ECO MAORIs Kiwi Bank ac 389019048573100 Please help me to sort the nz police out
I decided against trying to use PayPal to receive donations .I decided to copy
Thestandards safe way of appealing and receiving donations I set up a Kiwi Bank AC
So he tangata the people of Aoteraoroa New Zealand who support ECO MAORI can use internet banking to make donations and know that there bank accounts are safe after they have made a donation . ECO MAORI will use the donations to SUE the nz police for all the breaches to mine and my Whano Privacy Rights & Human Rights a lot of people can see this has been happening to ECO MAORI when I win my case I will set up a
Charitable Trust and I will pay the money that I used and any extra donations into this Trust account and appeal to anyone else in Aoteraoroa who need help with finance to SUE the nz police for there in justices I will copy bank statements on this site to let he tangata the people know that ECO MAORI has Honest Honorable and transparent intentions to use your hard earned Putea Money. .
Kia Kaha Ka kite ano
The Lake Hayes problem has little to nothing to do with stock effluent, the catchment is effectively destocked, or stocked at such low levels the land can easily handle it. The lake has very low through flow and is quite deep so has an inherent dissolved oxygen issue. Most of the nitrogen and phosphorus comes from fertilisers, of which there’s not much going on now, apart from MIllbrook and Hills golf courses. But the algae seems to have changed this year, it used to be brown, and in the deeper parts of the lake, this year it’s orange or fluro green and in the shallow parts. And looks toxic. As usual the ORCs put up some signs and that’s about it, don’t want to upset the money machine.
The Manuherikia is totally dairy related. Lots of new dairy farms in the catchment combined with free draining soils. Pretty much instant shit in the river. Strange coincidence that a lot of said dairy farms are on the market.
Good morning the AM Show on TV3 I say all the mokos should be taught about finance all about loans an how credit works at school they would save heaps over there life time teach them if you save a dollar its like earning 2 dollars .
I support a wealth tax I did not mined paying more tax not that I’M wealth yet .
The wealthy get to enjoy all the pleasures the sea mountains the fine food I say they should a bit more tax so we have a happy healthy society for all the creatures of Aoteraroa .I know my flutes sound travels far and wide around Papatuanuku the World
I will use my gift to benefit all the beautiful human cultures around Papatuanuku the Worlds wealth and poor everyone needs a good environment social and mother earths environment and I will use this gift to benefit all the beautiful creatures on Mother Earth.
I detest bullies when I was about 7 years old I was at a school of mostly Maori pupils
one girl had a problem with one of her leggs it was skinny an she had a hard time walking. Some of the other kids started bulling her you know young kids they don’t think about the big picture they stopped bulling her when I finished with them .
A Indian girl from India turned up to school and the kids started bulling her I stopped that to . As it turned out her parents invited Mama and I to her birthday and her father became mine and Mama doctors actually he became the whanos Doctor .
I have not seen these people since I left Gisborne at 9 years old and moved to the Waiapu valley . I say the Black Caps did a good job against the Giants of world cricket red is a lucky colour . ka kite ano P.S You see if it was not for Ropata Wahawaha and Ngata us maori cultured would have a harder life than we have at the minute
Many thanks to the AM show for interviewing Uncle Jack Charlies a Native Australian.
It shows that Maori have Mana and that we have it a lot better than other Native minority cultures around Papatuanuku the World . But we still are getting the short end of the stick in NZ . So don’t back down from advocating for Maori and the common Kiwis Equal rights. Kia kaha ka kite ano
New Hub ECO MAORI is colorblind I say that color should be banned from political party’s some people will vote for a party just because of the color . it creates division among people rivalries ect all political partys should be aloud to use gray colors only .It would good for Aotearoa NZ if both OUR main political Partys worked together to improve everyones lives in
New Zealand instead of a _____fight that happens at the minute .Ka kaha Ka kite ano P.S I know you know that I had a direct connection with the Mow man your good M8 Duncan I just would not take the bait last time
Instead of colour just have a symbol and a words? People with still identify with a party name regardless of colour. I don’t think it is the colours that attract i.e. I don’t think anyone votes ACT because they like yellow.
Also as long as people have different points of view there’ll always be divisions in politics.
Te Kaea on Maori TV I have been studying our history and have a better view on the treaty of waitangi and the importance it has and the way it has shaped OUR society for the better here is some words from the Rev H J Fletcher .
When considering what material wealth in loyalty in strategical advantage when we reflect the cost to have conquered the country by force of arms then it is then we can see in the wisdom of Lord Normabys policy and wise Maori Chiefs. the strength of there statesmanship and we are all the winners with diplomacy instead of war.
That is what The Treaty of Waitangi represents good intelligent diplomacy instead of war
Prime news that was a good story on how the common people in California USA have to live in tents an cars rents $1800 a month that is were we are heading if we sign that ttp11 is signed .
And you had a interview of Elon Mus excellent his views on AI artificial intelligent is the same as Eco Maori ka pai kate ano P.S I will see how we go Prime News ???
Good evening 3 News Hub how is one to think about a organization that never admits that they are wrong how is one to defend his Mana when that organization that is never wrong has the power of the whole state working against him a common Maori cultured Kiwi . Would you bring up your Mokos like that teach them they are never wrong well not ECO MAORI I teach my children and mokos when they are wrong so they will have a better life .?????????? Kia kaha Ka kite ano
News Hub trump a giving a Chris a top job everyone has a different view on reality Chris is obviously business first .
Eco Maoris view is te tangata and creatures first business second a company cannot feel pain and suffering so people and creatures first companys last anyway look after the people and the business will flourish its comonsence .
Many thanks to the NZ Rugby Union for starting to make the ladys rugby team professional Ka pai Ka kite ano
The project TV3 a man cannot learn about te matariki and study his history??? us Maori cultured people have a lot of story’s and history associated with the stars .
At least in OUR beautiful country Aotearoa New Zealand we can see the stars on most nights my challenges continue ECO MAORI will never give up I will go through over under around move it what ever I will win in the END.
Ka kite ano
Thats the way The Project support OUR farmers they deserve the good publicity they work hard and make our country healthy and wealthy .
Its the Government that has to take the lead on environmentally friendly farming practices KNOW ka kite ano
Not for the faint of heart. Another in a series about women’s lives in west london. This one has a huge section about disability and the failures of the British health system.
Ramona’s story is recommended reading (very much). It is a first person witness to the deteriorating situation of low paid work and welfare in the UK (kind of like here).
I also charts changing demographics, racism, the triple burden many women on low incomes live with, and the poor support for those with disabilities and the elderly. She says the state provides better care for people in prison than they do for the elderly.
The article begins with a bit of theoretical framing. I disagree with the way it implicitly sets up middle class campaigning against sexual abuse and violence in opposition to the struggles of and campaigns for working class women. Both are campaigns where some women are abused in a system where others have more power – with the most powerful elites largely being men with patriarchal values.
We can focus on both. However, working class women do not have as much visibility or power within the mainstream media. So it is essential to enable working class women to speak for themselves.
Out of this evidence, by and for working class women, comes this conclusion in the framing part of the article:
In the current aftermath of the financial crisis in 2008 working class women have been squeezed between welfare cuts and the increased pressure to work more on one side, and the conservative backlash that promotes traditional family values on the other. This has a practical purpose: valorising the family sets it up as a safe haven or ideal antidote to these times of austerity and hardship – as well as the masculine uncertainties it invokes. But it is increasingly impossible to both bring in an extra-income and create a family haven. Instead, these conflicting pressures of modern life make the home into a place of tension, that can easily boil over into violence.
We need to address the main contradiction of women’s continued triple burden (of waged work, emotional labour and male violence) in an age of supposed equality. The role of a feminist movement and analysis is vital if we are to properly understand and respond to the worsening situation of the labour market in terms of real wages, precarisation, legal rights and the slashing of the social wage.
It is very important to follow adam’s link and read Romana’s account of her own experiences.
It is pleasing to see that our Climate Change Minister James Shaw is doing his very best to reduce our green house gas emissions.
In the October-December quarter he spent $26,712 on International travel!
I can see that the Foreign Affairs Minister, Peters, and the Trade Minister, Parker, need to do a lot of travel but Shaw?
Couldn’t he try video conferencing if he really wanted to reduce carbon emissions. Just give his speech, or whatever he did, while still sitting in New Zealand and having time to try and get the Census run properly.
On the other hand I can understand his passion to go to Paris, particularly if the Taxpayer will fund the jaunt. Paris is wonderful. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12009856
“Climate change is being deliberately induced by geoengineering, not politicians overseas trips.”
Really? You mean that the fuel being burnt in aircraft engines doesn’t produce any green house gases. They have been lying to us when they publish articles like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviation
Or like this? https://davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/air-travel-climate-change/
Perhaps I am misreading you though. Do you mean that we ordinary people cause the production of Green House gases but not our rulers, the great Cabinet Ministers, and particularly those with a Green tinge?
“Paris hasn’t been wonderful for some time now”
I suggest that you revisit Paris. I go there every year and although you do see occasional groups of soldiers around life goes on as normal.
I have only once been anywhere near a terrorist threat. Some fool tried to blow up a car on the Champs Elysees. It didn’t explode but merely caught fire and the driver was killed. It was hard to feel any sympathy. The only effect on us was that we were in the Grand Palais and weren’t allowed out for about half an hour. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40332532
I feel much more threatened and in danger in Courtney Place after dark than I ever do in Paris.
The greatest city on earth.
You would be much more likely to be killed on the Auckland roads than by Terrorist activity in Paris. There have been a total of 250 deaths in France from terrorist activity in the whole of this century. That is about 15/year and they weren’t all in Paris. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_France#21st_century
Wouldn’t you?
After all they are “entitled”.
