I’ll try to figure that out later. But it shouldn’t really matter. The http2 should be all that is required. It will just be a bit slower.
I wish I could figure out the issue with chrome and spark (probably vodafone as well) and the mobile version. Since I switched the site to http2 with fallbacks down to http/1.1, the mobile site doesn’t come up on mobile data.
It stalls and eventually reports an error of ERR_SPDY_SERVER_REFUSED_STREAM. Damned if I can see it even asking.
Apparently this is a known bug with some versions of chrome on android (?) and actually has something to with a client side cache. Happens on my S8+ phone. Doesn’t happen on my partner’s iphone (grumble). Happens on 1 out of 3 models of tablets. Goes away when I run out via a VPN over mobile data…. Damn annoying.
I can’t get any leverage on it.
Working on the search engine at present – but I may need to find some food.
I don’t know if it helps, but I’m using an Oppo AX5 Smartphone, Android 8.1 and Chrome on 2degrees. I tried using my Opera browser, but it had the same problem.
I have been listening to Duncan Garner on Mediawatch to an interviewee who referred to the frail, the sick, the elderly was mentioned and Garner pharmac damned. He uses a fast and staccato speech style which carries urgency and demands acceptance of his opinions as correct. He is a demagogue, which is regarded as applying to a political leader usually, but he of course is through the elevated media position he has, actually a political leader, just not with responsibilities of one.
He was making demands for more spending on cancer treatment building on some report that says we get less than elsewhere and people live longer in other countries. For instance, for extending life for the terminally ill as for Stage 4 breast cancer victims who on world figures live for about three years from diagnosis but only 16 months in NZ. So the wish for others is to keep dying people alive by taking money from the health system for increasingly expensive drugs and treatment so people can put off death for another 12 months?
It should be noted also that there is no or little funding for hospices which look after people who are dying. The pressure is for spending on treatment and medication and prolongation of life at the end of it at whatever age. We can’t afford to have pressure groups focussing on their own individual demands, to the detriment of spending that goes towards the poorer groups, the working age, and general public health availability to these people. https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018681585/cancer-and-the-unbearable-asymmetry-of-bs
It’s also sobering and not necessarily what people want to hear, especially not people with cancer. Duncan Garner knows that and plays on it, but that’s his job. I’d say, change his job description.
“…So the wish for others is to keep dying people alive by taking money from the health system for increasingly expensive drugs and treatment so people can put off death for another 12 month..”
More like take money from chronically ill beneficaries (ie dialysis, empyshema/COPD etc) and divert to expensive drugs for middle class ‘battlers’ who ‘work hard and pay their taxes’. This is what Garner and those who listen to him, actually think. We are listening to one great dog whistle.
I note your point. There seems to be matters that receive attention and some that don’t. Hospices get a lot of attention because everybody dies and it is a much needed thing that government avoids funding so local women enjoy charity fund raising. Also cancer has done a great swing-around from the scary thing to be spoken of as the old ‘c’word, and people with it being avoided as if it was catching. Now they have well-funded charity marches and vigils.
The ones you state are rarer and perhaps have had a bad press, connected with overuse of alcohol, wrong food and too much weight, too much cigarette smoking or having worked at the coalface of some physical job (physical being out at present except when firefighters are being lauded for their sacrifices – probably the most-trusted people in NZ – they had better do a charity drive before everyone settles back into their default positions of self-interest).
There was an example of how the chattering classes view everyone else about a decade ago. A certain well-known dress designer was quoted as putting down the people who are always going to hospital and costing the country. She herself apparently had a daughter who was diabetic and wouldn’t stick to her maintenance diet and was hospitalised (avoidably) as a result and had to have the point made that her girl was one costing the country money through not looking after her own health. Duncan Garner is just another who can only feel sympathy for himself and his own, but is so entitled to the best treatment.
Farmers, contractors and anyone using certain types of outdoor machinery in part of the Nelson Tasman region will need to defer their activities because of the extreme fire danger, as indicated on the attached map identifying Nelson and the Waimea and Motueka valleys.
Thanks for the updates Cinny. Keep safe all of you over in the Tasman area.
Here in Wellington everything is also tinder dry and we had a fire on the Wadestown hill above the CBD on Friday, requiring helicopters, monsoon buckets etc.
Also on Friday (8 Feb) a total fire ban was declared (everything except gas BBQs) with lots of fanfare, announcements on radio, etc.
AND THEN … 9pm Saturday night (9 Feb) they went ahead with almost an hour of formal pubic fireworks to celebrate Chinese New Year over the harbour, just a stones throw from the CBD and Wadestown hill, Mt Victora etc – not to mention Matiu Somes Island scientific and historical reserve in the harbour itself.
I couldn’t believe it! Will be having ‘words’ to say to a local who works for the Wellington Emergency Management Office.
So we are possibly the worst polluted city in NZ now as the truck volumes through the city are killing the residential “amenity values” there, and now the truck volumes are going to increase 187% in the next eight years according to a report from the Napier Port and NZTA.
Apparently lots of folks living near the truck routes through the city now cant sleep through the night as trucks run through that city all night and all day.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/104825165/napier-residents-reported-black-water-months-before-chlorination-of-network?rm=m
YEAR 2017
Last updated:9/01/2018
DateAddressAreaRequest details1239/01/2017Robinson CrescentTamateaDirty water – please flush #442 called410/01/2017Galway StreetTamateaHe has been getting black particles in his water on and off for several weeks, black floaties were particularly bad today511/01/2017Lamason StreetGreenmeadowsShe has very low water pressure in her shower, please check if private or council67 819/01/2017Kennedy RoadOnekawaTheir water is starting to taste funny and requires a flush in the main pipe. This is a reoccuring problem and they often have to call ever 2-3 months.920/01/2017
The photo was uploaded in June 2017. Tienditas Bridge, reported throughout the media as blocked by Venezuela this week, has in fact been blocked for at least 18 months!There is also a Wikipedia article on Tienditas Bridge (in Spanish). It says of the bridge (translated to English with Google Translate):
It was concluded in early 2016, but due to the crisis between Venezuela and Colombia in 2015 and the border closure of Venezuela the bridge has not been officially opened.
This is backed up by a reference to an article from La Opinion, a local news site of Cúcuta in Colombia (also in Spanish), which states:
Sheltered by an old rusty gate and a guard, this binational work is still useless because of the border situation, despite the fact that the Invias has already completed 100 percent of the route.
RIP – Your God rest your soul.
Palestinian prisoner Fares Baroud, 51, from al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza, died on Wednesday, 6 February only hours after being suddenly transferred to intensive care from Ramon prison. Baroud … https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/02/10/the-slow-killing-of-fares-baroud/
The Israelis continue in unrest. When will they hold a commemoration of the past for them and Palestinians, weep for man’s inhumanity to man and woman and child, and apologise for what Israelis have been guilty of, and also the Palestinians of their transgressions, and both sit down to work our humane conditions for all? Then Israelis can start on reaching rest, and a situation of forgiveness for transgression by either side, with apology and suitable mild atonement.
The UK launch branch of Turning Point, a right-wing student movement for “free markets, limited government and public responsibility”, has just launched on Twitter but it hasn’t gone entirely to plan.
Turning Point, which has the backing of Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg (so it must be good) launched as @TPointUK on Twitter and is keen to reassure its followers that young people can be right wing too.
“The characterisation of racism as “primal” goes to the heart of what racism is and what it is not. Racism is not primal or instinctive. That second question Neeson asked his friend of her attacker was: “What colour were they?” This is not an innate reaction, it is learned, imbibed from society. Because racism is not like jealousy or selfishness, it is not a primal urge or a basic instinct, it is a 400-year-old political and economic system that has infected our institutions, our culture and even our thinking. It is a system that has been and is today being held in place by violence and through collective punishment.”
“We want to create a new political party based upon the principles of sustainability – one prepared to deal with either the National Party or the Labour Party in coalition negotiations – to leverage policies that will underpin a more Sustainable New Zealand.
“New Zealand deserves a political party that will work together with the innovators in business and science who will lead the way through the complex and interconnected sustainability challenges of the coming century.”
I clicked on the link and read the Who Are We? and am none the wiser. So, obviously, they are not keen on being open & transparent but love to get my personal details and me registering my interest.
The privacy note at the bottom fortunately has a phone number …
This is what they (whoever they are) have to say about the Greens:
The Green Party has made a deliberate decision not to use the leverage that comes with the number of MPs they have in Parliament. Instead of negotiating with both major parties, they have made a decision to always support the formation of a Labour Government meaning that Labour can take them for granted. This is no way to get the best deal for the environment.
Having given away their negotiating advantage, they are in a weak position to demand funding for cleaner beaches and rivers, for modern sewage infrastructure in major cities, for sustainable management of our fisheries, a major upgrade in predator control, nor for the significant increases in science and research funding that will underwrite a modern, sustainable economy.
The Greens have a historic tendency to be suspicious of scientific innovation – particularly in biotechnology – and hostile to business. New Zealand deserves a political party that will work together with the innovators in business and science who will lead the way through the complex and interconnected sustainability challenges of the coming century.
I know its frowned on to quote lengthy excerpts but in my view, this piece of the thread is a dead giveaway.
It’s full of huge holes and reads to me as just another attempt to discredit the Greens. I suspect there’s a lot more to this “launch” than meets the eye and I’m looking forward to finding out who the launchers are, and what is their political background.
Haven’t visited their site, but the bit you’ve quoted is a collection of National Party talking points, so they might as well just call it the Astroturf Party.
Well, I certainly would not and won’t be registering an interest with this or any other organisation, party etc unless I have much more as to who is involved.
Pete commented here giving the link etc but he missed a bit of information which he included in his own post on YourNZ, ie:
“Sustainable New Zealand Party seeks registrations of interest
A website seeking registrations of interest for the Sustainable New Zealand Party is online. Vernon Tava is promoting it.
Then this tweet from Tava –
“We need a Sustainable New Zealand party, able to work with all sides of politics for a truly sustainable environment, economy, society and culture. http://votesustainable.nz ”
Not much enthusiasm in the few replies so far, but early days. Similarly not much in the four comments on Pete’s post but one of his regulars has registered interest so we may find out something via that source later.
So, he made a bid for the leadership of the Greens and lost. Sour grapes? I expect so – at least in part.
In my youthful days we had a nickname for upper middle class twats. We called them Weeds. Someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but my usually reasonably accurate antennae tells me this is exactly what he is.
“{one prepared to deal with either the National Party or the Labour Party in coalition negotiations ”
Is that right? Mr Tava has said he has had “no input whatsoever” or words to that effect from the “National Party”, that itself is an odd question to have to answer. 18+ months is going to be, given the number of leaks of late, a long 18 months to keep clear boundaries as to integrity of the motivation.
Something smells to me like a rat.
I’m really sorry but my gut feeling is this is not a truly independent, genuine and unbiased political movement for the reasons stated and the way it is being marketed. To me it is just a cheap ploy to ensure a National-led government in 2020 in the guise of something blue-greenish to get that wedge of votes over the hard-core Nationla Party base of the tight, few I believe will be sucked in.
Tinge of trickery there Pete, “leverage” means something like “distort”?
*’To leverage policies that will underpin a more Sustainable New Zealand.’
They look as if they are planing to using ‘industry modeled studies’- that are ‘cherry picked” to look convincing’ is what National did during their time to sell their ‘warped policies.’
We saw that with ‘big tobacco ‘ and ‘big oil’ Horizon and the Alaska oils spilling sagas while they were actively selling their snake oil policies that way as others have done since then also.
I think that ‘The Sustainable New Zealand Party’ is another spin off of the “opportunities party” coming back again.
Look, apart from Simon screaming like a little Boy in the House of Parliament, we have to acknowledge that he has wonderful skills in granting women seats in Parliament.
