With farmers you’re dealing with a settler mentality of working the land and a righteous sense of hard work and purpose. Its very hard to shift and is aligned with the ‘farmer friendly’ Tory party from the beginning of this colonised nation.
All farmland is stolen land from Maori and this is yet another factor in the farmer’s settler mentality that coincides with the Tory worldview; racist and privileged.
Green pasture livestock farming is the visible face of colonisation and environmental destruction.
All once pristine forest with birdsong, is now stripped bare monocultured paddocks and erosion prone slopes populated with greenhouse gas and nitrogen spewing ruminant animals that are bred for a life of suffering and misery as they are forcefully impregnated (raped) and then have their babies ripped from them for pet food whilst we steal their baby’s milk, and then in turn after their exhausted bodies give out they are mercilessly and thanklessly sent to slaughter — whilst the propaganda machine rolls on telling us its all good for the economy, good for rugby, good for our diets, good for our standing in the world as a leading food producer for the millions now suffering from diabetes, obesity and other Western diseases they never knew before all of this.
And, of course, its all good for the pockets of the managerial elites, advertising companies, sports celebrities and Tory politicians propogating this existential nightmare.
(quite a few forces to wrestle with there..eh….?…what to do..?…)
[Phil, I have put the quoted text as a block quote to make it clearer that the whole segment is a verbatim quote. You must always acknowledge the source, one way or another, and I have added the source link. Just adding piddly “speech-marks” is not enough to avoid accusations of plagiarism, which is intellectual theft. Please don’t this again – Incognito]
I agree with the general thrust of your post. There was however some land willingly sold by Maori. Maori could see that limited immigration was in their best interests. They needed capital to buy guns and European sailing ships and other technologies. It was when they realised that the British would not take "no" as an answer to further land purchases that the situation changed.
The legal concept of Terra Nullius could not be used here as the land was clearly "settled" by European understanding.
In 1840, Lieutenant William Hobson, following instructions of the British government, pronounced the southern island of New Zealand to be uninhabited by civilized peoples, which qualified the land to be terra nullius, and therefore fit for the Crown's political occupation. Hobson's decision was also influenced by a small party of French settlers heading towards Akaroa on Banks Peninsula to settle in 1840.[26]
But seriously, it looks like the British were having a bob each way to be sure to head the French off. Your link mentions that the French were already settling in Akaroa. While they made a claim to the South Island under Terra Nullius this is not what they actually did in practice. The British offered and signed the Treaty with Ngai Tahu. This was a recognition of their sovereignty as offering the English version asked Maori to cede sovereignty over their territories. The British then recognised Ngai Tahu title to most of the South Island as they set about to purchase that land from them (be it through some very dodgy practices).
Make the concept of the "just transition" central to every discussion. When Bernie Sanders talks to coal miners he doesn't blame them for digging the stuff up – he reassures them that they will not suffer terrifying economic stress and failure. Capitalism's normal way of dealing with sudden change is to throw the weak and the losers to the economic wolves while the winners make out like bandits. People need reassuring that this won't be allowed to happen.
and i don't blame farmers for buying into the bullshit they were fed by clark govt followed even more by key – the white-gold expansion-myths they both peddled…
and of course the banks who lined up to throw money at them – to follow this economic-fantasy…
and animal-extraction 'farmers' need to transition to growing actual food…
and their 'transition' is/will be one of the most complex..
(and one of the reasons i have been shouting about this – is that i am/have been dismayed by the amount of treaty settlement money that has been pissed away on this economic-folly…all on a road to nowhere..)
Phillip Since large chunks of your comment seems to have been stolen from Paul Judge who commented in the dairy farming Blog on “the daily blog” on the 28th you should be the last person to talk about stealing things.or have I got that wrong.
Hi Phil, it was New view @ 1.4 and @ 1.4.1.1 who accused of stealing because you gave no credit to the original source or creator. I tend to agree with New view but because it might have been an honest mistake I let you off the hook with a warning only. I also explained to you that using “speech-marks” only is not sufficient. You can argue and object all you like but if you make the same mistake again you are likely to receive a ban for it for two reasons: 1) you have been warned; 2) it is wrong not to acknowledge the original source/creator when copying & pasting text. Simply use quotation marks and mention the source; it is not that hard.
Morena folks, this is a needle for you. A pea under your mattress.
Has anyone emailed their local nat MP and shared their opinion about the defiance of the speakers ruling?
Go on, do it.
It is satisfying to express our disappointment here amongst like minded people, far more effective to let our employees know we are watching them and we aren't happy.
Superb work by Guyon Espiner that clearly shows that Pharmac does NOT always get it right, as much as some people want to believe everything that comes out of their mouths. (The audio version also played earlier on Morning Report). This is the switch I'm caught up in and have raised a few times on this site this year.
Medsafe advised caution. But if the Pharmac agency has appointed a Jenny Shipley type person, she will go for making neolib management, hard-ball, cost-effective decisions and those who are not suited are just externalities. I fear that may be the case, and explain the reason and approach causing concerns. An example of the loss of citizen agency through their political process to affect and change practices of appointed agencies which the pollies have little say or control over.
The Big Pharmaceuticals are trying to break our Pharmac and I wouldnt rely on a word Espiner says as hes the mouth piece of the PR spin doctors employed by drug companies, just giving their version. hes gone beyond giving information and become an advocate
In the US 15 years ago , there were similar spruikers telling the listeners that Oxycontin is safe for lots of things- yes these pills are not in the addictive category but its the same sort of spin
@Duke, you've clearly never suffered a major reaction from a drug brand switch, have you? I have, twice. Don't recall big pharma encouraging me to do so.
Dull always? likes to direct attention away from the main point. There may be a wander over to some facts not quite right, or a historic reference to past measures, or a fault in the commenter.
Just another The Chairman with a different style, but like a great big wet sponge on everything said. A reply in as contentious way as possible, with an aim to damping down discussion and putting the opinionated one on the back foot.
Oh, and Duke, you're happy enough for someone to have a breakthrough seizure after many years of full control on one brand while driving down the road and ploughing into your family, that seizure being the result of a forced brand switch messing up their medication levels? I'm sure you don't mind the very real risk of people being killed, do you?
An excellent piece, and because if your contributions here on the issue Kay I was able to explain some of the subtleties to my partner.
Wasn't that person from Pharmacy an absolute….the word liar comes to mind…? ….but if course we can't say that about the spokesperson for our national treasure.
All that is needed here is a policy change. The real question is why is the government resisting? Do they really believe the current arrangement is saving them money?
Doesnt add up . From what she describes, that isnt a relationship according to Social Welfare rules.
And anyway , if after 6 months of 'dating' they do form a relationship and notify Social Welfare to become complying. Whats the real issue ? That 9 months later 'she doesnt like his choice of music' and it ends and then has to go back to Social Welfare again .
She should think about those on casual or part time work where they may not have work for longer periods of time.
That circumstances change over time is nothing new and there are pathways to deal with it. Is it because she doesnt like the inconvenience ?
@A 10.22.
Various policy changes could instantly stop beneficiaries lives from being made more miserable. Such as, raising the abatement levels on any income significantly, restoring proportionately the 1991 benefit cuts, and income splitting–so relationships of whatever kind or duration, have no impact on benefit applicants or recipients.
Left over neo liberal dogma seems why the Govt. is resisting implementing the recommendations of the recent working party. Neo liberalism has a winners and losers model, people choose to be poor, laid off, under employed, or born into the kiwi underclass you see! A moralistic judgement is made or implied, even if it is macro economic factors well beyond an individuals control that led to their situation.
“Losers” must not be rewarded in any way. Helen Clark had the “jobs jolt” that basically declared “no go” geographic areas for beneficiaries to reside in. And drug testing remains inequitable. It is a modern twist on “work will set you free”–and a placation of certain voters–whose second favourite sport is beneficiary bashing.
The whole scenario has seen the original intent of Social Security become a sadistic punishment maze in the form of WINZ/MSD, where staff can be personally rewarded for NOT providing vulnerable people with the assistance they seek. The failure to redress this effectively is one of the biggest, and most heartless at least, errors of this Govt.
Heh, our glorious ex leader Mr Key was a “benefit boy”, raised in a state house. Yes, the 1964 Act was from a time of “war widow” benefits and infinitesimal unemployment, one “bread winner” supporting a family, children largely born within a marriage etc. etc. different times, which is exactly why WINZ/MSD/ACC need a drastic overhaul in the 21st Century.
There are acres of research, anecdotes, and stats available from Beneficiary Advocates, AAAP–Auckland Action Against Poverty, Academics and Social Agencies even including Salvation Army, the Govt.Household Labour Force Survey etc. describing the reality of life for the NZ underclass.
I have been involved with the old Auckland Peoples Centre, have done case work, and know in and out the travails of dealing with the poisonous WINZ culture. People queuing in the early hours outside a local office when they know AAAP advocates are coming–because the local branches apply policy not the Act–and do not inform all applicants and beneficiaries of their full entitlements. Paula Rebstock mentored Paula Bennett do not forget, and Bennett had a six week trip to the US to really bone up on how to put the slipper into the vulnerable. It is a rotten culture past its useby.
Glad you brought that up A. I was looking through today's news and saw the relationship piece further on and it just caught a nerve and I hadn't noticed you were there already and put it up at 16,
TM what’s your point in bringing up Key. Three prime ministers ago. Paula Bennett is in the opposition not the Government. Your Government has been in power long enough to implement policy that you would like. Why are you swinging around trying to hit people that haven’t been in Government for years, or so called barking dogs like Bennett and Bridges. Why don’t you swing at the present government which is clearly not moving fast enough in the direction you would like.
Illustrating how the once reasonably benevolent Social Security system degenerated into a “war on the poor” complete with state assisted demonising of beneficiaries. Remember the Shipley era “dob in a bludger” TV ads anyone? That attitude persists at WINZ/MSD/ACC.
Bennie bashing is still the second favourite sport of many New Zealanders. Low paid workers and middle class (often on WFF tax credits themselves) alike, love to hate those in receipt of a jobseeker pittance.
A reckoning is here though with the advent of AI and precarious/contract/Intern work.
NZ First revealing further their lack of heart and human kindliness which must of course, be accompanied by practicality. Their attitude on testing and drug use at gatherings, festivals is an example of snooty moralistic superiority and bone-headed obsession with control over their fellow humans. If they cared two hoots, or even one, they would support this safety measure, despite being disparaging about the way that so many will experiment with their own wellbeing and health in such a reckless way.
Darroch Ball, Law and Order Spokesperson for New Zealand First, does not support drug checking as a harm reduction strategy and is currently blocking a clarification of the Misuse of Drugs Act that would allow the service to be implemented nationally…
“His message is abstain or die,” says KnowYourStuffNZ’s Managing Director, Wendy Allison. "His perspective is callous and deeply flawed…
Apparently the stalwarts of NZ First want to control every part of human life, from the position of power they have scrambled to and decree what is right for the public who will suffer if they don’t conform. The dour and narrow do-as-I-say, obey or else suffer the consequences dictators, who love judging others and uniformity to their own limited outlook, and can brook no dissent or alternative view.