Remember when lefties complained that Bronagh Key went to some things overseas, like the Commonwealth HOG meetings. The seemed quite put out when Key revealed that he paid for her travel himself.
To be honest I don’t care about him travelling when it is expected. Some things require the attendance of a spouse. It was only what I perceived to be a sudden silence that struck me as interesting. I presume it is now the other side of politics who are complaining.
The one thing that would make me unhappy is if New Zealand On Air were to start putting money into his TV program.
You would have it that our Climate Change Minister not attend the international conference for Climate Change? Thereby weakening the position of those who want action to happen at those conferences?
I am certain that being Green, James Shaw offsets all of the air travel that he needs to do.
The census was fucked by the previous minister, with not enough time available to Shaw to unfuck it.
Alwyn suggests the climate change minister shouldn’t travel. (one person on an aeroplane)
Alwyn does not suggest that we should be starting to shut down our tourist industry because millions of people travel here on aeroplanes.
Q.)Why is Alwyn so selective about who should and shouldn’t travel due to climate change?
A.) Because Alwyn doesn’t actually care about climate change (or is maybe a denier, who knows) but is only interested in levelling bogus, childish accusations of hypocrisy at leftish politicians.
Q.) Why is Alwyn interested only in doing something so intellectually shabby?
A.) Because he is intellectually shabby.
It would be interesting to take this root cause analysis a bit further….
Get help, you clearly need it if these are typical of your fantasies.
My viewpoint is very simple. If climate change and carbon emissions are really such a problem as Shaw seems to believe he should really make an attempt to do something about it.
Flying around the world to attend a talkfest with thousands of other people merely shows that you don’t care to let anything interfere with your enjoyment of life.
I am only too willing to pay you what you are worth.
Having read your foolish babblings I must say that the amount is less than zero. I want to be paid for the time I wasted perusing the dribble you were spouting.
“The trouble at the moment is, we tend to judge everybody by a single standard.“Then you compound this with forms of simplistic testing which reduce even the most complex ideas to a series of bullet points … because it’s politically convenient and immensely profitable for the companies that sell these tests.” …
“A lot of governments tend to think that the answer to improving education lies in specifying the curriculum and then investing in standardised systems of testing. “But anybody who knows anything about education knows the real key to improving education is teaching.”
Contrast his experience with that of Paul McCartney, whose music with the Beatles was avidly followed by the young Sir Ken in Liverpool. “I can remember ‘Love Me Do’ exploding into the airwaves of Radio Luxembourg which is what we used to listen to at the time in Britain. I couldn’t believe how great this record was. I’d never heard anything like it.”
Decades later, interviewed for a book, McCartney told him he hadn’t enjoyed music at school and his music teacher didn’t think he had any talent. Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison was in the same music programme a couple of years later and the teacher didn’t think he had any talent either, McCartney said.
“I said, well look would it be reasonable to say this, that there was this one music teacher in Liverpool in the 1950s who had half the Beatles in his class and he missed it? And he said ‘yes’.”
‘Student numbers have jumped at three regional polytechnics – but the Government’s fees-free policy appears to have had no impact on universities, wānanga or apprenticeships.’
‘Education Minister Chris Hipkins put the cost of free fees and $50-a-week increases in student loans and allowances at up to $380 million in the financial year to this July. Labour has said its policy of three years’ free tertiary study will cost $1.2 billion a year by 2024.’
Maybe it’ll pick up later but at the moment its looking like, another, bust from Labour
The Unis are full – polytechnics are where you’d expect to see the increase.
Also, you’re saying this is a bust, but at the moment there’s been an extra $380 million spent on getting people into tertiary education prior to July, and it’s expected to increase in subsequent years. Uptake is already a third of what it is eventually intended to be. So the policy is doing exactly what it is intended to do, but you think it is a bust? Dense.
“It always was a bust because with interest free loans that you don’t have to pay back until you hit the threshold there was no barrier to learning”
I’m fairly sure that you understand that people still have to pay the loans back, so either you are pig ignorant about what debt means to many people, or you’re being disingenuous, or you’re one of those righties who thinks anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Or a combination of all three.
Pig ignorant covers it I think. The result of the high fees has been additional stress on many students, leading to less effective study; some becoming “student loan exiles” – if jobs don’t pan out (possibly due to stress, but we have been living in turbulant times) they cannot return to New Zealand without being trapped until they repay a loan. Some of our brightest and best left New Zealand, giving priority to high earnings to get rid of the debt – and have stayed overseas. Then there are the distortions in some professions. If you have visited a dentist in the last few years you will appreciate that fees have risen to ensure that high student loans can be repaid, with the result that for many low earners and beneficiaries, dentistry is a luxury that cannot often be afforded. Its been a windfall for dentists who went through with no or only a low loan, but delivering profits at the expense of the poor was never a problem for the previous government. (Another effect is that there has been a rise in dentistry companies – new dentists cannot afford to buy capital equipment – they already have a high personal loan – so they become employees for those with real capital that they can use to get a good return at the expense of those new professionals . . .
If the extra money has not had any beneficial effect then I guess chris73 will be consistent and accept that an increase in taxes for high income earners of a similar amount would also have no effect . . .
We’ve been told for years that the real need in NZ is for trained tradespeople, Chris. So more people are going to polytech? Great! Exactly what was needed!
Maybe it’ll pick up later but at the moment its looking like, another, bust from Labour
Meh – if there’d been a significant increase in university enrolments, you’d be running lines about Labour having enticed hordes of wasters to take a year off at the taxpayers’ expense.
I think it’s early days and many young people would have already made plans and even enrolled/registered when Government made the decision. In any case, there will be much less stress for those who could least afford it, which is a good thing IMO.
I also think it is a good move to weaken the (direct) link between (tertiary) education and money/cost for the students. Education has become a commodity, with a degree or diploma as the ‘proof of purchase’. Students are treated as fee-paying customers and, in turn, they have the expectations of fee-paying customers; they expect and customised service, with warranty and a complaint service, and a detailed ‘manual & user-guide’. In addition, tertiary education has become a highly competitive market in which the education providers have to spend much time & effort to attract ‘business’. This is the model that’s adored and pushed by National & ACT and luckily this Government realises how ineffective and counter-productive it is.
These guys just had a three day strike last month. I know it did not get any news. It was against anti-union practices. After the event, the union leader of the strike was suspended (still in dispute) on trumped up theft charges.
Show some solidarity – send them some words of encouragement.
Heeey in between being a cynical lefty posting cynical comments on here i do stand up comedy and have won a few awards, have my first solo show Armchair Revolutionary at the wellington fringe festival this week would love if any of you could make it or give it a share. Much love comrades https://m.facebook.com/events/561832590860369?tsid=0.054152682020651266&source=result
Did anyone hear Guyon on the Simon Bridges show this morning. What a joke. What a pompous little little prat Si is. He was certainly given a lot of air time. Something he’s not short of. Hot air that is. He also seems to be channelling the trump boys with his oily slick back. Not to mention P Bennett’s new copy cat hairstyle. Two slick tricks…..! And how the hell did Coleman get kept on? What’s going on there? Hasn’t he done enough damage? So needs to shuffle the deck again. All the jokers on front bench.
Smarty Simon has just lost some leadership credibility. He certainly won’t be able to tease Hipkins anymore…… A span too far for Mr Bridges.
And guess who did the backtracking after Leader Simon got off-side with #3 and # 4?
Was it the brave leader? When will he realise that, as Key and English and Joyce, you just can’t make it up on the fly, when the media are now spotting and writing about such gaffes.
The leader of the Liberal Democrats claimed the older generation were responsible for Britain’s decision to leave the European Union.
Sir Vince then said the decision was “driven by nostalgia” as Brexit voters wanted a Britain where “faces were white”.
He said: “I confess that my own initial reaction to the referendum was to think there was little choice but to pursue Brexit. I thought ‘the public have voted to be poorer. That is their right.’
“What changed my mind was the evidence that Brexit had overwhelmingly been the choice of the older generation. 75 percent of under 25s voted to Remain. But 70 percent of over 65s voted for Brexit.
“Too many were driven by a nostalgia for a world where passports were blue, faces were white, and the map was coloured imperial pink.”
The quotes and points he uses are punchy. It’s pretty much true isn’t it? Maybe if the EU develops cracks the disaffected in the USA might want to follow suit.
Why would the northern East Coast want to be up tight and cosy with Alabama? The west coast has its own economy. The bible belt live about a foot off the ground in their own heavenly, yet hellish bubble.
It covers well the deception and lies from Nick Smith a long way back now, but misses the other reason why National wanted them to segment results to identify where there may be opportunities for the private sector to “compete”. [a probably apocryphal story is that Smith deliberately had the rate for middle-aged bikers put up due to a photo of Phil Goff (?) with a large motor-bike]. Since many of the most expensive benefits are “income related” there is some merit in the levies being able to be collected by the IRD – with considerable administrative savings.
In this new vision of the economy, workers can’t be seen as a specific class with shared interests. They didn’t even belong to a company … too communal. For sure, perhaps they weren’t even workers! Homo economicus qua human capital was instead somehow external to the firm, pursuing his interests alone and investing in his abilities to leverage the best deal. […] Peter Drucker even felt comfortable announcing the arrival of the ‘post-capitalist society’, labelling the US the most socialist country around because all workers owned some capital after all.
What isn’t a joking matter, however, is the brave new world of work that has followed in the wake of neoclassical ideas such as human capital theory. Only when the employee is framed in such an ultra-individualist manner could the regressive trend of on-demand (or ‘zero-hours’) employment contracts ever gain a foothold in the economy. What some have called the Uberisation of the workforce functions by reclassifying workers as independent business owners, thereby shifting all employment costs to the employee: training, uniforms, vehicles and almost everything else.
