What do "transactional" and "relational" mean politically ? Shaw is dreaming if he thinks that conversations with a party that has just won a majority of seats in parliament will bring him the power that voters have just denied him. The Green Party kaupapa makes no sense to me – finite world ? Bullshit – look skywards on a clear night. "Human beings are part of the natural world" – a world where evolution by natural selection operates. And where is the "just distribution of social and natural resources" in that ? They would be more honest rebranding as the Abolish Poverty in Aotearoa Party. That's where the kaupapa really lies – take from the rich and give to the poor and sustainably enforce the taking !
Is there an endless vein of gold on the planet, Grafton Gully?
Is there no end to the fish in the sea?
Is the supply of dodo unlimited? Hang on…
Evolution has produced something remarkable; humans, capable of wresting evolution from the non-human world and shaping it how they/we will. And we are doing just that. How should we plot our path? Leave it to the soul-less corporations? Let it roll as it will? The Greens have ideas about managing human behaviour from here on in.
For the foreseeable purposes of humanity, mineral resources are not the limiting factor IF we have access to the energy to recycle what we already have.
Is there no end to the fish in the sea?
The crucial step toward decoupling human impact on the environment is to grow our own food using systems that do not rely on harvesting wild resources. In terms of fish, the solution is aquaponics.
Is the supply of dodo unlimited?
99.9% of all species that ever lived on planet Earth are extinct. Adapt or perish. This rule applies to humans as well.
Transactional would be "I want to be Minister of X, therefore I'm going to do Y deal with Labour" (i.e. there's a transaction, I guess in this case based on perceptions of leverage, in other situations it might be rhetoric around voter support eg NZF's line).
Relational would be "Labour and the Greens have a strong working relationship now, how can we work together within that relationship to advance our shared goals?"
Shaw didn't no transaction, he said it's not as transactional as people think.
Cutting edge politics (and science for that matter) recognises that the universe is held together by the relationships between people (and things). Capitalism and the patriarchy say that transaction is king (hence we have king makers in politics, those that can wield leverage and power monger). Deep green, indigenous, eco feminist etc politics say that the relationships matter more than the power over others. It's basically the position that will save the planet.
The only way that humans can make use of the material part of the universe outside of Gaia, is with Gaia's help. Finite world (Gaia) in terms of space, time, physical things and the relationships between them. There's only so much high tech metals to make space ships out of.
Two Zeds & Two Noughts, a new movie by Peter Greenaway about the death, decay, and decomposition of the National Party, the death of NZF, the rise of the monkey troupe ACT, and the lush Greens.
It's so irrational! They are claiming the rural vote knew the precise outcome of the election before it even took place. They're in full denial. Can't accept the average voter was rewarding Jacinda in particular for the way she responded to three tumultuous years and most of all for her and Dr Bloomfield's calming and competent Covid response.
I live in a National voting farming community that has shifted to Labour this election and those that did not vote Labour, voted Act. Fully agree with your comment Anne, that is exactly what I am hearing too, plus National was considered unfit to govern in these difficult times.
So to create a fair tax system we add another high earner tax bracket for those earning over $180k
yet the average house in Auckland has increased by the same value and is not taxed? More so for those who own rentals with this lotto bonus. So how is that going to help in creating a fair society ?
"Capitalism is about making sure the rich get to bludge heavily off of everyone else through owning and restricting access to what everyone needs." and doesn't a government ensure that what is needed to ensure that there is a functioning society is put in place and that there is a system to pay for this that is "FAIR" and reasonable. What is currently in place and proposed places the burden on only 1 subset. Nothing about businesses contributing yet they want a stable economic environment, educated workforce etc yet not pay for it ? or where other income is derived from to contribute ? i.e Broaden tax base ???
Why is Phil Twyford doing digital billboards thanking voters post election?
I drove through the intersection of Lincoln Rd and Universal Drive today and there's a huge billboard with Phil beaming at the poor of West Auckland from a $10-$20K billboard position thanking them for voting for him. Did he not spend all his money on the campaign itself.
He might have had a major effect in opposition and probably helped change the government more than anyone apart from Jacinda Ardern in 2017, but since then he has been terrible, and he continues to be terrible. I am not afraid to admit that.
Kiwibuild; hard to do but as Ricardo Menendez March says, much more work should have been done to make those homes accessible to working families. Much more uptake if more people were allowed to buy them.
Auckland airport rail; what a nightmare of very expensive competing reports. He seems to have no idea how to run a tender and no idea what the vision should be. Find out what you want then do the tender, not the other way round you moron.
And now he's taking out 5 figure digital billboards in order to build his personal brand on Universal Drive, the entry point to Ranui and Swanson, the very poorest parts of West Auckland.
How do you know whether a benefactor didn't pay for it? And it may be a big billboard but $10-20K? Way too high imo. As for the rest… well that is a matter of opinion. Yep, he made some bad mistakes with his rhetoric but that's the nature of the man. I'm sure he's learnt the error of his ways. Time will tell.
Sorry, Anne. I just don't think he's any good at all. 4/5ths of the pain Labour felt this last term were in his portfolios. I don't think he's up to the job and doing digital billboards promoting his own brand confirms his priorities for me.
Mickysavage will know Phil well. I wonder what he thinks…
The aim was to build 50,000 Kiwibuild houses. Annette King said no lets say 100,000 house because it had a better ring to the number. Had they just aimed to build as many houses as they could, there would be little blame and Phil would not have been hung out to dry.
