Yeah, but remember what happened with the same zones on the South Island West Coast? All the good parts stayed open while the reserves were allocated the emptiest parts of the coast where the fishing was worst i.e. there was little to protect
As an ex EA at one of NZ's largest fishing companies…. I STRONGLY AGREE, re camera's on boats. They are definitely needed, am well and truly over the what goes on at sea stays at sea narrative. Dodgy industry.
Some of the dodgiest people I know fish commercially. A byword for it, at least to me. Along with secondhand car salesmen, who I don't know personally, and horticultural contractors, who I do.
The government has no will to enforce regulation, the camera scheme was an industry design to get rid of observers, who were in turn substitutes for fisheries officers who had the power to lay charges under the act.
It's no coincidence that our industry has failed to develop, a culture of evading regulation is not compatible with a quality driven or sustainable approach. NZ is one of the last countries producing fillet block, not because our fish is inferior, but because our companies are.
No surprise there – as a parent of a kid with a physical disability I can tell you that exclusionary bullying is totally rife. In my experience worse at the intermediate and primary school level. Also that teachers are unable to do anything about it, so seek to minimise it by using procedures that contain the assumption that everyone is to blame a little bit, and it's just an 'issue' that needs to be resolved through discussion.
My (completely unscientific) thoughts on this are the industrial-scale schools are a bad idea, with groups of un-managed feral kids roaming round at break times. They should be much smaller physically with much stronger cultural management and combined in a federated structure. Moreover the Boards of Trustees thing is a total failure due to capture by the aspirational middle class who seek to perpetuate inside the schools the very same hierarchies that benefit them in society at large.
Good points AB. I never saw a parent from a poorer family elected to the Board of Trustees at the local primary school situated in a part of town with many professionals and businesspeople. It doesn't matter how good a person, or a parent, or involved in the community, or trained in a useful occupation; you are not one of the levels of people of higher standing and will lose to an academic, professional or well-groomed madam in real estate. All materialists, and driven by style rather than substance.
Also that teachers are unable to do anything about it, so seek to minimise it by using procedures that contain the assumption that everyone is to blame a little bit, and it's just an 'issue' that needs to be resolved through discussion.
It sure is rife, Miss 14 came home from what should have been an amazing school camp in tears on Friday. She had been put down by the boys the whole time. Currently in communication with the school about it.
The boys say it's just banter, maybe that's normal in some homes, but it's not normal in ours. Anti bullying week this week, if you see anyone being bullied stand up and speak out, because ignoring it just condones it.
Is the idea to have schools lead societal change by making bullying unacceptable and having young citizens develop good attitudes to others so that bullying doesn't happen when they go out into the post-school world?
Or is it to simply deal with incidents of bullying when they happen. Then kids leave school not bullied and go into a world where they're going to find bullying makes the world go round.
I've found that bullying is even worse, in many other cultures and countries. Unlike NZ, though, it is not considered a problem. The "pecking order" especially at work, is the normal state of things.
Capital punishment a real possibility for woman in Texas and Georgia who go to a different state for an abortion. Unless the Supreme Court doesn't allow this to happen (and there is a good chance with anti-abortion majority of judges they would support the states' laws) then it could soon be reality
For God's sake! Poor women, poor people in Texas. Prating politicians and preachers. They seem a bloodthirsty lot there in Texas, and diseased by emotions of hate for people who break their pretended high moral codes.
I remember Texas for some males tying a black man to the back of their vehicle and dragging him around behind till he was dead. Now the authorities want to kill women who don't want to bring a baby into that world. There appears to be a knee jerk violent response to anyone who disturbs a male in Texas which may include death. Women who are unfortunate to have sex resulting in an unwanted pregnancy, are to be killed if they wish to terminate it? That seems a violent response from the he-men and preachy women of Texas, (There will always be women willing to sacrifice other women, even their daughters, to the male Rule.)
On checking about the murder referred to above I find that he was convicted in 1999 and only executed in 2019 – ten years later. But Texans have executed three this year out of the four for the whole of USA. And another violent murder in Texas was the basis for Obama's 2009 Hate Crimes Prevention Act. It seems that hating is something they are keen on in the good ole State of Texas in USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime_laws_in_the_United_States
(Reuters) – A white supremacist convicted of killing James Byrd Jr. in 1998 by dragging the 49-year-old black man behind a truck in one of the most notorious U.S. hate crimes of modern times was executed in Texas on Wednesday.John William “Bill” King, 44, was put to death by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 7:08 p.m. (0008 GMT Thursday) at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a statement….
…King was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1999. He was a member of a white supremacist gang and spoke of starting a race war while in prison for a previous crime. He also talked about initiating new members by having them kidnap and murder black people, court documents showed.
King was the third inmate in Texas and the fourth in the United States to be executed in 2019, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
…The gruesome killing spurred the passing of the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act, strengthening punishments for hate crimes in Texas. The murder, along with that of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student who was beaten and left to die tied to a fence, was also the genesis of the federal hate crimes prevention act passed in 2009….
It is worth following what is going on with the Venezuelan embassy in Georgetown Washington DC. Violent right wing opposition supporters and the US secret service and local police have laid siege to the embassy which is occupied by Code Pink protestors (invited in by the Venezuelan government who own the building).
This site is for all the "Climate Deniers" to observe the changing planet in the monthly satellite pictures since 2002 to 2016.
Our whole world changes from a light grey in 2002 to a bright red at 2016, and will wake up the most ardent "Cliate denier, try looking at this- I dare you to.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an important heat-trapping (greenhouse) gas, which is released through human activities such as deforestation and burning fossil fuels, as well as natural processes such as respiration and volcanic eruptions.
The first graph shows atmospheric CO2 levels measured at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, in recent years, with average seasonal cycle removed. The second graph shows CO2 levels during the last three glacial cycles, as reconstructed from ice cores. The time series below shows global distribution and variation of the concentration of mid-tropospheric carbon dioxide in parts per million (ppm).
The overall color of the map shifts toward the red with advancing time due to the annual increase of CO2. Missions that observe CO2 Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) DIRECT MEASUREMENTS: 2005-
PRESENT Data source: Monthly measurements (average seasonal cycle removed).
Credit: NOAA 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 YEAR 380 385 390 395 400 405 410 CO2 (parts per million) Click+drag to zoom RESET Get Data: FTP | Snapshot: PNG PROXY (INDIRECT) MEASUREMENTS
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TIME SERIES: 2002-2016 Data source: Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS). Credit: NASA
You should hear the sad sounding (!) American on Jesse Mulligan's RNZ prog today recording our last chance for fighting climate change in the 80s when apparently it was all known. The first George Bush's chief of staff John Sununu, long before denialism, pulled America out of a global accord at the last minute. His diminuation of his crime, no one intended to carry out the requirements. It makes me call out to the God of our conjuring to help us.
The Advisory Group on Non-ionising Radiation (AGNIR) 2012 report forms the basis of official advice on the safety of radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields in the United Kingdom and has been relied upon by health protection agencies around the world.
This review describes incorrect and misleading statements from within the report, omissions and conflict of interest, which make it unsuitable for health risk assessment.
The executive summary and overall conclusions did not accurately reflect the scientific evidence available.
Independence is needed from the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), the group that set the exposure guidelines being assessed.
This conflict of interest critically needs to be addressed for the forthcoming World Health Organisation (WHO) Environmental Health Criteria Monograph on Radiofrequency Fields.
Decision makers, organisations and individuals require accurate information about the safety of RF electromagnetic signals if they are to be able to fulfil their safeguarding responsibilities and protect those for whom they have legal responsibility.
you're not seriously expecting some sort of remedy are you?.
last time I checked, RF management was under the Ministry for Everything (alongside things like building standards enforcement, employment standards enforcement, and ummigration.
They can't even handle basic radio interference on the bands we've had in use for years.
They can't even handle basic radio interference on the bands we've had in use for years.
Now, now….just the other night our household was suddenly blighted with the most awfullest of interference/static/alien invasion coming through our transistor radios. One is battery powered the other 240v. Seriously hideous and unbearable, especially for a household with no telly.
….and bugger me, techno moron moi managed, by following instructions and working my way through the very helpful sound clips, to identify the problem to a very wonky (that's techno speak for 'stuffed') modem.
Sorted.
I actually gasped when I looked at the top of the screen and saw MOBIE….who would have thought it?
you're not seriously expecting some sort of remedy are you?.
No. I expect for the baked in fraud perpetuated by regulatory entities which generate the so called safety levels of RF, will continue to be used against earths populations and the environment on behalf of industry which could not proceed with the experimentation without the fraudulant facade…of regulation…
Which fools enough folks…those who bother to pay attention…
As if you’re the only person who pays attention you pathetic windbag. You’ve come back to the standard purely because you’ve got nothing to feel good about IRL.
As we are talking about people being censored for opposing group think, have you noticed Rachel Stewart has left Twitter after outrageous online bullying.
As George Orwell said,
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
It was recommended by Ed that Simon Doull go to Bangladesh to help build walls against the floods. That might prove to him climate change was real.
For some bizarre reason that earned a life ban.
Meanwhile today, Sacha compares Ed to industrial waste, dehumanising and hateful language at best and a lot more brutal than Ed ever wrote. Sacha might not be aware that the Hutus described the Tutsis as cockroaches. The consequence was genocide.
The reality is that voices like CV, Bill, One Two, Ed, Bomber Bradbury, Paul, Rachel Stewart and others are not welcome here as they challenge the centrist and complacent Labour position.
You’ll find that the biggest cheerleaders for such savage censorship are the voices of the right wing dwellers on this site.
Maui you are a rare voice of reason amongst ever more reactionary commentary.
Ha ha, yes that Daily Review sequence is pure Paul/Ed. Speaking of which, in the other link, how could the moderators bring back both Paul and Ed? Human cloning?
Having said that, I don't mind if the sockpuppets are sufficiently different. It's only irritatingly boring when their content is exactly the same and it's just the handle that's different.
Five days to go in the Aussie election and it’s interesting to see who is campaigning where.
Labor has gone on the offensive in seats that are usually solid for the Coalition and Morrison has been forced to defend seats that normally wouldn’t warrant a visit from the leader in an election campaign.
BBC: "A number of gay rights activists have been arrested after clashing with police at an unauthorised pride march in Cuba's capital, Havana. Saturday's event followed the unexpected cancellation by the communist authorities of the country's 12th annual march against homophobia. Activists condemned the move and then organised their own demonstration, largely through social media. Marching in Cuba without permission can be met with a strong police response." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48242255
Protests supporting gay pride may seem inoffensive, but when leftists achieve a monopoly on state power and control, even the smallest misbehaviour by the masses can seem offensive to them.