Any self-respecting country would most definitely not sign an agreement that cedes power & control to borderless and faceless corporations and most definitely not encourage these large business conglomerates to erode & corrode away the last cohesive that keeps together its society as well as the last strands of fabric that stands between civilisation as we know it and complete and utter atomisation of society into a mass of nameless consumers & obedient workers, which is arguable a critical step towards totalitarianism. Apologies for the long sentence but this is not an essay for NCEA.
Newsroom has learnt that one of the camp’s organisers has been in touch with the victims and informed them the incident had been reported to Labour’s Head Office.
She is understood to have apologised on behalf of Young Labour and offered to support them in any way she could.
Sources have told Newsroom that Young Labour has pledged it can do more to ensure the safety of young people at its camps and is reviewing its event management.
Newsroom has heard that some of those attending the event are upset the response and offers of support have not come quickly enough.
Labour’s General Secretary, Andrew Kirton said he was aware of the incident and was currently, “working through it”.
Im guessing that ‘somebody’ has tried to keep it quiet and thats how it has made it to the media – prob pissed off parents.
But yes – I agree – lets hope it gets investigated thoroughly – although I do not think that this should be handled ‘in house’ – if 4 young kids have been sexually assaulted at a Labour camp – this should be a matter for the police not labour to investigate.
Kirton was asked that by John Campbell on Checkpoint. He said they were following a victim led process, and they wouldn’t notify the police until the victim/s were happy with that.
well its news to me but Id suggest that if Ian’ knows all about it’ then Alison Mau will be able to easily track down any alleged transgressor….I will be surprised if that happens.
The message ,I suppose is that # me too can bite you on the arse. Not a good look for Jacinda being the life and times of the party. Lets do this can mean lots of strokes for different folks.
Excellent article about the problems facing Fonterra.
‘Rod Oram delves behind the scenes of Fonterra’s Beingmate debacle in this week’s column. He finds the board will have to make a momentous decision that has parallels with Fletcher Building’s eventual removal of its CEO and Chairman.’
Took the bastards at New Zealand Rugby this long to actually get women on the payroll. And if your not a marquee player, then the wages are more than a bit shit.
Whilst I’m glad the women’s team is finally getting paid for all their hard work. A organisation which makes Millions of dollars off rugby, offering such crap wages should be called out!
It’s a bloody insult. It’s bloody disgusting, and once again it’s bloody typical of this country.
“New Zealand Rugby has announced it will contract its top 30 women’s players with the contracts ranging from $12,500 to $20,000 a year.
Players will also get a $2000 a week assembly fee with leading players able to earn a maximum of $45,000 a year.”
Men’s rugby.
New Zealand’s five Super Rugby franchises are allowed to contract 32 players each year. The maximum retainer is $195,000 and minimum $75,000.
Beyond that are what used to be known as wider contract players. Now called Draft New Zealand Contract Players, teams are permitted to sign six on retainers of $50,000.
Women’s rugby 50 days per year (7 weeks) lowest pay $26500 = $3785 per week
Super 15 19 weeks lowest pay $75,000 = $3947 per week.
Add in some pre season training for the super 15 players and the lowest rate would seem to be similar.
At the top end seems to be more of a problem which should be improved
Women $6428 per week
Men $10263 per week
Plus I’d give women some extra pay for representing their country and not just their franchise.
Probably the minimum all should get should be the $50,000-00 per annum retainer.
“Probably the minimum all should get should be the $50,000-00 per annum retainer.”
Well no, the women don’t bring in even close to what the men do so no they shouldn’t be paid equally
Not saying they shouldn’t be paid and not saying they can’t be paid more in the future but the men are bringing in the money and its the money they generate that pays the wages
That is always spouted when women’s sports going professional, and it always turns out that every other country goes fully professional first, and New Zealand slips back in the world rankings.
If you want professional athletes with professional results these days, you’ve got to pay them a full time salary.
When someone has an accident and a person is killed is the surviving driver a criminal?
Or just misunderstood.
Shirley Way said Mr Stretch’s behaviour spiralled out of control after the crash that killed a young woman in 2001, for which he was jailed on a charge of driving with excess breath alcohol, causing death.
“His life was never, ever the same after that.”
“Because he was so young himself, it wasn’t something I think that was managed or dealt with very well,” Ms Way said.
Mr Stretch did not stop drinking or doing drugs, she said.
“If anything, it escalated out of control.”
It was no excuse for what had happened yesterday which was an awful tragedy, Ms Way said.
Other friends of Mr Tairakena and Mr Stretch expressed their sorrow and grief on social media.
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TL;DR: In my ‘six-stack’ of substacks at 6.06pm on Monday, March 18:IKEA is accused of planting big forests in New Zealand to green-wash; REDD-MonitorA City for People takes a well-deserved victory lap over Wellington’s pro-YIMBY District Plan votes; A City for PeopleSteven Anastasiou takes a close look at the sticky ...
Buzz from the Beehive Here’s hoping for a lively post-cabinet press conference when the PM and – perhaps – some of his ministers tell us what was discussed at their meeting today. Until then, Point of Order has precious little Beehive news to report after its latest monitoring of the ...
David Farrar writes – We now have almost all 2023 data in, which has allowed me to update my annual table of how labour went against its promises. This is basically their final report card. The promiseThe result Build 100,000 affordable homes over 10 ...
I’m a bit worried that I’ve started a previous newsletter with the words “just when you think they couldn’t get any worse…” Seems lately that I could begin pretty much every issue with that opening. Such is the nature of our coalition government that they seem to be outdoing each ...
Geoffrey Miller writes – Timing is everything. And from China’s perspective, this week’s visit by its foreign minister to New Zealand could be coming at just the right moment. The visit by Wang Yi to Wellington will be his first since 2017. Anniversaries are important to Beijing. ...
Depictions of Islam in Western popular culture have rarely been positive, even before 9/11. Five years on from the mosque shootings, this is one of the cultural headwinds that the Muslim community has to battle against. Whatever messages of tolerance and inclusion are offered in daylight, much of our culture ...
Last week Transport Minster Simeon Brown and Mayor Wayne Brown opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre. The new train control centre will see teams from KiwiRail, Auckland Transport and Auckland One Rail working more closely together to improve train services across the city. The Auckland Rail Operations Centre in ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Retiring former Labour Finance Minister Grant Robertson said in an exit interview with Q+A yesterday the Government can and should sustain more debt to invest in infrastructure for future generations. Elsewhere in the news in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 6:36am: Read more ...
Timing is everything. And from China’s perspective, this week’s visit by its foreign minister to New Zealand could be coming at just the right moment. The visit by Wang Yi to Wellington will be his first since 2017. Anniversaries are important to Beijing. It is more than just a happy ...
TL;DR: The key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to March 18 include:China’s Foreign Minister visiting Wellington today;A post-cabinet news conference this afternoon; the resumption of Parliament on Tuesday for two weeks before Easter;retiring former Labour Finance Minister Grant Robertson gives his valedictory speech in Parliament; ...
New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters’s state-of-the-nation speech on Sunday was really a state-of-Winston-First speech. He barely mentioned any of the Government’s key policies and could not even wholly endorse its signature income tax cuts. Instead, he rehearsed all of his complaints about the Ardern Government, including an extraordinary claim ...
A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 10, 2024 thru Sat, March 16, 2024. Story of the week This week we'll give you a little glimpse into how we collect links to share and ...
A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 10, 2024 thru Sat, March 16, 2024. Story of the week This week we'll give you a little glimpse into how we collect links to share and ...
“I’ve been internalising a really complicated situation in my head.”When they kept telling us we should wait until we get to know him, were they taking the piss? Was it a case of, if you think this is bad, wait till you get to know the real Christopher, after the ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
.“$10 and a target that bleeds” - Bleeding Targets for Under $10!.Thanks for reading Frankly Speaking ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.This government appears hell-bent on either scrapping life-saving legislation or reintroducing things that - frustrated critics insist - will be dangerous and likely ...
“It hardly strikes me as fair to criticise a government for doing exactly what it said it was going to do. For actually keeping its promises.”THUNDER WAS PLAYING TAG with lightning flashes amongst the distant peaks. Its rolling cadences interrupted by the here-I-come-here-I-go Doppler effect of the occasional passing car. ...
Subversive & Disruptive Technologies: Just as happened with that other great regulator of the masses, the Medieval Church, the advent of a new and hard-to-control technology – the Internet – is weakening the ties that bind. Then, and now, those who enjoy a monopoly on the dissemination of lies, cannot and will ...
Been Here Before: To find the precedents for what this Coalition Government is proposing, it is necessary to return to the “glory days” of Muldoonism.THE COALITION GOVERNMENT has celebrated its first 100 days in office by checking-off the last of its listed commitments. It remains, however, an angry government. It ...
Bob Edlin writes – And what is the world watching today…? The email newsletter from Associated Press which landed in our mailbox early this morning advised: In the news today: The father of a school shooter has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter; prosecutors in Trump’s hush-money case ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Is another Green MP on their way out? And are the Greens severely tarnished by another integrity scandal? For the second time in three months, the Green Party has secretly suspended an MP over integrity issues. Mystery is surrounding the party’s decision to ...
For the last few years, the Green Party has been the party that has managed to avoid the plague of multiple scandals that have beleaguered other political parties. It appears that their luck has run out with a second scandal which, unfortunately for them, coincided with Golraz Ghahraman, the focus ...
TL;DR: The six newsey things that stood out to me as of 6:46am on Saturday, March 16.Andy Foster has accidentally allowed a Labour/Green amendment to cut road user chargers for plug-in hybrid vehicles, which the Government might accept; NZ HeraldThomas CoughlanSimeon Brown has rejected a plea from Westport ...
