If this story is accurate they might never finish a race. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12169111
Perhaps the picture you have included is accurate. The foil on the right of the picture has broken off.
The Government should be ashamed of themselves for putting anything at all into this stupid event. I guess they want to meet a lot of billionaires though.
Claims about the benefits to the economy from this sort of thing always turn out to be rubbish.
But the free market opponents will say how can Washington outsmart the market? Is this the same market that through its infinite wisdom invested hundreds of billions of subprime mortgages? In fact, the government has a pretty good track record of picking winners. Just look at the technologies that the government had a key role in developing: the Internet, the web browser, the search engine, computer graphics, semiconductors, and a host of others. There are many other examples of success stories made possible not because government anointed a particular young entrepreneur but because the government made a conscious choice to open new pathways into which young innovators could embark.
In the 1980s, we responded to Japan’s economic ascendance by picking winners with the research and development tax credit, creating programs like the Advanced Technology Program and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and aggressively taking on unfair trade policies. We need to do the same today.
It’s time to break free of neo-classical economic orthodoxy that preaches that markets acting on their own optimize economic well-being and that low taxes, minimal regulation, and free trade alone can guarantee long-term U.S. leadership on the growth engines of the future. These ingredients work best when the government develops a strategy for correcting systemic “market failures” that limit innovation. We need to come to recognize that our country and not just our companies are competing and begin to think and act more like a country.
In one of many telling PowerPoint slides, entitled “What makes the iPhone so smart?” Mazzucato listed the U.S. government agencies whose initial R&D work laid the groundwork for the blockbuster Apple product’s impressive features. Siri had her roots in voice-recognition technology development at DARPA. GPS and mapping? The Department of Defense and the U.S. Navy. Lithium-ion batteries? The Department of Energy. Liquid-crystal display? The National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and DoD. “The problem,” says Mazzucato, “is that many people don’t know this.”
Granted, there’s no better forum for a speaker touting the role of government than the annual ARPA-E event, which showcases the latest energy technology innovations from all of the nation’s DOE research labs, plus dozens of companies and universities that have received ARPA-E research grants. (The dominant sector this year, by the way, was grid improvements and energy storage, both portable and stationary). But Mazzucato is spreading her message far and wide, with The Entrepreneurial State earning praise from the likes of the Financial Times, The Economist, and Forbes. Last year, The New Republic called her one of “the three most important thinkers about innovation you need to know.”
The Government should be ashamed of themselves for putting anything at all into this stupid event.
No. You should be ashamed of yourself for insisting that nothing change.
Alwyn, the National government contributed for 2013 and 2017. The current government will contribute for 2021. The rest of your comment is just smartass waffle.
“Alwyn, the National government contributed”.
I know that National contributed to this stupid event.
What does that have to do with anything?
If you check back on my comments about this, and other, circuses you will find that I am quite consistent in my views. Games being played by billionaires need no help at all from the taxpayer.
However at the moment it is the New Zealand First/Labour Government that is throwing the money around so they are the ones I am complaining about this year. When National did it I complained about them.
There. Does that satisfy you?
Why and earth do you seem to think that I am a National Party member, or at least supporter? I am not. I object to all the crazy things that politicians get up to with other peoples money.
He/She criticised National for what he considered to be inappropriate use of taxpayer money, and does the same here for the Labour led coalition government.
“Minister for Seniors Tracey Martin talks about her first full year as a Minister and the highlights she has had talking to older people across the country.
In her column, the Minister discusses the priorities for 2019 including the release of the draft strategy for an ageing population and looking at how the SuperGold Card can work better for older people.
We celebrate the start of summer with an easy and delicious salad recipe from the NZ Nutrition Foundation that you can try at home.”
Not a whisper about oldies role in moves to mitigate Anthropogenic Climate Change and its effects.
That’s disappointing Tracey, maybe next newsletter ?
Chris t you must be reasonably happy with the Commission’s findings. So far so good, but the massive problem is staffing and workforce development. Clark flagged this I think.
Having worked in mental health for a very long time, it is going to take a long time and a lot of resources to get anywhere where we need to be. Nationals spokes person with the nerve to say labour cancelling three of nationals new projects has held things back. Those things while of some value were pretty small in the big picture. Trust me under national mental health services were run down significantly. No question about it
Ms Duggan said many years ago science teaching was well-supported with government-funded science advisors who worked with primary school teachers and specialist resources for use in science lessons.
But that support had not been available for a long time and in addition the introduction of the national standards in reading, writing and maths in 2010 had sidelined other areas of the curriculum, including science, she said.
They’ve certainly had some detrimental effect but the reality is that there’s only so many hours in a day that children can effectively be taught while the amount that they need to be taught increases as society becomes more complex.
More resources need to be put into education but we also need to put those resources into the right place. Not just more for this subject or that one. That’s not going to address the problem which is lack of time. We need to increase the resources going to ensure that people stay at school longer to get the education that they need before they leave school and to ensure that they have ongoing education available after they leave school.
Reading, writing and some elements of maths are easily developed in teaching science and visa versa. I speak as long-time science teacher with experience in teaching and demonstrating to college students, lecturing to teachers and writing science units to incorporate the integration of subjects through same.
Problem solving for education starting at primary school. Getting the basics understood then dividing the class into teams with different projects of equal suitability and complexity. How do we tackle this, what skills, equipment will we need. Knowing wht to do, or what approach to take and where to uplift the theory and skills – perhaps having a class in the middle of the project – puts it all in context.
For secondary schools, the teams can run a theoretical country using communism, fascism, democracy, neo liberalism, free market also plan to organise a concert at school or something. Hands on experience and lines of authority and co-operation and how to talk to people for team building. That is what is really needed these days to ensure that we don’t lose our creative drive that Geoff Murphy displayed.
Draco we used to have Advisors then their roles were totally disestablished.
These were expert teachers who did in school training and resource provision for teachers. That was a valuable resource that updated teacher’s knowledge and methods.
Part of the reason we have dropped in international rankings was they were an essential tool. imo.
At a certain point in an abuse cycle no one is loyal.
Mallard is acting in full consistency with government policy to be anti-violence, anti-bullying, pro-female, pro-collective action … and fully with the #MeToo campaign and all the other global pro-female and anti–government-establishment winds blowing all through the English speaking world.
