Daily review 16/10/2023

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, October 16th, 2023 - 14 comments
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  1. bwaghorn 1
    16 October 2023 at 5:49 pm

    https://www.interest.co.nz/rural-news/124782/guy-trafford-wonders-if-election-result-puts-soe-p%C4%81mu-farms-play-be-sold-pressure

    I'm not entirely against the idea, but you know national will sell it off shore,

    Far better it was leased to young kiwi farmers with reasonable environmental guide lines,

    Doesn't pamu lease alot of reporaoas converted forestry from China. ?

    • Roy Cartland 1.1
      16 October 2023 at 8:29 pm

      Good. Then when a proper climate govt comes in again, we can legislate them back to forests. The we don't have to buy out the farmers.

      • bwaghorn 1.1.1
        16 October 2023 at 9:41 pm

        How are you going to replace the jobs and home the displaced?

        Many of us that would hate a city and couldn't afford it if we wanted to!

      • mikesh 1.1.2
        17 October 2023 at 8:54 am

        If Brian Bruce's recent documentary is anything to go by we should try to become self self sufficient in wheat once again.

  2. pat 2
    16 October 2023 at 7:14 pm

    "It seems to me that we can only hold the nation together by tolerating this diversity – the only intolerance should be towards the intolerance. We need to make tolerance of diversity a proud national characteristic. (Up you, authoritarian regimes.) That means greater decentralisation.

    Yes, governments will have to take decisions with which minorities are uncomfortable, but the decisions should be in a context of respect for them. I broadly accepted our anti-Covid strategy but was uneasy about its attitude to, and treatment of, those who disagreed. (Yes, many were nutters, but they had a right to be nutters, providing they impacted minimally on others.)"

    https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2023/10/16/brian-easton-are-things-falling-apart/

  3. joe90 3
    16 October 2023 at 8:13 pm

    Looks like an Enabling Act, quacks like an Enabling Act…

    Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi is promoting regulations that would allow him to direct police to arrest civilians, remove them from their homes, or seize their property if he believes they have spread information that could harm national morale or served as the basis for enemy propaganda.

    According to draft emergency regulations titled "Limiting Aid to the Enemy through Communication" drafted by the communications minister after consultation with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, the jurisdiction to impose limitations on publications will be sweeping.

    It will apply to both the general public and the media, as well as both local and foreign media (in contrast to the stated objective to limit Al Jazeera). It will also apply to the publication of factually correct statements, at the minister's discretion.

    https://archive.ph/ER5B3 (haaretz)

  4. joe90 4
    16 October 2023 at 8:40 pm

    Some good news.

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    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk declared the beginning of a new era for his country after opposition parties appeared to have won enough votes in Sunday’s parliamentary election to oust the governing nationalist conservative party.

    That party, Law and Justice, has bickered with allies and faced accusations of eroding rule of law at home in its eight years in power. It appeared that voters were mobilized like never before, voting in even greater numbers than when the nation ousted the communist authorities in 1989. Exit poll results pegged it at a record 72.9%. In some places people were still in line when polling officially closed, but all were allowed to vote.

    If the result predicted by the exit poll holds, Law and Justice won but also lost. It got more seats than any other party but fewer than in the previous election and not enough to be able to lead a government that can pass laws in the legislature.

    https://apnews.com/article/poland-election-vote-720f7b81838c33ccb2865fb3bc6e0414

  5. Incognito 5
    16 October 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Luxon wants to keep the negotiations with NZF and ACT secret.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/500273/election-2023-christopher-luxon-ready-to-get-to-work-on-coalition-negotiations

    The National Party is used to operating in a high-trust environment. Will negotiations take place in “the Room of Secrets, in an undisclosed location in Parliament”? Will they prevent others from taking phones or other communication devices into the room? Will they strip search the pinstriped?

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/438202/political-roundup-national-s-blame-game-secrecy-and-dysfunction

    I suspect any coalition and/or C&S agreement might be kept confidential and restricted to members of the inner circle only – even an OIA request will fall on deaf ears because the NZ people and voters will not receive the respect that they deserve.

    • alwyn 5.1
      16 October 2023 at 10:36 pm

      It will hardly be new will it?

      Did the Labour Party or New Zealand First ever release the details of their agreement?

      • Incognito 5.1.2
        17 October 2023 at 11:18 am

        That’s yet another one of your pathetic apologies for the Right and even if you were right, which you are not, the extra layers of secrecy don’t make it right.

        Luxon bleats about respect for NZF and ACT but shows no respect to the NZ voters who have a right to know what’s going on too. Luxon is setting the tone for the negotiations (will he make NZF and ACT sign a confidentiality document before the confidential and private negotiations commence?) and the scene for a Government that will treat the plebs (that’s us, BTW) with arrogance, patting us on the head and telling us to calm down.

        Come Christmas, the plebs may finally unwrap their present to find out if it is a lemon, a dead rat, or a voucher for an ice cream + DVD that can only be used on Monday morning between 9-10 am.

    • weka 5.2
      16 October 2023 at 10:52 pm

      aren't negotiations usually done behind closed doors?

      National say they won't say who their negotiation team is, so I guess the link to the Nat leaks might be pertinent. Greens say who their team is. Don't know about other parties.

      • Anne 5.2.1
        16 October 2023 at 11:44 pm

        The negotiations are, but iirc they usually announce their negotiation teams. The fact that the Nats want to keep that a secret too suggests they are not going to be transparent with the results which is par for the course for them. I wonder if there is an off- shore element having a say in the 'negotiations'.

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