Strange Women. like the Leopard Dresser. Not forgetting the Bully from hell hole Wairarapa.
Then there is the Lady with Lust for Murder. Whom Simon supports with Mind and Heart. Mrs Dowie. He shares a cruel streak with her and her splendid art of cover up. She does not go without Pleasures.
I also like the way Simon wears a floor scraping Long Black Coat. He has declared his manic love for Trump. And will build a wall around Chatham Islands next Year.As a tribute to the Maori. Whom he says he adores.
Simom Was going to build 12 Bridges up North. The Fool let all the Northerners down.
He has entirely forgotten what bridges look like. And also he does not like work.
He loves putting his strange women in seats. An effort he likes, but which he constantly gets wrong.
The Last person he put into Parliament was not a Girl but a Military bloke (a Spy) all the way from China – who gave Simon, so it is said, a lot of Dosh. But the Police are looking into Mrs Dowie.
Alexandra Orcazio-Cortez has a good moment giving members of US government a grilling about financial transparency & how the president doesn’t have to have the ethical disclosures that members of Congress do. Now her New Green Deal has been released showing how they would be making payments to include those unwilling to work. Not sure if this is just a RW beat up, but she now admits it was a draft version that shouldn’t have been released.
Mental health is obviously important. And both major parties look like they’re taking it more seriously than in the past.
However I think your commentary today on National and mental health issues is simply a cynical ploy to distract your audience away from the failure of Labour to address and deliver on their promises to the electorate.
Rather than directing your readers to once more salivate on the misfortunes and misadventures of JL Ross (whom you and your acolytes don’t give a jot) and his desperate attempts to undermine Simon Bridges, a more important debate to be had by the Labour party and your readers is to address such issues as:
– the failure of KiwiBuild
– the pork barrel politics of Shane Jones.
– the challenges of making significant changes to tax policy and employment relations policies.
– Clean water and Maori water rights
– the difficulties that are and will increasingly occur between Labour and NZ First
– Cancer treatment
The list goes on…..
[lprent: Read the policy about your suggestions. It is in the section about self-martyrdom.
Can I suggest that rather than being your usual useless self parroting whatever someone else said somewhere actually learn to discuss what you think in OpenMike. That is what it is there for. BTW: has an opposition MP been instructing you recently on what to say? Because those sure sound like talking points a National MP would parrot from a PR junior.
Banned for 2 weeks for not reading the policy. ]
[TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike as being off topic or irrelevant in the post it was made in. Be more careful in future.]
Grantoc, When did changing a target become a failure? That is evaluating a changing market.
Pork Barrel Politics means paying people to vote for you.
So you are saying Shane Jones is giving money to regions for their vote?? You don’t think the regions have been starved of investment up until now? That they have to prove they have a need or a project needing finance , and that lines up with votes for Jones? Convoluted nonsense.
This Government is tackling unfair tax Good for them!!
They are working at taking enough parties to support the Working Relationship Bill.
National telling Labour about water quality? Nick Smith? LOL LOL
Maori Water Rights, 9 years and National did Diddly Squat!! Labour 1 year.
Cancer treatments, are always under review, as treatments and money become available.
You obviously read Hoskins… hopeful of dissension. Not going to happen. This is a distraction from the post on Mental Health but I couldn’t let it go.
Iprent I was slow getting this reply off.
100% Patricia the regions were sucked dry by National for their grandiose “roads of National Significance” that almost bankrupted us all.
Still they have yet to meet the criteria (CBR) ‘cost benefit ratio’, to pay their way as rail was forced to do and if rail didn’t they were closing half the regional railways down.
– the failure of KiwiBuild
– the pork barrel politics of Shane Jones.
– the challenges of making significant changes to tax policy and employment relations policies.
– Clean water and Maori water rights
– the difficulties that are and will increasingly occur between Labour and NZ First
– Cancer treatment
Sure they may be National talking points, but they are also talking points across the media and some of the more damning criticism of the Government failure to deliver on big promises is coming from the left.
The news yesterday from RNZ that the mental health working group, set up to address a claimed crisis in 2017, has now morphed into nine working groups. I’m sure it’s not just National pointedly talking about that.
It’s really important that the left hold this government to account.
The government are in a media hole that only pre-budget announcements can get them out of. And Prime Minister Ardern, who just makes it look largely effortless.
It’s already looking like a long, long set of days to May 17th.
If you’ve got the time, write a few posts around labour policy, transport, housing well-being budget etc.
Be critical, be positive, keep it short, waffle, doesn’t really matter, the whole objective of a post on the standard is to just kick off a discussion.
It seems to me that “the Standard” has been completely taken over by the national trolls. The people who Hate the People.
This will have been a strategy governed and presented by the likes of a David Farar, The Herald , Hosking and other grubby powerless gnomes.
Micky Savage and Te Reo Putake are Honest men . They should not have to be smothered by ill born Trolls who have never contributed anything to New Zealand. It is a mockery Of everything the Standard stands For.
Worse, they have drowned most Kiwis in low low wages. High Rentals and a hopeless outlook for the Future. Everything is bleak because of what National has not done.
National will pay a huge Price for destroying the noble Poor – and the people likes of a Farar and Key and Bridges who did it to them.
It is time The Standard was protected from rank Evil.
Not sure why you include the Herald in this lot. They have a wide range of columnists from Leighton Smith to Lizzie Marvelly. RW,s think Herald is a LW rag & LW think the opposite, so maybe they are balanced ?
No, I have a lordly oversight of the whole scene, and I can assure you that the Herald is largely skewed towards the Right, with a few token Lefties as a façade of impartiality. Eat it. If you disagree, it is because you are biased to the Right. The surprising thing about many right-wingers is that they are so ignorant of leftist concepts that they think themselves neutral, when they are in fact biased to the right. But they just don’t know it, and have no understanding of their own inbuilt bias.
Lefties tend to be more introspective, and analyse their own motives/knowledge/emotions more deeply.
In Vino (self appointed Lordly one) I ate it & it was delicious !! I guess by your definition I must be RW – wouldn’t say biased to the right, more centre slightly right, but will take each argument based on its merits. Don’t think most RWs are ignorant of leftist concepts, problem is leftist concepts cover a wide range from higher minimum wage (which I generally agree with) to full blown state control of businesses.
Exactly when did The Herald support the massive poor of New Zealand ?
The Low low Waged Workers; The hugely expensive Rentals – paid by the Poor. The slums inside the Rentals. When did the Herald ever do anything about it.
When did they drive the known Crooks to the Court ? Pray tell me.
Bazza64 – you have never done anything of Balance for New Zealand. But you could do something if you wanted. You could declare National as wrong and sadistic.
OT – I thought the NZ Herald had covered a lot of stories about the housing problems experienced by lower income NZers. They also covered issues re low paid workers & the issue of the minimum wage. Not sure who the known crooks are, maybe you could name them ?
Your statement that I have never done anything of balance for NZ is a bit wierd, not even sure what you mean by that.
“The flat out lie from alwyn of this forum claiming six Kiwibuild properties in Wanaka are now on the open market is another.”
ODT yesterday: Six KiwiBuild houses in Northlake still on the market
Just four of the 10 KiwiBuild houses in Wanaka’s Northlake subdivision have been sold.
In November, Kiwibuild announced families were in the process of buying seven of the houses.
However, Kiwibuild spokesman Clint Smith told the Otago Daily Times yesterday: “as with all property sales, some of the time purchases don’t end up being completed”.
The six unsold houses — four completed three-bedroom houses and two completed two-bedroom houses — are now on the market at prices ranging from $565,000 to $645,000.
The 10 Kiwibuild houses at Northlake were the first built outside Auckland and were initially offered in a ballot.
A lack of interest from buyers led to the ballot being extended by 10 days. A ballot is now not part of the sales process.
These six houses are not on the open market as claimed by alwyn. Buyers must be eligible for Kiwibuild criteria as has always been the case.
Now, you can argue whether that criteria is wrong, and the plain fact of the matter is that the families who want affordable housing such as this are locked out because of trouble accessing sufficient credit. But the fact of the matter is that alwyn lied and didn’t retract and now you are at risk of doing the same.
Muttonbird: “The flat out lie from alwyn of this forum claiming six Kiwibuild properties in Wanaka are now on the open market is another.”
Stuff: Six Wanaka KiwiBuild houses on open market
KiwiBuild homes that did not sell in the ballot in Wanaka are now being offered to the public.
It was reported in November that three of the 10 offered for sale in the Northlake development had gone to buyers drawn from the KiwiBuild ballot.
But now six finished properties are listed for sale. Although buyers will not have to go through a ballot to purchase them, they still must meet KiwiBuild purchase criteria.
Er, no. The Stuff headline is wrong too. You have even quoted the relevant sentence:
Although buyers will not have to go through a ballot to purchase them, they still must meet KiwiBuild purchase criteria.
Please read it again an then consider whether this constitutes the open market. Bear in mind Kiwibuild criteria says you must be a first homebuyer or in a similar position, and you must also be within certain income limits.
Or, perhaps the next thing you will try to do is argue the definition of open market?
Stuff seem to think that the houses are now on the open market as long as buyers qualify. I guess it depends on how you define ‘open market’.
Pretty much no property offered for sale is open to anyone to buy. For example if you want to buy at auction you have to qualify and register in advance.
It’s the same kind of defence Wayne Mapp used when claiming Simon Bridges didn’t literally mean the government was using a Venezuela model for the vocational training sector when he said exactly that.
I think this is why most Kiwis have lost trust in the National Party and their supporters.
Everybody had to qualify to enter the ballot.
The same qualifications they have to meet to buy the place.
The criteria have not been widened. The ballot has simply been replaced with “first come, first served”.
Maybe, after a while of not selling, those criteria will be relaxed. Until that happens you, Stuff, and Alwyn are all factually incorrect.
I’m not sure anyone cares whether this is due to intentional deceit, carelessness, or stupidity.
I think it’s important to call out intentional deceit, carelessness, and stupidity.
alwyn displays all three.
Kiwibuild is still alive and is definitely worth the commitment despite problems getting going and targeting what it is supposed to target. But the day one of these houses does go on the open market then my voice will be heard as loud as alwyn’s I can assure you.
I think it’s stupid to be making a fuss over what ‘open market’ means. It may be just a diversion from the real issue – that six out of ten houses in Wanaka couldn’t be sold using the normal Kiwibuild process. It appears that ‘affordable’ was a sales pitch that hasn’t lived up to hype.
Debating with Pete George is like whacking a piñata – the best strategy is to ignore the frilly paper animal and go for the groin of the bloke holding the string.
They couldn’t be sold because first home buyers still have difficulty accessing credit. These houses are 2/3rds the Queenstown Lakes median of $913K so they are most certainly affordable according to the stats. They are not affordable to real families however.
Pete. you have been pulled up on this style of shifting the argument here before and been banned several times for it.
Just don’t do it and admit you got it wrong. No one will think any less of you if that is at all possible.
If it’s stupid to make a fuss over it, don’t bother defending your use of the term. Say “fair enough” and move on, and avoid making that mistake in future.
Fortress New Zealand is our way to deal with the world crisis. Sure we needed the world, but we can feed ourselves, and with their money put up a military defence to go along with our distance from’m. If we stick together we don’t need to go down alone. The back country can only support so many — our best hope is NZ solidarity.
The Fallen Blog
.
The Standard has fallen to the Trolls. It belongs in reality to Whomever the Trolls want.
The National Party has done Nothing for New Zealand for Years! Not only did it do nothing for years it slammed additional burden on the noble people who do the work in this National destroyed Land.
The Trolls know it all. – Sir John Key – he the molester of little Blonde Girls hair, slammed up the Gst which affects the poor very seriously, on taking the up the Role of leader of National. He raised the Costs of energy …and so on.
