Daily Review 06/12/2017

Written By: - Date published: 5:33 pm, December 6th, 2017 - 41 comments
Categories: Daily review - Tags:

Daily review is also your post.

This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).

Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

41 comments on “Daily Review 06/12/2017 ”

  1. Ed 1

    The ranting and ravings of Barry Soper.
    Does he have an issue with capable women?

    #1. Golriz Ghahraman
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11949313

    2. Jacinda Ardern
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11947781

    3. Susan Devoy
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11952064

    A pattern seems to be emerging.

    • greywarshark 1.1

      From Soper it could be said to be a fractious fractal.

    • Sanctuary 1.2

      “…Does he have an issue with capable women..?”

      The answer to your question is yes.

    • rhinocrates 1.3

      A lot of pale, stale men have trouble with capable women, especially women who aren’t lilly-white and subservient. Brash, Prostetnic Vogon Joyce, Billshit, Mapp, Penguin, Whaleoil… They only vary in how they dress up their misogyny and racism.

      And unfortunately, there are a lot of bros on the supposed ‘left’ who dismiss feminism and anti-racism as ‘identity politics.’

  2. Ad 2

    Awesome photo Mickey.

    Astonishing Trump is shifting the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. That’s functionally putting a major US military installation on the Jordanian border.

    What an idiot.

    • mickysavage 2.1

      Post tomorrow. He seems to want to destroy the chances of peace in different parts of the world just to divert the flow if indictments coming the White House’s way.

      • Anne 2.1.1

        It is so obvious what he is doing but it ain’t going to work in the long run. Mueller needs to get his skates on ‘asap’ and drive this crazy creep and his team of enablers out of the White House!

        What’s the difference between Kim Jong un and Donald Trump?

        Well, one is an old spoiled brat with orange hair and the other is a young spoiled brat with black hair. Apart from that – nothing.

        • Andre 2.1.1.1

          #MAGA – MuellerAin’tGoingAway

        • rhinocrates 2.1.1.2

          Mueller needs to get his skates on ‘asap’

          It’s a chess game, with sacrifices of minor pieces. Mueller’s playing a careful game of chess. Flipping Flynn is an indicator of that – punishing him to the fullest extent of the law might be fair, but it may end his broader investigation. He wants testimony against the higher-ups that he can use in a court and defend, not just a few minor scalps.

          A lot of criminals have got away because of some procedural slip-up or contentious testimony.

          The strategy used against organised crime is to go for the vulnerable lower-ranking soldiers and turn them and then work your way up the ladder until you have a solid case against the people at the top. Mueller’s treating the Trump administration as he would the Mafia.

      • Andre 2.1.2

        I reckon you’re crediting Donnie Dotard with more strategic thinking than he’s capable of.

        Moving the embassy to Jerusalem was a campaign promise, and it’s something easy to do by decree and call it winning.

      • One Two 2.1.3

        It’s not Trumps agenda, he’s a pawn

        Destroying ‘peace’ as an agenda, belongs to others…

        That photo explains it, quite clearly

  3. Andre 3

    Just a reminder of what Grabba the Hutt thought was equivalent.

    ” “It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider,” Trump said in the interview when Howard Stern asked how he handled making sure he wasn’t contracting STDs from the women he was sleeping with.

    The business-mogul-turned-politician elaborated on the fact in the interview, calling women’s vaginas “potential landmines” and saying “there’s some real danger there.” ”

    http://people.com/politics/trump-boasted-of-avoiding-stds-while-dating-vaginas-are-landmines-it-was-my-personal-vietnam/

  4. Sanctuary 4

    The comments on this story cast a new light on Paul Quin’s attack on Golriz Ghahraman. These are pertinent facts on Quin that our MSM could have checked up on before breathlessly printing his smears. But instead of doing some basic journalistic checks on Quin’s credibility in this area, they allowed his lies to be published and IMHO they became complicit in a dirty politics hatchet job.

    http://opiniojuris.org/2017/11/28/a-shameless-attack-on-golriz-ghahraman/

    “…Quin’s attack on Ghahraman is classic Rwandan PR strategy which he practiced and honed while working for that government’s PR department: attack any critics of the regime with claims of genocide denial, cower them into submission and hope that eventually they will resign…”

    Also:
    http://digitaldjeli.com/2012/amnesty-international-denounces-use-of-torture-in-rwandan-military-detention-rwandan-pr-reacts/

    In my view Fairfax owe Ghahraman an apology, but fat chance she’ll get one – the media these days are happy to be unaccountable disseminator of smears and complicit in spreading lies when it suits them, then scuttle off and whine about jounalistic privilege when someone does come after them.

