Labour – clearing the decks

Written By: - Date published: 6:47 am, November 7th, 2015 - 54 comments
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Labour has positioned itself astutely in the run up to and early stages of its conference. It has tackled the difficult topic of the TPP:

Andrew Little moves to clarify Labour’s position on TPPA

Labour leader Andrew Little has moved to clarify Labour’s position on the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership (TPPA) free trade deal to prevent it overshadowing the party annual conference.

Speaking to reporters at the start of the three-day gathering in Palmerston North, Little said the text of the deal, released late on Thursday, met four of the party’s five bottom lines, but failed on the fifth – the party’s policy to ban foreign buyers of existing residential properties.
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He said if Labour won the election in 2017 it would pass legislation to implement the foreign sales ban policy. It would also try to renegotiate the deal on the foreign buyers issue, something Trade Negotiations Minister Tim Groser had indicated was possible over dairy exports.
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Little said Labour was a free trade party, but standing up for the right of Parliament to legislate in the interests of its citizens was not anti-free trade.

Although I will personally be sorry if the NZ Power policy goes, Labour seems to be ready to swallow this dead rat:

Labour leader drops party’s controversial policy

Labour leader Andrew Little has all but dumped the party’s controversial NZ Power policy. In his opening address to the party’s annual conference in Palmerston North Little said the policy, which aimed to set up a single buyer for the country’s power generation, was too complex to explain simply to voters.
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Little said the policy, which was unveiled before the last election in concert with a similar policy from the Greens, was important. There was something wrong with the power system, given rising prices and the high salaries paid to top executives in the sector. “But our answer to that has to be something we can explain simply to New Zealanders. … So we will have to revisit the NZ Power policy.”
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Little said Labour at the next election would campaign on a small number of priority issues – six at the most – not 140; a reference to Labour’s extensive platform at the last election.

Most important of all for the 2017 election, Labour is signaling (at last!) that there will be proper cooperation with The Greens this time round:

[Little] also pledged to show the voters what a Labour led coalition government would look like.”they will know what we stand for.” He said the party had good relationships with the Greens and NZ First.

Hopefully this will involve a formal agreement with The Greens. Let’s see an alternative government in waiting this time!

Is peace going to break out all over the left? Even the erratic Martyn Bradbury seems to be feeling the love.

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  1. Lanthanide 1
    7 November 2015 at 7:04 am

    The MSM coverage I have seen on Labour’s TPPA stance is that they’re confused and unwilling to commit to anything.

    Good job on focusing on only a few key policies, which is what National did and Labour under Helen with the pledge card did.

    • RedLogix 1.1
      7 November 2015 at 7:38 am

      Am I the only one thinking that if Key can sell the TPPA (in secret and 6000 pages long apparently) – and Labour feels it cannot sell something as relatively simple as NZ Power – that we have a problem Houston?

      • jenny kirk 1.1.1
        7 November 2015 at 8:08 am

        I don’t think CandyKey has been successful in “selling” the TPPA, RedLogix. Look at the numbers protesting / objecting about it. What he has done – or rather Crosby-Textor have done – is sell it to the puppets who impersonate our mainstream media.

        • RedLogix 1.1.1.1
          7 November 2015 at 8:34 am

          I realise the govt has the bully pulpit of power … which makes it easy for them. But despite the numbers protesting the TPPA I see no evidence that it has hurt Key in the polls.

          Yet a fairly straight forward policy like NZ Power is dropped because it got labelled ‘interventionist”?

          I’m not necessarily blaming Labour or the Greens for all of this – but cannot anyone else see the embarrassing imbalance here?

          • srylands 1.1.1.1.1
            7 November 2015 at 10:17 am

            “But despite the numbers protesting the TPPA I see no evidence that it has hurt Key in the polls.”

            You think?

            FFS who would have thought?

            So now what he is saying is that it is OK to break agreements with other countries? So it is fine if all the TPPA signatories legislate to over rule the bits they don’t like?

            AS for NZ Power, it was a dog. All it did was transfer massive wealth fronm taxpayers to those who bought the shares, as the prices rebounded when it was clear there would be no change of government. I made at least $800.

            I recall commentators here deriding me as the price of MRP shares tanked after the IPO. Well it worked for me. And all Labour did was rip off the workers. As usual.

            • Matthew Whitehead 1.1.1.1.1.1
              7 November 2015 at 1:42 pm

              NZ Power wasn’t a policy about tanking the sale deal. It was a signal that Labour and the Greens would commit to fixing the power market, even if it didn’t involve nationalisation.

              If they want simple, they should just commit to nationalising the power generators.

