Open mike 13/02/2020

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1. Sacha 1

   13 February 2020 at 7:18 am

   Govt unimpressed: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/409412/rio-tinto-behaviour-disgraceful-environment-minister-david-parker-says

   Environment Minister David Parker says he has had enough of Rio Tinto and is considering legal action against the owner of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter over its failure to deal with its hazardous waste.
   • dv 1.1

     13 February 2020 at 8:02 am

     How about charging the standard rate for power, (instead of 7cent kWh) ;and use the extra for the clean
     up.
   • Sacha 1.2

     13 February 2020 at 12:15 pm

     https://twitter.com/DavidParkerMP/status/1227686183909478400
2. Sanctuary 2

   13 February 2020 at 8:29 am

   I am off work unwell at the moment so I had occasion to read the Herald this morning. I must say, it is impossible to work out if Mike Hosking is serious or satire. If it is satire, he knocks it out of the park.

   Otherwise, saying you are going to leave Auckland because you had to walk 20 minutes to your hairdresser one day? I am just not feeling it for you Mike.
   • lprent 2.1

     13 February 2020 at 8:40 am

     I don’t think that he has enough self-awareness for it to be satire.
   • Andre 2.2

     13 February 2020 at 8:43 am

     The few times an image of the Hosk has actually intruded on my consciousness, I've immediately thought of Wilson. Which raises the question: he actually pays someone to make his head look like that?
   • Sacha 2.3

     13 February 2020 at 9:08 am

     He is getting plenty of encouragement on Twitr to leave town.
     • weka 2.3.1

       13 February 2020 at 9:12 am

       Please don't send him down south 🙁 We took one for the team having Michael Laws back.
       • Sacha 2.3.1.1

         13 February 2020 at 9:15 am

         Los Angeles seemed popular (or Queenstown)
         • weka 2.3.1.1.1

           13 February 2020 at 9:31 am

           Look I wouldn't wish him even on Queenstown.

           LA could probably absorb him ok.
           • Andre 2.3.1.1.1.1

             13 February 2020 at 10:11 am

             What's LA ever done to you to deserve that? Somewhere like Palm Beach, Florida seems more appropriate.
             • Sacha …

               13 February 2020 at 10:31 am

               I figure he can build a life with fellow dimwitted attention-hound Paul Henry. Anywhere sunny will do.
             • weka …

               13 February 2020 at 10:41 am

               I thought LA was a) very large and b) had its fair share of egos, so that MH would just kind of disappear into it.
               • Sacha …

                 13 February 2020 at 11:02 am

                 Mediocre fish in a huge smelly pond.
               • mary_a …

                 13 February 2020 at 4:07 pm

                 I don't care where Hosking goes, as long as it's not Central Otago, particularly Cromwell. We are trying to keep our environment as unpolluted and pristine as possible.
             • WeTheBleeple …

               13 February 2020 at 2:55 pm

               Hey! I got friends in Florida.
               • Andre …

                 13 February 2020 at 3:07 pm

                 Oh. So sorry to hear that. I feel for ya, man.
                 • Sacha …

                   13 February 2020 at 5:36 pm

                   They will be underwater soon enough.
3. pat 3

   13 February 2020 at 8:36 am

   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/giant-dams-could-protect-millions-from-rising-north-sea

   What next?
   • joe90 3.1

     13 February 2020 at 8:49 am

     Atlantropa?

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
     • pat 3.1.1

       13 February 2020 at 8:56 am

       good grief…had never heard of that.

       But why would you bother even if it were feasible?
       • joe90 3.1.1.1

         13 February 2020 at 9:13 am

         Who knows. But there's never been a shortage of off the wall schemes.

         https://timespanner.blogspot.com/2008/11/canal-that-was-never-dug.html

         https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-sahara-sea-a-hypothetical-project-to-create-a-sea-in-the-sahara-desert.html
         • pat 3.1.1.1.1

           13 February 2020 at 9:21 am

           and some unintended consequences it would seem….who would have guessed?

           https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea
         • joe90 3.1.1.1.2

           13 February 2020 at 9:32 am

           Could've been worse.

           https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power_Alliance

           https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_river_reversal
           • pat 3.1.1.1.2.1

