muppets, they don’t even bother selling off our assets, they just give them away!
All run through the council resource consents department – no matter how bad the development the answer if always YES, just give us FEEs and we will grant ANYTHING.
Ring a ding, Auckland council CEO and councillors – your resource consents department is out of control and your Ports of Auckland are out of Control!
Are you too lazy to do anything? The ports of Auckland board are giving you, and the rest of Auckland, and Maori and indeed the country the finger.
“An Open Letter to Wicked Campers from Women’s Refuge
Dear Wicked Campers,
Women’s Refuge supports 20,000 women and children affected by domestic violence every year. On behalf of our volunteers and workers and the women and children who use our services we respectfully ask you to reconsider the wording you have on your vans. The hateful slogans and ‘jokes’ we have seen denigrate and humiliate human beings, normalising violence towards women and inflicting on-going harm to victims. Misogyny masquerading as humour is still misogyny! We are concerned for instance that you consider a ‘joke’ about drowning your wife to be amusing? This is just one of many objectionable slogans and images that we see plastered across your campers as they travel the roads of this country. We ask you, in this open letter, to take a different tack in future – perhaps even to think about peaceful and respectful slogans. Please rethink the slogans on your vehicles and think about adding something to society rather than taking it away. As a suggestion, how about ‘wicked campers apologises for dangerous slogans, forgive us.’
Dr Ang Jury
Chief Executive”
I agree completely. In our various necks of the woods we see heaps of these and yep, the slogans and “jokes” are sickening often, rude and bigoted nearly always, and cringeworthy 100%. It doesn’t pay to be with someone more sensitive when one of these turds drives so close that you cant help but read them
Any folks here who are in Dunedin and have an interest in Irish/working class/left history might be interested in a couple of talks I’m giving on campus about the 1916 Rebellion in Ireland and its aftermath.
The talks are at 5pm, tomorrow (Tuesday), April 21 and 5pm, the following Tuesday (April 28) and are in Room 4, upstairs in the Clubs and Societies building at 84 Albany Street.
In the first talk I’ll be looking at the lead-up to the Rising, in particular the arrival in Irish society of the working class as an organised industrial/political force with the formation especially of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, founded by James Larkin and later led by James Connolly, the development of its newspaper (the widely-read Irish Worker, edited by Sean O’Casey) and of the workers’ militia (the Irish Citizen Army, led by Connolly, Michael Mallin and Countess Markievicz; the formation of the first republican paramilitary organisation, Na Fianna Eireann, founded by Countess Markievicz; the revitalisation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood by young militants like Sean MacDiarmada and the return of the veteran Tom Clarke; the formation of a republican women’s movement (Inghinidhe na hEireann), founded by Maud Gonne; and the Irishwomen’s Suffrage League.
I’ll look at the 1913 Dublin Lockout and the Home Rule Crisis and the different responses within Irish nationalism to World War 1.
If there’s much interest in these talks, I’ll look at organising the showing of two very famous documentaries, among the first feature-length documentaries ever made: Mise Eire (I am Ireland) and Saoirse (Freedom).
Mise Eire was made in 1959 and features a lot of newsreel footage from the late 1800s up to the immediate after of the 1916 Rising.
Saoirse was made in 1961 and takes the story through the reorganisation of the independence movement in 1917, its sweeping victory in Ireland in the Westminster election of 1918, the establishment of an independent Irish parliament in January 1919, the declaration of independence and the war with the British state as the British ruling class refused to recognise the will of the Irish people and attempted to suppress Dail Eireann.
I usually take part in the Campbell Live votes via text messages. I didn’t partake in the vote on whether Martin Crowe should receive a knighthood, simply because I don’t agree with titular honours, though I firmly feel that Martin should be honoured in some way for his wonderful contribution to N Z cricket. Order of N Z would be OK with me.
I understand and agree with your view, but I voted YES because that seemed the most appropriate answer for the two choices given.
The government has given these titles to a large number of shady characters and crooks over the years! I bet Key is looking forward to get one too asap!
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I am not sure what his contribution outside his job has been? Many many people are outstanding in their chosen professions, for far less remuneration than our sportspeople. So over and above that? I am sorry he is dying, but writing about his experience also ought not qualify for the highest of honours. IMO.
Ports of Auckland has been ordered to pay $40,000 for deliberately breaking the law by employing contractors during industrial action at the port.
The Employment Relations Authority ruled that Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL) broke the law in February and March when they employed an engineer from overseas at a cost of $10,000 a week to do the work of striking Maritime Union members.
It also illegally used local contractors to carry out engineering work.
At the time union members were on strike and locked out in their battle to stop management contracting out their jobs.
In a decision released yesterday, authority member Anna Fitzgibbon said the port had made “calculated decisions” to break the law.
The ANZAC Bullshit continues with everybody trying to out do others with exhibits. Southland has got the prize so far as shown on TV1 news tonight. A genuine exhibit of a Gallipoli dunny c/w with feces in it
I am sure the poor guys who were there would not like their personal habits dysentery or otherwise exhibited.
That is bloody disgusting and an insult to the guys who fought there.
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Negative yesterday, negative today. Negative all year, according to one departing reader telling me I’ve grown strident and predictable. Fair enough. If it’s any help, every time I go to write about a certain topic that begins with C and ends with arrrrs, I do brace myself and ask: Again? Are ...
Bryce Edwards writes – It’s been a tumultuous time in politics in recent months, as the new National-led Government has driven through its “First 100 Day programme”. During this period there’s been a handful of opinion polls, which overall just show a minimal amount of flux in public support ...
Inspirational: The Family of Man is a glorious hymn to human equality, but, more than that, it is a clarion call to human freedom. Because equality, unleavened by liberty, is a broken piano, an unstrung harp; upon which the songs of fraternity will never be played.“Somebody must have been telling lies about ...
Tax Lawyer Barbara Edmonds vs Emperor Justinian I- Nolo Contendere: False historical explanations of pivotal events are very far from being inconsequential.WHEN BARBARA EDMONDS made reference to the Roman Empire, my ears pricked up. It is, lamentably, very rare to hear a politician admit to any kind of familiarity ...
It’s been a tumultuous time in politics in recent months, as the new National-led Government has driven through its “First 100 Day programme”. During this period there’s been a handful of opinion polls, which overall just show a minimal amount of flux in public support for the various parties in ...
Buzz from the Beehive Housing Minister Chris Bishop delivered news – packed with the ingredients to enflame political passions – worthy of supplanting Winston Peters in headline writers’ priorities. He popped up at the post-Cabinet press conference to promise a crackdown on unruly and antisocial state housing tenants. His ...
Ele Ludemann writes – The Reserve Bank is advertising for a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion advisor. The Bank has one mandate – to keep inflation between one and three percent. It has failed in that and is only slowly getting inflation back down to the upper limit. Will it ...
Last week former National Party leader Simon Bridges was appointed by the Government as the new chair of the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA). You can read about the appointment in Thomas Coughlan’s article, Simon Bridges to become chair of NZ Transport Agency Waka KotahiThe fact that a ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Last week former National Party leader Simon Bridges was appointed by the Government as the new chair of the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA). You can read about the appointment in Thomas Coughlan’s article, Simon Bridges to become chair of NZ Transport Agency ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read: Gavin Jacobson talks to Thomas Piketty 10 years on from Capital in the 21st CenturyThe SalvoLocal scoop: Green MP’s business being investigated over migrant exploitation claims StuffSteve KilgallonLocal deep-dive: The commercial contractors making money from School ...
It’s a home - but Kāinga Ora tenants accused of “abusing the privilege” may lose it. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The Government announced a crackdown on Kāinga Ora tenants who were unruly and/or behind on their rent, with Housing Minister Chris Bishop saying a place in a state ...
