I think this writer has some hidden agenda on keeping taxes on petrol as many points made against a switch make no sense. He/she makes out it's a balanced article giving pros and cons but really if you read it properly without bias it's very one sided. ...
Totally agree. I have no problem with speculators but they should pay tax on capital gains in the same way we pay tax on our salaries.
There is the problem in Australia where the uptake on solar is large. It means the costs of maintaining the wider system is borne by a smaller and less moneyed section of the community. As more become self sufficient on energy the more the poorer sections ...
Steve Elers tag line at the bottom of his opinion pieces on stuff currently say he is " a senior lecturer at Massey University and writes a weekly article on cultural and political matters' or something similar. It should read "he is an ill-informed senior...
He was a republican governor in a very blue state. These things say next to nothing about his own values. Also, Wiki does not say that he is pro-choice, it say that he wasn't going to force the issue in New Jersey (because, again, it's a very blue state), ...
"a stereotypical wannabe hipster whom no mother would chose as her son-in-law. " Looked like a clone of Thompson & Clark spy Nick Tapp to me.
the genius of a calming sausage! Just look at them.
Oh I don't know i thought they were some lovely calming sausages myself.
Lovely calming sausages with a reactionary message.
Yep, it's the black women who chose not to vote for the racist, sexist child molester who are the real problem in America
Magic. Uplifting.
Not being willing to reach out is a complete and utter disregard from what I consider a social obligation. If they aren’t willing to, who cares. Step up and be the one that does. To absolve the left of any dirty politics as I said in a previous comment is ...
You’ve swung from supporters to the party there. I was merely having a go at your attitude towards those who voted for them. As Lurgee say below, how does this help the situation? Attacks never will and never have changed the discourse nor persuaded minds....
As a realist, to think that the left play clean politics is naive at best, utterly ignorant at worst. This will be a good govt, hopefully great if given time and genuine discourse but let's face it, it's politics you don't advance by being squeaky clean.
"1,152,075 witless dupes and criminal trash voted for the National Party." Right, let's get one thing straight. Just because someone doesn't vote according to your held beliefs does not mean that gives you the right to label them all as you have. IS this ...
A magic result. There are a large group of soft blues who have been impressed with Jacinda. I see the Nats bleeding more. There used to be a compassionate Nat vibe in Holyoake's time, but that has vanished post Roger Douglas and the current lot. I am sure ...
How does New Zealand compare to this analysis of Bob Hawkes legacy on child poverty? http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/no-child-shall-live-in-poverty-study-finds-hawke-has-nothing-to-be-ashamed-of-20171013-gz0whw.html
To me the simple difference between left and right is that those on the right say "I" and those on the left say "We".
My memory may be failing me but I have an idea when the MMP system was put to the country, the Nats chose the worst option available in the expectation it would be voted out and FPP would prevail. The better models of West Australia and I think Germany ...
Colin King was rolled in Kaikoura. There are some who are still not happy!
Leave Kawakawa Bay alone!
I dug around for the list of Key's lies. The current crew are not nearly as good at getting away with the lies. One source is Jan 27 2016 Blip writing The great big list of John Key’s big fat lies (UPDATED)
Michael Cullen earned a very positive reputation as a Minister of Finance. He got some of NZ's debt way down. How is it that that figure is never celebrated to show how recent Labour governments, far from being spendthrifts, were careful with their $$$$ ...
Nostalgia!! John Clarke... so sad he has gone. Still hilarious. Who was the well known race-caller he was imitating?
Barnaby Joyce joins Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen as wonderful exports from NZ. Thank goodness they found a home in Australia. The current crisis raises the issue that if Barnaby has broken the law so clearly, does an Australian-born New Zealander get exported ...
I was a lift boy on the RAL lifts at Ruapehu at the time and arrived home to the RAL lodge after our dinner at the servants quarters of the Chateau! The majority of the guys were Aussies or Swiss or Americans or Canadians. A few Kiwis were not particularly...
Hi Jin An was a police prosecutor in west Auckland, never a police officer. Cheers D
I have had enough of "fake news". How about "fake President"?
That is so sad. It has not been a good week for cartoonists with Aussie Bill Leak dying a few days ago.
Raise taxes on any wealthy boomers, and dilute the impact of housing speculators would help redress the inequities of this change of tack by the Nats.
The notion of global budgeting is the focus of teacher associations at the moment. I would ask everyone to go to Google scholar and look up references to global budgeting. It has been used widely in Asian medical circles to cut costs: cut the cost of ...
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