    I see the vile Farrar was on Mora’s show again today. He gets away with his dirty politics filthy hatchet job scot free to play the vicar’s tea party with NatRad’s genteel enabler. Who was complaining about my use of the phrase “white male privilege” the other day? QED.

    • Ed 4.1

      Mora is an utter disgrace.
      He shows no interest in the bigger issues.
      He never challenges the hateful opinions of rabid far right extremists like Franks and Farrar; instead he gives their vile views a public platform. A cosy little chat room where their neoliberal ideologies seem so harmless and temperate.
      Mora is actually more dangerous than Hosking.

      All he worries about is the price of his house.

      • In Vino 4.1.1

        He probably is not concerned about his house – more worried about what his bosses would do if he let someone like Bomber Bradbury speak again.
        Yes – it is a polite right-wing chatroom with feeble pretence of real left-wing contribution.
        A bit like ‘From 9 to Noon’ on Monday morning’s politics session, to my mind. Once again, the Left are barely represented at all.
        Radio NZ needs to lift its game.

        • Ed 4.1.1.1

          So many ACT voices, the party of the 1%.
          According to you definition, Mora is a timorous puppet only employed by Griffin because he doesn’t rock the boat and gently massages the right wing views of most of his panellists so they appear more humane than they are.

      • garibaldi 4.1.2

        “Mora is actually more dangerous than Hosking”. Bullshit. That insidious prick has more than ten times the market penetration than Mora.

      • Bearded Git 4.1.3

        I listened to Mora for about 10 years now and he will never say what his age…..he appears to be completely paranoid about anyone finding this out. He left Otago Boys High in 1971 so I am guessing 64.

        it pisses me off that he will have Rabid Act Franks and Dirty Politics Farrar on the show but has banned Bradbury.

    • rhinocrates 4.2

      If Penguin has a child, you have to ask him what kind of world he wants to make for it. Is it one in which empathy and ethics don’t matter, in which winning by any means is all that matters, in which losing is your own fault and altitude is what you use to shit on people lower down?

  5. Ed 5

    In the U.K. ansd the rest of the world, people are waking up to the scam that is ‘clean green New Zealand.’

    ‘There can’t be a more successful tourism marketing campaign than “100% Pure New Zealand”. And New Zealand is seen as a world leader in another respect: how its farmers sell their food globally without government subsidies. But the tension between these two successes has been exposed by Sir Tim Smit, the co-founder of the Eden Project in Cornwall.

    Smit has sparked a minor international incident by declaring that New Zealand is “so pure the people of Christchurch won’t even swim in the river Avon. Most of the lakes are full of algae. It is like a beautiful person with cancer.” He was speaking to British landowners pondering the New Zealand model for post-Brexit agriculture. British farmers currently receive £3bn in subsidies each year; environment secretary Michael Gove must design a much smaller subsidy system – or scrap it altogether.

    Smit argues that New Zealand is no inspiration despite its farmers surviving the removal of subsidies in 1984. Their response has been to intensify, and export milk to China.

    Landscapes that George Monbiot might describe as sheep-wrecked are now cattle-wrecked; the cost, argues Smit, is water quality, as nitrates from fertilisers flood into rivers. Smit’s critique has been endorsed not only by Greenpeace New Zealand but also by the chief executive of New Zealand’s fish and game council, Martin Taylor, who calls the country’s clean, green image “a facade”.’

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/04/new-zealand-britain-countryside-michael-gove-brexit?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=255245&subid=12977235&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

    • Ian 5.1

      Endorsed by fish and game and greenpeace. Specialists in half truths,innuendo,hyperbole and filthy lies feeding into a gullible population of townsfolk. THe river Avon catchment is city ,not farmland. Algae grows in lakes naturally and most of our lakes are not FULL of algae. Nitrates don’t flood into rivers.I get sick of all this perverted propoganda from all the usual suspects.

