The state of Berlin has bought back 670 apartments on the historic Karl-Marx-Allee from a private owner after decades of property privatisation in the German capital.
A 1950s prestige project for socialist East Germany, the grand boulevard that stretches from the city centre to Friedrichshain in the east has been the frontline of a months-long fight over gentrification and rising property prices.
The struggle erupted last November when the property management firm Predac announced its intention to offload 700 apartments on the road to Berlin’s largest property company, Deutsche Wohnen.
Fearing rent increases, tenants organised protest marches and hung banners from their apartments, eventually pushing the city senate to block the sale.
[…]
Berlin’s mayor said the move was indicative of a wider strategy to reacquire housing stock sold to private investors in the 1990s, following rapid rises in rental costs in the city in recent years.
“Berliners should be able to continue to afford living in the city,” said Michael Müller. “That is why it was and continues to be our intention to buy up apartments wherever we can, so that Berlin can regain control of its property market.”
Thanks for that link and quotes, joe90. The whole housing issue in Germany is very, very different to that in NZ. Far more people in Germany rent their homes rather than own them, but renting is a very different experience/philosophy etc than in NZ. Renting is far more long term with tenants having to provide far more of the fittings and fixtures while above to make improvements, renovate etc with much greater freedoms. As I understand it rental prices have been much more stable until recently.
Sabine has provided some very good information on this over recent months but don't have time to find links.
He's dead right, and it applies most of all to the right's nationalist and identitarian groups that sustain Trump in power. Although the left are not immune.
(Thompson) followed Nixon from the late 1960s when he wrote in Pageant Magazine that Nixon/Trump was “…a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad… absolutely humorless; I couldn’t imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn’t quite reach the lever on the voting machine.” Ring any bells?
The impeachment decision involved both parties and the trial would have required members from both parties to vote guitly – do you think the current lot will do that?
And Nixon was re-electedwith a landslide.
The main advantage of impeachment inquiries in this instance is to get as much evidence as possible so he goes to jail in or after 2021. The main objective is to win the 2020 election.
'Peters acknowledged the US pulling out of what was originally the Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying before amendments were made to get the multilateral trade agreement to where it’s at now, “many of us in NZ had similar reservations”.
“Although some were disappointed [by the US]… we understand and respect the right of your administration to make this decision,” Peters said, recognising President Donald Trump’s preference for bilateral agreements.'
Anyone else still struggling to accept the WC Cricket.???? If you are not struggling good on you, seriously.
My beefs are
1. We bowled England out, surely that should have been the end of the game. Gordon Campbell thinks so too. No need for super over etc.
2. While I completely accept umpires make mistakes and that we have to accept that, shouldn't umpires in a world cup be completely au fait with the rules????? None of the three of them seemed to know the rules regarding the knock on on Stokes bat. This cost
NZ a run and therefore the cup. Enquiry please as to why three umpires ignorant of rules.
3. The deciding factor i.e. that number of boundaries scored is ludicrous, arbitrary and totally lacks any understanding of the game. Did they make this up after a few too many drinks??????
I would have completely accepted a loss as I did in 2015, but actually can't accept this as anything but the BC's actually won.
This is very bad for cricket in my humble opinion.
I loved it. Fantastic game. Brilliant result. Best team in the world won.
Shame for NZ the super over rules were in force before the competition began, that runs win, lose or tie games not the amount of wickets lost, and there's ambiguity in the Stokes' extra runs rule as to whether it's from the throw or the moment it hits the bat.
An alternative to boundaries scored would be to have done what they do in some other sports and sorted it through the head to head result in the round robin.
As it is, you'll just have to learn to live with choking twice in the one game.
The ambiguity to the rule is whether the batsmen cross before the throw or after it hit the bat, in which case, as the guy was diving full stretch for the crease coming back for the second run, it would obviously have been after they'd crossed, so six runs.
Don't care about you calling me an uncharitable pom.
Law 19.8 – overthrow or wilful act of fielder:
If the boundary results from an overthrow or from the wilful act of a fielder, the runs scored shall be:
any runs for penalties awarded to either side;
the allowance for the boundary; and
the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act.
There is some potential for ambiguity in the law, because “act” could be interpreted as the moment the ball deflected off Stokes’ bat.
I would have preferred a six off the final ball, but in football, I'd take extra time and penalty shoot out, or in rugby union a final minute drop goal, or in netball a final second basket, or a last gasp tiddle in the wink.
Could have gone either way, so you gotta take the smooth with the rough once in a while… And let’s face it, there’s been plenty of rough.
I am afraid The Allen I believe this and the umpire quoted more than what you say……………………..But I think the English will be rationalizing their win left right and centre right now. Which is kind of pathetic…………..
I still think if one team is bowled out, the other still has wickets at hand and the runs are equal, that should end the game whatever the rules say. That imo is the most logical way to determine the winner.
But the rule weren't adhered to by the umpires who are there to carry out the rules………….
A victory, but not much of one…….as I say their world cup "victory" will be always be tainted in the eyes of many. Both fans and people who know a lot more about cricket that you and I do.
Anyway, I will stop feeling this way soon. But their will always be a shadow over Englands win.
Actually I have been reading on-line commentaries and there are huge numbers of people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka to name just some countries who are of my view point…………….that's just the fans…..
And actually we didn't lose the game…………England didn't win. They were awarded the cup as a result of the rules.
And yes I can understand that you are happy. Like your fellow countrymen, not much compassion for those of us who are understandably finding it difficult. Oh well………there you go.
Dress it how you like, it'll change nothing, but England won the world cup according to the tournament rules. Count back, by 160 runs or 9 wickets, the win is a win. NZ would have taken it at the start of play, no doubt about it.
It was a complicated, rarely used rule in the most important game of cricket for 4 years. Umpires make mistakes too, it's very unfair to put the reason for a loss on a single decision like that in my view.
NZ's mistakes were more egregious, they wasted a review when Guptill was plumb infront meaning Taylor had no reviews left when he had a high lbw later on. Boult went to complete the catch on the boundary and stepped on the rope instead of stopping the six first and saving 4 or 5 runs.
I expect all players to make mistakes and all players did…….I also expect umpires to as well. But it wasn't a mistake the umpires made it was incompetence. Three of them don't appear to know the rules. Did cost us the game.
Maui. Whatever the mistakes at 50 overs both teams scored the same……….But England bowled out………….
England didn't win the game nor did NZ lose the game. England were awarded the cup.
T Allen would believe the take that the international umpire (whose name escapes me) made rather than yours. No one in the ICC has dispute what said international umpire said.
It doesn't matter England were bowled out, it's the number of runs that count. Always has. The scores were tied, so super over. According to the rules of the competition, in a tie, it's a count back to boundaries scored. You lost fair and square. That is an indisputable fact.
Besides that, during the tournament, England beat Australia, India and NZ… Twice. Best team won.
It seems odd that if all your batsmen are out that they get a second chance to bat. There should never have been a super over because there was noone left in the English team to bat.
The rules are the rules and so the English won the cup. That's the way the cookie crumbles in sport.
But I think it is reasonable to say that the rules were unfair and that they should be changed. The rules should be a priori fair to the best of our ability.
And you can take some comfort in that as you wipe the dribbles of snot from your nose and salty tears from your eyes with your Purex man sized tissues 😆
Ha, you're on one all right. I've said nothing about empire at all, or even once alluded to it or the notion of superiority, other than to say the best team won the cricket.
Look, you don't have to have an inferiority complex with me. I'm just a working class man from nothing who moved here and now has next to nothing, apart for a sharp mind, quick wit and an ability to draw out shit from arseholes on the internet.
It would be hard to win any more as the 'losing' team as the NZ Black Caps did taking everything into account, in an international showpiece world cup final.
In many ways they hit it out of the park. Congratulations to England also.
Oh look. John Key's ANZ has been downgraded because of poor management. I though he was supposed to be a superstar in business!
Australia's ANZ Bank has taken another hit, with the international credit rating agency Fitch downgrading the bank's operations in both Australia and New Zealand from a 'stable' to a 'negative' outlook, citing "material shortcomings in operational risk management, which were not aligned with the assessment Fitch had previously incorporated into its ratings".