"but when leftists achieve a monopoly on state power and control, even the smallest misbehaviour by the masses can seem offensive to them."
This should read:
"but when [anybody] achieves a monopoly of state [or private] power and control, even the smallest etc "
i.e. the problem is power itself. Non-leftists don't get off the hook on this one, nor do the holders of private economic power. And in well-functioning democracies (which are admittedly rare) state power can at least claim to be of democratic origin.
Correct exposition of the general principal that applies, well put. I was flagging the psychology that motivates people to align with the left, in the hope that someone will explain why it warps human nature. In respect of traditional mythology around the left – representing the people etc. What motivates them to victimise people when they get successful…
Dennis, I “align with the left” – might be something to do with the appeal of
"From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs."
I do believe that there needs to be more wealth sharing (and not just in NZ society) than is presently the case – the increasing concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands feels unsustainable, and that's just one unsustainable aspect of how we are living now.
Maybe my feeling that too many 'things' are going skew-whiff is due to my warped nature – I sincerely hope so, because BAU would suit me down to the ground.
My SUV is a plug-in hybrid (Outlander). I've believed in more wealth-sharing all my life. I recall long ago when I read about the levellers, in the time of Cromwell's commonwealth, who took the extreme line of equality of wealth for all, and I agreed with that principle.
Age tends to shift idealism into pragmatism though, eh? Nowadays my inner idealist yields to my inner pragmatist usually, and the concept of meritocracy rates higher than the concept of democracy accordingly. Not as much as for Mark, who cited it in justification of China's regime yesterday, however!
Dennis Frank conflating being "left wing" with authoritarian Government, again. Who are the most enthusiastic about spies, restricting protest, corporate rights and State control in New Zealand, again? . Hint, it is not those of us of "leftish" persuasion.
Yeah, I know. I was using the notion as everyone else has always used it, as a term of consistent general meaning. As you imply, the meaning of left differs depending on the political context it is applied in. Such relativity is part of postmodernism – a part that is valid in my opinion…
Big downer on Gays from Castro on. 'Read a book'. Homosexuality popular in the country apparently. The author killed himself because his age prevented him from being attractive any longer. What the fuck did homosexuality have to do with anything? Except machismo?
… immediately after the party’s Central North Island conference in Hamilton, a meeting of electorate chairs made it clear to Party President, Peter Goodfellow, that they had questions about Bridges’ leadership.
POLITIK understands that Goodfellow, in turn, warned the chairs of the dangers of public shows of disunity.
…
And it would seem from public statements from Goodfellow and not-for-attribution comments from senior party officials attending the party’s South Island conference over the weekend in Invercargill that the party hierarchy not only backs Bridges but is opposed to any move to roll him.
“We’re really lucky,” Goodfellow told the conference. “We’ve got Simon Bridges as a very enthusiastic and decisive leader of our party.”
Goodfellow did not offer this endorsement at the Hamilton conference.
So much worse to the right fed by internet American views of reality. Thankfully without political or MSM entre. Something sounder about our country keeps out the Right Wing anti-rational views of America. Or, our elite can't speak conscious lies.
The U.N. climate chief says world leaders must recognize there is no option except to speed-up and scale-up action to tackle global warming, warning that continuing on the current path will lead to “a catastrophe.” Patricia Espinosa stressed in two recent interviews with the Associated Press that climate scientists are saying there’s still a chance to make things right “but the window of opportunity is closing very soon” and the world has 12 years until carbon emissions reach “a point of no return.” That means the world needs to accelerate all efforts to keep from reaching that level, “and therefore all efforts are absolutely indispensable” to cut carbon emissions and keep temperatures from rising, she said.
I thought you was actually a climate change advocate, – guess we are wrong?
We heard he was reported on (RNZ) on 'morning report' as saying the world is loosing the will to fight climate change.
If you read between the lines here you can reach that conclusion your self as the RNZ reporter did.
Also on Breakfast TV one he also hit hard at polluters to be taxed for their pollution and his words are angry to the ones who are not moving on climate change.
Check both press releases.
I believe he has sent that message that he believes some countries have given up and that is why he is coming out swinging.
UN chief forecasts 'total disaster' if global warming not stopped
World must change in 'transformative' ways to prevent climate change prompting 'total disaster',
Antonio Guterres says.
9 May 2019
Guterres said he would ask the world leaders to stop subsidising fossil fuels
[Mary Altaffer/AP] MORE ON UNITED NATIONS UN chief:
Climate change 'running faster than we are' today
The United Nations secretary-general said the world must dramatically change the way it fuels factories, vehicles and homes to limit future warming to a level scientists call nearly impossible. The alternative "would mean a catastrophic situation for the whole world",
Antonio Guterres told The Associated Press news agency in an exclusive interview. Guterres said he was about to tour Pacific islands to see how climate change was devastating them as part of his renewed push to fight it.
He was summoning world leaders to the UN in September to tell them "they need to do much more in order for us to be able to reverse the present trends and to defeat the climate change".
That means, he said, the world had to change, not in small incremental ways but in big "transformative" ways, into a green economy with electric vehicles and "clean cities"
1 NEWS MORE FROM NEW ZEALAND CLIMATE CHANGE AUCKLAND PAUL HOBBS
The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has met with the Minister for Climate Change James Shaw and a group of youth leaders at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Mr Guterres called for three initiatives to aid in the quest for carbon neutrality.
He said governments must shift taxes from salaries to carbon, meaning tax polluters not people.
He said we must stop subsidising fossil fuels and urged the world stop the construction of new coal plants by 2020.
Mr Guterres said we need green economies not grey economies.
One youth leader, who is part of the Blake Inspire group, presented the Secretary General with a pair of red socks and a sample of his own invention – an environmental substitute to "glad wrap".
Like everything you have posted today it contains not the slightest hint that the UN Secy General said the world is 'losing the will' to fight climate change.
If you want to make shit up, fill your boots – but do not claim that public figures or media said stuff that they didn't. And if you are incapable of making sense of what you read, perhaps best to stop flapping your gums in public. You're just wasting everyone's time.
I saw the same on RNZ at 5.30pm as the Auckland University meeting with the students were interviewing the Secretary of the UN and the statement was by the moderator that he has signalled in his discussions that he feels that most have given up on Climate change so go listen to the 5.30 news on channel 83 dick.
Yes I saw the Checkpoint report (see https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-13-05-2019/#comment-1616276) but you provided not one link earlier to back up your claims it had been said this morning. And I’m not familiar with this ‘channel 83 dick’ you mention. Is it a perfume for the privates?
Technology companies, similar to the vast majority (+/-100%) of profit driven corporations, have future roadmaps which earnings/profits have been used as leverage…
Captured regulators set the course and paid for legislators clear the barriers for business as usual…
Politicians answer to job creators, wealth creators …BAU…
It matters not what the UN says to politicians…
Politicians are not in control…they seemingly have no will…no courage to fight against corporate business as usual..
Ergo, saying the world is loosing the will to address climate change…is factually correct..
100% One Two; yes that is clear here, so the secretary general has placed a line in the sand, as far as we can see by championing Climate change when the piss weak 'politicians' won't and that is why the reporter claimed the UN secretary general has shown to believe that the world had given up on climate change.
I for one believe that the children will show how bloody weak many are including all the climate deniers are on TS also.
They use to call it Global warming, but now it is climate change. Is that because the temperatures weren't heating up as much as they were supposed to?
No, it's because far too many dull-witted literalists missed the point and were prone to posting mind-bogglingly stupid stuff like:
In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!
Trust well known moron and US President Donald J. Trump to provide us with a good example.
Report on climate change shows Canada warming at twice the rate of rest of world
JEFF LEWIS – ENVIRONMENT REPORTER
JANICE DICKSON
PUBLISHED APRIL 1, 2019UPDATED APRIL 2, 2019
The first month of 2019 was characterized by warmer-than-average conditions across much of the world's surface. The most notable warm temperature anomalies were present across much of Australia and across parts of northeastern and southwestern Asia, where temperature departures from average were 4.0°C (7.2°F) above average or higher. Record warm January surface temperatures were present across much of Australia and its surrounding Southern Ocean, southern Brazil, the ocean off the south coast of South Africa, and across parts of Africa, Asia, and the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Notable cool temperature departures from average were present across parts of northern North America, Europe, and central Asia, where temperatures were 1.0°C (1.8°F) below average or cooler. According to our analysis, no land or ocean surface had record cold January temperatures.
Averaged as a whole, the January 2019 global land and ocean surface temperature was 0.88°C (1.58°F) above the 20th century average and tied with 2007 as the third highest temperature since global records began in 1880. Only the years 2016 (+1.06°C / +1.91°F) and 2017 (+0.91°C / +1.64°F) were warmer. The ten warmest Januaries have all occurred since 2002, with the last five years (2015–2019) among the six warmest years in the 140-year record. January 1976 was the last time the January global land and ocean temperatures were below average at -0.02°C (-0.04°F).
There is no slowing in Global temperature rise – and it will continue to increase until humans stop increasing GHGs – and even then it will still continue to increase until the the energy the Earth releases in black body radiation equals the energy the Earth receives from the sun. With the current concentration of over 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere that peak temperature will be around 2 – 3 degrees C above average pre-industrial levels.
That the temperature rise has periods of peaks and then troughs does not mean that the planet is not warming – any investigation of recorded Global temperatures over the past century and a half will show that there is a distinct upward trend in averaged Global temperature. Indeed the graph is increasing in slope not slowing down as the above report from NOAA indicates. Those peaks and troughs are the natural occurrence of weather patterns. A sharp period of cold in one area, is quite possible even on an otherwise warming Earth and higher precipitation levels are simply to be expected as the atmosphere's ability hold more water vapour increases by around 4% with each degree C rise in temperature.
This guy is an idiot. Was he speaking before or after the Greek Euro crisis? If it was before then that should have highlighted that the rules in place in the Eurozone allowed massive State spending in member countries (up to a point) and there was little penalty for breaching them. If it was after he should know the massive danger of unrestricted State spending and how the Eurozone countries had to bail out those that attempted to spend their way to prosperity.
I've never known any genuine left leaning voter go from left to ultra right because the government isn't left enough. It's completely illogical and counter productive.
Nobody goes from protesting against what isn't left enough to voting for the far right, well, not unless they're phoney to begin with, like I believe you to be.
"[Jacinda Ardern] also has areas where she is very strong performer, and people will be making a mistake if they under-estimate her abilities. I certainly won’t be."
