—-What is characterising and feeding the ongoing divide?
In 2009 an approach to counter Key was necessary: a Hi-profile Leadership strategy was chosen. This became the mantra under both Goff and Shearer: and anything that might distract from a singular public image of Labour being personified through the Leader became verboten.
That is now characterised by the obsession with The Standard by the Caucus insiders and their staff. The membership 60/40 vote at Conference only confirmed and strengthened an atmosphere of paranoia.
There are other behaviours, events and attitudes that are characteristic of what is driving the divide in the party.
The Tamihere thing, so soon after a divisive Conference when calm was needed, involved wanton disregard of the membership’s wishes.
The continuation of the four years of marginalising Cunliffe is another example.
The dissing of “not one of us” MPs, and now members, is a characteristic.
The offering of Labour seats to prominent figures on condition that they buy into the one-voice one-leader mantra is a characteristic of the behaviour splitting the party.
The not-left not-right stance by the Leadership on social issues is one characteristic that is driving most activist members nuts.
The mis-management of the very poor public performances for so long, followed by a strategy of only allowing the Leader to speak in rehearsed set-pieces is driving the rest of the members nuts.
–How can the destructive spell be broken and the ground prepared for a Labour victory in 2014?
The attitude behind the behaviour above must change.
If you ever needed a reason to feel contempt for Public Relations types then this morning’s Herald provides plenty of them.
Apparently the phrase “100% pure NZ” is, although factually woefully incorrect, justifiable on the basis that it is an advertising campaign.
Tourism New Zealand spokeswoman Deborah Gray said some people were confusing the campaign with an environmental issue.
“The 100 per cent Pure New Zealand campaign is a marketing campaign not an environmental promise,” she said.
“It tells the story of how the combination of landscapes, people and activities is 100 per cent unique to us, that is 100 per cent pure New Zealand.”
So all the hints about how great the environment are accidental. All the campaign was meaning to say is that New Zealand is 100% New Zealand, not that it is in pristine environmental shape.
Another advertising sort David Bibby thought that we were taking it all too literally.
“Advertising is all about accentuating the positive and eliminating the negative, so if you start from that premise, advertising is a selling process,” he said.
Truth is obviously less important than achieving the sale.
Thankfully Professor Shaun Hendy was also interviewed. He said that on a per-capita basis, New Zealand had one of the highest levels of greenhouse gas emissions in the world. He backed up Mike Joy’s statement that it was wrong to call NZ “100% pure”.
It is interesting that there should be a debate on whether the truth or lies should form an acceptable part of an advertising campaign.
Deborah Gray certainly has the corporate -lie-speak down pat.
“It tells the story of how the combination of landscapes, people and activities is 100 per cent unique to us, that is 100 per cent pure New Zealand.”
And, of course, there’s no double meaning intended in the use of “100 per cent pure New Zealand”? – especially when used in connection with pristine-looking landscapes?
And PhD marketing candidate Bibby is well on the way to perfecting the corporate-speak. He’ll probably be co-opted to being an MP candidate before too long.
MS: It is all “aspirational” anyway under the Key led government. So anything goes, you can promise the blue sky, tell lies and say, we endeavour to reach the truth and aspire to get better, at all times. That is where we are, and the MSM just repeat the crap, as they are themselves no longer able to work on issues of substance (see the new announcement by Fairfax today).
MONEY does the talking, and the whores are dancing, as the boat is about to come in, full of desperate sailors, wanting to spend their money to get the hormones going.
Also in today’s Herald online, a well-written rebuttal to Fran O’Sullivan’s column last Saturday white-anting Chief Justice Sian Elias and calling for her to recuse herself from hearing the water rights claim – or at least (I suspect) testing the waters on this.
“It would be a big call to challenge the Chief Justice, who has (in fact) presided over at least three Supreme Court hearings in which the Maori Council has been a plaintiff without facing any challenge from the Executive. But Cabinet ministers are understood to have asked Crown Law to look at whether grounds do in fact exist for a challenge, or a request to be made to her to stand aside.
Elias’ prior connections with the Maori Council were so deep that it is surprising that issue has not come up in a considered way before.”
Bold is mine. Many of the 41 comments on the article were negative to O’Sullivan’s assertions
Today’s rebuttal is by Richard Cornes – “Dr Richard Cornes is a NZ-trained lawyer and legal academic specialising in Supreme Courts. He is a senior law lecturer at Essex University, in England.”
Dr Cornes is succinct,to the point and well-worth reading – and hopefully IMO his rebuttal will put an end to any suggestion the the Chief Justice should be challenged or recuse herself. As he points out:
…
The Chief Justice was appointed to the bench in 1995 during the fourth National Government’s term of office. It must be at least 17 years since she acted for the Maori Council, and quite possibly more. Simply having been the council’s lawyer does not come close to meeting the threshold set by the common law for recusal.
There have not been similar calls for the court’s second most senior member, Justice McGrath, to recuse himself whenever the Government is a party before the Court. Justice John McGrath was the Solicitor-General (the Government’s top lawyer) for 11 years before he became a judge in 2000. On the reasoning attributed in Saturday’s report to the unnamed Cabinet ministers – that having acted for a party over a significant period disqualifies a judge from hearing cases involving his or her old client – Justice McGrath would spend an awful lot of time alone in his Supreme Court office while his colleagues decided all those cases involving the Government. That would obviously be nonsensical. And there is nothing odd about having appointed a former Solicitor General to the bench – to do so is common elsewhere in the world.
New Zealand has a proud history of an independent and impartial judiciary. We can take comfort that all the judges who will sit on the water rights appeal – not just Chief Justice Elias – will give the parties a fair hearing and decide the case according to the law. It would be best if a named Cabinet minister came forward and said so.
I somhow doubt that we will see “a named Cabinet minister come forward”.
O’Sullivan is a real damned trouble maker and biased stirrer, I must say. She was trying to politicise the appointment of judges in general. If she would have her way, most judges would not be allowed to hear any cases, as they would all have been acting as legal representatives of various parties before, who may bring new cases, and thus put them at risk of “privilege” or bias.
That is well over the top. I do not rule out that some judges may be biased on certain issues due to personal views. But the fact is: Judges have a role and responsibility to interpret the law and to rule on existing law as it is.
That sets clear standards and limits on what a judge can do.
The personal view or emotions of a judge will have to be put behind this absolute requirement, to interpret and apply the law, as it is written and valid.
NZ is in political terms perhaps close to being a “banana republic” kind of system, but I cannot really see this to be the case at the courts.
We have had controversial rulings and determinations over year, and always some will say, that makes no sense, that is biased or whatever. But generally, my impression is, besides of the executive and legislative, the judiciary is about the least corrupted and most independent institution in NZ.
So Dame Elias is there, will also not make a decision on her own at Supreme Court level anyway, and I think Fran O’Sillivan went over the top yet again with another politically motivated article, to throw doubt into an area she has little knowledge and qualifications in. I am really sick of Fran’s articles, most of which are so damned biased, and she is one of the worst examples of modern day journalism in NZ.
