It was certainly a smarter option than their subsidies.
As an option for oil producing nations (as per a dividend to citizens from state owned oil), its clearly under attack from the American sanctions – as is Venezuala. State oil to finance universal income or free health, education and social housing is anathema to the corporate private capital global market way.
It happen all the time. How they can get away with this bullshit is beyond me – we have so far to go in this country, so far.
A top Māori health researcher says a report on submissions to the long-awaited mental health inquiry was rewritten, renamed and cut down to half the length of the original report.
Dr Lynne Russell, who co-authored the report, says this was the inevitable ending to a process characterised by "methodological racism"…
… Positive quotes about Whānau Ora survive the chopping block though, unlike those more critical of the health sector or Government's interaction with the programme.
An anecdote about the Panel being presented with pounamu remained, but the gifter's accompanying quote was deleted, which included: "These gifts are here to remind you that it's not just the face value of something - we want the panel to be mindful of the deeper meaning of what people have said."
Instead, a separate quote was added, which read: 'Thank you for the privilege of speaking, sharing and making a stand for change."
The problems at Whale Oil yesterday were due to technical problems as they switched domains, from whaleoil.co.nz to whaleoil.net.nz (for reasons not given).
It was back working on .co.nz this morning. I suspect that they'd been using the .net.nz to do a machine transfer.
If I had to guess I'd say that they didn't move their certs across to the new site location properly, they were registered to the wrong machine.
But there are other possible reasons. They use Cloudfront as a front-end of the system, which amongst other things (most notably a system for hiding servers) is a caching system. They could have gotten caught by the caches (I know that I did when I tested with it).
But like you I hope that the liquidator does a good job at looking at the transfers of directors and 'assets' prior to and after the bankruptcy / liquidation. I'm sure that there would be considerable support for helping the creditors by raising money to shut down the disgraceful disaster that is the Whaleoil site.
Russia have already told US to keep their greedy little mitts off Venezuela, China are heavily invested in Venezuela too to the tune of $60 billion…this will not go well
I heard this morning on Radionz a USA speaker name three top Venezuelan leaders as if they were being advised, targeted, to do what the USA finds 'suitable'. And he mentioned Cuba and Russia and implied they were interfering in Venuezelan affairs and would prevent the people's voice being heard. The usual flim-flam from USA.
Looks like Audrey Young’s advertorials on behalf of the National Party are now behind the paywall at the Herald online. I imagine that’s the last anyone will hear from her now.
Here's hoping except I expect the way things in the so-called 4th Estate work these days, with a number of "journalists" pissing in each others pockets, she'll be popping up as a rent-a-voice on radio or The Nation or Q+A
Interesting if true. Real-world impact may not be that great though – because 90% of the programmers I have worked with have been Tories anyway. They thought that their ability to write code made them Randian super-heroes and that everyone else was a worthless turd who could go sleep in a Toyota Estima or die in a ditch.
Is it still that way?… Doesn't surprise me. And some/many with egos the size of a bus who're incapable of adequate testing before they put their development masterpeices into production – many of which were re-inventions of the wheel anyway (which would be ok if the intention was to make something more efficient or for changes in environmental conditions, not so much if its just to prove how clever they are)
Well I may be exaggerating just a bit for effect – and I may be a little out of touch these days… But I doubt that something that was so in your face can disappear inside a generation or two?
There's an obvious dig here about Nat supporters and their party's attitude towards other people's intellectual property rights. But I'll leave that out there for others to make.
Just after some feedback here. I've spent my life working and studying in multiple fields/disciplines and have a whole raft of degrees and certificates… and I still feel like I don't have a clue. This holds me back from publishing and helping others as I never feel I've anything (new, or complete) to offer even when streets ahead of alternate ideas or studies.
I bin my own work almost on a daily basis as being sub-par.
The more I learn the less I know. A few more degrees I'll be a complete moron.
There's a fair few intellects who post here, so may I ask:
I think you are probably a perfectionist. Please don't destroy your ideas, send them out into the ether as think points for other ideas to breed from.
Perhaps there should be an ideas-du-jour blog where people could put their wild and wacky thoughts. I once saw from a train an advertisement for Hovis Bread – What you eat today walks and talks tomorrow. That caught my imagination and has stayed in mind since 1970?
So what about someone setting up a basic blog for out-of-it ideas? Or giving the link if you know of one already.
There's certainly an element of perfectionism but I've learned there's always the next iteration of an idea and one must choose an end goal/standard. Re-iteration or re-imagination is why smart people die broke and cocksure idiots get rich making plastic dog shit and those wee umbrellas for cocktails.
Imposter syndrome certainly rang a few bells. Self-esteem seems to be out of whack for whatever reason – check.
When I can convince myself I'm capable I am, but this self-doubt stuff is crippling.
In response to KJT below re: (old guy who knew stuff) I noticed as I approached the top of some fields that everyone was basically winging it. They probably all feel like imposters except the odd chump who believes their own press (simply the worst humans). I guess I just naively hoped there was a point I'd actually connect the dots. And I also naively thought there were people who know stuff at the top.
Metaphorically I'm holding 4 aces, and I'm too scared to call it.
Now I've recognised this barrier, that's a start.
There's a fine line there, capable, yet not a blundering ass.
Interesting to know there's a label and an explanation for it. I probably shouldn't have been so flippant at 7.1. It's just that we often see very good and competent people stifled whilst the mediocre thrive. It seems to me it can be prevalent in environments that are ultra competitive filled with over-ambitious people.
I mentioned the other week somewhere on TS of a relative going through a period of 'performance anxiety' a while back (in the arts), despite receiving accolades and invites from some really accomplished people internationally, and a few of her/his colleagues had suffered the same thing at times over the years.
It's actually something that's interested me for a long time especially when one sees some of the managerial 'competence' in business and parts of our public service. (Places where parts of an organisation experience staff turnover knocking 30% for example, and where some of those 'masters of the Universe' operate).
The neo-liberal agenda has a bit to do with it (Check out this morning's 9-2-Noon on the latest TEU survey) but then so has the old Peter Principle.
Some people just give up pushing shit uphill if they don't fit that ultra-competitive, over-ambitious profile and we're often all the poorer for it
Yes, guaranteed. Because if he didn't have all the self-doubt, he wouldn't have spent his life paying attention to all the little things that could have gone better if he'd done something differently, and would never have become the guy who actually knew how everything worked and what to do.
No, there’s always that tendency within a society.
The anthropological comparative religion field has some interesting perspectives in it that relate to this type of thing.
Gender Equality in corporate leadership structures, & the corollary clearer demarcation of public and private citizen roles, would help close the ritualistic gap of modern societies in keeping those sort of intrinsic tendencies that are there sociologically, in check.
Not normal because so few people experience the problem. My take has evolved from perfectionism long ago, to (multi) skill development, then through applied focus on progressing in social contexts of choice so as to achieve stuff in the real world.
Worldly accomplishments then seemed to have only marginal utility due to the world changing, so reframing on global context & one's role within became a necessity.
Generalising in our current context, climate-changing, I suggest gearing one's time & effort into the best available options, using one's reincarnational agenda. If that comes across as too nebulous, do what your inner voice tells you. Periods of activity interspersed with time-out for reflection, or meditation.
But re knowledge vs academic learning, that's a personal thing, relative to current age. Confidence in your own ability to comprehend is all you need, seems to me. No doubt about your intelligence, so could be you doubt relevance & import of learning? If so, it's all about what you got born to achieve this lifetime, so if I were you I'd do some deep thinking about that…
tl;dr That RWNJs keep trying to cook up fake sexual assault allegations and abjectly failing shows just how hard it is to successfully pull it off. Something to keep in mind about the allegations against Kavanaugh, Assange, Weinstein, Biden et al
They have laid out some good videos/articles about our banking system and how it can be improved to stop the boom/bust (or more likely greater depression) cycle.
A Working Paper by the IMF titled The Chicago Plan Revisited – released in August 2012 provides a good background on the current system and on page 5 describes banks being able to generate their own funding as "an extraordinary privilege that is not enjoyed by any other type of business".
From the above link from A – thanks.
2012 – seven years later has that info reached any minds with ability to make change in financial dealings here? Or is Sir Grant Robertson the visualisation that our FinMin uses to fire himself up every day. For services in Not Rocking The Boat.
Netanyahu's Israel will declare an apartheid state. Will the West do nothing?
by GIDEON LEVY, Middle East Eye, 30 April 2019
The world revolves on its axis, nothing has changed, even after the recent election in Israel.
Chosen to lead Israel for the fifth time, Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to instal the most nationalist and rightist government in the country’s history – and meanwhile the world seems to proceed as usual.
For decades now, Israel has continually spat in the face of the rest of the planet – with casual disdain for international law, and with complete disregard for the explicit decisions and detailed policies adopted by global institutions and by most of the world’s national governments.
Out there in the world, however, all that spittle somehow passes for raindrops. The election came and went with no discernible effect on the blindly automatic support for Israel by European governments and, of course, by the Americans too: unconditional, without reservations, apparently unchanged. Evidently what was is what will be.
Israel, though, has changed during the course of Netanyahu’s long reign. This talented Israeli statesman is leaving his mark on the profile of his country, with deep and lasting effect – more so than anticipated or even apparent.
Yes, it’s true that leftist governments in Israel also did their utmost to preserve the Israeli occupation forever and had no intention, not for one moment, of ever bringing it to an end – but Netanyahu is taking Israel much farther afield, to places even more extreme.
He is damaging what constitutes acceptable governance within Israel’s recognised sovereign territory, even with respect to its Jewish citizens. The very face of the "only democracy in the Middle East", which has long functioned mainly to the benefit of Jewish Israelis who comprise its privileged class, is being altered now by Netanyahu and company.
