Morning Rumble Rock radio you good people are giving me a sore face again Ka pai had a hard time getting this out the sandflys are at it again.
Ka kite ano
The sandflys are swarming again today plus a good 12 escorts vip treatment for ECO MAORI.
They know I have something they have not got that’s why they trow the public at me they are ____scared
Ana to kai
good to see Duncan &Thane Rock Radio tag team for the after noon is still going to be contuning ka pai guys.
Loyality is a good trait to have.
ka kite ano ps had to use another ph to get this out the tokoroa sandflys are read necks
To the good people on TVNZ 1 NEWS.
ECO MAORI Says a big NO for hillary rodam clinton vist to Atoearoa we don’t want her infecteing OUR girls mokos minds to think it OK to be corrupt lie and cheat to get into powerful positions.
I am a advocate for equality for Lady’s but I’m not a idiot.
hillary and bill clinton are directly responsible for the bullshit that’s happening in America right now.
She lost to Obama she should not have run in the last election.
They cheated the real popular Democratic independent candidate Bernice Sander out of his Presdiency.
We have to let the 000.1% no that that sort of behaviour is not on it just create chaos for the us the 99.9%
Ana to kai
Hi Hillary & Jeremy good article on the manuka oil harvesting and growing in Te tairawhiti.
Some of my cousin had a go at making manuka oil back in the day I think there is more information about manuka so they are getting a premium price for the oil products now.
Terrorism is a bull—-word to create division and scare he tangata into believing that it OK to kill other Tangata /people ECO say this is the year 2018 we thought we would have flying cars by now.
We are all civilsed Humans we have to stop this farcical behaviour of the 00.1 % who just want proffets from wars to line there pockets It is not on trying to justify killing other human beings.
Ana to kai.
Ka kite ano
Hillary & Jeremy I see some one is trying to damage.
OUR Royal Familys good name I have seen a few attempts at that. OUR Queen of Great Britain is a honorable Great lady nobody is perfect.
Anyway how does one know if this idiot is telling the truth he most likely has a wheelbarrow full of neo liberal bigots bribery money payment for his lies.
Ka kite ano
Everyone knows that it was the Paparazzi that caused that accident. If that idiots words were true wouldn’t he be to scared to make a statement like that against OUR Royal family
Ka kite ano
Some people never learn by there mistakes. They keep siding with the sandflys even after what has happened its getting serious now the actions they have taken against ECO MAORI is unacceptable I would never do that to anyone they can accept outcomes of there action. Ana to kai. Kia kaha
There you go mike hosking love himself I hope he does get into the national party there polls will plunge even lower. He doesn’t even no what the word humble means the idiot. Being humble doesn’t mean one is not ambitious or bold. One meaning to ECO MAORI is not to blow your ass off about your achievements and putting unfortunate people down muppets.
Ana to kai here’s a link to mikes rants
national/politics/101469639/a-surprise-announcement-from-mike-hoskings-gets-the-fireworks Ka kite ano
Excellent article in the New Scientist ( hardly a rabid vegan magazine) explaining why people who eat meat should be fully informed about how the animals they have at are treated and killed. And why the meat industry doesn’t want meat eaters to be fully informed.
Once people know the unvarnished truth, there would be a lot more vegetarians in New Zealand.
Allow cameras into chicken and pork factories.
And make the footage public and part of our education. Public information documentaries and advertising should occur.
Then we’ll see a rapid decline in the consumption of factory farmed pigs and chicken.
Or the industries will radically alter their practices.
“We shouldn’t hide the gory details of how meat reaches our plate.
People who eat meat tend not to think about the lives and deaths of the animals they consume. That is a natural psychological defence against some very unpleasant facts. But hiding from facts doesn’t change them.
Consider the broiler chicken industry, which raises and slaughters 60 billion birds a year. They live for a few weeks, usually in crowded sheds, before being stunned and killed by having their throats slit. Unsurprisingly, there are multiple welfare issues associated with these methods.
….This isn’t something the meat industry wants you to think about – which is one reason for reporting the gory details. Another is to inform individual decisions. Eating meat is a choice we are all free to make, but like all ethically challenging ones, it is better taken when in full possession of the facts.”
I do think it’s about time some serious legislation was enacted and enforced around the treatment of animals for consumption.
Also I think we should be aware of where all our food is coming from, and that includes our fruit and vegetables
You know the old joke – 80% of consumers say they buuy free range eggs, yet free range eggs account for only 30% of sales.
Personally, I have a minimum standard that the animal must be able to express it’s normal behaviour. So a pig heeds a place to wallow, ground to root, a fence to scratch on. Chickens require ground to peck, worms to extract from the earth to eat, and a place to wander about clucking gently. I choose not to buy pork and chicken from supermarkets, and eat my own lamb, beer, pork and chicken.
But I am a privileged, rich westerner with the money to spare for hobby farming my own food on a lifestyle block.
Most people already know how industrial pig and chicken farming works. They just prefer cheap pork and chicken when they are trying to stretch the budget for the family dinner than going without protein. they may – or may not – feel sorry for the animals. But the most important thing is cheap and tasty protein for them and their families.
And when people learn about how animals are treated in order for them to eat meat, I want them to make better choices around that when they are able to. That might be eating less meat, or it might be eating meat sourced from ethical farmers.
That’s the issue, isn’t it – ‘when they are able to’. There are too many people living so far on the edge they see themselves as making a choice between animal welfare and their families. 🙁
I don’t think much will change until strong legislation enacted and enforced is in place
+1 JanM. Being poor and ethical can be difficult, but even the battery meats are a luxury item for many now so that’s more an indictment on our economic system. I do wonder if there’s been an increase of low-iron level conditions reported in recent years.
I personally haven’t purchased pork or chicken for many years as I can’t justify the cost of free range. I compromise with barn laid eggs; free range if they’re cheaper on the day but it does mean rationing said egg use. But I will NEVER purchase battery eggs. I am guilty of eating whatever food someone offers me, however, so not entirely guilt-free, but doing my small protest. One has to really research the barn laid/free range though- some of them are a side line to big battery companies so obviously those can’t be supported.
It’s beyond comprehension to me how our otherwise strict animal welfare laws- of course punishment is warrented for keeping a cat or dog confined in that situation- somehow doesn’t apply to livestock. Do they have a powerful Lobby at play?
“Do they have a powerful Lobby at play?” I would say so, wouldn’t you?
I’m quite lucky with eggs – I live in a semi-rural area where there are quite a few sellers from the gate. You can see the hens running around the paddock 🙂
The PM said:“That’s something I hope over time to engage with Defence over that issue. We said that was an opportunity we’d take up when in office.”
“Hope”? “We said”?
The former Government under then-prime minister Bill English decided against an inquiry after watching some of the footage from the raid, known as Operation Burnham.
Labour, NZ First and the Green Party all called for an inquiry at the time.
…but now it’s “I hope over time to ask Defence to tell me some lies”.
Looks like whoever is passing info to Hager is determined not to let this go; it’s a shame this government will have to be forced into an inquiry rather than undertaking one of their own volition; we’ll be lucky if they hold one, that is, as opposed to a Rebstock predetermined farce.
Yes Brigid, Hager is also to be commended. He isn’t risking as much as the whistleblowers he and Jon Stevenson (who is also to be commended, credit where it’s due, Brigid) rely on to write the story in the first place, though.
“Hit and Run co-author Nicky Hager, who has been probing the defence force using the Official Information Act (OIA), says this is an important crack in the NZDF denials.”
What whistle blowers.
Read TDB article and get yourself some information ffs.
Well she has a point: this new info was garnered by Hager acting alone. He wouldn’t even have known to ask without Stevenson and the whistleblowers, but hey.
“a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen.”
synonyms: aspiration, desire, wish, expectation, ambition, aim, plan, dream, daydream, pipe dream; More
“want something to happen or be the case.”
synonyms: expect, anticipate, look for, wait for, be hopeful of, pin one’s hopes on, want; More
What would you say to this?
“I desire in time….
“I plan in time….
“I aim in time…..
“I have the expectation in time…..
“I anticipate in time…..
“I want in time……
Prime Minister Ardern said all that, and more, in one phrase “I hope in time….”!
I don’t believe that a reasonable person with the power to do something does not understand that the idea of hope includes acknowledgment of actions that need doing and resolve to do them.
“We said that was an opportunity we’d take up when in office.”
That’s pretty clear to me. Note the “we’d”. It is short for ‘we would”. Would indicates intention of an action, that it would take place. It’s not ‘might’. It’s not ‘could’.
There’s no ‘perhaps’ or ‘possibly’.
Note the context of the full sentence. There is no attempt to change the intention. There is a statement of an intention made in the past and there’s no indication of any change in that thinking. A reasonable person would be expected to signify a change to thinking if that were the case. The expectation of that sentence in its context means it still stands.
There’s nothing like “We said that was an opportunity we’d take up when in office. We intend to review our stance now when we are in in office.”
If there was any attempt to weasel out of this commitment, OAB, I’d be alongside you in opposition to that.
I just don’t see that your reading of those words is justified by anything but deep cynicism. Again, I share your cynicism considering the weasel words that previous government used, the imprecision of language, the deliberate obfuscation.
Time will tell if Ardern is telling lies. I don’t believe she is. Her words however are clear. Her intention is clear.
And the action we can take for our combined hope is to remind and encourage and argue for a proper investigation, since hope needs actions to fulfil it! 🙂
First page of a Google search on Taliban Bombings. Maybe we could say that 50% of it is ‘military industrial complex propaganda”
Why the hell isn’t the “little creep” (Helen Clark’s words, not mine) focusing on these murderers, instead of pillorying those who are trying to do the right thing for the 100,000’s of other victims, and may sometimes get it wrong.