One thing for sure though, The Black Caps are the best guys, best sports (think Roy arguing with the ref, Stokes brawling outside a bar)…………and the winners of everyone's hearts. Englands win will ALWAYS be tainted.
You said he was ‘fighty’, and I agreed. Great rearguard action in the face of adversity. National treasure now. They'll call it the Stokes effect for sure. 😆
Although as we learnt on here following mayor Len and his affair, apparently what goes on outside work doesn't affect or influence one's ability to do their day job.
Bizarre equivalence. Drunk, Stokes smashed someones face in and was suspended by his employer for some time. So it did affect his ability to do his job.
Then this:
Shortly after being arrested in September 2017, a video emerged which showed Stokes mimicking Katie Price's disabled son.
In September 2018, Stokes was charged with bringing the game into disrepute by the ECB. The charge related to the incident in Bristol and social media posts. In December 2018, the Cricket Disciplinary Commission, which is independent from the ECB, announced that Stokes would be fined £30,000
Again, you said he was a kiwi, and I said, yeah, and with Maori ancestry.
There's nothing in that apart from what you appear to be wanting to add to it. A bit low, though, playing the race card because NZ lost a game of cricket. Or are you just throwing out some shit in the hope some of it will stick?
Anyway, as you'll know, Stokes was acquitted at trial, so not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.
That's the order the conversation stream went. Why wouldn't I add to your statement he's a kiwi with further information about it? It’s not a secret.
Pretty poor attempt on your behalf to lay a race charge at my door. Knowing that I clearly haven't intended anything of the sort you've alluded to, I will accept your apology and say no more about it.
Righto. That's a pretty thin explanation you'll admit.
I don't 'clearly' know anything about what you were thinking. To be honest, your comments tonight are a departure from what I'd come to expect from you (defending thugs and gloating at unhappy fans) so who knows what was on your mind.
It's not an explanation, it's a repeat of the timeline of events of what happened and what was said, and of course there won't be an apology, you think your work is done. Slyly throw a racist smear at me here, question my left wing leanings over there, say I support thugs even though many good sorts on here have argued the case for punching nazis and haters.
Not even close. You'll have to work a lot harder than that to settle your old scores. 🙄
Kane actually is the best example of sportsmanship. I doubt you will find anyone who disputes that. But clearly you have no answer to what I have said about Stokes and Roy…………….
Anyway, I came on line about this as I said I was struggling and I thought it was unfair. All you have wanted to do is rub the awarding of the cup to England in my face. Unkind and uncompassionate. It's obvious that how the end of the game was dealt with leaves questions about the rules and the umpires not knowing the rules leaves questions too.
If it had of been a clear victory to England I would have wished them well as I did to Australia when they won in 2015.
I deliberately didn't come on here the morning of the victory and rub anyone's nose in it, and I wouldn't have said a word about the game if you hadn't have posted about the unfairness of it all.
I was pretty classy, I reckon, for one failing Tebbit's cricket test with so much ease.
Actually I have been reading on-line commentaries and there are huge numbers of people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka to name just some countries who are of my view point…………….that's just the fans…..
And actually we didn't lose the game…………England didn't win. They were awarded the cup as a result of the rules.
And yes I can understand that you are happy. Like your fellow countrymen, not much compassion for those of us who are understandably finding it difficult. Oh well………there you go.
They were awarded the cup as a result of the rules.
That's a good way to look at it. A Claytons win. They had to give it to someone – it might as well be the team the umpires helped up to the finish line.
I admire Julie Anne Genter but my admiration has gone up a notch because of her gutsy move to go on the Facebook pages of National MPs to correct the deliberate misinformation around the Government proposal to introduce a Clean Car Discount from 2021.
The ‘neutral’ MSM frames it as “defensive”, thoughtless, “incredibly thin-skinned”, “hyper defensiveness”, “out of touch with voters”, “Genter's social media crusade” and other subtle ways to paint a (negative) picture of the Government handling of the proposed scheme and to suggest a lack of confidence that the scheme will stand on its own merits.
There are hints that they know full well who is on the right side of the facts:
This has left Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter seemingly with no other choice but to stoically dive deep into the heart of Opposition online territory as the last bastion of defence against misplaced skepticism of Government policy.
…
The EV policy has plenty of positive messages which sit behind it. [my emphasis]
Shame though that none of those positive messages were mentioned in the article except for the screenshot of JAG’s excellent comments on those Facebook pages.
Good for her heading it off at the source. The left parties should make a habit of it in the run up to 2020. Be the headline with their own message. not the subject of someone else.
I read Julie Anne Genter's comments on Stuff. I think it is a mistake for a Minister to engage on another party's facebook page. Interesting concept though. Very different to me commenting on The Standard. I am a private citizen, just doing my thing for the interest of it.
I think the big issue on the EV policy will be the $3,000 impost on tradies and rural contractors utes. Though I expect that Winston Peters will fix that by having an exemption if they are primarily used in business. After that there will be no issues with the policy.
Not sure the Ford Ranger, or VW Ute (the two favoured models on the Shore) are really second hand import vehicles.
Anyway the tradies I know won’t like the govt dictating their vehicle choice. I know that statement is not literally true, but you get the point. They will expect Winston to moderate the policy, at least for vehicles that have a work use. Those who buy new Rangers to tow big boats could be expected to pay.
Tend to agree.. the Ford "Monster Truck" is a necessity on the Shore. The rough unsealed 4WD forestry roads there are impossible to navigate without such a vehicle.
And your attitude shows why tradies and rural contractors will be looking to Winston Peters rather than the Greens for the fix.
Your attitude is typical of those in gold plated public service jobs who have zero understanding of the challenges facing small businesses. $3,000 is not an irrelevantly small amount of money for them.
It's difficult not to conclude $3000 is an irrelevantly small sum when they go for the top of the line Wildtrak and then further tart it up with stuff that actually reduces functionality like 20" wheels and a big chrome rollbar.
"Your attitude is typical of those in gold plated public service jobs who have zero understanding of the challenges facing small businesses"
I must remember to write that down in my little black book for the next time the gNats are in power and you/your colleagues decide to create another bugger's muddle like MoBIE and stuff it full of short term thinkers
Hasn't Dr Wayne spent his life working in gold plated public service jobs?
Also, maybe to old guys like him is MPs commenting on social media not a good look, but to anyone under 40 (I'm 45 so maybe anyone under 50?) commenting on social media is a pretty acceptable thing to do.
I couldn't possibly comment @ I feel love. I'm hanging out for the Gold Card in the not too distant, but @Wayne's conservatism and ideologically driven comments never seem to amaze me. He kind of reminds me of all those old radio dramas at times (like Doctor! Paul), alongside a few britiss comedy sketches. What a silly silly SILLY old duffer old boy.
You can't describe him as a ponce because that implies those 'He's a gay' connotations. Having read him on all those social media platforms as well as his spray and walk away contributions on here, the best I can come up with is that he's a self-entitled ToryBoy with a supercilious attitude aattached.
I'm sure he's a nice guy and I live in hope. Maybe he's just a 'late developer'.
Meantime I hope 'Mother' – (aka woify), makes him a nice cuppa tea and alerts him to the next media gig he's called on to do.
Edit, btw – he has his rivals – half of them are in that public service with gold-plated benefits he now seems so willing to criticise – even some heading academia (which maybe how he came – nahhhh too cruel)
And your attitude shows why tradies and rural contractors will be looking to Winston Peters rather than the Greens for the fix.
And here it is again: pay lip service to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing environmental damage, while firmly resisting any attempt to actually reduce them. The only people who would describe hobbling environmental policies as "fixing" them are those who believe AGW isn't happening. It would be nice if right-wingers would at least be honest about that when commenting on the subject.
I get the point, which is that when you frame it like that, it evokes a different (emotive) reaction.
I’m still not clear why you think it is a “mistake” to engage on FB. How is this different from engaging on Twitter, for example?
It seems to me that JAG is correcting the misinformation spread around with the correct info and facts. She is not engaging in debate or discussion, as far as I can tell.
After Stacey Kirk’s deplorable piece, it feels like a kneejerk reaction to me. Can National not handle facts?