They asked Winston about this policy i think on last night's TV1 News and his answer was that he was not sure if they had this right. Classic NZF with leader and spokesperson on different planets.
I am sure that a number of people are sick of talking about serious political matters that are so silly that we can hardly take them seriously. Here is a Billy Connolly clip on farting for light relief. If not, feel free to ignore it and go on with your analysis of the Big Orange, and the Big Yellow and other merry men and women strutting and puking as if all the world is a stage.
This is Billy Connolly talking totally inconsequentially about farting and he doesn't mention politicians anywhere but he probably didn't know that the bets were that the offender was a politician. And because he was really offensive, and didn't know, and everyone looked at the person nearby which was Billy who had to bear the externalities, and that is so likely for a politician, that almost makes it a certainty.
Well it would be forward-thinking and practical to take a precautionary, preventative approach where there is a practice of reckless drug-taking that people persist with. (Buying stuff from people to put in your body and not knowing just what it is, and whether the seller does either?!)
But NZF and leftish conservative people like Jim Anderton cannot bring themselves to be anything but backward-looking when attempts to change old ways and mores come along. (Jim lost a family member to drugs and then set on the line of zero drugs, continuing the same failing practice that had resulted in so much trouble, illness, death and corruption.) Sigh.
If I had Don Drumpfeone explicitly wanting to know my identity after spittle-flecked ranting about spying and treason, then I'd be fairly anxious to get protection too.
yep – with the t-wreck-rump after you you'd be down low and moving fast
Lawyers acting for the whistleblower at the centre of the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump’s attempts to solicit foreign help for his re-election campaign have warned that their client’s personal safety is in danger partly as a result of the president’s remarks.
Andrew Bakaj, the lead attorney for the unnamed intelligence official who sounded the alarm on Trump’s activities relating to Ukraine, expressed fears on Sunday that the whistleblower could be put “in harm’s way” were his or her identity made public. In a letter to the acting Director of National Intelligence, Joseph Maguire, Bakaj points directly at Trump’s aggressive statements that he said prompted “concerns for our client’s safety”.
Daryl Davis decided to write a book with the theme of 'Why do you hate me when you don't know me.' He gets an interview with the KKK leader and they become friendly acquaintances.
Black man Daryl David, hot musician and KKK Klan Leader Roger Kelly end up visiting each other's homes, first Daryl is invited to Kelly's, and finally Kelly visits Davis. The KKK leader in the end declares to a crowd, "I've more respect for that black man than for you white n..gers out there." That is a big step for mankind. Perhaps we can make breakthrough after much persistence and face to face meetings to clear the toxic gunk away. Still different, but having respect for the person. Davis says, "Ignorance breeds fear".
Seems to have more success than the Auckland Uni VC's approach. When fascist-adjacents were advertising on campus earlier in the year, he reckoned they barely existed. Now, he's regrettably unable to do anything about them.
The next step in the four step plan is for him to say "maybe there was something we could have done but it's too late now"
No Maori chief sold land to settlers so they'd live nearby… …is that a racial smear? Coz history shows that the Maori who adapt, to get across the ocean, to the new ecology of Aotearoa, to storms, to new groups arriving from the pacific.. …well before, cook and Tasman or whoever would have arrived. And after, those that traded, that welcome, that adjusted and learnt new farming techniques, religions, etc…
Sorry I just don't see it, even if you agree that nothing good came with Cook, that Maori had always given up land to conquest by other Maori, even if you put all the blinkers on, from both sides. It was racism to not compensate when moving a church, or graveyard, just because they were Maori. Or did settlers just apply their own values to themselves, and Maori expectations to Maori. Isn’t that the conceit I the heart of the debate, that compensating relies on western European values.
So people here have both Scots and Maori background. So they were pushed off the highlands, only then to have their first generation nz ancesters thrown off their Maori land…. …have the British compensated them for highland land?
The Scots came here to get a better deal, as did all our ancestors. And we were going along in a jerky but positive way when we weren't inflamed by the export market beyond being rational.
Five years ago it was just an idea – but after 18 months of construction and 80 million dollars later – what's poised to be Christchurch's central emporium for food, drink and culture is about to open in a few hours. And developers are hoping it will bring vibrancy back to the central city. It aims to be waste-free, have as much locally grown produce as possible and hopes to attract 10,000 to 15,000 customers a day. One of the developers and owners of the Oxford Terrace precinct, Richard Peebles joins us now.
Major banks have announced a temporary pause to the closure of regional branches while they look at rolling out regional "banking hubs".
The Government announced on Monday that four regional banking hubs would open in Opunake, Martinborough, Stoke and Twizel to provide basic banking as part of a trial beginning in early 2020.
The hubs will feature a Smart ATM, where people will be able to make deposits and transfer money, as well as withdraw cash. Each hub will also have support staff to assist people using the ATM.
The trial was brokered by the Government with Kiwibank, BNZ, TSB, ANZ, ASB and Westpac, which will share the cost of running the hubs.
Pioneer Credit (ASX:PNC) has announced its net profit (NPAT) has dropped 76 per cent to of $4.3 million for the 2019 full year.
The result came on the back of the application of Amortised Cost to its portfolio. Earnings increased by 16.7 per cent to $63.4 million.
And Tourism might have to look at its short and medium term business model. WTF who’d have thunk it!
New Zealand tourism sees threat if climate change deters long-haul flyers
When will we treasure our young parents and support and train them in their parenting role and have a friendly hub that provides them with medical help so they can carry out their task of bringing up their children well. A good short course regularly in parenting skills, house hold maintenance, creative work. People would smile, the kids would bloom and this era of hate-filled government for young single parents, and older ones, would end and we could bury it 100 metres down and plant flowers on the spot.
Myself and my partner of three months are in this exact situation. I was refused Working for Families payments and the accommodation supplement as soon as I declared that we were in a relationship.
On average I then lost $500 per week leaving me unable to cover my weekly bills, let alone pay board to my partner. I am working three different jobs trying to make ends meet, barely breaking even and finding that I am spending just as much, if not more, on childcare than I am earning. The fact that I am paying other people to spend time with my kids so that I can work to cover that and not even make any extra money to better our lives saddens me.
Thankfully my partner does help me out financially (he doesn't really have a choice as he chooses love over money).
"Andrew Rawnsley is one of the best political journalists currently writing. His analysis of the violence engulfing British politics ATM is fascinating. It maters to NZ too: Crusher Collins returned from London last week after meeting leading Brexiteers (the people using political violence as a tactic). The same week: the Nats staged their stunt over film taking during sittings of our Parliament and edited by them to create misleading messages."
Good expected result – bit tough that they couldn't monetise their disgusting attitudes and I do feel sorry for cumin and spittle – nah not even slightly lol just joking //sarc tag sarc//
The High Court has rejected a judicial review of Regional Facilities Auckland's decision to block two controversial Canadian speakers from using a council-owned venue.
RFA, Auckland Council and Auckland Mayor Phil Goff were sued over the decision to bar Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux.
Free Speech Coalition member David Cumin and Dunedin bookseller Malcolm Moncrief-Spittle, who purchased a premium ticket to the event, sought a number of declarations, including that the decision was unlawful.
A summary of Justice Pheroze Jagose's judgment said RFA did not exercise "any public power" in cancelling the event, which was to be held last August.
Essentially operation of the Council Public venues is a 'private operation' and not a public function which can be reviewed.
The BORA has no connection to the cancellation. And Goffs 'decision' that the venues were available to the speakers , seems to have been made after the staff made an operational decision largely based on the safety requirements
This was a murder-suicide of a couple 70s and 80s. The woman was very ill, and they may have decided that the present was the time to die together. He was thoughtful and phoned police so that they would be found and have the care and attention needed.
If they had recourse to a managed demise they would not have been forced into this graceless way of exiting this world. The present euthanasia bill is only to cover terminally ill people and that can hardly get past all the rigid minds who can't make any decisions for themselves, and don't want anybody else to have an option.
Or, she was unwell and they were struggling due to lack of social support and this was a way out (with or without her consent). Which is pretty much a core concern of those against euthanasia.
I keep getting surprised that no-one accepts that you may die when you get old, and is unwilling to say to old people you may die if you want to. If you want to go it’s of no matter what social support is available. It;s a pity that people can't accept dying in this country, we are constantly hearing of people dying before their time in other countries. It's a global world, and we are trying to get people to limit their extravagances and materialism and also it would help to reduce world population. All good reasons to be allowed to die when you are old and want to. It is most strange that people aren't cared about much in this country, except when there is some disaster and we make all the right noises. It is not till you want to die that you become precious to everyone wanting you to feel every last creak and groan before you go.
I don't believe anyone has argued that death can be avoided permanently. Some do argue the sacredness of all life, even in extremis (e.g. Catholic theologians, I think).
But the main objection I have is that it can't just be restricted to the low-hanging fruit of people who have clear wishes expressed to the last, with their decision assuredly unaffected by financial pressures or a temporary depression or a difficult transition late in life. Similarly, a disabled friend of mine has concerns that maybe an offer of a needle eventually becomes the easier solution than the offer of decent needs assistance.
Formalising the bureaucracy of legally killing someone is a big step, and it worries me that you have to oversimplify your opponents so much in order to justify it.
worries me too. And that disabled people haven't been well listened to yet.
"Similarly, a disabled friend of mine has concerns that maybe an offer of a needle eventually becomes the easier solution than the offer of decent needs assistance"
NZ is a country that cut the care budget to the elderly some years ago, and the MoH was trying to cut disability support budget just this year. That's not even getting to ACC or WINZ. I don't know if many NZers are unaware of what is going on, or just don't care.
in case that's not clear, if there is an argument that we may end up in a situation of funded care vs offering a needle, we're already a country that wants to withdraw care funding.
I'm ok with people dying if they want to, wouldn't even restrict that to old people or the terminally ill. The state sanctioning that and providing the resources and support to do it needs way more care than what is being proposed with the current Bill. The issue of care matters, because a country that refuses to look after disabled people properly (that's NZ), will not manage euthanasia properly either.
If people are ok with some people dying when they don't want to, then we can carry on, but let's just be honest about it.
i am totally opposed to this euthanasia/state-sanctioned killing bill – for all the reasons cited above..
plus also concerns about grasping possible inheritors wanting to hasten the process – and so talking the old into 'doing it for the kids' or whatever..
if there was support for the old/disabled at the levels where it is in countries that have eithanasia…(c.f. netherlands)..then and only then should this idea be considered..
and even then – what to do about the hurry-up! relatives..?
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We are getting more cancer help but getting a vaccination against meningococcal disease can cost between $130-$145. There is no public funding for this damn bug that recently killed a 26 year old fit dance teacher in a day. I have had cancer treatment myself, but the concern I feel is for these young people snuffed out so quickly by this disease. (It is recommended that contacts also have a vaccination.) Cancer has very good public relations and has achieved greater funding and attention because it doesn't kill people suddenly like this damn mening. disease.