Moral is to avoid numbering goals because the Opposition just uses numbers to bash the Government. (Key was much more cunning and gave no numbers about how many houses they would build, let alone admit there was a crisis. Sneaky lot!)
This is the refrain from some seasoned Standard commenters on the pain certain yachties felt, unable to moor their floating mansions in cheap NZ waters because of Covid.
Two weeks later another outbreak comes through NZ ports and shipping.
It's pretty easy to demand open access for hard done by recreational and lifestyle boaties from the comfort of suburban Brisbane, but for the people of NZ who are affected by outbreaks at the sea border it is very serious, emotionally and economically.
Bad assumption. One of us spent last night cleaning a ship hull at anchor in a 2m swell. 20hr shift buster. This vessel is heading to NZ soon, and a clean hull keeps our coastal waters free of bio-fouling pest species. Say thank you.
As for the 'floating mansion' crack, you really are an ignorant twat. Most of these boats are actually worth less than a typical Auckland house, and a good deal smaller. Life for a cruiser has it's rewards, but you work for it.
unable to moor their floating mansions in cheap NZ waters
And again the deliberate misrepresenting lie. Objectively of all the people who are arriving here already, these people who will have to do effectively two quarantines back to back, are the lowest possible risk.
As for the 'cheap anchoring' thing … the cost of anchoring really isn't the issue here.
Two weeks later another outbreak comes through NZ ports and shipping.
Yachties are in a completely different scenario to people working commercial ships which have much shorter transit times. Many of those people are working to very tough rules:
Wayne Turner is the master of Capitaine Tasman, a container ship that sails between Mount Maunganui, Auckland, Noumea, Suva and Lautoka – making a 17-day round trip.
New Zealand, Noumea and Fiji are all countries without community transmission of the virus.
Turner said effectively the crew were in constant isolation.
"You've got people that are basically in prison. They can't depart the vessel, they can't go for a walk, get fresh air, they can't get off the vessel.
"It needs to be managed so that people can have those basic human rights, provided that [they] take appropriate action, they need to be able to get off the vessel, stretch their legs, [get] fresh air, change of scene.
"Just the normal stuff you need for psychological wellbeing, it is worse than being in prison," he said.
Crew were also not allowed ashore in Fiji or Noumea, so they were trapped on board, Turner said.
"We don't get any leave at all and no visits.
"It is pretty inhumane what seafarers are having to face and for no real reason. It's a lack of understanding on the part of the powers-that-be as to the real risks that exist, which are negligible, if at all."
Turner said while crew must wear PPE gear at all times while on the deck in port and can be fined if they do not, stevedores coming on board to load or discharge cargo, do not have to.
"If I go on deck while in port in New Zealand, if Customs see me [not wearing PPE gear] I can be liable for a fine of up to $2000.''
He said all of the 18 crew, including himself, have their temperatures taken twice a day and it is logged.
"We have no contact with the external world effectively."
Turner said as a New Zealander he had been Covid tested and isolated for the past two months. He was not able to leave the ship nor visit his Mount Maunganui home, family or friends and they could not visit him.
"Home is basically 2-3 kilometres away."
'The government is just not interested'
Some other crew members have not been ashore since March.
"It's pretty inhumane to have been on board from March without having been able to step off the vessel at any stage."
Unless you've worked in these sorts of remote locations you probably won't appreciate just how difficult this is. There are tens of thousands of people working all over the globe under extraordinary pressure, just to maintain the ordinary flow of trade and goods that make your 'safe suburban life' possible.
Objectively of all the people who are arriving here already, these people who will have to do effectively two quarantines back to back, are the lowest possible risk.
And we still don't have any responsibility for them unless they're NZers. They chose the lifestyle that put them in the position that they're in knowing that it came with risk.
"It is pretty inhumane what seafarers are having to face and for no real reason. It's a lack of understanding on the part of the powers-that-be as to the real risks that exist, which are negligible, if at all."
Those negligible risks just resulted in more confirmed cases in NZ.
There are tens of thousands of people working all over the globe under extraordinary pressure, just to maintain the ordinary flow of trade and goods that make your 'safe suburban life' possible.
And that shows the problem of being trade dependent.
You don't compare the risk to NZ particularly well.
Boats typically crewed by three to six people, spending generally a month or more in isolation in transit, present a low risk of Covid.
A BATM carries a crew of around 80 people, a large enough confined population to cycle Covid in the way the cruise ships did, becoming in effect large incubators.
The slave ships are an extreme form of externalising costs, and the cost in terms of Covid risk to NZ has already proven to be much greater than would be presented by the yachts coming here.
You might wonder why such an invidious practice has continued for four decades, aided and abetted by corrupt governments instead of following NZ labour laws like any other business. I have certainly never seen a credible explanation, apart from The two most abundant materials in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. ~ Harlan Ellison. Inevitably the government is now investing in hydrogen also – fml.
An important interview with Dr Michael Baker on Radionz this morning about Covid-19 and NZ. I had to search through the audios for this, it wasn't featured above as important news.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018769516/new-covid-fears-in-auckland 19 mins Today 9.08am Sir David Skegg, is an epidemiologist at the University of Otago Medical School and former chairman of the Public Health Commission, Health Research Council and New Zealand Science Board. He's concerned at the levels of general complacency reflected at both public and government agency level.
and – Today on Morning Report at 8.15 am. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018769501/covid-19-epidemiologist-on-positive-case-s-visit-to-pub Aucklanders who were at a packed pub on Auckland's North Shore on Friday night are being told to stay home, and get a Covid-19 test as soon as possible. It has emerged that an infectious person visited the Malt pub in Greenhithe between 7.30pm and 10pm Friday night. The Ministry of Health says anyone there during this time should get tested and stay in isolation until they get a negative result.