            • Tracey 1.1.1.1.1.2
              7 November 2015 at 1:59 pm

              Dont be too smug yet. Stuart nash is writing a big report on how to reduce power bills by 300 to 500 bucks pepr year.

              Some of us remember when you thought you loved in australia and gst in nz was currently 10%

              • Colonial Viper …
                7 November 2015 at 4:53 pm

                Stuart Nash is going to come up with a plan to drop electricity sector profits by $500M p.a.? Sounds like NZ’s first ISDS lawsuit under the TPP investment clause.

      • Lanthanide 1.1.2
        7 November 2015 at 8:19 am

        Key, and governments in general, get an extra level of trust by default that Labour doesn’t get.

        They talked against NZ Power by saying it was simply to sabotage the asset sales process, which hurt all NZers because we got less money for the assets, and that by interfering with the market there would be power cuts.

        All Labour can say in reply is “power will magically be cheaper but everything else will be the same”. It’s just not convincing.

        Gareth Morgan had a much simpler suggestion – charge the hydro companies for the water they use. The marginal cost of electricity will stay the same, but the government gets an extra revenue stream they can put to any use they like – which could be extra welfare specifically targeted at the poor, or put into insulation or solar power schemes etc.

        • RedLogix 1.1.2.1
          7 November 2015 at 8:35 am

          Another perfectly acceptable alternative Lanth – but ‘too hard to explain and probably interventionist’.

          • Lanthanide 1.1.2.1.1
            7 November 2015 at 11:31 am

            Don’t agree.

            “Setting up a new monosony company to buy power and sell it to the public at cheaper rates” sounds confusing and frankly impossible.

            “Putting a tax on water that only affects hydro power companies and using that revenue to fund insulation” is quite straight forward.

            • RedLogix 1.1.2.1.1.1
              7 November 2015 at 11:36 am

              Only impossible when you still believe in the neo-liberalism. That’s the point – they sold us the total lie that the God of Competition was the Only Way. There was no alternative.

              And from here it looks like Little still in his heart of hearts believes this.

              Oh and taxes can ever go down – so a tax on water – is never going to float either.

        • Ad 1.1.2.2
          7 November 2015 at 9:51 am

          Mr Morgan’s idea is very sound.

          A national water regulator that priced the use of water – for both commercial and residential use – would be a great start as well.

          LIke the Electricity Commission and its funded offshoot EECA, there would be public good water stuff funded out of it.

        • Alethios 1.1.2.3
          7 November 2015 at 9:53 am

          How about we properly charge all companies for the water they use?

          *Tip of the hat to Ad who got in there before me.

    • Sacha 1.2
      7 November 2015 at 8:42 am

      “The MSM coverage I have seen on Labour’s TPPA stance is that they’re confused and unwilling to commit to anything.”

      To be fair, that’s exactly my impression too based on reading what Little has said so far. Inability to communicate clearly is not good enough in politics, even if it’s to _mislead_ clearly like our current govt so often does.

  2. savenz 2
    7 November 2015 at 9:02 am

    I’m not sure sure how Labour can be sure that TPP does meet their bottom lines. Some of it is still secret for gods sake.

    Someone posted this yesterday about the crisis in the US. Very interesting. They also talk about how hope keeps people ‘passive’, the MSM, investigative journalists etc. Something for everyone framed in the US context. Interestingly they were saying about record levels of US unemployment which is hidden in statistics and the fear of ‘hackers’ enemy no 1 as being able to show war crimes and so forth by people in power.

    Sounds pretty similar to NZ. But do we want to get to the US situation where they are thinking 50% of people live in poverty and and another large chunk are close to it?

    Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges sits down with Ben Makuch at the Toronto VICE office to discuss what it takes to be a rebel in modern times.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUgaqJZLwOg

    • Ch-ch Chiquita 2.1
      7 November 2015 at 9:34 am

      The objections and fear from what the TPP will bring is the same in all countries that are a part of it. I heard the same things when I was in Canada recently for example. Part of me is hopeful that we will be saved by other nations that are a step ahead of us (eg Canada and its new elected government that makes noises that they are about to do things differently).
      I have recently watched an interview with Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz who also opposes the TPP. I woner if those ridiculing Prof. Kelsey will also say Prof. Stiglitz doesn’t know what he’s talking about, seeing that his prize is in economics.

  3. just saying 3
    7 November 2015 at 9:21 am

    Pathetic.

    Labour continues to earn this adjective, and it’s the kindest one I can use, frankly.

    • Draco T Bastard 3.2
      7 November 2015 at 12:18 pm

      +1

      Labour continues to follow the neo-liberal line that is destroying our society.