Because he, like you and I, through our government, sets the rules of engagement for our troops, and impresses on them that they are subject to NZ law while in the field.
But then “he did it too!” is the plaintive cry of all right wing enablers, eh. Luckily, someone in the SAS has better ethics than you do.
Good morning Breakfast people I cannot have to much input this morning the sandflys through a actor on the farm this morning to slow me down.
I have to drop off the mokos at school and go mowing lawns all the best to you good people.
Ka kite ano
More money being thrown away by Fonterra in China, in their failed global strategy.
Chinese seem to do well in NZ, the same is not true for NZ Businesses in China. Very different culture, very different corruption levels and very different returns by the look of it between Chinese businesses coming to NZ and NZ businesses going to China.
How many Kiwis are immigrating to China, Vietnam or god know where? And how many Chinese are coming to New Zealand? Again a huge discrepancy.
The China government wraps up it’s laws tightly and controls everything. In those circumstances it clearly is not a like for like arraignment in these free trade deals, that somehow do very well for China and leave NZ farmers worse and worse off, and funny enough bankrupt so can be bought cheaply by China and overseas multinationals. Go figure.
You can’t blame China if our government and Fonterra don’t seem to mind and seems to be begging for more of the same with more trade deals that don’t seem to be trade deals but contracts to a race to the bottom.
Globalism has become a race to the bottom. It is John n Bill’s low wage economy dream in action.
And now taken up by Jacinda for the next generation of overseas controlling stakes by some crusty out of touch exporters who haven’t noticed the world changed from the 20th century!
Another blow to NZ’s pride in the fineness of the country, its attractions etc. Everything is to be used, utilised till the base line profitability goes, and then the citizens can recycle the husk.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018632639/too-late-for-world-renowned-fresh-water-springs It’s feared a proposed conservation order to protect Golden Bay’s world-renowned freshwater springs won’t come quickly enough to stop local farmers taking more water from the aquifer that feeds it. The springs contain close to optically-pure water, second only to that found under the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, and are a major tourist attraction, with more than 100-thousand visitors a year.
However needs for water in the district are competing with conservation. Kathryn talks Andrew Yuill – who applied for the Water Conservation Order, along with local Maori and Tim King, deputy mayor of the Tasman District Council and chair of its Environment and Planning Committee.
Te Waikoropupū Springs: Places to go in Nelson/Tasman – DoC http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to…/takaka…/te-waikoropupu-springs/
Early European settlers arrived in the Golden Bay area in the 1830s, mainly to build ships and mine for gold, coal and lime. Originally the area around Te Waikoropupū Springs was covered in lowland forest. Gold miners cleared the forest to build water races for sluicing alluvial gold and a mining company worked the area.
We are stopped now by regs from swarming over our rubbish tips for useful stuff as we once could do, it was dirty and a bit dangerous. Now we take things to recycling and it looks less obvious that we are living on leftovers and whimsical charity from the wealthy.
If we want to save Nz – ‘Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party’. And the word men is included in ‘women’. And more, being environmental isn’t enough, one has to care about the other human beings living around and support each other in a respectful way, but particularly concentrate those who are investing their own lives and time into supporting the ‘good and respectful community’.
A cyclone is coming, would everyone please check there are no leaves etc covering the drains in the gutter on their street. Thanks, it does make a big difference in preventing flooding, least it does in our street.
Top tip for bored kids after school on a wet summers day… send them down to the park with a skimmer board, it’s so much fun 😀
Just don’t let them get anywhere near a flooded drain.
Your suggestion about leaves over drains in the street is a great one though.
I think I shall be out shortly looking at the ones in our street.
Cinny, sadly where we live there are no leaves, there are no trees.
The developer of the suburb we live in cut down all the trees (over 100). What we have instead is clogged drains due to silt run off from erosion. This sediment has washed through a recovering creek area and destroyed community plantings.
For my part I will be documenting this, submitting it to our council who will yet again turn a blind eye to the developer’s actions.
I find it kind of amusing, our councils concerns about people’s gutters and drains when they fail to address one of the city’s biggest contributors to avoidable storm water run off.
I have wondered how you were getting on- it has been a long time. In fact, I just checked and your last comment was 31 Aug 2016.
So sad to hear what has happened to your suburb after your struggles including the battle to get your own home. But I recall your determination and work in the Ohariu electorate, so suspect the Council is in for a battle! Go girl! EDIT – that should be ‘woman’ but does not sound as good.
To reminisce, it was a fine day that Peter Dunne stood down here in Ohariu. You will be aware that Labour won the seat. In fact, I have a meeting with Greg O Connor next week to discuss our run down town centre. It feels so different and so good that those Dunne years are finally over, for us locally, but in the broader picture too.
Yes, finally got our first home, but sadly I have been in a battle with both the council and the developer for almost five years now. There has been large scale environmental destruction under the HASHA Act, (and we lost our entire Ruru population!) which I think, but am not sure, has now been removed by the new govt. I must look into that.
Rosie
Ohariu! It would make a good chant with the last syllable on an upward tone.
The change of MP must be a good point in your calendar, you did so much work to achieve it but it couldn’t happen till the stars came right.
You are Wellington City Council. All the best about the trees. What do ruru like to live in? I am thinking of starting a club called the Huia Club for people who are trying to stem the tide of destruction from the freemarket and the money-obssessed who are willing to cut, slash and burn everything we hold dear and we can’t stop them, can’t enter their mindset. The battlers could do with some group that could swop stories of rejection and dejection, and note successes, and jokes, and interesting films and people. Like-minded people who respect each other and the search for the holy grail of respect for our life without the necessity of expensive frippery and style and luxury.
What do you think – I’m just churning it around. Not a bad idea? Or is it covered by some group already?
greywarshark. I can’t tell you how thrilled I was.
I stood back from being actively engaged the last election, apart from having a hoarding up on my fence. The campaign team and all the volunteers were wonderful. It was best to leave it to the pro’s.
It was a really tight fight here and I think the TOP candidate was a bit of a spanner in the works but we got there in the end. I think you’re right – it needed the right alignment of stars for it to happen 🙂
Hello Rosie me again. I added a bit onto my 12.39 comment and was typing it while you were answering it. So when and if you have time perhaps you could read the full thing and tell me what vibes it gives you.
Just a little titbit which may be of interest to some here (although they may well already know), this morning on RNZ National ‘Nine to Noon’ Mike Smith said that he believed that Marama Davidson’s father was an actor, but he did not know who he was.
This sparked my interest, and thanks to Wikipedia, I discovered that her father is Rawiri Paratene (aka Peter David Broughton), NZ stage and screen actor whose credits include roles in many well-known NZ films and TV series. In the 2013 New Year Honours he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to film, television and theatre. He also has many other Awards detailed in the Wikipedia entry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawiri_Paratene
Of Ngapuhi descent, he was the first Māori graduate of the New Zealand Drama School. As a young student in the 1970s, Paratene was a member of Ngā Tamatoa, an activist organisation which fought for Māori rights, land, language and culture. He continues to aspire to have more Māori stories on film.
He has also worked overseas, primarily with the London Globe Theatre, including on their.two-year world tour of Hamlet, visiting 205 countries. He was the only non-British based actor in the cast.
He also stood for the Green Party in the 2008 General Election in the Maungakiekie electorate.
From Wikipedia:
Film
Footrot Flats: The Dog’s Tale (1986) – Rangi
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1999) – Mulla Rota
Whale Rider (2002) – Koro
The Legend of Johnny Lingo (2003) – Malio Chief
The Insatiable Moon (2010) – Arthur
Television
Play School
Joe and Koro
Xena: Warrior Princess – Tazere (Season 6, Episode 5: Legacy)
Shortland Street – Joe Hudson
Awards
2013 Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to film, television and theatre[7]
2011 Aotearoa Film & Television Award for Best Actor in a Feature Film – The Insatiable Moon (Arthur)
1996 NZ Film & Television Award for Best Actor – Dead Cert (Hare)
1983 Winner of the Robert Burns Fellowship
1980 Winner Mobil Radio Award for ‘Proper Channels’ Radio Play (Production)
1980 Winner Mobil Radio Award for ‘Proper Channels’ Radio Play (Writing)
1976 Winner of the Māori Writers’ Award
I found that fascinating so thought I would share it.
Thanks vv
Yes Rawiri Paratene has been around long and done much. A good family, NZ-oriented from birth and lineage for Marama to be born into. I would like to see Julie-Anne step down and just manage her MP role and her baby which is enough travail for any ordinary person and let Marama bring her community and welfare skills in as she has the background and I think the ability to do much good.
(Note: I think Jacinda is extraordinary and will manage her roles well, but will be very busy and time-conscious to do so in these early days.)
Marama Davidson –
“She started her degree in Hamilton and finished it in Auckland, from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts….
Davidson worked for the Human Rights Commission from 2003 to 2012.[6] She has worked part-time for Breastfeeding New Zealand.[7] She was a ‘Think Tank Member’ for the Owen Glenn Inquiry on Child Abuse and Domestic Violence.[8] She is a founding member of Te Wharepora Hou Māori Women’s Collective.[6]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marama_Davidson
https://www.greens.org.nz/candidates/marama-davidson-mp
Marama’s portfolios:
Auckland Issues
Building and Housing
Disability Issues
Ethnic Affairs
Māori Development
Pacific Peoples
Social Housing (including HCNZ)
Sport and Recreation
” She is a blogger, and writes about social justice, Māori politics, women’s rights and more.”
