Labour’s refusal to put more money on the table to further address patient safety concerns has now got many questioning Labour’s priorities when it comes to expenditure.
Nurses have been on the bones of their arses for the LAST NINE YEARS.Where was your concern for patient safety then TC? The biggest concern for anybody during Nats time was actually becoming a patient. Their health outcome was pretty poor by anybody’s standard. This Govt is doing it’s level best in the SHORT TIME it’s been in power to address everybody’s need. Give them bloody time. A surplus is only a surplus until it’s not.
My concern for patient safety didn’t change just because the Government changed. Unlike yours evidently.
Labour’s Budget Responsibility Rules are only a little softer than National’s fiscal position, which created the under-funding which Labour are finding their Budget Responsibility Rules are making difficult to address.
And the thing is, a lot of these problems will worsen (thus will become more difficult to correct going forward) at the slow pace Labour are moving. So best you join the outrage and start tooting for the nurses. Labour don’t have the luxury of having time to spare.
As for this Government’s surplus, the Government’s books are showing the surplus is almost half a billion more than was originally forecast. Moreover, Government debt is also tracking better than expected (see link below). So there is extra fiscal scope for the Government to consider improving wage offers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTah3JOZVlA&feature=youtu.be&t=1m24s
All round the world as Governments, Parties, and Political Movements, turn to the Right, Mateao di Maio asks, will this rising Right Wing tide wash up on our shores?
The US takes the far-right shift a notch further. Trump’s tolerance of those I would have no qualms calling Nazis is worrying. Last August, racist rallies in Charlottesville lasted two days without condemnation from the commander in chief.
I’m sure there are not any more white supremacists in America today than there were, say, two decades ago. But now they’re marching without their hoods. And that’s because they’ve got permission from the president.
Echoing 1930s Germany, recently migrant children were being stripped from their parents at the US border. And a flimsy executive order (a PR move on the president’s part, more than anything else) does little to end the crisis.
It’s not just in the US that anti-immigration sentiment has taken hold. The global consensus on asylum seekers seems to be: “We don’t want you.”
Academics and journalists alike are bewildered by how easily everyone has been blinded by “quasi-fascist” strongmen, in everywhere from Trump’s America to Erdogan’s Turkey. Victor Orban’s populist takeover in Hungary could never have happened, say, twenty years ago, as Eastern Europe still lay healing from their Soviet-era wounds. Over in Germany, Angela Merkel’s grand coalition is trembling under the weight of the EU’s “liberal” immigration policies.
Kia kaha to all the nurses today – I fully support your action and hope this will bring a coming together of the parties and that the DHB’s will find more money – because they need to. Be safe out there and stay warm.
Feels like the skilful hand of James Shaw behind getting this group of leading businesses to commit to climate change target and to support the Climate Change Commission. More of major business are coming behind this Green Party initiative than are getting behind the New Zealand First Provincial Growth Partnership, and James Shaw doesn’t have $1billion dollars to roll around.
The launch will be today, and the Skytower will be lit up green as a signal of the commitment.
Looks more and more that the results of the Climate Change Commission and resulting legislation will have a major backing fro business, making it far more likely that it will have crucial cross-parliamentary support.
That would make the commitments truly intergenerational.
Census 2018 has turned into a shambles with the lowest participation rate in over 50 years,” National’s spokesperson for State Services Nick Smith said. “The Government must figure out what went so wrong and how the serious flow on problems for the public sector can be rectified,” Dr Smith said.
Many people still don’t have internet access or TV. I spoke to one person just after the census who had no idea one had just occurred.
This is just what happens when the have/have not gap widens drastically.
‘National fucked the country and now its labours fault now,’s
So labour need to get their new $38 million dollar ‘free to air channel up and running ‘to change the minds of the people now ahead of the 2020 election!!!!!
Otherwise we are being lead right back into the ‘sewer that national left’ for us to live in.
While you’re at CG, why don’t you see if can ferret out some of Goebel’s descendants to coach the ‘Labour Channel’s” broadcasters on propaganda techniques to “change the minds of the people”.
Just what we need in what is a liberal democracy (but maybe a liberal democracy is not what you want, rather something more siniste) – an initiative to spend tax payers money on a political party’s propaganda machine.
I can’t imagine how the interests of the gnatz would be served by hiding a big chunk of the poorest and the most recently arrived. The Statz lady sounded pretty blase about the whole thing.
probably find the census was turned in well under budget, so that’s a plus for statsnz.
That having been said, 90% is at the low end of barely acceptable, compensation from other sources or not. It’s a bit like the IDI probabilistic linking, which is simply a bodge to make up for the lack of a cross-department individual unique ID. And not a bodge that is appropriate for a lot of uses of government data.
But, but, but… rail never makes a profit! So we must endure the traffic jams and the losses in productivity, and the high petrol costs, and the high petrol taxes because we need roads, lots of roads, and bigger roads, preferably massive motorways that make no financial whatsoever because I will be able to drive my imposing Porsche Cayenne or Ford Ranger aggressively on them and not indicate and basically have no care for anyone else on the road.
Wonder what would happen if those truck firms were forced to pay the full costs that they just caused.
No, it’s obvious what would happen – trucks would be off the roads as fast as possible. Without their subsidies trucks aren’t economic except for short haul.
I will add the truck/fire/crash to yesterdays truck crash fatality at the same regional locality near Tauranga, and ship a letter off to the government to remind them as to why we need to move freight off the roads and onto rail to save lives and money.
I wonder if Wayne Mapp as nationals ex MP will now slag us off again for making political gain from another truck accident again today as he diid yesterday????
A civil servant has been handed a nine-year ban from public posts after it emerged he had been absent from his €50,000-a-year job for more than a decade.
Every weekday morning, Carles Recio, an archives director in Valencia’s provincial government, would turn up at his office only to clock in and head straight out again, before coming back at 4pm to clock out.
I wonder what the grieving process is upon finding out you’ve been relocated into a bureaucratic void – bewilderment, boredom, realisation, exploration, exploitation?
Senate Bill 32, signed in 2016, requires the state to go even further than AB 32 and cut emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious carbon goal in North America. The state’s annual emissions inventory helps keep the state accountable for meeting its emissions reduction targets. Highlights from the inventory published today include:
Carbon pollution dropped 13 percent statewide since a 2004 peak; meanwhile the economy grew 26 percent.
Per capita emissions continue to be among the lowest in the country. They fell 23 percent from a peak of 14 metric tons per person (roughly equal to driving 34,000 miles) in 2001 to 10.8 metric tons per person in 2016 (roughly equal to driving 26,000 miles). That is approximately half as much as the national average.
Carbon pollution dropped 3 percent between 2015 and 2016—roughly equal to taking 2.4 million cars off the road or saving 1.5 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel.
The “carbon intensity” of California’s economy – the amount of carbon pollution emitted per $1 million of gross state product – dropped 38 percent since the 2001 peak and is now one-half the national average.
California now produces twice as many goods and services for the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the rest of the nation.
business climate
9:09 am today
60 businesses commit to climate change action
From Nine To Noon, 9:09 am today
Listen duration 29′ :04″
CEOs of sixty businesses across the country, collectively responsible for nearly 50% of our emissions, are banding together to combat climate change. Members of this Climate Leaders Coalition include Z Energy, Fonterra, Westpac, Ngai Tahu Holdings, Vector, Air New Zealand, Spark and NZ Post. By signing the CEO Climate Change Statement, each of the business leaders is committing to measuring and reporting their greenhouse gas emissions to align with the Paris Agreement. Z Energy CEO Mike Bennetts is convening the Climate Leaders Coalition. He talks to Kathryn Ryan along with Westpac CEO Karen Silk.
