Daily Review 08/10/2018
Written By:
- Date published:
5:30 pm, October 8th, 2018 - 37 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 …
37 comments on “Daily Review 08/10/2018”
- Comments are now closed
- Comments are now closed
Recent Comments
- NZIGA
The emergence of a new National party leader, seemingly out of nowhere, has – not surprisingly – raised a number of questions as to who Todd Mulller actually is and what makes him tick. He has been an MP for some time but seems to have hidden his light under ...43 mins ago - Equality comes to Costa Rica
Costa Rica has become the first country in Central America to recognise same-sex marriage: The first same-sex weddings have taken place in Costa Rica, the first Central American country to equalise its marriage legislation. A lesbian couple became the first to tie the knot in a ceremony that took ...2 hours ago - Lining their own pocketsThere's a new twist in the Winston Peters secret donation story. It appears that a significant chunk of NZ First's secret laundered donations goes straight into the pockets of the people administering the scheme: Tens of thousands in donor's funds given to the New Zealand First Foundation were spent paying ...3 hours ago
- Political Roundup: Where is Todd Muller taking National?
Is Todd Muller the Ned Flanders of the National Party? This is how he’s been characterised by political commentator Gordon Campbell, who suggests the change in leadership is, in Simpsons terms, akin to swapping the scary and cruel Monty Burns for Homer Simpson’s compassionate but conservative neighbour. There’s almost a ...4 hours ago - Muller off to a shaky start
We all know that many so-called journalists and political commentators in New Zealand work directly or indirectly for political parties or for certain political factions. This was obviously the case when pundit for hire Matthew Hooton launched a campaign against then National Party leader, Simon Bridges, over their numerous polling ...23 hours ago - National’s Army Is On The Move.
1 day ago - Climate Change: Still not seriousNew National Party leader Todd Muller has been interviewed about his policies, and has promised to restart offshore fossil fuel exploration if elected: The Bay of Plenty MP rolled former leader Simon Bridges last week, but says the party has not changed its stance on previous promises. "That is ...1 day ago
- Hard News: Lately in cannabis
Anyone who keeps an eye on evidence around cannabis and public health will be familiar with the Christchurch Health and Development Study. It's one of two local longitudinal studies frequently cited with respect to cannabis and youth development. But in a new article in the New Zealand Medical Journal, it is ...1 day ago - Labour betrays its traditions – and the most vulnerable – with two-tier welfare payments
In the age of covid we are Jacinda’s team of five million, except for some. There has rarely been a more blatant case of discrimination against beneficiaries than Grant Robertson’s announcement yesterday that people who have lost their jobs because of the coronavirus will receive weekly payments of $490 per week for 12 weeks and $250 per week for part time ...1 day ago - Our response to mosque attacks honours lessons learned 75 years agoIt was 75 years ago this month that Germany surrendered and the Allies celebrated VE (Victory in Europe) Day. Millions of people around the world had been killed and many more injured or captured. It was an end to war not just for Europeans, but their allies too, in countries across Africa. But its impact is ...1 day ago
- NZ Politics Daily – 26 May 2020Today’s content Redundancy scheme Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Opinion: Unemployment payment scheme shows Govt knows benefits insufficient Rachel Sadler (Newshu): Auckland Action Against Poverty says Government’s Income Relief Payments create ‘two tiers of unemployed’ people Marc Daalder (Newsroom): New benefit leaves out migrants, existing beneficiaries Mike Treen (Daily Blog): A welcome welfare package but the ...1 day ago
- Level 2 days
Well, we are out of lockdown, essentially. I did end up getting the wage subsidy while we were on levels 3 and 4 but I would have been fine if we didn’t. The first day of level 2, the Thursday, the office opened again for the people who weren’t able ...2 days ago - A weird reappointmentA couple of weeks ago, Parliament reappointed Peter Boshier as Chief Ombudsman for another five years. There's nothing weird about the reappointment - it was recommended by the Officers of Parliament Committee, and Boshier is generally recognised as having done a good job in office (though at the same time, ...2 days ago
- Graham Adams: ‘Boring’ Todd Muller sets a trap with a hatWatching Todd Muller make his first speech as the newly minted Leader of the Opposition after Simon Bridges’ defenestration on Friday brought to mind a headmaster addressing a school assembly. He showed no particular desire to ingratiate himself with his audience although the occasional flash of self-deprecating humour indicated a ...2 days ago
- Labour doesn’t care about the already poorThe government has announced another income support scheme for people affected by the economic aftershocks of the pandemic: a $490 a week tax-free payment for the newly unemployed, which you can get even if you have a working partner. Which is great, because its supporting people who need help, but ...2 days ago
- The Green listThe Greens have released their party list, and it contains a few surprises. The one that's getting all the news is that the membership are clearly fans of Chlöe Swarbrick, and she has worked hard to earn that. But they've also favoured incumbent protection over new blood, and in the ...2 days ago
- When scientists get political: Lead fluoride-IQ researcher launches emotional attack on her scientif...
age credit: Science and Politics – Skeptically.org It seems impossible to keep politics out of science. It’s a pity because politics can end up forcing science to produce the results desired by ... 2 days ago- When can COVID-19 be Declared Eliminated from NZ? New Modelling Study
Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Matthew Parry, Dr Ayesha Verrall, Prof Michael Baker, Prof Martin Eichner (author details*) This blog details a recent modelling study we conducted. In it we estimated that it would take between 27 and 33 days of no new detected cases of COVID-19 for there to be ...2 days ago- Honeycreepers in Hawaii
The 2015 Schol Bio paper included a question about a group of birds known as honeycreepers, specifically, the 56 species endemic to the Hawaiian islands. (Or, were endemic: 18, or perhaps 19, are still living; the others are extinct.) Students who’ve already had a look at this paper as part of ...2 days ago- 2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #21
Story of the Week... Toon of the Week... Climate Feedback Article Review... Coming Soon on SkS... Climate Feedback Claim Review... SkS Week in Review... Poster of the Week... Story of the Week... What a Week’s Disasters Tell Us About Climate and the Pandemic Extreme weather presents an even bigger threat ...2 days ago- Liam Hehir: Rise of the blank slate political leader
Todd Muller has made a good start to his leadership, though it would obviously be pretty stupid to extrapolate too much from the first couple of days. Nevertheless, as a matter of speculation, it is interesting to think what success on his part might say about the preferences of the ...3 days ago- Guest post: So, just who is Todd Muller?
A guest post by Hamish Price.“A leader is a dealer in hope.”— Napoléon BonaparteCatholics have a name for potential successors to a dead pope. Papabile. The small coterie of distinguished cardinals who have what it takes to step up. Todd Muller has always been one.I first met Muller at a National ...3 days ago- 2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #21
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, May 17 through Sat, May 23, 2020 Editor's Choice More than 80 killed in India and Bangladesh as Cyclone Amphan heaps misery on coronavirus-hit areas A man salvages items from ...3 days ago- Guest Post: So that’s the leadership sorted. What now for National?
Two poor political polls within the same week had seen National for the first time in over a decade dropping major support in the face of a competent and assured COVID-19 health response from the Coalition government. Step forward the relatively unknown Todd Muller, who by Friday afternoon had secured ...4 days ago- Radiation: Views of the Week
SUNDAY MAY 24The Luminaries (TVNZ 1, 8.30pm). There are an awful lot of indeterminate accents in The Luminaries; even lead Eve Hewson seems undecided about being Irish, and she is Irish. Fair play, accents can go badly wrong, so perhaps not over-egging was a consideration. Marton Csokas, always impeccable, and Himesh Patel ...4 days ago- Bye bye Bridges
Let’s be honest; Simon Bridges was a disaster of a political leader. If he wasn’t attempting to criticise the Government’s perfectly good policy initiatives that the public generally supported, he was fudging his lines after getting caught out in yet another lie. When Jami-Lee Ross said Bridges “is a flawed individual ...4 days ago- What the 2020 Budget Forecasts Mean
The media treat budgets as bit of a circus: lots of theatre and soon forgotten. For a serious economist they show how a team of economists is thinking about the wider economy. The 2020 Budget Economic and Fiscal Update (BEFU) was the most difficult forecasting exercise in the history of ...5 days ago- Fightback against job losses
Air NZ shed 1,300 workers, Fletchers about to sack 1000. Economists Strateg.Ease predict over 12,400 jobs gone by March next year in central Auckland alone. Here’s Don Franks during the 2008 election campaign when he stood for the Workers Party. He’s talking about fightback strategies, ideas that he believes are ...5 days ago- The new leader of the National party!
5 days ago- Hard News: Speaking as equals: the rise of Know Your Stuff
Five years ago, Know Your Stuff didn't have a name. They were just a group of people from the festival community who began testing party drugs onsite because they'd seen the consequences of people taking substances they couldn't identify or didn't understand. They didn't want to see people in their ...5 days ago- Labour is still underfunding our health system
Last week, an article on Newsroom made it clear how the funder / provider split - a core part of our public service - was used to enable underfunding. The government holds the purse strings, but dumps responsibility for its decisions on providers, so they get the blame for poor ...5 days ago- Monitoring and Forecasting the COVID-19 Pandemic in New Zealand Including the Successful Impact of t...
