Even assuming that somehow journalists get paid enough for their work that we have a corpus of quality, objective news available, the question is how do we curate news feeds. When we only had one source of news, there was no choice, but the whole country ...
never underestimate the average new zealander's desire to see people punished.
The majority of the electorate in the US have already made up their minds. the election will be decided by who doesn't vote. Trump voters don't seem to care what he does, or how he behaves, and losing court cases, or getting bad press just confirms their ...
Whether immigration is right or not depends on ideology. Some people are clearly motivated by racism. Others just want to drive down wages. In any case it must be balanced with an increase in infrastructure and housing. Migration cannot solve NZ's labour ...
The ban is not prohibition. It is just an extension of the current restrictions. A shop is currently not allowed to sell tobacco to someone under the age of 16. Under the new law that would change in 2026 to be an age of 17, and then 18 the next year etc. ...
It is all very well to enjoy the ability to criticise the government without feeling like you are betraying our side, but if they do half of what they have committed to we will be significantly worse off. Economically we are guaranteed a recession by this ...
At the beginning of last century Palestine was occupied by the Ottoman empire, but the Turks never colonised as much as the British. The majority of the population were arabs. There were muslim arabs, and christian arabs and jewish arabs. Hebrew was only ...
Netanyahu is recruiting for Hamas, but he doesn't care because it keeps Israelis living in fear and voting for him, and those like him. Hamas doesn't care either, as they know they will win in the end and the sacrifices are necessary. Likud and Hamas need ...
A lesson for the next government! https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-federal-government-kpmg-consulting/
“Tuvalu shall mutually agree with Australia any partnership, arrangement or engagement with any other State or entity on security and defence-related matters. Such matters include but are not limited to defence, policing, border protection, cyber security ...
So with final counting the result is almost the same as 2017 when Labour/Greens could govern with NZ1st. yes this is not good for the Labour party (or NZ) but lets keep it in perspective. Labour needs to find its mojo, but really NZ likes National for some...
I went to walk the Paparoa track a couple of years ago. Like most people I stayed in Punakaiki and took the shuttle to Blackball. Apart from buying a coffee and pie I didn't spend any money there. the facilities in Blackball are pretty good, but there is ...
My particular issue is the absence of a national energy policy, which Labour didn't have and National doesn't have. Yes, energy and climate change mitigation/adaptation is harder to predict. It would be nice to see a strategy, but that seem to be hard. ...
Predictions: NZ First will moderate ACT's excesses, and stop raising the age of Super this term. Maybe they will be used as cover for failing to get any significant tax from overseas buyers. Immigration will again be used as a means to bolster a failing ...
So no result will be registered for the electorate of Port Waikato and a by-election will be held at a later time. That means that the MMP proportionality will not include that electorate, and the party that wins it (presumably National) will get an extra ...
Winston would need to have some leverage, and if the only path to a government is to support NAT/ACT then Winston will probably take what he can get. Foreign Minister and a cabinet post for Shane Jones, along with no change to the age of super may be ...
Kiwibuild may not have delivered so many houses by itself, but it created an environment of house building. Often a subdivision would have a small proportion of the houses as kiwibuild houses, which helped the developer get funding. Sometimes a developer ...
National have costed the saving of $2Billion on benefits, but they haven't accounted for the increase in numbers on benefits due to their austerity measures. 6% reduction in public service spend results in the loss of thousands of jobs directly and many ...
It is easy to predict a recession if National win. It will be guaranteed if they cut public services as much as they have promised. Tax cuts will not be spent enough to compensate.
I will be interested to hear your review of harmonyOS, and how useful it is outside China. If you have ever used a chinese version of Android you will be used to a certain level of frustration with many of the "essential" apps from Google play not working ...
National haven't had a numerate finance spokesperson since Bill English. I doesn't matter - they will just increase GST to 20% and say how good they are as economic managers.
also remember that the last National government found that the promised tax cuts were unaffordable and increased GST to get enough money to govern. Ask, is that their real plan now, as otherwise they won't be able to put a budget together if they win.
Universities are not (never have been) hotbeds of radical thought. They are degree mills, where most students are interested only in a piece of paper that will get them a well paid job. It may be good for young people to spend 3 years away from their ...
Venality is excusable, stupidity is not
Xi has been incredibly bad for China, and life in China is a lot less free than it was 10 years ago but... China's ambitions do not extend beyond territory that it has claimed in the past. It is looking for influence outside the region for access to raw ...
It is a good thing, that NZ steel will be able to compete with overseas producers with a lower carbon footprint BUT... In practice it means that we are recycling steel here instead of sending it overseas for recycling. It reduces NZ emissions, but not ...
Actually the medical/scientific view until recently was largely chromosomal. XX=female, XY=male, and others didn't count. Most of us don't have our chromosomes tested so we go by what looks and feels right. I don't know what it means to feel like a woman (...
One of the things about this debate is a lack of a clear definition. It seems that people's reasons for opposing trans women being called women differ, and the religious right exploit this ambiguity. People talk about "biological woman" as if that makes it...
I am in agreement with lprent - Prisons are unsafe places. You can't make women's prisons safe by excluding a group of people (some of whom might be violent). Putting trans women in a men's prison is also putting them at risk. Putting all self-identified ...
I look at the different groups protesting in Melbourne. It is pretty clear which side are my people. I have a close relative who spent the second half of her life as a woman, married to a man. Any rules that would have denied her access to a toilet or ...
It is not an "either or" it is "both". Real adaptation is many times more expensive that mitigation. If the world had taken the KLyoto agreement seriously 30+years ago, then GW would have been reduced and adaptation costs would be much less. Every bit of ...
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