“… 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
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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKopy74weus
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
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
TL;DR: In today’s ‘six-stack’ of substacks at 6.06pm on Tuesday, March 19:Kāinga Ora’s dry rot The Spinoff DailyBill McKibben on ‘Climate Superfunds’ making Big Oil pay for climate damage The Crucial YearsPreston Mui on returning to 1980s-style productivity growth NoahpinionAndy Boenau on NIMBYs needing unusual bedfellows Urbanism SpeakeasyNed Resnikoff's case ...
Negative yesterday, negative today. Negative all year, according to one departing reader telling me I’ve grown strident and predictable. Fair enough. If it’s any help, every time I go to write about a certain topic that begins with C and ends with arrrrs, I do brace myself and ask: Again? Are ...
Bryce Edwards writes – It’s been a tumultuous time in politics in recent months, as the new National-led Government has driven through its “First 100 Day programme”. During this period there’s been a handful of opinion polls, which overall just show a minimal amount of flux in public support ...
Inspirational: The Family of Man is a glorious hymn to human equality, but, more than that, it is a clarion call to human freedom. Because equality, unleavened by liberty, is a broken piano, an unstrung harp; upon which the songs of fraternity will never be played.“Somebody must have been telling lies about ...
Tax Lawyer Barbara Edmonds vs Emperor Justinian I- Nolo Contendere: False historical explanations of pivotal events are very far from being inconsequential.WHEN BARBARA EDMONDS made reference to the Roman Empire, my ears pricked up. It is, lamentably, very rare to hear a politician admit to any kind of familiarity ...
It’s been a tumultuous time in politics in recent months, as the new National-led Government has driven through its “First 100 Day programme”. During this period there’s been a handful of opinion polls, which overall just show a minimal amount of flux in public support for the various parties in ...
Buzz from the Beehive Housing Minister Chris Bishop delivered news – packed with the ingredients to enflame political passions – worthy of supplanting Winston Peters in headline writers’ priorities. He popped up at the post-Cabinet press conference to promise a crackdown on unruly and antisocial state housing tenants. His ...
Ele Ludemann writes – The Reserve Bank is advertising for a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion advisor. The Bank has one mandate – to keep inflation between one and three percent. It has failed in that and is only slowly getting inflation back down to the upper limit. Will it ...
Last week former National Party leader Simon Bridges was appointed by the Government as the new chair of the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA). You can read about the appointment in Thomas Coughlan’s article, Simon Bridges to become chair of NZ Transport Agency Waka KotahiThe fact that a ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Last week former National Party leader Simon Bridges was appointed by the Government as the new chair of the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA). You can read about the appointment in Thomas Coughlan’s article, Simon Bridges to become chair of NZ Transport Agency ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read: Gavin Jacobson talks to Thomas Piketty 10 years on from Capital in the 21st CenturyThe SalvoLocal scoop: Green MP’s business being investigated over migrant exploitation claims StuffSteve KilgallonLocal deep-dive: The commercial contractors making money from School ...
It’s a home - but Kāinga Ora tenants accused of “abusing the privilege” may lose it. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The Government announced a crackdown on Kāinga Ora tenants who were unruly and/or behind on their rent, with Housing Minister Chris Bishop saying a place in a state ...
This is a guest post by Connor Sharp of Surface Light Rail Light rail in Auckland: A way forward sooner than you think With the coup de grâce of Auckland Light Rail (ALR) earlier this year, and the shift of the government’s priorities to roads, roads, and more roads, it ...
Note: As a paid-up Webworm member, I’ve recorded this Webworm as a mini-podcast for you as well. Some of you said you liked this option - so I aim to provide it when I get a chance to record! Read more ...
TL;DR: In my ‘six-stack’ of substacks at 6.06pm on Monday, March 18:IKEA is accused of planting big forests in New Zealand to green-wash; REDD-MonitorA City for People takes a well-deserved victory lap over Wellington’s pro-YIMBY District Plan votes; A City for PeopleSteven Anastasiou takes a close look at the sticky ...
Buzz from the Beehive Here’s hoping for a lively post-cabinet press conference when the PM and – perhaps – some of his ministers tell us what was discussed at their meeting today. Until then, Point of Order has precious little Beehive news to report after its latest monitoring of the ...
David Farrar writes – We now have almost all 2023 data in, which has allowed me to update my annual table of how labour went against its promises. This is basically their final report card. The promiseThe result Build 100,000 affordable homes over 10 ...
I’m a bit worried that I’ve started a previous newsletter with the words “just when you think they couldn’t get any worse…” Seems lately that I could begin pretty much every issue with that opening. Such is the nature of our coalition government that they seem to be outdoing each ...
Geoffrey Miller writes – Timing is everything. And from China’s perspective, this week’s visit by its foreign minister to New Zealand could be coming at just the right moment. The visit by Wang Yi to Wellington will be his first since 2017. Anniversaries are important to Beijing. ...