This is a guest post by Connor Sharp of Surface Light Rail Light rail in Auckland: A way forward sooner than you think With the coup de grâce of Auckland Light Rail (ALR) earlier this year, and the shift of the government’s priorities to roads, roads, and more roads, it ...
Note: As a paid-up Webworm member, I’ve recorded this Webworm as a mini-podcast for you as well. Some of you said you liked this option - so I aim to provide it when I get a chance to record! Read more ...
TL;DR: In my ‘six-stack’ of substacks at 6.06pm on Monday, March 18:IKEA is accused of planting big forests in New Zealand to green-wash; REDD-MonitorA City for People takes a well-deserved victory lap over Wellington’s pro-YIMBY District Plan votes; A City for PeopleSteven Anastasiou takes a close look at the sticky ...
Buzz from the Beehive Here’s hoping for a lively post-cabinet press conference when the PM and – perhaps – some of his ministers tell us what was discussed at their meeting today. Until then, Point of Order has precious little Beehive news to report after its latest monitoring of the ...
David Farrar writes – We now have almost all 2023 data in, which has allowed me to update my annual table of how labour went against its promises. This is basically their final report card. The promiseThe result Build 100,000 affordable homes over 10 ...
I’m a bit worried that I’ve started a previous newsletter with the words “just when you think they couldn’t get any worse…” Seems lately that I could begin pretty much every issue with that opening. Such is the nature of our coalition government that they seem to be outdoing each ...
Geoffrey Miller writes – Timing is everything. And from China’s perspective, this week’s visit by its foreign minister to New Zealand could be coming at just the right moment. The visit by Wang Yi to Wellington will be his first since 2017. Anniversaries are important to Beijing. ...
Depictions of Islam in Western popular culture have rarely been positive, even before 9/11. Five years on from the mosque shootings, this is one of the cultural headwinds that the Muslim community has to battle against. Whatever messages of tolerance and inclusion are offered in daylight, much of our culture ...
Last week Transport Minster Simeon Brown and Mayor Wayne Brown opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre. The new train control centre will see teams from KiwiRail, Auckland Transport and Auckland One Rail working more closely together to improve train services across the city. The Auckland Rail Operations Centre in ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Retiring former Labour Finance Minister Grant Robertson said in an exit interview with Q+A yesterday the Government can and should sustain more debt to invest in infrastructure for future generations. Elsewhere in the news in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 6:36am: Read more ...
Timing is everything. And from China’s perspective, this week’s visit by its foreign minister to New Zealand could be coming at just the right moment. The visit by Wang Yi to Wellington will be his first since 2017. Anniversaries are important to Beijing. It is more than just a happy ...
TL;DR: The key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to March 18 include:China’s Foreign Minister visiting Wellington today;A post-cabinet news conference this afternoon; the resumption of Parliament on Tuesday for two weeks before Easter;retiring former Labour Finance Minister Grant Robertson gives his valedictory speech in Parliament; ...
New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters’s state-of-the-nation speech on Sunday was really a state-of-Winston-First speech. He barely mentioned any of the Government’s key policies and could not even wholly endorse its signature income tax cuts. Instead, he rehearsed all of his complaints about the Ardern Government, including an extraordinary claim ...
A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 10, 2024 thru Sat, March 16, 2024. Story of the week This week we'll give you a little glimpse into how we collect links to share and ...
A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 10, 2024 thru Sat, March 16, 2024. Story of the week This week we'll give you a little glimpse into how we collect links to share and ...
“I’ve been internalising a really complicated situation in my head.”When they kept telling us we should wait until we get to know him, were they taking the piss? Was it a case of, if you think this is bad, wait till you get to know the real Christopher, after the ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
.“$10 and a target that bleeds” - Bleeding Targets for Under $10!.Thanks for reading Frankly Speaking ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.This government appears hell-bent on either scrapping life-saving legislation or reintroducing things that - frustrated critics insist - will be dangerous and likely ...
“It hardly strikes me as fair to criticise a government for doing exactly what it said it was going to do. For actually keeping its promises.”THUNDER WAS PLAYING TAG with lightning flashes amongst the distant peaks. Its rolling cadences interrupted by the here-I-come-here-I-go Doppler effect of the occasional passing car. ...
Subversive & Disruptive Technologies: Just as happened with that other great regulator of the masses, the Medieval Church, the advent of a new and hard-to-control technology – the Internet – is weakening the ties that bind. Then, and now, those who enjoy a monopoly on the dissemination of lies, cannot and will ...
Been Here Before: To find the precedents for what this Coalition Government is proposing, it is necessary to return to the “glory days” of Muldoonism.THE COALITION GOVERNMENT has celebrated its first 100 days in office by checking-off the last of its listed commitments. It remains, however, an angry government. It ...
Bob Edlin writes – And what is the world watching today…? The email newsletter from Associated Press which landed in our mailbox early this morning advised: In the news today: The father of a school shooter has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter; prosecutors in Trump’s hush-money case ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Is another Green MP on their way out? And are the Greens severely tarnished by another integrity scandal? For the second time in three months, the Green Party has secretly suspended an MP over integrity issues. Mystery is surrounding the party’s decision to ...
For the last few years, the Green Party has been the party that has managed to avoid the plague of multiple scandals that have beleaguered other political parties. It appears that their luck has run out with a second scandal which, unfortunately for them, coincided with Golraz Ghahraman, the focus ...
TL;DR: The six newsey things that stood out to me as of 6:46am on Saturday, March 16.Andy Foster has accidentally allowed a Labour/Green amendment to cut road user chargers for plug-in hybrid vehicles, which the Government might accept; NZ HeraldThomas CoughlanSimeon Brown has rejected a plea from Westport ...
What seemed a booming success a couple of years ago has collapsed into fraud convictions.I looked at the crash of FTX (short for ‘Futures Exchange’) in November 2022 to see whether it would impact on the financial system as a whole. Fortunately there was barely a ripple, probably because it ...
Anybody following the situation in Ukraine and Russia would probably have been amused by a recent Tweet on X NATO seems to be putting in an awful lot of effort to influence what is, at least according to them, a sham election in an autocracy.When do the Ukrainians go to ...
TL;DR:Shaun Baker on Wynyard Quarter's transformation. Magdalene Taylor on the problem with smart phones. How private equity are now all over reinsurance. Dylan Cleaver on rugby and CTE. Emily Atkin on ‘Big Meat’ looking like ‘Big Oil’.Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 6pm on March 15Photo by Jeppe Hove Jensen ...
Buzz from the Beehive Finance Minister Nicola Willis had plenty to say when addressing the Auckland Business Chamber on the economic growth that (she tells us) is flagging more than we thought. But the government intends to put new life into it: We want our country to be a ...
The Transport and Infrastructure Committee has reported back on the Road User Charges (Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Amendment Bill, basicly rubberstamping it. While there was widespread support among submitters for the principle that EV and PHEV drivers should pay their fair share for the roads, they also overwhelmingly disagreed with ...
Peter Dunne writes – This week’s government bailout – the fifth in the last eighteen months – of the financially troubled Ruapehu Alpine Lifts company would have pleased many in the central North Island ski industry. The government’s stated rationale for the $7 million funding was that it ...
See if you can spot the difference. An Iranian born female MP from a progressive party is accused of serial shoplifting. Her name is leaked to the media, which goes into a pack frenzy even before the Police launch an … Continue reading → ...
Ele Ludemann writes – The government is omitting general Treaty references from legislation : The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last Government in a bid to get greater coherence in the public service on Treaty ...