      • Ed 5.1.1

        You are in denial of the environmental crisis facing ourcwaterways.
        You ignore Science.

        Do you also deny climate change?
        Just wanting to get a feel for the level of your refusal to accept Science.

        • Ian 5.1.1.1

          I am sick of all the propoganda bleated out monotonously by greenpeace,fish and game and other traitorous bastards. They never mention the world leading environmental management that NZ agriculture is immersing itself in. Warmer tenperatures and irrigation is lifting pasture production significantly ,which is leading to higher profitability and more profit to spend on environmental management.
          Hang on a minute.The idiots at greenpeace and fish and game don’t like irrigation ,even from water stored in the wet times. Talk about fruitloops

          • Ed 5.1.1.1.1

            Keep talking to yourself….

          • Draco T Bastard 5.1.1.1.2

            The only traitorous bastards are people like you who’ll deny reality because they’re doing well. The people who will bring about the collapse of society and, the way things are going, the majority of life on Earth for their own greed.

      • millsy 5.1.2

        I get sick of people like you who are prepared to foul every river and lake in the country for extra few dollars.

      • bwaghorn 5.1.3

        i’ve recently changed my work to being a casual shepherd/fencer it’s taken me on to 3 new large sheep and beef farms, two of them have most of easy country creeks and wet lands fenced and the third is planning it for the near future

        • greywarshark 5.1.3.1

          bwaghorn
          Probably what the situation is about fenced clean creeks and good water and farming, is that the biggest polluters are from the tiny bit of the business pie that is dairy farming. Even there it may be from the big conglomerations of farms probably owned by Queen and Wall Street farmers. Farmers have to start speaking out about the facts from their own sector, not just huddle together behind the Federated Farmers union. That outfit is about as useful to farmers in general as tits on a bull.

          So differentiate yourselves, raise your standards where people can see them as meaning quality, not like those others! Farmers could unite into guilds speaking for your group, your interests, your value to the country and the land – say the Sheep and Beef Grazing Guild. Sound odd? – only because it hasn’t been pushed before.

          The present system for farmers is about as useful to them generally as the Federation of Labour was for workers – they caved in to dirty economics. Farmers are suffering with bad publicity from dirty water, and it’s not caused by the huge majority of them. Why put up, why not farmers point the finger at those causing the problem and besmirching the brand? What are ya men/women or mice?

          • bwaghorn 5.1.3.1.1

            ” Farmers are suffering with bad publicity from dirty water,” the bad publicity was unfortunately needed to get things moving ,(no this dosen’t mean ive forgiven labour for its wedge politics at the election)
            i was just pointing out that things are happening ,but there is still some shoddy shit going on next to easily fenced rivers.

            im not linked to the feds in any way btw, and am to busy getting by at the mo to be involved politically

            • greywarshark 5.1.3.1.1.1

              bwaghorn
              Just keeping up to date with what is going on and keeping in touch with the bloggers is being involved. It’s good to read you. And we all need to just know there are others out there who are alive! So cheers and have a good Christmas and New Year.

              When i was writing before I was in the midst of a vision of what could happen, not thinking of you going out there single handed. Just too much for anyone. But I wish farmers could start thinking about splitting up into interest and quality groups as guilds are and assert their differences.

  6. adam 6

    Strike by train staff this friday in Auckland – so no trains running.

    Good on them!!!

    • Ed 6.1

      The overseas owned company Transdev sounds applalling.
      This is what happens when you sell pubic assets to foreign private interests.
      Profits over people.
      Governments that sell their country and people’s assets should be tried for treason.

      • James Thrace 6.1.1

        Of course they’re appalling. They made their initial start as Veolia, happily taking payment from the Germans in WWII for ferrying Jewish people to those horrendous camps.

      • Governments that sell their country and people’s assets should be tried for treason.

        QFT

  7. Ed 7

    The media write another about freak weather conditions and fail to mention the words climate change. No wonder fools like Soper get away with their nonsense.