Depictions of Islam in Western popular culture have rarely been positive, even before 9/11. Five years on from the mosque shootings, this is one of the cultural headwinds that the Muslim community has to battle against. Whatever messages of tolerance and inclusion are offered in daylight, much of our culture ...
Last week Transport Minster Simeon Brown and Mayor Wayne Brown opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre. The new train control centre will see teams from KiwiRail, Auckland Transport and Auckland One Rail working more closely together to improve train services across the city. The Auckland Rail Operations Centre in ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Retiring former Labour Finance Minister Grant Robertson said in an exit interview with Q+A yesterday the Government can and should sustain more debt to invest in infrastructure for future generations. Elsewhere in the news in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 6:36am: Read more ...
Timing is everything. And from China’s perspective, this week’s visit by its foreign minister to New Zealand could be coming at just the right moment. The visit by Wang Yi to Wellington will be his first since 2017. Anniversaries are important to Beijing. It is more than just a happy ...
TL;DR: The key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to March 18 include:China’s Foreign Minister visiting Wellington today;A post-cabinet news conference this afternoon; the resumption of Parliament on Tuesday for two weeks before Easter;retiring former Labour Finance Minister Grant Robertson gives his valedictory speech in Parliament; ...
New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters’s state-of-the-nation speech on Sunday was really a state-of-Winston-First speech. He barely mentioned any of the Government’s key policies and could not even wholly endorse its signature income tax cuts. Instead, he rehearsed all of his complaints about the Ardern Government, including an extraordinary claim ...
A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 10, 2024 thru Sat, March 16, 2024. Story of the week This week we'll give you a little glimpse into how we collect links to share and ...
A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 10, 2024 thru Sat, March 16, 2024. Story of the week This week we'll give you a little glimpse into how we collect links to share and ...
“I’ve been internalising a really complicated situation in my head.”When they kept telling us we should wait until we get to know him, were they taking the piss? Was it a case of, if you think this is bad, wait till you get to know the real Christopher, after the ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
.“$10 and a target that bleeds” - Bleeding Targets for Under $10!.Thanks for reading Frankly Speaking ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.This government appears hell-bent on either scrapping life-saving legislation or reintroducing things that - frustrated critics insist - will be dangerous and likely ...
“It hardly strikes me as fair to criticise a government for doing exactly what it said it was going to do. For actually keeping its promises.”THUNDER WAS PLAYING TAG with lightning flashes amongst the distant peaks. Its rolling cadences interrupted by the here-I-come-here-I-go Doppler effect of the occasional passing car. ...
Subversive & Disruptive Technologies: Just as happened with that other great regulator of the masses, the Medieval Church, the advent of a new and hard-to-control technology – the Internet – is weakening the ties that bind. Then, and now, those who enjoy a monopoly on the dissemination of lies, cannot and will ...
Been Here Before: To find the precedents for what this Coalition Government is proposing, it is necessary to return to the “glory days” of Muldoonism.THE COALITION GOVERNMENT has celebrated its first 100 days in office by checking-off the last of its listed commitments. It remains, however, an angry government. It ...
Bob Edlin writes – And what is the world watching today…? The email newsletter from Associated Press which landed in our mailbox early this morning advised: In the news today: The father of a school shooter has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter; prosecutors in Trump’s hush-money case ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Is another Green MP on their way out? And are the Greens severely tarnished by another integrity scandal? For the second time in three months, the Green Party has secretly suspended an MP over integrity issues. Mystery is surrounding the party’s decision to ...
For the last few years, the Green Party has been the party that has managed to avoid the plague of multiple scandals that have beleaguered other political parties. It appears that their luck has run out with a second scandal which, unfortunately for them, coincided with Golraz Ghahraman, the focus ...
TL;DR: The six newsey things that stood out to me as of 6:46am on Saturday, March 16.Andy Foster has accidentally allowed a Labour/Green amendment to cut road user chargers for plug-in hybrid vehicles, which the Government might accept; NZ HeraldThomas CoughlanSimeon Brown has rejected a plea from Westport ...
What seemed a booming success a couple of years ago has collapsed into fraud convictions.I looked at the crash of FTX (short for ‘Futures Exchange’) in November 2022 to see whether it would impact on the financial system as a whole. Fortunately there was barely a ripple, probably because it ...
Anybody following the situation in Ukraine and Russia would probably have been amused by a recent Tweet on X NATO seems to be putting in an awful lot of effort to influence what is, at least according to them, a sham election in an autocracy.When do the Ukrainians go to ...
TL;DR:Shaun Baker on Wynyard Quarter's transformation. Magdalene Taylor on the problem with smart phones. How private equity are now all over reinsurance. Dylan Cleaver on rugby and CTE. Emily Atkin on ‘Big Meat’ looking like ‘Big Oil’.Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 6pm on March 15Photo by Jeppe Hove Jensen ...