Tweets – Marama Davidson MP @MaramaDavidson
Julie Anne Genter is an American who holds dual citizenship USA/NZ and came here about 2006. She has an interest and experience in transport matters whish is a weighty subject. However it would be good to see some NZ born, long-time citizens getting into top positions here. https://www.greens.org.nz/ourpeople/julie-anne-genter-mp
Mitchell, a former police dog handler, said National was built on very strong foundations and had 80 years of history of delivering….
He said what set him apart was his leadership ability and a strong track record building a team….
Mitchell was a member of the police armed offenders squad and went on to become a top international hostage negotiator, and established a security consultancy in the Middle East….
He has been in Parliament since 2011 and was Minister of Defence prior to the change of Government last year. He will be the least politically experienced of the four contenders.
He said he wanted to hold the “shambolic Government” to account…
He said he was disappointed when Labour leader Jacinda Ardern had said it was her generation’s turn….
“But Winston is on notice. If I am leader – he’s in Government, we’re in Opposition. We are going to hold him to account.”
He pointed to the difference of opinion over the waka jumping bill as a sign the Government was already starting to fight internally….
Mitchell also signalled Steven Joyce would be kept on as finance spokesman, saying he was doing an amazing job….
Mitchell has hired Clark Hennessy – a former staffer – to help with his campaign. Hennessy was one of those NZ First leader Winston Peters had included in legal action over the leak of his super overpayments.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/350739/live-mark-mitchell-to-stand-for-national-party-leader
RadioNZ “National’s values – strong families, personal responsibility, fiscal responsibility, looking after our vulnerable and our environment – are my values. They guide my decisions and are the foundation of the policies I’d campaign for as leader….
He said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s vision “lacked any substance”.
“She has no clear plan for this country and her government is making it up as it goes along. This simply isn’t good enough.”
(His visions sound like the Labour Coalition visions as I understand them. Perhaps there is a Visions Book that the Parties could all choose from, and mix and match to get a unique mixture, and we the people could have a look and a lottery run to choose the mix that the winning Party would choose, and the winner would share by halves with a fund set up to help those who were in need to a leasehold house or houses in a needy area.) The dream and reality would meet.
I would have thought his history as a security contractor (mercenary) in the middle East would make him a bit toxic as a leader in the debating chamber
Radionz today Monday – q. why must robots have human faces. Is this a way to deflect our natural antipathy to the Other?
technology
1:36 pm today
Join the robots
From Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm, 1:36 pm today https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018632709/join-the-robots
Listen duration 6′ :46″
Seemingly every week there’s a prediction our jobs will be lost when the robots rise.
Artificial Intelligence is already here but it’s expected to get better, more superior and more autonomous – but that doesn’t mean humans won’t be needed alongside the technology.
In fact, an Australian researcher is arguing we need to stop worrying about the robots and instead work with them.
Yes, I’ve read Hit and Run and am very interested in this story.
Haven’t picked up any MSM news item as yet, but wonder if it is because the Lab. led govt. announced recently there is going to be an ‘Independent Inquiry’ into the matter?
At least that’s my recollection. Someone will correct me if I’m wrong.
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Some of the recent announcements from the government have reminded us of posts we’ve written in the past. Here’s one from early 2020. There were plenty of reactions to the government’s infrastructure announcement a few weeks ago which saw them fund a bunch of big roading projects. One of ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:00 am on Thursday, July 25 are:News: Why Electric Kiwi is closing to new customers - and why it matters RNZ’s Susan EdmundsScoop: Government drops ...
Hi,I felt a small wet tongue snaking through one of the holes in my Crocs. It explored my big toe, darting down one side, then the other. “He’s looking for some toe cheese,” said the woman next to me, words that still haunt me to this day.Growing up in New ...
Yesterday I happily quoted the Prime Minister without fact-checking him and sure enough, it turns out his numbers were all to hell. It’s not four kg of Royal Commission report, it’s fourteen.My friend and one-time colleague-in-comms Hazel Phillips gently alerted me to my error almost as soon as I’d hit ...
TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Thursday, July 25, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day were:The Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquirypublished its final report yesterday.PM Christopher Luxon and The Minister responsible for ...
The Official Information Act has always been a battle between requesters seeking information, and governments seeking to control it. Information is power, so Ministers and government agencies want to manage what is released and when, for their own convenience, and legality and democracy be damned. Their most recent tactic for ...
TL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy today are:Transport and Energy Minister Simeon Brown is accelerating plans to spend at least $10 billion through Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to extend State Highway One as a four-lane ‘Expressway’ from Warkworth to Whangarei ...
I live my life (woo-ooh-ooh)With no control in my destinyYea-yeah, yea-yeah (woo-ooh-ooh)I can bleed when I want to bleedSo come on, come on (woo-ooh-ooh)You can bleed when you want to bleedYea-yeah, come on (woo-ooh-ooh)Everybody bleed when they want to bleedCome on and bleedGovernments face tough challenges. Selling unpopular decisions to ...
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Given the crackdown on wasteful government spending, it behooves me to point to a high profile example of spending by the Luxon government that looks like a big, fat waste of time and money. I’m talking about the deployment of NZDF personnel to support the US-led coalition in the Red ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:40 am on Wednesday, July 24 are:Deep Dive: Chipping away at the housing crisis, including my comments RNZ/Newsroom’s The DetailNews: Government softens on asset sales, ...
As I reported about the city centre, Auckland’s rail network is also going through a difficult and disruptive period which is rapidly approaching a culmination, this will result in a significant upgrade to the whole network. Hallelujah. Also like the city centre this is an upgrade predicated on the City ...
Today, a 4 kilogram report will be delivered to Parliament. We know this is what the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State and Faith-based Care weighs, because our Prime Minister told us so.Some reporter had blindsided him by asking a question about something done by ...
TL;DR: As of 7:00 am on Wednesday, July 24, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:Beehive:Transport Minister Simeon Brownannounced plans to use PPPs to fund, build and run a four-lane expressway between Auckland ...
NewstalkZB host Mike Hosking, who can usually be relied on to give Prime Minister Christopher Luxon an easy run, did not do so yesterday when he interviewed him about the HealthNZ deficit. Luxon is trying to use a deficit reported last year by HealthNZ as yet another example of the ...
Back in January a StatsNZ employee gave a speech at Rātana on behalf of tangata whenua in which he insulted and criticised the government. The speech clearly violated the principle of a neutral public service, and StatsNZ started an investigation. Part of that was getting an external consultant to examine ...
Renting for life: Shared ownership initiatives are unlikely to slow the slide in home ownership by much. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy today are:A Deloittereport for Westpac has projected Aotearoa’s home-ownership rate will ...
You're broken down and tiredOf living life on a merry go roundAnd you can't find the fighterBut I see it in you so we gonna walk it outAnd move mountainsWe gonna walk it outAnd move mountainsAnd I'll rise upI'll rise like the dayI'll rise upI'll rise unafraidI'll rise upAnd I'll ...
There’s been a change in Myers Park. Down the steps from St. Kevin’s Arcade, past the grassy slopes, the children’s playground, the benches and that goat statue, there has been a transformation. The underpass for Mayoral Drive has gone from a barren, grey, concrete tunnel, to a place that thrums ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Global society may have finally slammed on the brakes for climate-warming pollution released by human fossil fuel combustion. According to the Carbon Monitor Project, the total global climate pollution released between February and May 2024 declined slightly from the amount released during the same ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:00 am on Tuesday, July 23 are:Deep Dive: Penlink: where tolling rhetoric meets reality BusinessDesk-$$$’sOliver LewisScoop:Te Pūkenga plans for regional polytechs leak out ...
TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Tuesday, July 23, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:Health: Shane Reti announcedthe Board of Te Whatu Ora-Health New Zealand was being replaced with Commissioner Lester Levy ...
Health NZ warned the Government at the end of March that it was running over Budget. But the reasons it gave were very different to those offered by the Prime Minister yesterday. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blamed the “botched merger” of the 20 District Health Boards (DHBs) to create Health ...
Long ReadKey Summary: Although National increased the health budget by $1.4 billion in May, they used an old funding model to project health system costs, and never bothered to update their pre-election numbers. They were told during the Health Select Committees earlier in the year their budget amount was deficient, ...
As a momentous, historic weekend in US politics unfolded, analysts and commentators grasped for precedents and comparisons to help explain the significance and power of the choice Joe Biden had made. The 46th president had swept the Democratic party’s primaries but just over 100 days from the election had chosen ...
TL;DR: I’m casting around for new ideas and ways of thinking about Aotearoa’s political economy to find a few solutions to our cascading and self-reinforcing housing, poverty and climate crises.Associate Professor runs an online masters degree in the economics of sustainability at Torrens University in Australia and is organising ...
The Finance and Expenditure Committee has reported back on National's Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Bill. The bill sets up water for privatisation, and was introduced under urgency, then rammed through select committee with no time even for local councils to make a proper submission. Naturally, national's select committee ...
Some years ago, I bought a book at Dunedin’s Regent Booksale for $1.50. As one does. Vandrad the Viking (1898), by J. Storer Clouston, is an obscure book these days – I cannot find a proper online review – but soon it was sitting on my shelf, gathering dust alongside ...
History is not on the side of the centre-left, when Democratic presidents fall behind in the polls and choose not to run for re-election. On both previous occasions in the past 75 years (Harry Truman in 1952, Lyndon Johnson in 1968) the Democrats proceeded to then lose the White House ...
This is a free articleCoverageThis morning, US President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the Presidential race. And that is genuinely newsworthy. Thanks for your service, President Biden, and all the best to you and yours.However, the media in New Zealand, particularly the 1News nightly bulletin, has been breathlessly covering ...
