“… The failure of logic in all these cases can be summed up very simply: our culture—meaning here the collective culture of modern Western industrial society—is obsessed by the false belief that nature can’t adapt to our actions. The default assumption on the part of most people in industrial society is that only human beings can learn and adapt and change; the whole world of nonhuman existence we sum up in the word “nature” is not permitted to do any of these things. Nature, according to this delusion of ours, is timeless and changeless, lurching through a set of eternally preprogrammed routines that only we can interrupt. Thus the shrieks of outrage when zebra mussels start cleaning up our pollution, or oceanic plankton adapt to the changing acidity of seawater, or a weed shrugs off buckets of Monsanto’s latest carcinogenic weed killer and keeps on photosynthesizing: it’s as though we think Mother Nature isn’t playing fair…”
Give me a 55+ employee any day of the week. It’s the best place to find the qualities I require.
They show up, don’t care much for meth and try hard to do what they say they are going to do. Rather than gossip, come to me with any issues. When looked after, will go the extra mile, rarely get fall down drunk and have a genuine concern for the health of the business. Especially when their income is linked to the health of the business.
Give me a worker with grown up kids every time, they’re the best.
The Chinese General Sun Tzu said this about getting loyalty in a battle.
But it has to be two-way. The workers must be prepared to do right by you. I remember the story of some Melbourne dock workers back last century. Some would go into work, clock in and be off, returning to clock out again.
No-one would report them because there was complete rapport among the workers, and it might have been in the day when there was closed union system and only family and certain others would be accepted by the dominant union. And you had to be in the union.
Respect for each other is the approach needed I think.
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. Sun Tzu
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/sun_tzu_402522
My dad had a good one about Aussie dockworkers. He was on cargo ships at the time doing the transtasman run, and NZ had just won a cricket series. One of the ship’s crew put a sign on the gangplank “cricket lessons sold here”.
The Aussies went on strike for the day, and the captain went apeshit 🙂
I was in Fremantle when the underarm bowling incident occurred.
The wharfies kept apologizing to me for the Aussies bad sportsmanship.
Not having any interest in cricket, it was days before I found out why.
Melbourne painters and dockers were Mafia. If you were in dock you had to pay for them to sweep the ship, whether they did it or not. Funnily enough, once they had their kickback, they were very obliging and efficient in any work we, wanted done.
I am watching ‘The Nation’ today 3/3/19 and hearing PM Adern saying “we are targeting homes to be “safe Homes”. as part of the next budget as a “well being” budget.
We all In HB/Gisborne who are all living alongside all the truck roads that are slowly being poisoned by tyre dust, noise and exhaust air pollution 24/7 have not got “safe homes” Jacinda!!!!
So please read this submission made to the HBRC in November 2018 about our “unsafe homes” that you can fix by putting half the freight back on rail.
‘Lets do the Jacida’.
Labours new budget this year of 2019 hinges on being “The good wellbeing budget”so best time to hour this promise made to Gisborne 6 years ago and honour the \ Labour, Greens pledge to reinstate Gisborne rail line for our “well being”
My name is Janet – We have had a property in Pirimai since 1974, we’ve raised our family there and we’re now into the third generation there.
I have been Chairperson of the Pirimai Residents Association and that was when I originally came into the issues here when the Kennedy Road overbridge was built.
I wanted to just give you a few facts, it won’t take me long, about the Expressway.
It was originally designed as a commuter route from Hastings to the Airport, not as a truck route; trucks weren’t even in the picture then because of road freight regulations and most of it went on rail.
Since deregulation in 1983 road traffic has increased considerably everywhere and the Expressway is being developed as the heavy traffic route to the Port of Napier because the other areas of Napier didn’t want it.
Port traffic has doubled over the last 10 years, and according to your figures it’s 25% in the last 2 years, and is forecast to increase by another 57% by 2028.
Hastings boasts ‘the Expressway allows heavy traffic to Port of Napier to avoid travelling through too much of the Hastings urban area’. Napier is not so lucky, the Expressway passes right through the western suburban communities,
As I said, I became involved through the Pirimai Residents Association, but it affects parts of Taradale, Greenmeadows, Tamatea and Ahuriri; each have individual problems, we don’t all have the same ones, but it’s basically the same cause.
Unfortunately, during this time, the focus has become more on economic performance and less on environmental and social wellbeing, and the lack of mitigation will continue to impact on the health, wellbeing and property values of those living alongside.
The Kennedy Road overbridge was built to carry heavy traffic over the top of local roads, which is the opposite to what happens in other parts of the world – they put the heavy traffic on the level, and local roads over the top. Economics trumped environment here, it was the cheaper option.
The Kennedy Road over bridge has only the basic guard rails rather than concrete barriers that are used on the Meeanee Road overbridge and any other bridge we’ve noticed in our travels around this part of the country. Again, economics trumped environment.
The expansion of the Port will only increase the problem as no consideration is given to the adverse effects created by the increase of heavy traffic, The Port have basically said that they are responsible for Port noise, but they are not responsible for the traffic going to and from the port.
Any privatisation of the Port will increase the focus on economic performance to the detriment of the environmental and social impacts. Who is minding the gate? We have made submissions to City Council,
Regional Council, Land Transport Committee, NZTA, but no one has the power or the inclination to resolve the issues.
I have to give credit to Alan here, who’s always let us speak before the Transport Committee, he’s tried to encourage NZTA to step up to the plate, but it doesn’t happen.
Hawkes Bay regional Council motto used to be ‘protecting your environment’, now it is ‘grow Hawkes Bay’.
Hawkes Bay Regional Council has to protect the residents and their environment when making its decision.
We need to be consulted and resolve some mitigation for the increases in the traffic and noise vibration and pollution issues and find a solution as to what can be done to help.
I get that the specifics of his complaint is about trucks, but trucks aren’t the only road or rail users. so decisions tend to be made on a macro level. not as a function of the level of complaints about their activity.
So perhaps looking at alternative ways to achieve your desires and walking the walk.
Agree to a point. Roads aren’t just built for trucks, so remove the other users and there is a reduced benefit to society in building roads for trucks.
We come to this blog to discuss problems and politics. You are just a tick, and don’t know the half of it. You are actually an IED and I think you should be avoided, a spoiler who has no good ideas of your own. Nothing up there, and so nothing to add here.
you want an echo chamber. Not blog with a light moderation policy.
I believe the current governments policies are better for New Zealand than the oppositions, they are just woeful at explanation and implementation compared to what National were.
I don’t have to give them a free pass, let them escape critique or stay silent if I agree with the policies broadly. I believe a CGT is a fine idea, once it’s balanced and implemented in a manner that reduces the burden on capital gains as a means of enhancing wealth for all. I.e. reducing income tax on lower and middle income workers so they can enjoy the fruits of being able to invest in capital markets. If they choose.
If it reduces solely rent seeking behaviour I’m in favour. As I am with the idea of kiwi build. But not the government as developer. The government should smash the duopoly of fletchers and west farmers. Not subsided developers to purchase product from them.
You on the other hand think we should just give Twyford a free pass and if we don’t tick progressive on the voting forms we must be trump supporters.
What are you talking about. John Keys own rating system for rating government projects through up red flags straight away, NOVA pay, frigate upgrades, the now defunct Māori Land Redorm policy hospitals, the list is long if you want to take a look at the facts.
If USA economists would apply the analysis to going to war all the time, and wrecking the world to save it, we would see the same co-operation between nations on earth as we see in space. But No.
I watched an hour or so of tRump’s manic CPAC rant. As usual, the fucker lied persistently but when he veered off into confabulation territory he looked every bit like a man in mid-stage dementia.
It’ll be a mystery to me if his obvious mental decline doesn’t make the headline in every newspaper on the planet.
I think you are wrong. There is plenty of variety of food in Venezuala it’s just foreigners and oligarchies trying real hard not to pay any taxes as this expose explains>>> https://youtu.be/Ny5KFTLyiRw
The clip you posted remiinded me of leftist “journalists” visiting places like the Soviet Union or North Korea and touring a government owned supermarket. Can you spell Propaganda?
They managed the nationalisation of the oil industry like bulls in a china shop.
Copy Norway would of been a far better approach.
In the ‘Make it happen’ part of that industry it is manned by contractors that sign on for a year or two and make millions long before the first tanker sails with a full bilge. If I was a rig chief engineer I would be thinking twice about assigning my crew to the whims of Mr Maduro, the potential for payment in Bolivar, imprisonment, kidnapping etc.
Their infrastucture and expertise is crumbling. The transition to state ownership was hobbled from the get go by ostracising the 10,000 people in the world that work at the pointy end of the oil business.
The boss on a rig is the offshore installation manager, or “tool pusher” depending on the company.
The marine Captain is a barge engineer, or barge Master.
The Chief engineer is the diesel mechanic.
The oil industry experts routinely work in places where hostage taking and piracy are rife.
Which is not the case in Venezuela.
So, you will have to look elsewhere, like US Government and oil major, boycotts and the threat of civil war, to see why the expertise has gone.
Yes. Norway had a better approach but Venezuela was not allowed that option.
‘Murica, where more than 40 states allow some form of child marriage.
Idaho’s statehouse Republicans killed a bill that would have created a minimum marriage age in the state, essentially cementing the state’s continued reign as America’s number-one hot spot for newlyweds too young to vote and/or drive. The Idaho Statesman reports that HR 98, which would have eliminated marriage licenses for those 15 and under, and have strengthened the consent requirements for those 16 and 17, failed by a vote of 28-39, with 3 abstaining.
House Republicans outnumber House Democrats 56-14 in the Gem State, where the youngest Idahoans to say “I do” in the 2000s were just 13 years old. Yet Idaho is just one leader in a disturbingly crowded field
We have brought in modernising legislation regarding prostitution, and a good thing. But this most intimate relationship is always bound to have difficulties.
Trying the devious way to get round the mountain of tragedy and prejudice in white and black relationships.
On RadioNZ today Sunday:
5:10 PM. Heart and Soul
The Right Thing: Making friends with the KKK
The story of Daryl Davis, African-American musician and friend to white supremacists. (BBC)
John Key must have squandered his millions or maybe he’s just a greedy bastard.
“The figures show Sir John Key has begun claiming his yearly annuity, collecting $51,964 in the 2017-18 year, as well as a pro-rata payment of $10,792 the year before. He has also claimed about $11,000 in travel for each of the past two years”
You don’t get rich by foregoing your entitlements. Admittedly, once you are rich, you feel free to tell bullshit stories about donating your salary to charity, but you don’t actually do it.
$800 million over budget is being bandied about. Initial costs for the project were estimated at around $180 million, The project has been dragging on for almost 20 years.