What seemed a booming success a couple of years ago has collapsed into fraud convictions.I looked at the crash of FTX (short for ‘Futures Exchange’) in November 2022 to see whether it would impact on the financial system as a whole. Fortunately there was barely a ripple, probably because it ...
Anybody following the situation in Ukraine and Russia would probably have been amused by a recent Tweet on X NATO seems to be putting in an awful lot of effort to influence what is, at least according to them, a sham election in an autocracy.When do the Ukrainians go to ...
TL;DR:Shaun Baker on Wynyard Quarter's transformation. Magdalene Taylor on the problem with smart phones. How private equity are now all over reinsurance. Dylan Cleaver on rugby and CTE. Emily Atkin on ‘Big Meat’ looking like ‘Big Oil’.Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 6pm on March 15Photo by Jeppe Hove Jensen ...
Buzz from the Beehive Finance Minister Nicola Willis had plenty to say when addressing the Auckland Business Chamber on the economic growth that (she tells us) is flagging more than we thought. But the government intends to put new life into it: We want our country to be a ...
The Transport and Infrastructure Committee has reported back on the Road User Charges (Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Amendment Bill, basicly rubberstamping it. While there was widespread support among submitters for the principle that EV and PHEV drivers should pay their fair share for the roads, they also overwhelmingly disagreed with ...
Peter Dunne writes – This week’s government bailout – the fifth in the last eighteen months – of the financially troubled Ruapehu Alpine Lifts company would have pleased many in the central North Island ski industry. The government’s stated rationale for the $7 million funding was that it ...
See if you can spot the difference. An Iranian born female MP from a progressive party is accused of serial shoplifting. Her name is leaked to the media, which goes into a pack frenzy even before the Police launch an … Continue reading → ...
Ele Ludemann writes – The government is omitting general Treaty references from legislation : The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last Government in a bid to get greater coherence in the public service on Treaty ...
What was that judge thinking?Peter Williams writes – That Golriz Ghahraman and District Court Judge Maria Pecotic were once lawyer colleagues is incontrovertible. There is published evidence that they took at least one case to the Court of Appeal together. There was a report on ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Climate Scorpion – the sting is in the tail. Introducing planetary solvency. A paper via the University of Exeter’s Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.Local scoop:Kāinga Ora starts pulling out of its Auckland projects and selling land RNZ ...
Wellington’s massively upzoned District Plan adds the opportunity for tens of thousands of new homes not just in the central city (such as these Webb St new builds) but also close to the CBD and public transport links. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Wellington gave itself the chance of ...
It’s Friday and we’re halfway through March Madness. Here’s some of the things that caught our attention this week. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt asked how we can get better event trains and an option for grade separating Morningside Dr. On Tuesday Matt looked into ...
Something you might not know about me is that I’m quite a stubborn person. No, really. I don’t much care for criticism I think’s unfair or that I disagree with. Few of us do I suppose.Back when I was a drinker I’d sometimes respond defensively, even angrily. There are things ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the last week included:PM Christopher Luxon said the reversal of interest deductibility for landlords was done to help renters, who ...
It was not so much the Labour Party but really the Chris Hipkins party yesterday at Labour’s caucus retreat in Martinborough. The former Prime Minister was more or less consistent on wealth tax, which he was at best equivocal about, and social insurance, which he was not willing to revisit. ...
Buzz from the BeehiveThe text reproduced above appears on a page which records all the media statements and speeches posted on the government’s official website by Melissa Lee as Minister of Media and Communications and/or by Jenny Marcroft, her Parliamentary Under-secretary. It can be quickly analysed ...
For forty years, Robert Muldoon has been a dirty word in our politics. His style of government was so repulsive and authoritarian that the backlash to it helped set and entrench our constitutional norms. His pig-headedness over forcing through Think Big eventually gave us the RMA, with its participation and ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Is the new government reducing tax on rental properties to benefit landlords or to cut the cost of rents? That’s the big question this week, after Associate Finance Minister David Seymour announced on Sunday that the Government would be reversing the Labour Government’s removal ...
Saudi Arabia is rarely far from the international spotlight. The war in Gaza has brought new scrutiny to Saudi plans to normalise relations with Israel, while the fifth anniversary of the controversial killing of Jamal Khashoggi was marked shortly before the war began on October 7. And as the home ...
Questions need to be asked on both sides of the worldPeter Williams writes – The NRL Judiciary hands down an eight week suspension to Sydney Roosters forward Spencer Leniu , an Auckland-born Samoan, after he calls Ezra Mam, Sydney-orn but of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Ele Ludemann writes – Contrary to what many headlines and news stories are saying, residential landlords are not getting a tax break. The government is simply restoring to them the tax deductibility of interest they had until the previous government removed it. There is no logical reason ...
I can't remember when it was goodMoments of happiness in bloomMaybe I just misunderstoodAll of the love we left behindWatching our flashbacks intertwineMemories I will never findIn spite of whatever you becomeForget that reckless thing turned onI think our lives have just begunI think our lives have just begunDoes anyone ...
Michael Bassett writes – At first reading, a front-page story in the New Zealand Herald on 13 March was bizarre. A group of severely intellectually limited teenagers, with little understanding of the law, have been pleading to the Justice Select Committee not to pass a bill dealing with ram ...
How much political capital is Christopher Luxon willing to burn through in order to deliver his $2.9 billion gift to landlords? Evidently, Luxon is: (a) unable to cost the policy accurately. As Anna Burns-Francis pointed out to him on Breakfast TV, the original ”rock solid” $2.1 billion cost he was ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Jonathon Porritt calling bullshit in his own blog post on mainstream climate science as ‘The New Denialism’.Local scoop:The Wellington City Council’s list of proposed changes to the IHP recommendations to be debated later today was leaked this ...
TL;DR:Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said yesterday tenants should be grateful for the reinstatement of interest deductibility because landlords would pass on their lower tax costs in the form of lower rents. That would be true if landlords were regulated monopolies such as Transpower or Auckland Airport1, but they’re not, ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Tom Toro Tom Toro is a cartoonist and author. He has published over 200 cartoons in The New Yorker since 2010. His cartoons appear in Playboy, the Paris Review, the New York Times, American Bystander, and elsewhere. Related: What 10 EV lovers ...
The business section of the NZ Herald is full of opinion. Among the more opinionated of all is the ex-Minister of Transport, ex-Minister of Railways, ex MP for Auckland Central (1975-93, Labour), Wellington Central (1996-99, ACT, then list-2005), ex-leader of the ACT Party, uncle to actor Antonia, the veritable granddaddy ...
Hi,Just quickly — I’m blown away by the stories you’ve shared with me over the last week since I put out the ‘Gary’ podcast, where I told you about the time my friend’s flatmate killed the neighbour.And you keep telling me stories — in the comments section, and in my ...
The first season of Rings of Power was not awful. It was thoroughly underwhelming, yes, and left a lingering sense of disappointment, but it was more expensive mediocrity than catastrophe. I wrote at length about the series as it came out (see the Review section of the blog, and go ...
Buzz from the Beehive Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden told Auckland Business Chamber members they were the first audience to hear her priorities as a minister in a government committed to cutting red tape and regulations. She brandished her liberalising credentials, saying Flexible labour markets are the ...
Chris Trotter writes – TO UNDERSTAND WHY NEWSHUB FAILED, it is necessary to understand how TVNZ changed. Up until 1989, the state broadcaster had been funded by a broadcasting licence fee, collected from every citizen in possession of a television set, supplemented by a relatively modest (compared ...
Bob Edlin writes – The Māori Party has been busy issuing a mix of warnings and threats as its expresses its opposition to interest deductibility for landlords and the plans of seabed miners. It remains to be seen whether they follow the example of indigenous litigants in Australia, ...
The Government has accepted Labour’s change to the Road User Charge (RUC) discount for hybrid vehicles, meaning there will still be some incentive for people to buy greener vehicles. ...
Kicking the most vulnerable people out of state housing and pushing them towards homelessness will result in a proliferation of poverty and trauma across our most vulnerable communities. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader and MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi has penned a letter asking MPs to support his members bill to remove GST from all food. The bill is expected to go through its first reading in parliament this Wednesday. “I’m calling on all political parties to support my ...
This year is about getting real with Kiwis and discussing the tough issues, as the National Government exacerbates inequality and divides New Zealand, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said ...
The Government adding Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) to its already roaring environmental policy bonfire is an assault on the future of wildlife that makes Aotearoa unique. ...
After 12 years of fighting to protect our moana we are finding ourselves back at square one and back at court. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is sitting in Hawera to reconsider an application from Trans-Tasman Resources to dig up 50 million tonnes of the seabed in South Taranaki. This ...
Minister Shane Jones’ decision to step away from a seabed mining project is evidence of the murky waters surrounding the Government’s fast-track legislation. ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The Coalition Government’s miscalculation saga continues as it has forgotten an eyewatering $90 million gap in its interest deductibility cost figures, say Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds and Revenue Spokesperson Deborah Russell. ...
He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission has today released advice that says if the Government doesn’t act now New Zealand is at risk of not meeting its climate goals. ...
The Coalition Government has today confirmed it is abandoning first home buyers who are struggling to get ahead, says Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds. ...
The New Zealand public voted for a change in direction at the 2023 general election and that is exactly what this coalition government has been delivering in its first 100 days. There was an immediate focus on the economy, easing the cost of living, cracking down on law and order ...
The Government has left the health system as an afterthought, announcing half-baked targets at the last minute of their 100-day plan, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
Kiwis are still waiting for their promised cost of living support after 100 days of a National Government that is taking us backwards, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
100 days of National taking NZ backwardsThe National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
The Government must commit to funding free and healthy school lunches, as thousands of people sign the petition to keep them, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti says. ...
