Close the camps Australia

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Boycott Wilsons merchants of misery

A protest is planned in Auckland today by local progressive activist Julia Schiller against Wilson Security for its continued management of the Nauru and Manus Island refugee detention centre. Wilson Security is an Australian firm and is related to Wilsons Parking in New Zealand.

In Australia a national day of action is also planned and action against the corporation has been ongoing. The action has been successful with Wilsons announcing that it will not renew its contract to manage the detention centres when the contract expires in October 2017. The Boycott Wilson group still wants to go ahead with the protest and the reasons are set out in this press release.

Wilson Security have announced that it will not be renewing its Manus and Nauru contracts.

While we welcome this news and see it as a huge step forward, we are very aware that we must maintain the pressure on both the government and on the refugee detention-industrial complex.

The fact remains that people imprisoned on Nauru and Manus Island continue to suffer daily. The Wilson and Broadspectrum contracts do not not expire until October 2017. We say that 13 months is too long to wait, especially on top of years of despair and abuse.

Wilson Security says in its statement that it is “takes pride” in its performance and has carried out its obligations to “the best of its ability’. Such a statement shows contempt for the people who have been abused and traumatised by its staff. That is why we will go ahead with our planned action this Saturday. Wilson Security must be held to full account for the human rights crimes it has committed.
We know that direct action works and we will continue to act until the camps are closed and every last person is safely resettled.

We demand that Wilson Security and Broadspectrum withdraw from the contracts now.
We further demand that the government arranges safe passage for all asylum seekers/refugees on Nauru and Manus Island who choose to resettle in Australia and that they are provided with full resettlement support.

Wilson Security, G4S and Serco must be held accountable for human rights crimes committed against asylum seekers both onshore and offshore.

Julia has set out the reasons for the local protest.

Most New Zealanders know Wilson Parking for the utterly extortionate rates they charge at their pop-up car parks and garages. However, the Wilson corporate portfolio extends into far more nefarious business than $9 an hour to park your car. You may have seen reports about the Australian Government’s deplorable detention centres set up for asylum seekers on Nauru and elsewhere. Wilson Security, another tentacle of the multinational Wilson monster, are subcontracted to run the camps and are implicated directly in human rights abuses, inhumane conditions, and cover ups.

In solidarity with a Boycott Wilson group founded by concerned Australian citizens, the Kiwi group Boycott Wilson NZ is holding a protest rally to inform citizens of this Wilson connection. We believe compassionate Kiwis will join our call for a boycott of Wilson garages. If it becomes too wounding to their bottom line, the only factor that seems to matter to such large corporations, we expect Wilson will withdraw from running the detention centres. If enough private corporations like Wilson know the citizenry of Australia and New Zealand won’t stand for them profiting from despair, the Australian government will be forced to close these unaccountable offshore camps and start processing asylum seekers in a transparent and humane way.

Boycott Wilson NZ invites concerned citizens to gather with placards for a protest rally on Saturday, September 3 from 1:00 – 3:00 pm at Lumsden Green, a public park at Broadway and Khyber Pass in Newmarket, just down the road from one of Wilson’s many parking garages.

The New Zealand Facebook page with details of the protest is here.

 

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  1. The New Student 1
    3 September 2016 at 11:58 am

    Will you offer these people a room in your house? To be honest, I wouldn’t.

    • Pasupial 1.1
      3 September 2016 at 1:12 pm

      TNS
      In Dunedin we are offering refugees their own homes (actually; in the satellite town of Mosgiel, in the one case of which I have definite knowledge). This seems a much better solution than splitting up families and putting individuals in rooms in other’s houses. There is, of course, a lot of support needed with culture and language barriers – fortunately community support has been there so far.

      However, I am curious by what you meant by; “these people”. The torturers or the tortured?

    • Henry Filth 1.2
      3 September 2016 at 2:07 pm

      Hi New,

      I think that the Wilson’s are probably quite nice people at heart. Basically nice folks like you and me, but suffering a bit from the stress of the job.

      Yeah, I’d rent them a room, but to be honest, with the money they’re making and the tax they’re dodging, they probably wouldn’t be interested.

      Cheers, Henry.

  2. Henry Filth 2
    3 September 2016 at 1:58 pm

    Who owns Wilson?

    Are they in your Kiwisaver fund?

    How much profit do they ship offshore and how much tax do they pay?

    Resist the revisionist paper tiger capitalist running-dog hyena imperialist aggressors on all fronts!

    • Reddelusion 2.1
      3 September 2016 at 2:49 pm

      Resist the deluded card carrying Dodo communist running a dog poo global revolutionary manifesto in his underpants Comrades!

      Love the hyperbole Henry 😀

      • reason 2.1.1
        3 September 2016 at 8:58 pm

        I love it how Henrys lip gets all wobbly at the thought of white collar criminals not being able to use tax havens and other scams like the Global Shadow Transactions regime ( GST ) that our sub prime prime minister was building and networking about ….

