I no longer listen to Morning Report.
Espiner is another paid puppet and a collaborator of the neoliberal regime.
History will not be kind to such traitors.
What I find doubly hilarious is that they have a State controlled Public broadcaster and it is still not enough for some lefties. I am sure these people won’t be happy until they have a state appointed editorial board which will review the days output to ensure no “political bias” is present.
@Gosman
You would have to go back about 80 years to find exactly that situation in New Zealand.
The State had taken control of all the radio stations once the Labour Government came to power in 1935. In the late 1930s the radio news bulletin was written in the PMs office and had to be broadcast exactly as it was written.
“In 1937 Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage set up an Official News Service, under which all radio news bulletins were to be compiled and issued from the Prime Minister’s Department. Radio news only became largely independent of political control with the establishment of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) in 1962.” https://teara.govt.nz/en/media-and-politics/print
Those were the days, my friend. Don’t you think that the current lot would like to do exactly the same thing again?
Cleangreen at 1.1.2 just below certainly seems to think so.
The political control of radio stations existed before labour won in 1935
“On the night of 24 November 1935, radio engineers employed by the Post and Telegraph Department deliberately jammed a popular religious programme by Colin Scrimgeour, commonly known as ‘Uncle Scrim’, just as he started to talk about the upcoming election. The engineers had been instructed to do so by their superior, on the grounds that Scrimgeour was likely to urge his listeners to vote for Labour…
same link as yours Alwyn
Of course nationals influence in the major newspapers continued till the 90s
It apppears now that RNZ has now been ‘capured’ by the corporate interests entirely’ and is now a spin doctor for their own whim and to kill off the new Labour/NZF/Greens coalition.
Labour needs to take control of this renigade public service media now before they suffer election defeat again.
What gets me is if you listen to some of the commentators on here (fortunately the minority) its almost as if they want NZ to be part of the USA, they want the proletariat to rise up and smash the capitalist state, they want NZ to break free from…what exactly
Whereas if NZ really was like how they want or imagine it to be then benefits would be cut, there’d be virtually no state housing, hospitals would have no supplies etc etc
I’d say its almost like rebels without a cause but more like rebels without a clue
NZ is a great place to live and while, for some, its not so good its also a place where you can make something of yourself if you’re willing to apply yourself
“NZ is a great place to live and while, for some, its not so good its also a place where you can make something of yourself if you’re willing to apply yourself”
If you really believe that I’d suggest you’re very much inwards looking. It can be a great place if you were born into a middle class household and wanted for nothing while you grew up. For those born on struggle street, not so much.
I was born into a working class family but yes i do admit to having the advantage of having two parents that loved me and tried to do their best for me
However I still, and will always, stand by the comment that NZ is one of the best places in the world to be born in
The problem is you have the naive and gullible posters on here who actually believe that NZ is one of the worst places on earth because of what others post on here and then post absolutely ridiculous things like charging people with treason and vague implications like up against the wall
When Labour was in opposition it was all about how bad NZ was and how only Labour could fix it, you think in the 2020 Labour will still say how bad NZ is or did Labour somehow fix all the problems in three years
Nope it’ll be how good NZ is and any problems will be because of National
I think you’ll find most leftist commenters here haven’t been talking about how Labour will fix everything.
A few will hate Labour as tory splitters, no matter what, and actually prefer national governments in the theory that enough tory rule will lead to revolution (of whatever level of violence, depending on how their swaggering boasts measure up against their timidity and introspection).
Some view Labour as the least-worst option, a temporary slight respite between regressive national governments.
Some think the correct machination or whinge will turn Labour into a party that will just wipe the slate clean and rewrite all the laws for a socialist paradise.
Others, like me, tend to agree with Labour’s incrementalist approach, wary of whether it will continue but generally approving of the measures so far, and hopeful the Greens will keep pushing Labour left.
But I’m not sure even the most active Labour supporters here argue that Labour will solve everything, especially this term.
Nah. The ones who are so far into youtube channels that they end up supporting trump, putin, AND arguing that Labour are filthy tory swine. Those are the ones I wouldn’t be surprised reading about in the newspaper.
Your average revolutionary socialist becomes decidedly incrementalist as soon as they have a kid and a mortgage (one reason home ownership rates are an important measure of social stability, IMO).
The ones who can read the matrix as it scrolls by and never learned about playing well with others are the ones who can’t deal with the fact that people have different opinions, and it’s the degree of difference that means you can’t work with them (not the simple existence of a differing opinion).
I don’t see that as a problem here PR. Every forum has its soapbox sopranos and you’ve been around long enought to realise they only speak for themselves.
At least on this site many attempt to walk in other people’s shoes. We may not always get it right, but we make the effort. The likes of Kiwiblog are inhabited by curled lip sneerers which doesn’t make it a pleasant place.
+100% I wish they would f off and set up their own blog as i have to scribe down the page to try to find some sensible comments, they have got more time and money than they have sense and now we have another clown come along Baby Gaga whoever the f he is ?
Have we got the Troll Trifecta already today I wonder if we can get the Troll Pick Six today by 12.00am, we need to flush out babygaga and the rest of their cronies
Ed – you open yourself up to easy hits and RW trolling by making such OTT statements.
Fact is:
– Any ‘collaboration’ by Espiner is pretty much unconscious on his part and complex in its origins and manifestations
– None of us knows what history will do to any of us. We live inside history.
I am assuming you are genuine, but overwrought – rather than a caricature of a lefty intentionally designed to provide trolling opportunities to others
Just to follow on from this (I agree with you by the way) there are some posters on here that can actually convince me that maybe I could think of things in a slightly different way
I won’t name their names so as not to embarrass them (*cough cough Kewa and Gobert Ruyton) but the way they can convince me is not by hyperbole and emotional arguments but by reason and logic and by focusing on single issue arguments
So, no different from the RWNJs here on TS where there hardly is a coherent comment in sight, just negativity and self-absorbed gibberish. That said, here on TS they don’t get away with it while the MSM feeds (on) the negativity of National politicians and their rowdy supporters.
I think that statement is completely coherent.
It might be crazy but it is crazy in a coherent way.
If you want something that is crazy in an incoherent way I would suggest an example such as this sentence.
” That said, here on TS they don’t get away with it while the MSM feeds (on) the negativity of National politicians and their rowdy supporters.”
The crucial difference is that the equivalent characters on the right are seen as Cabinet material. Collins, Bennett, etc etc, and we wait to see who will be your latest Capill or Titford.
Clark Titman (not Titford) was a member of the National Party. It would be fair to say many Nats were not very happy about it. Those were the days of Keith Holyoake, Jack Marshall, Brian Talboys and others… mostly well regarded politicians across the board – if a little too conservative for my liking.
Capill was leader of the Christian Heritage Party which didn’t survive the scandal of course.
What evidence do you have that he really was a member of the National Party?
It is of course quite possible. At the time the National Party had a membership of more than 250,000 I believe.
On the other hand why would any of the leaders care in the slightest about some low-level member?
It appears I got the wrong Tit – man.
However to answer your questions… Clark Titman was very much a member of the National Party. He lived on the North Shore and made a name for himself as a right wing agitator. He was very pro the Vietnam War – among other things – and his somewhat extreme behaviour were sometimes embarrassing for National. Iirc, he was eventually disbarred form National events and meetings.
Chill out Mr. Angry. Gosman was holding Ed and C/G up as “crazy and incoherent lefties”. If the Left has to answer for them, the Right has to own Capill and Titford. Nothing disingenuous in that.
If you compare them with the current Green MPs they are certainly mainstream by New Zealand standards.
The MPs on the other hand would be some brackish little creek.
Did you mean Allan Titford or that Titman character Anne mentions?
I fail to see that either of them had anything to do with the National Party as Anne claims however.
Titman seems to have been harmless whereas Titford seems to be an A-grade nut.
And I never said that you claimed they were National.
I said that Anne had claimed it, at least about Titman.
If you look at what I said it was “as Anne claims however.”.
I put this comment to you because I was curious about who you meant. Was it Allan Titford or Clark Titman?
Or someone else altogether?
Where do those people come from, and how do they get like that?
Good question. The brain adapts to dishonesty via the amygdala, which also has a vital role in racism. Low intelligence is also a factor, but so are authoritarian tendencies and limited exposure to “out-groups”. Our peers are our “primary socialisers” (not our parents, apparently).
Whether these are the defining characteristics of Titford’s pathology is another thing entirely. Is it a more extreme example of the behaviour displayed by Don Brash, or people who vote for the abolition of the Māori seats and the “Iwi/Kiwi” hate speech? Toxic masculinity also appears to be a factor, and there’s plenty of that around.
It is interesting looking back at National’s ‘honeymoon’. The media fawned over John Key for years, they had their heads so far up Key’s arse at the Herald they probably had their board meetings there. It took a very long time for the media to see through him…. some never did.
Finally the first train leaves Napier under the labour/NZF regional funding boost after National had closed the line following a storm and caused public anger over a six year lack of rail services.
The train left for Wairoa in a bid to restore the Napier/Gisborne regional rail service on 8th June 2018.
Full marks to the new labour/NZF/Greens coalition efforts here was felt by all residents.
We had a busy few days in Napier last week.
On Wednesday, we made our final submission to the NCC Long Term Plan, and then we attended the opening ceremony for the rail line north.
We were well received by Peter Reidy who referred to the tenacity of Alan (Dick) and Ken that set the ball rolling.
Previously, Alan had challenged Peter Reidy to drive the road and that gave him an understanding of the importance of taking trucks off the road.
Shane Jones said he had not given up on the Gisborne end of the line, so Ken gave him a copy of the full page ad in the GH to remind him of the business potential.
They did a really good job using the event for maximum media coverage on the rail line.
HB Today also did an article on our submission, and neatly tied it in with increasing rail would lower the heavy traffic problem.
I encountered this when looking for a home for an aged relative. DHB contracted rest homes all have a maximum price they can charge, it’s negotiated as a collective agreeement annually. It’s around $1100 per week at the moment for rest home care.
They get around this by charging for ‘extras’ such as ensuites and try to create an environment where the extras are the norm. I met ensuite rates of $15-30 per day and when one considers ensuite is just a fancy name for your own bathroom $105-$210 a week for a shitter and shower is a little over the top.
It is very good and as a bonus I’m also hoping it will give the Greens the go ahead to oppose Winstons waka bill
Mind you this issue needs to be sorted:
‘So far, no courts had used the full power of the law, to sentence offenders on their third strike to the maximum sentence without the chance of parole.’
The wording is not all that direct, negotiate in good faith or something.
What that means no me, is no blanket refusals but a deal can be made.
What is more important in the scheme of things, some thing like the ‘slowdown’ in oil and gas drilling or a waka jumping legislation.