Not that I’m suggesting the Speaker is enacting policies of the Ardern government and blowing with the wind … oh no I wouldn’t dare … for Mallard it’s all just very good timing and very good luck and very very bad for National for a very very long time 🙂
What BM???? I am sorry I genuinely don’t understand what you mean about Labour dirty politics…………the speaker announces an enquiry into bullying after three accusations of mps bullying, Meka Jami lee and now Maggie and your saying it’s labour’s dirty politics?….
Labour stayed well out of jami lee and appears to be doing the same with Maggie………..even Simon is saying most likely Jami lee who leaked…..not labour
The rightwing likes to project and claim that the left is doing the same dirty things as what they are doing, to justify their actions.
Their proof of such accusations is they have a gut feeling about it.
Our proof the right is doing it, however, tends to be a lot more tangible and based on fact.
I suspect they genuinely can’t imagine people doing it any other way: all smiles and backstabbing, any compromise is a weakness and power must be abused, malice in defeat and revenge follows victory.
Yep. Psychological projection is considered a defence mechanism for the people doing the projection:
Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.[1] For example, a person who is habitually rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude. It incorporates blame shifting.
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That seems to be at the basis of the moral (amoral) philosophy that the neo-libs have adopted as representing society’s beliefs. We are all self-interested, everything we do is for a reward of some kind so there is no such thing as altruism, etc etc.
This neolib thing of course is not new, and that we should repeat it shows a strange amnesia. It produces a very unkind type of person, very self-focussed and then target-focussed, perfect for exploiting and employing in jobs like factor for the principals behind land clearances which gained momentum in the 1700’s in Britain; in the Highland one for instance:
Some of those carrying out clearances believed that this was for the benefit of those affected. Patrick Sellar, the factor (agent) of the Countess of Sutherland, was descended from a paternal grandfather who had been a cottar in Banffshire and had been cleared by an improving landlord. For the Sellars, this initiated a process of upward mobility (Patrick Sellar was a lawyer and a graduate of Edinburgh University), which Sellar took to be a moral tale that demonstrated the benefits to those forced to make a new start after eviction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances
This concise Wikipedia backgrounding illustrates the changing face of politics and legality over-riding the acceptance of commons and ancient tribal powers as the stable force in people’s lives and economy.
I don’t think it’s projection, more a pessimistic realpolitik: nat shills here know they and the nats are cynical power-grubbers, liars, and thieves. The just think that every politician is completely and utterly corrupt. If everyone is equally bad, you can’t be backing the worst option.
They get what they deserve. Treat staff badly it always ends badly. BM you are saying no staff can be whisle blowers. Guess you vote for total control.The next National government won’t have Judith or Bridges in all likelihood.
If we had good laws against corruption Judith would have been gone years ago with no hope of return. Bridges would be on his way out. No matter how you look at it that splitting of $100k to hide a donor was corruption.
Is this still with the police? The gist of it is that it is illegal to deliberately split donations which surely is what the Nats have done in this case.
Okay. Seems like a pretty serious breach of electoral rules. One which cost John Banks his career and just about everything else, so why is Simon Bridges not having the blow torch on him?
If Netanyahu goes to prison, Gazza will shoot harmless skyrockets, and release paper lanterns to celebrate. Resulting in a TV station giving news to the people that the mass murderer has a new cellmate with the nickname Horse and street name Pricilla. Before it gets accidentally bombed by a precision guided bomb.
If Clinton goes to prison she deserves it. Unfortunately the cases hard disc for the prosecution was mysteriously smashed with a hammer, by Hillary, by accident. She blamed the hard disk, the 347th reason, and was upset at it.
Before the prince goes to prison he will seek asylum in the Russian embassy.
hehehe yeah that was a doozie!
FFS he must have been briefed as to what he was supposed to do – which just shows that his listening skills are second to none.
Yeah it’s going to be a big week! Cohen, Manafort, and Flynn. Just where Mueller is heading will be more fully revealed this week. They are all waiting with eager anticipation.
Don’t know if you are following WTF but Matt has an extensive analysis of last week and the upcomming court cases this week here: https://talk.whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/t/week-of-nov-25-dec-1/4053
Well worth a read.
Ruth Buffalo, who is the first Native American Democratic woman elected to the North Dakota legislature, took her oath of office today. She unseated the ND Rep who sponsored the voter law that disenfranchised Native voters in that state. pic.twitter.com/2iwDca2WIm— Ruth H. Hopkins (@RuthHHopkins) December 3, 2018
Mind-boggling . The UK cabinet is discussing how to ration supplies entering the country by ferry in a no-deal scenario.
In any event there would be a sharp reduction in ferry traffic between the UK and the EU, meaning that vital industrial components and medicines would be vying with salads for scarce space in trucks and on ships.
“Perishable goods like salads and vegetables won’t make it on to ‘DfT Seaways’,” said one official. “Some foods will run out in the supermarkets — it will be a bit like the USSR.” The UK imports 30 per cent of its food from the EU.
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“It’s gearboxes versus pâté,” joked one official. “The government would have to choose and that’s why the government would have to own the shipping capacity.”
Industrial components, including those used in “just in time” production processes including car plants, could be given priority, while Mr Gove’s team accept that perishable goods like salads, vegetables and meats could lose out.
To me it’s mind boggling that they are still even contemplating Brexit. The consequences are simply staggering. The open boarders now mean the free flow of people and goods and services and you only have to visit to see that the movement of people and goods across the channel is enormous. Placing any sort of barrier is going to create havoc.
I’m with the Northern Irish Border on this one – I’m not impressed with Brexit overall – but I do admire its ability to divide a country.
Any moment now Canaanites and Phoenicians will invoke their manifest destiny, too.
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More than 2000 years ago, Jewish patriots (Maccabees) captured Jerusalem, purified the Holy Temple and rededicated it as a house of Jewish worship. The U.N. cant vote away the facts: Jerusalem is the ancient and modern capital of Israel. Happy Chanukah from this blessed city!— David M. Friedman (@USAmbIsrael) December 3, 2018
Really? The US “ambassador” resorts to absolutist ideological regressive proselytising to rationalise Israeli expansionist colonialism in the 21st century! Bizarre. What other “divine right” argument can be resuscitated to justify contemporary injustice? https://t.co/5UzSE5gNau— Hanan Ashrawi (@DrHananAshrawi) December 4, 2018
I was flicking through my boy’s bible the other day and landed on the Book of Jeremiah. Interesting reading about the behaviour of the Jews at that time.
