'Murica does not deserve AOC. She is truly a goddess when she can wind up Steve King so much he goes and drinks toilet water thinking that's owning the libs.
The fear of exiting Brexit is about the loss to the person producing the product. Some people do well in business, some do not and will not regardless of who they are trading with.
For the business owners/producers who need some help to transition, help needs to be given providing it is viable to do so.
I am in favour of Brexit going forward as Britain has limited economic control with trading within the EU. This is evident due to how hard it is to exit from the EU.
But it's cold outside, and warm inside, and the cat thought it wanted out, so now it's sitting in the open doorway while the European parliament is waiting for the british cat to make up it's damned mind. Sooner or later there will be a helpful foot up the arse in the form of "no extensions", and there'll be a soggy wee moggy wanting back inside.
Oh, and arseholes will be shooting up border stations in Armagh again.
The European Parliament has made up its mind and it ain't changing it. May thought she could change the EU exit and gave up so resigned as prime minister. Boris is decisive he said he would rather die in a ditch than delay leaving.
See what happens when parliament resumes, election or no election.
The European Parliament is the stupid human holding the door open for the cat.
Britain signed up to the method of departure when it signed up to join the EU. Now it wants to leave, it wants to renege on those terms, and actually wants the EU to do it a favour with trade deals..
Reminds me of a drunk in a pub – calls the bouncer rude words when leaving, but then is all "aww mate, do me a favour" when he wants to take the drink with him.
Is there an address I can send a bale of cotton wool to Precious?
I'm doing my best to round up a few troops from around the colonies to ensure Borrie Jo, Little Jo and the Minister for the 18th Century are well protected and that their sight looking downwards is not impaired. Chin up old bean – we'll win out in the end doncha know – and unlike you, we'll FIGHT till the bitter end even if we do have to call in a few of those bloody "Yanks"
I disagree. A viable business competes on innovation and effectiveness to a much greater extent than geography, especially in this connected and mobile age. Brexit is about self-interest of entrenched elites on both sides of the channel.
Schumpeter wrote about Creative destruction (German: schöpferische Zerstörung), sometimes known as Schumpeter's gale who derived it from the work of Karl Marx and popularized it as a theory of economic innovation and the business cycle.
"More than 100,000 people have applied to register to vote since the start of the week, with young people making up the bulk of the surge against the backdrop of a momentous 48 hours in British politics.
On Monday, 52,408 applications were submitted, according togovernment figures, followed by 64,485 on Tuesday.
The figure on both days was significantly above the typical number for weekday applications, which has averaged about 27,000 for the past month.
Parties that have traditionally drawn support from younger people will be most encouraged by the figures, which show that 58% of applications submitted on the two days were from people aged 34 and under. Many of those signing up this week are understood to be students moving into new areas for the start of term, but experts pointed out that others may have put registering on the backburner.
“It’s not surprising that there will be a lot of young people in these figures,” said Dr Toby James, a senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia who has authored reports on Britain’s low levels of voter registrations.
“But I think that there is probably a tidal wave of applications to come. We’re all guilty of leaving things to the last minute.”
Labour, in particular, has been having conversations in recent months with groups behind voter registration drives amid concerns about the limitations in systems or names “falling off” registers.
Hey, if the british people (well, not Scotland but they'll probably do devolution pretty soon after this) want to commit to a bloody stupid decision which will criple their supply lines in the short term and fuck their trade structure in the long term simply because they can't admit they didn't understand the chaos their bloody stupid decision would cause, that's their business.
But what about Northern Ireland? If there's a hard border with checkpoints, the IRA will come back. If there's a soft border people will shoot the cameras on one side and the unionists will screw the system at the other side. And things will escalate.
Scotland voted to stay in the UK parliament. The UK parliament had the mandate to leave the EU.
It is about being no worse off financially and maximising profit. The EU can change terms and this would affect the UK even if there was no Brexit. The terms are not yet in play.
Copy that. Get it over and done with, then have patience.
Sorry, how will you stop Troubles 2: the Brexiting from happening? I keep missing the bit where you describe a border resolution that brings permanent peace to Northern Ireland.
I don't think there will be much difference in day to day life in Ireland. I feel that there is enough stability in Ireland for a Brexit to not become a flash point.
When NZ lamb and dairy got dumped in the mid 1970s by Britain NZ survived. Moyle actually got some new trading deals and look what Muldoon did to him in 1976.
There is a bit of irony as Fonterra might do well in Britain.
Ireland will survive with the assistance of the British parliament working closely with Irish MPs.
The Troubles had nothing to do with trade, and everything about national identity. Hopefully the peace holds, but you're painfully optimistic if you're not worried about it.
Britain was the main trading partner with NZ to sell dairy, beef and lamb. Once Britain joint the EU new trading partners needed to be found.
I know about the troubles IRA and British army. This has been stabilised.
When it comes to national identity the Irish Parliament will need to be carefully listened to by the British Parliament.
Do you know if the Irish Parliament will be able to make trade deals without Britain's consent once the Irish are no longer part of the EU?
I am again optimistic that exiting the EU is the right thing to do.
Time will only tell. You never know what the EU will pull out in the future. Uncertain times globally for trade due to USA and China trade relations. I am not a fan of Trump but he is decisive on trade. Unemployment is the lowest it has been in 50 years in the USA. I do realise that people are needing to pay more for some products. This may only be short term.
I have not even mentioned patent rights/intellectual property when it comes to trade.
Britain and Ireland survived prior to joining the EU and they will survive once no longer an EU trading partner.
With Britain and Eire both being in the EU, everyone could pretend their own acceptable level of fantasy. The Republicans could travel all over Ireland without customs or barriers. The British were part of Britain, even if there was no border, just like the French and Belgians don't have border checkpoints any more, and they're still separate countries, right?.
Brexit fucks this happy compromise up.
The Northern Irish Assembly is already a big compromise by the Unionists and the Republicans. Having it negotiate a free trade and movement agreement with the EU (because Eire can't negotiate a separate agreement by itself) will be seen as further devolution from Britain.
That leads to bang-bangs.
On the flipside, a no-deal brexit means a hard border. Checkpoints in County Antrim again. That means the Republicans will view it as a step back towards Unionism.
That leads to bang-bangs.
Forget trade. How will you stop the Troubles from returning? Do you really expect bojo to "listen carefully"?
… even if practical, it puts the border checks between NI and the rest of the UK. The Unionists call that "devolution". They are adamant that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom.
But the idea of a border checkpoint in the middle of the Irish Sea is a joke, anyway.
Something went very wrong when May spoke with the EU re Brexit situation affecting Northern Ireland. The EU need to take some responsibility for this. EU want the trade border outside of Ireland. Exactly what did EU say?
1. That Northern Ireland is part of Ireland trade system and cannot have separate trade deals and only trade with EU?
2. That Northern Ireland can trade with EU and others?
Northern Ireland and Ireland need to be able to trade with EU and others. Basically immunity from EU restrictions. A time limit of 5 years then a review.
Ireland is not overly populated and the EU could be compensated from Britain.
So risky to get out for Northern Ireland from EU. Some thinker needs to go back to what the deal was when Northern Ireland and Ireland signed up. International trading law might over ride EU decision in insisting a trading border in Ireland.
The Good Friday agreement has held for 20 years. This has been progressive.
Probably the Good Friday agreement did not have a scenario for the EU trade border if either part of Ireland left the EU.
A solution might be found in a Switzerland neutrality. International banking seems to function there.
Are there trade exceptions with Switzerland and the EU. Think Switzerland is part of the EU.
Maybe the EU might need to modernise to avoid a future scenario.
Britain and Ireland joined the EEC in 1973. To put it in partisan terms (to make it clear), British-occupied Ireland has never had independent foreign or trade policy. Look up "Potato Famine" for more information.
Until 1973, independent Ireland and British-occupied Northern-Ireland had a hard border, the result of the 1922 independence treaty. While that unified trade, the British were firmly in control of NI from London. The IRA & co had a problem with this, so the British sent in the Paras who shot some joy-riders, and everything went to shit for twenty years.
After twenty years of murders, bombings, bad movies, depressing but good movies, and okay music, the Good Friday accords fuzzed up the border and created the Northern Irish Assembly.
But if the Republic of Ireland and the United Kindom are under different trade rules, with no border between the two there will be massive amounts of smuggling both ways. The Irish won't get kicked out of the EU, and the Unionists won't let NI be separated from the UK. But if the border gets re-established anywhere, someone with thirty year old semtex will be angry.
This isn't an EU problem. It's a problem caused by the fuckers who put "325 million pounds a week" on the side of a bus rather than actually tell the truth.
If an Irish passport holder needs to cross into Ireland, no worries. A British person would need to satisfy the requirements of any other foreigner entering the EU.
If an Irish person wants to take goods from Belfast to Dublin, they pay EU duties. UK duties the other way. Same as anyone else.
This is a British problem of English construction. They chose it, but without thinking about how to solve it.
At the moment anyone born in NI can move throught the EU, including England and Ireland.
After Brexit, this will devolve into the bounds of the Common Travel Area. So Dubliners can go to Manchester, Mancunians to Dublin, etc. This doesn't include the flow of goods, though. So the problem is if Polish goods go to Ireland and are then on-sold to Belfast and then forwarded to Manchester, at what point are duties paid to Britain and how is it detected? And what about goods travelling the opposite direction?
And NI is just one issue:
what about additional customs checks on cross-channel cargos? How will that affect the logistics chains of factories that run so lean they have to shut the production lines if they don't get replenishment every three hours? What about medications that can't be stockpiled because of their narrow expiry dates, but with no trade deals with nations that can supply them?
All of these factors should have been considered during the referendum, but people were lied to by sociopaths who didn't want to be subjected to EU tax or anti-money-laundering laws.
DUP in Northern Ireland want to Brexit but population of Northern Ireland did not.
May back stop idea was unrealistic and time consuming. EU were unwise to settle with May on a Brexit date until the trade border with Britain and any EU trader with Britain was settled.
So now time has run out to re negotiate. EU became so stubborn and would not renegotiate.
EU needs to renegotiate and Johnson needs to put Brexit date to January.
Very roughly speaking, that's the "Irish backstop" May agreed with the EU, but didn't get through parliament: that the UK and EU stay in a single customs union (except fish: cf: "Cod War") until they figure out what to do.
The bojo cons and the DUP oppose this solution. Bojo cons because they have fantasies about NZ beef and free trade with the USA, DUP because they see it as a concession that Northern Ireland is partly joined to Ireland, not England.
With the letter of withdrawal sent to the EU, Britain is on its way out. Because the Irish Backstop scuppered Britain ratifying the post-EU-membership agreement, it's currently going to be a no-deal brexit with hard borders on the county line.
Treetop – Major surgery? Get it over and done with. If someone's heart is removed, they need a working replacement to help them survive while another one is being fitted. And that had better work when the mechanical one is taken away.
And probably a lot of morphine. The patient might become a drug addict while trying to cope with the trauma.
Anticipation can cause overwhelming anxiety and not change the outcome. British voters voted to leave.
There are going to be interim measures when transitioning. No one knows the fine detail yet.
Like I said above the Good Friday agreement has held for 20 years and is progressive.
It would be interesting to know what dooms day thinking was said back then regarding the agreement.
October 17 Johnson is to attend EU exit talks. The EU better be thinking hard about not having a trade border in Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland. Population is 4.88 million.
'Any remaining hopes that an enlightened government would engineer a supply shock to drive home prices down to improve affordability for both renters and first home buyers has just evaporated, if it ever existed to start with.
New Housing Minister Megan Woods did her best on Wednesday to put a brave face on what was easily the worst day politically in this second Labour-led Government post-MMP. Labour deployed Green Co-Leader Marama Davidson and the Green's rent-to-own plan to try to distract from the complete capitulation of abandoning the 100,000 over 10 years target.
It also tried to dress the broken promise by making it easier to use more KiwiSaver money for home deposits and to be able to borrow more to buy a first home.
Neither will sweeten this dead rat much. It's more of a rotting and hairy cat.'..
It looks bad but I still believe we have an over supply (ref Joe Wilkes, DFA channel commentary about NZ on YT). We are one GFC 2.0 away from seeing that.
By failing they will lessen our housing market demise.
Hickey's general thesis suggests that a house-price collapse will be a DISASTER for lower-income earners and young people. Summary:
Baby Boomers own all the property.
Baby Boomers participate in elections far more than young people.
Ergo
The issues that win elections are those that favour the people that already own all the property.
If a house-price collapse happens, the Baby Boomers will demand government action to protect their investments. And they'll get it, no matter the collateral damage to renters, low-wage workers, young people, etc.
i understand that boomers vote more than the young..
but i also think that cd be about to change –
as the urgencies of the climate-change – that will effect them the most – becomes more and more..
in the last 48 hrs there has been the biggest ever surge of young (under 33) voters registering to vote for the first time – in britain…and of course brexit is help driving that..
but the fast-rising extinction rebellion also argues for the power the young have in their hands – at the ballot box..
so for those reasons – i think that young don't vote assumption could soon become passe..
My view of the history of great depressions is that normally the less well-off get hammered and forced into selling off everything, while the ultra-rich go around cherry-picking and buying up everything they like at bargain basement prices.
A housing price collapse will probably result in lower private ownership of houses, and Corporates renting out more of them.
Actually somewhat South of 60% of boomers own their own home. Many with mortgages. Down from the 80%plus in the previous generation who retired with mortgage free houses.
Then there are the large number of boomers who are ending up with a mortgage, on retirement, to help their kids into houses.
Nearly half of boomers do not have a house, let alone housing "investments.