Dr Jaijus Pallippadan-Johny1, Dr John McDermott2, Rodney Jones1 and Michael Duddin1 (1 Wigram Capital Advisors, Auckland; 2Motu Economic and Policy Research, Wellington) In this blog, we introduce our modelling approach to estimating the transmissibility of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. We demonstrate the usefulness of ...5 days ago- NZ Politics Daily – 22 May 2020
Today’s content National Party leadership vote Tim Watkin (Pundit): Pharaoh Bridges Swamped By Pestilence And Poor Polls Richard Harman (Politik): D-day for Bridges Matthew Hooton (Herald): National’s only leadership choice is Muller (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Stuff): It’s a tough race when you are Mr 29 per cent – Simon Bridges faces extraordinary pressure Sam Sachdeva ...5 days ago- Leaders Without Power
The Illusions Of Power: Does Jacinda Ardern, like Abraham Lincoln, wake in the dark watches of the night still enveloped in the terrors of life-and-death decision-making? Maybe – maybe not. She’s a twenty-first century prime minister, not so susceptible, perhaps, to the deep religious feeling and romanticism that was such ...5 days ago- Pharaoh Bridges swamped by pestilence and poor polls
Well, that seals it. The supposedly more National sympathetic One News-Colmar Brunton poll has tonight delivered Simon Bridges’ National Party a worst result than the Newshub-Reid Research three days agoi.On tonight’s numbers Labour sits at an “unprecedented” 59 percent, while National has slumped 17 percent to 29 percent. Anything in ...6 days ago- Simon Bridges scraps hard for relevance and his leadership on a few fronts: 24 hours until decision ...
The National Party are quite simply a party out of time… Literally, insofar as the 2020 Election is concerned, and certainly in terms of their ideological positioning which has grown far more trenchantly extreme in the last few years in particular, under the leadership of both Simon Bridges, and Paula ...6 days ago- Political Roundup: Todd Muller has the momentum to become National’s leader
If tonight’s 1News-Colmar Brunton poll result is anywhere near the 31% recorded in Monday’s Newshub-Reid Research poll, Simon Bridges will surely be dog tucker when his caucus colleagues meet tomorrow to vote on the National Party leadership. The momentum is with newcomer Todd Muller, who seems likely to be installed ...6 days ago- Hard News: Psychedelic science: Microdosing and more
At last year's Splore festival Listening Lounge sessions, one of the most popular discussions was the one on psychedelic therapy. So for this year's festival, I brought back two of the participants from that panel – Dr Will Evans and Amadeus Diamond – and was delighted to be able to ...6 days ago- Microcopter money in Palmerston?
The government is reportedly looking at "helicopter money" - giving cash directly to people to spend - as a way of stimulating the economy in the wake of the pandemic. But its not just central government: Palmerston North City Council is looking at the same thing, though on a much ...6 days ago- New Zealand’s COVID-19 Tracer app won’t help open a ‘travel bubble’ with Australia anytime s...
Mahmoud Elkhodr, CQUniversity Australia New Zealanders finally have access to the government’s new tracing app to help people monitor their movements as lockdown continues to ease. As businesses can now open, the NZ COVID Tracer app allows people to keep a register of the places they visit. This “digital diary” ...6 days ago- Does National Still Need A Street-Fighting Man?
6 days ago- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #20, 2020
68 Articles Physical science of global warming & effects A conceptual model for anticipating the impact of landscape evolution on groundwater recharge in degrading permafrost environments Empirical models for predicting water and heat flow properties of permafrost soils Circulation and tides in a cooler upper atmosphere: dynamical effects ...6 days ago- Recession hits Māori and Pasifika harder. They must be part of planning New Zealand’s COVID-19 re...
Tahu Kukutai, University of Waikato; Helen Moewaka Barnes, Massey University; Tim McCreanor, Massey University, and Tracey Mcintosh As schools and businesses reopen and attention shifts to the longer-term repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is critical that Māori be involved in decision making more equitably than has so far happened. ...7 days ago- Free speech in pandemic and postmodern times
Dane Giraud from The Free Speech Coalition talks with Redline writer and editor Daphna Whitmore on cancel culture, gender ideology, postmodernism and irrationalism. They look at the free speech implications of issues like the Twitter mob, the Government’s proposed emergency police powers, and the Israel-Palestine conflict. The Free Speech interview ...7 days ago- Why we need to focus on increased consumption as much as population growth
Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz Almost every threat to modern humanity can be traced simply ...1 week ago- Submit!
The Finance and Expenditure Committee is holding an inquiry into the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 which was rushed through Parliament last week, and has called for submissions. Submissions are due by Sunday, 28 June 2020. You can either submit online through the form above, or by posting dead ...1 week ago- Climate Change: Ambition in Spain
While the world is currently struggling with the pandemic, we have another crisis to deal with as well: climate change. Fortunately, not everyone has forgotten about it, with Spain announcing ambitious plans to go net-zero by 2050: Under the law, which still needs to be approved by Parliament, the government ...1 week ago- New study touted by anti-fluoridation campaigners actually indicates fluoridation is safe
Children used in this study were from Lintingkou town (a normal-fluoride/control area) and Dakoutun town (a high-fluoride area) in Baodi district of Tianjin, China. The towns are 25 km apart. Anti-fluoridation activists on ... 1 week ago- NZ Politics Daily – 20 May 2020
Today’s content National Party leadership challenge, Newshub/Reid Research poll Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Todd Muller, Nikki Kaye to challenge for National Party leadership – source 1News: Simon Bridges acknowledges coup attempt within his own party after disastrous poll Matthew Theunissen (RNZ): Simon Bridges to face National Party leadership challenge Jamie Ensor (Newshub): MPs will challenge for ...1 week ago- The Virus and The Election
When we see how the pandemic is being handled in the rest of the world, we can thank our lucky stars that we live here, in New Zealand, and under our current government, led by Jacinda Ardern. The latest polls suggest that this is exactly how Kiwis feel. But the ...1 week ago- Why a “mouth and nose” lockdown with masks might help avoid a “full body” lockdown at home
Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Sophie Febery, Dr Ling Chan, Dr Jennifer Summers, Prof Michael Baker The concepts of an Alert Level system, household “bubbles”, and social event size limits are all valuable pandemic control measures. Nevertheless, better “source control” of COVID-19 at various Alert Levels by requiring masks in ...1 week ago- COVID-19 Shows that Research Institutions Need Stronger Scientific Integrity Policies
This is a repost from the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund blog, by CSLDF Executive Director Lauren Kurtz The COVID-19 pandemic illuminates the crucial role scientists at university, state, and local laboratories in the United States and abroad play in protecting public health and safety—and shows that global research must be done ...1 week ago- Church, State and the weight of capitalism.
Arguments by religious folk that they are being discriminated against under the Level 2 pandemic restrictions in NZ, which limit church services to ten people or less when schools, restaurants, malls and other service outlets are allowed to host many more people under voluntary self-distancing protocols, got me to think ...1 week ago- Disaster leisureism!
Now that the initial wave has passed, and we are (hopefully) safe in our national bubble, the government is thinking about how to keep the economy ticking over, and how to salvage the bits (like tourism) that are now useless. And for that particular industry, she has mentioned a great ...1 week ago- Poll disaster for National
There’s been a lot of conjecture concerning the reasons behind the National Party’s fall to 30% in the latest Newshub-Reid Research poll. Some commentators have correctly ascertained that the current leader, Simon Bridges, has been consistently getting his tone wrong! Others believe that the shift in support is all about ...1 week ago- Hard News: Back on the road
It probably was too good to last. The blessed peace on the roads that I wrote about here began eroding even before we left Level 4 of the Covid-19 restrictions – and on day one of Level 3, with the tradies rushing to catch upon their work, the double-cab utes ...1 week ago- Conceding Nothing – To The Undemanding Non-Voter.
Missing From The Electoral Action: The radical Left's last forlorn hope, the "Missing Million", is generally despised by mainstream New Zealand and mistrusted by the respectable members of their own communities. They have moved well beyond the reach of conventional electoral politics.TO SAY the Left’s reaction to Grant Robertson’s “Recovery ...1 week ago- Prostituting women – an essential service?
by Don Franks As we face new unknowns against Covid 19, there’s something reassuring about level 2’s basic rules. “Physical distancing- keep your distance when out and about. Two metres in public and in retail stores, like supermarkets. One metre in most other environments like workplaces, cafes, restaurants, and gyms.” ...1 week ago- Experts are back in fashion – now more than ever we need to question them
Richard Shaw, Massey University Once upon a very different time, British cabinet minister Michael Gove sneered that “people have had enough of experts from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.” But that was then and this is now. One or two ...1 week ago- Failing to protect the environment, again
From its name, you would think the Environmental protection Authority was there to protect the environment. But we've had another reminder that nothing could be further from the truth, with its decision to allow a toxic, burned-out Korean fishing boat to be dumped at sea: The ship's owner, Dong Won ...1 week ago- 2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #20
Story of the Week... El Niño/La Niña Update... Toon of the Week... Graphic of the Week... Climate Feedback Article Review... Coming Soon on SkS... Climate Feedback Claim Review... SkS Week in Review... Poster of the Week... Story of the Week... The Largest Arctic Science Expedition in History Finds Itself on Increasingly ...1 week ago- Graham Adams: The politics of envy or the politics of fairness?