That's from arch-tory, RWNJ, Dirty Politics blogger etc etc, David Farrar…
Well, I supported Minnie Cooper shoes before they closed, I also support Ziera shoes ( I think they are a NZ company but I am going to check now!!), and I have a fabulous pair of McKinlay boots made in Dunedin. Is that enough?
This is Fonterra. A NZ company that has no interest in value added, and keeping strategic NZ assets within the country. $380 million? Now more of our national earnings flowing over the border – must be like a financial waterfall now. They're spending money like water. Oh no, water is like money but we haven't caught up with the rest of the smart world yet. 'Perhaps they never will'.
they have changed a few talking heads at RNZ lately but the still have the same old drugs on THE PANEL. worst of all is mould old fig jock anderson stilll raking in pro rata payments for sitting there and dishing the PM and the NZLP every time he gets the chance. time to ditch him and get some new blood.
But the UN Secretary-General sounded a disappointed note when confessing that many of his ilk have all but given up.
"It is clear my generation is having enormous difficulties in assuming responsibilities in relation to climate change."
He said current leaders have lost the political will – and they won't be around to suffer what he called 'the catastrophe' of a global temperature rise higher than 1.5 degrees by the end of the century.
Though it's worth noting that he said leaders of his generation have lost the will, not that 'the world' has. This situation is serious enough; it does not need any exaggeration and hype from us.
We need some larger kiwi mainstream company to go against Tip Top so we can pick icecream up at every dairy and supermarket.like we did with Chocolate Cadbury vs Whittakers.
So some of these anti climate change folks here may be global operators who are used to interfere with our discussions about climate change, and now this may be a foreign based lobby group working for Oil Companies?
We have already seen the phony front called “Galileo movement”
Galileo Movement Learn more from the Center for Media and Democracy's research on climate change.
This article is part of the Center for Media & Democracy's spotlight on front groups and corporate spin.
This article is part of the Coal Issues portal on SourceWatch, a project of Global Energy Monitor and the Center for Media and Democracy.
See here for help on adding material to CoalSwarm. The Galileo Movement is a a climate denier lobby group set up to oppose carbon pricing, based in Australia. On its website the group states that "our objective is to expose misrepresentations pushing a 'price on carbon dioxide.
[1] In August 2011, the Scientific American magazine openly derided the group, describing it as "drawing from a deep history of denial and distortion" and relying on irrelevant facts while omitting pertinent ones.
[2][3] Founded ostensibly by retirees John Smeed, an engineer, and Case Smit, a hygienist, the group launched its website in May, 2011.
The group's patron is conservative Australian broadcaster Alan Jones.
[4] The group blames global warming on anything but man-made emissions: variations in solar radiation, ocean-atmosphere oscillations, deviations in the Earth's orbit, and mountain-building continental drift and associated volcanic eruptions — all dismissed by mainstream science.[5] It warns of "climate police" having the right to intrude into people's lives in Australia,
It's interesting to see the high opinion about NZ living standards that this Kiwi chap living in Los Angeles has. I think that homosexual couples who don't want children take a simpler view, bypassing concerns about parenting, social welfare, education etc.
"I'd like to say I will live in New Zealand again," he says. "It seems to be much more desirable and progressive than most other countries right now – especially the USA!"
Ryan has come to feel that Kiwis can take the relatively high standard of living in New Zealand for granted.
"Even though New Zealand is far from perfect, it really is the lucky land. Living in a city where an estimated 50,000 people are homeless, you see people struggling with mental health and no social support on a daily basis. I'm regularly asked by my American friends why I would choose to live here when I could be back home. It's so important to me that I never become desensitised to this reality and it makes me grateful for my Kiwi roots."
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TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read: Gavin Jacobson talks to Thomas Piketty 10 years on from Capital in the 21st CenturyThe SalvoLocal scoop: Green MP’s business being investigated over migrant exploitation claims StuffSteve KilgallonLocal deep-dive: The commercial contractors making money from School ...
It’s a home - but Kāinga Ora tenants accused of “abusing the privilege” may lose it. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The Government announced a crackdown on Kāinga Ora tenants who were unruly and/or behind on their rent, with Housing Minister Chris Bishop saying a place in a state ...
This is a guest post by Connor Sharp of Surface Light Rail Light rail in Auckland: A way forward sooner than you think With the coup de grâce of Auckland Light Rail (ALR) earlier this year, and the shift of the government’s priorities to roads, roads, and more roads, it ...
Note: As a paid-up Webworm member, I’ve recorded this Webworm as a mini-podcast for you as well. Some of you said you liked this option - so I aim to provide it when I get a chance to record! Read more ...
TL;DR: In my ‘six-stack’ of substacks at 6.06pm on Monday, March 18:IKEA is accused of planting big forests in New Zealand to green-wash; REDD-MonitorA City for People takes a well-deserved victory lap over Wellington’s pro-YIMBY District Plan votes; A City for PeopleSteven Anastasiou takes a close look at the sticky ...
Buzz from the Beehive Here’s hoping for a lively post-cabinet press conference when the PM and – perhaps – some of his ministers tell us what was discussed at their meeting today. Until then, Point of Order has precious little Beehive news to report after its latest monitoring of the ...
David Farrar writes – We now have almost all 2023 data in, which has allowed me to update my annual table of how labour went against its promises. This is basically their final report card. The promiseThe result Build 100,000 affordable homes over 10 ...
I’m a bit worried that I’ve started a previous newsletter with the words “just when you think they couldn’t get any worse…” Seems lately that I could begin pretty much every issue with that opening. Such is the nature of our coalition government that they seem to be outdoing each ...
Geoffrey Miller writes – Timing is everything. And from China’s perspective, this week’s visit by its foreign minister to New Zealand could be coming at just the right moment. The visit by Wang Yi to Wellington will be his first since 2017. Anniversaries are important to Beijing. ...
Depictions of Islam in Western popular culture have rarely been positive, even before 9/11. Five years on from the mosque shootings, this is one of the cultural headwinds that the Muslim community has to battle against. Whatever messages of tolerance and inclusion are offered in daylight, much of our culture ...
Last week Transport Minster Simeon Brown and Mayor Wayne Brown opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre. The new train control centre will see teams from KiwiRail, Auckland Transport and Auckland One Rail working more closely together to improve train services across the city. The Auckland Rail Operations Centre in ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Retiring former Labour Finance Minister Grant Robertson said in an exit interview with Q+A yesterday the Government can and should sustain more debt to invest in infrastructure for future generations. Elsewhere in the news in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 6:36am: Read more ...
Timing is everything. And from China’s perspective, this week’s visit by its foreign minister to New Zealand could be coming at just the right moment. The visit by Wang Yi to Wellington will be his first since 2017. Anniversaries are important to Beijing. It is more than just a happy ...
TL;DR: The key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to March 18 include:China’s Foreign Minister visiting Wellington today;A post-cabinet news conference this afternoon; the resumption of Parliament on Tuesday for two weeks before Easter;retiring former Labour Finance Minister Grant Robertson gives his valedictory speech in Parliament; ...
New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters’s state-of-the-nation speech on Sunday was really a state-of-Winston-First speech. He barely mentioned any of the Government’s key policies and could not even wholly endorse its signature income tax cuts. Instead, he rehearsed all of his complaints about the Ardern Government, including an extraordinary claim ...
A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 10, 2024 thru Sat, March 16, 2024. Story of the week This week we'll give you a little glimpse into how we collect links to share and ...
A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 10, 2024 thru Sat, March 16, 2024. Story of the week This week we'll give you a little glimpse into how we collect links to share and ...
“I’ve been internalising a really complicated situation in my head.”When they kept telling us we should wait until we get to know him, were they taking the piss? Was it a case of, if you think this is bad, wait till you get to know the real Christopher, after the ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
.“$10 and a target that bleeds” - Bleeding Targets for Under $10!.Thanks for reading Frankly Speaking ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.This government appears hell-bent on either scrapping life-saving legislation or reintroducing things that - frustrated critics insist - will be dangerous and likely ...
“It hardly strikes me as fair to criticise a government for doing exactly what it said it was going to do. For actually keeping its promises.”THUNDER WAS PLAYING TAG with lightning flashes amongst the distant peaks. Its rolling cadences interrupted by the here-I-come-here-I-go Doppler effect of the occasional passing car. ...
Subversive & Disruptive Technologies: Just as happened with that other great regulator of the masses, the Medieval Church, the advent of a new and hard-to-control technology – the Internet – is weakening the ties that bind. Then, and now, those who enjoy a monopoly on the dissemination of lies, cannot and will ...
Been Here Before: To find the precedents for what this Coalition Government is proposing, it is necessary to return to the “glory days” of Muldoonism.THE COALITION GOVERNMENT has celebrated its first 100 days in office by checking-off the last of its listed commitments. It remains, however, an angry government. It ...
Bob Edlin writes – And what is the world watching today…? The email newsletter from Associated Press which landed in our mailbox early this morning advised: In the news today: The father of a school shooter has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter; prosecutors in Trump’s hush-money case ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Is another Green MP on their way out? And are the Greens severely tarnished by another integrity scandal? For the second time in three months, the Green Party has secretly suspended an MP over integrity issues. Mystery is surrounding the party’s decision to ...
For the last few years, the Green Party has been the party that has managed to avoid the plague of multiple scandals that have beleaguered other political parties. It appears that their luck has run out with a second scandal which, unfortunately for them, coincided with Golraz Ghahraman, the focus ...
TL;DR: The six newsey things that stood out to me as of 6:46am on Saturday, March 16.Andy Foster has accidentally allowed a Labour/Green amendment to cut road user chargers for plug-in hybrid vehicles, which the Government might accept; NZ HeraldThomas CoughlanSimeon Brown has rejected a plea from Westport ...
What seemed a booming success a couple of years ago has collapsed into fraud convictions.I looked at the crash of FTX (short for ‘Futures Exchange’) in November 2022 to see whether it would impact on the financial system as a whole. Fortunately there was barely a ripple, probably because it ...
Anybody following the situation in Ukraine and Russia would probably have been amused by a recent Tweet on X NATO seems to be putting in an awful lot of effort to influence what is, at least according to them, a sham election in an autocracy.When do the Ukrainians go to ...
TL;DR:Shaun Baker on Wynyard Quarter's transformation. Magdalene Taylor on the problem with smart phones. How private equity are now all over reinsurance. Dylan Cleaver on rugby and CTE. Emily Atkin on ‘Big Meat’ looking like ‘Big Oil’.Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 6pm on March 15Photo by Jeppe Hove Jensen ...
Buzz from the Beehive Finance Minister Nicola Willis had plenty to say when addressing the Auckland Business Chamber on the economic growth that (she tells us) is flagging more than we thought. But the government intends to put new life into it: We want our country to be a ...