    ‘New Zealand is off to a “concerning” start to summer, after some of the worst rainfall patterns in over a century.
    A NIWA monthly climate summary for November showed we suffered rainfall levels “well below normal” and temperatures “well above average” for many parts of the country.’

    http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/12/new-zealand-weather-concerning-start-to-summer.html

    Wake up New Zealand – it’s here and it’s going to get worse.
    The media isn’t going to help.

    • greywarshark 7.1

      Goodness, present reality, the really bad news and you’ll frighten the horses!

      No, we must not. So just limit the bad news to someone’s hair getting pulled, or parking spaces being cut in front of businesses, or a really spectacular car crash, or some yachtspeople who can’t hack sea v yacht having expensive rescues mounted for them, or whatever the USA is doing. Or not being able to prevent or increase people dying, or being born, or having sex, or using drugs – these have become the mundane – and ignore the background, the context; use the gapfiller of everyday problems and often trivial concerns. Life happens while we are thinking of other things.

Recent Comments

Recent Posts

  • EV road user charges bill passes
    Transport Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed the passing of legislation to move light electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) into the road user charges system from 1 April.  “It was always intended that EVs and PHEVs would be exempt from road user charges until they reached two ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Bill targets illegal, unregulated fishing in international waters
    New Zealand is strengthening its ability to combat illegal fishing outside its domestic waters and beef up regulation for its own commercial fishers in international waters through a Bill which had its first reading in Parliament today. The Fisheries (International Fishing and Other Matters) Amendment Bill 2023 sets out stronger ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Reserve Bank appointments
    Economists Carl Hansen and Professor Prasanna Gai have been appointed to the Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Committee, Finance Minister Nicola Willis announced today. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is the independent decision-making body that sets the Official Cash Rate which determines interest rates.  Carl Hansen, the executive director of Capital ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Stronger protections for apartment owners
    Apartment owners and buyers will soon have greater protections as further changes to the law on unit titles come into effect, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “The Unit Titles (Strengthening Body Corporate Governance and Other Matters) Amendment Act had already introduced some changes in December 2022 and May 2023, and ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Travel focused on traditional partners and Middle East
    Foreign Minister Winston Peters will travel to Egypt and Europe from this weekend.    “This travel will focus on a range of New Zealand’s traditional diplomatic and security partnerships while enabling broad engagement on the urgent situation in Gaza,” Mr Peters says.   Mr Peters will attend the NATO Foreign ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Keep safe on our roads this Easter
    Transport Minister Simeon Brown is encouraging all road users to stay safe, plan their journeys ahead of time, and be patient with other drivers while travelling around this Easter long weekend. “Road safety is a responsibility we all share, and with increased traffic on our roads expected this Easter we ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Cost of living support for over 1.4 million Kiwis
    About 1.4 million New Zealanders will receive cost of living relief through increased government assistance from April 1 909,000 pensioners get a boost to Superannuation, including 5000 veterans 371,000 working-age beneficiaries will get higher payments 45,000 students will see an increase in their allowance Over a quarter of New Zealanders ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Tenancy reviews for social housing restart
    Ensuring social housing is being provided to those with the greatest needs is front of mind as the Government restarts social housing tenancy reviews, Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka says. “Our relentless focus on building a strong economy is to ensure we can deliver better public services such as social ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary plan halted
    The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary will not go ahead, with Cabinet deciding to stop work on the proposed reserve and remove the Bill that would have established it from Parliament’s order paper. “The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill would have created a 620,000 sq km economic no-go zone,” Oceans and Fisheries Minister ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Cutting all that dam red tape
    Dam safety regulations are being amended so that smaller dams won’t be subject to excessive compliance costs, Minister for Building and Construction Chris Penk says. “The coalition Government is focused on reducing costs and removing unnecessary red tape so we can get the economy back on track.  “Dam safety regulations ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago
  • Drought support extended to parts of North Island
    The coalition Government is expanding the medium-scale adverse event classification to parts of the North Island as dry weather conditions persist, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced today. “I have made the decision to expand the medium-scale adverse event classification already in place for parts of the South Island to also cover the ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago
  • Passage of major tax bill welcomed