It was just a month ago that the chief executive of Rotorua Lakes Council, Geoff Williams, described suggestions his executive team should consider taking pay cuts as “immoral”. Williams told the NZ Herald: “I am very fortunate to have around me an extremely committed, dedicated and hardworking executive team who ...1 week ago- Fr Joe Grayland: Is the Government’s de facto ban on religious services a form of prejudice?
“Every day, we see the powers that promulgate laws that oblige one to take certain routes and [those] that do not follow these indications or do not want them to be part of their legislation, are accused and politely persecuted” – Pope Francis What does the Government’s decision to limit ...1 week ago- Building the bridges to the future
In a previous post I noted that futures thinking usually tries to identify what people think will change and what they think needs to change. As lockdown constraints ease, we are seeing a lot of opinions about both. There is no shortage of shovel ready points of view ...
1 week ago- A pandemic parable
And so it came pass that a great plague swept the face of all the Earth. Some say it came from the East, others say it came from gloomy caverns of the bat or jungles of the civet. From whence it came, who can say? But come it did.In the ...1 week ago- 2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #20
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, May 10 through Sat, May 16, 2020 Editor's Choice These 6 books explore climate change science and solutions Recent books about climate change tackle science and offer visions of the ...1 week ago- Political Roundup: A homecoming or still adrift – how radical is Labour’s budget?
How radical or transformative is Grant Robertson’s 2020 Budget? Opinions are divided over this week’s landmark economic package. Some are viewing the big spend as a return to traditional Labour – or even socialist – politics, while others see it as “business as usual”, albeit on a grander scale. Seeing ...2 weeks ago- A matter of definition.
Recent reports have surfaced that hospital officials in some US localities are inflating the CV-19 death count by classifying anyone who dies in their care who is not the victim of an accident or other obvious non-viral cause as a CV-19 victim. Apparently this is because the US public health ...2 weeks ago- Cat MacLennan: Thanking essential workers properly
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield at their daily media briefings make a point of publicly thanking different groups of essential workers. Cleaners, supermarket workers, caregivers and others have been singled out for their crucial role in keeping Aotearoa New Zealand functioning during the pandemic. Indeed, ...2 weeks ago- Some belated scrutiny
On Wednesday morning, Parliament passed the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020. Because it was passed under urgency, the Act did not receive the usual select committee scrutiny. But today the government moved a motion to have it scrutinised by the Finance and Expenditure Committee, with a report-back date of ...2 weeks ago- Is the New Zealand State Equal To Covid-19’s Economic Challenge?
Sufficient Leverage? Years of underfunding and down-scaling, and countless restructurings, have routinely wiped away decades of institutional memory. Grant Robertson's 2020 Budget has engaged the levers of government action - but do they still work?THE FINANCE MINISTER would appear to have pulled hard on every economic lever he could find. ...2 weeks ago- The Day Labour Came Home.
2 weeks ago- Grant ‘Mr Lucky’ Robertson gets to be the ultimate big spender, keeping NZ on life suppo...
Grant Robertson could consider himself the luckiest Finance Minister of all time. While the Prime Minister has talked about “jobs, jobs, jobs” and the Leader of the Opposition has asked where is the “plan, plan, plan”, Robertson might have been lying in bed at night thinking “lucky, lucky, lucky”. Because ...2 weeks ago- Will Job Budget Address Inequities?
The Covid-19 lockdown has enabled us to examine work, social inequities and essential infrastructure from some useful perspectives.The first observation was regarding our ability to manage a national health crisis. I remember an interview recently with a surgeon who became emotional when describing his relief that we had managed to ...2 weeks ago- The timid budget
The government is currently delivering the Budget. There's some good stuff in there - an extension of the wage subsidy scheme to stop people from starving, a billion dollars for green jobs, almost two billion for free retraining, and finally feeding the kids with a school lunch program. Plus I ...2 weeks ago- New Zealand joins global search for COVID-19 vaccine
Rt Hon Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon Megan Woods, Minister of Research, Science and Innovation Hon Dr David Clark, Minister of Health Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters, Research, Science and Innovation Minister Megan Woods, and Health Minister David Clark today announced a COVID-19 vaccine strategy, ...1 day ago - Budget 2020: Five things to know
Budget 2020 is about rebuilding together, supporting jobs, getting business moving and the books back into the black. It’s an integral part of our COVID-19 economic response, and our plan to grow our economy and get New Zealand moving again. Here’s a quick look at the five top things you ...2 days ago - Coalition Government approves essential upgrades on Ōhakea Air BaseThe Coalition Government has approved $206 million in essential upgrades at Ōhakea Air Base. Defence Minister Ron Mark said the money would be spent on improving old infrastructure. He said safety issues would be addressed, as well as upgrades to taxiways, accommodation and fresh, storm and waste water systems. "This ...6 days ago
- Attributable to the Rt Hon Winston PetersRt Hon Winston Peters, Leader of New Zealand First “I am not persisting with this case just for myself, but for all people who have had their privacy breached. Privacy of information is a cornerstone of our country’s democracy. Without it our society truly faces a bleak future. We now ...1 week ago
- Forestry Minister Shane Jones moves to protect sawmillsForestry Minister Shane Jones has introduced a Bill to Parliament that he says will "force more transparency, integrity and respect" for the domestic wood-processing sector through the registration of log traders and practice standards. The Forests (Regulation of Log Traders and Forestry Advisers) Amendment Bill had its first reading in ...1 week ago
- Green MP joins international call to cancel developing countries’ debt
Green MP Golriz Ghahraman is joining over 300 lawmakers from around the world in calling on the big banks and the IMF to forgive the debt of developing countries, in the wake of the COVID crisis. ...1 week ago - Forestry Minister Shane Jones swipes back at billion trees criticsForestry Minister Shane Jones says concerns that carbon foresters are planting pine trees that will never be harvested are the result of "misinformation". "The billion tree strategy is an excellent idea, unfortunately from time to time it's tainted by misinformation spread by the National Party or their grandees, hiding in scattered ...2 weeks ago
- Budget boost for refugee families a win for compassionThe Green Party welcomes funding in the budget to reunite more refugees with their families, ensuring they have the best chance at a new life in Aotearoa New Zealand. ...2 weeks ago
- How Budget 2020 is supporting jobsThis year’s Budget is about rebuilding New Zealand together in the face of COVID-19. Jobs are central to how we’re going to do that.There’s a lot of targeted investment for employment in this year’s Budget, with announcements on creating new jobs, training people for the jobs we have, and supporting ...2 weeks ago
- Winston Peters says China didn’t want NZ to go into lockdownSpeaking to Stuff's Coronavirus NZ podcast, Foreign Minister Winston Peters revealed China tried to dissuade New Zealand from going into lockdown. “Without speaking out of turn, they wanted a discussion as to why we were doing it, because they thought it was an overreaction,” Mr Peters told Stuff’s Coronavirus NZ podcast. He also ...2 weeks ago
- Changes made to Overseas Investment Act to protect New Zealand assetsThe Coalition Government is making changes to the Overseas Investment Act to ensure New Zealand assets don't fall into the hands of foreign ownership in the economic aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Associate Minister of Finance David Parker announced the Act will be amended to bring forward a national interest ...2 weeks ago
- Winston Peters: Trans-Tasman bubble to help tourism industry make swift recoveryA quick start to a trans-Tasman bubble could see the tourism industry make a swift recovery, according to Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters. "I believe tourism will turn around dramatically faster than people think," Mr Peters told reporters after Thursday's Budget. "Why? Because I think the Tasman bubble is [going ...2 weeks ago
- Rt. Hon Winston Peters: Budget SpeechRt Hon Winston Peters, Leader of New Zealand First Please check against delivery https://vimeo.com/418303651 Budget 2020: Jobs, Business and Balance Introduction Acknowledgements to all Cabinet colleagues, and party ministers Tracey Martin, Shane Jones and Ron Mark, Under-Secretary Fletcher Tabuteau and to caucus colleagues. Thank you for your support, your ...2 weeks ago
- Jacinda Ardern’s 2020 Budget SpeechRead Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Budget 2020 Speech. ...2 weeks ago
- Budget 2020: Next steps to end family and sexual violenceThe 2020 Budget includes significant support to stabilise New Zealand’s family violence services, whose work has been shown to be so essential throughout the COVID-19 lockdown. ...2 weeks ago
- Investment in housing gives more people access to the home they deserveThe Green Party says huge new investment in public and transitional housing will get thousands more families into the warm, safe homes they deserve. ...2 weeks ago
- Budget 2020: Huge investment in green nature based jobs jump starts sustainable COVID recoveryThe Green Party says the $1.1 billion environmental investment in this year’s budget to create thousands of green jobs will help jump start a sustainable recovery from the COVID crisis. ...2 weeks ago
- Grant Robertson’s 2020 Budget SpeechRead Minister of Finance Grant Robertson's Budget 2020 Speech. ...2 weeks ago
- Winston Peters tells struggling migrant workers ‘you should probably go home’Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters said today the Coalition Government told foreigners at the start of the Covid-19 crisis that if their circumstances had changed dramatically, they should go home. "And 50,000 did," Mr Peters said. Official advice to Cabinet revealed there is potentially 380,000 foreigners and migrant workers in ...2 weeks ago