The Transport and Infrastructure Committee has reported back on the Road User Charges (Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Amendment Bill, basicly rubberstamping it. While there was widespread support among submitters for the principle that EV and PHEV drivers should pay their fair share for the roads, they also overwhelmingly disagreed with ...
Peter Dunne writes – This week’s government bailout – the fifth in the last eighteen months – of the financially troubled Ruapehu Alpine Lifts company would have pleased many in the central North Island ski industry. The government’s stated rationale for the $7 million funding was that it ...
See if you can spot the difference. An Iranian born female MP from a progressive party is accused of serial shoplifting. Her name is leaked to the media, which goes into a pack frenzy even before the Police launch an … Continue reading → ...
Ele Ludemann writes – The government is omitting general Treaty references from legislation : The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last Government in a bid to get greater coherence in the public service on Treaty ...
What was that judge thinking?Peter Williams writes – That Golriz Ghahraman and District Court Judge Maria Pecotic were once lawyer colleagues is incontrovertible. There is published evidence that they took at least one case to the Court of Appeal together. There was a report on ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Climate Scorpion – the sting is in the tail. Introducing planetary solvency. A paper via the University of Exeter’s Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.Local scoop:Kāinga Ora starts pulling out of its Auckland projects and selling land RNZ ...
Wellington’s massively upzoned District Plan adds the opportunity for tens of thousands of new homes not just in the central city (such as these Webb St new builds) but also close to the CBD and public transport links. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Wellington gave itself the chance of ...
It’s Friday and we’re halfway through March Madness. Here’s some of the things that caught our attention this week. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt asked how we can get better event trains and an option for grade separating Morningside Dr. On Tuesday Matt looked into ...
Something you might not know about me is that I’m quite a stubborn person. No, really. I don’t much care for criticism I think’s unfair or that I disagree with. Few of us do I suppose.Back when I was a drinker I’d sometimes respond defensively, even angrily. There are things ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the last week included:PM Christopher Luxon said the reversal of interest deductibility for landlords was done to help renters, who ...
It was not so much the Labour Party but really the Chris Hipkins party yesterday at Labour’s caucus retreat in Martinborough. The former Prime Minister was more or less consistent on wealth tax, which he was at best equivocal about, and social insurance, which he was not willing to revisit. ...
Buzz from the BeehiveThe text reproduced above appears on a page which records all the media statements and speeches posted on the government’s official website by Melissa Lee as Minister of Media and Communications and/or by Jenny Marcroft, her Parliamentary Under-secretary. It can be quickly analysed ...
For forty years, Robert Muldoon has been a dirty word in our politics. His style of government was so repulsive and authoritarian that the backlash to it helped set and entrench our constitutional norms. His pig-headedness over forcing through Think Big eventually gave us the RMA, with its participation and ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Is the new government reducing tax on rental properties to benefit landlords or to cut the cost of rents? That’s the big question this week, after Associate Finance Minister David Seymour announced on Sunday that the Government would be reversing the Labour Government’s removal ...
Saudi Arabia is rarely far from the international spotlight. The war in Gaza has brought new scrutiny to Saudi plans to normalise relations with Israel, while the fifth anniversary of the controversial killing of Jamal Khashoggi was marked shortly before the war began on October 7. And as the home ...
Questions need to be asked on both sides of the worldPeter Williams writes – The NRL Judiciary hands down an eight week suspension to Sydney Roosters forward Spencer Leniu , an Auckland-born Samoan, after he calls Ezra Mam, Sydney-orn but of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Ele Ludemann writes – Contrary to what many headlines and news stories are saying, residential landlords are not getting a tax break. The government is simply restoring to them the tax deductibility of interest they had until the previous government removed it. There is no logical reason ...
I can't remember when it was goodMoments of happiness in bloomMaybe I just misunderstoodAll of the love we left behindWatching our flashbacks intertwineMemories I will never findIn spite of whatever you becomeForget that reckless thing turned onI think our lives have just begunI think our lives have just begunDoes anyone ...
Michael Bassett writes – At first reading, a front-page story in the New Zealand Herald on 13 March was bizarre. A group of severely intellectually limited teenagers, with little understanding of the law, have been pleading to the Justice Select Committee not to pass a bill dealing with ram ...
How much political capital is Christopher Luxon willing to burn through in order to deliver his $2.9 billion gift to landlords? Evidently, Luxon is: (a) unable to cost the policy accurately. As Anna Burns-Francis pointed out to him on Breakfast TV, the original ”rock solid” $2.1 billion cost he was ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Jonathon Porritt calling bullshit in his own blog post on mainstream climate science as ‘The New Denialism’.Local scoop:The Wellington City Council’s list of proposed changes to the IHP recommendations to be debated later today was leaked this ...
TL;DR:Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said yesterday tenants should be grateful for the reinstatement of interest deductibility because landlords would pass on their lower tax costs in the form of lower rents. That would be true if landlords were regulated monopolies such as Transpower or Auckland Airport1, but they’re not, ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Tom Toro Tom Toro is a cartoonist and author. He has published over 200 cartoons in The New Yorker since 2010. His cartoons appear in Playboy, the Paris Review, the New York Times, American Bystander, and elsewhere. Related: What 10 EV lovers ...
The business section of the NZ Herald is full of opinion. Among the more opinionated of all is the ex-Minister of Transport, ex-Minister of Railways, ex MP for Auckland Central (1975-93, Labour), Wellington Central (1996-99, ACT, then list-2005), ex-leader of the ACT Party, uncle to actor Antonia, the veritable granddaddy ...
Hi,Just quickly — I’m blown away by the stories you’ve shared with me over the last week since I put out the ‘Gary’ podcast, where I told you about the time my friend’s flatmate killed the neighbour.And you keep telling me stories — in the comments section, and in my ...
The first season of Rings of Power was not awful. It was thoroughly underwhelming, yes, and left a lingering sense of disappointment, but it was more expensive mediocrity than catastrophe. I wrote at length about the series as it came out (see the Review section of the blog, and go ...
Buzz from the Beehive Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden told Auckland Business Chamber members they were the first audience to hear her priorities as a minister in a government committed to cutting red tape and regulations. She brandished her liberalising credentials, saying Flexible labour markets are the ...
Chris Trotter writes – TO UNDERSTAND WHY NEWSHUB FAILED, it is necessary to understand how TVNZ changed. Up until 1989, the state broadcaster had been funded by a broadcasting licence fee, collected from every citizen in possession of a television set, supplemented by a relatively modest (compared ...
Bob Edlin writes – The Māori Party has been busy issuing a mix of warnings and threats as its expresses its opposition to interest deductibility for landlords and the plans of seabed miners. It remains to be seen whether they follow the example of indigenous litigants in Australia, ...
The Government has accepted Labour’s change to the Road User Charge (RUC) discount for hybrid vehicles, meaning there will still be some incentive for people to buy greener vehicles. ...
Kicking the most vulnerable people out of state housing and pushing them towards homelessness will result in a proliferation of poverty and trauma across our most vulnerable communities. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader and MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi has penned a letter asking MPs to support his members bill to remove GST from all food. The bill is expected to go through its first reading in parliament this Wednesday. “I’m calling on all political parties to support my ...
This year is about getting real with Kiwis and discussing the tough issues, as the National Government exacerbates inequality and divides New Zealand, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said ...
The Government adding Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) to its already roaring environmental policy bonfire is an assault on the future of wildlife that makes Aotearoa unique. ...
After 12 years of fighting to protect our moana we are finding ourselves back at square one and back at court. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is sitting in Hawera to reconsider an application from Trans-Tasman Resources to dig up 50 million tonnes of the seabed in South Taranaki. This ...
Minister Shane Jones’ decision to step away from a seabed mining project is evidence of the murky waters surrounding the Government’s fast-track legislation. ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The Coalition Government’s miscalculation saga continues as it has forgotten an eyewatering $90 million gap in its interest deductibility cost figures, say Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds and Revenue Spokesperson Deborah Russell. ...
He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission has today released advice that says if the Government doesn’t act now New Zealand is at risk of not meeting its climate goals. ...
The Coalition Government has today confirmed it is abandoning first home buyers who are struggling to get ahead, says Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds. ...
The New Zealand public voted for a change in direction at the 2023 general election and that is exactly what this coalition government has been delivering in its first 100 days. There was an immediate focus on the economy, easing the cost of living, cracking down on law and order ...
The Government has left the health system as an afterthought, announcing half-baked targets at the last minute of their 100-day plan, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
Kiwis are still waiting for their promised cost of living support after 100 days of a National Government that is taking us backwards, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
100 days of National taking NZ backwardsThe National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
The Government must commit to funding free and healthy school lunches, as thousands of people sign the petition to keep them, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti says. ...
If the Government was serious about moving families into public housing, they would build more houses so there is actually somewhere for people to go. ...
The free and healthy school lunches programme feeds our kids, helps them to learn, and saves families money – but it is at risk under this Government, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. ...
The Government’s proposed changes to Firearms Prohibition Orders (FPO) add almost nothing new and are merely an attempt to distract from its plans to loosen gun laws, police spokesperson Ginny Andersen and justice spokesperson Dr Duncan Webb said. ...
The great Victorian era English politician Lord Macauley stood in the British House of Parliament and said, "The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm".He understood and outlined even way back then, the significant role and influence media have in a democracy. ...
"The Government is moving quickly to realise an additional $46 million in tariff savings in the EU market this season for Kiwi exporters,” Minister for Trade and Agriculture, Todd McClay says. Parliament is set, this week, to complete the final legislative processes required to bring the New Zealand – European ...
New Zealand’s social workers are qualified, experienced, and more representative of the communities they serve, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “I want to acknowledge and applaud New Zealand’s social workers for the hard work they do, providing invaluable support for our most vulnerable. “To coincide with World ...
Cabinet has agreed to a reduced road user charge (RUC) rate for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. Owners of PHEVs will be eligible for a reduced rate of $38 per 1,000km once all light electric vehicles (EVs) move into the RUC system from 1 April. ...
Minister of Agriculture and Trade, Todd McClay, says that today’s opening of Riverland Foods manufacturing plant in Christchurch is a great example of how trade access to overseas markets creates jobs in New Zealand. Speaking at the official opening of this state-of-the-art pet food factory the Minister noted that exports ...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Wellington today. “It was a pleasure to host Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his first official visit to New Zealand since 2017. Our discussions were wide-ranging and enabled engagement on many facets of New Zealand’s relationship with China, including trade, ...