This has nothing to do with economics and everything to do with ideology and demonstrates why politicians are so disdained….sadly logic will make no difference to attitudes so I suspect JAG is wasting her time and Waynes bogus argument will continue to echoed by those so inclined.
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Something you might not know about me is that I’m quite a stubborn person. No, really. I don’t much care for criticism I think’s unfair or that I disagree with. Few of us do I suppose.Back when I was a drinker I’d sometimes respond defensively, even angrily. There are things ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the last week included:PM Christopher Luxon said the reversal of interest deductibility for landlords was done to help renters, who ...
It was not so much the Labour Party but really the Chris Hipkins party yesterday at Labour’s caucus retreat in Martinborough. The former Prime Minister was more or less consistent on wealth tax, which he was at best equivocal about, and social insurance, which he was not willing to revisit. ...
Buzz from the BeehiveThe text reproduced above appears on a page which records all the media statements and speeches posted on the government’s official website by Melissa Lee as Minister of Media and Communications and/or by Jenny Marcroft, her Parliamentary Under-secretary. It can be quickly analysed ...
For forty years, Robert Muldoon has been a dirty word in our politics. His style of government was so repulsive and authoritarian that the backlash to it helped set and entrench our constitutional norms. His pig-headedness over forcing through Think Big eventually gave us the RMA, with its participation and ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Is the new government reducing tax on rental properties to benefit landlords or to cut the cost of rents? That’s the big question this week, after Associate Finance Minister David Seymour announced on Sunday that the Government would be reversing the Labour Government’s removal ...
Saudi Arabia is rarely far from the international spotlight. The war in Gaza has brought new scrutiny to Saudi plans to normalise relations with Israel, while the fifth anniversary of the controversial killing of Jamal Khashoggi was marked shortly before the war began on October 7. And as the home ...
Questions need to be asked on both sides of the worldPeter Williams writes – The NRL Judiciary hands down an eight week suspension to Sydney Roosters forward Spencer Leniu , an Auckland-born Samoan, after he calls Ezra Mam, Sydney-orn but of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Ele Ludemann writes – Contrary to what many headlines and news stories are saying, residential landlords are not getting a tax break. The government is simply restoring to them the tax deductibility of interest they had until the previous government removed it. There is no logical reason ...
I can't remember when it was goodMoments of happiness in bloomMaybe I just misunderstoodAll of the love we left behindWatching our flashbacks intertwineMemories I will never findIn spite of whatever you becomeForget that reckless thing turned onI think our lives have just begunI think our lives have just begunDoes anyone ...
Michael Bassett writes – At first reading, a front-page story in the New Zealand Herald on 13 March was bizarre. A group of severely intellectually limited teenagers, with little understanding of the law, have been pleading to the Justice Select Committee not to pass a bill dealing with ram ...
How much political capital is Christopher Luxon willing to burn through in order to deliver his $2.9 billion gift to landlords? Evidently, Luxon is: (a) unable to cost the policy accurately. As Anna Burns-Francis pointed out to him on Breakfast TV, the original ”rock solid” $2.1 billion cost he was ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Jonathon Porritt calling bullshit in his own blog post on mainstream climate science as ‘The New Denialism’.Local scoop:The Wellington City Council’s list of proposed changes to the IHP recommendations to be debated later today was leaked this ...
TL;DR:Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said yesterday tenants should be grateful for the reinstatement of interest deductibility because landlords would pass on their lower tax costs in the form of lower rents. That would be true if landlords were regulated monopolies such as Transpower or Auckland Airport1, but they’re not, ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Tom Toro Tom Toro is a cartoonist and author. He has published over 200 cartoons in The New Yorker since 2010. His cartoons appear in Playboy, the Paris Review, the New York Times, American Bystander, and elsewhere. Related: What 10 EV lovers ...
The business section of the NZ Herald is full of opinion. Among the more opinionated of all is the ex-Minister of Transport, ex-Minister of Railways, ex MP for Auckland Central (1975-93, Labour), Wellington Central (1996-99, ACT, then list-2005), ex-leader of the ACT Party, uncle to actor Antonia, the veritable granddaddy ...
Hi,Just quickly — I’m blown away by the stories you’ve shared with me over the last week since I put out the ‘Gary’ podcast, where I told you about the time my friend’s flatmate killed the neighbour.And you keep telling me stories — in the comments section, and in my ...
The first season of Rings of Power was not awful. It was thoroughly underwhelming, yes, and left a lingering sense of disappointment, but it was more expensive mediocrity than catastrophe. I wrote at length about the series as it came out (see the Review section of the blog, and go ...
Buzz from the Beehive Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden told Auckland Business Chamber members they were the first audience to hear her priorities as a minister in a government committed to cutting red tape and regulations. She brandished her liberalising credentials, saying Flexible labour markets are the ...
Chris Trotter writes – TO UNDERSTAND WHY NEWSHUB FAILED, it is necessary to understand how TVNZ changed. Up until 1989, the state broadcaster had been funded by a broadcasting licence fee, collected from every citizen in possession of a television set, supplemented by a relatively modest (compared ...
Bob Edlin writes – The Māori Party has been busy issuing a mix of warnings and threats as its expresses its opposition to interest deductibility for landlords and the plans of seabed miners. It remains to be seen whether they follow the example of indigenous litigants in Australia, ...
Every year, in the Budget, Parliament forks out money to government agencies to do certain things. And every year, as part of the annual review cycle, those agencies are meant to report on whether they have done the things Parliament gave them that money for. Agencies which consistently fail to ...
Mike Grimshaw writes – Recent events in American universities point to an underlying crisis of coherent thinking, an issue that increasingly affects the progressive left across the Western world. This of course is nothing new as anyone who can either remember or has read of the late ...
The thing about life’s little victories is that they can be followed by a defeat.Reader Darryl told me on Monday night:Test again Dave. My “head cold” last week became COVID within 24 hours, and is still with me. I hear the new variants take a bit longer to show up ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Angus Deaton on rethinking his economics IMFLocal scoop: The people behind Tamarind, the firm that left a $500m cleanup bill for taxpayers at Taranaki’s Tui oil well, are back operating in Taranaki under a different company name. Jonathan ...
Normally when we talk about accessing public transport it’s about improving how easy it is to get to, such as how easy is it to cross roads in a station/stop’s walking catchment, is it possible to cycle to safely, do bus connections work, or even if are there new routes/connections ...
Politicians are not renowned for telling the truth. Some tell us things that are verifiably not true. They offer statements that omit critical pieces of information. Gloss over risks, preferring to offer the best case scenario.Some not truths are quite small, others amusing in their transparency. There are those repeated ...
The pressure is mounting on the Government as it finalises its Budget Policy Statement, but yet more predicted revenue ‘goes missing’. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The Climate Commission has delivered another funding blow to the National-ACT-NZ First coalition Government’s tax-cutting plans, potentially carving $1.4 billion off the ‘climate ...
The Government now faces the prospect of having to watch another tax raise the price of petrol when, only six days ago, it abolished the Auckland Regional Fuel tax. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon argued that the regional fuel tax imposed costs on lower-income people with less fuel-efficient vehicles and that ...
Kicking the most vulnerable people out of state housing and pushing them towards homelessness will result in a proliferation of poverty and trauma across our most vulnerable communities. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader and MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi has penned a letter asking MPs to support his members bill to remove GST from all food. The bill is expected to go through its first reading in parliament this Wednesday. “I’m calling on all political parties to support my ...
This year is about getting real with Kiwis and discussing the tough issues, as the National Government exacerbates inequality and divides New Zealand, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said ...
The Government adding Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) to its already roaring environmental policy bonfire is an assault on the future of wildlife that makes Aotearoa unique. ...
After 12 years of fighting to protect our moana we are finding ourselves back at square one and back at court. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is sitting in Hawera to reconsider an application from Trans-Tasman Resources to dig up 50 million tonnes of the seabed in South Taranaki. This ...
Minister Shane Jones’ decision to step away from a seabed mining project is evidence of the murky waters surrounding the Government’s fast-track legislation. ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The Coalition Government’s miscalculation saga continues as it has forgotten an eyewatering $90 million gap in its interest deductibility cost figures, say Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds and Revenue Spokesperson Deborah Russell. ...