A homeless person’s camp beside a blocked-off slipped damage walkway in Freeman’s Bay: we are chasing our tail on our worsening and inter-related housing, poverty and climate crises. Photo: Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy ...
What has happened to it all?Crazy, some'd sayWhere is the life that I recognise?(Gone away)But I won't cry for yesterdayThere's an ordinary worldSomehow I have to findAnd as I try to make my wayTo the ordinary worldYesterday morning began as many others - what to write about today? I began ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:00 am on Monday, July 22 are:Today’s Must Read: Father and son live in a tent, and have done for four years, in a million ...
TL;DR: As of 7:00 am on Monday, July 22, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:US President Joe Biden announced via X this morning he would not stand for a second term.Multinational professional services firm ...
A listing of 32 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 14, 2024 thru Sat, July 20, 2024. Story of the week As reflected by preponderance of coverage, our Story of the Week is Project 2025. Until now traveling ...
This weekend, a friend pointed out someone who said they’d like to read my posts, but didn’t want to pay. And my first reaction was sympathy.I’ve already told folks that if they can’t comfortably subscribe, and would like to read, I’d be happy to offer free subscriptions. I don’t want ...
National: The Party of ‘Law and Order’ IntroductionThis weekend, the Government formally kicked off one of their flagship policy programs: a military style boot camp that New Zealand has experimented with over the past 50 years. Cartoon credit: Guy BodyIt’s very popular with the National Party’s Law and Orderimage, ...
Day one of the solo leg of my long journey home begins with my favourite sound: footfalls in an empty street. 5.00 am and it’s already light and already too warm, almost.If I can make the train that leaves Budapest later this hour I could be in Belgrade by nightfall; ...
Do you remember Y2K, the threat that hung over humanity in the closing days of the twentieth century? Horror scenarios of planes falling from the sky, electronic payments failing and ATMs refusing to dispense cash. As for your VCR following instructions and recording your favourite show - forget about it.All ...
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts being questioned by The Kākā’s Bernard Hickey.TL;DR: My top six things to note around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the week to July 20 were:1. A strategy that fails Zero Carbon Act & Paris targetsThe National-ACT-NZ First Coalition Government finally unveiled ...
Summary:As New Zealand loses at least 12 leaders in the public service space of health, climate, and pharmaceuticals, this month alone, directly in response to the Government’s policies and budget choices, what lies ahead may be darker than it appears. Tui examines some of those departures and draws a long ...
The Minister of Housing’s ambition is to reduce markedly the ratio of house prices to household incomes. If his strategy works it would transform the housing market, dramatically changing the prospects of housing as an investment.Leaving aside the Minister’s metaphor of ‘flooding the market’ I do not see how the ...
As previously noted, my historical fantasy piece, set in the fifth-century Mediterranean, was accepted for a Pirate Horror anthology, only for the anthology to later fall through. But in a good bit of news, it turned out that the story could indeed be re-marketed as sword and sorcery. As of ...
An employee of tobacco company Philip Morris International demonstrates a heated tobacco device. Photo: Getty ImagesTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy on Friday, July 19 are:At a time when the Coalition Government is cutting spending on health, infrastructure, education, housing ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 8:30 am on Friday, July 19 are:Scoop: NZ First Minister Casey Costello orders 50% cut to excise tax on heated tobacco products. The minister has ...
Kia ora, it’s time for another Friday roundup, in which we pull together some of the links and stories that caught our eye this week. Feel free to add more in the comments! Our header image this week shows a foggy day in Auckland town, captured by Patrick Reynolds. ...
TL;DR : Here’s the top six items climate news for Aotearoa this week, as selected by Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer. A discussion recorded yesterday is in the video above and the audio of that sent onto the podcast feed.The Government released its draft Emissions Reduction ...
Save some money, get rich and old, bring it back to Tobacco Road.Bring that dynamite and a crane, blow it up, start all over again.Roll up. Roll up. Or tailor made, if you prefer...Whether you’re selling ciggies, digging for gold, catching dolphins in your nets, or encouraging folks to flutter ...
Waiting In The Wings:For truly, if Trump is America’s un-assassinated Caesar, then J.D. Vance is America’s Octavian, the Republic’s youthful undertaker – and its first Emperor.DONALD TRUMP’S SELECTION of James D. Vance as his running-mate bodes ill for the American republic. A fervent supporter of Viktor Orban, the “illiberal” prime ...
TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Friday, July 19, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:The PSAannounced the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) had ruled in the PSA’s favour in its case against the Ministry ...
Te Rangi e tu nei (The sky above us) Te Papa e takoto nei (The land beneath us) Tatou katoa te hunga ora (To us all the living) Tena koutou katoa (Greetings) ...
A late change to charter school legislation will cheat educators out of fair pay and negotiating power proving charter schools are just a vehicle to make profit out of our education system. ...
In 2004 te iwi Māori rallied against the Crown’s attempt to confiscate our coastlines and moana with the Foreshore and Seabed Act. This led to the largest hīkoi of a generation and the birth of Te Pāti Māori. 20 years later, history is repeating itself. Today the government has announced ...
It has been five and a half years since the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care was established to investigate the abuse of children, young people, and vulnerable adults within state and faith-based institutions. Yesterday, the final report - Whanaketia through pain and trauma, from darkness to light ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to take action off the back of the International Court of Justice ruling on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. ...
On Friday the International Court of Justice reaffirmed what Palestinian’s have been telling us for decades: that the occupation and colonisation of Palestinian lands by Israel is illegal and must end immediately. They also called for reparations for Palestinian’s who have lived under Israeli occupation since it began in 1967. ...
Labour calls on the Government to act after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territories is illegal. ...
The 53.7 percent rise in benefit sanctions over the last year is more proof of this Government’s disdain for our communities most in need of support. ...
Aotearoa could be a country where every child grows up feeling safe, loved and with a sense of belonging in their whānau and community. But for some of our children, this is far from reality. Instead, they are trapped in a maze of intergenerational harm that they can’t escape on ...
Te Pāti Māori are calling for David Seymour to resign as Associate Health Minister in response to his call for Pharmac to ignore the Treaty of Waitangi. “This announcement is just another example of the government’s anti-Tiriti, anti-Māori agenda.” Said Co-leader and spokesperson for health, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. “Seymour thinks it ...
The soaring price of renting is driving the rise of inflation in this country - with latest figures from Stats NZ showing rents are up 4.8 per cent on average while annual inflation is at 3.3 per cent. ...
National’s Emissions Reduction Plan will take New Zealand further from the economy we need to ensure the next generation has a stable climate and secure livelihoods. ...
Following consultation with named parties and thorough consideration of privacy interests, the Green Party is in a position to release the Executive Summary of the final report from the independent investigation into Darleen Tana. ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon should be asking serious questions of his Minister for Resources Shane Jones now it’s been revealed he misled the public about a dinner with mining companies that he didn’t declare and said wasn’t pre-arranged. ...
Te Pāti Māori have submitted to the Justice Select Committee against the Sentencing (Reinstating Three Strikes) Amendment Bill. The bill will further entrench racism in our justice system and fails to focus on rehabilitation. “Reinstating Three Strikes will empower a systematically racist system and exacerbate the overrepresentation of Māori in ...
The Transport and Infrastructure Committee is set to make a determination on the Residential Tenancies Amendment (RTA) Bill in the coming weeks. “This legislation will give landlords the power to kick our whānau out onto the street for no reason” said Housing spokesperson, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “Their solution to the housing ...
“National’s campaign was about tackling crime and the best they can do is a two-year long Ministerial Advisory Group,” Labour justice spokesperson Duncan Webb said. ...
“There are more examples of charter schools failing their students than there are success stories. The coalition Government is driving to dismantle our public school system and instead promote a privatised, competitive structure that puts profits before kids,” Jan Tinetti said. ...
“This government is choosing to deliberately mislead and withhold information, keeping our people in the dark about this government’s agenda and the future of our mokopuna,” said co-leader and spokesperson for Health, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. The call comes after the demand from the Chief Ombudsman that Associate Minister of Health, Casey ...
“Today’s climate announcement by Simon Watts makes clear the National Government is simply paying lip service to meeting its climate change targets,” Megan Woods said. ...
National is choosing to make life harder for workers by taking away the rights our communities have fought hard for. Here's how they’re taking workers backwards. ...
Australia, Canada and New Zealand today issued the following statement on the need for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza and the risk of expanded conflict between Hizballah and Israel. The situation in Gaza is catastrophic. The human suffering is unacceptable. It cannot continue. We remain unequivocal in our condemnation of ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today reminded all State and faith-based institutions of their legal obligation to preserve records relevant to the safety and wellbeing of those in its care. “The Abuse in Care Inquiry’s report has found cases where records of the most vulnerable people in State and faith‑based institutions were ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says the Government’s online safety website for children and young people has reached one million page views. “It is great to see so many young people and their families accessing the site Keep It Real Online to learn how to stay safe online, and manage ...
Tēnā tātou katoa, Ngā mihi te rangi, ngā mihi te whenua, ngā mihi ki a koutou, kia ora mai koutou. Thank you for the opportunity to be here and the invitation to speak at this 50th anniversary conference. I acknowledge all those who have gone before us and paved the ...
New Zealand’s payroll providers have successfully prepared to ensure 3.5 million individuals will, from Wednesday next week, be able to keep more of what they earn each pay, says Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Revenue Minister Simon Watts. “The Government's tax policy changes are legally effective from Wednesday. Delivering this tax ...