Buzz from the Beehive Housing Minister Chris Bishop delivered news – packed with the ingredients to enflame political passions – worthy of supplanting Winston Peters in headline writers’ priorities. He popped up at the post-Cabinet press conference to promise a crackdown on unruly and antisocial state housing tenants. His ...
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Bryce Edwards writes – Last week former National Party leader Simon Bridges was appointed by the Government as the new chair of the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA). You can read about the appointment in Thomas Coughlan’s article, Simon Bridges to become chair of NZ Transport Agency ...
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Buzz from the Beehive Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden told Auckland Business Chamber members they were the first audience to hear her priorities as a minister in a government committed to cutting red tape and regulations. She brandished her liberalising credentials, saying Flexible labour markets are the ...
Chris Trotter writes – TO UNDERSTAND WHY NEWSHUB FAILED, it is necessary to understand how TVNZ changed. Up until 1989, the state broadcaster had been funded by a broadcasting licence fee, collected from every citizen in possession of a television set, supplemented by a relatively modest (compared ...
Bob Edlin writes – The Māori Party has been busy issuing a mix of warnings and threats as its expresses its opposition to interest deductibility for landlords and the plans of seabed miners. It remains to be seen whether they follow the example of indigenous litigants in Australia, ...
Every year, in the Budget, Parliament forks out money to government agencies to do certain things. And every year, as part of the annual review cycle, those agencies are meant to report on whether they have done the things Parliament gave them that money for. Agencies which consistently fail to ...
Mike Grimshaw writes – Recent events in American universities point to an underlying crisis of coherent thinking, an issue that increasingly affects the progressive left across the Western world. This of course is nothing new as anyone who can either remember or has read of the late ...
The thing about life’s little victories is that they can be followed by a defeat.Reader Darryl told me on Monday night:Test again Dave. My “head cold” last week became COVID within 24 hours, and is still with me. I hear the new variants take a bit longer to show up ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Angus Deaton on rethinking his economics IMFLocal scoop: The people behind Tamarind, the firm that left a $500m cleanup bill for taxpayers at Taranaki’s Tui oil well, are back operating in Taranaki under a different company name. Jonathan ...
Normally when we talk about accessing public transport it’s about improving how easy it is to get to, such as how easy is it to cross roads in a station/stop’s walking catchment, is it possible to cycle to safely, do bus connections work, or even if are there new routes/connections ...
Politicians are not renowned for telling the truth. Some tell us things that are verifiably not true. They offer statements that omit critical pieces of information. Gloss over risks, preferring to offer the best case scenario.Some not truths are quite small, others amusing in their transparency. There are those repeated ...
The pressure is mounting on the Government as it finalises its Budget Policy Statement, but yet more predicted revenue ‘goes missing’. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The Climate Commission has delivered another funding blow to the National-ACT-NZ First coalition Government’s tax-cutting plans, potentially carving $1.4 billion off the ‘climate ...
The Government now faces the prospect of having to watch another tax raise the price of petrol when, only six days ago, it abolished the Auckland Regional Fuel tax. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon argued that the regional fuel tax imposed costs on lower-income people with less fuel-efficient vehicles and that ...
Kicking the most vulnerable people out of state housing and pushing them towards homelessness will result in a proliferation of poverty and trauma across our most vulnerable communities. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader and MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi has penned a letter asking MPs to support his members bill to remove GST from all food. The bill is expected to go through its first reading in parliament this Wednesday. “I’m calling on all political parties to support my ...
This year is about getting real with Kiwis and discussing the tough issues, as the National Government exacerbates inequality and divides New Zealand, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said ...
The Government adding Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) to its already roaring environmental policy bonfire is an assault on the future of wildlife that makes Aotearoa unique. ...
After 12 years of fighting to protect our moana we are finding ourselves back at square one and back at court. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is sitting in Hawera to reconsider an application from Trans-Tasman Resources to dig up 50 million tonnes of the seabed in South Taranaki. This ...
Minister Shane Jones’ decision to step away from a seabed mining project is evidence of the murky waters surrounding the Government’s fast-track legislation. ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The Coalition Government’s miscalculation saga continues as it has forgotten an eyewatering $90 million gap in its interest deductibility cost figures, say Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds and Revenue Spokesperson Deborah Russell. ...
He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission has today released advice that says if the Government doesn’t act now New Zealand is at risk of not meeting its climate goals. ...
The Coalition Government has today confirmed it is abandoning first home buyers who are struggling to get ahead, says Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds. ...
The New Zealand public voted for a change in direction at the 2023 general election and that is exactly what this coalition government has been delivering in its first 100 days. There was an immediate focus on the economy, easing the cost of living, cracking down on law and order ...
The Government has left the health system as an afterthought, announcing half-baked targets at the last minute of their 100-day plan, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
Kiwis are still waiting for their promised cost of living support after 100 days of a National Government that is taking us backwards, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
100 days of National taking NZ backwardsThe National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
The Government must commit to funding free and healthy school lunches, as thousands of people sign the petition to keep them, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti says. ...
If the Government was serious about moving families into public housing, they would build more houses so there is actually somewhere for people to go. ...
The free and healthy school lunches programme feeds our kids, helps them to learn, and saves families money – but it is at risk under this Government, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. ...
The Government’s proposed changes to Firearms Prohibition Orders (FPO) add almost nothing new and are merely an attempt to distract from its plans to loosen gun laws, police spokesperson Ginny Andersen and justice spokesperson Dr Duncan Webb said. ...
The great Victorian era English politician Lord Macauley stood in the British House of Parliament and said, "The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm".He understood and outlined even way back then, the significant role and influence media have in a democracy. ...
The government’s attack on Māori health this week is committing tangata-whenua to a premature death, says Te Pāti Māori. “The government have begun their onslaught on Māori health with the abolishment of the Māori Health Authority and smokefree laws in the same day” said health spokesperson and co-leader, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. ...
Today marks a tragic milestone for New Zealanders as the Coalition Government side with big tobacco to repeal the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act 2022, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins and Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall said. ...
New Zealand’s social workers are qualified, experienced, and more representative of the communities they serve, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “I want to acknowledge and applaud New Zealand’s social workers for the hard work they do, providing invaluable support for our most vulnerable. “To coincide with World ...
Cabinet has agreed to a reduced road user charge (RUC) rate for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. Owners of PHEVs will be eligible for a reduced rate of $38 per 1,000km once all light electric vehicles (EVs) move into the RUC system from 1 April. ...