NZ First has had particular problems in the waka jumping area as its a small party and a few Mps jumping could change the result of the election.
Its starting to occur in german states too, something that was once unthinkable
If you want dumb political thinking we can show you the meth testing debacle which national ministers were in the thick off.
Another was the decision back in 2012 NOT to build a replacement for the manawatu gorge highway.
Winnie was getting spooked by the polls, the thought of seeing Farrar’s list of 2 strikers out on the streets, and the open letter in today’s Herald. You can criticise Peters for a lot of things, but stupid he is not.
Hope he doesn’t start banging on about abolishing the Maori seats when he becomes PM and he focuses on the big picture, no doubt the MSM will be laying some traps for him.
Of course, NZ1st may support the removal of the Three Strikes law:
NZ First leader Winston Peters said the party would reveal its long-term position on three-strikes following its caucus meeting on Tuesday.
“The caucus looks forward to working with him on achieving a balanced reform package,” Peters said.
NZ First said it did not support Little’s initial proposal to repeal the law as part of a modest package of changes to the criminal justice system, which were due to go to Cabinet for consideration on Monday.
But Peters was yet to say whether the party would back a repeal further down the line, when Little put forward widespread proposed reforms following the establishment of an advisory group, and a summit later in the year.
So, yeah, we will most likely see the removal later. It just seems to be NZ1st waiting to do the full package rather than doing it piece meal. They do have a point in that doing the full package will most likely result in better overall legislation but leaving the Three Strikes as is is a bad idea.
“Sanity prevails on 3 strikes”
Well, it’s politically sane but criminologically insane.
We just have to accept that the vindictiveness of Kiwis makes doing the right thing politically impossible. We aren’t prepared to leave it to the judge’s discretion but want maximum vengeance extracted even if it’s disproportionate.
Have to say I am baffled by this aspect of our national psyche – agreeable enough on the surface, but some dark sh*t going on underneath.
When this sort of crap goes on, I give up on politics for a while and work in the garden or go for a walk (easy for me as I’m not the one taking the hit).
It would be very kind of the Capitalists if they would explain why more and more money goes to fewer and fewer people under the Capitalist Cult.
I have asked and asked this question but it produces no response from the little chaps on here that hate the people who do the real work in Aotearoa.
Before the Capitalist Cult here got so completely selfish and glutunous, people used to be able to buy a non leaky non mouldy 3 bedroom home on a single salary. But the Gosman and James lot has done away with that.
Ummm… did you follow the links to the data on that post you linked to? That also backs up my view that nothing much has changed overall for the past 20 years. LIS (which is what you are referencing essentially) is about the same as it was 20 years ago. It certainly hasn’t got a lot worse. Once again thanks for providing info that backs MY view up. 🙂
LIS (which is what you are referencing essentially) is about the same as it was 20 years ago. It certainly hasn’t got a lot worse.
The LIS dropping from 65% to 55% is it getting a lot worse with it showing, quite clearly, that more and more of the money is going to fewer and fewer people.
No the LIS seems to have stabilised around the 55 to 60% mark over the past 20 years. It certainly isn’t moving down on a sustained basis which is what you generally bang on about Draco.
Of course your not. That would prove that you’re lying by picking dates that almost make it look like what’s happening isn’t happening.
As the people at the top own more they have more of the income. That’s how capitalism works. That’s why it always creates poverty and eventually collapses society.
Society simply cannot work where a few people own everything.
For some really good news today. https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/104583866/wellington-regions-transmission-gully-project-hits-halfway-mark
We’ve only been waiting for about 55 years.
I’ll bet all the Wellington based Labour MPs will be pressuring the NZTA to schedule an opening ceremony before the 2020 election, regardless of the point the construction has reached, so that they can claim how the building the road was all due to their efforts and how wonderful they all are.
Those with good memories will of course be saying
“Thank you, Stephen Joyce”.
Joyce and English had an ‘early opening’ for the Waterview Tunnels in spite of the project getting its go ahead in 2008 before the election.
Joyce famously pulled the plug on ‘tunnels’ and forced them to go back to trenches and bridges before sanity prevailed and the Construction companies said it would consume all of NZs construction resources, so back to tunnels all the way it was but bigger and more expensive.
“Joyce and English had an ‘early opening’ for the Waterview Tunnels”.
Such a thing doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. They were politicians after all.
There is a general rule for politicians.
Take total credit for everything that is popular, even if it was all the work of your opponents.
Blame your opponents for anything unpopular, even if they had nothing to do with it.
I admit that I have never commented on the subject of the Waterview Tunnel. My total knowledge of the thing is that it is in Auckland. I think it is South of the Bridge and North of the Airport. I have no idea at all what road it is on or where that road goes. To a resident of Wellington it is irrelevant.
I have a distinct interest in the road that runs North from Wellington though. I only hope that they continue the work up to Levin. I travel that route you see. The Kapiti Expressway, which is finished, is great.
An excellent choice.
I must advise you though that I am taller and much better looking than Arnold. Better teeth too.
The muscular frame is about right though. Of course I never used steroids.
I should note that my full name is “Alwyn Modest XXXXXX”.
Do the residents know how much the tolls will be.
And will they find a monster traffic jam once they arrive at the existing SH1 motorway just before Tawa ?
Transmission Gully is supposed to be more earthquake proof than the existing road, but of course the gully it travels up is an existing fault line and lots of buildings that were built under new earthquake codes have been found to be a low standard. Steep slopes are almost impossible to engineer against major earthquakes
Total “hate in” today on the standard. So much fun. Good to see apologist joining in the fun as well, can always trust the so called moderate liberals to join the Tories.
I imagine you’re pissing yourself with laughter Goz.
We have a state (i.e. tex payer FUNDED) public broadcaster – albeit with one or two stacked hack appointees (going forward). The keyword ‘service’ that is increasingly being lost amid the neoliberal religion/dogma/faith
Then, as an alternative, people in the ‘non-state’ private sector who profess an alternate view. There, we have corporate funded media (albeit, at times with financial bailouts from Tex Payer – because, well you know…..business is deserving of welfare, whereas taxpayer-funded public beneficiaries are undeserving – even though they’re providing the filthy mullah).
Gatekeepers in both. Both with agendas
Feel free to laugh your arse off. In both cases, we’ve lost the ability to differentiate between a Public and its interests, (and the financial imperatives of a ‘State’ that professes to represent that public), and the Corporation which only has a financial interest in providing a return to their shareholders and who will do whatever to protect it.
Shame when it all goes tits up eh?
And when it does, do we give any credibility to the corporate interest(s), or to an alternative that at the very least provides up with an opportunity once in a while to tell them to fuck off.
Btw, aren’t you due to clock off about now?
In response to Gos somewhere above – again, one of those little ‘bugs’
Not really.
She managed to forget the methmyth bullshit squarely landing at the nats’ door, and drawn out by collins.
And Bolger heading up the Fair Pay Agreement working group.
But if winning a safe seat with a much reduced majority gets them “fizzing”, the day that side of the House do something exceptional they’ll be a major explosive hazard.
They all do @TT. I made the mistake of watching Max Headroom live from Singapore, with Corin Dann as a sidekick-cum-expert-sage on ONE News. You know…. “Your News” or whatever it is these days. Already, after a couple of days, apparently they’re already also experts in the local surroundings.
May I say though, (for the celebrity pages) that Max Headroom is looking incredibly more silver-haired these days, and perhaps even a little gaunt. And, and, and, and!! Corin’s suit was looking a little rumpled. In fact it looked eggsekly like the one he was wearing yesterday. Ew!
Back to the sensible Wendy’s in the studio for some reality and some other news.
Btw @TT- do you know if Max Headroom and Corin are dressed by Barkers or Hallensteins.
I noticed Max had a rather gorgeous looking fitted white shirt going forward.
I did rather like the way he presented himself in the style of the BBC reporters that fronted overnight as well. Well done Max!
We all have memories of nine bitter miserable years of total hardsjhip for 99% while the one percent enriched themselves on the hardship of the poor and defenceless.
Now a better future of fairness awaits as the share of our wealth is being redistributed amongst us all.
I have good feelings life now has some promise and hope.
you are enjoying the ‘National Party ilussion of better times for all’ it appears.
you appear to suffer from blindness, and was insulated from reality!!!!!!
When pictures of people being evicted from their homes while those state house s were given for peanuts to national’s supporting mates to make a killing on the speculative property market and left those families homless and shivering to death in abandoned cars or on streets so did you care?
I did seriously feel very sad to see the carnage National mettered out on the poor & sick and older folk suffering along with the homeless.
No i am not enjoying any nat illusions, and i do care a lot for people, just laughing at the idiotic stuff you write. “Total hardship” for “99%”. No, there is just nothing but derision that i can offer in response.
This article from the Australia ABC News website might of interest for those why it’s been wetter than usual in parts of NZ aka West Coast of both Islands and parts of the Deep South. As all the Australian autumn rains aren’t hitting its usual areas in mainland Australia, but have moved further Sth an usual hitting parts of Tassie, Southern Victoria and of course NZ.
Propagandists Not Journalists
Exhibit 2: HERBERT BUCHSBAUM of the New York Times
It surely does not surprise that the Times provides yeoman’s service for Israeli hasbara. Indeed, one reads Times coverage not to be better informed but from quaint curiosity: How will it filter the damning facts to make them more palatable to its target audience on the Upper East Side?
What happened is not in doubt. As the young woman, dressed in her white medical uniform and with her hands raised in the air, approached an injured protester, she was shot dead by an Israeli sniper.
A few days later, Israeli hasbara released a video purporting to show that al-Najjar was a Hamas dupe and Hamas human shield. The video contained a clip from a past interview in which she is quoted as saying: “I am here on the front line and I act as a human shield.” In fact, the Israeli video falsified al-Najjar’s words. Her actual statement was: “I’m acting as a human rescue shield to protect the injured inside the armistice line.”
If there was a news story here, it should have been headlined, “Israel Releases Doctored Video to Justify Murder of Gaza Paramedic.”
But Times reporter Herbert Buchsbaum instead deployed the Israeli video to sow doubt on the incontrovertible facts (“Israeli Video Portrays Medic Killed in Gaza as Hamas Tool,” 7 June). Even as it shocks and disgusts, still, this second assassination of Razan al-Najjar fits the standard Times template….
“A promised funding boost for RNZ was the centrepiece of Labour’s broadcasting policy during last year’s election, but it will have to wait.
RNZ will have to wait longer to find out whether it will get a funding boost and how much that will be.
However, Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran said the Government was still committed to increasing annual funding for public media by at least $38 million during its first term.