Meanwhile, incredibly, the response of the world is to alter nothing in the support it has been extending to Israel during all the years of Netanyahu’s rule, as if in this latest round he were changing nothing, as if the shifting positions taken by Israel will neither augment nor diminish that support. ….
It's now the Jewish state, and has a government with policy to annex the land of Jewish settlements on the West Bank. As these settlements expand into nearby Arab village land and also multiply this will require on-going annexation on an annual basis. Thus each new land grab for settlement effectively becomes automatic annexation.
The only divergence within the coalition is over doing it this way, like salami or a sausage dog carved up one slice at a time (for right wing religious Jews from the USA to come settle), or annexing all the West Bank in one go but denying citizenship to non Jews living there.
We can now see that the term Jewish state was just a prelude to annexing West Bank land and only giving citizenship to Jews – leaving stateless Palestinians there refugees living in bantustans such as Ramallah and Jericho (they would soon be dispossessed of Hebron). The thing is this will not be enough libensraum, it is not all of eretz Israel as parts were east of the Jordan .. this story has a long way to go yet.
Blowback. The problem with lefty fascism telling people what they can and can't say / believe.
"Seriously ?????????? Might as well sack me and all the other Pacific Islands rugby players around the world because we have the same Christian beliefs ??????," Tupou posted late on Tuesday night.
They do, all the time. When they yell it out to the public.
Sometimes it hits the news, like the woman who made an AIDS joke just before getting on a plane to Africa, and in the twelve hours she was in the air it went viral and put her out of a job.
So if you're in a role that maybe requires more discretion than you can handle, use a pseudonym and keep it separate from things that identify you.
As anyone who works in the Public Service knows, they are they are there to advise the government of the day. Their personal political beliefs are not part of the deal.
But sounds like the sort of term that would be used to indoctrinate easily led paranoid Christians.
PS.
It seems the Polynesian brotherhood is trying the use a threat of taking cultural offence to prevent Australia Rugby from terminating the Folau contract.
These people should have gone into the business of dealing in drugs rather than running a flower shop and volunteering for the local Fire Brigade. I'm sure that Lees-Galloway would have been much more sympathetic if he had been in prison rather than fighting a bush fire when he applied for permanent residency.
It's got to the point where INZ (under that Ministry for Everything) should just roll the dice, OR make a decision – then do the exact opposite, OR just refer everything to the Minister or Associate Minister – both of whom have 'faith in their officials' and who are reluctant to "comment on operational matters" or "on individual cases" – except when it suits them)
They have been fighting this for seven years assisted by their local MP nick smith.
That being the case, nick smith would have been in government for five of the seven years that this couple have been trying to get residency for. What does it say about nick smiths efforts?
Did you know that 80% of firefighters are volunteers? Hundreds of whom helped fight the Pigeon Valley fire.
The couple have now been granted a two year work extension, it's better than nothing and give them the opportunity and nick smith lolz to try again to gain the couple residency.
That being the case, nick smith would have been in government for five of the seven years that this couple have been trying to get residency for. What does it say about nick smiths efforts?
My thoughts too Cinny. The opportunities to point out these hypocrisies must never be missed. This is your neck of the woods, right? Is there something going on here we're not being told? The 24 month work permit is ok, but affords zero security.
They came over to own/operate a florists, but turned out the business they purchased was near on bankrupt. Retail stores in Stoke seem to change like the wind, they never last long at all, lack of research on their part maybe, or just bloody bad luck.
He is a car sales person and his wife still runs the florist (good luck to her with that business in it's current location), and just like 80% of firefighters he is a volunteer.
Personally I don't see anything special about the case except that he was photographed fighting the fire, and with emotions running high at the time it would have been a primo opportunity for a firefighter wanting residency to put out a petition, no wonder there was such a large response.
Yes I feel sorry for them, but…..there will be many just like them, so why should they get residency and the rest be rejected. Least that's how I feel about it.
Can't even seem to find the florist shop via the goggle, the other florists appear to be owned/operated by other people. Hmmm maybe this is her shop, if it is, it’s not in Stoke, it’s in Nelson, and the location of that particular shop has bugger all parking, if any. It’s almost a stand alone store, one would have to make a special visit. I used to live in a run down old flat just behind it, many moons ago.. https://earthbloom.co.nz/pages/about-us
It is not a very well written article, but what do you expect from our newspapers today.
However it is not really clear when they were turned down for the permanent residency visa. You have to, under their category, meet targets for the business you start. Only after that target time is any decision made. From this section
"Instead of an initial aim to build the business up over three years, it took the Websters 18 months to get back to the envisaged starting point.
"We pushed really hard to meet the targets we'd given to Immigration, but in the end we were about six months short," he said.
"They had the choice of giving us an extension to see if we'd do it but they chose not to – we actually made the target six months after that but they couldn't give us the opportunity, so we appealed but they wouldn't change their mind."
Thus the earliest point at which they were turned down was either 3 years or four and a half years after they arrived. It wouldn't have gone to the Minister until after the appeal had been made. It is therefore only some time in 2016 at the earliest that it could have reached the stage of needing a Ministerial decision and it could easily be after the change of Government in 2017. It certainly wan't in 2012 that any decision could have been made to revoke a permit.
Nelson MP Nick Smith had been working with the family to address their immigration issues for several years and had written to Lees-Galloway on their behalf.
Several is more than two years.
And Dr custard is still their MP, that hasn’t changed.
I would agree with you. However I very much doubt whether the reporters on the Stuff papers are that careful in their writing. In fact I doubt they realise that fact. They don't have proofreaders any more so no one is likely to pick it up.
I honestly don't know how long it has been carrying on. It certainly isn't seven years that they have been in this position though is it?
Makes for an easy question to Barr when he is before the Senate Committee tomorrow. – so who are you going to misrepresent to us today, yourself your boss or just stick with Mueller?
Right on gabs only reason he's not in jail already for treason is because the maduro gov appears to be smart enough not to make him into a martyr but as you say the yankers might have other ideas and they must be feeling desperate by now !!
Kia Kaha to all the PEOPLE at the Guardian it was awesome finding this site 3 years ago Te kumara never tells how sweet it is. This is about my achievement with the TRUTH from the Guardian .
Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner thanks readers and supporters for making our journalism possible in spite of industry and market challenges
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Kia ora Whanau the official information act only works for the wealthy I have made many requests for information from organisations still waiting for the DATA . If you request information about yourself from any organisation in NZ by law the organisation is to give any information they hold on you this includes state organisation two Whanau . Because Eco Maori is broke ass at the minute they just fobbed me off. Ma te wa Whanau . Ka kite ano links below.
I have great insights into this human created problem we are making on Papatuanukue at the minute .
I see climate change as one of the biggest threat to our decendints having a humane HEALTHY happy future THAT IS THE REASON I HAVE BEEN GOING HARD ON THE SUBJECT.
UK Parliament declares climate change emergency
MPs have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency
Extinction Rebellion climate change protesters briefly block the road in London, on 25 April, 2019. Photo: AP / Matt Dunham
This proposal, which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who tabled the motion, said it was "a huge step forward".
Environment Secretary Michael Gove acknowledged there was a climate "emergency" but did not back Labour's demands to declare one.
The declaration of an emergency was one of the key demands put to the government by environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion, in a series of protests over recent weeks.
Protesters sit in the road in Parliament Square, in London, on 23 April, 2019, during a climate protest. Photo: AP /Matt Dunham
Addressing climate protesters from the top of a fire engine in Parliament Square earlier, Mr Corbyn said: "This can set off a wave of action from parliaments and governments around the globe Ka pai Kia kaha Extinction Rebellion. Ka kite ano links below
I think that our government is trying it best to fix the mess our education sector is in at the minute .
I said it this morning Lundy shouldn't be allowed to waste more tax payer's money on his lies.
Its good that over sea property buyers been shut out of our property market its correcting the market localss will have more affordable housing.
Artificial killing machines should be banned it's is a very serious issue that is part of the reasons why I say Artifical Intelligents is number 2 on the biggest threat to humanity serviving .
I agree with William Jackson opinion has paula dune any positive mahi for Maori big NO on that question she was putting the boot in 3 years ago go figure now they want to be MAORI I wonder WHY .
Julian did the 99.9 % of people a good service showing that most government CHEAT.
Barr is trumps PUPPET.
Life is finally balanced hippos are part of the AWA /Rivers ecosystem when the balance is changed less hippos other creatures suffer humans are part of the ecosystem if we keep sending creatures into Extinction it will be at our DEMISE.
I agree digital self-harming is a child that is not happy .
I like Peters views but Christian well just the way you describe The issues of Maori family violence show you think Maori are second class people. People like you are to stupid to workout your stupid I can tell the way you think about a subject by the way you describe The issues about the subject and the symptoms . You people born with a silver spoon in your mouth think the system has served me fine its perfect it's those – – – – Maori. The tx books of the Papatuanukue point out the fact about povertys effects on people and it ain't GOOD but people like you chose to pick the data that suits your views on reality in your glass house.
We have had family violence issues for generations instead of fixing the poverty issues that will mean transferring wealth from the very wealth to the poor they dream up antismacking bill this is a cheap fix but no family violence is still bad in Atoearoa and now we have a lot of the younger generations who don't no how to show or be respectful .
Its a fact if tangata whenua did not have OUR whenua stolen from us well we would not be highest in the bad state of Atoearoa we would have the best housing and living standards in Aotearoa
Science of the western world need to listen to indigenous culture knowledge on our history and how long we have been in the country I see ignoring our knowledge as part of the ART of Suppression Kia kaha to our Tangata whenua Australia cousin.
The western world is just catching up to what we know
It is what we have been trying to tell scientists for years.
Our knowledge of how long we have existed on this continent can easily be found in the stories that we have passed on from generation to generation. These stories talk about seas rising, landscapes changing and species existing. These stories are told to us throughout our lives and remembered from a young age. They even hold answers to questions such as whether we lived alongside and interacted with megafauna.