Minister of Agriculture and Trade, Todd McClay, says that today’s opening of Riverland Foods manufacturing plant in Christchurch is a great example of how trade access to overseas markets creates jobs in New Zealand. Speaking at the official opening of this state-of-the-art pet food factory the Minister noted that exports ...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Wellington today. “It was a pleasure to host Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his first official visit to New Zealand since 2017. Our discussions were wide-ranging and enabled engagement on many facets of New Zealand’s relationship with China, including trade, ...
Kāinga Ora – Homes & Communities has been instructed to end the Sustaining Tenancies Framework and take stronger measures against persistent antisocial behaviour by tenants, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Earlier today Finance Minister Nicola Willis and I sent an interim Letter of Expectations to the Board of Kāinga Ora. ...
Tēna koutou katoa. Greetings everyone. Thank you to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and the Honourable Simon Bridges for hosting this address today. I acknowledge the business leaders in this room, the leaders and governors, the employers, the entrepreneurs, the investors, and the wealth creators. The coalition Government shares your ...
Minister Winston Peters completed the final leg of his visit to South and South East Asia in Singapore today, where he focused on enhancing one of New Zealand’s indispensable strategic partnerships. “Singapore is our most important defence partner in South East Asia, our fourth-largest trading partner and a ...
Minister of Internal Affairs and Workplace Relations and Safety, Hon. Brooke van Velden, will travel to the Republic of Korea to represent New Zealand at the Third Summit for Democracy on 18 March. The summit, hosted by the Republic of Korea, was first convened by the United States in 2021, ...
ICNZ Speech 7 March 2024, Auckland Acknowledgements and opening Mōrena, ngā mihi nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Good morning, it’s a privilege to be here to open the ICNZ annual conference, thank you to Mark for the Mihi Whakatau My thanks to Tim Grafton for inviting me ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Lead Coordination Minister Judith Collins have expressed their deepest sympathy on the five-year anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks. “March 15, 2019, was a day when families, communities and the country came together both in sorrow and solidarity,” Mr Luxon says. “Today we pay our respects to the 51 shuhada ...
Speech for Financial Advice NZ Conference 5 March 2024 Acknowledgements and opening Morena, Nga Mihi Nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Thanks Nate for your Mihi Whakatau Good morning. It’s a pleasure to formally open your conference this morning. What a lovely day in Wellington, What a great ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters held discussions in Jakarta today about the future of relations between New Zealand and South East Asia’s most populous country. “We are in Jakarta so early in our new government’s term to reflect the huge importance we place on our relationship with Indonesia and South ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters has announced that the Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi, will visit New Zealand next week. “We look forward to re-engaging with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and discussing the full breadth of the bilateral relationship, which is one of New Zealand’s ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has today opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre, which will bring together KiwiRail, Auckland Transport, and Auckland One Rail to improve service reliability for Aucklanders. “The recent train disruptions in Auckland have highlighted how important it is KiwiRail and Auckland’s rail agencies work together to ...
The Government is proud to support the 10th edition of Crankworx Rotorua as the Crankworx World Tour returns to Rotorua from 16-24 March 2024, says Minister for Economic Development Melissa Lee. “Over the past 10 years as Crankworx Rotorua has grown, so too have the economic and social benefits that ...
Legislation implementing coalition Government tax commitments and addressing long-standing tax anomalies will be progressed in Parliament next week, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The legislation is contained in an Amendment Paper to the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill issued today. “The Amendment Paper represents ...
Associate Environment Minister Andrew Hoggard has today announced that the Government has agreed to suspend the requirement for councils to comply with the Significant Natural Areas (SNA) provisions of the National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity for three years, while it replaces the Resource Management Act (RMA).“As it stands, SNAs ...
Agriculture Minister Todd McClay has classified the drought conditions in the Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts as a medium-scale adverse event, acknowledging the challenging conditions facing farmers and growers in the district. “Parts of Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts are in the grip of an intense dry spell. I know ...
The Government is helping farmers eradicate the significant impact of facial eczema (FE) in pastoral animals, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “A $20 million partnership jointly funded by Beef + Lamb NZ, the Government, and the primary sector will save farmers an estimated NZD$332 million per year, and aims to ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has completed a successful visit to India, saying it was an important step in taking the relationship between the two countries to the next level. “We have laid a strong foundation for the Coalition Government’s priority of enhancing New Zealand-India relations to generate significant future benefit for both countries,” says Mr Peters, ...
Cabinet has agreed to provide $7 million to ensure the 2024 ski season can go ahead on the Whakapapa ski field in the central North Island but has told the operator Ruapehu Alpine Lifts it is the last financial support it will receive from taxpayers. Cabinet also agreed to provide ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Lower fruit and vegetable prices are welcome news for New Zealanders who have been doing it tough at the supermarket, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. Stats NZ reported today the price of fruit and vegetables has dropped 9.3 percent in the 12 months to February 2024. “Lower fruit and vege ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
The coalition Government is supporting farmers to enhance land management practices by investing $3.3 million in locally led catchment groups, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “Farmers and growers deliver significant prosperity for New Zealand and it’s vital their ongoing efforts to improve land management practices and water quality are supported,” ...
Good evening everyone and thank you for that lovely introduction. Thank you also to the Honourable Simon Bridges for the invitation to address your members. Since being sworn in, this coalition Government has hit the ground running with our 100-day plan, delivering the changes that New Zealanders expect of us. ...
Recommendations from the Climate Change Commission for New Zealand on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) auction and unit limit settings for the next five years have been tabled in Parliament, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. “The Commission provides advice on the ETS annually. This is the third time the ...
The coalition Government is beginning its fight to lower building costs and reduce red tape by exempting minor building work from paying the building levy, says Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk. “Currently, any building project worth $20,444 including GST or more is subject to the building levy which is ...
Proposed changes to tax legislation to prevent the over-taxation of low-earning trusts are welcome, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The changes have been recommended by Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee following consideration of submissions on the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill. “One of the ...
Assalaamu alaikum. السَّلَام عليكم In light of the holy month of Ramadan, I want to extend my warmest wishes to our Muslim community in New Zealand. Ramadan is a time for spiritual reflection, renewed devotion, perseverance, generosity, and forgiveness. It’s a time to strengthen our bonds and appreciate the diversity ...
Former Transport Minister and CEO of the Auckland Business Chamber Hon Simon Bridges has been appointed as the new Board Chair of the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) for a three-year term, Transport Minister Simeon Brown announced today. “Simon brings extensive experience and knowledge in transport policy and governance to the role. He will ...