!o Signs we live in a false Economy
very American but there are many parallels with NZ not to mention thant the US economy and financial markets have been shown to have a significant flow on effect to the rest of the world…. food for thought anyway..
now what about smiles and greetings in the street? I observe a 50 / 50 response rate; yin yang, or
Bipolar Nation
Scar Tissue-RHCP say it all? Mr Sarcasm and know-it-all
(Been Away Too Long-Soundgarden); hope you’re not working for the art race-Ska
Fairfax tears holes in the worth of tissues
Whanganui Infrastructure “stinks”; Laws should feel Right at home checking out the crack
Nick Lowe-Jesus of Cool? i coulda been a Lawyer a Doctor or a Thief, it’s all the same to Thee
(the dogs are talking…the dogs are talking, Underground, according to the Soul Surgeon)
(to that Guy, I collected childrens games too; Snakes and Ladders)
11:2 When pride comes, then comes dis grace, but with Humility comes wisdom
4 Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath
ya gotta roll the correct throw to get outta this place
The Message of Isaiah in 24 is that of a Damaged World
-devastation of the earth
-sellers and buyers
-borrowers and lenders
-debtors and creditors
The earth dries up and withers, languishes and withers in the Heat, defiled by it’s people through
disobedience and a broken covenant (coven) of stewardship; regretfully, people must bear the
guilt for what they have harmed. Better a culture of guilt than shame.
Be still and know that I am watching
Be still and know that I am listening
Be still and know that I am tasting
Be still and know that I am touching
Be still and know that I am feeling
Be still and know that I am
Be still and know
Be still
Be
(mmmm…smell that fragrance) Could be Barbiecue
Right, lets leave the City, and erect a tent city; Sheriff Joe Arpaio would see the possibilities.
cos we’re livin with a love for the common people, far from the hearts of a family man
cues and cues at (former) Fantasyland. The things that we will do for our children to see
yet cannot see to do for our children; bus y lanes for mobility scooters next?
-One Good Man. (Rossington Collins Band) Three Times As Bad
This is The Way, Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere
(gimme three steps Mr, gimme three steps more, gimme three steps Mr and we’ll be in the door…
It’s The End of the World as we know it, and I feel fine; gonna be Made, over 30, In The Shade
Rode over this button sign on the cycle Way here- http://www.skip.org.nz/ (links are not happening for me, but we can type)
now, back to
Jonah (easily deceived and senseless)
sooo, Assyria defeats Damascus, ending almost a century of sporadic see-saw conflict
between Israel and it’s neighbour
(prior to that time the king of Damascus had even been able to control Internal Affairs in the
northern kingdom)
Yet, soon after Triumph, Israel began to gloat over new-found power, feeling jealously complacent about her forward status with God, focusing on her “expectations” of the “day of the LORD” when
darkness would engulf other sites leaving Israel to bask in His light (not).
The Lord announced he would “spare them no longer”, and this included sending Jonah to Nineveh
(like a Glittering Prize, up on the Waterfront, get in, get out of the rain; Don’t you forget about me,
I’ll be around, dancing with you baby…), i digress, to warn of the imminent danger of divine judgement.
There is an assumption; the books’ accounts sprang essentially from the whales imagination.
Nonetheless, the book of Jonah recounts real events in the life and trembling ministry of the
Hooked himself;
But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish (Phoenicia?, well plenty of sails)
anyway, Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea. All the sailors were afraid and each cried
Out, to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the load. Then the sailors
said, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity”. You know where they fell (they knew he was running away from the Lord because he had already told them so)
Meanwhile, the sea was getting higher and saltier. “Pick me up and throw me into the sea”, replied Jonah, “I know this is my fault that this great blitz has come upon you.”
But,,the Lord provided a great fish to swallow Jonah. Thus he began his slippery prayer, which could have been a prayer of thanksgiving for deliverance as he was sinking into the depths of a
Great Depression; his gratitude could have been heightened by his knowledge that he deserved
Death, but that God had shown him extraordinary mercy.
And then what? After God spares the sacks at Nineveh Jonah was angry that God would have
Compassion on an enemy of Israel; “O Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than
continue spewing this filth.
Jonah goes at sits on an eastern beach, maybe out pass the dump, (probably be “green fields”
developments soon). There he made himself a panic shelter, sat in it’s shade with a chardonnay
and waited to see what Len and Gerry would do to the city. Then, the Lord God provided a vine,
made it grow up over Jonah to give shade from the UV and also ease his discomfort.
Initially, Jonah was very happen with the vine (probably a castor Oil plant, God being gracious
towards this stubborn “prophet”), but at the dawn of the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the vine in a Standard way so that it withered. When the Son rose, God provided a
scorching East wind, and the Son blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. Thus, he wanted
to be cast and die again; “Angry” he cried out to God, “I am angry enough to die”.
-Her Man (Karma Police; this is what you get when you mess around)
Funny if you’re in the business of slandering someone, as you are ineptly trying to do.
Otherwise, it’s about as funny as a Bernard Manning routine attacking “the Pakis”, an Andrew Dice Clay rant against Asians, or a Seinfeld quip about “ugly homeless people”.
Nope. It was funny against you and only you simply because it juxtaposed your description of the photo with previous debates you have had with P.
Previous “debates”? Hurling absurd, groundless but incendiary accusations is not debating in any accepted sense of the word.
….those who falsely accuse others of having been found guilty in a law court should be wary of using the “slander” accusation. Just saying.
What on earth are you darkly insinuating? It looks like your job is to issue ominous vague warnings while the other fellow hurls around the inflammatory language.
Either way, you look like a pair of incompetent clowns.
Previous “debates”? Hurling absurd, groundless but incendiary accusations is not debating in any accepted sense of the word.
Then why do you do it?
For example:
What on earth are you darkly insinuating?
So your memory expires some time before the five day duration. I was simply “insinuating” that your repeated accusations of others being defamatory are somewhat hypocritical. And every time you make one, it gives others an opportunity to describe you as a delusional and obsessive hypocrite. Hence maybe you should try another tactic, such as (and I’m just throwing this out there as an option) providing evidence for your claims.
“… or a Seinfeld quip about “ugly homeless people”.”
Citation. please, Moz. I’d hate to think you’re making shit up again.
ELAINE: You know what? That’s discriminatory. That is unfair. Why should these women have all the advantages? It’s not enough they get all the attention from men, they have to get all the waitress jobs, too?
JERRY: Hey that’s life. Good-looking men have the same advantages. You don’t see any handsome homeless.
(scene ends)
[setting: doctor’s clinic]
GEORGE: You see, It’s right here. It’s all white…
DOCTOR: Oh yeah. Yeah. I’ve never seen this before.