The Government disappointed lobby group Better Public Media by setting aside only $15m in the Budget this year to pay for initiatives “to support the contribution of public media to an informed democracy”.
Curran said it had not been possible for the Government to do everything it wanted in one budget.
A decision is expected within weeks on how much of the $15m might go to RNZ, and how much might be allocated to other media companies for other initiatives through NZ On Air.”
Clare Curran needs to be removed now from her Broadcasting portfolio as she is irresponsible and is damaging the government now.
Curran has harmed labour, for all the loss of labour policy of presenting a fair free independent platform for the public to hear and respond to ant issues yet as the other media portals are not giving us public any coverage on any TV networks and only region newspapers are giving us any coverage but RNZ or no other TV networks are giving us our public voice so far in the first year of the new government operation of the media.
Labour have truly missed the chance to give us a fair free independent news and current affairs public media yet so their issues are not being aired in a fair manner still because RNZ is run by National and the rest of the media are owned by corporations so labour have not given us their promised “fair, free independent public media as they promised last year.
RNZ is effectively “a propaganda machine for the national Party” and has their own CEO Paul Thompson in 2013 who is still running this publicly funded and biased media portal.
Good morning Newshub the trump scenario show me is its not the media and move and sport stars who can win a election.
Its the common people of America who are sick and tired of being ripped off so if anyone offers something different and sturs up the racial pot you get trump.
In America if a common uninsured person break there leg there goes $20.000
You’re stuffed and scenario like that are happening all over America.
So the big picture is look after all the people not just the wealthy or you are going to end up in the shit.
Our meat consumption is already going down because its too expensive now the reason ECO MAORI is against this no meat campaign is because I see it as a attack by stealth on our small family farms by big businesses on the small family farm we have a lot of family owned farms in Aotearoa big businesses just throw money at different ainty meat campaigns and walla everyone is against protein.
I see your m8 whos joyces m8 thinks he can out wit ECO MAORI in the end he will be crying under his bed.
With the 3 strike fail this show me that people in the justice system will do anything to get there way even cheat just like national releaseing information just before a vote on the law changes.
Ka kite ano
There you go some idiot trying to make a mauna out of a mile hill everyone new months ago that Winston Peters was suing people for breaches to his privacy. Why not sue the state services commissioner just because he has that job doesn’t mean he is squeaky clean far from it ECO MAORI say Ana to kai. I see the big man of basketball has similar views on some very good people of Papatuanukue Ka pai
Ka kite ano P.S Jacinda Winston will be fine he has a safe pair of hands.
The sandflys are still wasting their time on ECO MAORI it’s so easy to read all there move that’s for the cup tool belt and the power segestion of the hand man van idiots subliminal messageing only works on – – – – – -.
Look like red head lost his marbles last week Ana to kai tangata Ka kite ano
I see that trump has done the right thing with North Korea Ka pai.
I no that a lot of – – – drivers know of ECO MAORI most of use are tangata whenua ki kaha tangata now I know that the sandflys are never going to leave ECO MAORI alone thats the price I have to pay to inform the people about the corruption of our state services so be it at least the crime rate is going down
As I expected. I still have to thank the Honourable Winston Peters for Crowning Jacinda and forming a Labour lead coalition government many thanks Winston. Enjoy your time as Prime Minister if our society was not so racist it would have happened years ago
Ka kite ano
There you go ECO MAORI m8 ring a ambulance to the Auckland port for asicid burnes and 1 hour later and no ambulance the sandflys interfacing muppets its no me that is burnt
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That's the only response to the findings of the Ombudsman's investigation into LGOIMA practices at the Christchurch City Council:My investigation identified serious concerns about the Council’s leadership and culture, and its commitment to openness and transparency. In particular, Council staff raised concerns with me about various methods employed by some ...
NZ First seems to be nakedly trying to enrich itself from public office:A powerful New Zealand First figure helped establish a forestry company that then pushed for money from two key funding streams controlled by a New Zealand First Minister. An RNZ investigation has found Brian Henry, lawyer for Winston ...
Behrouz Boochani is an award winning author and journalist. He is also a refugee, who for the past six years has been detained in Australia's offshore gulag on Manus Island, and in Papua New Guinea. But last night, with the cooperation of the WORD Christchurch festival and Amnesty International, he ...
Different Strokes: If a multicultural immigration policy imposes no obligation on immigrant communities to acknowledge and ultimately embrace their host nation’s most cherished traditions and values, then how is that nation to prevent itself from being reduced to a collection of inward-looking and self-replicating ethnic and cultural enclaves?THE COALITION GOVERNMENT’S ...
Protective Zone: Reading the rules and guidelines released by Massey University, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that its governing body considers the whole concept of free speech a disruptive threat to the orderly imparting of orthodox academic knowledge.IN TRUE ORWELLIAN fashion, Massey University has announced its commitment to ...
Farmers held a hate-march on Parliament today, complete with MAGA hats, gun-nut signs, and gendered insults. While supposedly about a grab-bag of issues - including, weirdly, mental health - it was clear that the protest was about one thing, and one thing only: climate change. And specifically, forestry "destroying" rural ...
The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security released their annual report today, and I've been busy reading through it. In amongst the usual review of what they've been doing all year, there's a few interesting bits. For example, a discussion on "agency retention and disposal of information", which points out that ...
Recently more than 150 post-graduate students and young scientists presented an open letter to the Green Party via The Spinoff, encouraging them to reconsider their position on genetic modification. Their target is tackling climate change issues.[1] Can any party continue to be dismissive about genetic modification (GM) contributing to ...
by Deirdre O’Neill Under Thatcher and then Blair and continuing up until our contemporary moment, the working class has seen its culture slowly and progressively destroyed. The change from an industrial society to a service society produced a marked shift in focus from the working class as the backbone of ...
Since 2013, the Australian government has detained refugees without trial in Pacific gulags, where they are abused, tortured, and driven to suicide. The policy is not just an abuse of human rights and possible crime against humanity; it has also had a corrosive effect on the states Australia uses as ...
It seems fair to say that we currently live in a problematic political moment in world history. Democracies are in decline and dictatorships are on the rise. Primordial, sectarian and post-modern divisions have re-emerged, are on the rise or have been accentuated by political evolutions of the moment such as ...
Last month, Greenpeace head Russel Norman surrendered his speaking slot at an EPA conference to student climate activist Sorcha Carr, who told the EPA exactly what she thought of them. It was a bold move, which confronted both regulators and polluters (or, as the EPA calls them, "stakeholders") with the ...
The core principle supposedly underlying New Zealand's electoral finance regime is transparency: parties can accept large donations from rich people wanting to buy policy, but only if they tell the public they've been bought. Most parties abide by this, so we know that TOP was wholly-owned by Gareth Morgan, and ...
Today is a Member's Day, probably the second-to-last one of the year, and its a big one, with the Third Reading of David Seymour's End of Life Choice Bill. last Member's Day it was reported back from committee, after MPs voted narrowly to make it subject to a (rules TBA) ...
Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change.If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nzThe growth of the human population over the last 70 ...
by The Council of Disobedient Women In her excellent oral submission to the Abortion reform select committee on 31st October on behalf of Otago University’s Department of Public Health, historian and public health researcher Hera Cook stated: “We would ask that the committee not use the term ‘pregnant persons’ and ...
by Don Franks In 1957, E M Forster wrote, of his greatest work: “The India described in ‘A Passage to India’ no longer exists either politically or socially. Change had begun even at the time the book was published ( 1924) and during the following quarter of a century it ...
The Referendums Framework Bill was due back from select committee today. But there's no report on it. Instead, the bill has been bounced back to the House under Standing order 29593) because the Committee didn't bother to produce one. They probably tried. But given the membership of the committee (which ...
Two years into New Zealand’s Labour-led government, the long-delayed Zero Carbon Bill became law on 7 November. Passed essentially unanimously, the lengthy public debates and political manoeuvring faded away until the final passage was even anticlimactic: Flipping through the @nzstuff@DomPost I was starting to wonder if I’d dreamt ...
Now the Zero Carbon Bill is law, what's next? Obviously, the ETS changes currently before select committee are going to be the next battleground. But we're also going to get a good idea of where we're going, and if the progress the Zero Carbon Act promises is good enough, during ...
Grant PearceThe effects of the current Australian bushfires in New South Wales and Queensland (and also again in California) are devastating and far-reaching. To date, the fires have resulted in several lives being lost and many homes and properties destroyed. Here in New Zealand, the impacts have been only ...
A passing comment in a post the other day about the labour force participation rates of older people prompted me to pull down the fuller data and see what we could see about various participation rates over the decades since the HLFS began in 1986. As it happens, the ...
Distract And Divert: The rise of what we have come to call “Identity Politics” represents the ideological manifestation of the ruling class’s objective need to destroy class politics, and of the middle-class’s subjective need to justify their participation in the process.THE RELIEF of the ruling class can only be imagined. ...
"I saw a newspaper picture,From the political campaignA woman was kissing a child,Who was obviously in pain.She spills with compassion,As that young child'sFace in her hands she gripsCan you imagine all that greed and avariceComing down on that child's lips?" ...
Dr Matt Boyd, Prof Michael Baker, Prof Nick WilsonThe Global Health Security Index which considers pandemic threats has just been published. Unfortunately, NZ scores approximately half marks (54/100), coming in 35th in the world rankings – far behind Australia. This poor result suggests that the NZ Government needs to ...
The Zero Carbon Act is inadequate, with a weak methane target designed to give farmers a free ride. But it turns out it could have been worse: Climate Change Minister James Shaw was so desperate to get National on board, he wanted to gut that target, and leave it in ...
The Herald reprints an Australian story on a couple of tragic deaths in Bali from drinking cocktails that had methanol in them. The story argues that methanol is likely the result of home distillation. But what the young tourists were experiencing was far from a hangover. They’d consumed a toxic cocktail ...
Last month, the police announced a trial of specialist roaming armed units, which would drive round (poor, brown) areas in armoured SUVs, armed to the teeth. When they announced the trial, they told us it was about having armed police "ready to attend major incidents at any time if needed". ...
Spain went to the polls today in the second elections this year, after the Socialists (who had come to power in a confidence vote, then gone to the polls in April) rejected the offer of a coalition with the left-wing PoDemos, and instead decided to gamble n a better outcome ...
A couple of days ago I attended (and spoke at) the University of Waikato’s “LearnFest” event. There were lots of talks and sessions on very diverse aspects of teaching, mostly at tertiary level. One was by Myra Williamson from Te Piringa Faculty of Law here at Waikato, on Contract Cheating ...
There will be a transit of Mercury – the planet Mercury will pass across the face of the Sun – taking place at sunrise in New Zealand on Tuesday, 12th November. It was by observing such an event 250 years ago that James Cook and his scientist colleagues were able ...