Good morning all, it is a pleasure to be here as Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology. It is fantastic to see how connected and collaborative the life science and biotechnology industry is here in New Zealand. I would like to thank BioTechNZ and NZTech for the invitation to address ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says he is looking forward to the day when three key water projects in Northland are up and running, unlocking the full potential of land in the region. Mr Jones attended a community event at the site of the Otawere reservoir near Kerikeri on Friday. ...
Associate Finance Minister David Seymour has today announced that the Government has agreed to restore deductibility for mortgage interest on residential investment properties. “Help is on the way for landlords and renters alike. The Government’s restoration of interest deductibility will ease pressure on rents and simplify the tax code,” says ...
Sport and Recreation Minister Chris Bishop will travel to Switzerland today to attend an Executive Committee meeting and Symposium of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Mr Bishop will then travel on to London where he will attend a series of meetings in his capacity as Infrastructure Minister. “New Zealanders believe ...
This year’s Pacific Language Weeks celebrate regional unity and the contribution of Pacific communities to New Zealand culture, says Minister for Pacific Peoples Dr Shane Reti. Dr Reti announced dates for the 2024 Pacific Language Weeks during a visit to the Pasifika festival in Auckland today and says there’s so ...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Food rationing is underway in remote areas in Papua New Guinea’s Highlands following torrential rain and flash flooding. More than 20 people have been reported dead in Chimbu Province. In nearby Enga Province, the centre of last month’s massacre, a 15-year-old boy has been ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Hughes, Lecturer, Research School of Management, Australian National University After months of debate and intrigue, the AFL’s 19th and newest team, the Tasmania Devils, finally launched its jumper, logo and colours in Devonport this week. The Devils will wear green, ...
Brannavan Gnanalingam reviews the debut novel by Saraid de Silva.One of the most baffling things for children who move to a new country is what their parents’ (or grandparents’) lives were like prior to moving – for kids in particular, they’re too busy trying to fit in in their ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Gaunson, Associate Professor in Cinema Studies, RMIT University Narelle Portanier/Binge “If you don’t know who your mob are, you don’t know who you are,” Detective Andrea “Andie” Whitford (played by Leah Purcell) is told early into the new crime ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Klein, Associate professor, Australian National University It’s commonly accepted that women do the vast majority of caregiving in Australian society. But less appreciated is that Indigenous women do larger amounts of unpaid care than any other group. Working with the Aboriginal ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Joe Biden and Donald Trump have both secured their parties’ nominations for the November 5 United States general election by winning a ...
Comment: There has been a striking contrast in trans-Tasman interest about Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s visit to New Zealand and Australia. While the Australian press has been full of articles about the visit – including his curious decision to meet with former prime minister and China booster Paul Keating ...
After years of pressuring banks and other institutions to stop investing in fossil fuels, climate campaigners are making some progress. So how does divestment work?For years, climate activists have been pushing banks and other big institutions to divest from fossil fuels. New research from climate advocacy group 350 Aotearoa ...
For Boba, Ethan and Ashley, K-pop is a place to belong, a way to express themselves, and a bridge to connect with others. The three young Polynesians are part of a K-pop fan community in Tāmaki Makaurau. It’s one of many that have sprung up worldwide as K-pop has gone ...
For Boba, Ethan and Ashley, K-pop is a place to belong, a way to express themselves, and a bridge to connect with others. This one-off documentary presents three intimate portraits of young Polynesians who are pulled into a Korean cultural phenomenon. K-POLYS is directed by Litia Tuiburelevu, Produced by Hex ...
There’s ample evidence demonstrating free school lunch programmes provide wide benefits across schools, households and communities according to public health researchers. ACT Minister David Seymour wants to reduce the spending on Aotearoa New Zealand’s ...
By Wata Shaw in Suva Fiji is facing an exodus of Fijians as many are leaving for overseas seeking employment and education and others are migrating, says Opposition MP Viliame Naupoto. Speaking in Parliament, he said: “His Excellency’s speech (Ratu Wiliame Katonivere) comes after a little over one year of ...
The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming comments from Christopher Luxon this morning recommitting to ‘no new taxes’ as part of Budget 2024. “Mr Luxon’s refusal at the Post-Cabinet press conference yesterday to repeat the ‘no new taxes’ promise ...
SAFE is urgently calling on the Environment Committee to reject the Government’s Fast-Track Approvals Bill, and is urging New Zealanders to rally behind the call. The proposed Bill, currently under consideration with the Environment select committee, ...
Teammates who spend all their time picking fights with spectators are only helpful for the other team, writes Madeleine Chapman. Anyone who has ever played a team sport competitively, particularly as a child and particularly, for some reason, basketball, will know that there’s a lot of politics involved. While there ...
The long-running Wellington music festival is too focused on the Jim Beam-ness and not enough on the Homegrown-ness.There is something about Homegrown that’s difficult to place. A barely perceptible-ness. Like feeling a ghost is watching you from the corner of the room but when you look, there’s nothing there. ...
The latest Ipsos New Zealand Issues Monitor reveals that fewer New Zealanders believe crime / law and order is one of the top issues facing our country. In 2018, Ipsos New Zealand started tracking the key issues facing New Zealand. In this wave ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Deputy Program Director, Budgets and Government, Grattan Institute Australia’s political donations rules are woefully inadequate, but donations reform is finally on the agenda. The federal government has signalled its interest in reform and will soon begin briefing MPs on its ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Patrick Taylor, Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Naiyana Somchitkaeo/Shutterstock A recent study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine has linked microplastics with risk to human health. The study ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Global climate records were shattered in 2023, from air and sea temperatures to sea-level rise and sea-ice extent. Scores of countries recorded their hottest year ...
As part of our series exploring how New Zealanders live and our relationship with money, a teacher explains why he and his partner are in frugal mode – and how they’re making it work. Gender: Male Age: 35Ethnicity: Pākehā Role: I am an intermediate school teacher and my partner is ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Bendall, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University Binge Mary & George, the new British television drama series, depicts the real-life story of Mary Villiers and her son George, and their social climbing at the ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jason Nassios, Associate Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University This article is part of The Conversation’s series examining the housing crisis. Read the other articles in the series here. Australian state and federal governments spend money in many ways to ...
The finance minister is denying that there’s a $5.6b shortfall in paying for the government’s campaign promises, including tax cuts. At his post-cabinet press conference yesterday, the PM refused to rule out new taxes to pay for the cuts, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s ...