Funny all those inventions over the years based on attempts to find solutions again and again after getting it wrong again and again. The gnat lovers would give up after one or two attempts and run away yapping – meanwhile people that are serious keep on trying. An even funnier thing is that imo many of the inventors and worker outerers in the past were conservative – that was the ethos. Not the quick jammy fix that the gnational party prefers with it's simpleton leader and lackey supporters. Not the party of deep thinkers anymore the gnats, that's for sure.
'Ardern also pointed out that while the government had fallen well short of its initial 100,000 homes target, it was performing “much better” in relation to its target of 100,000 measles cases.'
Of course they want a policy of subsidised housing to keep going.
"Hello first home buyer, would you like a brand new home as your first home, you do well we'll make it cheaper for you"
I'm surprised more people didn't want it to continue but imagine if the question asked was something like: "do you think Labour will be able to build 100 000 homes in ten year"
The fact that people want then to carry on with kiwibuild proves most kiwis see a need for government intervention and despite labours troubles so far the are willing support their attempts to get it right .
If at first you dont succeed try again is far fucking better than anything the fuckwit nats can come up with.
Incorrect. Labours flagship policy, the policy used to discredit National, the policy that got Labour into power was not going to fail.
When critics pointed out it wouldnt work Labour said it would, Twyford insulted Treasury because they said it wouldnt work, Labour convinced enough people it would work, Jacinda was happy to pose for photos so no "If at first you dont succeed try again is far fucking better than anything the fuckwit nats can come up with." is simply not good enough
How well did Nationals cycle ways program work out and the 'big boost ' to the economy and 1000s of new jobs….. oh you like everyone else have forgotten
Just like John Keys promise – no matter what AND dont believe the naysayers- that makes it a double promise to bring the Pike River miners out that was make ( and recorded 11 months after the disaster)
Nationals not in power (if you hadn't noticed) and Kiwibuild was one of, if not the biggest, reasons that Labour got elected and the cycleway certainly wasn't
This is a monumental cock up of Twyford-like proportions and all you've got is 'National cycleways'
But hey as long as its coming from Labour is all good right
Labour do some stupid stuff for which they should be rightly bagged. But at least they do stuff. National spent most of their time arguing semantics in regard to whether the housing crisis was an actual crisis rather than merely a challenge. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.
I'd like to think not everyone here is so blinded by partisan loyalty they're prepared to ignore Labour's failings. But let's be honest, Pucky. National have never been the party of the less fortunate. They'll make a valiant attempt to portray themselves as such every now and then, but scratch the surface and you'll find the usual callous indifference which tends to be their stock-in-trade. Paula Bennett's shameful antics around Te Puea Marae are adequate testimony. National essentially let the wound fester until it erupted in a geyser of pus and maggots, and now the current government is attempting clean up the mess while National jeer and throw rocks from the Opposition benches.
National have zero moral high-ground on this. If anything, they should be standing in a smoking crater.
National discredited itself – that's what happens when for seigneurial reasons you put deadwood like Nick Smith in charge of anything. Even they were too ashamed to call him housing minister in the end.
As for kiwibuild failing, it's like Marengo – Napoleon had lost the battle by 14:00 and won it back by 18:00. Housing is a critical issue and it must be built – giving up like the Gnats did, while it reflects Nick's actual capacity, cannot get the job done.
I think it'll take 'nine long years' and comcomitant jeers.
Seriously though, it would just take as long as the calculated cost of the shortfall in expenditure over those nine years on things that needed expenditure, less the surplus revenue now available to the government minus the willingness of the electorate to apportion blame upon that government of nine long years.
Whichever comes first.
Less the number of dead cats strewn upon the table, global crises, natural disasters, forest fires, possible re-elections of Boris and Donald, China, the cost of fossil fuel and who won the World Cup.
Not necessarily in that order.
I hope that helps.
Oh, and whether Judith makes it or not, or should I say, when?
Housing isn't their screw up yet – though it's true they should have done more about it under Clark. If the Gnats had not been utterly incompetent in that portfolio it would be a different story, but actually it's kind of hard to put your finger on a Gnat area of responsibility where a fairly ineffectual effort doesn't represent a vast improvement – they were rubbish – and that is the baseline against which Coalition performance is measured.
That maybe what Kiwibuild was supposed to be but the message to the people was different.
Basically Labour over promised and under delivered, this would never have happened until Helen Clark so now now Jacinda has to own her, Twyfords and Labours failure over this
I suspect what Kiwibuild was to many varies greatly. Certainly it covered the "housing problems" that were being ignored, but the scalpel of the media and opposition, and possibly insufficient time on setting out its scope, meant that it became just a small part of the "housing problem". I believe priority was rightly given to social housing, to reducing the number in motels and on waiting lists, and these do not seem to be the issues they used to be, although they are not yet totally resolved. That part of the housing problem that affected new home buyers is a problem that is a total market problem; it will not be resolved quickly, but it is not as urgent as reversing the reduction in social housing services. The number I would like to see measured is how many New Zealanders the government has assisted into some form of 'satisfactory' housing, rather than emergency housing.
As for the market failure of the building sector, we have had a serious deterioration in that industry over the term of the Nat-led government; a reliance on imported labour, a reduction in training and youth employment, fragmented small companies that had an incentive to go out of business, matched with too few trading in product supply, and starved local authorities who struggled with infrastructure and planning/ approvals. Leaky building have not helped either.
So yes there was a marketing failure by the government, but I do not think it is clear whether there is any significant failure otherwise. In effect the media and opposition have won the propaganda / lying war, with the only real winners those who are still able to exploit rental shortages . . ..
'arr – arr – i have 'ammered the odd nail – seen the odd bracing wall – and can remember once helping to build a nickel-refinery – and i do have some knowledge of ‘planing’ – i can make my wood smooth – does that count..?'
(said in lancashire accent..)
heh..!..but really – what the fuck has that got to do with anything here..?
you are getting desperate – aren't you..(not waving – flailing..heh..!)
and plse don't try selling some meme that i am/was anti-kiwibuild..
my anger at the failures is from disappointment – not opposition too..mm-kay..?
If the reset was really important our PM would have been present, like many well educated leaders appear to follow … good news be associated with the release, bad news allow others to be seen. Thus protecting the brand.
'it uses a standard chest freezer with added thermal mass, a simple controller, and a photovoltaic panel that effectively stores sunshine as coldness, obviating the need for expensive backup batteries.
The Fridge0 is an advance on traditional off-grid 12v solar fridges that assume that solar panels are expensive and inefficient; by exploiting modern PV technology,
Hess says "A kilowatt of solar panels provides enough power to run a conventional fridge on even most cloudy days, and costs less than a commercial offgrid fridge."
"A kilowatt of solar panels provides enough power to run a conventional fridge on even most cloudy days, and costs less than a commercial offgrid fridge."
Depending on the efficiency of the panels, between 4 and 10 sq m of panels will give you 1 kW peak output.
Given a fridge-freezer or chest freezer only draws around 150W or less when running, I presume putting in 1 kW of panels is so they can run even on really dark cloudy days.
Dunno if they've got anything fancier for their thermal mass than just a jug filled with a 30% propylene glycol solution that freezes around -15 degrees C.That's all a distant rellie needed 25 years ago for their off-grid set-up.
Frequency of the power supply is important too – so an inverter is required to convert solar DC to AC – unless you have a DC fridge.
The 150W 'while running' is about right , but as they stop and start often , you will draw much more for a few secs to spin up the compressor- could be the the 1Kw.
The article talks about having a battery to manage shutting it off. That would be useful to manage the startup surge, as well as managing the power on cloudy days if the output of the panels is marginal so it's not trying to kick on and off all the time. Seems to me it would make more sense to just invest in a few more batteries to take advantage of all the engineering and economies of scale for making conventional off-grid systems and be done with it.
Recently I read of taking a freezer, changing the thermostat to operate around 4+ degrees, and using it as the household fridge. Toploaders loose less chill. Stay cold longer. Better insulated. Standard fridge use up to 2Kw per day. The freezer/fridge use less than 1kw per day. (I once made a built-in top loading chilly bin for a boat I built, with 4inch insulation, and by putting in frozen goods it would stay cool enough for 5-7 days.)
A combined fridge freezer like my upright LG 298 litre has a single source of cooling for the unit, the cold air is circulated to each compartment to maintain the temp – it has both a freezer temp adjustment outside, 5 levels ( with vacation and quick freeze settings) and a fridge adjustment inside.
Sounds like its easier to get a modern unit – even second hand – and reduce your power consumption that way.
Anything that makes us more independent of the grid, the better.
EcoFlow DELTA, the world's strongest battery-powered generator just launched on Kickstarter. Don't think EF ships to NZ yet. I tried the end of last year to buy their stuff and couldn't 🙁
"International postage excludes any GST, duty and customs clearance costs that may be payable on arrival in New Zealand.".
The current Government are insisting that companies like Amazon should collect GST due on things they ship to New Zealand and remit the taxes to the New Zealand Government.
Why is a Government owned organisation like New Zealand Post already doing that?
They are just the shippers , Amazon are the seller who know what the item is and its worth.
The Amazon tax came in two forms , the first was for 'online type services and subscriptions' where there wasnt a physical shipping, just dowmloads etc.
The later one was the $400 'exemption' for GST for imported physical items for personal use.
That last rule means sellers with more than $60k annual sales to NZ are required to 'register and collect the tax' .
NZ Post seems to be just following the rules, not that Ive used it are current with ALL the details
How the Government spent well over $100,000 and 15 years pursuing a chronically-ill beneficiary mother for a debt she should not have.
By Catriona MacLennan
While it was over twenty years ago when she was alleged to have fraudulently obtained a benefit, this case has a history that starts well before that. The cycle of poverty and abuse began, as so often is the case, in her own childhood. It is fair to say that the way she has been treated in the judicial process, both the criminal conviction, her imprisonment, and the subsequent pursuit for reparations has been extremely damaging for her children and compounded her own Post–Traumatic Stress Disorder arising from her previous traumatic experiences. The NZ Treasury has recently shown that poor outcomes for children by the time they are young adults are highly correlated with having “a finding of abuse or neglect, time spent in care of child protection services; most of their lifetime supported by benefits; a parent who has received a community or custodial sentence; a mother who has no formal qualifications.” NZ Treasury 2016.
Parliament is "falling apart before our eyes" thanks to Brexit, one of the architects of the Good Friday Agreement has said.
Seamus Mallon, former NI (Northern Ireland) deputy first minister, described Boris Johnson as a "carpetbagger", which he defined as someone without principles….
Mr Mallon was deputy first minister from 1998 to 2001.
He is considered to be one of the key negotiators of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
"The lunacy of putting a referendum in Britain in relation to trying to unite the Tory party was a monumental mistake, and they have staggered from one mistake after another," Mr Mallon told BBC News NI, on the margins of the Kennedy Summer School in County Wexford.
"And this is the mother of parliaments. This is the home of democratic political process and it is falling apart before our eyes, and it is doing it in such a way that a carpetbagger like Boris Johnson is now leading it as prime minister."
Recalcitrant Boorish.
Boris Johnson has said he would "rather be dead in a ditch" than ask the EU to delay Brexit beyond 31 October.
Never ask that person who changes their mind, to do or have anything again. Don't have anything to do with them. They are losers! And this vid goes on for too long. Make the point faster – remember the ten second attention span that is talked about today. It is otherwise a greeaaat video. (That's really meant to be 'great', just got too long.)
Goodness marty mars – I am fine but just trying to keep thinking not becoming a reactive paper towel sucking up every idea that is presented in a conformist way to the in-meme. How about you?
well that meme was not designed for a 70 year old women (feel free to show to family and friends for their men if you want) – so maybe just have a wee think…
It's an excellent video and it goes for as long as it does because some people just cannot accept every individual has the right to any decision they choose to make and then change their mind if they so wish.
Sounds to me like that video touched a rather raw nerve with you Greywarshark and that maybe it should have gone on for another 3 days before you actually understood and accepted the point it was making.
For tea or sex, that's a "fail: safe" approach. If someone regards that approach as reasonable regardless of circumstance, they're probably not really equipped to safely offer consensual tea or sex in the first place, so for them it is actually a reasonable approach.
Whereas the "fail: deadly" approach is that someone who doesn't particularly understand consent still tries to have sex with other people, or make them drink tea.
I can only presume that the Fresh Water Discussion Document is intended only to be Labour’s opening gambit. Parker must know a fair bit of it will not be acceptable to the farming community or to the National Party. Legislation of this nature has to be sustainable across successive governments, it can’t be just acceptable to the party in power.
There will be a lot of support including within the farming community for more planting on stream margins, wider margins, and much stronger protection for wetlands. Probably with subsidies to help pay for it.
There will be major opposition to getting resource consents for farming changes or increased production. I predict that won’t survive consultation. I reckon NZF will oppose, as will National. If it is passed into law with NZF support, then I am certain such a requirement will be repealed by the next National government.
The more interesting discussion will be around monitoring water quality on farms. There is a very good case for it, with the intention of doing things to improve water quality. I reckon this will happen, but not with a whole raft of government inspectors. More likely a partnership with Dairy NZ.
If you really believe that then I fear you are 10 years out of date….with dairy (esp) under financial pressures unrelated the rural sector and banks will see the opportunity to use this to hedge future income streams (with gov assistance) and the noise from the likes of FF spokespersons will be largely disregarded.
National may well find they have backed a loser if they try to push back too hard….the dairy sector growth has been milked dry, time for ‘the next big thing’
yep some self interested and selfish farmers oppose water quality controls – pity not enough decent caring farmers are speaking up against their destructive brethren – still early days yet and the tide is turning against farming practices that are hurting the environment and communities.