Since becoming the world’s first openly transexual mayor and member of parliament, Georgina Beyer has been recognised as a trailblazer for trans rights. Daphna Whitmore talks with her about where she sees the current trans movement We start out talking about legislation the government put on hold that would have ...
If FFNZ really put their faith in “Top Medical Journals” they would now be amending their billboards to recognise new research results. Image from FFNZ but updated to agree with the latest research. ...
National Messiah? Chris Luxon identifies himself as an evangelical Christian. If he is genuine in this self-characterisation, then he will take every opportunity his public office provides to proselytise on behalf of his faith. He will also feel obliged to bear witness against beliefs and practices he believes to be ...
I'm going to make a Reckless Prediction™ that the Tories have 'topped out' in the 'poll of polls' / Britain Elects multipoll tracker at about 38%, and in the next week we will start to see Labour creep up on them.In fact, we might just be seeing the start of ...
by The Council of Disobedient Women Lizzie Marvelly: “I may have missed this… has @afterellen gone all terf-y? Or am I reading something incorrectly? “ https://twitter.com/LizzieMarvelly/status/1191840059105742849 After Ellen is a lesbian website that is unashamedly pro-lesbian, as you’d expect. So why is Ms Marvelly so bothered about lesbians having their ...
Did you know there once was a time when it was illegal to be a gypsy (aka Romani) in Britain?That was between 1530, when the Egyptians Act was passed, and 1856, when it was repealed.Amongst other things, the act forbade the entry of 'Egyptians' into England, ordered those already there ...
Some days I sit and think, “what will I write…?” What do you say when you get to 1000 posts? Maybe you just start where you are, diverge to where this all began, then offer a collection of reader’s favourite posts, and a few of your own? (And throw in ...
Counter-Puncher: The “activists” and “radicals” (his own words) from the Indian community who took such strong exception to Shane Jones’ remarks about Immigration NZ’s treatment of arranged marriages, may end up bitterly regretting their intervention. Jones is not the sort of person who turns the other cheek to his critics.SHANE ...
In the spirit of Remember, remember the fifth of November, let's keep this in mind FOREVER.
Oh dear. Extraordinary interview on PM with Andrew Bridgen and @EvanHD just now. Bridgen was defending Jacob Rees Mogg’s Grenfell comments. Evan asked him if JRM had meant to say he would have left ...
Collision Course? In conditions of ideological white-out, the international bankers’ “Woop-Woop! Pull Up!” warning may have come too late to save global capitalism.WHAT DOES IT MEAN when international bankers are more willing to embrace radical solutions than our politicians and their electors? At both the International Monetary Fund and the ...
Pertussis (whooping cough) is a conundrum. It is a disease that was described hundreds of years ago and the bacteria that causes it (Bordetella pertussis) isolated in 1906. We have had vaccines for about 80 years but this disease is defiant in the face of human immunity. I wanted to ...
The Zero Carbon Bill has just passed its third reading, uanimously. In the end, National supported it - but we all know they'll turn around and gut it the moment they regain power. Meanwhile, I guess ACT's David Seymour didn't even bother to show up. I am on record as ...
Dr Lindsay Robertson, Dr Jerram Bateman, Professor Janet HoekMembers of the public health community hold divergent views on how access to vaping products or electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) products should be arranged. Some believe ENDS should be as widely available as smoked tobacco and argue for liberal ...
When the Police were trying to cover up for the National Party over Dirty Politics, they went all-in with their abuses of power. They illegally search Nicky Hager's house, violating his journalistic privilege and invading his privacy. They unlawfully acquired Hager's bank records. They did the same to left-wing blogger ...
Last month, in response to a wave of protests by Extinction Rebellion, the British government purported to ban their protests from the whole of London. It was a significant interference with the freedoms of expression and assembly, and another sign of the country's decline into tyranny. But now, a court ...
Last year, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security reported on significant problems with the intelligence warrant system. While they were unwilling to declare any warrant "irregular" (meaning unlawful) due to the recent law change, they were also not willing to give the system a clean bill of health. Now, they've ...
The National Party has come out in support of encouraging greater vaccination uptake. But it sure isn’t the way I’d do it. National’s suggested docking the benefits of those on benefit whose kids aren’t keeping up with their vaccinations. Some in National have suggested extending that to payments under Working ...
Feeding The Flames: It is simply not enough to demand an end to “corruption”, or “inequality”, or the overbearing influence of the authorities in Beijing. These are just “lowest common denominator” demands: the sort of slogans that pull people onto the streets. They are not a plan.WHERE’S THE PLAN? Across ...
The labour market statistics have been released, and unemployment has risen to 4.2%. There are 115,000 unemployed - 11,000 fewer than when Labour took office. In that time the minimum wage has gone up by $2 an hour, which shows that the right's fears about increases causing unemployment are simply ...
The Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee has called for submissions on Andrew Little's tyrannicalTerrorism Suppression (Control Orders) Bill. Normally I encourage participation in the democratic process. I am not doing so in this case. Instead, I encourage all of you to boycott this submissions process, and to post ...
Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change.If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nzIf tiny concentrations of carbon dioxide can hold enough heat ...
Aviation is one of the fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and within it, one of the fastest sources is elite travel: billionaires flitting around the world in their private jets, spewing excessive pollution into the atmosphere just so they can avoid mixing with us dirty peasants. But in ...
That's what we face if we don't stop climate change, according to a warning from 11,000 scientists:The world’s people face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” unless there are major transformations to global society, according to a stark warning from more than 11,000 scientists. “We declare clearly and unequivocally ...
by Phil Duncan Here’s just a few of the kind of threats issued day in and day out against gender-critical women – feminists, marxists, etc – overwhelmingly by MEN (albeit men identifying as women). “Kill all Terfs”. “Shoot a Terf today”. “All terfs deserve to be shot in the head”. ...
This is the third of the synopses of parts of the opening chapter of John Smith’s Imperialism in the 21st Century (New York, Monthly Review Press, 2016). The synopsis and commentary below is written by Phil Duncan. Unlike the humble cup of coffee and t-shirt that we looked at in ...
Tom MooreTraditionally a food source and cutting tool, freshwater mussels/kākahi are now widely valued as water filters that help clean our waterbodies and maintain ecosystem health throughout Aotearoa. The improvement they provide in water quality can make it easier for other animals to live in streams and rivers, as ...
And to think he gave all the potential goodwill away with that moronic, cult-like statement (repeated ad nauseam by many National hardliners) that Key is quite simply “the greatest PM we ever had”…Installation complete: this was nothing ...
The Zero Carbon Bill is back in the House today for its second reading. While this isn't the final stage, its still effectively D-Day for the bill. Because today, at around 5pm, is when we're going to find out if it has a majority, whether National will support it or ...
The chairman of the Upper North Island Supply Chain Strategy (UNISCS) working group, Wayne Brown, has hit back at critics of his group’s recommendations to relocate the Ports of Auckland cargo operations to Whangarei’s deepwater port of Northport. The working group's recommendation to close Auckland waterfront to all but cruise ...
Jenny Marcroft MP, Spokesperson for Health New Zealand First backs the public to decide on the End of Life Choice Bill via a referendum at the 2020 General Election. The Bill, with New Zealand First’s referendum provision incorporated, passed its final reading in Parliament this evening. New Zealand First Spokesperson for ...
Darroch Ball, Spokesperson for Justice New Zealand First is proud that a key Coalition Agreement commitment which will provide for a more transparent and effective criminal justice system has been realised. Legislation to establish the Criminal Cases Review Commission, an independent body focused on identifying and responding to possible miscarriages of ...
"Today we have made a choice that will leave a legacy... I hope that means that future generations will see that we, in New Zealand, were on the right side of history." - Jacinda Ardern, Third Reading of the Zero Carbon Bill ...
Darroch Ball, New Zealand First List MP A Member’s bill has been proposed that would provide income tax exemptions for all New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel while on operational deployment overseas. The Income Tax (Exemption for Salary or Wages of NZDF Members on Active Deployment) Amendment Bill proposed by New Zealand First ...
Rt Hon Winston Peters, New Zealand First Leader New Zealand First is proud to have brought common sense to the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill, which passed its final reading in Parliament today. Party Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters says months of hard work went into negotiating a balanced ...
Jenny Marcroft MP, Spokesperson for Health New Zealand First has listened to calls to recognise paramedics as registered health professionals under the Health Practitioners’ Competence Assurance Act (the Act).Today, the Coalition Government announced plans for paramedics to be registered as health practitioners under the Act, and the establishment of a ...
We began the week by commemorating the New Zealand Wars and celebrating a major increase in the number of teachers. Then, we were busy supporting offenders into work and getting our rail back on track after years of underinvestment. And that's just the start! ...
In October I was sworn in as the Mayor of Lower Hutt.It’s the privilege of my life to serve Hutt people as their Mayor. There is something really special to be able to serve the community where I was raised, and where I live. ...
Rt Hon Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Racing Racing Minister Winston Peters met with Korea Racing Authority Chairperson Nak Soon Kim in Seoul today to discuss closer cooperation between the New Zealand and Korean horse racing industries. As part of the visit to the Seoul Racecourse, Mr Peters witnessed ...
Hon Shane Jones, Minister for Regional Economic Development The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) is investing $10 million to establish Otago as the centre of New Zealand’s creative digital industry over the next ten years, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones announced today. “The initiative will bring us closer to the vision of ...
Hon Shane Jones, Minister for Regional Economic Development The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF)’s skills and employment programme will help young Otago people into long-term forestry careers, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today. Te Ara Mahi will invest $63,000 in the 2020 school year to support eight 17 and 18 ...
Hon Shane Jones, Minister for Regional Economic Development The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) will support local plans to revitalise and stimulate economic development opportunities in Otago, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced. The four Regional Economic Development Ministers have approved an in-principle investment of $19.9 million towards the region’s ...
Mark Patterson, Spokesperson for Primary Industries New Zealand First is pleased to have received the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) report on the Coalition Government’s Mycoplasma bovis eradication efforts, which shows significant progress in the fight against the disease. New Zealand First Spokesperson for Primary Industries, Mark Patterson, says the report’s findings ...
Hon Shane Jones, Minister for Regional Economic Development Hon David Parker, Minister for Trade and Export Growth The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) is investing to support economic growth opportunities for Otago’s engineering and manufacturing sectors, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones and Trade and Export Minister David Parker announced today. Almost $20 million ...
Rt Hon Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Foreign Minister Winston Peters and his South Korean counterpart, Kang Kyung-wha, discussed in Seoul today opportunities to work more closely in the Pacific and the situation on the Korean Peninsula. Mr Peters and Minister Kang confirmed New Zealand and the ...