Kāinga Ora tenants abused by their neighbours are doubting the government's crackdown on disruptive tenants will make a difference on their behaviour. ...
Kāinga Ora is New Zealand’s biggest residential landlord, housing more than 180,000 vulnerable people in more than 67,000 properties. Yesterday the government announced a crackdown on its tenants who fall behind on rent. One longtime Kāinga Ora tenant shares her experience.For 18 years I lived in a 1960s standalone ...
Why does this myth persist, and what’s the real reason our skin is suffering?It’s one of the biggest international grievances New Zealanders hold, up there with the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior and 1981’s underarm incident. We’re quick to tell international travellers that the world’s pollution led to the ...
SailGP’s races feature in-your-face action, with agile, hydro-foiling catamarans tacking and jibing for the title over several days. However, public comments ahead of the global series’ return to New Zealand have left this past year’s controversy in the shadows, as a key appointment attracts criticism from dolphin advocates. A year ...
Opinion: We are fast approaching a fundamental change in prisons. As the number of people on custodial remand looks set to overtake the number of sentenced prisoners, the main function of prisons in New Zealand may become incarcerating un-sentenced people who may not be guilty of offending. We have already ...
A huge seven months lies in store for the White Ferns, beginning this week with the visit of England and culminating with the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in September and October. Starting on Tuesday in Dunedin, the world ranked No. 2 visitors will play five T20s and three ODIs, ...
Opinion: In a move that has shocked road safety advocates across the country, the new Minister of Transport, Simeon Brown, is poised to abandon the previous government’s speed limit reduction policy, particularly around schools. Even more alarmingly, he wants school speed limits to be variable rather than full-time, arguing ...
Auckland Council is opposing a fast-track development backed by Sir John Kirwan and Spark NZ, because it doesn’t meet stringent new climate adaptation requirements The post Surf-data centre faces new 3.8C climate warming rules appeared first on Newsroom. ...
When the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act was introduced in 2009 it was firmly targeted at gangs and drugs. The legislation means police no longer need a conviction to seize assets that criminals can’t prove were paid for legitimately, as long as their alleged offences are punishable by more than a ...
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Bob’s relationship with certain members of Lincoln’s academic staff continued to deteriorate in the 1990s. Others supported him publicly, though articles such as Roland Clark’s 1993 piece in Growing Today cannot have pleased the university management. Clark wrote that Bob was selling onions from the Biological Husbandry Unit to a ...
The letters, which were published last week, were addressed to Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) Chairperson Megawati Sukarnoputri, National Democrat Party (NasDem) Chairperson Surya Paloh, National Awakening Party (PKB) Chairperson Muhaimin Iskandar, Justice and Prosperity Party (PKS) President Ahmad Syaikhu and United Development Party (PPP) Chairperson Muhammad Mardiono. In ...
Evicting more people from state housing is ignorant to the consequences of poverty, the Greens say, but the Housing Minister says it's a privilege that can be taken away if abused. ...
Evicting more people from state housing is ignorant to the consequences of poverty, the Greens say, but the Housing Minister says it's a privilege that can be taken away if abused. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emerald L King, Lecturer in Humanities, University of Tasmania IMDB Between Netflix’s 2023 live-action version of One Piece, and its latest take on Avatar: The Last Airbender, fans are once again asking: why are live-action anime adaptations so tricky to ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emerald L King, Lecturer in Humanities, University of Tasmania IMDB Between Netflix’s 2023 live-action version of One Piece, and its latest take on Avatar: The Last Airbender, fans are once again asking: why are live-action anime adaptations so tricky to ...
The government says it still intends to deliver tax cuts by July, but will not lock them in until they have got them past their coalition partners. ...
Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII has hosted members of the Green Party Caucus at Tuurangawaewae Marae in Ngaaruawahia. The audience follows the King’s Hui-aa-Motu on 20 January, where more than 10,000 people gathered to discuss national ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dr Rachael Potter, Research Associate and Lecturer in Work and Organisational Psychology, University of South Australia Ground Picture/Shutterstock Pregnant women and workers with children are often unfairly treated by their bosses and colleagues, despite laws to protect against workplace discrimination ...
Reacting to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s refusal to rule out introducing new taxes at the budget, Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy, said: “Today’s refusal to rule out new taxes suggests the Government is nothing more ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne Aila Images/Shutterstock Aged-care workers will receive a significant pay increase after the Fair Work Commission ruled they ...
He’s bringing ‘Sophie’ back, yeah. Goodshirt’s ‘Sophie’ music video is one of the most instantly recognisable New Zealand music videos of all time. Featuring a woman listening to the song on headphones while her entire house is burgled behind her, the video won the New Zealand music award for Best ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University A year ago, the AUKUS agreement was formally announced between Australian and UK Prime Ministers Anthony Albanese and Rishi Sunak and US President Joe Biden. The agreement mapped out the “optimal ...
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Well at least it money not wasted on a flag referendum…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12171240
Excellent.
Estimated to provide between $550m to $1 billion increase to the NZ economy.
Oh thank Goff for that – cargo cult goodies !
The new AC75 boats will be fantastic. So fast and powered only by the wind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx2qG_YMrDs
If this story is accurate they might never finish a race.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12169111
Perhaps the picture you have included is accurate. The foil on the right of the picture has broken off.
The Government should be ashamed of themselves for putting anything at all into this stupid event. I guess they want to meet a lot of billionaires though.
Claims about the benefits to the economy from this sort of thing always turn out to be rubbish.
The ones on the left or right would likely be raised up or down depending on what side the wind is coming from.
Government picking of winners is better than that of the private sector.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-d-atkinson-phd/for-once-and-for-all-lets_b_548145.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/clint-wilder/exploding-the-myth-that-g_b_4907695.html
No. You should be ashamed of yourself for insisting that nothing change.
Alwyn, the National government contributed for 2013 and 2017. The current government will contribute for 2021. The rest of your comment is just smartass waffle.
“Alwyn, the National government contributed”.
I know that National contributed to this stupid event.
What does that have to do with anything?
If you check back on my comments about this, and other, circuses you will find that I am quite consistent in my views. Games being played by billionaires need no help at all from the taxpayer.
However at the moment it is the New Zealand First/Labour Government that is throwing the money around so they are the ones I am complaining about this year. When National did it I complained about them.
There. Does that satisfy you?
