I like your turn of phrase towards the end, Ad. There are some provincial townships where the ideal end of a night on the town is a regular bare-knuckle fight outside a local pub, a sort of a fight club with other ex-patrons watching. They make their own ...
Reid Research weight their 1000 respondents with age, sex and geography. Mostly on landlines, I think both bring in some others. But only about 65-70% of households now have landlines. The big difference is that Colmar Brunton also weight their respondents...
there seem to be an all out stampede with parties offering the world, here are a couple of promises from national we will sort out Petrol prices.....after the elections (this was from a couple of months back) prices have slowly crept up money being offered...
Great ideas. But I hope Marama knows about the rules on treating. [TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike as being off topic or irrelevant in the post it was made in. Be more careful in future.] [seeing as how there was literally nothing ...
A great speech, well researched and statesmanlike. It'll be a pleasure to see a Labour-Greens govt in place from September.
We've always used reducing loans, rather than table loans. The banks don't mention them, but you pay the same capital amount with each payment. So over time, the repayments get cheaper, and you've paid off more capital earlier, so you pay less interest. It...
But Trump said "Clean Coal". He stressed that. Put the two words together and maybe some people will believe it.
It's worked so far for Paula Bennett, a modest back-story and even more modest brainpower to go with it.
I've never been on a political march, but I'd march for clean waterways, that's a big part of being a NZer I reckon. We used to have them a couple of generations ago, we know they can be cleaned up with a bit of effort and some new rules. Lake Taupo ...
Don't try the birdlife story Ian, that's not anywhere near the scale of cows or cattle. Just considering cows alone, there are 20 human equivalents taking a dump on paddocks, for every human in NZ. That's a lot of point source pollution. It's impossible to...
Exactly. Why ruin the first decent chance to keep National pinned down after John Key abdicated, Peter Thiel's stupid deal, etc? Surely every Labour MP would have a proper code of conduct relating to party interests, that they have to follow. Poto Williams...
Have to agree about Paula Bennett, she is challenged. Has read about hyperbole, but doesn't know how to say it. http://tvnz.co.nz/q-and-a-news/climate-change-paris-agreement-signed-video-6464414
... 5: 22 - 31] [Looks like Gavin is doing a bit of...
WHAT A FOOLISH THING NEW ZEALAND HAS DONE This morning I woke up to the news that New Zealand had pushed for the Two State resolution to proceed despite Egypts withdrawal just yesterday at the behest of Israel and President elect Donald Trump. Furthermore ...
Agreed, that could be part of a new Planet Key video. Painful to watch it, but the lyrics are the real crime. "We've got the money, We have the power" - unfortunately that's true, and the left will need a fair bit of marketing cash to change the government...
The Housing bubble may burst by itself or house prices and therefore equity may drop because of bank, Reserve Bank, or Government initiative. (Or people power or a buyers strike etc.) If it is caused by intent then some protection could be written into law...
I guess it's a question of which party will be in power when Auckland prices inevitably fall for a bit. Of course we can't all keep consuming stuff at the same rate on average, the model will have to change at some point short-medium term, but I still ...
Labour tried by example to get private people to save more, they set up the Cullen Fund, they were being careful with their spending, and making sure it had a chance of being productive. The average dairy farmer had a capital gain of over $1mill during ...
Labour did a heap better in their last three terms. Crown debt was almost wiped out, and some of it had been there for a long time. They did it by holding a sensible tax rate for the wealthy, and keeping tax loopholes fairly tight. Of course economic ...
I quite agree with you Jenny, climate change is for sure, the biggest problem the world has ahead. Too much of a temperature change, and every country will be fending for itself. We've not left ourselves in too good a position to do that tidily. One thing ...
I think that's the clever thing about this MOU. We've all got a lot more hope for the next election. Good points about the electorates. Generally the party vote and the electorate vote are close to each other in numbers. Win the electorate - you'd ...
This is great news, brought a tear to my eye, as It's by far the smartest thing Labour and the Greens could do at this stage of the runup to the 2017 election. We both want National out, badly. The people in these parties know the figures, have been ...
I think you're correct about Carl Hansen being fairly right-wing. Otherwise he'd be saying the sensible thing, which is why not roll everything back together as ECNZ and be done with it. We're such a small country of consumers, why do we need so many ...
It's eight years on and I can't grow the economy or even balance the books. Even our press helpers are grumpy. Still, it beats farming. Smile for the camera.
That sounds about right. A few million or tens of millions, lots of that in the news over the last week or so. They've also delayed lots of spending, probably also reallocated normal spending as capital spending to spread it out. National are nowhere near ...
Spot on Keith, R&D tax credits would have worked extremely well I think. National killed that Labour policy off, as one of their very first acts in 2008.
I agree, this is something new and solid we can campaign with, it'll help a lot, and it's smart policy. It also looks and feels like real Labour policy.
Andre, points noted. At least Labour says that 50% of any carbon credits have to be in NZ, and they are also stating that they're on the lookout for dodgy overseas credits. Farmers would have to pay too, for their emissions. I like the point about looking ...
Just to reassure myself, I had a look at Labour's Climate change policy. It's hard to find, should be more prominent on their website. Nothing wrong with this 2014 policy, they've obviously thought a great deal about it, I think it would be great to see ...
I'm involved with my local Labour Party, and while I haven't been there for many years like some, I realise that funding is our biggest issue. National buys their votes - we're a bit toothless until we can market ourselves. I'm working on that locally, ...
The effect of new research findings on some climate scientists has caused them to move their families to colder, remote climates, or to go off-grid, and to be reluctant to speak to the press in case they are persecuted. The USA seems to be one of the ...
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