He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission has today released advice that says if the Government doesn’t act now New Zealand is at risk of not meeting its climate goals. ...
The Coalition Government has today confirmed it is abandoning first home buyers who are struggling to get ahead, says Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds. ...
The New Zealand public voted for a change in direction at the 2023 general election and that is exactly what this coalition government has been delivering in its first 100 days. There was an immediate focus on the economy, easing the cost of living, cracking down on law and order ...
The Government has left the health system as an afterthought, announcing half-baked targets at the last minute of their 100-day plan, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
Kiwis are still waiting for their promised cost of living support after 100 days of a National Government that is taking us backwards, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
100 days of National taking NZ backwardsThe National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
The Government must commit to funding free and healthy school lunches, as thousands of people sign the petition to keep them, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti says. ...
If the Government was serious about moving families into public housing, they would build more houses so there is actually somewhere for people to go. ...
The free and healthy school lunches programme feeds our kids, helps them to learn, and saves families money – but it is at risk under this Government, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. ...
The Government’s proposed changes to Firearms Prohibition Orders (FPO) add almost nothing new and are merely an attempt to distract from its plans to loosen gun laws, police spokesperson Ginny Andersen and justice spokesperson Dr Duncan Webb said. ...
The great Victorian era English politician Lord Macauley stood in the British House of Parliament and said, "The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm".He understood and outlined even way back then, the significant role and influence media have in a democracy. ...
The government’s attack on Māori health this week is committing tangata-whenua to a premature death, says Te Pāti Māori. “The government have begun their onslaught on Māori health with the abolishment of the Māori Health Authority and smokefree laws in the same day” said health spokesperson and co-leader, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. ...
Today marks a tragic milestone for New Zealanders as the Coalition Government side with big tobacco to repeal the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act 2022, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins and Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall said. ...
New Zealand’s social workers are qualified, experienced, and more representative of the communities they serve, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “I want to acknowledge and applaud New Zealand’s social workers for the hard work they do, providing invaluable support for our most vulnerable. “To coincide with World ...
Cabinet has agreed to a reduced road user charge (RUC) rate for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. Owners of PHEVs will be eligible for a reduced rate of $38 per 1,000km once all light electric vehicles (EVs) move into the RUC system from 1 April. ...
Minister of Agriculture and Trade, Todd McClay, says that today’s opening of Riverland Foods manufacturing plant in Christchurch is a great example of how trade access to overseas markets creates jobs in New Zealand. Speaking at the official opening of this state-of-the-art pet food factory the Minister noted that exports ...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Wellington today. “It was a pleasure to host Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his first official visit to New Zealand since 2017. Our discussions were wide-ranging and enabled engagement on many facets of New Zealand’s relationship with China, including trade, ...
Kāinga Ora – Homes & Communities has been instructed to end the Sustaining Tenancies Framework and take stronger measures against persistent antisocial behaviour by tenants, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Earlier today Finance Minister Nicola Willis and I sent an interim Letter of Expectations to the Board of Kāinga Ora. ...
Tēna koutou katoa. Greetings everyone. Thank you to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and the Honourable Simon Bridges for hosting this address today. I acknowledge the business leaders in this room, the leaders and governors, the employers, the entrepreneurs, the investors, and the wealth creators. The coalition Government shares your ...
Minister Winston Peters completed the final leg of his visit to South and South East Asia in Singapore today, where he focused on enhancing one of New Zealand’s indispensable strategic partnerships. “Singapore is our most important defence partner in South East Asia, our fourth-largest trading partner and a ...
Minister of Internal Affairs and Workplace Relations and Safety, Hon. Brooke van Velden, will travel to the Republic of Korea to represent New Zealand at the Third Summit for Democracy on 18 March. The summit, hosted by the Republic of Korea, was first convened by the United States in 2021, ...
ICNZ Speech 7 March 2024, Auckland Acknowledgements and opening Mōrena, ngā mihi nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Good morning, it’s a privilege to be here to open the ICNZ annual conference, thank you to Mark for the Mihi Whakatau My thanks to Tim Grafton for inviting me ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Lead Coordination Minister Judith Collins have expressed their deepest sympathy on the five-year anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks. “March 15, 2019, was a day when families, communities and the country came together both in sorrow and solidarity,” Mr Luxon says. “Today we pay our respects to the 51 shuhada ...
Speech for Financial Advice NZ Conference 5 March 2024 Acknowledgements and opening Morena, Nga Mihi Nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Thanks Nate for your Mihi Whakatau Good morning. It’s a pleasure to formally open your conference this morning. What a lovely day in Wellington, What a great ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters held discussions in Jakarta today about the future of relations between New Zealand and South East Asia’s most populous country. “We are in Jakarta so early in our new government’s term to reflect the huge importance we place on our relationship with Indonesia and South ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters has announced that the Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi, will visit New Zealand next week. “We look forward to re-engaging with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and discussing the full breadth of the bilateral relationship, which is one of New Zealand’s ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has today opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre, which will bring together KiwiRail, Auckland Transport, and Auckland One Rail to improve service reliability for Aucklanders. “The recent train disruptions in Auckland have highlighted how important it is KiwiRail and Auckland’s rail agencies work together to ...
The Government is proud to support the 10th edition of Crankworx Rotorua as the Crankworx World Tour returns to Rotorua from 16-24 March 2024, says Minister for Economic Development Melissa Lee. “Over the past 10 years as Crankworx Rotorua has grown, so too have the economic and social benefits that ...
Legislation implementing coalition Government tax commitments and addressing long-standing tax anomalies will be progressed in Parliament next week, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The legislation is contained in an Amendment Paper to the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill issued today. “The Amendment Paper represents ...
Associate Environment Minister Andrew Hoggard has today announced that the Government has agreed to suspend the requirement for councils to comply with the Significant Natural Areas (SNA) provisions of the National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity for three years, while it replaces the Resource Management Act (RMA).“As it stands, SNAs ...
Agriculture Minister Todd McClay has classified the drought conditions in the Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts as a medium-scale adverse event, acknowledging the challenging conditions facing farmers and growers in the district. “Parts of Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts are in the grip of an intense dry spell. I know ...
The Government is helping farmers eradicate the significant impact of facial eczema (FE) in pastoral animals, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “A $20 million partnership jointly funded by Beef + Lamb NZ, the Government, and the primary sector will save farmers an estimated NZD$332 million per year, and aims to ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has completed a successful visit to India, saying it was an important step in taking the relationship between the two countries to the next level. “We have laid a strong foundation for the Coalition Government’s priority of enhancing New Zealand-India relations to generate significant future benefit for both countries,” says Mr Peters, ...
Cabinet has agreed to provide $7 million to ensure the 2024 ski season can go ahead on the Whakapapa ski field in the central North Island but has told the operator Ruapehu Alpine Lifts it is the last financial support it will receive from taxpayers. Cabinet also agreed to provide ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Lower fruit and vegetable prices are welcome news for New Zealanders who have been doing it tough at the supermarket, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. Stats NZ reported today the price of fruit and vegetables has dropped 9.3 percent in the 12 months to February 2024. “Lower fruit and vege ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
The coalition Government is supporting farmers to enhance land management practices by investing $3.3 million in locally led catchment groups, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “Farmers and growers deliver significant prosperity for New Zealand and it’s vital their ongoing efforts to improve land management practices and water quality are supported,” ...
Good evening everyone and thank you for that lovely introduction. Thank you also to the Honourable Simon Bridges for the invitation to address your members. Since being sworn in, this coalition Government has hit the ground running with our 100-day plan, delivering the changes that New Zealanders expect of us. ...
Recommendations from the Climate Change Commission for New Zealand on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) auction and unit limit settings for the next five years have been tabled in Parliament, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. “The Commission provides advice on the ETS annually. This is the third time the ...
The coalition Government is beginning its fight to lower building costs and reduce red tape by exempting minor building work from paying the building levy, says Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk. “Currently, any building project worth $20,444 including GST or more is subject to the building levy which is ...
