‘Aussie cricket legend Rodney Marsh shunned signing a bat signed by Chris Cairns.’
‘Rod Marsh snubbed Chris Cairns’
Aren’t there more important things for these clowns to be reporting on ……..
Climate Change
Child Poverty
Inequality
Unemployment
Obesity
Destruction of Indonesian Forest Fires
Conflict in Syria
Air pollution in Japan
Fukishima radiation in the Pacific
Loss of biodiversity in the world
Water issues in New Zealand
El Nino weather pattern…………….
Granny plays her part in dumbing down the sheeple and distracting them with celebrity sporty diversionary material along with NACT shillmeisters to supply the column inches of ‘national good, labour bad’ when required.
Considering that he played with Dennis Lillee, who admitted betting on his own matches, Marsh appears to be a hypocrite in the same league as Steve Hansen, who had the gall to speak to referees about giving the All Blacks a fair go.
You’re a bit off beam with your criticism of Marsh, Moz. It was a single incident of betting, that both men were very open about within the team at the time and in public later.
As I recall, early in a test match in England in the 80’s, the home team were looking so poor that the odds of them winning shot out to hundreds to 1 against. Lillee and Marsh both chose to put a tenner on it for a laugh and when Ian Botham turned the match around, the two Aussies made a decent profit which, in the usual Aussie way, went on the bar.
That’s it. Foolish, but not corrupt.
The point of the Marsh anecdote in the trial is to show that Cairns’ standing was damaged by Modi’s still unproved allegation. Just for the record, I reckon Cairns is going to survive this trial, with the charges ruled to be unproven. Reasonable doubt and all that.
Yes. After all the talk I haven’t seen any actual evidence. I can’t see how Cairns talking about match fixing is actual evidence that he did. As a part time watcher of bits on TV, I think Cairns will be Not Guilty.
I think he probably did do match fixing, but you have to be able to prove it. The witnesses for the prosecution have been less than stellar and all we have had is he-said vs. he-said.
There has been no smoking gun, no proof of money changing hands and you have to remember he is not actually on trial for match fixing but perjury.
But reasonable doubt isn’t just whether an individual story is true beyond reasonable doubt, it also counts as to whether the amount of different sources and incidents could reasonably occur without him actually having cheated even once.
I saw a large cloud of smoke last night as I drove down the road. It might have been fireworks smoke held down by an inversion layer, or it might have been a fire. That’s reasonable doubt. Similarly if I saw a fire engine with hoses out, or a charred but wet couch in the yard. Any of those individually would have a reasonable explanation other than there having just been a couch fire.
But if I saw the smoke, and saw a fire engine with hoses out, and maybe a charred but soaking wet couch in the yard, it would be unreasonable to doubt that I’d just missed seeing a fire. Even if I had not touched flames with my bare hands.
I sure don’t know the outcome of the Cairns trial, but it certainly could go either way.
+100…while I know very good caring sophisticated Australians well integrated and very appreciative of the spirituality and arts of Aborigine culture ….they seem to be a minority
…this is a United Nations issue
…and United Nations is where New Zealand and John Key should be taking it..if they respect the Treaty of Waitangi ?!
….imagine if Australians were locking up Jews and treating them this way?…you would never hear the end of it!…but if this discrimination and human rights violations is happening to New Zealanders and Maoris brought up in Australia ….at the end of the day it is OK?…. their value is less because they are not the ‘chosen ones’ ?
( I never did like the disrespectful derisory way Hone Harawira was treated by John Key and certain journalists for the msm)
The Maori Party are hypocrites for supporting this jonkey nactional government
One of these days Jim Kayes will lose it and attack Paul Henry on air.
It’s what drives me to occasionally watch this horrible show. Paul Henry, TV3, Monday 9 November 2015, 7:10 a.m.
Anyone desperate or apathetic enough to regularly watch this train wreck will be aware that, aside from delivering poorly thought out extreme right wing rants and harassing his female underlings with suggestive and crude sexual remarks, one of Paul “Kill Them All” Henry’s major preoccupations is tormenting his sports slave Jim Kayes. This morning, Kayes rejoined the program after a few weeks away in England for the Rugby World Cup. Sadly for him, however, Henry immediately reverted to his cruel and contemptuous treatment of him…
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: Right Jim, sports, GO!
JIM KAYES: Thanks Paul. The New Zealand cricket team is heading for a heavy defeat in Brisbane…. [He drones on for a couple of minutes in a voice still bearing the strain of a cold he caught in England. Someone else has obviously noticed….]
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: Gosh, Jim, you’ve almost lost your voice. But don’t think for a MOMENT that you can have any time off. Not for ONE MOMENT!
JIM KAYES:[dubiously] Ha ha ha ha!
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY:[grimly] I mean it. You’ll get NO TIME OFF.
HILLARY BARRY: I can read the sports news for him.
JIM KAYES: Thanks, Hills.
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: She can read the sports news, but you still have to be here.
…..Awkward pause…..
JIM KAYES: Anyway, I have some presents for everyone that I’ve brought back from the Rugby World Cup.
He proceeds to hand out a bunch of deliberately tacky souvenirs to the people in the studio. He gives his fellow slave Hillary a fridge magnet.
HILLARY BARRY: Thank you Jim. That’ll be very useful!
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: Yes, yes. And what about ME? What have you got for ME?
JIM KAYES: Well, Paul, I’ve heard that you have become a MASSIVE rugby fan—-
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: Oh, no, no, no. NO!
JIM KAYES: I’ve got you this.
He hands Henry a thermos cup emblazoned with the logos of all twenty RWC teams.
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: Oh Jim that is so SWEET. But I’ll never use it. It’s a simply AWFUL gift.
HILLARY BARRY: I’ll give you five bucks for it.
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: Sold. What an IDIOT’s gift! He he he he!….
Jim and Hillary both look depressed and joyless. It’s only 7:13 a.m., and they still have more than an hour and a half of this crap to go….
Are you comparing yourself to Shakespeare now, Moz?
I don’t think the comparison is quite fair to this writer. Shakespeare, to give him his due, did turn out some pretty sharp dialogue and some fast-moving, intricate plots, but he never supplied the detailed stage directions and actor tips that distinguish the oeuvre of this writer, i.e., moi.
And as much as I adore plays such as Twelfth Night and Love’s Labour’s Lost, can anyone really say that they are on the same level as the following?…..
It’s a rush transcript, typed out in a mood of pity mixed with fury. I missed out quite a lot of Henry’s kvetching about the gift he had received.
Just…not sure
One can always be sure of this with a Breen transcript: if it’s not verbatim—and many of them ARE verbatim—it will capture the essential flavour of the conversation it is attempting to immortalise. This one is accurate but not complete. I could have put in everything, but I just didn’t have the heart for it. I’m preparing a similar rush transcript version of this morning’s show, which “featured” a couple of really egregious guests, Rob “Fuckwit” Fyfe and Michele “Democracy Hater” Boag.
Shouldn’t you be pretending to care about the soldiers who were killed in World War I? It’s Remembrance Day, but you’re spending your time dumping inanities on the internet.
On this morning’s news Key’s solution to the Christmas Island debacle shows what a craven bastard he is. To compare it to our main high security prison and how Turnball would not come over and intercede if Australian prisoners were incarcerated there is absolute rubbish and pure ignorance. Parry prison allows legal representation for its prisoners and access to medical care. This is a concentration camp – being a Jew should at least give Key some sympathy for the prisoners kept on that god forsaken hell hole where human beings are holed up indefinitely. How many more disgraceful gutless decisions do we have to tolerate from this man. He is lily livered and Australia will not respect him for not standing up for our citizens. Let the discourse between the two countries get terse but in the end we will be admired for our courage to tell them this is not acceptable. I am a woman of senior years and I have more guts in my big toe than he has – god deliver us from people like him.
Since Marama Fox came into Parliament for the Maori Party, I have had the feeling that sooner or later there will be a falling out between the MP and National/Key – and this interview has strengthened my view.
Indeed! She’s well aware of the number of people feeling absolutely conned by MP, and who live in hope that they disappear up their own self-entitled, sage-like arses whilst they continue to struggle. It’s that whole argument Turia and her loyal servant Pita tried to convey: It’s better to be inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in. Most I know that voted MP at its inception would be quite pleased now to be pissing into their tent – UNLESS there is change (took ’em a while! but at least the likes of Marama seem to be aware now). It’s a bit like Labour needing to apologise to its base for its conversion to the religion of neo-liberalism they signed up to as a result of a few people sharing some fush n chups in a bubble.
Believe it when I see it as talk is cheap and you dont get to be a MP senior figure without the approval of a hieracy thats supported keys kiwi sell off.
Talking tough is all the MP have ever done and Ive seen interviews where she is every bit as deceptive and arrogant as Parata.
Heard english parroting our Present Moron this morning. Aussie’s place to deal with it yadda yadda. Pretty much word perfect with our little *do nothing it might frighten the horses* World Leader. I always allow myself a little snigger at that description of Wallykey.
Considering Ffloyd this government is so poll driven, maybe it’s time for a few polls to be done to see what the country’s thoughts are on this disgusting situation. I can see there would be something done smartly if the polls suggested the repugnance and shame a lot of citizens are feeling about the treatment of these people. At least allow them legal representation and medical care. There is a man imprisoned there with burns over most of his body who needs on-going care to aid his scar healing.