Michael Baker is a Professor of public health and an epidemiologist.
I am convinced after listening to these professionals that the government should be making it mandatory for masks to be worn on planes and also buses, and no bloody argumentation. They are a good step to take in limiting the spread of the virus, and people have gone right away from doing anything to be precautionary. I go to the supermarket and never see blokes going near the hand sanitising machine – easy to use. But I think to most that's not a male thing – it's women who fuss about cleanliness and prissiness. So they won't do things till it is The Rule.
And these intelligent, trained, wise professionals note that the Russian seamen are being put in isolation – well pretty much isolated. Two to a room, which means the whole purpose of isolation is undermined, and in 14 days they won't be sure that the tests indicate a full clear period for the disease to show BECAUSE IT MUST BE A TIME AWAY FROM ALL OTHER PEOPLE. How does our MoH and Director allow such shoddy stuff to go on. We can only maintain our near-free status by adopting the right protocols and turn those into absolute procedures. These fishermen need to be put in separate rooms and the 14 day isolation starting again.
It was mentioned that the doubling up in the isolation hotel might have been a cost-saving measure by the fishing company. Well if our ruling is that the men should be separated completely, the company should be complying! Assert yourself NZ authorities, this is where we need that sovereignty that spineless governments have been so willing to sign away in favour of promised prosperity.
And it was reiterated that PPE – protective clothing for workers doesn't prevent disease, just provides some protection.
"Early anecdotal analysis of voting behaviour reveals that many National voters voted Labour and Greens to prevent the shambolic National Party from getting anywhere near Government."
I would imagine this would only be the first increase for this restoration. It is not the Notre Dame. We should have something more modern and innovative to meet the heartfelt needs of the 21st century but no, cling on to the old. Look up at the steeple, not down to the people.
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Te Pāti Māori are demanding the New Zealand Government support an international independent investigation into mass graves that have been uncovered at two hospitals on the Gaza strip, following weeks of assault by Israeli troops. Among the 392 bodies that have been recovered, are children and elderly civilians. Many of ...
Our two-tiered system for veterans’ support is out of step with our closest partners, and all parties in Parliament should work together to fix it, Labour veterans’ affairs spokesperson Greg O’Connor said. ...
Stripping two Ministers of their portfolios just six months into the job shows Christopher Luxon’s management style is lacking, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. ...
Tonight’s court decision to overturn the summons of the Children’s Minister has enabled the Crown to continue making decisions about Māori without evidence, says Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Children, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “The judicial system has this evening told the nation that this government can do whatever they want when ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The government's decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system, said Te Pāti Māori Justice Spokesperson, Tākuta Ferris, today. During the time Three Strikes was in place in Aotearoa, Māori and Pasifika received ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
Te Pāti Māori is disgusted at the confirmation that hundreds are set to lose their jobs at Oranga Tamariki, and the disestablishment of the Treaty Response Unit. “This act of absolute carelessness and out of touch decision making is committing tamariki to state abuse.” Said Te Pāti Māori Oranga Tamariki ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi, and Mema Paremata mō Tāmaki-Makaurau, Takutai Tarsh Kemp, will travel to the Gold Coast to strengthen ties with Māori in Australia next week (15-21 April). The visit, in the lead-up to the 9th Australian National Kapa haka Festival, will be an opportunity for both ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones today attended the official opening of Kaikohe’s new $14.7 million sports complex. “The completion of the Kaikohe Multi Sports Complex is a fantastic achievement for the Far North,” Mr Jones says. “This facility not only fulfils a long-held dream for local athletes, but also creates ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ engagements in Türkiye this week underlined the importance of diplomacy to meet growing global challenges. “Returning to the Gallipoli Peninsula to represent New Zealand at Anzac commemorations was a sombre reminder of the critical importance of diplomacy for de-escalating conflicts and easing tensions,” Mr Peters ...
Ambassador Millar, Burgemeester, Vandepitte, Excellencies, military representatives, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen – good morning and welcome to this sacred Anzac Day dawn service. It is an honour to be here on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood – a deeply ...
Distinguished guests - It is an honour to return once again to this site which, as the resting place for so many of our war-dead, has become a sacred place for generations of New Zealanders. Our presence here and at the other special spaces of Gallipoli is made ...
Mai ia tawhiti pamamao, te moana nui a Kiwa, kua tae whakaiti mai matou, ki to koutou papa whenua. No koutou te tapuwae, no matou te tapuwae, kua honoa pumautia. Ko nga toa kua hinga nei, o te Waipounamu, o te Ika a Maui, he okioki tahi me o ...
Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. “Our Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealand’s own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealand’s energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. “The report shows that New Zealand’s emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,” Mr Mitchell ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is today travelling to Europe where he’ll update the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Government’s work to restore law and order. “Attending the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva provides us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while ...
Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the world’s largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. “The reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealand’s wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
Hon Andrew Bayly, Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing At the Southland Otago Regional Engineering Collective (SOREC) Summit, 18 April, Dunedin Ngā mihi nui, Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Ko Whanganui aho Good Afternoon and thank you for inviting me to open your summit today. I am delighted ...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to bring back the Three Strikes legislation, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced today. “Our Government is committed to restoring law and order and enforcing appropriate consequences on criminals. We are making it clear that repeat serious violent or sexual offending is not ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today announced four new diplomatic appointments for New Zealand’s overseas missions. “Our diplomats have a vital role in maintaining and protecting New Zealand’s interests around the world,” Mr Peters says. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of these senior diplomats from the ...
New Zealand is contributing NZ$7 million to support communities affected by severe food insecurity and other urgent humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and Somalia, Foreign Minister Rt Hon Winston Peters announced today. “Over 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across Ethiopia, with a further 6.9 million people ...
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Paul Goldsmith is congratulating Mataaho Collective for winning the Golden Lion for best participant in the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale. "Congratulations to the Mataaho Collective for winning one of the world's most prestigious art prizes at the Venice Biennale. “It is good ...
The Government is reforming financial services to improve access to home loans and other lending, and strengthen customer protections, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly and Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced today. “Our coalition Government is committed to rebuilding the economy and making life simpler by cutting red tape. We are ...
“China remains a strong commercial opportunity for Kiwi exporters as Chinese businesses and consumers continue to value our high-quality safe produce,” Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says. Mr McClay has returned to New Zealand following visits to Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai where he met ministers, governors and mayors and engaged in trade and agricultural events with the New ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Scout is our latest Dog of the Month. This feature was offered as a reward during our What’s Eating Aotearoa PledgeMe campaign. Thank you to Scout’s human, Avril, for her support. Dog name: Scout (named after the little girl in To Kill a Mockingbird – she inherited the independent spirit ...
Megan Alatini takes us through her life in TV, including ‘terrible’ daytime TV, the class of Carol Hirschfeld and her most embarrassing TrueBliss moment. When she responded to a vague newspaper ad asking “do you have what it takes to be a popstar?” 25 years ago, Megan Alatini never guessed ...
A new exhibition in Wellington showcases the faces behind your local goods and services. Back in 1977, when I was a fine arts student at the University of Canterbury, I took a series of photographs of Christchurch shopkeepers. The photos were for a calendar – a project for my end ...
Toomaj and his resistance to tyranny through his songs have become an icon for the youth of Iran, so his sentence has hit the nation hard. Toomaj Salehi is not the first artist to pay the price for standing with the people. ...
My cousin Dylan and I spotted these big eels under the bridge that summer. We watched them lounging under the dark weed, facing into the flow of water, their mouths frozen open. Dylan and I couldn’t stop thinking about those eels. The night we went down to the creek, we ...
Newsroom, home of satire. My long-running weekly satirical series The Secret Diary has moved to Newsroom and will appear every Saturday, with Victor Billot’s wildly popular satirical Odes continuing to appear every Sunday. Diaries, Odes – while serious political columnists toil at meaningful opinions and stroke their chins to an ...
Tara Ward unravels the many nuanced layers of a cartoon about talking dogs.This is an excerpt from our weekly pop culture newsletter Rec Room. Sign up here. It’s not often an episode of a children’s cartoon has adults sobbing into their sleeves, but that’s exactly what happened this week when ...
Working as a doctor in developing countries to help communities achieve better health outcomes is nothing short of a life goal for Jessica Tater. The University of Otago medical student has her sights firmly set on joining the international humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) when she qualifies ...
There’s an island in the far reaches of Auckland’s territory, sitting off the tip of the Coromandel Peninsula, 30 minutes by air from the city or four hours on the slow boat. Aotea Great Barrier is off-grid, it has a population of fewer than a thousand people … and most ...
Asia Pacific Report An Australian author and advocate, Jim Aubrey, today led a national symbolic one minute’s silence to mark the “blood debt” owed to Papuan allies during the Second World War indigenous resistance against the invading Japanese forces. “A promise to most people is a promise,” Aubrey said in ...
Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla is ready to sail to Gaza, reports Kia Ora Gaza. All the required paperwork has been submitted to the port authority, and the cargo has been loaded and prepared for the humanitarian trip to the besieged enclave. However, organisers received word of an “administrative ...
Pacific Media Watch Palestine solidarity protesters today demonstrated at the Auckland headquarters of Television New Zealand, accusing the country’s major TV network of broadcasting “propaganda” backing Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. About 50 protesters targeted the main entrance to the TVNZ building near Sky Tower and also picketed a side ...
Opinion by Lynley Hood. Forty years on from my 1985 Fulbright Grant, my disquiet over the war in Gaza evoked some troubling questions. The answer to my first question – What is the primary purpose of the Fulbright Programme? – was on the Fulbright NZ website. It says: US Senator, ...
The ministers responsible for green-lighting major projects need to be open about potential conflicts of interest, says Transparency International. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasia Powell, Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University It has been a particularly distressing start to the year. There is little that can ease the current grief of individuals, families and communities who have needlessly lost a loved one to men’s ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Lichen, the first described example of symbiosis.AdeJ Artventure/Shutterstock Once known only to those studying biology, the word symbiosis is now widely used. Symbiosis is the intimate ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Hemsley, Head, Childhood Dementia Research Group, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University Olena Ivanova/Shutterstock “Childhood” and “dementia” are two words we wish we didn’t have to use together. But sadly, around 1,400 ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The government’s Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has just published its second report. It was set up by Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth in 2022 to provide: ...