Hon Shane Jones, Minister for Regional Economic Development Hon Nanaia Mahuta, Minister for Māori Development The three marae in the historic Parihaka Pa complex in Taranaki have been upgraded to high speed broadband with the support of the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF), Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today. “Connecting the ...
The families of more than 416,000 students will be better off next year as their schools have signed up to the Government’s donations scheme, Education Minister Chris Hipkins said today. The scheme will see almost $62.5 million in additional Government funding go to schools nationwide next year. “I’m really pleased ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has announced further support as the Government of Samoa responds to a serious measles outbreak. “New Zealand will deploy a further 18 vaccination nurses, bringing the total to 30 working in Samoa over the next four weeks,” Mr Peters said. “A New Zealand Medical Assistance ...
Fa’atalofa atu, malo e lelei, Kia ora koutou katoa Thank you to the Child Poverty Action Group for asking me to be here today to provide an update on some of the things that have been happening across my the social development portfolio. Can I firstly acknowledge the vast ...
***Please check against delivery*** Good morning everyone. It is a pleasure to be with you this morning to open this year’s New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Conference and AGM. Firstly, thank you Dr Alan Jackson, NZTR Chair for your introduction. And let us acknowledge also: The NZTR Board; Dean McKenzie, Chair ...
The Government has delivered on its promise to the over one million New Zealanders who now rent to make it fairer and more secure, Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing) Kris Faafoi has announced today. Both renters and landlords will benefit from the suite of practical changes to the Residential ...
A marine conservation milestone - the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Te Tapuwae o Rongokako Marine Reserve - is being celebrated today at a community event in Tairāwhiti/East Coast attended by the Minister of Conservation, Eugenie Sage. “The creation of this marine reserve in November 1999 was a game ...
The Government is asking the food industry to step up work to tackle obesity including reducing sugar, fat and salt in their products, better information for consumers, and tighter restrictions on advertising to children. Health Minister David Clark and Food Safety Minister Damien O’Connor have responded to a ...
ew, modern emergency department and outpatient facilities at Queenstown’s Lakes District Hospital mean better emergency care for the growing tourist mecca’s visitors and locals, says Health Minister David Clark. Today Dr Clark officially opened the hospital’s redeveloped Emergency Department and Outpatient facilities. The new facilities include: • An extended Emergency Department ...
Associate Health Minister Julie Anne Genter says today’s release of sexual and reproductive health data reinforces the significance of the Government’s commitment to providing free or very low-cost contraception. The Ministry of Health today published statistics from the Ministry of Health’s 2014/15 Health Survey. “It is important people can make ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced that at the request of the Samoan Government, New Zealand will be providing further support to Samoa as it faces a worsening measles outbreak. “In response to a request from the people of Samoa, New Zealand is providing 3000 measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) ...
“The new Disability Action Plan 2019–2023 moves us towards the inclusive and accessible New Zealand that this government has committed to,” Minister for Disability Issues Carmel Sepuloni announced today. “The Action Plan was designed by disabled people, their family and supporters, the disability sector and government agencies. It will ensure ...
Third Singapore-New Zealand Defence Ministers’ Meeting 14 November 2019 Joint Statement 1. Defence Ministers Ron Mark and Dr Ng Eng Hen today conducted their third annual Singapore-New Zealand Defence Ministers’ Meeting in Singapore. 2. Building on the Enhanced Partnership signed between both countries in May this year, this annual meeting ...
A Bill to improve the court system’s response to sexual violence has passed its first reading in Parliament today. Justice Minister Andrew Little says the Sexual Violence Legislation Bill will reduce the trauma sexual violence complainants experience in court, while maintaining defendants’ fundamental rights and making sure the trial process ...
Streamlined payment practices are a step closer for Kiwi businesses with the formal launch of New Zealand’s e-Invoicing framework. Small Business Minister Stuart Nash says the government has now established the structure to enable automated and direct data exchange between the accounting systems of buyers and sellers. “The move to ...
Another 51 quarantine officers and four new biosecurity detector dog teams will help protect New Zealand from invasive pests and diseases this summer, says Biosecurity Minister Damien O’Connor. “The Government is delivering on its commitment to strengthen New Zealand’s biosecurity system and support our valuable primary sector “New Zealand’s flora, fauna ...
A new report has found New Zealand’s space sector contributed $1.69 billion to the economy in the last financial year and employs 12,000 people, Minister for Economic Development Phil Twyford announced today. The report by Deloitte was commissioned by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and shows New Zealand ...
Judge Coral Shaw has been appointed as the new Chair of the Royal Commission into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-based Institutions, Internal Affairs Minister Tracey Martin announced today. "Judge Shaw, who is currently one of the inquiry commissioners, is extremely well qualified for the ...
The Government has confirmed its third major mental health facility upgrade since the Budget, this time at Palmerston North Hospital. The Prime Minister and Health Minister today visited MidCentral DHB to announce that $30 million has been allocated to upgrade its acute mental health facility. It follows earlier announcements in ...
The roll out of the National Bowel Screening Programme has reached the halfway mark, with 10 out of 20 District Health Boards now part of the programme. MidCentral DHB, which covers Palmerston North, Manawatu and surrounding districts, this week became the latest to DHB to offer free bowel screening to ...
The Government welcomes PHARMAC’s decision to fund a vaccine to protect young people from meningococcal disease from 1 December this year. “Meningococcal disease is a serious threat which people at higher risk should be protected from,” says Associate Health Minister Julie Anne Genter. “The combined pharmaceutical budget was increased by ...
Groups involved with innovative fisheries research projects are encouraged to apply for government support in the latest funding round from the Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures programme. Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash says the SFF Futures funding is designed to be flexible enough to support small or large projects across a ...
The Government has fixed an issue affecting how Immigration New Zealand has processed visa applications for culturally arranged marriages, which will now see a consistent process applied which ensures people with legitimate arranged marriages can visit New Zealand while also preventing any rorting of the system. Earlier this year Immigration ...
The Royal Commission into the Attacks on Christchurch Mosques will report back on 30 April 2020 to give it more time to hear submissions and consider information, Internal Affairs Minister Tracey Martin announced today. The Royal Commission was originally scheduled to report back to Government by 10 December 2019. “There has ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters will travel to Washington DC today to attend a ministerial meeting focused on defeating ISIS, and to continue pursuing New Zealand’s trade opportunities. Mr Peters will participate in a meeting of Foreign and Defence Ministers from key countries contributing to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. ...
The recently crowned Bird of the Year, the hoiho/yellow eyed penguin, is getting a much needed helping hand alongside more than 168 other community conservation projects announced Minister for Conservation Eugenie Sage today. 168 community conservation projects throughout New Zealand are benefiting from $8 million in government grants, including $500,000 ...
Controls on assault rifles and semi-automatic firearms are to be broadened to include some types of pistols, under changes to a bill currently making its way through Parliament. Police Minister Stuart Nash has tabled a Supplementary Order Paper to the Arms Legislation Bill, which is currently before a Select Committee ...
Minister of Defence Ron Mark will travel to Singapore today to conduct a counterpart visit and to co-chair the third annual Singapore-New Zealand Defence Ministers’ Meeting with his counterpart, Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen. “Singapore is one of our most important defence partners in the region, and our ...
Nelson’s Salisbury School is to be rebuilt, creating a modern and suitable learning environment for students at the residential special school, Education Minister Chris Hipkins and Associate Education Minister Tracey Martin announced today. The school for girls aged 8-15, in Richmond, was earmarked for closure by National until the process ...
The panel undertaking a comprehensive review of the Resource Management Act has identified the main issues to be addressed and options for reform and is calling for feedback to inform its final report. In July the Government announced the comprehensive review of the resource management system, including the RMA - ...
An important safety valve has been added to New Zealand’s criminal justice system with the third reading of the Criminal Cases Review Commission Bill today. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) will investigate claimed miscarriages of justice. “We’ve seen how our justice system can very occasionally get things spectacularly wrong, ...
Racing Minister Winston Peters welcomes the tabling of the Racing Industry Transition Agency (RITA) 2019 Annual Report in Parliament today. He says the 2019 Annual Report marks the point when New Zealand’s racing industry’s decline was arrested and a turnaround started. RITA’s 2019 Annual Report recorded an industry net profit ...
The New Zealand Government is today sending 21 firefighters to help fight the ongoing catastrophic Australian bushfires. “The fires in Australia are in some of the toughest, most challenging conditions ever,” says Internal Affairs Minister Tracey Martin. “As of yesterday morning, there were 100 active bushfire-related incidents across Queensland and ...
More frontline support for schools through a new education agency, as part of a redesigned Ministry of Education More support for principals and school boards including through a new centre of leadership and local leadership advisor roles New independent disputes panels for parents and students Management of school property ...
The Government’s reform of the Tomorrow’s Schools system is a watershed moment in education and an opportunity to create meaningful change for ākonga Māori and their whānau, Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis said today. “Last year through Kōrero Mātauranga | Education Conversation, Māori teachers, parents, ākonga, whānau, hapū and iwi ...
Infrastructure Minister is welcoming the first of many updated project pipelines from the newly established New Zealand Infrastructure Commission today. The New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga, has released an expanded pipeline of major capital projects – another crucial step towards delivering better infrastructure outcomes. “The first iteration of the ...
Tougher gun laws designed to improve public safety through firearms prohibition orders are proposed in a new document released for public input. Police Minister Stuart Nash says firearms prohibition orders (FPOs) would give new powers to Police to ensure high-risk individuals come nowhere near firearms. “We have already prohibited the ...
Andy Coupe has been confirmed as TVNZ’s new Board Chair. “Mr Coupe has strong commercial and capital markets experience and TVNZ has benefited from his technical knowledge of business and finance, as well as his extensive governance experience,” the Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media Kris Faafoi said. Andy ...
Associate Minister of Transport Julie Anne Genter today officially opened a separated pathway, following the completion of the Kaiwharawhara Stream bridge, which will improve safety for cyclists and pedestrians along Hutt Road. The $6.8m Hutt Road project provides a separated path for cycling and pedestrians, the replacement of informal parking ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters today announced the appointment of career diplomat Si’alei van Toor as New Zealand’s next Ambassador to Russia. “I’m pleased to appoint Ms van Toor to this position. She brings a wealth of experience to the role having previously served as Senior Trade Adviser to the ...
The Treasury’s 2019 Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update (HYEFU) will be released on Wednesday December 11, Finance Minister Grant Robertson says. The Coalition Government will publish the 2020 Budget Policy Statement at the same time, outlining the priorities for Budget 2020. Further details on arrangements for the release will ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vincent Ho, Senior Lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University A parasite is an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species. Three main classes of parasites can cause disease in humans: protozoa, helminths, and ectoparasites. Protozoa and ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Lilburn, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne You’re driving down an unfamiliar street on a clear spring evening. You’ve been invited to a friend of a friend’s party, at a house you’ve never been to before. Tracking the street numbers, you ...