Proposed changes to tax legislation to prevent the over-taxation of low-earning trusts are welcome, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The changes have been recommended by Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee following consideration of submissions on the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill. “One of the ...
Assalaamu alaikum. السَّلَام عليكم In light of the holy month of Ramadan, I want to extend my warmest wishes to our Muslim community in New Zealand. Ramadan is a time for spiritual reflection, renewed devotion, perseverance, generosity, and forgiveness. It’s a time to strengthen our bonds and appreciate the diversity ...
Former Transport Minister and CEO of the Auckland Business Chamber Hon Simon Bridges has been appointed as the new Board Chair of the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) for a three-year term, Transport Minister Simeon Brown announced today. “Simon brings extensive experience and knowledge in transport policy and governance to the role. He will ...
Good morning all, it is a pleasure to be here as Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology. It is fantastic to see how connected and collaborative the life science and biotechnology industry is here in New Zealand. I would like to thank BioTechNZ and NZTech for the invitation to address ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says he is looking forward to the day when three key water projects in Northland are up and running, unlocking the full potential of land in the region. Mr Jones attended a community event at the site of the Otawere reservoir near Kerikeri on Friday. ...
Associate Finance Minister David Seymour has today announced that the Government has agreed to restore deductibility for mortgage interest on residential investment properties. “Help is on the way for landlords and renters alike. The Government’s restoration of interest deductibility will ease pressure on rents and simplify the tax code,” says ...
Sport and Recreation Minister Chris Bishop will travel to Switzerland today to attend an Executive Committee meeting and Symposium of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Mr Bishop will then travel on to London where he will attend a series of meetings in his capacity as Infrastructure Minister. “New Zealanders believe ...
This year’s Pacific Language Weeks celebrate regional unity and the contribution of Pacific communities to New Zealand culture, says Minister for Pacific Peoples Dr Shane Reti. Dr Reti announced dates for the 2024 Pacific Language Weeks during a visit to the Pasifika festival in Auckland today and says there’s so ...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Food rationing is underway in remote areas in Papua New Guinea’s Highlands following torrential rain and flash flooding. More than 20 people have been reported dead in Chimbu Province. In nearby Enga Province, the centre of last month’s massacre, a 15-year-old boy has been ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Hughes, Lecturer, Research School of Management, Australian National University After months of debate and intrigue, the AFL’s 19th and newest team, the Tasmania Devils, finally launched its jumper, logo and colours in Devonport this week. The Devils will wear green, ...
Brannavan Gnanalingam reviews the debut novel by Saraid de Silva.One of the most baffling things for children who move to a new country is what their parents’ (or grandparents’) lives were like prior to moving – for kids in particular, they’re too busy trying to fit in in their ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Gaunson, Associate Professor in Cinema Studies, RMIT University Narelle Portanier/Binge “If you don’t know who your mob are, you don’t know who you are,” Detective Andrea “Andie” Whitford (played by Leah Purcell) is told early into the new crime ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Klein, Associate professor, Australian National University It’s commonly accepted that women do the vast majority of caregiving in Australian society. But less appreciated is that Indigenous women do larger amounts of unpaid care than any other group. Working with the Aboriginal ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Joe Biden and Donald Trump have both secured their parties’ nominations for the November 5 United States general election by winning a ...
Comment: There has been a striking contrast in trans-Tasman interest about Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s visit to New Zealand and Australia. While the Australian press has been full of articles about the visit – including his curious decision to meet with former prime minister and China booster Paul Keating ...
After years of pressuring banks and other institutions to stop investing in fossil fuels, climate campaigners are making some progress. So how does divestment work?For years, climate activists have been pushing banks and other big institutions to divest from fossil fuels. New research from climate advocacy group 350 Aotearoa ...
For Boba, Ethan and Ashley, K-pop is a place to belong, a way to express themselves, and a bridge to connect with others. The three young Polynesians are part of a K-pop fan community in Tāmaki Makaurau. It’s one of many that have sprung up worldwide as K-pop has gone ...
For Boba, Ethan and Ashley, K-pop is a place to belong, a way to express themselves, and a bridge to connect with others. This one-off documentary presents three intimate portraits of young Polynesians who are pulled into a Korean cultural phenomenon. K-POLYS is directed by Litia Tuiburelevu, Produced by Hex ...
There’s ample evidence demonstrating free school lunch programmes provide wide benefits across schools, households and communities according to public health researchers. ACT Minister David Seymour wants to reduce the spending on Aotearoa New Zealand’s ...
By Wata Shaw in Suva Fiji is facing an exodus of Fijians as many are leaving for overseas seeking employment and education and others are migrating, says Opposition MP Viliame Naupoto. Speaking in Parliament, he said: “His Excellency’s speech (Ratu Wiliame Katonivere) comes after a little over one year of ...
The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming comments from Christopher Luxon this morning recommitting to ‘no new taxes’ as part of Budget 2024. “Mr Luxon’s refusal at the Post-Cabinet press conference yesterday to repeat the ‘no new taxes’ promise ...
SAFE is urgently calling on the Environment Committee to reject the Government’s Fast-Track Approvals Bill, and is urging New Zealanders to rally behind the call. The proposed Bill, currently under consideration with the Environment select committee, ...
Teammates who spend all their time picking fights with spectators are only helpful for the other team, writes Madeleine Chapman. Anyone who has ever played a team sport competitively, particularly as a child and particularly, for some reason, basketball, will know that there’s a lot of politics involved. While there ...
The long-running Wellington music festival is too focused on the Jim Beam-ness and not enough on the Homegrown-ness.There is something about Homegrown that’s difficult to place. A barely perceptible-ness. Like feeling a ghost is watching you from the corner of the room but when you look, there’s nothing there. ...
The latest Ipsos New Zealand Issues Monitor reveals that fewer New Zealanders believe crime / law and order is one of the top issues facing our country. In 2018, Ipsos New Zealand started tracking the key issues facing New Zealand. In this wave ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Deputy Program Director, Budgets and Government, Grattan Institute Australia’s political donations rules are woefully inadequate, but donations reform is finally on the agenda. The federal government has signalled its interest in reform and will soon begin briefing MPs on its ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Patrick Taylor, Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Naiyana Somchitkaeo/Shutterstock A recent study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine has linked microplastics with risk to human health. The study ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Global climate records were shattered in 2023, from air and sea temperatures to sea-level rise and sea-ice extent. Scores of countries recorded their hottest year ...
As part of our series exploring how New Zealanders live and our relationship with money, a teacher explains why he and his partner are in frugal mode – and how they’re making it work. Gender: Male Age: 35Ethnicity: Pākehā Role: I am an intermediate school teacher and my partner is ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Bendall, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University Binge Mary & George, the new British television drama series, depicts the real-life story of Mary Villiers and her son George, and their social climbing at the ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jason Nassios, Associate Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University This article is part of The Conversation’s series examining the housing crisis. Read the other articles in the series here. Australian state and federal governments spend money in many ways to ...
The finance minister is denying that there’s a $5.6b shortfall in paying for the government’s campaign promises, including tax cuts. At his post-cabinet press conference yesterday, the PM refused to rule out new taxes to pay for the cuts, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s ...
Kāinga Ora tenants abused by their neighbours are doubting the government's crackdown on disruptive tenants will make a difference on their behaviour. ...
Kāinga Ora is New Zealand’s biggest residential landlord, housing more than 180,000 vulnerable people in more than 67,000 properties. Yesterday the government announced a crackdown on its tenants who fall behind on rent. One longtime Kāinga Ora tenant shares her experience.For 18 years I lived in a 1960s standalone ...
Why does this myth persist, and what’s the real reason our skin is suffering?It’s one of the biggest international grievances New Zealanders hold, up there with the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior and 1981’s underarm incident. We’re quick to tell international travellers that the world’s pollution led to the ...
Bob’s relationship with certain members of Lincoln’s academic staff continued to deteriorate in the 1990s. Others supported him publicly, though articles such as Roland Clark’s 1993 piece in Growing Today cannot have pleased the university management. Clark wrote that Bob was selling onions from the Biological Husbandry Unit to a ...