        I love RedD more for alerting us about the new disease “deranged key syndrome’ …….. where infected people become serial cheats , liars and pony tail pervs with a nasty greed is good attitude ……….. The other option for RedDs ‘ ‘deranged key syndrome’ disclosure is that he is as dumb as they come and a moron who can’t even get a simple childish 3 word kindergarten insult right …. and we all know RedD is not that stupid 😉 ……….

        ****************************************************

        39 years ago national were on the wrong side of history and made our country a international villain for supporting Apartheid South Africa ……… The Montreal Olympics were all but ruined when over 30 mainly African countries did a dramatic last minute walkout and boycott because we (New Zealand) were there

        … we absolutely gutted the premier track and field events …”the track meet was badly diminished by the absence of perennial powerhouses like Tanzania and Kenya. ”

        “The boycotters said they refused to participate alongside New Zealand, whose national rugby team had embarked on a controversial tour of apartheid South Africa that summer ………That June, South Africa’s government massacred over 350 anti-apartheid protestors during the infamous Soweto riots. ”

        “That country’s rugby team was touring South Africa, despite the recent Soweto uprising, which led to the deaths of hundreds of black protesters.

        South Africa had been excluded from the Olympics since 1964.” ….

        “The All Blacks’ decision to tour South Africa in 1976 – at the height of the racial apartheid era – happened in defiance of a United Nations’ call to halt all sporting competition with the nation until racial equality was reached.” ……..

        So 39 years ago National with their team mates The Rugby Union made New Zealand and rugby famous for supporting a murdering racist Apartheid country …………

        http://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/82567562/New-Zealand-at-centre-of-Olympics-boycott

        http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/the-olympics-used-to-be-so-politicized-that-most-of-africa-boycotted-in-1976/260831/

        http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/17/newsid_3555000/3555450.stm

        Fast foward 39 years and the world clearly sees Tax havens as being morally bad and often facilitating serious crimes by corrupt rich people ….. Poor people pay the price ….

        “”Tax havens are at the core of a global system that allows large corporations and wealthy individuals to avoid paying their fair share,” said Raymond C. Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America, “depriving governments, rich and poor, of the resources they need to provide vital public services and tackle rising inequality.”

        “Many schemes described in the Panama papers involve anonymous shell companies, whose real owners hide behind hired “nominees”. Such vehicles are known as the “getaway cars” for tax dodgers, launderers and crooked officials. “http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11616350

        John Key is the bent key and supporting tax havens is supporting economic Apartheid ………….. investment bankers are quite comfortable with poor kids living in cars or on rubbish dumps ….. or middle class kids getting huge student debts and locked out of home ownership by speculation and money laundering……

        Wilson Security sound like ratbags so will probably do well while the Nacts are in power …………..

        P.s is it true that the All blacks are paying no tax since Key got involved with the team ???? ………….

        Keys good ethical Lawyer mate knows how to protect our boys money ….. If anyone deserves zero tax its Ritchie and our ABs

        I’m sure Henry and RedD can agree on that ….. 🙂

        • Reddelusion 2.1.1.1
          3 September 2016 at 9:36 pm

          Thanks for clearing that up reason………I think 😀

        • Henry Filth 2.1.1.2
          4 September 2016 at 2:00 pm

          I’m not sure I see any reason for zero tax for one section of the population at the expense of others. However. . .

          As far as your tax haven white collar crime thing goes, I still think that it would be a shame if the baby went out with the bathwater.

          Finally, the foray into the political history of New Zealand sport was interesting. A nice piece of writing.

          • reason 2.1.1.2.1
            4 September 2016 at 10:52 pm

            Its a strange old world Henry ……….when the trolls are being nice to me but two site authors have dressed me down rather aggressively in another thread …

            I could say the only thing I got for fathers day was being called a syphilitic misogynist fuckwit and a ridiculous illauminati believing misogynist conspiracy theorist ………. but it would be a fib as my children gave me little gifts from the other end of the emotional spectrum 🙂 ..

            And In this good lift of spirit that my children always give me I’ll just agree to disagree with you about the baby ….

            Cheers for finding our Montreal Olympics history interesting …. A lot of older New Zealanders have forgotten about it and most born after the event have never heard of it ……. I see parallels with New Zealand being on the wrong side of the tracks in the present

            The credit for the writing should go to others as it was mainly copying & pasting on my part…..

    • Murray Simmonds 2.2
      5 September 2016 at 3:29 am

      It’s my understanding that Wilson Parking is owned by the Kwok family, based in Singapore.

      http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/6710328/Arrested-tycoons-NZ-parking-empire

    • reason 3.1
      3 September 2016 at 9:30 pm

      thanks for posting that very informative link JanM ……

      “Wilson’s accountants PWC in Perth sent documents directly to Wilson Offshore Group Holdings (BVI) Limited in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), which were received by Mossack Fonseca, their registered agent located in the same British Virgin Islands.”