He then went further and Flogged off the few Assets that New Zealand had. His submissve little “I will do anything you want John” Billy English, sold up as much Housing as he could find to FOREIGNERS.
The Two of them stripped and denuded any possible asset NZ had. the Banks belong to Ozzie. the Forests belong to Ozzie. The Parking Stations belong to Korea. the keyholes belong to nobody here. Key sent money to mates in Saudi Arabia.
You want fish ? you can’t afford it . It belongs to FOREIGNERS. You want meat ? – you cant afford it – it belongs to FOREIGNERS. You want Cheese – you can’t afford it. It belongs to FOREIGNERS.
You want a tertiary Education – you can’t afford it. Firstly John Key has Ducked up the Price of Housing and Rentals all over the country – massively. Secondly the Kids can’t afford the exorbitant Fees. John is busy pulling the hair of a cafe assistant. Until his wife belatedly tells him to leave the young woman alone .The Rat.
John key never paid fees. The slippery eh.
John Key followers are the Trolls on here. Complete with Key / English lies.
Bye Bye Sanity. Bring on Troll Horror, Courtesy of the Dumb National non achievers.
“Only FOREIGNERS can own anything here. Stunned Mullet. As you well know. You Bastards.”
I’m sure you know that’s demonstrably false, the majority of property both private and public in NZ is owned by NZers.
As I said previously take care and some time out just for you if you need it, I hardly post of visit this site anymore and I can assure you it’s good to take time out from it every now and then.
Kia ora Newshub the changes to Kiwisaver the extra pay in brackets up to ten %. It needs to be made compolsery opt out default 8% and the commission that is made for managing the funds should be capped at 2 %. I know who votes for Simon.
Some ones mannerisms is improving.
Its cool that there has been rain in Nelson /Tasman overnight.
shonky conned NZ he give billions to the 00.1 % scraped all the environment laws so all our trees got cut down early the dairy boom has ruined our water ways he shorted our housing market for his banker M8 ran down all our state services and had people selling dairydack from the local shop killing people imported foreign farm workers who displaced the Maori farm workers loaded
the country with dept. Eco never fell for his silver tongue. Another (alcohol) fuelled attack on someone the Aziz incident.
All good guys hope you have a big box of tissue the poll results have taken away one attack line you were using.
There you go the justice & prison system just sucks MAORI in and teach them how to be a bigger menace to society.
There are other people that are powerful that watch the show.
I would not write a team off that is in the rebuilding stages.
People like mark the grocery person wants all big businesses to have a monopoly duopoly so they can funnel all the money to the 00.1 % hip pockets who cares about the people under the bridge that there capitalist policy’s cause while sipping red wine on there helicopter pad. Ka kite ano
I don’t see the big supermarkets chains sending food to food Banks wasting food or anything is one of the biggest causes of climate change that has to change. Ka kite ano
It gives Eco Maori a sore face to see that OUR Te reo is reciving the respect it deserves I seen a story in stuff.co.nz about a new AP that translates maori to english with photos I was going to write a post about it but I make sure that the people are worthy of Eco Maoris Tau Toko as the ap was not made in Aotearoa well need I say more. These letter in this story are a window into our tipunas life dealings with the settlors I have read some from home as well I will put the link up below.
19th Century letters warned of fears for future NZ
Waitangi Treaty: Letters shed light on Māori plight for sovereignty
Tomorrow the country marks nearly 180 years since Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed, but letters from that era show that some issues for Māori remain the same.
Letter written by Hariata Ronga, wife of Hone Heke, to Sir George Grey in 1851 protesting the building of a new town in Mangonui. Photo: RNZ / Jessie Chiang
RNZ got a firsthand look at some of the letters that talk about land negotiations and the importance of kōrero with iwi.
The collection of more than 700 letters written by Māori can also be found on Auckland Council’s online archive, Kura.
But preserved in folders are some of the original copies.
Robert Eruera is a senior curator of Māori heritage at the Auckland Council and this is his passion.
“They’re like a window of time so that you can view the political agendas and the environment of the time,” he said.
“All of them are in te reo Māori.”
Letter written by Hōne Heke asserting his tino rangatiratanga. Photo: RNZ / Jessie Chiang
Decades on from the letters, Mr Eruera said respect of Māori sovereignty or rangatiratanga was still needed.Ka kite ano links below. P.S There some text Eco Maori cannot axcess I wonder Why
This is what our scientists predicted unusual weather we have to stop denying climate change and stop burning carbon.
Hawaii sees ‘very unusual’ snow as US storms wreak havoc
Series of powerful storms brings Arctic air from Alaska and sends huge waves to Hawaii
west and even brought snow to Hawaii.
Schools closed across Washington state and the legislature canceled all hearings on Monday with winter snowstorms pummeling the region.
Seattle’s metro area had already been hit by three snowstorms this month and the National Weather Service reports that Seattle-Tacoma international airport has received 14.1in (36cm) of snow so far in February, more than twice the annual average and the snowiest month in more than 30 years.
The storm that hit Seattle on Sunday dumped up to 4in (15cm) of snow and forecasters said more snow or rain was expected Monday and Tuesday as a lingering jet stream drives cold Arctic air into the normally temperate region, and part of a larger cycle that has also driven snow as far away as Hawaii.
Hawaii officials said the blanket of snow at Polipoli Spring state recreation area is probably the first for any state park. Polipoli is at 6,200ft (1,900m) making this possibly the lowest elevation snow ever recorded in the s
Honolulu’s National Weather Service reported 60ft (18-metre) waves north of Kauai and Oahu at the height of the storm on Monday. Significant wave heights – a measure averaging the bigger waves – reached a record 38ft.
Joe Zagrodnik, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington, said the larger system at work – namely the position of a cold jet stream – was also driving warm temperatures in Alaska and unusual weather in Hawaii.
With a north-south ridge of high pressure situated off the coast of Washington and Canada, Zagrodnik said, cold air being drawn southward inland is being replaced by warm air moving north offshore, driving temperatures up in parts of Alaska even as Seattle freezes.
And a chunk of cold, low-pressure air separated from the main flow is also drifting further west. Known as a Kona Low, the system caused unusual snow on the island of Maui.
In Washington, Zagrodnik said, February’s total already sets the month as the snowiest single month in the state since November 1985, and the snowiest February on record. Ka kite ano links below
Kia ora Newshub the polls for the two neo (capitalist for the poor) and (socialist for the 00.1 %) national are polling in single digits laugh able simon and judy .
The e scooter are making a lot of head lines of late hope the e scooter here are not the faulty ones.
The hungry polar bears the ice has receded so the polar bears have no we’re to hunt for seals now they are invading that Island village in Russia its good the bears are classified as indanger and are not being shot.
Its a big mess in Syria the lives losted is a shame and all the artifacts getting destroyed. Ka kite ano P.S war is for fools
Images of US students (and others) protesting and setting up tent cities on US university campuses have been broadcast world wide and clearly demonstrate the growing rifts in US society caused by US policy toward Israel and Israel’s prosecution of … Continue reading → ...
Barrie Saunders writes – Dear Paul As the new Minister of Media and Communications, you will be inundated with heaps of free advice and special pleading, all in the national interest of course. For what it’s worth here is my assessment: Traditional broadcasting free to air content through ...
Many criticisms are being made of the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill, including by this writer. But as with everything in politics, every story has two sides, and both deserve attention. It’s important to understand what the Government is trying to achieve and its arguments for such a bold reform. ...
Peter Dunne writes – The great nineteenth British Prime Minister, William Gladstone, once observed that “the first essential for a Prime Minister is to be a good butcher.” When a later British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, sacked a third of his Cabinet in July 1962, in what became ...
Ele Ludemann writes – New Zealanders had the OECD’s second highest tax increase last year: New Zealanders faced the second-biggest tax raises in the developed world last year, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says. The intergovernmental agency said the average change in personal income tax ...
We all know something’s not right with our elections. The spread of misinformation, people being targeted with soundbites and emotional triggers that ignore the facts, even the truth, and influence their votes.The use of technology to produce deep fakes. How can you tell if something is real or not? Can ...
This video includes conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Simon Clark. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). This year you will be lied to! Simon Clark helps prebunk some misleading statements you'll hear about climate. The video includes ...
It is all very well cutting the backrooms of public agencies but it may compromise the frontlines. One of the frustrations of the Productivity Commission’s 2017 review of universities is that while it observed that their non-academic staff were increasing faster than their academic staff, it did not bother to ...
Buzz from the Beehive Two speeches delivered by Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters at Anzac Day ceremonies in Turkey are the only new posts on the government’s official website since the PM announced his Cabinet shake-up. In one of the speeches, Peters stated the obvious: we live in a troubled ...
1. Which of these would you not expect to read in The Waikato Invader?a. Luxon is here to do business, don’t you worry about thatb. Mr KPI expects results, and you better believe itc. This decisive man of action is getting me all hot and excitedd. Melissa Lee is how ...
…it has a restricted jurisdiction which must not be abused: it is not an inquisitionNOTE – this article was published before the High Court ruled that Karen Chhour does not have to appear before the Waitangi Tribunal Gary Judd writes – The High Court ...
Lindsay Mitchell writes – One of reasons Oranga Tamariki exists is to prevent child neglect. But could the organisation itself be guilty of the same?Oranga Tamariki’s statistics show a decrease in the number and age of children in care. “There are less children ...
David Farrar writes: Graeme Edgeler wrote in 2017: In the first five years after three strikes came into effect 5248 offenders received a ‘first strike’ (that is, a “stage-1 conviction” under the three strikes sentencing regime), and 68 offenders received a ‘second strike’. In the five years prior to ...
Bryce Edwards writes – 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 politics. That’s refreshing and will be extremely ...
TL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the two days to 6:06am on Thursday, April 25:Politics: PM Christopher Luxon has set up a dual standard for ministerial competence by demoting two National Cabinet ministers while leaving also-struggling ...
Hi,Today I mainly want to share some of your thoughts about the recent piece I wrote about success and failure, and the forces that seemingly guide our lives. But first, a quick bit of housekeeping: I am doing a Webworm popup in Los Angeles on Saturday May 11 at 2pm. ...
It is hard to see what Melissa Lee might have done to “save” the media. National went into the election with no public media policy and appears not to have developed one subsequently. Lee claimed that she had prepared a policy paper before the election but it had been decided ...
Open access notablesIce acceleration and rotation in the Greenland Ice Sheet interior in recent decades, Løkkegaard et al., Communications Earth & Environment:In the past two decades, mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet has accelerated, partly due to the speedup of glaciers. However, uncertainty in speed derived from satellite products ...
Buzz from the Beehive A statement from Children’s Minister Karen Chhour – yet to be posted on the Government’s official website – arrived in Point of Order’s email in-tray last night. It welcomes the High Court ruling on whether the Waitangi Tribunal can demand she appear before it. It does ...
Mr Bombastic:Ironically, the media the academic experts wanted is, in many ways, the media they got. In place of the tyrannical editors of yesteryear, advancing without fear or favour the interests of the ruling class; the New Zealand news media of today boasts a troop of enlightened journalists dedicated to ...
It's hard times try to make a livingYou wake up every morning in the unforgivingOut there somewhere in the cityThere's people living lives without mercy or pityI feel good, yeah I'm feeling fineI feel better then I have for the longest timeI think these pills have been good for meI ...
In 1974, the US Supreme Court issued its decision in United States v. Nixon, finding that the President was not a King, but was subject to the law and was required to turn over the evidence of his wrongdoing to the courts. It was a landmark decision for the rule ...