Just filing away for future reference the admission that, when it comes to measures to improve NZ's freshwater quality, "a fair bit of it will not be acceptable to the farming community or to the National Party."
I did know that already, of course, but it's nice to have someone involved in the National Party state it so explicitly.
Shock, horror! Farmers and National don’t accept every single policy point that Labour proposes. Who would have guessed? They must be really bad to think like that.
no wayne – 'shock/horror' at national quite happy to allow the continued befouling of our environment/world..
and this at the behest of the biggest leeches – since forever ('it's rained – give us some money..!..we are the backbone of the economy – it hasn't rained – give us some more money..!..we are the backbone of the economy!' – repeat ad nauseum)
i think we are all sick of that schtick..eh wayne..?
so if you want to wave yr arms and say 'i'm/national is with them..!'..
why don't you do that – and we'll see how that goes down with an increasingly angry/impatient rest of us..eh..?
and if you can't see/feel that growing anger/impatience – wayne – at the excuses/behaviour/whining.polluting of the (fast going down the gurgler) dairy industry..
you clearly have all the political nous of a doorknob..
If you actually read my initial comment, I do think more needs to be done (wider stream margins, more planting, preserving wetlands, better monitoring, and other things) I support a fair amount in the discussion document. A lot of it is good.
But that doesn’t mean I and others have to agree with everything in it. And just because farmers don’t agree with everything doesn’t automatically make them the “ biggest leeches – since forever”.
The left, or at least a fair part of it, automatically thinking of farmers that way will result in a much bigger divide than currently exists. And not a way to get constructive dialogue.
Hey, he isn’t responsible for Nick Smith. It is like saying that I’m responsible for John Tamihere because he used to be a sort of a progressive and a Labour MP. Who knew that they were kind of a dickheads?
Of course getting rid of John Tamihere appears to have been a whole easier for Labour it is has been for National to cast off their waste.
Isn't there a convention of collective responsibility? In which case Wayne was indeed responsible for Nick Smith; if he wasn't up to snuff (and he ain't) it was Wayne's job, among others, to get rid of him.
I didn't for a moment expect Wayne to take responsibility for Nick Smith. I merely wanted to know his view on the story the book tells. It's a great read.
Farmers and National don’t accept every single policy point that Labour proposes.
More specifically, they don't accept any policy point that would significantly improve NZ's freshwater quality – those are the bits that "will not be acceptable to the farming community or to the National Party." If that weren't the case, farmers and National would be willing to give a fair hearing to proposals beyond doing a bit more planting along river banks.
You do realise Canterbury wouldnt be in this mess of you and you cronies hadn't sacked the democratically elected board ecan so you could sugar fuel the economy.
Like the trial school lunches it is just something that sounds big popped either side of the KiwiBuild fiasco to try to take the focus off what a complete hash it is.
I used to think hed make a great Labour Party leader but the more I read of his comments in the media the more I decided he is neoliberal at heart…might be a result of when he was educated, who knows…. I suspect he would have been in his happy place in a Douglas cabinet…and thats saying something
I've met him a few times and like his boldness. I agree he's more right than I am, but I reckon he feels the urgency of environmental degradation keenly and is making a last-ditch stand. It's now or never, he seems to have learned and resolved. In my personal experience.
Parker came to a farmers meeting at Ashburton before the last election and showed his true colours. Questioned on his intentions regarding the ill intentioned water tax it was obvious that the environment was secondary to putting farmers out of business.
Am well aware of Parkers reputation in rural sector…wasnt where I was looking…hes an obviously intelligent guy (who isnt beholden to Ag sector) but seems to struggle with the link between growth and environmental degradation…curious (IMO)
This is interesting on what causes insomnia or unrefreshing sleep leading to depression. It is good stuff but oddly lit, but good overall. She looks at the result of being bombarded with negative messages every day etc.
Tedtalk: Attention – This is Why you can't Sleep. Bronwyn Milkins research.
Looks like the Minister chose the "just fix it" option rather than the full-throated "let's connect the rail line to Northport and prepare to shift some of Auckland's port" option.
The repairs look like they are going to be done next year. That's hopefully good for those still underemployed in this part of Northland.
Still leaves open the possibility of a proper shift once the government finally lands on the Upper North Island ports study, and can then unveil a proper rail line and sea port upgrade for Whangarei in time for the election.
A couple of years ago, for reasons known only to himself, my man decided to not avoid that hole in the asphalt and tumbled he and his wheelchair arse over tip. Now he's a Big Lad my man, all of six foot four and at least 100kgs, so the chances of me getting him re-seated by myself are nil. The only help available were a vegan couple from eastern Europe, somewhere. I'm going "One, two, three lift! and they are doing… nothing. I try French, then German, with little extra effect. This pale and almost bloodless pair had absolutely no umph at all.
I'm fascinated by your ability to correctly identify the flaws in those arguments against vegan diets, but completely miss very similar flaws in the "red meat causes colon cancer" argument.
It is hard to describe the smell of meat burning when you don't like it – sorta like puke on wings. It is the hardest thing for me as a vege to tolerate and I have to over and over again with no thought for my sensibilities.
In regards yr hypothetical, sure, ask them to not cook meat all day every day.
Complain to management, organize a petition..
But when you look round and are the only one right….
As for not knowing why she complained: The neighbours were carnivorous, breeding, smoking people that incidentally had foreign sounding names. Oh, also, Cilla is a self centred person with a highly developed sense of entitlement
I can take you at yr word that the panel was a wank fest over the vegan story in Oz.
When I read the articles about Cilla Carden and she is quoted as saying:
"They've put it there so I smell fish, all I can smell is fish. I can't enjoy my backyard, I can't go out there." Self centred – check
and "It's been devastating, it's been turmoil, it's been unrest, I haven't been able to sleep," she said. Hyperbole and exaggeration – Check.
Then you add her desire for the children not to play basketball (too noisy).
Top it off with being told that the Supreme Court Judge and the State Administrative Tribunal have sided with her neighbours and have refused her appeal.
Is a two way street….where does the ability to object start and finish? Is it in the middle ground where the majority can accommodate or is it somewhere else?At some point it becomes dysfunctional does it not?
Aussie anti intellectualism adopted by the RNZ panel–Boofheads munching on charred animal bits is an achievement apparently…
Veganism and Vegetarianism is the future, and many are attempting to live it right now–but Whadarrryaaaaaa! seems the regular bloke response, hard working, god fearin’ Nu Zilundas eat meat–got it!…
Zimbabwe will be celebrating tonight, mugabe has passed away.
“His contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgotten…….
Not wrong about that….mugabe has been accused of being a dictator responsible for economic mismanagement, widespread corruption, human rights abuses, and crimes against humanity.
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The ability of the older voter to comprehend that the status quo can not be an option; to grasp on BAU is for the innocent, ignorant middle aged and the olders resolutely looking away towards the tourism attractions and way from the real world.
Abbott said dying populations, not climate change, were the biggest threat to western civilisation, and lashed out at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for recent remarks that they would not have more than two children due to the effects on the environment. “Having fewer children in western countries will hardly make the climate better when so many children are being born elsewhere,” said Abbott.
Here's a Man Eco Maori admires and agrees with Kia Kaha stay strong keeping the Neanderthal in Check Ka pai
John Kerry says we can't leave climate emergency to 'neanderthals' in power
It’s a lie that humanity has to choose between prosperity and protecting the future, former US secretary of state tells Australian conference
The former US secretary of state John Kerry has warned that humanity risks marching off a cliff unless governments take immediate action to fight the climate emergency.
In a keynote address to the Global Table food and agriculture conference, Kerry made veiled swipes at the Australian government’s lack of climate and energy policy. He also weighed in on the heated debate about the massive Adani coalmine proposed for north Queensland.
“We just can’t sit on our asses and leave the political process to neanderthals who don’t want to believe in the future,” Kerry told the audience in Melbourne. “We have a dearth of leadership, but this will turn.”John Kerry: US 'cannot afford truculent child president
The former US Democratic presidential candidate said it was not a choice between taking action on the climate emergency and securing jobs and growth.
“They are not separate. And anybody who persists in putting forward that notion that you have to make the choice – you can either have jobs plus prosperity or you can protect the environment and the future. That’s a lie
The governments of the Papatuanuku need to do the humane thing and help the tangata of the Bahamas servive the huge mess hurricane Dorian made of their Island why because the government of the world are responsible for the cause of CLIMATE CHANGE
That's why I dislike PEE some people will do anything to get there next fix that phenomenon is what drives most crimes and thefts.
I have read that it's hot in Australia at the minute The Bush fire season has started early there government is still backing old carbon neanderthals.
Vegans are 22% more likely to have a stroke there you go we need a good veritable diet yes we can lower our protein consumption but not leaving animals protein out of our diet totally is what I believe.
I don't think that Wahine actor from America should be jailed for what she and many wealth people do.
Yes Wallaby need to be control to protect our native floral and birds and stop them from going extinct.
The way the Hawaii government is treating the tangata whenua O Hawaii is bad and sad. That is the way simon wanted to treat tangata whenua o Aotearoa Protesters.
The Amazon fires are a great man made desaster it shows that the government is not very intelligent they don't understand how Papatuanuku diversity of wild life is a great taonga that needs to be protected the. muppets
We are making a big mess in Tangaroa and on the whenua this is causing a masse extinction of our wild life and environment.
All in the goal of humanity instant satisfaction. Ie boil the jug to make a cup of tea turn on the light by a new TV because the relies have a better one. We have become a throw away society and in the process we are throwing away OUR FUTURE descendints right to a natural healthy life. We need to change and manufacture thing to last 20 years at least and stop using products with a huge carbon footprint.
After bronze and iron, welcome to the plastic age, say scientists
Plastic pollution has entered the fossil record, research shows
Plastic pollution is being deposited into the fossil record, research has found, with contamination increasing exponentially since 1945.
Scientists suggest the plastic layers could be used to mark the start of the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch in which human activities have come to dominate the planet. They say after the bronze and iron ages, the current period may become known as the plastic age.
The study, the first detailed analysis of the rise in plastic pollution in sediments, examined annual layers off the coast of California back to 1834. They discovered the plastic in the layers mirrors precisely the exponential rise in plastic production over the past 70 years.
Most of the plastic particles were fibres from synthetic fabrics used in clothes, indicating that plastics are flowing freely into the ocean through waste water Ka kite Ano link below.
Whanau don't fall this con as you see they target the common poor people stay away from skyway capital. They no poor people are desperate and will believe there rubbish and lies IF ITS TO GOOD TO BE TRUE THAN ITS A LIE.
I can guess why the USA is doing that nothing is logical in the USA now.
The Bahama desaster after math is evedince that global warming is going to affect the poor people the most.
TE REO Language week is awesome too celebrate Maori Language as a taonga.
I hope there is not too many people lives are affected negativey and wild life losses with the Australian Bush fire season starting earlier than expected.
So, the Trump Administration ordered the management of the central meteorological agency, NOAA to reverse its claim that Alabama was not included in the original forecast track for Hurricane Dorian?
Blackmail? If you don't reverse your original statement we'll remove your government financial resources – or something like that?
Meteorologists throughout the country are angry and upset at the way the "management" have folded. Shocking!
“It’s unheard of that [Noaa] would – with no scientific basis whatsoever – undermine their own employees for political reasons. That’s never happened before under any administration … This doesn’t happen. This is a scientific agency. People gather data and they make the best decisions they can make from that data.”
It's not funny any more. Beyond disgraceful that a scientific organisation whose primary task is to advise and warn the public of weather related events should be undermined in the course of its duty.
Totally agree Anne – somehow this has now become de rigueur in Trumpland. For instance the EPA is just a shadow of its former self, and there is now hardly a Department of State that has a permanent head. The US administration is practically on its knees. Trump plays on his phone keyboard while America burns.
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Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
Distinguished guests - It is an honour to return once again to this site which, as the resting place for so many of our war-dead, has become a sacred place for generations of New Zealanders. Our presence here and at the other special spaces of Gallipoli is made ...
Mai ia tawhiti pamamao, te moana nui a Kiwa, kua tae whakaiti mai matou, ki to koutou papa whenua. No koutou te tapuwae, no matou te tapuwae, kua honoa pumautia. Ko nga toa kua hinga nei, o te Waipounamu, o te Ika a Maui, he okioki tahi me o ...
Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. “Our Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealand’s own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealand’s energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. “The report shows that New Zealand’s emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,” Mr Mitchell ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is today travelling to Europe where he’ll update the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Government’s work to restore law and order. “Attending the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva provides us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while ...
Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the world’s largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. “The reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealand’s wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
Hon Andrew Bayly, Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing At the Southland Otago Regional Engineering Collective (SOREC) Summit, 18 April, Dunedin Ngā mihi nui, Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Ko Whanganui aho Good Afternoon and thank you for inviting me to open your summit today. I am delighted ...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to bring back the Three Strikes legislation, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced today. “Our Government is committed to restoring law and order and enforcing appropriate consequences on criminals. We are making it clear that repeat serious violent or sexual offending is not ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today announced four new diplomatic appointments for New Zealand’s overseas missions. “Our diplomats have a vital role in maintaining and protecting New Zealand’s interests around the world,” Mr Peters says. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of these senior diplomats from the ...
New Zealand is contributing NZ$7 million to support communities affected by severe food insecurity and other urgent humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and Somalia, Foreign Minister Rt Hon Winston Peters announced today. “Over 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across Ethiopia, with a further 6.9 million people ...