      “The Kwok brothers maintained effective control as directors via a covert manoeuvre facilitated by Mossack Fonseca.

      Two weeks after the brothers were charged, both Thomas and Raymond Kwok removed themselves as directors from Wilson Offshore Group Holdings (BVI) Limited but replaced themselves with two mysterious new directors that were companies, Winsome Sky and Harmony Core.

      The leaked files show the directors of those mystery companies were in fact the Kwok brothers themselves.” …..

      ………… Its also interesting to note from the story …””Wilson’s accountants PWC ”

      PWC ………. would that be ‘the firm’ John Shewan the $2.2 billion bank robbery guy worked for when selling or designing ‘tax vehicles ‘ ………. http://i.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/2944357/IRD-wins-against-Westpac

      http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10585008

  4. Dale 4
    3 September 2016 at 9:00 pm

    Here in Perth we are waiting for our new children’s hospital to open,but it’s behind schedule. So the tax payer built parking building run by Wilson is charging the WA State Government 500,000 per month until the children’s hospital opens. These scum need taking down BIG TIME.

    • Steve Wrathall 4.1
      4 September 2016 at 9:34 am

      And how behind schedule will your govt infrastructure be, if it has to pay for the same sort of migrant flood that Europe is seeing? Because that is what will happen if Australia lets in one of these queue-jumpers from the camps.

      • One Anonymous Bloke 4.1.1
        4 September 2016 at 10:45 am

        You might want to check your fear and thinly-veiled bigotry and see if they’re compatible with the values you pay lip service to.

      • Steve Wrathall 4.1.2
        4 September 2016 at 2:39 pm

        So you have no argument against the fact that allowing queue-jumpers in will cause the same disaster we see in Europe? Just spitting out labels? A Copy machine does a better job at that

        • Macro 4.1.2.1
          4 September 2016 at 3:06 pm

          🙄

        • One Anonymous Bloke 4.1.2.2
          4 September 2016 at 3:31 pm

          The disaster(s) happened where the refugees used to live.

          I note that you are confused about the difference between predictions and facts. I further note that Europe has had terrorism for as long as I can remember and wonder if you think this latest incarnation is somehow worse than Action Directe and the Red Army Faction.

          PS: labels? I named your fear and bigotry. Happy to expand on the underlying argument if you can’t grasp it.

  5. TheExtremist 5
    3 September 2016 at 10:11 pm

    Shame shame shame on Australia. A fundamentally racist society.

  6. Steve Wrathall 6
    4 September 2016 at 9:31 am

    Close the camps? And within months Aussie will be experiencing exactly the same disaster Europe is seeing: mass drownings by queue-jumpers and mass profits for people smugglers. At least one country has its head screwed on.

    The detention centres of course have to be unattractive. The fact that there have been no mass drownings since 2013 show it works http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/thebordercrossingobservatory/publications/australian-border-deaths-database/

    • reason 6.1
      4 September 2016 at 10:19 am

      Are queue jumpers those who can run away from the destruction wrought upon their lives and society the quickest ?????????

      The Aussies were bitching and going on about the Vietnamese boat people in the late 70’s and 80’s ………….. they seemed to forget their part in the invasion, destruction, poisoning and impoverishment of Vietnam.

      Now they have forgotten their front of the line rush to join Bush on his ‘crusade ‘ and illegal invasion of Iraq ………… setting of a chain of huge destruction and resulting in the worst refugee crisis I can remember ….. which they blame on the victims.

      Just What sort of flag are Aussies kissing nowadays ….

      • Steve Wrathall 6.1.1
        5 September 2016 at 5:54 pm

        The Indochinese refugees from communism integrated marvellously, and didn’t try to impose the system they were fleeing from.

        • reason 6.1.1.1
          8 September 2016 at 11:11 pm

          Refugees are generally grateful and good immigrants ….. certainly better than rich corrupt immigrants that New Zealand has opened the floodgates too ….. http://i.stuff.co.nz/business/money/83450345/Court-orders-forfeiture-of-42-85-million-in-alleged-money-laundering-case

          http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/63963090/corrupt-chinese-could-be-making-political-donations–labour

          Regarding the Aussies and the Vietnamese refugee boat people …. White Aussies often called them gooks and dog eating slope-heads …. ( and steve calls them Indochinese )

          ‘Springvale a suburb In Melbourne was renamed ‘chingvale ‘ in the 1980’s by the racist white Aussies because of the Vietnamese community there ………

          Vietnam was a poisoned and destroyed country after the Immoral Vietnamese war ….. Drenched in agent orange ……… sowed with landmines and bombs …. and suffering under a punitive u.s.a trade embargo ….

          ” the United States military sprayed nearly 20,000,000 U.S. gallons (75,700,000 L) of chemical herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam, eastern Laos, and parts of Cambodia”

          “The campaign destroyed 5 million acres (20,000 km2) of upland and mangrove forests and millions of acres of crops. Overall, more than 20% of South Vietnam’s forests were sprayed at least once over a nine-year period.[42][49]

          In 1965, members of the U.S. Congress were told “crop destruction is understood to be the more important purpose … but the emphasis is usually given to the jungle defoliation in public mention of the program.”

