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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It would not be a desirable way to start your holiday by breaking your back, your head, or your wrist, but on our first hour in Singapore I gave it a try.We were chatting, last week, before we started a meeting of Hazel’s Enviro Trust, about the things that can ...
Calling all journalists, academics, planners, lawyers, political activists, environmentalists, and other members of the public who believe that the relationships between vested interests and politicians need to be scrutinised. We need to work together to make sure that the new Fast-Track Approvals Bill – currently being pushed through by the ...
Feel worried. Shane Jones and a couple of his Cabinet colleagues are about to be granted the power to override any and all objections to projects like dams, mines, roads etc even if: said projects will harm biodiversity, increase global warming and cause other environmental harms, and even if ...
Bryce Edwards writes- The ability of the private sector to quickly establish major new projects making use of the urban and natural environment is to be supercharged by the new National-led Government. Yesterday it introduced to Parliament one of its most significant reforms, the Fast Track Approvals Bill. ...
Michael Bassett writes – If you think there is a move afoot by the radical Maori fringe of New Zealand society to create a parallel system of government to the one that we elect at our triennial elections, you aren’t wrong. Over the last few days we have ...
Without a corresponding drop in interest rates, it’s doubtful any changes to the CCCFA will unleash a massive rush of home buyers. Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: The six things that stood out to me in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Monday, April 22 included:The Government making a ...
Sunday was a lazy day. I started watching Jack Tame on Q&A, the interviews are usually good for something to write about. Saying the things that the politicians won’t, but are quite possibly thinking. Things that are true and need to be extracted from between the lines.As you might know ...
In our Weekly Roundup last week we covered news from Auckland Transport that the WX1 Western Express is going to get an upgrade next year with double decker electric buses. As part of the announcement, AT also said “Since we introduced the WX1 Western Express last November we have seen ...
TL;DR: The six key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to April 29 include:PM Christopher Luxon is scheduled to hold a post-Cabinet news conference at 4 pm today. Stats NZ releases its statutory report on Census 2023 tomorrow.Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivers a pre-Budget speech at ...
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 14, 2024 thru Sat, April 20, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week hinges on these words from the abstract of a fresh academic ...
The ability of the private sector to quickly establish major new projects making use of the urban and natural environment is to be supercharged by the new National-led Government. Yesterday it introduced to Parliament one of its most significant reforms, the Fast Track Approvals Bill. The Government says this will ...
This is a column to say thank you. So many of have been in touch since Mum died to say so many kind and thoughtful things. You’re wonderful, all of you. You’ve asked how we’re doing, how Dad’s doing. A little more realisation each day, of the irretrievable finality of ...
Identifying the engine type in your car is crucial for various reasons, including maintenance, repairs, and performance upgrades. Knowing the specific engine model allows you to access detailed technical information, locate compatible parts, and make informed decisions about modifications. This comprehensive guide will provide you with a step-by-step approach to ...
Introduction: The allure of racing is undeniable. The thrill of speed, the roar of engines, and the exhilaration of competition all contribute to the allure of this adrenaline-driven sport. For those who yearn to experience the pinnacle of racing, becoming a race car driver is the ultimate dream. However, the ...
Introduction Automobiles have become ubiquitous in modern society, serving as a primary mode of transportation and a symbol of economic growth and personal mobility. With countless vehicles traversing roads and highways worldwide, it begs the question: how many cars are there in the world? Determining the precise number is a ...
Maintaining a safe and reliable vehicle requires regular inspections. Whether it’s a routine maintenance checkup or a safety inspection, knowing how long the process will take can help you plan your day accordingly. This article delves into the factors that influence the duration of a car inspection and provides an ...
Mazda Motor Corporation, commonly known as Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automaker headquartered in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The company was founded in 1920 as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd., and began producing vehicles in 1931. Mazda is primarily known for its production of passenger cars, but ...
Your car battery is an essential component that provides power to start your engine, operate your electrical systems, and store energy. Over time, batteries can weaken and lose their ability to hold a charge, which can lead to starting problems, power failures, and other issues. Replacing your battery before it ...
In most states, you cannot register a car without a valid driver’s license. However, there are a few exceptions to this rule. Exceptions to the RuleIf you are under 18 years old: In some states, you can register a car in your name even if you do not ...