Cheney is most definitely a war criminal. Check out his role in the development of the torture program for starters, and the attempts to keep it out of the courts including the pressure he was putting on Justice officials.
I heard Bush senior was in hospital too, due to serious ill health. Now is this the curse coming to follow all those war mongers that went mad in Iraq??
Do you see what I see…Do you see what I see…
all over bar the shouting now. Peace in our times?
Obama’s “Politics of Hope”?
Wow! Firefighting heart attacks as ambulance
Crews struggle to gurney all the demand
(inside goss’; that field their RHnesses graced is “not very friendly”)
Thats strange, plenty of pubs, yet it’s all on the q.t about “that” Guy
everyone knows someone, Everybody knows the dice are loaded
everybody knows the good guys lost
Emmerson takes an excellent toss of the waldork salad.
Boehner, what a no-brainer
“sometimes Satan come as a man of peace”
(he flays and blames the game) two-faced plier
Syria; S.O.C it to the Ass. Ad-“more bloody chaos to come”
Thatcher and Savile from the same predatory row.
H.B.Today: power rises prices on av $107 p.a up to $2fitty (Nat; 117, 400 respectfully yours)
Privatisation and dribbling asset sales. Further spiking to come for 13. Filthy Few
commercial Krays lie their pots a stones throw from the shore.
The Lord sung sam a telegram Tool today
Cayced the “H” and “Stinkfist” out
so, for $19 prepaid per month we are able
and willing to keep tabs on the posse and the pound
a stirling idea.This freedom tramping is a real take off
virtually rock into your local public library
use the loo. Staff log on;
News Sources
Press Display
Library Access
Titles by Country, Wallah, world at our fingertips for free
Thats two steps, just some a.v to see the whites of their lyin feline eyes
To go thanks. Yes, I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more
to be the man who fools you at your door. Brut 24 hour performance
Nothin’ like an original Better Man Spoonman for Pearl Jam.
Low”burn” (couldn’t make that up) High”bury” too
Whats next? Poverty Bay? Flick is my name
now when aussie has it’s scrubfires, kiwis have the same
Tokes urea out his rrrs. Animal Nitrate
It’s not only India where men give women a curry up
Calling Doctor Bombay, Calling Doctor Bombay
Swami Berlusconi’s got away and “returns from the dead”.
that silver fox
SAM’s bewitching Arabian Knights
steaming into narrow straits.’Muz next?
another rogue “satellite” state 4.95 a plate
Pyongyangs gettin’ in tune Going Mobile
another “Shining Son”
Starvation is a spreading problem; Marmageddon.
New Brighton, old brighton apiers
water water everywhere.Wizard spell it.does.not.sink
back to science; blindly stab botox in the park next son?
(one luckless family’s holiday tent is pitched at the ablution entrance)
great sadness to see. always the bungled and botched
“she’ll be right mate”
-The Singing Detective (with a long ride from Black Bess)
-rest tomorow N.I.B, oops I meant Born Again (keep it warm) 😉
check out The Warning
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because some are slow to learn.12. In fact
though by this time you could be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of
God’s word all over again. You prefer milk, not solid food! 13. Anyone who lives on milk, being still
an infant, is not aquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature,
(us old soldiers here bearing The Standard), who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from unhelpful thinking. Therefore, let us leave the elementary teachings about
Christ (knows what?) and go on to maturity etc etc.
IV.It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who
have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are
crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
Seven. Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop Useful to those for who it is farmed receives the blessing of God. But land that produces gorse and california thistles
is worthless and in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.
(this may well be “hypothetical”, a warning, or a prophecy of more loss to come, yet I do not make stuff up; all these ramblings just come, I scrawl a few lines for about an hour while having
break fast, or cycling / walking around and then The Word just flows out; the immature beseech
me to speak in “tongues” Hello? 🙂 )
anyway, Jesus is more than ” just alright” with me; Way.
-John (Back Pages Man)(just checked “beseech” with merriam, and thats exactly what “they”
attempt. Oh Well, good thing I began with Mk VII and am a convinced Universalist, yet,
How long, how long must we sing this song?
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Bryce Edwards writes – Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. ...
Citizen Science writes – Last week saw two significant developments in the debate over the treatment of trans-identifying children and young people – the release in Britain of the final report of Dr Hilary Cass’s review into gender healthcare, and here in New Zealand, the news that the ...
One night while sleeping in my bed I had a beautiful dreamThat all the people of the world got together on the same wavelengthAnd began helping one anotherNow in this dream, universal love was the theme of the dayPeace and understanding and it happened this wayAfter such an eventful day ...
This is a guest post by Oscar Simms who is a housing activist, volunteer for the Coalition for More Homes, and was the Labour Party candidate for Auckland Central at the last election. ...
Turning what Labour called the “holiday highway” into a four-lane expressway from Auckland to Whangarei could bring at least an economic benefit of nearly two billion a year for Northland each year. And it could help bring an end to poverty in one of New Zealand’s most deprived regions. The ...
Tonight’s six-stack includes: launching his substack with a bunch of his previous documentaries, including this 1992 interview with Dame Whina Cooper. and here crew give climate activists plenty to do, including this call to submit against the Fast Track Approvals bill. writes brilliantly here on his substack ...
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
You're in the mall when you hear it: some kind of popping sound in the distance, kids with fireworks, maybe. But then a moment of eerie stillness is followed by more of the fireworks sound and there’s also screaming and shrieking and now here come people running for their lives.Does ...
Karl du Fresne writes – There’s a crisis in the news media and the media are blaming it on everyone except themselves. Culpability is being deflected elsewhere – mainly to the hapless Minister of Communications, Melissa Lee, and the big social media platforms that are accused of hoovering ...
I don’t normally send out two newsletters in a day but I figured I’d say something about… the news. If two newsletters is a bit much then maybe just skip one, I don’t want to overload people. Alternatively if you’d be interested in sometimes receiving multiple, smaller updates from me, ...
Buzz from the Beehive David Seymour and Winston Peters today signalled that at least two ministers of the Crown might be in Wellington today. Seymour (as Associate Minister of Education) announced the removal of more red tape, this time to make it easier for new early learning services to be ...
Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. Our political system is suffering from the ...
David Farrar writes – The Broadcasting Standards Authority ruled: Comments by radio host Kate Hawkesby suggesting Māori and Pacific patients were being prioritised for surgery due to their ethnicity were misleading and discriminatory, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has found. It is a fact such patients are prioritised. ...
PRC and its proxies in Solomons have been preparing for these elections for a long time.A lot of money, effort and intelligence have gone into ensuring an outcome that won’t compromise Beijing’s plans. Cleo Paskall writes – On April 17th the Solomon Islands, a country of ...
Is speeding up the trip to and from Wellington airport by 12 minutes worth spending up more than $10 billion? Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The six news items that stood out to me in the last day to 8:26 am today are:The Lead: Transport Minister Simeon Brownannounced ...