Buzz from the Beehive Finance Minister Nicola Willis had plenty to say when addressing the Auckland Business Chamber on the economic growth that (she tells us) is flagging more than we thought. But the government intends to put new life into it: We want our country to be a ...
The Transport and Infrastructure Committee has reported back on the Road User Charges (Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Amendment Bill, basicly rubberstamping it. While there was widespread support among submitters for the principle that EV and PHEV drivers should pay their fair share for the roads, they also overwhelmingly disagreed with ...
Peter Dunne writes – This week’s government bailout – the fifth in the last eighteen months – of the financially troubled Ruapehu Alpine Lifts company would have pleased many in the central North Island ski industry. The government’s stated rationale for the $7 million funding was that it ...
See if you can spot the difference. An Iranian born female MP from a progressive party is accused of serial shoplifting. Her name is leaked to the media, which goes into a pack frenzy even before the Police launch an … Continue reading → ...
Ele Ludemann writes – The government is omitting general Treaty references from legislation : The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last Government in a bid to get greater coherence in the public service on Treaty ...
What was that judge thinking?Peter Williams writes – That Golriz Ghahraman and District Court Judge Maria Pecotic were once lawyer colleagues is incontrovertible. There is published evidence that they took at least one case to the Court of Appeal together. There was a report on ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Climate Scorpion – the sting is in the tail. Introducing planetary solvency. A paper via the University of Exeter’s Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.Local scoop:Kāinga Ora starts pulling out of its Auckland projects and selling land RNZ ...
Wellington’s massively upzoned District Plan adds the opportunity for tens of thousands of new homes not just in the central city (such as these Webb St new builds) but also close to the CBD and public transport links. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Wellington gave itself the chance of ...
It’s Friday and we’re halfway through March Madness. Here’s some of the things that caught our attention this week. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt asked how we can get better event trains and an option for grade separating Morningside Dr. On Tuesday Matt looked into ...
Something you might not know about me is that I’m quite a stubborn person. No, really. I don’t much care for criticism I think’s unfair or that I disagree with. Few of us do I suppose.Back when I was a drinker I’d sometimes respond defensively, even angrily. There are things ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the last week included:PM Christopher Luxon said the reversal of interest deductibility for landlords was done to help renters, who ...
It was not so much the Labour Party but really the Chris Hipkins party yesterday at Labour’s caucus retreat in Martinborough. The former Prime Minister was more or less consistent on wealth tax, which he was at best equivocal about, and social insurance, which he was not willing to revisit. ...
Buzz from the BeehiveThe text reproduced above appears on a page which records all the media statements and speeches posted on the government’s official website by Melissa Lee as Minister of Media and Communications and/or by Jenny Marcroft, her Parliamentary Under-secretary. It can be quickly analysed ...
For forty years, Robert Muldoon has been a dirty word in our politics. His style of government was so repulsive and authoritarian that the backlash to it helped set and entrench our constitutional norms. His pig-headedness over forcing through Think Big eventually gave us the RMA, with its participation and ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Is the new government reducing tax on rental properties to benefit landlords or to cut the cost of rents? That’s the big question this week, after Associate Finance Minister David Seymour announced on Sunday that the Government would be reversing the Labour Government’s removal ...
Saudi Arabia is rarely far from the international spotlight. The war in Gaza has brought new scrutiny to Saudi plans to normalise relations with Israel, while the fifth anniversary of the controversial killing of Jamal Khashoggi was marked shortly before the war began on October 7. And as the home ...
Questions need to be asked on both sides of the worldPeter Williams writes – The NRL Judiciary hands down an eight week suspension to Sydney Roosters forward Spencer Leniu , an Auckland-born Samoan, after he calls Ezra Mam, Sydney-orn but of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Ele Ludemann writes – Contrary to what many headlines and news stories are saying, residential landlords are not getting a tax break. The government is simply restoring to them the tax deductibility of interest they had until the previous government removed it. There is no logical reason ...
I can't remember when it was goodMoments of happiness in bloomMaybe I just misunderstoodAll of the love we left behindWatching our flashbacks intertwineMemories I will never findIn spite of whatever you becomeForget that reckless thing turned onI think our lives have just begunI think our lives have just begunDoes anyone ...
Michael Bassett writes – At first reading, a front-page story in the New Zealand Herald on 13 March was bizarre. A group of severely intellectually limited teenagers, with little understanding of the law, have been pleading to the Justice Select Committee not to pass a bill dealing with ram ...
How much political capital is Christopher Luxon willing to burn through in order to deliver his $2.9 billion gift to landlords? Evidently, Luxon is: (a) unable to cost the policy accurately. As Anna Burns-Francis pointed out to him on Breakfast TV, the original ”rock solid” $2.1 billion cost he was ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Jonathon Porritt calling bullshit in his own blog post on mainstream climate science as ‘The New Denialism’.Local scoop:The Wellington City Council’s list of proposed changes to the IHP recommendations to be debated later today was leaked this ...