    • Macro 3.3
      7 November 2015 at 4:22 pm

      Yeah – Pathetic….
      I think those who think that the TPPA has something to offer this country should read Prof Jane Kelsey’s post here:
      http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1511/S00099/governments-snow-job-on-tppa-now-exposed.htm
      Labour are fools if they think the ISDS process is all sorted – there are many loop holes and fish hooks still there. As for Pharmac it still is a unclear just how much extra NZ would have to fork up.
      And as for preserving and increasing work for people in this country – well forget it! With every “free trade deal’ we sign we are just shipping more jobs off shore.
      How “Labour” after 99 years of supposedly being the workers party, can continue with this failed “economic theory” (which they forced on this country 30 years ago), and which continues to abuse the very people they are supposed to represent, I cannot understand.

  4. maui 4
    7 November 2015 at 9:36 am

    Ok that’s good, now we know for sure Labour suppprts the TPP. Good luck with trying to rework the deal.

  5. marty mars 5
    7 November 2015 at 9:47 am

    “”Our moral obligation is to do the best for New Zealanders.””

    This line seems to be a theme – I’m sure I’ve heard it before when the ‘facts’ about who buys the houses in auckland came out.

    Firstly – make it simple, short and sweet – I think Labour/Little have done that. I do have reservations around ‘moral’ a word that can mean anything. And I wonder if it just may be a little too broad – what is ‘the best’ – for instance if 4 out of the 5 bottom lines re TPPA are met – is that really ‘the best for nzers’.

    I am still struggling to see a courageous game changer – more time needed I spose…

  6. Colonial Viper 6
    7 November 2015 at 12:01 pm

    The TPPA meets 4 out of Labour’s 5 bottom lines?

    Guaranteeing profits for trans national corporations and allowing NZ to be sued fits within Labour’s “bottom lines”?

    LOL what a fucking farce.

  7. Draco T Bastard 7
    7 November 2015 at 12:16 pm

    Although I will personally be sorry if the NZ Power policy goes

    I actually wont be. Sure, it’s better than what we have now but it’s still a bad option. Far better to go for full re-nationalisation and that includes installing solar panelling on private roofs. A legal requirement for 2Kw of solar panelling installed and maintained by the state owned lines companies. Installed on an as need basis, i.e, it gets installed on the poorer houses first.

    Most important of all for the 2017 election, Labour is signaling (at last!) that there will be proper cooperation with The Greens this time round:

    They’ve been needing to do that for some time now. IMO, since the collapse of The Alliance back in 2002.

    • Macro 7.1
      7 November 2015 at 4:37 pm

      Nationalisation of all energy sources is the only way countries can have a s**t show in hell of ever rationalising and reducing our (western nations) over consumption, and exploitation of world resources and meeting the urgent need for a complete phasing out of FF’s. The “market” can never do this.
      Here in Perth I travel into the city at 150kph on an electric train past hundreds of houses all with 5 – 10kW PV panels. They were almost all installed when the then government gave a good subsidy to home owners to go solar. My daughters’ home, from 5 kW, pumps more energy into the grid than the family uses, so the Power company pays them each month. (Plenty of sunshine each day here!)
      Of course the power companies objected and now hardly a house these days is built with a solar array. and if it is its off grid. That’s the market at work!
      Perth could be totally reusable energy there is a massive potential for solar and wind with storage from hydro. They could power all their infrastructure and desalination (40% of drinking water is desalinated). It just needs the will of the people to do it.

      • Chooky 7.1.1
        7 November 2015 at 4:53 pm

        +100…re “Nationalisation of all energy sources is the only way countries can have a s**t show in hell of ever rationalising and reducing our (western nations) over consumption, and exploitation of world resources and meeting the urgent need for a complete phasing out of FF’s. The “market” can never do this…

        However Goldman Sachs which is advising Treasury would disagree

        http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11262662

        http://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/media-speeches/media/28may13

        http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/treasury-hires-goldman-sachs-run-ruler-over-kiwibank-bd-136461

        • Macro 7.1.1.1
          7 November 2015 at 10:56 pm

          Yeah … well you and I know Chooky, for this shower of rogues in “govt” at the moment it’s all about you pee in my pocket and I’ll pee in yours – nothing to do with actually managing a fair distribution of wealth.

      • Draco T Bastard 7.1.2
        7 November 2015 at 6:44 pm

        Of course the power companies objected and now hardly a house these days is built with a solar array. and if it is its off grid. That’s the market at work!

        Or, to be more precise, that’s the market being purposefully shaped to benefit a few owners at the expense of everyone else.

