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The National Government’s choices have contributed to a slow-down in the building sector, as thousands of people have lost their jobs in construction. ...7 days ago
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Willie Apiata’s decision to hand over his Victoria Cross to the Minister for Veterans is a powerful and selfless act, made on behalf of all those who have served our country. ...7 days ago
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April 1 used to be a day when workers could count on a pay rise with stronger support for those doing it tough, but that’s not the case under this Government. ...1 week ago
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- Release: National failing to deliver on supermarkets
National is paying lip service to its promises to bring down the cost of living, failing to make any meaningful change in the grocery sector. ...1 week ago
- Release: Labour backs farmers’ call for better process on GE
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- Release: Kiwis lose faith in job market
Confidence in the job market has continued to drop to its lowest level in five years as more New Zealanders feel uncertain about finding work, keeping their jobs, and getting decent pay, according to the latest Westpac-McDermott Miller Employment Confidence Index. ...2 weeks ago
- Greens question Govt commitment to environmental protection with RMA reform
The Greens are calling on the Government to follow through on their vague promises of environmental protection in their Resource Management Act (RMA) reform. ...2 weeks ago
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New data shows methamphetamine use is spiralling out of control while the Government sits on its hands. ...2 weeks ago
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- Release: Govt’s continued lack of action on Gaza condemned
Hundreds more Palestinians have died in recent days as Israel’s assault on Gaza continues and humanitarian aid, including food and medicine, is blocked. ...3 weeks ago
- Release: National at sea over Defence jobs
National is looking to cut hundreds of jobs at New Zealand’s Defence Force, while at the same time it talks up plans to increase focus and spending in Defence. ...3 weeks ago
- Release: National standards returning by stealth
It’s been revealed that the Government is secretly trying to bring back a ‘one-size fits all’ standardised test – a decision that has shocked school principals. ...3 weeks ago
- Release: Kiwis still struggling as economy stumbles along
Kiwis aren’t feeling any better off despite figures showing a very slight growth in GDP in the December quarter. ...3 weeks ago
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The Government’s new planning legislation to replace the Resource Management Act will make it easier to get things done while protecting the environment, say Minister Responsible for RMA Reform Chris Bishop and Under-Secretary Simon Court. “The RMA is broken and everyone knows it. It makes it too hard to build ...2 weeks ago - New Zealand & India Comprehensive FTA consultation begins
Trade and Investment Minister Todd McClay has today launched a public consultation on New Zealand and India’s negotiations of a formal comprehensive Free Trade Agreement. “Negotiations are getting underway, and the Public’s views will better inform us in the early parts of this important negotiation,” Mr McClay says. We are ...2 weeks ago
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More than 900 thousand superannuitants and almost five thousand veterans are among the New Zealanders set to receive a significant financial boost from next week, an uplift Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says will help support them through cost-of-living challenges. “I am pleased to confirm that from 1 ...2 weeks ago
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Progressing a holistic strategy to unlock the potential of New Zealand’s geothermal resources, possibly in applications beyond energy generation, is at the centre of discussions with mana whenua at a hui in Rotorua today, Resources and Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is in the early stages ...3 weeks ago
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New annual data has exposed the staggering cost of delays previously hidden in the building consent system, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “I directed Building Consent Authorities to begin providing quarterly data last year to improve transparency, following repeated complaints from tradespeople waiting far longer than the statutory ...3 weeks ago
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http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/350943/damaged-highway-causes-major-disruption-in-wellington
“350 tonnes of rock have been dumped into the sea…”
Since yesterday? I wish all roadworks were this fast.
This is ECO MAORI link to my credit card through PayPal it is a safe transfer of DONATIONS.
I will use all donations in a honest honorably why to sue the New Zealand police force for breach my Privacy rights and Human rights.
If I get more DONATIONS than I need to sue I will start up a trust and administer it I will put up a email address for all the common unfortunate people in Atoearoa who are getting wroughted by the system. Anyone can apply for funding to sue for privacy rights and human rights breaches.
When I Win I will put the money in the Trust that I used to SUE the police and it will be used to help others.
KIA KAHA
https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/wallet/card/CC-TCLPXX8B6RJTS
What are you talking about. No offense but everyday you post gibberish across multiple pages and I’m trying to get my head around what it is you are trying to say
Muppets
That is in no way anymore enlightening. If you want donations you should be clearer about what it is people are donating to
Fish
Dude just let it go and let eco Maori do his thing
+111
I’m just really confused is all.
