‘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…..
………………………………..
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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Robert MacCulloch writes – The Reserve Bank has doubled staff numbers in five years to 510, with personnel costs rising to $80 million in 2023 from $32 million in 2018 – up by a whopping 150%. I guess when you print $50 billion and flood markets with liquidity, ...
The furore. In case you didn’t notice there was a controversy in the weekend involving dolphins in a little town off the South Island. Don’t panic, they haven’t declared independence and resumed whaling, this was simply a sailing event.The problem began when racing was cancelled on the opening day of ...
For 20 years or more, the case for a meaningful capital tax gains has been mulled over and analysed to death, including by the tax working group chaired by Sir Michael Cullen. More than once, the International Monetary Fund has said a CGT would be a good idea for New ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read: The Public Health Communications Centre (PHCC) call for urgent preventive action and a risk assessment survey of long covid in this briefing noteLocal scoop: NZ road deaths surpass OECD rates, so why is the govt reversing safety plans? ...
This story was originally published by Grist and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. This story is part of a collaboration with Grist and WABE to demystify the Georgia Public Service Commission, the small but powerful state-elected board that makes critical decisions about everything from raising ...
This is a guest post from Robert McLachlan Global warming is accelerating; 2023 was off the charts. We need to stop burning fossil fuels. In New Zealand, transport accounts for half of all fossil fuels burnt. In the Emissions Reduction Plan, transport emissions fall 41% by 2035. As the ...
Labour productivity has been receding rapidly over the past two years, reversing a post-lockdown rise. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: My six things to note in Aotearoa’s political economy as at 6:26am on Tuesday, March 26 include:Workers have been treading water in output per hour worked for 12 years, ...
TL;DR: The key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to April 2 include:Today, Parliament resumes sitting at 2pm for the second week of a two-week session. Officials for SIS and GCSB report their annual reviews in public to the Intelligence and Security Select Committee from 5.10pm.Tomorrow, ...
Faced with a barrage of criticism over the promised tax cuts from usually supportive commentators, Finance Minister Nicola Willis yesterday reaffirmed her intention to include them in this year’s Budget. The Government is up against it over the cuts just about every way it turns. Commentators like Fran O’Sullivan, Matthew ...
Here’s my pick of today’s substack posts as of 6:26pm on Monday, March 25: writes via his substack that Market-rate housing will make your city cheaper writes via his substack about the problems talking to double-cab ute (truck) drivers about their vehicles. today about moments of radicalisation in ...
Buzz from the Beehive Just before Christmas, Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivered something that was pitched as a mini-budget and brayed about the decisive action being taken to repair the Government books and support income tax relief in Budget 2024. In a statement headed Fiscal repair job underway. she introduced ...
My sister Belinda asked Dad yesterday what one word would describe Mum best. He said: vivacious.If you only knew her from the photos on the slideshow we've made for today,you might wonder about that, because the camera tended to lie with Mum.If ever she saw a camera pointed at her, she ...
There are two major public consultations closing in the next week, Auckland Council’s Long Term Plan (LTP), and the draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport (GPS). Closing dates and times: LTP closes Thursday 28 February, at 11.59pm – a minute to midnight! GPS closes Tuesday 2 April, at 12pm noon – note that’s ...
From Kiwiblog’s David Farrar – Bryce Wilkinson writes: Senior Fellow Bryce Wilkinson’s analysis reveals that since March 2009, New Zealand has spent $158 billion more overseas than it has earned, but its NIIP has only fallen by $32 billion.Statistics New Zealand shows that receipts from overseas reinsurers have ...
Is she hinting that the Coalition Government will have to back down on key promises it made in Opposition? Brian Easton writes – The Minister of Finance, Nicola Willis, is telling an evolving story about her fiscal challenges. In Opposition she was confident that she could ...
Dear Nicola Willis,Right now you’ve probably got lots of competing demands coming at you. Ministers who’ve inherited quite a mess, or so you’ve told us, looking for money in the budget to improve things. I imagine that’s why they came to parliament - to make things better.You’ll have to make ...
The Local Government, Transport and Auckland Minister hasthreatened councils with intervention if they don’t merge water assets to take them off balance sheet, just as the now-repealed Three Waters plan directed. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: My six things of note this morning for Monday, March 25 include:Simeon ...
A listing of 36 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 17, 2024 thru Sat, March 23, 2024. Story of the week Thanks to John Mason having the stamina to sit down to watch "Climate - the Movie" ...