I think we should be looking to the future and starting up pigeon posts, with pigeon fanciers at strategic points in the country. Do it now. It would be both fun and a skill and resource for the future.
whether it be expanionist Chinese empire or Brexit revival empire dreams, for NZ society to survive and prosper, these old ideological battles and ambitions need to be avoided as much as possible in how NZ society continues to tick…
It is the commonwealth added value society and trading nation approach that is the most priceless to the inevitable march of the multi-polar technological world’s seeking for sustainability and adaptation.
More a matter of language use, I suspect CHCoff. I took Gabby as questioning your use of ‘most priceless’ Priceless is an absolute. You are either priceless or you are not. There is no in-between (rather, a bit, very, more, most..) The same as for words like unique, ultimate, perfect, or even the word absolute..
Males sometimes like to joke about pregnancy in the same way… “Slightly pregnant’, ha ha ha.
It’s another well written article on the subject, but from the sounds of it Winnie’s, Ronnie’s and old mate Shaw’s Pacific Reset and along with the CC accord with the NZDF is about to hit the rocks big time according to a well connected source over on the WONZ Fourm site.
The Neo Con /Lib muppets of the Treasury are only allowing the RNZAF to buy 5 J Model Hec’s to replace the 5 H Models before 2022- 2025 as they will finally run out of Airfame hrs and Lockheed can’t guarantee what will happen if they keep flying past 2022-25? Also note the RNZAF/ MOD had an option for 8 J Models on the back of the Australian order, but Treasury and the Labour/ Alliance Government of 2000 kicked that into touch by an ill conceived upgrade of the H Models therefore kicking the can down rd yet again regardless of what was happening in the Region at the time.
The DCP announce by the “No Mates Party” just before the last election and further reinforced by the Governments Pacific Reset program and along with Ronnie’s and Shaw’s CC accord with the NZDF/ MOD. That the Neo Con’s/ Libs of Treasury are trying to stop the DCP or water down, throw up roadblocks etc IRT DCP to the bare minimum in sprite of what the last and the current Government has said IRT to the current DCP especially after the CC accord signed just before Xmas.
Yet People of NZ wonder why the Australian and South Pacific Governments hate, distrust or treats NZ with contempt etc etc when NZ Governments from the 90’s and now say one thing and at the same time do the opposite!
Ex Kiwi Forces
I agree that we have to have a minimum force of what we need that is kept up to date. And fit in with Australia to the minimum needed and where it would be good for us from a practical point of view. Apparently that itsn’t happening.
Also I have a book that you might have read. If you haven’t I can pas it on. Looks interesting.
THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE
Senior Master Sergeant Jack Brehm http://www.thatothersmaylive.org
Pararescue jumpers
That Others May Live: Inside The World’s Most Daring Rescue Force 2001
by Jack Brehm and Peter Nelson (Author)
Cheers for that book and I’ve noted it down for iPad/ kindle reading list. I’m slowly stepping back my Military reading atm and I mainly looking at the Art, the Science and the Political aspects of Warlike and NonWarlike towards future tends especially in regards to CC base effects like water, land and food etc.
Or I just stick to Maritime, NZ Rail and Aviation History with a gardening.
The Aero Medical Rescue Jumpers is an interesting tropic btw. I have a couple mates in the RAAF’s 4 SQN in B Flt, who looking raising this capability in the RAAF and which has now turned in a inter service/ political bum fight as the RAAF has no helo’s since 89 when they were transfer over the Army and the Army’s Commandos want to add it to their OpSpec with the back of the Army’s Air Corp who managed the Rotor Wing Assets as they shit scared that the RAAF take the helo’s again.
Did you know that the RNZAF once had a similar capability in the late 60’ -70’s? This similar capability being stood up was the result of the 68 Earthquake on the Coast and ongoing operations in the SEA Region, but was always stave of funds and it was finally killed off in the 78 or 82 Defence cuts by old Robbie Muldoon I think. The NZArmy and the RNZAF have been looking a re-establishment of this niche capability as result of the biannual Ex held on the West Coast/ Tasman areas and the result of the recent Kaikoura Earthquake as a way of getting medical/ recovery/ security teams into areas that are cut off and when more conventional means of access is not feasible in the short term.
This niche capability is mentioned in the DCP and was still there when I last look as it can provide a Warlike and NonWarlike role especially in HADR, when one looks at worst case scenarios IRT CC and Earthquakes on the West Coast and the East Coast of the Nth lsland. But this capability is very Capital Equipment and Manpower intenseive ie fix and rotary assets or in the case of both the RNZAF and RNZNFAA the lack of numbers to maintain concurrent activities and also the lack of Uniformed personal be it Regular or Reserve personal to maintain this capability and existing capabilities.
Oh, just what we require, another ticket-clipping middle man inserting themselves into the banking system.
They’re here to help
“Hopper said the service made it easier for people who didn’t have a credit card or felt uncomfortable using their card for online payments”
That’s awesome aye. They can now encourage new generations of unbridled push-button consumption with new options making it easier to consume. Just pay parties A, B, and C a lifetime of fees for software that, once developed, costs exactly nothing.
“Hopper said creating the standards was a move in the right direction but believed it needed to go faster and harder.”
Ah yes, it’s a game of two halves, we can’t be seen to be dropping the ball, not cricket aye, we’ll forge on, give it 110% like ordinary everyday kiwis. Jandals, batches, banks!
Kia ora Newshub It’s amazing coincidence people loss of hearing.???????????????????.
A lot of people are using other Internet sites instead of trademe to trade it not the same as it used to be.
Whanau mahi Ka kite ano P.S some show changed it’s tune.
Kia ora The AM Show that study on obesity in NZ is full of it what has our society dune to start this so called lowering of obesity rates tax sugar high no adverts education the people about sugar being a poison KNOW this studys (figures) on obesity is just cokecola and the sugar companies attempt to get people to relax and buy more of their crap loaded with sugar I say. You know all these countries with low cancer rates low obesity rates every researcher say why you know Why because they don’t eat process FOOD loaded with presvatives and SUGAR.
ITS s cool that I can focus the ATTENTION on SUGAR.
Transfering to a GreenEnergy economy will provide economic growth and jobs there are other country’s that have a more equal society and are Greening rapidly with growth.
I have already had my say on this old dumb topic of people coming back from the Middle East wars.
The hospital gave my granddaughter bad service once again I took her to the doctors yesterday I could read the questions that were asking that they had Racially profiled us then at 530 pm I took her to the hospital they got us in a reasonably time frame I say it was because they could see I was writing a post at 600 pm.?????????.
But the hospital had a doctor and nurses who wanted to question my granddaughter by herself WTF discrimination the French doctor wanted her to have a scan of he puku and I was happy with that obviously I made a bit of noise when they tryed to question my granddaughter by her self 20 minutes later the hospital said they were not going to scan my Mokopunas abdomen WTF. How are they going to diegnosed her with out that she has had these pains for 8 months or more. And Last time she was in hospital (I seen a nice wealthy family with their daughter come into the hospital and all the scanning was dune to diegnose their daughter nice and quickly she was treated and out in 2 days) . This is why the health system is failing MAORI because the COUNTRY’S Hospital are run by redneck racist who bend over backwards for wealthy people and give MAORI substandard services the sandflys were there to playing there silly fucken games to little to late.
The unjustice – – – – – – –
Sack all the old white men who control the unjustice system what a JOKE.
What happened to the evedince that coincidencely went missing from Pike River O and the top cop who forgot to INVESTIGATE clark and tompson spying on KIWIS for state agency just enough time to crank up the SHREDDER,s LOL.
Yes good people don’t think about there bank balance before anything else.
If the trade training sector was working WHY is there a big shortage of skilled tradies the employers make money off the trade on the job training sector and they pay them low wages it is BROKEN Why don’t you have a skeem that banks a deposit to a 3 party to protect the sub contractors from big companies collapsing as its the subbies who build our buildings they are always losing out when big construction companies go BROKE. THERE YOU GO.
Whats happening the fast food chains who sell food laden with sugar are going BROKE and you are advising for them just after the obesity bullshit story early on the show. What happened to your other guests it’s good to see the other person who has a direct line to my – – – you look nervous and look just like them I see the – – – show pulled the main story they were going to talk about last night I wonder WHY. KA KITE ANO
I have had one farmer get away with this rip off and they rang the cops to get me out of the house I quoted the cop the tenency act 2 weeks left in tenency I can thank lost his marbles and gisborneman for Eco Maoris Mana thank you
Wage theft flies under the radar, and the poor are missing out
Imagine a worker reaching into a till and stealing cash.
It’s a crime, right?
Consequences for the sticky fingered worker includes being fired, police and a possible conviction.
But when bosses illegally withhold holiday pay from vulnerable workers where are the police, the courts, the consequences?
While illegal, wage theft is not considered criminal and victims have to hope one of New Zealand’s 60 or so labour inspectors will investigate.
If the Employment Court decides in a worker’s favour, there is no guarantee they will actually see the money they are owed.
It is nigh on impossible to say just how much is stolen from workers each year, however, in 2016 the Council of Trade Unions found workers had been repaid more than $35 million for payroll “errors” that year.
A 2017 audit of the forestry industry by labour inspectors form the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment found almost 90 per cent were breaching basic employment law standards.
In 2018, the ministry released a list of 277 employers barred from hiring migrant workers due to breaches in employment practices.
Last week, wage theft in shearing sheds led to the first collective agreement in 24 years.
Sure, there are business owners who don’t actually understand how the law works or who outsource to payroll companies that make errors. Ka kite ano links below
P.S The sandfly lost his marbles helped his farmer clients rip my whanau of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages tryed to prosercute they just went under ground they had no mail boxes on there 3 farms quite hard to get them into a court as advised by lost his marbles
Eco Maori feels sorrow for OUR Tangata Whenua O Australian Cosins the atrositys that were carred out by people like the sandflys there crown agencys .
If It was not for OUR Tipunas/Anscestors Mana the crown would have served Maori in NZ us the same the crown has used all the dirty tacticks in the world to try and stuff us up but KNOW Maoris Mana is still strong and growing stronger by the day
The Killing Times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront
Special report: Shootings, poisonings and children driven off cliffs – this is a record of state-sanctioned slaughter
The Killing Times counts the human cost of more than a century of frontier bloodshed – with stories told by descendants on all sides. Photograph: Aletheia Casey/The Guardian
The truth of Australia’s history has long been hiding in plain sight.
The stories of “the killing times” are the ones we have heard in secret, or told in hushed tones. They are not the stories that appear in our history books yet they refuse to go away.
The colonial journalist and barrister Richard Windeyer called it “the whispering in the bottom of our hearts”. The anthropologist William Stanner described a national “cult of forgetfulness”. A 1927 royal commission lamented our “conspiracy of silence”.
But calls are growing for a national truth-telling process. Such wishes are expressed in the Uluru statement from the heart. Reconciliation Australia’s 2019 barometer of attitudes to Indigenous peoples found that 80% of people consider truth telling important. Almost 70% of Australians accept that Aboriginal people were subject to mass killings, incarceration and forced removal from land, and their movement was restricted.
