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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Rather than attempt to prove your income is not from illegal sources, it would be far less trouble not to declare the income at all.
Labour should just say "oh we'll do that too", coz it's all just a bit of nonsense really.
An interesting survey from the ABC here in Oz.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-30/australia-talks-annabel-crabb-where-we-want-to-move/11649754
Help! Is this what we're in for when they run out of water!!
That was my first thought !
Well it be the smart ones I would hope and us expats returning, but I do love warm/ hot weather on the other hand due to my injuries from work.
Yes surprising – 28% nz Canada 15% = 43% – 8% UK 6% USA = 57% 3% each France Italy Japan and 2% each 3 Scandinavian countries = 15% total of 72% – don't know about the rest, I should think quite a lot of don't knows.
…in the days after Scott Morrison's unscheduled victory in May, Australian traffic to the Immigration New Zealand website spiked at 10 times its usual levels. (What do we think about that? I suppose our spineless government would keep our open door to services!)
Who made Australia Talks?
Australia Talks is an ABC project, created in collaboration with data scientists and social scientists at Vox Pop Labs — the creators of Vote Compass. A panel of local academics also helped guide its creation, and the University of Melbourne is an academic partner.
ExKiwi – Can you update us in November when they bring the survey all together?
Yeah, I'll keep watching it along the way to November.
…in the days after Scott Morrison's unscheduled victory in May, Australian traffic to the Immigration New Zealand website spiked at 10 times its usual levels. (What do we think about that? I suppose our spineless government would keep our open door to services!)
I hope not for my dad's sake as he will never apply for a NZ passport until he kicks the bucket as he is a very one eyed ocker at that and I would be alright as I have dual citizenship, but I'm currently on a Oz passport atm as its cheaper than a Kiwi one and I had a few problems when I was still using my Kiwi one in the early 2000's while I was the ADF holding both an Official and a Diplomatic Australian Passport.
Russians reading the names of Stalin's victims outside the former KGB headquarters.
They'll be there awhile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21SdYGZbZMc&feature=youtu.be
October 29, on the eve of State Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., replacing each other, from year to year we read the names of people who were shot in Moscow during the years of Soviet terror on Lubyanka Square. This year the action will be held for the thirteenth time, the names on this day will sound 12 hours without stopping, but the list has unread names.
Come at any time during the day to the Solovetsky stone on Lubyanka Square and join the annual commemorative action of the International Memorial.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1910/S00113/patients-with-rare-disorders-encouraged-to-leave-nz-to-live.htm
Shouldn't something that can be cured in a young person have money spent on the treatment rather than old people and cancer sufferers having the gift of a life extension when they are going to die? Isn't there the possibility of setting a known and understandable amount of care and money fairly distributed with the emphasis on the young, and parents, and permanency and short-termism?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1910/S00369/speakers-announced-for-2019-tedxauckland-november-event.htm