An experimental vineyard which will help futureproof the wine sector has been opened in Blenheim by Associate Regional Development Minister Mark Patterson. The covered vineyard, based at the New Zealand Wine Centre – Te Pokapū Wāina o Aotearoa, enables controlled environmental conditions. “The research that will be produced at the Experimental ...
The Coalition Government has confirmed the indicative regional breakdown of North Island Weather Event (NIWE) funding for state highway recovery projects funded through Budget 2024, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Regions in the North Island suffered extensive and devastating damage from Cyclone Gabrielle and the 2023 Auckland Anniversary Floods, and ...
Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi, will visit New Zealand next week, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced. “Indonesia is important to New Zealand’s security and economic interests and is our closest South East Asian neighbour,” says Mr Peters, who is currently in Laos to engage with South East Asian partners. ...
He aha te kai a te rangatira? He kōrero, he kōrero, he kōrero. The government has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting the aspirations of Ngāti Maniapoto, Minister for Māori Development Tama Potaka says. “My thanks to Te Nehenehenui Trust – Ngāti Maniapoto for bringing their important kōrero to a ministerial ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has thanked outgoing Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority, Janice Fredric, for her service to the board.“I have received Ms Fredric’s resignation from the role of Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority,” Mr Brown says.“On behalf of the Government, I want to thank Ms Fredric for ...
The Government is proposing legislation to overturn a Court of Appeal decision and amend the Marine and Coastal Area Act in order to restore Parliament’s test for Customary Marine Title, Treaty Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith says. “Section 58 required an applicant group to prove they have exclusively used and occupied ...
Regulation Minister David Seymour says that opposition parties have united in bad faith, opposing what they claim are ‘dangerous changes’ to the Early Childhood Education sector, despite no changes even being proposed yet. “Issues with affordability and availability of early childhood education, and the complexity of its regulation, has led ...
After receiving more than 740 submissions in the first 20 days, Regulation Minister David Seymour is asking the Ministry for Regulation to extend engagement on the early childhood education regulation review by an extra two weeks. “The level of interest has been very high, and from the conversations I’ve been ...
The Coalition Government is investing $802.9 million into the Wairarapa and Manawatū rail lines as part of a funding agreement with the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA), KiwiRail, and the Greater Wellington and Horizons Regional Councils to deliver more reliable services for commuters in the lower North Island, Transport Minister Simeon ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced his intention to appoint a Crown Manager to both Hawke’s Bay Regional and Wairoa District Councils to speed up the delivery of flood protection work in Wairoa."Recent severe weather events in Wairoa this year, combined with damage from Cyclone Gabrielle in 2023 have ...
Mr Speaker, this is a day that many New Zealanders who were abused in State care never thought would come. It’s the day that this Parliament accepts, with deep sorrow and regret, the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. At the heart of this report are the ...
For the first time, the Government is formally acknowledging some children and young people at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital experienced torture. The final report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State and Faith-based Care “Whanaketia – through pain and trauma, from darkness to light,” was tabled in Parliament ...
The Government has acknowledged the nearly 2,400 courageous survivors who shared their experiences during the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State and Faith-Based Care. The final report from the largest and most complex public inquiry ever held in New Zealand, the Royal Commission Inquiry “Whanaketia – through ...
With a week to go before hard-working New Zealanders see personal income tax relief for the first time in fourteen years, 513,000 people have used the Budget tax calculator to see how much they will benefit, says Finance Minister Nicola Willis. “Tax relief is long overdue. From next Wednesday, personal income ...
Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden says a bill that has passed its first reading will improve parental leave settings and give non-biological parents more flexibility as primary carer for their child. The Regulatory Systems Amendment Bill (No3), passed its first reading this morning. “It includes a change ...
Two Bills designed to improve regulation and make it easier to do business have passed their first reading in Parliament, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. The Regulatory Systems (Economic Development) Amendment Bill and Regulatory Systems (Immigration and Workforce) Amendment Bill make key changes to legislation administered by the Ministry ...
New legislation paves the way for greater competition in sectors such as banking and electricity, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly says. “Competitive markets boost productivity, create employment opportunities and lift living standards. To support competition, we need good quality regulation but, unfortunately, a recent OECD report ranked New ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says lotteries for charitable purposes, such as those run by the Heart Foundation, Coastguard NZ, and local hospices, will soon be allowed to operate online permanently. “Under current laws, these fundraising lotteries are only allowed to operate online until October 2024, after which ...
The Coalition Government is accelerating work on the new four-lane expressway between Auckland and Whangārei as part of its Roads of National Significance programme, with an accelerated delivery model to deliver this project faster and more efficiently, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “For too long, the lack of resilient transport connections ...
Sir Don McKinnon will travel to Viet Nam this week as a Special Envoy of the Government, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced. “It is important that the Government give due recognition to the significant contributions that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong made to New Zealand-Viet Nam relations,” Mr ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says newly appointed Commissioner, Grant Illingworth KC, will help deliver the report for the first phase of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 Lessons, due on 28 November 2024. “I am pleased to announce that Mr Illingworth will commence his appointment as ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters travels to Laos this week to participate in a series of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-led Ministerial meetings in Vientiane. “ASEAN plays an important role in supporting a peaceful, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific,” Mr Peters says. “This will be our third visit to ...
Construction of a new mental health facility at Te Nikau Grey Hospital in Greymouth is today one step closer, Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey says. “This $27 million facility shows this Government is delivering on its promise to boost mental health care and improve front line services,” Mr Doocey says. ...
New Zealand is committing nearly $50 million to a package supporting sustainable Pacific fisheries development over the next four years, Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones announced today. “This support consisting of a range of initiatives demonstrates New Zealand’s commitment to assisting our Pacific partners ...
Associate Education Minister David Seymour says proposed changes to the Education and Training Amendment Bill will ensure charter schools have more flexibility to negotiate employment agreements and are equipped with the right teaching resources. “Cabinet has agreed to progress an amendment which means unions will not be able to initiate ...
In response to serious concerns around oversight, overspend and a significant deterioration in financial outlook, the Board of Health New Zealand will be replaced with a Commissioner, Health Minister Dr Shane Reti announced today. “The previous government’s botched health reforms have created significant financial challenges at Health NZ that, without ...
Minister for Space and Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins will travel to Adelaide tomorrow for space and science engagements, including speaking at the Australian Space Forum. While there she will also have meetings and visits with a focus on space, biotechnology and innovation. “New Zealand has a thriving space ...
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts will travel to China on Saturday to attend the Ministerial on Climate Action meeting held in Wuhan. “Attending the Ministerial on Climate Action is an opportunity to advocate for New Zealand climate priorities and engage with our key partners on climate action,” Mr Watts says. ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is travelling to the Solomon Islands tomorrow for meetings with his counterparts from around the Pacific supporting collective management of the region’s fisheries. The 23rd Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Committee and the 5th Regional Fisheries Ministers’ Meeting in Honiara from 23 to 26 July ...
The Government today launched the Military Style Academy Pilot at Te Au rere a te Tonga Youth Justice residence in Palmerston North, an important part of the Government’s plan to crackdown on youth crime and getting youth offenders back on track, Minister for Children, Karen Chhour said today. “On the ...
The Government has welcomed news the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has begun work to replace nine priority bridges across the country to ensure our state highway network remains resilient, reliable, and efficient for road users, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says.“Increasing productivity and economic growth is a key priority for the ...
Acting Prime Minister David Seymour has been in contact throughout the evening with senior officials who have coordinated a whole of government response to the global IT outage and can provide an update. The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has designated the National Emergency Management Agency as the ...
New Zealand and Japan will continue to step up their shared engagement with the Pacific, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “New Zealand and Japan have a strong, shared interest in a free, open and stable Pacific Islands region,” Mr Peters says. “We are pleased to be finding more ways ...
New developments in the heart of North Island forestry country will reinvigorate their communities and boost economic development, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones visited Kaingaroa and Kawerau in Bay of Plenty today to open a landmark community centre in the former and a new connecting road in ...
President Adeang, fellow Ministers, honourable Diet Member Horii, Ambassadors, distinguished guests. Minasama, konnichiwa, and good afternoon, everyone. Distinguished guests, it’s a pleasure to be here with you today to talk about New Zealand’s foreign policy reset, the reasons for it, the values that underpin it, and how it ...
Opinion: The Canadian short story writer Alice Munro – winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 – died in May at the age of 92. Her work was about “the damage people inflict on one another in the name of love”, Deborah Treisman wrote in the New Yorker. ...
This month marks two years since the most powerful telescope ever built sent its first pictures back to earth. From its lofty vantage point, beyond the moon in orbit around the sun, the James Webb Space Telescope was tuned to observe the first stars and galaxies being born soon after ...
Comment: After Climate Change Minister Simon Watts’ preview several weeks ago, I had some optimism about the Government’s emissions reduction plan. Now I’ve read the discussion document, that hope has been dashed. How can the Government propose a plan that wants to take New Zealand taxpayers’ hard-earned money, and spend ...
Christopher Luxon: hurdles The little man from National jumps hurdles in his sleep. He’s quite good at it in his dreams and even though the reality doesn’t quite match up you have to give him credit for getting up every morning and crashing into the very first hurdle of the ...
Comment: It was a good two hours into the conversation when Tyrone Marks raised the most basic of questions when I first spoke to him in 2017. “They didn’t explain the things they did to me. They never told me why. And they still haven’t. There’s no explanation for it. ...
Last summer when Matairangi burned, Ginny and Tom stood at the window of their lounge, watching kākā shoot skyward from the burning trees. From the distance, they looked to Ginny like pages torn from books and thrown into a bonfire. It was Tom, voice tight, who told her it was ...