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Paul Goldsmith is congratulating Mataaho Collective for winning the Golden Lion for best participant in the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale. "Congratulations to the Mataaho Collective for winning one of the world's most prestigious art prizes at the Venice Biennale. “It is good ...
The Government is reforming financial services to improve access to home loans and other lending, and strengthen customer protections, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly and Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced today. “Our coalition Government is committed to rebuilding the economy and making life simpler by cutting red tape. We are ...
“China remains a strong commercial opportunity for Kiwi exporters as Chinese businesses and consumers continue to value our high-quality safe produce,” Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says. Mr McClay has returned to New Zealand following visits to Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai where he met ministers, governors and mayors and engaged in trade and agricultural events with the New ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
Asia Pacific Report Chief Mandla Mandela, a member of the National Assembly of South Africa and Nelson Mandela’s grandson, has joined the Freedom Flotilla in istanbul as the ships prepare to sail for Gaza, reports Kia Ora Gaza. Mandela is also the ambassador for the Global Campaign to Return to ...
Pacific Media Watch Journalists who report on environmental issues are encountering growing difficulties in many parts of the world, reports Reporters Without Borders. According to the tally kept by RSF, 200 journalists have been subjected to threats and physical violence, including murder, in the past 10 years because they were ...
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards, Democracy Project (https://democracyproject.nz)Political scientist, Dr Bryce Edwards. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has surprised everyone with his ruthlessness in sacking two of his ministers from their crucial portfolios. Removing ministers for poor performance after only five months in the job just doesn’t normally happen in ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra BagzhanSadvakassov/Upsplash, CC BY-SA Australia’s inflation rate has fallen for the fifth successive quarter, and it’s now less than half of what it was back in late 2022. ...
ACT's Rural Communities and Veterans spokesman Mark Cameron responds to cancellations and protests of ANZAC Day commemorations in Wellington. He says, "These pitiful attempts to detract from ANZAC Day are not at all indicative of the feelings of mainstream ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meighen McCrae, Associate Professor of Strategic & Defence Studies, Australian National University American and Australian stretcher bearers working together near the front line during the Battle of Hamel in 1918.Australian War Memorial While the AUKUS alliance is new, the Australian-American partnership ...
Pōneke based peace activists staged a silent protest at the ANZAC day service to highlight New Zealand’s complicity in war and genocide, and urge the government to take concrete steps to stop the genocide in Palestine. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Magdalena M.E. Bunbury, Postdoctoral Researcher, James Cook University Burial with a horse at the Rákóczifalva site, Hungary (8th century AD).Sándor Hegedűs, Hungarian National Museum, CC BY How do we understand past societies? For centuries, our main sources of information have been ...
Amanda Thompson doesn’t really do Anzac Day. But what she does do is remember the people she knew who had a lifetime to remember stuff they didn’t really want to, because of a war they didn’t ask for. And she does make Anzac biscuits.First published in 2021.All my ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathryn Willis, Postdoctoral Researcher, CSIRO Xavier Boulenger/Shutterstock In the two decades to 2019, global plastic production doubled. By 2040, plastic manufacturing and processing could consume as much as 20% of global oil production and use up 15% of the annual carbon ...
With our collective remembrance, and steadfast belief in our common humanity, we strengthen our hope and resolve to do what we can to foster dialogue and understanding, and to heal divisions in our pursuit of peace. ...
Principal reasons for the opposition is the loss of the public’s democratic right to have “a fair say” and the vital need for a government free from corruption, said Casey Cravens of Dunedin, president of the New Zealand Federation of Freshwater ...
Never mind the scoreboard – in the 2000 Bledisloe Cup decider, the real trans-Tasman battle was won before kickoff.First published in 2016. The dawn of the new millennium was a dark time for the All Blacks. Their final game pre-Y2K was a 22-18 loss to South Africa in the ...
I’m on the wrong side of 40, I never pursued creative work and now my job is killing my soul. Help! Want Hera’s help? Email your problem to helpme@thespinoff.co.nzDear Hera,May I start with the least original conversation opener you’re likely to hear around the motu at the moment, particularly in Wellington: ...
“Never again - No AUKUS” was the message of the wreath laid at this morning’s national ANZAC Day commemorative service at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park this morning by the Stop AUKUS group. ...
Until this month, Auckland swimmer Hazel Ouwehand had never met a qualifying time in an Olympic event for a New Zealand team, even as a junior. Now she’s very likely off to the Paris Olympics after swimming well under the qualifying standard in the 100m butterfly twice – both in ...
While Anzac Day has experienced a resurgence in recent years, our other day of remembrance has slowly faded from view.The Sunday Essay is made possible thanks to the support of Creative New Zealand. Original illustrations by Hope McConnell.First published in 2022.The high school’s head girl and ...
Australian and New Zealand volunteers fought together in the Waikato War, yet still its place in the Anzac tradition is unacknowledged by our defence forces or Returned Services Association.First published in 2018.When I was a boy cub I attended Anzac Day services in the South Auckland suburb of ...
A poem by Wellington writer Tayi Tibble.Hoki Mai She kisses him goodbye with her eyes still wet and alight from their last swim in the Awatere river. At the train station celebration, she leads the Kapa Haka but her voice keeps breaking under and over itself like waves. ...
A poem from Bill Manhire’s 2017 book of verse Some Things to Place in a Coffin.My World War I Poem Inside each trench, the sound of prayer. Inside each prayer, the sound of digging. Image courtesy of Auckland War Memorial Museum. ...
There are three books I have wolfed down in one sitting over the last two years. Colleen Maria Lenihan’s gorgeous and sad debut Kōhine, Noelle McCarthy’s memoir Grand about becoming her mother and then unbecoming her, and now Hine Toa, a staunch yet gentle self-portrait by living legend Ngāhuia te ...
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Asia Pacific Report Students and activist staff at Australia’s University of Sydney (USyd) have set up a Gaza solidarity encampment in support of Palestinians and similar student-led protests in the United States. The camp was pitched as mass graves, crippled hospitals, thousands of civilian deaths and the near-total destruction of ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James B. Dorey, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong Australian teddy bear bees are cute and fluffy, but get a look at that massive (unbarbed) stinger! James Dorey Photography Most of us have been stung by a bee and we ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Roberts, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong Aussie~mobs/FlickrVictor Farr, a private in the 1st Infantry Battalion, was among the first to land at Anzac Cove just before dawn on April 25 1915. Victor Farr ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Gregory Moore I had the good fortune to care for the sugar gum at The University of Melbourne’s Burnley Gardens in Victoria where I worked for ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra BagzhanSadvakassov/Upsplash, CC BY-SA Australia’s inflation rate has fallen for the fifth successive quarter, and it’s now less than half of what it was back in late 2022. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University Just when we think the price of rentals could not get any worse, this week’s Rental Affordability Snapshot by Anglicare has revealed low-income Australians are facing a housing crisis like ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meighen McCrae, Associate Professor of Strategic & Defence Studies, Australian National University American and Australian stretcher bearers working together near the front line during the Battle of Hamel in 1918.Australian War Memorial While the AUKUS alliance is new, the Australian-American partnership ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracey Holmes, Professorial Fellow in Sport, University of Canberra When the news broke last weekend that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive to a banned drug in early 2021 and were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games six months later ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cally Jetta, Senior Lecturer and Academic Lead; College for First Nations, University of Southern Queensland Australian War MemorialAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people, as well as sensitive historical information ...
RNZ News Melissa Lee has been ousted from New Zealand’s coalition cabinet and stripped of the Media portfolio, and Penny Simmonds has lost the Disability Issues portfolio in a reshuffle. Climate Change and Revenue Minister Simon Watts will take Lee’s spot in cabinet. Simmonds was a minister outside of cabinet. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lindenmayer, Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University laurello/Shutterstock Some reports and popular books, such as Bill Gammage’s Biggest Estate on Earth, have argued that extensive areas of Australia’s forests were kept open through frequent burning by ...
Analysis - Christopher Luxon framing the demotion of two ministers as the portfolios getting "too complex" is a charitable way of saying they weren't up to the job. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With Jim Chalmers’s third budget on May 14, Australians will be looking for some more cost-of-living relief – beyond the tax cuts – although they have been warned extra measures will be modest. As ...
Analysis: Melissa Lee has lost the media portfolio and her spot in Cabinet after multiple failed attempts to find solutions for a media industry in crisis. On Wednesday, the Prime Minister announced Lee would be losing her spot in Cabinet along with her media and communications ministerial portfolio. The job ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Wilmot, Senior Lecturer, Film, Deakin University Among the many Australian who served during the second world war, there is a small group of people whose stories remain largely untold. These are the Muslim men and women who, while small in number, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Saunders, PhD Candidate, University of Canberra There has been much analysis and praise of Justice Michael Lee’s recent judgement in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Channel Ten. Many people were openly relieved to read Lee’s “forensic” and “nuanced” application of law ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathy Gibbs, Program Director for the Bachelor of Education, Griffith University zEdward_Indy/Shutterstock Around one in 20 people has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It’s one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood and often continues into adulthood. ADHD is diagnosed ...
The Fairer Future coalition of anti-poverty groups say Whaikaha must be properly funded going forward, and that to argue that poor financial management of the new Ministry is a red herring by the Prime Minister. ...
The Taxpayers’ Union is today congratulating Hon. Paul Goldsmith on his appointment as Minister for Media and Communications and urges him to rule out state intervention in the private media sector. ...
Asia Pacific Report The West Papuan resistance OPM leader has condemned Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden, accusing their countries of “six decades of treachery” over Papuan independence. The open letter was released today by OPM chairman Jeffrey P Bomanak on the eve of ANZAC Day ...
Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional, in which we get to know the reading habits and quirks of New Zealanders at large. This week: writer and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2024, Lauren Groff.The book I wish I’d writtenIf I wish I’d written a ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Fechner, Research Fellow, Social Marketing, Griffith University mavo/Shutterstock Imagine having dinner at a restaurant. The menu offers plant-based meat alternatives made mostly from vegetables, mushrooms, legumes and wheat that mimic meat in taste, texture and smell. Despite being given that ...
“Three Strikes is a dead-end policy proposed by a dead-end government. The Three Strikes law ignores the causes of crime, instead just brutalising people already crushed by the cost of living.” ...
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Australian-born judge in Kiribati could well face deportation later this week after a tribunal ruling that he should be removed from his post. The tribunal’s report has just been tabled in the Kiribati Parliament and is due to be debated by MPs ...
With its clear mandate for police use, political nuances, and nuanced public trust, Denmark's insights provide valuable considerations for Australia and New Zealand. ...
Books editor Claire Mabey reviews poet Louise Wallace’s debut novel. A famous poet once said to me that he’s always suspicious when a poet publishes a novel. I never really understood why but maybe it’s something to do with cheating on your first form. Louise Wallace is a poet. She’s ...
For a few months at the turn of the millennium, TrueBliss burned bright as the biggest pop stars in the country. Alex Casey chats to two superfans who still hold the flame. During a humble backyard wedding in Nelson, 1999, one of the cordially invited guests had to excuse themselves ...
How will the recent wave of job cuts impact ethnic diversity in the media? In November last year, I was working a very busy day in the newsroom of a large online news site, interviewing whānau about their concerns over the imminent closure of one of the few puna reo ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth Knight, Researcher, Queensland University of Technology Have you ever felt sick at work? Perhaps you had food poisoning or the flu. Your belly hurt, or you felt tired, making it hard to concentrate and be productive. How likely would you be ...
Despite heavy criticism and an ongoing select committee process, the Police Minister says the Government will forge ahead with a ban on gang patches. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Whiting, Lecturer – Creative Industries, University of South Australia Shutterstock Everyone has a favourite band, or a favourite composer, or a favourite song. There is some music which speaks to you, deeply; and other music which might be the current ...
A new survey says ‘outlook not great’ for those charged with building infrastructure, while RMA changes delight farmers and depress environmentalists, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. First RMA changes announced ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olli Hellmann, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Waikato Getty Images When New Zealanders commemorate Anzac Day on April 25, it’s not only to honour the soldiers who lost their lives in World War I and subsequent conflicts, but also ...
A leaked document shows the Canterbury/Waitaha arm of health agency Te Whatu Ora is scurrying to save $13.3 million by July. The “financial sustainability target”, which was “allocated” to Waitaha, is consistent with what’s happening in other districts, says Sarah Dalton, executive director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists. ...
This morning's twitter goodness
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'Murica does not deserve AOC. She is truly a goddess when she can wind up Steve King so much he goes and drinks toilet water thinking that's owning the libs.
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The fear of exiting Brexit is about the loss to the person producing the product. Some people do well in business, some do not and will not regardless of who they are trading with.
For the business owners/producers who need some help to transition, help needs to be given providing it is viable to do so.
I am in favour of Brexit going forward as Britain has limited economic control with trading within the EU. This is evident due to how hard it is to exit from the EU.
You reckon the poms are entitled to more control than lesser nations do you treesy?
The British are entitled to have as much control as they can have with whom they trade with.
When something is so hard to get out of, it usually is not good for you.
I do not like the word you used to identify a British person.
It's not hard to get out of the EU.
But it's cold outside, and warm inside, and the cat thought it wanted out, so now it's sitting in the open doorway while the European parliament is waiting for the british cat to make up it's damned mind. Sooner or later there will be a helpful foot up the arse in the form of "no extensions", and there'll be a soggy wee moggy wanting back inside.
Oh, and arseholes will be shooting up border stations in Armagh again.