What was that judge thinking?Peter Williams writes – That Golriz Ghahraman and District Court Judge Maria Pecotic were once lawyer colleagues is incontrovertible. There is published evidence that they took at least one case to the Court of Appeal together. There was a report on ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Climate Scorpion – the sting is in the tail. Introducing planetary solvency. A paper via the University of Exeter’s Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.Local scoop:Kāinga Ora starts pulling out of its Auckland projects and selling land RNZ ...
Wellington’s massively upzoned District Plan adds the opportunity for tens of thousands of new homes not just in the central city (such as these Webb St new builds) but also close to the CBD and public transport links. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Wellington gave itself the chance of ...
It’s Friday and we’re halfway through March Madness. Here’s some of the things that caught our attention this week. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt asked how we can get better event trains and an option for grade separating Morningside Dr. On Tuesday Matt looked into ...
Something you might not know about me is that I’m quite a stubborn person. No, really. I don’t much care for criticism I think’s unfair or that I disagree with. Few of us do I suppose.Back when I was a drinker I’d sometimes respond defensively, even angrily. There are things ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the last week included:PM Christopher Luxon said the reversal of interest deductibility for landlords was done to help renters, who ...
It was not so much the Labour Party but really the Chris Hipkins party yesterday at Labour’s caucus retreat in Martinborough. The former Prime Minister was more or less consistent on wealth tax, which he was at best equivocal about, and social insurance, which he was not willing to revisit. ...
Buzz from the BeehiveThe text reproduced above appears on a page which records all the media statements and speeches posted on the government’s official website by Melissa Lee as Minister of Media and Communications and/or by Jenny Marcroft, her Parliamentary Under-secretary. It can be quickly analysed ...
For forty years, Robert Muldoon has been a dirty word in our politics. His style of government was so repulsive and authoritarian that the backlash to it helped set and entrench our constitutional norms. His pig-headedness over forcing through Think Big eventually gave us the RMA, with its participation and ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Is the new government reducing tax on rental properties to benefit landlords or to cut the cost of rents? That’s the big question this week, after Associate Finance Minister David Seymour announced on Sunday that the Government would be reversing the Labour Government’s removal ...
Saudi Arabia is rarely far from the international spotlight. The war in Gaza has brought new scrutiny to Saudi plans to normalise relations with Israel, while the fifth anniversary of the controversial killing of Jamal Khashoggi was marked shortly before the war began on October 7. And as the home ...
Questions need to be asked on both sides of the worldPeter Williams writes – The NRL Judiciary hands down an eight week suspension to Sydney Roosters forward Spencer Leniu , an Auckland-born Samoan, after he calls Ezra Mam, Sydney-orn but of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Ele Ludemann writes – Contrary to what many headlines and news stories are saying, residential landlords are not getting a tax break. The government is simply restoring to them the tax deductibility of interest they had until the previous government removed it. There is no logical reason ...
I can't remember when it was goodMoments of happiness in bloomMaybe I just misunderstoodAll of the love we left behindWatching our flashbacks intertwineMemories I will never findIn spite of whatever you becomeForget that reckless thing turned onI think our lives have just begunI think our lives have just begunDoes anyone ...
Michael Bassett writes – At first reading, a front-page story in the New Zealand Herald on 13 March was bizarre. A group of severely intellectually limited teenagers, with little understanding of the law, have been pleading to the Justice Select Committee not to pass a bill dealing with ram ...
How much political capital is Christopher Luxon willing to burn through in order to deliver his $2.9 billion gift to landlords? Evidently, Luxon is: (a) unable to cost the policy accurately. As Anna Burns-Francis pointed out to him on Breakfast TV, the original ”rock solid” $2.1 billion cost he was ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Jonathon Porritt calling bullshit in his own blog post on mainstream climate science as ‘The New Denialism’.Local scoop:The Wellington City Council’s list of proposed changes to the IHP recommendations to be debated later today was leaked this ...
TL;DR:Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said yesterday tenants should be grateful for the reinstatement of interest deductibility because landlords would pass on their lower tax costs in the form of lower rents. That would be true if landlords were regulated monopolies such as Transpower or Auckland Airport1, but they’re not, ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Tom Toro Tom Toro is a cartoonist and author. He has published over 200 cartoons in The New Yorker since 2010. His cartoons appear in Playboy, the Paris Review, the New York Times, American Bystander, and elsewhere. Related: What 10 EV lovers ...
The business section of the NZ Herald is full of opinion. Among the more opinionated of all is the ex-Minister of Transport, ex-Minister of Railways, ex MP for Auckland Central (1975-93, Labour), Wellington Central (1996-99, ACT, then list-2005), ex-leader of the ACT Party, uncle to actor Antonia, the veritable granddaddy ...
Hi,Just quickly — I’m blown away by the stories you’ve shared with me over the last week since I put out the ‘Gary’ podcast, where I told you about the time my friend’s flatmate killed the neighbour.And you keep telling me stories — in the comments section, and in my ...
The first season of Rings of Power was not awful. It was thoroughly underwhelming, yes, and left a lingering sense of disappointment, but it was more expensive mediocrity than catastrophe. I wrote at length about the series as it came out (see the Review section of the blog, and go ...
Buzz from the Beehive Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden told Auckland Business Chamber members they were the first audience to hear her priorities as a minister in a government committed to cutting red tape and regulations. She brandished her liberalising credentials, saying Flexible labour markets are the ...
Chris Trotter writes – TO UNDERSTAND WHY NEWSHUB FAILED, it is necessary to understand how TVNZ changed. Up until 1989, the state broadcaster had been funded by a broadcasting licence fee, collected from every citizen in possession of a television set, supplemented by a relatively modest (compared ...
Bob Edlin writes – The Māori Party has been busy issuing a mix of warnings and threats as its expresses its opposition to interest deductibility for landlords and the plans of seabed miners. It remains to be seen whether they follow the example of indigenous litigants in Australia, ...
The Government has accepted Labour’s change to the Road User Charge (RUC) discount for hybrid vehicles, meaning there will still be some incentive for people to buy greener vehicles. ...
Kicking the most vulnerable people out of state housing and pushing them towards homelessness will result in a proliferation of poverty and trauma across our most vulnerable communities. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader and MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi has penned a letter asking MPs to support his members bill to remove GST from all food. The bill is expected to go through its first reading in parliament this Wednesday. “I’m calling on all political parties to support my ...
This year is about getting real with Kiwis and discussing the tough issues, as the National Government exacerbates inequality and divides New Zealand, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said ...
The Government adding Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) to its already roaring environmental policy bonfire is an assault on the future of wildlife that makes Aotearoa unique. ...
After 12 years of fighting to protect our moana we are finding ourselves back at square one and back at court. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is sitting in Hawera to reconsider an application from Trans-Tasman Resources to dig up 50 million tonnes of the seabed in South Taranaki. This ...
Minister Shane Jones’ decision to step away from a seabed mining project is evidence of the murky waters surrounding the Government’s fast-track legislation. ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The Coalition Government’s miscalculation saga continues as it has forgotten an eyewatering $90 million gap in its interest deductibility cost figures, say Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds and Revenue Spokesperson Deborah Russell. ...
He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission has today released advice that says if the Government doesn’t act now New Zealand is at risk of not meeting its climate goals. ...
The Coalition Government has today confirmed it is abandoning first home buyers who are struggling to get ahead, says Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds. ...
The New Zealand public voted for a change in direction at the 2023 general election and that is exactly what this coalition government has been delivering in its first 100 days. There was an immediate focus on the economy, easing the cost of living, cracking down on law and order ...