Our histories are well-known and trusted by us.
In November 2016,Naturepublished a paper that rewrote history. The place of interest was Warratyi rock shelter. The study proved that humans were occupying arid Australia 49,000 years ago, which at this time was 10,000 years earlier than what was previously reported.
This study also presented evidence of the earliest-known use of ochre in Australia and Southeast Asia. This was coupled with gypsum, bone tools, hafted tools and backed artefacts 10,000 years earlier than anywhere else in the world.
Fire, water and astronomy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture comes to life in the classroom.
Warratyi is located in Adnyamathanha country, my country. As an archaeology student at the time, these dates were amazing to hear. If you were to tell anyone from my community that their history extends back 49,000 years, they probably would not be that amazed. Because it would not be news to them
Indigenous people want our heritage on country and we want it kept safe from destruction
We are well aware that the world does not value Indigenous knowledge to the extent that it should. We know that scientific knowledge will always be viewed as superior Ka kite ano
Links below P.S Maori time in Aotearoa has been underestimate by 1000s of years .
Its good to see the progress on the Pike River mine reentry is close to being wound up .
Everyone is voicing my views on the rugby player te pohatu radio station
Condolences to Peter mahaues whanau Chewbacko was a great part of the classic Star Wars I'm a big trekkie sci-fi fan.
The Jewish holocaust should never be allowed to be forgotten but at the same time millions of coloured people have been killed at the same time.??????.
Sharlets Web is the first story I remember reading as a child.
The way I see it whanau is Tangata Whenua O Atoearoa have a huge opertunity to make billions from Organic farming a lot of OUR whenua that we still have control of has not had any chemical poured on them for decades because of this FACT it should be quite easy to get organically certified to get the big money growing organic food.
Also my opinion on the poison they use to grow and preserve our food its like this they say a animal can handle so much of a % of the shit in their system before the shit hits the fan you get crook. sugar included . What I getting at is a liveing things can handle so much stress and when there is a level reached you get sick get cancer.
The more bad chemicals that are in your system the faster you will get sick so the less you expose the tamariki to these chemicals the less chemicals are in their system lowers dramatically the chances of catching cancer or getting sick.
ORGANIC FARMING IS THE FUTURE
The problem goes beyond New Zealand's shores. There is a shortage of organic farmers globally. For a farming system that has high environmental, animal welfare and food safety standards, as well as providing food free from chemical residues, you have to wonder why.
"Organics is all about biodiversity, all about carbon sequestration, taking the energy that's on the farm and keeping it there. One of the fantastic things about organics is that its based on science, it's based on physics really, keeping energy in a loop," Nordeng said
Whanau you don't have to be a ROCKET SCIENTIST to figure out human caused climate change and global warming is a FACT you just have to read the newspaper and website to find that fact out.
But you have to be REAL THICK to be a climate change DENIER.
CNN) — The strongest tropical cyclone to hit India in 20 years made landfall Friday, killing seven people and lashing the country's east coast with ferocious winds and torrential downpours.
Tropical Cyclone Fani struck near the city of Puri, in Odisha state, as the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane — packing sustained winds of 240 kilometers per hour (150 miles per hour). The storm is expected to weaken as it moves toward Kolkata, one of India's most populous cities, and Bangladesh.
The seven people who died in Odisha were killed by falling trees and collapsed walls, police spokesman Sanjeev Panda said
The loss of biodiversity and environment is the biggest threat to humanity
The 1,800-page study will show people living today, as well as wildlife and future generations, are at risk unless urgent action is taken to reverse the loss of plants, insects and other creatures on which humanity depends for food, pollination, clean water and a stable climate.
The final wording of the summary for policymakers is being finalised in Paris by a gathering of experts and government representatives before the launch on Monday, but the overall message is already clear, according to Robert Watson, the chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
“There is no question we are losing biodiversity at a truly unsustainable rate that will affect human wellbeing both for current and future generations,” he said. “We are in trouble if we don’t act, but there are a range of actions that can be taken to protect nature and meet human goals for health and development
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Buzz from the Beehive Local Water Done Well – let’s be blunt – is a silly name, but the first big initiative to put it into practice has gone done well. This success is reflected in the headline on an RNZ report:District mayors welcome Auckland’s new water deal with ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate ConnectionsA farmworker cleans the solar panels of a solar water pump in the village of Jagadhri, Haryana Country, India. (Photo credit: Prashanth Vishwanathan/ IWMI) Decisions made in India over the next few years will play a key role in global ...
Lindsay Mitchell writes – The Children’s Minister, Karen Chhour, intends to repeal Section 7AA from the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 because it creates conflict between claimed Crown Treaty obligations and the child’s best interests. In her words, “Oranga Tamariki’s governing principles and its act should be colour ...
Geoffrey Miller writes – The gloves are off. That might seem to be the undertone of surprisingly tough talk from New Zealand’s foreign and trade ministers. Winston Peters, the foreign minister, may be facing legal action after making allegations about former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr on Radio New Zealand. ...
Brian Easton writes – This is about the time that the Treasury will be locking up its economic forecasts to be published in the 2024 Budget Economic and Fiscal Update (BEFU) on budget day, 30 May. I am not privy to what they will be (I will report on them ...
TL;DR:Winston Peters is reported to have won a budget increase for MFAT. David Seymour wanted his Ministry of Regulation to be three times bigger than the Productivity Commission. Simeon Brown is appointing a Crown Monitor to Watercare to protect the Claytons Crown Guarantee he had to give ratings agencies ...
The gloves are off. That might seem to be the undertone of surprisingly tough talk from New Zealand’s foreign and trade ministers. Winston Peters, the foreign minister, may be facing legal action after making allegations about former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr on Radio New Zealand. Carr had made highly ...
I could be a florist'Round the corner from Rye LaneI'll be giving daisies to craziesBut, baby, I'll wrap you up real safe Oh, I can give you flowers At the end of every dayFor the center of your table, a rainbowIn case you have people 'round to stay Depending on ...
TL;DR: The six key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to May 12 include:PM Christopher Luxon is scheduled to hold a post-Cabinet news conference at 4 pm today. Finance Minister Nicola Willis will give a pre-budget speech on Thursday.Parliament sits from Question Time at 2pm on ...
The price of the foreign affairs “reset” is now becoming apparent, with Defence set to get a funding boost in the Budget. Finance Minister Nicola Willis has confirmed that it will be one of the few votes, apart from Health and Education and possibly Police, which will get an increase ...
A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 28, 2024 thru Sat, May 4, 2024. Story of the week "It’s straight out of Big Tobacco’s playbook. In fact, research by John Cook and his colleagues ...
Yesterday I received come lovely feedback following my Star Wars themed newsletter. A few people mentioned they’d enjoyed reading the personal part at the beginning.I often begin newsletters with some memories, or general thoughts, before commencing the main topic. This hopefully sets the mood and provides some context in which ...
April 30 was going to be the day we’d be calling Mum from London to wish her a happy birthday. Then it became the day we would be going to St. Paul's at Evensong to remember her. The aim of the cathedral builders was to find a way to make their ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – Can’t remember the last book by a Kiwi author you read? Think the NZ government should spend less on the arts in favor of helping the homeless? If so, as far as Newsroom is concerned, you probably deserve to be called a cultural ignoramus ...
Eric Crampton writes – Grudges are bad. Better to move on. But it can be fun to keep a couple of really trivial ones, so you’re not tempted to have other ones. For example, because of the rootkit fiasco of 2005, no Sony products in our household. ...
A new report warns an estimated third of the adult population have unmet need for health care.Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāHere’s the six key things I learned about Aotaroa’s political economy this week around housing, climate and poverty:Politics - Three opinion polls confirmed support for PM Christopher Luxon ...
Today is May the fourth. Which was just a regular day when my mother took me to see the newly released Star Wars at the Odeon in Rotorua. The queue was right around the corner. Some years later this day became known as Star Wars Day, the date being a ...
Buzz from the Beehive Much more media attention is being paid to something Winston Peters said about former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr than to a speech he delivered to the New Zealand China Council. One word is missing from the speech: AUKUS. But AUKUS loomed large in his considerations ...
Is the economy in another long stagnation? If so, why?This is about the time that the Treasury will be locking up its economic forecasts to be published in the 2024 Budget Economic and Fiscal Update (BEFU) on budget day, 30 May. I am not privy to what they will be ...
The annual list of who's been bribing our politicians is out, and journalists will no doubt be poring over it to find the juiciest and dirtiest bribes. The government's fast-track invite list is likely to be a particular focus, and we already know of one company on the list which ...
In the weeks after the October 7 Hamas attacks on Southern Israel I wrote about the possible 2nd, 3rd and even 4th order effects of the conflict. These included new fronts being opened in the West Bank (with Hamas), Golan … Continue reading → ...
Peter Dunne writes – It is one of the oldest truisms that there is never a good time for MPs to get a pay rise. This week’s announcement of pay raises of around 2.8% backdated to last October could hardly have come at a worse time, with the ...
David Farrar writes – Newshub reports: Newshub can reveal a fresh allegation of intimidation against Green MP Julie-Anne Genter. Genter is subject to a disciplinary process for aggressively waving a book in the face of National Minister Matt Doocey in the House – but it’s not the first time ...
The Treasury has published a paper today on the global productivity slowdown and how it is playing out in New Zealand: The productivity slowdown: implications for the Treasury’s forecasts and projections. The Treasury Paper examines recent trends in productivity and the potential drivers of the slowdown. Productivity for the whole economy ...
Winston Peters’ comments about former Australian foreign minister look set to be an ongoing headache for both him and Luxon. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for subscribers features co-hosts and , along with regular guests on Gaza and ...
These puppet strings don't pull themselvesYou're thinking thoughts from someone elseHow much time do you think you have?Are you prepared for what comes next?The debating chamber can be a trying place for an opposition MP. What with the person in charge, the speaker, typically being an MP from the governing ...