Government forces were actively engaged in frontier massacres until at least the late 1920s.
These attacks became more lethal for Aboriginal people over time, not less. The average number of deaths of Aboriginal people in each conflict increased, but from the early 1900s casualties among the settlers ended entirely – with the exception of one death in 1928.
The most common motive for a massacre was reprisal for the killing of settler civilians but at least 51 massacres were in reprisal for the killing or theft of livestock or property.
Of the attacks on the map, only once were colonial perpetrators found guilty and punished – in the aftermath of the Myall Creek killings in 1838.
In NSW and Tasmania between 1794 and 1833, most of the 56 recorded attacks were carried out on foot by detachments of soldiers from British regiments, and an average of 15 people were killed in each one. The weapon most often used was the “Brown Bess” musket, which was issued to British forces in the Napoleonic wars.
In NSW and Victoria between 1834 and 1859, horses and carbine rifles were used in at least 116 frontier massacres of Aboriginal people in mostly daytime attacks, with an average of 27 people killed in each attack.
From the late 1840s, massacres were carried out as daylight attacks by native police, sometimes in joint operations with settlers. They most often used double-barrelled shotguns, rifles and carbines.
Preliminary data from Queensland shows that between 1859 and 1915 an average of 34 people were killed in each attack.
There are at least nine known cases of deliberate poisoning of flour given to Aboriginal people. Ka kite ano Kia kaha Tangata Whenua O Australier Links below
We still have to keep The Wahine Mana going strong as we need more Wahine in power to kick the men,s ass,s in to being careing and humane Its all about ballance when we have men running the WORLD they can only think about themselves . They have made a big MESS of OUR world times are changing fast time for Wahine,s Equality
The week in patriarchy: women are strong when we stick up together
This week reminded me that #MeToo isn’t going anywhere, and that anyone who tries to punish the leaders will be stopped
What a week it’s been. Between the Golden Globes and Times Up, Oprah and the slew of new allegations against powerful men … it’s a lot. But I have to say that this week gave me hope.
In particular, the quick and furious response of feminists online when Harper’s magazine was said to be outing the creator of the Shitty Media Men list. Notorious anti-feminist and backlash opportunist Katie Roiphe was said to be writing the piece, and so within hours women online coordinated to protect the anonymous woman’s identity.
The details are the stuff that media controversy is made of. Roiphe was caught lying to the New York Times about including the woman’s name, and later the list creator herself – Moira Donegan – wrote a soulful and moving piece about her role in #MeToo and the country’s sexual harassment reckoning.
In the end, what stuck with me was the way women stuck up for each other. It reminded me that #MeToo isn’t going anywhere, and that anyone who tries to punish the leaders – whether they are behind the scenes or on the front the lines – will be stopped. In a time when everything feels so hard, that’s something to be grateful for.
Glass Half Full
A bill in California could make medication abortion available at colleges, a move that would be tremendous for the pro-choice movement and for students in desperate need of increased access.
Ka kite ano links below P.S Time for Equality for ALL
We all know the crazy house prices are caused by a lack of houses. So why aren’t new houses being built on the outskirts of cities? Because generally it is prohibited or discouraged by councils. The Auckland urban city limit is an example of this. All councils have plans that are support compact housing instead of what they call “urban sprawl”. They want more apartment shoeboxes and less real homes. Of course, apartments usually don’t get built anyway because the suburban residents don’t want them in their backyard. Other restrictions on subdivision of farmland are caused by the resource management act.
This is why your rent is high, because land restrictions cause a shortage of accommodation.
Kia ora Newshub Of course that wealth man should be named and shamed one law for the wealthy one for the poor the man being charged for sexual harassment of 2 men.
That was a huge tornado to hit Lee County Alabama the power of there storms are only getting stronger condolences to the people who lost there love ones in that catastrophe .
It was hot this year last year was the hottest in Aotearoa.
Condolences to Luke Pearys whanau
Condolences to Keith’s Flints whanau
I, we need to look after all OUR Awa /rivers the mighty Waikato Awa can be viewed on the Internet Ka pai.
Politics in moving a Anglican Church to Higher ground Paddy that’s called mitigating climate change Eco Maori says.
There you go a screening program for boul cancer is not is not carried out at all Hospitals it should be I seen the story on Prime it showed emergincy operation on Maori were much higher than other cultures and Maori are dieing at a higher rate of boul cancer
I say it time well spent for OUR tamariki to miss school and join in the WORLD strike for there climate and their future to be saved on March the 15 Kia kaha.
I already voice my opinion on the trade training system of Atoearoa it needs fixing.
Ka kite ano P.S I love ignoreing the ignorant puppets
Kia ora James and Mulls from The Crowd Wild its cool on the Wai. Had Whanau mahi last night. I no what that is like Eco Maori will never give up.
It was a low scoreing game in Rotorua last night.
Got to do the stretches when you’re teeth get long I know how you feel I remember laughing quietly at the old fellas when I was young more like ignoreing the old fella but I know what they were talking about now James pulling a hamie lol.
Nitro Circus is a mean show Anna.
The only tricks I did on a bmx was skin my ankle dune a few on a horse thou. Ka kite ano
Kia ora The AM Show The real driver in Hawkesbay House prices is a huge housing short /crises created by shonky there are people that the state are paying $1000 a week to live in 1 room motels with children. Don’t twist it duncan the common people don’t mind wealthy people just people with more money than they can spend in 2 life times who minupulate /lobby OUR Laws to suit them they are above the law but the laws don’t stop wealthy people from ripping us off.
I have just said its not as good as it was the living conditions for common people in Hawskbay the rents are $600. A week for 3 bedrooms.
The banks are creaming Kiwis they make money for NOTHING.?????? They love shonky new system he set up for them shorting housing ect I remember when a 3 bedroom house like that cost $80.000 I had saved $20.000 dollars working mean hours the banks would not lend me the money to buy a friend’s house because I was MAORI. I don’t like dish washer they are bad for the environment they use heaps of power and water compared to handwashing.
That was the one of biggest conjob in Aotearoa history The wealthy conning OUR government to sell OUR Banks.
The government should be doing all it can to keep that money in our country.
Ka kite ano P.S I love reading pukupuku
New Zealand is again having to reconcile conflicting pressures from its military and its trade interests. Should we join Pillar Two of AUKUS and risk compromising our markets in China? For a century after New Zealand was founded in 1840, its external security arrangements and external economics arrangements were aligned. ...
The ‘50 Shades of Green’ farmers’ protest in 2019 was heavy on climate change denial, but five years on, scepticism and criticism about the idea that pine forests can save us is growing across the board. File photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: Here’s the top six news items of note in climate ...
This morning the sky was bright.The birds, in their usual joyous bliss. Nature doesn’t seem to feel the heat of what might angst humans.Their calls are clear and beautiful.Just some random thoughts:MāoriPaul Goldsmith has announced his government will roll back the judiciary’s rulings on Māori Customary Marine Title, which recognises ...
In 2003, the Court of Appeal delivered its decision in Ngati Apa v Attorney-General, ruling that Māori customary title over the foreshore and seabed had not been universally extinguished, and that the Māori Land Court could determine claims and confirm title if the facts supported it. This kicked off the ...
Earlier this week at Parliament, Labour leader Chris Hipkins was applauded for saying that the response to the final report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care had to be “bigger than politics.” True, but the fine words, apologies and “we hear you” messages will soon ring ...
TL;DR: In news breaking this morning:The Ministry of Education is cutting $2 billion from its school building programme so the National-ACT-NZ First Coalition Government has enough money to deliver tax cuts; The Government has quietly lowered its child poverty reduction targets to make them easier to achieve;Te Whatu Ora-Health NZ’s ...
Kia ora. These are some stories that caught our eye this week – as always, feel free to share yours in the comments. Our header image this week (via Eke Panuku) shows the planned upgrade for the Karanga Plaza Tidal Swimming Steps. The week in Greater Auckland On ...
1. What's not to love about the way the Harris campaign is turning things around?a. Nothingb. Love all of itc. God what a reliefd. Not that it will be by any means easye. All of the above 2. Documents released by the Ministry of Health show Associate Health Minister Casey ...
Trust in me in all you doHave the faith I have in youLove will see us through, if only you trust in meWhy don't you, you trust me?In a week that saw the release of the 3,000 page Abuse in Care report Christopher Luxon was being asked about Boot Camps. ...
TL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers last night features co-hosts and talking about the Royal Commission Inquiry into Abuse in Carereport released this week, and with:The Kākā’s climate correspondent on a UN push to not recognise carbon offset markets and ...
TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Friday, July 26, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:Transport: Simeon Brown announced$802.9 million in funding for 18 new trains on the Wairarapa and Manawatū rail lines, which ...
The northern expressway extension from Warkworth to Whangarei is likely to require radical changes to legislation if it is going to be built within the foreseeable future. The Government’s powers to purchase land, the planning process and current restrictions on road tolling are all going to need to be changed ...
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedFirst they came for the doctors But I was confused by the numbers and costs So I didn't speak up Then they came for our police and nurses And I didn't think we could afford those costs anyway So I ...
Photo by Joshua J. Cotten on UnsplashWe’re back again after our mid-winter break. We’re still with the ‘new’ day of the week (Thursday rather than Friday) when we have our ‘hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kākā for an hour at 5 pm.Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream ...
Notes: This is a free article. Abuse in Care themes are mentioned. Video is at the bottom.BackgroundYesterday’s report into Abuse in Care revealed that at least 1 in 3 of all who went through state and faith based care were abused - often horrifically. At least, because not all survivors ...
Luxon speaks in Parliament yesterday about the Abuse in Care report. Photo: Hagen Hopkins/Getty ImagesTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy today are:PM Christopher Luxon said yesterday in tabling the Abuse in Carereport in Parliament he wanted to ‘do the ...
About a decade ago I worked with a bloke called Steve. He was the grizzled veteran coder, a few years older than me, who knew where the bodies were buried - code wise. Despite his best efforts to be approachable and friendly he could be kind of gruff, through to ...
Some of the recent announcements from the government have reminded us of posts we’ve written in the past. Here’s one from early 2020. There were plenty of reactions to the government’s infrastructure announcement a few weeks ago which saw them fund a bunch of big roading projects. One of ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:00 am on Thursday, July 25 are:News: Why Electric Kiwi is closing to new customers - and why it matters RNZ’s Susan EdmundsScoop: Government drops ...
Hi,I felt a small wet tongue snaking through one of the holes in my Crocs. It explored my big toe, darting down one side, then the other. “He’s looking for some toe cheese,” said the woman next to me, words that still haunt me to this day.Growing up in New ...
Yesterday I happily quoted the Prime Minister without fact-checking him and sure enough, it turns out his numbers were all to hell. It’s not four kg of Royal Commission report, it’s fourteen.My friend and one-time colleague-in-comms Hazel Phillips gently alerted me to my error almost as soon as I’d hit ...
TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Thursday, July 25, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day were:The Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquirypublished its final report yesterday.PM Christopher Luxon and The Minister responsible for ...
The Official Information Act has always been a battle between requesters seeking information, and governments seeking to control it. Information is power, so Ministers and government agencies want to manage what is released and when, for their own convenience, and legality and democracy be damned. Their most recent tactic for ...
TL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy today are:Transport and Energy Minister Simeon Brown is accelerating plans to spend at least $10 billion through Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to extend State Highway One as a four-lane ‘Expressway’ from Warkworth to Whangarei ...
I live my life (woo-ooh-ooh)With no control in my destinyYea-yeah, yea-yeah (woo-ooh-ooh)I can bleed when I want to bleedSo come on, come on (woo-ooh-ooh)You can bleed when you want to bleedYea-yeah, come on (woo-ooh-ooh)Everybody bleed when they want to bleedCome on and bleedGovernments face tough challenges. Selling unpopular decisions to ...
Please note:To skip directly to the- parliamentary footage in the video, scroll to 1:21 To skip to audio please click on the headphone iconon the left hand side of the screenThis video / audio section is under development. ...
Given the crackdown on wasteful government spending, it behooves me to point to a high profile example of spending by the Luxon government that looks like a big, fat waste of time and money. I’m talking about the deployment of NZDF personnel to support the US-led coalition in the Red ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:40 am on Wednesday, July 24 are:Deep Dive: Chipping away at the housing crisis, including my comments RNZ/Newsroom’s The DetailNews: Government softens on asset sales, ...
As I reported about the city centre, Auckland’s rail network is also going through a difficult and disruptive period which is rapidly approaching a culmination, this will result in a significant upgrade to the whole network. Hallelujah. Also like the city centre this is an upgrade predicated on the City ...
Today, a 4 kilogram report will be delivered to Parliament. We know this is what the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State and Faith-based Care weighs, because our Prime Minister told us so.Some reporter had blindsided him by asking a question about something done by ...
TL;DR: As of 7:00 am on Wednesday, July 24, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:Beehive:Transport Minister Simeon Brownannounced plans to use PPPs to fund, build and run a four-lane expressway between Auckland ...
NewstalkZB host Mike Hosking, who can usually be relied on to give Prime Minister Christopher Luxon an easy run, did not do so yesterday when he interviewed him about the HealthNZ deficit. Luxon is trying to use a deficit reported last year by HealthNZ as yet another example of the ...
Back in January a StatsNZ employee gave a speech at Rātana on behalf of tangata whenua in which he insulted and criticised the government. The speech clearly violated the principle of a neutral public service, and StatsNZ started an investigation. Part of that was getting an external consultant to examine ...
Renting for life: Shared ownership initiatives are unlikely to slow the slide in home ownership by much. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy today are:A Deloittereport for Westpac has projected Aotearoa’s home-ownership rate will ...
You're broken down and tiredOf living life on a merry go roundAnd you can't find the fighterBut I see it in you so we gonna walk it outAnd move mountainsWe gonna walk it outAnd move mountainsAnd I'll rise upI'll rise like the dayI'll rise upI'll rise unafraidI'll rise upAnd I'll ...
There’s been a change in Myers Park. Down the steps from St. Kevin’s Arcade, past the grassy slopes, the children’s playground, the benches and that goat statue, there has been a transformation. The underpass for Mayoral Drive has gone from a barren, grey, concrete tunnel, to a place that thrums ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Global society may have finally slammed on the brakes for climate-warming pollution released by human fossil fuel combustion. According to the Carbon Monitor Project, the total global climate pollution released between February and May 2024 declined slightly from the amount released during the same ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:00 am on Tuesday, July 23 are:Deep Dive: Penlink: where tolling rhetoric meets reality BusinessDesk-$$$’sOliver LewisScoop:Te Pūkenga plans for regional polytechs leak out ...
TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Tuesday, July 23, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:Health: Shane Reti announcedthe Board of Te Whatu Ora-Health New Zealand was being replaced with Commissioner Lester Levy ...
Health NZ warned the Government at the end of March that it was running over Budget. But the reasons it gave were very different to those offered by the Prime Minister yesterday. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blamed the “botched merger” of the 20 District Health Boards (DHBs) to create Health ...
Long ReadKey Summary: Although National increased the health budget by $1.4 billion in May, they used an old funding model to project health system costs, and never bothered to update their pre-election numbers. They were told during the Health Select Committees earlier in the year their budget amount was deficient, ...
As a momentous, historic weekend in US politics unfolded, analysts and commentators grasped for precedents and comparisons to help explain the significance and power of the choice Joe Biden had made. The 46th president had swept the Democratic party’s primaries but just over 100 days from the election had chosen ...
TL;DR: I’m casting around for new ideas and ways of thinking about Aotearoa’s political economy to find a few solutions to our cascading and self-reinforcing housing, poverty and climate crises.Associate Professor runs an online masters degree in the economics of sustainability at Torrens University in Australia and is organising ...
The Finance and Expenditure Committee has reported back on National's Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Bill. The bill sets up water for privatisation, and was introduced under urgency, then rammed through select committee with no time even for local councils to make a proper submission. Naturally, national's select committee ...
Some years ago, I bought a book at Dunedin’s Regent Booksale for $1.50. As one does. Vandrad the Viking (1898), by J. Storer Clouston, is an obscure book these days – I cannot find a proper online review – but soon it was sitting on my shelf, gathering dust alongside ...
History is not on the side of the centre-left, when Democratic presidents fall behind in the polls and choose not to run for re-election. On both previous occasions in the past 75 years (Harry Truman in 1952, Lyndon Johnson in 1968) the Democrats proceeded to then lose the White House ...
This is a free articleCoverageThis morning, US President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the Presidential race. And that is genuinely newsworthy. Thanks for your service, President Biden, and all the best to you and yours.However, the media in New Zealand, particularly the 1News nightly bulletin, has been breathlessly covering ...
A homeless person’s camp beside a blocked-off slipped damage walkway in Freeman’s Bay: we are chasing our tail on our worsening and inter-related housing, poverty and climate crises. Photo: Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy ...
What has happened to it all?Crazy, some'd sayWhere is the life that I recognise?(Gone away)But I won't cry for yesterdayThere's an ordinary worldSomehow I have to findAnd as I try to make my wayTo the ordinary worldYesterday morning began as many others - what to write about today? I began ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:00 am on Monday, July 22 are:Today’s Must Read: Father and son live in a tent, and have done for four years, in a million ...
TL;DR: As of 7:00 am on Monday, July 22, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:US President Joe Biden announced via X this morning he would not stand for a second term.Multinational professional services firm ...
A listing of 32 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 14, 2024 thru Sat, July 20, 2024. Story of the week As reflected by preponderance of coverage, our Story of the Week is Project 2025. Until now traveling ...
This weekend, a friend pointed out someone who said they’d like to read my posts, but didn’t want to pay. And my first reaction was sympathy.I’ve already told folks that if they can’t comfortably subscribe, and would like to read, I’d be happy to offer free subscriptions. I don’t want ...
National: The Party of ‘Law and Order’ IntroductionThis weekend, the Government formally kicked off one of their flagship policy programs: a military style boot camp that New Zealand has experimented with over the past 50 years. Cartoon credit: Guy BodyIt’s very popular with the National Party’s Law and Orderimage, ...
Day one of the solo leg of my long journey home begins with my favourite sound: footfalls in an empty street. 5.00 am and it’s already light and already too warm, almost.If I can make the train that leaves Budapest later this hour I could be in Belgrade by nightfall; ...
Do you remember Y2K, the threat that hung over humanity in the closing days of the twentieth century? Horror scenarios of planes falling from the sky, electronic payments failing and ATMs refusing to dispense cash. As for your VCR following instructions and recording your favourite show - forget about it.All ...
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts being questioned by The Kākā’s Bernard Hickey.TL;DR: My top six things to note around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the week to July 20 were:1. A strategy that fails Zero Carbon Act & Paris targetsThe National-ACT-NZ First Coalition Government finally unveiled ...
Summary:As New Zealand loses at least 12 leaders in the public service space of health, climate, and pharmaceuticals, this month alone, directly in response to the Government’s policies and budget choices, what lies ahead may be darker than it appears. Tui examines some of those departures and draws a long ...
The Minister of Housing’s ambition is to reduce markedly the ratio of house prices to household incomes. If his strategy works it would transform the housing market, dramatically changing the prospects of housing as an investment.Leaving aside the Minister’s metaphor of ‘flooding the market’ I do not see how the ...
As previously noted, my historical fantasy piece, set in the fifth-century Mediterranean, was accepted for a Pirate Horror anthology, only for the anthology to later fall through. But in a good bit of news, it turned out that the story could indeed be re-marketed as sword and sorcery. As of ...
An employee of tobacco company Philip Morris International demonstrates a heated tobacco device. Photo: Getty ImagesTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy on Friday, July 19 are:At a time when the Coalition Government is cutting spending on health, infrastructure, education, housing ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 8:30 am on Friday, July 19 are:Scoop: NZ First Minister Casey Costello orders 50% cut to excise tax on heated tobacco products. The minister has ...
Kia ora, it’s time for another Friday roundup, in which we pull together some of the links and stories that caught our eye this week. Feel free to add more in the comments! Our header image this week shows a foggy day in Auckland town, captured by Patrick Reynolds. ...
TL;DR : Here’s the top six items climate news for Aotearoa this week, as selected by Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer. A discussion recorded yesterday is in the video above and the audio of that sent onto the podcast feed.The Government released its draft Emissions Reduction ...
Save some money, get rich and old, bring it back to Tobacco Road.Bring that dynamite and a crane, blow it up, start all over again.Roll up. Roll up. Or tailor made, if you prefer...Whether you’re selling ciggies, digging for gold, catching dolphins in your nets, or encouraging folks to flutter ...
Waiting In The Wings:For truly, if Trump is America’s un-assassinated Caesar, then J.D. Vance is America’s Octavian, the Republic’s youthful undertaker – and its first Emperor.DONALD TRUMP’S SELECTION of James D. Vance as his running-mate bodes ill for the American republic. A fervent supporter of Viktor Orban, the “illiberal” prime ...
TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Friday, July 19, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:The PSAannounced the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) had ruled in the PSA’s favour in its case against the Ministry ...
TL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers last night features co-hosts and talking with:The Kākā’s climate correspondent talking about the National-ACT-NZ First Government’s release of its first Emissions Reduction Plan;University of Otago Foreign Relations Professor and special guest Dr Karin von ...
Open access notablesImproving global temperature datasets to better account for non-uniform warming, Calvert, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society:To better account for spatial non-uniform trends in warming, a new GITD [global instrumental temperature dataset] was created that used maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) to combine the land surface ...
A late change to charter school legislation will cheat educators out of fair pay and negotiating power proving charter schools are just a vehicle to make profit out of our education system. ...