The Government has left the health system as an afterthought, announcing half-baked targets at the last minute of their 100-day plan, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
Kiwis are still waiting for their promised cost of living support after 100 days of a National Government that is taking us backwards, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
100 days of National taking NZ backwardsThe National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
The Government must commit to funding free and healthy school lunches, as thousands of people sign the petition to keep them, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti says. ...
If the Government was serious about moving families into public housing, they would build more houses so there is actually somewhere for people to go. ...
The free and healthy school lunches programme feeds our kids, helps them to learn, and saves families money – but it is at risk under this Government, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. ...
The Government’s proposed changes to Firearms Prohibition Orders (FPO) add almost nothing new and are merely an attempt to distract from its plans to loosen gun laws, police spokesperson Ginny Andersen and justice spokesperson Dr Duncan Webb said. ...
The great Victorian era English politician Lord Macauley stood in the British House of Parliament and said, "The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm".He understood and outlined even way back then, the significant role and influence media have in a democracy. ...
The government’s attack on Māori health this week is committing tangata-whenua to a premature death, says Te Pāti Māori. “The government have begun their onslaught on Māori health with the abolishment of the Māori Health Authority and smokefree laws in the same day” said health spokesperson and co-leader, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. ...
"The Government is moving quickly to realise an additional $46 million in tariff savings in the EU market this season for Kiwi exporters,” Minister for Trade and Agriculture, Todd McClay says. Parliament is set, this week, to complete the final legislative processes required to bring the New Zealand – European ...
New Zealand’s social workers are qualified, experienced, and more representative of the communities they serve, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “I want to acknowledge and applaud New Zealand’s social workers for the hard work they do, providing invaluable support for our most vulnerable. “To coincide with World ...
Cabinet has agreed to a reduced road user charge (RUC) rate for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. Owners of PHEVs will be eligible for a reduced rate of $38 per 1,000km once all light electric vehicles (EVs) move into the RUC system from 1 April. ...
Minister of Agriculture and Trade, Todd McClay, says that today’s opening of Riverland Foods manufacturing plant in Christchurch is a great example of how trade access to overseas markets creates jobs in New Zealand. Speaking at the official opening of this state-of-the-art pet food factory the Minister noted that exports ...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Wellington today. “It was a pleasure to host Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his first official visit to New Zealand since 2017. Our discussions were wide-ranging and enabled engagement on many facets of New Zealand’s relationship with China, including trade, ...
Kāinga Ora – Homes & Communities has been instructed to end the Sustaining Tenancies Framework and take stronger measures against persistent antisocial behaviour by tenants, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Earlier today Finance Minister Nicola Willis and I sent an interim Letter of Expectations to the Board of Kāinga Ora. ...
Tēna koutou katoa. Greetings everyone. Thank you to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and the Honourable Simon Bridges for hosting this address today. I acknowledge the business leaders in this room, the leaders and governors, the employers, the entrepreneurs, the investors, and the wealth creators. The coalition Government shares your ...
Minister Winston Peters completed the final leg of his visit to South and South East Asia in Singapore today, where he focused on enhancing one of New Zealand’s indispensable strategic partnerships. “Singapore is our most important defence partner in South East Asia, our fourth-largest trading partner and a ...
Minister of Internal Affairs and Workplace Relations and Safety, Hon. Brooke van Velden, will travel to the Republic of Korea to represent New Zealand at the Third Summit for Democracy on 18 March. The summit, hosted by the Republic of Korea, was first convened by the United States in 2021, ...
ICNZ Speech 7 March 2024, Auckland Acknowledgements and opening Mōrena, ngā mihi nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Good morning, it’s a privilege to be here to open the ICNZ annual conference, thank you to Mark for the Mihi Whakatau My thanks to Tim Grafton for inviting me ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Lead Coordination Minister Judith Collins have expressed their deepest sympathy on the five-year anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks. “March 15, 2019, was a day when families, communities and the country came together both in sorrow and solidarity,” Mr Luxon says. “Today we pay our respects to the 51 shuhada ...
Speech for Financial Advice NZ Conference 5 March 2024 Acknowledgements and opening Morena, Nga Mihi Nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Thanks Nate for your Mihi Whakatau Good morning. It’s a pleasure to formally open your conference this morning. What a lovely day in Wellington, What a great ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters held discussions in Jakarta today about the future of relations between New Zealand and South East Asia’s most populous country. “We are in Jakarta so early in our new government’s term to reflect the huge importance we place on our relationship with Indonesia and South ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters has announced that the Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi, will visit New Zealand next week. “We look forward to re-engaging with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and discussing the full breadth of the bilateral relationship, which is one of New Zealand’s ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has today opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre, which will bring together KiwiRail, Auckland Transport, and Auckland One Rail to improve service reliability for Aucklanders. “The recent train disruptions in Auckland have highlighted how important it is KiwiRail and Auckland’s rail agencies work together to ...
The Government is proud to support the 10th edition of Crankworx Rotorua as the Crankworx World Tour returns to Rotorua from 16-24 March 2024, says Minister for Economic Development Melissa Lee. “Over the past 10 years as Crankworx Rotorua has grown, so too have the economic and social benefits that ...
Legislation implementing coalition Government tax commitments and addressing long-standing tax anomalies will be progressed in Parliament next week, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The legislation is contained in an Amendment Paper to the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill issued today. “The Amendment Paper represents ...
Associate Environment Minister Andrew Hoggard has today announced that the Government has agreed to suspend the requirement for councils to comply with the Significant Natural Areas (SNA) provisions of the National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity for three years, while it replaces the Resource Management Act (RMA).“As it stands, SNAs ...
Agriculture Minister Todd McClay has classified the drought conditions in the Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts as a medium-scale adverse event, acknowledging the challenging conditions facing farmers and growers in the district. “Parts of Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts are in the grip of an intense dry spell. I know ...
The Government is helping farmers eradicate the significant impact of facial eczema (FE) in pastoral animals, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “A $20 million partnership jointly funded by Beef + Lamb NZ, the Government, and the primary sector will save farmers an estimated NZD$332 million per year, and aims to ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has completed a successful visit to India, saying it was an important step in taking the relationship between the two countries to the next level. “We have laid a strong foundation for the Coalition Government’s priority of enhancing New Zealand-India relations to generate significant future benefit for both countries,” says Mr Peters, ...
Cabinet has agreed to provide $7 million to ensure the 2024 ski season can go ahead on the Whakapapa ski field in the central North Island but has told the operator Ruapehu Alpine Lifts it is the last financial support it will receive from taxpayers. Cabinet also agreed to provide ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Lower fruit and vegetable prices are welcome news for New Zealanders who have been doing it tough at the supermarket, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. Stats NZ reported today the price of fruit and vegetables has dropped 9.3 percent in the 12 months to February 2024. “Lower fruit and vege ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
The coalition Government is supporting farmers to enhance land management practices by investing $3.3 million in locally led catchment groups, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “Farmers and growers deliver significant prosperity for New Zealand and it’s vital their ongoing efforts to improve land management practices and water quality are supported,” ...
Good evening everyone and thank you for that lovely introduction. Thank you also to the Honourable Simon Bridges for the invitation to address your members. Since being sworn in, this coalition Government has hit the ground running with our 100-day plan, delivering the changes that New Zealanders expect of us. ...
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Radiolive has tweeted “A prominent New Zealander’s due back in court today on 12 charges of indecent assault – the case is subject to heavy suppression orders”
Are they hoping everyone looses interest as they rack up copious costs in all this legal muscle to keep a name from the public disclosed.
The clues that a further hearing was scheduled for today in a certain District Court were there in the various media reports on previous hearings, including the urgent Auckland HC hearing of the appeal against the lifting of name suppression.
