They were better as transport blog, when they rebranded as Greater Auckland, it's now two central Auckland wankers pontificating, but officials are so dumb in NZ they still think GA have some insights, when in reality their views (like comparing Seattle to...
Can NZ send another arrogant drunk to negotiate on our behalf like the TPPA that costs jobs, the environment, ignores climate change and sells off our assets for nothing or peanuts while protecting big polluting business? Yes we can be worse negotiators ...
Heartbreaking story - what a tragedy. You have to feel for the family, losing their two children and also suffering from permanent damage. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12200593 What can you say, over someone who is 71 for ...
I think it was his statement that they have nothing to do with AT on their blog that was this issue. [lprent: And you can show that he actually got an observer position? The issue is that you are putting this site at risk with your factual lying. ]
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Be aware that greater Auckland premises seemed to be largely owned by Patrick Reynolds... https://www.businesscheck.co.nz/ltd/9429036736348/ The same guy that put himself forward to be on the Auckland Transport board while 2 democratically elected ...
Pro growth lobby group 'greater Auckland' are gushing about Growing Auckland without growing traffic They claim that Seattle has decreased traffic over the years. Quick look why at reviews... Things like SEATTLE "I'm a big fan of the Link Light Rail! We ...
Davos 2019: Historian Rutger Bregman berates billionaires at World Economic Forum over tax avoidance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5LtFnmPruU (must be why we have down graded our arts degrees like history as useless degrees).
Thanks Patricia bremner, I though it was just pensioners. But as many other groups are now in poverty too, (aka you actually earn less on minimum wages than a beneficiary with 3 children) maybe it would have been better to keep the power in government ...
Since we allowed prisoners not to vote which have a higher percentage of Maori while giving citizenship to individuals within 11 days, maybe we should take a look in the mirror about our own electoral and social engineering disgraces in NZ.
Look where that left us, John Key sold the power and NZ government now earns less money in dividends and the sale price already lower than unpaid dividends and the sale price money frittered away too... oh and people can't afford to heat their houses so ...
@ James, If they bothered to ditch Kiwibuild and maybe just get HNZ to do the building without the hype they might be more successful aka more like previous governments who actually built state houses... 1000 state houses and 33? Kiwibuild houses, gives ...
That in itself makes a Mockery of Jacinda's "climate change is our nuclear free moment'... like wise climate change is also not allowed to be mentioned in free trade deals... clearly not only not a mention in the 100 day changes Labour made, but actually ...
Yes that is what they say but the reality is that you are charged for water and wastewater and the pretence it is for the pipes, but actually you are charged for the usage of the water it is not a fixed charge therefore their spin falls down. The ...
What is new, like the Meth levels, our science and tech is a disgrace. Who in their right mind actually depends of the arrival cards information anyway - people lie, people's plans change, it is obvious! Also know a lot of people who are entering and ...
+1 Herodotus but also it should be contingent on the water being plentiful enough to export because these who live locally and are dependant on a resource should have the priority over money. But if there are no environmental impacts then it is a no ...
@ bwaghorn, 25% of farmers are broke anyway... with the rise in food banks and 40% of people are at poverty level now, maybe the government should offer farmers a rate to produce food for our own people. Since accomodation is subsidised, oil and gas ...
It's not just tents, it is all plastic that needs to be looked at from $2 shops to larger items to force the manufacturers to change their ways to recyclable materials... you will get nowhere expecting consumers to change when there is exponential growth ...
Apart from the child labour not sure the fucking lazy spoilt little brats can be blamed when it is perfectly legal for a company to produce disposable and cheap plastic items and not have anything in place to dispose of them or be responsible for that ...
@Pat, + 1 the water take has grown at exponential levels... and that is why consents and RMA laws needs to be changed to stop that drain before it is too late (and then the rich applicants will do doubt sue the council for bad management or what have you, ...
Not good news for environment and water where population growth of people (and cows) happens and then the councils are cheerleading it... but then oh shit (literally), rushing around trying to find fixes to the problems and the money for those fixes ...
In Auckland they are farming housing estates, not affordable ones though. In Long Bay and other areas is impacting the entire ecosystem and the beaches and water ways but not a word said. Also impacting the existing houses for example the buses now go to ...
Yes it is one thing to allow people who gather the water off their own property the water for free aka roof collection which should never be charged for, but draining it from a communal aquifer is completely different and that source of water should be ...
Retailers, importers and manufacturers need to become responsible for their plastic waste. How can better quality more recycled offerings compete with $25 tents in a low wage economy... the problems is that it becomes the planet that has the plastic burden...
Time to have time limits and out clauses on resource consents if the commercial operation is not in the interests of society or the community, climate change changes the equation or the consents take natural resources away from that community... Things ...
Maybe just put up a sign, scammers come to NZ, they can join the already full troops of arrivals in the courts... of course in NZ we tend to just take the losses and be grateful for any cash dished out from fraudsters and dishonesty operating here, in this...
We already pay much higher interest rates than China, and many of the other countries that we trade with are able to out bid Kiwis and have the advantage of lower interest rates. At one point they were taxing savings in Japan aka you had to pay to put ...
@Gabby, I agree but that is not what is being built in Auckland, the opposite is being built and what the planners are consenting based on the political and economic and market driven 'third way' (aka Rogernomics/Kiwibuild/Thatcherism) models of building ...
Excellent article and food for thought in particular the winning strategy of China to go from a low supply chain to a high value supply chain and BUY UP the supply as part of their success. You can see how successful this strategy is in NZ where Chinese ...
That's sad. If we want to get better functioning and mentally well people in NZ it helps if they are cared for and protected as children.
+1 cleangreen, not only is the cost of other's paying for the trucks wrecking the roads when the trucks should have to pay to fix their destruction, there is also the problem of the congestion and length of time it takes when the maintenance people somehow...
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