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 The Queensland state election will be held in October. A YouGov poll for The Courier Mail, conducted April 9–17 from a sample ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amin Naeni, PhD candidate at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University There’s been much talk in recent months about what a possible second Donald Trump presidency in the United States could mean for Europe, Russia’s war in Ukraine, the ...
A brief round-up of submissions on the controversial proposed law. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. Last week, submissions on the controversial Fast-track Approvals Bill closed just hours after the government released a list of stakeholder organisations who were sent letters advising how they could ...
A poem from Robin Peace’s new collection Detritus of Empire: feather / grass / rock. Cereal giving I see a woman’s hands, see her curious hands break a stalk as she walks through the tall prairie, the savannah, the steppe, wherever it was. See her idly bite the grass that ...
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.AUCKLAND1 Hemingway’s Goblet by Dermot Ross (Mary Egan Publishing, $38)A handsomely produced (debossed cover, lovely ...
The Commissioner's decision validates the longstanding efforts of the local community and ensures that Awataha Marae will be managed to serve the needs of the local community, particularly for hosting tangihanga. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tristan Salles, Associate professor, University of Sydney Examples of Australian landscapes.Unsplash Seventy thousand years ago, the sea level was much lower than today. Australia, along with New Guinea and Tasmania, formed a connected landmass known as Sahul. Around this time – ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Felicity Castagna, Lecturer, Creative Writing, Western Sydney University Day Day Market, ParramattaPhoto: Garry Trinh I live on the edge of Parramatta, Australia’s fastest-growing city, on the kind of old-fashioned suburban street that has 1950s fibros constructed in the post-war housing boom, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Ryan, Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Waikato GettyImagesfatido/Getty Images There is an ongoing global debate over whether the high inflation seen in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic can be lowered without a recession. New Zealand is not ...
The ‘Wicked Game’ heartthrob is in his late 60s now. That didn’t stop him putting on a lively, goofy and very sparkly show. Apart from ‘Wicked Game’, which graces a sultry playlist of mine simply called 💋, my last sustained Chris Isaak listening session took place when I was about ...
Analysis - Two ministers were stripped of portfolios in a warning to Cabinet, drama broke out at the Waitangi Tribunal, and the gang patch ban bill ran into opposition. ...
Tara Ward makes an impassioned plea for some vital pop culture merch. In April 1999, I became obsessed with a new reality television show called Popstars. Every Tuesday night, five strangers transformed into music royalty before my very eyes as Joe, Keri, Carly, Erika and Megan were chosen to form ...
PNG Post-Courier In the early hours of ANZAC Day, aerial photographs captured an impressive gathering of Australians and Papua New Guineans at Isurava in the Northern (Oro) Province. The solemn dawn service yesterday was held at a site steeped in history, where some of the fiercest battles of World War ...
The PSA is shocked that Oranga Tamariki has used the cost cutting drive to downgrade its commitment to Te Ao Māori and remove many specialist Māori roles. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Kemish, Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland There can be no more powerful symbol of the relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea than the prime ministers of these neighbouring countries walking together on the ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharon Robinson, Distinguished Professor and Deputy Director of ARC Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF), University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong Andrew Netherwood Over the last 25 years, the ozone hole which forming over Antarctica each spring has started to shrink. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Viktoria Kahui, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics, University of Otago Getty Images/Amy Toensing Biodiversity is declining at rates unprecedented in human history. This suggests the ways we currently use to manage our natural environment are failing. One emerging concept focuses on ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Colin Bednall, Associate Professor in Management, Swinburne University of Technology marvent/Shutterstock Finding the best person to fill a position can be tough, from drafting a job ad to producing a shortlist of top interview candidates. Employers typically consider information from ...
Wondering where to host your next BYO? Whether its a small gathering or a massive party, we’ve got some recommendations. I was first introduced to the concept of BYOs at Dunedin’s India Gardens, a legendary but sadly defunct establishment, which purveyed enormous quantities of mango chicken to Aotearoa’s drunkest future ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julien Cooper, Honorary Lecturer, Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University Julien Cooper The hyper-arid desert of Eastern Sudan, the Atbai Desert, seems like an unlikely place to find evidence of ancient cattle herders. But in this dry environment, my new ...
The sector says it’s hopeful her replacement Paul Goldsmith will be able to throw it a lifeline, after six months with a minister deemed missing in action, writes Catherine McGregor in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign ...
The government can't just rely on axing public sector jobs and has to do more to cut spending, says the chief economist at a free market think tank. ...
Rock The Vote NZ, known for its advocacy for minor party unity and its role within the Freedoms NZ Coalition during the 2023 General Election, celebrates this merger as a strategic enhancement of its operational strength and outreach. ...
Nearly everyone has experienced the frustration of something you use breaking and being difficult or expensive to fix. Proposed legislation could change that. It’s been raining on and off all Sunday afternoon but people are lining up outside a building in a corner of Gribblehirst Park in Sandringham, Auckland. In ...
What does a forever relationship look like when you don’t believe in marriage? And how do you celebrate it? This essay is part of our Sunday Essay series, made possible thanks to the support of Creative New Zealand.I’m going to do it, right now. I’m going to say ...
The Prime Minister has committed to resuming direct flights to Thailand. But it’s not a promise he will be able to deliver on anytime soon. The post Prime Minister jumps the gun in Thailand appeared first on Newsroom. ...
