Daily Review 08/11/2017
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- Bad advice on public sector discount rates
A couple of months ago now I wrote a post about the new set of discount rates government agencies are supposed to use in undertaking cost-benefit analysis, whether for new spending projects or for regulatory initiatives. The new, radically altered, framework had come into effect from 1 October last year, ...12 hours ago - Indonesia is hooked on Huawei
Huawei dominates Indonesia’s telecommunication network infrastructure. It won over Indonesia mainly through cost competitiveness and by generating favour through capacity-building programs and strategic relationships with the government, and telecommunication operators. But Huawei’s dominance poses risks. ...12 hours ago - Bookshelf: The myth of American liberalism
Democracy and the liberal tradition have long been seen as among the most basic tenets of the American way of life. They are also the main reason the West has for the past 80 years ...13 hours ago
- Cutting even deeper against the grain
Nicola Willis continues to compare the economy to a household needing to tighten its belt to survive. Photo: Getty Images The key long stories short in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Tuesday, April 29 are: Nicola Willis today announced a cut in the Government’s new spending ...13 hours ago - Gas is dead
The Herald had another announcement today about a new solar farm being officially opened - this time the 63MW Lauriston solar farm in Canterbury. It is of course briefly "NZ’s biggest solar farm", but it will soon be overtaken by Kōwhai park at Christchurch airport (168MW) and Tauhei (202MW), both ...14 hours ago - Shoving the future aside
I woke this morning to the shock news that Tory Whanau was no longer contesting the Wellington mayoralty, having stepped aside to leave the field clear for Andrew Little. Its like a perverse reversal of Little's 2017 decision to step aside for Jacinda - the stale, pale past rudely shoving ...14 hours ago
- A pre-Budget speech
In a pre-Budget speech this morning the Minister of Finance announced that this year’s operating allowance – the net amount available for new initiatives – was being reduced from $2.4 billion to $1.3 billion (speech here, RNZ story here). Operating allowance numbers in isolation don’t mean a great deal (what ...18 hours ago
- Weak tax revenue is a national security issue
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- Chris Penk’s Leaky Homes 2.0
The Coalition of Chaos is at it again with another half-baked underwhelming scheme that smells suspiciously like a rerun of New Zealand’s infamous leaky homes disaster. Their latest brainwave? Letting tradies self-certify their own work on so-called low-risk residential builds. Sounds like a great way to cut red tape to ...19 hours ago - Assumed Competence
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- Bernard’s Picks ‘n’ Mixes at 6am on Tuesday, April 29
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- National’s Stalling New Zealand’s Electric Future
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- “Protecting frontline services”
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- Climate Change: National supports pollution subsidies
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- Atlas Network Makes Australian Mainstream
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- The Suspicious Death of Virginia Giuffre
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- Bernard’s Dawn Chorus & Pick ‘n’ Mix for Monday, April 28
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- Gordon Campbell On A Neglected, Enduring Aspect Of The Francis Era
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- The rotten, unaccountable crown
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- What’s on the Label -vs- What’s in the Tin.
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Rod EmmersonThank you to my subscribers and readers - you make it all possible. Tui.Subscribe nowSix updates today from around the world and locally here in Aoteaora New Zealand -1. RFK Jnr’s Autism CrusadeAmerica plans to create a registry of people with autism in the United States. RFK Jr’s department ...7 days ago - Another Munich crisis? Understanding the limits of policymaking by analogy
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- Wednesday 23 April
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- What is a Man?