Just don’t. If you’re confused just scroll on past. No sense in needlessly rarking someone up that might get overly agitated.
Ok, good advice – thanks
TS’s kaupapa – the land within is made of all sorts.
John S
It is not easy to follow the drift. Facts ascertained. Eco maori is Ngati Porou on the NI East Coast and they are very interested in restoring their river the Waiapu River.
Beyond that I can’t go but note your confusion and so offer what I think is some solid fact.
It’s sort of stream of consciousness style.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiapu_River
Thanks mate – just worried that someone was soliciting for money without really making it clear what they going to be with it.
“…… sue the New Zealand police force for breach my Privacy rights and Human rights.”
There’s a hint right there John.
Sure but nonetheless kinda unclear why I’m donating funds for someone to sue the NZ Police
I think it’s aspirational. Many people could be sued if we could get round to it and some funds.
Eco Maori is not so dumb after all.
I’m just like the Rooster sign says a procasternator.
I will have to employ strategies to counter this trait I inherited from my Great Tepunas.
Ka kite ano
I have to get a new sim card so you can use that phone number to link to my credit card for Donations.
I can’t y
Use my email because the police will get it deleted I will get it sorted soon. The other link doesn’t work sorry. The sandflys are pissed they poured on the intimidation tonight people.
Ka kite ano
Good sound Rock radio station
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Inquiry announced into HRC.
I like this government a little bit. When they match this inquiry with another one into WINZ human rights abuses and another into the NZDF and Operation Burnham.
I like Andrew Little a lot. He’s prepared to tackle the hard tasks. I expect him to hold all his portfolio agencies – ie. Courts, GCSB, Justice, NZSIS, Pike Rover and Treaty Issues – to the same high level of stringent accountability.
Yes, he is my “Man of the match”. A safe pair of hands.
I still think he would’ve made a great PM.
Same…
What is it about the Minister for the Deep State that attracts you, Ed?
If they can evaluate the Human Rights Commission by their conduct of human rights, evaluate Work and Income by their take-home pay, evaluate the New Zealand Defence Forces by their capacity to defend the country, evaluate the education system by its capacity to make young people wise, confident and skilled, and evaluate District Health Boards by how well they are making actual people, they should put some real hard KRA questions in the next budget about why they can’t do what they were set up to do in the first place.
You lost me at “if”.
The western society system is made by the 00.1% for the 00.1 so they have control over the 99.9% that the way of the western society there is heaps of proff out there ECO MAORI is going to change this in Atoearoa.
Ka kite ano
I’m inclined to suppose making young people wise was never on the syllabus, it certainly doesn’t seem to have survived in tertiary.
Nice comment.
In the case of WINZ, all Labour have to do is let beneficiaries in the door, who will then hold them accountable
I can imagine a useful inquiry, harder to imagine Labour organising one.
We need truth and reconciliation.
we do.
Well, this is depressing. Straight from the Trump press core too
https://thinkprogress.org/the-new-smear-campaign-against-students-who-survived-the-parkland-massacre-b71c1e1d722c/
Stop trying to act like a leftys and using that trump link to cover your trolling neo liberal reality ECO MAORI can smell you muppet it’s not hard only neoliberals trolls have a problem with me Ana to kai
WTF?
I don’t have a problem with you – I’m just really confused by you
Look eco warrior, I’m as left as it gets and I have a problem with almost every post you put up. Your ideas ramble, you use punctuation atrociously, your grammar is awful and your spelling is worst of all.
I have some suggestions.
Think – plan – get your key idea straight – draft – check – edit – get someone else to look at it – then post. Otherwise you are just going to continue to be ignored, or worse still you’ll just piss everyone off.
Please . . . these are genuine suggestions.
For me it was asking for donations from people without clearly stating what the money would be used for. That a bit on the nose I reckon. With all due respect and without trying to be offensive
Yes Andrew is very cautious.
I know this as he attended a labour Party finger lunch in Gisborne last year.
Our local representative of our community fighting to get our Gisborne rail going again after laying waste for six years and she asked Andrew to consider re-opening the rail service again then, and he said ‘ I will go away and think about it.’
He was very strategic and did not want to be pressured to answer the question on the spot.