You're a fraud, and you know itBut it's too good to throw it all awayAnyone would do the sameYou've got 'em goingAnd you're careful not to show itSometimes you even fool yourself a bitIt's like magicBut it's always been a smoke and mirrors gameAnyone would do the sameForty six billion ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The June general election in Mexico could mark a turning point in ensuring that the country’s climate policies better reflect the desire of its citizens to address the climate crisis, with both leading presidential candidates expressing support for renewable energy. Mexico is the ...
2024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay.Do you give up yet? It seems to ask.No? How about this? Or this?How about this?When I say 2024 I really mean the state of humanity in 2024.Saturday night, we watched Civil War because that is one terrifying cliff we've ...
Buzz from the Beehive A pet project and governmental tunnel vision jump out from the latest batch of ministerial announcements. The government is keen to assure us of its concern for the wellbeing of our pets. It will be introducing pet bonds in a change to the Residential Tenancies Act ...
A recent report generated from a Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) survey of 1,224 rangatahi Māori aged 11-12 found: Cultural connectedness was associated with fewer depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms and better quality of life. That sounds cut and dry. But further into the report the following appears: Cultural connectedness is ...
David Farrar writes – The Herald reports: From the gory details of job-cuts news, you’d think the public service was being eviscerated. While the media’s view of the cuts is incomplete, it’s also true that departments have been leaking the particulars faster than a Wellington ...
Remember the good old days, back when New Zealand had a PM who could think and speak calmly and intelligently in whole sentences without blustering? Even while Iran’s drones and missiles were still being launched, Helen Clark was live on TVNZ expertly summing up the latest crisis in the Middle ...
Costello did not pass on analysis of the benefits of the smokefree reforms to Cabinet, emphasising instead the extra tax revenues of repealing them. Photo: Hagen Hopkins, Getty Images TL;DR: The six news items that stood out to me at 7:26 am today are:The Lead: Casey Costello never passed on ...
True loveYou're the one I'm dreaming ofYour heart fits me like a gloveAnd I'm gonna be true blueBaby, I love youI’ve written about the job cuts in our news media last week. The impact on individuals, and the loss to Aotearoa of voices covering our news from different angles.That by ...
While commentators, including former Prime Minister Helen Clark, are noting a subtle shift in New Zealand’s foreign policy, which now places more emphasis on the United States, many have missed a key element of the shift. What National said before the election is not what the government is doing now. ...
A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 7, 2024 thru Sat, April 13, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week is about adults in the room setting terms and conditions of ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
Māori are yet to see anything from this Government except cuts, reversals and taking our people backwards, Māori Development spokesperson Willie Jackson said. ...
The Coalition Government’s refusal to commit to ongoing funding for social housing is seeing the sector pull back on developments and families watch their dreams of securing a home fade away, says Labour Housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty. ...
Changes to minimum wage and benefit indexation means many New Zealanders will get less this year, as the Government gives a big tax break to landlords instead. ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today paid tribute to Singapore’s outgoing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Meeting in Singapore today immediately before Prime Minister Lee announced he was stepping down, Prime Minister Luxon warmly acknowledged his counterpart’s almost twenty years as leader, and the enduring legacy he has left for Singapore and South East ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. While in Singapore as part of his visit to South East Asia this week, Prime Minister Luxon also met with Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and will meet with Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has made further appointments to the Board of Antarctica New Zealand as part of a continued effort to ensure the Scott Base Redevelopment project is delivered in a cost-effective and efficient manner. The Minister has appointed Neville Harris as a new member of the Board. Mr ...
Finance Minister Nicola Willis will travel to the United States on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Five Finance Ministers group, with counterparts from Australia, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. “I am looking forward to meeting with our Five Finance partners on how we can work ...
The coalition Government has today announced purrfect and pawsitive changes to the Residential Tenancies Act to give tenants with pets greater choice when looking for a rental property, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Pets are important members of many Kiwi families. It’s estimated that around 64 per cent of New ...
State Highway 1 (SH1) through Wellington City is heavily congested at peak times and while planning continues on the duplicate Mt Victoria Tunnel and Basin Reserve project, the Government has also asked NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) to consider and provide advice on a Long Tunnel option, Transport Minister Simeon Brown ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters have condemned Iran’s shocking and illegal strikes against Israel. “These attacks are a major challenge to peace and stability in a region already under enormous pressure," Mr Luxon says. "We are deeply concerned that miscalculation on any side could ...
Hundreds of people in little over a week have turned out in Northland to hear Regional Development Minister Shane Jones speak about plans for boosting the regional economy through infrastructure. About 200 people from the infrastructure and associated sectors attended an event headlined by Mr Jones in Whangarei today. Last ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti has today thanked outgoing Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora Chair Dame Karen Poutasi for her service on the Board. “Dame Karen tendered her resignation as Chair and as a member of the Board today,” says Dr Reti. “I have asked her to ...
The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has signalled their proposed delivery approach for the Government’s 15 Roads of National Significance (RoNS), with the release of the State Highway Investment Proposal (SHIP) today, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Boosting economic growth and productivity is a key part of the Government’s plan to ...
New Zealand is renewing its connections with a world facing urgent challenges by pursuing an active, energetic foreign policy, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “Our country faces the most unstable global environment in decades,” Mr Peters says at the conclusion of two weeks of engagements in Egypt, Europe and the United States. “We cannot afford to sit back in splendid ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced the Australian Governor-General, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley and his wife Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley, will make a State visit to New Zealand from Tuesday 16 April to Thursday 18 April. The visit reciprocates the State visit of former Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy ...
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced that Medsafe has approved 11 cold and flu medicines containing pseudoephedrine. Pharmaceutical suppliers have indicated they may be able to supply the first products in June. “This is much earlier than the original expectation of medicines being available by 2025. The Government recognised ...
New Zealand and the United States have recommitted to their strategic partnership in Washington DC today, pledging to work ever more closely together in support of shared values and interests, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “The strategic environment that New Zealand and the United States face is considerably more ...
April 11, 2024 Joint Declaration by United States Secretary of State the Honorable Antony J. Blinken and New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs the Right Honourable Winston Peters We met today in Washington, D.C. to recommit to the historic partnership between our two countries and the principles that underpin it—rule ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced further New Zealand cooperation with the United States in the Pacific Islands region through $16.4 million in funding for initiatives in digital connectivity and oceans and fisheries research. “New Zealand can achieve more in the Pacific if we work together more urgently and ...
COMMENTARY:By Eugene Doyle Helen Clark, how I miss you. The former New Zealand Prime Minister — the safest pair of hands this country has had in living memory — gave a masterclass on the importance of maintaining an independent foreign policy when she spoke at an AUKUS symposium held ...