          “This contributed to widespread famine, leaving hundreds of thousands of people malnourished or starving.” ……

          In another shameful part of New Zealands history …….as well as joining in the killing of millions of Vietnamese in the illegal u.s.a led war …….we also helped produce the agent orange poison ……. that was used to destroy their crops and defoliate their forests ……

          “The government of Vietnam says that 4 million of its citizens were exposed to Agent Orange, and as many as 3 million have suffered illnesses because of it; these figures include the children of people who were exposed.[55] The Red Cross of Vietnam estimates that up to 1 million people are disabled or have health problems due to contaminated Agent Orange”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange#Effects_on_the_Vietnamese_people

          Our government denied that we were producing the agent orange poison here in New Zealand ………….. like steve they were telling lies

          https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/pages/cancerincidenceandmortalityinnewplymouth.pdf

          http://www.getipm.com/articles/agent-orange-nz.htm

          http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/video/34544/agent-orange-the-lasting-impact-of-vietnam

          parts of NZ are poisoned from our part in the poisoning ofVietnam ….”The contaminated soil and sediment continue to affect the citizens of Vietnam, poisoning their food chain and causing illnesses, serious skin diseases and a variety of cancers in the lungs, larynx, and prostate.”

    • One Anonymous Bloke 6.2
      4 September 2016 at 10:42 am

      Australia has a bigot problem, not a refugee problem.

    • Macro 6.3
      4 September 2016 at 3:32 pm

      🙄
      and how does the “unattractiveness” of these gulags:
      http://hrlc.org.au/un-finds-australias-treatment-of-asylum-seekers-violates-the-convention-against-torture/
      https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/10/the-nauru-files-2000-leaked-reports-reveal-scale-of-abuse-of-children-in-australian-offshore-detention
      https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/25/ferrovial-staff-risk-prosecution-for-managing-australian-detention-camps
      sit with all these treaties to which Australia is a signatory?
      Your argument that they have saved drowning is of course bullshit, as is every argument you make, but this one is particularly heinous. There would be no need for any drownings if Australia acted as a responsible world citizen, and processed asylum seekers in their country, as they have agreed to do under the UNHRC.
      But as OAB notes Australia has a huge bigot problem, as you have yourself – amply portrayed within your comments.

      • One Anonymous Bloke 6.3.1
        4 September 2016 at 3:43 pm

        Maybe I’m being too harsh, or at least, singling out Aussies as though they are so much worse than anyone else.

        Goebbels’ infamous remarks, “die Menschen können sich immer auf die Gebote der Führer gebracht werden…” suggests otherwise: “Es funktioniert auf die gleiche Art und Weise, in jedem Land”.

        • Macro 6.3.1.1
          4 September 2016 at 4:35 pm

          hmmm surprisingly so very true….
          Even here… the sheeple love their “leader”
          I guess Steve is just very easily persuaded.

  7. brian 7
    4 September 2016 at 3:35 pm

    From personal experience I can say this is a rotten scamming dishonest company. I have a parking ticket and threatening letter from them because I parked within the rules at Westfield St Lukes. I parked for less than 60 minutes in a 90 minute space, I am lucky to have timestamped receipts to prove my times otherwise I would be at the mercy of these cheats and their bullying ways to the tune of $50. For your own safety avoid their business.

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    These dire woeful and intolerant people have been so determinedly going about their small and petulant business, it’s hard to keep up. At the end of the new government’s first woeful week, Audrey Young took the time to count off its various acts of denigration of Te Ao Māori:Review the ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    3 days ago

  • Another attack on te reo
    The new white supremacist government made attacking te reo a key part of its platform, promising to rename government agencies and force them to "communicate primarily in English" (which they already do). But today they've gone further, by trying to cut the pay of public servants who speak te reo: ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    3 days ago

  • For the record, the Beehive buzz can now be regarded as “official”
    Buzz from the Beehive The biggest buzz we bring you from the Beehive today is that the government’s official website is up and going after being out of action for more than a week. The latest press statement came  from  Education Minister  Eric Stanford, who seized on the 2022 PISA ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    3 days ago

  • Climate Change: Failed again
    There was another ETS auction this morning. and like all the other ones this year, it failed to clear - meaning that 23 million tons of carbon (15 million ordinary units plus 8 million in the cost containment reserve) went up in smoke. Or rather, they didn't. Being unsold at ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    3 days ago

  • Gordon Campbell On The Government’s Assault On Maori
    This isn’t news, but the National-led coalition is mounting a sustained assault on Treaty rights and obligations. Even so, Christopher Luxon has described yesterday’s nationwide protests by Maori as “pretty unfair.” Poor thing. In the NZ Herald, Audrey Young has compiled a useful list of the many, many ways that ...
    Gordon CampbellBy lyndon
    3 days ago