- New Zealand First welcomes today’s Alert Level 2 announcementRt Hon Winston Peters, Leader of New Zealand First New Zealand First welcomes the decision today to go to Alert Level 2 from midnight Wednesday, says Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters. Alert Level 2 will mean a return to work for the vast majority of New Zealand’s businesses. A return ...2 weeks ago
- Nurses to be protected after amendment to First Responders BillNurses now look set to get more protection from violence at work, under a proposed new law. This after NZ First MP Darroch Ball's "Protection for First Responders Bill", which introduces a six-month minimum sentence for assaults on first responders, will now also cover emergency department healthcare workers. The ...2 weeks ago
- Nurses to get more protection, added to ‘First Responders’ legislationDarroch Ball MP, New Zealand First Law and Order Spokesperson An amendment to the ‘Protection of First Responders Bill’ is being tabled which will see emergency department healthcare workers included in the legislation. “During this COVID-19 crisis we have seen reports of violence and specifically increased incidents of spitting towards ...2 weeks ago
- Shane Jones: Northland port could be economic havenInfrastructure Minister Shane Jones is breathing new life into the proposal to move Auckland's port to Whangārei to help in the economic recovery post Covid-19 pandemic. If New Zealand First was returned in the September general election, Minister Jones said a priority would be development of an "economic haven" at Northport, ...2 weeks ago
- PGF grant for Ventnor memorialThe plan to build a memorial to the SS Ventnor, and those who were lost when it sank off the Hokianga coast in 1902, has been granted $100,000 from the Provincial Growth Fund. Originally planned for a site near Rāwene cemetery, the memorial will now be built at the new Manea ...3 weeks ago
- 75th anniversary of V.E DayRt Hon Winston Peters, New Zealand First Leader Leader of New Zealand First, Rt Hon Winston Peters said: “Today is the 75th anniversary of VE Day – marking the end of World War II in Europe." Millions died in the six years of war, and families were torn apart. 75 years ...3 weeks ago
- Week That Was: Getting the job doneFrom the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, our Government has committed to providing calm, clear, and consistent communication, including regular press conference updates from the Prime Minister. While New Zealand is at Alert Level 3, we're making sure that New Zealanders are kept informed and up-to-date with all the latest ...3 weeks ago
- Winston Peters responds to Simon Bridges’ ‘my sweetheart’ commentNew Zealand First leader Winston Peters spoke to The Country's Jamie Mackay. A day earlier, National Party leader Simon Bridges was on the radio show and referred to the Deputy Prime Minister as, "my sweetheart Winston". Mr Peters swiftly dismissed the question of whether Bridges had changed his mind about ...3 weeks ago
- Better protection for seabirds
Better protection for seabirds is being put in place with a new National Plan of Action to reduce fishing-related captures, Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash and Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage announced today. The National Plan of Action for Seabirds 2020 outlines our commitment to reduce fishing-related captures and associated seabird ...3 hours ago - Milestone in cash flow support to SMEsAlmost $1 billion in interest-free loans for small businesses More than 55,000 businesses have applied; 95% approved Average loan approx. $17,300 90% of applications from firms with ten or fewer staff A wide cross-section of businesses have applied, the most common are the construction industry, accommodation providers, professional firms, and ...8 hours ago
- Government protects kids as smoking in cars ban becomes lawThousands of children will have healthier lungs after the Government’s ban on smoking in cars with kids becomes law, says Associate Minister of Health Jenny Salesa. This comes after the third reading of Smoke-free Environments (Prohibiting Smoking in Motor Vehicles Carrying Children) Amendment Bill earlier today. “This law makes it ...17 hours ago
- Parliament returns to a safe normalThe special Epidemic Response Committee (ERC) has successfully concluded its role, Leader of the House Chris Hipkins said today. The committee was set up on 25 March by the agreement of Parliament to scrutinise the Government and its actions while keeping people safe during levels 4 and 3 of lockdown. ...19 hours ago
- Foreign Minister makes four diplomatic appointmentsForeign Affairs Minister Winston Peters today announced four diplomatic appointments: New Zealand’s Ambassador to Belgium, High Commissioners to Nauru and Niue, and Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism. “As the world seeks to manage and then recover from COVID-19, our diplomatic and trade networks are more important than ever,” Mr Peters said. “The ...1 day ago
- New Bill to counter violent extremism onlineNew Zealanders will be better protected from online harm through a Bill introduced to Parliament today, says Internal Affairs Minister Tracey Martin. “The internet brings many benefits to society but can also be used as a weapon to spread harmful and illegal content and that is what this legislation targets,” ...1 day ago
- Mycoplasma bovis eradication reaches two year milestone in good shapeNew Zealand’s world-first plan to eradicate the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis is on track the latest technical data shows, says Agriculture and Biosecurity Minister Damien O’Connor. “Two years ago the Government, DairyNZ and Beef + Lamb New Zealand and industry partners made a bold decision to go hard and commit ...1 day ago
- New payment to support Kiwis through COVIDFurther support for New Zealanders affected by 1-in-100 year global economic shock 12-week payment will support people searching for new work or retraining Work programme on employment insurance to support workers and businesses The Government today announced a new temporary payment to support New Zealanders who lose their jobs due ...2 days ago
- PGF reset helps regional economiesThe Provincial Growth Fund will play a vital role in New Zealand’s post-COVID-19 recovery by creating jobs in shorter timeframes through at least $600 million being refocused on projects with more immediate economic benefits, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced. The funding is comprised of repurposed Provincial Growth ...3 days ago
- Government exempts some home improvements from costly consentsGovernment exempts some home improvements from costly consents Homeowners, builders and DIYers will soon have an easier time making basic home improvements as the Government scraps the need for consents for low-risk building work such as sleep-outs, sheds and carports – allowing the construction sector to fire back up quicker ...3 days ago
- Concern at introduction of national security legislation for Hong KongForeign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says the New Zealand Government has reacted with concern at the introduction of legislation in China’s National People’s Congress relating to national security in Hong Kong. “We have a strong interest in seeing confidence maintained in the ‘one country, two systems’ principle under which Hong ...4 days ago
- Samoa Language Week theme is perfect for the post-COVID-19 journeyThe Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio, says the theme for the 2020 Samoa Language Week is a perfect fit for helping our Pacific communities cope with the unfolding COVID-19 crisis, and to prepare now for the journey ahead as New Zealand focuses on recovery plans and rebuilding New ...4 days ago
- Adult kakī/black stilt numbers soarA nearly 40-year programme to protect one of New Zealand’s most critically endangered birds is paying off, with a record number of adult kakī/black stilt recently recorded living in the wild, the Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage announced today. “Thanks to the team effort involved in the Department of Conservation’s ...4 days ago
- Waikato-Tainui settlement story launched on 25th anniversary of Treaty signingThe story of the Waikato-Tainui Treaty process and its enduring impact on the community is being told with a five-part web story launched today on the 25th anniversary of settlement, announced Associate Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Carmel Sepuloni. “I am grateful to Waikato-Tainui for allowing us to help capture ...5 days ago
- Taita College to benefit from $32 million school redevelopmentTaita College in the Hutt Valley will be redeveloped to upgrade its ageing classrooms and leaky roofs, Education Minister Chris Hipkins announced today. “The work is long overdue and will make a lasting difference to the school for generations to come,” Chris Hipkins said. “Too many of our schools are ...5 days ago
- Redeployment for workers in hard-hit regionsThe Government is allocating $36.72 million to projects in regions hard hit economically by COVID-19 to keep people working, Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford and Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today. Projects in Hawke’s Bay, Northland, Rotorua and Queenstown will be funded from the Government’s $100 million worker ...5 days ago
- $35m to build financial resilience for New ZealandersA $35m boost to financial capability service providers funded by MSD will help New Zealanders manage their money better both day to day and through periods of financial difficulty, announced Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni. “It’s always been our position to increase support to key groups experiencing or at risk ...6 days ago
- New District Court Judge appointedDunedin barrister Melinda Broek has been appointed as a District Court Judge with Family Court jurisdiction to be based in Rotorua, Attorney-General David Parker announced today. Ms Broek has iwi affiliations to Ngai Tai. She commenced her employment in 1996 with Scholefield Cockroft Lloyd in Invercargill specialising in family and ...6 days ago
- $206 million investment in upgrades at Ohakea Air Force BaseThe Coalition Government has approved a business case for $206 million in upgrades to critical infrastructure at Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Ohakea, with the first phase starting later this year, Defence Minister Ron Mark announced today. The investment will be made in three phases over five years, and ...6 days ago
- Review of CAA organisational culture releasedTransport Minister Phil Twyford today released the Ministry of Transport’s review of the organisational culture at the Civil Aviation Authority. Phil Twyford says all employees are entitled to a safe work environment. “I commissioned this independent review due to the concerns I had about the culture within the CAA, and ...6 days ago