The European Parliament has made up its mind and it ain't changing it. May thought she could change the EU exit and gave up so resigned as prime minister. Boris is decisive he said he would rather die in a ditch than delay leaving.
See what happens when parliament resumes, election or no election.
The European Parliament is the stupid human holding the door open for the cat.
Britain signed up to the method of departure when it signed up to join the EU. Now it wants to leave, it wants to renege on those terms, and actually wants the EU to do it a favour with trade deals..
Reminds me of a drunk in a pub – calls the bouncer rude words when leaving, but then is all "aww mate, do me a favour" when he wants to take the drink with him.
There are lots of things I do not like treesy. It would be piss easy to get out of if everyone wanted to.
Is there an address I can send a bale of cotton wool to Precious?
I'm doing my best to round up a few troops from around the colonies to ensure Borrie Jo, Little Jo and the Minister for the 18th Century are well protected and that their sight looking downwards is not impaired. Chin up old bean – we'll win out in the end doncha know – and unlike you, we'll FIGHT till the bitter end even if we do have to call in a few of those bloody "Yanks"
I disagree. A viable business competes on innovation and effectiveness to a much greater extent than geography, especially in this connected and mobile age. Brexit is about self-interest of entrenched elites on both sides of the channel.
Schumpeter wrote about Creative destruction (German: schöpferische Zerstörung), sometimes known as Schumpeter's gale who derived it from the work of Karl Marx and popularized it as a theory of economic innovation and the business cycle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
One of the best sources of breaking news on Brexit can be – rather ironically – found below.
https://www.conservativehome.com/frontpage/2019/09/newslinks-for-thursday-5th-september-2019.html
"More than 100,000 people have applied to register to vote since the start of the week, with young people making up the bulk of the surge against the backdrop of a momentous 48 hours in British politics.
On Monday, 52,408 applications were submitted, according to government figures, followed by 64,485 on Tuesday.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/04/more-than-100000-people-apply-register-vote-youth-uk-general-election
The figure on both days was significantly above the typical number for weekday applications, which has averaged about 27,000 for the past month.
Parties that have traditionally drawn support from younger people will be most encouraged by the figures, which show that 58% of applications submitted on the two days were from people aged 34 and under. Many of those signing up this week are understood to be students moving into new areas for the start of term, but experts pointed out that others may have put registering on the backburner.
“It’s not surprising that there will be a lot of young people in these figures,” said Dr Toby James, a senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia who has authored reports on Britain’s low levels of voter registrations.
“But I think that there is probably a tidal wave of applications to come. We’re all guilty of leaving things to the last minute.”
Labour, in particular, has been having conversations in recent months with groups behind voter registration drives amid concerns about the limitations in systems or names “falling off” registers.
Trade aside, what about Northern Ireland?
Compensate for the loss (an agreed amount and time limit) and transition.
Some people in Northern Ireland might actually be better off without Brexit.
What if the paramilitaries don't "agree"? Hard border or soft?
Hijacking democracy is the main problem with some British members of parliament.
Have they not heard of one man or woman one vote.
Brexit is like awaiting major surgery. Get it over and done with.
Hey, if the british people (well, not Scotland but they'll probably do devolution pretty soon after this) want to commit to a bloody stupid decision which will criple their supply lines in the short term and fuck their trade structure in the long term simply because they can't admit they didn't understand the chaos their bloody stupid decision would cause, that's their business.
But what about Northern Ireland? If there's a hard border with checkpoints, the IRA will come back. If there's a soft border people will shoot the cameras on one side and the unionists will screw the system at the other side. And things will escalate.
How will you avert this scenario?
Scotland voted to stay in the UK parliament. The UK parliament had the mandate to leave the EU.
It is about being no worse off financially and maximising profit. The EU can change terms and this would affect the UK even if there was no Brexit. The terms are not yet in play.
Patience is required to establish change.
Copy that. Get it over and done with, then have patience.
Sorry, how will you stop Troubles 2: the Brexiting from happening? I keep missing the bit where you describe a border resolution that brings permanent peace to Northern Ireland.
I don't think there will be much difference in day to day life in Ireland. I feel that there is enough stability in Ireland for a Brexit to not become a flash point.
When NZ lamb and dairy got dumped in the mid 1970s by Britain NZ survived. Moyle actually got some new trading deals and look what Muldoon did to him in 1976.
There is a bit of irony as Fonterra might do well in Britain.
Ireland will survive with the assistance of the British parliament working closely with Irish MPs.
Dairy? WTF has dairy got to do with anything?
The Troubles had nothing to do with trade, and everything about national identity. Hopefully the peace holds, but you're painfully optimistic if you're not worried about it.
Britain was the main trading partner with NZ to sell dairy, beef and lamb. Once Britain joint the EU new trading partners needed to be found.
I know about the troubles IRA and British army. This has been stabilised.
When it comes to national identity the Irish Parliament will need to be carefully listened to by the British Parliament.
Do you know if the Irish Parliament will be able to make trade deals without Britain's consent once the Irish are no longer part of the EU?
I am again optimistic that exiting the EU is the right thing to do.
Time will only tell. You never know what the EU will pull out in the future. Uncertain times globally for trade due to USA and China trade relations. I am not a fan of Trump but he is decisive on trade. Unemployment is the lowest it has been in 50 years in the USA. I do realise that people are needing to pay more for some products. This may only be short term.
I have not even mentioned patent rights/intellectual property when it comes to trade.
Britain and Ireland survived prior to joining the EU and they will survive once no longer an EU trading partner.
The Irish will be part of the EU.
The Northern Irish will not.
With Britain and Eire both being in the EU, everyone could pretend their own acceptable level of fantasy. The Republicans could travel all over Ireland without customs or barriers. The British were part of Britain, even if there was no border, just like the French and Belgians don't have border checkpoints any more, and they're still separate countries, right?.
Brexit fucks this happy compromise up.
The Northern Irish Assembly is already a big compromise by the Unionists and the Republicans. Having it negotiate a free trade and movement agreement with the EU (because Eire can't negotiate a separate agreement by itself) will be seen as further devolution from Britain.
That leads to bang-bangs.
On the flipside, a no-deal brexit means a hard border. Checkpoints in County Antrim again. That means the Republicans will view it as a step back towards Unionism.
That leads to bang-bangs.
Forget trade. How will you stop the Troubles from returning? Do you really expect bojo to "listen carefully"?
An off shore check point.
… even if practical, it puts the border checks between NI and the rest of the UK. The Unionists call that "devolution". They are adamant that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom.
But the idea of a border checkpoint in the middle of the Irish Sea is a joke, anyway.
Something went very wrong when May spoke with the EU re Brexit situation affecting Northern Ireland. The EU need to take some responsibility for this. EU want the trade border outside of Ireland. Exactly what did EU say?
1. That Northern Ireland is part of Ireland trade system and cannot have separate trade deals and only trade with EU?
2. That Northern Ireland can trade with EU and others?
Northern Ireland and Ireland need to be able to trade with EU and others. Basically immunity from EU restrictions. A time limit of 5 years then a review.
Ireland is not overly populated and the EU could be compensated from Britain.
So risky to get out for Northern Ireland from EU. Some thinker needs to go back to what the deal was when Northern Ireland and Ireland signed up. International trading law might over ride EU decision in insisting a trading border in Ireland.
The Good Friday agreement has held for 20 years. This has been progressive.
Probably the Good Friday agreement did not have a scenario for the EU trade border if either part of Ireland left the EU.
A solution might be found in a Switzerland neutrality. International banking seems to function there.
Are there trade exceptions with Switzerland and the EU. Think Switzerland is part of the EU.
Maybe the EU might need to modernise to avoid a future scenario.
Britain and Ireland joined the EEC in 1973. To put it in partisan terms (to make it clear), British-occupied Ireland has never had independent foreign or trade policy. Look up "Potato Famine" for more information.
Until 1973, independent Ireland and British-occupied Northern-Ireland had a hard border, the result of the 1922 independence treaty. While that unified trade, the British were firmly in control of NI from London. The IRA & co had a problem with this, so the British sent in the Paras who shot some joy-riders, and everything went to shit for twenty years.
After twenty years of murders, bombings, bad movies, depressing but good movies, and okay music, the Good Friday accords fuzzed up the border and created the Northern Irish Assembly.
But if the Republic of Ireland and the United Kindom are under different trade rules, with no border between the two there will be massive amounts of smuggling both ways. The Irish won't get kicked out of the EU, and the Unionists won't let NI be separated from the UK. But if the border gets re-established anywhere, someone with thirty year old semtex will be angry.
This isn't an EU problem. It's a problem caused by the fuckers who put "325 million pounds a week" on the side of a bus rather than actually tell the truth.
What about the dual citizenship in Northern Ireland.
The EU need to think about that.
When are you Irish and when are you British when it comes to trade?
No, they don't.
If an Irish passport holder needs to cross into Ireland, no worries. A British person would need to satisfy the requirements of any other foreigner entering the EU.
If an Irish person wants to take goods from Belfast to Dublin, they pay EU duties. UK duties the other way. Same as anyone else.
This is a British problem of English construction. They chose it, but without thinking about how to solve it.
I thought if you held a Irish British passport that you could travel to any of the 27 EU countries as well travel between Britain and Ireland.
I will check if just to Northern Ireland or the whole of Ireland. Probably to the whole of Ireland as no border.
Previously I saw something about being born in Republic of Ireland or if parents or grandparents were born there.
At the moment anyone born in NI can move throught the EU, including England and Ireland.
After Brexit, this will devolve into the bounds of the Common Travel Area. So Dubliners can go to Manchester, Mancunians to Dublin, etc. This doesn't include the flow of goods, though. So the problem is if Polish goods go to Ireland and are then on-sold to Belfast and then forwarded to Manchester, at what point are duties paid to Britain and how is it detected? And what about goods travelling the opposite direction?
And NI is just one issue:
what about additional customs checks on cross-channel cargos? How will that affect the logistics chains of factories that run so lean they have to shut the production lines if they don't get replenishment every three hours? What about medications that can't be stockpiled because of their narrow expiry dates, but with no trade deals with nations that can supply them?
All of these factors should have been considered during the referendum, but people were lied to by sociopaths who didn't want to be subjected to EU tax or anti-money-laundering laws.
Brexit is the biggest tax dodge in history.
Just to wrap up on this thread for me.
DUP in Northern Ireland want to Brexit but population of Northern Ireland did not.
May back stop idea was unrealistic and time consuming. EU were unwise to settle with May on a Brexit date until the trade border with Britain and any EU trader with Britain was settled.
So now time has run out to re negotiate. EU became so stubborn and would not renegotiate.
EU needs to renegotiate and Johnson needs to put Brexit date to January.
The U in DUP stands for "Unionist".
They want a hard border on the county line, not the coast. Brexit is a way to get that.
EU doesn't need to do a damned thing. It's already negotiated one agreement and then agreed to two extensions because Britain is being bloody stupid.
I know I said my last on the thread.
What about a different date for Northern Ireland to leave the EU?
And still be able to trade under any new trade condition s with Britain. Basically dual trading. Britain could pay a tax/levy to EU.
What is population of Northern Ireland?
Very roughly speaking, that's the "Irish backstop" May agreed with the EU, but didn't get through parliament: that the UK and EU stay in a single customs union (except fish: cf: "Cod War") until they figure out what to do.
The bojo cons and the DUP oppose this solution. Bojo cons because they have fantasies about NZ beef and free trade with the USA, DUP because they see it as a concession that Northern Ireland is partly joined to Ireland, not England.
With the letter of withdrawal sent to the EU, Britain is on its way out. Because the Irish Backstop scuppered Britain ratifying the post-EU-membership agreement, it's currently going to be a no-deal brexit with hard borders on the county line.
Treetop – Major surgery? Get it over and done with. If someone's heart is removed, they need a working replacement to help them survive while another one is being fitted. And that had better work when the mechanical one is taken away.
And probably a lot of morphine. The patient might become a drug addict while trying to cope with the trauma.
Not something to rush into with a 'light heart'.
Anticipation can cause overwhelming anxiety and not change the outcome. British voters voted to leave.
There are going to be interim measures when transitioning. No one knows the fine detail yet.
Like I said above the Good Friday agreement has held for 20 years and is progressive.
It would be interesting to know what dooms day thinking was said back then regarding the agreement.
October 17 Johnson is to attend EU exit talks. The EU better be thinking hard about not having a trade border in Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland. Population is 4.88 million.
I have nothing further to add.
(bernard hickey has covered things quite adroitly..)
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/@pro/2019/09/05/791512/young-renters-just-got-double-toasted#
(excerpt..)
'Any remaining hopes that an enlightened government would engineer a supply shock to drive home prices down to improve affordability for both renters and first home buyers has just evaporated, if it ever existed to start with.
New Housing Minister Megan Woods did her best on Wednesday to put a brave face on what was easily the worst day politically in this second Labour-led Government post-MMP. Labour deployed Green Co-Leader Marama Davidson and the Green's rent-to-own plan to try to distract from the complete capitulation of abandoning the 100,000 over 10 years target.
It also tried to dress the broken promise by making it easier to use more KiwiSaver money for home deposits and to be able to borrow more to buy a first home.
Neither will sweeten this dead rat much. It's more of a rotting and hairy cat.'..
It looks bad but I still believe we have an over supply (ref Joe Wilkes, DFA channel commentary about NZ on YT). We are one GFC 2.0 away from seeing that.
By failing they will lessen our housing market demise.
oh..i am still expecting a housing price collapse..
(that is a separate/different issue..)
and maybe over-supply' means over-priced..?
then of course there is the quality of our existing housing stock – which is pretty crap…
'tis a complex issue..