In 2004 te iwi Māori rallied against the Crown’s attempt to confiscate our coastlines and moana with the Foreshore and Seabed Act. This led to the largest hīkoi of a generation and the birth of Te Pāti Māori. 20 years later, history is repeating itself. Today the government has announced ...
It has been five and a half years since the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care was established to investigate the abuse of children, young people, and vulnerable adults within state and faith-based institutions. Yesterday, the final report - Whanaketia through pain and trauma, from darkness to light ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to take action off the back of the International Court of Justice ruling on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. ...
On Friday the International Court of Justice reaffirmed what Palestinian’s have been telling us for decades: that the occupation and colonisation of Palestinian lands by Israel is illegal and must end immediately. They also called for reparations for Palestinian’s who have lived under Israeli occupation since it began in 1967. ...
Labour calls on the Government to act after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territories is illegal. ...
The 53.7 percent rise in benefit sanctions over the last year is more proof of this Government’s disdain for our communities most in need of support. ...
Aotearoa could be a country where every child grows up feeling safe, loved and with a sense of belonging in their whānau and community. But for some of our children, this is far from reality. Instead, they are trapped in a maze of intergenerational harm that they can’t escape on ...
Te Pāti Māori are calling for David Seymour to resign as Associate Health Minister in response to his call for Pharmac to ignore the Treaty of Waitangi. “This announcement is just another example of the government’s anti-Tiriti, anti-Māori agenda.” Said Co-leader and spokesperson for health, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. “Seymour thinks it ...
The soaring price of renting is driving the rise of inflation in this country - with latest figures from Stats NZ showing rents are up 4.8 per cent on average while annual inflation is at 3.3 per cent. ...
National’s Emissions Reduction Plan will take New Zealand further from the economy we need to ensure the next generation has a stable climate and secure livelihoods. ...
Following consultation with named parties and thorough consideration of privacy interests, the Green Party is in a position to release the Executive Summary of the final report from the independent investigation into Darleen Tana. ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon should be asking serious questions of his Minister for Resources Shane Jones now it’s been revealed he misled the public about a dinner with mining companies that he didn’t declare and said wasn’t pre-arranged. ...
Te Pāti Māori have submitted to the Justice Select Committee against the Sentencing (Reinstating Three Strikes) Amendment Bill. The bill will further entrench racism in our justice system and fails to focus on rehabilitation. “Reinstating Three Strikes will empower a systematically racist system and exacerbate the overrepresentation of Māori in ...
The Transport and Infrastructure Committee is set to make a determination on the Residential Tenancies Amendment (RTA) Bill in the coming weeks. “This legislation will give landlords the power to kick our whānau out onto the street for no reason” said Housing spokesperson, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “Their solution to the housing ...
“National’s campaign was about tackling crime and the best they can do is a two-year long Ministerial Advisory Group,” Labour justice spokesperson Duncan Webb said. ...
“There are more examples of charter schools failing their students than there are success stories. The coalition Government is driving to dismantle our public school system and instead promote a privatised, competitive structure that puts profits before kids,” Jan Tinetti said. ...
“This government is choosing to deliberately mislead and withhold information, keeping our people in the dark about this government’s agenda and the future of our mokopuna,” said co-leader and spokesperson for Health, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. The call comes after the demand from the Chief Ombudsman that Associate Minister of Health, Casey ...
“Today’s climate announcement by Simon Watts makes clear the National Government is simply paying lip service to meeting its climate change targets,” Megan Woods said. ...
National is choosing to make life harder for workers by taking away the rights our communities have fought hard for. Here's how they’re taking workers backwards. ...
Australia, Canada and New Zealand today issued the following statement on the need for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza and the risk of expanded conflict between Hizballah and Israel. The situation in Gaza is catastrophic. The human suffering is unacceptable. It cannot continue. We remain unequivocal in our condemnation of ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today reminded all State and faith-based institutions of their legal obligation to preserve records relevant to the safety and wellbeing of those in its care. “The Abuse in Care Inquiry’s report has found cases where records of the most vulnerable people in State and faith‑based institutions were ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says the Government’s online safety website for children and young people has reached one million page views. “It is great to see so many young people and their families accessing the site Keep It Real Online to learn how to stay safe online, and manage ...
Tēnā tātou katoa, Ngā mihi te rangi, ngā mihi te whenua, ngā mihi ki a koutou, kia ora mai koutou. Thank you for the opportunity to be here and the invitation to speak at this 50th anniversary conference. I acknowledge all those who have gone before us and paved the ...
New Zealand’s payroll providers have successfully prepared to ensure 3.5 million individuals will, from Wednesday next week, be able to keep more of what they earn each pay, says Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Revenue Minister Simon Watts. “The Government's tax policy changes are legally effective from Wednesday. Delivering this tax ...
An experimental vineyard which will help futureproof the wine sector has been opened in Blenheim by Associate Regional Development Minister Mark Patterson. The covered vineyard, based at the New Zealand Wine Centre – Te Pokapū Wāina o Aotearoa, enables controlled environmental conditions. “The research that will be produced at the Experimental ...
The Coalition Government has confirmed the indicative regional breakdown of North Island Weather Event (NIWE) funding for state highway recovery projects funded through Budget 2024, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Regions in the North Island suffered extensive and devastating damage from Cyclone Gabrielle and the 2023 Auckland Anniversary Floods, and ...
Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi, will visit New Zealand next week, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced. “Indonesia is important to New Zealand’s security and economic interests and is our closest South East Asian neighbour,” says Mr Peters, who is currently in Laos to engage with South East Asian partners. ...
He aha te kai a te rangatira? He kōrero, he kōrero, he kōrero. The government has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting the aspirations of Ngāti Maniapoto, Minister for Māori Development Tama Potaka says. “My thanks to Te Nehenehenui Trust – Ngāti Maniapoto for bringing their important kōrero to a ministerial ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has thanked outgoing Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority, Janice Fredric, for her service to the board.“I have received Ms Fredric’s resignation from the role of Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority,” Mr Brown says.“On behalf of the Government, I want to thank Ms Fredric for ...
The Government is proposing legislation to overturn a Court of Appeal decision and amend the Marine and Coastal Area Act in order to restore Parliament’s test for Customary Marine Title, Treaty Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith says. “Section 58 required an applicant group to prove they have exclusively used and occupied ...
Regulation Minister David Seymour says that opposition parties have united in bad faith, opposing what they claim are ‘dangerous changes’ to the Early Childhood Education sector, despite no changes even being proposed yet. “Issues with affordability and availability of early childhood education, and the complexity of its regulation, has led ...
After receiving more than 740 submissions in the first 20 days, Regulation Minister David Seymour is asking the Ministry for Regulation to extend engagement on the early childhood education regulation review by an extra two weeks. “The level of interest has been very high, and from the conversations I’ve been ...
The Coalition Government is investing $802.9 million into the Wairarapa and Manawatū rail lines as part of a funding agreement with the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA), KiwiRail, and the Greater Wellington and Horizons Regional Councils to deliver more reliable services for commuters in the lower North Island, Transport Minister Simeon ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced his intention to appoint a Crown Manager to both Hawke’s Bay Regional and Wairoa District Councils to speed up the delivery of flood protection work in Wairoa."Recent severe weather events in Wairoa this year, combined with damage from Cyclone Gabrielle in 2023 have ...
Mr Speaker, this is a day that many New Zealanders who were abused in State care never thought would come. It’s the day that this Parliament accepts, with deep sorrow and regret, the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. At the heart of this report are the ...
For the first time, the Government is formally acknowledging some children and young people at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital experienced torture. The final report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State and Faith-based Care “Whanaketia – through pain and trauma, from darkness to light,” was tabled in Parliament ...
The Government has acknowledged the nearly 2,400 courageous survivors who shared their experiences during the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State and Faith-Based Care. The final report from the largest and most complex public inquiry ever held in New Zealand, the Royal Commission Inquiry “Whanaketia – through ...
With a week to go before hard-working New Zealanders see personal income tax relief for the first time in fourteen years, 513,000 people have used the Budget tax calculator to see how much they will benefit, says Finance Minister Nicola Willis. “Tax relief is long overdue. From next Wednesday, personal income ...
Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden says a bill that has passed its first reading will improve parental leave settings and give non-biological parents more flexibility as primary carer for their child. The Regulatory Systems Amendment Bill (No3), passed its first reading this morning. “It includes a change ...
Two Bills designed to improve regulation and make it easier to do business have passed their first reading in Parliament, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. The Regulatory Systems (Economic Development) Amendment Bill and Regulatory Systems (Immigration and Workforce) Amendment Bill make key changes to legislation administered by the Ministry ...
New legislation paves the way for greater competition in sectors such as banking and electricity, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly says. “Competitive markets boost productivity, create employment opportunities and lift living standards. To support competition, we need good quality regulation but, unfortunately, a recent OECD report ranked New ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says lotteries for charitable purposes, such as those run by the Heart Foundation, Coastguard NZ, and local hospices, will soon be allowed to operate online permanently. “Under current laws, these fundraising lotteries are only allowed to operate online until October 2024, after which ...
The Coalition Government is accelerating work on the new four-lane expressway between Auckland and Whangārei as part of its Roads of National Significance programme, with an accelerated delivery model to deliver this project faster and more efficiently, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “For too long, the lack of resilient transport connections ...
Sir Don McKinnon will travel to Viet Nam this week as a Special Envoy of the Government, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced. “It is important that the Government give due recognition to the significant contributions that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong made to New Zealand-Viet Nam relations,” Mr ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says newly appointed Commissioner, Grant Illingworth KC, will help deliver the report for the first phase of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 Lessons, due on 28 November 2024. “I am pleased to announce that Mr Illingworth will commence his appointment as ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters travels to Laos this week to participate in a series of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-led Ministerial meetings in Vientiane. “ASEAN plays an important role in supporting a peaceful, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific,” Mr Peters says. “This will be our third visit to ...
Construction of a new mental health facility at Te Nikau Grey Hospital in Greymouth is today one step closer, Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey says. “This $27 million facility shows this Government is delivering on its promise to boost mental health care and improve front line services,” Mr Doocey says. ...
New Zealand is committing nearly $50 million to a package supporting sustainable Pacific fisheries development over the next four years, Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones announced today. “This support consisting of a range of initiatives demonstrates New Zealand’s commitment to assisting our Pacific partners ...
Associate Education Minister David Seymour says proposed changes to the Education and Training Amendment Bill will ensure charter schools have more flexibility to negotiate employment agreements and are equipped with the right teaching resources. “Cabinet has agreed to progress an amendment which means unions will not be able to initiate ...
In response to serious concerns around oversight, overspend and a significant deterioration in financial outlook, the Board of Health New Zealand will be replaced with a Commissioner, Health Minister Dr Shane Reti announced today. “The previous government’s botched health reforms have created significant financial challenges at Health NZ that, without ...