First – this media report on the Feb 18 DC hearing indicates that the next hearing was probably scheduled for today in what it says re remand on bail:
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/prominent-new-zealander-name-suppression-extended-vy-170285
Several of the media reports of the urgent HC appeal hearing also suggested that the extension of name suppression was granted until the trial commences – eg this one:
Sorry for the full Google link – a shorter one I found did not work.
https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzherald.co.nz%2Fnz%2Fnews%2Farticle.cfm%3Fc_id%3D1%26objectid%3D11424208&ei=Ry80VbHfG5Lq8AWoroAQ&usg=AFQjCNG9RpB1073VRwrJ4a7umke997T4-w
So it will be interesting to see what today brings. However, as discussed here, today may just turn out to be a short hearing to extend the remand period ….
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-17042015/#comment-1001295
Oops – forgot this link re name suppression being granted only until commencement of trial. From the Police News no less.
https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEoQFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolicenews.nz%2Fcrimenews%2Fprominent-new-zealander-charged-with-indecent-assault-granted-interim-name-suppression%2F&ei=Ry80VbHfG5Lq8AWoroAQ&usg=AFQjCNFaPNWh4fpxSb2CMkTeofmRO-fPCw
It’s possible that today is the call over date. The actual trial may still be a couple of months away.
Will the subject of the suppression order be re-visited at today’s hearing?
I believe that may also be suppressed!
If the suppression is suppressed then it is gloves-off surely..
Isn’t this the first time ‘indecent assault’ and the number of charges have been mentioned in the open ? Interesting they have tweeted those details.
I think those details have already been published.
Well I suppose it had to happen one day.
I’m in agreement with Judith Collins !
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11434890
I am waiting for the sky to fall on my head as I too agree with her and I never thought I would say that! My only quibble is that more wasn’t made of the cross party unity amongst female mp’s on this issue. We could do with much more of that.
Sweetie Pie Judith! Though let’s remember her catty remark last year about Metiria Turei’s ugly” jacket. Now she wants to defend all females from comments about appearance.
Oh, I don’t for a moment think she has reformed but at least she had a moment of sisterhood. Tomorrow, or even today, it will be the Crusher we know and dislike. 😉
She is building a constituency but for what. THAT is the question, imo.
And so it starts. The ‘nice’ Judith Collins takes that first step to leading the National Party. The photo, the hands, the slightly messy hair, more casually dressed than usual. It’s all about winning hearts and minds.
Yes. The hearts and minds of the Tory ‘ladies’ she hopes will cheer-lead for her at the upcoming Nat. leadership contest.
Paula won’t be happy.
I am keen to read what Judith Collins ( or any of you ) will have to say about the following comment in the news today:
“Chess grandmaster Nigel Short has angered female players by claiming they are not “hard-wired” for the game.
When Nigel Short, one of UK’s greatest ever chess players, challenged Garry Kasparov for the world title in 1993 the pair met as bitter rivals.
But it appears the British grandmaster has finally found common ground with his Russian opponent – they both believe women are not suited to the game.
Short, who lost to Kasparov in the championships, has claimed men and women should just accept they are “hard-wired very differently”.
Speaking in the magazine New in Chess about the lack of women playing the game, Short said the sexes were just different.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/67879887/grandmaster-nigel-short-girls-dont-have-the-brains-to-play-chess
It’s an interesting one with chess to be sure. Very difficult to tease out the effects of inate ability vs cultural expectations and so forth. However, the broad brush strokes are very clear.
Take a look at the current top 100 rankings:
http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men
http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=women
Only one woman currently makes it onto the ‘mens’ list. Yifan Hou at #59. Meanwhile, the only woman to ever seriously compete at the highest levels (and qualify for a World Championship for example) is Judit Polgar – who along with her two sisters Susan and Sofia were essentially part of an educational experiment by their father who trained them at home from a very young age. Even so, the highest Judit ever made it on the overall rankings was 8th.
More on Judit Polgar here, if you’re interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r
The stuff article, and the global reactions to Short’s statements are highly sensationalised. The media’s play has been to fan the flames of controversy by making it seem Short is sexist, whereas his position would likely best be summarized by this quote:
“One is not better than the other, we just have different skills. It would be wonderful to see more girls playing chess, and at a higher level, but rather than fretting about inequality, perhaps we should just gracefully accept it as a fact.”
We have no issue differentiating between the masculine and feminine on the physical plane. Pointing out a physically strong woman is no argument against the fact that men are typically stronger and are genetically predispossed to be so. Somehow when discussing the field of chess, where the general trends are almost as stark, it’s sexist to point out that men seem to have an advantage.
I feel the issue boils down to our society’s perception of intelligence as falling on a linear spectrum. I’m ‘more intellegent’ than him, and she’s ‘more intelligent’ than me. This is heavily reinforced throughout our childhood by our education system (and exam scoring in particular). Chess has been heavily associated with intelligence for yonks (even to the extent which intellegence is improved in games like ‘The Sims’ by playing Chess). So the by pointing out that, generally speaking, men seem better suited to chess than women, there is also perception of a sexist implication that men are more ‘intelligent’ (whatever it is that means). Intelligence is of course much broader than analytical ability, but we’re still labouring under that narrow view in many ways.
By devolving into an argument about sexism, we cut ourselves off from examining what’s really happening, and the insights that we can have about our own thought patterns and those of the opposite gender simply by sitting down and playing a game of chess with them.
Women can be just as good as men just let them have an I-phone that they can use in the Toilet. Worked for guys
@Alethios : Thanks for your detailed response.
I was impressed by Judit Polgar. Thank you for the link. Just goes to show that women can be as good as men.
I think the real question is not so much about their intelligence, but more about the mystery of why so few women take up the great sport of Chess as a serious endeavour, challenge or hobby.
Here is some info about Judit from your link:
‘Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is the strongest female chess player in history.[1] In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. She is the only woman to qualify for a World Championship tournament, having done so in 2005. She is the first, and to date, only woman to have surpassed the 2700 Elo rating barrier, reaching a career peak rating of 2735 and peak world ranking of #8, both achieved in 2005. She was the number 1 rated woman in the world from 1989 (when she was 12 years old) up until the March 2015 rating list, when she was overtaken by Chinese player Hou Yifan.
She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U.S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.
Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a reigning world number one player, and has defeated eleven current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.‘ Wow! That IS impressive!
Polgar certainly is amazing and testament to the fact that men and women share the same potential. Though I would say the fact that she remained the #1 rated woman for so long is a testament to quite how unusual she is. If you take a look here:
http://ratings.fide.com/top_files.phtml?id=700070
You can see that Polgar retained the #1 spot until March 2015 despite playing very little chess since late 2011. Infact, if you scroll down a little, you can see that she stopped playing large numbers of games soon after breaking into the overall top 10 in 2003. It’s taken 12 years since that point for another woman to surpass her on the list.
As for why fewer women play chess, I think on one level the answer is fairly straightforward: fewer women are interested in playing chess. Just as fewer women are interested in mathematics and other endevours requiring that ‘churning analytical frame of mind’ if you will. It’s a frame of mind that is especially well honed and enjoyed amongst individuals in the autism spectrum (such as myself), due to having less focus on other perspectives. Males fall within the autism spectrum 4.3x more often than females, and this is part of the reason there are far more males in these fields, even as the women within the fields may be just as capable.
Of course, one also cannot understate the impact of the expectations we continue to place upon young girls continues to play a part in the paths they decide to take in life (young boys too, who are much more likely to be sheparded in that direction if they show promise).