History shows there has been shameful denial of people in need and the countries concerned have had to live with the history of it. The UK denying for political reasons the Russian Royal Family after WW1 safety and they were relatives of the crown – they all ended up assassinated. Turning a blind eye to the concentration camps in Poland/Germany etc in WW2 when it was nigh on impossible to not know it was going on by certain countries and they know who they are. We will end up with this shameful episode on our history records as well. How low this country can get is anybody’s guess but it can’t get much lower than this. Ol’ dead eyes sure takes the cake on this one.
Hear hear Whispering Kate and also to your previous post (8) as well.
I have a feeling should the situation at the Christmas Island concentration camp become a multiple tragedy involving many Kiwis (and other nationalities) incarcerated there, FJK will blame Kelvin Davis for stirring up trouble, inflaming the issue! Dear Leader will make sure nothing reflects back on him.
In fact Labour’s Mr Davis is doing a damn good job of keeping the rest of us informed through exposing (and enforcing more evidence of) Australia’s inhumane treatment of people, it considers sub human!
Shame on NatzKEY MPs for not getting more involved, doing the same! Yet another reflection of FJK’s pathetic and extremely weak leadership!
Look, JK has advised in the herald that this really just a bit of trouble at a resort…
“These are people who are theoretically staying on Christmas Island, choosing not to come back to New Zealand…now the risk is that they actually damage their own appeals because they undertake other criminal activity when they’re there.”
I cannot provide a link, but it was reported yesterday (RNZ news) that there are men only at the Christmas Island camp – no women or children. That doesn’t make the situation any less unacceptable in terms of the treatment of those men in the past or possible once the camp is again ‘secured’.
Personally I find the idea that humans may have arrived here at different times, and from different places (Melanesia for example), very curious and interesting.. have looked at all the googly stuff on the net with the crackpots but I think there is too much to not look further.
It has always seemed odd that humans never made it here when they had made it pretty much everywhere else.
I have always wondered how so much tonnage of pounamu had been found and then made itself all around the country in just approx. 400 years (16 generations). With average age lower, and fewer people, and the time needed to tramp out west, load up and return, the maths just doesn’t seem to add up (not that I have weighed all the pounamu around the place).
It is also curious that ancient Maori legend references people here on arrival.
Early colonial observations also make for curious reading.
It is a heated subject that much crap gets thrown at.
Very very interesting though and it would be interesting to be around over the next couple hundred years to see what, if any, evidence may emerge…..
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It ties in with human anthropology advances o recent years which suggests that were many many species of human that emerged from Africa and wandered the planet. Just like there are many many species of other animal genus..
And these could easily be from not that long ago…. after all we all have 2.5% Neanderthal makeup, the last mammoths only died out 2,500 years ago, we have legends around the globe of yetis, fairies, mountain dwellers, etc… Just like we have legends of floods all across the world … for which evidence exists of localised flooding / rising sea levels ……
Our archaeology and anthropology is young and just starting out
The simple fact is if there were people here before tangata whenua then they didn’t leave any artefacts. & migration happened over 100s of years, so of course there are stories of people already here on arrival, generations in some cases. Some iwi/hapu claim mermaid ancestors.
“The simple fact is if there were people here before tangata whenua then they didn’t leave any artefacts”
Not that has been found to date that satisfies everyone.
Do you know that they still find similar discoveries in the northern hemisphere, after hundreds of years of archaeology? Example – recent discoveries along the northeast north American coastline has established that people from Europe had been there long time ago. “artefact” only discovered the last few years. Previously it had been believed that no other people had been there.
Many of the people who have created conspiracy theories around all this are blatant racists, so it’s hard to take it seriously. Is there any reason not to trust the people who know the science? Sure archaeology will evolve, but we can still use evidence as the basis now can’t we?
Yes I know the area is loaded with racists and other oddballs, but that is not a reason on its own not to consider the issue. It is a fascinating issue.
And yep sure, the science is to be trusted and the evidence today. However, it surely cannot likewise be claimed that all is known on this today. Some of the things that turn up on the net around supposed evidence of early people are interesting.
I just cannot get past the fact that digging around NZ’s past is only young. In fact, the youngest of anywhere on the planet (that is inhabited). There is no way we know everything yet.
Select committee scrutiny of TPP deal likely after February
Tuesday 10th November 2015
The foreign affairs, defence and trade select committee is likely to start public hearings on the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and associated National Interest Assessment soon after governments sign the accord, expected by next February, before the process of parliamentary ratification begins.
New Zealand’s chief negotiator for the TPP, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade deputy secretary David Walker, told a briefing in Wellington the earliest US President Barack Obama would be able to sign off on TPP was 90 days after his referring to Congress, which occurred last Friday, meaning a February sign-off in Washington.”
“While there was provision for reviews at regular intervals once it was in place, “there is no process for renegotiating the deal before entry into force,” said Walker. “People have to decide whether they are happy with the deal or not. It’s a big, complex thing.” http://www.sharechat.co.nz/article/38466a95/select-committee-scrutiny-of-tpp-deal-likely-after-february.html
Pity that the “People” that get to vote on it are the National Cabinet Ministers (Executive) who, of course, will listen to us!
Alarm bells are ringing about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Here are 6 reasons why
Headings only… It is worth reading the full article.
1. Intellectual property changes might be the “worst thing in policy that Canada’s ever done”
2. Don’t count on Canadian manufacturing making a comeback any time soon…
3. Canadian farmers could be getting a worse deal than first thought
4,. It could put the health of Canadians at risk
5. Two important words are missing from the TPP’s chapter on the environment
Namely “climate” and “change.”
6. Canadians haven’t even been consulted http://www.pressprogress.ca/alarm_bells_are_ringing_about_the_trans_pacific_partnership_here_are_6_reasons_why
Those same issues in Canada are our issues Tautoko Mangō Mata. Did you see the airing of those issues in the Herald, Dominion, Press? Me neither.
Who will provide such a forum?
The bulk of the armed detainees are NZers and Pacific Islanders.
These people are essentially Australian citizens. Not all of them committed serious crimes and they have been punished and served their time. Their situation must be dire for them to be contemplating violent resistance.
Kelvin Davis has just been there, and he has pleaded with this government to meet with him and listen to his story. They are ignoring him. they don’t want to know.
What a comedown from the RWC. A week ago we all felt proud to be Nzers. Today I’m ashamed…
Mr Young said the detainees had tried to open negotiations with Serco, the private company that operates the detention centre.
“There’s no negotiation, they don’t want to negotiate nothing you know? We wanted to get one of the boys to negotiate with them to see if we could resolve this matter and they don’t want a piece of it. They’ve pretty much said that they want war, so at the end of the day they’re declaring it. Serco’s declaring it.
“It leaves the people in the detention centre with no choice but to just go on with what they have to do because at the end of the day what’s going to happen? They’re going to bash them any way. So if they surrender anyway they’re still going to get bashed. They don’t want to sort anything out .”
Scary stuff, we are completely unprepared for any oil crisis. The thing that runs our society, makes most of our products, transports our food, fuels any economic activity could go away in a hurry, yet society still can’t talk about this “non issue”. It has to happen sometime, yet we’re completely blind to it.
“Justice Minister Amy Adams says she is seeking reassurances from her Australian counterparts that they are honouring their promise to help New Zealand detainees to return home as quickly and easily as possible.”
It seems that Labour returned at the end of Question Time to seek a motion of no confidence in the Speaker, but denied by National. So, no chance for honourable Members of Parliament to vote on it, from both sides.
And on No Right Turn a column quoting the work of Andrea Vance on how taxpayers money is being used to gloss over the work of the Five Eyes Agencies to PR us into acceptance. Worth a full post here? http://norightturn.blogspot.co.nz/2015/11/the-spies-pr-blitz.html
A very busy day at The Standard, but here is an interesting read on the TPPA and it’s implications:
But George Kahale III is not one of the usual suspects. As chairman of the world’s leading legal arbitration firm – Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP – his core business is to defend governments being sued by foreign investors under ISDS. Some of his clients are included in the TPP, and he says the trade minister’s critics are right: “There are significant improvements in this treaty, but they do not immunise Australia from any of these claims. If the trade minister is saying, ‘We’re not at risk for regulating environmental matters’, then the trade minister is wrong.”
Speaking via Skype from his office in New York, Kahale thumbs through the investment chapter, pointing out the critical loopholes that leave Australia wide open. “The one where all the discussion should be focused is 9.15,” he says, referring to one of the “safeguards”. “That’s a very nice provision, which I imagine the trade minister points to as, ‘We’ve really protected ourselves on anything of social importance.’ I think that’s nonsense, frankly.”
Here’s what 9.15 says: “Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a party from adopting, maintaining or enforcing any measure otherwise consistent with this chapter that it considers appropriate to ensure that investment activity in its territory is undertaken in a manner sensitive to environmental, health or other regulatory objectives.”
This entire provision is negated, says Kahale, by five words in the middle: “unless otherwise consistent with this chapter”. “So at the end of the day, this provision, which really held out a lot of promise of being very protective, is actually much ado about nothing.”
Kahale says many provisions in the TPP investment chapter are a vast improvement on previous trade deals. But he says all this hard work could be for nothing because of another provision. “Why would you spend so much time and effort doing a great job in negotiating narrow provisions to this treaty, when you have a ‘most favoured nation’ clause?”