        • linda 7.1.2.1
          7 November 2015 at 7:33 pm

          best way to use solar is to heat the water that way you take the saving directly without any messy contracts with the power companies that move the goal posts when the masses threaten there profits
          i don’t trust that James shaw, little and labour have my vote !

          • Draco T Bastard 7.1.2.1.1
            7 November 2015 at 8:32 pm

            One of the reasons for solar power on private house and business roofs is to replace the use of fossil fuels so, no, just having a solar water heater isn’t the best option. The best option is to install both and have good regulation that prevents a few from profiting from what others do.

            • Colonial Viper 7.1.2.1.1.1
              9 November 2015 at 10:46 pm

              Solar water heating is the safest and most reliable use of solar at the moment from the standpoint of household economics. The regulation you are referring to may be a good idea but it doesn’t exist.

      • Brutus Iscariot 7.1.3
        9 November 2015 at 11:26 am

        NZ is already at 90+% renewables over the next couple of years with the latest phase out of coal plants.

        No point in duplicating infrastructure, but i would encourage solar on new builds.

  8. Joseph 8
    7 November 2015 at 3:47 pm

    Did Little actually say he’d be working with the Greens to present an alternative coalition govt to the public? Because he can’t do it on his own, and Winston won’t allow himself to be included, since he is committed to negotiating with the Nats (and likely first if they are the largest party again) and could end up going with the Nats again. It doesn’t sound like Labour has moved much at all from their disastrous 2014 position.

    • Colonial Viper 8.1
      7 November 2015 at 4:49 pm

      but are the Greens interested in working with Labour now that Labour realises it is so weak it must have their support?

      • Joseph 8.1.1
        7 November 2015 at 5:23 pm

        The Greens have been wanting Labour to catch up with reality for years. If they actually have, it can only be a good thing.

      • weka 8.1.2
        7 November 2015 at 6:11 pm

        “but are the Greens interested in working with Labour now that Labour realises it is so weak it must have their support?”

        Since the GP isn’t into macho politics I doubt that perceptions of weakness will have much bearing on it. They will work with whoever has policy in common with them.

        Besides, if Labour really do intend to work on formal relationships, that’s a strength not a weakness 😉

  9. millsy 9
    7 November 2015 at 4:43 pm

    I cannot imagine myself voting Labour now that they dropped NZ Power.

    Still, I hope they dont drop NZ Inc.

  10. infused 10
    8 November 2015 at 12:32 am

    ANTHONY R0BINS – the violinist on the deck of the titanic.

  11. millsy 11
    8 November 2015 at 8:46 am

    Sry, the only people who benefit from the current power market are the shareholders and executive.

    Meanwhile people are finding it harder and harder to pay thier power bills. And no, freezing is not a viable option. Soon people will simply just elect not to have power because they cannot afford it.

    We should have ultra cheap power.

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    This isn’t news, but the National-led coalition is mounting a sustained assault on Treaty rights and obligations. Even so, Christopher Luxon has described yesterday’s nationwide protests by Maori as “pretty unfair.” Poor thing. In the NZ Herald, Audrey Young has compiled a useful list of the many, many ways that ...
    Gordon CampbellBy lyndon
    3 days ago

  • Rising costs hit farmers hard, but  there’s more  positive news  for  them this  week 
    New Zealand’s dairy industry, the mainstay of the country’s export trade, has  been under  pressure  from rising  costs. Down on the  farm, this  has  been  hitting  hard. But there  was more positive news this week,  first   from the latest Fonterra GDT auction where  prices  rose,  and  then from  a  report ...
    Point of OrderBy tutere44
    3 days ago

  • ROB MacCULLOCH:  Newshub and NZ Herald report misleading garbage about ACT’s van Veldon not follo...
    Rob MacCulloch writes –  In their rush to discredit the new government (which our MainStream Media regard as illegitimate and having no right to enact the democratic will of voters) the NZ Herald and Newshub are arguing ACT’s Deputy Leader Brooke van Veldon is not following Treasury advice ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 days ago

  • Top 10 for Wednesday, December 6
    Even many young people who smoke support smokefree policies, fitting in with previous research showing the large majority of people who smoke regret starting and most want to quit. Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: Here’s my pick of the top 10 news and analysis links elsewhere on the morning of Wednesday, December ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    3 days ago

  • Eleven years of work.
    Well it didn’t take six months, but the leaks have begun. Yes the good ship Coalition has inadvertently released a confidential cabinet paper into the public domain, discussing their axing of Fair Pay Agreements (FPAs).Oops.Just when you were admiring how smoothly things were going for the new government, they’ve had ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    3 days ago