TL;DR:Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said yesterday tenants should be grateful for the reinstatement of interest deductibility because landlords would pass on their lower tax costs in the form of lower rents. That would be true if landlords were regulated monopolies such as Transpower or Auckland Airport1, but they’re not, ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Tom Toro Tom Toro is a cartoonist and author. He has published over 200 cartoons in The New Yorker since 2010. His cartoons appear in Playboy, the Paris Review, the New York Times, American Bystander, and elsewhere. Related: What 10 EV lovers ...
The business section of the NZ Herald is full of opinion. Among the more opinionated of all is the ex-Minister of Transport, ex-Minister of Railways, ex MP for Auckland Central (1975-93, Labour), Wellington Central (1996-99, ACT, then list-2005), ex-leader of the ACT Party, uncle to actor Antonia, the veritable granddaddy ...
Hi,Just quickly — I’m blown away by the stories you’ve shared with me over the last week since I put out the ‘Gary’ podcast, where I told you about the time my friend’s flatmate killed the neighbour.And you keep telling me stories — in the comments section, and in my ...
The first season of Rings of Power was not awful. It was thoroughly underwhelming, yes, and left a lingering sense of disappointment, but it was more expensive mediocrity than catastrophe. I wrote at length about the series as it came out (see the Review section of the blog, and go ...
Buzz from the Beehive Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden told Auckland Business Chamber members they were the first audience to hear her priorities as a minister in a government committed to cutting red tape and regulations. She brandished her liberalising credentials, saying Flexible labour markets are the ...
Chris Trotter writes – TO UNDERSTAND WHY NEWSHUB FAILED, it is necessary to understand how TVNZ changed. Up until 1989, the state broadcaster had been funded by a broadcasting licence fee, collected from every citizen in possession of a television set, supplemented by a relatively modest (compared ...
Bob Edlin writes – The Māori Party has been busy issuing a mix of warnings and threats as its expresses its opposition to interest deductibility for landlords and the plans of seabed miners. It remains to be seen whether they follow the example of indigenous litigants in Australia, ...
The Government has accepted Labour’s change to the Road User Charge (RUC) discount for hybrid vehicles, meaning there will still be some incentive for people to buy greener vehicles. ...
Kicking the most vulnerable people out of state housing and pushing them towards homelessness will result in a proliferation of poverty and trauma across our most vulnerable communities. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader and MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi has penned a letter asking MPs to support his members bill to remove GST from all food. The bill is expected to go through its first reading in parliament this Wednesday. “I’m calling on all political parties to support my ...
This year is about getting real with Kiwis and discussing the tough issues, as the National Government exacerbates inequality and divides New Zealand, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said ...
The Government adding Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) to its already roaring environmental policy bonfire is an assault on the future of wildlife that makes Aotearoa unique. ...
After 12 years of fighting to protect our moana we are finding ourselves back at square one and back at court. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is sitting in Hawera to reconsider an application from Trans-Tasman Resources to dig up 50 million tonnes of the seabed in South Taranaki. This ...
Minister Shane Jones’ decision to step away from a seabed mining project is evidence of the murky waters surrounding the Government’s fast-track legislation. ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The Coalition Government’s miscalculation saga continues as it has forgotten an eyewatering $90 million gap in its interest deductibility cost figures, say Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds and Revenue Spokesperson Deborah Russell. ...
He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission has today released advice that says if the Government doesn’t act now New Zealand is at risk of not meeting its climate goals. ...
The Coalition Government has today confirmed it is abandoning first home buyers who are struggling to get ahead, says Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds. ...
The New Zealand public voted for a change in direction at the 2023 general election and that is exactly what this coalition government has been delivering in its first 100 days. There was an immediate focus on the economy, easing the cost of living, cracking down on law and order ...
The Government has left the health system as an afterthought, announcing half-baked targets at the last minute of their 100-day plan, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
Kiwis are still waiting for their promised cost of living support after 100 days of a National Government that is taking us backwards, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
100 days of National taking NZ backwardsThe National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
The Government must commit to funding free and healthy school lunches, as thousands of people sign the petition to keep them, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti says. ...
If the Government was serious about moving families into public housing, they would build more houses so there is actually somewhere for people to go. ...
The free and healthy school lunches programme feeds our kids, helps them to learn, and saves families money – but it is at risk under this Government, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. ...
The Government’s proposed changes to Firearms Prohibition Orders (FPO) add almost nothing new and are merely an attempt to distract from its plans to loosen gun laws, police spokesperson Ginny Andersen and justice spokesperson Dr Duncan Webb said. ...
The great Victorian era English politician Lord Macauley stood in the British House of Parliament and said, "The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm".He understood and outlined even way back then, the significant role and influence media have in a democracy. ...