This is where things get a little technical. Essentially, an MFN clause is tantamount to a classic wipeout move. It would enable foreign corporations from TPP states to make a claim against Australia based on the ISDS provisions in any other trade deal Australia has signed, no matter which country it was signed with. That means it does not matter how carefully the TPP is drafted: foreign investors can cherrypick another treaty Australia has signed, and sue the Australian government based on the provisions included in that treaty. Kahale has described MFN as “a dangerous provision to be avoided by treaty drafters whenever possible” because it can turn one bad treaty into protections “never imagined for virtually an entire world of investors”.
Including an MFN clause in the TPP was a “major mistake”, Kahale argues, and another reason Australia is still wide open to being sued for legislating to protect the environment.
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I don’t watch TV or read thrillers. Just that sort of TPP stuff provides all the exciting gut knotting complexity that I can handle. Actually I like detective stories, usually the baddie gets caught, the policeman are reasonably honest, and there is a conclusion that is reasonably satisfactory. That’s wonderful reading, relaxing cf to reality.
This Sunday we are having a Scoop Hui in Wellington
to get this underway. It will be the first formal gathering called together by what we are calling The Fellowship of Scoop, the name we are giving to the group of people who will work closely with and in the new Scoop Foundation and related ventures.
Our meeting this Sunday will be an opportunity for us to get together, like-minded Kiwis who believe in democracy, freedom and the importance of a free media who are supporting efforts to ensure NZ remains an informed participatory democracy. We will answer your questions and try to workshop some answers to some of the challenges we face.
The details are:
Scoop Public Meeting
Date: Sunday November 15th
Time: 2pm-3pm
Scoop Members and Contributors Meeting
Date: Sunday November 15th
Time: 3pm-4pm
Venue: St Andrews on the Terrace, Church Hall, 30 The Terrace, Wellington.
N.B. The entrance to the hall is on the right hand side of the Church.
If you are in Wellington on the weekend and can make it along we very much look forward to meeting you there. Please bring interested friends, collleagues or family. There will be a Facebook event established for the event….
I hope lots from TS will do so. I’ve put an initial toe in the water, then a foot, but am limited for cash as no doubt many of us are. But hopefully we’ll get there as we know so well the need for them to develop to this next stage. I won’t be there as am in Nelson and can’t afford to travel much part from keeping up family connections.
Better than what Ad? Are you reading ‘he Fellowship of Scoop’ and thinking it sounds
twee? I am sure they will be interested in anything you have to contribute as a member of their financial support group. I remember you saying that a decent newspaper was needed and that TS could think of one. Here is our chance.
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The Open Government Partnership is a multilateral organisation committed to advancing open government. Countries which join are supposed to co-create regular action plans with civil society, committing to making verifiable improvements in transparency, accountability, participation, or technology and innovation for the above. And they're held to account through an Independent ...
Today I tuned into something strange: a press conference that didn’t make my stomach churn or the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Which was strange, because it was about the torture of children. It was the announcement by Erica Stanford — on her own, unusually ...
This is a must watch, and puts on brilliant and practical display the implications and mechanics of fast-track law corruption and weakness.CLICK HERE: LINK TO WATCH VIDEOOur news media as it is set up is simply not equipped to deal with the brazen disinformation and corruption under this right wing ...
NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi Acting Secretary Erin Polaczuk is welcoming the announcement from Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety Brooke van Velden that she is opening consultation on engineered stone and is calling on her to listen to the evidence and implement a total ban of the product. “We need ...
The Government has announced a 1.5% increase in the minimum wage from 1 April 2025, well below forecast inflation of 2.5%. Unions have reacted strongly and denounced it as a real terms cut. PSA and the CTU are opposing a new round of staff cuts at WorkSafe, which they say ...
The decision to unilaterally repudiate the contract for new Cook Strait ferries is beginning to look like one of the stupidest decisions a New Zealand government ever made. While cancelling the ferries and their associated port infrastructure may have made this year's books look good, it means higher costs later, ...
Hi there! I’ve been overseas recently, looking after a situation with a family member. So apologies if there any less than focused posts! Vanuatu has just had a significant 7.3 earthquake. Two MFAT staff are unaccounted for with local fatalities.It’s always sad to hear of such things happening.I think of ...
Today is a special member's morning, scheduled to make up for the government's theft of member's days throughout the year. First up was the first reading of Greg Fleming's Crimes (Increased Penalties for Slavery Offences) Amendment Bill, which was passed unanimously. Currently the House is debating the third reading of ...
We're going backwardsIgnoring the realitiesGoing backwardsAre you counting all the casualties?We are not there yetWhere we need to beWe are still in debtTo our insanitiesSongwriter: Martin Gore Read more ...
Willis blamed Treasury for changing its productivity assumptions and Labour’s spending increases since Covid for the worsening Budget outlook. Photo: Getty ImagesMōrena. Long stories short, the six things that matter in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Wednesday, December 18 in The Kākā’s Dawn Chorus podcast above ...
Today the Auckland Transport board meet for the last time this year. For those interested (and with time to spare), you can follow along via this MS Teams link from 10am. I’ve taken a quick look through the agenda items to see what I think the most interesting aspects are. ...
Hi,If you’re a New Zealander — you know who Mike King is. He is the face of New Zealand’s battle against mental health problems. He can be loud and brash. He raises, and is entrusted with, a lot of cash. Last year his “I Am Hope” charity reported a revenue ...
Probably about the only consolation available from yesterday’s unveiling of the Half-Yearly Economic and Fiscal Update (HYEFU) is that it could have been worse. Though Finance Minister Nicola Willis has tightened the screws on future government spending, she has resisted the calls from hard-line academics, fiscal purists and fiscal hawks ...
The right have a stupid saying that is only occasionally true:When is democracy not democracy? When it hasn’t been voted on.While not true in regards to branches of government such as the judiciary, it’s a philosophy that probably should apply to recently-elected local government councillors. Nevertheless, this concept seemed to ...
Long story short: the Government’s austerity policy has driven the economy into a deeper and longer recession that means it will have to borrow $20 billion more over the next four years than it expected just six months ago. Treasury’s latest forecasts show the National-ACT-NZ First Government’s fiscal strategy of ...
Come and join myself and CTU Chief Economist for a pop-up ‘Hoon’ webinar on the Government’s Half Yearly Economic and Fiscal Update (HYEFU) with paying subscribers to The Kākā for 30 minutes at 5 pm today.Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream to watch our chat. Don’t worry if ...
In 1998, in the wake of the Paremoremo Prison riot, the Department of Corrections established the "Behaviour Management Regime". Prisoners were locked in their cells for 22 or 23 hours a day, with no fresh air, no exercise, no social contact, no entertainment, and in some cases no clothes and ...
New data released by the Treasury shows that the economic policies of this Government have made things worse in the year since they took office, said NZCTU Economist Craig Renney. “Our fiscal indicators are all heading in the wrong direction – with higher levels of debt, a higher deficit, and ...
At the 2023 election, National basically ran on a platform of being better economic managers. So how'd that turn out for us? In just one year, they've fucked us for two full political terms: The government's books are set to remain deeply in the red for the near term ...
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The NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi are saying that the Government should do the right thing and deliver minimum wage increases that don’t see workers fall further behind, in response to today’s announcement that the minimum wage will only be increased by 1.5%, well short of forecast inflation. “With inflation forecast ...
Oh, I weptFor daysFilled my eyesWith silly tearsOh, yeaBut I don'tCare no moreI don't care ifMy eyes get soreSongwriters: Paul Rodgers / Paul Kossoff. Read more ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bob HensonIn this aerial view, fingers of meltwater flow from the melting Isunnguata Sermia glacier descending from the Greenland Ice Sheet on July 11, 2024, near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. According to the Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE), the ...
In August, I wrote an article about David Seymour1 with a video of his testimony, to warn that there were grave dangers to his Ministry of Regulation:David Seymour's Ministry of Slush Hides Far Greater RisksWhy Seymour's exorbitant waste of taxpayers' money could be the least of concernThe money for Seymour ...
Willis is expected to have to reveal the bitter fiscal fruits of her austerity strategy in the HYEFU later today. Photo: Lynn Grieveson/TheKakaMōrena. Long stories short, the six things that matter in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Tuesday, December 17 in The Kākā’s Dawn Chorus podcast ...
On Friday the government announced it would double the number of toll roads in New Zealand as well as make a few other changes to how toll roads are used in the country. The real issue though is not that tolling is being used but the suggestion it will make ...
The Prime Minister yesterday engaged in what looked like a pre-emptive strike designed to counter what is likely to be a series of depressing economic statistics expected before the end of the week. He opened his weekly post-Cabinet press conference with a recitation of the Government’s achievements. “It certainly has ...
This whooping cough story from south Auckland is a good example of the coalition government’s approach to social need – spend money on urging people to get vaccinated but only after you’ve cut the funding to where they could get vaccinated. This has been the case all year with public ...
And if there is a GodI know he likes to rockHe likes his loud guitarsHis spiders from MarsAnd if there is a GodI know he's watching meHe likes what he seesBut there's trouble on the breezeSongwriter: William Patrick Corgan Read more ...
Here’s a quick round up of today’s political news:1. MORE FOOD BANKS, CHARITIES, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERS AND YOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES SET TO CLOSE OR SCALE BACK AROUND THE COUNTRY AS GOVT CUTS FUNDINGSome of Auckland's largest foodbanks are warning they may need to close or significantly reduce food parcels after ...