The government's released the list of organisations provided with information on how to apply - just hours before public submissions on the bill close. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Before climate change really got going, eastern Australia’s flash floods tended to concentrate on our coastal regions, east of the Great Dividing Range. But that’s changing. Now ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Finkel, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University Sia Duff / South Australian Museum In February, the South Australian Museum “re-imagined” itself. In the face of rising costs and inadequate government funds, CEO David Gaimster, who took the reins last June, declared ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Pearce, Professor, School of Allied Heath, Human Services & Sport, La Trobe University, La Trobe University This week, Collingwood AFL player Nathan Murphy announced his retirement, brought on by his concussion history and ongoing issues. The 24-year-old’s seemingly sudden retirement, ...
The Mental Health Foundation provides support and resources for those facing the loss of their job, so it’s wrong in the very week the Government adds another 1000 jobs to its tally of cuts, that this is happening. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney Daniel Boud/Sydney Theatre Company Decay, terror, revulsion. These are three of the central themes of Thomas Bernhard’s rarely performed play The President. The Austrian is one of the greatest ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ye In (Jane) Hwang, Postdoctoral Research Associate at School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock You’d be hard pressed to find any aspect of daily life that doesn’t require some form of digital literacy. We need only to look back ten ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says threats by ministers Shane Jones and David Seymour to reform or close down the Waitangi Tribunal were “ill-considered”, as legal experts say the ministers may have breached Cabinet Manual conventions. “I think those comments are ill-considered and we expect all ministers to actually exercise good ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Newton, Professor of Exercise Medicine, Edith Cowan University Pexels/RDNE stock project You’re not in your 20s or 30s anymore and you know regular health checks are important. So you go to your GP. During the appointment they measure your waist. ...
A new poem by Evangeline Riddiford Graham. Mitochondrial Problem I. It was long drive to Kansas for the man and his dog but you have to understand he said She doesn’t fly. Which calls to mind not carsick shitting barking or whining but a dog who chooses not to as ...
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.AUCKLAND1 Hemingway’s Goblet by Dermot Ross (Mary Egan Publishing, $38)Hot off the press, this debut ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Wajnryb McDonald, PhD candidate in Criminology, University of Sydney Less than 24 hours after Ashlee Good was murdered in Bondi Junction, her family released a statement requesting the media take down photographs they had reproduced of Ashlee and her family without ...
Chief executive Shaun Robinson said it has not had any government funding cut, but government-funded contracts have not kept pace with rising costs. ...
The Ministry of Health has delayed the release of its evidence brief on the safety, reversibility and mental health and wellbeing outcomes for puberty blockers. While we wait, Julia de Bres speaks to those with firsthand experience. Best practice gender-affirming healthcare is based on trans people’s self-determination and agency. The ...
Barcelona’s city streets have gone from traffic-clogged to pedestrian-friendly. How? Superblocks. Ellen Rykers explains. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. Last week I read a great interview with renowned urbanist Janette Sadik-Khan by The Spinoff’s Wellington editor Joel MacManus: “You can reimagine streets, ...
Student groups ‘Climate Action VUW’, Schools Strike 4 Climate and VUWSA will be on the street in Wellington today, the last day for submissions on the Fast-track Approvals Bill, with a message that the fight against the Government’s ‘War on ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sofia Ammassari, Research Fellow, Griffith University Since 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity has grown exponentially – and so has the formidable organisational machine of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). These two factors will be key to delivering the BJP a ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendon Hyndman, Associate Professor of Education (Adjunct) & Senior Manager (BCE), Charles Sturt University During COVID almost all Australian students and their families experienced online learning. But while schools have long since gone back to in-person teaching, online learning has not gone ...
Yes, they’re better for the environment. No, that’s not a good enough reason for me to use them. Once every 26 days or so, my period arrives, and if struck by an act of God, I am caught red-crotched without products. How, after 17 years of this, do I still ...
“It will cause significant harm to our environment and communities. It is completely at odds with New Zealanders’ relationship with nature and our need for a low-carbon, sustainable economic future." ...
The Chair of the National Maori Authority, Matthew Tukaki, has warned a Parliamentary Select Committee that fast-tracking legislation is a perilous practice that undermines the core tenets of democracy, transparency, and accountability. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Tenbensel, Associate Professor, Health Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images Since coming into power, the coalition government has adopted a simple but shrewd see-how-fast-we-can-move political strategy. However, in the health sector this need for speed entails ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasia Hronis, Clinical Psychologist, University of Technology Sydney Darya Sannikova/Pexels Whether you’re watching TV, attending a footy game, or eating a meal at your local pub, gambling is hard to escape. Although the rise of gambling is not unique to Australia, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Wong, Forrest Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia Have you ever wondered if there are more insects out at night than during the day? We set out to answer this question by combing through the scientific ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carol T Kulik, Research Professor, University of South Australia IR Stone/Shutterstock In Australia, it’s not the done thing to know – let alone ask – what our colleagues are paid. Yet, it’s easy to see how pay transparency can make pay ...
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is sounding a warning to migrants, that running foul of the law may see them leaving the country prematurely. ...
The government’s plan to get 50,000 people off jobseeker support by 2030 has had a rocky start, writes Catherine McGregor in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Beneficiary numbers are up – and so are ...
Raglan Roast is a staple of Wellington coffee culture. But with five branches across the capital, which one is the best? I am a die-hard Raglan Roast fan. It’s consistently the most affordable cafe in Wellington, and one of the only places you can get a coffee after 3pm. So, ...
Residents of University of Auckland halls are being urged to withhold their accommodation fees from May 1, in a bid to force the university to take student concerns over rent hikes seriously.The University of Auckland is facing a strike from students over the cost of on-campus accommodation. The Students ...
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Opinion: With maths understanding at 42 percent for Year 8 students, there’s no doubt something has to be done. But how? The post Financial literacy should be on all of us appeared first on Newsroom. ...
Hineaupounamu ‘Missy’ Nuku has been scaling mountains in Canada for her college basketball team, the Lakeland Rustlers. Alberta is currently home for the 20-year-old point guard, who is in her first year of a scholarship at Lakeland College, where she is studying for a business degree. She has certainly made ...
New Zealand and the Philippines have signed a new maritime security agreement and stated their concerns over activity in the South China Sea, as Chinese vessels continue to flout international law. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Philippines President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos committed to signing a Mutual Logistics Supporting Arrangement by ...
The thousands of government “back-office” job cuts are causing widespread pain in the capital city. In today’s episode of The Detail, we speak to three journalists and a think tank researcher, looking at the larger picture around the cuts and what effect it will have on Wellington, a city that’s ...
Opinion: The famed American architect and urban designer Daniel Burnham once said, “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood!” Burnham wouldn’t have been referring to the transport plans in Aotearoa New Zealand over the past five years; projects so big they hadn’t the credibility to ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra When ASIO boss Mike Burgess delivered his annual threat assessment earlier this year, he stressed the rising danger posed by espionage and foreign interference. “In 2024, threats to our way of life have surpassed ...
The Tribunal had called on Minister for Children Karen Chhour to provide evidence at an urgent inquiry into the repeal of Section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act. ...