- New Board appointed at Stats NZEnsuring that Stats NZ’s direction and strategy best supports government policy decisions will be a key focus for a new Governance Advisory Board announced today by the Minister for Statistics, James Shaw. The new Governance Advisory Board will provide strategic advice to Stats NZ to ensure it is meeting New ...6 days ago
- New Principal Environment JudgeEnvironment Judge David Kirkpatrick of Auckland has been appointed as the Principal Environment Judge, Attorney-General David Parker announced today. Judge Kirkpatrick was appointed an Environment Judge in February 2014. From December 2013 to July 2016 he was Chair of the Auckland Unitary Plan Independent Hearings Panel. Prior to appointment he ...1 week ago
- Digital connectivity boost for urban maraeA programme to connect marae around the country to the internet has received $1.4 million to expand to include urban marae in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media Minister Kris Faafoi and Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today. The funding for the Marae Connectivity Programme ...1 week ago
- Govt increases assistance to drought-stricken Hawke’s Bay farmersThe Government will provide $500,000 to the Hawke’s Bay Mayoral Drought Relief Fund to help farmers facing one of the worst droughts in living memory, says Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor. “Yesterday afternoon I received a letter from Hawke's Bay's five local Government leaders asking me to contribute to the Fund. ...1 week ago
- Investment in New Zealand’s historyBudget 2020 provides a major investment in New Zealand’s documentary heritage sector, with a commitment to leasing a new Archives Wellington facility and an increase in funding for Archives and National Library work. “Last year I released plans for a new Archives Wellington building – a purpose-built facility physically connected ...1 week ago
- Driving prompt payments to small businessesGovernment Ministers are asking significant private enterprises to adopt prompt payment practices in line with the state sector, as a way to improve cashflow for small businesses. The Ministers of Finance, Small Business, Commerce and Consumer Affairs have written to more than 40 significant enterprises and banking industry representatives to ...1 week ago
- Rotorua tourist icon to be safeguardedMaori Arts and Crafts will continue to underpin the heart of the tourism sector says Minister for Maori Development Nanaia Mahuta. “That’s why we are making a core investment of $7.6 million to Te Puia New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute, over two years, as part of the Government’s ...1 week ago
- $14.7m for jobs training and educationThe Government is funding more pathways to jobs through training and education programmes in regional New Zealand to support the provinces’ recovery from the economic impacts of COVID-19, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones and Employment Minister Willie Jackson have announced. “New Zealand’s economic recovery will be largely driven by ...1 week ago
- Is it time to further recognise those who serve in our military?Minister for Veterans Ron Mark has announced the launch of a national conversation that aims to find out whether New Zealanders think there should be a formal agreement between service people, the Government, and the people of New Zealand. “This year marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World ...1 week ago
- Paving the way for a fully qualified early learning workforceThe Government’s drive to improve the quality of early childhood education (ECE) is taking another step forward with the reintroduction of a higher funding rate for services that employ fully qualified and registered teachers, Education Minister Chris Hipkins has announced. “Research shows that high-quality ECE can improve young people’s learning ...1 week ago
- Sport Recovery Package announcedThe Sport and Recreation sector will receive a multi-million dollar boost as part of the COVID-19 response funded at Budget 2020. Grant Robertson says the Sport and Recreation Sector contributes about $5 billion a year to New Zealand’s GDP and employs more than 53,000 people. “Sport plays a significant role ...1 week ago
- Major boost in support for caregivers and childrenA major increase in funding and availability of support will improve the incomes and reduce the pressure on 14,000 caregivers looking after more than 22,000 children. Children’s Minister Tracey Martin says that caregivers – all those looking after someone else’s children both in and outside the state care system – ...1 week ago
- Great Walks recovery on track for summerVital conservation and visitor infrastructure destroyed by a severe flood event in Fiordland earlier this year is being rebuilt through a $13.7 million Budget 2020 investment, announced Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage. “This investment will mean iconic Great Walks such as the Routeburn track and the full length of ...1 week ago
- Māori – Government partnership gives whānau a new housing dealThe Government is investing $40 million in a partnership with Māori to get more whānau into warm, dry and secure accommodation, Associate Minister for Housing (Māori Housing) Hon Nanaia Mahuta says.. “We are partnering with Māori and iwi to respond to the growing housing crisis in the wake of COVID-19. ...2 weeks ago
- Keeping New Zealanders Safe In The WaterKeeping New Zealanders safe in the water Our lifeguards and coastguards who keep New Zealanders safe in the water have been given a funding boost thanks to the 2020 Budget, Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector Poto Williams has announced. The water safety sector will receive $63 million over ...2 weeks ago
- Legal framework for COVID-19 Alert Level referred to select committeeThe COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020, which set a sound legal framework ahead of the move to Alert level 2, has been referred to a parliamentary select committee for review. Attorney-General David Parker said the review of the operation of the COVID-19 specific law would be reported back to ...2 weeks ago
- New Zealand condemns shocking attacks on hospital and funeral in AfghanistanForeign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says New Zealand condemns the targeting of civilians in two terrorist attacks in Afghanistan earlier this week. “The terrorist attacks on a hospital in Kabul and a funeral in Nangarhar province are deeply shocking. The attacks were deliberate and heinous acts of extreme violence targeting ...2 weeks ago
- Government to close tobacco tax loopholeThe Government will close a loophole that allowed some people to import cigarettes and loose leaf tobacco for manufacturing cigarettes and ‘roll your owns’ for sale on the black market without excise tax being paid, says Minister of Customs Jenny Salesa. The legislation, which doesn’t affect duty free allowances for ...2 weeks ago
- $62 million package to support families through the Family CourtThe Coalition Government has made a significant $62 million investment from the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund to start the reform of the Family Court and enable it to respond effectively to the increased backlog caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Today Justice Minister Andrew Little introduced the Family Court (Supporting ...2 weeks ago
- Tailored help supports new type of job seeker – reportThe Government’s expanded services to support people into jobs will help an emerging cohort of New Zealanders impacted by COVID-19. The impacted group are relatively younger, have a proportionately low benefit history and have comparatively higher incomes than most who seek support, as captured in a report published today from ...2 weeks ago
- A frame-by-frame analysis of Tova O’Brien’s hall-of-fame National shambles story
Last night New Zealand witnessed one of the most exhilarating, confronting political stories to air on national television. Hayden Donnell has watched it several hundred times. Newshub at 6 opened last night with a back-and-forth between presenters Samantha Hayes and Mike McRoberts. After an intro from Hayes, McRoberts set the scene ...18 mins ago - New Goal Of Zero Seabird Deaths On Fishing Boats
...37 mins ago - For First Nations people, coronavirus has meant fewer services, separated families and over-policing...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorana Bartels, Professor and Program Leader of Criminology, Australian National University Yesterday was National Sorry Day in Australia. It marks the anniversary of the tabling of the Bringing Them Home report, which chronicles decades of removals of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...39 mins ago - ‘Brand New Zealand’ needs to be more than an empty sloganIt makes sense to focus on our unique selling points as a country during the post-Covid rebuild. But we also have to live the values we market to the world, writes Jessica Desmond.Earlier this week ‘future of food’ expert Rosie Bosworth wrote that to turbo-boost our Covid recovery, New Zealand ...41 mins ago
- Thinking Outside The Box To Get More Deaf New Zealanders Into WorkA willingness to think differently, finding new ways to upskill Deaf people, and supporting businesses is a key priority for the employment team at Deaf Aotearoa. For many businesses, hiring a Deaf employee often presents their very first interaction ...44 mins ago
- Govt’s Seabird Plan Of Action Panders To Fishing Industry, Says GreenpeaceThe National Plan of Action for Seabirds, released by the Government today, puts the fate of threatened species firmly in the hands of the fishing industry, says Greenpeace. Jessica Desmond, oceans campaigner at Greenpeace, says the action plan ...1 hour ago
- Labour Boasts Illegal Roadblocks Were “Well Supported By Government”Two Labour Members of Parliament have confirmed the claim by Democracy Action that the Government and Police condone illegal iwi roadblocks on public roads. Tamati Coffey (Labour – Waiariki) and Kiri Allan (Labour – List MP living in the East ...2 hours ago
- Judge National on actions, not ‘ethnicity on front bench’ – Paula Bennett
National leader Todd Muller is getting support from an unexpected quarter - ousted deputy leader Paula Bennett. ...2 hours ago - Chasing Nanette: Hannah Gadsby’s new special Douglas is a gentle piece of geniusTwo years ago, her genre-busting show Nanette broke the internet. Now Hannah Gadsby has released a new stand-up special, and expectations are sky high. So how does Douglas hold up? “If you’re here because of Nanette, why?”The elephant in the room is quickly addressed in Hannah Gadsby’s new Netflix special ...3 hours ago
- No bull, but much bigger bucks have been budgeted to beat Mycoplasma bovis than for the govt’s Co...