"The Government is moving quickly to realise an additional $46 million in tariff savings in the EU market this season for Kiwi exporters,” Minister for Trade and Agriculture, Todd McClay says. Parliament is set, this week, to complete the final legislative processes required to bring the New Zealand – European ...
New Zealand’s social workers are qualified, experienced, and more representative of the communities they serve, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “I want to acknowledge and applaud New Zealand’s social workers for the hard work they do, providing invaluable support for our most vulnerable. “To coincide with World ...
Cabinet has agreed to a reduced road user charge (RUC) rate for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. Owners of PHEVs will be eligible for a reduced rate of $38 per 1,000km once all light electric vehicles (EVs) move into the RUC system from 1 April. ...
Minister of Agriculture and Trade, Todd McClay, says that today’s opening of Riverland Foods manufacturing plant in Christchurch is a great example of how trade access to overseas markets creates jobs in New Zealand. Speaking at the official opening of this state-of-the-art pet food factory the Minister noted that exports ...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Wellington today. “It was a pleasure to host Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his first official visit to New Zealand since 2017. Our discussions were wide-ranging and enabled engagement on many facets of New Zealand’s relationship with China, including trade, ...
Kāinga Ora – Homes & Communities has been instructed to end the Sustaining Tenancies Framework and take stronger measures against persistent antisocial behaviour by tenants, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Earlier today Finance Minister Nicola Willis and I sent an interim Letter of Expectations to the Board of Kāinga Ora. ...
Tēna koutou katoa. Greetings everyone. Thank you to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and the Honourable Simon Bridges for hosting this address today. I acknowledge the business leaders in this room, the leaders and governors, the employers, the entrepreneurs, the investors, and the wealth creators. The coalition Government shares your ...
Minister Winston Peters completed the final leg of his visit to South and South East Asia in Singapore today, where he focused on enhancing one of New Zealand’s indispensable strategic partnerships. “Singapore is our most important defence partner in South East Asia, our fourth-largest trading partner and a ...
Minister of Internal Affairs and Workplace Relations and Safety, Hon. Brooke van Velden, will travel to the Republic of Korea to represent New Zealand at the Third Summit for Democracy on 18 March. The summit, hosted by the Republic of Korea, was first convened by the United States in 2021, ...
ICNZ Speech 7 March 2024, Auckland Acknowledgements and opening Mōrena, ngā mihi nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Good morning, it’s a privilege to be here to open the ICNZ annual conference, thank you to Mark for the Mihi Whakatau My thanks to Tim Grafton for inviting me ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Lead Coordination Minister Judith Collins have expressed their deepest sympathy on the five-year anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks. “March 15, 2019, was a day when families, communities and the country came together both in sorrow and solidarity,” Mr Luxon says. “Today we pay our respects to the 51 shuhada ...
Speech for Financial Advice NZ Conference 5 March 2024 Acknowledgements and opening Morena, Nga Mihi Nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Thanks Nate for your Mihi Whakatau Good morning. It’s a pleasure to formally open your conference this morning. What a lovely day in Wellington, What a great ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters held discussions in Jakarta today about the future of relations between New Zealand and South East Asia’s most populous country. “We are in Jakarta so early in our new government’s term to reflect the huge importance we place on our relationship with Indonesia and South ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters has announced that the Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi, will visit New Zealand next week. “We look forward to re-engaging with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and discussing the full breadth of the bilateral relationship, which is one of New Zealand’s ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has today opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre, which will bring together KiwiRail, Auckland Transport, and Auckland One Rail to improve service reliability for Aucklanders. “The recent train disruptions in Auckland have highlighted how important it is KiwiRail and Auckland’s rail agencies work together to ...
The Government is proud to support the 10th edition of Crankworx Rotorua as the Crankworx World Tour returns to Rotorua from 16-24 March 2024, says Minister for Economic Development Melissa Lee. “Over the past 10 years as Crankworx Rotorua has grown, so too have the economic and social benefits that ...
Legislation implementing coalition Government tax commitments and addressing long-standing tax anomalies will be progressed in Parliament next week, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The legislation is contained in an Amendment Paper to the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill issued today. “The Amendment Paper represents ...
Associate Environment Minister Andrew Hoggard has today announced that the Government has agreed to suspend the requirement for councils to comply with the Significant Natural Areas (SNA) provisions of the National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity for three years, while it replaces the Resource Management Act (RMA).“As it stands, SNAs ...
Agriculture Minister Todd McClay has classified the drought conditions in the Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts as a medium-scale adverse event, acknowledging the challenging conditions facing farmers and growers in the district. “Parts of Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts are in the grip of an intense dry spell. I know ...