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The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, is calling on government to pick up its game around biodegradable plastics and its overall environmental goals.
The commissioner wants urgent attention paid to understanding the implications for the end of life of these products, as well as sorting out the terminology and labeling schemes.
To this end the PCE has produced an online resource of key facts aimed at improving consumer and business understanding of the plastics issue.
Simon Upton talks to Kathryn Ryan
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Sixty businesses who produce nearly half of all New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions have pledged to reduce them, to seek offsets like planting trees and to strictly monitor their emissions.
************************ http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/businessnews/audio/2018653315/z-energy-coalition-will-approach-commitment-differently 2.10 mins
The head of Z Energy says businesses which have signed up to a coalition to tackle climate change are committed to making a difference, but will approach it differently depending on their circumstances.
NOTE: Cleangreen – For Gisborne this carbon thing will enable trees to be left in the ground and the forestry owners get paid for it. This is how things should work so there is hope for the erosion-threatened area.
Thanks for the link. I’m surprised that you could read that and not have compassion for the lives these men are leading. Homes to go to at night – really one of the basics of what all NZers should have – is not exactly the high life.
We contribute to the flagrant spending of organisations and corporations without missing a beat, and you consider this to be worthy of discussion?
Naki man values his herd too highly to do that sort of thing if he’s a dairy farmer. He doesn’t want vet bills, and better to not have them round in case there is some mycoplasma bovis signs that he hasn’t noticed.
This one has me a little suspicious. I’m wary that there may be some greenwashing going on here.
The main industrial process for making hydrogen is steam reformation of natural gas. Which emits the carbon atoms in the natural gas as CO2 at the point of creating hydrogen. So sure, further downstream the hydrogen can be used for energy and it’s zero-emission, because the emissions have already occurred elsewhere. For almost all the potential users of hydrogen, the emissions from steam reformation of natural gas to hydrogen then using the hydrogen are greater than if the natural gas had just been directly used for the heat or to power an engine.
Looking at the founder, it seems he’s closely linked to Todd Energy – who are big time owners of – guess what? Gas fields and production.
Now maybe I’m a little too suspicious and he’s wanting to make a break from fossil fuels, is going to use some other technology, but is locating in Taranaki to tap into the oil and gas expertise there which overlaps strongly with the skills needed for hydrogen.
I know nothing about this project, however four points do occur to me:-
1. Taranaki has the most concentrated knowledge in NZ of containing and transporting gas. That makes it a logical region to develop any kind of gas technology in NZ because many of the skills will shift to other gases.
2. Depends what they are using the hydrogen for. Looks to me like you are presuming that it is for fuel? Why? Most of the hydrogen in use is for higher value chemical processes like ammonia production. At the scale that is implied by the amounts, it seems more likely that this is what it used for.
3. Steam reformation isn’t the only process and isn’t the main process used for hydrogen fuel. It just happens to be the one used for the majority production of commercial hydrogen – mostly used in chemical processes.
Electrolysis (ie power to gas) is a non-carbon process if it uses hydro or wind power. Wind power strikes me as being a likely reason to be around the Taranaki especially if they use offshore windfarms in the old gasfield areas. They have a existing infrastructure for offshore in Taranaki.
4. Even if they do fuel development using steam on natural gas (in the absence of the required infrastructure for turbine farms), Taranaki is about the only place in NZ that can do some moderately efficient sequestration. Lots of empty gas fields.
They won’t be doing commercial natural gas to hydrogen for fuel because it is way more efficient to just burn natural gas directly and that would be way better in climate change terms than burning more complex hydrocarbons like those in petrol or diesel fractions.
1: Yep. I alluded to that at the end of my comment.
2: from b waghorn’s link: “During his visit to New Plymouth, Peters said a grant of $950,000 would be made to Hiringa Energy and its partners, which is seeking to develop zero emission hydrogen transport fuel.
The funding will be used to scope the engineering and design of two hydrogen generation facilities, up to four mobile compressed hydrogen storage and distribution containers, and up to three hydrogen refuelling stations. ”
Transport fuel is the stated objective of the project.
3: The lack of mention how the hydrogen will be generated plus the founder’s links to Todd Energy plus the very careful wording talking about zero emission transport fuel but neglecting to state zero emission hydrogen generation combines to pique my interest.
4: Maybe it’s just me, but if I were planning on introducing a major new technology like CO2 sequestration into empty gas fields, you can bet I’d be talking it up big time. But a brief intertoobz search turned up … crickets.
Just thinking about the ways of storing and transporting raw hydrogen are hair-raising to even contemplate. Since talk of the hydrogen economy started, they haven’t exactly managed to figure out how to make it even moderately stable at normal atmospheric temperatures and pressures.
In engineering terms actually generating the gas isn’t that much of a technical issue. I’d be much more interested in them figuring out how to make roads and refuelling stations less like high density explosion fields.
If you wanted to try to develop a hydrogen based fuel infrastructure, then Taranaki is where you’d start it. Just trying to develop an end-to-end hydrogen system is going to damn hard regardless of the source of the fuel.
Personally I’d think that developing EV’s and EV infrastructure would be a better idea. And in that case putting money into how to develop offshore windfarms would be a better idea. But that is best done from Taranaki as well.
Helium is much better for dirigibles. The Zeppelins had to use hydrogen because at the time the US was the only significant producer of helium and they weren’t selling to anyone else.
One of the problems with hydrogen is it makes its way through just about any materials very quickly, and usually does bad things to the material’s structure and properties as it does so. Look up hydrogen embrittlement and permeability. I’ve yet to see a good explanation why, but I’ll speculate it’s because when a hydrogen atom loses its electron, it’s just a tiny naked proton which can move easily through just about any kind of molecular structure, whereas every other kind of atom will always have two electrons in an extremely stable filled first orbital shell, making it much larger.
So by the time you’ve beefed up your bags to hold the hydrogen for long enough, you’ve added quite a weight penalty over using helium.
It won’t be once the alien unicorns turn up and start excreting working fusion power plants out their back ends.
Or it’ll become even scarcer if we get serious about stopping fossil fuel use and stop extracting natural gas, of which helium is a by-product.
But as far as lift goes, the difference between a bouyancy of 1.12kg/m^3 for hydrogen and 1.03 kg/m^3 for helium disappears pretty quickly when you need much more robust containment for the hydrogen.
I think perhaps we should forego the alien unicorns for the moment. It is sufficient to use a contemporary equivalent of goldbeater skins for hydrogen and design for some loss. That’s part of the reason for using unmanned craft.
The logical trial is probably Cook Strait – the winds are more than ideal but there’s enough cargo and a decent hangar site somewhere near Blenheim.
I had a wonderful idea that if you contained the hydrogen in an aerogel matrix and then contain that in a lift bag in a dirigible, the resistance from the matrix would make the hydrogen burn controllably/extinguishably rather than catastrophically.
Googling informed me that this had already been considered, reduced the lifting differential by about 99% so was impractical, and was literally a thought exercise for first-year engineering students at some universities. Sigh. Just goes to show the value of formal education over googling.
But I still think there are some materials thresholds that some company or NASA have in a file somewhere, so when we get the right material (with a value of some function of a cost of W, a density of Y , and a temperature tolerance of >Z) suddenly cost-effective hydrogen lift bags would have lots of little cells that can contain the burning hydrogen from a leak without popping like a balloon (introducing more air/hydrogen contact so “boom”) or destroying the neighbouring cells (i.e. burning the entire vessel like the Hindenberg) and dirigibles will be the next big thing.
To get bouyancy, the total combined density of your lifting substance and containment has to be less then the density of air, which is around 1.2 kg/m^3.