There should be a grant helping people organise their lives and getting them prepared for hospice care when needed, and that would be helpful to them rather than paying it to put off the inevitable. People with kiddies could get some help to give time so they could prepare their children for the time when they are not there for them any more I think.
Freedoms – they are being encroached on. The trend for developers to want to put their own stamp on 'their' development like aristocratic estate owners is an amazing impost in a modern society.
Hobsonville Point house rules: Paint, fence height, planting, tents and more
Now for something completely different that hopefully will bring a smile to your face.
I was employed by one of the greatest people I have had the privilege to know, my late boss. He was an officer and a gentleman. with a great sense of responsibility to society with a quick wit and a wicked sense of humour. He was a war hero brought up in the great depression as a young person. He was also a very successful businessman and I am convinced one of the things that made him a success was his attitude towards others and his staff, with a talent for attracting the right people for the right job. He is a great loss to New Zealand
Every so often he would write a company magazine designed towards customers and the staff. Always full of wit and great snippets of wisdom apart from the technical know-how. This weekend we had a de-clutter session and at the back of a cupboard, I found the last issue of this persons magazine I had saved. I decided to read some of the snippets of wit and humour by this great guy, and decided to list them here as I am sure they will bring a smile.
“A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumuor.
If it wasn't for electricity we would be computing by candlelight.
Today's mighty oaks are just yesterday's nut that held its ground
Forget health foods I need all the preservatives I can get.
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.”
It’s quite common here in Oz with new housing estate and it can quite a headache for those trying to build a new house from these asshole developers and it actually creates a very sterile suburbs.
I worked for a time on Hobsonville Point that Grey refers to above, setting out the area in its initial stages – like many of them, they are Australian developers bringing over your typical New Australian suburb and planting them in NZ. There is one at the bottom of the South side of the Bombay Hills, which is almost the same as the Perth suburb I am currently residing in at the moment. There are some features however that I do find attractive and this is the inclusion of many parks and play areas.
YEA The Super Gold Card app it will be good for some of our elderly tangata. I think if the apps are advertised they will get a cell phone it will encourage Our elderly to learn new skills.
Just felt Ruamoko not to big enough to let me know he's moving.
There was a bit of A thunder storm today Ingrid.
I have lowered my meat consumption for the environment I still think we need some meat in our diet just not to much.
Here you go Whanau this is stark evedince that human caused climate change / global warming is our reality it is not fiction like the neanderthal want us to believe.
I can see that the neanderthal are stuffing with new improvements in renewable energy storage and generations and bio oils. Remember these people are ruthless they have no morels they will try anything to stop us transitioning into a society we're every person and country becomes energy independent. That takes away the neanderthal power to manipulate the tangata of the Papatuanuku. That's why they are fighting Green Energy and our reality of global warming sea level riseing with tooth and nail. But like the old saying goes it's Te tangata Te tangata more than tangata Mana that holds the Mana.
The problem – rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
The level of CO2 has been rising since the industrial revolution and is now at its highest for about 4 million years. The rate of the rise is even more striking – the fastest for 66m years – with scientists saying we are in “uncharted territory”.
The causes – fossil fuel burning
Billions of tonnes of CO2 are sent into the atmosphere every year from coal, oil and gas burning. There is no sign of these emissions starting to fall rapidly, as is needed.
The causes – forest destruction
The felling of forests for timber, cattle, soy and palm oil is a big contributor to carbon emissions. It is also a major cause of the annihilation of wildlife on Earth.
The consequences – global temperature rise
The planet’s average temperature started to climb steadily two centuries ago, but has rocketed since the second world war as consumption and population has risen. Global heating means there is more energy in the atmosphere, making extreme weather events more frequent and more intense.
The consequences – ice melting in Greenland
Greenland has lost almost 4 trillion tonnes of ice since 2002. Mountain ranges from the Himalayas to the Andes to the Alps are also losing ice rapidly as glaciers shrink. A third of the Himalayan and Hindu Kush ice is already doomed.
As heating melts the sea ice, the darker water revealed absorbs more of the sun’s heat, causing more heating – one example of the vicious circles in the climate system. Scientists think the changes in the Arctic may be responsible for worsened heatwaves and floods in Eurasia and North America.
Our government is investing wisely to provide safe cost effective Roads and Highways.
Ka pai to Gull moving into the South Island Eco Maori knows what the prices of fuel is down there. That's why it will be awesome when I see Tangata and Countrys becoming energy independent Ma Te Wa.
Its good to see Africa Americans getting some justice that women shooting her Neighbour who was having tea in his own whare Ka pai.
You think Im going to far kiss my whero.
Tony thank for your good mahi as GrayMouth Mayor all the best on your new journey in life.
In the year 2000 Aotearoa had a fairer wealth distribution our vaxcernated tamariki % were higher the age of our vehicle fleet was younger our sports stadium were full there was low or known homeless people our cost of living was low. What happened well Prebble conned his way into the Labour Party ie Labour started making policy for the wealth people with out thinking about the negative effects it has on the common tangata. Then we get 10 years of a business only government. I say that in the years 2000 the business were not making huge profits.
The class action on the South Island bovine problems is Lawyers showing the rest of the class how they can quite easily take boths sides heaps putea. as I have said war is for idiots negotiation is needed on both sides of the fences. When lawyers are involved the only winner is Te lawyer
We should have more Australian comedy content on TV they have some funny buggers in Australia.
I agree with your views Magda on Our environment and the effects that Modern culture has had on our environment.
Electric cars are not expensive I could buy a good car with only 40.000 km on the clock for $10,000. dollars and cut my carbon footprint in half.
Sir Bob I agree with your comments on gas in Aotearoa. But I think our government used the tactic of legislation to get the big 3 gas companies to let Gull in the South Island.
Here you go Whanau they were warned about the way they we have been treating our environment 100s of years ago and even nowadays they don't want to change the UN sustainable economic growth. Ma Te Wa times are going to change fast kia kaha to all the good tangata fighting for our future climate.
Bad ancestors: does the climate crisis violate the rights of those yet to be born?
Our environmental vandalism has made urgent the question of ethical responsibilities across decades and centuries
What if climate breakdown is a violation of the rights of those yet to be born? Finally, this urgent question seems to be getting the attention it deserves. Last month an astonishing 7 million people from nearly 200 countries took to the streets as part of the youth-led global climate strike. Young people around the world recognise that the disastrous repercussions of the already present ecological crisis will fall disproportionately on their shoulders, and the shoulders of generations to come – in particular on those whose communities have emitted the smallest proportion of greenhouse gasses.
That is precisely what some concerned young people have been arguing in the US court system since 2015, when a group of seven plaintiffs, not yet old enough to vote, filed a lawsuit in the commonwealth court of Pennsylvania against Governor Tom Wolf and various state agencies. The suit argued that the defendants had failed to take necessary action to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases consistent with the commonwealth’s obligations as a public trustee. In the legal team’s language, the state was failing in its responsibility to “conserve and maintain public natural resources, including the atmosphere, for the benefit of present and future generations
Back in the US, municipalities such as New York City, San Francisco and Richmond are suing fossil fuel companies for billions of dollars in damages for suppressing information about the hazards of carbon emissions and impending sea-level rise. Additionally, First Nations communities are invoking treaty rights to prevent the pipeline transport of fossil fuels over unceded indigenous territories. The citizens behind these creative legal campaigns are trying to curb resource exploitation to ensure we leave behind a place that is livable
We cannot say we were not warned. In an 1847 speech, pioneering conservationist and congressman George Perkins Marsh identified processes that would later be understood as part of the greenhouse effect. His popular 1864 book, Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action, reprimanded those who despoil the environment and recommended a course of resource management that would take the needs of future generations into account. “The Earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence … would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climactic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism, and perhaps even extinction of the species,” he wrote. “The world cannot afford to wait till the slow and sure progress of exact science has taught it a better economy
Eco Maori hope that Maketu pies keeps on trading they have great pies I love the fish pies actually all their pies if I see Maketu pies I will buy them.
Tomorrow is the day that the Pike River Whanau get back to see inside the mine kia kaha.
I think that alcoholism is a deases that needs to be declared as that I have seen the damage it is doing to Tangata Whenua and other cultures.
Ka pai to Orange Sky for providing portable showers for the homeless people. Aotearoa has the worst homeless people in the OECD not long ago Aotearoa had the highest living standard in the OECD.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate ConnectionsA farmworker cleans the solar panels of a solar water pump in the village of Jagadhri, Haryana Country, India. (Photo credit: Prashanth Vishwanathan/ IWMI) Decisions made in India over the next few years will play a key role in global ...
Lindsay Mitchell writes – The Children’s Minister, Karen Chhour, intends to repeal Section 7AA from the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 because it creates conflict between claimed Crown Treaty obligations and the child’s best interests. In her words, “Oranga Tamariki’s governing principles and its act should be colour ...
Geoffrey Miller writes – The gloves are off. That might seem to be the undertone of surprisingly tough talk from New Zealand’s foreign and trade ministers. Winston Peters, the foreign minister, may be facing legal action after making allegations about former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr on Radio New Zealand. ...
Brian Easton writes – This is about the time that the Treasury will be locking up its economic forecasts to be published in the 2024 Budget Economic and Fiscal Update (BEFU) on budget day, 30 May. I am not privy to what they will be (I will report on them ...
TL;DR:Winston Peters is reported to have won a budget increase for MFAT. David Seymour wanted his Ministry of Regulation to be three times bigger than the Productivity Commission. Simeon Brown is appointing a Crown Monitor to Watercare to protect the Claytons Crown Guarantee he had to give ratings agencies ...
The gloves are off. That might seem to be the undertone of surprisingly tough talk from New Zealand’s foreign and trade ministers. Winston Peters, the foreign minister, may be facing legal action after making allegations about former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr on Radio New Zealand. Carr had made highly ...
I could be a florist'Round the corner from Rye LaneI'll be giving daisies to craziesBut, baby, I'll wrap you up real safe Oh, I can give you flowers At the end of every dayFor the center of your table, a rainbowIn case you have people 'round to stay Depending on ...
TL;DR: The six key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to May 12 include:PM Christopher Luxon is scheduled to hold a post-Cabinet news conference at 4 pm today. Finance Minister Nicola Willis will give a pre-budget speech on Thursday.Parliament sits from Question Time at 2pm on ...
The price of the foreign affairs “reset” is now becoming apparent, with Defence set to get a funding boost in the Budget. Finance Minister Nicola Willis has confirmed that it will be one of the few votes, apart from Health and Education and possibly Police, which will get an increase ...
A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 28, 2024 thru Sat, May 4, 2024. Story of the week "It’s straight out of Big Tobacco’s playbook. In fact, research by John Cook and his colleagues ...
Yesterday I received come lovely feedback following my Star Wars themed newsletter. A few people mentioned they’d enjoyed reading the personal part at the beginning.I often begin newsletters with some memories, or general thoughts, before commencing the main topic. This hopefully sets the mood and provides some context in which ...