We’ve heard of people being treated like animals by the governments of some countries. But two statements from the Beehive yesterday suggest the well-being of beasts – those that contribute to our export receipts, at least – is much higher in government budget priorities than the well-being of people. Our ...3 hours ago - Blues return to Eden Park after $30k fee waived
The Blues will return to their main home ground, Auckland’s Eden Park, for the revamped Super Rugby Aotearoa competition after the stadium and Auckland Rugby waived its hiring fee. Confirmation comes after Eden Park had initially asked the Blues for $30,000 to open the stadium for the games, given they will ...3 hours ago - Blues return to Eden Park after costly fee waivedThe Blues will return to their main home ground, Auckland’s Eden Park, for the revamped Super Rugby Aotearoa competition after the stadium and Auckland Rugby waived its hiring fee. Confirmation comes after Eden Park had initially asked the Blues for a high fee - said by two sources to be ...3 hours ago
- Experts say vision needed for Budget’s 11,000 nature-based jobsWhile the Budget promise to help rebuild the economy by creating 'nature-based jobs' has been lauded, the plan has also been met with renewed calls for a scorecard to measure progress. ...3 hours ago
- Call For Support For Women With Post-Abortion GriefFamily First NZ today called on politicians in a select committee to amend a private members bill which allows for bereavement leave for a miscarriage to be extended to allow support for women with post-abortion grief. The wording of the previous ...4 hours ago
- Government’s ‘buy local’ commitment questioned in new dealA consortium of disability groups bidding for a $32 million public contract has lost out to an American call centre operator. ...5 hours ago
- What digital contact tracing looks like around the worldA week ago, New Zealand launched its official contact tracing app to help in the fight against Covid-19. How does it compare to some of those overseas?NZ COVID Tracer has been live for less than a week and so far it’s been downloaded by more than 400,000 users. The current ...5 hours ago
- Boris shows some backbone
A lot of people – including quite a few in Britain’s Conservative party – don’t like Dominic Cummings, special adviser to PM Boris Johnson and a key figure in the Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 Brexit referendum and the 2019 Brexit-focused general election. So there was some undisguised joy ...5 hours ago - Green Party Unveils Election Candidates For WellingtonThe Green Party has revealed its three candidates to contest the Wellington electorates in the forthcoming general election. Climate change minister and Green Party co-leader James Shaw will stand in Wellington Central, environmental lawyer and author Teall ...5 hours ago
- Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 27 2020Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Welfare Sue Bradford (Pundit): Labour betrays Its traditions – and the most vulnerable – with two-tier welfare payments Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Former Green Party leader Metiria Turei puts ...6 hours ago
- Ātiawa Ki Whakarongotai Welcomes Tribunal Findings Against Development Of Local UrupāWAI 1945 claimants, supported by Ātiawa kaumātua and Ātiawa ki Whakarongotai Charitable Trust, welcome the Waitangi Tribunal report on the Kārewarewa Urupā, and its findings that the systematic lack of Crown protection led to its development ...6 hours ago
- Only one thing matters
True to the party's nature, National's leadership change was not about personalities, policies, or even performance – it was solely focused on regaining political office ...6 hours ago - Foreign fishing boats become new covid-19 threat for Pacific nationsBy Barbara Dreaver, Pacific correspondent of TVNZ One News Pacific governments are being warned to put urgent covid-19 safety measures into place at ports as foreign fishing boats emerge as a new point of transmission. One Ecuadorian vessel is now at sea with 29 out of 30 of its crew ...6 hours ago
- The week in Covid-19 data: How relaxed is our government?Here’s The Spinoff’s weekly round-up of data tracking the effects and response of Covid-19 around the world – and how New Zealand stacks up.Our weekly summaries of data and visualisations use Our World in Data’s work on the Covid-19 pandemic, which is freely available for re-use. Not all data is ...6 hours ago
- Todd Muller defends lack of Māori on National front benchThe new National leader is backing his front bench, saying he chose the shadow Cabinet line-up on merit and talent. ...7 hours ago
- ‘Incel’ violence is a form of extremism. It’s time we treated it as a security threatSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sian Tomkinson, Media and Communication Scholar, University of Western Australia Last week, a 17-year-old boy in Toronto was charged with an act of terrorism in the alleged killing of a woman with a machete – the first time such a charge has ...7 hours ago
- What are the characteristics of strong mental health?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Rosenbaum, Associate professor & Scientia Fellow, UNSW Amid the coronavirus pandemic we are being warned of a “second wave” of mental health problems that threatens to overrun an already weakened mental health service. As we emerge from this crisis, while some ...7 hours ago
- A single mega-project exposes the Morrison government’s gas plan as staggering follySource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bill Hare, Director, Climate Analytics, Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University (Perth), Visiting scientist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Every few years, the idea that gas will help Australia transition to a zero-emissions economy seems to re-emerge, as if no one had thought ...7 hours ago
- Climate explained: why countries don’t count emissions from goods they importSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah McLaren, Professor of Life Cycle Management, Massey University CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an ...7 hours ago
- 7 tips to help kids feeling anxious about going back to schoolSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mandie Shean, Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University As COVID-19 lockdown measures are lifted, some children may experience social anxiety about the prospect of returning to school. People with social anxiety may fear embarrassment or the expectation to perform in social ...7 hours ago
- Public land is being sold exactly where thousands on the waiting list need housingSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Libby Porter, Professor of Urban Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University The need for public housing is greater than ever before – Australia has a shortfall of at least 433,000 dwellings. Using public land for public housing is a no-brainer. But, ...7 hours ago
- Why flour is still missing from supermarket shelvesSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brigit Busicchia, PhD, Political Economy, Macquarie University Extreme shortages of toilet paper, pasta and other pantry products defined the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic for many shoppers around the world. Availability of most these goods has returned to normal. But not ...7 hours ago
- Working out at home works for women – so well they might not go back to gymsSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Toffoletti, Associate Professor of Sociology, Deakin University Digital fitness is enjoying a COVID-19 boom. Online fitness technology provider Virtuagym reports a 400% increase in engagement and a 300% increase in the use of online workouts. Gyms, barre instructors, and yoga studios ...7 hours ago
- Business Wrap: Air NZ yet to use Govt loan
Air NZ burned through $360m of cash in two months, but still has $640m left and has yet to use the Government's $900m convertible loan ...8 hours ago - Māori Party: Financial Vulnerability Survey Shows Need For Wage, Benefit IncreasesIn response to a new financial vulnerability survey that shows Māori are among the worst affected economically by COVID-19, Māori Party Co-leader and Te Tai Hauāuru candidate Debbie Ngarewa-Packer is calling on the Government to lift incomes by doubling ...8 hours ago
- The Bulletin: Political divisions rage as election loomsGood morning and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: Political divisions rage as election looms, economic forecasts considered too optimistic, and travel routes start to move again.They had all been doing so well at getting along, but that’s all over now. A cross-party consensus is emerging that it’s time to ...9 hours ago
- NZF Foundation spent $130k on company run by Winston Peters’ lawyerTens of thousands in donor's funds given to the New Zealand First Foundation were spent paying expenses, wages and bills for people closely associated with the New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. ...9 hours ago
- Los Angeles is burning: part 2
New Zealand writer Anna Rankin concludes her remarkable two-part essay on Los Angeles in lockdown as she wanders through the deserted, crumbling city. From my small apartment, I take walks around the old Mexican neighbourhood that was once Jewish, Russian, Japanese and so on. History is a palimpsest, its nucleus ...9 hours ago - Live updates, May 27: Public faith in state agencies soars; financial impact grimFor all The Spinoff’s latest coverage of Covid-19 see here. Read Siouxsie Wiles’s work here. New Zealand is currently in alert level two – read The Spinoff’s giant explainer about what that means here. For official government advice, see here.The Spinoff’s coverage of the Covid-19 outbreak is funded by The Spinoff Members. To support this ...9 hours ago
- Save fragile site, Minister urged
A flawed development plan for a fragile national park site must be stopped, opponents say. David Williams reports In November 2018, Jacinda Ardern announced a $140 million “investment package” for the South Island’s West Coast, through the cash-dispersing, regions-boosting provincial growth fund. Using symbolism that would fit neatly today, in ...9 hours ago - Bill banning smoking in cars with children inside passesA bill banning smoking in cars carrying children has passed its final reading with support from all parties. ...10 hours ago
- And where was the board?