This morning the Q&A programme had Simeon Brown on to talk about National’s replacement for Three Waters. In case anyone’s forgotten the three are - drinking water, waste water, and sewerage. It’s quite important not to get them mixed up. In much the same way that you wouldn’t want to ...
Today’s newsletter comes with a mini-podcast conversation between me and my buddy Liv Tennet, talking about her time as a child actor in Lord of the Rings. It’s a conversation with a lot of giggles as she talks about falling off a horse, and becoming a meme. Read ...
The Desmog Climate Disinformation Database documents, "individuals and organisations that have helped to delay and distract the public and our elected leaders from taking needed action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and fight global warming." It's a who's who of the organised climate change denial movement, in other words. In ...
Bob Edlin writes – A High Court judge has decided miscreants who have mana – or who claim to have mana – should be treated differently from miscreants who have none. It’s a ruling that suggests indigenous law-breakers have a better chance of securing a discharge without conviction ...
Welcome to the first, and possibly last, edition of Brickbats, Bouquets and Bull’s Wool. In which I’ll take a look at the events of the last week or so, and rate them.In such ratings the numbers usually have more to do with the opinions of the reviewer, than the actual ...
Roger Partridge writes – My earlier column this month, New Zealand’s highest court could be facing a turning point, prompted a flood of feedback from business readers and lawyers alike. A common query was what Parliament can do to restrain an overreaching judiciary. This week I discuss two steps Parliament ...
TL;DR: In today’s ‘six-stack’ of substacks at 6.16pm on Friday, March 22: writes about New Zealand's Building Boom—And What the World Must Learn From It over at his substack. challenges the Auckland Council’s use of a 3.8 degrees of warming forecast to oppose a wave-park and data centre project ...
Is she hinting that the Coalition Government will have to back down on key promises it made in Opposition?The Minister of Finance, Nicola Willis, is telling an evolving story about her fiscal challenges. In Opposition she was confident that she could deliver her promised income tax cuts. Appointed minister, she ...
Buzz from the Beehive Ministers of the Crown have drawn attention to one sector of the science sector which is unlikely to be subjected to heavy spending cuts, a state-funded broadcaster which is doing nicely, thank you, and a sporting event that had $5.4 million from the public purse puffed ...
Abbott’s Freestyle Libre sensors allow continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). The sensor is applied to the back of the patient’s arm, with a thin filament under the skin measuring glucose levels constantly. But it costs around $100 per sensor and must be replaced once every 14 days. Photo by BSIP/Universal Images ...
The Inspector General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) recently released a report in which he exposes the existence of a foreign intelligence partner-controlled technological “capability” inside the headquarters of the GCSB, NZ’s 5 Eyes-affiliated signals intelligence collection and analysis agency. … Continue reading → ...
Peter Dunne writes – Nearly three decades after the introduction of MMP and multiparty governments there should be a greater level of understanding about their finer points than often appears to be the case. The reaction to the despicable outburst from the Deputy Prime Minister at the weekend highlights ...
The sweet kisses from fruit of summerHave slowly been turning dullerYou say, "those times"And "remember the daysWhen we went outside and there still was the shade?"Taking no reason into play…Autumn. Clear, blue days shortening to longer nights, growing colder. Aotearoa.That’s us. The temperature dropping, the looming car crash - so ...
Bryce Edwards writes – “It is often said that behind every great man is a great woman”. This is the pitch by the National Party Botany electorate branch to attend their “Ladies Afternoon Tea with Amanda Luxon”. For $110 including GST, you can turn up on Saturday 20 April ...
David Farrar writes – The Electoral Commission has published the expense returns for political parties for the 2023 election. I’ve put them in a table with how many votes a party got so we can see the spend per vote. National only spent $3.34 for every vote they got, almost ...
Winston Peters’ headline-making actions over the past week may have been a show of political power intended to strengthen his hand in Budget negotiations. It was no accident that his State of the Nation speech was as it was. He made it as New Zealand First Leader, not as Deputy ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the last week included:Former Labour Finance Minister Grant Robertson bowed out of politics this week, giving a series of exit ...
Graham Adams writes — If you love the law or sausages, as the saying goes, best not to look too closely at how they are made. And after watching the orgy of self-pity when Newshub’s closure was announced on February 28, television journalism should definitely be added to the list of those ...
Venerable New Zealand political commentator, Chris Trotter (https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/), is a sad creature these days. Once one of the most reliable Leftist writers out there – Economic Left at that – Trotter seems to have absorbed the worldview of Auckland culture-war obsessives. It is not for me to categorise what he ...