It’s not that long ago Eliza McCartney was seriously wondering if the Paris Olympics would be her pole vaulting swansong. After years of being hounded by injury after injury, the Rio Olympics bronze medallist was still confident she would compete at her second Olympics in Paris in July, unless something ...
FICTION 1 Take Two by Danielle Hawkins (Allen & Unwin, $36.99) There’s commercial fiction, like this book, and then there’s quality fiction, quality writers, quality literature; the forthcoming Auckland Writers Festival is full of quality, and ReadingRoom has two tickets to give away to the following events: Paul Lynch (Dublin ...
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You can’t have missed the Gallipoli story as the movies, documentaries, essays and books capture what it was like for New Zealand troops in their eight-month campaign on the Peninsula. But this Anzac Day the Auckland War Memorial Museum has published a book that sheds light on a little-known aspect of the ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In the free-for-all between the Australian government and Big Tech boss Elon Musk this week, the government had to be on a winner. Most people would have little sympathy with Musk’s vociferous opposition to ...
Asia Pacific Report Chief Mandla Mandela, a member of the National Assembly of South Africa and Nelson Mandela’s grandson, has joined the Freedom Flotilla in istanbul as the ships prepare to sail for Gaza, reports Kia Ora Gaza. Mandela is also the ambassador for the Global Campaign to Return to ...
Pacific Media Watch Journalists who report on environmental issues are encountering growing difficulties in many parts of the world, reports Reporters Without Borders. According to the tally kept by RSF, 200 journalists have been subjected to threats and physical violence, including murder, in the past 10 years because they were ...
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards, Democracy Project (https://democracyproject.nz)Political scientist, Dr Bryce Edwards. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has surprised everyone with his ruthlessness in sacking two of his ministers from their crucial portfolios. Removing ministers for poor performance after only five months in the job just doesn’t normally happen in ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra BagzhanSadvakassov/Upsplash, CC BY-SA Australia’s inflation rate has fallen for the fifth successive quarter, and it’s now less than half of what it was back in late 2022. ...
James Shaw: "I think people think politics is more transactional than it is…"
Yes, indeed.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300138697/election-2020-will-they-wont-they-greens-insist-negotiations-still-on-with-labour
Relational 🙂
What do "transactional" and "relational" mean politically ? Shaw is dreaming if he thinks that conversations with a party that has just won a majority of seats in parliament will bring him the power that voters have just denied him. The Green Party kaupapa makes no sense to me – finite world ? Bullshit – look skywards on a clear night. "Human beings are part of the natural world" – a world where evolution by natural selection operates. And where is the "just distribution of social and natural resources" in that ? They would be more honest rebranding as the Abolish Poverty in Aotearoa Party. That's where the kaupapa really lies – take from the rich and give to the poor and sustainably enforce the taking !
Is there an endless vein of gold on the planet, Grafton Gully?
Is there no end to the fish in the sea?
Is the supply of dodo unlimited? Hang on…
Evolution has produced something remarkable; humans, capable of wresting evolution from the non-human world and shaping it how they/we will. And we are doing just that. How should we plot our path? Leave it to the soul-less corporations? Let it roll as it will? The Greens have ideas about managing human behaviour from here on in.
Is there an endless vein of gold on the planet,
For the foreseeable purposes of humanity, mineral resources are not the limiting factor IF we have access to the energy to recycle what we already have.
Is there no end to the fish in the sea?
The crucial step toward decoupling human impact on the environment is to grow our own food using systems that do not rely on harvesting wild resources. In terms of fish, the solution is aquaponics.
Is the supply of dodo unlimited?
99.9% of all species that ever lived on planet Earth are extinct. Adapt or perish. This rule applies to humans as well.
This always gives me hope.
https://youtu.be/Wy7Q6wazD_E
Transactional would be "I want to be Minister of X, therefore I'm going to do Y deal with Labour" (i.e. there's a transaction, I guess in this case based on perceptions of leverage, in other situations it might be rhetoric around voter support eg NZF's line).
Relational would be "Labour and the Greens have a strong working relationship now, how can we work together within that relationship to advance our shared goals?"
Shaw didn't no transaction, he said it's not as transactional as people think.
Cutting edge politics (and science for that matter) recognises that the universe is held together by the relationships between people (and things). Capitalism and the patriarchy say that transaction is king (hence we have king makers in politics, those that can wield leverage and power monger). Deep green, indigenous, eco feminist etc politics say that the relationships matter more than the power over others. It's basically the position that will save the planet.
The only way that humans can make use of the material part of the universe outside of Gaia, is with Gaia's help. Finite world (Gaia) in terms of space, time, physical things and the relationships between them. There's only so much high tech metals to make space ships out of.
Yeah, weka! Dialogue rather than discussion.
I like it.
Ako.
Intelligence breaks natural selection. It, quite simply, no longer applies.
Unless choice is just the next-level iteration of natural selection…
We'll soon know…
A strong Green/Labour collaborative arrangement will be a body-blow to the Right.
I'm expecting to hear yelps of pain 🙂
The effort they are putting into claiming rural votes were not a vote for Labour but a vote against the Greens is a joy to behold.
Putting words in the mouths of people who are usually loyal to them but weren't this time is quite desperate.
The awesome power of the Greens: forcing Deep Blue Farming Nats to vote Labour!