Kāinga Ora – Homes & Communities has been instructed to end the Sustaining Tenancies Framework and take stronger measures against persistent antisocial behaviour by tenants, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Earlier today Finance Minister Nicola Willis and I sent an interim Letter of Expectations to the Board of Kāinga Ora. ...
Tēna koutou katoa. Greetings everyone. Thank you to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and the Honourable Simon Bridges for hosting this address today. I acknowledge the business leaders in this room, the leaders and governors, the employers, the entrepreneurs, the investors, and the wealth creators. The coalition Government shares your ...
Minister Winston Peters completed the final leg of his visit to South and South East Asia in Singapore today, where he focused on enhancing one of New Zealand’s indispensable strategic partnerships. “Singapore is our most important defence partner in South East Asia, our fourth-largest trading partner and a ...
Minister of Internal Affairs and Workplace Relations and Safety, Hon. Brooke van Velden, will travel to the Republic of Korea to represent New Zealand at the Third Summit for Democracy on 18 March. The summit, hosted by the Republic of Korea, was first convened by the United States in 2021, ...
ICNZ Speech 7 March 2024, Auckland Acknowledgements and opening Mōrena, ngā mihi nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Good morning, it’s a privilege to be here to open the ICNZ annual conference, thank you to Mark for the Mihi Whakatau My thanks to Tim Grafton for inviting me ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Lead Coordination Minister Judith Collins have expressed their deepest sympathy on the five-year anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks. “March 15, 2019, was a day when families, communities and the country came together both in sorrow and solidarity,” Mr Luxon says. “Today we pay our respects to the 51 shuhada ...
Speech for Financial Advice NZ Conference 5 March 2024 Acknowledgements and opening Morena, Nga Mihi Nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Thanks Nate for your Mihi Whakatau Good morning. It’s a pleasure to formally open your conference this morning. What a lovely day in Wellington, What a great ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters held discussions in Jakarta today about the future of relations between New Zealand and South East Asia’s most populous country. “We are in Jakarta so early in our new government’s term to reflect the huge importance we place on our relationship with Indonesia and South ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters has announced that the Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi, will visit New Zealand next week. “We look forward to re-engaging with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and discussing the full breadth of the bilateral relationship, which is one of New Zealand’s ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has today opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre, which will bring together KiwiRail, Auckland Transport, and Auckland One Rail to improve service reliability for Aucklanders. “The recent train disruptions in Auckland have highlighted how important it is KiwiRail and Auckland’s rail agencies work together to ...
The Government is proud to support the 10th edition of Crankworx Rotorua as the Crankworx World Tour returns to Rotorua from 16-24 March 2024, says Minister for Economic Development Melissa Lee. “Over the past 10 years as Crankworx Rotorua has grown, so too have the economic and social benefits that ...
Legislation implementing coalition Government tax commitments and addressing long-standing tax anomalies will be progressed in Parliament next week, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The legislation is contained in an Amendment Paper to the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill issued today. “The Amendment Paper represents ...
Associate Environment Minister Andrew Hoggard has today announced that the Government has agreed to suspend the requirement for councils to comply with the Significant Natural Areas (SNA) provisions of the National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity for three years, while it replaces the Resource Management Act (RMA).“As it stands, SNAs ...
Agriculture Minister Todd McClay has classified the drought conditions in the Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts as a medium-scale adverse event, acknowledging the challenging conditions facing farmers and growers in the district. “Parts of Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts are in the grip of an intense dry spell. I know ...
The Government is helping farmers eradicate the significant impact of facial eczema (FE) in pastoral animals, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “A $20 million partnership jointly funded by Beef + Lamb NZ, the Government, and the primary sector will save farmers an estimated NZD$332 million per year, and aims to ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has completed a successful visit to India, saying it was an important step in taking the relationship between the two countries to the next level. “We have laid a strong foundation for the Coalition Government’s priority of enhancing New Zealand-India relations to generate significant future benefit for both countries,” says Mr Peters, ...
Cabinet has agreed to provide $7 million to ensure the 2024 ski season can go ahead on the Whakapapa ski field in the central North Island but has told the operator Ruapehu Alpine Lifts it is the last financial support it will receive from taxpayers. Cabinet also agreed to provide ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Lower fruit and vegetable prices are welcome news for New Zealanders who have been doing it tough at the supermarket, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. Stats NZ reported today the price of fruit and vegetables has dropped 9.3 percent in the 12 months to February 2024. “Lower fruit and vege ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
The coalition Government is supporting farmers to enhance land management practices by investing $3.3 million in locally led catchment groups, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “Farmers and growers deliver significant prosperity for New Zealand and it’s vital their ongoing efforts to improve land management practices and water quality are supported,” ...
Good evening everyone and thank you for that lovely introduction. Thank you also to the Honourable Simon Bridges for the invitation to address your members. Since being sworn in, this coalition Government has hit the ground running with our 100-day plan, delivering the changes that New Zealanders expect of us. ...
Recommendations from the Climate Change Commission for New Zealand on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) auction and unit limit settings for the next five years have been tabled in Parliament, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. “The Commission provides advice on the ETS annually. This is the third time the ...
The coalition Government is beginning its fight to lower building costs and reduce red tape by exempting minor building work from paying the building levy, says Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk. “Currently, any building project worth $20,444 including GST or more is subject to the building levy which is ...
Proposed changes to tax legislation to prevent the over-taxation of low-earning trusts are welcome, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The changes have been recommended by Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee following consideration of submissions on the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill. “One of the ...
Assalaamu alaikum. السَّلَام عليكم In light of the holy month of Ramadan, I want to extend my warmest wishes to our Muslim community in New Zealand. Ramadan is a time for spiritual reflection, renewed devotion, perseverance, generosity, and forgiveness. It’s a time to strengthen our bonds and appreciate the diversity ...
Former Transport Minister and CEO of the Auckland Business Chamber Hon Simon Bridges has been appointed as the new Board Chair of the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) for a three-year term, Transport Minister Simeon Brown announced today. “Simon brings extensive experience and knowledge in transport policy and governance to the role. He will ...
Good morning all, it is a pleasure to be here as Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology. It is fantastic to see how connected and collaborative the life science and biotechnology industry is here in New Zealand. I would like to thank BioTechNZ and NZTech for the invitation to address ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says he is looking forward to the day when three key water projects in Northland are up and running, unlocking the full potential of land in the region. Mr Jones attended a community event at the site of the Otawere reservoir near Kerikeri on Friday. ...
Associate Finance Minister David Seymour has today announced that the Government has agreed to restore deductibility for mortgage interest on residential investment properties. “Help is on the way for landlords and renters alike. The Government’s restoration of interest deductibility will ease pressure on rents and simplify the tax code,” says ...
Sport and Recreation Minister Chris Bishop will travel to Switzerland today to attend an Executive Committee meeting and Symposium of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Mr Bishop will then travel on to London where he will attend a series of meetings in his capacity as Infrastructure Minister. “New Zealanders believe ...
Pacific Media Watch Earthwise hosts Lois and Martin Griffiths. Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths on Plains FM 96.9 community radio talk to Dr David Robie, a New Zealand author, independent journalist and media educator with a passion for the Asia-Pacific region. David talks about the struggle to raise awareness ...
Pacific Media Watch Ismail al-Ghoul, an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent who was held for 12 hours at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, says Israeli forces rounded up Palestinian journalists at the facility and made them kneel on the ground for hours, while naked and blindfolded. “The occupation forces handcuffed and blindfolded us ...
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Uber has argued it does not have as much control over drivers as the unions suggest, and wants a judgment ruling that drivers are employees and not contractors set aside and sent back to the Employment Court. The 2022 ruling followed a three-week hearing in which four drivers sought to ...
What can and can’t be purchased by disabled people or their carers has been slashed in an effort by the Ministry of Disabled People Whaikaha to save money. The purchasing guidelines, a set of rules that sets out what can be purchased using the various streams of Government disability funding, ...
The Treasury has published today a new Analytical Note by Tod Wright and Hien Nguyen, Fiscal incidence in New Zealand: The effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes in tax year 2018/19 . Analyses of the distributional impact of taxation and government ...
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A coalition of public transport and climate organisations, united as ‘Transport for All’, is actively opposing the government’s transport proposals. The draft Government Policy Statement (GPS) includes plans for higher fares for public transport, ...
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The band has asked their record label to issue a cease and desist to stop the NZ First leader using their 1997 hit to support his ‘misguided political views’. “I get knocked down, but I get up again,” blared through the speakers on Sunday as Winston Peters took the stage ...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Food rationing is underway in remote areas in Papua New Guinea’s Highlands following torrential rain and flash flooding. More than 20 people have been reported dead in Chimbu Province. In nearby Enga Province, the centre of last month’s massacre, a 15-year-old boy has been ...
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Joe Biden and Donald Trump have both secured their parties’ nominations for the November 5 United States general election by winning a ...
Comment: There has been a striking contrast in trans-Tasman interest about Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s visit to New Zealand and Australia. While the Australian press has been full of articles about the visit – including his curious decision to meet with former prime minister and China booster Paul Keating ...
After years of pressuring banks and other institutions to stop investing in fossil fuels, climate campaigners are making some progress. So how does divestment work?For years, climate activists have been pushing banks and other big institutions to divest from fossil fuels. New research from climate advocacy group 350 Aotearoa ...
For Boba, Ethan and Ashley, K-pop is a place to belong, a way to express themselves, and a bridge to connect with others. The three young Polynesians are part of a K-pop fan community in Tāmaki Makaurau. It’s one of many that have sprung up worldwide as K-pop has gone ...
For Boba, Ethan and Ashley, K-pop is a place to belong, a way to express themselves, and a bridge to connect with others. This one-off documentary presents three intimate portraits of young Polynesians who are pulled into a Korean cultural phenomenon. K-POLYS is directed by Litia Tuiburelevu, Produced by Hex ...
There’s ample evidence demonstrating free school lunch programmes provide wide benefits across schools, households and communities according to public health researchers. ACT Minister David Seymour wants to reduce the spending on Aotearoa New Zealand’s ...
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The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming comments from Christopher Luxon this morning recommitting to ‘no new taxes’ as part of Budget 2024. “Mr Luxon’s refusal at the Post-Cabinet press conference yesterday to repeat the ‘no new taxes’ promise ...
SAFE is urgently calling on the Environment Committee to reject the Government’s Fast-Track Approvals Bill, and is urging New Zealanders to rally behind the call. The proposed Bill, currently under consideration with the Environment select committee, ...
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The long-running Wellington music festival is too focused on the Jim Beam-ness and not enough on the Homegrown-ness.There is something about Homegrown that’s difficult to place. A barely perceptible-ness. Like feeling a ghost is watching you from the corner of the room but when you look, there’s nothing there. ...