Hickey's general thesis suggests that a house-price collapse will be a DISASTER for lower-income earners and young people. Summary:
Baby Boomers own all the property.
Baby Boomers participate in elections far more than young people.
Ergo
The issues that win elections are those that favour the people that already own all the property.
If a house-price collapse happens, the Baby Boomers will demand government action to protect their investments. And they'll get it, no matter the collateral damage to renters, low-wage workers, young people, etc.
i understand that boomers vote more than the young..
but i also think that cd be about to change –
as the urgencies of the climate-change – that will effect them the most – becomes more and more..
in the last 48 hrs there has been the biggest ever surge of young (under 33) voters registering to vote for the first time – in britain…and of course brexit is help driving that..
but the fast-rising extinction rebellion also argues for the power the young have in their hands – at the ballot box..
so for those reasons – i think that young don't vote assumption could soon become passe..
and i look forward to that…
My view of the history of great depressions is that normally the less well-off get hammered and forced into selling off everything, while the ultra-rich go around cherry-picking and buying up everything they like at bargain basement prices.
A housing price collapse will probably result in lower private ownership of houses, and Corporates renting out more of them.
Actually somewhat South of 60% of boomers own their own home. Many with mortgages. Down from the 80%plus in the previous generation who retired with mortgage free houses.
Then there are the large number of boomers who are ending up with a mortgage, on retirement, to help their kids into houses.
Nearly half of boomers do not have a house, let alone housing "investments.
Failing ?
Thats not what the polls have said a month or so back. Its almost 2 to one in favour.
'"Do you think the Government should continue with the KiwiBuild scheme?"
Sixty per cent said yes, the Government should keep going, while 34 per cent said no
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/latest-kiwibuild-development-revealed-auckland-poll-shows-kiwis-still-back-concept
poll driven government was what the last government did and achieved nothing in housing…?
Poll Driven ? Kiwibuild in various guises but essentially as state builds for owners has been around as Labour party policy since about 2014.
The polls point out that the public loves kiwibuild in spite of its setbacks and Judith Collins doesnt have as much influence as she might think.
She has plenty here who parrot her talking points.
Hickey has hardly any value as a commentator on housing as he 'knows nothing'
Agree +100%
Given that Kiwibuild was touted as the panacea for all housing ills in NZ Im surprised only 60% said yes
"Given that Kiwibuild was touted as the panacea for all housing ills in NZ"
That is bullshit – this was a solution that was attempted – you are just stirring the muck to get a thrill like a low down gnat always does.
http://www.thecivilian.co.nz/government-says-it-will-now-build-just-one-really-nice-home/
Funny all those inventions over the years based on attempts to find solutions again and again after getting it wrong again and again. The gnat lovers would give up after one or two attempts and run away yapping – meanwhile people that are serious keep on trying. An even funnier thing is that imo many of the inventors and worker outerers in the past were conservative – that was the ethos. Not the quick jammy fix that the gnational party prefers with it's simpleton leader and lackey supporters. Not the party of deep thinkers anymore the gnats, that's for sure.
'Ardern also pointed out that while the government had fallen well short of its initial 100,000 homes target, it was performing “much better” in relation to its target of 100,000 measles cases.'
yes I know you get your points from a comedy account, after all you be a crasher collins devotee lol oh dear what a pity
I was going to get my comedy points from Kiwibuild but I figure its already gone beyond a joke
60% of those polled supported it.
Judith isnt getting traction with her talking points…oh dear.
Is she spending too much time on the fund raising circuit ?
Of course they want a policy of subsidised housing to keep going.
"Hello first home buyer, would you like a brand new home as your first home, you do well we'll make it cheaper for you"
I'm surprised more people didn't want it to continue but imagine if the question asked was something like: "do you think Labour will be able to build 100 000 homes in ten year"
Puck's is still madly in love with Judith.
Well it's one way of getting back the herd immunity puckers.
Always the optimist
and you are always the pessimist puke
Only a pessimist is ever pleasantly surprised…
But they don't expect the pleasant feeling to last…
Damn strait!
But I seem to remember John Key explaining that some unachieved goal of his was only 'esperational'
What is wrong with strong esperations?
The fact that people want then to carry on with kiwibuild proves most kiwis see a need for government intervention and despite labours troubles so far the are willing support their attempts to get it right .
If at first you dont succeed try again is far fucking better than anything the fuckwit nats can come up with.
yep I agree bwaghorni
Incorrect. Labours flagship policy, the policy used to discredit National, the policy that got Labour into power was not going to fail.
When critics pointed out it wouldnt work Labour said it would, Twyford insulted Treasury because they said it wouldnt work, Labour convinced enough people it would work, Jacinda was happy to pose for photos so no "If at first you dont succeed try again is far fucking better than anything the fuckwit nats can come up with." is simply not good enough
How well did Nationals cycle ways program work out and the 'big boost ' to the economy and 1000s of new jobs….. oh you like everyone else have forgotten
Just like John Keys promise – no matter what AND dont believe the naysayers- that makes it a double promise to bring the Pike River miners out that was make ( and recorded 11 months after the disaster)
Nationals not in power (if you hadn't noticed) and Kiwibuild was one of, if not the biggest, reasons that Labour got elected and the cycleway certainly wasn't
This is a monumental cock up of Twyford-like proportions and all you've got is 'National cycleways'
But hey as long as its coming from Labour is all good right
Labour do some stupid stuff for which they should be rightly bagged. But at least they do stuff. National spent most of their time arguing semantics in regard to whether the housing crisis was an actual crisis rather than merely a challenge. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.
I'd like to think not everyone here is so blinded by partisan loyalty they're prepared to ignore Labour's failings. But let's be honest, Pucky. National have never been the party of the less fortunate. They'll make a valiant attempt to portray themselves as such every now and then, but scratch the surface and you'll find the usual callous indifference which tends to be their stock-in-trade. Paula Bennett's shameful antics around Te Puea Marae are adequate testimony. National essentially let the wound fester until it erupted in a geyser of pus and maggots, and now the current government is attempting clean up the mess while National jeer and throw rocks from the Opposition benches.
National have zero moral high-ground on this. If anything, they should be standing in a smoking crater.
Ok so did Labour know they couldn't meet their targets but went ahead with it anyway which means they deliberately lied to NZ
or did they really think they could meet the targets which makes them delusional
or could they really have met the targets but didn't which makes them incompetent
In regards to Kiwibuild Labour are either liars, delusional or incompetent
Did I miss anything out?
Labour are just getting organised they will make real progress in their second and third terms in Government IMHO ?
@ d of f..
two yrs in – the time for blaming the (undoubtedly guilty) tories for now is past…eh..?
National discredited itself – that's what happens when for seigneurial reasons you put deadwood like Nick Smith in charge of anything. Even they were too ashamed to call him housing minister in the end.
As for kiwibuild failing, it's like Marengo – Napoleon had lost the battle by 14:00 and won it back by 18:00. Housing is a critical issue and it must be built – giving up like the Gnats did, while it reflects Nick's actual capacity, cannot get the job done.
Can you let us know the official date when National stops getting blamed for Labours failings cheers
I think it'll take 'nine long years' and comcomitant jeers.
Seriously though, it would just take as long as the calculated cost of the shortfall in expenditure over those nine years on things that needed expenditure, less the surplus revenue now available to the government minus the willingness of the electorate to apportion blame upon that government of nine long years.
Whichever comes first.
Less the number of dead cats strewn upon the table, global crises, natural disasters, forest fires, possible re-elections of Boris and Donald, China, the cost of fossil fuel and who won the World Cup.
Not necessarily in that order.
I hope that helps.
Oh, and whether Judith makes it or not, or should I say, when?
Housing isn't their screw up yet – though it's true they should have done more about it under Clark. If the Gnats had not been utterly incompetent in that portfolio it would be a different story, but actually it's kind of hard to put your finger on a Gnat area of responsibility where a fairly ineffectual effort doesn't represent a vast improvement – they were rubbish – and that is the baseline against which Coalition performance is measured.
Thats wrong too.
Havent you heard of the Ramped up State House builds
havent you heard of the extended Bright line to catch the speculators and flippers
havent you heard of the Foreign buyers ban
havent you heard of the stand alone Ministry of Housing and Urban development.
Kiwibuild was soley to fix the imbalance at the value end of the new builds where they had become only 5% of the volume.
That maybe what Kiwibuild was supposed to be but the message to the people was different.
Basically Labour over promised and under delivered, this would never have happened until Helen Clark so now now Jacinda has to own her, Twyfords and Labours failure over this
I suspect what Kiwibuild was to many varies greatly. Certainly it covered the "housing problems" that were being ignored, but the scalpel of the media and opposition, and possibly insufficient time on setting out its scope, meant that it became just a small part of the "housing problem". I believe priority was rightly given to social housing, to reducing the number in motels and on waiting lists, and these do not seem to be the issues they used to be, although they are not yet totally resolved. That part of the housing problem that affected new home buyers is a problem that is a total market problem; it will not be resolved quickly, but it is not as urgent as reversing the reduction in social housing services. The number I would like to see measured is how many New Zealanders the government has assisted into some form of 'satisfactory' housing, rather than emergency housing.
As for the market failure of the building sector, we have had a serious deterioration in that industry over the term of the Nat-led government; a reliance on imported labour, a reduction in training and youth employment, fragmented small companies that had an incentive to go out of business, matched with too few trading in product supply, and starved local authorities who struggled with infrastructure and planning/ approvals. Leaky building have not helped either.
So yes there was a marketing failure by the government, but I do not think it is clear whether there is any significant failure otherwise. In effect the media and opposition have won the propaganda / lying war, with the only real winners those who are still able to exploit rental shortages . . ..
@ d of f…
being a tad clever with that poll you keep trotting out there from (in yr words)'a month or so ago'..
it was published on the 11th june – three months ago..
and the polling likely done over the month preceeding that..?
that gets us to polling data 4 months old – and pretty much useless in this post-canning kiwibuild moment..
donchareckon..?
kinda grasping at any straw floating by there..d of j..?
What was new over the last few months ?
Nothing until last week.
The numbers who are aligned with your ideas was 34% !
What exactly is your land development or construction expertise or knowledge of even planing.
Im pretty sure you dont have the foggiest and wouldnt know your bracing wall from your elbow.
'arr – arr – i have 'ammered the odd nail – seen the odd bracing wall – and can remember once helping to build a nickel-refinery – and i do have some knowledge of ‘planing’ – i can make my wood smooth – does that count..?'
(said in lancashire accent..)
heh..!..but really – what the fuck has that got to do with anything here..?
you are getting desperate – aren't you..(not waving – flailing..heh..!)
and plse don't try selling some meme that i am/was anti-kiwibuild..
my anger at the failures is from disappointment – not opposition too..mm-kay..?
Glurglurglurg- eh! Hehehe? Arrrghalarggh… eh?
If the reset was really important our PM would have been present, like many well educated leaders appear to follow … good news be associated with the release, bad news allow others to be seen. Thus protecting the brand.
(and in some good news..a cool open-source off-grid solar-freezer..woo-hoo..!)
https://boingboing.net/2019/09/05/frozen-sunshine.html
'it uses a standard chest freezer with added thermal mass, a simple controller, and a photovoltaic panel that effectively stores sunshine as coldness, obviating the need for expensive backup batteries.
The Fridge0 is an advance on traditional off-grid 12v solar fridges that assume that solar panels are expensive and inefficient; by exploiting modern PV technology,
Hess says "A kilowatt of solar panels provides enough power to run a conventional fridge on even most cloudy days, and costs less than a commercial offgrid fridge."
"A kilowatt of solar panels provides enough power to run a conventional fridge on even most cloudy days, and costs less than a commercial offgrid fridge."
What does that amount to .. the whole roof ?
don't have the tech-knowledge to answer that..
but they do mention using 'advances in photovolteic tech'…and that it is much cheaper than usual set-ups.
so i d presume not 'the whole roof'..
did you read the links…?..they should answer yr questions..
No, sorry, I lost the link somehow. My bad ..
Depending on the efficiency of the panels, between 4 and 10 sq m of panels will give you 1 kW peak output.
Given a fridge-freezer or chest freezer only draws around 150W or less when running, I presume putting in 1 kW of panels is so they can run even on really dark cloudy days.
Dunno if they've got anything fancier for their thermal mass than just a jug filled with a 30% propylene glycol solution that freezes around -15 degrees C.That's all a distant rellie needed 25 years ago for their off-grid set-up.
Frequency of the power supply is important too – so an inverter is required to convert solar DC to AC – unless you have a DC fridge.
The 150W 'while running' is about right , but as they stop and start often , you will draw much more for a few secs to spin up the compressor- could be the the 1Kw.
The article talks about having a battery to manage shutting it off. That would be useful to manage the startup surge, as well as managing the power on cloudy days if the output of the panels is marginal so it's not trying to kick on and off all the time. Seems to me it would make more sense to just invest in a few more batteries to take advantage of all the engineering and economies of scale for making conventional off-grid systems and be done with it.
1kw of panels is approx 8.5 square metres.
Recently I read of taking a freezer, changing the thermostat to operate around 4+ degrees, and using it as the household fridge. Toploaders loose less chill. Stay cold longer. Better insulated. Standard fridge use up to 2Kw per day. The freezer/fridge use less than 1kw per day. (I once made a built-in top loading chilly bin for a boat I built, with 4inch insulation, and by putting in frozen goods it would stay cool enough for 5-7 days.)
cool..!..thanks for than info…
A combined fridge freezer like my upright LG 298 litre has a single source of cooling for the unit, the cold air is circulated to each compartment to maintain the temp – it has both a freezer temp adjustment outside, 5 levels ( with vacation and quick freeze settings) and a fridge adjustment inside.