If the Government was serious about moving families into public housing, they would build more houses so there is actually somewhere for people to go. ...
The free and healthy school lunches programme feeds our kids, helps them to learn, and saves families money – but it is at risk under this Government, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. ...
The Government’s proposed changes to Firearms Prohibition Orders (FPO) add almost nothing new and are merely an attempt to distract from its plans to loosen gun laws, police spokesperson Ginny Andersen and justice spokesperson Dr Duncan Webb said. ...
The great Victorian era English politician Lord Macauley stood in the British House of Parliament and said, "The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm".He understood and outlined even way back then, the significant role and influence media have in a democracy. ...
"The Government is moving quickly to realise an additional $46 million in tariff savings in the EU market this season for Kiwi exporters,” Minister for Trade and Agriculture, Todd McClay says. Parliament is set, this week, to complete the final legislative processes required to bring the New Zealand – European ...
New Zealand’s social workers are qualified, experienced, and more representative of the communities they serve, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “I want to acknowledge and applaud New Zealand’s social workers for the hard work they do, providing invaluable support for our most vulnerable. “To coincide with World ...
Cabinet has agreed to a reduced road user charge (RUC) rate for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. Owners of PHEVs will be eligible for a reduced rate of $38 per 1,000km once all light electric vehicles (EVs) move into the RUC system from 1 April. ...
Minister of Agriculture and Trade, Todd McClay, says that today’s opening of Riverland Foods manufacturing plant in Christchurch is a great example of how trade access to overseas markets creates jobs in New Zealand. Speaking at the official opening of this state-of-the-art pet food factory the Minister noted that exports ...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Wellington today. “It was a pleasure to host Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his first official visit to New Zealand since 2017. Our discussions were wide-ranging and enabled engagement on many facets of New Zealand’s relationship with China, including trade, ...
Kāinga Ora – Homes & Communities has been instructed to end the Sustaining Tenancies Framework and take stronger measures against persistent antisocial behaviour by tenants, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Earlier today Finance Minister Nicola Willis and I sent an interim Letter of Expectations to the Board of Kāinga Ora. ...
Tēna koutou katoa. Greetings everyone. Thank you to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and the Honourable Simon Bridges for hosting this address today. I acknowledge the business leaders in this room, the leaders and governors, the employers, the entrepreneurs, the investors, and the wealth creators. The coalition Government shares your ...
Minister Winston Peters completed the final leg of his visit to South and South East Asia in Singapore today, where he focused on enhancing one of New Zealand’s indispensable strategic partnerships. “Singapore is our most important defence partner in South East Asia, our fourth-largest trading partner and a ...
Minister of Internal Affairs and Workplace Relations and Safety, Hon. Brooke van Velden, will travel to the Republic of Korea to represent New Zealand at the Third Summit for Democracy on 18 March. The summit, hosted by the Republic of Korea, was first convened by the United States in 2021, ...
ICNZ Speech 7 March 2024, Auckland Acknowledgements and opening Mōrena, ngā mihi nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Good morning, it’s a privilege to be here to open the ICNZ annual conference, thank you to Mark for the Mihi Whakatau My thanks to Tim Grafton for inviting me ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Lead Coordination Minister Judith Collins have expressed their deepest sympathy on the five-year anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks. “March 15, 2019, was a day when families, communities and the country came together both in sorrow and solidarity,” Mr Luxon says. “Today we pay our respects to the 51 shuhada ...
Speech for Financial Advice NZ Conference 5 March 2024 Acknowledgements and opening Morena, Nga Mihi Nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Thanks Nate for your Mihi Whakatau Good morning. It’s a pleasure to formally open your conference this morning. What a lovely day in Wellington, What a great ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters held discussions in Jakarta today about the future of relations between New Zealand and South East Asia’s most populous country. “We are in Jakarta so early in our new government’s term to reflect the huge importance we place on our relationship with Indonesia and South ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters has announced that the Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi, will visit New Zealand next week. “We look forward to re-engaging with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and discussing the full breadth of the bilateral relationship, which is one of New Zealand’s ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has today opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre, which will bring together KiwiRail, Auckland Transport, and Auckland One Rail to improve service reliability for Aucklanders. “The recent train disruptions in Auckland have highlighted how important it is KiwiRail and Auckland’s rail agencies work together to ...
The Government is proud to support the 10th edition of Crankworx Rotorua as the Crankworx World Tour returns to Rotorua from 16-24 March 2024, says Minister for Economic Development Melissa Lee. “Over the past 10 years as Crankworx Rotorua has grown, so too have the economic and social benefits that ...
Legislation implementing coalition Government tax commitments and addressing long-standing tax anomalies will be progressed in Parliament next week, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The legislation is contained in an Amendment Paper to the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill issued today. “The Amendment Paper represents ...
Associate Environment Minister Andrew Hoggard has today announced that the Government has agreed to suspend the requirement for councils to comply with the Significant Natural Areas (SNA) provisions of the National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity for three years, while it replaces the Resource Management Act (RMA).“As it stands, SNAs ...
Agriculture Minister Todd McClay has classified the drought conditions in the Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts as a medium-scale adverse event, acknowledging the challenging conditions facing farmers and growers in the district. “Parts of Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts are in the grip of an intense dry spell. I know ...
The Government is helping farmers eradicate the significant impact of facial eczema (FE) in pastoral animals, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “A $20 million partnership jointly funded by Beef + Lamb NZ, the Government, and the primary sector will save farmers an estimated NZD$332 million per year, and aims to ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has completed a successful visit to India, saying it was an important step in taking the relationship between the two countries to the next level. “We have laid a strong foundation for the Coalition Government’s priority of enhancing New Zealand-India relations to generate significant future benefit for both countries,” says Mr Peters, ...
Cabinet has agreed to provide $7 million to ensure the 2024 ski season can go ahead on the Whakapapa ski field in the central North Island but has told the operator Ruapehu Alpine Lifts it is the last financial support it will receive from taxpayers. Cabinet also agreed to provide ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Lower fruit and vegetable prices are welcome news for New Zealanders who have been doing it tough at the supermarket, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. Stats NZ reported today the price of fruit and vegetables has dropped 9.3 percent in the 12 months to February 2024. “Lower fruit and vege ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
The coalition Government is supporting farmers to enhance land management practices by investing $3.3 million in locally led catchment groups, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “Farmers and growers deliver significant prosperity for New Zealand and it’s vital their ongoing efforts to improve land management practices and water quality are supported,” ...
Good evening everyone and thank you for that lovely introduction. Thank you also to the Honourable Simon Bridges for the invitation to address your members. Since being sworn in, this coalition Government has hit the ground running with our 100-day plan, delivering the changes that New Zealanders expect of us. ...
Recommendations from the Climate Change Commission for New Zealand on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) auction and unit limit settings for the next five years have been tabled in Parliament, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. “The Commission provides advice on the ETS annually. This is the third time the ...
The coalition Government is beginning its fight to lower building costs and reduce red tape by exempting minor building work from paying the building levy, says Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk. “Currently, any building project worth $20,444 including GST or more is subject to the building levy which is ...
Proposed changes to tax legislation to prevent the over-taxation of low-earning trusts are welcome, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The changes have been recommended by Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee following consideration of submissions on the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill. “One of the ...
Assalaamu alaikum. السَّلَام عليكم In light of the holy month of Ramadan, I want to extend my warmest wishes to our Muslim community in New Zealand. Ramadan is a time for spiritual reflection, renewed devotion, perseverance, generosity, and forgiveness. It’s a time to strengthen our bonds and appreciate the diversity ...
Former Transport Minister and CEO of the Auckland Business Chamber Hon Simon Bridges has been appointed as the new Board Chair of the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) for a three-year term, Transport Minister Simeon Brown announced today. “Simon brings extensive experience and knowledge in transport policy and governance to the role. He will ...
Good morning all, it is a pleasure to be here as Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology. It is fantastic to see how connected and collaborative the life science and biotechnology industry is here in New Zealand. I would like to thank BioTechNZ and NZTech for the invitation to address ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says he is looking forward to the day when three key water projects in Northland are up and running, unlocking the full potential of land in the region. Mr Jones attended a community event at the site of the Otawere reservoir near Kerikeri on Friday. ...
Associate Finance Minister David Seymour has today announced that the Government has agreed to restore deductibility for mortgage interest on residential investment properties. “Help is on the way for landlords and renters alike. The Government’s restoration of interest deductibility will ease pressure on rents and simplify the tax code,” says ...
Sport and Recreation Minister Chris Bishop will travel to Switzerland today to attend an Executive Committee meeting and Symposium of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Mr Bishop will then travel on to London where he will attend a series of meetings in his capacity as Infrastructure Minister. “New Zealanders believe ...
Pacific Media Watch Earthwise hosts Lois and Martin Griffiths. Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths on Plains FM 96.9 community radio talk to Dr David Robie, a New Zealand author, independent journalist and media educator with a passion for the Asia-Pacific region. David talks about the struggle to raise awareness ...
Pacific Media Watch Ismail al-Ghoul, an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent who was held for 12 hours at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, says Israeli forces rounded up Palestinian journalists at the facility and made them kneel on the ground for hours, while naked and blindfolded. “The occupation forces handcuffed and blindfolded us ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute chinasong, Shutterstock Electricity customers in four Australian states can breathe a sigh of relief. After two years in a row of 20% price increases, power prices have finally stabilised. In many places they’re ...
Chumbawamba have reportedly issued the deputy PM a cease-and-desist notice after he used their song 'Tubthumping' before his state of the nation speech. ...
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Comment: There has been a striking contrast in trans-Tasman interest about Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s visit to New Zealand and Australia. While the Australian press has been full of articles about the visit – including his curious decision to meet with former prime minister and China booster Paul Keating ...