             13 February 2020 at 9:41 am

             Indeed…and may well yet be.
           • pat 3.1.1.1.2.2

             13 February 2020 at 9:44 am

             "Feng Shui specialists suggest that the two man-made islands of the HZMB look like two snake heads facing each other from above. They have been constructed this way to negatively influence the Feng Shui of Hong Kong"

             https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong%E2%80%93Zhuhai%E2%80%93Macau_Bridge

             I believe I have discovered the cause of recent unrest in Hong Kong….but dont worry, should all be resolved sometime over the next hundred and twenty years.
         • satty 3.1.1.1.3

           13 February 2020 at 9:45 am

           Not to forget the Golden Age Lake in Turkmenistan. At least they started with the lake in 2009. Not much in the news nowadays, so I guess it doesn’t go overly well.
         • Sanctuary 3.1.1.1.4

           13 February 2020 at 10:58 am

           "…Who knows…"

           The wikipedia article gives the reasons, entirely (for the time) Utopian and laudable ones:

           The Atlantropa movement, through its several decades, was characterised by four constants:

           – Pacifism, in its promises of using technology in a peaceful way;
           – Pan-European sentiment, seeing the project as a way to unite a war-torn Europe;
           – Eurocentric attitudes to Africa (which was to become united with Europe into "Atlantropa" or Eurafrica), and
           – Neo-colonial geopolitics, which saw the world divided into three blocs—America, Asia, and Atlantropa.

           So at least it had a decent motive.

           Also see:

           https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263779405_Geo-Engineering_South_Australia_The_Case_of_Lake_Eyre
           • pat 3.1.1.1.4.1

             13 February 2020 at 11:04 am

             a 'decent' motive?

             “The Utopian goal was to solve all the major problems of European civilisation by the creation of a new continent, "Atlantropa", consisting of Europe and Africa, to be inhabited by Europeans”
             • Sanctuary …

               13 February 2020 at 12:29 pm

               I DID say for the time…
   • the other pat 3.2

     13 February 2020 at 9:18 am

     ah heading for a sequel to Pacific Rim in the Nth sea i see ….Will they have giant "robots" too?
     • pat 3.2.1

       13 February 2020 at 9:25 am

       around about the same time as the bridge to Ireland is opened by Mothra and Godzilla
4. Robert Guyton 4

   13 February 2020 at 9:53 am

   "People advised to not swim or collect shellfish

   This is an official message from Emergency Management Southland.

   People are advised to stay out of the sea in the area around the Invercargill estuary, including Oreti Beach, for the next few days as floodwaters flush out of the river.

   People should also avoid an area at the Dunns Road entrance to Oreti beach, where dead burrowing sea cucumbers and shellfish are lying.

   The fresh water in the floodwaters are believed to have caused the burrowing sea cucumbers and shellfish deaths on the beach. Only one or two toheroa have been seen. People are advised not to eat any of the shellfish and not to harvest for others either.

   Environment Southland staff have gone out to check out the beach and have only found the shellfish in one area.

   “Staff are collecting samples for analysis, but in the meantime please stay out of the water, don’t harvest shellfish and avoid the area where the dead shellfish are.”"
   • weka 4.1

     13 February 2020 at 10:05 am

     Quote link https://www.facebook.com/radiosouthland/photos/a.258882717516417/3491863724218284/
   • weka 4.2

     13 February 2020 at 10:09 am

     Is this from the flood the other week?

     I hope staff are collecting environmental pollutant samples for analysis.

     Theories on what is going on? Farm run off? Too much fresh water?

     The Aparima and Waihopai are the main catchments yes?
     • Robert Guyton 4.2.1

       13 February 2020 at 12:44 pm

       It is and I was taken-aback that fresh water was deemed the culprit – given what it must have carried but I do have faith in the ES scientists. No mention was made of contaminants, but perhaps that's another issue…
       • WeTheBleeple 4.2.1.1

         13 February 2020 at 5:28 pm

         Robert, have you heard anything of the mass mussel dieoff that occurred at Maunganui Bluff Beach within the last few days. It's not in the media but it's an environmental disaster.

         Look up Brandon Ferguson on Facebook, it was he who made a video of it and it's right near the top of his page.
         • Robert Guyton 4.2.1.1.1

           13 February 2020 at 5:37 pm

           thnx
5. Sacha 5

   13 February 2020 at 12:04 pm

   Chair tells select committee it was just a misunderstanding between RNZ and Minister about timing: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/119479670/misunderstanding-with-minister-meant-rnz-thought-it-had-goahead-for-concert-consultations

   Mather said RNZ had briefed Faafoi on its new music strategy "and the potential impact upon RNZ Concert" in August, October and most recently on January 29.

