It's ironic you link to the interest.co.nz article, without seeming to understand the implications of what is written in it. The way carbon forestry farming works, is once the land is converted to forest and the carbon credits are earned and sold on the ...
Winston Peters.
Yeah, something that happened half a life time ago in a completely different context means his opinion on anything should never be trusted again.
He was not off to a good start when his parents decided to name him Simeon after his evident ape-like qualities at birth.
How do you know if there is 85% compliance or not?
They're called 'green flights'. Such flights already operate from NZ going to Australia and contain only NZ residents who meet green flight criteria.
No. The harm Covid-19 caused has been minimal in NZ. The harm caused by the government's response to dealing with the potential threat of Covid-19 has been extensive. Lol. As James Shaw said last year: we could choose to have a recession with lots of ...
Yeah I don't really get the criticism here. I would like to know those things too. Other countries have published varrying degrees of this information. I'm not entirely sure what these business people think they're going to do once they have the ...
Yes, I'm suggesting that if Ardern proposed we euthanise all blue eyed babies at birth, a majority of Parliament would not support the proposal. Thus, she cannot do "literally anything" as you claimed. On a more realistic level - there are entrenched ...
I'm not the one who wrote a post enumerating Biden's specific accomplishments on his first day in office with the title "PM Ardern and President Biden as a comparison" suggesting that Ardern isn't "similarly focussed" when it isn't a lack of "focus" that ...
Whipping is a convention, not a law. She cannot do "literally anything".
what can be achieved through focus and (political) will & boldness And a political system that allows these things to be done by one person, which again, we don't have.
NZ PM still doesn't have the power to unilaterally enact law on their whim like the US President does. Whipping is a convention, not a law - MPs don't have to vote for what their PM is trying to do if they don't like it. This post is snidely suggesting ...
Just imagine what a similarly focused Ardern government could achieve on its first day back in the year. Far less than this, because New Zealand's system of government requires the vast majority of things to go through Parliament and be assented by the ...
Nah, they'd just take that as evidence that the people pardoned were ANTIFA plants and not really MAGAts. Also they really really don't deserve it.
Yeah, so 95% of people trying to work from home during lockdown then. That's why the actual change between now and 10 years ago that means huge numbers of people working from home during lockdown was feasible now whereas it would have been a disaster 10 ...
That said, connectivity can be crap at times, particularly in School Holidays. And just imagine how much worse it would have been 10 years ago if we had a pandemic and everyone was trying to work from home. Or during level 4 lockdown this year if we ...
The actual real difference now is the fibre broadband rollout with unlimited / very high data caps for practically everyone who wants it. One thing the last National government managed to get right, although entirely by accident because the main benefit ...
and it was a total slap in the face to have the government totally ignore it and sell it anyway. And yet that's what this lot are asking for. Shame on them. No, they're asking the court to declare the referendum null and void. What happens next is up to ...
Not according to Chloe Swarbrick: First thing’s first: why did cannabis legalisation go to a referendum? Since the early 2000s, Green MPs like Nándor Tánczos and co-leader Metiria Turei have tried and failed to decriminalise or legalise cannabis in a ...
Making mortgages EVEN CHEAPER than they are now, at record low levels, is hardly going to constrain house prices, is it? Having that subsidy come directly from the government is also a handout to property owners at the expense of those who don't own ...
It's easy to get around the bright line test anyway. It doesn't apply to the family home. So if you have a rental that you want to sell to avoid the bright line test, you move into it and make it your family home for 6 months before selling. Your actual ...
There's going to be 2 run-offs on 6th January for both of Georgia's senate seats. If Democrats won both, they would have a majority in the senate.
Trump actually won 306 electoral votes in 2016, just there were 2 'faithless electors' that didn't vote for him on the day. Biden is currently on track to get 306.
Age of death for soldiers lost during WW2 are substantially different to those killed by COVID-19. Same goes for WW1 and the flu pandemic.
Meka is outside cabinet. [Thanks have corrected - MS]
Far more jobs would have been created by legalizing it, and in towns and cities up and down the country.
What does this mean? That the Greens aren't needed and we can rely on Labour alone to get things done? Yip.
What's your definition of "lock out"?
playing the long game could well advantage the greens…so if ardern locks them out their support will only grow You act like that is a problem for Labour. Greens aren't going to deal with National. If Labour becomes a centrist party and the Greens can ...
My definition of "treat badly" is "give them much less than what Green leaders, MPs and party members really wanted and are happy with". Marama Davidson said on election night she wanted to be a cabinet minister. If they end up with 0 ministerial posts at ...
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