After years of pressuring banks and other institutions to stop investing in fossil fuels, climate campaigners are making some progress. So how does divestment work?For years, climate activists have been pushing banks and other big institutions to divest from fossil fuels. New research from climate advocacy group 350 Aotearoa ...
For Boba, Ethan and Ashley, K-pop is a place to belong, a way to express themselves, and a bridge to connect with others. The three young Polynesians are part of a K-pop fan community in Tāmaki Makaurau. It’s one of many that have sprung up worldwide as K-pop has gone ...
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There’s ample evidence demonstrating free school lunch programmes provide wide benefits across schools, households and communities according to public health researchers. ACT Minister David Seymour wants to reduce the spending on Aotearoa New Zealand’s ...
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The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming comments from Christopher Luxon this morning recommitting to ‘no new taxes’ as part of Budget 2024. “Mr Luxon’s refusal at the Post-Cabinet press conference yesterday to repeat the ‘no new taxes’ promise ...
SAFE is urgently calling on the Environment Committee to reject the Government’s Fast-Track Approvals Bill, and is urging New Zealanders to rally behind the call. The proposed Bill, currently under consideration with the Environment select committee, ...
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The latest Ipsos New Zealand Issues Monitor reveals that fewer New Zealanders believe crime / law and order is one of the top issues facing our country. In 2018, Ipsos New Zealand started tracking the key issues facing New Zealand. In this wave ...
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ECO MAORIs Kiwi Bank ac 389019048573100 Please help me to sort the nz police out
I decided against trying to use PayPal to receive donations .I decided to copy
Thestandards safe way of appealing and receiving donations I set up a Kiwi Bank AC
So he tangata the people of Aoteraoroa New Zealand who support ECO MAORI can use internet banking to make donations and know that there bank accounts are safe after they have made a donation . ECO MAORI will use the donations to SUE the nz police for all the breaches to mine and my Whano Privacy Rights & Human Rights a lot of people can see this has been happening to ECO MAORI when I win my case I will set up a
Charitable Trust and I will pay the money that I used and any extra donations into this Trust account and appeal to anyone else in Aoteraoroa who need help with finance to SUE the nz police for there in justices I will copy bank statements on this site to let he tangata the people know that ECO MAORI has Honest Honorable and transparent intentions to use your hard earned Putea Money. .
Kia Kaha Ka kite ano
When are we going to place the environment and our health above farmers’ profits?
Clean.
Green.
100.
%.
Pure.
What a load of cow manure.
And nitrogen.
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/swimming-limits-again
The Lake Hayes problem has little to nothing to do with stock effluent, the catchment is effectively destocked, or stocked at such low levels the land can easily handle it. The lake has very low through flow and is quite deep so has an inherent dissolved oxygen issue. Most of the nitrogen and phosphorus comes from fertilisers, of which there’s not much going on now, apart from MIllbrook and Hills golf courses. But the algae seems to have changed this year, it used to be brown, and in the deeper parts of the lake, this year it’s orange or fluro green and in the shallow parts. And looks toxic. As usual the ORCs put up some signs and that’s about it, don’t want to upset the money machine.
The Manuherikia is totally dairy related. Lots of new dairy farms in the catchment combined with free draining soils. Pretty much instant shit in the river. Strange coincidence that a lot of said dairy farms are on the market.
Good morning the AM Show on TV3 I say all the mokos should be taught about finance all about loans an how credit works at school they would save heaps over there life time teach them if you save a dollar its like earning 2 dollars .
I support a wealth tax I did not mined paying more tax not that I’M wealth yet .
The wealthy get to enjoy all the pleasures the sea mountains the fine food I say they should a bit more tax so we have a happy healthy society for all the creatures of Aoteraroa .I know my flutes sound travels far and wide around Papatuanuku the World
I will use my gift to benefit all the beautiful human cultures around Papatuanuku the Worlds wealth and poor everyone needs a good environment social and mother earths environment and I will use this gift to benefit all the beautiful creatures on Mother Earth.
I detest bullies when I was about 7 years old I was at a school of mostly Maori pupils
one girl had a problem with one of her leggs it was skinny an she had a hard time walking. Some of the other kids started bulling her you know young kids they don’t think about the big picture they stopped bulling her when I finished with them .
A Indian girl from India turned up to school and the kids started bulling her I stopped that to . As it turned out her parents invited Mama and I to her birthday and her father became mine and Mama doctors actually he became the whanos Doctor .
I have not seen these people since I left Gisborne at 9 years old and moved to the Waiapu valley . I say the Black Caps did a good job against the Giants of world cricket red is a lucky colour . ka kite ano P.S You see if it was not for Ropata Wahawaha and Ngata us maori cultured would have a harder life than we have at the minute
Many thanks to the AM show for interviewing Uncle Jack Charlies a Native Australian.
It shows that Maori have Mana and that we have it a lot better than other Native minority cultures around Papatuanuku the World . But we still are getting the short end of the stick in NZ . So don’t back down from advocating for Maori and the common Kiwis Equal rights. Kia kaha ka kite ano
New Hub ECO MAORI is colorblind I say that color should be banned from political party’s some people will vote for a party just because of the color . it creates division among people rivalries ect all political partys should be aloud to use gray colors only .It would good for Aotearoa NZ if both OUR main political Partys worked together to improve everyones lives in
New Zealand instead of a _____fight that happens at the minute .Ka kaha Ka kite ano P.S I know you know that I had a direct connection with the Mow man your good M8 Duncan I just would not take the bait last time
Instead of colour just have a symbol and a words? People with still identify with a party name regardless of colour. I don’t think it is the colours that attract i.e. I don’t think anyone votes ACT because they like yellow.
Also as long as people have different points of view there’ll always be divisions in politics.
Te Kaea on Maori TV I have been studying our history and have a better view on the treaty of waitangi and the importance it has and the way it has shaped OUR society for the better here is some words from the Rev H J Fletcher .
When considering what material wealth in loyalty in strategical advantage when we reflect the cost to have conquered the country by force of arms then it is then we can see in the wisdom of Lord Normabys policy and wise Maori Chiefs. the strength of there statesmanship and we are all the winners with diplomacy instead of war.
That is what The Treaty of Waitangi represents good intelligent diplomacy instead of war
ka pai ka kite ano.
Prime news that was a good story on how the common people in California USA have to live in tents an cars rents $1800 a month that is were we are heading if we sign that ttp11 is signed .
And you had a interview of Elon Mus excellent his views on AI artificial intelligent is the same as Eco Maori ka pai kate ano P.S I will see how we go Prime News ???
Good evening 3 News Hub how is one to think about a organization that never admits that they are wrong how is one to defend his Mana when that organization that is never wrong has the power of the whole state working against him a common Maori cultured Kiwi . Would you bring up your Mokos like that teach them they are never wrong well not ECO MAORI I teach my children and mokos when they are wrong so they will have a better life .?????????? Kia kaha Ka kite ano
News Hub trump a giving a Chris a top job everyone has a different view on reality Chris is obviously business first .
Eco Maoris view is te tangata and creatures first business second a company cannot feel pain and suffering so people and creatures first companys last anyway look after the people and the business will flourish its comonsence .
Many thanks to the NZ Rugby Union for starting to make the ladys rugby team professional Ka pai Ka kite ano
The project TV3 a man cannot learn about te matariki and study his history??? us Maori cultured people have a lot of story’s and history associated with the stars .
At least in OUR beautiful country Aotearoa New Zealand we can see the stars on most nights my challenges continue ECO MAORI will never give up I will go through over under around move it what ever I will win in the END.
Ka kite ano
Thats the way The Project support OUR farmers they deserve the good publicity they work hard and make our country healthy and wealthy .
Its the Government that has to take the lead on environmentally friendly farming practices KNOW ka kite ano
For laughs, shits and giggles. SNL take on it all….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abCBAA60BCs&ab_channel=CCTVNews
Not for the faint of heart. Another in a series about women’s lives in west london. This one has a huge section about disability and the failures of the British health system.
https://libcom.org/blog/series-interviews-working-class-women-west-london-part-2-11032018
Ramona’s story is recommended reading (very much). It is a first person witness to the deteriorating situation of low paid work and welfare in the UK (kind of like here).
I also charts changing demographics, racism, the triple burden many women on low incomes live with, and the poor support for those with disabilities and the elderly. She says the state provides better care for people in prison than they do for the elderly.
The article begins with a bit of theoretical framing. I disagree with the way it implicitly sets up middle class campaigning against sexual abuse and violence in opposition to the struggles of and campaigns for working class women. Both are campaigns where some women are abused in a system where others have more power – with the most powerful elites largely being men with patriarchal values.
We can focus on both. However, working class women do not have as much visibility or power within the mainstream media. So it is essential to enable working class women to speak for themselves.
Out of this evidence, by and for working class women, comes this conclusion in the framing part of the article:
It is very important to follow adam’s link and read Romana’s account of her own experiences.
It is pleasing to see that our Climate Change Minister James Shaw is doing his very best to reduce our green house gas emissions.
In the October-December quarter he spent $26,712 on International travel!
I can see that the Foreign Affairs Minister, Peters, and the Trade Minister, Parker, need to do a lot of travel but Shaw?
Couldn’t he try video conferencing if he really wanted to reduce carbon emissions. Just give his speech, or whatever he did, while still sitting in New Zealand and having time to try and get the Census run properly.
On the other hand I can understand his passion to go to Paris, particularly if the Taxpayer will fund the jaunt. Paris is wonderful.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12009856
Climate change is being deliberately induced by geoengineering, not politicians overseas trips.
Paris hasn’t been wonderful for some time now. Its streets are overrun with with a small army of heavily armed police/military.
“Climate change is being deliberately induced by geoengineering, not politicians overseas trips.”