The land around Lyme Regis, where Meryl Streep once stood, in a hood, on the Cobb, is falling into the sea.MerylThe land around Lyme Regis, around the Cobb that made it rich, has always been falling slowly but surely into the sea. Read more ...
Buzz from the Beehive Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters was bound to win headlines when he set out his thinking about AUKUS in his speech to the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. The headlines became bigger when – during an interview on RNZ’s Morning Report today – he criticised ...
The Post reports on how the government is refusing to release its advice on its corrupt Muldoonist fast-track law, instead using the "soon to be publicly available" refusal ground to hide it until after select committee submissions on the bill have closed. Fast-track Minister Chris Bishop's excuse? “It's not ...
As pressure on it grows, the livestock industry’s approach to the transition to Net Zero is increasingly being compared to that of fossil fuel interests. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / Getty ImagesTL;DR: Here’s the top five news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above ...
The New Zealand Herald reports – Stats NZ has offered a voluntary redundancy scheme to all of its workers as a way to give staff some control over their “future” amidst widespread job losses in the public sector. In an update to staff this morning, seen by the Herald, Statistics New Zealand ...
On Werewolf/Scoop, I usually do two long form political columns a week. From now on, there will be an extra column each week about music and movies. But first, some late-breaking political events:The rise in unemployment numbers for the March quarter was bigger than expected – and especially sharp ...
David Farrar writes – The Herald reports: TVNZ says it is dealing with about 50 formal complaints over its coverage of the latest 1News-Verian political poll, with some viewers – as well as the Prime Minister and a former senior Labour MP – critical of the tone of the 6pm report. ...
Muriel Newman writes – When Meridian Energy was seeking resource consents for a West Coast hydro dam proposal in 2010, local Maori “strenuously” objected, claiming their mana was inextricably linked to ‘their’ river and could be damaged. After receiving a financial payment from the company, however, the Ngai Tahu ...
Alwyn Poole writes – “An SEP,’ he said, ‘is something that we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that it’s somebody else’s problem. That’s what SEP means. Somebody Else’s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it’s like a ...
Our trust in our political institutions is fast eroding, according to a Maxim Institute discussion paper, Shaky Foundations: Why our democracy needs trust. The paper – released today – raises concerns about declining trust in New Zealand’s political institutions and democratic processes, and the role that the overuse of Parliamentary urgency ...
This article was prepared for publication yesterday. More ministerial announcements have been posted on the government’s official website since it was written. We will report on these later today …. Buzz from the BeehiveThere we were, thinking the environment is in trouble, when along came Jones. Shane Jones. ...
New Zealand now has the fourth most depressed construction sector in the world behind China, Qatar and Hong Kong. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 8:46am on Thursday, May 2:The Lead: ...
Hi,I am just going to state something very obvious: American police are fucking crazy.That was a photo gracing the New York Times this morning, showing New York City police “entering Columbia University last night after receiving a request from the school.”Apparently in America, protesting the deaths of tens of thousands ...
Winston Peters’ much anticipated foreign policy speech last night was a work of two halves. Much of it was a standard “boilerplate” Foreign Ministry overview of the state of the world. There was some hardening up of rhetoric with talk of “benign” becoming “malign” and old truths giving way to ...
Graham Adams assesses the fallout of the Cass Review — The press release last Thursday from the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls didn’t make the mainstream news in New Zealand but it really should have. The startling title of Reem Alsalem’s statement — “Implementation of ‘Cass ...
This open-for-business, under-new-management cliché-pockmarked government of Christopher Luxon is not the thing of beauty he imagines it to be. It is not the powerful expression of the will of the people that he asserts it to be. It is not a soaring eagle, it is a malodorous vulture. This newest poll should make ...
The latest labour market statistics, showing a rise in unemployment. There are now 134,000 unemployed - 14,000 more than when the National government took office. Which is I guess what happens when the Reserve Bank causes a recession in an effort to Keep Wages Low. The previous government saw a ...
Three opinion polls have been released in the last two days, all showing that the new government is failing to hold their popular support. The usual honeymoon experienced during the first year of a first term government is entirely absent. The political mood is still gloomy and discontented, mainly due ...
National's Finance Minister once met a poor person.A scornful interview with National's finance guru who knows next to nothing about economics or people.There might have been something a bit familiar if that was the headline I’d gone with today. It would of course have been in tribute to the article ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – Throughout the pandemic, the new Vice-Chancellor-of-Otago-University-on-$629,000 per annum-Can-you-believe-it-and-Former-Finance-Minister Grant Robertson repeated the mantra over and over that he saved “lives and livelihoods”.As we update how this claim is faring over the course of time, the facts are increasingly speaking differently. NZ ...
Chris Trotter writes – IT’S A COMMONPLACE of political speeches, especially those delivered in acknowledgement of electoral victory: “We’ll govern for all New Zealanders.” On the face of it, the pledge is a strange one. Why would any political leader govern in ways that advantaged the huge ...
Bryce Edwards writes – The list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill ...
TL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 10:06am on Wednesday, May 1:The Lead: Business confidence fell across the board in April, falling in some areas to levels last seen during the lockdowns because of a collapse in ...
Over the past 36 hours, Christopher Luxon has been dong his best to portray the centre-right’s plummeting poll numbers as a mark of virtue. Allegedly, the negative verdicts are the result of hard economic times, and of a government bravely set out on a perilous rescue mission from which not ...
Green Party MP Hūhana Lyndon says her Public Works (Prohibition of Compulsory Acquisition of Māori Land) Amendment Bill is an opportunity to right some past wrongs around the alienation of Māori land. ...
A senior, highly respected King’s Counsel with decades of experience in our law courts, Gary Judd KC, has filed a complaint about compulsory tikanga Māori studies for law students - highlighting the utter depths of absurdity this woke cultural madness has taken our society. The tikanga regulations will compel law ...
The Government needs to be clear with the people of the Nelson Marlborough region about the changes it is considering for the Nelson Hospital rebuild, Labour health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall said. ...
Ministers must front up about which projects it will push through under its Fast Track Approvals legislation, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
The Government is again adding to New Zealand’s growing unemployment, this time cutting jobs at the agencies responsible for urban development and growing much needed housing stock. ...
With Minister Karen Chhour indicating in the House today that she either doesn’t know or care about the frontline cuts she’s making to Oranga Tamariki, we risk seeing more and more of our children falling through the cracks. ...
The Labour Party is saddened to learn of the death of Sir Robert Martin, a globally renowned disability advocate who led the way for disability rights both in New Zealand and internationally. ...
Labour is calling for the Government to urgently rethink its coalition commitment to restart live animal exports, Labour animal welfare spokesperson Rachel Boyack said. ...
Today’s Financial Stability Report has once again highlighted that poverty and deep inequality are political choices - and this Government is choosing to make them worse. ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to do more for our households in most need as unemployment rises and the cost of living crisis endures. ...
Unemployment is on the rise and it’s only going to get worse under this Government, Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds said. Stats NZ figures show the unemployment rate grew to 4.3 percent in the March quarter from 4 percent in the December quarter. “This is the second rise in unemployment ...
The New Zealand Labour Party welcomes the entering into force of the European Union and New Zealand free trade agreement. This agreement opens the door for a huge increase in trade opportunities with a market of 450 million people who are high value discerning consumers of New Zealand goods and ...
The National-led Government continues its fiscal jiggery pokery with its Pharmac announcement today, Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall says. “The government has increased Pharmac funding but conceded it will only make minimal increases in access to medicine”, said Ayesha Verrall “This is far from the bold promises made to fund ...
This afternoon’s interim Waitangi Tribunal report must be taken seriously as it affects our most vulnerable children, Labour children’s spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime. ...
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. ...
It is a pleasure to be speaking to you as the Minister for Digitising Government. I would like to thank Akolade for the invitation to address this Summit, and to acknowledge the great effort you are making to grow New Zealand’s digital future. Today, we stand at the cusp of ...
New Zealand is urging both Israel and Hamas to agree to an immediate ceasefire to avoid the further humanitarian catastrophe that military action in Rafah would unleash, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “The immense suffering in Gaza cannot be allowed to worsen further. Both sides have a responsibility to ...
A new online data dashboard released today as part of the Government’s school attendance action plan makes more timely daily attendance data available to the public and parents, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. The interactive dashboard will be updated once a week to show a national average of how ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced Rosemary Banks will be New Zealand’s next Ambassador to the United States of America. “Our relationship with the United States is crucial for New Zealand in strategic, security and economic terms,” Mr Peters says. “New Zealand and the United States have a ...
The Government is considering creating a new tier of minerals permitting that will make it easier for hobby miners to prospect for gold. “New Zealand was built on gold, it’s in our DNA. Our gold deposits, particularly in regions such as Otago and the West Coast have always attracted fortune-hunters. ...
Minister for Trade Todd McClay today announced that New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will commence negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA). Minister McClay met with his counterpart UAE Trade Minister Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi in Dubai, where they announced the launch of negotiations on a ...
New Zealand Sign Language Week is an excellent opportunity for all Kiwis to give the language a go, Disabilities Issues Minister Louise Upston says. This week (May 6 to 12) is New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Week. The theme is “an Aotearoa where anyone can sign anywhere” and aims to ...
Six tertiary students have been selected to work on NASA projects in the US through a New Zealand Space Scholarship, Space Minister Judith Collins announced today. “This is a fantastic opportunity for these talented students. They will undertake internships at NASA’s Ames Research Center or its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where ...
New Zealanders will be safer because of a $1.9 billion investment in more frontline Corrections officers, more support for offenders to turn away from crime, and more prison capacity, Corrections Minister Mark Mitchell says. “Our Government said we would crack down on crime. We promised to restore law and order, ...