Why and earth do you seem to think that I am a National Party member, or at least supporter? I am not. I object to all the crazy things that politicians get up to with other peoples money.
Alwyn is being consistent with this comment.
He/She criticised National for what he considered to be inappropriate use of taxpayer money, and does the same here for the Labour led coalition government.
http://superseniors.msd.govt.nz/webadmin/html/email/superseniors-december-2018.html
“Minister for Seniors Tracey Martin talks about her first full year as a Minister and the highlights she has had talking to older people across the country.
In her column, the Minister discusses the priorities for 2019 including the release of the draft strategy for an ageing population and looking at how the SuperGold Card can work better for older people.
We celebrate the start of summer with an easy and delicious salad recipe from the NZ Nutrition Foundation that you can try at home.”
Not a whisper about oldies role in moves to mitigate Anthropogenic Climate Change and its effects.
That’s disappointing Tracey, maybe next newsletter ?
From the SuperSeniors eNewsletter – December 2018. Not a whisper about oldies role in moves to mitigate Anthropogenic Climate Change and its effects.
Haaaaaa
I am guessing she’s to frightened by the old coot Attenburgh response to population wipe out.
New policy for old people and anthropogenic climate change:
Logan’s Run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k_RdafinYw
The state shuts you off as soon as you get to 30.
I see Mark Mitchell today talked about “a feeling of utter hopelessness.” He should form a club with Simon.
…called the National Party.
So a couple of key things I will be watching the govt reaction to from the mental health inquiry recommendations.
Raising the alcohol age back up to 20.
Decriminalising drug possession
Pumping tonnes more into mental health
Cracking down on alcohol similar to what was done with tobacco
I await Labour’s taking on these with interest
Let us know what you think.
Chris t you must be reasonably happy with the Commission’s findings. So far so good, but the massive problem is staffing and workforce development. Clark flagged this I think.
Having worked in mental health for a very long time, it is going to take a long time and a lot of resources to get anywhere where we need to be. Nationals spokes person with the nerve to say labour cancelling three of nationals new projects has held things back. Those things while of some value were pretty small in the big picture. Trust me under national mental health services were run down significantly. No question about it
National Standards Strike Again?
They’ve certainly had some detrimental effect but the reality is that there’s only so many hours in a day that children can effectively be taught while the amount that they need to be taught increases as society becomes more complex.
More resources need to be put into education but we also need to put those resources into the right place. Not just more for this subject or that one. That’s not going to address the problem which is lack of time. We need to increase the resources going to ensure that people stay at school longer to get the education that they need before they leave school and to ensure that they have ongoing education available after they leave school.
Reading, writing and some elements of maths are easily developed in teaching science and visa versa. I speak as long-time science teacher with experience in teaching and demonstrating to college students, lecturing to teachers and writing science units to incorporate the integration of subjects through same.
Problem solving for education starting at primary school. Getting the basics understood then dividing the class into teams with different projects of equal suitability and complexity. How do we tackle this, what skills, equipment will we need. Knowing wht to do, or what approach to take and where to uplift the theory and skills – perhaps having a class in the middle of the project – puts it all in context.
For secondary schools, the teams can run a theoretical country using communism, fascism, democracy, neo liberalism, free market also plan to organise a concert at school or something. Hands on experience and lines of authority and co-operation and how to talk to people for team building. That is what is really needed these days to ensure that we don’t lose our creative drive that Geoff Murphy displayed.
Draco we used to have Advisors then their roles were totally disestablished.
These were expert teachers who did in school training and resource provision for teachers. That was a valuable resource that updated teacher’s knowledge and methods.
Part of the reason we have dropped in international rankings was they were an essential tool. imo.
National is going to need plumbers, lots and lots of plumbers …
Another leak.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/12/exclusive-leaked-email-reveals-maggie-barry-told-parliamentary-staff-to-do-unlawful-national-party-work.html
Obviously, staff releasing communications.
I’d fire the lot of them and then hire people I could trust.
Also I’d try and blacklist anyone I suspected of taping or releasing documents to the media.
The “Great Gadsby” would have about as much chance of getting another job as JLR.
At a certain point in an abuse cycle no one is loyal.
Mallard is acting in full consistency with government policy to be anti-violence, anti-bullying, pro-female, pro-collective action … and fully with the #MeToo campaign and all the other global pro-female and anti–government-establishment winds blowing all through the English speaking world.
Not that I’m suggesting the Speaker is enacting policies of the Ardern government and blowing with the wind … oh no I wouldn’t dare … for Mallard it’s all just very good timing and very good luck and very very bad for National for a very very long time 🙂
That’s what I pretty much thought, more Labour dirty politics.
Shame for you guys no one gives a fuck about this petty beltway shit.
The election is lost for the COL once they sign up to the global compact in a couple of days.
Out of curiosity who would you prefer as the next PM
Bridges or Collins?
Donald. He’s good on trade with China.
That’s because he’s the master of the deal.
a legend in his own lunchbox.
The next National Prime Minister hasn’t come out of Kindergarten yet so I don’t need to sully my pretty little mind with such things.
Who do think is more likely to have the necessary skills?
What BM???? I am sorry I genuinely don’t understand what you mean about Labour dirty politics…………the speaker announces an enquiry into bullying after three accusations of mps bullying, Meka Jami lee and now Maggie and your saying it’s labour’s dirty politics?….
Labour stayed well out of jami lee and appears to be doing the same with Maggie………..even Simon is saying most likely Jami lee who leaked…..not labour
The only party that engages in Dirty Politics is National.
That’s what I pretty much thought, more Labour dirty politics.
Whattttt?
We are just sitting back and grinning a lot. Nothing to do with us.
🙂
And bm’s Gone for the night…..
The rightwing likes to project and claim that the left is doing the same dirty things as what they are doing, to justify their actions.
Their proof of such accusations is they have a gut feeling about it.
Our proof the right is doing it, however, tends to be a lot more tangible and based on fact.
I suspect they genuinely can’t imagine people doing it any other way: all smiles and backstabbing, any compromise is a weakness and power must be abused, malice in defeat and revenge follows victory.
Yep. Psychological projection is considered a defence mechanism for the people doing the projection:
TDB
That seems to be at the basis of the moral (amoral) philosophy that the neo-libs have adopted as representing society’s beliefs. We are all self-interested, everything we do is for a reward of some kind so there is no such thing as altruism, etc etc.