Minister for Space and Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins will travel to Adelaide tomorrow for space and science engagements, including speaking at the Australian Space Forum. While there she will also have meetings and visits with a focus on space, biotechnology and innovation. “New Zealand has a thriving space ...
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Nice read for a sunday
“… The failure of logic in all these cases can be summed up very simply: our culture—meaning here the collective culture of modern Western industrial society—is obsessed by the false belief that nature can’t adapt to our actions. The default assumption on the part of most people in industrial society is that only human beings can learn and adapt and change; the whole world of nonhuman existence we sum up in the word “nature” is not permitted to do any of these things. Nature, according to this delusion of ours, is timeless and changeless, lurching through a set of eternally preprogrammed routines that only we can interrupt. Thus the shrieks of outrage when zebra mussels start cleaning up our pollution, or oceanic plankton adapt to the changing acidity of seawater, or a weed shrugs off buckets of Monsanto’s latest carcinogenic weed killer and keeps on photosynthesizing: it’s as though we think Mother Nature isn’t playing fair…”
https://www.ecosophia.net/a-conversation-with-nature/
Thanks for that nice read.
RNZ detailed article about NZ’s current industrial relations (28 mins): https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/insight/audio/2018684654/strike-why-industrial-action-is-up-under-labour
Discrimination in hiring – and these attitudes will not be fixed by ‘the market’ https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/110836881/ageold-problem-at-work
Give me a 55+ employee any day of the week. It’s the best place to find the qualities I require.
They show up, don’t care much for meth and try hard to do what they say they are going to do. Rather than gossip, come to me with any issues. When looked after, will go the extra mile, rarely get fall down drunk and have a genuine concern for the health of the business. Especially when their income is linked to the health of the business.
Give me a worker with grown up kids every time, they’re the best.
The Chinese General Sun Tzu said this about getting loyalty in a battle.
But it has to be two-way. The workers must be prepared to do right by you. I remember the story of some Melbourne dock workers back last century. Some would go into work, clock in and be off, returning to clock out again.
No-one would report them because there was complete rapport among the workers, and it might have been in the day when there was closed union system and only family and certain others would be accepted by the dominant union. And you had to be in the union.
Respect for each other is the approach needed I think.
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. Sun Tzu
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/sun_tzu_402522
Yes, a desire to be loved and appreciated is something most people have in common. We tend towards giving our all when we feel we are.
My dad had a good one about Aussie dockworkers. He was on cargo ships at the time doing the transtasman run, and NZ had just won a cricket series. One of the ship’s crew put a sign on the gangplank “cricket lessons sold here”.
The Aussies went on strike for the day, and the captain went apeshit 🙂
I was in Fremantle when the underarm bowling incident occurred.
The wharfies kept apologizing to me for the Aussies bad sportsmanship.
Not having any interest in cricket, it was days before I found out why.
Melbourne painters and dockers were Mafia. If you were in dock you had to pay for them to sweep the ship, whether they did it or not. Funnily enough, once they had their kickback, they were very obliging and efficient in any work we, wanted done.
lol … great story.
Sadly these days they’d just pretend they didn’t know what cricket was any more …
No MP has approached Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment to seek information/clarification???
https://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018684353
The 2019 Budget “the wellbeing budget”
I am watching ‘The Nation’ today 3/3/19 and hearing PM Adern saying “we are targeting homes to be “safe Homes”. as part of the next budget as a “well being” budget.
We all In HB/Gisborne who are all living alongside all the truck roads that are slowly being poisoned by tyre dust, noise and exhaust air pollution 24/7 have not got “safe homes” Jacinda!!!!
So please read this submission made to the HBRC in November 2018 about our “unsafe homes” that you can fix by putting half the freight back on rail.
‘Lets do the Jacida’.
Labours new budget this year of 2019 hinges on being “The good wellbeing budget”so best time to hour this promise made to Gisborne 6 years ago and honour the \ Labour, Greens pledge to reinstate Gisborne rail line for our “well being”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10860706
My name is Janet – We have had a property in Pirimai since 1974, we’ve raised our family there and we’re now into the third generation there.
I have been Chairperson of the Pirimai Residents Association and that was when I originally came into the issues here when the Kennedy Road overbridge was built.
I wanted to just give you a few facts, it won’t take me long, about the Expressway.
It was originally designed as a commuter route from Hastings to the Airport, not as a truck route; trucks weren’t even in the picture then because of road freight regulations and most of it went on rail.
Since deregulation in 1983 road traffic has increased considerably everywhere and the Expressway is being developed as the heavy traffic route to the Port of Napier because the other areas of Napier didn’t want it.
Port traffic has doubled over the last 10 years, and according to your figures it’s 25% in the last 2 years, and is forecast to increase by another 57% by 2028.
Hastings boasts ‘the Expressway allows heavy traffic to Port of Napier to avoid travelling through too much of the Hastings urban area’. Napier is not so lucky, the Expressway passes right through the western suburban communities,
As I said, I became involved through the Pirimai Residents Association, but it affects parts of Taradale, Greenmeadows, Tamatea and Ahuriri; each have individual problems, we don’t all have the same ones, but it’s basically the same cause.
Unfortunately, during this time, the focus has become more on economic performance and less on environmental and social wellbeing, and the lack of mitigation will continue to impact on the health, wellbeing and property values of those living alongside.
The Kennedy Road overbridge was built to carry heavy traffic over the top of local roads, which is the opposite to what happens in other parts of the world – they put the heavy traffic on the level, and local roads over the top. Economics trumped environment here, it was the cheaper option.
The Kennedy Road over bridge has only the basic guard rails rather than concrete barriers that are used on the Meeanee Road overbridge and any other bridge we’ve noticed in our travels around this part of the country. Again, economics trumped environment.
The expansion of the Port will only increase the problem as no consideration is given to the adverse effects created by the increase of heavy traffic, The Port have basically said that they are responsible for Port noise, but they are not responsible for the traffic going to and from the port.
Any privatisation of the Port will increase the focus on economic performance to the detriment of the environmental and social impacts. Who is minding the gate? We have made submissions to City Council,
Regional Council, Land Transport Committee, NZTA, but no one has the power or the inclination to resolve the issues.
I have to give credit to Alan here, who’s always let us speak before the Transport Committee, he’s tried to encourage NZTA to step up to the plate, but it doesn’t happen.
Hawkes Bay regional Council motto used to be ‘protecting your environment’, now it is ‘grow Hawkes Bay’.
Hawkes Bay Regional Council has to protect the residents and their environment when making its decision.
We need to be consulted and resolve some mitigation for the increases in the traffic and noise vibration and pollution issues and find a solution as to what can be done to help.
“…A few facts, this won’t take me long.”
Straight into a tl,dr ramble.
You own three cars CG. Roading decisions are made partly on the number of registrations in the market geographically.
You are part of the problem by your own definition, petition yourself
How is that relevant to roads for trucks, to Napier port.
I get that the specifics of his complaint is about trucks, but trucks aren’t the only road or rail users. so decisions tend to be made on a macro level. not as a function of the level of complaints about their activity.
So perhaps looking at alternative ways to achieve your desires and walking the walk.
Or perhaps the satisficing solution is to just reduce or eliminate the number of trucks using that road instead of rail.
CG switching to bicycles does nothing if the trucks remain.
Agree to a point. Roads aren’t just built for trucks, so remove the other users and there is a reduced benefit to society in building roads for trucks.
But simply remove the trucks and there are real benefits to the other road users and people who live nearby.
We come to this blog to discuss problems and politics. You are just a tick, and don’t know the half of it. You are actually an IED and I think you should be avoided, a spoiler who has no good ideas of your own. Nothing up there, and so nothing to add here.
you want an echo chamber. Not blog with a light moderation policy.
I believe the current governments policies are better for New Zealand than the oppositions, they are just woeful at explanation and implementation compared to what National were.
I don’t have to give them a free pass, let them escape critique or stay silent if I agree with the policies broadly. I believe a CGT is a fine idea, once it’s balanced and implemented in a manner that reduces the burden on capital gains as a means of enhancing wealth for all. I.e. reducing income tax on lower and middle income workers so they can enjoy the fruits of being able to invest in capital markets. If they choose.
If it reduces solely rent seeking behaviour I’m in favour. As I am with the idea of kiwi build. But not the government as developer. The government should smash the duopoly of fletchers and west farmers. Not subsided developers to purchase product from them.
You on the other hand think we should just give Twyford a free pass and if we don’t tick progressive on the voting forms we must be trump supporters.
What are you talking about. John Keys own rating system for rating government projects through up red flags straight away, NOVA pay, frigate upgrades, the now defunct Māori Land Redorm policy hospitals, the list is long if you want to take a look at the facts.
Grow a hedge.
Interesting the America has had to use Russian vehicles for the last 8 years to get US personnel to the International Space Station.
Fall of empire?
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/383795/steps-taken-towards-putting-american-astronauts-into-space-again
If USA economists would apply the analysis to going to war all the time, and wrecking the world to save it, we would see the same co-operation between nations on earth as we see in space. But No.
Nah, it’s just a solid, proven, reliable, and relatively cheap design.
Unlike the space shuttle, which was pricey and in practice had a high failure rate.
And as one astronaut said.
“Every part was built by the lowest bidder”.
I watched an hour or so of tRump’s manic CPAC rant. As usual, the fucker lied persistently but when he veered off into confabulation territory he looked every bit like a man in mid-stage dementia.
It’ll be a mystery to me if his obvious mental decline doesn’t make the headline in every newspaper on the planet.
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1101912454261628929
https://www.vox.com/2019/3/2/18247712/trump-cpac-bizarre-rant
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1101910257046118401
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1101910795074658304
Once again John Oliver puts forward a position which I pretty much agree with 100 percent.
https://youtu.be/IYfgvS0FA7U
I think you are wrong. There is plenty of variety of food in Venezuala it’s just foreigners and oligarchies trying real hard not to pay any taxes as this expose explains>>> https://youtu.be/Ny5KFTLyiRw
Did you watch the clip I posted? If so which part did you disagree with?
The clip you posted remiinded me of leftist “journalists” visiting places like the Soviet Union or North Korea and touring a government owned supermarket. Can you spell Propaganda?
I can spell confirmation bias.
Gosman’s seen Maduro parked outside his house.
Adderall must be a wicked ride.
Your posts on Venezuala remind me of the “Weapons of mass destruction” lies, and the demonisation of Allende, in Chile.
How many more Pinochets, and Shah’s, will the USA support?
I’ll view your link, and raise you one.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1902/S00124/venezuela-oil-neoliberalism-and-white-supremacy.htm
They managed the nationalisation of the oil industry like bulls in a china shop.
Copy Norway would of been a far better approach.
In the ‘Make it happen’ part of that industry it is manned by contractors that sign on for a year or two and make millions long before the first tanker sails with a full bilge. If I was a rig chief engineer I would be thinking twice about assigning my crew to the whims of Mr Maduro, the potential for payment in Bolivar, imprisonment, kidnapping etc.