The OECD’s latest report on New Zealand reinforces the importance of bringing Government spending under control, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The OECD conducts country surveys every two years to review its members’ economic policies. The 2024 New Zealand survey was presented in Wellington today by OECD Chief Economist Clare Lombardelli. ...
The Government has delivered on its election promise to provide a financially sustainable model for Auckland under its Local Water Done Well plan. The plan, which has been unanimously endorsed by Auckland Council’s Governing Body, will see Aucklanders avoid the previously projected 25.8 per cent water rates increases while retaining ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters discussed the need for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and enhanced cooperation in the Pacific with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock during her first official visit to New Zealand today. "New Zealand and Germany enjoy shared interests and values, including the rule of law, democracy, respect for the international system ...
The Minister Responsible for RMA Reform, Chris Bishop today released his decision on four recommendations referred to him by the Western Bay of Plenty District Council, opening the door to housing growth in the area. The Council’s Plan Change 92 allows more homes to be built in existing and new ...
Thank you, John McKinnon and the New Zealand China Council for the invitation to speak to you today. Thank you too, all members of the China Council. Your effort has played an essential role in helping to build, shape, and grow a balanced and resilient relationship between our two ...
The Government is modernising insurance law to better protect Kiwis and provide security in the event of a disaster, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly announced today. “These reforms are long overdue. New Zealand’s insurance law is complicated and dated, some of which is more than 100 years old. ...
The coalition Government is refreshing its approach to supporting pay equity claims as time-limited funding for the Pay Equity Taskforce comes to an end, Public Service Minister Nicola Willis says. “Three years ago, the then-government introduced changes to the Equal Pay Act to support pay equity bargaining. The changes were ...
Structured literacy will change the way New Zealand children learn to read - improving achievement and setting students up for success, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. “Being able to read and write is a fundamental life skill that too many young people are missing out on. Recent data shows that ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay says Canada’s refusal to comply in full with a CPTPP trade dispute ruling in our favour over dairy trade is cynical and New Zealand has no intention of backing down. Mr McClay said he has asked for urgent legal advice in respect of our ‘next move’ ...
The rights of our children and young people will be enhanced by changes the coalition Government will make to strengthen oversight of the Oranga Tamariki system, including restoring a single Children’s Commissioner. “The Government is committed to delivering better public services that care for our most at-risk young people and ...
The Government is making it easier for minor changes to be made to a building consent so building a home is easier and more affordable, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “The coalition Government is focused on making it easier and cheaper to build homes so we can ...
New Zealand lost a true legend when internationally renowned disability advocate Sir Robert Martin (KNZM) passed away at his home in Whanganui last night, Disabilities Issues Minister Louise Upston says. “Our Government’s thoughts are with his wife Lynda, family and community, those he has worked with, the disability community in ...
Good evening – Before discussing the challenges and opportunities facing New Zealand’s foreign policy, we’d like to first acknowledge the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. You have contributed to debates about New Zealand foreign policy over a long period of time, and we thank you for hosting us. ...
From today, passengers travelling internationally from Auckland Airport will be able to keep laptops and liquids in their carry-on bags for security screening thanks to new technology, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Creating a more efficient and seamless travel experience is important for holidaymakers and businesses, enabling faster movement through ...
People with an interest in the health of Northland’s marine ecosystems are invited to a public meeting to discuss how to deal with kina barrens, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones will lead the discussion, which will take place on Friday, 10 May, at Awanui Hotel in ...
Kiwi exporters are $100 million better off today with the NZ EU FTA entering into force says Trade Minister Todd McClay. “This is all part of our plan to grow the economy. New Zealand's prosperity depends on international trade, making up 60 per cent of the country’s total economic activity. ...
There are heartening signs that the extractive sector is once again becoming an attractive prospect for investors and a source of economic prosperity for New Zealand, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The beginnings of a resurgence in extractive industries are apparent in media reports of the sector in the past ...
The return of the historic Ō-Rākau battle site to the descendants of those who fought there moved one step closer today with the first reading of Te Pire mō Ō-Rākau, Te Pae o Maumahara / The Ō-Rākau Remembrance Bill. The Bill will entrust the 9.7-hectare battle site, five kilometres west ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has announced 25 new high-speed EV charging hubs along key routes between major urban centres and outlined the Government’s plan to supercharge New Zealand’s EV infrastructure. The hubs will each have several chargers and be capable of charging at least four – and up to 10 ...
The coalition Government will not proceed with the previous Government’s plans to regulate residential property managers, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “I have written to the Chairperson of the Social Services and Community Committee to inform him that the Government does not intend to support the Residential Property Managers Bill ...
The Government has announced an independent review into the disability support system funded by the Ministry of Disabled People – Whaikaha. Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston says the review will look at what can be done to strengthen the long-term sustainability of Disability Support Services to provide disabled people and ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has attended the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva and outlined the Government’s plan to restore law and order. “Speaking to the United Nations Human Rights Council provided us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while responding to issues and ...
The Government and Rotorua Lakes Council are committed to working closely together to end the use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua. Associate Minister of Housing (Social Housing) Tama Potaka says the Government remains committed to ending the long-term use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua by the ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay heads overseas today for high-level trade talks in the Gulf region, and a key OECD meeting in Paris. Mr McClay will travel to Riyadh to meet with counterparts from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). “New Zealand’s goods and services exports to the Gulf region ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford has outlined six education priorities to deliver a world-leading education system that sets Kiwi kids up for future success. “I’m putting ambition, achievement and outcomes at the heart of our education system. I want every child to be inspired and engaged in their learning so they ...
The new NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) App is a secure ‘one stop shop’ to provide the services drivers need, Transport Minister Simeon Brown and Digitising Government Minister Judith Collins say. “The NZTA App will enable an easier way for Kiwis to pay for Vehicle Registration and Road User Charges (RUC). ...
Whānau with tamariki growing up in emergency housing motels will be prioritised for social housing starting this week, says Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka. “Giving these whānau a better opportunity to build healthy stable lives for themselves and future generations is an essential part of the Government’s goal of reducing ...
Racing Minister Winston Peters has paid tribute to an icon of the industry with the recent passing of Dave O’Sullivan (OBE). “Our sympathies are with the O’Sullivan family with the sad news of Dave O’Sullivan’s recent passing,” Mr Peters says. “His contribution to racing, initially as a jockey and then ...
Assalaamu alaikum, greetings to you all. Eid Mubarak, everyone! I want to extend my warmest wishes to you and everyone celebrating this joyous occasion. It is a pleasure to be here. I have enjoyed Eid celebrations at Parliament before, but this is my first time joining you as the Minister ...
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced Pharmac’s largest ever budget of $6.294 billion over four years, fixing a $1.774 billion fiscal cliff. “Access to medicines is a crucial part of many Kiwis’ lives. We’ve committed to a budget allocation of $1.774 billion over four years so Kiwis are ...
Hon Paula Bennett has been appointed as member and chair of the Pharmac board, Associate Health Minister David Seymour announced today. "Pharmac is a critical part of New Zealand's health system and plays a significant role in ensuring that Kiwis have the best possible access to medicines,” says Mr Seymour. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vanita Yadav, Senior Research Fellow, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University Brett Boardman/Belvoir The complex and grappling issue of violence against women takes centre stage in the soul-stirring solo dance drama Nayika: A Dancing Girl. During a dinner conversation ...
Disruption to patient care from a nationwide junior doctors strike is bordering on unsafe, a senior doctor claims, despite what health officials say. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Diepstraten, Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Ground Picture/Shutterstock The anti-cancer drug abemaciclib (also known as Vernezio) has this month been added to the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) to treat certain ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic McAfee, Postdoctoral researcher, marine ecology, University of Adelaide Robbie Porter, OzFish Unlimited Around Australia, hundreds of people are coming together to help a once-prized, but decimated and largely forgotten marine ecosystem. They’re busy restoring Australia’s native oyster and mussel reefs. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Webb, Lecturer, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology Austin Human/Unsplash How does Earth stop meteors from hitting Earth and hurting people? –Asher, 6 years 11 months, New South Wales Alright, let’s embark on a meteor ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rory Mulcahy, Associate Professor of Marketing, University of the Sunshine Coast Professional sports organisations regularly promote and develop initiatives to support diversity, equity and inclusion. While sport has the power to change attitudes by sparking conversations about political issues and social ...
Comment: The weekly Monday post-Cabinet press conference is a useful forum for observing Christopher Luxon and how he is developing into the job of Prime Minister. He attempts to convey the impression of a man of action, speaking fast, delivering memorised National Party strategies in a connect-the-slogans kind of way, ...
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Here is a UBI data point from Iran that I only just stumbled across. Important because of the very large number of people involved:
https://basicincomeweek.org/ubi/unconditional-nation-wide-cash-transfer-programme-iran/
It was certainly a smarter option than their subsidies.
As an option for oil producing nations (as per a dividend to citizens from state owned oil), its clearly under attack from the American sanctions – as is Venezuala. State oil to finance universal income or free health, education and social housing is anathema to the corporate private capital global market way.
It happen all the time. How they can get away with this bullshit is beyond me – we have so far to go in this country, so far.
If half of what is claimed happened the way described there needs to be an independent inquiry on the whole process.
I casts those on the Panel in a very poor light…
The problems at Whale Oil yesterday were due to technical problems as they switched domains, from whaleoil.co.nz to whaleoil.net.nz (for reasons not given).
https://yournz.org/2019/05/01/whale-oil-switches-domains/
It was back working on .co.nz this morning. I suspect that they'd been using the .net.nz to do a machine transfer.
If I had to guess I'd say that they didn't move their certs across to the new site location properly, they were registered to the wrong machine.
But there are other possible reasons. They use Cloudfront as a front-end of the system, which amongst other things (most notably a system for hiding servers) is a caching system. They could have gotten caught by the caches (I know that I did when I tested with it).