Every day now just seems to bring in more fresh meat for the grinder.In their relentlessly ideological drive to cut back on the “excessive bloat” (as they see it) of the previous Labour-led government, on the mountains of evidence accumulated in such a short period of time do not ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Megan Valére SosouMarket gardening site of the Itchèléré de Itagui agricultural cooperative in Dassa-Zoumè (Image credit: Megan Valère Sossou) For the residents of Dassa-Zoumè, a city in the West African country of Benin, choosing between drinking water and having enough ...
Buzz from the Beehive Melissa Lee – as may be discerned from the screenshot above – has not been demoted for doing something seriously wrong as Minister of ...
Morning in London Mother hugs beloved daughter outside the converted shoe factory in which she is living.Afternoon in London Travelling writer takes himself and his wrist down to A&E, just to be sure. Read more ...
Mike Grimshaw writes – The recent announcement of the University Advisory Group, chaired by Sir Peter Gluckman, makes very clear where the Government’s focus and priorities lie. The remit of the Advisory Group is that Group members will consider challenges and opportunities for improvement in the university sector including: ...
Eric Crampton writes – The Reserve Bank of New Zealand desperately wants to find reasons to have workstreams in climate change. It makes little sense. They’ve run another stress test on the banks looking to see if they could find a prudential regulation case. They couldn’t. They ...
Rob MacCullough writes – Pundits from the left and the right are arguing that National’s Fast Track Bill that is designed to speed up infrastructure decisions could end up becoming mired in a cesspool of corruption. Political commentator ...
Looking at the headlines this morning it’s hard to feel anything other than pessimistic about the future of humanity.Note that I’m not speaking about the future of mankind, but the survival of our humanity. The values that we believe in seem to be ebbing away, by the day.Perhaps every generation ...
Swabbing mixed breed baby chicks to test for avian influenzaUh oh. Bird flu – often deadly to humans – is not only being transmitted from infected birds to dairy cows, but is now travelling between dairy cows. As of last Friday, Bloomberg News reports, there were 32 American dairy herds ...
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
What is it with the mining industry? Its not enough for them to pillage the earth - they apparently can't even be bothered getting resource consent to do so: The proponent behind a major mine near the Clutha River had already been undertaking activity in the area without a ...
Photo # 1 I am a huge fan of Singapore’s approach to housing, as described here two years ago by copying and pasting from The ConversationWhat Singapore has that Australia does not is a public housing developer, the Housing Development Board, which puts new dwellings on public and reclaimed land, ...
Buzz from the Beehive Reactions to news of the government’s readiness to make urgent changes to “the resource management system” through a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) suggest a balanced approach is being taken. The Taxpayers’ Union says the proposed changes don’t go far enough. Greenpeace says ...
I’m starting to wonder if Anna Burns-Francis might be the best political interviewer we’ve got. That might sound unlikely to you, it came as a bit of a surprise to me.Jack Tame can be excellent, but has some pretty average days. I like Rebecca Wright on Newshub, she asks good ...
Chris Trotter writes – Willie Jackson is said to be planning a “media summit” to discuss “the state of the media and how to protect Fourth Estate Journalism”. Not only does the Editor of The Daily Blog, Martyn Bradbury, think this is a good idea, but he has also ...
Graeme Edgeler writes – This morning [April 21], the Wellington High Court is hearing a judicial review brought by Hon. Karen Chhour, the Minister for Children, against a decision of the Waitangi Tribunal. This is unusual, judicial reviews are much more likely to brought against ministers, rather than ...
Both of Parliament’s watchdogs have now ripped into the Government’s Fast-track Approvals Bill. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāMy pick of the six newsey things to know from Aotearoa’s political economy and beyond on the morning of Tuesday, April 23 are:The Lead: The Auditor General,John Ryan, has joined the ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sarah SpengemanPeople wait to board an electric bus in Pune, India. (Image credit: courtesy of ITDP) Public transportation riders in Pune, India, love the city’s new electric buses so much they will actually skip an older diesel bus that ...
The infrastructure industry yesterday issued a “hurry up” message to the Government, telling it to get cracking on developing a pipeline of infrastructure projects.The hiatus around the change of Government has seen some major projects cancelled and others delayed, and there is uncertainty about what will happen with the new ...
Hi,Over the weekend I revisited a podcast I really adore, Dead Eyes. It’s about a guy who got fired from Band of Brothers over two decades ago because Tom Hanks said he had “dead eyes”.If you don’t recall — 2001’s Band of Brothers was part of the emerging trend of ...
Buzz from the Beehive The 180 or so recipients of letters from the Government telling them how to submit infrastructure projects for “fast track” consideration includes some whose project applications previously have been rejected by the courts. News media were quick to feature these in their reports after RMA Reform Minister Chris ...
It would not be a desirable way to start your holiday by breaking your back, your head, or your wrist, but on our first hour in Singapore I gave it a try.We were chatting, last week, before we started a meeting of Hazel’s Enviro Trust, about the things that can ...
Calling all journalists, academics, planners, lawyers, political activists, environmentalists, and other members of the public who believe that the relationships between vested interests and politicians need to be scrutinised. We need to work together to make sure that the new Fast-Track Approvals Bill – currently being pushed through by the ...
Feel worried. Shane Jones and a couple of his Cabinet colleagues are about to be granted the power to override any and all objections to projects like dams, mines, roads etc even if: said projects will harm biodiversity, increase global warming and cause other environmental harms, and even if ...
Bryce Edwards writes- The ability of the private sector to quickly establish major new projects making use of the urban and natural environment is to be supercharged by the new National-led Government. Yesterday it introduced to Parliament one of its most significant reforms, the Fast Track Approvals Bill. ...
Michael Bassett writes – If you think there is a move afoot by the radical Maori fringe of New Zealand society to create a parallel system of government to the one that we elect at our triennial elections, you aren’t wrong. Over the last few days we have ...
Without a corresponding drop in interest rates, it’s doubtful any changes to the CCCFA will unleash a massive rush of home buyers. Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: The six things that stood out to me in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Monday, April 22 included:The Government making a ...
Sunday was a lazy day. I started watching Jack Tame on Q&A, the interviews are usually good for something to write about. Saying the things that the politicians won’t, but are quite possibly thinking. Things that are true and need to be extracted from between the lines.As you might know ...
In our Weekly Roundup last week we covered news from Auckland Transport that the WX1 Western Express is going to get an upgrade next year with double decker electric buses. As part of the announcement, AT also said “Since we introduced the WX1 Western Express last November we have seen ...
TL;DR: The six key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to April 29 include:PM Christopher Luxon is scheduled to hold a post-Cabinet news conference at 4 pm today. Stats NZ releases its statutory report on Census 2023 tomorrow.Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivers a pre-Budget speech at ...
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 14, 2024 thru Sat, April 20, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week hinges on these words from the abstract of a fresh academic ...
The ability of the private sector to quickly establish major new projects making use of the urban and natural environment is to be supercharged by the new National-led Government. Yesterday it introduced to Parliament one of its most significant reforms, the Fast Track Approvals Bill. The Government says this will ...
This is a column to say thank you. So many of have been in touch since Mum died to say so many kind and thoughtful things. You’re wonderful, all of you. You’ve asked how we’re doing, how Dad’s doing. A little more realisation each day, of the irretrievable finality of ...
Identifying the engine type in your car is crucial for various reasons, including maintenance, repairs, and performance upgrades. Knowing the specific engine model allows you to access detailed technical information, locate compatible parts, and make informed decisions about modifications. This comprehensive guide will provide you with a step-by-step approach to ...
Introduction: The allure of racing is undeniable. The thrill of speed, the roar of engines, and the exhilaration of competition all contribute to the allure of this adrenaline-driven sport. For those who yearn to experience the pinnacle of racing, becoming a race car driver is the ultimate dream. However, the ...
Introduction Automobiles have become ubiquitous in modern society, serving as a primary mode of transportation and a symbol of economic growth and personal mobility. With countless vehicles traversing roads and highways worldwide, it begs the question: how many cars are there in the world? Determining the precise number is a ...
Maintaining a safe and reliable vehicle requires regular inspections. Whether it’s a routine maintenance checkup or a safety inspection, knowing how long the process will take can help you plan your day accordingly. This article delves into the factors that influence the duration of a car inspection and provides an ...
Mazda Motor Corporation, commonly known as Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automaker headquartered in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The company was founded in 1920 as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd., and began producing vehicles in 1931. Mazda is primarily known for its production of passenger cars, but ...
Your car battery is an essential component that provides power to start your engine, operate your electrical systems, and store energy. Over time, batteries can weaken and lose their ability to hold a charge, which can lead to starting problems, power failures, and other issues. Replacing your battery before it ...
In most states, you cannot register a car without a valid driver’s license. However, there are a few exceptions to this rule. Exceptions to the RuleIf you are under 18 years old: In some states, you can register a car in your name even if you do not ...
Mazda, a Japanese automotive manufacturer with a rich history of innovation and engineering excellence, has emerged as a formidable player in the global car market. Known for its reputation of producing high-quality, fuel-efficient, and driver-oriented vehicles, Mazda has consistently garnered praise from industry experts and consumers alike. In this article, ...
Struts are an essential part of a car’s suspension system. They are responsible for supporting the weight of the car and damping the oscillations of the springs. Struts are typically made of steel or aluminum and are filled with hydraulic fluid. How Do Struts Work? Struts work by transferring the ...
Car registration is a mandatory process that all vehicle owners must complete annually. This process involves registering your car with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and paying an associated fee. The registration process ensures that your vehicle is properly licensed and insured, and helps law enforcement and other authorities ...
Zoom is a video conferencing service that allows you to share your screen, webcam, and audio with other participants. In addition to sharing your own audio, you can also share the audio from your computer with other participants. This can be useful for playing music, sharing presentations with audio, or ...
Building your own computer can be a rewarding and cost-effective way to get a high-performance machine tailored to your specific needs. However, it also requires careful planning and execution, and one of the most important factors to consider is the time it will take. The exact time it takes to ...
Sleep mode is a power-saving state that allows your computer to quickly resume operation without having to boot up from scratch. This can be useful if you need to step away from your computer for a short period of time but don’t want to shut it down completely. There are ...
Te Pāti Māori are demanding the New Zealand Government support an international independent investigation into mass graves that have been uncovered at two hospitals on the Gaza strip, following weeks of assault by Israeli troops. Among the 392 bodies that have been recovered, are children and elderly civilians. Many of ...
Our two-tiered system for veterans’ support is out of step with our closest partners, and all parties in Parliament should work together to fix it, Labour veterans’ affairs spokesperson Greg O’Connor said. ...
Stripping two Ministers of their portfolios just six months into the job shows Christopher Luxon’s management style is lacking, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. ...
Tonight’s court decision to overturn the summons of the Children’s Minister has enabled the Crown to continue making decisions about Māori without evidence, says Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Children, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “The judicial system has this evening told the nation that this government can do whatever they want when ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The government's decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system, said Te Pāti Māori Justice Spokesperson, Tākuta Ferris, today. During the time Three Strikes was in place in Aotearoa, Māori and Pasifika received ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
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. ...
Te Pāti Māori is disgusted at the confirmation that hundreds are set to lose their jobs at Oranga Tamariki, and the disestablishment of the Treaty Response Unit. “This act of absolute carelessness and out of touch decision making is committing tamariki to state abuse.” Said Te Pāti Māori Oranga Tamariki ...
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. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi, and Mema Paremata mō Tāmaki-Makaurau, Takutai Tarsh Kemp, will travel to the Gold Coast to strengthen ties with Māori in Australia next week (15-21 April). The visit, in the lead-up to the 9th Australian National Kapa haka Festival, will be an opportunity for both ...
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. ...