SailGP’s races feature in-your-face action, with agile, hydro-foiling catamarans tacking and jibing for the title over several days. However, public comments ahead of the global series’ return to New Zealand have left this past year’s controversy in the shadows, as a key appointment attracts criticism from dolphin advocates. A year ...
Opinion: We are fast approaching a fundamental change in prisons. As the number of people on custodial remand looks set to overtake the number of sentenced prisoners, the main function of prisons in New Zealand may become incarcerating un-sentenced people who may not be guilty of offending. We have already ...
A huge seven months lies in store for the White Ferns, beginning this week with the visit of England and culminating with the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in September and October. Starting on Tuesday in Dunedin, the world ranked No. 2 visitors will play five T20s and three ODIs, ...
Opinion: In a move that has shocked road safety advocates across the country, the new Minister of Transport, Simeon Brown, is poised to abandon the previous government’s speed limit reduction policy, particularly around schools. Even more alarmingly, he wants school speed limits to be variable rather than full-time, arguing ...
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This is how it's done.
The state of Berlin has bought back 670 apartments on the historic Karl-Marx-Allee from a private owner after decades of property privatisation in the German capital.
A 1950s prestige project for socialist East Germany, the grand boulevard that stretches from the city centre to Friedrichshain in the east has been the frontline of a months-long fight over gentrification and rising property prices.
The struggle erupted last November when the property management firm Predac announced its intention to offload 700 apartments on the road to Berlin’s largest property company, Deutsche Wohnen.
Fearing rent increases, tenants organised protest marches and hung banners from their apartments, eventually pushing the city senate to block the sale.
[…]
Berlin’s mayor said the move was indicative of a wider strategy to reacquire housing stock sold to private investors in the 1990s, following rapid rises in rental costs in the city in recent years.
“Berliners should be able to continue to afford living in the city,” said Michael Müller. “That is why it was and continues to be our intention to buy up apartments wherever we can, so that Berlin can regain control of its property market.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/16/berlin-buys-670-flats-on-karl-marx-allee-from-private-owner
Thanks for that link and quotes, joe90. The whole housing issue in Germany is very, very different to that in NZ. Far more people in Germany rent their homes rather than own them, but renting is a very different experience/philosophy etc than in NZ. Renting is far more long term with tenants having to provide far more of the fittings and fixtures while above to make improvements, renovate etc with much greater freedoms. As I understand it rental prices have been much more stable until recently.
Sabine has provided some very good information on this over recent months but don't have time to find links.
A short mention of this buy-back with a different link was also posted by Scott GN at 7 on Open Mike today – https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-17-07-2019/#comment-1637692
Who woulda thunk people marginalised simply because of their identity might let their identity form their politics.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1150948414466641921
He's dead right, and it applies most of all to the right's nationalist and identitarian groups that sustain Trump in power. Although the left are not immune.
How Hunter S. Thompson Would Cover Donald Trump
https://lithub.com/how-hunter-s-thompson-would-cover-donald-trump/
Yeah. Remember how that turned out?
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/16/memo-to-dems-youre-playing-into-trumps-hands-227362
Indeed. Remember what happened to Nixon?
The impeachment decision involved both parties and the trial would have required members from both parties to vote guitly – do you think the current lot will do that?
And Nixon was re-electedwith a landslide.
The main advantage of impeachment inquiries in this instance is to get as much evidence as possible so he goes to jail in or after 2021. The main objective is to win the 2020 election.
https://www.interest.co.nz/business/100754/deputy-prime-minister-winston-peters-highlights-benefits-nz-china-fta-bid-get-us
'Peters acknowledged the US pulling out of what was originally the Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying before amendments were made to get the multilateral trade agreement to where it’s at now, “many of us in NZ had similar reservations”.
“Although some were disappointed [by the US]… we understand and respect the right of your administration to make this decision,” Peters said, recognising President Donald Trump’s preference for bilateral agreements.'
YEP
We trade with both China and the US, and while China's economy gradually "slows" to 6.2% GDP growth, the US economy rockets along.
So far we haven't lost our principles in doing so.
Junta sends signal to loyal faction.
https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1151130297548697603
https://twitter.com/alex_mallin/status/1151140338511335424
Sadly, New York's Democratic mayor, Mr Di Blasio, has failed to do anything about his murderous cops either.
Anyone else still struggling to accept the WC Cricket.???? If you are not struggling good on you, seriously.
My beefs are
1. We bowled England out, surely that should have been the end of the game. Gordon Campbell thinks so too. No need for super over etc.
2. While I completely accept umpires make mistakes and that we have to accept that, shouldn't umpires in a world cup be completely au fait with the rules????? None of the three of them seemed to know the rules regarding the knock on on Stokes bat. This cost
NZ a run and therefore the cup. Enquiry please as to why three umpires ignorant of rules.
3. The deciding factor i.e. that number of boundaries scored is ludicrous, arbitrary and totally lacks any understanding of the game. Did they make this up after a few too many drinks??????
I would have completely accepted a loss as I did in 2015, but actually can't accept this as anything but the BC's actually won.
This is very bad for cricket in my humble opinion.
I loved it. Fantastic game. Brilliant result. Best team in the world won.
Shame for NZ the super over rules were in force before the competition began, that runs win, lose or tie games not the amount of wickets lost, and there's ambiguity in the Stokes' extra runs rule as to whether it's from the throw or the moment it hits the bat.
An alternative to boundaries scored would be to have done what they do in some other sports and sorted it through the head to head result in the round robin.
As it is, you'll just have to learn to live with choking twice in the one game.
I’m guessing the second run wasn't completed when he ball hit the bat so no ambiguity there. Perhaps ambiguity on the cross.
The rest of your comment is typically uncharitable from a pom. 👎
The ambiguity to the rule is whether the batsmen cross before the throw or after it hit the bat, in which case, as the guy was diving full stretch for the crease coming back for the second run, it would obviously have been after they'd crossed, so six runs.
Don't care about you calling me an uncharitable pom.
Law 19.8 – overthrow or wilful act of fielder:
If the boundary results from an overthrow or from the wilful act of a fielder, the runs scored shall be:
any runs for penalties awarded to either side;
the allowance for the boundary; and
the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act.
There is some potential for ambiguity in the law, because “act” could be interpreted as the moment the ball deflected off Stokes’ bat.
Ah well. As long as you feel good about England having won in that fashion.
The other thing goes in my little notebook. 😁
I would have preferred a six off the final ball, but in football, I'd take extra time and penalty shoot out, or in rugby union a final minute drop goal, or in netball a final second basket, or a last gasp tiddle in the wink.
Could have gone either way, so you gotta take the smooth with the rough once in a while… And let’s face it, there’s been plenty of rough.
https://the12thman.in/watch-the-proof-that-shows-new-zealand-was-robbed-in-the-final/
I am afraid The Allen I believe this and the umpire quoted more than what you say……………………..But I think the English will be rationalizing their win left right and centre right now. Which is kind of pathetic…………..
I still think if one team is bowled out, the other still has wickets at hand and the runs are equal, that should end the game whatever the rules say. That imo is the most logical way to determine the winner.
Doesn't matter what you think, or me for that matter, the victory was in line with the rules all teams were familiar with and agreed to.
Sadly, your hard done by feelings don't come into it.
But the rule weren't adhered to by the umpires who are there to carry out the rules………….
A victory, but not much of one…….as I say their world cup "victory" will be always be tainted in the eyes of many. Both fans and people who know a lot more about cricket that you and I do.
Anyway, I will stop feeling this way soon. But their will always be a shadow over Englands win.
Tainted in the eyes of the losers, for sure, but it says England on the trophy and always will.
I know I'll always remember our first time with a smile on my dial. Would have preferred beating the Aussies or India though.
Actually I have been reading on-line commentaries and there are huge numbers of people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka to name just some countries who are of my view point…………….that's just the fans…..
And actually we didn't lose the game…………England didn't win. They were awarded the cup as a result of the rules.
And yes I can understand that you are happy. Like your fellow countrymen, not much compassion for those of us who are understandably finding it difficult. Oh well………there you go.
Dress it how you like, it'll change nothing, but England won the world cup according to the tournament rules. Count back, by 160 runs or 9 wickets, the win is a win. NZ would have taken it at the start of play, no doubt about it.
