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Comment: And now, the end is near …
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 2:46 pm, April 15th, 2025
They removed including underage partners in NZS and didn't implement WEAG - they are no friends of the poor.Comment: Trade Like You Mean It: How Aotearoa Can Lead with Values in a Volatile World
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 12:02 pm, April 5th, 2025
Can we be trusted though after cancelling the ferries? As National moves further right it seems we cannot.Comment: US imposes 10% tariff on NZ imports
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 9:38 pm, April 4th, 2025
We see it continuously stated that prices are high in New Zealand as we have to pay international prices. That logically means that we would pay less in NZ if it wasn't for higher prices fetched overseas. Therefore there is an incentive to see overseas. ...Comment: US imposes 10% tariff on NZ imports
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 8:25 am, April 4th, 2025
There is no advantage to a business of selling overseas over selling locally. Apart from higher volumes and prices. Local selling has nothing to do with local supply and demand - orchardists for instance do not sell surplus supply on local markets in order ...Comment: The Libelle liquidation
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 11:09 pm, March 22nd, 2025
.where does the giving end? Such a miserable and dishonest argument. It is government policy to have a level of around 6% employment, it is government policy to let in lots of migrants to put downward pressure on wages, increased pressure on the housing ...Comment: The Libelle liquidation
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 11:08 am, March 21st, 2025
There was an exercise we did at primary school in the late 60's or early 70's that looked at getting a big contract to make more widgets. You had to decide whether to take it or not. The answer in the end was to not take it a you simply did not have enough ...Comment: Open mike 21/03/2025
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 10:53 am, March 21st, 2025
There plenty of info that says that economic disparity plays a large part. The links to these reports seems to no longer work - presumably because the report has been removed. Methinks that could have been a little differently.Comment: Open mike 17/03/2025
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 9:33 pm, March 17th, 2025
Older people continuing to work and get NZS are also denying young people opportunities for work. Is growing quite fast. Was one of the reasons the public service used to have a compulsory retirement age of 60 (back when you could get super at 60.)Comment: Failed Conference
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 3:30 pm, March 14th, 2025
Hey the last National Party business leader big idea conference gave us wait for it - cycle trails. They now hate cycle trails. Can't come up with good ideas. They like wide roads cause all they know how to do is U-turns. Solar and wind energy is where it ...Comment: Daily review 12/03/2025
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 12:25 am, March 13th, 2025
Good is relative. Many were and are shitty businesses who got ahead by paying low wages and stifling competition. They drove many good businesses aside and use their power to kill innovation. I know someone for instance who was bringing in cement more ...Comment: Daily review 12/03/2025
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 10:46 pm, March 12th, 2025
Tis always been the playbook. Take contracts away from local firms (or local staff) give them to large corporates who then contract the local firms at cheapskate rates and clip the ticket on the way. Steven Joyce was the master at this. The money that used ...Comment: Open mike 12/03/2025
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 9:51 pm, March 12th, 2025
I would argue that the pace of change is so fast now that having a diverse workforce from different backgrounds is fundamental to responding to change in an effective and timely manner. Different world views and experience will help find solutions. We saw ...Comment: Open mike 12/03/2025
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 9:28 pm, March 12th, 2025
30% away from target classed as feasible. They have to be taking the piss.Comment: Labour to campaign on tax reform
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 5:15 pm, March 11th, 2025
There are a few emerging issues as well for tax gathering: 1. Increasing use of robotics and AI to do tasks currently done by humans Whether it is packing apples or designing logos, letterheads and advertising here are jobs currently done by humans that no ...Comment: Open mike 11/03/2025
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 3:14 pm, March 11th, 2025
" If one provider goes down it takes out only a few schools at most " Aussie found this out when their largest childcare provider collapsed some years back. (We run some similar risks with childcare provision and residential villages). Privatisation and ...Comment: Open mike 11/03/2025
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 12:36 pm, March 11th, 2025
So even with economies of scale and moving the cleanup costs to the schools Seymour's shitty lunch scheme acolytes still can't survive. I suspect transport costs play a large part. Making local makes so much more sense. Libelle Group - one of the providers ...Comment: Labour to campaign on tax reform
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 1:38 pm, March 10th, 2025
The wealthy having capital hasn't helped our economy. If it did we wouldn't need foreign investment. Lets face it they are accumulating and hoarding their wealth and investing in property which pushes up rentals. They betray NZ by allowing foreign ...Comment: Labour to campaign on tax reform