But like you I hope that the liquidator does a good job at looking at the transfers of directors and 'assets' prior to and after the bankruptcy / liquidation. I'm sure that there would be considerable support for helping the creditors by raising money to shut down the disgraceful disaster that is the Whaleoil site.
@ Graeme: thanks!
Juan Guaido/Gosman has called for an uprising.
Street clashes now. Bolton "leaves all options on the table" to expedite the planned resource theft.
Russia have already told US to keep their greedy little mitts off Venezuela, China are heavily invested in Venezuela too to the tune of $60 billion…this will not go well
Forty thousand Venezuelans have died due to illegal U.S. "sanctions."
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/current-alert.html
I heard this morning on Radionz a USA speaker name three top Venezuelan leaders as if they were being advised, targeted, to do what the USA finds 'suitable'. And he mentioned Cuba and Russia and implied they were interfering in Venuezelan affairs and would prevent the people's voice being heard. The usual flim-flam from USA.
Looks like Audrey Young’s advertorials on behalf of the National Party are now behind the paywall at the Herald online. I imagine that’s the last anyone will hear from her now.
Here's hoping except I expect the way things in the so-called 4th Estate work these days, with a number of "journalists" pissing in each others pockets, she'll be popping up as a rent-a-voice on radio or The Nation or Q+A
In Nelson we have Phil Quin giving his frank citizen-on-the-street views on things. It's amazing the way that recycling has taken off in NZ.
Applies to all sorts of merchandise.
Unfortunately a mate of mine from Atawhai is carless at the moment, otherwise I'd send her down there to heckle
I lived in Atawhai once – loved the view over the estuary and the water coming in and out.
Hard to believe but the blocking is done on the client side.
Anyone with an ounce of coding ability can get around it very quickly.
Interesting if true. Real-world impact may not be that great though – because 90% of the programmers I have worked with have been Tories anyway. They thought that their ability to write code made them Randian super-heroes and that everyone else was a worthless turd who could go sleep in a Toyota Estima or die in a ditch.
Is it still that way?… Doesn't surprise me. And some/many with egos the size of a bus who're incapable of adequate testing before they put their development masterpeices into production – many of which were re-inventions of the wheel anyway (which would be ok if the intention was to make something more efficient or for changes in environmental conditions, not so much if its just to prove how clever they are)
Well I may be exaggerating just a bit for effect – and I may be a little out of touch these days… But I doubt that something that was so in your face can disappear inside a generation or two?
It's the Herald, why would anyone bother?
Made a Chrome extension, took about 5 minutes.
It's the Herald, why did you bother?
Rate the Herald far better than stuff, that's the biggest pile of left-wing bullshit you'll ever find.
Having said that, the Herald isn't great but every so often there's something interesting, wouldn't pay money for it though.
There's an obvious dig here about Nat supporters and their party's attitude towards other people's intellectual property rights. But I'll leave that out there for others to make.
Its the internet people think theiving is ok in the internet .
The herald should find away to nuke the bms of this worlds counputers/devices.
BM same to you will brass balls.
I'd put money on your being the world's best driver too @ BM
Sweet. Can you post the code: Thanks in advance.
Be far easier if you follow this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/bj18xz/thanks_for_the_paywall_nzme/em4nfdk/
Just after some feedback here. I've spent my life working and studying in multiple fields/disciplines and have a whole raft of degrees and certificates… and I still feel like I don't have a clue. This holds me back from publishing and helping others as I never feel I've anything (new, or complete) to offer even when streets ahead of alternate ideas or studies.
I bin my own work almost on a daily basis as being sub-par.
The more I learn the less I know. A few more degrees I'll be a complete moron.
There's a fair few intellects who post here, so may I ask:
Is this normal?
Ever considered a job at the Ministry for Everything? (aka MBIE)
I think you are probably a perfectionist. Please don't destroy your ideas, send them out into the ether as think points for other ideas to breed from.
Perhaps there should be an ideas-du-jour blog where people could put their wild and wacky thoughts. I once saw from a train an advertisement for Hovis Bread – What you eat today walks and talks tomorrow. That caught my imagination and has stayed in mind since 1970?
So what about someone setting up a basic blog for out-of-it ideas? Or giving the link if you know of one already.
There's certainly an element of perfectionism but I've learned there's always the next iteration of an idea and one must choose an end goal/standard. Re-iteration or re-imagination is why smart people die broke and cocksure idiots get rich making plastic dog shit and those wee umbrellas for cocktails.
Have a read-up about "impostor syndrome". The wikipedia entry isn't a bad start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Then have a look at AOC's take on it.
https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1110591219804049408?lang=en
Imposter syndrome certainly rang a few bells. Self-esteem seems to be out of whack for whatever reason – check.
When I can convince myself I'm capable I am, but this self-doubt stuff is crippling.
In response to KJT below re: (old guy who knew stuff) I noticed as I approached the top of some fields that everyone was basically winging it. They probably all feel like imposters except the odd chump who believes their own press (simply the worst humans). I guess I just naively hoped there was a point I'd actually connect the dots. And I also naively thought there were people who know stuff at the top.
Metaphorically I'm holding 4 aces, and I'm too scared to call it.
Now I've recognised this barrier, that's a start.
There's a fine line there, capable, yet not a blundering ass.
@ Andre and WtB.
Interesting to know there's a label and an explanation for it. I probably shouldn't have been so flippant at 7.1. It's just that we often see very good and competent people stifled whilst the mediocre thrive. It seems to me it can be prevalent in environments that are ultra competitive filled with over-ambitious people.
I mentioned the other week somewhere on TS of a relative going through a period of 'performance anxiety' a while back (in the arts), despite receiving accolades and invites from some really accomplished people internationally, and a few of her/his colleagues had suffered the same thing at times over the years.
It's actually something that's interested me for a long time especially when one sees some of the managerial 'competence' in business and parts of our public service. (Places where parts of an organisation experience staff turnover knocking 30% for example, and where some of those 'masters of the Universe' operate).
The neo-liberal agenda has a bit to do with it (Check out this morning's 9-2-Noon on the latest TEU survey) but then so has the old Peter Principle.
Some people just give up pushing shit uphill if they don't fit that ultra-competitive, over-ambitious profile and we're often all the poorer for it
I like a good flippant one liner. I also like this statement:
"Some people just give up pushing shit uphill if they don't fit that ultra-competitive, over-ambitious profile and we're often all the poorer for it"
Yes, the hangry climbers lower the bar for everyone.
Yes.
Unfortunately, or ironically, the more we learn, the more we become aware of the huge amount of things we don’t know.
Certainty, is for the ignorant!
I have that moment at work sometimes.
Where is that old guy who knew how everything worked, where everything is and did the right things when the shit hit the fan.
Shit. That's me, now!
I wonder if he had the same doubts?
Yes, guaranteed. Because if he didn't have all the self-doubt, he wouldn't have spent his life paying attention to all the little things that could have gone better if he'd done something differently, and would never have become the guy who actually knew how everything worked and what to do.
Too right. The most terrifying people, are the ones who are absolutely certain they are right, and immune from mistakes.
I didn't think that guy existed anymore. I thought he was removed through multiple company restructures or replaced by a foreign call centre.
Well. They had to offer rather a lot of money, to get me back. LOL.
It might just be:
https://www.verywellmind.com/an-overview-of-the-dunning-kruger-effect-4160740
Short and sweet:
The dumber you are, the more likely you overestimate your abilities.
The more intelligent you are, the more likely you underestimate your abilities.
I belong to the second camp.
Nice to have a name for dinner party conversation style – Dunning
How does one be fabulous yet not a phukwit. That is the question.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts"
Bertrand Russell
No, there’s always that tendency within a society.
The anthropological comparative religion field has some interesting perspectives in it that relate to this type of thing.
Gender Equality in corporate leadership structures, & the corollary clearer demarcation of public and private citizen roles, would help close the ritualistic gap of modern societies in keeping those sort of intrinsic tendencies that are there sociologically, in check.
Wethebleeple; – Go onto the NZPTV free site and give your views there to WTB
Bryan Bruce CEO NZPTV http://www.nzptv.org.nz
Not normal because so few people experience the problem. My take has evolved from perfectionism long ago, to (multi) skill development, then through applied focus on progressing in social contexts of choice so as to achieve stuff in the real world.
Worldly accomplishments then seemed to have only marginal utility due to the world changing, so reframing on global context & one's role within became a necessity.
Generalising in our current context, climate-changing, I suggest gearing one's time & effort into the best available options, using one's reincarnational agenda. If that comes across as too nebulous, do what your inner voice tells you. Periods of activity interspersed with time-out for reflection, or meditation.
But re knowledge vs academic learning, that's a personal thing, relative to current age. Confidence in your own ability to comprehend is all you need, seems to me. No doubt about your intelligence, so could be you doubt relevance & import of learning? If so, it's all about what you got born to achieve this lifetime, so if I were you I'd do some deep thinking about that…
Whatever it is, it's been around since at least Socrates' time.
"I know that I know nothing"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing
So count yourself among the wise.
An interesting take on the subject of false sexual assault allegations:
https://thinkprogress.org/conservatives-jacob-wohl-jack-burkman-pete-buttigieg-abuse-allegations-ce5b558720e2/
tl;dr That RWNJs keep trying to cook up fake sexual assault allegations and abjectly failing shows just how hard it is to successfully pull it off. Something to keep in mind about the allegations against Kavanaugh, Assange, Weinstein, Biden et al
Just had another look at https://www.positivemoney.org.nz/
They have laid out some good videos/articles about our banking system and how it can be improved to stop the boom/bust (or more likely greater depression) cycle.
A Working Paper by the IMF titled The Chicago Plan Revisited – released in August 2012 provides a good background on the current system and on page 5 describes banks being able to generate their own funding as "an extraordinary privilege that is not enjoyed by any other type of business".