Now consider, what is air? Air is a bunch of fairly low-mass molecules flying around and bouncing off each other, with no kind of structure whatsoever. The molecules are flying so fast and bouncing off each other so hard their average distance apart is actually very large. As soon as any kind of structure is imposed, then the intermolecular distances become much closer (and density goes way up). So even if that structure is almost entirely empty space, it’s still denser than a gas. The lowest density aerogel produced was 1.0 kg/m3, after the air is evacuated out of it, so if it were evacuated it would only have a bouyancy of 0.2 kg/m3 in air.
So really the only practical possibility to get bouyancy is replacing the air inside a very light container with another gas, but of lower density. Nitrogen has a molecular weight of 28, oxygen is 32. So the candidates are neon (20), helium (4) and hydrogen (2). Lithium, beryllium, boron and carbon are solids and fluorine is heavier than air. So using either hydrogen or helium can get you bouyancy over 1 kg/m^3 in air (which also has to lift whatever is containing your hydrogen or helium)
Yeah. Seemed like a good idea at the pub though, lol.
Then I did the math.
And those bouyancy numbers are for sea level at a temperate temperature, too.
But the main danger with hydrogen is a cascading conflagration of large volumes of it. So if you can either limit the spread from one smaller cell to another or stop the fire from spreading along the gas cell, then hydrogen lift might be safer.
Essentially, I’m talking hazard minimisation and Stuart’s automation idea is hazard isolation (keeping people away from thing that goes boom). Helium is hazard elimination, but has its own costs and inefficiencies.
The materials side of it shouldn’t be underestimated. Hydrogen permeating through materials and changing their properties really is a problem, particularly if you’re expecting a long lifetime from your item.
Yep. 20-odd years ago my boss, VP of Sales and Engineering (that’s an, ahem, interesting, combo of responsibilities) got wind of how much people were willing to pay for carbon composite tanks for hydrogen. So I got the job of scoping out what would need to happen for the company to be able to make them.
He wasn’t much for listening to reason, but the list of materials technologies we would have to learn about and develop, the testing and detection equipment we’d need, and the hazards involved with handling hydrogen quickly set him off looking for a different next big thing.
Wag you have overdosed on the Kool-Aid
It will take more than a splash of cash from wristy’s slush fund to undo the damage Cindy an co have done to the $2.5 Billion pa Oil and Gas industry.
Nah Naki man, you are wrong … it’s a day in the life of an alcoholic.
You know that legal drug which national allowed to be sold in our supermarkets and dairies, increasing accessibility, devastating lives and draining our health system.
“By 8.30am the men are wasted. That’s what time it was when we met them last Thursday, and they told us to come back before 7am the next day if we wanted a sober conversation.”
““By 8.30am the men are wasted. That’s what time it was when we met them last Thursday, and they told us to come back before 7am the next day if we wanted a sober conversation.””
(GInteresting (+ disturbing) quiz on whether or not a species made it into the top 150 critically endangered *priority* list. The list is chosen by algorithm rather than human.
I am uneasy about the lack of ‘stated actions thwey will take’ as Professor James Renwick clearly shows some doubt about when he said; “it remained to be seen what efforts the coalition would actually make,” Ad,
Quote;
“Victoria University climate scientist Professor James Renwick said while it remained to be seen what efforts the coalition would actually make,”
This along with the words used to explain the focus the group was using was; quote;
“Carbon budgeting is a proposed part of the Government’s Zero Carbon Bill, which aspires to drive emissions of CO2”
Progressives in the US are starting to get very popular.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for instance, won an election she wasn’t even running for in a neighboring district due to write-in votes. She can not run in two districts however so had to turn it down. A lot of these people are wining by word of mouth due to the MSM refusing to give them any coverage.
The tide is slowly turning against Trump and the Republican in the US. It is even turning against the Corporate Democrats that are in a lot of cases just Republican Lite candidates and they are slowly losing a lot of primaries to true progressive candidates who are then in a lot of cases going on to win their seats.
Hopefully, a majority of these socially conscious candidates can get elected there and help turn the US around. We here in New Zealand will feel the effects of the world imploding if the Republicans continue their warmongering and polluting of the globe.
What little work Obama did in the way conservation and climate change reform has been slowly unraveled by Trump and his cronies.
Israel tightens noose around Gaza another notch
July 11, 2018
As mass Palestinian protests enter their fourth month, Israel is intensifying its already-crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will close Kerem Shalom, the only crossing for commercial goods into Gaza. This will ban all imports and exports on top of the sweeping besiegement already in place. Israel is also reducing the fishing zone for Gazans off the Mediterranean coast to just six miles out, down from nine. More actions are said to be coming. This comes as Israeli forces continue to open fire on Palestinians taking part in the Great March of Return. The Gaza Health Ministry says that overall, 136 Palestinians have been killed, and more than 15600 injured. Israeli forces killed at least one Palestinian and wounded nearly 400 on Friday. The blockade and casualties have overwhelmed Gaza’s crippled healthcare system, which the UN warns is already at a breaking point. ….
In a statement to The Post, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, "[Kelly] was displeased because he was expecting a full breakfast and there were only pastries and cheese." https://t.co/azDbYtgy20— Robert Costa (@costareports) July 11, 2018
I am getting heartily sick of Simon Dallow.He led the charge for John Key and shilled for him for 8, 3/4 years till key jumped ship and now he, dallow is sitting up there every night t trying to shaft the government at every opportunity. he has become slimier and slimier over the years and it is really time for him to go.
Good Morning The Am Show .
The stats on PEE don’t surprise me Duncan I see it clearly that’s why I don’t like people using the word crack and our rural provinces use of these poisons are higher than Auckland the regions that have been suppressed of investment for 9 years go figure there is another factor affecting that .
Loyd that’s the way no need to brand all of the people for one idiot’s bad behavior in Britain .
As for trump Mark well you think its OK for trump to fly around Papatunuku and demanded that the rest of the United Nations members double the money they spend on the IDIOT war machine when they know that they might as well just dig a big hole and pour the money in it . We have billions of people in Africa and the Middle East and right on his door step North America all around Papatuanuku who need the west help just to get a drink of water . It would be OK if trump was demanding for more money to help these people and don’t believe any stats coming out of America about trump those will be manipulated by him to make him look good enough said .
I gave my thoughts on our Nurses last nite and I back the words I said.
Fonterra should have brought Nestle all those years ago now they would be the biggest food company on the Papatuanuku .
Yes Tamiti there are good polytechnic in Rotorua but they need to connect the trainees to the jobs after there training finished thats what is needed .
Duncan so you think that trump locking thousands of mokopunas in cages on the United states boarder’s.??????????????? is not moko abuse. The reason there is so much bad stats on mokos is the Governments have caused this by starving te tangata whenua of money of jobs and mana using the media to smear maoris mana Mean while the wealthy tangata whenua are in total denial that there is a big problem with this system towards Maori so long as there hip pocktes are full they put there heads in Papatuanuku any culture that’s suppressed and divided will produce bad stats and whose pushing the Pee.
I like the Eco Maori ———- so I won’t be trying to get my face plastered all over the media anyway the sandflys have a farcical injunction to stop this happening there are many stories of the bad behaviour of the bad sandflys now.
Ka kite ano . There is no morriori they are just part of the first Maori to arrive here that’s another way to suppress Maori and people fall for it Hook line and sinker.