This neolib thing of course is not new, and that we should repeat it shows a strange amnesia. It produces a very unkind type of person, very self-focussed and then target-focussed, perfect for exploiting and employing in jobs like factor for the principals behind land clearances which gained momentum in the 1700’s in Britain; in the Highland one for instance:
Some of those carrying out clearances believed that this was for the benefit of those affected. Patrick Sellar, the factor (agent) of the Countess of Sutherland, was descended from a paternal grandfather who had been a cottar in Banffshire and had been cleared by an improving landlord. For the Sellars, this initiated a process of upward mobility (Patrick Sellar was a lawyer and a graduate of Edinburgh University), which Sellar took to be a moral tale that demonstrated the benefits to those forced to make a new start after eviction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances
This concise Wikipedia backgrounding illustrates the changing face of politics and legality over-riding the acceptance of commons and ancient tribal powers as the stable force in people’s lives and economy.
I don’t think it’s projection, more a pessimistic realpolitik: nat shills here know they and the nats are cynical power-grubbers, liars, and thieves. The just think that every politician is completely and utterly corrupt. If everyone is equally bad, you can’t be backing the worst option.
You mean like the time a couple of National MPs accused of Bulling claimed they were the victims of bullying?
They get what they deserve. Treat staff badly it always ends badly. BM you are saying no staff can be whisle blowers. Guess you vote for total control.The next National government won’t have Judith or Bridges in all likelihood.
If we had good laws against corruption Judith would have been gone years ago with no hope of return. Bridges would be on his way out. No matter how you look at it that splitting of $100k to hide a donor was corruption.
We just don’t have the necessary laws.
Is this still with the police? The gist of it is that it is illegal to deliberately split donations which surely is what the Nats have done in this case.
Can’t say that I’ve heard.
Okay. Seems like a pretty serious breach of electoral rules. One which cost John Banks his career and just about everything else, so why is Simon Bridges not having the blow torch on him?
I heard a comment on RNZ, Bridges when asked, said he had not been contacted by the police, in regards to donation accusations.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-10-2018/was-that-100k-national-donation-legal-or-not/
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/10/16/279660/zhang-yikun-and-the-alleged-100k-donation
Everything suggests that there should be a serious investigation going on over National’s donations .
With the life preserving transition required the time has come (again)…..can we rebuild the institutional knowledge?…..or can we afford not to?
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018674057/bob-the-nation-s-build
A signal.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DthbT-_XgAAqNhQ.jpg
Too subtle. Don of the Deadbrains and his cultists will see it and totally miss it.
Everyone has their doppelganger.
Quote of the day:
“If Trump goes to prison, it could be his first complete sentence.”
If Netanyahu goes to prison, Gazza will shoot harmless skyrockets, and release paper lanterns to celebrate. Resulting in a TV station giving news to the people that the mass murderer has a new cellmate with the nickname Horse and street name Pricilla. Before it gets accidentally bombed by a precision guided bomb.
If Clinton goes to prison she deserves it. Unfortunately the cases hard disc for the prosecution was mysteriously smashed with a hammer, by Hillary, by accident. She blamed the hard disk, the 347th reason, and was upset at it.
Before the prince goes to prison he will seek asylum in the Russian embassy.
HRC was following US government procedure for the destruction of unwanted devices.
destroy your hard drive by drilling nails or holes into the device yourself or even smashing it with a hammer
https://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/DisposeDevicesSafely.pdf
Its hard to believe anything. Both side talk a lot of crap. I just hope she doesn’t enter any more debates. She might need the questions in advance.
“If Clinton goes to prison she deserves it.”
Does that mean Ivanka deserves to go as well ?
Quotes of the day.
Clinton is as crooked as her broom stick.
Clinton is powered by Uranuim.
lol and to think we were almost past the stage where any criticism of dolt-45 was followed by some doofus going “but hiiilllllaaaaarrryyyy”
If only someone had learnt how to read…
https://twitter.com/muhammadlila/status/1069609790802784257?s=21
Gone.
https://twitter.com/PassTheSalty/status/1069810477595811840
OMG! Unbelievable..
Get me out of here….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaeKUMD3IHI
hehehe yeah that was a doozie!
FFS he must have been briefed as to what he was supposed to do – which just shows that his listening skills are
second tonone.He’s probably a little distracted at the moment.
https://news.yahoo.com/mueller-preparing-end-game-russia-investigation-225720798.html
Yeah it’s going to be a big week! Cohen, Manafort, and Flynn. Just where Mueller is heading will be more fully revealed this week. They are all waiting with eager anticipation.
Don’t know if you are following WTF but Matt has an extensive analysis of last week and the upcomming court cases this week here:
https://talk.whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/t/week-of-nov-25-dec-1/4053
Well worth a read.
Rambling man
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1069940317523193856
Karma.
Double cheers.
Brilliant Karma.
Mind-boggling . The UK cabinet is discussing how to ration supplies entering the country by ferry in a no-deal scenario.
In any event there would be a sharp reduction in ferry traffic between the UK and the EU, meaning that vital industrial components and medicines would be vying with salads for scarce space in trucks and on ships.
“Perishable goods like salads and vegetables won’t make it on to ‘DfT Seaways’,” said one official. “Some foods will run out in the supermarkets — it will be a bit like the USSR.” The UK imports 30 per cent of its food from the EU.
[…]
“It’s gearboxes versus pâté,” joked one official. “The government would have to choose and that’s why the government would have to own the shipping capacity.”
Industrial components, including those used in “just in time” production processes including car plants, could be given priority, while Mr Gove’s team accept that perishable goods like salads, vegetables and meats could lose out.
https://www.ft.com/content/9e3bda3a-f720-11e8-af46-2022a0b02a6c
To me it’s mind boggling that they are still even contemplating Brexit. The consequences are simply staggering. The open boarders now mean the free flow of people and goods and services and you only have to visit to see that the movement of people and goods across the channel is enormous. Placing any sort of barrier is going to create havoc.
I’m with the Northern Irish Border on this one – I’m not impressed with Brexit overall – but I do admire its ability to divide a country.
Paula gets smashed after attempting to call out the Prime Minister.
https://twitter.com/paulabennettmp/status/1069759222231969792
Apologies if already posted but hell it’s worth another go.
Any moment now Canaanites and Phoenicians will invoke their manifest destiny, too.
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I was flicking through my boy’s bible the other day and landed on the Book of Jeremiah. Interesting reading about the behaviour of the Jews at that time.