Iain Rennie, CNZMSecretary and Chief Executive to the TreasuryDear Secretary, Undue restrictions on restricted briefings This week, the Treasury barred representatives from four organisations, including the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi, from attending the restricted briefing for the Half-Year Economic and Fiscal Update. We had been ...
This is a guest post by Tim Adriaansen, a community, climate, and accessibility advocate.I won’t shut up about climate breakdown, and whenever possible I try to shift the focus of a climate conversation towards solutions. But you’ll almost never hear me give more than a passing nod to ...
A grassroots backlash has forced a backdown from Brown, but he is still eyeing up plenty of tolls for other new roads. And the pressure is on Willis to ramp up the Government’s austerity strategy. Photo: Getty ImagesMōrena. Long stories short, the six things that matter in Aotearoa’s political economy ...
Hi all,I'm pretty overwhelmed by all your messages and emails today; thank you so very much.As much as my newsletter this morning was about money, and we all need to earn money, it was mostly about world domination if I'm honest. 😉I really hate what’s happening to our country, and ...
A listing of 23 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 8, 2024 thru Sat, December 14, 2024. Listing by Category Like last week's summary this one contains the list of articles twice: based on categories and based on ...
I started writing this morning about Hobson’s Pledge, examining the claims they and their supporters make, basically ripping into them. But I kept getting notifications coming through, and not good ones.Each time I looked up, there was another un-subscription message, and I felt a bit sicker at the thought of ...
Once, long before there was Harry and Meghan and Dodi and all those episodes of The Crown, they came to spend some time with us, Charles and Diana. Was there anyone in the world more glamorous than the Princess of Wales?Dazzled as everyone was by their company, the leader of ...
The collective right have a problem.The entire foundation for their world view is antiscientific. Their preferred economic strategies have been disproven. Their whole neoliberal model faces accusations of corporate corruption and worsening inequality. Climate change not only definitely exists, its rapid progression demands an immediate and expensive response in order ...
Just ten days ago, South Korea's president attempted a self-coup, declaring martial law and attempting to have opposition MPs murdered or arrested in an effort to seize unconstrained power. The attempt was rapidly defeated by the national assembly voting it down and the people flooding the streets to defend democracy. ...
Hi,“What I love about New Zealanders is that sometimes you use these expressions that as Americans we have no idea what those things mean!"I am watching a 30-something year old American ramble on about how different New Zealanders are to Americans. It’s his podcast, and this man is doing a ...
What Chris Penk has granted holocaust-denier and equal-opportunity-bigot Candace Owens is not “freedom of speech”. It’s not even really freedom of movement, though that technically is the right she has been granted. What he has given her is permission to perform. Freedom of SpeechIn New Zealand, the right to freedom ...
All those tears on your cheeksJust like deja vu flow nowWhen grandmother speaksSo tell me a story (I'll tell you a story)Spell it out, I can't hear (What do you want to hear?)Why you wear black in the morning?Why there's smoke in the air? Songwriter: Greg Johnson.Mōrena all ☀️Something a ...
National has only been in power for a year, but everywhere you look, its choices are taking New Zealand a long way backwards. In no particular order, here are the National Government's Top 50 Greatest Misses of its first year in power. ...
The Government is quietly undertaking consultation on the dangerous Regulatory Standards Bill over the Christmas period to avoid too much attention. ...
The Government’s planned changes to the freedom of speech obligations of universities is little more than a front for stoking the political fires of disinformation and fear, placing teachers and students in the crosshairs. ...
The Ministry of Regulation’s report into Early Childhood Education (ECE) in Aotearoa raises serious concerns about the possibility of lowering qualification requirements, undermining quality and risking worse outcomes for tamariki, whānau, and kaiako. ...
A Bill to modernise the role of Justices of the Peace (JP), ensuring they remain active in their communities and connected with other JPs, has been put into the ballot. ...
Labour will continue to fight unsustainable and destructive projects that are able to leap-frog environment protection under National’s Fast-track Approvals Bill. ...
The Green Party has warned that a Green Government will revoke the consents of companies who override environmental protections as part of Fast-Track legislation being passed today. ...
The Green Party says the Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update shows how the Government is failing to address the massive social and infrastructure deficits our country faces. ...
The Government’s latest move to reduce the earnings of migrant workers will not only hurt migrants but it will drive down the wages of Kiwi workers. ...
Te Pāti Māori has this morning issued a stern warning to Fast-Track applicants with interests in mining, pledging to hold them accountable through retrospective liability and to immediately revoke Fast-Track consents under a future Te Pāti Māori government. This warning comes ahead of today’s third reading of the Fast-Track Approvals ...
The Government’s announcement today of a 1.5 per cent increase to minimum wage is another blow for workers, with inflation projected to exceed the increase, meaning it’s a real terms pay reduction for many. ...
All the Government has achieved from its announcement today is to continue to push responsibility back on councils for its own lack of action to help bring down skyrocketing rates. ...
The Government has used its final post-Cabinet press conference of the year to punch down on local government without offering any credible solutions to the issues our councils are facing. ...
The Government has failed to keep its promise to ‘super charge’ the EV network, delivering just 292 chargers - less than half of the 670 chargers needed to meet its target. ...
The Green Party is calling for the Government to stop subsidising the largest user of the country’s gas supplies, Methanex, following a report highlighting the multi-national’s disproportionate influence on energy prices in Aotearoa. ...
The Green Party is appalled with the Government’s new child poverty targets that are based on a new ‘persistent poverty’ measure that could be met even with an increase in child poverty. ...
New independent analysis has revealed that the Government’s Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) will reduce emissions by a measly 1 per cent by 2030, failing to set us up for the future and meeting upcoming targets. ...
The loss of 27 kaimahi at Whakaata Māori and the end of its daily news bulletin is a sad day for Māori media and another step backwards for Te Tiriti o Waitangi justice. ...
Yesterday the Government passed cruel legislation through first reading to establish a new beneficiary sanction regime that will ultimately mean more households cannot afford the basic essentials. ...
Today's passing of the Government's Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill–which allows landlords to end tenancies with no reason–ignores the voice of the people and leaves renters in limbo ahead of the festive season. ...
After wasting a year, Nicola Willis has delivered a worse deal for the Cook Strait ferries that will end up being more expensive and take longer to arrive. ...
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick has today launched a Member’s Bill to sanction Israel for its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, as the All Out For Gaza rally reaches Parliament. ...
After years of advocacy, the Green Party is very happy to hear the Government has listened to our collective voices and announced the closure of the greyhound racing industry, by 1 August 2026. ...
In response to a new report from ERO, the Government has acknowledged the urgent need for consistency across the curriculum for Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) in schools. ...
The Green Party is appalled at the Government introducing legislation that will make it easier to penalise workers fighting for better pay and conditions. ...
Thank you for the invitation to speak with you tonight on behalf of the political party I belong to - which is New Zealand First. As we have heard before this evening the Kinleith Mill is proposing to reduce operations by focusing on pulp and discontinuing “lossmaking paper production”. They say that they are currently consulting on the plan to permanently shut ...
Auckland Central MP, Chlöe Swarbrick, has written to Mayor Wayne Brown requesting he stop the unnecessary delays on St James Theatre’s restoration. ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says Health New Zealand will move swiftly to support dozens of internationally-trained doctors already in New Zealand on their journey to employment here, after a tripling of sought-after examination places. “The Medical Council has delivered great news for hardworking overseas doctors who want to contribute ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has appointed Sarah Ottrey to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). “At my first APEC Summit in Lima, I experienced firsthand the role that ABAC plays in guaranteeing political leaders hear the voice of business,” Mr Luxon says. “New Zealand’s ABAC representatives are very well respected and ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced four appointments to New Zealand’s intelligence oversight functions. The Honourable Robert Dobson KC has been appointed Chief Commissioner of Intelligence Warrants, and the Honourable Brendan Brown KC has been appointed as a Commissioner of Intelligence Warrants. The appointments of Hon Robert Dobson and Hon ...
Improvements in the average time it takes to process survey and title applications means housing developments can progress more quickly, Minister for Land Information Chris Penk says. “The government is resolutely focused on improving the building and construction pipeline,” Mr Penk says. “Applications to issue titles and subdivide land are ...
The Government’s measures to reduce airport wait times, and better transparency around flight disruptions is delivering encouraging early results for passengers ahead of the busy summer period, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Improving the efficiency of air travel is a priority for the Government to give passengers a smoother, more reliable ...
The Government today announced the intended closure of the Apollo Hotel as Contracted Emergency Housing (CEH) in Rotorua, Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka says. This follows a 30 per cent reduction in the number of households in CEH in Rotorua since National came into Government. “Our focus is on ending CEH in the Whakarewarewa area starting ...
The Government will reshape vocational education and training to return decision making to regions and enable greater industry input into work-based learning Tertiary Education and Skills Minister, Penny Simmonds says. “The redesigned system will better meet the needs of learners, industry, and the economy. It includes re-establishing regional polytechnics that ...
The Government is taking action to better manage synthetic refrigerants and reduce emissions caused by greenhouse gases found in heating and cooling products, Environment Minister Penny Simmonds says. “Regulations will be drafted to support a product stewardship scheme for synthetic refrigerants, Ms. Simmonds says. “Synthetic refrigerants are found in a ...