April 30 was going to be the day we’d be calling Mum from London to wish her a happy birthday. Then it became the day we would be going to St. Paul's at Evensong to remember her. The aim of the cathedral builders was to find a way to make their ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – Can’t remember the last book by a Kiwi author you read? Think the NZ government should spend less on the arts in favor of helping the homeless? If so, as far as Newsroom is concerned, you probably deserve to be called a cultural ignoramus ...
Eric Crampton writes – Grudges are bad. Better to move on. But it can be fun to keep a couple of really trivial ones, so you’re not tempted to have other ones. For example, because of the rootkit fiasco of 2005, no Sony products in our household. ...
A new report warns an estimated third of the adult population have unmet need for health care.Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāHere’s the six key things I learned about Aotaroa’s political economy this week around housing, climate and poverty:Politics - Three opinion polls confirmed support for PM Christopher Luxon ...
Today is May the fourth. Which was just a regular day when my mother took me to see the newly released Star Wars at the Odeon in Rotorua. The queue was right around the corner. Some years later this day became known as Star Wars Day, the date being a ...
Buzz from the Beehive Much more media attention is being paid to something Winston Peters said about former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr than to a speech he delivered to the New Zealand China Council. One word is missing from the speech: AUKUS. But AUKUS loomed large in his considerations ...
Is the economy in another long stagnation? If so, why?This is about the time that the Treasury will be locking up its economic forecasts to be published in the 2024 Budget Economic and Fiscal Update (BEFU) on budget day, 30 May. I am not privy to what they will be ...
The annual list of who's been bribing our politicians is out, and journalists will no doubt be poring over it to find the juiciest and dirtiest bribes. The government's fast-track invite list is likely to be a particular focus, and we already know of one company on the list which ...
In the weeks after the October 7 Hamas attacks on Southern Israel I wrote about the possible 2nd, 3rd and even 4th order effects of the conflict. These included new fronts being opened in the West Bank (with Hamas), Golan … Continue reading → ...
Peter Dunne writes – It is one of the oldest truisms that there is never a good time for MPs to get a pay rise. This week’s announcement of pay raises of around 2.8% backdated to last October could hardly have come at a worse time, with the ...
David Farrar writes – Newshub reports: Newshub can reveal a fresh allegation of intimidation against Green MP Julie-Anne Genter. Genter is subject to a disciplinary process for aggressively waving a book in the face of National Minister Matt Doocey in the House – but it’s not the first time ...
The Treasury has published a paper today on the global productivity slowdown and how it is playing out in New Zealand: The productivity slowdown: implications for the Treasury’s forecasts and projections. The Treasury Paper examines recent trends in productivity and the potential drivers of the slowdown. Productivity for the whole economy ...
Winston Peters’ comments about former Australian foreign minister look set to be an ongoing headache for both him and Luxon. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for subscribers features co-hosts and , along with regular guests on Gaza and ...
These puppet strings don't pull themselvesYou're thinking thoughts from someone elseHow much time do you think you have?Are you prepared for what comes next?The debating chamber can be a trying place for an opposition MP. What with the person in charge, the speaker, typically being an MP from the governing ...
The land around Lyme Regis, where Meryl Streep once stood, in a hood, on the Cobb, is falling into the sea.MerylThe land around Lyme Regis, around the Cobb that made it rich, has always been falling slowly but surely into the sea. Read more ...
Buzz from the Beehive Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters was bound to win headlines when he set out his thinking about AUKUS in his speech to the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. The headlines became bigger when – during an interview on RNZ’s Morning Report today – he criticised ...
The Post reports on how the government is refusing to release its advice on its corrupt Muldoonist fast-track law, instead using the "soon to be publicly available" refusal ground to hide it until after select committee submissions on the bill have closed. Fast-track Minister Chris Bishop's excuse? “It's not ...
As pressure on it grows, the livestock industry’s approach to the transition to Net Zero is increasingly being compared to that of fossil fuel interests. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / Getty ImagesTL;DR: Here’s the top five news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above ...
The New Zealand Herald reports – Stats NZ has offered a voluntary redundancy scheme to all of its workers as a way to give staff some control over their “future” amidst widespread job losses in the public sector. In an update to staff this morning, seen by the Herald, Statistics New Zealand ...
On Werewolf/Scoop, I usually do two long form political columns a week. From now on, there will be an extra column each week about music and movies. But first, some late-breaking political events:The rise in unemployment numbers for the March quarter was bigger than expected – and especially sharp ...
David Farrar writes – The Herald reports: TVNZ says it is dealing with about 50 formal complaints over its coverage of the latest 1News-Verian political poll, with some viewers – as well as the Prime Minister and a former senior Labour MP – critical of the tone of the 6pm report. ...
Muriel Newman writes – When Meridian Energy was seeking resource consents for a West Coast hydro dam proposal in 2010, local Maori “strenuously” objected, claiming their mana was inextricably linked to ‘their’ river and could be damaged. After receiving a financial payment from the company, however, the Ngai Tahu ...
Alwyn Poole writes – “An SEP,’ he said, ‘is something that we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that it’s somebody else’s problem. That’s what SEP means. Somebody Else’s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it’s like a ...
Our trust in our political institutions is fast eroding, according to a Maxim Institute discussion paper, Shaky Foundations: Why our democracy needs trust. The paper – released today – raises concerns about declining trust in New Zealand’s political institutions and democratic processes, and the role that the overuse of Parliamentary urgency ...
This article was prepared for publication yesterday. More ministerial announcements have been posted on the government’s official website since it was written. We will report on these later today …. Buzz from the BeehiveThere we were, thinking the environment is in trouble, when along came Jones. Shane Jones. ...
New Zealand now has the fourth most depressed construction sector in the world behind China, Qatar and Hong Kong. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 8:46am on Thursday, May 2:The Lead: ...
Hi,I am just going to state something very obvious: American police are fucking crazy.That was a photo gracing the New York Times this morning, showing New York City police “entering Columbia University last night after receiving a request from the school.”Apparently in America, protesting the deaths of tens of thousands ...
Winston Peters’ much anticipated foreign policy speech last night was a work of two halves. Much of it was a standard “boilerplate” Foreign Ministry overview of the state of the world. There was some hardening up of rhetoric with talk of “benign” becoming “malign” and old truths giving way to ...
Graham Adams assesses the fallout of the Cass Review — The press release last Thursday from the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls didn’t make the mainstream news in New Zealand but it really should have. The startling title of Reem Alsalem’s statement — “Implementation of ‘Cass ...
This open-for-business, under-new-management cliché-pockmarked government of Christopher Luxon is not the thing of beauty he imagines it to be. It is not the powerful expression of the will of the people that he asserts it to be. It is not a soaring eagle, it is a malodorous vulture. This newest poll should make ...
The latest labour market statistics, showing a rise in unemployment. There are now 134,000 unemployed - 14,000 more than when the National government took office. Which is I guess what happens when the Reserve Bank causes a recession in an effort to Keep Wages Low. The previous government saw a ...
Three opinion polls have been released in the last two days, all showing that the new government is failing to hold their popular support. The usual honeymoon experienced during the first year of a first term government is entirely absent. The political mood is still gloomy and discontented, mainly due ...
National's Finance Minister once met a poor person.A scornful interview with National's finance guru who knows next to nothing about economics or people.There might have been something a bit familiar if that was the headline I’d gone with today. It would of course have been in tribute to the article ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – Throughout the pandemic, the new Vice-Chancellor-of-Otago-University-on-$629,000 per annum-Can-you-believe-it-and-Former-Finance-Minister Grant Robertson repeated the mantra over and over that he saved “lives and livelihoods”.As we update how this claim is faring over the course of time, the facts are increasingly speaking differently. NZ ...
Chris Trotter writes – IT’S A COMMONPLACE of political speeches, especially those delivered in acknowledgement of electoral victory: “We’ll govern for all New Zealanders.” On the face of it, the pledge is a strange one. Why would any political leader govern in ways that advantaged the huge ...
Bryce Edwards writes – The list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill ...
TL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 10:06am on Wednesday, May 1:The Lead: Business confidence fell across the board in April, falling in some areas to levels last seen during the lockdowns because of a collapse in ...
Over the past 36 hours, Christopher Luxon has been dong his best to portray the centre-right’s plummeting poll numbers as a mark of virtue. Allegedly, the negative verdicts are the result of hard economic times, and of a government bravely set out on a perilous rescue mission from which not ...
Auckland Transport have started rolling out new HOP card readers around the network and over the next three months, all of them on buses, at train stations and ferry wharves will be replaced. The change itself is not that remarkable, with the new readers looking similar to what is already ...
Completed reads for April: The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling Carnival of Saints, by George Herman The Snow Spider, by Jenny Nimmo Emlyn’s Moon, by Jenny Nimmo The Chestnut Soldier, by Jenny Nimmo Death Comes As the End, by Agatha Christie Lord of the Flies, by ...
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 ...
Have a story to share about St Paul’s, but today just picturesPopular novels written at this desk by a young man who managed to bootstrap himself out of father’s imprisonment and his own young life in a workhouse Read more ...
The list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill English, Simon Bridges, Steven Joyce, Roger Sowry, ...
Newsroom has a story today about National's (fortunately failed) effort to disestablish the newly-created Inspector-General of Defence. The creation of this agency was the key recommendation of the Inquiry into Operation Burnham, and a vital means of restoring credibility and social licence to an agency which had been caught lying ...
Holding On To The Present:The moment a political movement arises that attacks the whole idea of social progress, and announces its intention to wind back the hands of History’s clock, then democracy, along with its unwritten rules, is in mortal danger.IT’S A COMMONPLACE of political speeches, especially those delivered in ...
Stuck In The Middle With You:As Christopher Luxon feels the hot breath of Act’s and NZ First’s extremists on the back of his neck and, as he reckons with the damage their policies are already inflicting upon a country he’s described as “fragile”, is there not some merit in reaching out ...
The unpopular coalition government is currently rushing to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act. The clause is Oranga Tamariki's Treaty clause, and was inserted after its systematic stealing of Māori children became a public scandal and resulted in physical resistance to further abductions. The clause created clear obligations ...
Buzz from the Beehive The government’s official website – which Point of Order monitors daily – not for the first time has nothing much to say today about political happenings that are grabbing media headlines. It makes no mention of the latest 1News-Verian poll, for example. This shows National down ...
It Takes A Train To Cry:Surely, there is nothing lonelier in all this world than the long wail of a distant steam locomotive on a cold Winter’s night.AS A CHILD, I would lie awake in my grandfather’s house and listen to the traffic. The big wooden house was only a ...
Packing A Punch: The election of the present government, including in its ranks politicians dedicated to reasserting the rights of the legislature in shaping and determining the future of Māori and Pakeha in New Zealand, should have alerted the judiciary – including its anomalous appendage, the Waitangi Tribunal – that its ...
Dead Woman Walking: New Zealand’s media industry had been moving steadily towards disaster for all the years Melissa Lee had been National’s media and communications policy spokesperson, and yet, when the crisis finally broke, on her watch, she had nothing intelligent to offer. Christopher Luxon is a patient man - but he’s not ...