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Nicola Willis announced that funding for almost every Government department will be frozen in this year’s budget, costing jobs, making access to public services harder, and fuelling an exodus of nurses, teachers, and other public servants. ...15 hours ago
- Govt’s austerity Budget to cause real harm in communities
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- Education Should be Led by Experts-Not Economists
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After promising $250 a fortnight to many families, the Government has been forced to admit just a couple hundred families are receiving it. ...6 days ago
- Release: Transparency needed on changes to early childhood education
The Government is putting children at risk in early childhood education (ECE) by proposing to loosen the requirement for qualified teachers. ...6 days ago
- Release: Govt funding needed to combat invasive seaweed
The Government must support Northland hapū who have resorted to rakes and buckets to try to control a devastating invasive seaweed that threatens the local economy and environment. ...1 week ago
- New Zealand First Introduces Bill Defining ‘Woman’ and ‘Man’ in Law
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- Release: Boot camps blog post fails to provide clarity
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- Release: Inflation rises and families feel the squeeze
Inflation is rising again and it’s landing hardest on families already stretched thin. ...2 weeks ago
- Release: Govt doesn’t know how to fund new hospitals
The Government’s health infrastructure plan is big on promises but coy on where the money is coming from. ...2 weeks ago
- Release: $10 million for only 215 students in charter schools
David Seymour is pouring $10 million into charter schools that only have 215 students enrolled. ...2 weeks ago
- Release: Food prices further stretching the family budget
Families already stretched by rising costs will struggle with the news food prices are going up again. ...2 weeks ago
- Release: Mental health staff and patients at risk without plan
More people could be harmed if Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey does not guarantee to protect patients and workers as the Police withdraw from supporting mental health call outs. ...2 weeks ago
- Release: Driver licensing proposal doesn’t put safety first
The Government’s proposal to change driver licensing rules is a mixed bag of sensible and careless. ...2 weeks ago
- Release: Students struggling as Govt sits on hands
The Government is continuing to sit on its hands as students struggle to pay rent due to delays with StudyLink. ...3 weeks ago
- Release: More must be done to stop children going hungry
More children are going hungry and statistics showing children in material hardship continue to get worse. ...3 weeks ago
- Greens continue to call for Pacific Visa Waiver
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- More children going hungry under Coalition govt
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- Release: Longer wait for treatment under National
New Zealanders have waited longer to get an appointment with a specialist and to get elective surgery under the National Government. ...3 weeks ago
- Ka mate te Pire- Ka ora te mana o Te Tiriti o Waitangi me te iwi Māori
Today, Te Pāti Māori join the motu in celebration as the Treaty Principles Bill is voted down at its second reading. “From the beginning, this Bill was never welcome in this House,” said Te Pāti Māori Co-Leader, Rawiri Waititi. “Our response to the first reading was one of protest: protesting ...3 weeks ago
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- Ka mate te Pire, ka ora Te Tiriti o Waitangi – Treaty Principles Bill dead, Te Tiriti o Waitangi m...
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- Member’s Bill an opportunity for climate action
A Member’s Bill in the name of Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter which aims to stop coal mining, the Crown Minerals (Prohibition of Mining) Amendment Bill, has been pulled from Parliament’s ‘biscuit tin’ today. ...3 weeks ago
- Release: Bill to make trading laws fairer passes first hurdle
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- We did the police college fitness tests to see whether they’re actually easy
A recent Herald report has some people saying the police college fitness exam is too easy. Hayden Donnell put their theories to the test. Plenty of searing questions have been asked over Michael Morrah’s recent Herald report revealing recruits who failed their fitness tests were admitted to police college. Labour ...19 minutes ago - How this playground became ‘the jewel in the crown’ of Ōtautahi
Alex Casey tells the origin story of Tākaro ā Poi, the Margaret Mahy Family Playground. It’s a crisp Tuesday morning in central Ōtautahi and about 100 people of all ages are crawling all over Tākaro ā Poi, the Margaret Mahy Family Playground. A little boy in a “Team Spidey” T-shirt ...19 minutes ago
- Dame Noels: ‘A huge cost on my career and life’
Dame Noeline Taurua (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua) is a legend of New Zealand netball. She played 34 test matches for the Silver Ferns before a serious knee injury ended her playing career. The affable and successful Ferns coach is a key voice in supporting the revised NetballSmart warm-up. The NetballSmart team ...20 minutes ago - The curious case of the Catholic bigot
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Big ups to Sue Moroney for her work on paid parental leave. Labour has introduced a bill and is debating it under urgency.