The cruelty of short-term memory loss is that each time you ask where she is, you get the fresh shock and grief of the news. That was Dad's day yesterday.Comfortingly, it seems to be less so today. Last night he looked crumpled, today he seems more settled. There's a card ...
Photo by Alvan Nee on UnsplashIt’s that new day of the week (Thursday rather than Friday) when and I co-host our ‘hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kākā for an hour at 5 pm. Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream for our chat about the week’s news ...
The Coalition Government’s plan to ‘get Auckland moving’ is a cuts cover-up that will ultimately cost Aucklanders more to move around the city, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
Slashing the Ministry of Pacific Peoples by 40% will have a devastating impact on pacific communities and further highlights how little this government cares about anything other than cutting taxes for the wealthiest few. ...
Labour has proposed an urgent inquiry to investigate the ever-increasing profits of supermarkets, aiming to lower costs for shoppers and food producers alike, says Labour Spokesperson for Commerce and Consumer Affairs Arena Williams and Primary Production Spokesperson Cushla Tangaere-Manuel. ...
With 14% of jobs on the line at the Ministry for Ethnic Communities, the responsible Minister Melissa Lee is failing to stand up for the very communities she’s meant to be representing. ...
COURT OF APPEAL: TRIFECTA OF VICTORY FOR NZ FIRST, TRIFECTA OF FAILURE FOR OPPONENTS For the third time since April 2020, New Zealand First has defeated the Serious Fraud Office and all those complicit in a malicious attack against a political party going about its lawful business in a lawful ...
The Green Party stands with people who live in public housing, people in dire housing need, experts and advocates in demanding better than the Government’s archaic approach to housing those who need our support the most. ...
New Zealand has recently lost the hosting rights of some major international sporting events including the America’s Cup, the Rugby Championship, Netball World Cup, and the Wellington Sevens. We are now at a huge risk of losing SailGP as well. And it won’t stop there. The recent issues with SailGP ...
A Member’s Bill drawn this week would modernise insurance law and make things fairer and more transparent for consumers, Christchurch Central MP Duncan Webb said. ...
The Minister for Disability Issues has confirmed she was aware of funding issues in mid-December and did nothing to stop it. On 14 March, she signed off on changes that were announced and implemented on 18 March without any consultation with disability communities. ...
Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter says her members' bill is an opportunity for the coalition government to plug the gap in electric vehicle incentives. ...
The National Government continues to talk about irresponsible tax cuts that will only drive up inflation, despite the country entering a technical recession. ...
The Minister for Disability Issues must act urgently to reinstate flexibility around the funding for disability support and apologise to disabled carers. ...
This story has been initiated by a leftie shill reporter who proactively sought to call a member of a former band, which disbanded twelve years ago, give their biased appraisal of what was said in my speech, and concocted a ham-fisted attempt at a story that does nothing but show ...
The Government has accepted Labour’s change to the Road User Charge (RUC) discount for hybrid vehicles, meaning there will still be some incentive for people to buy greener vehicles. ...
Many in the mainstream media have taken what was said in New Zealand First’s State of the Nation Speech in Palmerston North on Sunday and deliberately, deceitfully, and ignorantly misrepresented what I said and why I said it. The headlines and commentary on the news stated that I compared ‘co-governance ...
Kicking the most vulnerable people out of state housing and pushing them towards homelessness will result in a proliferation of poverty and trauma across our most vulnerable communities. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader and MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi has penned a letter asking MPs to support his members bill to remove GST from all food. The bill is expected to go through its first reading in parliament this Wednesday. “I’m calling on all political parties to support my ...
Good afternoon. Thank you for, in your very busy lives, turning up to this meeting today. On October 14th last year New Zealanders overwhelmingly voted for change. That is exactly what this new government is bringing. New Zealand First campaigned to ‘take back our country’ and stop the disastrous economic ...
This year is about getting real with Kiwis and discussing the tough issues, as the National Government exacerbates inequality and divides New Zealand, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said ...
The Government adding Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) to its already roaring environmental policy bonfire is an assault on the future of wildlife that makes Aotearoa unique. ...
After 12 years of fighting to protect our moana we are finding ourselves back at square one and back at court. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is sitting in Hawera to reconsider an application from Trans-Tasman Resources to dig up 50 million tonnes of the seabed in South Taranaki. This ...