Hundreds of New Zealand families affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) will benefit from a new Government focus on prevention and treatment, says Health Minister Dr Shane Reti. “We know FASD is a leading cause of preventable intellectual and neurodevelopmental disability in New Zealand,” Dr Reti says. “Every day, ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones today attended the official opening of Kaikohe’s new $14.7 million sports complex. “The completion of the Kaikohe Multi Sports Complex is a fantastic achievement for the Far North,” Mr Jones says. “This facility not only fulfils a long-held dream for local athletes, but also creates ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ engagements in Türkiye this week underlined the importance of diplomacy to meet growing global challenges. “Returning to the Gallipoli Peninsula to represent New Zealand at Anzac commemorations was a sombre reminder of the critical importance of diplomacy for de-escalating conflicts and easing tensions,” Mr Peters ...
Ambassador Millar, Burgemeester, Vandepitte, Excellencies, military representatives, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen – good morning and welcome to this sacred Anzac Day dawn service. It is an honour to be here on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood – a deeply ...
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 ...
Asia Pacific Report From France to Australia, university pro-Palestine protests in the United States have now spread to several countries with students pitching on-campus camps. And students at Columbia and other US universities remain defiant as campuses have witnessed the biggest protests since the anti-Vietnam war and anti-apartheid eras in ...
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards, Democracy Project (https://democracyproject.nz)New Zealand Government’s Fast Track legislation. Many criticisms are being made of the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill, including by this writer. But as with everything in politics, every story has two sides, and both deserve attention. It’s important to understand what the Government ...
Tara Ward talks to presenter Naomi Toilalo about the new TV show that turns food waste into a three course feast. Naomi Toilalo is standing in the warehouse at Good Neighbour Tauranga, helping unpack the two-and-a-half tonnes of rejected food that will arrive at the community support hub that day. ...
Scout is our latest Dog of the Month. This feature was offered as a reward during our What’s Eating Aotearoa PledgeMe campaign. Thank you to Scout’s human, Avril, for her support. Dog name: Scout (named after the little girl in To Kill a Mockingbird – she inherited the independent spirit ...
Megan Alatini takes us through her life in TV, including ‘terrible’ daytime TV, the class of Carol Hirschfeld and her most embarrassing TrueBliss moment. When she responded to a vague newspaper ad asking “do you have what it takes to be a popstar?” 25 years ago, Megan Alatini never guessed ...
A new exhibition in Wellington showcases the faces behind your local goods and services. Back in 1977, when I was a fine arts student at the University of Canterbury, I took a series of photographs of Christchurch shopkeepers. The photos were for a calendar – a project for my end ...
Toomaj and his resistance to tyranny through his songs have become an icon for the youth of Iran, so his sentence has hit the nation hard. Toomaj Salehi is not the first artist to pay the price for standing with the people. ...
My cousin Dylan and I spotted these big eels under the bridge that summer. We watched them lounging under the dark weed, facing into the flow of water, their mouths frozen open. Dylan and I couldn’t stop thinking about those eels. The night we went down to the creek, we ...
Newsroom, home of satire. My long-running weekly satirical series The Secret Diary has moved to Newsroom and will appear every Saturday, with Victor Billot’s wildly popular satirical Odes continuing to appear every Sunday. Diaries, Odes – while serious political columnists toil at meaningful opinions and stroke their chins to an ...
Tara Ward unravels the many nuanced layers of a cartoon about talking dogs.This is an excerpt from our weekly pop culture newsletter Rec Room. Sign up here. It’s not often an episode of a children’s cartoon has adults sobbing into their sleeves, but that’s exactly what happened this week when ...
Working as a doctor in developing countries to help communities achieve better health outcomes is nothing short of a life goal for Jessica Tater. The University of Otago medical student has her sights firmly set on joining the international humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) when she qualifies ...
There’s an island in the far reaches of Auckland’s territory, sitting off the tip of the Coromandel Peninsula, 30 minutes by air from the city or four hours on the slow boat. Aotea Great Barrier is off-grid, it has a population of fewer than a thousand people … and most ...
Asia Pacific Report An Australian author and advocate, Jim Aubrey, today led a national symbolic one minute’s silence to mark the “blood debt” owed to Papuan allies during the Second World War indigenous resistance against the invading Japanese forces. “A promise to most people is a promise,” Aubrey said in ...
Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla is ready to sail to Gaza, reports Kia Ora Gaza. All the required paperwork has been submitted to the port authority, and the cargo has been loaded and prepared for the humanitarian trip to the besieged enclave. However, organisers received word of an “administrative ...
Pacific Media Watch Palestine solidarity protesters today demonstrated at the Auckland headquarters of Television New Zealand, accusing the country’s major TV network of broadcasting “propaganda” backing Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. About 50 protesters targeted the main entrance to the TVNZ building near Sky Tower and also picketed a side ...
Opinion by Lynley Hood. Forty years on from my 1985 Fulbright Grant, my disquiet over the war in Gaza evoked some troubling questions. The answer to my first question – What is the primary purpose of the Fulbright Programme? – was on the Fulbright NZ website. It says: US Senator, ...
The ministers responsible for green-lighting major projects need to be open about potential conflicts of interest, says Transparency International. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasia Powell, Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University It has been a particularly distressing start to the year. There is little that can ease the current grief of individuals, families and communities who have needlessly lost a loved one to men’s ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Lichen, the first described example of symbiosis.AdeJ Artventure/Shutterstock Once known only to those studying biology, the word symbiosis is now widely used. Symbiosis is the intimate ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Hemsley, Head, Childhood Dementia Research Group, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University Olena Ivanova/Shutterstock “Childhood” and “dementia” are two words we wish we didn’t have to use together. But sadly, around 1,400 ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The government’s Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has just published its second report. It was set up by Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth in 2022 to provide: ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne The Queensland state election will be held in October. A YouGov poll for The Courier Mail, conducted April 9–17 from a sample ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amin Naeni, PhD candidate at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University There’s been much talk in recent months about what a possible second Donald Trump presidency in the United States could mean for Europe, Russia’s war in Ukraine, the ...
A brief round-up of submissions on the controversial proposed law. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. Last week, submissions on the controversial Fast-track Approvals Bill closed just hours after the government released a list of stakeholder organisations who were sent letters advising how they could ...
A poem from Robin Peace’s new collection Detritus of Empire: feather / grass / rock. Cereal giving I see a woman’s hands, see her curious hands break a stalk as she walks through the tall prairie, the savannah, the steppe, wherever it was. See her idly bite the grass that ...
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.AUCKLAND1 Hemingway’s Goblet by Dermot Ross (Mary Egan Publishing, $38)A handsomely produced (debossed cover, lovely ...
The Commissioner's decision validates the longstanding efforts of the local community and ensures that Awataha Marae will be managed to serve the needs of the local community, particularly for hosting tangihanga. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tristan Salles, Associate professor, University of Sydney Examples of Australian landscapes.Unsplash Seventy thousand years ago, the sea level was much lower than today. Australia, along with New Guinea and Tasmania, formed a connected landmass known as Sahul. Around this time – ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Felicity Castagna, Lecturer, Creative Writing, Western Sydney University Day Day Market, ParramattaPhoto: Garry Trinh I live on the edge of Parramatta, Australia’s fastest-growing city, on the kind of old-fashioned suburban street that has 1950s fibros constructed in the post-war housing boom, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Ryan, Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Waikato GettyImagesfatido/Getty Images There is an ongoing global debate over whether the high inflation seen in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic can be lowered without a recession. New Zealand is not ...
The ‘Wicked Game’ heartthrob is in his late 60s now. That didn’t stop him putting on a lively, goofy and very sparkly show. Apart from ‘Wicked Game’, which graces a sultry playlist of mine simply called 💋, my last sustained Chris Isaak listening session took place when I was about ...
Analysis - Two ministers were stripped of portfolios in a warning to Cabinet, drama broke out at the Waitangi Tribunal, and the gang patch ban bill ran into opposition. ...
Tara Ward makes an impassioned plea for some vital pop culture merch. In April 1999, I became obsessed with a new reality television show called Popstars. Every Tuesday night, five strangers transformed into music royalty before my very eyes as Joe, Keri, Carly, Erika and Megan were chosen to form ...
PNG Post-Courier In the early hours of ANZAC Day, aerial photographs captured an impressive gathering of Australians and Papua New Guineans at Isurava in the Northern (Oro) Province. The solemn dawn service yesterday was held at a site steeped in history, where some of the fiercest battles of World War ...
The PSA is shocked that Oranga Tamariki has used the cost cutting drive to downgrade its commitment to Te Ao Māori and remove many specialist Māori roles. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Kemish, Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland There can be no more powerful symbol of the relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea than the prime ministers of these neighbouring countries walking together on the ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharon Robinson, Distinguished Professor and Deputy Director of ARC Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF), University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong Andrew Netherwood Over the last 25 years, the ozone hole which forming over Antarctica each spring has started to shrink. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Viktoria Kahui, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics, University of Otago Getty Images/Amy Toensing Biodiversity is declining at rates unprecedented in human history. This suggests the ways we currently use to manage our natural environment are failing. One emerging concept focuses on ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Colin Bednall, Associate Professor in Management, Swinburne University of Technology marvent/Shutterstock Finding the best person to fill a position can be tough, from drafting a job ad to producing a shortlist of top interview candidates. Employers typically consider information from ...
Wondering where to host your next BYO? Whether its a small gathering or a massive party, we’ve got some recommendations. I was first introduced to the concept of BYOs at Dunedin’s India Gardens, a legendary but sadly defunct establishment, which purveyed enormous quantities of mango chicken to Aotearoa’s drunkest future ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julien Cooper, Honorary Lecturer, Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University Julien Cooper The hyper-arid desert of Eastern Sudan, the Atbai Desert, seems like an unlikely place to find evidence of ancient cattle herders. But in this dry environment, my new ...
The sector says it’s hopeful her replacement Paul Goldsmith will be able to throw it a lifeline, after six months with a minister deemed missing in action, writes Catherine McGregor in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign ...
The government can't just rely on axing public sector jobs and has to do more to cut spending, says the chief economist at a free market think tank. ...
Rock The Vote NZ, known for its advocacy for minor party unity and its role within the Freedoms NZ Coalition during the 2023 General Election, celebrates this merger as a strategic enhancement of its operational strength and outreach. ...
Nearly everyone has experienced the frustration of something you use breaking and being difficult or expensive to fix. Proposed legislation could change that. It’s been raining on and off all Sunday afternoon but people are lining up outside a building in a corner of Gribblehirst Park in Sandringham, Auckland. In ...
What does a forever relationship look like when you don’t believe in marriage? And how do you celebrate it? This essay is part of our Sunday Essay series, made possible thanks to the support of Creative New Zealand.I’m going to do it, right now. I’m going to say ...
FICTION 1 Take Two by Danielle Hawkins (Allen & Unwin, $36.99) There’s commercial fiction, like this book, and then there’s quality fiction, quality writers, quality literature; the forthcoming Auckland Writers Festival is full of quality, and ReadingRoom has two tickets to give away to the following events: Paul Lynch (Dublin ...
Loading…(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){var ql=document.querySelectorAll('A[quiz],DIV[quiz],A[data-quiz],DIV[data-quiz]'); if(ql){if(ql.length){for(var k=0;k<ql.length;k++){ql[k].id='quiz-embed-'+k;ql[k].href="javascript:var i=document.getElementById('quiz-embed-"+k+"');try{qz.startQuiz(i)}catch(e){i.start=1;i.style.cursor='wait';i.style.opacity='0.5'};void(0);"}}};i['QP']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)})(window,document,'script','https://take.quiz-maker.com/3012/CDN/quiz-embed-v1.js','qp'); Got a good quiz question?Send Newsroom your questions. The post Newsroom daily quiz, Friday 26 April appeared first on Newsroom. ...
You can’t have missed the Gallipoli story as the movies, documentaries, essays and books capture what it was like for New Zealand troops in their eight-month campaign on the Peninsula. But this Anzac Day the Auckland War Memorial Museum has published a book that sheds light on a little-known aspect of the ...