  • Why we're missing out on sharply lower inflation
    A wave of new and higher fees, rates and charges will ripple out over the economy in the next 18 months as mayors, councillors, heads of department and price-setters for utilities such as gas, electricity, water and parking ramp up charges. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Just when most ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    3 days ago

  • How Did We Get Here?
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    David FarrierBy David Farrier
    3 days ago

  • At a glance – Has the greenhouse effect been falsified?
    On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
    Skeptical Science
    4 days ago

  • New Zealaders  have  high expectations of  new  government:  now let’s see if it can deliver?
    The electorate has high expectations of the  new  government.  The question is: can  it  deliver?    Some  might  say  the  signs are not  promising. Protestors   are  already marching in the streets. The  new  Prime Minister has had  little experience of managing  very diverse politicians  in coalition. The economy he  ...
    Point of OrderBy tutere44
    4 days ago

  • You won't believe some of the numbers you have to pull when you're a Finance Minister
    Nicola of Marsden:Yo, normies! We will fix your cost of living worries by giving you a tax cut of 150 dollars. 150! Cash money! Vote National.Various people who can read and count:Actually that's 150 over a fortnight. Not a week, which is how you usually express these things.And actually, it looks ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    4 days ago

  • Pushback
    When this government came to power, it did so on an explicitly white supremacist platform. Undermining the Waitangi Tribunal, removing Māori representation in local government, over-riding the courts which had tried to make their foreshore and seabed legislation work, eradicating te reo from public life, and ultimately trying to repudiate ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    4 days ago

  • Defence ministerial meeting meant Collins missed the Maori Party’s mischief-making capers in Parli...
    Buzz from the Beehive Maybe this is not the best time for our Minister of Defence to have gone overseas. Not when the Maori Party is inviting (or should that be inciting?) its followers to join a revolution in a post which promoted its protest plans with a picture of ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    4 days ago

  • Threats of war have been followed by an invitation to join the revolution – now let’s see how th...
     A Maori Party post on Instagram invited party followers to ….  Tangata Whenua, Tangata Tiriti, Join the REVOLUTION! & make a stand!  Nationwide Action Day, All details in tiles swipe to see locations.  • This is our 1st hit out and tomorrow Tuesday the 5th is the opening ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    4 days ago

  • Top 10 for Tuesday, December 4
    The RBNZ governor is citing high net migration and profit-led inflation as factors in the bank’s hawkish stance. Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: Here’s my pick of the top 10 news and analysis links elsewhere on the morning of Tuesday, December 5, including:Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr says high net migration and ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    4 days ago

  • Nicola Willis' 'show me the money' moment
    Willis has accused labour of “economic vandalism’, while Robertson described her comments as a “desperate diversion from somebody who can't make their tax package add up”. There will now be an intense focus on December 20 to see whether her hyperbole is backed up by true surprises. Photo montage: Lynn ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    4 days ago

  • CRL costs money but also provides huge benefits
    The City Rail Link has been in the headlines a bit recently so I thought I’d look at some of them. First up, yesterday the NZ Herald ran this piece about the ongoing costs of the CRL. Auckland ratepayers will be saddled with an estimated bill of $220 million each ...
    Greater AucklandBy Matt L
    4 days ago

  • And I don't want the world to see us.
    Is this the most shambolic government in the history of New Zealand? Given that parliament hasn’t even opened they’ve managed quite a list of achievements to date.The Smokefree debacle trading lives for tax cuts, the Trumpian claims of bribery in the Media, an International award for indifference, and today the ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    4 days ago

  • Cooking the books
    Finance Minister Nicola Willis late yesterday stopped only slightly short of accusing her predecessor Grant Robertson of cooking the books. She complained that the Half Yearly Economic and Fiscal Update (HYEFU), due to be made public on December 20, would show “fiscal cliffs” that would amount to “billions of ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    5 days ago

  • Most people don’t realize how much progress we’ve made on climate change
    This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The year was 2015. ‘Uptown Funk’ with Bruno Mars was at the top of the music charts. Jurassic World was the most popular new movie in theaters. And decades of futility in international climate negotiations was about to come to an end in ...
    Skeptical Science
    5 days ago

  • Of Parliamentary Oaths and Clive Boonham
    As a heads-up, I am not one of those people who stay awake at night thinking about weird Culture War nonsense. At least so far as the current Maori/Constitutional arrangements go. In fact, I actually consider it the least important issue facing the day to day lives of New ...
    A Phuulish FellowBy strda221
    5 days ago