Crimestoppers New Zealand launched its updated website www.crimestoppers-nz.org today. As well as catering for traditional anonymous reports the site now supports mobile users and allows files and images to be attached. The changes support people of all ...
Prince Andrew has spoken for the first time in public about his friendship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. What did he say to create such a media storm, and how did he get into this mess in the first place? First thing’s first: who is Prince Andrew? Prince Andrew, Duke ...
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First up with Guyon. Simon with a plethora of negative comments against Labour. No wonder people still think nats in charge.
I no longer listen to Morning Report.
Espiner is another paid puppet and a collaborator of the neoliberal regime.
History will not be kind to such traitors.
Are ya going to kill him once you have your revolution?
I could imagine Ed being the type to encourage dissent and protest, from the sidelines of course and not actually participating in it himself
What I find doubly hilarious is that they have a State controlled Public broadcaster and it is still not enough for some lefties. I am sure these people won’t be happy until they have a state appointed editorial board which will review the days output to ensure no “political bias” is present.
I’ve long thought that if people on the left and right are complaining about media then the media are probably doing what they ought to be doing
@Gosman
You would have to go back about 80 years to find exactly that situation in New Zealand.
The State had taken control of all the radio stations once the Labour Government came to power in 1935. In the late 1930s the radio news bulletin was written in the PMs office and had to be broadcast exactly as it was written.
“In 1937 Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage set up an Official News Service, under which all radio news bulletins were to be compiled and issued from the Prime Minister’s Department. Radio news only became largely independent of political control with the establishment of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) in 1962.”
https://teara.govt.nz/en/media-and-politics/print
Those were the days, my friend. Don’t you think that the current lot would like to do exactly the same thing again?
Cleangreen at 1.1.2 just below certainly seems to think so.
I know we joke about it but that sounds like something Stalin and *nope not going to say it* would have been proud of
The political control of radio stations existed before labour won in 1935
“On the night of 24 November 1935, radio engineers employed by the Post and Telegraph Department deliberately jammed a popular religious programme by Colin Scrimgeour, commonly known as ‘Uncle Scrim’, just as he started to talk about the upcoming election. The engineers had been instructed to do so by their superior, on the grounds that Scrimgeour was likely to urge his listeners to vote for Labour…
same link as yours Alwyn
Of course nationals influence in the major newspapers continued till the 90s
FTFY
Ed I agree withyou entirely.
It apppears now that RNZ has now been ‘capured’ by the corporate interests entirely’ and is now a spin doctor for their own whim and to kill off the new Labour/NZF/Greens coalition.
Labour needs to take control of this renigade public service media now before they suffer election defeat again.
How has it been captured by corporate interests and why is John Campbell still there if this was the case?
Obviously John Campbell isn’t left enough, mind you he is one of the one percent…
I wonder how left wing you would have to be to be acceptable to some people here. Are we talking John Pilger or merely Kim Hill level.
What gets me is if you listen to some of the commentators on here (fortunately the minority) its almost as if they want NZ to be part of the USA, they want the proletariat to rise up and smash the capitalist state, they want NZ to break free from…what exactly
Whereas if NZ really was like how they want or imagine it to be then benefits would be cut, there’d be virtually no state housing, hospitals would have no supplies etc etc
I’d say its almost like rebels without a cause but more like rebels without a clue
NZ is a great place to live and while, for some, its not so good its also a place where you can make something of yourself if you’re willing to apply yourself
“NZ is a great place to live and while, for some, its not so good its also a place where you can make something of yourself if you’re willing to apply yourself”
If you really believe that I’d suggest you’re very much inwards looking. It can be a great place if you were born into a middle class household and wanted for nothing while you grew up. For those born on struggle street, not so much.
I was born into a working class family but yes i do admit to having the advantage of having two parents that loved me and tried to do their best for me
However I still, and will always, stand by the comment that NZ is one of the best places in the world to be born in
Best place for who? As a generalisation you could be right but that means little to those who don’t fit the profile.
Can also be said it’s one the best places to be born poor but that still doesn’t make it right.
The problem is you have the naive and gullible posters on here who actually believe that NZ is one of the worst places on earth because of what others post on here and then post absolutely ridiculous things like charging people with treason and vague implications like up against the wall
When Labour was in opposition it was all about how bad NZ was and how only Labour could fix it, you think in the 2020 Labour will still say how bad NZ is or did Labour somehow fix all the problems in three years
Nope it’ll be how good NZ is and any problems will be because of National
and yes I’m well aware National did it as well
I think you’ll find most leftist commenters here haven’t been talking about how Labour will fix everything.
A few will hate Labour as tory splitters, no matter what, and actually prefer national governments in the theory that enough tory rule will lead to revolution (of whatever level of violence, depending on how their swaggering boasts measure up against their timidity and introspection).
Some view Labour as the least-worst option, a temporary slight respite between regressive national governments.
Some think the correct machination or whinge will turn Labour into a party that will just wipe the slate clean and rewrite all the laws for a socialist paradise.
Others, like me, tend to agree with Labour’s incrementalist approach, wary of whether it will continue but generally approving of the measures so far, and hopeful the Greens will keep pushing Labour left.
But I’m not sure even the most active Labour supporters here argue that Labour will solve everything, especially this term.
“But I’m not sure even the most active Labour supporters here argue that Labour will solve everything, especially this term.”
I agree, its the “Labours not left enough” types that tend to say the most…interesting comments
Nah. The ones who are so far into youtube channels that they end up supporting trump, putin, AND arguing that Labour are filthy tory swine. Those are the ones I wouldn’t be surprised reading about in the newspaper.
Your average revolutionary socialist becomes decidedly incrementalist as soon as they have a kid and a mortgage (one reason home ownership rates are an important measure of social stability, IMO).
The ones who can read the matrix as it scrolls by and never learned about playing well with others are the ones who can’t deal with the fact that people have different opinions, and it’s the degree of difference that means you can’t work with them (not the simple existence of a differing opinion).
Unfortunately there are as likely an equal number (if not more) of “passionate” conservatives to balance out the lefties
lol occasionally they seem to end up being the same folks. Sigh.
I don’t see that as a problem here PR. Every forum has its soapbox sopranos and you’ve been around long enought to realise they only speak for themselves.
At least on this site many attempt to walk in other people’s shoes. We may not always get it right, but we make the effort. The likes of Kiwiblog are inhabited by curled lip sneerers which doesn’t make it a pleasant place.
If you are a low class brown person living in South Auckland with parents on the benefit or minimum wages it can sometimes be a different story ?
Just keepin’ it smug there puckers.
PR and Gos should get their own blog as they clearly have alot to say to each other whereas most of the others here DNFTT.
+100% I wish they would f off and set up their own blog as i have to scribe down the page to try to find some sensible comments, they have got more time and money than they have sense and now we have another clown come along Baby Gaga whoever the f he is ?
You been huffing cheese burgers again Ed?
Well said Ed. You have a troll trifecta already.
Have we got the Troll Trifecta already today I wonder if we can get the Troll Pick Six today by 12.00am, we need to flush out babygaga and the rest of their cronies
Ed – you open yourself up to easy hits and RW trolling by making such OTT statements.
Fact is:
– Any ‘collaboration’ by Espiner is pretty much unconscious on his part and complex in its origins and manifestations
– None of us knows what history will do to any of us. We live inside history.
I am assuming you are genuine, but overwrought – rather than a caricature of a lefty intentionally designed to provide trolling opportunities to others
Just to follow on from this (I agree with you by the way) there are some posters on here that can actually convince me that maybe I could think of things in a slightly different way
I won’t name their names so as not to embarrass them (*cough cough Kewa and Gobert Ruyton) but the way they can convince me is not by hyperbole and emotional arguments but by reason and logic and by focusing on single issue arguments
But thats just me
Espiner’s brain is very regimented and programmed he can not think laterally.
So, no different from the RWNJs here on TS where there hardly is a coherent comment in sight, just negativity and self-absorbed gibberish. That said, here on TS they don’t get away with it while the MSM feeds (on) the negativity of National politicians and their rowdy supporters.
A coherent comment such as the following do you mean?
“Espiner is another paid puppet and a collaborator of the neoliberal regime.”
I think that statement is completely coherent.
It might be crazy but it is crazy in a coherent way.
If you want something that is crazy in an incoherent way I would suggest an example such as this sentence.
” That said, here on TS they don’t get away with it while the MSM feeds (on) the negativity of National politicians and their rowdy supporters.”
Point taken alwyn.
It is hard to distinguish between crazy and incoherent comments from some lefties here.
The crucial difference is that the equivalent characters on the right are seen as Cabinet material. Collins, Bennett, etc etc, and we wait to see who will be your latest Capill or Titford.
A couple of mature kunikuni’s.
We’re Capill and/or Titford ever part of ‘mainstream’ political parties ?
Clark Titman (not Titford) was a member of the National Party. It would be fair to say many Nats were not very happy about it. Those were the days of Keith Holyoake, Jack Marshall, Brian Talboys and others… mostly well regarded politicians across the board – if a little too conservative for my liking.
Capill was leader of the Christian Heritage Party which didn’t survive the scandal of course.
What evidence do you have that he really was a member of the National Party?
It is of course quite possible. At the time the National Party had a membership of more than 250,000 I believe.
On the other hand why would any of the leaders care in the slightest about some low-level member?
It appears I got the wrong Tit – man.
However to answer your questions… Clark Titman was very much a member of the National Party. He lived on the North Shore and made a name for himself as a right wing agitator. He was very pro the Vietnam War – among other things – and his somewhat extreme behaviour were sometimes embarrassing for National. Iirc, he was eventually disbarred form National events and meetings.
Did someone say Ed and Cleangreen are “mainstream”?
ah I see ..you’re just being your usual disingenuous cuntish self.
Chill out Mr. Angry. Gosman was holding Ed and C/G up as “crazy and incoherent lefties”. If the Left has to answer for them, the Right has to own Capill and Titford. Nothing disingenuous in that.
If you compare them with the current Green MPs they are certainly mainstream by New Zealand standards.
The MPs on the other hand would be some brackish little creek.
Did you mean Allan Titford or that Titman character Anne mentions?
I fail to see that either of them had anything to do with the National Party as Anne claims however.
Titman seems to have been harmless whereas Titford seems to be an A-grade nut.
I didn’t say they were National Party any more than Gosman is saying Ed and C/G are Labour.
And I never said that you claimed they were National.
I said that Anne had claimed it, at least about Titman.