From the above link from A – thanks.
2012 – seven years later has that info reached any minds with ability to make change in financial dealings here? Or is Sir Grant Robertson the visualisation that our FinMin uses to fire himself up every day. For services in Not Rocking The Boat.
Netanyahu's Israel will declare an apartheid state. Will the West do nothing?
by GIDEON LEVY, Middle East Eye, 30 April 2019
The world revolves on its axis, nothing has changed, even after the recent election in Israel.
Chosen to lead Israel for the fifth time, Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to instal the most nationalist and rightist government in the country’s history – and meanwhile the world seems to proceed as usual.
For decades now, Israel has continually spat in the face of the rest of the planet – with casual disdain for international law, and with complete disregard for the explicit decisions and detailed policies adopted by global institutions and by most of the world’s national governments.
Out there in the world, however, all that spittle somehow passes for raindrops. The election came and went with no discernible effect on the blindly automatic support for Israel by European governments and, of course, by the Americans too: unconditional, without reservations, apparently unchanged. Evidently what was is what will be.
Israel, though, has changed during the course of Netanyahu’s long reign. This talented Israeli statesman is leaving his mark on the profile of his country, with deep and lasting effect – more so than anticipated or even apparent.
Yes, it’s true that leftist governments in Israel also did their utmost to preserve the Israeli occupation forever and had no intention, not for one moment, of ever bringing it to an end – but Netanyahu is taking Israel much farther afield, to places even more extreme.
He is damaging what constitutes acceptable governance within Israel’s recognised sovereign territory, even with respect to its Jewish citizens. The very face of the "only democracy in the Middle East", which has long functioned mainly to the benefit of Jewish Israelis who comprise its privileged class, is being altered now by Netanyahu and company.
Meanwhile, incredibly, the response of the world is to alter nothing in the support it has been extending to Israel during all the years of Netanyahu’s rule, as if in this latest round he were changing nothing, as if the shifting positions taken by Israel will neither augment nor diminish that support. ….
Read more….
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/netanyahus-israel-will-declare-apartheid-state-will-west-do-nothing
It's now the Jewish state, and has a government with policy to annex the land of Jewish settlements on the West Bank. As these settlements expand into nearby Arab village land and also multiply this will require on-going annexation on an annual basis. Thus each new land grab for settlement effectively becomes automatic annexation.
The only divergence within the coalition is over doing it this way, like salami or a sausage dog carved up one slice at a time (for right wing religious Jews from the USA to come settle), or annexing all the West Bank in one go but denying citizenship to non Jews living there.
We can now see that the term Jewish state was just a prelude to annexing West Bank land and only giving citizenship to Jews – leaving stateless Palestinians there refugees living in bantustans such as Ramallah and Jericho (they would soon be dispossessed of Hebron). The thing is this will not be enough libensraum, it is not all of eretz Israel as parts were east of the Jordan .. this story has a long way to go yet.
Blowback. The problem with lefty fascism telling people what they can and can't say / believe.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/international/112365345/might-as-well-sack-me–israel-folau-saga-takes-dramatic-twist
You think the NSW Waratahs is a left wing organisation?
They've just caved to a left wing fascist narrative that seeks to silence free speech.
Oh, so you think the fans of NSW Waratahs are left wing?
They can think whatever they like but if what they say breaches their employment contract, then they face the consequences.
Generally most employees personal beliefs / private lives run counter to their employers. Perhaps they should face the consequences too…
They do, all the time. When they yell it out to the public.
Sometimes it hits the news, like the woman who made an AIDS joke just before getting on a plane to Africa, and in the twelve hours she was in the air it went viral and put her out of a job.
So if you're in a role that maybe requires more discretion than you can handle, use a pseudonym and keep it separate from things that identify you.
Absolutely.
As anyone who works in the Public Service knows, they are they are there to advise the government of the day. Their personal political beliefs are not part of the deal.
Are you a pawn of the bishop?
Who cares – they make their choices – no one really cared when jones never played on sunday.
The circle closes.
Lefty fascism, yeah na.
But sounds like the sort of term that would be used to indoctrinate easily led paranoid Christians.
PS.
It seems the Polynesian brotherhood is trying the use a threat of taking cultural offence to prevent Australia Rugby from terminating the Folau contract.
These people should have gone into the business of dealing in drugs rather than running a flower shop and volunteering for the local Fire Brigade. I'm sure that Lees-Galloway would have been much more sympathetic if he had been in prison rather than fighting a bush fire when he applied for permanent residency.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/112317452/nelson-firefighters-residency-put-on-ice-by-immigration-minister
Meh – he should've just applied a year earlier – Nathan Guy let absolutely anyone in.
See above (around 7. and beyond)
It's got to the point where INZ (under that Ministry for Everything) should just roll the dice, OR make a decision – then do the exact opposite, OR just refer everything to the Minister or Associate Minister – both of whom have 'faith in their officials' and who are reluctant to "comment on operational matters" or "on individual cases" – except when it suits them)
Advice to all would be immigrants who don't meet the criteria: Join the local fire brigade on arrival.
Alwyn, a bit of perspective is everything…
They have been fighting this for seven years assisted by their local MP nick smith.
That being the case, nick smith would have been in government for five of the seven years that this couple have been trying to get residency for. What does it say about nick smiths efforts?
Did you know that 80% of firefighters are volunteers? Hundreds of whom helped fight the Pigeon Valley fire.
The couple have now been granted a two year work extension, it's better than nothing and give them the opportunity and nick smith lolz to try again to gain the couple residency.
That being the case, nick smith would have been in government for five of the seven years that this couple have been trying to get residency for. What does it say about nick smiths efforts?
My thoughts too Cinny. The opportunities to point out these hypocrisies must never be missed. This is your neck of the woods, right? Is there something going on here we're not being told? The 24 month work permit is ok, but affords zero security.
They came over to own/operate a florists, but turned out the business they purchased was near on bankrupt. Retail stores in Stoke seem to change like the wind, they never last long at all, lack of research on their part maybe, or just bloody bad luck.
He is a car sales person and his wife still runs the florist (good luck to her with that business in it's current location), and just like 80% of firefighters he is a volunteer.
Personally I don't see anything special about the case except that he was photographed fighting the fire, and with emotions running high at the time it would have been a primo opportunity for a firefighter wanting residency to put out a petition, no wonder there was such a large response.
Yes I feel sorry for them, but…..there will be many just like them, so why should they get residency and the rest be rejected. Least that's how I feel about it.
Can't even seem to find the florist shop via the goggle, the other florists appear to be owned/operated by other people. Hmmm maybe this is her shop, if it is, it’s not in Stoke, it’s in Nelson, and the location of that particular shop has bugger all parking, if any. It’s almost a stand alone store, one would have to make a special visit. I used to live in a run down old flat just behind it, many moons ago..
https://earthbloom.co.nz/pages/about-us
It is not a very well written article, but what do you expect from our newspapers today.
However it is not really clear when they were turned down for the permanent residency visa. You have to, under their category, meet targets for the business you start. Only after that target time is any decision made. From this section
"Instead of an initial aim to build the business up over three years, it took the Websters 18 months to get back to the envisaged starting point.
"We pushed really hard to meet the targets we'd given to Immigration, but in the end we were about six months short," he said.
"They had the choice of giving us an extension to see if we'd do it but they chose not to – we actually made the target six months after that but they couldn't give us the opportunity, so we appealed but they wouldn't change their mind."
Thus the earliest point at which they were turned down was either 3 years or four and a half years after they arrived. It wouldn't have gone to the Minister until after the appeal had been made. It is therefore only some time in 2016 at the earliest that it could have reached the stage of needing a Ministerial decision and it could easily be after the change of Government in 2017. It certainly wan't in 2012 that any decision could have been made to revoke a permit.
From the same article…..
Nelson MP Nick Smith had been working with the family to address their immigration issues for several years and had written to Lees-Galloway on their behalf.
Several is more than two years.
And Dr custard is still their MP, that hasn’t changed.
"Several is more than two years".
I would agree with you. However I very much doubt whether the reporters on the Stuff papers are that careful in their writing. In fact I doubt they realise that fact. They don't have proofreaders any more so no one is likely to pick it up.
I honestly don't know how long it has been carrying on. It certainly isn't seven years that they have been in this position though is it?
Seven years according to said couple.
Nick Smith should be jumping up and down screaming from the roof tops about this one ?
Lolz, I wonder why he isn't?
Apparently the couple were also turned down by the prior governments immigration minister. Maybe that's the reason Dr custard is keeping quiet.
Mueller to Barr – you're a lying sack of shit. (that's a paraphrase).
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/30/politics/mueller-barr-complained-russia-probe/index.html
yeah this is something to watch
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1123401651715358720
Makes for an easy question to Barr when he is before the Senate Committee tomorrow. – so who are you going to misrepresent to us today, yourself your boss or just stick with Mueller?
The insurance industry needs a kick in the pants.
Fancy hoisting more money and sanctions out of the home owners again.
Didn’t we bale them out in 2008?
The Tories..clearly very worried about any connections to Putin after he masterminded the Salisbury poisonings..or..maybe not….
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russian-donor-lubov-chernukhin-s-dinner-with-pm-8w3wpd0qz
Today's coup has failed. There will be another tomorrow or maybe the day after.
John Bolton has been indicted for crimes against good grooming – and for being an inflammatory, world-endangering lunatic (sadly he hasn't)
Guido better pray the yankers don't decide they need a martyr.
Right on gabs only reason he's not in jail already for treason is because the maduro gov appears to be smart enough not to make him into a martyr but as you say the yankers might have other ideas and they must be feeling desperate by now !!
Kia Kaha to all the PEOPLE at the Guardian it was awesome finding this site 3 years ago Te kumara never tells how sweet it is. This is about my achievement with the TRUTH from the Guardian .
Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner thanks readers and supporters for making our journalism possible in spite of industry and market challenges
Today, we have announced that the Guardian has successfully completed its three-year turnaround strategy — we have hit our goal of breaking even, and made a small operating profit on our path to sustainability. This means that the money we make from advertisers combined with what we receive in the generous support from you, our readers, has this year covered the cost of producing the journalism that informs and inspires millions of people around the world. Our unique ownership model means we are not controlled by a billionaire owner, or a group of shareholders demanding financial returns — any profits made, and all financial contributions from readers, are reinvested directly into our journalism Ka kite ano links below.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/may/01/the-guardian-break-even-katharine-viner
Kia ora Whanau the official information act only works for the wealthy I have made many requests for information from organisations still waiting for the DATA . If you request information about yourself from any organisation in NZ by law the organisation is to give any information they hold on you this includes state organisation two Whanau . Because Eco Maori is broke ass at the minute they just fobbed me off. Ma te wa Whanau . Ka kite ano links below.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/110142415/keeping-an-eye-on-the-information-gatekeepers
http://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1982/0156/107.0/DLM64785.html
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Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
https://youtu.be/GKSRyLdjsPA
I have great insights into this human created problem we are making on Papatuanukue at the minute .
I see climate change as one of the biggest threat to our decendints having a humane HEALTHY happy future THAT IS THE REASON I HAVE BEEN GOING HARD ON THE SUBJECT.
UK Parliament declares climate change emergency
MPs have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency
Extinction Rebellion climate change protesters briefly block the road in London, on 25 April, 2019. Photo: AP / Matt Dunham
This proposal, which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who tabled the motion, said it was "a huge step forward".
Environment Secretary Michael Gove acknowledged there was a climate "emergency" but did not back Labour's demands to declare one.
The declaration of an emergency was one of the key demands put to the government by environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion, in a series of protests over recent weeks.
Protesters sit in the road in Parliament Square, in London, on 23 April, 2019, during a climate protest. Photo: AP /Matt Dunham
Addressing climate protesters from the top of a fire engine in Parliament Square earlier, Mr Corbyn said: "This can set off a wave of action from parliaments and governments around the globe Ka pai Kia kaha Extinction Rebellion. Ka kite ano links below
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/388269/uk-parliament-declares-climate-change-emergency
https://youtu.be/mOFvJVroAJE
Kia ora Newshub.
Still looks cold m8.
I think that our government is trying it best to fix the mess our education sector is in at the minute .
I said it this morning Lundy shouldn't be allowed to waste more tax payer's money on his lies.
Its good that over sea property buyers been shut out of our property market its correcting the market localss will have more affordable housing.
Artificial killing machines should be banned it's is a very serious issue that is part of the reasons why I say Artifical Intelligents is number 2 on the biggest threat to humanity serviving .
I agree with William Jackson opinion has paula dune any positive mahi for Maori big NO on that question she was putting the boot in 3 years ago go figure now they want to be MAORI I wonder WHY .
Julian did the 99.9 % of people a good service showing that most government CHEAT.
Barr is trumps PUPPET.
Life is finally balanced hippos are part of the AWA /Rivers ecosystem when the balance is changed less hippos other creatures suffer humans are part of the ecosystem if we keep sending creatures into Extinction it will be at our DEMISE.
I agree digital self-harming is a child that is not happy .
Ka kite ano P.S
Kia ora Newshub .
I like Peters views but Christian well just the way you describe The issues of Maori family violence show you think Maori are second class people. People like you are to stupid to workout your stupid I can tell the way you think about a subject by the way you describe The issues about the subject and the symptoms . You people born with a silver spoon in your mouth think the system has served me fine its perfect it's those – – – – Maori. The tx books of the Papatuanukue point out the fact about povertys effects on people and it ain't GOOD but people like you chose to pick the data that suits your views on reality in your glass house.
We have had family violence issues for generations instead of fixing the poverty issues that will mean transferring wealth from the very wealth to the poor they dream up antismacking bill this is a cheap fix but no family violence is still bad in Atoearoa and now we have a lot of the younger generations who don't no how to show or be respectful .
Its a fact if tangata whenua did not have OUR whenua stolen from us well we would not be highest in the bad state of Atoearoa we would have the best housing and living standards in Aotearoa
Ka kite ano
https://youtu.be/rynnk2LBEY0
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute .
https://youtu.be/1SN7Pko_jCM
Whanau you will know who my last 2 post are for
Science of the western world need to listen to indigenous culture knowledge on our history and how long we have been in the country I see ignoring our knowledge as part of the ART of Suppression Kia kaha to our Tangata whenua Australia cousin.
The western world is just catching up to what we know
It is what we have been trying to tell scientists for years.
Our knowledge of how long we have existed on this continent can easily be found in the stories that we have passed on from generation to generation. These stories talk about seas rising, landscapes changing and species existing. These stories are told to us throughout our lives and remembered from a young age. They even hold answers to questions such as whether we lived alongside and interacted with megafauna.
Our histories are well-known and trusted by us.
In November 2016, Nature published a paper that rewrote history. The place of interest was Warratyi rock shelter. The study proved that humans were occupying arid Australia 49,000 years ago, which at this time was 10,000 years earlier than what was previously reported.
This study also presented evidence of the earliest-known use of ochre in Australia and Southeast Asia. This was coupled with gypsum, bone tools, hafted tools and backed artefacts 10,000 years earlier than anywhere else in the world.
Fire, water and astronomy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture comes to life in the classroom.
Warratyi is located in Adnyamathanha country, my country. As an archaeology student at the time, these dates were amazing to hear. If you were to tell anyone from my community that their history extends back 49,000 years, they probably would not be that amazed. Because it would not be news to them
We are well aware that the world does not value Indigenous knowledge to the extent that it should. We know that scientific knowledge will always be viewed as superior Ka kite ano
Links below P.S Maori time in Aotearoa has been underestimate by 1000s of years .
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/02/the-western-world-is-just-catching-up-to-what-we-know
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute .
https://youtu.be/y3waxdqCQf8
Kia ora Newshub .
Congratulat Clarke and Jacinda
Congratulats to Samantha to.
Its good to see the progress on the Pike River mine reentry is close to being wound up .
Everyone is voicing my views on the rugby player te pohatu radio station
Condolences to Peter mahaues whanau Chewbacko was a great part of the classic Star Wars I'm a big trekkie sci-fi fan.
The Jewish holocaust should never be allowed to be forgotten but at the same time millions of coloured people have been killed at the same time.??????.
Sharlets Web is the first story I remember reading as a child.
Ka kite ano
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
https://youtu.be/DQLUygS0IAQ
Whanau if they are using intimidation tactics like unanswered pH calls ect they got nothing on you they are trying to make us make mistakes . Kia kaha
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute
https://youtu.be/SKprXO-f2pM
No need for words with this video Whanau
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
https://youtu.be/q0j1mfJeNLE
Whanau te kumara keeps getting Reka
The way I see it whanau is Tangata Whenua O Atoearoa have a huge opertunity to make billions from Organic farming a lot of OUR whenua that we still have control of has not had any chemical poured on them for decades because of this FACT it should be quite easy to get organically certified to get the big money growing organic food.
Also my opinion on the poison they use to grow and preserve our food its like this they say a animal can handle so much of a % of the shit in their system before the shit hits the fan you get crook. sugar included . What I getting at is a liveing things can handle so much stress and when there is a level reached you get sick get cancer.
The more bad chemicals that are in your system the faster you will get sick so the less you expose the tamariki to these chemicals the less chemicals are in their system lowers dramatically the chances of catching cancer or getting sick.
ORGANIC FARMING IS THE FUTURE
The problem goes beyond New Zealand's shores. There is a shortage of organic farmers globally. For a farming system that has high environmental, animal welfare and food safety standards, as well as providing food free from chemical residues, you have to wonder why.
"Organics is all about biodiversity, all about carbon sequestration, taking the energy that's on the farm and keeping it there. One of the fantastic things about organics is that its based on science, it's based on physics really, keeping energy in a loop," Nordeng said
KA kite ano link below.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/112336925/give-us-more-organic-choice
https://youtu.be/ex6FU2s1fvA
Whanau you don't have to be a ROCKET SCIENTIST to figure out human caused climate change and global warming is a FACT you just have to read the newspaper and website to find that fact out.
But you have to be REAL THICK to be a climate change DENIER.
CNN) — The strongest tropical cyclone to hit India in 20 years made landfall Friday, killing seven people and lashing the country's east coast with ferocious winds and torrential downpours.
Tropical Cyclone Fani struck near the city of Puri, in Odisha state, as the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane — packing sustained winds of 240 kilometers per hour (150 miles per hour). The storm is expected to weaken as it moves toward Kolkata, one of India's most populous cities, and Bangladesh.
The seven people who died in Odisha were killed by falling trees and collapsed walls, police spokesman Sanjeev Panda said
Ka kite ano links below.
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/05/03/asia/india-landfall-cyclone-fani-wxc-intl/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F
https://youtu.be/WXQYrsi_jns
The loss of biodiversity and environment is the biggest threat to humanity
The 1,800-page study will show people living today, as well as wildlife and future generations, are at risk unless urgent action is taken to reverse the loss of plants, insects and other creatures on which humanity depends for food, pollination, clean water and a stable climate.
The final wording of the summary for policymakers is being finalised in Paris by a gathering of experts and government representatives before the launch on Monday, but the overall message is already clear, according to Robert Watson, the chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
“There is no question we are losing biodiversity at a truly unsustainable rate that will affect human wellbeing both for current and future generations,” he said. “We are in trouble if we don’t act, but there are a range of actions that can be taken to protect nature and meet human goals for health and development
Ka kite ano links below
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/03/climate-crisis-is-about-to-put-humanity-at-risk-un-scientists-warn
https://youtu.be/iICpI9H0GkU