The Government is helping farmers eradicate the significant impact of facial eczema (FE) in pastoral animals, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “A $20 million partnership jointly funded by Beef + Lamb NZ, the Government, and the primary sector will save farmers an estimated NZD$332 million per year, and aims to ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has completed a successful visit to India, saying it was an important step in taking the relationship between the two countries to the next level. “We have laid a strong foundation for the Coalition Government’s priority of enhancing New Zealand-India relations to generate significant future benefit for both countries,” says Mr Peters, ...
Cabinet has agreed to provide $7 million to ensure the 2024 ski season can go ahead on the Whakapapa ski field in the central North Island but has told the operator Ruapehu Alpine Lifts it is the last financial support it will receive from taxpayers. Cabinet also agreed to provide ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Lower fruit and vegetable prices are welcome news for New Zealanders who have been doing it tough at the supermarket, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. Stats NZ reported today the price of fruit and vegetables has dropped 9.3 percent in the 12 months to February 2024. “Lower fruit and vege ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
The coalition Government is supporting farmers to enhance land management practices by investing $3.3 million in locally led catchment groups, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “Farmers and growers deliver significant prosperity for New Zealand and it’s vital their ongoing efforts to improve land management practices and water quality are supported,” ...
Good evening everyone and thank you for that lovely introduction. Thank you also to the Honourable Simon Bridges for the invitation to address your members. Since being sworn in, this coalition Government has hit the ground running with our 100-day plan, delivering the changes that New Zealanders expect of us. ...
Recommendations from the Climate Change Commission for New Zealand on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) auction and unit limit settings for the next five years have been tabled in Parliament, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. “The Commission provides advice on the ETS annually. This is the third time the ...
The coalition Government is beginning its fight to lower building costs and reduce red tape by exempting minor building work from paying the building levy, says Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk. “Currently, any building project worth $20,444 including GST or more is subject to the building levy which is ...
Proposed changes to tax legislation to prevent the over-taxation of low-earning trusts are welcome, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The changes have been recommended by Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee following consideration of submissions on the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill. “One of the ...
Assalaamu alaikum. السَّلَام عليكم In light of the holy month of Ramadan, I want to extend my warmest wishes to our Muslim community in New Zealand. Ramadan is a time for spiritual reflection, renewed devotion, perseverance, generosity, and forgiveness. It’s a time to strengthen our bonds and appreciate the diversity ...
Former Transport Minister and CEO of the Auckland Business Chamber Hon Simon Bridges has been appointed as the new Board Chair of the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) for a three-year term, Transport Minister Simeon Brown announced today. “Simon brings extensive experience and knowledge in transport policy and governance to the role. He will ...
Good morning all, it is a pleasure to be here as Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology. It is fantastic to see how connected and collaborative the life science and biotechnology industry is here in New Zealand. I would like to thank BioTechNZ and NZTech for the invitation to address ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says he is looking forward to the day when three key water projects in Northland are up and running, unlocking the full potential of land in the region. Mr Jones attended a community event at the site of the Otawere reservoir near Kerikeri on Friday. ...
Associate Finance Minister David Seymour has today announced that the Government has agreed to restore deductibility for mortgage interest on residential investment properties. “Help is on the way for landlords and renters alike. The Government’s restoration of interest deductibility will ease pressure on rents and simplify the tax code,” says ...
Sport and Recreation Minister Chris Bishop will travel to Switzerland today to attend an Executive Committee meeting and Symposium of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Mr Bishop will then travel on to London where he will attend a series of meetings in his capacity as Infrastructure Minister. “New Zealanders believe ...
Pacific Media Watch Earthwise hosts Lois and Martin Griffiths. Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths on Plains FM 96.9 community radio talk to Dr David Robie, a New Zealand author, independent journalist and media educator with a passion for the Asia-Pacific region. David talks about the struggle to raise awareness ...
Pacific Media Watch Ismail al-Ghoul, an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent who was held for 12 hours at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, says Israeli forces rounded up Palestinian journalists at the facility and made them kneel on the ground for hours, while naked and blindfolded. “The occupation forces handcuffed and blindfolded us ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute chinasong, Shutterstock Electricity customers in four Australian states can breathe a sigh of relief. After two years in a row of 20% price increases, power prices have finally stabilised. In many places they’re ...
Chumbawamba have reportedly issued the deputy PM a cease-and-desist notice after he used their song 'Tubthumping' before his state of the nation speech. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney kitzcorner/Shutterstock The assertion from Queensland’s chief health officer John Gerrard that ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock Why are musicians so keen to get played on the radio? It can’t be because of the money. In Australia they are paid at rates so low they ...
"Farmers make a point not to tell our urban cousins how to live, yet Chlöe from central Auckland is hell-bent on having her say about farmers," says ACT Rural Communities spokesman Mark Cameron. “On her first day in the House as Green ...