Really? You mean that the fuel being burnt in aircraft engines doesn’t produce any green house gases. They have been lying to us when they publish articles like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviation
Or like this?
https://davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/air-travel-climate-change/
Perhaps I am misreading you though. Do you mean that we ordinary people cause the production of Green House gases but not our rulers, the great Cabinet Ministers, and particularly those with a Green tinge?
“Paris hasn’t been wonderful for some time now”
I suggest that you revisit Paris. I go there every year and although you do see occasional groups of soldiers around life goes on as normal.
I have only once been anywhere near a terrorist threat. Some fool tried to blow up a car on the Champs Elysees. It didn’t explode but merely caught fire and the driver was killed. It was hard to feel any sympathy. The only effect on us was that we were in the Grand Palais and weren’t allowed out for about half an hour.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40332532
I feel much more threatened and in danger in Courtney Place after dark than I ever do in Paris.
The greatest city on earth.
You would be much more likely to be killed on the Auckland roads than by Terrorist activity in Paris. There have been a total of 250 deaths in France from terrorist activity in the whole of this century. That is about 15/year and they weren’t all in Paris.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_France#21st_century
‘People in glasshouses’ – lol
Parliamentarians gorging at the trough, hardly surprising.
Wouldn’t you?
After all they are “entitled”.
Remember when lefties complained that Bronagh Key went to some things overseas, like the Commonwealth HOG meetings. The seemed quite put out when Key revealed that he paid for her travel himself.
Look at the lather Bryce Edwards got himself into a few years ago about politicians perks, and in particular travel.
http://liberation.typepad.com/liberation/2010/11/10-pertinent-questions-and-answers-about-axing-the-mp-international-travel-perk.html
Now it is different. Why does Mr Gayford travel at our expense and the same people don’t complain about that?
There have been plenty of snide comments about Gayford travelling with Ardern recently. Open your ears, ears (and mind), alwyn.
To be honest I don’t care about him travelling when it is expected. Some things require the attendance of a spouse. It was only what I perceived to be a sudden silence that struck me as interesting. I presume it is now the other side of politics who are complaining.
The one thing that would make me unhappy is if New Zealand On Air were to start putting money into his TV program.
You would have it that our Climate Change Minister not attend the international conference for Climate Change? Thereby weakening the position of those who want action to happen at those conferences?
I am certain that being Green, James Shaw offsets all of the air travel that he needs to do.
The census was fucked by the previous minister, with not enough time available to Shaw to unfuck it.
Alwyn suggests the climate change minister shouldn’t travel. (one person on an aeroplane)
Alwyn does not suggest that we should be starting to shut down our tourist industry because millions of people travel here on aeroplanes.
Q.)Why is Alwyn so selective about who should and shouldn’t travel due to climate change?
A.) Because Alwyn doesn’t actually care about climate change (or is maybe a denier, who knows) but is only interested in levelling bogus, childish accusations of hypocrisy at leftish politicians.
Q.) Why is Alwyn interested only in doing something so intellectually shabby?
A.) Because he is intellectually shabby.
It would be interesting to take this root cause analysis a bit further….
Get help, you clearly need it if these are typical of your fantasies.
My viewpoint is very simple. If climate change and carbon emissions are really such a problem as Shaw seems to believe he should really make an attempt to do something about it.
Flying around the world to attend a talkfest with thousands of other people merely shows that you don’t care to let anything interfere with your enjoyment of life.
My line of work is to give help Alwyn, not receive it. And I will not charge you.
I am only too willing to pay you what you are worth.
Having read your foolish babblings I must say that the amount is less than zero. I want to be paid for the time I wasted perusing the dribble you were spouting.
Our education – an overseas look at how things were where he comes from which seems to be similar here, though about to change we hope.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018634594/sir-ken-robinson-creative-thought-leader-in-education
“The trouble at the moment is, we tend to judge everybody by a single standard.“Then you compound this with forms of simplistic testing which reduce even the most complex ideas to a series of bullet points … because it’s politically convenient and immensely profitable for the companies that sell these tests.” …
“A lot of governments tend to think that the answer to improving education lies in specifying the curriculum and then investing in standardised systems of testing. “But anybody who knows anything about education knows the real key to improving education is teaching.”
Contrast his experience with that of Paul McCartney, whose music with the Beatles was avidly followed by the young Sir Ken in Liverpool. “I can remember ‘Love Me Do’ exploding into the airwaves of Radio Luxembourg which is what we used to listen to at the time in Britain. I couldn’t believe how great this record was. I’d never heard anything like it.”
Decades later, interviewed for a book, McCartney told him he hadn’t enjoyed music at school and his music teacher didn’t think he had any talent. Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison was in the same music programme a couple of years later and the teacher didn’t think he had any talent either, McCartney said.
“I said, well look would it be reasonable to say this, that there was this one music teacher in Liverpool in the 1950s who had half the Beatles in his class and he missed it? And he said ‘yes’.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12008838
‘Student numbers have jumped at three regional polytechnics – but the Government’s fees-free policy appears to have had no impact on universities, wānanga or apprenticeships.’
‘Education Minister Chris Hipkins put the cost of free fees and $50-a-week increases in student loans and allowances at up to $380 million in the financial year to this July. Labour has said its policy of three years’ free tertiary study will cost $1.2 billion a year by 2024.’
Maybe it’ll pick up later but at the moment its looking like, another, bust from Labour
🙂
The Unis are full – polytechnics are where you’d expect to see the increase.
Also, you’re saying this is a bust, but at the moment there’s been an extra $380 million spent on getting people into tertiary education prior to July, and it’s expected to increase in subsequent years. Uptake is already a third of what it is eventually intended to be. So the policy is doing exactly what it is intended to do, but you think it is a bust? Dense.
It always was a bust because with interest free loans that you don’t have to pay back until you hit the threshold there was no barrier to learning
There should never be any “barrier to learning..”
Thats my point, interest free loans meant there was no barrier to learning
“It always was a bust because with interest free loans that you don’t have to pay back until you hit the threshold there was no barrier to learning”
I’m fairly sure that you understand that people still have to pay the loans back, so either you are pig ignorant about what debt means to many people, or you’re being disingenuous, or you’re one of those righties who thinks anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Or a combination of all three.
Pig ignorant covers it I think. The result of the high fees has been additional stress on many students, leading to less effective study; some becoming “student loan exiles” – if jobs don’t pan out (possibly due to stress, but we have been living in turbulant times) they cannot return to New Zealand without being trapped until they repay a loan. Some of our brightest and best left New Zealand, giving priority to high earnings to get rid of the debt – and have stayed overseas. Then there are the distortions in some professions. If you have visited a dentist in the last few years you will appreciate that fees have risen to ensure that high student loans can be repaid, with the result that for many low earners and beneficiaries, dentistry is a luxury that cannot often be afforded. Its been a windfall for dentists who went through with no or only a low loan, but delivering profits at the expense of the poor was never a problem for the previous government. (Another effect is that there has been a rise in dentistry companies – new dentists cannot afford to buy capital equipment – they already have a high personal loan – so they become employees for those with real capital that they can use to get a good return at the expense of those new professionals . . .
If the extra money has not had any beneficial effect then I guess chris73 will be consistent and accept that an increase in taxes for high income earners of a similar amount would also have no effect . . .
We’ve been told for years that the real need in NZ is for trained tradespeople, Chris. So more people are going to polytech? Great! Exactly what was needed!
Maybe it’ll pick up later but at the moment its looking like, another, bust from Labour
Meh – if there’d been a significant increase in university enrolments, you’d be running lines about Labour having enticed hordes of wasters to take a year off at the taxpayers’ expense.
I don’t know what you’re talking about 🙂
‘bust from Labour’? What are you talking about?
Are you assuming that because there are no fees student numbers will rise?
If so why?
Certainly disarms all the complaining about how young people will take useless university courses…
I think it’s early days and many young people would have already made plans and even enrolled/registered when Government made the decision. In any case, there will be much less stress for those who could least afford it, which is a good thing IMO.
I also think it is a good move to weaken the (direct) link between (tertiary) education and money/cost for the students. Education has become a commodity, with a degree or diploma as the ‘proof of purchase’. Students are treated as fee-paying customers and, in turn, they have the expectations of fee-paying customers; they expect and customised service, with warranty and a complaint service, and a detailed ‘manual & user-guide’. In addition, tertiary education has become a highly competitive market in which the education providers have to spend much time & effort to attract ‘business’. This is the model that’s adored and pushed by National & ACT and luckily this Government realises how ineffective and counter-productive it is.
https://www.facebook.com/burgervilleworkersunion
These guys just had a three day strike last month. I know it did not get any news. It was against anti-union practices. After the event, the union leader of the strike was suspended (still in dispute) on trumped up theft charges.
Show some solidarity – send them some words of encouragement.
Heeey in between being a cynical lefty posting cynical comments on here i do stand up comedy and have won a few awards, have my first solo show Armchair Revolutionary at the wellington fringe festival this week would love if any of you could make it or give it a share. Much love comrades https://m.facebook.com/events/561832590860369?tsid=0.054152682020651266&source=result
Did anyone hear Guyon on the Simon Bridges show this morning. What a joke. What a pompous little little prat Si is. He was certainly given a lot of air time. Something he’s not short of. Hot air that is. He also seems to be channelling the trump boys with his oily slick back. Not to mention P Bennett’s new copy cat hairstyle. Two slick tricks…..! And how the hell did Coleman get kept on? What’s going on there? Hasn’t he done enough damage? So needs to shuffle the deck again. All the jokers on front bench.
So true.
Did Gluon pin him or just provide a soapbox as per usual RNZ MO for national polititians ?
Bridges is used to not being challenged so how about it MSM ? Bet he goes straight to the nasty file.