Madeleine Chapman rounds out Death Week on The Spinoff with a final recommendation. You can read all of our Death Week coverage here. Nothing forces you to reflect on your life and relationships quite like proximity to death. For those whose nearest and dearest have died, there are reasonably obvious ...
Whitney Greene takes us through her life in television, including the TV character she’d like to plan a funeral for and her cow lung catastrophe on The Traitors NZ. “If the phone rings, I have to answer it,” Whitney Greene from The Traitors NZ warns as we begin our My ...
Maddie Ballard reviews the debut essay collection of Pōneke writer Flora Feltham.In ‘The Raw Material’, the longest essay in Flora Feltham’s dazzling debut collection, the author heads out for a run after hours of weaving and sees the world turn to textile. “Pounding along the Parade, I saw the ...
Andy Christiansen, one half of the experimental rock-pop duo TRiPS, shares the tunes inspiring the band’s perfect weekend and new release. “Good speakers, good food, good music, no distractions”: that’s all you need to enjoy the psychedelic stylings of TRiPS, a new band formed by Fly My Pretties’ Barnaby Weir ...
Celebrating our quadrennial opportunity to become experts in a bunch of sports we never normally watch.The games of the XXXIII Olympiad are upon us. Paris will host this year’s showcase of sporting and athletic prowess, which means some late-night and early-morning viewing for us in Aotearoa.But what sports ...
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Morning Rumble Rock radio you good people are giving me a sore face again Ka pai had a hard time getting this out the sandflys are at it again.
Ka kite ano
The sandflys are swarming again today plus a good 12 escorts vip treatment for ECO MAORI.
They know I have something they have not got that’s why they trow the public at me they are ____scared
Ana to kai
good to see Duncan &Thane Rock Radio tag team for the after noon is still going to be contuning ka pai guys.
Loyality is a good trait to have.
ka kite ano ps had to use another ph to get this out the tokoroa sandflys are read necks
To the good people on TVNZ 1 NEWS.
ECO MAORI Says a big NO for hillary rodam clinton vist to Atoearoa we don’t want her infecteing OUR girls mokos minds to think it OK to be corrupt lie and cheat to get into powerful positions.
I am a advocate for equality for Lady’s but I’m not a idiot.
hillary and bill clinton are directly responsible for the bullshit that’s happening in America right now.
She lost to Obama she should not have run in the last election.
They cheated the real popular Democratic independent candidate Bernice Sander out of his Presdiency.
We have to let the 000.1% no that that sort of behaviour is not on it just create chaos for the us the 99.9%
Ana to kai
Hi Hillary & Jeremy good article on the manuka oil harvesting and growing in Te tairawhiti.
Some of my cousin had a go at making manuka oil back in the day I think there is more information about manuka so they are getting a premium price for the oil products now.
Terrorism is a bull—-word to create division and scare he tangata into believing that it OK to kill other Tangata /people ECO say this is the year 2018 we thought we would have flying cars by now.
We are all civilsed Humans we have to stop this farcical behaviour of the 00.1 % who just want proffets from wars to line there pockets It is not on trying to justify killing other human beings.
Ana to kai.
Ka kite ano
Hillary & Jeremy I see some one is trying to damage.
OUR Royal Familys good name I have seen a few attempts at that. OUR Queen of Great Britain is a honorable Great lady nobody is perfect.
Anyway how does one know if this idiot is telling the truth he most likely has a wheelbarrow full of neo liberal bigots bribery money payment for his lies.
Ka kite ano
Everyone knows that it was the Paparazzi that caused that accident. If that idiots words were true wouldn’t he be to scared to make a statement like that against OUR Royal family
Ka kite ano
Some people never learn by there mistakes. They keep siding with the sandflys even after what has happened its getting serious now the actions they have taken against ECO MAORI is unacceptable I would never do that to anyone they can accept outcomes of there action. Ana to kai. Kia kaha
Eco Maori is a Roster in the Chinese signs
http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/chinese-zodiac
And Aries
http://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.astrology.com/us/editorial/editorial-article-amp.aspx%3fUniqueID=48&CRC=47364FB011F56425E2C4BF91E1080299
This link works ECO chinese-zodiac sign
http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/chinese-zodiac/rooster.htm
There you go mike hosking love himself I hope he does get into the national party there polls will plunge even lower. He doesn’t even no what the word humble means the idiot. Being humble doesn’t mean one is not ambitious or bold. One meaning to ECO MAORI is not to blow your ass off about your achievements and putting unfortunate people down muppets.
Ana to kai here’s a link to mikes rants
national/politics/101469639/a-surprise-announcement-from-mike-hoskings-gets-the-fireworks Ka kite ano
Here it is reciption is bad
A surprise announcement from Mike Hosking gets the fireworks started
Stuff.co.nz
2 days ago
https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/101469639/a-surprise-announcement-from-mike-hoskings-gets-the-fireworks-started&ved=0ahUKEwjEwLKx9rHZAhXBtpQKHdygAaEQxfQBCCUwAA&usg=AOvVaw1fD_epQ68v9po-lFqfCnsR
George Galloway, a true left wing politician, outlines why Clinton is ghastly.
Excellent article in the New Scientist ( hardly a rabid vegan magazine) explaining why people who eat meat should be fully informed about how the animals they have at are treated and killed. And why the meat industry doesn’t want meat eaters to be fully informed.
Once people know the unvarnished truth, there would be a lot more vegetarians in New Zealand.
Allow cameras into chicken and pork factories.
And make the footage public and part of our education. Public information documentaries and advertising should occur.
Then we’ll see a rapid decline in the consumption of factory farmed pigs and chicken.
Or the industries will radically alter their practices.
“We shouldn’t hide the gory details of how meat reaches our plate.
People who eat meat tend not to think about the lives and deaths of the animals they consume. That is a natural psychological defence against some very unpleasant facts. But hiding from facts doesn’t change them.
Consider the broiler chicken industry, which raises and slaughters 60 billion birds a year. They live for a few weeks, usually in crowded sheds, before being stunned and killed by having their throats slit. Unsurprisingly, there are multiple welfare issues associated with these methods.
….This isn’t something the meat industry wants you to think about – which is one reason for reporting the gory details. Another is to inform individual decisions. Eating meat is a choice we are all free to make, but like all ethically challenging ones, it is better taken when in full possession of the facts.”
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23731633-000-we-shouldnt-hide-the-gory-details-of-how-meat-reaches-our-plate/amp/
I do think it’s about time some serious legislation was enacted and enforced around the treatment of animals for consumption.
Also I think we should be aware of where all our food is coming from, and that includes our fruit and vegetables
You know the old joke – 80% of consumers say they buuy free range eggs, yet free range eggs account for only 30% of sales.
Personally, I have a minimum standard that the animal must be able to express it’s normal behaviour. So a pig heeds a place to wallow, ground to root, a fence to scratch on. Chickens require ground to peck, worms to extract from the earth to eat, and a place to wander about clucking gently. I choose not to buy pork and chicken from supermarkets, and eat my own lamb, beer, pork and chicken.
But I am a privileged, rich westerner with the money to spare for hobby farming my own food on a lifestyle block.
Most people already know how industrial pig and chicken farming works. They just prefer cheap pork and chicken when they are trying to stretch the budget for the family dinner than going without protein. they may – or may not – feel sorry for the animals. But the most important thing is cheap and tasty protein for them and their families.
Ed does not care about the fact your animals may be well cared for and slaughtered in a humane way – he is ideologically against people eating meat.
I have a lifestyle block also and home kill my animals – and yet Ed finds this ‘murder’
I took the time to make detail and reasonable post on this matter a while back.
+1 Jan. All our food.
And when people learn about how animals are treated in order for them to eat meat, I want them to make better choices around that when they are able to. That might be eating less meat, or it might be eating meat sourced from ethical farmers.
That’s the issue, isn’t it – ‘when they are able to’. There are too many people living so far on the edge they see themselves as making a choice between animal welfare and their families. 🙁
I don’t think much will change until strong legislation enacted and enforced is in place
+1 JanM. Being poor and ethical can be difficult, but even the battery meats are a luxury item for many now so that’s more an indictment on our economic system. I do wonder if there’s been an increase of low-iron level conditions reported in recent years.
I personally haven’t purchased pork or chicken for many years as I can’t justify the cost of free range. I compromise with barn laid eggs; free range if they’re cheaper on the day but it does mean rationing said egg use. But I will NEVER purchase battery eggs. I am guilty of eating whatever food someone offers me, however, so not entirely guilt-free, but doing my small protest. One has to really research the barn laid/free range though- some of them are a side line to big battery companies so obviously those can’t be supported.
It’s beyond comprehension to me how our otherwise strict animal welfare laws- of course punishment is warrented for keeping a cat or dog confined in that situation- somehow doesn’t apply to livestock. Do they have a powerful Lobby at play?
“Do they have a powerful Lobby at play?” I would say so, wouldn’t you?
I’m quite lucky with eggs – I live in a semi-rural area where there are quite a few sellers from the gate. You can see the hens running around the paddock 🙂
Nicky Hager has some ‘explosive’ new information about the army in Afghanistan.
Interesting.
yes Ed finally Nicky hargar said “the truth finally comes out about his allegations of the location and deaths.
Stange that it is only after National has gone out of Government eh?
Smells like a real political cover-up, by National MP’s Brownlee and co alight as usual..
*Hager.
The PM said: “That’s something I hope over time to engage with Defence over that issue. We said that was an opportunity we’d take up when in office.”
“Hope”? “We said”?
…but now it’s “I hope over time to ask Defence to tell me some lies”.