   "We believed the minister had agreed to RNZ not delaying our internal staff consultation on potential changes to RNZ Concert whilst the Ministry of Culture and Heritage explored the review of the FM frequency.

   "There was clearly a misunderstanding as the minister thought that our consultation process would be halted whilst the ministry looked into the FM frequency availability as they were tasked to do at that meeting," he said.

   Chief executive Paul Thompson also told MPs that RNZ had been "clearly given a steer" by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage last year that it would be very difficult for it to get an additional FM frequency for its planned new youth radio station.
6. Sanctuary 6

   13 February 2020 at 12:27 pm

   Melanie Reid, Dr Emily Keddell, assorted Maori radicals, Andrew Becroft, Bomber etc etc are remarkably silent all of a sudden.

   https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/119478733/flaxmere-councillor-urges-public-to-let-police-do-their-jobs-in-finding-4yearolds-attacker
   • McFlock 6.1

     13 February 2020 at 1:24 pm

     What would you expect them to say?

     The councillor has the right note – everyone should shut up and let the cops do their job.
   • Jimmy 6.2

     13 February 2020 at 3:48 pm

     Sounds like the cops are trying but the family are not co-operating. Very sad situation.
     • McFlock 6.2.1

       13 February 2020 at 4:37 pm

       There was one like that in Dunedin a few years back.

       So bloody sad, and the lingering knowledge that the person most responsible won't be held accountable.
     • mpledger 6.2.2

       13 February 2020 at 6:20 pm

       Although it's American, this video talks about why it's never good to talk to the police – even if you are innocent.
7. Chris 7

   13 February 2020 at 12:29 pm

   https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/119479099/pm-jacinda-ardern-announces-300-million-funding-boost-to-prevent-homelessness

   This is all well and good and, moreover, difficult to criticise outright because it's likely necessary.

   The question is whether these kinds of "transitional" houses will become a permanent fixture on the social welfare landscape?

   Emergency measures in the past like benefit cuts and food banks were alway touted as a temporary fix until so-called wider problems were dealt with. The benefit cuts of 1991 were never removed and Labour very quickly backtracked on its promise back then to reinstate previous benefit levels. And as for food banks, they've been wholly co-opted into our social welfare system where it's quite acceptable for MSD to refer people to charities rather than pay a benefit under the Act. The very existence of food banks and the legitimisation government gives to them is a clear admission that our social security system is broken.

   So too is use of motels and this so-called "transitional housing" lark an admission that our state housing system is broken. Placing homeless families into motels and the provision of 'transitional housing' is necessary to address immediate need. The problem the govenment faces is will they do enough to get to a point where they're not spending millions on motels, and that 'transitional' houses don't become such a hugely entrenched intitution that we don't care that they represent our failure to provide adequate housing for everyone.
   • Nic the NZer 7.1

     13 February 2020 at 12:37 pm

     Govt paying for these measures still seems better than the alternative. I don't see a similarity with 90s benefit cuts which involved taking away entitlements and later making that more permanent.
     • Chris 7.1.1

       13 February 2020 at 1:10 pm

       Of course government paying for these measures is better than the alternative. That's part of my point.
   • McFlock 7.2

     13 February 2020 at 1:33 pm

     I thought motelling was already endemic in the social services?

     But at least Labour are boosting the non-transitional state housing stock every quarter.
     • Chris 7.2.1

       13 February 2020 at 1:46 pm

       Yes, at the very least, which is probably why 'motelling' remains endemic.
       • McFlock 7.2.1.1

         13 February 2020 at 2:43 pm

         the least would be national's efforts in reducing housing stock, rather than increasing it by a thousand a year.
     • Macro 7.2.2

       13 February 2020 at 6:04 pm

       And in the meantime the government has been opening transitional housing that is not motel based .

       https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/101928602/government-opens-new-transitional-housing-facility-in-south-auckland

       One of our friends lives next door to the above development which has been running now for over a year. She is very happy with the way it is run. Administered by Salvation Army it hosts a good number of families for such time as they need before moving on to more permanent accommodation. It is well built – apart from a hick-up with fire escapes! – apparently now sorted.
   • Sacha 7.3

     13 February 2020 at 1:51 pm

     From the sidebar, I/S sees a glaring flaw in their cunning plan: http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2020/02/labours-festering-neoliberalism.html

     The one problem with it is that they're going to start charging people in emergency accommodation in motels.