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 12:15 pm, March 10th, 2025
Tax cuts help those on Super but not those on benefit. Make benefits non-taxable again and increase their value as per WEAG recommendations. Tax breaks for people with non-working partners - such as my parents had. Universal family benefit to replace the ...Comment: Open mike 05/03/2025
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 7:55 pm, March 5th, 2025
The asset threshold to get it is $8.100 for single and $16,200 for a couple. Many who have just retired might take a little while to get their savings down to that level. Some of the growth will be blue collar broken down baby boomers who ended up on ...Comment: Open mike 28/02/2025
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 3:03 pm, February 28th, 2025
Being the descendant of a nurse I know how well she and others looked after patients. It is nice to be occasionally reminded of how well things can work in New Zealand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTA_V55ZF7QComment: Vigilante justice is apparently our birth right
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 7:33 am, February 28th, 2025
Competition is what has got us here. Competition ultimately leads to monopolisation as the big companies buy up the little ones. What is needed is better regulation to allow others to operate eg make it illegal to have contracts that means unwanted surplus ...Comment: Vigilante justice is apparently our birth right
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 7:26 am, February 28th, 2025
I'm finding though the orchards and market garden prices locally dearer than the supermarket in most cases. Apart from protest and travel miles there is little to entice buying from them. The corn we bought recently from one was no cheaper and two pieces ...Comment: Open mike 27/02/2025
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 1:52 pm, February 27th, 2025
When there briefly wasn't a zone system local kids were unable to go to their local school e.g. state housing tenants in areas like Epsom. (If there are any left due to selling off state properties). It also makes it much harder to plan where schools ...Comment: Vigilante justice is apparently our birth right
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 8:51 am, February 27th, 2025
Every one would do it until they are in the position of having to do it. Are you so sure you would do it - hidden knife, visible hammer, faster young reflexes, group of them.......... I've seem quite a few big tough people back out when it is actually time ...Comment: Vigilante justice is apparently our birth right
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 11:34 pm, February 26th, 2025
in the 80's we used to fight with customers and wrestle them to the ground until the police came. I could do that in my rugby playing early 20's days. No problem at all. If we did that today we would get sacked. No question. Our employers guidelines are to ...Comment: Vigilante justice is apparently our birth right
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 11:12 pm, February 26th, 2025
I know one horrible shop owner who would accuse young pretty girls - often schoolgirls - of shoplifting just to watch them get flustered and panicky and cry. He would have loved to have been able to citizen arrest them and put his grubby hands on them. ...Comment: Open mike 25/02/2025
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 10:58 pm, February 26th, 2025
Ahh the person who thinks people puts words in her mouth puts words in mine. We live in a representative democracy. It doesn't matter what I individually approve of or not. The principle is that we elect people, preferably with some expertise in those ...Comment: USA – unreliable, undemocratic, and its citizens are not free compared to me
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 4:12 pm, February 26th, 2025
A friend of mine is of Cuban descent. Her parents have worked in high value and valued positions in NASA and elsewhere. She has plenty of extended family in Cuba. She has never been to see any of them. She said it is quite simple - you can't fly to Cuba ...Comment: Open mike 25/02/2025
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 1:18 pm, February 25th, 2025
Well as someone who doesn't drive I really appreciate cycleways and use them all the time. Those off road are great as it lowers the risk of being hit by an idiot driver to almost nil, those on the road are much safer than previously because they are ...Comment: Why get upset with solar power?
Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 3:05 pm, February 10th, 2025
Have a signed copy of that album. All three members were previously in The Specials.
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- New Zealand extending military assistance to Ukraine
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- Tourism Holdings hit by tariff fallout as US bookings plunge
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- Windbag: Andrew Little reshapes the Wellington mayoral contest
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A close friend and business associate of Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown, has gone from being an unpaid volunteer in the mayoral office, to a contractor paid more than $300,000 a year.Chris Mathews had managed Brown’s successful 2022 election campaign, and is now employed via his own company, to provide “specialist ...14 hours ago
- Newsroom daily quiz, Tuesday 22 April
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- Daily crossword, Tuesday 22 April
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