  • Rising costs hit farmers hard, but  there’s more  positive news  for  them this  week 
    New Zealand’s dairy industry, the mainstay of the country’s export trade, has  been under  pressure  from rising  costs. Down on the  farm, this  has  been  hitting  hard. But there  was more positive news this week,  first   from the latest Fonterra GDT auction where  prices  rose,  and  then from  a  report ...
    Point of OrderBy tutere44
    3 days ago

  • ROB MacCULLOCH:  Newshub and NZ Herald report misleading garbage about ACT’s van Veldon not follo...
    Rob MacCulloch writes –  In their rush to discredit the new government (which our MainStream Media regard as illegitimate and having no right to enact the democratic will of voters) the NZ Herald and Newshub are arguing ACT’s Deputy Leader Brooke van Veldon is not following Treasury advice ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 days ago

  • Top 10 for Wednesday, December 6
    Even many young people who smoke support smokefree policies, fitting in with previous research showing the large majority of people who smoke regret starting and most want to quit. Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: Here’s my pick of the top 10 news and analysis links elsewhere on the morning of Wednesday, December ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    3 days ago

  • Eleven years of work.
    Well it didn’t take six months, but the leaks have begun. Yes the good ship Coalition has inadvertently released a confidential cabinet paper into the public domain, discussing their axing of Fair Pay Agreements (FPAs).Oops.Just when you were admiring how smoothly things were going for the new government, they’ve had ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    3 days ago

  • Why we're missing out on sharply lower inflation
    A wave of new and higher fees, rates and charges will ripple out over the economy in the next 18 months as mayors, councillors, heads of department and price-setters for utilities such as gas, electricity, water and parking ramp up charges. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Just when most ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    3 days ago

  • How Did We Get Here?
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    David FarrierBy David Farrier
    3 days ago

  • At a glance – Has the greenhouse effect been falsified?
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    Skeptical Science
    4 days ago

  • New Zealaders  have  high expectations of  new  government:  now let’s see if it can deliver?
    The electorate has high expectations of the  new  government.  The question is: can  it  deliver?    Some  might  say  the  signs are not  promising. Protestors   are  already marching in the streets. The  new  Prime Minister has had  little experience of managing  very diverse politicians  in coalition. The economy he  ...
    Point of OrderBy tutere44
    4 days ago

  • You won't believe some of the numbers you have to pull when you're a Finance Minister
    Nicola of Marsden:Yo, normies! We will fix your cost of living worries by giving you a tax cut of 150 dollars. 150! Cash money! Vote National.Various people who can read and count:Actually that's 150 over a fortnight. Not a week, which is how you usually express these things.And actually, it looks ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    4 days ago

  • Pushback
    When this government came to power, it did so on an explicitly white supremacist platform. Undermining the Waitangi Tribunal, removing Māori representation in local government, over-riding the courts which had tried to make their foreshore and seabed legislation work, eradicating te reo from public life, and ultimately trying to repudiate ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    4 days ago

  • Defence ministerial meeting meant Collins missed the Maori Party’s mischief-making capers in Parli...
    Buzz from the Beehive Maybe this is not the best time for our Minister of Defence to have gone overseas. Not when the Maori Party is inviting (or should that be inciting?) its followers to join a revolution in a post which promoted its protest plans with a picture of ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    4 days ago

  • Threats of war have been followed by an invitation to join the revolution – now let’s see how th...
     A Maori Party post on Instagram invited party followers to ….  Tangata Whenua, Tangata Tiriti, Join the REVOLUTION! & make a stand!  Nationwide Action Day, All details in tiles swipe to see locations.  • This is our 1st hit out and tomorrow Tuesday the 5th is the opening ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    4 days ago

  • Top 10 for Tuesday, December 4
    The RBNZ governor is citing high net migration and profit-led inflation as factors in the bank’s hawkish stance. Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: Here’s my pick of the top 10 news and analysis links elsewhere on the morning of Tuesday, December 5, including:Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr says high net migration and ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    4 days ago

  • Nicola Willis' 'show me the money' moment
    Willis has accused labour of “economic vandalism’, while Robertson described her comments as a “desperate diversion from somebody who can't make their tax package add up”. There will now be an intense focus on December 20 to see whether her hyperbole is backed up by true surprises. Photo montage: Lynn ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    4 days ago

  • CRL costs money but also provides huge benefits
    The City Rail Link has been in the headlines a bit recently so I thought I’d look at some of them. First up, yesterday the NZ Herald ran this piece about the ongoing costs of the CRL. Auckland ratepayers will be saddled with an estimated bill of $220 million each ...
    Greater AucklandBy Matt L
    4 days ago

  • And I don't want the world to see us.
    Is this the most shambolic government in the history of New Zealand? Given that parliament hasn’t even opened they’ve managed quite a list of achievements to date.The Smokefree debacle trading lives for tax cuts, the Trumpian claims of bribery in the Media, an International award for indifference, and today the ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    4 days ago