Turning the world on its head!
Go Greens!
The Greens hacked into the farmers’ hive mind. Just ask Billy.
🤣 ROFL!!!! Incognito
It took great skill, a few brave men & women, and a cunning plan involving a Trojan Cow.
While James ran a distraction.
Being Greens they could not resort to the dead cat strategy and instead used the blinding light and 5G mesmerising resonance of crystals.
2Ö2Ö – what a year!
Two Zeds & Two Noughts, a new movie by Peter Greenaway about the death, decay, and decomposition of the National Party, the death of NZF, the rise of the monkey troupe ACT, and the lush Greens.
Lmfao !!! Imagine, omg!!! Too funny.
Robert…. hahahahahaaa too true !!!
This is weird – us greenies are all cock-a-hoop! Do we know something???
It is in our grenes.
Poor Billy!
But he said this would happen!
He knew the game was rigged!
He told his people to prepare for the worst!
And so it proved to be.
It's so irrational! They are claiming the rural vote knew the precise outcome of the election before it even took place. They're in full denial. Can't accept the average voter was rewarding Jacinda in particular for the way she responded to three tumultuous years and most of all for her and Dr Bloomfield's calming and competent Covid response.
I live in a National voting farming community that has shifted to Labour this election and those that did not vote Labour, voted Act. Fully agree with your comment Anne, that is exactly what I am hearing too, plus National was considered unfit to govern in these difficult times.
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I am expecting you will be disappointed
Love it how RWNJs are suddenly flocking to Jacinda Ardern asking her to save them from the evil Greens.
So to create a fair tax system we add another high earner tax bracket for those earning over $180k
yet the average house in Auckland has increased by the same value and is not taxed? More so for those who own rentals with this lotto bonus. So how is that going to help in creating a fair society ?
Whatever makes you think that capitalism is any fair?
Capitalism is about making sure the rich get to bludge heavily off of everyone else through owning and restricting access to what everyone needs.
"Capitalism is about making sure the rich get to bludge heavily off of everyone else through owning and restricting access to what everyone needs." and doesn't a government ensure that what is needed to ensure that there is a functioning society is put in place and that there is a system to pay for this that is "FAIR" and reasonable. What is currently in place and proposed places the burden on only 1 subset. Nothing about businesses contributing yet they want a stable economic environment, educated workforce etc yet not pay for it ? or where other income is derived from to contribute ? i.e Broaden tax base ???
Why is Phil Twyford doing digital billboards thanking voters post election?
I drove through the intersection of Lincoln Rd and Universal Drive today and there's a huge billboard with Phil beaming at the poor of West Auckland from a $10-$20K billboard position thanking them for voting for him. Did he not spend all his money on the campaign itself.
He might have had a major effect in opposition and probably helped change the government more than anyone apart from Jacinda Ardern in 2017, but since then he has been terrible, and he continues to be terrible. I am not afraid to admit that.
Kiwibuild; hard to do but as Ricardo Menendez March says, much more work should have been done to make those homes accessible to working families. Much more uptake if more people were allowed to buy them.
Auckland airport rail; what a nightmare of very expensive competing reports. He seems to have no idea how to run a tender and no idea what the vision should be. Find out what you want then do the tender, not the other way round you moron.
And now he's taking out 5 figure digital billboards in order to build his personal brand on Universal Drive, the entry point to Ranui and Swanson, the very poorest parts of West Auckland.
Wanker.
How do you know whether a benefactor didn't pay for it? And it may be a big billboard but $10-20K? Way too high imo. As for the rest… well that is a matter of opinion. Yep, he made some bad mistakes with his rhetoric but that's the nature of the man. I'm sure he's learnt the error of his ways. Time will tell.
Sorry, Anne. I just don't think he's any good at all. 4/5ths of the pain Labour felt this last term were in his portfolios. I don't think he's up to the job and doing digital billboards promoting his own brand confirms his priorities for me.
Mickysavage will know Phil well. I wonder what he thinks…
The aim was to build 50,000 Kiwibuild houses. Annette King said no lets say 100,000 house because it had a better ring to the number. Had they just aimed to build as many houses as they could, there would be little blame and Phil would not have been hung out to dry.
Moral is to avoid numbering goals because the Opposition just uses numbers to bash the Government. (Key was much more cunning and gave no numbers about how many houses they would build, let alone admit there was a crisis. Sneaky lot!)
Greg O'Connor was doing the same long before the election period began. Big vanity billboard at the bottom of the Ngauranga Gorge
Nothing wrong with thanking voters. By billboard or otherwise.
How it was funded will come out int he campaign expenses, which are published and open for scrutiny.
Most MPs just get elected and fly down the next day and start the $160k salary without a word of thanks to anyone but their partners.
Todd McClay has a bill borad up in Rotorua thanking those that got him in .
Maybe they are all wankers 🙂
Somewhere, a sailor waits.
This is the refrain from some seasoned Standard commenters on the pain certain yachties felt, unable to moor their floating mansions in cheap NZ waters because of Covid.
Two weeks later another outbreak comes through NZ ports and shipping.
It's pretty easy to demand open access for hard done by recreational and lifestyle boaties from the comfort of suburban Brisbane, but for the people of NZ who are affected by outbreaks at the sea border it is very serious, emotionally and economically.
from the comfort of suburban Brisbane
Bad assumption. One of us spent last night cleaning a ship hull at anchor in a 2m swell. 20hr shift buster. This vessel is heading to NZ soon, and a clean hull keeps our coastal waters free of bio-fouling pest species. Say thank you.