Ka kite ano
The Am Show Maori Culture is a very humble culture very Great culture not many cultures can trace there genealogy back to the start who has waiata that traces history back to the start our carvings all OUR great Arts We have the history of Our arrival to Aotearoa on great Waka its that great the Europeans could not fathom that a culture like ours who uses Papatuanuku to navigate could sail better than them thousands of years before them . I agree with Te Ururoa that Aotearoa should use our great maori culture to improve its profile not suppress it I will not let the latter happen. Ka kite ano
Yes Aotearoa needs to do more to care for our elderly tangata a couple of weeks ago I came across a elderly man his house was run down living by him self his main gripe was his phone was not working when it rained so I made a call they new who the call was from and what do you know his phone was fixed that day I have a link below .
We don’t need just play grounds for the elderly we need warm dry places were they can meet have a cup of tea and talk.
Good evening Newshub I agree with the councils we need more public toilets may be they all get together and design a toilet block that’s is cheap durable looks good and can be installed in one day off the back of a truck so long as the pluming is on site. Tawhiri is in winter mode Ingrd
ka kite ano P.S I was going to have a break tonight but I got back in time for this
Good evening The Crowd Goes Wild The foot ball world cup has been a great successful
everyone can not be winners.
Yep C J would make a great presenter.
I don’t want to back sports stars with what happened with the football
I have to congratulate this new wahine sports star winner of the under 20 ladies IAAF World shot put Maddison Wesche Ka pai mana wahine
Ka kite ano P.S That life after rugby of Pacific is a good thing that will get our young stars to think about there retirement
Here we go I still back my words about trolls being paid by national to troll any people who are left supporters they have horded heaps of money over the last nine years to pay for this look at the gon brash $50.000 in one day to let right extremist speak. This Ladie and I have different views on trolls some trolls just put out information that is total lies all in the goal to sway public opinion. they scour the net looking for stories that they can spin it in a way that makes every one think that a lot of people have the same view as them by minuplating the positive or negative thums up or down on stories to suit there objective which is all ways to the right winged view of lock em up kick em out give our tax cuts why should the poor have our money human caused climate is a lie trump is a good guy these are so easy for Eco Maori to see.
These trolls all have a silverspoon in there mouths living with mom and dad and only have to pay for there entertainment activities so how does the left combat this well I have my Idea’s but they would be to extreme like throw them all on a Island with no comms yea nar thats the way the neoliberal brain thinks. link below
The big picture with GM Food is we cannot TRUST big business who are peddling this Genitally modified food this food could cause deaths 5 years after eating it and the big companys will just cover it up when they get caught with there pants down they run the company into bankruptcy run with there ill gotten profits all the way to the bank.
Another reason is that this GM food can change the genetics of the being eating this stuff change and thats a big problem. Have the neoliberals showen that we can trust them Know so lets keep Aotearoa GE FREE and everyone will pay a Premium for OUR GEFREE FOOD link below ka kite ano
There you go Lisa from the Nation we can not trust company’s that manipulate Laws to help them flogg off there rubbish products . Johnson and Johnson for selling faulty products ie hip replacement products we have to have all products verified investigated by Kiwis why aren’t these thing pear reviewed by other scientist who can give them the thums up or down. We put to much trust in the American system relying on the FDA to pruduce safe test for these prouducts which can be manipulated by rich lobbyist that has to change.
Ka kite ano
Here you go two countrys who can carry hunting Tangaroa beautiful creates the biggest animals that have ever lived still hunting the under the farcical cause of scientific research the link is below P.S I think we should boycott there tourist industrys and prouducts
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The infrastructure industry yesterday issued a “hurry up” message to the Government, telling it to get cracking on developing a pipeline of infrastructure projects.The hiatus around the change of Government has seen some major projects cancelled and others delayed, and there is uncertainty about what will happen with the new ...
Hi,Over the weekend I revisited a podcast I really adore, Dead Eyes. It’s about a guy who got fired from Band of Brothers over two decades ago because Tom Hanks said he had “dead eyes”.If you don’t recall — 2001’s Band of Brothers was part of the emerging trend of ...
Buzz from the Beehive The 180 or so recipients of letters from the Government telling them how to submit infrastructure projects for “fast track” consideration includes some whose project applications previously have been rejected by the courts. News media were quick to feature these in their reports after RMA Reform Minister Chris ...
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 ...
Note: this blog post has been put together over the course of the week I followed the happenings at the conference virtually. Should recordings of the Great Debates and possibly Union Symposia mentioned below, be released sometime after the conference ends, I'll include links to the ones I participated in. ...
The following was my submission made on the “Fast Track Approvals Bill”. This potential law will give three Ministers unchecked powers, un-paralled since the days of Robert Muldoon’s “Think Big” projects.The submission is written a bit tongue-in-cheek. But it’s irreverent because the FTAB is in itself not worthy of respect. ...
One Could Reduce Child Poverty At No Fiscal CostFollowing the Richardson/Shipley 1990 ‘redesign of the welfare state’ – which eliminated the universal Family Benefit and doubled the rate of child poverty – various income supplements for families have been added, the best known being ‘Working for Families’, introduced in 2005. ...
Buzz from the Beehive A few days ago, Point of Order suggested the media must be musing “on why Melissa is mute”. Our article reported that people working in the beleaguered media industry have cause to yearn for a minister as busy as Melissa Lee’s ministerial colleagues and we drew ...
1. What was The Curse of Jim Bolger?a. Winston Peters b. Soon after shaking his hand, world leaders would mysteriously lose office or shuffle off this mortal coilc. Could never shake off the Mother of All Budgetsd. Dandruff2. True or false? The Chairman of a Kiwi export business has asked the ...
Jack Vowles writes – New Zealand is said to be suffering from ‘serious populist discontent’. An IPSOS MORI survey has reported that we have an increasing preference for strong leaders, think that the economy is rigged toward the rich and powerful, and political elites are ignoring ‘hard-working people’. ...
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. ...
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 ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today paid tribute to Singapore’s outgoing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Meeting in Singapore today immediately before Prime Minister Lee announced he was stepping down, Prime Minister Luxon warmly acknowledged his counterpart’s almost twenty years as leader, and the enduring legacy he has left for Singapore and South East ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. While in Singapore as part of his visit to South East Asia this week, Prime Minister Luxon also met with Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and will meet with Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon ...
The government's plan to reintroduce a three strikes regime is being strongly opposed by lawyers, who argue there is no evidence it reduces crime or helps people rehabilitate. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, Professor specialising in Internet law, Bond University Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform? Anyone inclined to answer “yes” to this question should perhaps also ask ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giovanni E Ferreira, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney Last week in a post on X, owner of the platform Elon Musk recommended people look into disc replacement if they’re experiencing severe neck or back pain. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hayward, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University anek.soowannaphoom/Shutterstock NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey caught the headlines yesterday, courtesy of a blistering speech condemning the latest GST carve-up. New South Wales, he claimed, would be A$11.9 billion worse off over the ...
While police are "broadly in favour", the government's proposed anti-gang laws are facing pushback from lawyers, rights groups and former gang members. ...
While police are "broadly in favour", the government's proposed anti-gang laws are facing pushback from lawyers, rights groups and former gang members. ...
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Nurses -striking for a safer health system for all New Zealanders.
Labour – the party that puts eradicating M. bovis (that has no human health risk) ahead of patient safety.
Your a dick head . Just thought you should know
He’s a really crap troll.
Personally, I think those that support eradicating M. bovis ahead of patient safety are “dickheads”.
I 100% agree! MPI must pay nurses more!
Just skim a bit off the blank cheque Grant committed to signing.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/06/grant-robertson-signs-blank-cheque-to-tackle-mycoplasma-bovis.html
and if the nurses were happy, you’d be bitching about a poor m. bovis response.
The response to M. bovis has been poor. But the blame for that largely rests with the last administration.
Nevertheless, I don’t support Grant’s blank cheque approach and I’ve yet to see him explain why he is prepared to put that before patient safety?