Their infrastucture and expertise is crumbling. The transition to state ownership was hobbled from the get go by ostracising the 10,000 people in the world that work at the pointy end of the oil business.
Exactly. I’ve had a very modest exposure to that industry, but it was sufficient to impress me greatly. It’s work that most people could not do.
The boss on a rig is the offshore installation manager, or “tool pusher” depending on the company.
The marine Captain is a barge engineer, or barge Master.
The Chief engineer is the diesel mechanic.
The oil industry experts routinely work in places where hostage taking and piracy are rife.
Which is not the case in Venezuela.
So, you will have to look elsewhere, like US Government and oil major, boycotts and the threat of civil war, to see why the expertise has gone.
Yes. Norway had a better approach but Venezuela was not allowed that option.
Anybody from the National Party at last night’s Enimen concert in Wellington?
Did he play Eminemesque or the real thing?
Ha De HAHA!! Good one Gristle.
Credit where credit is deserved – that was funny.
Speaking truth to the humorless.
The luvvies are quite uncomfortable.
‘Murica, where more than 40 states allow some form of child marriage.
Idaho’s statehouse Republicans killed a bill that would have created a minimum marriage age in the state, essentially cementing the state’s continued reign as America’s number-one hot spot for newlyweds too young to vote and/or drive. The Idaho Statesman reports that HR 98, which would have eliminated marriage licenses for those 15 and under, and have strengthened the consent requirements for those 16 and 17, failed by a vote of 28-39, with 3 abstaining.
House Republicans outnumber House Democrats 56-14 in the Gem State, where the youngest Idahoans to say “I do” in the 2000s were just 13 years old. Yet Idaho is just one leader in a disturbingly crowded field
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/1/1838685/-Republicans-in-state-with-highest-rate-of-child-marriage-vote-to-keep-it-legal
The late Sen. John McCain’s thick and nasty daughter comes off
as particularly horrible—even amongst the knuckleheads on The View
She starts her nonsense at 13:34….
We have brought in modernising legislation regarding prostitution, and a good thing. But this most intimate relationship is always bound to have difficulties.
It is well regarded overseas apparently. So how could we improve it.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018684812/joep-rottier-the-new-zealand-model-of-sex-work
Trying the devious way to get round the mountain of tragedy and prejudice in white and black relationships.
On RadioNZ today Sunday:
5:10 PM. Heart and Soul
The Right Thing: Making friends with the KKK
The story of Daryl Davis, African-American musician and friend to white supremacists. (BBC)
John Key must have squandered his millions or maybe he’s just a greedy bastard.
“The figures show Sir John Key has begun claiming his yearly annuity, collecting $51,964 in the 2017-18 year, as well as a pro-rata payment of $10,792 the year before. He has also claimed about $11,000 in travel for each of the past two years”
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/-3-7m-in-travel-and-annuities-paid-former-prime-ministers-governors-general-spouses-over-past-five-years
You don’t get rich by foregoing your entitlements. Admittedly, once you are rich, you feel free to tell bullshit stories about donating your salary to charity, but you don’t actually do it.
Technology, computer systems, can afflict any authority with huge bills, overruns and inadequate systems. The look on this USA police head’s face is not a happy one.
https://www.watchdog.org/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-senators-seek-answers-on-police-radio-system-that-went/article_f3ffd0a6-36cd-11e9-adf7-abc051beeda5.html
$800 million over budget is being bandied about. Initial costs for the project were estimated at around $180 million, The project has been dragging on for almost 20 years.
I think we should be looking to the future and starting up pigeon posts, with pigeon fanciers at strategic points in the country. Do it now. It would be both fun and a skill and resource for the future.
whether it be expanionist Chinese empire or Brexit revival empire dreams, for NZ society to survive and prosper, these old ideological battles and ambitions need to be avoided as much as possible in how NZ society continues to tick…
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/03/john-maclean-scotland-comintern-lenin-internationalism
It is the commonwealth added value society and trading nation approach that is the most priceless to the inevitable march of the multi-polar technological world’s seeking for sustainability and adaptation.
Most priceless?
Yes, most absolutely.
Cultural dividend, the great lost art of economic pricing & wealth creation.
More a matter of language use, I suspect CHCoff. I took Gabby as questioning your use of ‘most priceless’ Priceless is an absolute. You are either priceless or you are not. There is no in-between (rather, a bit, very, more, most..) The same as for words like unique, ultimate, perfect, or even the word absolute..
Males sometimes like to joke about pregnancy in the same way… “Slightly pregnant’, ha ha ha.
Blatant…definition of
http://werewolf.co.nz/2019/02/gordon-campbell-on-nationals-extremely-cosy-relationship-with-china/
It’s another well written article on the subject, but from the sounds of it Winnie’s, Ronnie’s and old mate Shaw’s Pacific Reset and along with the CC accord with the NZDF is about to hit the rocks big time according to a well connected source over on the WONZ Fourm site.
The Neo Con /Lib muppets of the Treasury are only allowing the RNZAF to buy 5 J Model Hec’s to replace the 5 H Models before 2022- 2025 as they will finally run out of Airfame hrs and Lockheed can’t guarantee what will happen if they keep flying past 2022-25? Also note the RNZAF/ MOD had an option for 8 J Models on the back of the Australian order, but Treasury and the Labour/ Alliance Government of 2000 kicked that into touch by an ill conceived upgrade of the H Models therefore kicking the can down rd yet again regardless of what was happening in the Region at the time.
The DCP announce by the “No Mates Party” just before the last election and further reinforced by the Governments Pacific Reset program and along with Ronnie’s and Shaw’s CC accord with the NZDF/ MOD. That the Neo Con’s/ Libs of Treasury are trying to stop the DCP or water down, throw up roadblocks etc IRT DCP to the bare minimum in sprite of what the last and the current Government has said IRT to the current DCP especially after the CC accord signed just before Xmas.
Yet People of NZ wonder why the Australian and South Pacific Governments hate, distrust or treats NZ with contempt etc etc when NZ Governments from the 90’s and now say one thing and at the same time do the opposite!
Ex Kiwi Forces
I agree that we have to have a minimum force of what we need that is kept up to date. And fit in with Australia to the minimum needed and where it would be good for us from a practical point of view. Apparently that itsn’t happening.
Also I have a book that you might have read. If you haven’t I can pas it on. Looks interesting.
THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE
Senior Master Sergeant Jack Brehm
http://www.thatothersmaylive.org
Pararescue jumpers
That Others May Live: Inside The World’s Most Daring Rescue Force 2001
by Jack Brehm and Peter Nelson (Author)
Cheers for that book and I’ve noted it down for iPad/ kindle reading list. I’m slowly stepping back my Military reading atm and I mainly looking at the Art, the Science and the Political aspects of Warlike and NonWarlike towards future tends especially in regards to CC base effects like water, land and food etc.
Or I just stick to Maritime, NZ Rail and Aviation History with a gardening.
The Aero Medical Rescue Jumpers is an interesting tropic btw. I have a couple mates in the RAAF’s 4 SQN in B Flt, who looking raising this capability in the RAAF and which has now turned in a inter service/ political bum fight as the RAAF has no helo’s since 89 when they were transfer over the Army and the Army’s Commandos want to add it to their OpSpec with the back of the Army’s Air Corp who managed the Rotor Wing Assets as they shit scared that the RAAF take the helo’s again.
Did you know that the RNZAF once had a similar capability in the late 60’ -70’s? This similar capability being stood up was the result of the 68 Earthquake on the Coast and ongoing operations in the SEA Region, but was always stave of funds and it was finally killed off in the 78 or 82 Defence cuts by old Robbie Muldoon I think. The NZArmy and the RNZAF have been looking a re-establishment of this niche capability as result of the biannual Ex held on the West Coast/ Tasman areas and the result of the recent Kaikoura Earthquake as a way of getting medical/ recovery/ security teams into areas that are cut off and when more conventional means of access is not feasible in the short term.
This niche capability is mentioned in the DCP and was still there when I last look as it can provide a Warlike and NonWarlike role especially in HADR, when one looks at worst case scenarios IRT CC and Earthquakes on the West Coast and the East Coast of the Nth lsland. But this capability is very Capital Equipment and Manpower intenseive ie fix and rotary assets or in the case of both the RNZAF and RNZNFAA the lack of numbers to maintain concurrent activities and also the lack of Uniformed personal be it Regular or Reserve personal to maintain this capability and existing capabilities.
Oh, just what we require, another ticket-clipping middle man inserting themselves into the banking system.
They’re here to help
“Hopper said the service made it easier for people who didn’t have a credit card or felt uncomfortable using their card for online payments”
That’s awesome aye. They can now encourage new generations of unbridled push-button consumption with new options making it easier to consume. Just pay parties A, B, and C a lifetime of fees for software that, once developed, costs exactly nothing.
“Hopper said creating the standards was a move in the right direction but believed it needed to go faster and harder.”
Ah yes, it’s a game of two halves, we can’t be seen to be dropping the ball, not cricket aye, we’ll forge on, give it 110% like ordinary everyday kiwis. Jandals, batches, banks!
Kia ora Newshub It’s amazing coincidence people loss of hearing.???????????????????.
A lot of people are using other Internet sites instead of trademe to trade it not the same as it used to be.
Whanau mahi Ka kite ano P.S some show changed it’s tune.
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute
https://youtu.be/u9Dg-g7t2l4
I have said it before and I say it again don’t fuck with Eco Maori I used nice words like don’t underestimate Me before
https://youtu.be/ktvTqknDobU
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
Kia ora The AM Show that study on obesity in NZ is full of it what has our society dune to start this so called lowering of obesity rates tax sugar high no adverts education the people about sugar being a poison KNOW this studys (figures) on obesity is just cokecola and the sugar companies attempt to get people to relax and buy more of their crap loaded with sugar I say. You know all these countries with low cancer rates low obesity rates every researcher say why you know Why because they don’t eat process FOOD loaded with presvatives and SUGAR.
ITS s cool that I can focus the ATTENTION on SUGAR.
Transfering to a GreenEnergy economy will provide economic growth and jobs there are other country’s that have a more equal society and are Greening rapidly with growth.
I have already had my say on this old dumb topic of people coming back from the Middle East wars.
The hospital gave my granddaughter bad service once again I took her to the doctors yesterday I could read the questions that were asking that they had Racially profiled us then at 530 pm I took her to the hospital they got us in a reasonably time frame I say it was because they could see I was writing a post at 600 pm.?????????.