The Prime Minister has committed to resuming direct flights to Thailand. But it’s not a promise he will be able to deliver on anytime soon. The post Prime Minister jumps the gun in Thailand appeared first on Newsroom. ...
It’s not that long ago Eliza McCartney was seriously wondering if the Paris Olympics would be her pole vaulting swansong. After years of being hounded by injury after injury, the Rio Olympics bronze medallist was still confident she would compete at her second Olympics in Paris in July, unless something ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In the free-for-all between the Australian government and Big Tech boss Elon Musk this week, the government had to be on a winner. Most people would have little sympathy with Musk’s vociferous opposition to ...
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 ...
The mobile site isn’t working properly. The layout is all messed up.
I understand Lprent is trying to sort it out, Fireblade.
Umm I can’t see it.
However I’ve just removed the caching module that got added. Try again.
It’s working now thanks.
Most likely the caching or the cdn.
I’ll try to figure that out later. But it shouldn’t really matter. The http2 should be all that is required. It will just be a bit slower.
I wish I could figure out the issue with chrome and spark (probably vodafone as well) and the mobile version. Since I switched the site to http2 with fallbacks down to http/1.1, the mobile site doesn’t come up on mobile data.
It stalls and eventually reports an error of ERR_SPDY_SERVER_REFUSED_STREAM. Damned if I can see it even asking.
Apparently this is a known bug with some versions of chrome on android (?) and actually has something to with a client side cache. Happens on my S8+ phone. Doesn’t happen on my partner’s iphone (grumble). Happens on 1 out of 3 models of tablets. Goes away when I run out via a VPN over mobile data…. Damn annoying.
I can’t get any leverage on it.
Working on the search engine at present – but I may need to find some food.
I don’t know if it helps, but I’m using an Oppo AX5 Smartphone, Android 8.1 and Chrome on 2degrees. I tried using my Opera browser, but it had the same problem.
Always useful to know.
Damned if I know what it is. Works fine (as far as I can tell) when any wifi that isn’t cell based to the network.
Personally I think it is some bad caching at the cell operators when they are dealing with http2.
I might have a look at the signatures and see if there is anything obvious.
I have been listening to Duncan Garner on Mediawatch to an interviewee who referred to the frail, the sick, the elderly was mentioned and Garner pharmac damned. He uses a fast and staccato speech style which carries urgency and demands acceptance of his opinions as correct. He is a demagogue, which is regarded as applying to a political leader usually, but he of course is through the elevated media position he has, actually a political leader, just not with responsibilities of one.
He was making demands for more spending on cancer treatment building on some report that says we get less than elsewhere and people live longer in other countries. For instance, for extending life for the terminally ill as for Stage 4 breast cancer victims who on world figures live for about three years from diagnosis but only 16 months in NZ. So the wish for others is to keep dying people alive by taking money from the health system for increasingly expensive drugs and treatment so people can put off death for another 12 months?
It should be noted also that there is no or little funding for hospices which look after people who are dying. The pressure is for spending on treatment and medication and prolongation of life at the end of it at whatever age. We can’t afford to have pressure groups focussing on their own individual demands, to the detriment of spending that goes towards the poorer groups, the working age, and general public health availability to these people.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018681585/cancer-and-the-unbearable-asymmetry-of-bs
Thanks for that link.
Here’s another article that is very informative (and long-ish) but won’t suit Garner’s narrative: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/110469300/why-cancer-treatment-runs-the-risk-of-becoming-unaffordable
It’s also sobering and not necessarily what people want to hear, especially not people with cancer. Duncan Garner knows that and plays on it, but that’s his job. I’d say, change his job description.
“…So the wish for others is to keep dying people alive by taking money from the health system for increasingly expensive drugs and treatment so people can put off death for another 12 month..”
More like take money from chronically ill beneficaries (ie dialysis, empyshema/COPD etc) and divert to expensive drugs for middle class ‘battlers’ who ‘work hard and pay their taxes’. This is what Garner and those who listen to him, actually think. We are listening to one great dog whistle.
I note your point. There seems to be matters that receive attention and some that don’t. Hospices get a lot of attention because everybody dies and it is a much needed thing that government avoids funding so local women enjoy charity fund raising. Also cancer has done a great swing-around from the scary thing to be spoken of as the old ‘c’word, and people with it being avoided as if it was catching. Now they have well-funded charity marches and vigils.
The ones you state are rarer and perhaps have had a bad press, connected with overuse of alcohol, wrong food and too much weight, too much cigarette smoking or having worked at the coalface of some physical job (physical being out at present except when firefighters are being lauded for their sacrifices – probably the most-trusted people in NZ – they had better do a charity drive before everyone settles back into their default positions of self-interest).
There was an example of how the chattering classes view everyone else about a decade ago. A certain well-known dress designer was quoted as putting down the people who are always going to hospital and costing the country. She herself apparently had a daughter who was diabetic and wouldn’t stick to her maintenance diet and was hospitalised (avoidably) as a result and had to have the point made that her girl was one costing the country money through not looking after her own health. Duncan Garner is just another who can only feel sympathy for himself and his own, but is so entitled to the best treatment.
Waitangi Day in Finland
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10555931
Fire update….
Farmers, contractors and anyone using certain types of outdoor machinery in part of the Nelson Tasman region will need to defer their activities because of the extreme fire danger, as indicated on the attached map identifying Nelson and the Waimea and Motueka valleys.
https://stuff.liveblog.pro/stuff/20190209170248/2c76953a89f0ced7e5ccf5ffcdf5ba7cd0640dbf0a40d78b3a5c6430ddefe7ff.jpg
Please spread the word…. thanks 🙂
Thanks for the updates Cinny. Keep safe all of you over in the Tasman area.
Here in Wellington everything is also tinder dry and we had a fire on the Wadestown hill above the CBD on Friday, requiring helicopters, monsoon buckets etc.
Also on Friday (8 Feb) a total fire ban was declared (everything except gas BBQs) with lots of fanfare, announcements on radio, etc.
AND THEN … 9pm Saturday night (9 Feb) they went ahead with almost an hour of formal pubic fireworks to celebrate Chinese New Year over the harbour, just a stones throw from the CBD and Wadestown hill, Mt Victora etc – not to mention Matiu Somes Island scientific and historical reserve in the harbour itself.
I couldn’t believe it! Will be having ‘words’ to say to a local who works for the Wellington Emergency Management Office.
Dirty little secret has just come out in Napier;
‘Dirty water’ in Napier from 2017;
So we are possibly the worst polluted city in NZ now as the truck volumes through the city are killing the residential “amenity values” there, and now the truck volumes are going to increase 187% in the next eight years according to a report from the Napier Port and NZTA.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1902/S00173/napier-port-projecting-187-per-cent-increase-in-traffic.htm
Apparently lots of folks living near the truck routes through the city now cant sleep through the night as trucks run through that city all night and all day.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/104825165/napier-residents-reported-black-water-months-before-chlorination-of-network?rm=m
YEAR 2017
Last updated:9/01/2018
DateAddressAreaRequest details1239/01/2017Robinson CrescentTamateaDirty water – please flush #442 called410/01/2017Galway StreetTamateaHe has been getting black particles in his water on and off for several weeks, black floaties were particularly bad today511/01/2017Lamason StreetGreenmeadowsShe has very low water pressure in her shower, please check if private or council67 819/01/2017Kennedy RoadOnekawaTheir water is starting to taste funny and requires a flush in the main pipe. This is a reoccuring problem and they often have to call ever 2-3 months.920/01/2017
Actual fake news.
https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1093191550367080448
The photo was uploaded in June 2017. Tienditas Bridge, reported throughout the media as blocked by Venezuela this week, has in fact been blocked for at least 18 months!There is also a Wikipedia article on Tienditas Bridge (in Spanish). It says of the bridge (translated to English with Google Translate):
This is backed up by a reference to an article from La Opinion, a local news site of Cúcuta in Colombia (also in Spanish), which states:
https://medium.com/@justin.emery/the-tienditas-bridge-blockade-f240728fe5f7
Just another confusion to add to the mix.
RIP – Your God rest your soul.
Palestinian prisoner Fares Baroud, 51, from al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza, died on Wednesday, 6 February only hours after being suddenly transferred to intensive care from Ramon prison. Baroud …
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/02/10/the-slow-killing-of-fares-baroud/
The Israelis continue in unrest. When will they hold a commemoration of the past for them and Palestinians, weep for man’s inhumanity to man and woman and child, and apologise for what Israelis have been guilty of, and also the Palestinians of their transgressions, and both sit down to work our humane conditions for all? Then Israelis can start on reaching rest, and a situation of forgiveness for transgression by either side, with apology and suitable mild atonement.
Marvelous.
https://twitter.com/ThePoke/status/1094345191694057472
The UK launch branch of Turning Point, a right-wing student movement for “free markets, limited government and public responsibility”, has just launched on Twitter but it hasn’t gone entirely to plan.
Turning Point, which has the backing of Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg (so it must be good) launched as @TPointUK on Twitter and is keen to reassure its followers that young people can be right wing too.
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/02/05/right-wing-turning-point-uks-twitter-launch-sabotaged-to-glorious-effect/
Good article.
“The characterisation of racism as “primal” goes to the heart of what racism is and what it is not. Racism is not primal or instinctive. That second question Neeson asked his friend of her attacker was: “What colour were they?” This is not an innate reaction, it is learned, imbibed from society. Because racism is not like jealousy or selfishness, it is not a primal urge or a basic instinct, it is a 400-year-old political and economic system that has infected our institutions, our culture and even our thinking. It is a system that has been and is today being held in place by violence and through collective punishment.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/09/what-does-liam-neeson-primal-urge-tell-us-about-racism
The Sustainable New Zealand Party has launched.
https://mailchi.mp/0315a3855897/sustainablenewzealandparty
I clicked on the link and read the Who Are We? and am none the wiser. So, obviously, they are not keen on being open & transparent but love to get my personal details and me registering my interest.
The privacy note at the bottom fortunately has a phone number …
Alarm bells are ringing:
This is what they (whoever they are) have to say about the Greens:
I know its frowned on to quote lengthy excerpts but in my view, this piece of the thread is a dead giveaway.
It’s full of huge holes and reads to me as just another attempt to discredit the Greens. I suspect there’s a lot more to this “launch” than meets the eye and I’m looking forward to finding out who the launchers are, and what is their political background.
Haven’t visited their site, but the bit you’ve quoted is a collection of National Party talking points, so they might as well just call it the Astroturf Party.
Well, I certainly would not and won’t be registering an interest with this or any other organisation, party etc unless I have much more as to who is involved.
Pete commented here giving the link etc but he missed a bit of information which he included in his own post on YourNZ, ie:
https://yournz.org/2019/02/10/sustainable-new-zealand-party/#comments
“Sustainable New Zealand Party seeks registrations of interest
A website seeking registrations of interest for the Sustainable New Zealand Party is online. Vernon Tava is promoting it.
Then this tweet from Tava –
“We need a Sustainable New Zealand party, able to work with all sides of politics for a truly sustainable environment, economy, society and culture. http://votesustainable.nz ”
https://twitter.com/vernontava/status/1094421499434328065
Not much enthusiasm in the few replies so far, but early days. Similarly not much in the four comments on Pete’s post but one of his regulars has registered interest so we may find out something via that source later.
Okay, Vernon Tava.
So, he made a bid for the leadership of the Greens and lost. Sour grapes? I expect so – at least in part.
In my youthful days we had a nickname for upper middle class twats. We called them Weeds. Someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but my usually reasonably accurate antennae tells me this is exactly what he is.
But you can smoke some types of weed … LOL
Seriously, I don/t think that guy is going anywhere and this will be a flash in a pan. Hope I am not wrong.