Minister Shane Jones’ decision to step away from a seabed mining project is evidence of the murky waters surrounding the Government’s fast-track legislation. ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The Coalition Government’s miscalculation saga continues as it has forgotten an eyewatering $90 million gap in its interest deductibility cost figures, say Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds and Revenue Spokesperson Deborah Russell. ...
He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission has today released advice that says if the Government doesn’t act now New Zealand is at risk of not meeting its climate goals. ...
The Coalition Government has today confirmed it is abandoning first home buyers who are struggling to get ahead, says Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds. ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed the passing of legislation to move light electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) into the road user charges system from 1 April. “It was always intended that EVs and PHEVs would be exempt from road user charges until they reached two ...
New Zealand is strengthening its ability to combat illegal fishing outside its domestic waters and beef up regulation for its own commercial fishers in international waters through a Bill which had its first reading in Parliament today. The Fisheries (International Fishing and Other Matters) Amendment Bill 2023 sets out stronger ...
Economists Carl Hansen and Professor Prasanna Gai have been appointed to the Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Committee, Finance Minister Nicola Willis announced today. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is the independent decision-making body that sets the Official Cash Rate which determines interest rates. Carl Hansen, the executive director of Capital ...
Apartment owners and buyers will soon have greater protections as further changes to the law on unit titles come into effect, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “The Unit Titles (Strengthening Body Corporate Governance and Other Matters) Amendment Act had already introduced some changes in December 2022 and May 2023, and ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters will travel to Egypt and Europe from this weekend. “This travel will focus on a range of New Zealand’s traditional diplomatic and security partnerships while enabling broad engagement on the urgent situation in Gaza,” Mr Peters says. Mr Peters will attend the NATO Foreign ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown is encouraging all road users to stay safe, plan their journeys ahead of time, and be patient with other drivers while travelling around this Easter long weekend. “Road safety is a responsibility we all share, and with increased traffic on our roads expected this Easter we ...
About 1.4 million New Zealanders will receive cost of living relief through increased government assistance from April 1 909,000 pensioners get a boost to Superannuation, including 5000 veterans 371,000 working-age beneficiaries will get higher payments 45,000 students will see an increase in their allowance Over a quarter of New Zealanders ...
Ensuring social housing is being provided to those with the greatest needs is front of mind as the Government restarts social housing tenancy reviews, Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka says. “Our relentless focus on building a strong economy is to ensure we can deliver better public services such as social ...
The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary will not go ahead, with Cabinet deciding to stop work on the proposed reserve and remove the Bill that would have established it from Parliament’s order paper. “The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill would have created a 620,000 sq km economic no-go zone,” Oceans and Fisheries Minister ...
Dam safety regulations are being amended so that smaller dams won’t be subject to excessive compliance costs, Minister for Building and Construction Chris Penk says. “The coalition Government is focused on reducing costs and removing unnecessary red tape so we can get the economy back on track. “Dam safety regulations ...
The coalition Government is expanding the medium-scale adverse event classification to parts of the North Island as dry weather conditions persist, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced today. “I have made the decision to expand the medium-scale adverse event classification already in place for parts of the South Island to also cover the ...
The passing of legislation giving effect to coalition Government tax commitments has been welcomed by Finance Minister Nicola Willis. “The Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill will help place New Zealand on a more secure economic footing, improve outcomes for New Zealanders, and make our tax system ...
Science, Innovation and Technology Minister Judith Collins and Tertiary Education and Skills Minister Penny Simmonds today announced plans to transform our science and university sectors to boost the economy. Two advisory groups, chaired by Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, will advise the Government on how these sectors can play a greater ...
The Budget will deliver urgently-needed tax relief to hard-working New Zealanders while putting the government’s finances back on a sustainable track, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The Finance Minister made the comments at the release of the Budget Policy Statement setting out the Government’s Budget objectives. “The coalition Government intends ...
The coalition Government will look at options to address a zoning issue that limits how much financial support Queenstown residents can get for accommodation. Cabinet has agreed on a response to the Petitions Committee, which had recommended the geographic information MSD uses to determine how much accommodation supplement can be ...
Cabinet has agreed to a short extension to the final reporting timeframe for the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care from 28 March 2024 to 26 June 2024, Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden says. “The Royal Commission wrote to me on 16 February 2024, requesting that I consider an ...
The coalition Government is delivering an $18 million boost to New Zealanders needing to travel for specialist health treatment, Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says. “These changes are long overdue – the National Travel Assistance (NTA) scheme saw its last increase to mileage and accommodation rates way back in 2009. ...