  • Cooking the books
    Finance Minister Nicola Willis late yesterday stopped only slightly short of accusing her predecessor Grant Robertson of cooking the books. She complained that the Half Yearly Economic and Fiscal Update (HYEFU), due to be made public on December 20, would show “fiscal cliffs” that would amount to “billions of ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    5 days ago

  • Most people don’t realize how much progress we’ve made on climate change
    This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The year was 2015. ‘Uptown Funk’ with Bruno Mars was at the top of the music charts. Jurassic World was the most popular new movie in theaters. And decades of futility in international climate negotiations was about to come to an end in ...
    Skeptical Science
    5 days ago

  • Of Parliamentary Oaths and Clive Boonham
    As a heads-up, I am not one of those people who stay awake at night thinking about weird Culture War nonsense. At least so far as the current Maori/Constitutional arrangements go. In fact, I actually consider it the least important issue facing the day to day lives of New ...
    A Phuulish FellowBy strda221
    5 days ago

  • Bearing True Allegiance?
    Strong Words: “We do not consent, we do not surrender, we do not cede, we do not submit; we, the indigenous, are rising. We do not buy into the colonial fictions this House is built upon. Te Pāti Māori pledges allegiance to our mokopuna, our whenua, and Te Tiriti o ...
    Bowalley Road
    5 days ago

  • You cannot be serious
    Some days it feels like the only thing to say is: Seriously? No, really. Seriously?OneSomeone has used their health department access to share data about vaccinations and patients, and inform the world that New Zealanders have been dying in their hundreds of thousands from the evil vaccine. This of course is pure ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    5 days ago

  • A promise kept: govt pulls the plug on Lake Onslow scheme – but this saving of $16bn is denounced...
    Buzz from the Beehive After $21.8 million was spent on investigations, the plug has been pulled on the Lake Onslow pumped-hydro electricity scheme, The scheme –  that technically could have solved New Zealand’s looming energy shortage, according to its champions – was a key part of the defeated Labour government’s ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    5 days ago

  • CHRIS TROTTER: The Maori Party and Oath of Allegiance
    If those elected to the Māori Seats refuse to take them, then what possible reason could the country have for retaining them?   Chris Trotter writes – Christmas is fast approaching, which, as it does every year, means gearing up for an abstruse general knowledge question. “Who was ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    5 days ago

  • BRIAN EASTON:  Forward to 2017
    The coalition party agreements are mainly about returning to 2017 when National lost power. They show commonalities but also some serious divergencies. Brian Easton writes – The two coalition agreements – one National and ACT, the other National and New Zealand First – are more than policy documents. ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    5 days ago

  • Climate Change: Fossils
    When the new government promised to allow new offshore oil and gas exploration, they were warned that there would be international criticism and reputational damage. Naturally, they arrogantly denied any possibility that that would happen. And then they finally turned up at COP, to criticism from Palau, and a "fossil ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    5 days ago

  • GEOFFREY MILLER:  NZ’s foreign policy resets on AUKUS, Gaza and Ukraine
    Geoffrey Miller writes – New Zealand’s international relations are under new management. And Winston Peters, the new foreign minister, is already setting a change agenda. As expected, this includes a more pro-US positioning when it comes to the Pacific – where Peters will be picking up where he ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    5 days ago

  • Gordon Campbell on the government’s smokefree laws debacle
    The most charitable explanation for National’s behaviour over the smokefree legislation is that they have dutifully fulfilled the wishes of the Big Tobacco lobby and then cast around – incompetently, as it turns out – for excuses that might sell this health policy U-turn to the public. The less charitable ...
    Gordon CampbellBy lyndon
    5 days ago

  • Top 10 links at 10 am for Monday, December 4
    As Deb Te Kawa writes in an op-ed, the new Government seems to have immediately bought itself fights with just about everyone. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Here’s my pick of the top 10 news and analysis links elsewhere as of 10 am on Monday December 4, including:Palau’s President ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    5 days ago

  • Be Honest.
    Let’s begin today by thinking about job interviews.During my career in Software Development I must have interviewed hundreds of people, hired at least a hundred, but few stick in the memory.I remember one guy who was so laid back he was practically horizontal, leaning back in his chair until his ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    5 days ago

  • Geoffrey Miller: New Zealand’s foreign policy resets on AUKUS, Gaza and Ukraine
    New Zealand’s international relations are under new management. And Winston Peters, the new foreign minister, is already setting a change agenda. As expected, this includes a more pro-US positioning when it comes to the Pacific – where Peters will be picking up where he left off. Peters sought to align ...
    Democracy ProjectBy Geoffrey Miller
    5 days ago

  • Auckland rail tunnel the world’s most expensive
    Auckland’s city rail link is the most expensive rail project in the world per km, and the CRL boss has described the cost of infrastructure construction in Aotearoa as a crisis. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The 3.5 km City Rail Link (CRL) tunnel under Auckland’s CBD has cost ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    5 days ago