Mazda, a Japanese automotive manufacturer with a rich history of innovation and engineering excellence, has emerged as a formidable player in the global car market. Known for its reputation of producing high-quality, fuel-efficient, and driver-oriented vehicles, Mazda has consistently garnered praise from industry experts and consumers alike. In this article, ...
Struts are an essential part of a car’s suspension system. They are responsible for supporting the weight of the car and damping the oscillations of the springs. Struts are typically made of steel or aluminum and are filled with hydraulic fluid. How Do Struts Work? Struts work by transferring the ...
Car registration is a mandatory process that all vehicle owners must complete annually. This process involves registering your car with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and paying an associated fee. The registration process ensures that your vehicle is properly licensed and insured, and helps law enforcement and other authorities ...
Zoom is a video conferencing service that allows you to share your screen, webcam, and audio with other participants. In addition to sharing your own audio, you can also share the audio from your computer with other participants. This can be useful for playing music, sharing presentations with audio, or ...
Building your own computer can be a rewarding and cost-effective way to get a high-performance machine tailored to your specific needs. However, it also requires careful planning and execution, and one of the most important factors to consider is the time it will take. The exact time it takes to ...
Sleep mode is a power-saving state that allows your computer to quickly resume operation without having to boot up from scratch. This can be useful if you need to step away from your computer for a short period of time but don’t want to shut it down completely. There are ...
Introduction Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) has revolutionized the field of translation by harnessing the power of technology to assist human translators in their work. This innovative approach combines specialized software with human expertise to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and consistency of translations. In this comprehensive article, we will delve into the ...
In today’s digital age, mobile devices have become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Among the vast array of portable computing options available, iPads and tablet computers stand out as two prominent contenders. While both offer similar functionalities, there are subtle yet significant differences between these two devices. This ...
A computer is an electronic device that can be programmed to carry out a set of instructions. The basic components of a computer are the processor, memory, storage, input devices, and output devices. The Processor The processor, also known as the central processing unit (CPU), is the brain of the ...
Voice Memos is a convenient app on your iPhone that allows you to quickly record and store audio snippets. These recordings can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as taking notes, capturing ideas, or recording interviews. While you can listen to your voice memos on your iPhone, you ...
Laptop screens are essential for interacting with our devices and accessing information. However, when lines appear on the screen, it can be frustrating and disrupt productivity. Understanding the underlying causes of these lines is crucial for finding effective solutions. Types of Screen Lines Horizontal lines: Also known as scan ...
Right-clicking is a common and essential computer operation that allows users to access additional options and settings. While most desktop computers have dedicated right-click buttons on their mice, laptops often do not have these buttons due to space limitations. This article will provide a comprehensive guide on how to right-click ...
Powering up and shutting down your ASUS laptop is an essential task for any laptop user. Locating the power button can sometimes be a hassle, especially if you’re new to ASUS laptops. This article will provide a comprehensive guide on where to find the power button on different ASUS laptop ...
Dell laptops are renowned for their reliability, performance, and versatility. Whether you’re a student, a professional, or just someone who needs a reliable computing device, a Dell laptop can meet your needs. However, if you’re new to Dell laptops, you may be wondering how to get started. In this comprehensive ...
Two-thirds of the country think that “New Zealand’s economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful”. They also believe that “New Zealand needs a strong leader to take the country back from the rich and powerful”. These are just two of a handful of stunning new survey results released ...
In today’s digital world, screenshots have become an indispensable tool for communication and documentation. Whether you need to capture an important email, preserve a website page, or share an error message, screenshots allow you to quickly and easily preserve digital information. If you’re an Asus laptop user, there are several ...
A factory reset restores your Gateway laptop to its original factory settings, erasing all data, apps, and personalizations. This can be necessary to resolve software issues, remove viruses, or prepare your laptop for sale or transfer. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to factory reset your Gateway laptop: Method 1: ...
“You talking about me?”The neoliberal denigration of the past was nowhere more unrelenting than in its depiction of the public service. The Post Office and the Railways were held up as being both irremediably inefficient and scandalously over-manned. Playwright Roger Hall’s “Glide Time” caricatures were presented as accurate depictions of ...