People travelling on State Highway 1 north of Hamilton will be relieved that remedial works and safety improvements on the Ngāruawāhia section of the Waikato Expressway were finished today, with all lanes now open to traffic, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says.“I would like to acknowledge the patience of road users ...
Tertiary Education and Skills Minister, Penny Simmonds, has announced a new appointment to the board of Education New Zealand (ENZ). Dr Erik Lithander has been appointed as a new member of the ENZ board for a three-year term until 30 January 2028. “I would like to welcome Dr Erik Lithander to the ...
The Government will have senior representatives at Waitangi Day events around the country, including at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds, but next year Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has chosen to take part in celebrations elsewhere. “It has always been my intention to celebrate Waitangi Day around the country with different ...
Two more criminal gangs will be subject to the raft of laws passed by the Coalition Government that give Police more powers to disrupt gang activity, and the intimidation they impose in our communities, Police Minister Mark Mitchell says. Following an Order passed by Cabinet, from 3 February 2025 the ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Justice Christian Whata as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Whata’s appointment as a Judge of the Court of Appeal will take effect on 1 August 2025 and fill a vacancy created by the retirement of Hon Justice David Goddard on ...
The latest economic figures highlight the importance of the steps the Government has taken to restore respect for taxpayers’ money and drive economic growth, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. Data released today by Stats NZ shows Gross Domestic Product fell 1 per cent in the September quarter. “Treasury and most ...
Tertiary Education and Skills Minister Penny Simmonds and Associate Minister of Education David Seymour today announced legislation changes to strengthen freedom of speech obligations on universities. “Freedom of speech is fundamental to the concept of academic freedom and there is concern that universities seem to be taking a more risk-averse ...
Police Minister, Mark Mitchell, and Internal Affairs Minister, Brooke van Velden, today launched a further Public Safety Network cellular service that alongside last year’s Cellular Roaming roll-out, puts globally-leading cellular communications capability into the hands of our emergency responders. The Public Safety Network’s new Cellular Priority service means Police, Wellington ...
State Highway 1 through the Mangamuka Gorge has officially reopened today, providing a critical link for Northlanders and offering much-needed relief ahead of the busy summer period, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says.“The Mangamuka Gorge is a vital route for Northland, carrying around 1,300 vehicles per day and connecting the Far ...
The Government has welcomed decisions by the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) and Ashburton District Council confirming funding to boost resilience in the Canterbury region, with construction on a second Ashburton Bridge expected to begin in 2026, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Delivering a second Ashburton Bridge to improve resilience and ...
The Government is backing the response into high pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Otago, Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard says. “Cabinet has approved new funding of $20 million to enable MPI to meet unbudgeted ongoing expenses associated with the H7N6 response including rigorous scientific testing of samples at the enhanced PC3 ...
Legislation that will repeal all advertising restrictions for broadcasters on Sundays and public holidays has passed through first reading in Parliament today, Media Minister Paul Goldsmith says. “As a growing share of audiences get their news and entertainment from streaming services, these restrictions have become increasingly redundant. New Zealand on ...
Today the House agreed to Brendan Horsley being appointed Inspector-General of Defence, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says. “Mr Horsley’s experience will be invaluable in overseeing the establishment of the new office and its support networks. “He is currently Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, having held that role since June 2020. ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says the Government has agreed to the final regulations for the levy on insurance contracts that will fund Fire and Emergency New Zealand from July 2026. “Earlier this year the Government agreed to a 2.2 percent increase to the rate of levy. Fire ...
The Government is delivering regulatory relief for New Zealand businesses through changes to the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act. “The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Bill, which was introduced today, is the second Bill – the other being the Statutes Amendment Bill - that ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed further progress on the Hawke’s Bay Expressway Road of National Significance (RoNS), with the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) Board approving funding for the detailed design of Stage 1, paving the way for main works construction to begin in late 2025.“The Government is moving at ...
The Government today released a request for information (RFI) to seeking interest in partnerships to plant trees on Crown-owned land with low farming and conservation value (excluding National Parks) Forestry Minister Todd McClay announced. “Planting trees on Crown-owned land will drive economic growth by creating more forestry jobs in our regions, providing more wood ...
Court timeliness, access to justice, and improving the quality of existing regulation are the focus of a series of law changes introduced to Parliament today by Associate Minister of Justice Nicole McKee. The three Bills in the Regulatory Systems (Justice) Amendment Bill package each improve a different part of the ...
A total of 41 appointments and reappointments have been made to the 12 community trusts around New Zealand that serve their regions, Associate Finance Minister Shane Jones says. “These trusts, and the communities they serve from the Far North to the deep south, will benefit from the rich experience, knowledge, ...
The Government has confirmed how it will provide redress to survivors who were tortured at the Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital Child and Adolescent Unit (the Lake Alice Unit). “The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care found that many of the 362 children who went through the Lake Alice Unit between 1972 and ...
It has been a busy, productive year in the House as the coalition Government works hard to get New Zealand back on track, Leader of the House Chris Bishop says. “This Government promised to rebuild the economy, restore law and order and reduce the cost of living. Our record this ...
“Accelerated silicosis is an emerging occupational disease caused by unsafe work such as engineered stone benchtops. I am running a standalone consultation on engineered stone to understand what the industry is currently doing to manage the risks, and whether further regulatory intervention is needed,” says Workplace Relations and Safety Minister ...
Mehemea he pai mō te tangata, mahia – if it’s good for the people, get on with it. Enhanced reporting on the public sector’s delivery of Treaty settlement commitments will help improve outcomes for Māori and all New Zealanders, Māori Crown Relations Minister Tama Potaka says. Compiled together for the ...
Mr Roger Holmes Miller and Ms Tarita Hutchinson have been appointed to the Charities Registration Board, Community and Voluntary Sector Minister Louise Upston says. “I would like to welcome the new members joining the Charities Registration Board. “The appointment of Ms Hutchinson and Mr Miller will strengthen the Board’s capacity ...
More building consent and code compliance applications are being processed within the statutory timeframe since the Government required councils to submit quarterly data, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “In the midst of a housing shortage we need to look at every step of the build process for efficiencies ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey is proud to announce the first three recipients of the Government’s $10 million Mental Health and Addiction Community Sector Innovation Fund which will enable more Kiwis faster access to mental health and addiction support. “This fund is part of the Government’s commitment to investing in ...
New Zealand is providing Vanuatu assistance following yesterday's devastating earthquake, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. "Vanuatu is a member of our Pacific family and we are supporting it in this time of acute need," Mr Peters says. "Our thoughts are with the people of Vanuatu, and we will be ...
The Government welcomes the Commerce Commission’s plan to reduce card fees for Kiwis by an estimated $260 million a year, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly says.“The Government is relentlessly focused on reducing the cost of living, so Kiwis can keep more of their hard-earned income and live a ...
Regulation Minister David Seymour has welcomed the Early Childhood Education (ECE) regulatory review report, the first major report from the Ministry for Regulation. The report makes 15 recommendations to modernise and simplify regulations across ECE so services can get on with what they do best – providing safe, high-quality care ...
The Government‘s Offshore Renewable Energy Bill to create a new regulatory regime that will enable firms to construct offshore wind generation has passed its first reading in Parliament, Energy Minister Simeon Brown says.“New Zealand currently does not have a regulatory regime for offshore renewable energy as the previous government failed ...
Legislation to enable new water service delivery models that will drive critical investment in infrastructure has passed its first reading in Parliament, marking a significant step towards the delivery of Local Water Done Well, Local Government Minister Simeon Brown and Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly say.“Councils and voters ...
New Zealand is one step closer to reaping the benefits of gene technology with the passing of the first reading of the Gene Technology Bill, Science, Innovation and Technology Minister Judith Collins says. "This legislation will end New Zealand's near 30-year ban on gene technology outside the lab and is ...
ByKoroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor New Zealand’s Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) says impending bad weather for Port Vila is now the most significant post-quake hazard. A tropical low in the Coral Sea is expected to move into Vanuatu waters, bringing heavy rainfall. Authorities have issued warnings to people ...
Cosmic CatastropheThe year draws to a close.King Luxon has grown tired of the long eveningsListening to the dreary squabbling of his Triumvirate.He strolls up to the top floor of the PalaceTo consult with his Astronomer Royal.The Royal Telescope scans the skies,And King Luxon stares up into the heavensFrom the terrestrial ...
Spinoff editor Mad Chapman and books editor Claire Mabey debate Carl Shuker’s new novel about… an editor. Claire: Hello Mad, you just finished The Royal Free – overall impressions? Mad: Hi Claire, I literally just put the book down and I would have to say my immediate impression is ...
Christmas and its buildup are often lonely, hard and full of unreasonable expectations. Here’s how to make it to Jesus’s birthday and find the little bit of joy we all deserve. Have you found this year relentless? Has the latest Apple update “fucked up your life”? Have you lost two ...
Despite overwhelming public and corporate support, the government has stalled progress on a modern day slavery law. That puts us behind other countries – and makes Christmas a time of tragedy rather than joy, argues Shanti Mathias. Picture the scene on Christmas Day. Everyone replete with nice things to eat, ...
Asia Pacific Report “It looks like Hiroshima. It looks like Germany at the end of World War Two,” says an Israeli-American historian and professor of holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University about the horrifying reality of Gaza. Professor Omer Bartov, has described Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza as an ...