Oh, that would be because nobody other than the occasional tory lickspittle is trying to play the health sector against the rural communities.
Don’t be silly.
Labour’s refusal to put more money on the table to further address patient safety concerns has now got many questioning Labour’s priorities when it comes to expenditure.
“many”.
Nurses have been on the bones of their arses for the LAST NINE YEARS.Where was your concern for patient safety then TC? The biggest concern for anybody during Nats time was actually becoming a patient. Their health outcome was pretty poor by anybody’s standard. This Govt is doing it’s level best in the SHORT TIME it’s been in power to address everybody’s need. Give them bloody time. A surplus is only a surplus until it’s not.
My concern for patient safety didn’t change just because the Government changed. Unlike yours evidently.
Labour’s Budget Responsibility Rules are only a little softer than National’s fiscal position, which created the under-funding which Labour are finding their Budget Responsibility Rules are making difficult to address.
And the thing is, a lot of these problems will worsen (thus will become more difficult to correct going forward) at the slow pace Labour are moving. So best you join the outrage and start tooting for the nurses. Labour don’t have the luxury of having time to spare.
As for this Government’s surplus, the Government’s books are showing the surplus is almost half a billion more than was originally forecast. Moreover, Government debt is also tracking better than expected (see link below). So there is extra fiscal scope for the Government to consider improving wage offers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTah3JOZVlA&feature=youtu.be&t=1m24s
thats another nationals party meme and you should either make your own contribution or shut up.
It’s all my own contribution thanks very much. And as I contribute so much, you’ll have to be a little more specific.
Moreover, why the concern about me? The issue here is the nurses dispute. Aren’t you concerned about that?
Good one Incognito. 100%
MPI should be sued as should be the importer of the M.Bovine virus.
That should pay for the medical funding shortfall.
Now what about the $1 billion dollars spent now fighting M. Bovis?????
Sue the ‘National Party’ for $1 billion, as the M.Bovine virus was alllowed to come here from 2015 we are told.??????
Could always get farmers to pay taxes.
Instead of simply taking from the system.
lol
Why we’re going on strike: a Wellington nurse’s viewpoint
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/105413975/why-were-going-on-strike-a-wellington-nurses-viewpoint
All round the world as Governments, Parties, and Political Movements, turn to the Right, Mateao di Maio asks, will this rising Right Wing tide wash up on our shores?
Pretty sure Putin had a hand in the Turkish failed coup. It pivoted them away from the US and the EU in one easy step.
Kia kaha to all the nurses today – I fully support your action and hope this will bring a coming together of the parties and that the DHB’s will find more money – because they need to. Be safe out there and stay warm.
toot toot!!!
+ 100%
Toot toot 🙂
“and that the DHB’s will find more money”
Do you not believe the acting PM when he said there was no more money?
There are people who believe what Winston says?
Indeed there are – after all – he is the leader of this coalition.
Feels like the skilful hand of James Shaw behind getting this group of leading businesses to commit to climate change target and to support the Climate Change Commission. More of major business are coming behind this Green Party initiative than are getting behind the New Zealand First Provincial Growth Partnership, and James Shaw doesn’t have $1billion dollars to roll around.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12087184
The launch will be today, and the Skytower will be lit up green as a signal of the commitment.
Looks more and more that the results of the Climate Change Commission and resulting legislation will have a major backing fro business, making it far more likely that it will have crucial cross-parliamentary support.
That would make the commitments truly intergenerational.
Feels like poachers taking over the game reserve.
They probably call them customers.
The Climate Change Commission’s findings – while not binding – are the ones to watch for.
We are all going to be signing up to them.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/peters-has-no-idea-why-census-levels-low-turn-raises-serious-questions-say-national
Census 2018 has turned into a shambles with the lowest participation rate in over 50 years,” National’s spokesperson for State Services Nick Smith said. “The Government must figure out what went so wrong and how the serious flow on problems for the public sector can be rectified,” Dr Smith said.
Many people still don’t have internet access or TV. I spoke to one person just after the census who had no idea one had just occurred.
This is just what happens when the have/have not gap widens drastically.
Wasn’t the census set up by the natz?
@ dv (5.1) … it was indeed set up by Natz. However, they know nothing, so it’s all Labour’s fault 😏
Yes mary_a
‘National fucked the country and now its labours fault now,’s
So labour need to get their new $38 million dollar ‘free to air channel up and running ‘to change the minds of the people now ahead of the 2020 election!!!!!
Otherwise we are being lead right back into the ‘sewer that national left’ for us to live in.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96745495/labour-promises-freetoair-rnz-tv-channel
While you’re at CG, why don’t you see if can ferret out some of Goebel’s descendants to coach the ‘Labour Channel’s” broadcasters on propaganda techniques to “change the minds of the people”.
Just what we need in what is a liberal democracy (but maybe a liberal democracy is not what you want, rather something more siniste) – an initiative to spend tax payers money on a political party’s propaganda machine.
Have that already. Why do you think National bails out private broadcasters?
Yeah, went bush for the summer.
I can’t imagine how the interests of the gnatz would be served by hiding a big chunk of the poorest and the most recently arrived. The Statz lady sounded pretty blase about the whole thing.
probably find the census was turned in well under budget, so that’s a plus for statsnz.
That having been said, 90% is at the low end of barely acceptable, compensation from other sources or not. It’s a bit like the IDI probabilistic linking, which is simply a bodge to make up for the lack of a cross-department individual unique ID. And not a bodge that is appropriate for a lot of uses of government data.
Another day another delay from truck crashes or breakdowns…
Truck tips onto side after colliding with bridge
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12087627
Traffic chaos on Auckland’s motorways causing commuter headaches
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12087562
But, but, but… rail never makes a profit! So we must endure the traffic jams and the losses in productivity, and the high petrol costs, and the high petrol taxes because we need roads, lots of roads, and bigger roads, preferably massive motorways that make no financial whatsoever because I will be able to drive my imposing Porsche Cayenne or Ford Ranger aggressively on them and not indicate and basically have no care for anyone else on the road.
Wonder what would happen if those truck firms were forced to pay the full costs that they just caused.
No, it’s obvious what would happen – trucks would be off the roads as fast as possible. Without their subsidies trucks aren’t economic except for short haul.
Shit saveNZ. you beat me to that good for you.
Yes i spotted that earlier and thanks for remindinng me.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/105422851/truck-and-trailer-unit-carrying-goods-catches-fire-on-sh2-near-tauranga
I will add the truck/fire/crash to yesterdays truck crash fatality at the same regional locality near Tauranga, and ship a letter off to the government to remind them as to why we need to move freight off the roads and onto rail to save lives and money.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1311/S00175/truck-crash-pyes-pa-road-tauranga.htm
I wonder if Wayne Mapp as nationals ex MP will now slag us off again for making political gain from another truck accident again today as he diid yesterday????
Heh, dissed for making political capital before he went on to make a political point.
Stay classy former MP.
Hmmm good idea and nice to see both sides of the House involved in doing it.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/property/105393547/once-dubbed-a-working-mans-hut-now-its-a-home-for-joy-morris
Pretty damn ballsy really
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12087103
A civil servant has been handed a nine-year ban from public posts after it emerged he had been absent from his €50,000-a-year job for more than a decade.
Every weekday morning, Carles Recio, an archives director in Valencia’s provincial government, would turn up at his office only to clock in and head straight out again, before coming back at 4pm to clock out.
Dunno whether it’s Kafka or Mike Judge lol
I wonder what the grieving process is upon finding out you’ve been relocated into a bureaucratic void – bewilderment, boredom, realisation, exploration, exploitation?