Sounds like its easier to get a modern unit – even second hand – and reduce your power consumption that way.
That is cool. Lol
Anything that makes us more independent of the grid, the better.
EcoFlow DELTA, the world's strongest battery-powered generator just launched on Kickstarter. Don't think EF ships to NZ yet. I tried the end of last year to buy their stuff and couldn't 🙁
Doesnt NZ post have a scheme where they have a contact point in US who then on-ships to NZ- all as a seamless service
https://www.nzpost.co.nz/tools/youshop
Your link includes the following statement
"International postage excludes any GST, duty and customs clearance costs that may be payable on arrival in New Zealand.".
The current Government are insisting that companies like Amazon should collect GST due on things they ship to New Zealand and remit the taxes to the New Zealand Government.
Why is a Government owned organisation like New Zealand Post already doing that?
They are just the shippers , Amazon are the seller who know what the item is and its worth.
The Amazon tax came in two forms , the first was for 'online type services and subscriptions' where there wasnt a physical shipping, just dowmloads etc.
The later one was the $400 'exemption' for GST for imported physical items for personal use.
That last rule means sellers with more than $60k annual sales to NZ are required to 'register and collect the tax' .
NZ Post seems to be just following the rules, not that Ive used it are current with ALL the details
Roger Waters Performs ‘Wish You Were Here’ in Assange’s Support in London
This is worth watching – actually introduction by John Pilger starts at almost six minutes in. Powerful words from him, as well as Roger Waters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yETgwcKP1-s
marama davidson was impressive on rent-to-own etc on nat-red this morn…
she was also urging the building of many state houses…
Something urgent for Labour to attend to – the way that citizens who have difficulties in the wonderful free market neolib system are being treated in a shocking manner.
https://www.cpag.org.nz/assets/Publications/4-0%2031964%20Kathryn's%20Story.pdf
A Child Poverty Action Group Background Paper
Kathryn’s Story
How the Government spent well over $100,000 and 15 years pursuing a chronically-ill beneficiary mother for a debt she should not have.
By Catriona MacLennan
While it was over twenty years ago when she was alleged to have fraudulently obtained a benefit, this case has a history that starts well before that. The cycle of poverty and abuse began, as so often is the case, in her own childhood. It is fair to say that the way she has been treated in the judicial process, both the criminal conviction, her imprisonment, and the subsequent pursuit for reparations has been extremely damaging for her children and compounded her own Post–Traumatic Stress Disorder arising from her previous traumatic experiences. The NZ Treasury has recently shown that poor outcomes for children by the time they are young adults are highly correlated with having “a finding of abuse or neglect, time spent in care of child protection services; most of their lifetime supported by benefits; a parent who has received a community or custodial sentence; a mother who has no formal qualifications.” NZ Treasury 2016.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2019/09/06/cpag-mourns-passing-of-kathryn-and-calls-for-a-more-just-welfare-system/
Contrast those circumstances and outcome with Southern Repsonse's deceitful actions attempting to deny a couple $200,000.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-49601320
Parliament is "falling apart before our eyes" thanks to Brexit, one of the architects of the Good Friday Agreement has said.
Seamus Mallon, former NI (Northern Ireland) deputy first minister, described Boris Johnson as a "carpetbagger", which he defined as someone without principles….
Mr Mallon was deputy first minister from 1998 to 2001.
He is considered to be one of the key negotiators of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
"The lunacy of putting a referendum in Britain in relation to trying to unite the Tory party was a monumental mistake, and they have staggered from one mistake after another," Mr Mallon told BBC News NI, on the margins of the Kennedy Summer School in County Wexford.
"And this is the mother of parliaments. This is the home of democratic political process and it is falling apart before our eyes, and it is doing it in such a way that a carpetbagger like Boris Johnson is now leading it as prime minister."
Recalcitrant Boorish.
Boris Johnson has said he would "rather be dead in a ditch" than ask the EU to delay Brexit beyond 31 October.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49598118
Falling apart ?
Its called democracy .
he should talk about how democracy as defined in the GFA about the Northern Ireland Assembly has completely collapsed. Its zero, zilich , nada gone.
As an aside I did a word search on the GFA agreement, and the border is hardly mentioned at all.
Free travel ( and residency) for Irish citizens through out the entire UK came in 1922
There's something Blobbyjobby and I agree on. I'd rather he was dead in a ditch too.
Had this gem come up on my feed – worth watching if you need a reminder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwvrxVavnQ
Never ask that person who changes their mind, to do or have anything again. Don't have anything to do with them. They are losers! And this vid goes on for too long. Make the point faster – remember the ten second attention span that is talked about today. It is otherwise a greeaaat video. (That's really meant to be 'great', just got too long.)
I don’t like your comment much.
Not sure what's going on with you at the moment – hope it gets better for you.
Goodness marty mars – I am fine but just trying to keep thinking not becoming a reactive paper towel sucking up every idea that is presented in a conformist way to the in-meme. How about you?
well that meme was not designed for a 70 year old women (feel free to show to family and friends for their men if you want) – so maybe just have a wee think…
Who is the 70 year old woman?
I thought you were – sorry if I've got it wrong – I was sure you had written that but probably misinterpreted.
Agreed! That's another horrible comment. A trend emerges.
If the person who said yes to sex, but then changes their mind for whatever reason, they're a loser and you shouldn't go near them again. Wow.
So how would that work in a marriage situation? Blank your partner for ever or get divorced?
Calm down and go make yourself a cup of tea.
Try thinking Jimmy instead of short reactive jabs of no particular value to people, except to your satisfaction that you can read and write.
A person who changes their mind is a looser?
It's an excellent video and it goes for as long as it does because some people just cannot accept every individual has the right to any decision they choose to make and then change their mind if they so wish.
Sounds to me like that video touched a rather raw nerve with you Greywarshark and that maybe it should have gone on for another 3 days before you actually understood and accepted the point it was making.
For tea or sex, that's a "fail: safe" approach. If someone regards that approach as reasonable regardless of circumstance, they're probably not really equipped to safely offer consensual tea or sex in the first place, so for them it is actually a reasonable approach.
Whereas the "fail: deadly" approach is that someone who doesn't particularly understand consent still tries to have sex with other people, or make them drink tea.
I can only presume that the Fresh Water Discussion Document is intended only to be Labour’s opening gambit. Parker must know a fair bit of it will not be acceptable to the farming community or to the National Party. Legislation of this nature has to be sustainable across successive governments, it can’t be just acceptable to the party in power.
There will be a lot of support including within the farming community for more planting on stream margins, wider margins, and much stronger protection for wetlands. Probably with subsidies to help pay for it.
There will be major opposition to getting resource consents for farming changes or increased production. I predict that won’t survive consultation. I reckon NZF will oppose, as will National. If it is passed into law with NZF support, then I am certain such a requirement will be repealed by the next National government.
The more interesting discussion will be around monitoring water quality on farms. There is a very good case for it, with the intention of doing things to improve water quality. I reckon this will happen, but not with a whole raft of government inspectors. More likely a partnership with Dairy NZ.
If you really believe that then I fear you are 10 years out of date….with dairy (esp) under financial pressures unrelated the rural sector and banks will see the opportunity to use this to hedge future income streams (with gov assistance) and the noise from the likes of FF spokespersons will be largely disregarded.
National may well find they have backed a loser if they try to push back too hard….the dairy sector growth has been milked dry, time for ‘the next big thing’
yep some self interested and selfish farmers oppose water quality controls – pity not enough decent caring farmers are speaking up against their destructive brethren – still early days yet and the tide is turning against farming practices that are hurting the environment and communities.
Resource consent for some farming activities is already here.
https://www.horizons.govt.nz/HRC/media/Media/Consent/Guide-for-applying-for-intensive-farming-consent.pdf?ext=.pdf
And in places like the central north island lakes I think it covers all farming
https://www.waikatoregion.govt.nz/Community/Your-community/For-Farmers/Taupo/Nitrogen-management-in-the-Lake-Taupo-catchment/
getting your information about Government policies from Hosking can only lead to egg on face Wayne
Just filing away for future reference the admission that, when it comes to measures to improve NZ's freshwater quality, "a fair bit of it will not be acceptable to the farming community or to the National Party."
I did know that already, of course, but it's nice to have someone involved in the National Party state it so explicitly.
PM
Shock, horror! Farmers and National don’t accept every single policy point that Labour proposes. Who would have guessed? They must be really bad to think like that.
Correlation is not causation: they are incredibly bad, but they were bad even before they took up shitting in our water.
no wayne – 'shock/horror' at national quite happy to allow the continued befouling of our environment/world..
and this at the behest of the biggest leeches – since forever ('it's rained – give us some money..!..we are the backbone of the economy – it hasn't rained – give us some more money..!..we are the backbone of the economy!' – repeat ad nauseum)
i think we are all sick of that schtick..eh wayne..?
so if you want to wave yr arms and say 'i'm/national is with them..!'..
why don't you do that – and we'll see how that goes down with an increasingly angry/impatient rest of us..eh..?
and if you can't see/feel that growing anger/impatience – wayne – at the excuses/behaviour/whining.polluting of the (fast going down the gurgler) dairy industry..
you clearly have all the political nous of a doorknob..
eh wayne..?
If you actually read my initial comment, I do think more needs to be done (wider stream margins, more planting, preserving wetlands, better monitoring, and other things) I support a fair amount in the discussion document. A lot of it is good.
But that doesn’t mean I and others have to agree with everything in it. And just because farmers don’t agree with everything doesn’t automatically make them the “ biggest leeches – since forever”.
The left, or at least a fair part of it, automatically thinking of farmers that way will result in a much bigger divide than currently exists. And not a way to get constructive dialogue.
Wayne: have you read, "The Honorable Nick Smith…and me – the art of water politics" by Sam Mahon?
You should. I hope you will and when you do, would you care to comment here?
Thanks.
Robert
Hey, he isn’t responsible for Nick Smith. It is like saying that I’m responsible for John Tamihere because he used to be a sort of a progressive and a Labour MP. Who knew that they were kind of a dickheads?
Of course getting rid of John Tamihere appears to have been a whole easier for Labour it is has been for National to cast off their waste.
Isn't there a convention of collective responsibility? In which case Wayne was indeed responsible for Nick Smith; if he wasn't up to snuff (and he ain't) it was Wayne's job, among others, to get rid of him.
I didn't for a moment expect Wayne to take responsibility for Nick Smith. I merely wanted to know his view on the story the book tells. It's a great read.
you seem to be missing quite a bit of the big-picture there wayne..
dairy/meat-extraction industries are going down the gurgler..
aside from the other problem of a global-glut..
there is the rise of plant-based dairy/meat..
and what nobody is talking about..the increased climate-change pressures on exporting our dairy/flesh to the other side of the planet..
we are going to have to become more inward looking/self-sufficient..
these will be our new priorities..
Farmers and National don’t accept every single policy point that Labour proposes.
More specifically, they don't accept any policy point that would significantly improve NZ's freshwater quality – those are the bits that "will not be acceptable to the farming community or to the National Party." If that weren't the case, farmers and National would be willing to give a fair hearing to proposals beyond doing a bit more planting along river banks.
You do realise Canterbury wouldnt be in this mess of you and you cronies hadn't sacked the democratically elected board ecan so you could sugar fuel the economy.
bwaghorn – have you read the Sam Mahon story?
It's a cracker. Required reading, I reckon.
I reckon confiscating the surplus cows on poosy farms could be a go wayknee. Whatchoo reckon?
Don't think it is meant to go through.
Like the trial school lunches it is just something that sounds big popped either side of the KiwiBuild fiasco to try to take the focus off what a complete hash it is.
Seems to be working if you listen to talkback
I believe David Parker is entirely sincere in his intentions and statements.
I believe Robert Mugabe was entirely sincere in his intentions and statements.
Seems you'd believe anything; I suppose you trusted Key and English as well!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
a question on the back of that….do you think Parker has the interests of the environment at heart?
Ab
So
Lutely!
and yet his favourite word is 'growth'…go figure
Trees grow. Are you sure you've explored his meaning thoroughly?
I used to think hed make a great Labour Party leader but the more I read of his comments in the media the more I decided he is neoliberal at heart…might be a result of when he was educated, who knows…. I suspect he would have been in his happy place in a Douglas cabinet…and thats saying something
I've met him a few times and like his boldness. I agree he's more right than I am, but I reckon he feels the urgency of environmental degradation keenly and is making a last-ditch stand. It's now or never, he seems to have learned and resolved. In my personal experience.
dont doubt his conviction to address the issue but do question his understanding of its cause
Parker came to a farmers meeting at Ashburton before the last election and showed his true colours. Questioned on his intentions regarding the ill intentioned water tax it was obvious that the environment was secondary to putting farmers out of business.
Am well aware of Parkers reputation in rural sector…wasnt where I was looking…hes an obviously intelligent guy (who isnt beholden to Ag sector) but seems to struggle with the link between growth and environmental degradation…curious (IMO)
"it was obvious that the environment was secondary to putting farmers out of business."
Utter nonsense, Ian. You need to settle and rethink.
Do farmers really want to admit their business model depends on the rest of us paying their pollution costs?
I've seen commentary from more responsible farmers, that are annoyed with Federated farmers, and National, giving them a bad name.
BTW. Even the oil industry stopped routinely Flushing oil into the water, decades ago. Why are farmers still allowed to pollute waterways.
Why can everyone else accept new legislation that is for the public good and Wayne and his farmers can't?