Bullying and harassment at the CAA is no exception in a public sector widely considered toxic. If we want a world worth handing to our children, it will require ethical leadership in our boards, writes Lola Toppin-Casserly. Transport Minister Phil Twyford is right to point out that to avoid further situations of the Civil Aviation Authority ...10 hours ago - US lawsuit filed over Māui dolphins
A little dolphin is causing a big fuss for the fishing industry. Farah Hancock reports on how Māui dolphin are the subjects of a lawsuit in the United States that could impact $200 million of exports a year. A US lawsuit could spur government action on an overdue plan to better protect ...10 hours ago - Teen Nweke leads Mystics’ rookie shooting trio
With star shooter Bailey Mes laid low, the Northern Mystics will have a troika of teenagers scoring their goals in netball's revived ANZ Premiership. Grace Nweke has braced herself for the challenge. This time last year, the schoolgirl shooter was the phenomenon of the ANZ Premiership; the Avondale College student who, at 1.93m, ...10 hours ago - Why maximum headroom for banks matters now
After many years of extolling the virtues of high capital levels, why would the Reserve Bank now encourage banks to use capital, asks Victoria University of Wellington’s Martien Lubberink The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has taken exceptional measures to respond to the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. It ...10 hours ago - Widespread failure to comply with level two hospitality rules, survey findsStill unsure about what you need to do in restaurants and bars under level two? You’re not alone, according to a new Spinoff-commissioned survey.Ongoing confusion around the use of mobile apps for contact tracing and social distancing in restaurants means New Zealanders and business owners still have work to do ...10 hours ago
- Why the workplace revolution is not as simple as a four-day weekHow many hours you can and should work each week depends on the mode of thinking your job requires, writes Simon Hertnon. Our national discussion about a four-day week has jumped out of first gear, thanks to last week’s Facebook live video by prime minister Jacinda Ardern.In the video, which quickly ...10 hours ago
- Financial hardship a reality or serious risk for 74% of NZ households – surveyOne in three households are in financial difficulty and a greater number still at risk of tipping into hardship following the Covid crisis, finds a Commission for Financial Capability report. The Commission for Financial Capability has this morning published findings on the financial vulnerability of New Zealanders following the Covid crisis. ...10 hours ago
- Tip-toeing around China
Aggressively expanding its power in Hong Kong, and punitive to countries that call for an inquiry into how coronavirus took hold, China is making sure a good crisis is not going to waste. There’s no doubt that China has seized the opportunity of international distraction to sweep into Hong Kong. ...10 hours ago - View from The Hill: Can Scott Morrison achieve industrial relations disarmament?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has indeed taken to heart that adage about not wasting a crisis. He insists he is going to put to advantage the opportunity brought by these most unfortunate circumstances. His plan for a ...15 hours ago
- Todd Muller takes on an improbable task
The new National leader on climate change, Māori representation, and whether he has any shot at winning power. ...17 hours ago - Sue Bradford: Labour betrays its traditions – and most vulnerable – with two-tier welfare paymen...COMMENT: By Sue Bradford for Pundit and RNZ News In the age of covid-19 we are Jacinda’s team of five million, except for some. There has rarely been a more blatant case of discrimination against beneficiaries than Grant Robertson’s announcement yesterday that people who have lost their jobs because of the ...19 hours ago
- Smooth the path for business to adapt
The Government needs to be thinking about how to make it simpler and easier for businesses to quickly adapt to a changed world ...20 hours ago - Going ‘Christian’ on migration
Parties within the coalition are in disagreement on what 'be kind' means when it comes to migration ...20 hours ago - The welfare system is an economic shock
With the new benefit policy, only some of us get to be in that waka the Prime Minister has talked about, while others get swept away further into poverty. ...20 hours ago - Celeste Barber’s story shows us the power of celebrity fundraising … and the importance of readi...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Krystian Seibert, Industry Fellow, Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology Comedian Celeste Barber’s whopping $51 million bushfire fundraiser showed us just how generous people can be in times of trouble. But the need to seek the NSW Supreme Court’s advice ...20 hours ago
- Keith Rankin Analysis – Government and Money during a Major Economic DownturnAnalysis by Keith Rankin. From an interview with Geoff Bertram, on The Panel, RNZ 22 May 2020 Wallace Chapman: “Are we setting up our future generations, our future children, to be born into a life of national debt?” [He mentions the on-line Fabian Society discussion, held on 23 May, and ...21 hours ago
- ACT Calls For Royal Commission Into COVID-19 ResponseACT is calling for an independent Royal Commission to investigate the response to Covid-19 before next year’s flu season. “Covid-19 may return next year and we can’t afford to shut the economy down again. Being unprepared for the first major ...21 hours ago
- New Zealand 2020 election timeline: What happens and when this election yearHere's what will happen and when in the lead-up to the 19 September general election - and after it. ...22 hours ago
- The poorest Australians are twice as likely to die before age 75 as the richest, and the gap is wide...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Adair, Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne People living in socially disadvantaged areas and outside major cities are much more likely to die prematurely, our new research shows. The study, published in the journal ...23 hours ago
- Open, honest and effective: what makes Jacinda Ardern an authentic leaderSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrei Alexander Lux, Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour, Edith Cowan University The qualities that have made Jacinda Ardern New Zealand’s most popular prime minister in a century were on display this week as she took an earthquake in her stride during ...23 hours ago
- New bill comes with online takedown powers
The Government has introduced a bill that will allow it to issue takedown notices and create internet filters, with a focus on combatting terrorism and violent extremism. ...23 hours ago - Let’s Not Divide NZers With An Unfair Two-tier Benefit SystemChild Poverty Action Group is calling on the Coalition Government not to let COVID-19 divide our country into those who deserve support and those who don’t - whilst also ignoring the needs of our most vulnerable children. The recently announced COVID-19 ...23 hours ago
- National’s Stance On Benefit Payments HypocriticalFor the party with a long established record of cutting benefits, aiming for balanced budgets and promoting strict fiscal responsibility, National’s bleating about unemployment benefit payments being unfair is the ultimate in hypocrisy. National is crying crocodile ...23 hours ago
- The government says artists should be able to access JobKeeper payments. It’s not that simpleSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Guy Morrow, Lecturer in Arts & Cultural Management, University of Melbourne This week, Australia’s finance minister Mathias Cormann told ABC radio he didn’t “accept [the] proposition” workers in the arts and entertainment industry were missing out on wage subsidies through the government’s ...24 hours ago
- National, Greens decry Labour’s ‘unfair’ new jobseeker benefitIt's not often the Greens and National see eye to eye on welfare, but both are critical of the government's new relief payment for some unemployed. ...24 hours ago
- National, Greens decry Labour’s ‘unfair’ benefit for new jobseekersIt's not often the Greens and National see eye to eye on welfare, but both are critical of the government's new relief payment for some unemployed. ...24 hours ago
- Emily Writes: On coming ‘home’ to school and our communityIn the fifth part of a new series that shares the stories of families learning from home during lockdown, Emily Writes puts faith in her community as her son returns to school. He knew school would be opening the following week and we’re not quite sure how. Maybe the excitement and ...24 hours ago
- ANZASW Statement: Government’s Latest Relief Payment Unfair To Those On Job-seekers BenefitANZASW Is Deeply Concerned With The Government’s New Relief Payment That Was Announced Yesterday (25th May). Up To $490 A Week Will Be Available To New Zealand Citizens And Residents Who Have Lost A Full- Time Job Work As A Result Of COVID-19 While They ...1 day ago
- Seeing is believing: how media mythbusting can actually make false beliefs strongerSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eryn Newman, Lecturer, Australian National University As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the world, politicians, medical experts and epidemiologists have taught us about flattening curves, contact tracing, R0 and growth factors. At the same time, we are facing an “infodemic” – an ...1 day ago
- Why the coronavirus shouldn’t stand in the way of the next wage increaseSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Keating, Visiting Fellow, College of Business & Economics, Australian National University In the early 1970s, when rising inflation and unemployment tore through the economy, someone coined the aphorism “one man’s wage increase is another man’s job” (unfortunately, most of the talk ...1 day ago
- How a taiao-based model could lead NZ to sustainable economic recoveryCould a taiao values approach to our economy be the key to bridging the gap between protecting our environment and prospering as people? Dr Amanda Black from the Bio-Protection Research Centre explains how.Aotearoa has been economically dependent on our primary sector for generations. But in this new Covid-19-framed world, that ...1 day ago
- Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 26 2020Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Redundancy scheme Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Opinion: Unemployment payment scheme shows Govt knows benefits insufficient Rachel Sadler (Newshu): Auckland Action Against Poverty says Government’s Income Relief Payments create ‘two ...1 day ago
- Racing Industry In TattersNew Conservative Racing Spokesman, Lachie Ashton, calls for a commission of inquiry into the Racing Industry Transition Agency (RITA), the New Zealand Racing Board (NZRB) and the Racing Integrity Unity (RIU) following twenty years of poor management that ...1 day ago
- Why Trump’s Make America Great Again hat makes a dangerous souvenir for foreign politiciansSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University It looked just like any posed political picture. The politician, in this case the National Party’s newly elected leader, ...1 day ago
- NZ to join search for Covid-19 vaccine
New Zealand will put $37 million towards the global pursuit for a Covid-19 vaccine, including $15 million for domestic research and potential manufacturing, Marc Daalder reports New Zealand has thrown its hat into the vaccine R&D ring. On Tuesday, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters, Minister of Research, Science and Innovation ...1 day ago
- When can COVID-19 be Declared Eliminated from NZ? New Modelling Study
National considered giving the Commerce Commission the powers to conduct market studies when it was in govt, it never did so. Simon Bridges was transport minister and he now moans and whines loudly about the price of fuel blaming it all on the current govt. No wonder he is doomed.