    The passing of legislation giving effect to coalition Government tax commitments has been welcomed by Finance Minister Nicola Willis.  “The Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill will help place New Zealand on a more secure economic footing, improve outcomes for New Zealanders, and make our tax system ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago
  • Lifting economy through science, tertiary sectors
    Science, Innovation and Technology Minister Judith Collins and Tertiary Education and Skills Minister Penny Simmonds today announced plans to transform our science and university sectors to boost the economy. Two advisory groups, chaired by Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, will advise the Government on how these sectors can play a greater ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago
  • Government announces Budget priorities
    The Budget will deliver urgently-needed tax relief to hard-working New Zealanders while putting the government’s finances back on a sustainable track, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says.  The Finance Minister made the comments at the release of the Budget Policy Statement setting out the Government’s Budget objectives. “The coalition Government intends ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago
  • Government to consider accommodation solution
    The coalition Government will look at options to address a zoning issue that limits how much financial support Queenstown residents can get for accommodation. Cabinet has agreed on a response to the Petitions Committee, which had recommended the geographic information MSD uses to determine how much accommodation supplement can be ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • Government approves extension to Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care
    Cabinet has agreed to a short extension to the final reporting timeframe for the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care from 28 March 2024 to 26 June 2024, Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden says.                                         “The Royal Commission wrote to me on 16 February 2024, requesting that I consider an ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • $18m boost for Kiwis travelling to health treatment
    The coalition Government is delivering an $18 million boost to New Zealanders needing to travel for specialist health treatment, Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says.   “These changes are long overdue – the National Travel Assistance (NTA) scheme saw its last increase to mileage and accommodation rates way back in 2009.  ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • PM’s Prizes for Space to showcase sector’s talent
    The Government is recognising the innovative and rising talent in New Zealand’s growing space sector, with the Prime Minister and Space Minister Judith Collins announcing the new Prime Minister’s Prizes for Space today. “New Zealand has a growing reputation as a high-value partner for space missions and research. I am ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • Concerns conveyed to China over cyber activity
    Foreign Minister Winston Peters has confirmed New Zealand’s concerns about cyber activity have been conveyed directly to the Chinese Government.     “The Prime Minister and Minister Collins have expressed concerns today about malicious cyber activity, attributed to groups sponsored by the Chinese Government, targeting democratic institutions in both New ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • Independent Reviewers appointed for School Property Inquiry
    Independent Reviewers appointed for School Property Inquiry Education Minister Erica Stanford today announced the appointment of three independent reviewers to lead the Ministerial Inquiry into the Ministry of Education’s School Property Function.  The Inquiry will be led by former Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully. “There is a clear need ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • Brynderwyns open for Easter
    State Highway 1 across the Brynderwyns will be open for Easter weekend, with work currently underway to ensure the resilience of this critical route being paused for Easter Weekend to allow holiday makers to travel north, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Today I visited the Brynderwyn Hills construction site, where ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • Speech to the Infrastructure Funding & Financing Conference
    Introduction Good morning to you all, and thanks for having me bright and early today. I am absolutely delighted to be the Minister for Infrastructure alongside the Minister of Housing and Resource Management Reform. I know the Prime Minister sees the three roles as closely connected and he wants me ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • Parliamentary network breached by the PRC
    New Zealand stands with the United Kingdom in its condemnation of People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-backed malicious cyber activity impacting its Electoral Commission and targeting Members of the UK Parliament. “The use of cyber-enabled espionage operations to interfere with democratic institutions and processes anywhere is unacceptable,” Minister Responsible for ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago
  • NZ to provide support for Solomon Islands election
    Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Defence Minister Judith Collins today announced New Zealand will provide logistics support for the upcoming Solomon Islands election. “We’re sending a team of New Zealand Defence Force personnel and two NH90 helicopters to provide logistics support for the election on 17 April, at the request ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • NZ-EU FTA gains Royal Assent for 1 May entry to force
    The European Union Free Trade Agreement Legislation Amendment Bill received Royal Assent today, completing the process for New Zealand’s ratification of its free trade agreement with the European Union.    “I am pleased to announce that today, in a small ceremony at the Beehive, New Zealand notified the European Union ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • COVID-19 inquiry attracts 11,000 submissions