The New Zealand government coalition is tweaking university regulations to curb what it says is an increasingly “risk-averse approach” to free speech. The proposed changes will set clear expectations on how universities should approach freedom of speech issues. Each university will then have to adopt a “freedom of speech statement” ...
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone New York prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with “murder as an act of terrorism” in his alleged shooting of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month. This news comes out at the same time as ...
Pacific Media Watch The union for Australian journalists has welcomed the delivery by the federal government of more than $150 million to support the sustainability of public interest journalism over the next four years. Combined with the announcement of the revamped News Bargaining Initiative, this could result in up to ...
It’s a little under two months since the White Ferns shocked the cricketing world, deservedly taking home the T20 World Cup. Since then the trophy has had a tour around the country, five of the squad have played in the WBBL in Australia while most others have returned to domestic ...
Comment: If we say the word ‘dementia’, many will picture an older person struggling to remember the names of their loved ones, maybe a grandparent living out their final years in an aged care facility. Dementia can also occur in people younger than 65, but it can take time before ...
Piracy is a reality of modern life – but copyright law has struggled to play catch-up for as long as the entertainment industry has existed. As far back as 1988, the House of Lords criticised copyright law’s conflict with the reality of human behaviour in the context of burning cassette ...
MONDAY“Merry Xmas, and praise the Lord,” said Sheriff Luxon, and smiled for the camera. There was a flash of smoke when the shutter pressed down on the magnesium powder. The sheriff had arranged for a photographer from the Dodge Gazette to attend a ceremony where he handed out food parcels to ...
As he makes a surprise return to Shortland Street, actor Craig Parker takes us through his life in television. Craig Parker has been a fixture on television in Aotearoa for nearly four decades. He had starring roles in iconic local series like Gloss, Mercy Peak and Diplomatic Immunity, featured in ...
The Ōtautahi musician shares the 10 tracks he loves to spin, including the folk classic that cured him of a ‘case of the give-ups’. When singer-songwriter Adam McGrath returns to Kumeu’s Auckland Folk Festival from January 24-27, he’s not planning on simply idling his way through – he wants the late ...
Alex Casey spends an afternoon on the job with River, the rescue dog on a mission to spread joy to Ōtautahi rest homes.Almost everyone says it is never enough time. But River the rescue dog, a jet black huntaway border collie cross, has to keep a tight pace to ...
Asia Pacific Report Fiji activists have recreated the nativity scene at a solidarity for Palestine gathering in Fiji’s capital Suva just days before Christmas. The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre and Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network recreated the scene at the FWCC compound — a baby Jesus figurine lies amidst the ...
By 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver and 1News reporters A number of Kiwis have been successfully evacuated from Vanuatu after a devastating earthquake shook the Pacific island nation earlier this week. The death toll was still unclear, though at least 14 people were killed according to an earlier statement from ...
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Leading news in Stuff and the NZ Herald.
‘Aussie cricket legend Rodney Marsh shunned signing a bat signed by Chris Cairns.’
‘Rod Marsh snubbed Chris Cairns’
Aren’t there more important things for these clowns to be reporting on ……..
Climate Change
Child Poverty
Inequality
Unemployment
Obesity
Destruction of Indonesian Forest Fires
Conflict in Syria
Air pollution in Japan
Fukishima radiation in the Pacific
Loss of biodiversity in the world
Water issues in New Zealand
El Nino weather pattern…………….
Granny plays her part in dumbing down the sheeple and distracting them with celebrity sporty diversionary material along with NACT shillmeisters to supply the column inches of ‘national good, labour bad’ when required.
Considering that he played with Dennis Lillee, who admitted betting on his own matches, Marsh appears to be a hypocrite in the same league as Steve Hansen, who had the gall to speak to referees about giving the All Blacks a fair go.
You’re a bit off beam with your criticism of Marsh, Moz. It was a single incident of betting, that both men were very open about within the team at the time and in public later.
As I recall, early in a test match in England in the 80’s, the home team were looking so poor that the odds of them winning shot out to hundreds to 1 against. Lillee and Marsh both chose to put a tenner on it for a laugh and when Ian Botham turned the match around, the two Aussies made a decent profit which, in the usual Aussie way, went on the bar.
That’s it. Foolish, but not corrupt.
The point of the Marsh anecdote in the trial is to show that Cairns’ standing was damaged by Modi’s still unproved allegation. Just for the record, I reckon Cairns is going to survive this trial, with the charges ruled to be unproven. Reasonable doubt and all that.
Yes. After all the talk I haven’t seen any actual evidence. I can’t see how Cairns talking about match fixing is actual evidence that he did. As a part time watcher of bits on TV, I think Cairns will be Not Guilty.
I must agree Ian.
I think he probably did do match fixing, but you have to be able to prove it. The witnesses for the prosecution have been less than stellar and all we have had is he-said vs. he-said.
There has been no smoking gun, no proof of money changing hands and you have to remember he is not actually on trial for match fixing but perjury.
I would be very surprised if he is found guilty.
Probably, but it’s very odd that all of these other players decided to gang up on him. For no apparent reason.
You also have to question their motivations Lanth.
Why did McCullum wait for so long to report his conversations when the rules around this are explicitly clear?
Maybe the captaincy of the Black Caps was more important…
…and no one likes a snitch on their team.
All that the other players did was report conversations which is fair enough but in my book, not evidence.
If it was one, fair call.
But reasonable doubt isn’t just whether an individual story is true beyond reasonable doubt, it also counts as to whether the amount of different sources and incidents could reasonably occur without him actually having cheated even once.
I saw a large cloud of smoke last night as I drove down the road. It might have been fireworks smoke held down by an inversion layer, or it might have been a fire. That’s reasonable doubt. Similarly if I saw a fire engine with hoses out, or a charred but wet couch in the yard. Any of those individually would have a reasonable explanation other than there having just been a couch fire.
But if I saw the smoke, and saw a fire engine with hoses out, and maybe a charred but soaking wet couch in the yard, it would be unreasonable to doubt that I’d just missed seeing a fire. Even if I had not touched flames with my bare hands.
I sure don’t know the outcome of the Cairns trial, but it certainly could go either way.
Australia – the ugly country
used to herd the aboriginal people off cliffs
used to issue licenses for hunting aboriginal people
as late as the 1930’s, your granddad’s family
refuses to apologise for those atrocities
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bombing the middle east for the last dozen years
uncle sam’s little helper
creating their own mini-terror problem to suit
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Australia – the ugly country
no problem whatsoever in beating refugees to death
just like the aborigines
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Australia – the ugly country
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the right wing hate is being built
Australia – turning up the hate
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pure ugly
+100…while I know very good caring sophisticated Australians well integrated and very appreciative of the spirituality and arts of Aborigine culture ….they seem to be a minority
…this is a United Nations issue
…and United Nations is where New Zealand and John Key should be taking it..if they respect the Treaty of Waitangi ?!
….imagine if Australians were locking up Jews and treating them this way?…you would never hear the end of it!…but if this discrimination and human rights violations is happening to New Zealanders and Maoris brought up in Australia ….at the end of the day it is OK?…. their value is less because they are not the ‘chosen ones’ ?
( I never did like the disrespectful derisory way Hone Harawira was treated by John Key and certain journalists for the msm)
The Maori Party are hypocrites for supporting this jonkey nactional government
Good point.
….imagine if Australians were locking up Jews and treating them this way?
Ready to deport them back to their country of origin or imprison them?
We have seen that before….
John Key proves once again, in his inimitable style, that he is a dick:
“I like the particular blue that’s on the blue and black, but it’s just personal choice, I mean the red and blue one, as, the blue and black one as opposed to the red and blue one. I like the blue on the red…on the black and blue – Jesus, get it right.”
Yep, eloquence and clarity of expression are definitely two of his stronger points!!
Only three countries still have the Union Jack in the corner? I guess if the PM said it, it must be true.
Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tuvalu.
There are several other states, provinces and overseas territories that have it, but none are countries.
If he meant “aside from New Zealand” then I think he might be correct.
Yup – but like the rest of his statement, he mangled it.
There are several other states,
Heeh Hawaii.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Hawaii#/media/File:Flag-of-hawaii-flying.jpg
lol
so he doesn’t want it because it’s not distinct enough, and he doesn’t want it because only three other countries have it.
I know! Lucky guy huh? he can put forward two contradictory positions and have both accepted without question.
Having said that if there was a challenge, the answer would be “but, but Australia!!!!!”
$26m because the PM was embarrassed he didn’t know the flag that was being put on a wall behind him was the wrong one. *sigh*
Key sometimes finds it hard to remember the chit-chat and smalltalk that someone else has prepared for him.
TPP- some useful info on ISDS
https://blog.ffii.org/tpp-rigged-isds/
One of these days Jim Kayes will lose it and attack Paul Henry on air.
It’s what drives me to occasionally watch this horrible show.
Paul Henry, TV3, Monday 9 November 2015, 7:10 a.m.
Anyone desperate or apathetic enough to regularly watch this train wreck will be aware that, aside from delivering poorly thought out extreme right wing rants and harassing his female underlings with suggestive and crude sexual remarks, one of Paul “Kill Them All” Henry’s major preoccupations is tormenting his sports slave Jim Kayes. This morning, Kayes rejoined the program after a few weeks away in England for the Rugby World Cup. Sadly for him, however, Henry immediately reverted to his cruel and contemptuous treatment of him…
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: Right Jim, sports, GO!