Chris Trotter writes – New Zealand politics is remarkably easy-going: dangerously so, one might even say. With the notable exception of John Key’s flat ruling-out of the NZ First Party in 2008, all parties capable of clearing MMP’s five-percent threshold, or winning one or more electorate seats, tend ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Polling shows that Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has the lowest approval rating of any mayor in the country. Siting at -12 per cent, the proportion of constituents who disapprove of her performance outweighs those who give her the thumbs up. This negative rating is ...
Luxon will no doubt put a brave face on it, but there is no escaping the pressure this latest poll will put on him and the government. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political ...
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler In the wake of any unusual weather event, someone inevitably asks, “Did climate change cause this?” In the most literal sense, that answer is almost always no. Climate change is never the sole cause of hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, or ...
Something odd happened yesterday, and I’d love to know if there’s more to it. If there was something which preempted what happened, or if it was simply a throwaway line in response to a journalist.Yesterday David Seymour was asked at a press conference what the process would be if the ...
Ministers must front up about which projects it will push through under its Fast Track Approvals legislation, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
The Government is again adding to New Zealand’s growing unemployment, this time cutting jobs at the agencies responsible for urban development and growing much needed housing stock. ...
With Minister Karen Chhour indicating in the House today that she either doesn’t know or care about the frontline cuts she’s making to Oranga Tamariki, we risk seeing more and more of our children falling through the cracks. ...
The Labour Party is saddened to learn of the death of Sir Robert Martin, a globally renowned disability advocate who led the way for disability rights both in New Zealand and internationally. ...
Labour is calling for the Government to urgently rethink its coalition commitment to restart live animal exports, Labour animal welfare spokesperson Rachel Boyack said. ...
Today’s Financial Stability Report has once again highlighted that poverty and deep inequality are political choices - and this Government is choosing to make them worse. ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to do more for our households in most need as unemployment rises and the cost of living crisis endures. ...
Unemployment is on the rise and it’s only going to get worse under this Government, Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds said. Stats NZ figures show the unemployment rate grew to 4.3 percent in the March quarter from 4 percent in the December quarter. “This is the second rise in unemployment ...
The New Zealand Labour Party welcomes the entering into force of the European Union and New Zealand free trade agreement. This agreement opens the door for a huge increase in trade opportunities with a market of 450 million people who are high value discerning consumers of New Zealand goods and ...
The National-led Government continues its fiscal jiggery pokery with its Pharmac announcement today, Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall says. “The government has increased Pharmac funding but conceded it will only make minimal increases in access to medicine”, said Ayesha Verrall “This is far from the bold promises made to fund ...
This afternoon’s interim Waitangi Tribunal report must be taken seriously as it affects our most vulnerable children, Labour children’s spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime. ...
Te Pāti Māori are demanding the New Zealand Government support an international independent investigation into mass graves that have been uncovered at two hospitals on the Gaza strip, following weeks of assault by Israeli troops. Among the 392 bodies that have been recovered, are children and elderly civilians. Many of ...
Our two-tiered system for veterans’ support is out of step with our closest partners, and all parties in Parliament should work together to fix it, Labour veterans’ affairs spokesperson Greg O’Connor said. ...
Stripping two Ministers of their portfolios just six months into the job shows Christopher Luxon’s management style is lacking, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. ...
Tonight’s court decision to overturn the summons of the Children’s Minister has enabled the Crown to continue making decisions about Māori without evidence, says Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Children, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “The judicial system has this evening told the nation that this government can do whatever they want when ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The government's decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system, said Te Pāti Māori Justice Spokesperson, Tākuta Ferris, today. During the time Three Strikes was in place in Aotearoa, Māori and Pasifika received ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
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. ...
Te Pāti Māori is disgusted at the confirmation that hundreds are set to lose their jobs at Oranga Tamariki, and the disestablishment of the Treaty Response Unit. “This act of absolute carelessness and out of touch decision making is committing tamariki to state abuse.” Said Te Pāti Māori Oranga Tamariki ...
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. ...
The Government has delivered on its election promise to provide a financially sustainable model for Auckland under its Local Water Done Well plan. The plan, which has been unanimously endorsed by Auckland Council’s Governing Body, will see Aucklanders avoid the previously projected 25.8 per cent water rates increases while retaining ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters discussed the need for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and enhanced cooperation in the Pacific with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock during her first official visit to New Zealand today. "New Zealand and Germany enjoy shared interests and values, including the rule of law, democracy, respect for the international system ...
The Minister Responsible for RMA Reform, Chris Bishop today released his decision on four recommendations referred to him by the Western Bay of Plenty District Council, opening the door to housing growth in the area. The Council’s Plan Change 92 allows more homes to be built in existing and new ...
Thank you, John McKinnon and the New Zealand China Council for the invitation to speak to you today. Thank you too, all members of the China Council. Your effort has played an essential role in helping to build, shape, and grow a balanced and resilient relationship between our two ...
The Government is modernising insurance law to better protect Kiwis and provide security in the event of a disaster, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly announced today. “These reforms are long overdue. New Zealand’s insurance law is complicated and dated, some of which is more than 100 years old. ...
The coalition Government is refreshing its approach to supporting pay equity claims as time-limited funding for the Pay Equity Taskforce comes to an end, Public Service Minister Nicola Willis says. “Three years ago, the then-government introduced changes to the Equal Pay Act to support pay equity bargaining. The changes were ...
Structured literacy will change the way New Zealand children learn to read - improving achievement and setting students up for success, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. “Being able to read and write is a fundamental life skill that too many young people are missing out on. Recent data shows that ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay says Canada’s refusal to comply in full with a CPTPP trade dispute ruling in our favour over dairy trade is cynical and New Zealand has no intention of backing down. Mr McClay said he has asked for urgent legal advice in respect of our ‘next move’ ...
The rights of our children and young people will be enhanced by changes the coalition Government will make to strengthen oversight of the Oranga Tamariki system, including restoring a single Children’s Commissioner. “The Government is committed to delivering better public services that care for our most at-risk young people and ...
The Government is making it easier for minor changes to be made to a building consent so building a home is easier and more affordable, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “The coalition Government is focused on making it easier and cheaper to build homes so we can ...
New Zealand lost a true legend when internationally renowned disability advocate Sir Robert Martin (KNZM) passed away at his home in Whanganui last night, Disabilities Issues Minister Louise Upston says. “Our Government’s thoughts are with his wife Lynda, family and community, those he has worked with, the disability community in ...
Good evening – Before discussing the challenges and opportunities facing New Zealand’s foreign policy, we’d like to first acknowledge the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. You have contributed to debates about New Zealand foreign policy over a long period of time, and we thank you for hosting us. ...
From today, passengers travelling internationally from Auckland Airport will be able to keep laptops and liquids in their carry-on bags for security screening thanks to new technology, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Creating a more efficient and seamless travel experience is important for holidaymakers and businesses, enabling faster movement through ...
People with an interest in the health of Northland’s marine ecosystems are invited to a public meeting to discuss how to deal with kina barrens, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones will lead the discussion, which will take place on Friday, 10 May, at Awanui Hotel in ...
Kiwi exporters are $100 million better off today with the NZ EU FTA entering into force says Trade Minister Todd McClay. “This is all part of our plan to grow the economy. New Zealand's prosperity depends on international trade, making up 60 per cent of the country’s total economic activity. ...
There are heartening signs that the extractive sector is once again becoming an attractive prospect for investors and a source of economic prosperity for New Zealand, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The beginnings of a resurgence in extractive industries are apparent in media reports of the sector in the past ...
The return of the historic Ō-Rākau battle site to the descendants of those who fought there moved one step closer today with the first reading of Te Pire mō Ō-Rākau, Te Pae o Maumahara / The Ō-Rākau Remembrance Bill. The Bill will entrust the 9.7-hectare battle site, five kilometres west ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has announced 25 new high-speed EV charging hubs along key routes between major urban centres and outlined the Government’s plan to supercharge New Zealand’s EV infrastructure. The hubs will each have several chargers and be capable of charging at least four – and up to 10 ...
The coalition Government will not proceed with the previous Government’s plans to regulate residential property managers, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “I have written to the Chairperson of the Social Services and Community Committee to inform him that the Government does not intend to support the Residential Property Managers Bill ...
The Government has announced an independent review into the disability support system funded by the Ministry of Disabled People – Whaikaha. Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston says the review will look at what can be done to strengthen the long-term sustainability of Disability Support Services to provide disabled people and ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has attended the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva and outlined the Government’s plan to restore law and order. “Speaking to the United Nations Human Rights Council provided us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while responding to issues and ...
The Government and Rotorua Lakes Council are committed to working closely together to end the use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua. Associate Minister of Housing (Social Housing) Tama Potaka says the Government remains committed to ending the long-term use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua by the ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay heads overseas today for high-level trade talks in the Gulf region, and a key OECD meeting in Paris. Mr McClay will travel to Riyadh to meet with counterparts from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). “New Zealand’s goods and services exports to the Gulf region ...
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(given fonterra is our biggest polluter – it is the elephant we must wrestle..
this is a tidy summary of some of the issues with them..)
[Source link: https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2019/09/28/dear-nz-dairy-farmers-let-me-see-if-i-can-get-this-completely-straight/#comment-476731 ]
(quite a few forces to wrestle with there..eh….?…what to do..?…)
[Phil, I have put the quoted text as a block quote to make it clearer that the whole segment is a verbatim quote. You must always acknowledge the source, one way or another, and I have added the source link. Just adding piddly “speech-marks” is not enough to avoid accusations of plagiarism, which is intellectual theft. Please don’t this again – Incognito]
Great Monday morning soapbox (in the good way)…get on the soapbox I say!, thanks.
All farmland is stolen land from Maori
That is just not true. Most yes, but there is no need to get ridiculously simplistic in our historical understanding.
unless you follow the (australian) excuse of terra nullus – all of nz was 'stolen' from maori – surely..?
but anyway – if we change the 'all' to 'most' you are happy with the rest..?
I agree with the general thrust of your post. There was however some land willingly sold by Maori. Maori could see that limited immigration was in their best interests. They needed capital to buy guns and European sailing ships and other technologies. It was when they realised that the British would not take "no" as an answer to further land purchases that the situation changed.
The legal concept of Terra Nullius could not be used here as the land was clearly "settled" by European understanding.
Your understanding is one angle.
South Island? That's another country isn't it?
But seriously, it looks like the British were having a bob each way to be sure to head the French off. Your link mentions that the French were already settling in Akaroa. While they made a claim to the South Island under Terra Nullius this is not what they actually did in practice. The British offered and signed the Treaty with Ngai Tahu. This was a recognition of their sovereignty as offering the English version asked Maori to cede sovereignty over their territories. The British then recognised Ngai Tahu title to most of the South Island as they set about to purchase that land from them (be it through some very dodgy practices).
This site shows those land purchases: https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/36363/maori-land-loss-south-island
"What to do?"