Roger Partridge writes – When the Coalition Government took office last October, it inherited a country on a precipice. With persistent inflation, decades of insipid productivity growth and crises in healthcare, education, housing and law and order, it is no exaggeration to suggest New Zealand’s first-world status was ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – In 2022, the Curriculum Centre at the Ministry of Education employed 308 staff, according to an Official Information Request. Earlier this week it was announced 202 of those staff were being cut. When you look up “The New Zealand Curriculum” on the Ministry of ...
Chris Bishop’s bill has stirred up a hornets nest of opposition. Photo: Lynn Grieveson for The KākāTL;DR: The six things that stood out to me in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate from the last day included:A crescendo of opposition to the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill is ...
Monday left me brokenTuesday, I was through with hopingWednesday, my empty arms were openThursday, waiting for love, waiting for loveThe end of another week that left many of us asking WTF? What on earth has NZ gotten itself into and how on earth could people have voluntarily signed up for ...
Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.State of humanity, 20242024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay.Do you give up yet? It seems to ask.No? How about this? Or this?How about this?Full story Share ...
Determining the hardest sport in the world is a subjective matter, as the difficulty level can vary depending on individual abilities, physical attributes, and experience. However, based on various factors including physical demands, technical skills, mental fortitude, and overall accomplishment, here is an exploration of some of the most challenging ...
The allure of sport transcends age, culture, and geographical boundaries. It captivates hearts, ignites passions, and provides unparalleled entertainment. Behind the spectacle, however, lies a fascinating world of financial investment and expenditure. Among the vast array of competitive pursuits, one question looms large: which sport carries the hefty title of ...
Introduction Pickleball, a rapidly growing paddle sport, has captured the hearts and imaginations of millions around the world. Its blend of tennis, badminton, and table tennis elements has made it a favorite among players of all ages and skill levels. As the sport’s popularity continues to surge, the question on ...
Abstract: Soccer, the global phenomenon captivating millions worldwide, has a rich history that spans centuries. Its origins trace back to ancient civilizations, but the modern version we know and love emerged through a complex interplay of cultural influences and innovations. This article delves into the fascinating journey of soccer’s evolution, ...
Tinting car windows offers numerous benefits, including enhanced privacy, reduced glare, UV protection, and a more stylish look for your vehicle. However, the cost of window tinting can vary significantly depending on several factors. This article provides a comprehensive guide to help you understand how much you can expect to ...
The pungent smell of gasoline in your car can be an alarming and potentially dangerous problem. Not only is the odor unpleasant, but it can also indicate a serious issue with your vehicle’s fuel system. In this article, we will explore the various reasons why your car may smell like ...
Tree sap can be a sticky, unsightly mess on your car’s exterior. It can be difficult to remove, but with the right techniques and products, you can restore your car to its former glory. Understanding Tree Sap Tree sap is a thick, viscous liquid produced by trees to seal wounds ...
The amount of paint needed to paint a car depends on a number of factors, including the size of the car, the number of coats you plan to apply, and the type of paint you are using. In general, you will need between 1 and 2 gallons of paint for ...
Jump-starting a car is a common task that can be performed even in adverse weather conditions like rain. However, safety precautions and proper techniques are crucial to avoid potential hazards. This comprehensive guide will provide detailed instructions on how to safely jump a car in the rain, ensuring both your ...
Graham Adams writes about the $55m media fund — When Patrick Gower was asked by Mike Hosking last week what he would say to the many Newstalk ZB callers who allege the Labour government bribed media with $55 million of taxpayers’ money via the Public Interest Journalism Fund — and ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. “Our Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealand’s own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealand’s energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. “The report shows that New Zealand’s emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,” Mr Mitchell ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is today travelling to Europe where he’ll update the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Government’s work to restore law and order. “Attending the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva provides us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while ...
Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the world’s largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. “The reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealand’s wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
Hon Andrew Bayly, Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing At the Southland Otago Regional Engineering Collective (SOREC) Summit, 18 April, Dunedin Ngā mihi nui, Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Ko Whanganui aho Good Afternoon and thank you for inviting me to open your summit today. I am delighted ...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to bring back the Three Strikes legislation, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced today. “Our Government is committed to restoring law and order and enforcing appropriate consequences on criminals. We are making it clear that repeat serious violent or sexual offending is not ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today announced four new diplomatic appointments for New Zealand’s overseas missions. “Our diplomats have a vital role in maintaining and protecting New Zealand’s interests around the world,” Mr Peters says. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of these senior diplomats from the ...