Lastly, there’s a much more nebulous idea that I’ll put forward anyhow. Males seem much more hardwired for the instinct to compete with one another – the urge to dominate other males and all that. This acts both as a tremendously powerful motivator, and method of improvement. After all, word ‘compete’ comes from the latin ‘competere’ which means ‘together strive’. I feel, though am happy to be corrected on this, that typically women require a different motivational force in order to channel the total concentration required day after day, year after year in order to reach the top.
Judit Polgar shows that men and women have the same potential in chess, but ultimately it’s just far less likely to be unlocked with women, for a wide variety of factors.
Typed out a big reply that unfortunately didn’t end up being posted when I clicked submit, so I’ve lost it!
My basic position was that the likes of Judit Polgar show that men and women have the same potential when it comes to chess. However, a variety of factors make that potential less likely to be unlocked:
-There’s the link between chess/maths/analytical logical frame of mind and autism – which is 4.3x more prevalent in males than females.
-There’s the ever present weight of expectation on our young boys (who are encouraged when they show aptitude in these areas) and young girls (who typically are not).
-There’s the male instinct towards competing with other males for dominance, which, when channeled towards chess is an intensely powerful motivator, and tool for improvement in a field where virtually the only way to improve is to play people better than you over and over and hence lose again and again. One feels males are typically more bloody minded about overcoming those who have beaten them without losing motivation and moving on to something else. Females are just as capable of taking the requisite pounding, but probably typically require different motivation, hence making the required comittment to chess to reach the top statistically less likely.
@Alethios:
Actually BOTH your long excellent replies are showing up!
Thanks for your detailed response. It was a pleasure to read, learn and agree with your points. Top marks! Looking forward to see more of your views on various topics. Cheers!
Cheers 🙂
I actually have a little blog in which I talk about a range of topics if you’re interested:
http://www.alethios.net
Will do my best to post here more often however. Have been reading TS since circa 2009, so it’s probably about time.
Speaking purely for myself, I don’t think that women cannot play chess and play it well should that be their thing, rather that, there are other things in life attracting their attention.
People are either drawn to chess or not. I am in the not category. However, it doesn’t surprise me to hear that some chess players are misogynists. Perhaps the two men concerned have discovered that the women of the world aren’t all that interested in Grand Masters of Chess and them in particular and putting all women down because some of us haven’t been suitably worshipful!
I guess the “misogynist” word is quite fashionable to throw around nowadays. Has it replaced the sharing and discussion of insights into the differences between men and women? And your assumption of heteronormative desires is both blatant and disgusting.
I don’t think there’s any need for that CR. As I pointed out earlier, a quick skim read of the article, without knowing the context, would lead to the conclusion that he and other top players are misogynistic.
I’m more inclined to blame The Telegraph for writing such sensationalised rubbish, and Stuff for reprinting it than Hateatea. Though perhaps a degree of admonishment for leaping to conclusions is appropriate.
I may have leapt to a conclusion that was unjustified but I also had some personal experience of highly competitive chess players and gamers to base my comment on. If I have done these two individuals an injustice I freely apologise.
Not satisfied with their attempts to annouce their racism towards anyone remotely “asian looking” with the “Fresh off the Boat” series, TV2 have a new show to cover all the angles: “Black-ish”.
This follows closely on the heels of a new word they like to blurt out in news reports…
“… police seen shooting A BLACK MAN after he runs away from…”
It’s like they almost jizz themselves with relief. I would like to offer a new name for all news reports, reality TV, gardening shows, soaps, cartoons, infomercials… anything else on TV, really.
“WHITE-ISH”
(because who can tell them apart? Oh they’re Taiwanese? From here to there they look Cambodian…)
Latest on the TPP ..
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/the-sharks-move-in-lobbyists-pushing-forward-on-tpp-agreements
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/latest-tpp-leak-shows-systemic-threat-to-software-freedom
This is the inevitable result of allowing Auckland’s housing inflation to run rampant;
“Aucklanders taking advantage of capital gain on properties and settling in cheaper regions.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/residential-property/news/article.cfm?c_id=76&objectid=11435225
And for those who think this is a good thing… think again.
This is the same principle that enables rich overseas investors buy up property here. The relative prices of land in Auckland compared to other cities they can invest in.
A dodgy US businessman now has most of the priceless NZ newspaper archives, and his business has gone bung. the best thing would be for the government to fund scanning and making all of these open access (with a CC-BY licence) so we can share, research and profit from them.
Fairfax obviously had no clue about the value of these objects, and are obviously not competent to deal with them.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11432690
Grrr. Arrgh.
This irks me.
Dodgy prick and his scam.
http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/john-rogers-owns-more-photos-than-anyone-anywhere/Content?oid=2478356&showFullText=true
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i-team/memorabilia-probe-turns-spotlight-arkansas-archivist-article-1.2020119
http://www.minnpost.com/media/2015/04/strange-saga-john-rogers-man-who-bought-star-tribunes-vintage-photo-archive
Good article by Hone
http://mananews.co.nz/wp/?p=4541
We will fight back and help our brothers and sisters over the ditch – they are not forgotten!!!
I am always totally amazed and saddened by the total lack of Aboriginals on the streets of the three cities I have mainly visited, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Once, several years ago when in Melbourne I saw a small group outside the Anglican Cathedral – they were totally out of their minds, bodies and whatever else due to what they had been partaking of – it certainly wasn’t to my thinking, alcohol. They cut a sad sight and were quite agitated. People simply walked around and totally ignored them. On another occasion when staying on the outskirts of Darwin – my partner and I walked to a local shopping centre to purchase something for tea and came across a group by a bus stop. They too were high on something and were crawling around on all fours, probably because they couldn’t stand up. As we walked past, we said ‘Hi’ to them. They looked at us as if we were aliens – probably waiting for us to verbally abuse them! They were totally gobsmacked and said ‘Hello’ back to us before we continued on our way. We were travelling on the Ghan the next day and had a stopover in Alice Springs, where there were several groups plying their wares to us touristy types. I purchased a small painting from one group which sits on a sideboard in our lounge.
@ Jilly Bee: As am I. However having once been an Australian (at a time when one didn’t even need a passport to go there, I was heartened by the increase in numbers I saw in Sydney and Melbourne.
In the late 60’s the only contact I had was babysitting kids during the school holidays when they were ‘treated’ to a holiday in the big smoke by a Swedish Professor from Monash Uni.
Other than that, “Bloody Aboes’ were confined to living it rough in the park and totally absent from the streets.
Recently in Sydney, then Redneckville QLD, it was interesting to see certain racial mixes (Oz Aboriginee/Philipino kids, amongst other things). And I have relatives that are Oz Aboriginee/NZ Maori mix- and they are stunningly beautiful.
Over the past 50 years, there has been a real ‘browning’ of the citizenry – which can only bee a good thing – except for the fact that there’s still a core that do there best to fight against it.
I had a ceremonial ‘burning’ of my Australian passport in the late 70s.
Start here:
The US’s drive to enrich the already rich over the last 40 years is destroying the economy and our society with it.
Have I missed something due to my habit of having ‘technology free days’ (whilst I analyse my portfolio and interact with human beings directly?) …….. Anyone know what has happened to Phil Ure?
The options are endless really
– he’s in a pot induced coma
– he got the dog to do the steering on his 50cc moto-sickle whilst on a trek to protest
– he outraged TS people so much he has been banned for weeks or permanently
If its the latter, I haven’t seen him pop up on the alternative hard left-wing kinsprissy thereist sites like TDB.
Hopefully he’s OK – I just happened to notice the absence lately
He’s taken to Twitter. I haven’t bothered to follow up on his blog – I find his style a difficult read.
Twitter….. mmmmm….. a medium better suited to him I think. Oh well then …. Goodbye Phil Ure. Twitter – the name says it all as far as it affects me
Isn’t twitter limited to 140 characters, or is that some other site?