  • Bearing True Allegiance?
    Strong Words: “We do not consent, we do not surrender, we do not cede, we do not submit; we, the indigenous, are rising. We do not buy into the colonial fictions this House is built upon. Te Pāti Māori pledges allegiance to our mokopuna, our whenua, and Te Tiriti o ...
    Bowalley Road
    5 days ago

  • You cannot be serious
    Some days it feels like the only thing to say is: Seriously? No, really. Seriously?OneSomeone has used their health department access to share data about vaccinations and patients, and inform the world that New Zealanders have been dying in their hundreds of thousands from the evil vaccine. This of course is pure ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    5 days ago

  • A promise kept: govt pulls the plug on Lake Onslow scheme – but this saving of $16bn is denounced...
    Buzz from the Beehive After $21.8 million was spent on investigations, the plug has been pulled on the Lake Onslow pumped-hydro electricity scheme, The scheme –  that technically could have solved New Zealand’s looming energy shortage, according to its champions – was a key part of the defeated Labour government’s ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    5 days ago

  • CHRIS TROTTER: The Maori Party and Oath of Allegiance
    If those elected to the Māori Seats refuse to take them, then what possible reason could the country have for retaining them?   Chris Trotter writes – Christmas is fast approaching, which, as it does every year, means gearing up for an abstruse general knowledge question. “Who was ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    5 days ago

  • BRIAN EASTON:  Forward to 2017
    The coalition party agreements are mainly about returning to 2017 when National lost power. They show commonalities but also some serious divergencies. Brian Easton writes – The two coalition agreements – one National and ACT, the other National and New Zealand First – are more than policy documents. ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    5 days ago

  • Climate Change: Fossils
    When the new government promised to allow new offshore oil and gas exploration, they were warned that there would be international criticism and reputational damage. Naturally, they arrogantly denied any possibility that that would happen. And then they finally turned up at COP, to criticism from Palau, and a "fossil ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    5 days ago

  • GEOFFREY MILLER:  NZ’s foreign policy resets on AUKUS, Gaza and Ukraine
    Geoffrey Miller writes – New Zealand’s international relations are under new management. And Winston Peters, the new foreign minister, is already setting a change agenda. As expected, this includes a more pro-US positioning when it comes to the Pacific – where Peters will be picking up where he ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    5 days ago

  • Gordon Campbell on the government’s smokefree laws debacle
    The most charitable explanation for National’s behaviour over the smokefree legislation is that they have dutifully fulfilled the wishes of the Big Tobacco lobby and then cast around – incompetently, as it turns out – for excuses that might sell this health policy U-turn to the public. The less charitable ...
    Gordon CampbellBy lyndon
    5 days ago

  • Top 10 links at 10 am for Monday, December 4
    As Deb Te Kawa writes in an op-ed, the new Government seems to have immediately bought itself fights with just about everyone. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Here’s my pick of the top 10 news and analysis links elsewhere as of 10 am on Monday December 4, including:Palau’s President ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    5 days ago

  • Be Honest.
    Let’s begin today by thinking about job interviews.During my career in Software Development I must have interviewed hundreds of people, hired at least a hundred, but few stick in the memory.I remember one guy who was so laid back he was practically horizontal, leaning back in his chair until his ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    5 days ago

  • Geoffrey Miller: New Zealand’s foreign policy resets on AUKUS, Gaza and Ukraine
    New Zealand’s international relations are under new management. And Winston Peters, the new foreign minister, is already setting a change agenda. As expected, this includes a more pro-US positioning when it comes to the Pacific – where Peters will be picking up where he left off. Peters sought to align ...
    Democracy ProjectBy Geoffrey Miller
    5 days ago

  • Auckland rail tunnel the world’s most expensive
    Auckland’s city rail link is the most expensive rail project in the world per km, and the CRL boss has described the cost of infrastructure construction in Aotearoa as a crisis. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The 3.5 km City Rail Link (CRL) tunnel under Auckland’s CBD has cost ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    5 days ago

  • First big test coming
    The first big test of the new Government’s approach to Treaty matters is likely to be seen in the return of the Resource Management Act. RMA Minister Chris Bishop has confirmed that he intends to introduce legislation to repeal Labour’s recently passed Natural and Built Environments Act and its ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    6 days ago

  • The Song of Saqua: Volume III
    Time to revisit something I haven’t covered in a while: the D&D campaign, with Saqua the aquatic half-vampire. Last seen in July: https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2023/07/27/the-song-of-saqua-volume-ii/ The delay is understandable, once one realises that the interim saw our DM come down with a life-threatening medical situation. They have since survived to make ...
    A Phuulish FellowBy strda221
    6 days ago

  • Chris Bishop: Smokin’
    Yes. Correct. It was an election result. And now we are the elected government. ...
    My ThinksBy boonman
    6 days ago