    Public consultation on the terms of reference for the Royal Commission into COVID-19 Lessons has concluded, Internal Affairs Minister Hon Brooke van Velden says.  “I have been advised that there were over 11,000 submissions made through the Royal Commission’s online consultation portal.” Expanding the scope of the Royal Commission of ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • Families to receive up to $75 a week help with ECE fees
    Hardworking families are set to benefit from a new credit to help them meet their early childcare education (ECE) costs, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. From 1 July, parents and caregivers of young children will be supported to manage the rising cost of living with a partial reimbursement of their ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • Unlocking a sustainable, low-emissions future
    A specialised Independent Technical Advisory Group (ITAG) tasked with preparing and publishing independent non-binding advice on the design of a "green" (sustainable finance) taxonomy rulebook is being established, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says.  “Comprising experts and market participants, the ITAG's primary goal is to deliver comprehensive recommendations to the ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • Chief of Army thanked for his service
    Defence Minister Judith Collins has thanked the Chief of Army, Major General John Boswell, DSD, for his service as he leaves the Army after 40 years. “I would like to thank Major General Boswell for his contribution to the Army and the wider New Zealand Defence Force, undertaking many different ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • Minister to meet Australian counterparts and Manufacturing Industry Leaders
    25 March 2024 Minister to meet Australian counterparts and Manufacturing Industry Leaders Small Business, Manufacturing, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly will travel to Australia for a series of bi-lateral meetings and manufacturing visits. During the visit, Minister Bayly will meet with his Australian counterparts, Senator Tim Ayres, Ed ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago
  • Government commits nearly $3 million for period products in schools
    Government commits almost $3 million for period products in schools The Coalition Government has committed $2.9 million to ensure intermediate and secondary schools continue providing period products to those who need them, Minister of Education Erica Stanford announced today. “This is an issue of dignity and ensuring young women don’t ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    5 days ago
  • Speech – Making it easier to build.
    Good morning, it’s great to be here.   First, I would like to acknowledge the New Zealand Institute of Building Surveyors and thank you for the opportunity to be here this morning.  I would like to use this opportunity to outline the Government’s ambitious plan and what we hope to ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    6 days ago
  • Pacific youth to shine from boost to Polyfest
    Minister for Pacific Peoples Dr Shane Reti has announced the Government’s commitment to the Auckland Secondary Schools Māori and Pacific Islands Cultural Festival, more commonly known as Polyfest. “The Ministry for Pacific Peoples is a longtime supporter of Polyfest and, as it celebrates 49 years in 2024, I’m proud to ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • 2024 Ngarimu VC and 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarships announced
    ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • Speech to Breast Cancer Foundation – Insights Conference
    Before moving onto the substance of today’s address, I want to recognise the very significant and ongoing contribution the Breast Cancer Foundation makes to support the lives of New Zealand women and their families living with breast cancer. I very much enjoy working with you. I also want to recognise ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • Kiwi research soars to International Space Station
    New Zealand has notched up a first with the launch of University of Canterbury research to the International Space Station, Science, Innovation and Technology and Space Minister Judith Collins says. The hardware, developed by Dr Sarah Kessans, is designed to operate autonomously in orbit, allowing scientists on Earth to study ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • Speech to the New Zealand Planning Institute
    Introduction Thank you for inviting me to speak with you today and I’m sorry I can’t be there in person. Yesterday I started in Wellington for Breakfast TV, spoke to a property conference in Auckland, and finished the day speaking to local government in Christchurch, so it would have been ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • Support for Northland emergency response centre
    The Coalition Government is contributing more than $1 million to support the establishment of an emergency multi-agency coordination centre in Northland. Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell announced the contribution today during a visit of the Whangārei site where the facility will be constructed.  “Northland has faced a number ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • Celebrating 20 years of Whakaata Māori
    New Zealanders have enjoyed a broader range of voices telling the story of Aotearoa thanks to the creation of Whakaata Māori 20 years ago, says Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka. The minister spoke at a celebration marking the national indigenous media organisation’s 20th anniversary at their studio in Auckland on ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • Some commercial fishery catch limits increased
    Commercial catch limits for some fisheries have been increased following a review showing stocks are healthy and abundant, Ocean and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The changes, along with some other catch limit changes and management settings, begin coming into effect from 1 April 2024. "Regular biannual reviews of fish ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

Page generated in The Standard by Wordpress at 2024-03-29T07:04:33+00:00