He’s pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJCdCXFslY
yup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqjQDP9KX6E
Meanwhile, clean green New Zealand’s emissions are up by around 20% on 1990 levels.
Senate Bill 32, signed in 2016, requires the state to go even further than AB 32 and cut emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious carbon goal in North America. The state’s annual emissions inventory helps keep the state accountable for meeting its emissions reduction targets. Highlights from the inventory published today include:
https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/climate-pollutants-fall-below-1990-levels-first-time
Some good news from todays government and businesses thinking about tomorrow.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018653292/60-businesses-commit-to-climate-change-action
business climate
9:09 am today
60 businesses commit to climate change action
From Nine To Noon, 9:09 am today
Listen duration 29′ :04″
CEOs of sixty businesses across the country, collectively responsible for nearly 50% of our emissions, are banding together to combat climate change. Members of this Climate Leaders Coalition include Z Energy, Fonterra, Westpac, Ngai Tahu Holdings, Vector, Air New Zealand, Spark and NZ Post. By signing the CEO Climate Change Statement, each of the business leaders is committing to measuring and reporting their greenhouse gas emissions to align with the Paris Agreement. Z Energy CEO Mike Bennetts is convening the Climate Leaders Coalition. He talks to Kathryn Ryan along with Westpac CEO Karen Silk.
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http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018653293/commissioner-targets-govt-and-biodegradable-single-use-plastics 9.37am 8.22mins
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, is calling on government to pick up its game around biodegradable plastics and its overall environmental goals.
The commissioner wants urgent attention paid to understanding the implications for the end of life of these products, as well as sorting out the terminology and labeling schemes.
To this end the PCE has produced an online resource of key facts aimed at improving consumer and business understanding of the plastics issue.
Simon Upton talks to Kathryn Ryan
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http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ruralnews/audio/2018653319/midday-rural-news-for-12-july-2018 7.58 mins
Sixty businesses who produce nearly half of all New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions have pledged to reduce them, to seek offsets like planting trees and to strictly monitor their emissions.
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http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/businessnews/audio/2018653315/z-energy-coalition-will-approach-commitment-differently 2.10 mins
The head of Z Energy says businesses which have signed up to a coalition to tackle climate change are committed to making a difference, but will approach it differently depending on their circumstances.
NOTE: Cleangreen – For Gisborne this carbon thing will enable trees to be left in the ground and the forestry owners get paid for it. This is how things should work so there is hope for the erosion-threatened area.
A day in the life of a bludger.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/105390029/aucklands-phoney-homeless-raking-in-100-a-day-on-the-streets
Thanks for the link. I’m surprised that you could read that and not have compassion for the lives these men are leading. Homes to go to at night – really one of the basics of what all NZers should have – is not exactly the high life.
We contribute to the flagrant spending of organisations and corporations without missing a beat, and you consider this to be worthy of discussion?
Naki man is looking for someone smaller to kick. Less lifting of leg, more energy efficient.
Surely he has cows.
Naki man values his herd too highly to do that sort of thing if he’s a dairy farmer. He doesn’t want vet bills, and better to not have them round in case there is some mycoplasma bovis signs that he hasn’t noticed.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/105424698/acting-prime-minister-winston-peters-announces-950k-hydrogen-fuel-investment-in-taranaki
You’ll be rapt with this though naki man . The coalition coming up with the goods again .
And hydrogen development could lead to a major shift in energy supply.
Exciting stuff!
This one has me a little suspicious. I’m wary that there may be some greenwashing going on here.
The main industrial process for making hydrogen is steam reformation of natural gas. Which emits the carbon atoms in the natural gas as CO2 at the point of creating hydrogen. So sure, further downstream the hydrogen can be used for energy and it’s zero-emission, because the emissions have already occurred elsewhere. For almost all the potential users of hydrogen, the emissions from steam reformation of natural gas to hydrogen then using the hydrogen are greater than if the natural gas had just been directly used for the heat or to power an engine.
Looking at the founder, it seems he’s closely linked to Todd Energy – who are big time owners of – guess what? Gas fields and production.
Now maybe I’m a little too suspicious and he’s wanting to make a break from fossil fuels, is going to use some other technology, but is locating in Taranaki to tap into the oil and gas expertise there which overlaps strongly with the skills needed for hydrogen.
We’ll see…
good observation
I know nothing about this project, however four points do occur to me:-
1. Taranaki has the most concentrated knowledge in NZ of containing and transporting gas. That makes it a logical region to develop any kind of gas technology in NZ because many of the skills will shift to other gases.
2. Depends what they are using the hydrogen for. Looks to me like you are presuming that it is for fuel? Why? Most of the hydrogen in use is for higher value chemical processes like ammonia production. At the scale that is implied by the amounts, it seems more likely that this is what it used for.
3. Steam reformation isn’t the only process and isn’t the main process used for hydrogen fuel. It just happens to be the one used for the majority production of commercial hydrogen – mostly used in chemical processes.
Electrolysis (ie power to gas) is a non-carbon process if it uses hydro or wind power. Wind power strikes me as being a likely reason to be around the Taranaki especially if they use offshore windfarms in the old gasfield areas. They have a existing infrastructure for offshore in Taranaki.
4. Even if they do fuel development using steam on natural gas (in the absence of the required infrastructure for turbine farms), Taranaki is about the only place in NZ that can do some moderately efficient sequestration. Lots of empty gas fields.
They won’t be doing commercial natural gas to hydrogen for fuel because it is way more efficient to just burn natural gas directly and that would be way better in climate change terms than burning more complex hydrocarbons like those in petrol or diesel fractions.
1: Yep. I alluded to that at the end of my comment.
2: from b waghorn’s link: “During his visit to New Plymouth, Peters said a grant of $950,000 would be made to Hiringa Energy and its partners, which is seeking to develop zero emission hydrogen transport fuel.
The funding will be used to scope the engineering and design of two hydrogen generation facilities, up to four mobile compressed hydrogen storage and distribution containers, and up to three hydrogen refuelling stations. ”
Transport fuel is the stated objective of the project.
3: The lack of mention how the hydrogen will be generated plus the founder’s links to Todd Energy plus the very careful wording talking about zero emission transport fuel but neglecting to state zero emission hydrogen generation combines to pique my interest.
4: Maybe it’s just me, but if I were planning on introducing a major new technology like CO2 sequestration into empty gas fields, you can bet I’d be talking it up big time. But a brief intertoobz search turned up … crickets.
Just thinking about the ways of storing and transporting raw hydrogen are hair-raising to even contemplate. Since talk of the hydrogen economy started, they haven’t exactly managed to figure out how to make it even moderately stable at normal atmospheric temperatures and pressures.
In engineering terms actually generating the gas isn’t that much of a technical issue. I’d be much more interested in them figuring out how to make roads and refuelling stations less like high density explosion fields.
If you wanted to try to develop a hydrogen based fuel infrastructure, then Taranaki is where you’d start it. Just trying to develop an end-to-end hydrogen system is going to damn hard regardless of the source of the fuel.
Personally I’d think that developing EV’s and EV infrastructure would be a better idea. And in that case putting money into how to develop offshore windfarms would be a better idea. But that is best done from Taranaki as well.
It’d be good to see a hydrogen dirigible for transTasman cargo now that automation makes unmanned ones plausible.
Helium is much better for dirigibles. The Zeppelins had to use hydrogen because at the time the US was the only significant producer of helium and they weren’t selling to anyone else.
One of the problems with hydrogen is it makes its way through just about any materials very quickly, and usually does bad things to the material’s structure and properties as it does so. Look up hydrogen embrittlement and permeability. I’ve yet to see a good explanation why, but I’ll speculate it’s because when a hydrogen atom loses its electron, it’s just a tiny naked proton which can move easily through just about any kind of molecular structure, whereas every other kind of atom will always have two electrons in an extremely stable filled first orbital shell, making it much larger.