  • First big test coming
    The first big test of the new Government’s approach to Treaty matters is likely to be seen in the return of the Resource Management Act. RMA Minister Chris Bishop has confirmed that he intends to introduce legislation to repeal Labour’s recently passed Natural and Built Environments Act and its ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    6 days ago

  • The Song of Saqua: Volume III
    Time to revisit something I haven’t covered in a while: the D&D campaign, with Saqua the aquatic half-vampire. Last seen in July: https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2023/07/27/the-song-of-saqua-volume-ii/ The delay is understandable, once one realises that the interim saw our DM come down with a life-threatening medical situation. They have since survived to make ...
    A Phuulish FellowBy strda221
    6 days ago

  • Chris Bishop: Smokin’
    Yes. Correct. It was an election result. And now we are the elected government. ...
    My ThinksBy boonman
    6 days ago

  • 2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #48
    A chronological listing of news and opinion articles posted on the Skeptical Science  Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Nov 26, 2023 thru Dec 2, 2023. Story of the Week CO2 readings from Mauna Loa show failure to combat climate change Daily atmospheric carbon dioxide data from Hawaiian volcano more ...
    Skeptical Science
    6 days ago

  • Affirmative Action.
    Affirmative Action was a key theme at this election, although I don’t recall anyone using those particular words during the campaign.They’re positive words, and the way the topic was talked about was anything but. It certainly wasn’t a campaign of saying that Affirmative Action was a good thing, but that, ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    6 days ago

  • 100 days of something
    It was at the end of the Foxton straights, at the end of 1978, at 100km/h, that someone tried to grab me from behind on my Yamaha.They seemed to be yanking my backpack. My first thought was outrage. My second was: but how? Where have they come from? And my ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    6 days ago

  • Look who’s stepped up to champion Winston
    There’s no news to be gleaned from the government’s official website today  – it contains nothing more than the message about the site being under maintenance. The time this maintenance job is taking and the costs being incurred have us musing on the government’s commitment to an assault on inflation. ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    1 week ago

  • What's The Story?
    Don’t you sometimes wish they’d just tell the truth? No matter how abhorrent or ugly, just straight up tell us the truth?C’mon guys, what you’re doing is bad enough anyway, pretending you’re not is only adding insult to injury.Instead of all this bollocks about the Smokefree changes being to do ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    1 week ago

  • The longest of weeks
    Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.Friday Under New Management Week in review, quiz style1. Which of these best describes Aotearoa?a. Progressive nation, proud of its egalitarian spirit and belief in a fair go b. Best little country on the planet c. ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    1 week ago

  • Suggested sessions of EGU24 to submit abstracts to
    Like earlier this year, members from our team will be involved with next year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The conference will take place on premise in Vienna as well as online from April 14 to 19, 2024. The session catalog has been available since November 1 ...
    Skeptical Science
    1 week ago

  • Under New Management
    1. Which of these best describes Aotearoa?a. Progressive nation, proud of its egalitarian spirit and belief in a fair go b. Best little country on the planet c. Under New Management 2. Which of these best describes the 100 days of action announced this week by the new government?a. Petulantb. Simplistic and wrongheaded c. ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    1 week ago

  • While we wait patiently, our new Minister of Education is up and going with a 100-day action plan
    Sorry to say, the government’s official website is still out of action. When Point of Order paid its daily visit, the message was the same as it has been for the past week: Site under maintenance Beehive.govt.nz is currently under maintenance. We will be back shortly. Thank you for your ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    1 week ago

  • DAVID FARRAR: Hysterical bullshit
    Radio NZ reports: Te Pāti Māori’s co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer has accused the new government of “deliberate .. systemic genocide” over its policies to roll back the smokefree policy and the Māori Health Authority. The left love hysterical language. If you oppose racial quotas in laws, you are a racist. And now if you sack ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    1 week ago

  • Ministers visit Hawke’s Bay to grasp recovery needs
    Prime Minister Christopher Luxon joined Cyclone Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell and Transport and Local Government Minister Simeon Brown, to meet leaders of cyclone and flood-affected regions in the Hawke’s Bay. The visit reinforced the coalition Government’s commitment to support the region and better understand its ongoing requirements, Mr Mitchell says.  ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago

  • New Zealand condemns malicious cyber activity
    New Zealand has joined the UK and other partners in condemning malicious cyber activity conducted by the Russian Government, Minister Responsible for the Government Communications Security Bureau Judith Collins says. The statement follows the UK’s attribution today of malicious cyber activity impacting its domestic democratic institutions and processes, as well ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago

  • Disestablishment of Te Pūkenga begins
    The Government has begun the process of disestablishing Te Pūkenga as part of its 100-day plan, Minister for Tertiary Education and Skills Penny Simmonds says.  “I have started putting that plan into action and have met with the chair and chief Executive of Te Pūkenga to advise them of my ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago