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—-What is characterising and feeding the ongoing divide?
In 2009 an approach to counter Key was necessary: a Hi-profile Leadership strategy was chosen. This became the mantra under both Goff and Shearer: and anything that might distract from a singular public image of Labour being personified through the Leader became verboten.
That is now characterised by the obsession with The Standard by the Caucus insiders and their staff. The membership 60/40 vote at Conference only confirmed and strengthened an atmosphere of paranoia.
There are other behaviours, events and attitudes that are characteristic of what is driving the divide in the party.
The Tamihere thing, so soon after a divisive Conference when calm was needed, involved wanton disregard of the membership’s wishes.
The continuation of the four years of marginalising Cunliffe is another example.
The dissing of “not one of us” MPs, and now members, is a characteristic.
The offering of Labour seats to prominent figures on condition that they buy into the one-voice one-leader mantra is a characteristic of the behaviour splitting the party.
The not-left not-right stance by the Leadership on social issues is one characteristic that is driving most activist members nuts.
The mis-management of the very poor public performances for so long, followed by a strategy of only allowing the Leader to speak in rehearsed set-pieces is driving the rest of the members nuts.
–How can the destructive spell be broken and the ground prepared for a Labour victory in 2014?
The attitude behind the behaviour above must change.
If you ever needed a reason to feel contempt for Public Relations types then this morning’s Herald provides plenty of them.
Apparently the phrase “100% pure NZ” is, although factually woefully incorrect, justifiable on the basis that it is an advertising campaign.
Tourism New Zealand spokeswoman Deborah Gray said some people were confusing the campaign with an environmental issue.
“The 100 per cent Pure New Zealand campaign is a marketing campaign not an environmental promise,” she said.
“It tells the story of how the combination of landscapes, people and activities is 100 per cent unique to us, that is 100 per cent pure New Zealand.”
So all the hints about how great the environment are accidental. All the campaign was meaning to say is that New Zealand is 100% New Zealand, not that it is in pristine environmental shape.
Another advertising sort David Bibby thought that we were taking it all too literally.
“Advertising is all about accentuating the positive and eliminating the negative, so if you start from that premise, advertising is a selling process,” he said.
Truth is obviously less important than achieving the sale.
Thankfully Professor Shaun Hendy was also interviewed. He said that on a per-capita basis, New Zealand had one of the highest levels of greenhouse gas emissions in the world. He backed up Mike Joy’s statement that it was wrong to call NZ “100% pure”.
It is interesting that there should be a debate on whether the truth or lies should form an acceptable part of an advertising campaign.
Deborah Gray certainly has the corporate -lie-speak down pat.
“It tells the story of how the combination of landscapes, people and activities is 100 per cent unique to us, that is 100 per cent pure New Zealand.”
And, of course, there’s no double meaning intended in the use of “100 per cent pure New Zealand”? – especially when used in connection with pristine-looking landscapes?
And PhD marketing candidate Bibby is well on the way to perfecting the corporate-speak. He’ll probably be co-opted to being an MP candidate before too long.
Mikeysavage:
So will queensland drop their advert of “Beautiful one day, perfect the next”???? if it rains??
Of course not, its about branding.
But Brett should branding be an excuse to lie?
Mickey:
You want advertising to be honest??? hahaha
BTW the Gruen transfer is one of the greatest programs ever.
MS: It is all “aspirational” anyway under the Key led government. So anything goes, you can promise the blue sky, tell lies and say, we endeavour to reach the truth and aspire to get better, at all times. That is where we are, and the MSM just repeat the crap, as they are themselves no longer able to work on issues of substance (see the new announcement by Fairfax today).
MONEY does the talking, and the whores are dancing, as the boat is about to come in, full of desperate sailors, wanting to spend their money to get the hormones going.
Also in today’s Herald online, a well-written rebuttal to Fran O’Sullivan’s column last Saturday white-anting Chief Justice Sian Elias and calling for her to recuse herself from hearing the water rights claim – or at least (I suspect) testing the waters on this.
O’Sullivan’s column is here
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10855648
A taste:
“It would be a big call to challenge the Chief Justice, who has (in fact) presided over at least three Supreme Court hearings in which the Maori Council has been a plaintiff without facing any challenge from the Executive. But Cabinet ministers are understood to have asked Crown Law to look at whether grounds do in fact exist for a challenge, or a request to be made to her to stand aside.
Elias’ prior connections with the Maori Council were so deep that it is surprising that issue has not come up in a considered way before.”
Bold is mine. Many of the 41 comments on the article were negative to O’Sullivan’s assertions
Today’s rebuttal is by Richard Cornes – “Dr Richard Cornes is a NZ-trained lawyer and legal academic specialising in Supreme Courts. He is a senior law lecturer at Essex University, in England.”
Dr Cornes is succinct,to the point and well-worth reading – and hopefully IMO his rebuttal will put an end to any suggestion the the Chief Justice should be challenged or recuse herself. As he points out:
…
The Chief Justice was appointed to the bench in 1995 during the fourth National Government’s term of office. It must be at least 17 years since she acted for the Maori Council, and quite possibly more. Simply having been the council’s lawyer does not come close to meeting the threshold set by the common law for recusal.
There have not been similar calls for the court’s second most senior member, Justice McGrath, to recuse himself whenever the Government is a party before the Court. Justice John McGrath was the Solicitor-General (the Government’s top lawyer) for 11 years before he became a judge in 2000. On the reasoning attributed in Saturday’s report to the unnamed Cabinet ministers – that having acted for a party over a significant period disqualifies a judge from hearing cases involving his or her old client – Justice McGrath would spend an awful lot of time alone in his Supreme Court office while his colleagues decided all those cases involving the Government. That would obviously be nonsensical. And there is nothing odd about having appointed a former Solicitor General to the bench – to do so is common elsewhere in the world.
New Zealand has a proud history of an independent and impartial judiciary. We can take comfort that all the judges who will sit on the water rights appeal – not just Chief Justice Elias – will give the parties a fair hearing and decide the case according to the law. It would be best if a named Cabinet minister came forward and said so.
I somhow doubt that we will see “a named Cabinet minister come forward”.
Sure the Cabinet Minister was real – oh – it will spoil the story otherwise.
What?
O’Sullivan is a real damned trouble maker and biased stirrer, I must say. She was trying to politicise the appointment of judges in general. If she would have her way, most judges would not be allowed to hear any cases, as they would all have been acting as legal representatives of various parties before, who may bring new cases, and thus put them at risk of “privilege” or bias.
That is well over the top. I do not rule out that some judges may be biased on certain issues due to personal views. But the fact is: Judges have a role and responsibility to interpret the law and to rule on existing law as it is.
That sets clear standards and limits on what a judge can do.
The personal view or emotions of a judge will have to be put behind this absolute requirement, to interpret and apply the law, as it is written and valid.