New Zealand is contributing NZ$7 million to support communities affected by severe food insecurity and other urgent humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and Somalia, Foreign Minister Rt Hon Winston Peters announced today. “Over 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across Ethiopia, with a further 6.9 million people ...
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Paul Goldsmith is congratulating Mataaho Collective for winning the Golden Lion for best participant in the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale. "Congratulations to the Mataaho Collective for winning one of the world's most prestigious art prizes at the Venice Biennale. “It is good ...
The Government is reforming financial services to improve access to home loans and other lending, and strengthen customer protections, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly and Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced today. “Our coalition Government is committed to rebuilding the economy and making life simpler by cutting red tape. We are ...
“China remains a strong commercial opportunity for Kiwi exporters as Chinese businesses and consumers continue to value our high-quality safe produce,” Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says. Mr McClay has returned to New Zealand following visits to Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai where he met ministers, governors and mayors and engaged in trade and agricultural events with the New ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
The Taxpayers’ Union is today congratulating Hon. Paul Goldsmith on his appointment as Minister for Media and Communications and urges him to rule out state intervention in the private media sector. ...
Asia Pacific Report The West Papuan resistance OPM leader has condemned Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden, accusing their countries of “six decades of treachery” over Papuan independence. The open letter was released today by OPM chairman Jeffrey P Bomanak on the eve of ANZAC Day ...
Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional, in which we get to know the reading habits and quirks of New Zealanders at large. This week: writer and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2024, Lauren Groff.The book I wish I’d writtenIf I wish I’d written a ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Fechner, Research Fellow, Social Marketing, Griffith University mavo/Shutterstock Imagine having dinner at a restaurant. The menu offers plant-based meat alternatives made mostly from vegetables, mushrooms, legumes and wheat that mimic meat in taste, texture and smell. Despite being given that ...
“Three Strikes is a dead-end policy proposed by a dead-end government. The Three Strikes law ignores the causes of crime, instead just brutalising people already crushed by the cost of living.” ...
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Australian-born judge in Kiribati could well face deportation later this week after a tribunal ruling that he should be removed from his post. The tribunal’s report has just been tabled in the Kiribati Parliament and is due to be debated by MPs ...
With its clear mandate for police use, political nuances, and nuanced public trust, Denmark's insights provide valuable considerations for Australia and New Zealand. ...
Books editor Claire Mabey reviews poet Louise Wallace’s debut novel. A famous poet once said to me that he’s always suspicious when a poet publishes a novel. I never really understood why but maybe it’s something to do with cheating on your first form. Louise Wallace is a poet. She’s ...
For a few months at the turn of the millennium, TrueBliss burned bright as the biggest pop stars in the country. Alex Casey chats to two superfans who still hold the flame. During a humble backyard wedding in Nelson, 1999, one of the cordially invited guests had to excuse themselves ...
How will the recent wave of job cuts impact ethnic diversity in the media? In November last year, I was working a very busy day in the newsroom of a large online news site, interviewing whānau about their concerns over the imminent closure of one of the few puna reo ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth Knight, Researcher, Queensland University of Technology Have you ever felt sick at work? Perhaps you had food poisoning or the flu. Your belly hurt, or you felt tired, making it hard to concentrate and be productive. How likely would you be ...
Despite heavy criticism and an ongoing select committee process, the Police Minister says the Government will forge ahead with a ban on gang patches. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Whiting, Lecturer – Creative Industries, University of South Australia Shutterstock Everyone has a favourite band, or a favourite composer, or a favourite song. There is some music which speaks to you, deeply; and other music which might be the current ...
A new survey says ‘outlook not great’ for those charged with building infrastructure, while RMA changes delight farmers and depress environmentalists, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. First RMA changes announced ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olli Hellmann, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Waikato Getty Images When New Zealanders commemorate Anzac Day on April 25, it’s not only to honour the soldiers who lost their lives in World War I and subsequent conflicts, but also ...
A leaked document shows the Canterbury/Waitaha arm of health agency Te Whatu Ora is scurrying to save $13.3 million by July. The “financial sustainability target”, which was “allocated” to Waitaha, is consistent with what’s happening in other districts, says Sarah Dalton, executive director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists. ...
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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