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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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I leave these here:
https://ondemand.parliament.nz/parliament-tv-on-demand/?itemId=237758
https://ondemand.parliament.nz/parliament-tv-on-demand/?itemId=237761
Know what I think about the standard of the responses but interested in the views of others. With respect to Luxon's response to James Shaw et al, he's already had to walk it back and admit he was wrong.
Casey Costello's performance was too bad to link to here.
A Minister of the Crown presents NZF Party policy to a ministry of the Crown. What next, the people who sponsored it get to sit in on the next meeting?
A Minister acts on behalf of government, and its cabinet policy is the only matter a Minister can draw to the attention of ministry.
The PM may regret use of the term arsonist, because the beehive matchstick box is gonna get lit at question time if this lack of standards is the confabulation practice.
From now on every Minister is going to get asked, whether they present their own party policy, or only that of the coalition government to their Ministry.
The public service works for government and taxpayer, not the members of political parties and their sponsors.
I couldn't get to the end of either clip.
A bit like seeing a sausage get made. We all love our democracy but that behaviour (from both sides of the house) is enough to make a vegan out of most folk.
Luxon's body language, just wanted to be anywhere else. Looked angry, floundering. Not his gig, can't see him lasting 3yrs
James Shaws' questions around fisheries to the Prime Minister in the House today revealed a very stupid man, and that man is our Prime Minister.
What appalled me is that he didn't seem to understand some of the questioning let alone able to answer them. He is reliant on his ministers to do the heavy lifting and that leaves him to float around delivering platitudes that mean precisely nothing.
I never thought I needed to hear John Williams conducting violinists Peter Schickele and Itzhak Perlman.
"At least two dozen locations around the country are headed for record or near-record hot temperature records in January."
Nah worries, mate!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350145168/nz-weather-live-warm-oceans-behind-our-hot-humid-weather
A known, those who leave prison without housing are more likely to re-offend.
Other known's
Having a job before early release allows saving money for a landlord bond. Then with a home sorted, then comes prison release (allowed out of a bracelet home arrangement during the work week till sentence is completed).
Otherwise community housing on prison release. Providers funded to provide both housing and support into work.
Going to W and I and their interface with beneficiaries, emergency housing and or Kainga Ora, – most would rather go back inside by the next winter and they did not like being there.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/work-and-incomes-lack-of-empathy-sending-people-back-to-jail-criminologist/Q5IQSYCDQZDNHFVBC3S64PJMLA/
Prisoners should have the option to work while in prison, get paid minimum wage, pay rent , get kiwisaver and build up a little leaving jail fund, must be fucking hard to reintegrate landing on the street after a year or 2 or 20 not working , ,broke and homeless,
Member of prominent family of Māori rights activists on trial, accused of child molestation . No name suppression here, but a political party figure accused of a similar crime has been suppressed for over 6 months. Why the difference?
https://x.com/feijoa_chutney/status/1752573001806348749
a pamphlet got inserted into my local free newspaper this week. "The Treaty Of Waitangi An Explanation" its called, published by the NZ Centre for Political Research. That is put together by ex ACT MP Muriel Newman, an ACTesque lobby political group. Going in the recycling as some ACT type crap. Alternate use would be as emergency toilet paper.
Did you take the trouble to read any of it, George? It's actually a reprint of a booklet written just over a century ago by Sir Apirana Ngata and translated from the original Maori by Michael Rotohiko Jones (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rotohiko_Jones for his credentials). So hardly "put together" by Ms Newman.
That said, one does have to wonder what the NZCPR is up to in distributing it like this, at no little expense. Some of Sir Apirana's views seem to me (but correct me if I'm wrong) not very acceptable in Te Ao Maori of today.