But the hospital had a doctor and nurses who wanted to question my granddaughter by herself WTF discrimination the French doctor wanted her to have a scan of he puku and I was happy with that obviously I made a bit of noise when they tryed to question my granddaughter by her self 20 minutes later the hospital said they were not going to scan my Mokopunas abdomen WTF. How are they going to diegnosed her with out that she has had these pains for 8 months or more. And Last time she was in hospital (I seen a nice wealthy family with their daughter come into the hospital and all the scanning was dune to diegnose their daughter nice and quickly she was treated and out in 2 days) . This is why the health system is failing MAORI because the COUNTRY’S Hospital are run by redneck racist who bend over backwards for wealthy people and give MAORI substandard services the sandflys were there to playing there silly fucken games to little to late.
The unjustice – – – – – – –
Sack all the old white men who control the unjustice system what a JOKE.
What happened to the evedince that coincidencely went missing from Pike River O and the top cop who forgot to INVESTIGATE clark and tompson spying on KIWIS for state agency just enough time to crank up the SHREDDER,s LOL.
Yes good people don’t think about there bank balance before anything else.
If the trade training sector was working WHY is there a big shortage of skilled tradies the employers make money off the trade on the job training sector and they pay them low wages it is BROKEN Why don’t you have a skeem that banks a deposit to a 3 party to protect the sub contractors from big companies collapsing as its the subbies who build our buildings they are always losing out when big construction companies go BROKE. THERE YOU GO.
Whats happening the fast food chains who sell food laden with sugar are going BROKE and you are advising for them just after the obesity bullshit story early on the show. What happened to your other guests it’s good to see the other person who has a direct line to my – – – you look nervous and look just like them I see the – – – show pulled the main story they were going to talk about last night I wonder WHY. KA KITE ANO
You deserve what I service up to you puppets
I have had one farmer get away with this rip off and they rang the cops to get me out of the house I quoted the cop the tenency act 2 weeks left in tenency I can thank lost his marbles and gisborneman for Eco Maoris Mana thank you
Wage theft flies under the radar, and the poor are missing out
Imagine a worker reaching into a till and stealing cash.
It’s a crime, right?
Consequences for the sticky fingered worker includes being fired, police and a possible conviction.
But when bosses illegally withhold holiday pay from vulnerable workers where are the police, the courts, the consequences?
While illegal, wage theft is not considered criminal and victims have to hope one of New Zealand’s 60 or so labour inspectors will investigate.
If the Employment Court decides in a worker’s favour, there is no guarantee they will actually see the money they are owed.
It is nigh on impossible to say just how much is stolen from workers each year, however, in 2016 the Council of Trade Unions found workers had been repaid more than $35 million for payroll “errors” that year.
A 2017 audit of the forestry industry by labour inspectors form the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment found almost 90 per cent were breaching basic employment law standards.
In 2018, the ministry released a list of 277 employers barred from hiring migrant workers due to breaches in employment practices.
Last week, wage theft in shearing sheds led to the first collective agreement in 24 years.
Sure, there are business owners who don’t actually understand how the law works or who outsource to payroll companies that make errors. Ka kite ano links below
P.S The sandfly lost his marbles helped his farmer clients rip my whanau of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages tryed to prosercute they just went under ground they had no mail boxes on there 3 farms quite hard to get them into a court as advised by lost his marbles
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/110878372/white-collar-theft-flies-under-the-radar-and-the-poor-are-missing-out
The sandflys swarm around Eco Maori They plant gansters around me trying to intimadate me today they have Marked cop cars trying to pervolke me.
Eco Maori feels sorrow for OUR Tangata Whenua O Australian Cosins the atrositys that were carred out by people like the sandflys there crown agencys .
If It was not for OUR Tipunas/Anscestors Mana the crown would have served Maori in NZ us the same the crown has used all the dirty tacticks in the world to try and stuff us up but KNOW Maoris Mana is still strong and growing stronger by the day
The Killing Times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront
Special report: Shootings, poisonings and children driven off cliffs – this is a record of state-sanctioned slaughter
The Killing Times counts the human cost of more than a century of frontier bloodshed – with stories told by descendants on all sides. Photograph: Aletheia Casey/The Guardian
The truth of Australia’s history has long been hiding in plain sight.
The stories of “the killing times” are the ones we have heard in secret, or told in hushed tones. They are not the stories that appear in our history books yet they refuse to go away.
The colonial journalist and barrister Richard Windeyer called it “the whispering in the bottom of our hearts”. The anthropologist William Stanner described a national “cult of forgetfulness”. A 1927 royal commission lamented our “conspiracy of silence”.
But calls are growing for a national truth-telling process. Such wishes are expressed in the Uluru statement from the heart. Reconciliation Australia’s 2019 barometer of attitudes to Indigenous peoples found that 80% of people consider truth telling important. Almost 70% of Australians accept that Aboriginal people were subject to mass killings, incarceration and forced removal from land, and their movement was restricted.
Government forces were actively engaged in frontier massacres until at least the late 1920s.
These attacks became more lethal for Aboriginal people over time, not less. The average number of deaths of Aboriginal people in each conflict increased, but from the early 1900s casualties among the settlers ended entirely – with the exception of one death in 1928.
The most common motive for a massacre was reprisal for the killing of settler civilians but at least 51 massacres were in reprisal for the killing or theft of livestock or property.
Of the attacks on the map, only once were colonial perpetrators found guilty and punished – in the aftermath of the Myall Creek killings in 1838.
In NSW and Tasmania between 1794 and 1833, most of the 56 recorded attacks were carried out on foot by detachments of soldiers from British regiments, and an average of 15 people were killed in each one. The weapon most often used was the “Brown Bess” musket, which was issued to British forces in the Napoleonic wars.
In NSW and Victoria between 1834 and 1859, horses and carbine rifles were used in at least 116 frontier massacres of Aboriginal people in mostly daytime attacks, with an average of 27 people killed in each attack.
From the late 1840s, massacres were carried out as daylight attacks by native police, sometimes in joint operations with settlers. They most often used double-barrelled shotguns, rifles and carbines.
Preliminary data from Queensland shows that between 1859 and 1915 an average of 34 people were killed in each attack.
There are at least nine known cases of deliberate poisoning of flour given to Aboriginal people. Ka kite ano Kia kaha Tangata Whenua O Australier Links below
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/04/the-killing-times-the-massacres-of-aboriginal-people-australia-must-confront
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
We still have to keep The Wahine Mana going strong as we need more Wahine in power to kick the men,s ass,s in to being careing and humane Its all about ballance when we have men running the WORLD they can only think about themselves . They have made a big MESS of OUR world times are changing fast time for Wahine,s Equality
The week in patriarchy: women are strong when we stick up together
This week reminded me that #MeToo isn’t going anywhere, and that anyone who tries to punish the leaders will be stopped
What a week it’s been. Between the Golden Globes and Times Up, Oprah and the slew of new allegations against powerful men … it’s a lot. But I have to say that this week gave me hope.
In particular, the quick and furious response of feminists online when Harper’s magazine was said to be outing the creator of the Shitty Media Men list. Notorious anti-feminist and backlash opportunist Katie Roiphe was said to be writing the piece, and so within hours women online coordinated to protect the anonymous woman’s identity.
The details are the stuff that media controversy is made of. Roiphe was caught lying to the New York Times about including the woman’s name, and later the list creator herself – Moira Donegan – wrote a soulful and moving piece about her role in #MeToo and the country’s sexual harassment reckoning.
In the end, what stuck with me was the way women stuck up for each other. It reminded me that #MeToo isn’t going anywhere, and that anyone who tries to punish the leaders – whether they are behind the scenes or on the front the lines – will be stopped. In a time when everything feels so hard, that’s something to be grateful for.
Glass Half Full
A bill in California could make medication abortion available at colleges, a move that would be tremendous for the pro-choice movement and for students in desperate need of increased access.
Ka kite ano links below P.S Time for Equality for ALL
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/jan/13/the-week-in-patriarchy-women-are-strong-when-we-stick-up-together
We all know the crazy house prices are caused by a lack of houses. So why aren’t new houses being built on the outskirts of cities? Because generally it is prohibited or discouraged by councils. The Auckland urban city limit is an example of this. All councils have plans that are support compact housing instead of what they call “urban sprawl”. They want more apartment shoeboxes and less real homes. Of course, apartments usually don’t get built anyway because the suburban residents don’t want them in their backyard. Other restrictions on subdivision of farmland are caused by the resource management act.
This is why your rent is high, because land restrictions cause a shortage of accommodation.
Kia ora Newshub Of course that wealth man should be named and shamed one law for the wealthy one for the poor the man being charged for sexual harassment of 2 men.
That was a huge tornado to hit Lee County Alabama the power of there storms are only getting stronger condolences to the people who lost there love ones in that catastrophe .
It was hot this year last year was the hottest in Aotearoa.
Condolences to Luke Pearys whanau
Condolences to Keith’s Flints whanau
I, we need to look after all OUR Awa /rivers the mighty Waikato Awa can be viewed on the Internet Ka pai.
Politics in moving a Anglican Church to Higher ground Paddy that’s called mitigating climate change Eco Maori says.
There you go a screening program for boul cancer is not is not carried out at all Hospitals it should be I seen the story on Prime it showed emergincy operation on Maori were much higher than other cultures and Maori are dieing at a higher rate of boul cancer
I say it time well spent for OUR tamariki to miss school and join in the WORLD strike for there climate and their future to be saved on March the 15 Kia kaha.
I already voice my opinion on the trade training system of Atoearoa it needs fixing.
Ka kite ano P.S I love ignoreing the ignorant puppets
Kia ora James and Mulls from The Crowd Wild its cool on the Wai. Had Whanau mahi last night. I no what that is like Eco Maori will never give up.
It was a low scoreing game in Rotorua last night.
Got to do the stretches when you’re teeth get long I know how you feel I remember laughing quietly at the old fellas when I was young more like ignoreing the old fella but I know what they were talking about now James pulling a hamie lol.
Nitro Circus is a mean show Anna.
The only tricks I did on a bmx was skin my ankle dune a few on a horse thou. Ka kite ano
Kia ora The AM Show The real driver in Hawkesbay House prices is a huge housing short /crises created by shonky there are people that the state are paying $1000 a week to live in 1 room motels with children. Don’t twist it duncan the common people don’t mind wealthy people just people with more money than they can spend in 2 life times who minupulate /lobby OUR Laws to suit them they are above the law but the laws don’t stop wealthy people from ripping us off.
I have just said its not as good as it was the living conditions for common people in Hawskbay the rents are $600. A week for 3 bedrooms.
The banks are creaming Kiwis they make money for NOTHING.?????? They love shonky new system he set up for them shorting housing ect I remember when a 3 bedroom house like that cost $80.000 I had saved $20.000 dollars working mean hours the banks would not lend me the money to buy a friend’s house because I was MAORI. I don’t like dish washer they are bad for the environment they use heaps of power and water compared to handwashing.
That was the one of biggest conjob in Aotearoa history The wealthy conning OUR government to sell OUR Banks.
The government should be doing all it can to keep that money in our country.
Ka kite ano P.S I love reading pukupuku