Natiional doesn’t even answer our calls to meet them so Andrew went up in our books there appearing to discuss the rail issue where National just ignore rail entirely and ignore our request to meet them.
I Hope the Friday release of the ‘regional economic plan being released will include the reopening of the Gisborne rail again as promised by Labour to the Gisborne folks in 2015 they said ‘when next in government we will reopen the Gisborne to Napier rail service.
Fingers crossed here.
It was the first labour Government under Michael Joseph Savage that built the rail from Wairoa to Gisborne in 1937 to 1942.
So it would be fitting to reopen this Gisborne section of the Napier to Gisborne rail again now.
Bradbury nails it.
Again.
“Are we honestly considering a blood drenched mercenary to lead the largest political party in NZ? Really?”
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2018/02/21/are-we-honestly-considering-a-blood-drenched-mercenary-to-lead-the-largest-political-party-in-nz-really/
Which led me here.
To this article.
“Why aspiring National leader Mark Mitchell’s war-for-profit past matters
To be clear, it isn’t the man that is necessarily cause for concern here. Rather, it is the relationship that Mitchell has with a highly unregulated and profit-oriented part of violent conflict that should raise concern for New Zealanders. Private military and security contractors have become a fundamental part of war. They have been instrumental in creating the increasingly murky and ethically bankrupt landscape of modern warfare. Quite apart from the absence of any real accountability for violations of human rights, the United Nations states that the use of PMSCs fundamentally threatens democracy in several ways. For instance, the use of contractors absolves nation states from their responsibilities to their own citizens around transparency and democratic control. Additionally, incentivising conflict through massive expenditure of public funds to the private sector increases the influence of private business on political choices and national policies.”
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/21-02-2018/why-aspiring-national-leader-mark-mitchells-war-for-profit-past-matters/
no, we’re not. National are (and some of the MSM).
I know we’re not.
But if he gets elected the ‘we’ Bradbury’s referring to is the New Zealand public and could vote for a mercenary.
Has he done anything illegal, has there been any investigations against him, has the UN made any moves against him?
No America has. In regard to a military contract. Taking him to court.
That comment PR is totally irrelevant to the fact of who he is and what he has done. It’s a morality issue, if you can understand that.
The problem with morality issues is where does it end? If what he did is sanctioned by governments and the UN and presumably it was then why should that ban him from office. Some would say being an unmarried mother is immoral, others would say being a former sex worker is immoral and there’s still plenty of people that wouldn’t mind homosexuality being illegal.
Is there an absolute morality? A question that has plagued philosophy since the beginning of time
Yes, I know, pesky stuff all that ‘moral shit’, and hard too. Must have been the same plonker who said “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”. Just write it in stone and hand it down for generations to obey, no more questions asked.
Bradburys own article started with in my opinion and he’s just not a credible source for anything. It then went more into Blackwater and then attempts to smear Mitchell by association. So no unless more information comes to light (from someone other than the left’s version of whaleoil) there should be no issue with Mark Mitchell running for leader
And ethics and values. Scores low across all three.
Oh, I see, it’s pretty legal …
That makes it ok then. Phew!
It’s not a bad place to start though
Singularity: where beginning and end meet and become identical. The means justify the ends and the ends justify the means. The circle is closed. Simple really.
It just isn’t worth our time talking to pr an his repulsive crew.
It’s my time and I choose the way I use it, but I do get your point and for the remainder of this evening I will try to use it wiser
Legal != Moral
He runs mercenaries which is immoral.
I would be more inclined to think that lawful=moral as opposed to legal. There’s probably a shitload of legislation that has immoral stuff in it. In fact just the way the legal system tricks people by changing the meaning of words is immoral.
We all should remember Mitchell is “friendly” with Whaleoil and Lusk. Says it all.
His comment about “Shambolic current Government” told me he is an attack dog.
Some members of caucus “Approached him 3 weeks ago”, before Bill resigned.
So, who would that group be?…. More friends of Whaleoil and Lusk?
Maybe that is why Judith is smiling. Smile on the face of the Tiger?
Good cop Bad cop maybe?
Bradbury own article started with in my opinion and he’s just not a credible source for anything. It then went more into Blackwater and then attempts to smear Mitchell by association. So no unless more information comes to light (from someone other than the left’s version of whaleoil) there should be no issue with Mark Mitchell running for leader
There is no left equivalent of whale oil.
I feel sad for you.