Phil wouldn’t get more than two words in at that rate, by the time he put in all the padding characters he seemed to use.
He has a quick comment and points to his whoar blog – which I haven’t looked at to date. Takes up much less than 140 characters – hope it works for him.
Another economic headache from housing crisis – Robertson
Interesting because the last time I looked two consecutive quarters of decreasing GDP were a recession. A decrease in GDP would normally be concomitant with a period of deflation so we can assume the only reason why we’re not in a technical recession is because of house price inflation.
I suppose that the next thing we”l hear from the RWNJs is that our ‘rock star economy’ is twerking – otherwise known as rock bottom.
When are these imbeciles going to realise that we can’t actually export ourselves to wealth?
Take our milk exports. Due to our success there other countries have been increasing production. This is especially true in the US but China and Europe have been doing so as well. That means that there will be no demand for our milk products. Even if we get a FTA with the US we aren’t going to be exporting agricultural products there.
This will happen to everything we make and to every country. It is this reality that capitalism fails to take into account.
Your definition of a recession is correct.
However a decline in GDP is not the same thing as a decline in prices.
GDP is currently increasing quite happily, even though the price level may be declining.
And I didn’t say that they were did I? Now go read what I actually said because the implication is that we have increasing GDP while the economy looks to be in a recessionary state.
Liars of Our Time
No. 49: JAY CARNEY
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“He is not a human rights activist. He is not a dissident.”
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—White House press secretary JAY CARNEY pushes the Obama regime line on the subject of dissident Edward Snowden, July 17, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC9wE2OLZUk
Liar No. 48 Jim Mora: “Fantastic! I’ll have a listen to the full version [of Tony Doe’s new song] after The Panel.”
http://thestandard.org.nz/ope-mike-08022015/#comment-978969
Liar No.47 Simon Mercep: “Coming up in a few minutes, The Panel. …. Whoever they are, quality broadcasting will ensue.”
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-18022015/#comment-970927
Liar No. 46 Julia Gillard: “I have got a lot of respect for people who whistle-blow, ummm….” http://thestandard.org.nz/ope-mike-08022015/#comment-965394
Liar No. 45 Zara Potts: “Sir Bob Geldof has assembled the best of modern musicians for this year’s record, including Ed Sheeran and One Direction.” http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-11112014/#comment-924196
More liars HERE….
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-09102014/#comment-907232
Beware Aucklanders who care about the harbour .. ignoring Council again …
Fletcher Cranes on Bledisloe Wharf this morning with huts for workers:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11435529
Inflation now just 0.1%. That’s right 0.1%. Prices in general are not rising. Sell your overpriced Auckland house and buy four houses. Buy in Masterton, Otaki, Aotea and Churton Park. Be a landlord.
The Minister of Finance’s Budget figures are out by a full decimal place (in only one year) and you are celebrating ?
Please do not drive or operate heavy machinery of any sort and I implore you to seek medical assistance immediately.
Huh? what are you talking about.
😯 whoosh 😯
It wasnt in the PR release… so fisiani is clueless
Don’t be a landlord. Sell your million dollar house in Auckland and buy somewhere else in NZ and have $500,000 in the bank.
Funny, that is almost word for word what Matthew Hooton said on N2N today, until he lost it that is, and went on an emotionally based rant about Hager. He must be in quite a dilemma. In order to hysterically deride Hager he had to provide a great defence for Key and his lying government.
Funny to see a PR guy falling lock and stock barrel for his own person “hot button” and making himself seem foolish.
That was very “entertaining”. Kathryn Ryan desperately trying to shut him up and Mike Williams unable to get a word in. KR resorted in the end to pointing out “there’s no difference between Nicky Hager and right-wing PR commentators like yourself” which caused him to pause long enough for KR to sign the show off and kill his mike. Just as well otherwise he’d still be there ranting…
Did you note the press release mentioned up a bit that said that we actually have deflation?
Log prices falling .milk prices falling, dollar staying up which will slow tourism the future s not to bright if people put on there glasses and see through the sun shining out of keys arse .
Although more trees, less cows and jets in the air might not be a bad thing.
FBI forensics specialists gave consistently incorrect testimony to juries pre-2000
Including in the trials of 32 people sentenced to death.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-19/american-justice-fbi-lab-overstated-95-forensic-hair-matches-including-32-death-sent
One of the drawbacks of an adversarial judicial system with prosecutors and judges who are elected or look forward to political careers.
The one that’s really dodgy is actually fingerprint analysis. Pretends to be scientific and often uses the magic of computers, but still needs a proper series of evaluations even after 100 years.
The same can be said of forensic ballistics:
And I’m pretty sure that with modern manufacturing being ever more precise and thus less difference between the same parts on different guns it’s getting even more difficult to say if a bullet came from one gun or another.
Just listened to Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton. Williams is not winning hearts and minds for Labour and Hooton as always came up triumphant.
Yep, and Hooton also said the govt are arrogant and out of touch.
I think he was projecting. I hope Williams didnt get any of Hoots froth on him…
That must be the reason they are languishing at a mere 49%.
Yep slightly less than half.
Opposition parties also slightly less than half.
“Hooton as always came up triumphant.”
until he lost it that is, and went on an emotionally based rant about Hager. He must be in quite a dilemma. In order to hysterically deride Hager he had to provide a great defence for Key and his lying government. he couldn’t be stopped he wound himself up more and more and even Kathryn Ryan almost laughed at him.
Funny to see a PR guy falling lock and stock barrel for his own person “hot button” and making himself seem foolish.
The funniest thing was him attacking Hager as not being a journalist, attacked the media for reporting things he ethically thought they shouldn’t, and attacked the media for deliberately framing things in a particular way. He was frothing so much he lost perspective and couldn’t see the irony of what he was saying, given his job and role.
i am always fascinated that he is described as PR company owner and right wing commentator but not former Nat Party strategist. Him not correcting it is almost, what’s the word? Unethial 😉
You say you didnt hear it until about 3pm and yet you parroted almost his exact words at 14.2
Matthew seemed to have lost his alcohol persona today. Wonder why?
Matthew’s archilles heel is Hager. Hager exposed him as a duplicitous, lacking ethics, self serving person in Hollowmen. He seems to hate him with a passion (which we heard today). Reason goes out the window and ranting take sover, and the volume rises.
extreme
“furthest from the centre or a given point.”
right wing
” the rightist division of a group”
activist
“Someone who’s actively involved in a protest or a political or social cause can be called an activist.”
So, Hoots ranted about Hager being an extreme left wing activist, yet his views on complete lack of government intervention and having worked for the Nats make him an extremist in that party and by being ACT extreme right in NZ, make him, by the definition, an extreme right wing activist.
The BIGGEST difference is that Hager publishes his views, Hoots works clandestinely, for pay, to achieve his ends, until flushed out by Hager
Fis … “triumphant”?You really are running out of bait. I’d like to say nice try but even I wouldn’t bite at that-that was weak even for you mate.
http://agrihq.co.nz/article/falling-forests-miss-gas-level-targets?p=7
“Groser also said NZ was on target to meet its Kyoto Protocol commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 5% below 1990 levels by 2020.
However, gross emissions in 2013 were 21.3% higher than 1990 and net emissions were 42.4% higher.”
Grosser must be amazing if he’s going to cut emmisions 27% in 5 years,still if the nats have turned us into a failed economy by then we might get close.