NZ is in political terms perhaps close to being a “banana republic” kind of system, but I cannot really see this to be the case at the courts.
We have had controversial rulings and determinations over year, and always some will say, that makes no sense, that is biased or whatever. But generally, my impression is, besides of the executive and legislative, the judiciary is about the least corrupted and most independent institution in NZ.
So Dame Elias is there, will also not make a decision on her own at Supreme Court level anyway, and I think Fran O’Sillivan went over the top yet again with another politically motivated article, to throw doubt into an area she has little knowledge and qualifications in. I am really sick of Fran’s articles, most of which are so damned biased, and she is one of the worst examples of modern day journalism in NZ.
!o Signs we live in a false Economy
very American but there are many parallels with NZ not to mention thant the US economy and financial markets have been shown to have a significant flow on effect to the rest of the world…. food for thought anyway..
http://www.theidealistrevolution.com/10-signs-we-live-in-a-false-economy/
Some of that’s correct but most of it seems to be libertarian BS.
Doc; Hebrews 10:25 (i know, it’s a battle)
now what about smiles and greetings in the street? I observe a 50 / 50 response rate; yin yang, or
Bipolar Nation
Scar Tissue-RHCP say it all? Mr Sarcasm and know-it-all
(Been Away Too Long-Soundgarden); hope you’re not working for the art race-Ska
Fairfax tears holes in the worth of tissues
Whanganui Infrastructure “stinks”; Laws should feel Right at home checking out the crack
Nick Lowe-Jesus of Cool? i coulda been a Lawyer a Doctor or a Thief, it’s all the same to Thee
(the dogs are talking…the dogs are talking, Underground, according to the Soul Surgeon)
(to that Guy, I collected childrens games too; Snakes and Ladders)
11:2 When pride comes, then comes dis grace, but with Humility comes wisdom
4 Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath
ya gotta roll the correct throw to get outta this place
The Message of Isaiah in 24 is that of a Damaged World
-devastation of the earth
-sellers and buyers
-borrowers and lenders
-debtors and creditors
The earth dries up and withers, languishes and withers in the Heat, defiled by it’s people through
disobedience and a broken covenant (coven) of stewardship; regretfully, people must bear the
guilt for what they have harmed. Better a culture of guilt than shame.
Be still and know that I am watching
Be still and know that I am listening
Be still and know that I am tasting
Be still and know that I am touching
Be still and know that I am feeling
Be still and know that I am
Be still and know
Be still
Be
(mmmm…smell that fragrance) Could be Barbiecue
Right, lets leave the City, and erect a tent city; Sheriff Joe Arpaio would see the possibilities.
cos we’re livin with a love for the common people, far from the hearts of a family man
cues and cues at (former) Fantasyland. The things that we will do for our children to see
yet cannot see to do for our children; bus y lanes for mobility scooters next?
-One Good Man. (Rossington Collins Band) Three Times As Bad
This is The Way, Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere
(gimme three steps Mr, gimme three steps more, gimme three steps Mr and we’ll be in the door…
It’s The End of the World as we know it, and I feel fine; gonna be Made, over 30, In The Shade
Rode over this button sign on the cycle Way here-
http://www.skip.org.nz/ (links are not happening for me, but we can type)
now, back to
Jonah (easily deceived and senseless)
sooo, Assyria defeats Damascus, ending almost a century of sporadic see-saw conflict
between Israel and it’s neighbour
(prior to that time the king of Damascus had even been able to control Internal Affairs in the
northern kingdom)
Yet, soon after Triumph, Israel began to gloat over new-found power, feeling jealously complacent about her forward status with God, focusing on her “expectations” of the “day of the LORD” when
darkness would engulf other sites leaving Israel to bask in His light (not).
The Lord announced he would “spare them no longer”, and this included sending Jonah to Nineveh
(like a Glittering Prize, up on the Waterfront, get in, get out of the rain; Don’t you forget about me,
I’ll be around, dancing with you baby…), i digress, to warn of the imminent danger of divine judgement.
There is an assumption; the books’ accounts sprang essentially from the whales imagination.
Nonetheless, the book of Jonah recounts real events in the life and trembling ministry of the
Hooked himself;
But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish (Phoenicia?, well plenty of sails)
anyway, Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea. All the sailors were afraid and each cried
Out, to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the load. Then the sailors
said, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity”. You know where they fell (they knew he was running away from the Lord because he had already told them so)
Meanwhile, the sea was getting higher and saltier. “Pick me up and throw me into the sea”, replied Jonah, “I know this is my fault that this great blitz has come upon you.”
But,,the Lord provided a great fish to swallow Jonah. Thus he began his slippery prayer, which could have been a prayer of thanksgiving for deliverance as he was sinking into the depths of a
Great Depression; his gratitude could have been heightened by his knowledge that he deserved
Death, but that God had shown him extraordinary mercy.
And then what? After God spares the sacks at Nineveh Jonah was angry that God would have
Compassion on an enemy of Israel; “O Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than
continue spewing this filth.
Jonah goes at sits on an eastern beach, maybe out pass the dump, (probably be “green fields”
developments soon). There he made himself a panic shelter, sat in it’s shade with a chardonnay
and waited to see what Len and Gerry would do to the city. Then, the Lord God provided a vine,
made it grow up over Jonah to give shade from the UV and also ease his discomfort.
Initially, Jonah was very happen with the vine (probably a castor Oil plant, God being gracious
towards this stubborn “prophet”), but at the dawn of the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the vine in a Standard way so that it withered. When the Son rose, God provided a
scorching East wind, and the Son blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. Thus, he wanted
to be cast and die again; “Angry” he cried out to God, “I am angry enough to die”.
-Her Man (Karma Police; this is what you get when you mess around)
“if you do not at first succeed, try and try again”; correction, do not try, Do!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvAn8PzM-c8
A-freakinmen 🙂 (still no p.c)
🙂
THE SATURDAY CHALLENGE
How many War Criminals can YOU name in this photograph?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Powell,_Schwarzkopf,_and_Wolfowitz_at_Cheney_press_conference,_February_1991.jpg
African American. Jew. Jew. Sensing a theme….
I sense a theme: your continued desperation, evident all too clearly in your inability to argue without telling the most rancorous lies.
I found it pretty funny.
Yes, Hive Mind Syndrome does that to people.
Or it could just be that it was a pretty funny comment, but your conceit doesn’t let you see it.
Funny if you’re in the business of slandering someone, as you are ineptly trying to do.
Otherwise, it’s about as funny as a Bernard Manning routine attacking “the Pakis”, an Andrew Dice Clay rant against Asians, or a Seinfeld quip about “ugly homeless people”.
Nope. It was funny against you and only you simply because it juxtaposed your description of the photo with previous debates you have had with P.
Oh, and those who falsely accuse others of having been found guilty in a law court should be wary of using the “slander” accusation. Just saying.
Nope. It was funny against you and only you simply because it juxtaposed your description of the photo with previous debates you have had with P.