  • 2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #48
    A chronological listing of news and opinion articles posted on the Skeptical Science  Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Nov 26, 2023 thru Dec 2, 2023. Story of the Week CO2 readings from Mauna Loa show failure to combat climate change Daily atmospheric carbon dioxide data from Hawaiian volcano more ...
    Skeptical Science
    6 days ago

  • Affirmative Action.
    Affirmative Action was a key theme at this election, although I don’t recall anyone using those particular words during the campaign.They’re positive words, and the way the topic was talked about was anything but. It certainly wasn’t a campaign of saying that Affirmative Action was a good thing, but that, ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    6 days ago

  • 100 days of something
    It was at the end of the Foxton straights, at the end of 1978, at 100km/h, that someone tried to grab me from behind on my Yamaha.They seemed to be yanking my backpack. My first thought was outrage. My second was: but how? Where have they come from? And my ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    6 days ago

  • Look who’s stepped up to champion Winston
    There’s no news to be gleaned from the government’s official website today  – it contains nothing more than the message about the site being under maintenance. The time this maintenance job is taking and the costs being incurred have us musing on the government’s commitment to an assault on inflation. ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    1 week ago

  • What's The Story?
    Don’t you sometimes wish they’d just tell the truth? No matter how abhorrent or ugly, just straight up tell us the truth?C’mon guys, what you’re doing is bad enough anyway, pretending you’re not is only adding insult to injury.Instead of all this bollocks about the Smokefree changes being to do ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    1 week ago

  • The longest of weeks
    Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.Friday Under New Management Week in review, quiz style1. Which of these best describes Aotearoa?a. Progressive nation, proud of its egalitarian spirit and belief in a fair go b. Best little country on the planet c. ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    1 week ago

  • Suggested sessions of EGU24 to submit abstracts to
    Like earlier this year, members from our team will be involved with next year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The conference will take place on premise in Vienna as well as online from April 14 to 19, 2024. The session catalog has been available since November 1 ...
    Skeptical Science
    1 week ago

  • Under New Management
    1. Which of these best describes Aotearoa?a. Progressive nation, proud of its egalitarian spirit and belief in a fair go b. Best little country on the planet c. Under New Management 2. Which of these best describes the 100 days of action announced this week by the new government?a. Petulantb. Simplistic and wrongheaded c. ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    1 week ago

  • While we wait patiently, our new Minister of Education is up and going with a 100-day action plan
    Sorry to say, the government’s official website is still out of action. When Point of Order paid its daily visit, the message was the same as it has been for the past week: Site under maintenance Beehive.govt.nz is currently under maintenance. We will be back shortly. Thank you for your ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    1 week ago

  • DAVID FARRAR: Hysterical bullshit
    Radio NZ reports: Te Pāti Māori’s co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer has accused the new government of “deliberate .. systemic genocide” over its policies to roll back the smokefree policy and the Māori Health Authority. The left love hysterical language. If you oppose racial quotas in laws, you are a racist. And now if you sack ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    1 week ago

  • Ministers visit Hawke’s Bay to grasp recovery needs
    Prime Minister Christopher Luxon joined Cyclone Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell and Transport and Local Government Minister Simeon Brown, to meet leaders of cyclone and flood-affected regions in the Hawke’s Bay. The visit reinforced the coalition Government’s commitment to support the region and better understand its ongoing requirements, Mr Mitchell says.  ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago

  • New Zealand condemns malicious cyber activity
    New Zealand has joined the UK and other partners in condemning malicious cyber activity conducted by the Russian Government, Minister Responsible for the Government Communications Security Bureau Judith Collins says. The statement follows the UK’s attribution today of malicious cyber activity impacting its domestic democratic institutions and processes, as well ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 day ago

  • Disestablishment of Te Pūkenga begins
    The Government has begun the process of disestablishing Te Pūkenga as part of its 100-day plan, Minister for Tertiary Education and Skills Penny Simmonds says.  “I have started putting that plan into action and have met with the chair and chief Executive of Te Pūkenga to advise them of my ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago

  • Climate Change Minister to attend COP28 in Dubai
    Climate Change Minister Simon Watts will be leaving for Dubai today to attend COP28, the 28th annual UN climate summit, this week. Simon Watts says he will push for accelerated action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement, deliver New Zealand’s national statement and connect with partner countries, private sector leaders ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago

  • New Zealand to host 2024 Pacific defence meeting
    Defence Minister Judith Collins yesterday announced New Zealand will host next year’s South Pacific Defence Ministers’ Meeting (SPDMM). “Having just returned from this year’s meeting in Nouméa, I witnessed first-hand the value of meeting with my Pacific counterparts to discuss regional security and defence matters. I welcome the opportunity to ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago

  • Study shows need to remove distractions in class
    The Government is committed to lifting school achievement in the basics and that starts with removing distractions so young people can focus on their learning, Education Minister Erica Stanford says.   The 2022 PISA results released this week found that Kiwi kids ranked 5th in the world for being distracted ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 days ago

  • Minister sets expectations of Commissioner
    Today I met with Police Commissioner Andrew Coster to set out my expectations, which he has agreed to, says Police Minister Mark Mitchell. Under section 16(1) of the Policing Act 2008, the Minister can expect the Police Commissioner to deliver on the Government’s direction and priorities, as now outlined in ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago

  • New Zealand needs a strong and stable ETS
    New Zealand needs a strong and stable Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) that is well placed for the future, after emission units failed to sell for the fourth and final auction of the year, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says.  At today’s auction, 15 million New Zealand units (NZUs) – each ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 days ago

  • PISA results show urgent need to teach the basics
    With 2022 PISA results showing a decline in achievement, Education Minister Erica Stanford is confident that the Coalition Government’s 100-day plan for education will improve outcomes for Kiwi kids.  The 2022 PISA results show a significant decline in the performance of 15-year-old students in maths compared to 2018 and confirms ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 days ago

  • Collins leaves for Pacific defence meeting
    Defence Minister Judith Collins today departed for New Caledonia to attend the 8th annual South Pacific Defence Ministers’ meeting (SPDMM). “This meeting is an excellent opportunity to meet face-to-face with my Pacific counterparts to discuss regional security matters and to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to the Pacific,” Judith Collins says. ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    5 days ago

  • Working for Families gets cost of living boost
    Putting more money in the pockets of hard-working families is a priority of this Coalition Government, starting with an increase to Working for Families, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says. “We are starting our 100-day plan with a laser focus on bringing down the cost of living, because that is what ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    5 days ago

  • Post-Cabinet press conference
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    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    5 days ago

  • Lake Onslow pumped hydro scheme scrapped
    The Government has axed the $16 billion Lake Onslow pumped hydro scheme championed by the previous government, Energy Minister Simeon Brown says. “This hugely wasteful project was pouring money down the drain at a time when we need to be reining in spending and focussing on rebuilding the economy and ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    6 days ago

  • NZ welcomes further pause in fighting in Gaza
    New Zealand welcomes the further one-day extension of the pause in fighting, which will allow the delivery of more urgently-needed humanitarian aid into Gaza and the release of more hostages, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said. “The human cost of the conflict is horrific, and New Zealand wants to see the violence ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • Condolences on passing of Henry Kissinger
    Foreign Minister Winston Peters today expressed on behalf of the New Zealand Government his condolences to the family of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who has passed away at the age of 100 at his home in Connecticut. “While opinions on his legacy are varied, Secretary Kissinger was ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • Backing our kids to learn the basics
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    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • US Business Summit Speech – Regional stability through trade
    I would like to begin by echoing the Prime Minister’s thanks to the organisers of this Summit, Fran O’Sullivan and the Auckland Business Chamber.  I want to also acknowledge the many leading exporters, sector representatives, diplomats, and other leaders we have joining us in the room. In particular, I would like ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • Keynote Address to the United States Business Summit, Auckland
    Good morning. Thank you, Rosemary, for your warm introduction, and to Fran and Simon for this opportunity to make some brief comments about New Zealand’s relationship with the United States.  This is also a chance to acknowledge my colleague, Minister for Trade Todd McClay, Ambassador Tom Udall, Secretary of Foreign ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • India New Zealand Business Council Speech, India as a Strategic Priority
    Good morning, tēnā koutou and namaskar. Many thanks, Michael, for your warm welcome. I would like to acknowledge the work of the India New Zealand Business Council in facilitating today’s event and for the Council’s broader work in supporting a coordinated approach for lifting New Zealand-India relations. I want to also ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • Coalition Government unveils 100-day plan
    Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has laid out the Coalition Government’s plan for its first 100 days from today. “The last few years have been incredibly tough for so many New Zealanders. People have put their trust in National, ACT and NZ First to steer them towards a better, more prosperous ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago

  • New Zealand welcomes European Parliament vote on the NZ-EU Free Trade Agreement
    A significant milestone in ratifying the NZ-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was reached last night, with 524 of the 705 member European Parliament voting in favour to approve the agreement. “I’m delighted to hear of the successful vote to approve the NZ-EU FTA in the European Parliament overnight. This is ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 weeks ago

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