In the words of the prophet Shania Twain, "It's a fine piece of real estate and I'm gonna get me some land"
Whether coastal shipping pays its way or not is immaterial. Since the mid 1980s almost no-one has used it. It takes about 3% of the load now. When the Cook Strait ferry and its rail transit capacity stopped after the Kaikoura Earthquake, barely anyone ...
Australian taxi drivers win $AU272 million against Uber ... ... and to show it can be done, and you can win big, Australian taxi drivers successfully took on Uber and won. Mostly for being unregulated passenger drivers whereas taxi drivers are all required...
The departments with big managerial strata include MBIE, NZTA, Housing. TVNZ and Health well gutted already. When that 7% headcount cut hits, they will never ever recover back to that salary level.
That team is doing a sterling job. In particular strong mana whenua outcomes on the project. The fly-through gives you a sense of what a rebuild of SH1 through the Brynderwyns is going to face up to.
...how history gets written by election victors
If that really is the case then all of those Opposition MPs should resign. But I know they are capable of more.
Coastal shipping is a minor and narrow sector. If Auckland's port ceased there are plenty of other ports available in Tauranga and Northport, and the inland Hamilton port.to integrate. No one is ever going to build a new sea port. Auckland's port is ...
Peters today retorts that "Hipkins would get drunk on a wine biscuit." That's Winston's Cossie Club comedy schtick slipping from a groove to a rut.
If anyone can remember the 1970s, we used to have major ships all along the Auckland waterfront. Each recapture of commercial marine space has been a win for the public. In 1999 the America's Cup pushed out old freight from a large chunk of waterfront. ...
Oh please. What it simply requires is for Hipkins to try. Here's how Hipkins looked so far from Steve Braunias on the weekend: 'Winning an election does not entitle you to act like a dictatorship. To act like a dictatorship, you need to lose an election. ...
Look forward to it.
Curious to see the Deputy Prime Minister do a "state of the nation" speech a week after the Prime Minister did one. To get a little rise out of mainstream media in politics these days, you need set piece moves like this. Surely it's time Hipkins did his ...
Shaw unshackled is indeed a pleasure in the House.
Sure makes the Skoda Kodiaq hybrid more attractive. Looking forward to more small agile wins. Well done our team!
Maddenin that it took a court case for Fani Willis's lover and prosecutor to resign from working with Willis to prosecute Trump for RICO crimes. You come at the King, you best not miss. On most counts, Trump team delay tactics are winning. Focus team, the ...
I used to be appalled that Hipkins continues to deliberately avoid leading anything like an opposition against this government. And I used to despair at the inability of the opposition parties to effectively unify their attack on anything. But after this ...
Amazing to see Chuck Schumer the Senate Majority Leader go full out calling for Israel's voters to remove Netanyahu, and to make all future aid to Israel conditional. That's the primary Democleader after Biden breaking with AIPAC. Both utterly ...
Who is next on the Green list?
So the US is proposing to build a massive floating dock to get aid to Gaza. https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-politics/ap-how-the-us-military-is-scrambling-to-build-a-floating-dock-for-urgently-needed-aid-to-gaza/ This is far bigger than the Berlin ...
EPA may as well pack up. A Labour-Green government would certainly have a bit of fun with such unrestrained power.
Great to see Buck shanking Boebert in the Colorado 3rd and 4th, using his resignation end of March. Dems have a real shot at holding the Senate even, and squeaking a House majority.
If only digital news were regulated as tv news is by the FCC. But it isn't, and the US Congress, Senate and White House are really clear that this is the very core of their competitive advantage across the entire global digital social media industry. And ...
It's just lies. I won't be reducing anything. It might mean I tread water with the mortgage interest rate increases. Nothing more. Straight policy lies make my blood boil.
Shaw did his time, but with Labour crashing out, what was the point of another term swinging in the empty playground monkeybars of Opposition? Shaw did the right thing.
The parallel Swarbrick should watch is Katie Porter in California. Similar "well researched radical" and youtube clip Queen just crashed and burned in the Dem primary, to a distant third. Stroppy is excellent in opposition. And she's evolved a long way. ...
... here's that US counterstrike planning preparing for first nuclear strike by Putin, in detail: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/09/politics/us-prepared-rigorously-potential-russian-nuclear-strike-ukraine/index.html
Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt probably deserves his own post, but I'll stick down a few moments. He emerged from being a History, English and Latin teacher at Kelston Boys High School, then went pretty much into being selected as the New Lynn Labour candidate and ...
American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles often bragged that it was the success of American nuclear brinkmanship that had finally brought the Chinese and Korean communists to a negotiated settlement in July 1953. The fact is the American and allied ...
Let it out to the Wellington homeless. It's just another empty state-owned housing stock. Some red-paint graffiti on it would help: Tenants Wanted, No Bond, Free Piano
I think we need a post on how much this government is energised by hate for the oppressed and for anything progressive. The speed and depth at which they are pulling away the social supports and progressive policies of the Labour government 2017-2023 is ...
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