The latest Ipsos New Zealand Issues Monitor reveals that fewer New Zealanders believe crime / law and order is one of the top issues facing our country. In 2018, Ipsos New Zealand started tracking the key issues facing New Zealand. In this wave ...
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Dragons!
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/05/11yo-tries-and-fails-to-bribe-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-into-funding-dragon-research.html
The bribe was a nice touch 🙂
Big ups to Sage and Nash for their massive conservation zone proposals on the coast from Timaru to the Otago heads.
Yeah, but remember what happened with the same zones on the South Island West Coast? All the good parts stayed open while the reserves were allocated the emptiest parts of the coast where the fishing was worst i.e. there was little to protect
Lets talk about cameras on the boats…then I might take nashy a bit more seriously
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/08-02-2019/russel-norman-nash-and-jones-are-leading-nz-fishing-into-rotten-waters/
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018681117/stuart-nash-defends-govt-fishing-policy
Lets talk about your cat infecting rare species.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304401712005675
As an ex EA at one of NZ's largest fishing companies…. I STRONGLY AGREE, re camera's on boats. They are definitely needed, am well and truly over the what goes on at sea stays at sea narrative. Dodgy industry.
Some of the dodgiest people I know fish commercially. A byword for it, at least to me. Along with secondhand car salesmen, who I don't know personally, and horticultural contractors, who I do.
The government has no will to enforce regulation, the camera scheme was an industry design to get rid of observers, who were in turn substitutes for fisheries officers who had the power to lay charges under the act.
It's no coincidence that our industry has failed to develop, a culture of evading regulation is not compatible with a quality driven or sustainable approach. NZ is one of the last countries producing fillet block, not because our fish is inferior, but because our companies are.
Bullying rife across our schools: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12230188
No surprise there – as a parent of a kid with a physical disability I can tell you that exclusionary bullying is totally rife. In my experience worse at the intermediate and primary school level. Also that teachers are unable to do anything about it, so seek to minimise it by using procedures that contain the assumption that everyone is to blame a little bit, and it's just an 'issue' that needs to be resolved through discussion.
My (completely unscientific) thoughts on this are the industrial-scale schools are a bad idea, with groups of un-managed feral kids roaming round at break times. They should be much smaller physically with much stronger cultural management and combined in a federated structure. Moreover the Boards of Trustees thing is a total failure due to capture by the aspirational middle class who seek to perpetuate inside the schools the very same hierarchies that benefit them in society at large.
Good points AB. I never saw a parent from a poorer family elected to the Board of Trustees at the local primary school situated in a part of town with many professionals and businesspeople. It doesn't matter how good a person, or a parent, or involved in the community, or trained in a useful occupation; you are not one of the levels of people of higher standing and will lose to an academic, professional or well-groomed madam in real estate. All materialists, and driven by style rather than substance.
This bit AB…
I strongly agree with you.
Entirely accurate summation.
It sure is rife, Miss 14 came home from what should have been an amazing school camp in tears on Friday. She had been put down by the boys the whole time. Currently in communication with the school about it.
The boys say it's just banter, maybe that's normal in some homes, but it's not normal in ours. Anti bullying week this week, if you see anyone being bullied stand up and speak out, because ignoring it just condones it.
Is the idea to have schools lead societal change by making bullying unacceptable and having young citizens develop good attitudes to others so that bullying doesn't happen when they go out into the post-school world?
Or is it to simply deal with incidents of bullying when they happen. Then kids leave school not bullied and go into a world where they're going to find bullying makes the world go round.
I've found that bullying is even worse, in many other cultures and countries. Unlike NZ, though, it is not considered a problem. The "pecking order" especially at work, is the normal state of things.
At least we are trying to reduce it.
Capital punishment a real possibility for woman in Texas and Georgia who go to a different state for an abortion. Unless the Supreme Court doesn't allow this to happen (and there is a good chance with anti-abortion majority of judges they would support the states' laws) then it could soon be reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPCVaACYQzE
For God's sake! Poor women, poor people in Texas. Prating politicians and preachers. They seem a bloodthirsty lot there in Texas, and diseased by emotions of hate for people who break their pretended high moral codes.
I remember Texas for some males tying a black man to the back of their vehicle and dragging him around behind till he was dead. Now the authorities want to kill women who don't want to bring a baby into that world. There appears to be a knee jerk violent response to anyone who disturbs a male in Texas which may include death. Women who are unfortunate to have sex resulting in an unwanted pregnancy, are to be killed if they wish to terminate it? That seems a violent response from the he-men and preachy women of Texas, (There will always be women willing to sacrifice other women, even their daughters, to the male Rule.)
On checking about the murder referred to above I find that he was convicted in 1999 and only executed in 2019 – ten years later. But Texans have executed three this year out of the four for the whole of USA. And another violent murder in Texas was the basis for Obama's 2009 Hate Crimes Prevention Act. It seems that hating is something they are keen on in the good ole State of Texas in USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime_laws_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-execution/white-supremacist-to-be-executed-in-texas-for-dragging-death-of-black-man-idUSKCN1S01BY
(Reuters) – A white supremacist convicted of killing James Byrd Jr. in 1998 by dragging the 49-year-old black man behind a truck in one of the most notorious U.S. hate crimes of modern times was executed in Texas on Wednesday.John William “Bill” King, 44, was put to death by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 7:08 p.m. (0008 GMT Thursday) at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a statement….
…King was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1999. He was a member of a white supremacist gang and spoke of starting a race war while in prison for a previous crime. He also talked about initiating new members by having them kidnap and murder black people, court documents showed.
King was the third inmate in Texas and the fourth in the United States to be executed in 2019, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
…The gruesome killing spurred the passing of the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act, strengthening punishments for hate crimes in Texas. The murder, along with that of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student who was beaten and left to die tied to a fence, was also the genesis of the federal hate crimes prevention act passed in 2009….
Isn't this proposed anti-abortion law in the USA something similar to rigid Sharia law?
White House revokes huge number of press passes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-white-house-has-revoked-my-press-pass-its-not-just-me–its-curtailing-access-for-all-journalists/2019/05/08/bb9794b4-71c0-11e9-8be0-ca575670e91c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.62a03c162fd1
Did Trump traffic in cocaine? Pulitzer prize-winning journalist thinks so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkT_2N6gEm8
It is worth following what is going on with the Venezuelan embassy in Georgetown Washington DC. Violent right wing opposition supporters and the US secret service and local police have laid siege to the embassy which is occupied by Code Pink protestors (invited in by the Venezuelan government who own the building).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Codepink-US-Govt-Turns-Off-Water-in-Venezuela-Embassy-20190511-0012.html
This site is for all the "Climate Deniers" to observe the changing planet in the monthly satellite pictures since 2002 to 2016.
Our whole world changes from a light grey in 2002 to a bright red at 2016, and will wake up the most ardent "Cliate denier, try looking at this- I dare you to.
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/
• CARBON DIOXIDE • GLOBAL TEMPERATURE • ARCTIC SEA ICE MINIMUM • ICE SHEETS • SEA LEVEL Carbon Dioxide LATEST MEASUREMENT:
March 2019 410 ppm
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Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an important heat-trapping (greenhouse) gas, which is released through human activities such as deforestation and burning fossil fuels, as well as natural processes such as respiration and volcanic eruptions.
The first graph shows atmospheric CO2 levels measured at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, in recent years, with average seasonal cycle removed. The second graph shows CO2 levels during the last three glacial cycles, as reconstructed from ice cores. The time series below shows global distribution and variation of the concentration of mid-tropospheric carbon dioxide in parts per million (ppm).
The overall color of the map shifts toward the red with advancing time due to the annual increase of CO2. Missions that observe CO2 Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) DIRECT MEASUREMENTS: 2005-
PRESENT Data source: Monthly measurements (average seasonal cycle removed).
Credit: NOAA 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 YEAR 380 385 390 395 400 405 410 CO2 (parts per million) Click+drag to zoom RESET Get Data: FTP | Snapshot: PNG PROXY (INDIRECT) MEASUREMENTS
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TIME SERIES: 2002-2016 Data source: Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS). Credit: NASA
You should hear the sad sounding (!) American on Jesse Mulligan's RNZ prog today recording our last chance for fighting climate change in the 80s when apparently it was all known. The first George Bush's chief of staff John Sununu, long before denialism, pulled America out of a global accord at the last minute. His diminuation of his crime, no one intended to carry out the requirements. It makes me call out to the God of our conjuring to help us.
Inaccurate official assessment of radiofrequency safety by the Advisory Group on Non ionising Radiation
Critique of ARPANSA TRS164 Report
PDF page 7. Maps to the linked document above (9).
Inaccurate official assessment of radiofrequency safety by the Advisory Group on Non-ionising Radiation.
Conflicts of Interest decide safety levels which corporations seek to adhere to.
When entry and exit criteria are flawed, faulty and governed by conflicted actors at the highest point filtering to subsidiary governing entities
…There can be no confidence in any downstream activity selling the faulty statistics and method as safe.
you're not seriously expecting some sort of remedy are you?.
last time I checked, RF management was under the Ministry for Everything (alongside things like building standards enforcement, employment standards enforcement, and ummigration.
They can't even handle basic radio interference on the bands we've had in use for years.
They can't even handle basic radio interference on the bands we've had in use for years.
Now, now….just the other night our household was suddenly blighted with the most awfullest of interference/static/alien invasion coming through our transistor radios. One is battery powered the other 240v. Seriously hideous and unbearable, especially for a household with no telly.
But we do have the google and a quick search 'what the hell is causing this 'orrible, 'orrible noise on my tranny…' took me straight to…https://www.rsm.govt.nz/consumers/what-is-interference/radio-interference/how-can-i-fix-my-radio-interference
….and bugger me, techno moron moi managed, by following instructions and working my way through the very helpful sound clips, to identify the problem to a very wonky (that's techno speak for 'stuffed') modem.
Sorted.
I actually gasped when I looked at the top of the screen and saw MOBIE….who would have thought it?
No. I expect for the baked in fraud perpetuated by regulatory entities which generate the so called safety levels of RF, will continue to be used against earths populations and the environment on behalf of industry which could not proceed with the experimentation without the fraudulant facade…of regulation…
Which fools enough folks…those who bother to pay attention…
It’s not PhilU,
its fucking Ed behind one twos moniker.
As if you’re the only person who pays attention you pathetic windbag. You’ve come back to the standard purely because you’ve got nothing to feel good about IRL.
Surely the site moderators can use IP mapping to sniff out industrial waste like Ed trying to sneak back in.