Looks like whoever is passing info to Hager is determined not to let this go; it’s a shame this government will have to be forced into an inquiry rather than undertaking one of their own volition; we’ll be lucky if they hold one, that is, as opposed to a Rebstock predetermined farce.
It is Nicky Hager himself who is ‘determined not to let this go’.
Give credit where it’s due.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2018/02/19/guest-blog-nicky-hager-defence-force-had-reports-of-civilian-casualties-after-sas-raid-but-did-nothing/
Yes Brigid, Hager is also to be commended. He isn’t risking as much as the whistleblowers he and Jon Stevenson (who is also to be commended, credit where it’s due, Brigid) rely on to write the story in the first place, though.
“Hit and Run co-author Nicky Hager, who has been probing the defence force using the Official Information Act (OIA), says this is an important crack in the NZDF denials.”
What whistle blowers.
Read TDB article and get yourself some information ffs.
Idiot
Brigid
Are you calling OAB an idiot. FFS please try to keep argument on a polite level even when acrimonious.
Well she has a point: this new info was garnered by Hager acting alone. He wouldn’t even have known to ask without Stevenson and the whistleblowers, but hey.
One Anonymous Bloke,
What does ‘hope’ mean?
“a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen.”
synonyms: aspiration, desire, wish, expectation, ambition, aim, plan, dream, daydream, pipe dream; More
“want something to happen or be the case.”
synonyms: expect, anticipate, look for, wait for, be hopeful of, pin one’s hopes on, want; More
What would you say to this?
“I desire in time….
“I plan in time….
“I aim in time…..
“I have the expectation in time…..
“I anticipate in time…..
“I want in time……
Prime Minister Ardern said all that, and more, in one phrase “I hope in time….”!
I don’t believe that a reasonable person with the power to do something does not understand that the idea of hope includes acknowledgment of actions that need doing and resolve to do them.
Is it really that hard to announce that the government is planning to hold the inquiry that all its members called for in opposition?
“We said that was an opportunity we’d take up when in office.”
That’s pretty clear to me. Note the “we’d”. It is short for ‘we would”. Would indicates intention of an action, that it would take place. It’s not ‘might’. It’s not ‘could’.
There’s no ‘perhaps’ or ‘possibly’.
Note the context of the full sentence. There is no attempt to change the intention. There is a statement of an intention made in the past and there’s no indication of any change in that thinking. A reasonable person would be expected to signify a change to thinking if that were the case. The expectation of that sentence in its context means it still stands.
There’s nothing like “We said that was an opportunity we’d take up when in office. We intend to review our stance now when we are in in office.”
If there was any attempt to weasel out of this commitment, OAB, I’d be alongside you in opposition to that.
I just don’t see that your reading of those words is justified by anything but deep cynicism. Again, I share your cynicism considering the weasel words that previous government used, the imprecision of language, the deliberate obfuscation.
Time will tell if Ardern is telling lies. I don’t believe she is. Her words however are clear. Her intention is clear.
I agree I’m cynical about it. I hope you’re right.
And the action we can take for our combined hope is to remind and encourage and argue for a proper investigation, since hope needs actions to fulfil it! 🙂
“Labour, NZ First and the Green Party all called for an inquiry at the time.
…but now it’s ‘I hope over time to ask Defence to tell me some lies’.”
Seems we have another area where Labour looks set to disappoint.
I take it all back. You’re agreeing with me so I must be wrong.
Actually, this is an occasion you got it right. Their stance is softening, as shown in the narrative you highlighted.
If they were genuine about holding an inquiry, they’d be informing Defence of their intention and stating it to the press.
Merely engaging (hopefully at some stage) with Defence is no guarantee an inquiry will result from that engagement.
“Rebstock predetermined farce”
Nice – ‘an RPF’ should enter the lexicon.
“Doing a Rebstock”. 🙂
That inquiry into Operation Burnham (which we haven’t heard much about since the election) looks a bit more likely.
The government needs to do the right thing here, before the UN does it for them.
https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=taliban+bombings+in+afghanistan&rlz=1C5CHFA_enNZ727NZ727&oq=taliban+bombings+in+afghanistan&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.15845j1j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
First page of a Google search on Taliban Bombings. Maybe we could say that 50% of it is ‘military industrial complex propaganda”
Why the hell isn’t the “little creep” (Helen Clark’s words, not mine) focusing on these murderers, instead of pillorying those who are trying to do the right thing for the 100,000’s of other victims, and may sometimes get it wrong.
Because he, like you and I, through our government, sets the rules of engagement for our troops, and impresses on them that they are subject to NZ law while in the field.
But then “he did it too!” is the plaintive cry of all right wing enablers, eh. Luckily, someone in the SAS has better ethics than you do.
Here is a statement released by Hagar yesterday – via a tweet by his solicitor, Felix Geiringer about four hours ago.
https://twitter.com/BarristerNZ/status/965336309853126656
And here is a formal press statement released at 10.48am today via Scoop – http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1802/S00194/nzdf-had-reports-of-civilian-casualties-after-sas-raid.htm
Thanks Veutoviper.
Memo to the NZDF:
Sun Tzu said “the art of warfare is deception”, not “lie to the Emperor and everyone else too, all the time”.
I can see the inquiry scope widening. If there is one.
Let’s hope – no. It bloody must.
AND Hager not Hagar. Slaps own hand.
Good morning Breakfast people I cannot have to much input this morning the sandflys through a actor on the farm this morning to slow me down.
I have to drop off the mokos at school and go mowing lawns all the best to you good people.
Ka kite ano
MSD’s defence to claims of hateful practices on the ground: deny they happened.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/101370905/depressed-woman-claims-she-was-told-nobody-would-want-to-employ-her
More money being thrown away by Fonterra in China, in their failed global strategy.
Chinese seem to do well in NZ, the same is not true for NZ Businesses in China. Very different culture, very different corruption levels and very different returns by the look of it between Chinese businesses coming to NZ and NZ businesses going to China.
How many Kiwis are immigrating to China, Vietnam or god know where? And how many Chinese are coming to New Zealand? Again a huge discrepancy.
The China government wraps up it’s laws tightly and controls everything. In those circumstances it clearly is not a like for like arraignment in these free trade deals, that somehow do very well for China and leave NZ farmers worse and worse off, and funny enough bankrupt so can be bought cheaply by China and overseas multinationals. Go figure.
You can’t blame China if our government and Fonterra don’t seem to mind and seems to be begging for more of the same with more trade deals that don’t seem to be trade deals but contracts to a race to the bottom.
Globalism has become a race to the bottom. It is John n Bill’s low wage economy dream in action.
And now taken up by Jacinda for the next generation of overseas controlling stakes by some crusty out of touch exporters who haven’t noticed the world changed from the 20th century!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11997217
Another blow to NZ’s pride in the fineness of the country, its attractions etc. Everything is to be used, utilised till the base line profitability goes, and then the citizens can recycle the husk.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018632639/too-late-for-world-renowned-fresh-water-springs
It’s feared a proposed conservation order to protect Golden Bay’s world-renowned freshwater springs won’t come quickly enough to stop local farmers taking more water from the aquifer that feeds it. The springs contain close to optically-pure water, second only to that found under the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, and are a major tourist attraction, with more than 100-thousand visitors a year.
However needs for water in the district are competing with conservation. Kathryn talks Andrew Yuill – who applied for the Water Conservation Order, along with local Maori and Tim King, deputy mayor of the Tasman District Council and chair of its Environment and Planning Committee.
Te Waikoropupū Springs: Places to go in Nelson/Tasman – DoC
http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to…/takaka…/te-waikoropupu-springs/
Early European settlers arrived in the Golden Bay area in the 1830s, mainly to build ships and mine for gold, coal and lime. Originally the area around Te Waikoropupū Springs was covered in lowland forest. Gold miners cleared the forest to build water races for sluicing alluvial gold and a mining company worked the area.
We are stopped now by regs from swarming over our rubbish tips for useful stuff as we once could do, it was dirty and a bit dangerous. Now we take things to recycling and it looks less obvious that we are living on leftovers and whimsical charity from the wealthy.
If we want to save Nz – ‘Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party’. And the word men is included in ‘women’. And more, being environmental isn’t enough, one has to care about the other human beings living around and support each other in a respectful way, but particularly concentrate those who are investing their own lives and time into supporting the ‘good and respectful community’.
A cyclone is coming, would everyone please check there are no leaves etc covering the drains in the gutter on their street. Thanks, it does make a big difference in preventing flooding, least it does in our street.
Top tip for bored kids after school on a wet summers day… send them down to the park with a skimmer board, it’s so much fun 😀
Just don’t let them get anywhere near a flooded drain.
Your suggestion about leaves over drains in the street is a great one though.
I think I shall be out shortly looking at the ones in our street.
Cinny, sadly where we live there are no leaves, there are no trees.
The developer of the suburb we live in cut down all the trees (over 100). What we have instead is clogged drains due to silt run off from erosion. This sediment has washed through a recovering creek area and destroyed community plantings.
For my part I will be documenting this, submitting it to our council who will yet again turn a blind eye to the developer’s actions.
I find it kind of amusing, our councils concerns about people’s gutters and drains when they fail to address one of the city’s biggest contributors to avoidable storm water run off.
Rosie, great to see you back!
I have wondered how you were getting on- it has been a long time. In fact, I just checked and your last comment was 31 Aug 2016.
So sad to hear what has happened to your suburb after your struggles including the battle to get your own home. But I recall your determination and work in the Ohariu electorate, so suspect the Council is in for a battle! Go girl! EDIT – that should be ‘woman’ but does not sound as good.