  • Climate Change Minister to attend COP28 in Dubai
    Climate Change Minister Simon Watts will be leaving for Dubai today to attend COP28, the 28th annual UN climate summit, this week. Simon Watts says he will push for accelerated action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement, deliver New Zealand’s national statement and connect with partner countries, private sector leaders ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago

  • New Zealand to host 2024 Pacific defence meeting
    Defence Minister Judith Collins yesterday announced New Zealand will host next year’s South Pacific Defence Ministers’ Meeting (SPDMM). “Having just returned from this year’s meeting in Nouméa, I witnessed first-hand the value of meeting with my Pacific counterparts to discuss regional security and defence matters. I welcome the opportunity to ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago

  • Study shows need to remove distractions in class
    The Government is committed to lifting school achievement in the basics and that starts with removing distractions so young people can focus on their learning, Education Minister Erica Stanford says.   The 2022 PISA results released this week found that Kiwi kids ranked 5th in the world for being distracted ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago

  • Minister sets expectations of Commissioner
    Today I met with Police Commissioner Andrew Coster to set out my expectations, which he has agreed to, says Police Minister Mark Mitchell. Under section 16(1) of the Policing Act 2008, the Minister can expect the Police Commissioner to deliver on the Government’s direction and priorities, as now outlined in ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago

  • New Zealand needs a strong and stable ETS
    New Zealand needs a strong and stable Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) that is well placed for the future, after emission units failed to sell for the fourth and final auction of the year, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says.  At today’s auction, 15 million New Zealand units (NZUs) – each ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago

  • PISA results show urgent need to teach the basics
    With 2022 PISA results showing a decline in achievement, Education Minister Erica Stanford is confident that the Coalition Government’s 100-day plan for education will improve outcomes for Kiwi kids.  The 2022 PISA results show a significant decline in the performance of 15-year-old students in maths compared to 2018 and confirms ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago

  • Collins leaves for Pacific defence meeting
    Defence Minister Judith Collins today departed for New Caledonia to attend the 8th annual South Pacific Defence Ministers’ meeting (SPDMM). “This meeting is an excellent opportunity to meet face-to-face with my Pacific counterparts to discuss regional security matters and to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to the Pacific,” Judith Collins says. ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    5 days ago

  • Working for Families gets cost of living boost
    Putting more money in the pockets of hard-working families is a priority of this Coalition Government, starting with an increase to Working for Families, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says. “We are starting our 100-day plan with a laser focus on bringing down the cost of living, because that is what ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    5 days ago

  • Post-Cabinet press conference
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    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    5 days ago

  • Lake Onslow pumped hydro scheme scrapped
    The Government has axed the $16 billion Lake Onslow pumped hydro scheme championed by the previous government, Energy Minister Simeon Brown says. “This hugely wasteful project was pouring money down the drain at a time when we need to be reining in spending and focussing on rebuilding the economy and ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    6 days ago

  • NZ welcomes further pause in fighting in Gaza
    New Zealand welcomes the further one-day extension of the pause in fighting, which will allow the delivery of more urgently-needed humanitarian aid into Gaza and the release of more hostages, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said. “The human cost of the conflict is horrific, and New Zealand wants to see the violence ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • Condolences on passing of Henry Kissinger
    Foreign Minister Winston Peters today expressed on behalf of the New Zealand Government his condolences to the family of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who has passed away at the age of 100 at his home in Connecticut. “While opinions on his legacy are varied, Secretary Kissinger was ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • Backing our kids to learn the basics
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    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • US Business Summit Speech – Regional stability through trade
    I would like to begin by echoing the Prime Minister’s thanks to the organisers of this Summit, Fran O’Sullivan and the Auckland Business Chamber.  I want to also acknowledge the many leading exporters, sector representatives, diplomats, and other leaders we have joining us in the room. In particular, I would like ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • Keynote Address to the United States Business Summit, Auckland
    Good morning. Thank you, Rosemary, for your warm introduction, and to Fran and Simon for this opportunity to make some brief comments about New Zealand’s relationship with the United States.  This is also a chance to acknowledge my colleague, Minister for Trade Todd McClay, Ambassador Tom Udall, Secretary of Foreign ...
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    1 week ago

  • India New Zealand Business Council Speech, India as a Strategic Priority
    Good morning, tēnā koutou and namaskar. Many thanks, Michael, for your warm welcome. I would like to acknowledge the work of the India New Zealand Business Council in facilitating today’s event and for the Council’s broader work in supporting a coordinated approach for lifting New Zealand-India relations. I want to also ...
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    1 week ago

  • Coalition Government unveils 100-day plan
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    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • New Zealand welcomes European Parliament vote on the NZ-EU Free Trade Agreement
    A significant milestone in ratifying the NZ-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was reached last night, with 524 of the 705 member European Parliament voting in favour to approve the agreement. “I’m delighted to hear of the successful vote to approve the NZ-EU FTA in the European Parliament overnight. This is ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 weeks ago

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