     …

     What stinks is the reason for it: if you read the Cabinet Paper (paragraphs 63-68), its intended to "support a reduction in the reliance on motels" and produce "behavioural changes" which will supposedly reduce the cost of the programme.

     …

     And it suggests that Labour's hallmark "kindness", supposed to be at the core of everything they do, is turning back into the usual Neoliberal bullshit policy elites have been infected with since the 80's – bullshit which imposes deliberate hardship on the poor and vulnerable to "incentivise" them not to use government services which could help, all in the name of keeping costs – and taxes on the rich – down. And I don't think that's what people voted for in 2017.
     • Sacha 7.3.1

       13 February 2020 at 6:27 pm

       PM says community housing agencies asked for the 25% charge. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/119500326/government-defends-charging-rent-for-emergency-motelstays

       Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern people in the sector had raised "the anomaly" with her that tenants in emergency motel stays didn't pay but public housing and transitional housing tenants did. Transition housing is government-owned but still intended for short-term stays, while public housing – usually known as state housing – is more long-term.

       "They saw it as an anomaly, they saw it was causing problems for them as they were trying to move clients into housing, so they asked us to resolve it," Ardern said. Ardern said she didn't see this charge as a barrier to getting people off the streets.
     • Incognito 7.3.2

       13 February 2020 at 10:31 pm

       It appears I/S is seeing red because of too many red flags: "support a reduction in the reliance on motels"; "behavioural changes"; "kindness"; "incentivise". If all this confirms Labour’s festering Neoliberalism then Green co-leader and housing spokeswoman Marama Davidson suffers from the same disease given that she said she was comfortable with the move.

       https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/119500326/government-defends-charging-rent-for-emergency-motelstays
8. Macro 8

   13 February 2020 at 1:12 pm

   
   • Macro 8.1

     13 February 2020 at 5:55 pm

     Democracy died last week in America – and no one seems to notice>

     Trump's Purge

     President Trump’s interference with Roger Stone’s sentencing shows the real lesson he took from impeachment: that he has impunity.

     “If American democracy were to collapse,” Cornell political scientist Tom Pepinsky recently wrote, “you almost certainly wouldn’t notice it.”

     The past week has been a testament to just how right he was.

     While much of the country was preoccupied with the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, something remarkable happened: Every single prosecutor working on Roger Stone’s case resigned in protest. The apparent reason: Attorney General Bill Barr’s intervention in the case on behalf of the president leading the government to file a new sentencing recommendation, one that contradicted the seven- to nine-year prison sentence request for Donald Trump’s political ally that prosecutors had initially asked for.

     The four prosecutors who resigned — Aaron Zelinsky, Jonathan Kravis, Adam Jed, and Michael Marando — are career officials, not political appointees. They had worked diligently to prove that Stone had made false statements, obstructed justice, and tampered with witnesses in relation to the Russia scandal and Robert Mueller’s investigation, and secured a conviction in November. Now Trump and Barr are trying to get Stone off easy.

     This kind of presidential interference with the Justice Department is hardly normal; one former Justice Department official called it a “break-glass-in-case-of-fire moment.” Yet President Trump is publicly reveling in this brazen attack on DOJ independence, tweeting “congratulations to Attorney General Bill Barr” on Wednesday morning “for taking charge of a case that was totally out of control and perhaps should not have even been brought.”

     This is not an isolated incident, but rather part of a new pattern of politicizing the federal bureaucracy. Since his acquittal in the impeachment trial last week, Trump and his staff have been on a personnel replacement tear — firing and threatening officials across the government they see as disloyal with almost no pretext. The examples that we’re currently aware of:

     • The White House removed Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who testified during the House Ukraine scandal hearings, from his post on the National Security Council. Trump called on the military to begin disciplinary hearings against Vindman and removed his brother from his NSC post.
     • Trump outright fired EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland, another key impeachment witness.
     • Trump personally ordered that former US Attorney Jessie Liu’s nomination to be the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial crime be withdrawn. In her last posting, Liu had supervised the prosecution of Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, and Paul Manafort.
     • A White House staffer told the New York Post that they’d be pulling the nomination of Elaine McCusker, a career Defense Department staffer who had challenged the administration’s block on aid to Ukraine, to be Pentagon comptroller. “This administration needs people who are committed to implementing the president’s agenda, specifically on foreign policy, and not trying to thwart it,” the staffer said. (McCusker’s nomination has yet to be formally withdrawn.)