Hi veutoviper 🙂 Always the investigator, you 🙂
To reminisce, it was a fine day that Peter Dunne stood down here in Ohariu. You will be aware that Labour won the seat. In fact, I have a meeting with Greg O Connor next week to discuss our run down town centre. It feels so different and so good that those Dunne years are finally over, for us locally, but in the broader picture too.
Yes, finally got our first home, but sadly I have been in a battle with both the council and the developer for almost five years now. There has been large scale environmental destruction under the HASHA Act, (and we lost our entire Ruru population!) which I think, but am not sure, has now been removed by the new govt. I must look into that.
Rosie
Ohariu! It would make a good chant with the last syllable on an upward tone.
The change of MP must be a good point in your calendar, you did so much work to achieve it but it couldn’t happen till the stars came right.
You are Wellington City Council. All the best about the trees. What do ruru like to live in? I am thinking of starting a club called the Huia Club for people who are trying to stem the tide of destruction from the freemarket and the money-obssessed who are willing to cut, slash and burn everything we hold dear and we can’t stop them, can’t enter their mindset. The battlers could do with some group that could swop stories of rejection and dejection, and note successes, and jokes, and interesting films and people. Like-minded people who respect each other and the search for the holy grail of respect for our life without the necessity of expensive frippery and style and luxury.
What do you think – I’m just churning it around. Not a bad idea? Or is it covered by some group already?
greywarshark. I can’t tell you how thrilled I was.
I stood back from being actively engaged the last election, apart from having a hoarding up on my fence. The campaign team and all the volunteers were wonderful. It was best to leave it to the pro’s.
It was a really tight fight here and I think the TOP candidate was a bit of a spanner in the works but we got there in the end. I think you’re right – it needed the right alignment of stars for it to happen 🙂
Hello Rosie me again. I added a bit onto my 12.39 comment and was typing it while you were answering it. So when and if you have time perhaps you could read the full thing and tell me what vibes it gives you.
Rosie, I’m wondering what is your local Council?
greywarshark. Wellington City Council.
“please check there are no leaves etc covering the drains in the gutter on their street.”
The radio is now advising in the news to do just that!
Our proactive Council this morning had the road sweeper onto the gutters.
Just a little titbit which may be of interest to some here (although they may well already know), this morning on RNZ National ‘Nine to Noon’ Mike Smith said that he believed that Marama Davidson’s father was an actor, but he did not know who he was.
This sparked my interest, and thanks to Wikipedia, I discovered that her father is Rawiri Paratene (aka Peter David Broughton), NZ stage and screen actor whose credits include roles in many well-known NZ films and TV series. In the 2013 New Year Honours he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to film, television and theatre. He also has many other Awards detailed in the Wikipedia entry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawiri_Paratene
Of Ngapuhi descent, he was the first Māori graduate of the New Zealand Drama School. As a young student in the 1970s, Paratene was a member of Ngā Tamatoa, an activist organisation which fought for Māori rights, land, language and culture. He continues to aspire to have more Māori stories on film.
He has also worked overseas, primarily with the London Globe Theatre, including on their.two-year world tour of Hamlet, visiting 205 countries. He was the only non-British based actor in the cast.
He also stood for the Green Party in the 2008 General Election in the Maungakiekie electorate.
From Wikipedia:
Film
Footrot Flats: The Dog’s Tale (1986) – Rangi
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1999) – Mulla Rota
Whale Rider (2002) – Koro
The Legend of Johnny Lingo (2003) – Malio Chief
The Insatiable Moon (2010) – Arthur
Television
Play School
Joe and Koro
Xena: Warrior Princess – Tazere (Season 6, Episode 5: Legacy)
Shortland Street – Joe Hudson
Awards
2013 Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to film, television and theatre[7]
2011 Aotearoa Film & Television Award for Best Actor in a Feature Film – The Insatiable Moon (Arthur)
1996 NZ Film & Television Award for Best Actor – Dead Cert (Hare)
1983 Winner of the Robert Burns Fellowship
1980 Winner Mobil Radio Award for ‘Proper Channels’ Radio Play (Production)
1980 Winner Mobil Radio Award for ‘Proper Channels’ Radio Play (Writing)
1976 Winner of the Māori Writers’ Award
I found that fascinating so thought I would share it.
Thanks vv
Yes Rawiri Paratene has been around long and done much. A good family, NZ-oriented from birth and lineage for Marama to be born into. I would like to see Julie-Anne step down and just manage her MP role and her baby which is enough travail for any ordinary person and let Marama bring her community and welfare skills in as she has the background and I think the ability to do much good.
(Note: I think Jacinda is extraordinary and will manage her roles well, but will be very busy and time-conscious to do so in these early days.)
Marama Davidson –
“She started her degree in Hamilton and finished it in Auckland, from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts….
Davidson worked for the Human Rights Commission from 2003 to 2012.[6] She has worked part-time for Breastfeeding New Zealand.[7] She was a ‘Think Tank Member’ for the Owen Glenn Inquiry on Child Abuse and Domestic Violence.[8] She is a founding member of Te Wharepora Hou Māori Women’s Collective.[6]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marama_Davidson
https://www.greens.org.nz/candidates/marama-davidson-mp
Marama’s portfolios:
Auckland Issues
Building and Housing
Disability Issues
Ethnic Affairs
Māori Development
Pacific Peoples
Social Housing (including HCNZ)
Sport and Recreation
” She is a blogger, and writes about social justice, Māori politics, women’s rights and more.”
Tweets – Marama Davidson MP @MaramaDavidson
Julie Anne Genter is an American who holds dual citizenship USA/NZ and came here about 2006. She has an interest and experience in transport matters whish is a weighty subject. However it would be good to see some NZ born, long-time citizens getting into top positions here.
https://www.greens.org.nz/ourpeople/julie-anne-genter-mp
Yes, it is interesting isn’t it? I heard that on 7 Days, when Marama Davidson was the guest for the Yes Minister section.
Mitchell is yes!
So I see – and there seems to be some speculation that Joyce is also considering throwing in his hat.
He might well be dumb enough to toss his dildo into the ring…
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11997617
Mark Mitchell announces he will contest National Party leadership to replace Bill English
19 Feb, 2018 1:33pm
Mitchell, a former police dog handler, said National was built on very strong foundations and had 80 years of history of delivering….
He said what set him apart was his leadership ability and a strong track record building a team….
Mitchell was a member of the police armed offenders squad and went on to become a top international hostage negotiator, and established a security consultancy in the Middle East….
He has been in Parliament since 2011 and was Minister of Defence prior to the change of Government last year. He will be the least politically experienced of the four contenders.
He said he wanted to hold the “shambolic Government” to account…
He said he was disappointed when Labour leader Jacinda Ardern had said it was her generation’s turn….
“But Winston is on notice. If I am leader – he’s in Government, we’re in Opposition. We are going to hold him to account.”
He pointed to the difference of opinion over the waka jumping bill as a sign the Government was already starting to fight internally….
Mitchell also signalled Steven Joyce would be kept on as finance spokesman, saying he was doing an amazing job….
Mitchell has hired Clark Hennessy – a former staffer – to help with his campaign. Hennessy was one of those NZ First leader Winston Peters had included in legal action over the leak of his super overpayments.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/350739/live-mark-mitchell-to-stand-for-national-party-leader
RadioNZ
“National’s values – strong families, personal responsibility, fiscal responsibility, looking after our vulnerable and our environment – are my values. They guide my decisions and are the foundation of the policies I’d campaign for as leader….
He said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s vision “lacked any substance”.
“She has no clear plan for this country and her government is making it up as it goes along. This simply isn’t good enough.”
(His visions sound like the Labour Coalition visions as I understand them. Perhaps there is a Visions Book that the Parties could all choose from, and mix and match to get a unique mixture, and we the people could have a look and a lottery run to choose the mix that the winning Party would choose, and the winner would share by halves with a fund set up to help those who were in need to a leasehold house or houses in a needy area.) The dream and reality would meet.
I would have thought his history as a security contractor (mercenary) in the middle East would make him a bit toxic as a leader in the debating chamber
Isn’t a security contractor just a euphemism for a mercenary?
If that is what he was , that’ll sound good in the future.
“Our PM used to be a mercenary.
He killed people for money.”
I thought we had sunk low enough.
And wasn’t Mitchell in the Dirty Politics book?
In a bad way?
If he was a contractor does that mean that he arranged other people to do the grunt work and threfore kept his hands cklean?
Our debating chamber is not much chop anyway, perhaps they should have him as an honorary Ozzie in theirs.
Interesting gun control development – hope it works.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43105701
Radionz today Monday – q. why must robots have human faces. Is this a way to deflect our natural antipathy to the Other?
technology
1:36 pm today
Join the robots
From Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm, 1:36 pm today
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018632709/join-the-robots
Listen duration 6′ :46″
Seemingly every week there’s a prediction our jobs will be lost when the robots rise.
Artificial Intelligence is already here but it’s expected to get better, more superior and more autonomous – but that doesn’t mean humans won’t be needed alongside the technology.
In fact, an Australian researcher is arguing we need to stop worrying about the robots and instead work with them.
(Yeah sleep with the enemy.)
https://twitter.com/BarristerNZ/status/965336309853126656
more about the cover-up disclosed in Hager book “hit and run”
Wonder what the security consultant thinks of that?
Yes, I’ve read Hit and Run and am very interested in this story.
Haven’t picked up any MSM news item as yet, but wonder if it is because the Lab. led govt. announced recently there is going to be an ‘Independent Inquiry’ into the matter?
At least that’s my recollection. Someone will correct me if I’m wrong.
Breaking news…labour now polling at 48%. Yah
Not sure which poll this is