Crikey. An important read:
An Andrew Geddis post on the rights we give up in the case for war in “Lest We Forget.” Freedom of Speech. Rights to disagree. Conscription. And of course a different perspective on the standard belief that all those brave boys went off willingly to fight and die in WW1. (From the sidebar on TS thanks.)
http://www.pundit.co.nz/content/lest-we-forget
And this from Trotter:
And after that first bout of enthusiasm for war there wasn’t that many volunteers either.
ianmac, I discovered a book stashed away in a forgotten spot by my father, after his death. It was an anti-war treatise written in the 1920s, with many horrific photos of WW1 death pits, gallows victims in Austria (they hung conchies, had 11,000 gallows it said), of soldiers whose faces had been blown apart but still alive, terrible stuff. I was quite young when I found this, maybe 9 or 10, and I couldn’t read the words because they were mostly not in English. Later I identified them as German but with French, Dutch and English translations. Dad did not go to war (WW2), health reasons apparently, but I still wonder why he had that book and where it came from.
Just had a look at it – by Ernst Friedrich, called Krieg dem kriege! War against war. Plainly anti-capitalist – possibly underground press as it would be regarded as utter treason, especially in the light of that Andrew Geddis article on how legal freedoms were curtailed in WW1. Found a link to pictures, it’s been republished.
war against war
It pretty clear the Auckland Council are a bunch of idiotic muppets, they don’t even bother selling off our assets, they just give them away!
All run through the council resource consents department – no matter how bad the development the answer if always YES, just give us FEEs and we will grant ANYTHING.
Ring a ding, Auckland council CEO and councillors – your resource consents department is out of control and your Ports of Auckland are out of Control!
Are you too lazy to do anything? The ports of Auckland board are giving you, and the rest of Auckland, and Maori and indeed the country the finger.
The harbour is public ownership.
STOP STEALING OUR HARBOUR
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11435607
Good letter
“An Open Letter to Wicked Campers from Women’s Refuge
Dear Wicked Campers,
Women’s Refuge supports 20,000 women and children affected by domestic violence every year. On behalf of our volunteers and workers and the women and children who use our services we respectfully ask you to reconsider the wording you have on your vans. The hateful slogans and ‘jokes’ we have seen denigrate and humiliate human beings, normalising violence towards women and inflicting on-going harm to victims. Misogyny masquerading as humour is still misogyny! We are concerned for instance that you consider a ‘joke’ about drowning your wife to be amusing? This is just one of many objectionable slogans and images that we see plastered across your campers as they travel the roads of this country. We ask you, in this open letter, to take a different tack in future – perhaps even to think about peaceful and respectful slogans. Please rethink the slogans on your vehicles and think about adding something to society rather than taking it away. As a suggestion, how about ‘wicked campers apologises for dangerous slogans, forgive us.’
Dr Ang Jury
Chief Executive”
Good. It’s about time some campaigning was done on this. I’ve seen a few things on Twitter but it needs a major push.
I agree completely. In our various necks of the woods we see heaps of these and yep, the slogans and “jokes” are sickening often, rude and bigoted nearly always, and cringeworthy 100%. It doesn’t pay to be with someone more sensitive when one of these turds drives so close that you cant help but read them
Full ups to Womens Refuge
Any folks here who are in Dunedin and have an interest in Irish/working class/left history might be interested in a couple of talks I’m giving on campus about the 1916 Rebellion in Ireland and its aftermath.
The talks are at 5pm, tomorrow (Tuesday), April 21 and 5pm, the following Tuesday (April 28) and are in Room 4, upstairs in the Clubs and Societies building at 84 Albany Street.
In the first talk I’ll be looking at the lead-up to the Rising, in particular the arrival in Irish society of the working class as an organised industrial/political force with the formation especially of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, founded by James Larkin and later led by James Connolly, the development of its newspaper (the widely-read Irish Worker, edited by Sean O’Casey) and of the workers’ militia (the Irish Citizen Army, led by Connolly, Michael Mallin and Countess Markievicz; the formation of the first republican paramilitary organisation, Na Fianna Eireann, founded by Countess Markievicz; the revitalisation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood by young militants like Sean MacDiarmada and the return of the veteran Tom Clarke; the formation of a republican women’s movement (Inghinidhe na hEireann), founded by Maud Gonne; and the Irishwomen’s Suffrage League.
I’ll look at the 1913 Dublin Lockout and the Home Rule Crisis and the different responses within Irish nationalism to World War 1.
Bigi linn (all welcome).
For poster, see: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/dunedin-talks-on-the-1916-rebellion-in-ireland/
Phil
Thanks Philip. Shame I live in Auckland …
If there’s much interest in these talks, I’ll look at organising the showing of two very famous documentaries, among the first feature-length documentaries ever made: Mise Eire (I am Ireland) and Saoirse (Freedom).
Mise Eire was made in 1959 and features a lot of newsreel footage from the late 1800s up to the immediate after of the 1916 Rising.
Saoirse was made in 1961 and takes the story through the reorganisation of the independence movement in 1917, its sweeping victory in Ireland in the Westminster election of 1918, the establishment of an independent Irish parliament in January 1919, the declaration of independence and the war with the British state as the British ruling class refused to recognise the will of the Irish people and attempted to suppress Dail Eireann.
Phil
Don’t forget to watch Campbell Live today, 7 pm, TV3.
Some of the topics are : (from Twitter)
* See where your money from Lunchbox Day has gone!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CC_9VOFUEAASMnR.jpg:large
* Imagine being told you’d have to boil your drinking water for the next decade. Tonight, the invention that may save the town with no water.
* Poll: Should Martin Crowe receive a knighthood? http://bit.ly/1F4U8uY
You can vote now at the link above or you can wait and vote during the show.
Also, (from ad during news)
* How to solve water purifying problem
* What happened to the donations to Vanuatu for the Pam cyclone
I usually take part in the Campbell Live votes via text messages. I didn’t partake in the vote on whether Martin Crowe should receive a knighthood, simply because I don’t agree with titular honours, though I firmly feel that Martin should be honoured in some way for his wonderful contribution to N Z cricket. Order of N Z would be OK with me.
72% said YES, 29% said No.
I understand and agree with your view, but I voted YES because that seemed the most appropriate answer for the two choices given.
The government has given these titles to a large number of shady characters and crooks over the years! I bet Key is looking forward to get one too asap!
Martin Crowe is certainly not one of those types!
@ iprent :
Attention iprent: I have noticed that in the last few days, when I try to click on ‘reply’ from my email feed, I am unable to do so, because I get this message:
Gone
The requested resource
/open-mike-20042015/
is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource.
Ok, I will check what the email feed does. I closed a feed loophole a week or so ago to stop some attacks.
I am not sure what his contribution outside his job has been? Many many people are outstanding in their chosen professions, for far less remuneration than our sportspeople. So over and above that? I am sorry he is dying, but writing about his experience also ought not qualify for the highest of honours. IMO.
Ports of Auckland has been ordered to pay $40,000 for deliberately breaking the law by employing contractors during industrial action at the port.
The Employment Relations Authority ruled that Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL) broke the law in February and March when they employed an engineer from overseas at a cost of $10,000 a week to do the work of striking Maritime Union members.
It also illegally used local contractors to carry out engineering work.
At the time union members were on strike and locked out in their battle to stop management contracting out their jobs.
In a decision released yesterday, authority member Anna Fitzgibbon said the port had made “calculated decisions” to break the law.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10853815
Ding a ling, sound familiar with stealing our harbour?
The ANZAC Bullshit continues with everybody trying to out do others with exhibits. Southland has got the prize so far as shown on TV1 news tonight. A genuine exhibit of a Gallipoli dunny c/w with feces in it
I am sure the poor guys who were there would not like their personal habits dysentery or otherwise exhibited.
That is bloody disgusting and an insult to the guys who fought there.
That’s bizarre.