     The real illness of American democracy

     One of the central pillars of democratic government is that the law remain as independent as possible from the political interests of those in power. What unites Trump’s actions of this past week is that they each represent an assault on this general principle.

     If the president and his allies are above the law, attempts to punish their crimes undermined at the highest level, then he can engage in whatever lawbreaking he wants with impunity. If the staff of the government need to be loyal to this leader, or else risk job loss or even (in Lt. Col. Vindman’s case) threats of prosecution, then the state becomes a vehicle for advancing the president’s crass political interests rather than the good of the people.
   • Macro 8.2

     13 February 2020 at 6:11 pm

     President Donald Trump’s post-impeachment acquittal behavior is casting a chill in Washington, with Attorney General William Barr emerging as a key ally in the president’s quest for vengeance against the law enforcement and national security establishment that initiated the Russia and Ukraine investigations.

     In perhaps the most tumultuous day yet for the Justice Department under Trump, four top prosecutors withdrew on Tuesday from a case involving the president’s longtime friend Roger Stone after senior department officials overrode their sentencing recommendation—a backpedaling that DOJ veterans and legal experts suspect was influenced by Trump’s own displeasure with the prosecutors’ judgment.

     https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/12/trump-roger-stone-justice-department-114684
9. Poission 9

   13 February 2020 at 1:13 pm

   Hubei health authorities announce an order of magnitude increase in detected cases of coronavirus, and a doubling of deaths.

   https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3050354/coronavirus-hubei-province-reports-sharp-spike-new-confirmed
   • Poission 9.1

     13 February 2020 at 2:37 pm

     Why did the detected cases increase?

     Seems it was better testing.

     The number of new cases in Hubei, the epicenter of the outbreak, also jumped to 14,840 as the commission said that it had begun including people who are diagnosed through new clinical methods from Thursday.

     It also said it had revised its old data and suspected cases. The latest death toll included over 100 clinically diagnosed cases.

     https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hubei-toll/chinas-hubei-province-reports-surge-in-daily-coronavirus-deaths-jump-in-new-cases-idUSKBN207010?il=0
10. pat 10

    13 February 2020 at 2:11 pm

    Technology cant save us…..growth cannot continue…..population cannot be ignored….current economics (as taught) flawed and must change.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018733957/putting-a-dollar-value-on-biodiversity
11. Sacha 11

    13 February 2020 at 5:33 pm

    Dirty politics again. And somehow the copy of Whaleoik is still online despite the receiver supposedly going after the theft of its IP.

    https://twitter.com/BenThomasNZ/status/1227810283621535749
    • Pete George 11.1

      13 February 2020 at 6:26 pm

      The BFD is much the same as WO was, a political promotion/attack blog, now increasingly shilling for NZ First.

      I wonder if they have been paid (perhaps indirectly) by the NZ First Foundation.
      • Sacha 11.1.1

        13 February 2020 at 6:28 pm

        Interesting. Have you seen any update from the receiver?
        • Pete George 11.1.1.1

          13 February 2020 at 7:05 pm

          Not since the six-monthly liquidator report lst October.

          https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/service/services/documents/105104103E80E6E94363C1814F7FCEA9
          • lprent 11.1.1.1.1

            13 February 2020 at 7:14 pm

            About 600k in debt – probably still rising.
            • Pete George 11.1.1.1.1.1

              13 February 2020 at 7:20 pm

              A bit more in costs here:

              SLATER & ANOR v BLOMFIELD [2019] NZCA 664 [19 December 2019]

              But there could be more to come if there are any awards and costs in the defamation proceeding. Could easily be $millions.
          • Sacha 11.1.1.1.2

            14 February 2020 at 8:11 am

            Thanks. From the liquidation report, the only domains they are seeking control of are the equivalent .org.nz and .net.nz ones to the original domain that Blomfield purchased. No mention of action here against the new site. Hope that's an oversight in the report, not that they have dropped the plans to pursue it.
      • Incognito 11.1.2