The Government is recognising the innovative and rising talent in New Zealand’s growing space sector, with the Prime Minister and Space Minister Judith Collins announcing the new Prime Minister’s Prizes for Space today. “New Zealand has a growing reputation as a high-value partner for space missions and research. I am ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has confirmed New Zealand’s concerns about cyber activity have been conveyed directly to the Chinese Government. “The Prime Minister and Minister Collins have expressed concerns today about malicious cyber activity, attributed to groups sponsored by the Chinese Government, targeting democratic institutions in both New ...
Independent Reviewers appointed for School Property Inquiry Education Minister Erica Stanford today announced the appointment of three independent reviewers to lead the Ministerial Inquiry into the Ministry of Education’s School Property Function. The Inquiry will be led by former Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully. “There is a clear need ...
State Highway 1 across the Brynderwyns will be open for Easter weekend, with work currently underway to ensure the resilience of this critical route being paused for Easter Weekend to allow holiday makers to travel north, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Today I visited the Brynderwyn Hills construction site, where ...
Introduction Good morning to you all, and thanks for having me bright and early today. I am absolutely delighted to be the Minister for Infrastructure alongside the Minister of Housing and Resource Management Reform. I know the Prime Minister sees the three roles as closely connected and he wants me ...
New Zealand stands with the United Kingdom in its condemnation of People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-backed malicious cyber activity impacting its Electoral Commission and targeting Members of the UK Parliament. “The use of cyber-enabled espionage operations to interfere with democratic institutions and processes anywhere is unacceptable,” Minister Responsible for ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Defence Minister Judith Collins today announced New Zealand will provide logistics support for the upcoming Solomon Islands election. “We’re sending a team of New Zealand Defence Force personnel and two NH90 helicopters to provide logistics support for the election on 17 April, at the request ...
The European Union Free Trade Agreement Legislation Amendment Bill received Royal Assent today, completing the process for New Zealand’s ratification of its free trade agreement with the European Union. “I am pleased to announce that today, in a small ceremony at the Beehive, New Zealand notified the European Union ...
Public consultation on the terms of reference for the Royal Commission into COVID-19 Lessons has concluded, Internal Affairs Minister Hon Brooke van Velden says. “I have been advised that there were over 11,000 submissions made through the Royal Commission’s online consultation portal.” Expanding the scope of the Royal Commission of ...
Hardworking families are set to benefit from a new credit to help them meet their early childcare education (ECE) costs, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. From 1 July, parents and caregivers of young children will be supported to manage the rising cost of living with a partial reimbursement of their ...
A specialised Independent Technical Advisory Group (ITAG) tasked with preparing and publishing independent non-binding advice on the design of a "green" (sustainable finance) taxonomy rulebook is being established, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. “Comprising experts and market participants, the ITAG's primary goal is to deliver comprehensive recommendations to the ...
Defence Minister Judith Collins has thanked the Chief of Army, Major General John Boswell, DSD, for his service as he leaves the Army after 40 years. “I would like to thank Major General Boswell for his contribution to the Army and the wider New Zealand Defence Force, undertaking many different ...
25 March 2024 Minister to meet Australian counterparts and Manufacturing Industry Leaders Small Business, Manufacturing, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly will travel to Australia for a series of bi-lateral meetings and manufacturing visits. During the visit, Minister Bayly will meet with his Australian counterparts, Senator Tim Ayres, Ed ...
Government commits almost $3 million for period products in schools The Coalition Government has committed $2.9 million to ensure intermediate and secondary schools continue providing period products to those who need them, Minister of Education Erica Stanford announced today. “This is an issue of dignity and ensuring young women don’t ...
Good morning, it’s great to be here. First, I would like to acknowledge the New Zealand Institute of Building Surveyors and thank you for the opportunity to be here this morning. I would like to use this opportunity to outline the Government’s ambitious plan and what we hope to ...
Minister for Pacific Peoples Dr Shane Reti has announced the Government’s commitment to the Auckland Secondary Schools Māori and Pacific Islands Cultural Festival, more commonly known as Polyfest. “The Ministry for Pacific Peoples is a longtime supporter of Polyfest and, as it celebrates 49 years in 2024, I’m proud to ...
Before moving onto the substance of today’s address, I want to recognise the very significant and ongoing contribution the Breast Cancer Foundation makes to support the lives of New Zealand women and their families living with breast cancer. I very much enjoy working with you. I also want to recognise ...
