No argument from me about the need for more public housing. Nor any argument against the need for Kainga Ora to renew the state house s it had, hence their need to rebuild whole suburbs like Owairaka and Northcote and Mangere and Point England and more. If...
I think it means they won't be masterplanning whole suburbs anymore. Was good while it lasted, starting way back with Hobsonville. It may also mean that they pull back from being the housing property owner, to a position where they control more of the ...
I do not know why Iran has to be the next country to destabilise among a regional chainsaw juggling act, but here we are. They have a choice of super-hardline zealots who could win an election that has to be held inside 50 days, or we have the ultra-...
A great use for all those stainless steel tanks. But not sure the farmer shareholders would agree, since it is in no way in their interests.
It's small on two counts, even if we agree that there's been an increase between 2017 and 2022 in the size of the core public service and also in the proportion of the workforce who are public servants. Neither in 2017 nor in 2022 did we have enough police...
Using % of GDP isn't a useful measure of social welfare. It's just focusing on spending rather than effect. It doesn't admit of a growing underclass, growing long term unemployment strata, growing gang strata, and massively growing average wealth disparity...
Buckle in it may take over a term. My advice is join something small that doesn't need too much central government funding. Anything.
You already know who the main donors for the UNRWA are. There's no point calculating what is and isn't cynical in Gaza, no any reason to presume the US is 'in control'. Forget any political calculus. Just come back in a few weeks and see if this port is ...
You're older but your conclusions are the same as mine. Whatever New Zealand was supposed to look like, it wasn't this.
It's very possible that the 2024 post-budget state of party activism enables a whole generation of activists to complete their activist phase. What could be completed in parliament in gender activism, carbon activism, Maori land activism, has been ...
It's going to be the main source of aid into Gaza. Maybe before you write it off, check how it's working in a couple of weeks. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/17/what-is-the-us-floating-pier-off-gaza-will-it-work Israel is responding to arm-twisting ...
We will look back on the 2023 election as the most emphatic No Left Turn moments since 1996. The country we have and will always be is one with a small American-style minimalist welfare system, punitive corrections and justice system, small and non-...
Substantial impvemeny on now.
Good to see the Israeli defence establishment positioning carefully against Netanyahu and his sadistic cabinet. Absence of a governance plan after 6 months is sick. Can't wait to see that floating Wharf delivering aid into Gaza.
Presumably Seymour wants to bring back Crown Health Enterprises. Just a license to privatize and sell off our public stuff.
Is Luxon or Hipkins he bigger drag on their party? Headline works the same in the USA. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/chuck-todd-biden-trump-bigger-drag-party-rcna152225
Oh please
Wood was corrupt and politically incompetent. Well gone.
By the end of their first year, they can be accountable for these metrics: - unemployment will spike to 6.5% - GDP growth will be at or near 0% - our trade deficit will remain negative - house prices may go up 3-4%, but so will rent prices, and the house ...
I would hope from this decision, Labour's leader office gets a broader scope of tools able to hold Ministers accountable. This government is using astonishing speed to ram legislative change and policy changes through Cabinet and Parliament. Labour's ...
More than 50% of our secondary school students don't attend school in terms 2 and 3. We've thrown volumes of cash at teachers, and at school buildings, during the Ardern years. I don't envy teachers for the curriculum whiplash they are going through in ...
If you get a moment check out Matthew Hhotens opinion of this government in the latest Metro. Scathing of Luxon and Willis and wishes them gone.
Another piece of this governments incoherent garbage-wave of policies, legislation, political non-accountability, and absurd fiscal destruction. Good on the honest RIS drafters.
Wanaka's Solar Zero Ltd does distributed area + battery pretty well already.
Well thank God our dozen MUG corporate overlords deigned to shuffle electricity use to enable 5 million people to have lights and heating.
Over a third of our electricity use comes from: - Tiwai point smelter - Bluescope Steel Glenbrook - 4 pulp and paper and printing plants - 12 milk plants - 2 fertilizer companies and 2 cement companies No need to blame neoliberalism. These are the ...
I think he's good.
Social and then political license for shifting CO2 production evaporates faster than the steam from your morning shower when we are in the first week of May and already getting power supply constraint notices from Transpower to the generators. https://...
A reasonable commentary on the consistent scandals befalling the Green Party over the last 6 months. https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2024/05/08/green-party-grapples-with-persistent-scandals/ It's a mighty big rebuild they have to do.
The silence out of Tory Whanau - whose city and project it actually is - must be unnerving since they are both out of the same party. Where is Tamatha Paul on Genter, since she's just come from the City Council and gone into Parliament, within the same ...
It is particularly weird and unsafe for one side to advise the media that they have reached agreement on a ceasefire without the other side at the same media conference agreeing to those same terms. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/6/hamas-accepts-...
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