So by the time you’ve beefed up your bags to hold the hydrogen for long enough, you’ve added quite a weight penalty over using helium.
thing is, hydrogen is plentiful and helium is not.
Helium is both expensive and finite. It also produces less lift.
It won’t be once the alien unicorns turn up and start excreting working fusion power plants out their back ends.
Or it’ll become even scarcer if we get serious about stopping fossil fuel use and stop extracting natural gas, of which helium is a by-product.
But as far as lift goes, the difference between a bouyancy of 1.12kg/m^3 for hydrogen and 1.03 kg/m^3 for helium disappears pretty quickly when you need much more robust containment for the hydrogen.
I think perhaps we should forego the alien unicorns for the moment. It is sufficient to use a contemporary equivalent of goldbeater skins for hydrogen and design for some loss. That’s part of the reason for using unmanned craft.
The logical trial is probably Cook Strait – the winds are more than ideal but there’s enough cargo and a decent hangar site somewhere near Blenheim.
I had a wonderful idea that if you contained the hydrogen in an aerogel matrix and then contain that in a lift bag in a dirigible, the resistance from the matrix would make the hydrogen burn controllably/extinguishably rather than catastrophically.
Googling informed me that this had already been considered, reduced the lifting differential by about 99% so was impractical, and was literally a thought exercise for first-year engineering students at some universities. Sigh. Just goes to show the value of formal education over googling.
But I still think there are some materials thresholds that some company or NASA have in a file somewhere, so when we get the right material (with a value of some function of a cost of W, a density of Y , and a temperature tolerance of >Z) suddenly cost-effective hydrogen lift bags would have lots of little cells that can contain the burning hydrogen from a leak without popping like a balloon (introducing more air/hydrogen contact so “boom”) or destroying the neighbouring cells (i.e. burning the entire vessel like the Hindenberg) and dirigibles will be the next big thing.
And logging trucks a thing of the past.
To get bouyancy, the total combined density of your lifting substance and containment has to be less then the density of air, which is around 1.2 kg/m^3.
Now consider, what is air? Air is a bunch of fairly low-mass molecules flying around and bouncing off each other, with no kind of structure whatsoever. The molecules are flying so fast and bouncing off each other so hard their average distance apart is actually very large. As soon as any kind of structure is imposed, then the intermolecular distances become much closer (and density goes way up). So even if that structure is almost entirely empty space, it’s still denser than a gas. The lowest density aerogel produced was 1.0 kg/m3, after the air is evacuated out of it, so if it were evacuated it would only have a bouyancy of 0.2 kg/m3 in air.
So really the only practical possibility to get bouyancy is replacing the air inside a very light container with another gas, but of lower density. Nitrogen has a molecular weight of 28, oxygen is 32. So the candidates are neon (20), helium (4) and hydrogen (2). Lithium, beryllium, boron and carbon are solids and fluorine is heavier than air. So using either hydrogen or helium can get you bouyancy over 1 kg/m^3 in air (which also has to lift whatever is containing your hydrogen or helium)
Yeah. Seemed like a good idea at the pub though, lol.
Then I did the math.
And those bouyancy numbers are for sea level at a temperate temperature, too.
But the main danger with hydrogen is a cascading conflagration of large volumes of it. So if you can either limit the spread from one smaller cell to another or stop the fire from spreading along the gas cell, then hydrogen lift might be safer.
Essentially, I’m talking hazard minimisation and Stuart’s automation idea is hazard isolation (keeping people away from thing that goes boom). Helium is hazard elimination, but has its own costs and inefficiencies.
@McFlock
The materials side of it shouldn’t be underestimated. Hydrogen permeating through materials and changing their properties really is a problem, particularly if you’re expecting a long lifetime from your item.
Yep. 20-odd years ago my boss, VP of Sales and Engineering (that’s an, ahem, interesting, combo of responsibilities) got wind of how much people were willing to pay for carbon composite tanks for hydrogen. So I got the job of scoping out what would need to happen for the company to be able to make them.
He wasn’t much for listening to reason, but the list of materials technologies we would have to learn about and develop, the testing and detection equipment we’d need, and the hazards involved with handling hydrogen quickly set him off looking for a different next big thing.
“The coalition coming up with the goods again”
Wag you have overdosed on the Kool-Aid
It will take more than a splash of cash from wristy’s slush fund to undo the damage Cindy an co have done to the $2.5 Billion pa Oil and Gas industry.
Nah Naki man, you are wrong … it’s a day in the life of an alcoholic.
You know that legal drug which national allowed to be sold in our supermarkets and dairies, increasing accessibility, devastating lives and draining our health system.
“By 8.30am the men are wasted. That’s what time it was when we met them last Thursday, and they told us to come back before 7am the next day if we wanted a sober conversation.”
““By 8.30am the men are wasted. That’s what time it was when we met them last Thursday, and they told us to come back before 7am the next day if we wanted a sober conversation.””
Gee – I bet that they arn’t National voters.
Indeed. There is the possibility of a sober conversation.
Well played. Very funny.
National get drunk on power
Naki man it’s the bludgers in suits sipping on chardonnay causing all the problems……….
Aussie banks ripping the NZ tax collection by 2.2B, and I understand they settled on a figure which was only 80% of the sum originally contested.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10617313
Makes these other dudes look like amateurs.
(GInteresting (+ disturbing) quiz on whether or not a species made it into the top 150 critically endangered *priority* list. The list is chosen by algorithm rather than human.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/104303722/ten-critically-endangered-critters-with-the-craziest-stories
Housing NZ’s board gets its first member who actually lives in state housing, disability advocate Dr Huhana Hickey: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1807/S00113/first-state-house-tenant-among-new-hnz-board-appointments.htm
Ad, on 5 – regarding this issue,
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12087184
I am uneasy about the lack of ‘stated actions thwey will take’ as Professor James Renwick clearly shows some doubt about when he said; “it remained to be seen what efforts the coalition would actually make,” Ad,
Quote;
“Victoria University climate scientist Professor James Renwick said while it remained to be seen what efforts the coalition would actually make,”
This along with the words used to explain the focus the group was using was; quote;
“Carbon budgeting is a proposed part of the Government’s Zero Carbon Bill, which aspires to drive emissions of CO2”
Ad – this sounds like they intend to keep on buying overseas “cheap carbon credits” and we have already bought many of these from ‘phoney Ukrane sources’ already havent we just??????
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11624441
We need to see the fine print here as it just may still be another elaberate hoax.
Jury is still out on this here I am afraid.
Progressives in the US are starting to get very popular.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for instance, won an election she wasn’t even running for in a neighboring district due to write-in votes. She can not run in two districts however so had to turn it down. A lot of these people are wining by word of mouth due to the MSM refusing to give them any coverage.
The tide is slowly turning against Trump and the Republican in the US. It is even turning against the Corporate Democrats that are in a lot of cases just Republican Lite candidates and they are slowly losing a lot of primaries to true progressive candidates who are then in a lot of cases going on to win their seats.
Hopefully, a majority of these socially conscious candidates can get elected there and help turn the US around. We here in New Zealand will feel the effects of the world imploding if the Republicans continue their warmongering and polluting of the globe.
What little work Obama did in the way conservation and climate change reform has been slowly unraveled by Trump and his cronies.