No point in whinging about it ankey. Won't change a thing, just annoys people.
Seriously? Ok then, at what point does a throw become an overthrow?
It did cost a run but not necessarily the cup. There were still two deliveries to go.
whether awarded 5 or 6 runs it couldn't influence what came next……………
Of course it could. An increased run rate would have been met with a more aggressive approach to the final two deliveries. Obviously.
Well no but Rashid might have leg glanced for 4, or 1, then Stokes might have been more bold had they required 3 from 1.
As it stands he choked, not being able to get 3 from 2 and win it properly…
Yeah, he was awful. The whole country hates him now 😆
England are very proud of their yobbos, I'll give you that.
Stokes reminds me of Tommy Robinson in a way.
Yeah, that's it, he's like a nazi
It was a complicated, rarely used rule in the most important game of cricket for 4 years. Umpires make mistakes too, it's very unfair to put the reason for a loss on a single decision like that in my view.
NZ's mistakes were more egregious, they wasted a review when Guptill was plumb infront meaning Taylor had no reviews left when he had a high lbw later on. Boult went to complete the catch on the boundary and stepped on the rope instead of stopping the six first and saving 4 or 5 runs.
I expect all players to make mistakes and all players did…….I also expect umpires to as well. But it wasn't a mistake the umpires made it was incompetence. Three of them don't appear to know the rules. Did cost us the game.
Maui. Whatever the mistakes at 50 overs both teams scored the same……….But England bowled out………….
England didn't win the game nor did NZ lose the game. England were awarded the cup.
T Allen would believe the take that the international umpire (whose name escapes me) made rather than yours. No one in the ICC has dispute what said international umpire said.
It doesn't matter England were bowled out, it's the number of runs that count. Always has. The scores were tied, so super over. According to the rules of the competition, in a tie, it's a count back to boundaries scored. You lost fair and square. That is an indisputable fact.
Besides that, during the tournament, England beat Australia, India and NZ… Twice. Best team won.
It seems odd that if all your batsmen are out that they get a second chance to bat. There should never have been a super over because there was noone left in the English team to bat.
The rules are the rules and so the English won the cup. That's the way the cookie crumbles in sport.
But I think it is reasonable to say that the rules were unfair and that they should be changed. The rules should be a priori fair to the best of our ability.
Take it up with the ICC, though the rules of super overs are pretty clear in that each team starts afresh with three nominated batsmen and one bowler.
That will be the test. If they do change the rules it will be an admission that this wasn't a legitimate result.
And you can take some comfort in that as you wipe the dribbles of snot from your nose and salty tears from your eyes with your Purex man sized tissues 😆
These things have ceased to trouble me too much in recent years, so I have not shed a tear figuratively or otherwise.
A braying Englishman however…
Braying, just having a laugh, whatever.
Empire complex. It's pretty hard to shake.
You should try harder to get over it.
Empire complex runs through most English people I've met, and it's on the increase with the hard swing to the right in Britain.
You've got it in spades.
Ha, you're on one all right. I've said nothing about empire at all, or even once alluded to it or the notion of superiority, other than to say the best team won the cricket.
Look, you don't have to have an inferiority complex with me. I'm just a working class man from nothing who moved here and now has next to nothing, apart for a sharp mind, quick wit and an ability to draw out shit from arseholes on the internet.
Is ankerawshark an arsehole?
Was your intention to 'draw shit' from him?
Grow up, old bean, your radar is broken.
I'm going to bed. Give you time to stock up on the triple ply. 😆
🙂
If it's not one damn Empire, it's another ….. a bit like history ("If it's not one damn thing it's another")
Unfortunately 'lil 'ole NuZull is still not ready to give them the two finger salute at times
It would be hard to win any more as the 'losing' team as the NZ Black Caps did taking everything into account, in an international showpiece world cup final.
In many ways they hit it out of the park. Congratulations to England also.
I agree, they played their best game and would have been worthy winners on the day.
Oh look. John Key's ANZ has been downgraded because of poor management. I though he was supposed to be a superstar in business!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12250454
Chickens coming home to roost big time.
One wonders how long before investors take flight?
Thanks Muttonbird. That cheers me up.
One thing for sure though, The Black Caps are the best guys, best sports (think Roy arguing with the ref, Stokes brawling outside a bar)…………and the winners of everyone's hearts. Englands win will ALWAYS be tainted.
Although Kaine didn't walk for a caught behind for the second game running, so maybe not the best example of sportsmanship.
Well it's not beating someone unconscious outside a pub sort of sportsmanship! I know which one I'd take.
The knobs he smacked who were abusing the gay couple? Won him more fans than he lost, I reckon.
If punching a nazi is okay, it is for dealing to homophobes, too.
I think there's some, how did you put it, ambiguity about that.
I think he's just a bit fighty.
Certainly showed some Dunkirk spirit, that's for sure.
Oh right. Now we're onto the, 'you'd all be speaking German now if it wasn't for us!' 😂
You said he was ‘fighty’, and I agreed. Great rearguard action in the face of adversity. National treasure now. They'll call it the Stokes effect for sure. 😆
Well, it is just a game. He needs to learn to turn it off in public.
Born in Christchurch so that explains a lot!
Although as we learnt on here following mayor Len and his affair, apparently what goes on outside work doesn't affect or influence one's ability to do their day job.
Bizarre equivalence. Drunk, Stokes smashed someones face in and was suspended by his employer for some time. So it did affect his ability to do his job.
Then this:
Yeah, what a hero!
I don't want to marry him or anything, so drag up his past all you like, forget his apologies, and hang him at dawn for all I care.
Won't stop him being a world champion cricketer.
And a Kiwi at that.
With Maori ancestry
Hope you are not intimating that's where his violent behaviour comes from.
Mind you, nothing would surprise me tonight.
Again, you said he was a kiwi, and I said, yeah, and with Maori ancestry.
There's nothing in that apart from what you appear to be wanting to add to it. A bit low, though, playing the race card because NZ lost a game of cricket. Or are you just throwing out some shit in the hope some of it will stick?
Anyway, as you'll know, Stokes was acquitted at trial, so not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.
I'm at a loss. Why then did you mention he was Maori?
Also, I think you'll find the game was tied. The cup was awarded to England because they scored more of their runs in boundaries.
Stokes is a bad egg. Being a world champion cricketer doesn’t change that.
That's the order the conversation stream went. Why wouldn't I add to your statement he's a kiwi with further information about it? It’s not a secret.
Pretty poor attempt on your behalf to lay a race charge at my door. Knowing that I clearly haven't intended anything of the sort you've alluded to, I will accept your apology and say no more about it.
Righto. That's a pretty thin explanation you'll admit.
I don't 'clearly' know anything about what you were thinking. To be honest, your comments tonight are a departure from what I'd come to expect from you (defending thugs and gloating at unhappy fans) so who knows what was on your mind.
There will be no apology.
It's not an explanation, it's a repeat of the timeline of events of what happened and what was said, and of course there won't be an apology, you think your work is done. Slyly throw a racist smear at me here, question my left wing leanings over there, say I support thugs even though many good sorts on here have argued the case for punching nazis and haters.
Not even close. You'll have to work a lot harder than that to settle your old scores. 🙄
Just havin' a laugh, whatever.
Kane actually is the best example of sportsmanship. I doubt you will find anyone who disputes that. But clearly you have no answer to what I have said about Stokes and Roy…………….
Anyway, I came on line about this as I said I was struggling and I thought it was unfair. All you have wanted to do is rub the awarding of the cup to England in my face. Unkind and uncompassionate. It's obvious that how the end of the game was dealt with leaves questions about the rules and the umpires not knowing the rules leaves questions too.
If it had of been a clear victory to England I would have wished them well as I did to Australia when they won in 2015.
Yeah. The Alien hasn't covered himself with glory here and it was his response to your admission that annoyed me.
Zero compassion and it makes me wonder if he's a leftie at all!
The fervour with which he's gloating betrays an inadequacy somewhere.
I deliberately didn't come on here the morning of the victory and rub anyone's nose in it, and I wouldn't have said a word about the game if you hadn't have posted about the unfairness of it all.