Make the concept of the "just transition" central to every discussion. When Bernie Sanders talks to coal miners he doesn't blame them for digging the stuff up – he reassures them that they will not suffer terrifying economic stress and failure. Capitalism's normal way of dealing with sudden change is to throw the weak and the losers to the economic wolves while the winners make out like bandits. People need reassuring that this won't be allowed to happen.
@ ab..i agree..
and i don't blame farmers for buying into the bullshit they were fed by clark govt followed even more by key – the white-gold expansion-myths they both peddled…
and of course the banks who lined up to throw money at them – to follow this economic-fantasy…
and animal-extraction 'farmers' need to transition to growing actual food…
and their 'transition' is/will be one of the most complex..
(and one of the reasons i have been shouting about this – is that i am/have been dismayed by the amount of treaty settlement money that has been pissed away on this economic-folly…all on a road to nowhere..)
AB +100
Phillip Since large chunks of your comment seems to have been stolen from Paul Judge who commented in the dairy farming Blog on “the daily blog” on the 28th you should be the last person to talk about stealing things.or have I got that wrong.
yeah…they are called speech-marks…for a reason..
He didn’t write an article Phillip. It was his comment. You didn’t give him any credit for it. Can’t you think for yourself.
Hat tip.
See my Moderation note @ 8:56 AM.
@ incognito..
i object to being accused of plagiarism..
if i state 'this is a tidy summary'…and put it in speech-marks..(however 'piddly'..)
how on earth can i be accused of plagiarism..?
that is two 'acknowledgements' that the opinion is not mine..
and is it not accepted practice that speech-marks are signifying the words of others..?
when did that change..?
Hi Phil, it was New view @ 1.4 and @ 1.4.1.1 who accused of stealing because you gave no credit to the original source or creator. I tend to agree with New view but because it might have been an honest mistake I let you off the hook with a warning only. I also explained to you that using “speech-marks” only is not sufficient. You can argue and object all you like but if you make the same mistake again you are likely to receive a ban for it for two reasons: 1) you have been warned; 2) it is wrong not to acknowledge the original source/creator when copying & pasting text. Simply use quotation marks and mention the source; it is not that hard.
Morena folks, this is a needle for you. A pea under your mattress.
Has anyone emailed their local nat MP and shared their opinion about the defiance of the speakers ruling?
Go on, do it.
It is satisfying to express our disappointment here amongst like minded people, far more effective to let our employees know we are watching them and we aren't happy.
Wont make a bit of difference- their office staff will just reply with selected talking points drawn up by Bridges and Brownlee
As Iprent said on another post, Parliament TV is hardly bothered with by the average person even on this website let alone the wider public.
That's the spirit, Duke.
For anyone else, a tune while you draft your messages.
Superb work by Guyon Espiner that clearly shows that Pharmac does NOT always get it right, as much as some people want to believe everything that comes out of their mouths. (The audio version also played earlier on Morning Report). This is the switch I'm caught up in and have raised a few times on this site this year.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/399908/seizures-driving-stand-downs-as-pharmac-pulls-epilepsy-drug-funding
Medsafe advised caution. But if the Pharmac agency has appointed a Jenny Shipley type person, she will go for making neolib management, hard-ball, cost-effective decisions and those who are not suited are just externalities. I fear that may be the case, and explain the reason and approach causing concerns. An example of the loss of citizen agency through their political process to affect and change practices of appointed agencies which the pollies have little say or control over.
The Big Pharmaceuticals are trying to break our Pharmac and I wouldnt rely on a word Espiner says as hes the mouth piece of the PR spin doctors employed by drug companies, just giving their version. hes gone beyond giving information and become an advocate
In the US 15 years ago , there were similar spruikers telling the listeners that Oxycontin is safe for lots of things- yes these pills are not in the addictive category but its the same sort of spin
Clearly you neither listened nor read the link Kay provided Dukeofurl.
Why not do that….then comment.?
@Duke, you've clearly never suffered a major reaction from a drug brand switch, have you? I have, twice. Don't recall big pharma encouraging me to do so.
Where do you get this bullshit from???
Dull always? likes to direct attention away from the main point. There may be a wander over to some facts not quite right, or a historic reference to past measures, or a fault in the commenter.
Just another The Chairman with a different style, but like a great big wet sponge on everything said. A reply in as contentious way as possible, with an aim to damping down discussion and putting the opinionated one on the back foot.
Oh, and Duke, you're happy enough for someone to have a breakthrough seizure after many years of full control on one brand while driving down the road and ploughing into your family, that seizure being the result of a forced brand switch messing up their medication levels? I'm sure you don't mind the very real risk of people being killed, do you?
An excellent piece, and because if your contributions here on the issue Kay I was able to explain some of the subtleties to my partner.
Wasn't that person from Pharmacy an absolute….the word liar comes to mind…? ….but if course we can't say that about the spokesperson for our national treasure.
(and some good news in an area of interest of mine..the normalisation of what once was an outlier-diet..)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/26/mcdonalds-beyond-burger-new-plant-based-food-plt
'Small-market test rolls out months after rival Burger King began testing the plant-based Impossible Foods burger'..
(the plant-based future rolls nearer and nearer..)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/116188360/benefit-relationship-test-is-putting-our-lives-on-hold
All that is needed here is a policy change. The real question is why is the government resisting? Do they really believe the current arrangement is saving them money?
Doesnt add up . From what she describes, that isnt a relationship according to Social Welfare rules.
And anyway , if after 6 months of 'dating' they do form a relationship and notify Social Welfare to become complying. Whats the real issue ? That 9 months later 'she doesnt like his choice of music' and it ends and then has to go back to Social Welfare again .
She should think about those on casual or part time work where they may not have work for longer periods of time.
That circumstances change over time is nothing new and there are pathways to deal with it. Is it because she doesnt like the inconvenience ?
@A 10.22.
Various policy changes could instantly stop beneficiaries lives from being made more miserable. Such as, raising the abatement levels on any income significantly, restoring proportionately the 1991 benefit cuts, and income splitting–so relationships of whatever kind or duration, have no impact on benefit applicants or recipients.
Left over neo liberal dogma seems why the Govt. is resisting implementing the recommendations of the recent working party. Neo liberalism has a winners and losers model, people choose to be poor, laid off, under employed, or born into the kiwi underclass you see! A moralistic judgement is made or implied, even if it is macro economic factors well beyond an individuals control that led to their situation.
“Losers” must not be rewarded in any way. Helen Clark had the “jobs jolt” that basically declared “no go” geographic areas for beneficiaries to reside in. And drug testing remains inequitable. It is a modern twist on “work will set you free”–and a placation of certain voters–whose second favourite sport is beneficiary bashing.
The whole scenario has seen the original intent of Social Security become a sadistic punishment maze in the form of WINZ/MSD, where staff can be personally rewarded for NOT providing vulnerable people with the assistance they seek. The failure to redress this effectively is one of the biggest, and most heartless at least, errors of this Govt.
The original intent of Social welfare was far more moralistic and limited than you think. The DPB didnt arrive till late 60s? or so.
Can you find any justification for your other claims,
Heh, our glorious ex leader Mr Key was a “benefit boy”, raised in a state house. Yes, the 1964 Act was from a time of “war widow” benefits and infinitesimal unemployment, one “bread winner” supporting a family, children largely born within a marriage etc. etc. different times, which is exactly why WINZ/MSD/ACC need a drastic overhaul in the 21st Century.
There are acres of research, anecdotes, and stats available from Beneficiary Advocates, AAAP–Auckland Action Against Poverty, Academics and Social Agencies even including Salvation Army, the Govt.Household Labour Force Survey etc. describing the reality of life for the NZ underclass.
I have been involved with the old Auckland Peoples Centre, have done case work, and know in and out the travails of dealing with the poisonous WINZ culture. People queuing in the early hours outside a local office when they know AAAP advocates are coming–because the local branches apply policy not the Act–and do not inform all applicants and beneficiaries of their full entitlements. Paula Rebstock mentored Paula Bennett do not forget, and Bennett had a six week trip to the US to really bone up on how to put the slipper into the vulnerable. It is a rotten culture past its useby.
So you retract your claim here, as you are off on another tangent
"The whole scenario has seen the original intent of Social Security become a sadistic punishment maze in the form of WINZ/MSD,.."
The original intent was and still is that are supported back into work where possible.
And yes , it must be a pain having to construct your life around the rules made by WINZ/MSD.
But hello, what is having a job like
Are you claiming social security was originally intended to be a sadistic punishment maze dookidooki?
Glad you brought that up A. I was looking through today's news and saw the relationship piece further on and it just caught a nerve and I hadn't noticed you were there already and put it up at 16,
TM what’s your point in bringing up Key. Three prime ministers ago. Paula Bennett is in the opposition not the Government. Your Government has been in power long enough to implement policy that you would like. Why are you swinging around trying to hit people that haven’t been in Government for years, or so called barking dogs like Bennett and Bridges. Why don’t you swing at the present government which is clearly not moving fast enough in the direction you would like.
um..!..perhaps because key/the tories caused the problems now needing to be fixed..?
(just guessing here..)
Illustrating how the once reasonably benevolent Social Security system degenerated into a “war on the poor” complete with state assisted demonising of beneficiaries. Remember the Shipley era “dob in a bludger” TV ads anyone? That attitude persists at WINZ/MSD/ACC.
Bennie bashing is still the second favourite sport of many New Zealanders. Low paid workers and middle class (often on WFF tax credits themselves) alike, love to hate those in receipt of a jobseeker pittance.
A reckoning is here though with the advent of AI and precarious/contract/Intern work.
NZ First revealing further their lack of heart and human kindliness which must of course, be accompanied by practicality. Their attitude on testing and drug use at gatherings, festivals is an example of snooty moralistic superiority and bone-headed obsession with control over their fellow humans. If they cared two hoots, or even one, they would support this safety measure, despite being disparaging about the way that so many will experiment with their own wellbeing and health in such a reckless way.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1909/S00392/lives-put-at-risk-as-darroch-ball-ignores-evidence.htm
Festival Drug Testing: Lives At Risk As Ball Ignores Evidence
Darroch Ball, Law and Order Spokesperson for New Zealand First, does not support drug checking as a harm reduction strategy and is currently blocking a clarification of the Misuse of Drugs Act that would allow the service to be implemented nationally…
“His message is abstain or die,” says KnowYourStuffNZ’s Managing Director, Wendy Allison. "His perspective is callous and deeply flawed…
Apparently the stalwarts of NZ First want to control every part of human life, from the position of power they have scrambled to and decree what is right for the public who will suffer if they don’t conform. The dour and narrow do-as-I-say, obey or else suffer the consequences dictators, who love judging others and uniformity to their own limited outlook, and can brook no dissent or alternative view.
They asked Winston about this policy i think on last night's TV1 News and his answer was that he was not sure if they had this right. Classic NZF with leader and spokesperson on different planets.
All parties fly kites and see which way the wind blows.
Makes them sound like a bunch of farts.