Israel tightens noose around Gaza another notch
July 11, 2018
As mass Palestinian protests enter their fourth month, Israel is intensifying its already-crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will close Kerem Shalom, the only crossing for commercial goods into Gaza. This will ban all imports and exports on top of the sweeping besiegement already in place. Israel is also reducing the fishing zone for Gazans off the Mediterranean coast to just six miles out, down from nine. More actions are said to be coming. This comes as Israeli forces continue to open fire on Palestinians taking part in the Great March of Return. The Gaza Health Ministry says that overall, 136 Palestinians have been killed, and more than 15600 injured. Israeli forces killed at least one Palestinian and wounded nearly 400 on Friday. The blockade and casualties have overwhelmed Gaza’s crippled healthcare system, which the UN warns is already at a breaking point. ….
http://normanfinkelstein.com/2018/07/11/israel-tightens-noose-around-gaza-another-notch/
Bibi is a fucken monster for closing Kerem Shalom.
Israels reason for doing so…. flaming kites… “Tel Aviv made the move in response to Palestinians launching incendiary kites across the border”
UN have condemned Israel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/07/israel-closure-vital-gaza-commercial-border-takes-effect-180710184351245.html
How’s the mrs, Bibi? Spent all of Israels money yet… what a piece of work she is.
https://globalnews.ca/video/4288657/israeli-pm-netanyahus-wife-charged-with-fraud
Easy solution stop flying flaming kites
Stop hitting yourself, why are you hitting yourself
The big issues.
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I am getting heartily sick of Simon Dallow.He led the charge for John Key and shilled for him for 8, 3/4 years till key jumped ship and now he, dallow is sitting up there every night t trying to shaft the government at every opportunity. he has become slimier and slimier over the years and it is really time for him to go.
Good Morning The Am Show .
The stats on PEE don’t surprise me Duncan I see it clearly that’s why I don’t like people using the word crack and our rural provinces use of these poisons are higher than Auckland the regions that have been suppressed of investment for 9 years go figure there is another factor affecting that .
Loyd that’s the way no need to brand all of the people for one idiot’s bad behavior in Britain .
As for trump Mark well you think its OK for trump to fly around Papatunuku and demanded that the rest of the United Nations members double the money they spend on the IDIOT war machine when they know that they might as well just dig a big hole and pour the money in it . We have billions of people in Africa and the Middle East and right on his door step North America all around Papatuanuku who need the west help just to get a drink of water . It would be OK if trump was demanding for more money to help these people and don’t believe any stats coming out of America about trump those will be manipulated by him to make him look good enough said .
I gave my thoughts on our Nurses last nite and I back the words I said.
Fonterra should have brought Nestle all those years ago now they would be the biggest food company on the Papatuanuku .
Yes Tamiti there are good polytechnic in Rotorua but they need to connect the trainees to the jobs after there training finished thats what is needed .
Duncan so you think that trump locking thousands of mokopunas in cages on the United states boarder’s.??????????????? is not moko abuse. The reason there is so much bad stats on mokos is the Governments have caused this by starving te tangata whenua of money of jobs and mana using the media to smear maoris mana Mean while the wealthy tangata whenua are in total denial that there is a big problem with this system towards Maori so long as there hip pocktes are full they put there heads in Papatuanuku any culture that’s suppressed and divided will produce bad stats and whose pushing the Pee.
I like the Eco Maori ———- so I won’t be trying to get my face plastered all over the media anyway the sandflys have a farcical injunction to stop this happening there are many stories of the bad behaviour of the bad sandflys now.
Ka kite ano . There is no morriori they are just part of the first Maori to arrive here that’s another way to suppress Maori and people fall for it Hook line and sinker.
Ka kite ano
The Am Show Maori Culture is a very humble culture very Great culture not many cultures can trace there genealogy back to the start who has waiata that traces history back to the start our carvings all OUR great Arts We have the history of Our arrival to Aotearoa on great Waka its that great the Europeans could not fathom that a culture like ours who uses Papatuanuku to navigate could sail better than them thousands of years before them . I agree with Te Ururoa that Aotearoa should use our great maori culture to improve its profile not suppress it I will not let the latter happen. Ka kite ano
Yes Aotearoa needs to do more to care for our elderly tangata a couple of weeks ago I came across a elderly man his house was run down living by him self his main gripe was his phone was not working when it rained so I made a call they new who the call was from and what do you know his phone was fixed that day I have a link below .
We don’t need just play grounds for the elderly we need warm dry places were they can meet have a cup of tea and talk.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/105424159/auckland-looks-at-benefits-of-playgrounds-for-oldies-in-bid-to-become-agefriendly ka kite ano P.S You see national want our elderly focused on things that don’t real effect them when our elderly should be focused on the correct issues that will benefit them
Good evening Newshub I agree with the councils we need more public toilets may be they all get together and design a toilet block that’s is cheap durable looks good and can be installed in one day off the back of a truck so long as the pluming is on site. Tawhiri is in winter mode Ingrd
ka kite ano P.S I was going to have a break tonight but I got back in time for this
Good evening The Crowd Goes Wild The foot ball world cup has been a great successful
everyone can not be winners.
Yep C J would make a great presenter.
I don’t want to back sports stars with what happened with the football
I have to congratulate this new wahine sports star winner of the under 20 ladies IAAF World shot put Maddison Wesche Ka pai mana wahine
Ka kite ano P.S That life after rugby of Pacific is a good thing that will get our young stars to think about there retirement
Here we go I still back my words about trolls being paid by national to troll any people who are left supporters they have horded heaps of money over the last nine years to pay for this look at the gon brash $50.000 in one day to let right extremist speak. This Ladie and I have different views on trolls some trolls just put out information that is total lies all in the goal to sway public opinion. they scour the net looking for stories that they can spin it in a way that makes every one think that a lot of people have the same view as them by minuplating the positive or negative thums up or down on stories to suit there objective which is all ways to the right winged view of lock em up kick em out give our tax cuts why should the poor have our money human caused climate is a lie trump is a good guy these are so easy for Eco Maori to see.
These trolls all have a silverspoon in there mouths living with mom and dad and only have to pay for there entertainment activities so how does the left combat this well I have my Idea’s but they would be to extreme like throw them all on a Island with no comms yea nar thats the way the neoliberal brain thinks. link below
https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/104974643/how-trolls-make-money-from-their-online-hate-speech Ka kite ano
The big picture with GM Food is we cannot TRUST big business who are peddling this Genitally modified food this food could cause deaths 5 years after eating it and the big companys will just cover it up when they get caught with there pants down they run the company into bankruptcy run with there ill gotten profits all the way to the bank.
Another reason is that this GM food can change the genetics of the being eating this stuff change and thats a big problem. Have the neoliberals showen that we can trust them Know so lets keep Aotearoa GE FREE and everyone will pay a Premium for OUR GEFREE FOOD link below ka kite ano
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/105433107/us-trials-bring-gm-ryegrass-a-step-closer&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiO9LOy75zcAhWBFIgKHaXRCdAQFggFMAA&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=006730714154542492986:oh6vl0ybuqy&usg=AOvVaw0q71fG3pGGXB-MBImJYfQk
There you go Lisa from the Nation we can not trust company’s that manipulate Laws to help them flogg off there rubbish products . Johnson and Johnson for selling faulty products ie hip replacement products we have to have all products verified investigated by Kiwis why aren’t these thing pear reviewed by other scientist who can give them the thums up or down. We put to much trust in the American system relying on the FDA to pruduce safe test for these prouducts which can be manipulated by rich lobbyist that has to change.
Ka kite ano
Here you go two countrys who can carry hunting Tangaroa beautiful creates the biggest animals that have ever lived still hunting the under the farcical cause of scientific research the link is below P.S I think we should boycott there tourist industrys and prouducts
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/13/killing-blue-whale-disconnected-nature-sea-ignorance
Ka kite ano