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – Democracy Project (https://democracyproject.nz)Political scientist, Dr Bryce Edwards. It’s been a tumultuous time in politics in recent months, as the new National-led Government has driven through its “First 100 Day programme”. During this period there’s been a handful of opinion polls, which overall just ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Curran, Associate Professor of Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand Getty Images/Gerald Corsi In the latest move to reform environmental laws in New Zealand, the coalition government has introduced a bill to fast-track consenting processes for projects deemed to ...
Uber has argued it does not have as much control over drivers as the unions suggest, and wants a judgment ruling that drivers are employees and not contractors set aside and sent back to the Employment Court. The 2022 ruling followed a three-week hearing in which four drivers sought to ...
What can and can’t be purchased by disabled people or their carers has been slashed in an effort by the Ministry of Disabled People Whaikaha to save money. The purchasing guidelines, a set of rules that sets out what can be purchased using the various streams of Government disability funding, ...
The Treasury has published today a new Analytical Note by Tod Wright and Hien Nguyen, Fiscal incidence in New Zealand: The effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes in tax year 2018/19 . Analyses of the distributional impact of taxation and government ...
The Treasury has published today a new Analytical Note by Cory Davis, Boston Hart and Benjamin Stubbing, Household cost-of-living impacts from the Emissions Trading Scheme and using transfers to mitigate regressive outcomes . This Analytical Note ...
A coalition of public transport and climate organisations, united as ‘Transport for All’, is actively opposing the government’s transport proposals. The draft Government Policy Statement (GPS) includes plans for higher fares for public transport, ...
Greater Wellington is inviting feedback on proposed changes to its Revenue and Financing Policy. The Revenue and Financing Policy covers the Council’s various sources of funding, and how the cost of services is shared across the region. This includes ...
Labour has conceded it could have done more to deal with disruptive state housing tenants while in government but says the current coalition is going too far. ...
The band has asked their record label to issue a cease and desist to stop the NZ First leader using their 1997 hit to support his ‘misguided political views’. “I get knocked down, but I get up again,” blared through the speakers on Sunday as Winston Peters took the stage ...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Food rationing is underway in remote areas in Papua New Guinea’s Highlands following torrential rain and flash flooding. More than 20 people have been reported dead in Chimbu Province. In nearby Enga Province, the centre of last month’s massacre, a 15-year-old boy has been ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Hughes, Lecturer, Research School of Management, Australian National University After months of debate and intrigue, the AFL’s 19th and newest team, the Tasmania Devils, finally launched its jumper, logo and colours in Devonport this week. The Devils will wear green, ...
Brannavan Gnanalingam reviews the debut novel by Saraid de Silva.One of the most baffling things for children who move to a new country is what their parents’ (or grandparents’) lives were like prior to moving – for kids in particular, they’re too busy trying to fit in in their ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Gaunson, Associate Professor in Cinema Studies, RMIT University Narelle Portanier/Binge “If you don’t know who your mob are, you don’t know who you are,” Detective Andrea “Andie” Whitford (played by Leah Purcell) is told early into the new crime ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Klein, Associate professor, Australian National University It’s commonly accepted that women do the vast majority of caregiving in Australian society. But less appreciated is that Indigenous women do larger amounts of unpaid care than any other group. Working with the Aboriginal ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Joe Biden and Donald Trump have both secured their parties’ nominations for the November 5 United States general election by winning a ...
Comment: There has been a striking contrast in trans-Tasman interest about Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s visit to New Zealand and Australia. While the Australian press has been full of articles about the visit – including his curious decision to meet with former prime minister and China booster Paul Keating ...
After years of pressuring banks and other institutions to stop investing in fossil fuels, climate campaigners are making some progress. So how does divestment work?For years, climate activists have been pushing banks and other big institutions to divest from fossil fuels. New research from climate advocacy group 350 Aotearoa ...
For Boba, Ethan and Ashley, K-pop is a place to belong, a way to express themselves, and a bridge to connect with others. The three young Polynesians are part of a K-pop fan community in Tāmaki Makaurau. It’s one of many that have sprung up worldwide as K-pop has gone ...
For Boba, Ethan and Ashley, K-pop is a place to belong, a way to express themselves, and a bridge to connect with others. This one-off documentary presents three intimate portraits of young Polynesians who are pulled into a Korean cultural phenomenon. K-POLYS is directed by Litia Tuiburelevu, Produced by Hex ...
There’s ample evidence demonstrating free school lunch programmes provide wide benefits across schools, households and communities according to public health researchers. ACT Minister David Seymour wants to reduce the spending on Aotearoa New Zealand’s ...
By Wata Shaw in Suva Fiji is facing an exodus of Fijians as many are leaving for overseas seeking employment and education and others are migrating, says Opposition MP Viliame Naupoto. Speaking in Parliament, he said: “His Excellency’s speech (Ratu Wiliame Katonivere) comes after a little over one year of ...
The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming comments from Christopher Luxon this morning recommitting to ‘no new taxes’ as part of Budget 2024. “Mr Luxon’s refusal at the Post-Cabinet press conference yesterday to repeat the ‘no new taxes’ promise ...