Vernon Tava is Nick Leggett version 1.1 and what is Nick Leggett doing right now? Not changing the world, that’s for sure.
Check out that phone number I mentioned.
I found it amazing a party would launch with absolutely zero details about who was launching it.
It’s a frank admission by this latest right wing offshoot that they have no one interesting enough involved to even name a leader.
They also claimed they were able to work with Labour but then proceeded to attack Labour.
Not a good start.
“Business and science who will lead the way”
Sustainable party…
“sustainable oceans”
LOL!
“{one prepared to deal with either the National Party or the Labour Party in coalition negotiations ”
Is that right? Mr Tava has said he has had “no input whatsoever” or words to that effect from the “National Party”, that itself is an odd question to have to answer. 18+ months is going to be, given the number of leaks of late, a long 18 months to keep clear boundaries as to integrity of the motivation.
Something smells to me like a rat.
I’m really sorry but my gut feeling is this is not a truly independent, genuine and unbiased political movement for the reasons stated and the way it is being marketed. To me it is just a cheap ploy to ensure a National-led government in 2020 in the guise of something blue-greenish to get that wedge of votes over the hard-core Nationla Party base of the tight, few I believe will be sucked in.
Tinge of trickery there Pete, “leverage” means something like “distort”?
*’To leverage policies that will underpin a more Sustainable New Zealand.’
They look as if they are planing to using ‘industry modeled studies’- that are ‘cherry picked” to look convincing’ is what National did during their time to sell their ‘warped policies.’
We saw that with ‘big tobacco ‘ and ‘big oil’ Horizon and the Alaska oils spilling sagas while they were actively selling their snake oil policies that way as others have done since then also.
I think that ‘The Sustainable New Zealand Party’ is another spin off of the “opportunities party” coming back again.
We already have TOP as a blue green party. I don’t honestly know why National cannot just take over that party.
The Majesty of Simon
Look, apart from Simon screaming like a little Boy in the House of Parliament, we have to acknowledge that he has wonderful skills in granting women seats in Parliament.
Strange Women. like the Leopard Dresser. Not forgetting the Bully from hell hole Wairarapa.
Then there is the Lady with Lust for Murder. Whom Simon supports with Mind and Heart. Mrs Dowie. He shares a cruel streak with her and her splendid art of cover up. She does not go without Pleasures.
I also like the way Simon wears a floor scraping Long Black Coat. He has declared his manic love for Trump. And will build a wall around Chatham Islands next Year.As a tribute to the Maori. Whom he says he adores.
Maori will love it down there with Hillary.
I sincerely Apologise
Simom Was going to build 12 Bridges up North. The Fool let all the Northerners down.
He has entirely forgotten what bridges look like. And also he does not like work.
He loves putting his strange women in seats. An effort he likes, but which he constantly gets wrong.
The Last person he put into Parliament was not a Girl but a Military bloke (a Spy) all the way from China – who gave Simon, so it is said, a lot of Dosh. But the Police are looking into Mrs Dowie.
Why wouldn’t they ?
are you off your medication today?
Alan. You should start a sentence with a capital letter, otherwise people will think your an uneducated troll.
thanks for the advise
Brilliant Observer Tokoroa 100%
Alexandra Orcazio-Cortez has a good moment giving members of US government a grilling about financial transparency & how the president doesn’t have to have the ethical disclosures that members of Congress do. Now her New Green Deal has been released showing how they would be making payments to include those unwilling to work. Not sure if this is just a RW beat up, but she now admits it was a draft version that shouldn’t have been released.
Micky
Mental health is obviously important. And both major parties look like they’re taking it more seriously than in the past.
However I think your commentary today on National and mental health issues is simply a cynical ploy to distract your audience away from the failure of Labour to address and deliver on their promises to the electorate.
Rather than directing your readers to once more salivate on the misfortunes and misadventures of JL Ross (whom you and your acolytes don’t give a jot) and his desperate attempts to undermine Simon Bridges, a more important debate to be had by the Labour party and your readers is to address such issues as:
– the failure of KiwiBuild
– the pork barrel politics of Shane Jones.
– the challenges of making significant changes to tax policy and employment relations policies.
– Clean water and Maori water rights
– the difficulties that are and will increasingly occur between Labour and NZ First
– Cancer treatment
The list goes on…..
[lprent: Read the policy about your suggestions. It is in the section about self-martyrdom.
Can I suggest that rather than being your usual useless self parroting whatever someone else said somewhere actually learn to discuss what you think in OpenMike. That is what it is there for. BTW: has an opposition MP been instructing you recently on what to say? Because those sure sound like talking points a National MP would parrot from a PR junior.
Banned for 2 weeks for not reading the policy. ]
[TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike as being off topic or irrelevant in the post it was made in. Be more careful in future.]
Certainly, make The Standard a far more interesting site, at the moment it’s a bit of a borefest.
So why don’t you just piss off over to the festering sewer at Farrarbog where you belong, you are a major contributor to any borefesting around here.
Ok, Charlotte if I’m really bothering you I promise I’ll never post here again.
Great, lets see if you can keep a promise.
http://iforce.co.nz/i/yfi5cgtm.euv.jpg
Why am I not surprised, troll.
Grantoc, When did changing a target become a failure? That is evaluating a changing market.
Pork Barrel Politics means paying people to vote for you.
So you are saying Shane Jones is giving money to regions for their vote?? You don’t think the regions have been starved of investment up until now? That they have to prove they have a need or a project needing finance , and that lines up with votes for Jones? Convoluted nonsense.
This Government is tackling unfair tax Good for them!!
They are working at taking enough parties to support the Working Relationship Bill.
National telling Labour about water quality? Nick Smith? LOL LOL
Maori Water Rights, 9 years and National did Diddly Squat!! Labour 1 year.
Cancer treatments, are always under review, as treatments and money become available.
You obviously read Hoskins… hopeful of dissension. Not going to happen. This is a distraction from the post on Mental Health but I couldn’t let it go.
Iprent I was slow getting this reply off.
100% Patricia the regions were sucked dry by National for their grandiose “roads of National Significance” that almost bankrupted us all.
Still they have yet to meet the criteria (CBR) ‘cost benefit ratio’, to pay their way as rail was forced to do and if rail didn’t they were closing half the regional railways down.
Sure they may be National talking points, but they are also talking points across the media and some of the more damning criticism of the Government failure to deliver on big promises is coming from the left.
The news yesterday from RNZ that the mental health working group, set up to address a claimed crisis in 2017, has now morphed into nine working groups. I’m sure it’s not just National pointedly talking about that.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/382083/mental-health-working-group-replacement-criticised
It’s really important that the left hold this government to account.
The government are in a media hole that only pre-budget announcements can get them out of. And Prime Minister Ardern, who just makes it look largely effortless.
It’s already looking like a long, long set of days to May 17th.
Balls in your court fella.
If you’ve got the time, write a few posts around labour policy, transport, housing well-being budget etc.
Be critical, be positive, keep it short, waffle, doesn’t really matter, the whole objective of a post on the standard is to just kick off a discussion.
And now you have the temerity to mention balls.
The People who Hate the Poor
It seems to me that “the Standard” has been completely taken over by the national trolls. The people who Hate the People.
This will have been a strategy governed and presented by the likes of a David Farar, The Herald , Hosking and other grubby powerless gnomes.
Micky Savage and Te Reo Putake are Honest men . They should not have to be smothered by ill born Trolls who have never contributed anything to New Zealand. It is a mockery Of everything the Standard stands For.
Worse, they have drowned most Kiwis in low low wages. High Rentals and a hopeless outlook for the Future. Everything is bleak because of what National has not done.
National will pay a huge Price for destroying the noble Poor – and the people likes of a Farar and Key and Bridges who did it to them.
It is time The Standard was protected from rank Evil.
Not sure why you include the Herald in this lot. They have a wide range of columnists from Leighton Smith to Lizzie Marvelly. RW,s think Herald is a LW rag & LW think the opposite, so maybe they are balanced ?
No, I have a lordly oversight of the whole scene, and I can assure you that the Herald is largely skewed towards the Right, with a few token Lefties as a façade of impartiality. Eat it. If you disagree, it is because you are biased to the Right. The surprising thing about many right-wingers is that they are so ignorant of leftist concepts that they think themselves neutral, when they are in fact biased to the right. But they just don’t know it, and have no understanding of their own inbuilt bias.
Lefties tend to be more introspective, and analyse their own motives/knowledge/emotions more deeply.
In Vino (self appointed Lordly one) I ate it & it was delicious !! I guess by your definition I must be RW – wouldn’t say biased to the right, more centre slightly right, but will take each argument based on its merits. Don’t think most RWs are ignorant of leftist concepts, problem is leftist concepts cover a wide range from higher minimum wage (which I generally agree with) to full blown state control of businesses.
Hi BM
I thankyou for your words
But every time you guys hit Twyford below the belt, the Poor say out loud Why didn’t lousy BM build some decent Houses.
He has been around for ages and done nothing. He is a stuff Nothing.
Got it BM – you have done Nothing
Twyford isn’t building houses, all he’s doing is buying places that aren’t selling.
All he’s doing is propping up the over-inflated property market and keeping prices high.
Ask yourself why this government is doing that and what it means?
It means you know nothing about what is happening in the housing market and what this government is doing to fix it, troll.
Hi Bazza64
Exactly when did The Herald support the massive poor of New Zealand ?
The Low low Waged Workers; The hugely expensive Rentals – paid by the Poor. The slums inside the Rentals. When did the Herald ever do anything about it.
When did they drive the known Crooks to the Court ? Pray tell me.
Bazza64 – you have never done anything of Balance for New Zealand. But you could do something if you wanted. You could declare National as wrong and sadistic.
OT – I thought the NZ Herald had covered a lot of stories about the housing problems experienced by lower income NZers. They also covered issues re low paid workers & the issue of the minimum wage. Not sure who the known crooks are, maybe you could name them ?
Your statement that I have never done anything of balance for NZ is a bit wierd, not even sure what you mean by that.
I guess the Herald could drive the known crooks to court, would you prefer they transported them in electric powered vehicles ?
Hi BM
Then tell Phil what to do. You have done nothing.
You are so much better than him. You have been around for years and let havoc run rabid. But you are National.
– Ankerrawshark
This from the Ross taunts Bridges post.
Bold, socially conscious policy which isn’t quite working deserves constructive criticism in order to help it get there.
What does need to be responded to swiftly and harshly is fake news from National MPs and from their dishonest followers.
The slack and lazy comment from Bridges claiming the government wants to abolish all Polytechnics under a Venezuela model is one.
The flat out lie from alwyn of this forum claiming six Kiwibuild properties in Wanaka are now on the open market is another.
These are the lies which need to be stomped on severely and the rodents which speak them held up as dishonest and corrupt.
“The flat out lie from alwyn of this forum claiming six Kiwibuild properties in Wanaka are now on the open market is another.”
ODT yesterday: Six KiwiBuild houses in Northlake still on the market
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/wanaka/six-kiwibuild-houses-northlake-still-market
And?
These six houses are not on the open market as claimed by alwyn. Buyers must be eligible for Kiwibuild criteria as has always been the case.
Now, you can argue whether that criteria is wrong, and the plain fact of the matter is that the families who want affordable housing such as this are locked out because of trouble accessing sufficient credit. But the fact of the matter is that alwyn lied and didn’t retract and now you are at risk of doing the same.
That reminds me that I should really reply to Alwyn as it would be rude not to 😉
How can I be at risk of lying? All I have done is put relevant information into the discussion.
I don’t know what Alwyn said, because you just made an accusation with no quote or link.
You have put irrelevant information into the discussion.
No need for a link. alwyn said these homes were now on the open market. Do you or do you not agree with that statement?