National is jumping up and down because it will not be referred to a select committee. It had and passed through but National vetoed it. And now National is going to support it …
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+1 Micky
Sue Moroney, you are a star, this will change lives for the better. Thank you to all involved in making it happen, thank you, thank you.
Big up’s from all the future babies as well, if the main caregiver (mum or dad) isn’t stressed, it makes a huge difference to the first few months of a new life.
Personally I’d like to see more support and information for post natal depression as well as women not being kicked out of hospital so rapidly after birth. Hoping for changes in those areas as the health sector/the well being of all babies & children and the mental health sector improves with our new government.
After the dodgy practices by the Nats yesterday, shove everything under emergency.
Sorry Ed, it isn’t right for the Tories to abuse process and it sure ain’t right for the current crowd to do it.
Take the high road and keep to your principles.
Disagree.
In war, the nice guys lose.
That just leaves a planet of arseholes.
And people killing each innocent with with other weapons.
Good. This is a promise kept.
A good day for the Democrats.
They hold the Virginia governorship with a 9% margin (expected to be close), and might even take the Virginia house of delegates (really unexpected, currently it’s a 50-50 split with 5 seats likely to go to recount), win New Jersey governorship (expected), win full control of Washington state (not really expected).
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-wave-2017_us_5a0267e1e4b092053058cdad?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Anti-LGBT politician defeated by transgender woman
This…may be big.
Shades of Georgina Beyer in Wairarapa taking a safe Tory seat.
Jamie Lee Ross and Simon Bridges like they’ve come a set for a bad mafia movie.
Notverygoodfellas or unwise guys?
Nice!
Lol
For those that want to know about the guy that stopped the church shooting
He works as an Epidemiologist doing research on the causal relationship between inequality and violence?
He lobbies for free universal access to mental health services?
He punches Republicans?
Nah, having not so much as glance at the video, I’m picking he’s your hero because he carries a gun. Just like Graeme Burton.
Well I can easily say that you are a complete fucking moron and the best thing you can do for society is ensure you never pass your genes on to anyone
This man went out and did what most of us probably couldn’t do or even conceive of doing, he saved lives by actively going out and confronting someone shooting up his church so yes he sounds like a good guy to have as a hero
But you wouldn’t know that because instead of hearing what happened you’d rather sit there and tug yourself off thinking how clever you are
I’ve stopped enough fights in my time to know that you can do so without excessive force.
However, I’m not talking about him, or me, or you: I’m talking about your decision (bad choices, eh) to brand him as a hero.
Whilst voting for policies that increase inequality, and therefore, violence. Whilst voting for the party that guts mental health services.
Your rhetoric belies your behaviour.
“I’ve stopped enough fights in my time to know that you can do so without excessive force.”
How exactly would you stop someone armed thats shooting without using excessive force?
“However, I’m not talking about him, or me, or you: I’m talking about your decision to brand him as a hero.”
Hes a hero because he went out to stop someone shooting people, he went out by himself to protect his friends, his family, his community, he put his life on on the line for others. Thats why hes a hero and you’re excrement.
“Whilst voting for policies that increase inequality, and therefore, violence. Whilst voting for the party that guts mental health services.”
Which has nothing to do with the interview but you think you’re making some profound point but you’re not, you’re just a insignificant nothing, a nobody, when you’re gone nothing will have changed, nothing you do will make the slightest bit of difference
“Your behaviour belies your rhetoric.”
Yours shows why you should hand yourself into the police so you can be charged for being an oxygen thief
He might personally be a hero but the system that allows the rampant distribution of guns is the villain.
