There's certainly overstocking, but the problem really is the warmth. For at least 3 months of the year, the water temperature in the Marlborough Sounds is well out of what salmon can handle. There have also been continuous marine heatwaves for several ...
Training or retraining people costs more than importing some someone else has trained. If it takes two years to be ready, as they say, then train now and there will be no more problem in two years time. But this problem of 'cant find workers' has persisted...
'Simplifying' the welfare system is what gave us 'jobseekers' who are long term ill, over 60, widowed etc., all those groups who had targeted help before everyone was thrown into the same pot. And you can't blame National for that either, as Labour has had...
'Simplifying' the welfare system is responsible for half the mess it is in the first place. Simplification turned sick people, widowers, people over 55 and anyone else who might warrant a differing approach into 'job seekers'. We're all the same, whether ...
I see the white ants among growers, who for decades have been getting cheap imported labour, without ever once even being asked to come up with a plan for harvesting their crops without bending the law. Why is that not part of a resource consent? If ...
Unless the government already had such a 'cancer plan' in the pipeline before National presented theirs, you have to wonder why they let National and the MSM set the agenda in the first place. Who said that that was the problem de jour, that everyone has ...
Don't worry, there are plenty of deputy sheriffs/curtain twitchers willing to compel the police. https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/115120555/housing-new-zealand-property-a-drug-den-neighbour-believes Maybe we should have a website where everyone could...
A.S is also available to cover insurance, rates and repairs and maintenance, as part of total accommodation cost calculation.
Diesel fumes, agrochemicals to satisfy requirements from several continents at once, etc. 'lifestyle' is low hanging fruit.
You can't do that. If you tell them they'll get subsidies to reduce stock numbers, they will increase them dramatically before the subsidy kicks in. Bit like the possum bounty, people start breeding them.
Why should anyone get a return on investment and a profit? Return on investment is the profit. Reward for labour on the other hand, well, you have to perform some.
Well I hope you are right in that it's not the end of hope, but I wouldn't hold my breath. There are many things that wouldn't cost much at all and would make a difference of perception in welfare politics. None have even been hinted at. Example: A person ...
So 'Global Investors' are putting pressure on social media to suppress 'objectionable content'. What could go wrong? No argument that live streaming massacres is objectionable, but the trouble is there is almost nothing out there that is not objectionable ...
Advice to all would be immigrants who don't meet the criteria: Join the local fire brigade on arrival.
It reminded me of ACT welfare policy. Persistent unemployment causes benefit dependency. So if we take away the benefit, there is no unemployment. Won't argue re decision making
I know it's a quote, but that makes no sense. A declining culture promotes alcoholism, and the decline will reverse if people drink less alcohol? That's like saying it's getting cold and people dress warmer. If only they didn't, the weather would get ...
So we're actually quite entitled to have asset sales undone, given that they had no form of consent from political opponents.
That juxtapositioning is for 'balance'. No piece on climate change can do without a dairy farmer. No report on CGT is complete without a real estate agent's opinion. Fish 'stocks' need preserving? Talley's will tell you otherwise. If there's no controversy...
We might need to ban the Beatles too. Didn't Ringo Starr publish a song called 'You're sixteen'? Sixteen is not a child (almost), but it makes me cringe listening to a dude his age (then) fawning over an adolescent.
Judging by the comments section on this article, they are good representatives of a good number of New Zealanders. We really ought to fund education a whole lot better.
They did not cut taxes. They shifted them from higher income earners to all consumers, including low income earners.
I actually agree with you that we have a choice of parties implementing the same policies, just like in Greece. Democracy as you (and I) would like it is limited by treaties entered into willingly, for better or worse. What I have a problem with is the ...
I'll bet the answers to those questions will be: yes, no, no, no, no. Yes.
What are you on about? No deal = no transition period.
Greece elected the parties that decided to join the Eurozone, after campaigning on just that. Very undemocratic.
'The will of the people'?, what people? I haven't seen any reports of poor Venezuelans rallying for privatisation, deregulation, welfare cuts and small government. But that's what they would get.
I live on a highway that gets very busy during holidays. This season, I have observed a marked decline in the number of SUVs coming past. Maybe people have finally worked out that these town tractors serve no purpose whatsoever unless you actually drive ...
National shows it's taking sea level rise predictions seriously after all.
Mussel farms improve the environment? My Marlborough Sounds based relatives would strongly disagree. Maybe if the growers weren't so greedy...
Yeah they do. Just ask any WINZ designated doctor. GPs (medical professionals) always wrongly declare people unable to work. /sarc
Not fair on Neanderthals, Pete. They actually cared about their fellows: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/10/neanderthals-with-disabilities-survived-through-social-support/ They must have also been quite stupid, as surely all that man needed was a bit more ...
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