I was pretty classy, I reckon, for one failing Tebbit's cricket test with so much ease.
If you think so The Al1en
I do.
Oh yes. Definitely an asterisk next to that win for ever.
The win can't even be described in normal cricketing terms; by x runs or by x wickets. Even Cricinfo doesn’t mark the result as a win for England.
England won by more boundaries? Why does it matter how many runs were scored through boundaries?
Actually I have been reading on-line commentaries and there are huge numbers of people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka to name just some countries who are of my view point…………….that's just the fans…..
And actually we didn't lose the game…………England didn't win. They were awarded the cup as a result of the rules.
And yes I can understand that you are happy. Like your fellow countrymen, not much compassion for those of us who are understandably finding it difficult. Oh well………there you go.
That's a good way to look at it. A Claytons win. They had to give it to someone – it might as well be the team the umpires helped up to the finish line.
Also the last ball of our innings, our tall Black Cap batsman had to duck under a bodyline bouncer, couldn't that easily have been a no ball also?
The list goes on lol
Agree 100* Muttonbird…………
Oh yeah, weird.
https://twitter.com/soychicka/status/1150943271566397442
How's those almost human eyes.
https://twitter.com/gavinnaylor/status/1146144452681113601
https://twitter.com/gavinnaylor/status/1147183373888233472
I admire Julie Anne Genter but my admiration has gone up a notch because of her gutsy move to go on the Facebook pages of National MPs to correct the deliberate misinformation around the Government proposal to introduce a Clean Car Discount from 2021.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/114245123/govt-wades-deep-in-nats-territory-to-defend-evs-policy-takes-explaining-is-losing-to-new-level
The ‘neutral’ MSM frames it as “defensive”, thoughtless, “incredibly thin-skinned”, “hyper defensiveness”, “out of touch with voters”, “Genter's social media crusade” and other subtle ways to paint a (negative) picture of the Government handling of the proposed scheme and to suggest a lack of confidence that the scheme will stand on its own merits.
There are hints that they know full well who is on the right side of the facts:
Shame though that none of those positive messages were mentioned in the article except for the screenshot of JAG’s excellent comments on those Facebook pages.
Good on her, I say.
The consultation document can be found at https://transport.cwp.govt.nz/clean-cars/ .
Submissions close on 20 August 2019.
And Phil Twyford was in the Herald correcting the misinformation over the Govt's Transport proposals.
They've been letting the Nats get away with distortions and downright lies for a long time now, so I hope this is a sign they are fighting back.
The PR department needs to work a lot harder on setting the narrative IMO.
Laziness or timidity?
Lack of crafty communication resources among other things. Check out mickey's latest post "Sometimes explaining is not losing". Some good comments.
A modern day politician.
If the media did a better job of calling National's lies out, she wouldn't have to correct the deliberate misinformation.
True, but maybe she’s enjoying it too; I would.
Fake news on faceachebook, who'd of thunk it?
Good for her heading it off at the source. The left parties should make a habit of it in the run up to 2020. Be the headline with their own message. not the subject of someone else.
Nat supporters are very fond of saying "explaining is losing," while never mentioning its corollary: "lying is winning." I guess they wouldn't.
Their lying is assisted by the media. Instead of calling them out, they make headlines of them.
I read Julie Anne Genter's comments on Stuff. I think it is a mistake for a Minister to engage on another party's facebook page. Interesting concept though. Very different to me commenting on The Standard. I am a private citizen, just doing my thing for the interest of it.
I think the big issue on the EV policy will be the $3,000 impost on tradies and rural contractors utes. Though I expect that Winston Peters will fix that by having an exemption if they are primarily used in business. After that there will be no issues with the policy.
Why do you think it is a mistake?
Why do you assume that all utes will have the maximum possible fee under the current proposal?
Tradies and contractors buy their utes on the business, don’t they?
They can still choose to buy a relatively new second-hand import with a max. fee of $1,500.
I reckon the proposal leaves a lot of flexibility to the consumers, don’t you agree?
Relatively new used import utes and vans are actually kinda hard to find.
And off Wayne goes, yes or no to this Mr private citizen.
Do you condone these wilful misrepresentions made by MP's ? Yes or no ?
Sounds n smells like bullshit waynee.
Not sure the Ford Ranger, or VW Ute (the two favoured models on the Shore) are really second hand import vehicles.
Anyway the tradies I know won’t like the govt dictating their vehicle choice. I know that statement is not literally true, but you get the point. They will expect Winston to moderate the policy, at least for vehicles that have a work use. Those who buy new Rangers to tow big boats could be expected to pay.
Gonna answer my question. I'm intrigued as a lawyer what you think as these are taxpayer funded roles.
Tend to agree.. the Ford "Monster Truck" is a necessity on the Shore. The rough unsealed 4WD forestry roads there are impossible to navigate without such a vehicle.
I know that statement is not literally true, but you get the point.
I do. And fuck 'em. Any costs they incur get recovered from their customers, so why should anyone listen to their whingeing?
AND PM a 3k$ cost ove 5 years lifeish of vehicle is in the order $12 per week!!!
(Imagine the whine when fuel goes up 10c litre)
And your attitude shows why tradies and rural contractors will be looking to Winston Peters rather than the Greens for the fix.
Your attitude is typical of those in gold plated public service jobs who have zero understanding of the challenges facing small businesses. $3,000 is not an irrelevantly small amount of money for them.
It's difficult not to conclude $3000 is an irrelevantly small sum when they go for the top of the line Wildtrak and then further tart it up with stuff that actually reduces functionality like 20" wheels and a big chrome rollbar.
"Your attitude is typical of those in gold plated public service jobs who have zero understanding of the challenges facing small businesses"
I must remember to write that down in my little black book for the next time the gNats are in power and you/your colleagues decide to create another bugger's muddle like MoBIE and stuff it full of short term thinkers
Hasn't Dr Wayne spent his life working in gold plated public service jobs?
Also, maybe to old guys like him is MPs commenting on social media not a good look, but to anyone under 40 (I'm 45 so maybe anyone under 50?) commenting on social media is a pretty acceptable thing to do.
I couldn't possibly comment @ I feel love. I'm hanging out for the Gold Card in the not too distant, but @Wayne's conservatism and ideologically driven comments never seem to amaze me. He kind of reminds me of all those old radio dramas at times (like Doctor! Paul), alongside a few britiss comedy sketches. What a silly silly SILLY old duffer old boy.
You can't describe him as a ponce because that implies those 'He's a gay' connotations. Having read him on all those social media platforms as well as his spray and walk away contributions on here, the best I can come up with is that he's a self-entitled ToryBoy with a supercilious attitude aattached.
I'm sure he's a nice guy and I live in hope. Maybe he's just a 'late developer'.
Meantime I hope 'Mother' – (aka woify), makes him a nice cuppa tea and alerts him to the next media gig he's called on to do.
Edit, btw – he has his rivals – half of them are in that public service with gold-plated benefits he now seems so willing to criticise – even some heading academia (which maybe how he came – nahhhh too cruel)
ABOUT $10 pw over a 5 year life of the vehicle.!!!!!
And your attitude shows why tradies and rural contractors will be looking to Winston Peters rather than the Greens for the fix.
And here it is again: pay lip service to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing environmental damage, while firmly resisting any attempt to actually reduce them. The only people who would describe hobbling environmental policies as "fixing" them are those who believe AGW isn't happening. It would be nice if right-wingers would at least be honest about that when commenting on the subject.
I get the point, which is that when you frame it like that, it evokes a different (emotive) reaction.
I’m still not clear why you think it is a “mistake” to engage on FB. How is this different from engaging on Twitter, for example?
It seems to me that JAG is correcting the misinformation spread around with the correct info and facts. She is not engaging in debate or discussion, as far as I can tell.
After Stacey Kirk’s deplorable piece, it feels like a kneejerk reaction to me. Can National not handle facts?
This has nothing to do with economics and everything to do with ideology and demonstrates why politicians are so disdained….sadly logic will make no difference to attitudes so I suspect JAG is wasting her time and Waynes bogus argument will continue to echoed by those so inclined.
Trump although extreme is not unique