New Zealand has notched up a first with the launch of University of Canterbury research to the International Space Station, Science, Innovation and Technology and Space Minister Judith Collins says. The hardware, developed by Dr Sarah Kessans, is designed to operate autonomously in orbit, allowing scientists on Earth to study ...
Introduction Thank you for inviting me to speak with you today and I’m sorry I can’t be there in person. Yesterday I started in Wellington for Breakfast TV, spoke to a property conference in Auckland, and finished the day speaking to local government in Christchurch, so it would have been ...
The Coalition Government is contributing more than $1 million to support the establishment of an emergency multi-agency coordination centre in Northland. Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell announced the contribution today during a visit of the Whangārei site where the facility will be constructed. “Northland has faced a number ...
New Zealanders have enjoyed a broader range of voices telling the story of Aotearoa thanks to the creation of Whakaata Māori 20 years ago, says Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka. The minister spoke at a celebration marking the national indigenous media organisation’s 20th anniversary at their studio in Auckland on ...
Commercial catch limits for some fisheries have been increased following a review showing stocks are healthy and abundant, Ocean and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The changes, along with some other catch limit changes and management settings, begin coming into effect from 1 April 2024. "Regular biannual reviews of fish ...
Opposition MPs and unions are criticising a proposal by New Zealand’s Ministry of Pacific Peoples to cut staff by 40 percent. The country’s largest trade union — The Public Service Association — says the ministry has informed staff that it is looking to shed 63 of 156 positions. Opposition MPs ...
A poem by Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 featured poet Carin Smeaton. Daughtr of the 90s when she gets promoted to usherette a baby blu eel carries her all the way up to mothership she’s hovering high she lets the underaged in to see keanu reeves she lets the only lonely ...
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Keith Rankin, trained as an economic historian, is a retired lecturer in Economics and Statistics. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand. My earlier article – Can ‘Good’ be the Greater Evil? – looked at the issue of how wars should end, and how Good versus Evil ...
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.AUCKLAND1 AMMA by Saraid de Silva (Moa Press, $38)A stunning debut novel reviewed by Brannavan ...
From Steve Martin to Ricky Stanicky, a pick’n’mix of things worth watching and listening to this long weekend. This is an excerpt from our weekly pop culture newsletter Rec Room. Sign up here. If you’re at a loss for something to occupy yourself with this Easter, don’t panic: The Spinoff’s got ...
Jesus had dinner with his 12 disciples right before he died. Noted historian Madeleine Chapman finds out who really deserved to be there.First published in 2018 but let’s be honest, the subject is timeless. As you sit on your couch this Easter Sunday, eating a chocolate egg you know ...
The newly-promoted Northern League club is on a mission to return to the National League for the first time in two decades. Plenty about domestic football in New Zealand has changed in that time – but the sense that this amateur competition is not an entirely level playing field remains. ...
Auckland Council has put a deadline on new weather-impacted property owners applying for categorisation as government funding looks set to run out. Councillors have voted to support a deadline of September 30 for property owners who haven’t accessed support to come forward and engage with the council’s recovery office. It ...
NONFICTION 1 BBQ Economics by Liam Dann (Penguin Random House, $40) “It’s official,” wrote Dann nine days ago in the Herald, where he works as business editor at large, “we’re in recession.” Yeah, great. He delivered the bad stats: “GDP fell 0.1 percent in the December 2023 quarter, compared with ...
Comment: Every year on February 2, a dozen men in tuxedos and top hats approach the burrow of a groundhog in Gobbler’s Knob, Pennsylvania and entice the beaver-like rodent to emerge and predict the weather. If the groundhog, named Punxsutawney Phil, sees its own shadow when it is summoned, legend ...
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By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter A petition urging the New Zealand government to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people has been tabled in the House. More than 200 people gathered on Parliament’s forecourt today and they were met by MPs from Labour, the Greens and Te ...
Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog RSF (Reporters Without Borders) has appealed for information about the “disappearance” of Palestinian journalist Bayan Abusultan. She was reportedly last seen on March 19 among people “sequestered” in this week’s raid and siege of Al Shifa hospital by Israeli troops in ...
EDITORIAL:The Jakarta Post It happens again and again; indigenous Papuans fall victim to Indonesian soldiers. This time, we have photographic evidence for the brutality, with videos on social media showing a Papuan man being tortured by a group of plainclothes men alleged to be the Indonesian Military (TNI) members. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robyn J. Whitaker, Director of the Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy & Associate Professor, New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity A strange and eclectic range of activities takes place across these few weeks of the year. Some ...
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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
.
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
.
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
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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.
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.