Guyon is a corporate puppet.
Under no circumstance can he be described as a journalist.
Oh dear.
Smarty Simon has just lost some leadership credibility. He certainly won’t be able to tease Hipkins anymore…… A span too far for Mr Bridges.
And guess who did the backtracking after Leader Simon got off-side with #3 and # 4?
Was it the brave leader? When will he realise that, as Key and English and Joyce, you just can’t make it up on the fly, when the media are now spotting and writing about such gaffes.
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/03/bridges-at-odds-with-party-on-infrastructure-tax.html
Apoplectic brexiters ahoy.
The leader of the Liberal Democrats claimed the older generation were responsible for Britain’s decision to leave the European Union.
Sir Vince then said the decision was “driven by nostalgia” as Brexit voters wanted a Britain where “faces were white”.
He said: “I confess that my own initial reaction to the referendum was to think there was little choice but to pursue Brexit. I thought ‘the public have voted to be poorer. That is their right.’
“What changed my mind was the evidence that Brexit had overwhelmingly been the choice of the older generation. 75 percent of under 25s voted to Remain. But 70 percent of over 65s voted for Brexit.
“Too many were driven by a nostalgia for a world where passports were blue, faces were white, and the map was coloured imperial pink.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/930185/Brexit-news-UK-EU-voters-European-Union-Sir-Vince-Cable-Liberal-Democrat-conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfCs8iXeYqc
The quotes and points he uses are punchy. It’s pretty much true isn’t it? Maybe if the EU develops cracks the disaffected in the USA might want to follow suit.
Why would the northern East Coast want to be up tight and cosy with Alabama? The west coast has its own economy. The bible belt live about a foot off the ground in their own heavenly, yet hellish bubble.
I’ve just read:
http://werewolf.co.nz/2017/11/is-it-time-to-take-acc-back-to-first-principles/
It covers well the deception and lies from Nick Smith a long way back now, but misses the other reason why National wanted them to segment results to identify where there may be opportunities for the private sector to “compete”. [a probably apocryphal story is that Smith deliberately had the rate for middle-aged bikers put up due to a photo of Phil Goff (?) with a large motor-bike]. Since many of the most expensive benefits are “income related” there is some merit in the levies being able to be collected by the IRD – with considerable administrative savings.
On the Uberisation of work and its roots in ‘Human Capital’ theory:
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-cold-war-led-the-cia-to-promote-human-capital-theory
In this new vision of the economy, workers can’t be seen as a specific class with shared interests. They didn’t even belong to a company … too communal. For sure, perhaps they weren’t even workers! Homo economicus qua human capital was instead somehow external to the firm, pursuing his interests alone and investing in his abilities to leverage the best deal. […] Peter Drucker even felt comfortable announcing the arrival of the ‘post-capitalist society’, labelling the US the most socialist country around because all workers owned some capital after all.
What isn’t a joking matter, however, is the brave new world of work that has followed in the wake of neoclassical ideas such as human capital theory. Only when the employee is framed in such an ultra-individualist manner could the regressive trend of on-demand (or ‘zero-hours’) employment contracts ever gain a foothold in the economy. What some have called the Uberisation of the workforce functions by reclassifying workers as independent business owners, thereby shifting all employment costs to the employee: training, uniforms, vehicles and almost everything else.
The solution for any self respecting country is to boot these tax dodging organisations out.
Just requires will and courage.
Any self-respecting country would most definitely not sign an agreement that cedes power & control to borderless and faceless corporations and most definitely not encourage these large business conglomerates to erode & corrode away the last cohesive that keeps together its society as well as the last strands of fabric that stands between civilisation as we know it and complete and utter atomisation of society into a mass of nameless consumers & obedient workers, which is arguable a critical step towards totalitarianism. Apologies for the long sentence but this is not an essay for NCEA.
Totally agree.
The main 2 parties in NZ are both neoliberal and globalist, which means the citizens of this country are screwed.
RNZ reported in the 5pm news there’s allegations of sexual harassment at the Young Labour camp last
weekmonth.Is this malicious or for real?
Ah. It’s coming from Mark Jennings on Newsroom
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/03/12/96033/labour-summer-school-claims
Looks like it’s going viral across the mediaz. Be interesting to see if the story changes at all.
I wonder why something as serious as this didnt make it to Jacinda?
“Newsroom has been told the man was intoxicated and put his hand down the pants of at least three of the four young people.”
If so – do people on here think that should have resulted in a call to the police not just the Labour office?
Trying to make political capital out of a story like this is low, even for you.
Let us all hope, whatever political persuasion we have, that is investigated thoroughly.
They are reasonable questions
Im guessing that ‘somebody’ has tried to keep it quiet and thats how it has made it to the media – prob pissed off parents.
But yes – I agree – lets hope it gets investigated thoroughly – although I do not think that this should be handled ‘in house’ – if 4 young kids have been sexually assaulted at a Labour camp – this should be a matter for the police not labour to investigate.
I agree.
It is a police matter.
For once we are in total agreement.
Well, hope it is investigated thoroughly
The question that needs to be asked is why it wasn’t a police matter when it happened, these are serious allegations.
It would be concerning if pressure was applied to these young victims to not contact the police.
Kirton was asked that by John Campbell on Checkpoint. He said they were following a victim led process, and they wouldn’t notify the police until the victim/s were happy with that.
Really? that sounds like damage control and trying to sweep it all under the carpet and hope it all disappears to me.
This sexual assault happened over a month ago
A bit late now. Its in the media and the Police no doubt will come door knocking to find out what the deal is.
Should have been done the week after the camp finished – not a month later.
I hope Jacinda doesn’t do an Annette king
whats ‘doing an Annette King’ involve?
Getting the offender an air ticket away from questions from Ally Mau and her # me too team.
Oh, explicit allegations aren’t how tories smear.
You’re supposed to join the dots* yourself, because if Ian said what he meant, I suspect he’d get an immediate ban.
*by “dots” I mean “random sick fantasies parroted from WO or KB”
well its news to me but Id suggest that if Ian’ knows all about it’ then Alison Mau will be able to easily track down any alleged transgressor….I will be surprised if that happens.
The message ,I suppose is that # me too can bite you on the arse. Not a good look for Jacinda being the life and times of the party. Lets do this can mean lots of strokes for different folks.
Make an explicit allegation, you slime-merchant.
Jacinda “life and times of the party”, and whatever you’re gobbing on about with King. You’re a goddamn coward.
Excellent article about the problems facing Fonterra.
‘Rod Oram delves behind the scenes of Fonterra’s Beingmate debacle in this week’s column. He finds the board will have to make a momentous decision that has parallels with Fletcher Building’s eventual removal of its CEO and Chairman.’
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/03/10/95465/rod-oram-fonterras-big-big-beingmate-problems
Took the bastards at New Zealand Rugby this long to actually get women on the payroll. And if your not a marquee player, then the wages are more than a bit shit.
Whilst I’m glad the women’s team is finally getting paid for all their hard work. A organisation which makes Millions of dollars off rugby, offering such crap wages should be called out!
It’s a bloody insult. It’s bloody disgusting, and once again it’s bloody typical of this country.
http://www.noted.co.nz/life/sport/black-ferns-go-on-the-nzr-payroll/
My guess is were all supposed to celebrate how underwhelming this all is.
No doubt people will celebrate – just remember – it’s years late and the pay is shit.
The sheeple accept the premises and framing that the corporate media gives them.
Thank you for presenting the true picture.
Women’s rugby.
“New Zealand Rugby has announced it will contract its top 30 women’s players with the contracts ranging from $12,500 to $20,000 a year.
Players will also get a $2000 a week assembly fee with leading players able to earn a maximum of $45,000 a year.”
Men’s rugby.
New Zealand’s five Super Rugby franchises are allowed to contract 32 players each year. The maximum retainer is $195,000 and minimum $75,000.
Beyond that are what used to be known as wider contract players. Now called Draft New Zealand Contract Players, teams are permitted to sign six on retainers of $50,000.
Women’s rugby 50 days per year (7 weeks) lowest pay $26500 = $3785 per week
Super 15 19 weeks lowest pay $75,000 = $3947 per week.
Add in some pre season training for the super 15 players and the lowest rate would seem to be similar.
At the top end seems to be more of a problem which should be improved
Women $6428 per week
Men $10263 per week
Plus I’d give women some extra pay for representing their country and not just their franchise.
Probably the minimum all should get should be the $50,000-00 per annum retainer.
“Probably the minimum all should get should be the $50,000-00 per annum retainer.”
Well no, the women don’t bring in even close to what the men do so no they shouldn’t be paid equally
Not saying they shouldn’t be paid and not saying they can’t be paid more in the future but the men are bringing in the money and its the money they generate that pays the wages
That is always spouted when women’s sports going professional, and it always turns out that every other country goes fully professional first, and New Zealand slips back in the world rankings.
If you want professional athletes with professional results these days, you’ve got to pay them a full time salary.
When someone has an accident and a person is killed is the surviving driver a criminal?
Or just misunderstood.
Shirley Way said Mr Stretch’s behaviour spiralled out of control after the crash that killed a young woman in 2001, for which he was jailed on a charge of driving with excess breath alcohol, causing death.
“His life was never, ever the same after that.”
“Because he was so young himself, it wasn’t something I think that was managed or dealt with very well,” Ms Way said.
Mr Stretch did not stop drinking or doing drugs, she said.
“If anything, it escalated out of control.”
It was no excuse for what had happened yesterday which was an awful tragedy, Ms Way said.
Other friends of Mr Tairakena and Mr Stretch expressed their sorrow and grief on social media.
Some were also angry, saying the men had been portrayed as criminals without considering how that might affect their families.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/352328/triple-fatality-crash-his-life-was-never-ever-the-same