JIM KAYES: Thanks Paul. The New Zealand cricket team is heading for a heavy defeat in Brisbane…. [He drones on for a couple of minutes in a voice still bearing the strain of a cold he caught in England. Someone else has obviously noticed….]
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: Gosh, Jim, you’ve almost lost your voice. But don’t think for a MOMENT that you can have any time off. Not for ONE MOMENT!
JIM KAYES: [dubiously] Ha ha ha ha!
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: [grimly] I mean it. You’ll get NO TIME OFF.
HILLARY BARRY: I can read the sports news for him.
JIM KAYES: Thanks, Hills.
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: She can read the sports news, but you still have to be here.
…..Awkward pause…..
JIM KAYES: Anyway, I have some presents for everyone that I’ve brought back from the Rugby World Cup.
He proceeds to hand out a bunch of deliberately tacky souvenirs to the people in the studio. He gives his fellow slave Hillary a fridge magnet.
HILLARY BARRY: Thank you Jim. That’ll be very useful!
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: Yes, yes. And what about ME? What have you got for ME?
JIM KAYES: Well, Paul, I’ve heard that you have become a MASSIVE rugby fan—-
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: Oh, no, no, no. NO!
JIM KAYES: I’ve got you this.
He hands Henry a thermos cup emblazoned with the logos of all twenty RWC teams.
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: Oh Jim that is so SWEET. But I’ll never use it. It’s a simply AWFUL gift.
HILLARY BARRY: I’ll give you five bucks for it.
PAUL “KILL THEM ALL” HENRY: Sold. What an IDIOT’s gift! He he he he!….
Jim and Hillary both look depressed and joyless. It’s only 7:13 a.m., and they still have more than an hour and a half of this crap to go….
Sorry, is that an actual transcript? Just…not sure.
An actual transcript from breen – surely you jest.
An actual transcript from breen – surely you jest.
One presumes you have the same sniffy punctiliousness when confronted with the script for, say, Julius Caesar or Richard II.
Crikey! Are you comparing yourself to Shakespeare now, Moz? Mind you, JC and Richard II are works of fiction, so there is that link to your own works.
Chortle..
Are you comparing yourself to Shakespeare now, Moz?
I don’t think the comparison is quite fair to this writer. Shakespeare, to give him his due, did turn out some pretty sharp dialogue and some fast-moving, intricate plots, but he never supplied the detailed stage directions and actor tips that distinguish the oeuvre of this writer, i.e., moi.
And as much as I adore plays such as Twelfth Night and Love’s Labour’s Lost, can anyone really say that they are on the same level as the following?…..
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nz.general/Ern1_QrFIw8
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rec.sport.rugby.union/DvySI1Zo-Sw/6VRWaGLTARIJ
So many negative comments! And most of them coming from your own alternate personalities, too.
So many negative comments!
To quote the great Jonah, “It comes with the territory.” Shakespeare got his share of bad press too, if I remember correctly.
Sorry, is that an actual transcript?
It’s a rush transcript, typed out in a mood of pity mixed with fury. I missed out quite a lot of Henry’s kvetching about the gift he had received.
Just…not sure
One can always be sure of this with a Breen transcript: if it’s not verbatim—and many of them ARE verbatim—it will capture the essential flavour of the conversation it is attempting to immortalise. This one is accurate but not complete. I could have put in everything, but I just didn’t have the heart for it. I’m preparing a similar rush transcript version of this morning’s show, which “featured” a couple of really egregious guests, Rob “Fuckwit” Fyfe and Michele “Democracy Hater” Boag.
Cluck cluck..
Shouldn’t you be pretending to care about the soldiers who were killed in World War I? It’s Remembrance Day, but you’re spending your time dumping inanities on the internet.
I think you should tear up that paper poppy.
Refuse to watch or listen to the idiot, so my sanity remains.
me too… Watch who?’
Seriously though-haven’t seen H**** since it came back from the ‘failure in Australia’. Miss him terribly.
Pleased to see the feeds from other blogs is now back up again – thanks Lprent !
On this morning’s news Key’s solution to the Christmas Island debacle shows what a craven bastard he is. To compare it to our main high security prison and how Turnball would not come over and intercede if Australian prisoners were incarcerated there is absolute rubbish and pure ignorance. Parry prison allows legal representation for its prisoners and access to medical care. This is a concentration camp – being a Jew should at least give Key some sympathy for the prisoners kept on that god forsaken hell hole where human beings are holed up indefinitely. How many more disgraceful gutless decisions do we have to tolerate from this man. He is lily livered and Australia will not respect him for not standing up for our citizens. Let the discourse between the two countries get terse but in the end we will be admired for our courage to tell them this is not acceptable. I am a woman of senior years and I have more guts in my big toe than he has – god deliver us from people like him.
+100 Whispering Kate…well said !
Ditto – well said Whispering Kate.
Chooky – in your earlier comment at 2.1, you called the Maori Party hypocrites for supporting National and Key.
Marama Fox gave a scathing interview on Morning Report this morning doing quite the opposite in respect of Key’s stance on Christmas Island.
Some of her comments are included in this RNZ News item.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/289267/pm-urged-to-step-in-over-christmas-island
However, this item does not fully capture Marama’s full comments and strong criticism of Key’s stance.
The full interview is well worth listening to here –
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/201778071/co-leader-of-the-maori-party-marama-fox-highly-critical
Since Marama Fox came into Parliament for the Maori Party, I have had the feeling that sooner or later there will be a falling out between the MP and National/Key – and this interview has strengthened my view.
I’ve been quite impressed by Marama – more than I was ever was by Tariana, Pita or Te Ururoa.
Indeed! She’s well aware of the number of people feeling absolutely conned by MP, and who live in hope that they disappear up their own self-entitled, sage-like arses whilst they continue to struggle. It’s that whole argument Turia and her loyal servant Pita tried to convey: It’s better to be inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in. Most I know that voted MP at its inception would be quite pleased now to be pissing into their tent – UNLESS there is change (took ’em a while! but at least the likes of Marama seem to be aware now). It’s a bit like Labour needing to apologise to its base for its conversion to the religion of neo-liberalism they signed up to as a result of a few people sharing some fush n chups in a bubble.
Believe it when I see it as talk is cheap and you dont get to be a MP senior figure without the approval of a hieracy thats supported keys kiwi sell off.
Talking tough is all the MP have ever done and Ive seen interviews where she is every bit as deceptive and arrogant as Parata.
Me too. Kate.
Heard english parroting our Present Moron this morning. Aussie’s place to deal with it yadda yadda. Pretty much word perfect with our little *do nothing it might frighten the horses* World Leader. I always allow myself a little snigger at that description of Wallykey.
Cowards!!! the pair of them.
Considering Ffloyd this government is so poll driven, maybe it’s time for a few polls to be done to see what the country’s thoughts are on this disgusting situation. I can see there would be something done smartly if the polls suggested the repugnance and shame a lot of citizens are feeling about the treatment of these people. At least allow them legal representation and medical care. There is a man imprisoned there with burns over most of his body who needs on-going care to aid his scar healing.
History shows there has been shameful denial of people in need and the countries concerned have had to live with the history of it. The UK denying for political reasons the Russian Royal Family after WW1 safety and they were relatives of the crown – they all ended up assassinated. Turning a blind eye to the concentration camps in Poland/Germany etc in WW2 when it was nigh on impossible to not know it was going on by certain countries and they know who they are. We will end up with this shameful episode on our history records as well. How low this country can get is anybody’s guess but it can’t get much lower than this. Ol’ dead eyes sure takes the cake on this one.
Hear hear Whispering Kate and also to your previous post (8) as well.
I have a feeling should the situation at the Christmas Island concentration camp become a multiple tragedy involving many Kiwis (and other nationalities) incarcerated there, FJK will blame Kelvin Davis for stirring up trouble, inflaming the issue! Dear Leader will make sure nothing reflects back on him.
In fact Labour’s Mr Davis is doing a damn good job of keeping the rest of us informed through exposing (and enforcing more evidence of) Australia’s inhumane treatment of people, it considers sub human!
Shame on NatzKEY MPs for not getting more involved, doing the same! Yet another reflection of FJK’s pathetic and extremely weak leadership!
Look, JK has advised in the herald that this really just a bit of trouble at a resort…
“These are people who are theoretically staying on Christmas Island, choosing not to come back to New Zealand…now the risk is that they actually damage their own appeals because they undertake other criminal activity when they’re there.”
There are children & pregnant women (some with serious medical conditions, some fell pregnant due to rape) in those camps too. Its very unfair.
I cannot provide a link, but it was reported yesterday (RNZ news) that there are men only at the Christmas Island camp – no women or children. That doesn’t make the situation any less unacceptable in terms of the treatment of those men in the past or possible once the camp is again ‘secured’.
More conspiracy theory mumbo jumbo at Kiwiblog http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2015/11/waipoua-forest-and-incredible-shrinking.html via Maori
Personally I find the idea that humans may have arrived here at different times, and from different places (Melanesia for example), very curious and interesting.. have looked at all the googly stuff on the net with the crackpots but I think there is too much to not look further.
It has always seemed odd that humans never made it here when they had made it pretty much everywhere else.