Previous “debates”? Hurling absurd, groundless but incendiary accusations is not debating in any accepted sense of the word.
….those who falsely accuse others of having been found guilty in a law court should be wary of using the “slander” accusation. Just saying.
What on earth are you darkly insinuating? It looks like your job is to issue ominous vague warnings while the other fellow hurls around the inflammatory language.
Either way, you look like a pair of incompetent clowns.
Unfunny clowns, to boot.
Then why do you do it?
For example:
So your memory expires some time before the five day duration. I was simply “insinuating” that your repeated accusations of others being defamatory are somewhat hypocritical. And every time you make one, it gives others an opportunity to describe you as a delusional and obsessive hypocrite. Hence maybe you should try another tactic, such as (and I’m just throwing this out there as an option) providing evidence for your claims.
“… or a Seinfeld quip about “ugly homeless people”.”
Citation. please, Moz. I’d hate to think you’re making shit up again.
“… or a Seinfeld quip about “ugly homeless people”.”
Citation. please, Moz. I’d hate to think you’re making shit up again.
ELAINE: You know what? That’s discriminatory. That is unfair. Why should these women have all the advantages? It’s not enough they get all the attention from men, they have to get all the waitress jobs, too?
JERRY: Hey that’s life. Good-looking men have the same advantages. You don’t see any handsome homeless.
(scene ends)
[setting: doctor’s clinic]
GEORGE: You see, It’s right here. It’s all white…
DOCTOR: Oh yeah. Yeah. I’ve never seen this before.
GEORGE: You’ve never seen this before?
http://www.seinology.com/scripts/script-63.shtml
Thanks for that, Morrissey. Good to see you pointing out your own mistakes, that’s a sign of maturity.
Thanks for that, Morrissey. Good to see you pointing out your own mistakes, that’s a sign of maturity.
What mistake did I make? Did Seinfeld sneer at homeless people or not?
Or perhaps you think it’s funny to laugh at the down and out.
Your mistake was using quotation marks. And misunderstanding the joke.
Full list of Seinfeld writers here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098904/fullcredits
Amazingly, some of the names don’t appear to be Jewish. But that just shows the cunning of the IDF/JDL/Zionist conspiracy, doesn’t it?
And you’re still, moronically, trying to smear me as a conspiracist anti-Semite.
Character assassination might seem easy, I guess, but you’re not really clever enough to keep telling lies like this.
I don’t write the comments that have “Morrissey” at the top. They’re all your own work.
No, that didn’t work, either, my friend.
Larry David you are not.
Pretty dodgy that that’s what you see when you look at that picture Pop. Apart from Wolfowitz, who else is Jewish there BTW?
None, was it a trick question?
Cheney is most definitely a war criminal. Check out his role in the development of the torture program for starters, and the attempts to keep it out of the courts including the pressure he was putting on Justice officials.
Idiot.
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That your IQ, is it, halfwit?
I heard Bush senior was in hospital too, due to serious ill health. Now is this the curse coming to follow all those war mongers that went mad in Iraq??
Taxi, “Taxi Cab” (sounded good if you can hail it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvDr-8ezlpU
Do you see what I see…Do you see what I see…
all over bar the shouting now. Peace in our times?
Obama’s “Politics of Hope”?
Wow! Firefighting heart attacks as ambulance
Crews struggle to gurney all the demand
(inside goss’; that field their RHnesses graced is “not very friendly”)
Thats strange, plenty of pubs, yet it’s all on the q.t about “that” Guy
everyone knows someone, Everybody knows the dice are loaded
everybody knows the good guys lost
Emmerson takes an excellent toss of the waldork salad.
Boehner, what a no-brainer
“sometimes Satan come as a man of peace”
(he flays and blames the game) two-faced plier
Syria; S.O.C it to the Ass. Ad-“more bloody chaos to come”
Thatcher and Savile from the same predatory row.
H.B.Today: power rises prices on av $107 p.a up to $2fitty (Nat; 117, 400 respectfully yours)
Privatisation and dribbling asset sales. Further spiking to come for 13. Filthy Few
commercial Krays lie their pots a stones throw from the shore.
The Lord sung sam a telegram Tool today
Cayced the “H” and “Stinkfist” out
so, for $19 prepaid per month we are able
and willing to keep tabs on the posse and the pound
a stirling idea.This freedom tramping is a real take off
virtually rock into your local public library
use the loo. Staff log on;
News Sources
Press Display
Library Access
Titles by Country, Wallah, world at our fingertips for free
Thats two steps, just some a.v to see the whites of their lyin feline eyes
To go thanks. Yes, I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more
to be the man who fools you at your door. Brut 24 hour performance
Nothin’ like an original Better Man Spoonman for Pearl Jam.
Low”burn” (couldn’t make that up) High”bury” too
Whats next? Poverty Bay? Flick is my name
now when aussie has it’s scrubfires, kiwis have the same
Tokes urea out his rrrs. Animal Nitrate
It’s not only India where men give women a curry up
Calling Doctor Bombay, Calling Doctor Bombay
Swami Berlusconi’s got away and “returns from the dead”.
that silver fox
SAM’s bewitching Arabian Knights
steaming into narrow straits.’Muz next?
another rogue “satellite” state 4.95 a plate
Pyongyangs gettin’ in tune Going Mobile
another “Shining Son”
Starvation is a spreading problem; Marmageddon.
New Brighton, old brighton apiers
water water everywhere.Wizard spell it.does.not.sink
back to science; blindly stab botox in the park next son?
(one luckless family’s holiday tent is pitched at the ablution entrance)
great sadness to see. always the bungled and botched
“she’ll be right mate”
-The Singing Detective (with a long ride from Black Bess)
-rest tomorow N.I.B, oops I meant Born Again (keep it warm) 😉
check out The Warning
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because some are slow to learn.12. In fact
though by this time you could be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of
God’s word all over again. You prefer milk, not solid food! 13. Anyone who lives on milk, being still
an infant, is not aquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature,
(us old soldiers here bearing The Standard), who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from unhelpful thinking. Therefore, let us leave the elementary teachings about
Christ (knows what?) and go on to maturity etc etc.
IV.It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who
have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are
crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
Seven. Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop Useful to those for who it is farmed receives the blessing of God. But land that produces gorse and california thistles
is worthless and in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.
(this may well be “hypothetical”, a warning, or a prophecy of more loss to come, yet I do not make stuff up; all these ramblings just come, I scrawl a few lines for about an hour while having
break fast, or cycling / walking around and then The Word just flows out; the immature beseech
me to speak in “tongues” Hello? 🙂 )
anyway, Jesus is more than ” just alright” with me; Way.
-John (Back Pages Man)(just checked “beseech” with merriam, and thats exactly what “they”
attempt. Oh Well, good thing I began with Mk VII and am a convinced Universalist, yet,
How long, how long must we sing this song?
Heretaunga.