I am sure that a number of people are sick of talking about serious political matters that are so silly that we can hardly take them seriously. Here is a Billy Connolly clip on farting for light relief. If not, feel free to ignore it and go on with your analysis of the Big Orange, and the Big Yellow and other merry men and women strutting and puking as if all the world is a stage.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex8eilkWxgM&list=PLA358F07102200687
This is Billy Connolly talking totally inconsequentially about farting and he doesn't mention politicians anywhere but he probably didn't know that the bets were that the offender was a politician. And because he was really offensive, and didn't know, and everyone looked at the person nearby which was Billy who had to bear the externalities, and that is so likely for a politician, that almost makes it a certainty.
Not sure where NZF is coming from on this one ?
Well it would be forward-thinking and practical to take a precautionary, preventative approach where there is a practice of reckless drug-taking that people persist with. (Buying stuff from people to put in your body and not knowing just what it is, and whether the seller does either?!)
But NZF and leftish conservative people like Jim Anderton cannot bring themselves to be anything but backward-looking when attempts to change old ways and mores come along. (Jim lost a family member to drugs and then set on the line of zero drugs, continuing the same failing practice that had resulted in so much trouble, illness, death and corruption.) Sigh.
Charming.
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https://twitter.com/grynbaum/status/1178458528547266560
I am not surprised at all. Probably the person knew this would happen and had to make a call, whether to speak out, or not to speak out.
Not quite but hey, Epstein.
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1178481572393181186
If I had Don Drumpfeone explicitly wanting to know my identity after spittle-flecked ranting about spying and treason, then I'd be fairly anxious to get protection too.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/29/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-whistleblower-complaint-adam-schiff/index.html
yep – with the t-wreck-rump after you you'd be down low and moving fast
Of course they're under federal protection lol… one would think that would be automatic with them being from the intelligence community.
How we could act about these racist white supremacists in Christchurch to open up their minds, and let some healing sunlight in.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4gly9n9RBo
Daryl Davis decided to write a book with the theme of 'Why do you hate me when you don't know me.' He gets an interview with the KKK leader and they become friendly acquaintances.
Black man Daryl David, hot musician and KKK Klan Leader Roger Kelly end up visiting each other's homes, first Daryl is invited to Kelly's, and finally Kelly visits Davis. The KKK leader in the end declares to a crowd, "I've more respect for that black man than for you white n..gers out there." That is a big step for mankind. Perhaps we can make breakthrough after much persistence and face to face meetings to clear the toxic gunk away. Still different, but having respect for the person. Davis says, "Ignorance breeds fear".
Seems to have more success than the Auckland Uni VC's approach. When fascist-adjacents were advertising on campus earlier in the year, he reckoned they barely existed. Now, he's regrettably unable to do anything about them.
The next step in the four step plan is for him to say "maybe there was something we could have done but it's too late now"
Everyone likes red baseball caps.
https://www.twitter.com/ASLuhn/status/1177699667607465991
nice one 🙂
No Maori chief sold land to settlers so they'd live nearby… …is that a racial smear? Coz history shows that the Maori who adapt, to get across the ocean, to the new ecology of Aotearoa, to storms, to new groups arriving from the pacific.. …well before, cook and Tasman or whoever would have arrived. And after, those that traded, that welcome, that adjusted and learnt new farming techniques, religions, etc…
Sorry I just don't see it, even if you agree that nothing good came with Cook, that Maori had always given up land to conquest by other Maori, even if you put all the blinkers on, from both sides. It was racism to not compensate when moving a church, or graveyard, just because they were Maori. Or did settlers just apply their own values to themselves, and Maori expectations to Maori. Isn’t that the conceit I the heart of the debate, that compensating relies on western European values.
So people here have both Scots and Maori background. So they were pushed off the highlands, only then to have their first generation nz ancesters thrown off their Maori land…. …have the British compensated them for highland land?
The Scots came here to get a better deal, as did all our ancestors. And we were going along in a jerky but positive way when we weren't inflamed by the export market beyond being rational.
Sourcing local product – good. But so big that it will smother smaller shops in Christchurch?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/first-up/audio/2018715423/waste-free-locally-grown-ch-riverside-market-opens-today
Five years ago it was just an idea – but after 18 months of construction and 80 million dollars later – what's poised to be Christchurch's central emporium for food, drink and culture is about to open in a few hours. And developers are hoping it will bring vibrancy back to the central city. It aims to be waste-free, have as much locally grown produce as possible and hopes to attract 10,000 to 15,000 customers a day. One of the developers and owners of the Oxford Terrace precinct, Richard Peebles joins us now.
I think it would be uncomfortable for a cop to come forward about bullying and allow his name to be published.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018715441/i-was-bullied-for-a-decade-former-detective
This is a good sign. I hope that it is rolled out to all places where it can be established it is needed.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/116205037/government-reaches-deal-with-banks-to-push-pause-on-regional-branch-closures
Major banks have announced a temporary pause to the closure of regional branches while they look at rolling out regional "banking hubs".
The Government announced on Monday that four regional banking hubs would open in Opunake, Martinborough, Stoke and Twizel to provide basic banking as part of a trial beginning in early 2020.
The hubs will feature a Smart ATM, where people will be able to make deposits and transfer money, as well as withdraw cash. Each hub will also have support staff to assist people using the ATM.
The trial was brokered by the Government with Kiwibank, BNZ, TSB, ANZ, ASB and Westpac, which will share the cost of running the hubs.
For those interested in finance here are some interesting figures and details.
https://play.stuff.co.nz/details/_6090446730001
Pioneer Credit (ASX:PNC) has announced its net profit (NPAT) has dropped 76 per cent to of $4.3 million for the 2019 full year.
The result came on the back of the application of Amortised Cost to its portfolio. Earnings increased by 16.7 per cent to $63.4 million.
And Tourism might have to look at its short and medium term business model. WTF who’d have thunk it!
New Zealand tourism sees threat if climate change deters long-haul flyers
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/116193329/climate-change-threat-for-tourism-sparks-research-on-impact
When will we treasure our young parents and support and train them in their parenting role and have a friendly hub that provides them with medical help so they can carry out their task of bringing up their children well. A good short course regularly in parenting skills, house hold maintenance, creative work. People would smile, the kids would bloom and this era of hate-filled government for young single parents, and older ones, would end and we could bury it 100 metres down and plant flowers on the spot.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/116188360/benefit-relationship-test-is-putting-our-lives-on-hold
$500 down
Myself and my partner of three months are in this exact situation. I was refused Working for Families payments and the accommodation supplement as soon as I declared that we were in a relationship.
On average I then lost $500 per week leaving me unable to cover my weekly bills, let alone pay board to my partner. I am working three different jobs trying to make ends meet, barely breaking even and finding that I am spending just as much, if not more, on childcare than I am earning. The fact that I am paying other people to spend time with my kids so that I can work to cover that and not even make any extra money to better our lives saddens me.
Thankfully my partner does help me out financially (he doesn't really have a choice as he chooses love over money).
"Andrew Rawnsley is one of the best political journalists currently writing. His analysis of the violence engulfing British politics ATM is fascinating. It maters to NZ too: Crusher Collins returned from London last week after meeting leading Brexiteers (the people using political violence as a tactic). The same week: the Nats staged their stunt over film taking during sittings of our Parliament and edited by them to create misleading messages."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/29/boris-johnson-seeks-to-divide-conquer-with-incendiary-rhetoric
who is that a quote from?
Good expected result – bit tough that they couldn't monetise their disgusting attitudes and I do feel sorry for cumin and spittle – nah not even slightly lol just joking //sarc tag sarc//
Yes. Good result.
Essentially operation of the Council Public venues is a 'private operation' and not a public function which can be reviewed.
The BORA has no connection to the cancellation. And Goffs 'decision' that the venues were available to the speakers , seems to have been made after the staff made an operational decision largely based on the safety requirements
oops Goff said the venues werent available after the decision made by officials
I think the key bit is
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/116118532/police-attend-serious-family-violence-incident-in-christchurch
This was a murder-suicide of a couple 70s and 80s. The woman was very ill, and they may have decided that the present was the time to die together. He was thoughtful and phoned police so that they would be found and have the care and attention needed.
If they had recourse to a managed demise they would not have been forced into this graceless way of exiting this world. The present euthanasia bill is only to cover terminally ill people and that can hardly get past all the rigid minds who can't make any decisions for themselves, and don't want anybody else to have an option.
Or, she was unwell and they were struggling due to lack of social support and this was a way out (with or without her consent). Which is pretty much a core concern of those against euthanasia.
I keep getting surprised that no-one accepts that you may die when you get old, and is unwilling to say to old people you may die if you want to. If you want to go it’s of no matter what social support is available. It;s a pity that people can't accept dying in this country, we are constantly hearing of people dying before their time in other countries. It's a global world, and we are trying to get people to limit their extravagances and materialism and also it would help to reduce world population. All good reasons to be allowed to die when you are old and want to. It is most strange that people aren't cared about much in this country, except when there is some disaster and we make all the right noises. It is not till you want to die that you become precious to everyone wanting you to feel every last creak and groan before you go.
I don't believe anyone has argued that death can be avoided permanently. Some do argue the sacredness of all life, even in extremis (e.g. Catholic theologians, I think).
But the main objection I have is that it can't just be restricted to the low-hanging fruit of people who have clear wishes expressed to the last, with their decision assuredly unaffected by financial pressures or a temporary depression or a difficult transition late in life. Similarly, a disabled friend of mine has concerns that maybe an offer of a needle eventually becomes the easier solution than the offer of decent needs assistance.
Formalising the bureaucracy of legally killing someone is a big step, and it worries me that you have to oversimplify your opponents so much in order to justify it.
worries me too. And that disabled people haven't been well listened to yet.
"Similarly, a disabled friend of mine has concerns that maybe an offer of a needle eventually becomes the easier solution than the offer of decent needs assistance"
NZ is a country that cut the care budget to the elderly some years ago, and the MoH was trying to cut disability support budget just this year. That's not even getting to ACC or WINZ. I don't know if many NZers are unaware of what is going on, or just don't care.
in case that's not clear, if there is an argument that we may end up in a situation of funded care vs offering a needle, we're already a country that wants to withdraw care funding.
True that.
I'm ok with people dying if they want to, wouldn't even restrict that to old people or the terminally ill. The state sanctioning that and providing the resources and support to do it needs way more care than what is being proposed with the current Bill. The issue of care matters, because a country that refuses to look after disabled people properly (that's NZ), will not manage euthanasia properly either.
If people are ok with some people dying when they don't want to, then we can carry on, but let's just be honest about it.
i am totally opposed to this euthanasia/state-sanctioned killing bill – for all the reasons cited above..
plus also concerns about grasping possible inheritors wanting to hasten the process – and so talking the old into 'doing it for the kids' or whatever..
if there was support for the old/disabled at the levels where it is in countries that have eithanasia…(c.f. netherlands)..then and only then should this idea be considered..
and even then – what to do about the hurry-up! relatives..?