I have always wondered how so much tonnage of pounamu had been found and then made itself all around the country in just approx. 400 years (16 generations). With average age lower, and fewer people, and the time needed to tramp out west, load up and return, the maths just doesn’t seem to add up (not that I have weighed all the pounamu around the place).
It is also curious that ancient Maori legend references people here on arrival.
Early colonial observations also make for curious reading.
It is a heated subject that much crap gets thrown at.
Very very interesting though and it would be interesting to be around over the next couple hundred years to see what, if any, evidence may emerge…..
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It ties in with human anthropology advances o recent years which suggests that were many many species of human that emerged from Africa and wandered the planet. Just like there are many many species of other animal genus..
And these could easily be from not that long ago…. after all we all have 2.5% Neanderthal makeup, the last mammoths only died out 2,500 years ago, we have legends around the globe of yetis, fairies, mountain dwellers, etc… Just like we have legends of floods all across the world … for which evidence exists of localised flooding / rising sea levels ……
Our archaeology and anthropology is young and just starting out
There is far far to go on this yet.
The simple fact is if there were people here before tangata whenua then they didn’t leave any artefacts. & migration happened over 100s of years, so of course there are stories of people already here on arrival, generations in some cases. Some iwi/hapu claim mermaid ancestors.
“The simple fact is if there were people here before tangata whenua then they didn’t leave any artefacts”
Not that has been found to date that satisfies everyone.
Do you know that they still find similar discoveries in the northern hemisphere, after hundreds of years of archaeology? Example – recent discoveries along the northeast north American coastline has established that people from Europe had been there long time ago. “artefact” only discovered the last few years. Previously it had been believed that no other people had been there.
We aint been digging long enough yet.
Many of the people who have created conspiracy theories around all this are blatant racists, so it’s hard to take it seriously. Is there any reason not to trust the people who know the science? Sure archaeology will evolve, but we can still use evidence as the basis now can’t we?
Yes I know the area is loaded with racists and other oddballs, but that is not a reason on its own not to consider the issue. It is a fascinating issue.
And yep sure, the science is to be trusted and the evidence today. However, it surely cannot likewise be claimed that all is known on this today. Some of the things that turn up on the net around supposed evidence of early people are interesting.
I just cannot get past the fact that digging around NZ’s past is only young. In fact, the youngest of anywhere on the planet (that is inhabited). There is no way we know everything yet.
another great example from Scott Hamilton of reasoned debate and evidenced based thinking.
Select committee scrutiny of TPP deal likely after February
Tuesday 10th November 2015
The foreign affairs, defence and trade select committee is likely to start public hearings on the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and associated National Interest Assessment soon after governments sign the accord, expected by next February, before the process of parliamentary ratification begins.
New Zealand’s chief negotiator for the TPP, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade deputy secretary David Walker, told a briefing in Wellington the earliest US President Barack Obama would be able to sign off on TPP was 90 days after his referring to Congress, which occurred last Friday, meaning a February sign-off in Washington.”
“While there was provision for reviews at regular intervals once it was in place, “there is no process for renegotiating the deal before entry into force,” said Walker. “People have to decide whether they are happy with the deal or not. It’s a big, complex thing.”
http://www.sharechat.co.nz/article/38466a95/select-committee-scrutiny-of-tpp-deal-likely-after-february.html
Pity that the “People” that get to vote on it are the National Cabinet Ministers (Executive) who, of course, will listen to us!
In the USA the Congress get a yes/no vote on TPP, but in NZ only the Cabinet will. Is this right?
Alarm bells are ringing about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Here are 6 reasons why
Headings only… It is worth reading the full article.
1. Intellectual property changes might be the “worst thing in policy that Canada’s ever done”
2. Don’t count on Canadian manufacturing making a comeback any time soon…
3. Canadian farmers could be getting a worse deal than first thought
4,. It could put the health of Canadians at risk
5. Two important words are missing from the TPP’s chapter on the environment
Namely “climate” and “change.”
6. Canadians haven’t even been consulted
http://www.pressprogress.ca/alarm_bells_are_ringing_about_the_trans_pacific_partnership_here_are_6_reasons_why
Those same issues in Canada are our issues Tautoko Mangō Mata. Did you see the airing of those issues in the Herald, Dominion, Press? Me neither.
Who will provide such a forum?
Labour and Little could, but they’ve already greenlit the TPPA via 4 out of 5 of their “bottom lines”.
This is just awful:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/289269/'they've-got-petrol-bombs‘
The bulk of the armed detainees are NZers and Pacific Islanders.
These people are essentially Australian citizens. Not all of them committed serious crimes and they have been punished and served their time. Their situation must be dire for them to be contemplating violent resistance.
Kelvin Davis has just been there, and he has pleaded with this government to meet with him and listen to his story. They are ignoring him. they don’t want to know.
What a comedown from the RWC. A week ago we all felt proud to be Nzers. Today I’m ashamed…
Fucking Serco.
http://energyskeptic.com/2013/cascading-failure-liebigs-law-collapse/
Scary stuff, we are completely unprepared for any oil crisis. The thing that runs our society, makes most of our products, transports our food, fuels any economic activity could go away in a hurry, yet society still can’t talk about this “non issue”. It has to happen sometime, yet we’re completely blind to it.
I’ll tell you what my top three priorities are: jobs, jobs, jobs
After (if?) the TTPA is signed, will that mean that Vladimir Putin and Russia becomes the default leader of the free world versus corporate hegemony?
“Justice Minister Amy Adams says she is seeking reassurances from her Australian counterparts that they are honouring their promise to help New Zealand detainees to return home as quickly and easily as possible.”
But nothing about the current crisis. John Key has already dismissed any concern interest in that.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11542912
Finland to roll out UBI?
http://inhabitat.com/finland-prepares-universal-basic-income-experiment/
cheers bill,
in answer to the most common question re ubi,
fund it with a financial transaction tax.
bye bye gst!
there isn’t a down side.
go on labour, greens, nzf, maori party i dare you!
Key accuses Labour of supporting rapists, murderers and child molesters.
This is your Prime Minister, New Zealand.
http://www.inthehouse.co.nz/
No Right Turn has a column about this. Well summarised.
http://norightturn.blogspot.co.nz/2015/11/sack-speaker.html
Awful stuff!
It seems that Labour returned at the end of Question Time to seek a motion of no confidence in the Speaker, but denied by National. So, no chance for honourable Members of Parliament to vote on it, from both sides.
Shameful stuff from Prime Minister and Speaker.
And on No Right Turn a column quoting the work of Andrea Vance on how taxpayers money is being used to gloss over the work of the Five Eyes Agencies to PR us into acceptance. Worth a full post here?
http://norightturn.blogspot.co.nz/2015/11/the-spies-pr-blitz.html
A very busy day at The Standard, but here is an interesting read on the TPPA and it’s implications:
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/10/tpps-clauses-that-let-australia-be-sued-are-weapons-of-legal-destruction-says-lawyer
And this guy is the expert.
sounds about right – smoke and mirrors and hope not enough people notice.
TPP passes all of Labour’s bottom lines apart from regulating foreign property purchasers, according to Andrew Little.
That’s okay, the andy bay branch of Labour will bring it left again
I doubt it mate, I doubt it.
Which is why Hooton had to be put on the payroll straight after the signing to spread is two memes… one being no one will sue lil ole NZ
Red Logix
I don’t watch TV or read thrillers. Just that sort of TPP stuff provides all the exciting gut knotting complexity that I can handle. Actually I like detective stories, usually the baddie gets caught, the policeman are reasonably honest, and there is a conclusion that is reasonably satisfactory. That’s wonderful reading, relaxing cf to reality.
Scoop announcement – SCOOP HUI
This Sunday we are having a Scoop Hui in Wellington
to get this underway. It will be the first formal gathering called together by what we are calling The Fellowship of Scoop, the name we are giving to the group of people who will work closely with and in the new Scoop Foundation and related ventures.
Our meeting this Sunday will be an opportunity for us to get together, like-minded Kiwis who believe in democracy, freedom and the importance of a free media who are supporting efforts to ensure NZ remains an informed participatory democracy. We will answer your questions and try to workshop some answers to some of the challenges we face.
The details are:
Scoop Public Meeting
Date: Sunday November 15th
Time: 2pm-3pm
Scoop Members and Contributors Meeting
Date: Sunday November 15th
Time: 3pm-4pm
Venue: St Andrews on the Terrace, Church Hall, 30 The Terrace, Wellington.
N.B. The entrance to the hall is on the right hand side of the Church.
If you are in Wellington on the weekend and can make it along we very much look forward to meeting you there. Please bring interested friends, collleagues or family. There will be a Facebook event established for the event….
Am in Auckland but have been supporting Scoop from afar
I hope lots from TS will do so. I’ve put an initial toe in the water, then a foot, but am limited for cash as no doubt many of us are. But hopefully we’ll get there as we know so well the need for them to develop to this next stage. I won’t be there as am in Nelson and can’t afford to travel much part from keeping up family connections.
Wouldn’t ‘The Scoop Group’ be better?
Better than what Ad? Are you reading ‘he Fellowship of Scoop’ and thinking it sounds
twee? I am sure they will be interested in anything you have to contribute as a member of their financial support group. I remember you saying that a decent newspaper was needed and that TS could think of one. Here is our chance.