If you look at what I said it was “as Anne claims however.”.
I put this comment to you because I was curious about who you meant. Was it Allan Titford or Clark Titman?
Or someone else altogether?
Titford.
Thank you for clarifying it..
I think my description of him stands.
Where do those people come from, and how do they get like that?
Where do those people come from, and how do they get like that?
Good question. The brain adapts to dishonesty via the amygdala, which also has a vital role in racism. Low intelligence is also a factor, but so are authoritarian tendencies and limited exposure to “out-groups”. Our peers are our “primary socialisers” (not our parents, apparently).
Whether these are the defining characteristics of Titford’s pathology is another thing entirely. Is it a more extreme example of the behaviour displayed by Don Brash, or people who vote for the abolition of the Māori seats and the “Iwi/Kiwi” hate speech? Toxic masculinity also appears to be a factor, and there’s plenty of that around.
Oops! Alwyn’s got away, again.
Alwyn, you’re the exception that proves the rule, I have to give you that.
Ah! The Left-does-it-too ironclad defence of RWNJs when they are lost for words and have no better comeback.
It is interesting looking back at National’s ‘honeymoon’. The media fawned over John Key for years, they had their heads so far up Key’s arse at the Herald they probably had their board meetings there. It took a very long time for the media to see through him…. some never did.
Finally the first train leaves Napier under the labour/NZF regional funding boost after National had closed the line following a storm and caused public anger over a six year lack of rail services.
The train left for Wairoa in a bid to restore the Napier/Gisborne regional rail service on 8th June 2018.
Full marks to the new labour/NZF/Greens coalition efforts here was felt by all residents.
We had a busy few days in Napier last week.
On Wednesday, we made our final submission to the NCC Long Term Plan, and then we attended the opening ceremony for the rail line north.
We were well received by Peter Reidy who referred to the tenacity of Alan (Dick) and Ken that set the ball rolling.
Previously, Alan had challenged Peter Reidy to drive the road and that gave him an understanding of the importance of taking trucks off the road.
Shane Jones said he had not given up on the Gisborne end of the line, so Ken gave him a copy of the full page ad in the GH to remind him of the business potential.
They did a really good job using the event for maximum media coverage on the rail line.
HB Today also did an article on our submission, and neatly tied it in with increasing rail would lower the heavy traffic problem.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=12065344
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=12065532
Good news.
Awwsome.
Great news.
I am sure you are happy with this step in the right direction.
Brilliant.
Good to see this might get addressed….
“Refund over ‘premium’ aged-care room: ‘Everybody should look at their contracts’ ”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12066107
I encountered this when looking for a home for an aged relative. DHB contracted rest homes all have a maximum price they can charge, it’s negotiated as a collective agreeement annually. It’s around $1100 per week at the moment for rest home care.
They get around this by charging for ‘extras’ such as ensuites and try to create an environment where the extras are the norm. I met ensuite rates of $15-30 per day and when one considers ensuite is just a fancy name for your own bathroom $105-$210 a week for a shitter and shower is a little over the top.
Sanity prevails on 3 strikes: https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/104608068/governments-three-strikes-repeal-killed-by-nz-first
A.
It is very good and as a bonus I’m also hoping it will give the Greens the go ahead to oppose Winstons waka bill
Mind you this issue needs to be sorted:
‘So far, no courts had used the full power of the law, to sentence offenders on their third strike to the maximum sentence without the chance of parole.’
labour-greens agreement ‘fine print’ limits what Greens can do on specific items in Labour -NZ First agreement, waka jumping being a specific item
Shows just how “politically naive” (dumb) the Greens were, it is never, ever a good idea to sign anything without reading it first
The wording is not all that direct, negotiate in good faith or something.
What that means no me, is no blanket refusals but a deal can be made.
What is more important in the scheme of things, some thing like the ‘slowdown’ in oil and gas drilling or a waka jumping legislation.
NZ First has had particular problems in the waka jumping area as its a small party and a few Mps jumping could change the result of the election.
Its starting to occur in german states too, something that was once unthinkable
If you want dumb political thinking we can show you the meth testing debacle which national ministers were in the thick off.
Another was the decision back in 2012 NOT to build a replacement for the manawatu gorge highway.
Fantastic news made my day.
Nice to see this Government refusing to repeal this sensible law. Keep people like that behind bars.
Perhaps NZFirst cared more about the “collateral damage” than Little did.
Should this have the greens oppose the Waka jumping bill – even better.
Lets extend this policy to white collar crime and then see who squeels most.
Im ok with that also.
Yep. I’m cool with this also. Are you going to lead the charge to extend the Three strikes law PN?
> Lets extend this policy to white collar crime and then see who squeels most.
Bring it on!
A.
Winnie was getting spooked by the polls, the thought of seeing Farrar’s list of 2 strikers out on the streets, and the open letter in today’s Herald. You can criticise Peters for a lot of things, but stupid he is not.
New Zealand First should have the guts to front this one.
Downside is of course more prisons, unless the Minister of Justice has some outstanding programmes to divert them.
Upside is Labour will continue to suck NZFirst’s vote until they are a husk.
So in 2020 we will have a Labour-Green coalition.
No its NOT more prisons.
There is only 7 or 8 people per year getting second strikes, even less on a 3rd
Its the bail changes that seem to be far more punitive that are locking up hundreds more
Happy to stand corrected.
Hope he doesn’t start banging on about abolishing the Maori seats when he becomes PM and he focuses on the big picture, no doubt the MSM will be laying some traps for him.
“So in 2020 we will have a Labour-Green coalition”
With the greens polling – I wouldn’t make a large bet on that. Long may Labour kill them off as well.
Sanity?…or orchestrated political theatre
Interesting theory! Hadn’t thought of that
A.
Little takes a hit, NZFirst look strong and take some votes of National maybe?
No, that’s actually insanity prevailing.
Of course, NZ1st may support the removal of the Three Strikes law:
So, yeah, we will most likely see the removal later. It just seems to be NZ1st waiting to do the full package rather than doing it piece meal. They do have a point in that doing the full package will most likely result in better overall legislation but leaving the Three Strikes as is is a bad idea.
I think your radar is off DTB. This seems to me like Peters saying ‘tough on crime stays on my watch’
A.
To me it sounds like this:
You do the time, you’ll do another crime.
“Sanity prevails on 3 strikes”
Well, it’s politically sane but criminologically insane.
We just have to accept that the vindictiveness of Kiwis makes doing the right thing politically impossible. We aren’t prepared to leave it to the judge’s discretion but want maximum vengeance extracted even if it’s disproportionate.
Have to say I am baffled by this aspect of our national psyche – agreeable enough on the surface, but some dark sh*t going on underneath.
When this sort of crap goes on, I give up on politics for a while and work in the garden or go for a walk (easy for me as I’m not the one taking the hit).
The Capitalists
It would be very kind of the Capitalists if they would explain why more and more money goes to fewer and fewer people under the Capitalist Cult.
I have asked and asked this question but it produces no response from the little chaps on here that hate the people who do the real work in Aotearoa.
Before the Capitalist Cult here got so completely selfish and glutunous, people used to be able to buy a non leaky non mouldy 3 bedroom home on a single salary. But the Gosman and James lot has done away with that.
Why ?
What a dreadful Cult they are.
Your analysis is wrong. More and more money is not going to fewer and fewer people.
As for housing costs, that is due to not enough land being made available for new house builds.
Yes it is.
Ummm… did you follow the links to the data on that post you linked to? That also backs up my view that nothing much has changed overall for the past 20 years. LIS (which is what you are referencing essentially) is about the same as it was 20 years ago. It certainly hasn’t got a lot worse. Once again thanks for providing info that backs MY view up. 🙂
The LIS dropping from 65% to 55% is it getting a lot worse with it showing, quite clearly, that more and more of the money is going to fewer and fewer people.
No the LIS seems to have stabilised around the 55 to 60% mark over the past 20 years. It certainly isn’t moving down on a sustained basis which is what you generally bang on about Draco.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/307458/10-percent-richest-kiwis-own-60-percent-of-nz's-wealth
Point proven
‘In its latest survey of household wealth, Statistics New Zealand found the country’s richest individuals – those in the top 10 percent – held 60 percent of all wealth by the end of July 2015. Between 2003 and 2010, those individuals had held 55 percent.”
Look back to the 1980s and see what the numbers were ?
I’m not comparing it to the 1980’s
As that article states the amount has not altered significantly over the recent past.
Of course your not. That would prove that you’re lying by picking dates that almost make it look like what’s happening isn’t happening.
As the people at the top own more they have more of the income. That’s how capitalism works. That’s why it always creates poverty and eventually collapses society.
Society simply cannot work where a few people own everything.
For some really good news today.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/104583866/wellington-regions-transmission-gully-project-hits-halfway-mark
We’ve only been waiting for about 55 years.
I’ll bet all the Wellington based Labour MPs will be pressuring the NZTA to schedule an opening ceremony before the 2020 election, regardless of the point the construction has reached, so that they can claim how the building the road was all due to their efforts and how wonderful they all are.
Those with good memories will of course be saying
“Thank you, Stephen Joyce”.
Joyce and English had an ‘early opening’ for the Waterview Tunnels in spite of the project getting its go ahead in 2008 before the election.
Joyce famously pulled the plug on ‘tunnels’ and forced them to go back to trenches and bridges before sanity prevailed and the Construction companies said it would consume all of NZs construction resources, so back to tunnels all the way it was but bigger and more expensive.
“Joyce and English had an ‘early opening’ for the Waterview Tunnels”.
Such a thing doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. They were politicians after all.
There is a general rule for politicians.
Take total credit for everything that is popular, even if it was all the work of your opponents.
Blame your opponents for anything unpopular, even if they had nothing to do with it.
I admit that I have never commented on the subject of the Waterview Tunnel. My total knowledge of the thing is that it is in Auckland. I think it is South of the Bridge and North of the Airport. I have no idea at all what road it is on or where that road goes. To a resident of Wellington it is irrelevant.
I have a distinct interest in the road that runs North from Wellington though. I only hope that they continue the work up to Levin. I travel that route you see. The Kapiti Expressway, which is finished, is great.
I remember debating people here back in 2008 or 2009 where the arguments for the majority was all anti-Transmission gully. So very funny.
Edit: Just had a look. It was 2009 and it was you and I against the mob once again alwyn 🙂
This is probably the easiest youtube link ever
An excellent choice.
I must advise you though that I am taller and much better looking than Arnold. Better teeth too.
The muscular frame is about right though. Of course I never used steroids.
I should note that my full name is “Alwyn Modest XXXXXX”.
Do the residents know how much the tolls will be.
And will they find a monster traffic jam once they arrive at the existing SH1 motorway just before Tawa ?