Whether it be a lowered speed limit or the banning of plastic bags, people generally adjust and accept and move on.
However, I did not know New Zealand laws do not apply to farmers.
This is interesting on what causes insomnia or unrefreshing sleep leading to depression. It is good stuff but oddly lit, but good overall. She looks at the result of being bombarded with negative messages every day etc.
Tedtalk: Attention – This is Why you can't Sleep. Bronwyn Milkins research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaAydEAKglw 10 mins.
worth a bonus
"Floppy Johnson can't get an election"
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/4676854/brexit-news-boris-johnson/
+1
Not to be viewed by those easily triggered by facts, and/or facing up to reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOmdkN6MOwU&ab_channel=thejuicemedia
Just remember, satire is your friend… Unless your a usual tory, snowflake, deniary, push any lie for power sort – then it's your enemy.
Historical perspective for those chicken littles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_votes_of_no_confidence_in_British_governments
These are ones where the government was defeated
Shane Jones puts $94.8 million into fixing the rail line from Auckland to Northland.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1909/S00167/government-investment-in-northland-rail-welcomed.htm
Looks like the Minister chose the "just fix it" option rather than the full-throated "let's connect the rail line to Northport and prepare to shift some of Auckland's port" option.
The repairs look like they are going to be done next year. That's hopefully good for those still underemployed in this part of Northland.
Still leaves open the possibility of a proper shift once the government finally lands on the Upper North Island ports study, and can then unveil a proper rail line and sea port upgrade for Whangarei in time for the election.
yeah – that's all very good…
Shane has actually got a good brain despite all his bravado imho ?
Hmmm. Potential extra stroke risk for vegans – could it be the stress of arguing about it with everyone? https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/food-news/115583500/study-finds-a-plantbased-diet-is-linked-to-a-higher-risk-of-stroke
…extra stroke risk for vegans….
A couple of years ago, for reasons known only to himself, my man decided to not avoid that hole in the asphalt and tumbled he and his wheelchair arse over tip. Now he's a Big Lad my man, all of six foot four and at least 100kgs, so the chances of me getting him re-seated by myself are nil. The only help available were a vegan couple from eastern Europe, somewhere. I'm going "One, two, three lift! and they are doing… nothing. I try French, then German, with little extra effect. This pale and almost bloodless pair had absolutely no umph at all.
It was me who nearly had the stroke…
@ mcdonald..
what a fascinating anecdote..about how going vegan makes you so weak..
you have almost convinced me to eat flesh again..
but hang on..!
have you ever seen something like this..?
https://www.vegansouls.com/vegan-bodybuilders
number 8 is particularly impressive..
so is the 75 yr old…
the women don’t look that weak either..
…have you ever seen something like this..?
Fascinating. And I'm sure there would be no anecdote had any of that line up been available.
Btw….the reason I know the Pale and Weak Ones were vegan is that was the reason they gave for not be able to lift…
Yeah I'm sure they're not getting any 'help' at all
Better living through chemistry!
Righteousness is the best stimulant.
is this one for me..?…ok..
first off the added risk recognised is 3 more strokes every thousand subjects…
(quite the small percentile – i think we all cd agree..)
(in the same study flesh-eaters had 10 more coronaries every 1,000 aubjects – why isn't that the headline..?..)
third off the data used is decades old..
'"This is data that's been collected from a couple of decades ago", Phillips explained.
"It might well be that the typical vegetarian diet today looks very different to a vegetarian or vegan diet from 20 or 30 years ago.
"They looked at what people ate and followed them for years, so it's an association, not cause-and-effect".
(hope that clarifies all that..)
I'm fascinated by your ability to correctly identify the flaws in those arguments against vegan diets, but completely miss very similar flaws in the "red meat causes colon cancer" argument.
well y'see andre – you are confusing the message and the messanger..
the red-flesh/processed-meat/bowel-cancer thing isn't me speaking..
i am just parroting the warnings from those with the medical expertise enabling them to reach that conclusion/issue those warnings..
i am not medically qualified to view their conclusions in a critical/analytical-way..
not my ballgame..
hope that clarifies that..
wallace chapman – david slack – and leonie freeman all riffing on the vegan-lady/bbq thing..on rnz panel..
complete and utter wankers – all three of them…
their ignorances as wide as they are deep..
..fools..!
To be fair phil, you have to include Cilla Carden in your list of wankers.
Not because she is vegan per se, Because of her self centredness and strong sense of entitlement.
can i run a hypothetical past you..
an orthodox jewish old folks home..people who have spent their whole lives avoiding pork like i avoid all flesh..
a new neighbour moves in..and insists on cooking pigs on a spit out in the backyard..each every day..
and this is right next to where the old people sit in the afternoon sun /their exercise area..
do you feel they would have any rights to try to stop this clear and obvious nuisance/impairment of their rights to their quiet enjoyment..?
another nuance to this is we don't know what drove her to go to court..
from the sound of it it was similar to what i outlined in the hypothetical..
and we don't know what complete and utter arseholes those neighbours may have been..
in their 'let's get the vegan lady'…
(and given how the fleshies on here pile into me – getting all hysterical..
i can easily see that mob-mentality at play here..
so no..ii can't call her a wanker..
(but i have met plenty of vegans – who i have thought are wankers = if that helps..?…)
but as for chapman/slack/freeman – no doubt – total ignorant wankers – all of them..
a total nuance-free zone..
Yep I agree
It is hard to describe the smell of meat burning when you don't like it – sorta like puke on wings. It is the hardest thing for me as a vege to tolerate and I have to over and over again with no thought for my sensibilities.
I fully get why she took a stand for her rights.
'sorta like puke on wings'..
aye..!
In regards yr hypothetical, sure, ask them to not cook meat all day every day.
Complain to management, organize a petition..
But when you look round and are the only one right….
As for not knowing why she complained: The neighbours were carnivorous, breeding, smoking people that incidentally had foreign sounding names. Oh, also, Cilla is a self centred person with a highly developed sense of entitlement
I can take you at yr word that the panel was a wank fest over the vegan story in Oz.
When I read the articles about Cilla Carden and she is quoted as saying:
"They've put it there so I smell fish, all I can smell is fish. I can't enjoy my backyard, I can't go out there." Self centred – check
and "It's been devastating, it's been turmoil, it's been unrest, I haven't been able to sleep," she said. Hyperbole and exaggeration – Check.
Then you add her desire for the children not to play basketball (too noisy).
Top it off with being told that the Supreme Court Judge and the State Administrative Tribunal have sided with her neighbours and have refused her appeal.
In anyones langauge, that is being a wanker.
Is a two way street….where does the ability to object start and finish? Is it in the middle ground where the majority can accommodate or is it somewhere else?At some point it becomes dysfunctional does it not?
Aussie anti intellectualism adopted by the RNZ panel–Boofheads munching on charred animal bits is an achievement apparently…
Veganism and Vegetarianism is the future, and many are attempting to live it right now–but Whadarrryaaaaaa! seems the regular bloke response, hard working, god fearin’ Nu Zilundas eat meat–got it!…
yep..!
Zimbabwe will be celebrating tonight, mugabe has passed away.
“His contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgotten…….
Not wrong about that….mugabe has been accused of being a dictator responsible for economic mismanagement, widespread corruption, human rights abuses, and crimes against humanity.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/zimbabwe-president-robert-mugabe-dies-aged-95-190906050943163.html
His contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgiven.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/115612520/zimbabwes-first-postindependence-leader-robert-mugabe-has-died-at-the-age-of-95
Better late than never I suppose
Edit:
The ability of the older voter to comprehend that the status quo can not be an option; to grasp on BAU is for the innocent, ignorant middle aged and the olders resolutely looking away towards the tourism attractions and way from the real world.
Chris Trotter in TDB. https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2019/09/06/the-brexit-revolution-breaking-britain-to-remake-it/
The Telegraph has a piece on what may be a wily Conservative twist-and-turn conga led by Boorish.
https://premium.telegraph.co.uk/newsletter/article0/ignore-the-remainer-triumphalism-boris-is-still-on-course-for-victory
Run you weakling pricks but you can't hide.
Here's a Man Eco Maori admires and agrees with Kia Kaha stay strong keeping the Neanderthal in Check Ka pai
John Kerry says we can't leave climate emergency to 'neanderthals' in power
It’s a lie that humanity has to choose between prosperity and protecting the future, former US secretary of state tells Australian conference
The former US secretary of state John Kerry has warned that humanity risks marching off a cliff unless governments take immediate action to fight the climate emergency.
In a keynote address to the Global Table food and agriculture conference, Kerry made veiled swipes at the Australian government’s lack of climate and energy policy. He also weighed in on the heated debate about the massive Adani coalmine proposed for north Queensland.
“We just can’t sit on our asses and leave the political process to neanderthals who don’t want to believe in the future,” Kerry told the audience in Melbourne. “We have a dearth of leadership, but this will turn.”John Kerry: US 'cannot afford truculent child president
The former US Democratic presidential candidate said it was not a choice between taking action on the climate emergency and securing jobs and growth.
“They are not separate. And anybody who persists in putting forward that notion that you have to make the choice – you can either have jobs plus prosperity or you can protect the environment and the future. That’s a lie
Ka kite Ano link below.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/03/john-kerry-says-we-cant-leave-climate-emergency-to-neanderthals-in-power
Kia Ora Newshub
The governments of the Papatuanuku need to do the humane thing and help the tangata of the Bahamas servive the huge mess hurricane Dorian made of their Island why because the government of the world are responsible for the cause of CLIMATE CHANGE
That's why I dislike PEE some people will do anything to get there next fix that phenomenon is what drives most crimes and thefts.
I have read that it's hot in Australia at the minute The Bush fire season has started early there government is still backing old carbon neanderthals.
Vegans are 22% more likely to have a stroke there you go we need a good veritable diet yes we can lower our protein consumption but not leaving animals protein out of our diet totally is what I believe.
I don't think that Wahine actor from America should be jailed for what she and many wealth people do.
Yes Wallaby need to be control to protect our native floral and birds and stop them from going extinct.
Ka kite Ano
Kia Ora Te Ao Maori News.
There you go more PEE fueled Crime.
Don't count your chicken on brexit tangata
The way the Hawaii government is treating the tangata whenua O Hawaii is bad and sad. That is the way simon wanted to treat tangata whenua o Aotearoa Protesters.
The Amazon fires are a great man made desaster it shows that the government is not very intelligent they don't understand how Papatuanuku diversity of wild life is a great taonga that needs to be protected the. muppets
Ka kite Ano
https://youtu.be/qQfetkoGrpU
We are making a big mess in Tangaroa and on the whenua this is causing a masse extinction of our wild life and environment.
All in the goal of humanity instant satisfaction. Ie boil the jug to make a cup of tea turn on the light by a new TV because the relies have a better one. We have become a throw away society and in the process we are throwing away OUR FUTURE descendints right to a natural healthy life. We need to change and manufacture thing to last 20 years at least and stop using products with a huge carbon footprint.
After bronze and iron, welcome to the plastic age, say scientists
Plastic pollution has entered the fossil record, research shows
Plastic pollution is being deposited into the fossil record, research has found, with contamination increasing exponentially since 1945.
Scientists suggest the plastic layers could be used to mark the start of the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch in which human activities have come to dominate the planet. They say after the bronze and iron ages, the current period may become known as the plastic age.
The study, the first detailed analysis of the rise in plastic pollution in sediments, examined annual layers off the coast of California back to 1834. They discovered the plastic in the layers mirrors precisely the exponential rise in plastic production over the past 70 years.
Most of the plastic particles were fibres from synthetic fabrics used in clothes, indicating that plastics are flowing freely into the ocean through waste water Ka kite Ano link below.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/04/plastic-pollution-fossil-record
Some Eco Maori Music For The Minute.
https://youtu.be/SKprXO-f2pM
Kia Ora Newshub.
Whanau don't fall this con as you see they target the common poor people stay away from skyway capital. They no poor people are desperate and will believe there rubbish and lies IF ITS TO GOOD TO BE TRUE THAN ITS A LIE.
I can guess why the USA is doing that nothing is logical in the USA now.
The Bahama desaster after math is evedince that global warming is going to affect the poor people the most.
TE REO Language week is awesome too celebrate Maori Language as a taonga.
I hope there is not too many people lives are affected negativey and wild life losses with the Australian Bush fire season starting earlier than expected.
Ka kite Ano
Kia Ora Te Ao Maori News.
Eco Maori reception is not receiving Maori TV Tawhirimate is going Mana at the minute.
Ka kite Ano
So, the Trump Administration ordered the management of the central meteorological agency, NOAA to reverse its claim that Alabama was not included in the original forecast track for Hurricane Dorian?
Blackmail? If you don't reverse your original statement we'll remove your government financial resources – or something like that?
Meteorologists throughout the country are angry and upset at the way the "management" have folded. Shocking!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/07/sharpiegate-trump-alabama-hurricane-dorian
A trumpkin beholding to dear leader
https://twitter.com/cmkinmia/status/1170340769070223362
edit: tidied up and replied to the right thread
It's not funny any more. Beyond disgraceful that a scientific organisation whose primary task is to advise and warn the public of weather related events should be undermined in the course of its duty.
Totally agree Anne – somehow this has now become de rigueur in Trumpland. For instance the EPA is just a shadow of its former self, and there is now hardly a Department of State that has a permanent head. The US administration is practically on its knees. Trump plays on his phone keyboard while America burns.
Rotten.
https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/1170521328748830720
Beat you by 2 mins. 🙂
It's not funny anymore though. Bloody disgraceful!