And thats fine, thats a fair point to make and certainly something that could be discussed at a later date but at the moment you have a man that went out and stopped the carnage, has spoken about needing to seek counselling, is being hounded by the media, he can’t even go to the memorial service because of it and its in a small town so who knows how many friends hes lost
Hell he even spoke about how hes grown his santa beard because he helps deliver christmas gifts to needy kids, if thats not a hero then what is
Plus its also interesting to hear how things like this play out from the person involved not how Hollywood portrays and might educate a few people
He is an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. I prefer to concentrate on making sure the top of the cliff is safe. And sorry but 26 people have been killed. I think they are having far worse days.
I think that man having his and his family’s home surrounded my media and being harassed by them is part of the same dynamic that allows the shooting to happen.
Him not being able to go to the memorial given he lives in such a small town is actually pretty huge IMO. Again, same stuff. Lack of compassion and respect, and willing to trade those things off for power and money.
If no-one had guns, the problem could not have happened.
I’m just not sure that’s true MS. Icelanders have heaps of guns and very little violence, for example.
Plot gun ownership per capita against violent crime, by country – is there a correlation between the two?
I’m firmly of the opinion that addressing inequality and improving access to good healthcare will achieve a lot more that gun laws can.
There’s nothing profound about your ghoulish hypocrisy.
I found it an interesting watch. The interviewer is out of his depth, and a dick, and actually painful to listen to near the end, but the guy being interviewed tells his story straight and raises some pertinent points esp that he is currently being kept prisoner in his house by the MSM and can’t attend the memorial service for his neighbours and friends. He’s obviously going through a lot, and I think having his story told linearly and with minimal manipulation by the media is useful and has meaning.
He didn’t stop shit. The shooting went as planned and 25 people were shot to death, you fucking moran.
You should tune into Parliament TV right now!
https://www.parliament.nz/en/watch-parliament/
The Speake, Trevor Mallard, is sitting in the chair nursing a baby! No, I don’t think I have had too much wine! Unfortunately the MP speaking at present is Judith Collins.
Earlier today, Newshub Politics on Twitter showed this – Willow Jean Prime nursing/cuddling her baby in the Chamber. Also a Newshub article on this.
https://twitter.com/NewshubPolitics/status/928032532351795201
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/11/willow-jean-prime-makes-breastfeeding-history-in-parliament.html
The house is currently under urgency debating the introduction, first reading, and second reading of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Amendment Bill.
UPDATE – Tracey Martin is now speaking – her NZF colleagues behind her need to realise they are on TV ….
Mallard’s just gone up in my estimation, not that he was low before, but this is excellent.
You can see a snippet at the beginning of this vid, but be warned it quickly moves onto Collins.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155338404444285&set=a.86408644284.85033.683299284&type=3&theater
one vote opposed, the childless man.. Rimmer
Well done to our Government 🙂
Excellent – 115 to 1 on First Reading. Immediately on to 2nd reading.
Joke of the day is from Bill English
” “We will hold it to account on its ability to grow wages”
Englishs record on growth of wages is appalling. That is why he and Joyce rabbit on about averages. It took a hard fougt ( and opposed by English and the Nats) court win to get decent pay for carers and carers make up such a big portion of the workforce their increase raised the average wage.
Pardon me for not laughing LOO.
Ardern’s retort to English and Nats is priceless.
I will be interested if a comparison is ever done to see how often what the Opposition leader thingks is in news headlines etc so close to a change of govt?
Gommon guys you no who you 2 are your actions just confirmed that you and your producer m8 read my post with some other people i can see a tear in your eyes enough said, Ka pai
Earth will become ‘flaming ball of fire’ by 2600: Stephen Hawking
‘The renowned physicist believes soaring population sizes and increasing demands for energy will lead to the catastrophe.’
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=11941614
More likely for an X class solar flare to wipe us out before Hawking’s prediction happens.
Amazing how big dairy gets so many articles in the msm, minimising the effect of their industry on the environment.
‘Cows not the only dirty things finding their way into rivers’
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/98506819/Cows-not-the-only-dirty-things-finding-their-way-into-rivers
Are there too many native birds?
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/343311/are-there-too-many-native-birds