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We are getting more cancer help but getting a vaccination against meningococcal disease can cost between $130-$145. There is no public funding for this damn bug that recently killed a 26 year old fit dance teacher in a day. I have had cancer treatment myself, but the concern I feel is for these young people snuffed out so quickly by this disease. (It is recommended that contacts also have a vaccination.) Cancer has very good public relations and has achieved greater funding and attention because it doesn't kill people suddenly like this damn mening. disease.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/116183441/prominent-christchurch-dance-teacher-dies-after-a-days-illness
This chap has brain cancer and wants extension of life treatment – not a cure. How can we afford to meet all these entitled people;s needs?
Currently, the newsreader and creative director, is in the “precarious situation” of needing an unfunded cancer treatment, Avastin, to extend his life which comes with a hefty price tag of $34,000 for six months.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/116016678/kiwi-radio-personality-michael-kooge-says-hes-being-left-to-die-as-he-cant-afford-cancer-treatment
There should be a grant helping people organise their lives and getting them prepared for hospice care when needed, and that would be helpful to them rather than paying it to put off the inevitable. People with kiddies could get some help to give time so they could prepare their children for the time when they are not there for them any more I think.
Then there is this story – very hopeful seeming – is she really cured?
US doctor saves life of Kiwi woman with cancer after her call for help on Facebook
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12271594
Freedoms – they are being encroached on. The trend for developers to want to put their own stamp on 'their' development like aristocratic estate owners is an amazing impost in a modern society.
Hobsonville Point house rules: Paint, fence height, planting, tents and more
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12272076
Now for something completely different that hopefully will bring a smile to your face.
I was employed by one of the greatest people I have had the privilege to know, my late boss. He was an officer and a gentleman. with a great sense of responsibility to society with a quick wit and a wicked sense of humour. He was a war hero brought up in the great depression as a young person. He was also a very successful businessman and I am convinced one of the things that made him a success was his attitude towards others and his staff, with a talent for attracting the right people for the right job. He is a great loss to New Zealand
Every so often he would write a company magazine designed towards customers and the staff. Always full of wit and great snippets of wisdom apart from the technical know-how. This weekend we had a de-clutter session and at the back of a cupboard, I found the last issue of this persons magazine I had saved. I decided to read some of the snippets of wit and humour by this great guy, and decided to list them here as I am sure they will bring a smile.
“A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumuor.
If it wasn't for electricity we would be computing by candlelight.
Today's mighty oaks are just yesterday's nut that held its ground
Forget health foods I need all the preservatives I can get.
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.”
Lastly a bit of Shakespear according to this guy
“Sneezing – much achoo about nothing”
Grey@https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-30-09-2019/#comment-1658311
It’s quite common here in Oz with new housing estate and it can quite a headache for those trying to build a new house from these asshole developers and it actually creates a very sterile suburbs.
I worked for a time on Hobsonville Point that Grey refers to above, setting out the area in its initial stages – like many of them, they are Australian developers bringing over your typical New Australian suburb and planting them in NZ. There is one at the bottom of the South side of the Bombay Hills, which is almost the same as the Perth suburb I am currently residing in at the moment. There are some features however that I do find attractive and this is the inclusion of many parks and play areas.
Kia Ora Newshub
YEA The Super Gold Card app it will be good for some of our elderly tangata. I think if the apps are advertised they will get a cell phone it will encourage Our elderly to learn new skills.
Just felt Ruamoko not to big enough to let me know he's moving.
There was a bit of A thunder storm today Ingrid.
I have lowered my meat consumption for the environment I still think we need some meat in our diet just not to much.
Ka kite Ano
Kia Ora Te Ao Maori News.
Kamo high school one would think with that name and 60 % Maori the school would have Te reo Maori.
I see a the Te Arawa tangata whanau links kia kaha
Its great to see tangata whenua culture going strong and some tangata from Te Tairawhiti getting recognized for their mahi.
Ruben was a good Rugby league player and a good role model for sports tamariki.
I enjoy seeing sports people respecting Tangata Whenua culture
Kia Ora to Six60 beautiful waiata
Miss Earth that's excellent we are going to respect the Phenomenon we all came from
Ka kite Ano
Here you go Whanau this is stark evedince that human caused climate change / global warming is our reality it is not fiction like the neanderthal want us to believe.
I can see that the neanderthal are stuffing with new improvements in renewable energy storage and generations and bio oils. Remember these people are ruthless they have no morels they will try anything to stop us transitioning into a society we're every person and country becomes energy independent. That takes away the neanderthal power to manipulate the tangata of the Papatuanuku. That's why they are fighting Green Energy and our reality of global warming sea level riseing with tooth and nail. But like the old saying goes it's Te tangata Te tangata more than tangata Mana that holds the Mana.
Climate change
The climate crisis explained in 10 charts
From the rise and rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to possible solutions
Damian Carrington and Cath Levett
The problem – rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
The level of CO2 has been rising since the industrial revolution and is now at its highest for about 4 million years. The rate of the rise is even more striking – the fastest for 66m years – with scientists saying we are in “uncharted territory”.
The causes – fossil fuel burning
Billions of tonnes of CO2 are sent into the atmosphere every year from coal, oil and gas burning. There is no sign of these emissions starting to fall rapidly, as is needed.
The causes – forest destruction
The felling of forests for timber, cattle, soy and palm oil is a big contributor to carbon emissions. It is also a major cause of the annihilation of wildlife on Earth.
The consequences – global temperature rise
The planet’s average temperature started to climb steadily two centuries ago, but has rocketed since the second world war as consumption and population has risen. Global heating means there is more energy in the atmosphere, making extreme weather events more frequent and more intense.
The consequences – ice melting in Greenland
Greenland has lost almost 4 trillion tonnes of ice since 2002. Mountain ranges from the Himalayas to the Andes to the Alps are also losing ice rapidly as glaciers shrink. A third of the Himalayan and Hindu Kush ice is already doomed.
The consequences – rising sea levels
Sea levels are inexorably rising as ice on land melts and hotter oceans expand. Sea levels are slow to respond to global heating, so even if the temperature rise is restricted to 2C, one in five people in the world will eventually see their cities submerged, from New York to London to Shanghai.
The consequences – shrinking Arctic sea ice
As heating melts the sea ice, the darker water revealed absorbs more of the sun’s heat, causing more heating – one example of the vicious circles in the climate system. Scientists think the changes in the Arctic may be responsible for worsened heatwaves and floods in Eurasia and North America.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/20/the-climate-crisis-explained-in-10-charts
Why is Eco Maori mahi being edited. A
https://youtu.be/QAB6aXOfUmU
Kia Ora The Am Show.
Our government is investing wisely to provide safe cost effective Roads and Highways.
Ka pai to Gull moving into the South Island Eco Maori knows what the prices of fuel is down there. That's why it will be awesome when I see Tangata and Countrys becoming energy independent Ma Te Wa.
Its good to see Africa Americans getting some justice that women shooting her Neighbour who was having tea in his own whare Ka pai.
You think Im going to far kiss my whero.
Tony thank for your good mahi as GrayMouth Mayor all the best on your new journey in life.
In the year 2000 Aotearoa had a fairer wealth distribution our vaxcernated tamariki % were higher the age of our vehicle fleet was younger our sports stadium were full there was low or known homeless people our cost of living was low. What happened well Prebble conned his way into the Labour Party ie Labour started making policy for the wealth people with out thinking about the negative effects it has on the common tangata. Then we get 10 years of a business only government. I say that in the years 2000 the business were not making huge profits.
The class action on the South Island bovine problems is Lawyers showing the rest of the class how they can quite easily take boths sides heaps putea. as I have said war is for idiots negotiation is needed on both sides of the fences. When lawyers are involved the only winner is Te lawyer
We should have more Australian comedy content on TV they have some funny buggers in Australia.
I agree with your views Magda on Our environment and the effects that Modern culture has had on our environment.
Electric cars are not expensive I could buy a good car with only 40.000 km on the clock for $10,000. dollars and cut my carbon footprint in half.
Sir Bob I agree with your comments on gas in Aotearoa. But I think our government used the tactic of legislation to get the big 3 gas companies to let Gull in the South Island.
Ka kite Ano link below
I have had bulls raging they are near impossible to stop them fighting you need a good set of dogs to stop them fighting.
Here you go Whanau they were warned about the way they we have been treating our environment 100s of years ago and even nowadays they don't want to change the UN sustainable economic growth. Ma Te Wa times are going to change fast kia kaha to all the good tangata fighting for our future climate.
Bad ancestors: does the climate crisis violate the rights of those yet to be born?
Our environmental vandalism has made urgent the question of ethical responsibilities across decades and centuries
What if climate breakdown is a violation of the rights of those yet to be born? Finally, this urgent question seems to be getting the attention it deserves. Last month an astonishing 7 million people from nearly 200 countries took to the streets as part of the youth-led global climate strike. Young people around the world recognise that the disastrous repercussions of the already present ecological crisis will fall disproportionately on their shoulders, and the shoulders of generations to come – in particular on those whose communities have emitted the smallest proportion of greenhouse gasses.
That is precisely what some concerned young people have been arguing in the US court system since 2015, when a group of seven plaintiffs, not yet old enough to vote, filed a lawsuit in the commonwealth court of Pennsylvania against Governor Tom Wolf and various state agencies. The suit argued that the defendants had failed to take necessary action to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases consistent with the commonwealth’s obligations as a public trustee. In the legal team’s language, the state was failing in its responsibility to “conserve and maintain public natural resources, including the atmosphere, for the benefit of present and future generations
Back in the US, municipalities such as New York City, San Francisco and Richmond are suing fossil fuel companies for billions of dollars in damages for suppressing information about the hazards of carbon emissions and impending sea-level rise. Additionally, First Nations communities are invoking treaty rights to prevent the pipeline transport of fossil fuels over unceded indigenous territories. The citizens behind these creative legal campaigns are trying to curb resource exploitation to ensure we leave behind a place that is livable
We cannot say we were not warned. In an 1847 speech, pioneering conservationist and congressman George Perkins Marsh identified processes that would later be understood as part of the greenhouse effect. His popular 1864 book, Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action, reprimanded those who despoil the environment and recommended a course of resource management that would take the needs of future generations into account. “The Earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence … would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climactic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism, and perhaps even extinction of the species,” he wrote. “The world cannot afford to wait till the slow and sure progress of exact science has taught it a better economy
Ka kite Ano link below below.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/01/bad-ancestors-climate-crisis-democracy
Some Eco Maori Music For The Minute.
https://youtu.be/KSN7Nz4ECQM
Kia Ora Te Ao Maori News
Eco Maori hope that Maketu pies keeps on trading they have great pies I love the fish pies actually all their pies if I see Maketu pies I will buy them.
Tomorrow is the day that the Pike River Whanau get back to see inside the mine kia kaha.
I think that alcoholism is a deases that needs to be declared as that I have seen the damage it is doing to Tangata Whenua and other cultures.
Ka pai to Orange Sky for providing portable showers for the homeless people. Aotearoa has the worst homeless people in the OECD not long ago Aotearoa had the highest living standard in the OECD.
Ka kite Ano