Transmission Gully is supposed to be more earthquake proof than the existing road, but of course the gully it travels up is an existing fault line and lots of buildings that were built under new earthquake codes have been found to be a low standard. Steep slopes are almost impossible to engineer against major earthquakes
It’s a pretty awesome flythrough for a halfway mark.
Your memory is not serving you well, Alwyn, because you don’t even know whom to thank!
I’ll give you a little homework assignment so that you can better yourself. BTW, how are the remedial lessons going?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Joyce
Seems like the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is setting up as a super-regional alternative to the G7’s current shambles:
http://www.dw.com/en/as-g7-argues-russias-vladimir-putin-and-chinas-xi-jinping-show-sco-friendship/a-44148676
Total “hate in” today on the standard. So much fun. Good to see apologist joining in the fun as well, can always trust the so called moderate liberals to join the Tories.
Splitters!
Thus spoke the bat shit loony right.
I imagine you’re pissing yourself with laughter Goz.
We have a state (i.e. tex payer FUNDED) public broadcaster – albeit with one or two stacked hack appointees (going forward). The keyword ‘service’ that is increasingly being lost amid the neoliberal religion/dogma/faith
Then, as an alternative, people in the ‘non-state’ private sector who profess an alternate view. There, we have corporate funded media (albeit, at times with financial bailouts from Tex Payer – because, well you know…..business is deserving of welfare, whereas taxpayer-funded public beneficiaries are undeserving – even though they’re providing the filthy mullah).
Gatekeepers in both. Both with agendas
Feel free to laugh your arse off. In both cases, we’ve lost the ability to differentiate between a Public and its interests, (and the financial imperatives of a ‘State’ that professes to represent that public), and the Corporation which only has a financial interest in providing a return to their shareholders and who will do whatever to protect it.
Shame when it all goes tits up eh?
And when it does, do we give any credibility to the corporate interest(s), or to an alternative that at the very least provides up with an opportunity once in a while to tell them to fuck off.
Btw, aren’t you due to clock off about now?
In response to Gos somewhere above – again, one of those little ‘bugs’
tl;dr
Something, something, the media is biased against my side. Boo hoo.
I think that would have been an excellent example to have used in my comment at 1.2.1.1 just above.
“tl;dr”
I’ll bet! 18 or so lines of text.
National on a roll, according to Audrey Young. I agree. Downwards.
Here is the link for you.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12068077
Read it again – Might change your view.
Is that a hibbled link jimbo?
Not really.
She managed to forget the methmyth bullshit squarely landing at the nats’ door, and drawn out by collins.
And Bolger heading up the Fair Pay Agreement working group.
But if winning a safe seat with a much reduced majority gets them “fizzing”, the day that side of the House do something exceptional they’ll be a major explosive hazard.
Problem AY actually believes her own B/S.
They all do @TT. I made the mistake of watching Max Headroom live from Singapore, with Corin Dann as a sidekick-cum-expert-sage on ONE News. You know…. “Your News” or whatever it is these days. Already, after a couple of days, apparently they’re already also experts in the local surroundings.
May I say though, (for the celebrity pages) that Max Headroom is looking incredibly more silver-haired these days, and perhaps even a little gaunt. And, and, and, and!! Corin’s suit was looking a little rumpled. In fact it looked eggsekly like the one he was wearing yesterday. Ew!
Back to the sensible Wendy’s in the studio for some reality and some other news.
Btw @TT- do you know if Max Headroom and Corin are dressed by Barkers or Hallensteins.
I noticed Max had a rather gorgeous looking fitted white shirt going forward.
I did rather like the way he presented himself in the style of the BBC reporters that fronted overnight as well. Well done Max!
100% rod.
We all have memories of nine bitter miserable years of total hardsjhip for 99% while the one percent enriched themselves on the hardship of the poor and defenceless.
Now a better future of fairness awaits as the share of our wealth is being redistributed amongst us all.
I have good feelings life now has some promise and hope.
We all have memories of nine bitter miserable years of total hardsjhip for 99%
Whatever drugs you are on you should definitely take less.
solkta,
you are enjoying the ‘National Party ilussion of better times for all’ it appears.
you appear to suffer from blindness, and was insulated from reality!!!!!!
When pictures of people being evicted from their homes while those state house s were given for peanuts to national’s supporting mates to make a killing on the speculative property market and left those families homless and shivering to death in abandoned cars or on streets so did you care?
I did seriously feel very sad to see the carnage National mettered out on the poor & sick and older folk suffering along with the homeless.
No i am not enjoying any nat illusions, and i do care a lot for people, just laughing at the idiotic stuff you write. “Total hardship” for “99%”. No, there is just nothing but derision that i can offer in response.
This article from the Australia ABC News website might of interest for those why it’s been wetter than usual in parts of NZ aka West Coast of both Islands and parts of the Deep South. As all the Australian autumn rains aren’t hitting its usual areas in mainland Australia, but have moved further Sth an usual hitting parts of Tassie, Southern Victoria and of course NZ.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-11/drought-how-bad-is-it-and-why-has-it-been-so-dry/9826130
It appears this could be an ongoing trend in the longer term. So it might be a wise move to buy some red bands, a supercat, a boat or a hovercraft.
It would interesting to see what Robert’s view all anyone else that’s going to impacted by the this weather trend?
Social Housing
Mass produced apartments in California
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/business/economy/modular-housing.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbusiness&action=click&contentCollection=business®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=11&pgtype=sectionfront
Propagandists Not Journalists
Exhibit 2: HERBERT BUCHSBAUM of the New York Times
http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/06/10/the-new-york-times-second-assassination-of-razan-at-najjar/
Propagandists Not Journalists is compiled by Hector Stoop and presented by Morrissey Breen, for Daisycutter Sports, Inc.
See also….
Exhibit 1: ISABEL KERSHNER
11/06/2018 Troll Pick Six on The Standard
I think I have got the first 5 x Legs of the Troll Pick Six today;
Baby Gaga
Puckish Rogue
Gosman
James
Alwyn
One leg to go have we had any other trolls today ?
Where is The Chairman when you need him.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/103954272/Budget-2018-No-payday-yet-for-RNZ-from-Labour-Budget
quote from this article above;
“A promised funding boost for RNZ was the centrepiece of Labour’s broadcasting policy during last year’s election, but it will have to wait.
RNZ will have to wait longer to find out whether it will get a funding boost and how much that will be.
However, Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran said the Government was still committed to increasing annual funding for public media by at least $38 million during its first term.
The Government disappointed lobby group Better Public Media by setting aside only $15m in the Budget this year to pay for initiatives “to support the contribution of public media to an informed democracy”.
Curran said it had not been possible for the Government to do everything it wanted in one budget.
A decision is expected within weeks on how much of the $15m might go to RNZ, and how much might be allocated to other media companies for other initiatives through NZ On Air.”
Clare Curran needs to be removed now from her Broadcasting portfolio as she is irresponsible and is damaging the government now.
Curran has harmed labour, for all the loss of labour policy of presenting a fair free independent platform for the public to hear and respond to ant issues yet as the other media portals are not giving us public any coverage on any TV networks and only region newspapers are giving us any coverage but RNZ or no other TV networks are giving us our public voice so far in the first year of the new government operation of the media.
Labour have truly missed the chance to give us a fair free independent news and current affairs public media yet so their issues are not being aired in a fair manner still because RNZ is run by National and the rest of the media are owned by corporations so labour have not given us their promised “fair, free independent public media as they promised last year.
RNZ is effectively “a propaganda machine for the national Party” and has their own CEO Paul Thompson in 2013 who is still running this publicly funded and biased media portal.
https://www.noted.co.nz/money/business/paul-thompson-radio-head/
Curran was a fool playing “secret squirell stuff” with the maori lady from RNZ, she is obviously not very street smart or commercially orientated ?
National will chew her up and spit her out.
So clever how they have returned John Campbell as a ruse.
Good morning Newshub the trump scenario show me is its not the media and move and sport stars who can win a election.
Its the common people of America who are sick and tired of being ripped off so if anyone offers something different and sturs up the racial pot you get trump.
In America if a common uninsured person break there leg there goes $20.000
You’re stuffed and scenario like that are happening all over America.
So the big picture is look after all the people not just the wealthy or you are going to end up in the shit.
Our meat consumption is already going down because its too expensive now the reason ECO MAORI is against this no meat campaign is because I see it as a attack by stealth on our small family farms by big businesses on the small family farm we have a lot of family owned farms in Aotearoa big businesses just throw money at different ainty meat campaigns and walla everyone is against protein.
I see your m8 whos joyces m8 thinks he can out wit ECO MAORI in the end he will be crying under his bed.
With the 3 strike fail this show me that people in the justice system will do anything to get there way even cheat just like national releaseing information just before a vote on the law changes.
Ka kite ano
Here we go the sandflys are not perfect link below.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12068520
And people wonder why Some Maori behave badly its because we are being treated like this.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12068520
ECO MAORI does not even have to hear the racist people words to know what they are thinking and saying.
Ka kite ano
There you go some idiot trying to make a mauna out of a mile hill everyone new months ago that Winston Peters was suing people for breaches to his privacy. Why not sue the state services commissioner just because he has that job doesn’t mean he is squeaky clean far from it ECO MAORI say Ana to kai. I see the big man of basketball has similar views on some very good people of Papatuanukue Ka pai
Ka kite ano P.S Jacinda Winston will be fine he has a safe pair of hands.
Link below
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/104656566/with-winston-peters-in-charge-it-seems-everything-could-be-up-for-grabs
The sandflys are still wasting their time on ECO MAORI it’s so easy to read all there move that’s for the cup tool belt and the power segestion of the hand man van idiots subliminal messageing only works on – – – – – -.
Look like red head lost his marbles last week Ana to kai tangata Ka kite ano
I see that trump has done the right thing with North Korea Ka pai.
I no that a lot of – – – drivers know of ECO MAORI most of use are tangata whenua ki kaha tangata now I know that the sandflys are never going to leave ECO MAORI alone thats the price I have to pay to inform the people about the corruption of our state services so be it at least the crime rate is going down
As I expected. I still have to thank the Honourable Winston Peters for Crowning Jacinda and forming a Labour lead coalition government many thanks Winston. Enjoy your time as Prime Minister if our society was not so racist it would have happened years ago
Ka kite ano
This story backs up my words on it only takes 1 degree of change in tempture to kill a living organinasim. Link below
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/11/giant-african-baobab-trees-die-suddenly-after-thousands-of-years
Ka kite ano
There you go ECO MAORI m8 ring a ambulance to the Auckland port for asicid burnes and 1 hour later and no ambulance the sandflys interfacing muppets its no me that is burnt