You refer to another human being who was quite likely trying to do his best to contribute…and that is banned and unable to defend himself …
As industrial waste.
Have a stern word with yourself…if you’re capable.
Enough people know Ed's track record, including the sneaking back repeatedly like a feeble dirt-licker.
And now making excuses for yourself, dragging in others and doubling down on the insult.
There is no excuse for such cowardice.
Regardless what you believe.
I wondered why One Two had the letter E on the tinfoil hat he wears !!
Classic Ed!!
Telling others to be ashamed based on his judgement of their behaviour that completely ignores his own exact same behaviour.
Thank you One Two well said.
As we are talking about people being censored for opposing group think, have you noticed Rachel Stewart has left Twitter after outrageous online bullying.
As George Orwell said,
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
First they came for Colonial Viper,……
Ummm, it was Ed who wanted people sent to labour camps for having thoughts.
Soltka your memory betrays you.
It was recommended by Ed that Simon Doull go to Bangladesh to help build walls against the floods. That might prove to him climate change was real.
For some bizarre reason that earned a life ban.
Meanwhile today, Sacha compares Ed to industrial waste, dehumanising and hateful language at best and a lot more brutal than Ed ever wrote. Sacha might not be aware that the Hutus described the Tutsis as cockroaches. The consequence was genocide.
https://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/read/73836
The reality is that voices like CV, Bill, One Two, Ed, Bomber Bradbury, Paul, Rachel Stewart and others are not welcome here as they challenge the centrist and complacent Labour position.
You’ll find that the biggest cheerleaders for such savage censorship are the voices of the right wing dwellers on this site.
Maui you are a rare voice of reason amongst ever more reactionary commentary.
No, Ed said that Simon and others should be sent there and forced to labour. If you can't see a problem with that you should probably leave too.
Or be made to, again lol
Do you have as strong an opinion on people being called ‘cockroaches’ or ‘industrial waste.’ ?
Just wondering how selective your outrage is.
Calling people names versus sending them to labour camps? Oh gosh it's a hard one.
Absolutely correct yet again Milly. The central elites get so caught up on the littlest things.
First they came for Colonial Viper,……
Is it any coincidence that the best commenters are disappeared…
Ol Eddie was banned for good reason.
Labour camps for Climate Change denialists. Classic stuff.
As a matter of interest, what do you believe the punishment should have been handed out to war criminals in WW2 for genocide?
Seems like a completely unrelated question.
Sending wayward youth on an LSV course is the equivalent of a war crime in a centrists world. Go figure.
yes he also wished people to war to suffer the consequences. a sad fellow indeed
I'd put money on Milly. Behaviour's a bit modified, but sometimes it looks like the control slips.
Ha ha, yes that Daily Review sequence is pure Paul/Ed. Speaking of which, in the other link, how could the moderators bring back both Paul and Ed? Human cloning?
Human cloning? Sockpuppets should be that hard.
Having said that, I don't mind if the sockpuppets are sufficiently different. It's only irritatingly boring when their content is exactly the same and it's just the handle that's different.
at least this iteration of Ed isn’t spamming boring links with Tenuous validity from the same site and demanding everyone bow down and agree.
oh wait
Apparently dissing a vexatious commenter banned many times for spouting pools of verbal sewage is 'genocide'. Will someone think of the children!
Aussies are stupid. This scheme will ensure the pain of falling house prices is shared amongst more of the population. Ugh. #ScoMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFaZcVczurI
What scheme?
Five days to go in the Aussie election and it’s interesting to see who is campaigning where.
Labor has gone on the offensive in seats that are usually solid for the Coalition and Morrison has been forced to defend seats that normally wouldn’t warrant a visit from the leader in an election campaign.
BBC: "A number of gay rights activists have been arrested after clashing with police at an unauthorised pride march in Cuba's capital, Havana. Saturday's event followed the unexpected cancellation by the communist authorities of the country's 12th annual march against homophobia. Activists condemned the move and then organised their own demonstration, largely through social media. Marching in Cuba without permission can be met with a strong police response." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48242255
Defiance of the edict of the one-party state is as futile in Cuba as in China: " Cuba has had a communist political system since 1959 based on the "one state – one party" principle. Cuba is constitutionally defined as a Marxist–Leninist socialist state guided by the political ideas of Karl Marx, one of the fathers of historical materialism, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin. The present Constitution also ascribes the role of the Communist Party of Cuba to be the "leading force of society and of the state" and as such has the capability of setting national policy."
Protests supporting gay pride may seem inoffensive, but when leftists achieve a monopoly on state power and control, even the smallest misbehaviour by the masses can seem offensive to them.
"but when leftists achieve a monopoly on state power and control, even the smallest misbehaviour by the masses can seem offensive to them."
This should read:
"but when [anybody] achieves a monopoly of state [or private] power and control, even the smallest etc "
i.e. the problem is power itself. Non-leftists don't get off the hook on this one, nor do the holders of private economic power. And in well-functioning democracies (which are admittedly rare) state power can at least claim to be of democratic origin.
Correct exposition of the general principal that applies, well put. I was flagging the psychology that motivates people to align with the left, in the hope that someone will explain why it warps human nature. In respect of traditional mythology around the left – representing the people etc. What motivates them to victimise people when they get successful…
Dennis, I “align with the left” – might be something to do with the appeal of
"From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs."
I do believe that there needs to be more wealth sharing (and not just in NZ society) than is presently the case – the increasing concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands feels unsustainable, and that's just one unsustainable aspect of how we are living now.
Maybe my feeling that too many 'things' are going skew-whiff is due to my warped nature – I sincerely hope so, because BAU would suit me down to the ground.
I’m ready for my SUV, Mr. DeMille!
My SUV is a plug-in hybrid (Outlander). I've believed in more wealth-sharing all my life. I recall long ago when I read about the levellers, in the time of Cromwell's commonwealth, who took the extreme line of equality of wealth for all, and I agreed with that principle.
Age tends to shift idealism into pragmatism though, eh? Nowadays my inner idealist yields to my inner pragmatist usually, and the concept of meritocracy rates higher than the concept of democracy accordingly. Not as much as for Mark, who cited it in justification of China's regime yesterday, however!
Pragmatism (IMHO) owes too much to short-term (age-related) self interest to steer us away from increasing 'skew-whiffedness' – we are in a bind.
"Don't worry, be happy." is my take on pragmatism – skew-whiffedness isn't my problem, what can I do? But "I have such doubts."
Same as motivates the right. Greed, and lust for power.
Which is why genuine democracy, is essential.
Dennis Frank conflating being "left wing" with authoritarian Government, again. Who are the most enthusiastic about spies, restricting protest, corporate rights and State control in New Zealand, again? . Hint, it is not those of us of "leftish" persuasion.
Yeah, I know. I was using the notion as everyone else has always used it, as a term of consistent general meaning. As you imply, the meaning of left differs depending on the political context it is applied in. Such relativity is part of postmodernism – a part that is valid in my opinion…
Yes we know that you know that you talk through your arse.
Still failing to grow up, I see. Or is it intentional, to prove that leftists really are as inadequate as people think they are?
Right, cause you all mature and all saying things you know to be bullshit just to try and get a rise.
Big downer on Gays from Castro on. 'Read a book'. Homosexuality popular in the country apparently. The author killed himself because his age prevented him from being attractive any longer. What the fuck did homosexuality have to do with anything? Except machismo?
Less ironic radiation, that's what we need!
Richard Harman says the party boss has applied pressure inside the Nats to back Bridges. From http://politik.co.nz/en/content/politics/1560/ for our review, criticism, etc:
So much worse to the right fed by internet American views of reality. Thankfully without political or MSM entre. Something sounder about our country keeps out the Right Wing anti-rational views of America. Or, our elite can't speak conscious lies.
UN Climate change Leader is today warning that the world is loosing the will to address climate change?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/un-climate-chief-warns-of-catastrophe-if-world-leaders-continue-to-dawdle-2019-04-25 UNITED NATIONS —
The U.N. climate chief says world leaders must recognize there is no option except to speed-up and scale-up action to tackle global warming, warning that continuing on the current path will lead to “a catastrophe.” Patricia Espinosa stressed in two recent interviews with the Associated Press that climate scientists are saying there’s still a chance to make things right “but the window of opportunity is closing very soon” and the world has 12 years until carbon emissions reach “a point of no return.” That means the world needs to accelerate all efforts to keep from reaching that level, “and therefore all efforts are absolutely indispensable” to cut carbon emissions and keep temperatures from rising, she said.
"the world is loosing the will to address climate change"
Nothing in the article supports that statement.
Ah Another climate denier eh Sasha?
I thought you was actually a climate change advocate, – guess we are wrong?
We heard he was reported on (RNZ) on 'morning report' as saying the world is loosing the will to fight climate change.
If you read between the lines here you can reach that conclusion your self as the RNZ reporter did.
Also on Breakfast TV one he also hit hard at polluters to be taxed for their pollution and his words are angry to the ones who are not moving on climate change.
Check both press releases.
I believe he has sent that message that he believes some countries have given up and that is why he is coming out swinging.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/un-secretary-general-calls-initiatives-carbon-neutrality-during-auckland-visit
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/chief-forecasts-total-disaster-global-warming-stopped-190509054543572.html
UN chief forecasts 'total disaster' if global warming not stopped
World must change in 'transformative' ways to prevent climate change prompting 'total disaster',
Antonio Guterres says.
9 May 2019
Guterres said he would ask the world leaders to stop subsidising fossil fuels
[Mary Altaffer/AP] MORE ON UNITED NATIONS UN chief:
Climate change 'running faster than we are' today
The United Nations secretary-general said the world must dramatically change the way it fuels factories, vehicles and homes to limit future warming to a level scientists call nearly impossible. The alternative "would mean a catastrophic situation for the whole world",
Antonio Guterres told The Associated Press news agency in an exclusive interview. Guterres said he was about to tour Pacific islands to see how climate change was devastating them as part of his renewed push to fight it.
He was summoning world leaders to the UN in September to tell them "they need to do much more in order for us to be able to reverse the present trends and to defeat the climate change".
That means, he said, the world had to change, not in small incremental ways but in big "transformative" ways, into a green economy with electric vehicles and "clean cities"
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/un-secretary-general-calls-initiatives-carbon-neutrality-during-auckland-visit UN Secretary General urges governments to tax polluters in bid to cut carbon emissions
PAUL HOBBS 1 NEWS REPORTER 9:56AM
1 NEWS MORE FROM NEW ZEALAND CLIMATE CHANGE AUCKLAND PAUL HOBBS
The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has met with the Minister for Climate Change James Shaw and a group of youth leaders at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Mr Guterres called for three initiatives to aid in the quest for carbon neutrality.