Simon Power proposed cartel legislation, but there was insufficient support – and he left for Wespac soon after.
Ardern is preparing a weaker form.
The Commerce Amendment Bill?
Aye.
Worth a post if there’s a commercial or anti-trust lawyer out there.
Bridges is acting like the Village Idiot IMHO.
Ask him if he voted to raise fuel excise by 9c +GST. And if he voted to increase GST
Like the invitation (pleading?) by the National govt in 2015 to sell aquifers to overseas interests and for the Chinese to invest in water bottling in NZ, now all their chickens are coming home to roost. Have to agree with the PM in that National are very “disturbing”.
I’m really worried about the ongoing effects of high petrol + the flow on effect to all other basic living costs. Sure, it was predictable but brace yourselves for the lectures on budgeting and lifestyle coming from people already well off.
Living in NZ for can be crippling enough without this thrown in the mix.
PM unimpressed with public servants pimping our water under previous government (post-cab media conference via RNZ, 3mins): https://youtu.be/55Fx5XZM3Zs
“Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she was appalled to find out government officials were shopping out access to New Zealand’s fresh water, to overseas companies. That revelation’s prompted calls from anti-water bottling campaigners for assurances that’s no longer happening.”
That returns us to a topic of several weeks ago that was never satisfactorily resolved: are public servants directed by ministers or not? I assume the relevant minister directed NZTE to do it, but I was told here that ministers cannot instruct public servants how to do their job. Is there a paper trail to discover who is responsible for the sell-off that can be made public via the OIA?
Good question. My understanding is that it is in most cases illegal for the minster to direct the department unless they have a specific power to do so.
The main department where they are allowed to direct is Corrections.
For the OIA , they are slightly complicated in that minister can give a directions letter for the policy that applies for all applications, but that doesn’t mean they can make exceptions apply to a particular decision after it’s made.
Sage was slack in not getting all her ducks lined up for her ministerial policy letter which was issued end of Nov 17
Any Crown Agency with a board –
Like NZTE – can passively resist a Minister for a while. They enable continuity when government changes that way.
If the PM wants something different she should have cleaned out and replaced every board with her own people.
And then written much more direct Letters of Expectation.
Been a year and still a big list to go
The Auckland Chamber of Commerce is “pimping” our roading construction with inviting China Tiesiju Civil Engineering a subsidiary of China Railway Engineering to build the $400 million Penlink Toll Road Project, which will link State Highway One and the Whangaparaoa Peninsula. We need to build our own roads and rail lines, surely……can’t we.
Michael Barnett is quite obsessed with that particular road project, even though the business case for it does not stack up.
Because our recent government and industry have not planned or invested enough in training for the construction industry, there are not enough qualified locals to do all the work that’s needed. And due to several decades of a housing-fixated economy, we lack big local capital sources as well.
As an aside… is Michael Barnett slowly evolving into Yoda.. or is it just me…
http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=A7356155-EE5E-11E8-7A5D-697EE7AF80E9
Treasonous ????
“Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she was appalled to find out government officials were shopping out access to New Zealand’s fresh water, to overseas companies”
So much for the “no surprises” policy that grossly overpaid soi disant “CEOs” of government departments are supposed to follow.
Would have been no surprise to the government at the time – some of them may even have known the foreigners being courted.
Its time for a change imho time to remove THE DAILY REVIEW and replace it with a venue of more relevance .TDR gets very little attention perhaps because its regarded as an appendage to OPEN MIKE by exactly the same observers ?Whats required imho is a venue for people like myself who have to work during the day and need an interesting place to go when the day is done .Sure i could and do look to see what everybodies been up to on the various posts and comments etc etc but by an large the DAY is done an dusted and whilst a conversation is possible its also automatically problematic by the fact that the DAY SHIFT is knocking off etc .IF you happen to be reading this IPRENT would you please give it some thought ?i know you are very busy etc but i feel there is most likely a number of people out there in the woodwork so to speak who might be persuaded to come forth with the right marketing for want of a better word .Somewhere for insomniacs ….NIGHT COURT ?…..EVENING POST ?
All that’s necessary to differentiate it and make it functionally useful is a brief compilation of the day’s highlights with appropriate links for anyone wanting to take an deeper look at topics. Daily Review is a good title, but commentators haven’t been providing a daily review, so someone with a reporting/editorial motivation is required to do so.
I like to post in the afternoon evenings mostly and usually use the Daily Review to comment on topics that have arisen during that day. It seems its just a matter of the popularity of a particular topic that gets the most comments. I agree that “Daily Review” is a good title and perhaps a compilation of highlights could be a useful stimulus.
Why is it necessary to have nominated topics Dennis ?I thought like OM the subjects were up to our discretion but im not arguing for TDR to be tweaked im suggesting it be replaced because to an extent its irrelevant because the daily topics are invariably discussed on OM so whats the point ?
DR was my idea. Sometimes it takes off depending on what happened during the day. Sometimes it is slow. It is not meant to be a replacement for Open Mike.
We could see if there is someone willing to run a story of the day sort of post. But a volunteer would be good …
With the picture I try to pick something of recent relevance and interest.
it’s not broke imo and doesn’t need fixed.
+1
You make a good job of picking things of recent relevance too micky personally im not always interested in the daily topics in fact ive often had a gutsfull of them after listening to the radio all day !! I was kinda thinking of an anology between TDR and perhaps a bar somewhere that wasnt attracting customers or enough of them so therefore what would you do to turn it arround ?
weston
I think “Six O’clock Swill” in remembrance of pups closing time 1961 and 1967 would be a great title.
Bar closing times were extended to 10 pm in New Zealand on 9 October 1967, three weeks after a referendum. An earlier referendum, in 1949, had voted three to one to retain six o’clock closing, but there was partial repeal of the law in 1961, which allowed restaurants to sell liquor until midnight but not hotel bars.
Haha will think about that. Very working class but not necessarily a good thing …
But also very masculine/patriarchal.
PS: Was it actually working class? My dad was middle class and used to partake of the swill.
And now for something completely different, its…….Not the 6 o’clock swill…….
lol
Yep i remember it well Timeforacupoftea particularly when my old man would be carried inside completely toasted at about six thirty .His mates would bring him in throw him on the couch an beat a hasty retreat before mum would start figuring out how much he had spent !He was a happy drunk usually and would sometimes ad insult to injury by flicking us kids a handful of coins .
The issue with any evening post is finding moderators able to commit to managing it during those hours.
After Trump’s hatchet job on Iranian and Venezuelan exports, Saudi Arabia and Russia have control of the price of oil. Mission accomplished.
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman responded publicly to President Donald Trump’s recent spate of Tweets and statements concerning oil. While the President has been asking for Saudi Arabia to increase oil production to flood the market and keep prices down, the prince said no.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenrwald/2018/10/05/saudi-arabia-tells-trump-no-more-oil/#69b6346d6dfc
Never tRumper abandons his party.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/tom-nichols-why-im-leaving-republican-party/572419/
Still on about Trump?
Are you an ex pat who enjoyed Obama signing off every Tuesday on drone strikes that massacred civilians ?,… I’m beginning to think you are…
Or is the shit that you convey greater than the shitpaper you snickered at when Trump boarded a plane ?… in which case Trump probably owned the paper company that produced it?
Yeah go on, produce another link that means jack shit except to your small amount of rabid Trump haters… does Trump look like hes concerned?
He doesn’t even know ( or care) who you are.
Oh , … and perhaps this has to do with politics…
And David Paulides ‘ Missing 411’ and Dr Melba Ketchums ‘Sasquatch Genome Project’… have a wee look into it. Is capitalism really worth it?
Cracking the Bigfoot Code (ThinkerThunker) – YouTube