SAFE is urgently calling on the Environment Committee to reject the Government’s Fast-Track Approvals Bill, and is urging New Zealanders to rally behind the call. The proposed Bill, currently under consideration with the Environment select committee, ...
Teammates who spend all their time picking fights with spectators are only helpful for the other team, writes Madeleine Chapman. Anyone who has ever played a team sport competitively, particularly as a child and particularly, for some reason, basketball, will know that there’s a lot of politics involved. While there ...
The long-running Wellington music festival is too focused on the Jim Beam-ness and not enough on the Homegrown-ness.There is something about Homegrown that’s difficult to place. A barely perceptible-ness. Like feeling a ghost is watching you from the corner of the room but when you look, there’s nothing there. ...
The latest Ipsos New Zealand Issues Monitor reveals that fewer New Zealanders believe crime / law and order is one of the top issues facing our country. In 2018, Ipsos New Zealand started tracking the key issues facing New Zealand. In this wave ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Deputy Program Director, Budgets and Government, Grattan Institute Australia’s political donations rules are woefully inadequate, but donations reform is finally on the agenda. The federal government has signalled its interest in reform and will soon begin briefing MPs on its ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Patrick Taylor, Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Naiyana Somchitkaeo/Shutterstock A recent study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine has linked microplastics with risk to human health. The study ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Global climate records were shattered in 2023, from air and sea temperatures to sea-level rise and sea-ice extent. Scores of countries recorded their hottest year ...
As part of our series exploring how New Zealanders live and our relationship with money, a teacher explains why he and his partner are in frugal mode – and how they’re making it work. Gender: Male Age: 35Ethnicity: Pākehā Role: I am an intermediate school teacher and my partner is ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Bendall, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University Binge Mary & George, the new British television drama series, depicts the real-life story of Mary Villiers and her son George, and their social climbing at the ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jason Nassios, Associate Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University This article is part of The Conversation’s series examining the housing crisis. Read the other articles in the series here. Australian state and federal governments spend money in many ways to ...
The finance minister is denying that there’s a $5.6b shortfall in paying for the government’s campaign promises, including tax cuts. At his post-cabinet press conference yesterday, the PM refused to rule out new taxes to pay for the cuts, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s ...
Kāinga Ora tenants abused by their neighbours are doubting the government's crackdown on disruptive tenants will make a difference on their behaviour. ...
Kāinga Ora is New Zealand’s biggest residential landlord, housing more than 180,000 vulnerable people in more than 67,000 properties. Yesterday the government announced a crackdown on its tenants who fall behind on rent. One longtime Kāinga Ora tenant shares her experience.For 18 years I lived in a 1960s standalone ...
Why does this myth persist, and what’s the real reason our skin is suffering?It’s one of the biggest international grievances New Zealanders hold, up there with the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior and 1981’s underarm incident. We’re quick to tell international travellers that the world’s pollution led to the ...
Opinion: We are fast approaching a fundamental change in prisons. As the number of people on custodial remand looks set to overtake the number of sentenced prisoners, the main function of prisons in New Zealand may become incarcerating un-sentenced people who may not be guilty of offending. We have already ...
A huge seven months lies in store for the White Ferns, beginning this week with the visit of England and culminating with the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in September and October. Starting on Tuesday in Dunedin, the world ranked No. 2 visitors will play five T20s and three ODIs, ...
Opinion: In a move that has shocked road safety advocates across the country, the new Minister of Transport, Simeon Brown, is poised to abandon the previous government’s speed limit reduction policy, particularly around schools. Even more alarmingly, he wants school speed limits to be variable rather than full-time, arguing ...
Auckland Council is opposing a fast-track development backed by Sir John Kirwan and Spark NZ, because it doesn’t meet stringent new climate adaptation requirements The post Surf-data centre faces new 3.8C climate warming rules appeared first on Newsroom. ...
When the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act was introduced in 2009 it was firmly targeted at gangs and drugs. The legislation means police no longer need a conviction to seize assets that criminals can’t prove were paid for legitimately, as long as their alleged offences are punishable by more than a ...
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Evicting more people from state housing is ignorant to the consequences of poverty, the Greens say, but the Housing Minister says it's a privilege that can be taken away if abused. ...
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emerald L King, Lecturer in Humanities, University of Tasmania IMDB Between Netflix’s 2023 live-action version of One Piece, and its latest take on Avatar: The Last Airbender, fans are once again asking: why are live-action anime adaptations so tricky to ...
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The government says it still intends to deliver tax cuts by July, but will not lock them in until they have got them past their coalition partners. ...
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkMLVBHSBvA
‘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….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y1nylDLW-Y
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbWSTa6WDuU
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKopy74weus
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3RpnyVX3oI
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12QZDSaBfps
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEXhZ8PwM-Y
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