As for the 'floating mansion' crack, you really are an ignorant twat. Most of these boats are actually worth less than a typical Auckland house, and a good deal smaller. Life for a cruiser has it's rewards, but you work for it.
unable to moor their floating mansions in cheap NZ waters
And again the deliberate misrepresenting lie. Objectively of all the people who are arriving here already, these people who will have to do effectively two quarantines back to back, are the lowest possible risk.
As for the 'cheap anchoring' thing … the cost of anchoring really isn't the issue here.
Two weeks later another outbreak comes through NZ ports and shipping.
Yachties are in a completely different scenario to people working commercial ships which have much shorter transit times. Many of those people are working to very tough rules:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/428037/covid-19-rules-for-ship-crew-it-s-worse-than-being-in-prison
Unless you've worked in these sorts of remote locations you probably won't appreciate just how difficult this is. There are tens of thousands of people working all over the globe under extraordinary pressure, just to maintain the ordinary flow of trade and goods that make your 'safe suburban life' possible.
And we still don't have any responsibility for them unless they're NZers. They chose the lifestyle that put them in the position that they're in knowing that it came with risk.
Those negligible risks just resulted in more confirmed cases in NZ.
And that shows the problem of being trade dependent.
You don't compare the risk to NZ particularly well.
Boats typically crewed by three to six people, spending generally a month or more in isolation in transit, present a low risk of Covid.
A BATM carries a crew of around 80 people, a large enough confined population to cycle Covid in the way the cruise ships did, becoming in effect large incubators.
The slave ships are an extreme form of externalising costs, and the cost in terms of Covid risk to NZ has already proven to be much greater than would be presented by the yachts coming here.
You might wonder why such an invidious practice has continued for four decades, aided and abetted by corrupt governments instead of following NZ labour laws like any other business. I have certainly never seen a credible explanation, apart from The two most abundant materials in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. ~ Harlan Ellison. Inevitably the government is now investing in hydrogen also – fml.
An important interview with Dr Michael Baker on Radionz this morning about Covid-19 and NZ. I had to search through the audios for this, it wasn't featured above as important news.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018769516/new-covid-fears-in-auckland 19 mins Today 9.08am
Sir David Skegg, is an epidemiologist at the University of Otago Medical School and former chairman of the Public Health Commission, Health Research Council and New Zealand Science Board.
He's concerned at the levels of general complacency reflected at both public and government agency level.
and – Today on Morning Report at 8.15 am.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018769501/covid-19-epidemiologist-on-positive-case-s-visit-to-pub
Aucklanders who were at a packed pub on Auckland's North Shore on Friday night are being told to stay home, and get a Covid-19 test as soon as possible.
It has emerged that an infectious person visited the Malt pub in Greenhithe between 7.30pm and 10pm Friday night.
The Ministry of Health says anyone there during this time should get tested and stay in isolation until they get a negative result.
Michael Baker is a Professor of public health and an epidemiologist.
I am convinced after listening to these professionals that the government should be making it mandatory for masks to be worn on planes and also buses, and no bloody argumentation. They are a good step to take in limiting the spread of the virus, and people have gone right away from doing anything to be precautionary. I go to the supermarket and never see blokes going near the hand sanitising machine – easy to use. But I think to most that's not a male thing – it's women who fuss about cleanliness and prissiness. So they won't do things till it is The Rule.
And these intelligent, trained, wise professionals note that the Russian seamen are being put in isolation – well pretty much isolated. Two to a room, which means the whole purpose of isolation is undermined, and in 14 days they won't be sure that the tests indicate a full clear period for the disease to show BECAUSE IT MUST BE A TIME AWAY FROM ALL OTHER PEOPLE. How does our MoH and Director allow such shoddy stuff to go on. We can only maintain our near-free status by adopting the right protocols and turn those into absolute procedures. These fishermen need to be put in separate rooms and the 14 day isolation starting again.
It was mentioned that the doubling up in the isolation hotel might have been a cost-saving measure by the fishing company. Well if our ruling is that the men should be separated completely, the company should be complying!
Assert yourself NZ authorities, this is where we need that sovereignty that spineless governments have been so willing to sign away in favour of promised prosperity.
And it was reiterated that PPE – protective clothing for workers doesn't prevent disease, just provides some protection.
Community case visited a pub in Greenhithe for 2 and 1/2 hours.
Doesn't look good.
Infectious Covid-19 case visited Auckland pub on Friday night
A wake up call for everyone. Use the COVID App!
Urgent Care Clinics
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"Early anecdotal analysis of voting behaviour reveals that many National voters voted Labour and Greens to prevent the shambolic National Party from getting anywhere near Government."
Hoots Robert! Perhaps some brave journalist might ask Collins if that is true?
Best comment I've read on the whole election. Cheers for the laugh!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/428917/cost-to-reinstate-christ-church-cathedral-goes-up-by-50m
I would imagine this would only be the first increase for this restoration. It is not the Notre Dame. We should have something more modern and innovative to meet the heartfelt needs of the 21st century but no, cling on to the old. Look up at the steeple, not down to the people.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/428807/building-support-for-transformational-policies-crucial-to-labour-s-vision-jessica-berentson-shaw
? What is this journo like as far as reasoned thought goes? The heading strikes a good note with me.