He said governments must shift taxes from salaries to carbon, meaning tax polluters not people.
He said we must stop subsidising fossil fuels and urged the world stop the construction of new coal plants by 2020.
Mr Guterres said we need green economies not grey economies.
One youth leader, who is part of the Blake Inspire group, presented the Secretary General with a pair of red socks and a sample of his own invention – an environmental substitute to "glad wrap".
Here is the story from Morning Report: https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018694766/un-leader-in-nz-talking-climate-change-social-media-terrorism
Like everything you have posted today it contains not the slightest hint that the UN Secy General said the world is 'losing the will' to fight climate change.
If you want to make shit up, fill your boots – but do not claim that public figures or media said stuff that they didn't. And if you are incapable of making sense of what you read, perhaps best to stop flapping your gums in public. You're just wasting everyone's time.
I saw the same on RNZ at 5.30pm as the Auckland University meeting with the students were interviewing the Secretary of the UN and the statement was by the moderator that he has signalled in his discussions that he feels that most have given up on Climate change so go listen to the 5.30 news on channel 83 dick.
Yes I saw the Checkpoint report (see https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-13-05-2019/#comment-1616276) but you provided not one link earlier to back up your claims it had been said this morning. And I’m not familiar with this ‘channel 83 dick’ you mention. Is it a perfume for the privates?
Meanwhile over in the Huawei thread…
Technology companies, similar to the vast majority (+/-100%) of profit driven corporations, have future roadmaps which earnings/profits have been used as leverage…
Captured regulators set the course and paid for legislators clear the barriers for business as usual…
Politicians answer to job creators, wealth creators …BAU…
It matters not what the UN says to politicians…
Politicians are not in control…they seemingly have no will…no courage to fight against corporate business as usual..
Ergo, saying the world is loosing the will to address climate change…is factually correct..
From a political perspective.
Nothing in the article supports that statement.
100% One Two; yes that is clear here, so the secretary general has placed a line in the sand, as far as we can see by championing Climate change when the piss weak 'politicians' won't and that is why the reporter claimed the UN secretary general has shown to believe that the world had given up on climate change.
I for one believe that the children will show how bloody weak many are including all the climate deniers are on TS also.
"that is why the reporter claimed the UN secretary general has shown to believe that the world had given up on climate change."
Please stop lying.
Watch the RNZ on Channel 83 at 5.30 dick and see it there. dickhead.
See below, tosser: https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-13-05-2019/#comment-1616276
They use to call it Global warming, but now it is climate change. Is that because the temperatures weren't heating up as much as they were supposed to?
No, it's because far too many dull-witted literalists missed the point and were prone to posting mind-bogglingly stupid stuff like:
In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!
Trust well known moron and US President Donald J. Trump to provide us with a good example.
Bazza64 watch this I dare you.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-report-on-climate-change-shows-canada-warming-at-twice-the-rate-of/
Report on climate change shows Canada warming at twice the rate of rest of world
JEFF LEWIS – ENVIRONMENT REPORTER
JANICE DICKSON
PUBLISHED APRIL 1, 2019UPDATED APRIL 2, 2019
Canada is bloody freezing & could do with a bit more warmth.
What planet are you on?
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201901
There is no slowing in Global temperature rise – and it will continue to increase until humans stop increasing GHGs – and even then it will still continue to increase until the the energy the Earth releases in black body radiation equals the energy the Earth receives from the sun. With the current concentration of over 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere that peak temperature will be around 2 – 3 degrees C above average pre-industrial levels.
That the temperature rise has periods of peaks and then troughs does not mean that the planet is not warming – any investigation of recorded Global temperatures over the past century and a half will show that there is a distinct upward trend in averaged Global temperature. Indeed the graph is increasing in slope not slowing down as the above report from NOAA indicates. Those peaks and troughs are the natural occurrence of weather patterns. A sharp period of cold in one area, is quite possible even on an otherwise warming Earth and higher precipitation levels are simply to be expected as the atmosphere's ability hold more water vapour increases by around 4% with each degree C rise in temperature.
A little dated but still extremely relevant. Authoritarian Neoliberalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5XbAqYmiHs
This guy is an idiot. Was he speaking before or after the Greek Euro crisis? If it was before then that should have highlighted that the rules in place in the Eurozone allowed massive State spending in member countries (up to a point) and there was little penalty for breaching them. If it was after he should know the massive danger of unrestricted State spending and how the Eurozone countries had to bail out those that attempted to spend their way to prosperity.
It was after. And he wasn't advocating irresponsible spending.
He was demonstrating how socialist policy options are being outlawed while neoliberal policies are being enshrined in law, subverting democracy.
@ gossy This guy is an idiot, well as the saying goes, it takes one to recognise one. Well done Gasman, we already knew that.
Ponder this, rod: with socialist policy options being outlawed, what will become of supporters?
Well according to you, full on lefties unhappy change isn't occurring fast enough under labour, will go off, spin 180, and then vote act 😆
That seems (anecdotal) to already be happening.
I've never known any genuine left leaning voter go from left to ultra right because the government isn't left enough. It's completely illogical and counter productive.
Nobody goes from protesting against what isn't left enough to voting for the far right, well, not unless they're phoney to begin with, like I believe you to be.
Or they may see Anarchism is the only option, when so called left wing governments embrace far right economics.
Sure, Rick, but probably not if they work for a living.
Lame, lame, lame quote of the week!
Yeah, get back to me when your anarchist posse number more than the hours you work in a week.
In Epsom?
I thought you all might enjoy this:
"[Jacinda Ardern] also has areas where she is very strong performer, and people will be making a mistake if they under-estimate her abilities. I certainly won’t be."
That's from arch-tory, RWNJ, Dirty Politics blogger etc etc, David Farrar…
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/05/why_national_shouldnt_fall_into_labours_trap_of_under-estimating_the_prime_minister_of_the_day.html
He is saying 'know the enemy' He is warning those in National not to underestimate her ability.
Tip Top ice cream has been sold to an overseas buyer
A sad day
My loyalty to the brand will switch to a NZ company
fiejoa,
“A sad day – My loyalty to the brand will switch to a NZ company”
I agree ‘Mine to’ let us know what the best NZ owned brands are when you find them please?
Tip Top ice cream is rather average.
If I do feel the need for some ice cream I buy this brand (NZ Made)
http://www.muchmoore.co.nz/
Yeah not bad, But Deep South is my preferred indulgence
Passionfruit cheesecake 🍦 is simply yummy
https://www.deepsouthicecream.co.nz/
Did you do the same thing when Bata, the NZ shoe manufacturer sold to Skellerup?
Well, I supported Minnie Cooper shoes before they closed, I also support Ziera shoes ( I think they are a NZ company but I am going to check now!!), and I have a fabulous pair of McKinlay boots made in Dunedin. Is that enough?
Lastrite boots in Whangarei. Will tailor to your feet.
This is Fonterra. A NZ company that has no interest in value added, and keeping strategic NZ assets within the country. $380 million? Now more of our national earnings flowing over the border – must be like a financial waterfall now. They're spending money like water. Oh no, water is like money but we haven't caught up with the rest of the smart world yet. 'Perhaps they never will'.
Deep South…is a better ice cream anyway
YES and they may also lose a third of their value, as Cadbury did.
hey i cant post from my tablet android n chrome browser
I cannot get focus in the comment box (altho i can type in the name and email field) is this just me ?
they have changed a few talking heads at RNZ lately but the still have the same old drugs on THE PANEL. worst of all is mould old fig jock anderson stilll raking in pro rata payments for sitting there and dishing the PM and the NZLP every time he gets the chance. time to ditch him and get some new blood.
At last, the UN leader is reported saying what people here claimed without evidence earlier – at 1m28: https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018694859/un-secretary-general-tax-pollution-not-people
Though it's worth noting that he said leaders of his generation have lost the will, not that 'the world' has. This situation is serious enough; it does not need any exaggeration and hype from us.
We need some larger kiwi mainstream company to go against Tip Top so we can pick icecream up at every dairy and supermarket.like we did with Chocolate Cadbury vs Whittakers.
So some of these anti climate change folks here may be global operators who are used to interfere with our discussions about climate change, and now this may be a foreign based lobby group working for Oil Companies?
We have already seen the phony front called “Galileo movement”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/galileo-movement-fuels-australia-climate-change-divide/
National’s Dirty politics beginning again we see?
Program on TV One news tonight at 5.30pm about this today groups using algorithms to undermine our political system they suggested.
More proof of clandestine climate deniers here in Australia
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Galileo_Movement
Galileo Movement Learn more from the Center for Media and Democracy's research on climate change.
This article is part of the Center for Media & Democracy's spotlight on front groups and corporate spin.
This article is part of the Coal Issues portal on SourceWatch, a project of Global Energy Monitor and the Center for Media and Democracy.
See here for help on adding material to CoalSwarm. The Galileo Movement is a a climate denier lobby group set up to oppose carbon pricing, based in Australia. On its website the group states that "our objective is to expose misrepresentations pushing a 'price on carbon dioxide.
[1] In August 2011, the Scientific American magazine openly derided the group, describing it as "drawing from a deep history of denial and distortion" and relying on irrelevant facts while omitting pertinent ones.
[2][3] Founded ostensibly by retirees John Smeed, an engineer, and Case Smit, a hygienist, the group launched its website in May, 2011.
The group's patron is conservative Australian broadcaster Alan Jones.
[4] The group blames global warming on anything but man-made emissions: variations in solar radiation, ocean-atmosphere oscillations, deviations in the Earth's orbit, and mountain-building continental drift and associated volcanic eruptions — all dismissed by mainstream science.[5] It warns of "climate police" having the right to intrude into people's lives in Australia,
It's interesting to see the high opinion about NZ living standards that this Kiwi chap living in Los Angeles has. I think that homosexual couples who don't want children take a simpler view, bypassing concerns about parenting, social welfare, education etc.
"I'd like to say I will live in New Zealand again," he says. "It seems to be much more desirable and progressive than most other countries right now – especially the USA!"
Ryan has come to feel that Kiwis can take the relatively high standard of living in New Zealand for granted.
"Even though New Zealand is far from perfect, it really is the lucky land. Living in a city where an estimated 50,000 people are homeless, you see people struggling with mental health and no social support on a daily basis. I'm regularly asked by my American friends why I would choose to live here when I could be back home. It's so important to me that I never become desensitised to this reality and it makes me grateful for my Kiwi roots."
https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/kiwi-traveller/112632518/the-truth-about-life-in-los-angeles-according-to-kiwi-expats