        13 February 2020 at 11:09 pm

        They always struck me as more of a fACToid klan.
    • ianmac 11.2

      13 February 2020 at 6:30 pm

      Can someone explain what is wrong with photographing anyone on the street?
      • Sacha 11.2.1

        13 February 2020 at 6:42 pm

        Nothing. Leaking a photo of a journalist to a bottom-feeding scum colony on the other hand..
        • ianmac 11.2.1.1

          13 February 2020 at 6:49 pm

          Wasn't it a photo to show the likely leak coming from the ex President?
          • Pete George 11.2.1.1.1

            13 February 2020 at 6:54 pm

            All it showed was journalists doing what journalists do, talk to people connected to a story they are investigating. despite claims and insinuations there was no evidence of exchanging documents.
          • Sacha 11.2.1.1.2

            14 February 2020 at 8:04 am

            That seems the intent, yes. However journalists’ sources are legally protected in a way other roles are not.
            • Sacha 11.2.1.1.2.1

              14 February 2020 at 8:25 am

              Peters maintains it was just an eagle-eyed party supporter. However the other print-media-only journo would be tricky for an average punter to recognise as a journo..

              https://twitter.com/comingupcharlie/status/1227880076605157377
      • Pete George 11.2.2

        13 February 2020 at 6:52 pm

        Peters "We took the photographs".

        The BFD: "The BFD. Lester Gray and Guyon Espiner. Photo supplied.

        https://thebfd.co.nz/2020/02/revealed-source-behind-rnz-hit-job-by-guyon-espiner/

        I guess the only thing wrong with it is how it looks for Peters/NZ First to be providing The BFD with attack fodder.

        And it further confirms what has been increasingly obvious, that The BFD is being used to do dirty politics for NZ First.
12. ianmac 12

    13 February 2020 at 5:57 pm

    Poll coming on TV1 at 6pm!
    • Robert Guyton 12.1

      13 February 2020 at 6:53 pm

      palpitations!
13. Eco maori 13

    14 February 2020 at 6:30 pm

    Kia Ora Newshub.

    That's good we have to protect our Kai Moana from the greedy for our future generations.

    The Wahine and tamariki suffer the most from wars.

    It was slow going into Tamiki Makaru from Huntly on a 2 lane road cutting the time to get into Tamiki Makaru will be great with the new 4 lane highway.

    Ka kite Ano
14. Eco maori 14

    14 February 2020 at 6:53 pm

    Kia Ora Te Ao Maori News.

    That's awesome that the Iwi Morriori have received and apology a whenua back from the Crown.

    Ka kite Ano
15. Eco maori 15

    15 February 2020 at 6:30 pm

    Kia Ora Newshub

    I don't think Peter should be able to speak in Aotearoa. We have a lot of brilliant people who were disabled Stephen Hawking being one.

    Its good that water is being trucked into those comunitys during the droughts

    Awsome that those people are cleaning up the Waitemata harbour from all the waste and plastic that ends up in it. We need to stop the crap getting into our environment

    Condolences to Allen whanau for their loss.

    Ka kite Ano
16. Eco Maori 16

    15 February 2020 at 6:44 pm

    Kia Ora Te Ao Maori News.

    That's Te Waharoa looks awesome.

    '' I'' you must be prepared for all sorts of weather and be of good health to walk Tongariro tracks.

    Its good our firefighters are home from Australia safe and sound.

    Ka kite Ano
17. Eco Maori 17

    16 February 2020 at 6:04 am

    https://youtu.be/qQfetkoGrpU
18. Eco Maori 18

    16 February 2020 at 6:29 pm

    Kia Ora Newshub.

    That was lucky.

    Of course the putea should go to the people who losted their whare in the Australian Bush fires.

    Cool New Zealand testing there bug trapping device in country's that have the pest in them.

    Ka kite Ano
19. Eco Maori 19

    16 February 2020 at 6:51 pm

    Kia Ora Te Ao Maori News.

    Cool building opened in Kapiti

    Ka pai Te Kaumatua having a big Kanikani in Foxton just like the old days.

    Formula E is great those Electric cars are quick as the way of the future Ka pai.

    Ka kite Ano

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