Muttonbird: “The flat out lie from alwyn of this forum claiming six Kiwibuild properties in Wanaka are now on the open market is another.”
Stuff: Six Wanaka KiwiBuild houses on open market
Will you retract and apologise?
Er, no. The Stuff headline is wrong too. You have even quoted the relevant sentence:
Please read it again an then consider whether this constitutes the open market. Bear in mind Kiwibuild criteria says you must be a first homebuyer or in a similar position, and you must also be within certain income limits.
Or, perhaps the next thing you will try to do is argue the definition of open market?
Stuff seem to think that the houses are now on the open market as long as buyers qualify. I guess it depends on how you define ‘open market’.
Pretty much no property offered for sale is open to anyone to buy. For example if you want to buy at auction you have to qualify and register in advance.
A ridiculous defence, and I even predicted it.
It’s the same kind of defence Wayne Mapp used when claiming Simon Bridges didn’t literally mean the government was using a Venezuela model for the vocational training sector when he said exactly that.
I think this is why most Kiwis have lost trust in the National Party and their supporters.
Everybody had to qualify to enter the ballot.
The same qualifications they have to meet to buy the place.
The criteria have not been widened. The ballot has simply been replaced with “first come, first served”.
Maybe, after a while of not selling, those criteria will be relaxed. Until that happens you, Stuff, and Alwyn are all factually incorrect.
I’m not sure anyone cares whether this is due to intentional deceit, carelessness, or stupidity.
I think it’s important to call out intentional deceit, carelessness, and stupidity.
alwyn displays all three.
Kiwibuild is still alive and is definitely worth the commitment despite problems getting going and targeting what it is supposed to target. But the day one of these houses does go on the open market then my voice will be heard as loud as alwyn’s I can assure you.
I think it’s stupid to be making a fuss over what ‘open market’ means. It may be just a diversion from the real issue – that six out of ten houses in Wanaka couldn’t be sold using the normal Kiwibuild process. It appears that ‘affordable’ was a sales pitch that hasn’t lived up to hype.
Debating with Pete George is like whacking a piñata – the best strategy is to ignore the frilly paper animal and go for the groin of the bloke holding the string.
I’ve enjoyed leading him around by the nose ring tonight.
They couldn’t be sold because first home buyers still have difficulty accessing credit. These houses are 2/3rds the Queenstown Lakes median of $913K so they are most certainly affordable according to the stats. They are not affordable to real families however.
Pete. you have been pulled up on this style of shifting the argument here before and been banned several times for it.
Just don’t do it and admit you got it wrong. No one will think any less of you if that is at all possible.
If it’s stupid to make a fuss over it, don’t bother defending your use of the term. Say “fair enough” and move on, and avoid making that mistake in future.
Bridges is one who changes his values when it is politically expedient to do so.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/02/i-m-not-really-into-homosexuality-simon-bridge-s-former-gay-views-revealed.html
What a fake.
To be fair, NZ was still a pretty homophobic country in 1994, and most kiwi’s still held that view.
Parliament had the likes of Graeme Lee (National) and Geoff Braybrooke (Labour) whom opposed LGBT rights.
The marriage equality amendment was passed 77-44 in 2013 and Bridges voted against it.
Hardly a lifetime ago.
Cinny?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12202524
Yes, be safe Cinny xx
That “new” party?
“It means meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. ”
BAU.
Fortress New Zealand is our way to deal with the world crisis. Sure we needed the world, but we can feed ourselves, and with their money put up a military defence to go along with our distance from’m. If we stick together we don’t need to go down alone. The back country can only support so many — our best hope is NZ solidarity.
The Fallen Blog
.
The Standard has fallen to the Trolls. It belongs in reality to Whomever the Trolls want.
The National Party has done Nothing for New Zealand for Years! Not only did it do nothing for years it slammed additional burden on the noble people who do the work in this National destroyed Land.
The Trolls know it all. – Sir John Key – he the molester of little Blonde Girls hair, slammed up the Gst which affects the poor very seriously, on taking the up the Role of leader of National. He raised the Costs of energy …and so on.
He then went further and Flogged off the few Assets that New Zealand had. His submissve little “I will do anything you want John” Billy English, sold up as much Housing as he could find to FOREIGNERS.
The Two of them stripped and denuded any possible asset NZ had. the Banks belong to Ozzie. the Forests belong to Ozzie. The Parking Stations belong to Korea. the keyholes belong to nobody here. Key sent money to mates in Saudi Arabia.
You want fish ? you can’t afford it . It belongs to FOREIGNERS. You want meat ? – you cant afford it – it belongs to FOREIGNERS. You want Cheese – you can’t afford it. It belongs to FOREIGNERS.
You want a tertiary Education – you can’t afford it. Firstly John Key has Ducked up the Price of Housing and Rentals all over the country – massively. Secondly the Kids can’t afford the exorbitant Fees. John is busy pulling the hair of a cafe assistant. Until his wife belatedly tells him to leave the young woman alone .The Rat.
John key never paid fees. The slippery eh.
John Key followers are the Trolls on here. Complete with Key / English lies.
Bye Bye Sanity. Bring on Troll Horror, Courtesy of the Dumb National non achievers.
Are you Ok OT ? That’s a really dark post for early in the morning.
Take care and some time out just for you if you need it.
Hi stunned Mullet
Don’t worry about me. Worry about the destruction of New Zealand carried out by your mates.
Your National Party is filth. Unbridled Filth. We all know that National will never rise again. Filth never does.
I hope your offspring don’t get caught up in The Key/English Destruction game – whereby no person can own a home or afford a Rental.
Only FOREIGNERS can own anything here. Stunned Mullet. As you well know. You Bastards.
Hi OT
“Your National Party is filth”
The are not my National party.
“Only FOREIGNERS can own anything here. Stunned Mullet. As you well know. You Bastards.”
I’m sure you know that’s demonstrably false, the majority of property both private and public in NZ is owned by NZers.
As I said previously take care and some time out just for you if you need it, I hardly post of visit this site anymore and I can assure you it’s good to take time out from it every now and then.
Thank you for your good advice.
I spoke sharply to you – and I regret it. It’s just that a Nation full of Trolls who hate the Workers and the Poor is not my scene.
Again- thank you.
No problem OT, no offence taken.
Take care of yourself.
Kia ora Newshub the changes to Kiwisaver the extra pay in brackets up to ten %. It needs to be made compolsery opt out default 8% and the commission that is made for managing the funds should be capped at 2 %. I know who votes for Simon.
Some ones mannerisms is improving.
Its cool that there has been rain in Nelson /Tasman overnight.
shonky conned NZ he give billions to the 00.1 % scraped all the environment laws so all our trees got cut down early the dairy boom has ruined our water ways he shorted our housing market for his banker M8 ran down all our state services and had people selling dairydack from the local shop killing people imported foreign farm workers who displaced the Maori farm workers loaded
the country with dept. Eco never fell for his silver tongue. Another (alcohol) fuelled attack on someone the Aziz incident.
All good guys hope you have a big box of tissue the poll results have taken away one attack line you were using.
There you go the justice & prison system just sucks MAORI in and teach them how to be a bigger menace to society.
There are other people that are powerful that watch the show.
I would not write a team off that is in the rebuilding stages.
People like mark the grocery person wants all big businesses to have a monopoly duopoly so they can funnel all the money to the 00.1 % hip pockets who cares about the people under the bridge that there capitalist policy’s cause while sipping red wine on there helicopter pad. Ka kite ano
I don’t see the big supermarkets chains sending food to food Banks wasting food or anything is one of the biggest causes of climate change that has to change. Ka kite ano
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZSe6N_BXs
It gives Eco Maori a sore face to see that OUR Te reo is reciving the respect it deserves I seen a story in stuff.co.nz about a new AP that translates maori to english with photos I was going to write a post about it but I make sure that the people are worthy of Eco Maoris Tau Toko as the ap was not made in Aotearoa well need I say more. These letter in this story are a window into our tipunas life dealings with the settlors I have read some from home as well I will put the link up below.
19th Century letters warned of fears for future NZ
Waitangi Treaty: Letters shed light on Māori plight for sovereignty
Tomorrow the country marks nearly 180 years since Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed, but letters from that era show that some issues for Māori remain the same.
Letter written by Hariata Ronga, wife of Hone Heke, to Sir George Grey in 1851 protesting the building of a new town in Mangonui. Photo: RNZ / Jessie Chiang
RNZ got a firsthand look at some of the letters that talk about land negotiations and the importance of kōrero with iwi.
The collection of more than 700 letters written by Māori can also be found on Auckland Council’s online archive, Kura.
But preserved in folders are some of the original copies.
Robert Eruera is a senior curator of Māori heritage at the Auckland Council and this is his passion.
“They’re like a window of time so that you can view the political agendas and the environment of the time,” he said.
“All of them are in te reo Māori.”
Letter written by Hōne Heke asserting his tino rangatiratanga. Photo: RNZ / Jessie Chiang
Decades on from the letters, Mr Eruera said respect of Māori sovereignty or rangatiratanga was still needed.Ka kite ano links below. P.S There some text Eco Maori cannot axcess I wonder Why
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/381812/waitangi-treaty-letters-shed-light-on-maori-plight-for-sovereignty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QTpYO2lVgM
https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/?p=q&collection=p20062coll2
This is what our scientists predicted unusual weather we have to stop denying climate change and stop burning carbon.
Hawaii sees ‘very unusual’ snow as US storms wreak havoc
Series of powerful storms brings Arctic air from Alaska and sends huge waves to Hawaii
west and even brought snow to Hawaii.
Schools closed across Washington state and the legislature canceled all hearings on Monday with winter snowstorms pummeling the region.
Seattle’s metro area had already been hit by three snowstorms this month and the National Weather Service reports that Seattle-Tacoma international airport has received 14.1in (36cm) of snow so far in February, more than twice the annual average and the snowiest month in more than 30 years.
The storm that hit Seattle on Sunday dumped up to 4in (15cm) of snow and forecasters said more snow or rain was expected Monday and Tuesday as a lingering jet stream drives cold Arctic air into the normally temperate region, and part of a larger cycle that has also driven snow as far away as Hawaii.
Hawaii officials said the blanket of snow at Polipoli Spring state recreation area is probably the first for any state park. Polipoli is at 6,200ft (1,900m) making this possibly the lowest elevation snow ever recorded in the s
Honolulu’s National Weather Service reported 60ft (18-metre) waves north of Kauai and Oahu at the height of the storm on Monday. Significant wave heights – a measure averaging the bigger waves – reached a record 38ft.
Joe Zagrodnik, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington, said the larger system at work – namely the position of a cold jet stream – was also driving warm temperatures in Alaska and unusual weather in Hawaii.
With a north-south ridge of high pressure situated off the coast of Washington and Canada, Zagrodnik said, cold air being drawn southward inland is being replaced by warm air moving north offshore, driving temperatures up in parts of Alaska even as Seattle freezes.
And a chunk of cold, low-pressure air separated from the main flow is also drifting further west. Known as a Kona Low, the system caused unusual snow on the island of Maui.
In Washington, Zagrodnik said, February’s total already sets the month as the snowiest single month in the state since November 1985, and the snowiest February on record. Ka kite ano links below
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/11/snow-hawaii-maui-seattle-winter-storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkMPVMNlz7g
Kia ora Newshub the polls for the two neo (capitalist for the poor) and (socialist for the 00.1 %) national are polling in single digits laugh able simon and judy .
The e scooter are making a lot of head lines of late hope the e scooter here are not the faulty ones.
The hungry polar bears the ice has receded so the polar bears have no we’re to hunt for seals now they are invading that Island village in Russia its good the bears are classified as indanger and are not being shot.
Its a big mess in Syria the lives losted is a shame and all the artifacts getting destroyed. Ka kite ano P.S war is for fools
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM7MFYoylVs