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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A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 28, 2024 thru Sat, May 4, 2024. Story of the week "It’s straight out of Big Tobacco’s playbook. In fact, research by John Cook and his colleagues ...
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April 30 was going to be the day we’d be calling Mum from London to wish her a happy birthday. Then it became the day we would be going to St. Paul's at Evensong to remember her. The aim of the cathedral builders was to find a way to make their ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – Can’t remember the last book by a Kiwi author you read? Think the NZ government should spend less on the arts in favor of helping the homeless? If so, as far as Newsroom is concerned, you probably deserve to be called a cultural ignoramus ...
Eric Crampton writes – Grudges are bad. Better to move on. But it can be fun to keep a couple of really trivial ones, so you’re not tempted to have other ones. For example, because of the rootkit fiasco of 2005, no Sony products in our household. ...
A new report warns an estimated third of the adult population have unmet need for health care.Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāHere’s the six key things I learned about Aotaroa’s political economy this week around housing, climate and poverty:Politics - Three opinion polls confirmed support for PM Christopher Luxon ...
Today is May the fourth. Which was just a regular day when my mother took me to see the newly released Star Wars at the Odeon in Rotorua. The queue was right around the corner. Some years later this day became known as Star Wars Day, the date being a ...
Buzz from the Beehive Much more media attention is being paid to something Winston Peters said about former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr than to a speech he delivered to the New Zealand China Council. One word is missing from the speech: AUKUS. But AUKUS loomed large in his considerations ...
Is the economy in another long stagnation? If so, why?This is about the time that the Treasury will be locking up its economic forecasts to be published in the 2024 Budget Economic and Fiscal Update (BEFU) on budget day, 30 May. I am not privy to what they will be ...
The annual list of who's been bribing our politicians is out, and journalists will no doubt be poring over it to find the juiciest and dirtiest bribes. The government's fast-track invite list is likely to be a particular focus, and we already know of one company on the list which ...
In the weeks after the October 7 Hamas attacks on Southern Israel I wrote about the possible 2nd, 3rd and even 4th order effects of the conflict. These included new fronts being opened in the West Bank (with Hamas), Golan … Continue reading → ...
Peter Dunne writes – It is one of the oldest truisms that there is never a good time for MPs to get a pay rise. This week’s announcement of pay raises of around 2.8% backdated to last October could hardly have come at a worse time, with the ...
David Farrar writes – Newshub reports: Newshub can reveal a fresh allegation of intimidation against Green MP Julie-Anne Genter. Genter is subject to a disciplinary process for aggressively waving a book in the face of National Minister Matt Doocey in the House – but it’s not the first time ...
The Treasury has published a paper today on the global productivity slowdown and how it is playing out in New Zealand: The productivity slowdown: implications for the Treasury’s forecasts and projections. The Treasury Paper examines recent trends in productivity and the potential drivers of the slowdown. Productivity for the whole economy ...
Winston Peters’ comments about former Australian foreign minister look set to be an ongoing headache for both him and Luxon. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for subscribers features co-hosts and , along with regular guests on Gaza and ...
These puppet strings don't pull themselvesYou're thinking thoughts from someone elseHow much time do you think you have?Are you prepared for what comes next?The debating chamber can be a trying place for an opposition MP. What with the person in charge, the speaker, typically being an MP from the governing ...
The land around Lyme Regis, where Meryl Streep once stood, in a hood, on the Cobb, is falling into the sea.MerylThe land around Lyme Regis, around the Cobb that made it rich, has always been falling slowly but surely into the sea. Read more ...
Buzz from the Beehive Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters was bound to win headlines when he set out his thinking about AUKUS in his speech to the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. The headlines became bigger when – during an interview on RNZ’s Morning Report today – he criticised ...
The Post reports on how the government is refusing to release its advice on its corrupt Muldoonist fast-track law, instead using the "soon to be publicly available" refusal ground to hide it until after select committee submissions on the bill have closed. Fast-track Minister Chris Bishop's excuse? “It's not ...
As pressure on it grows, the livestock industry’s approach to the transition to Net Zero is increasingly being compared to that of fossil fuel interests. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / Getty ImagesTL;DR: Here’s the top five news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above ...
The New Zealand Herald reports – Stats NZ has offered a voluntary redundancy scheme to all of its workers as a way to give staff some control over their “future” amidst widespread job losses in the public sector. In an update to staff this morning, seen by the Herald, Statistics New Zealand ...
On Werewolf/Scoop, I usually do two long form political columns a week. From now on, there will be an extra column each week about music and movies. But first, some late-breaking political events:The rise in unemployment numbers for the March quarter was bigger than expected – and especially sharp ...
David Farrar writes – The Herald reports: TVNZ says it is dealing with about 50 formal complaints over its coverage of the latest 1News-Verian political poll, with some viewers – as well as the Prime Minister and a former senior Labour MP – critical of the tone of the 6pm report. ...
Muriel Newman writes – When Meridian Energy was seeking resource consents for a West Coast hydro dam proposal in 2010, local Maori “strenuously” objected, claiming their mana was inextricably linked to ‘their’ river and could be damaged. After receiving a financial payment from the company, however, the Ngai Tahu ...
Alwyn Poole writes – “An SEP,’ he said, ‘is something that we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that it’s somebody else’s problem. That’s what SEP means. Somebody Else’s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it’s like a ...
Our trust in our political institutions is fast eroding, according to a Maxim Institute discussion paper, Shaky Foundations: Why our democracy needs trust. The paper – released today – raises concerns about declining trust in New Zealand’s political institutions and democratic processes, and the role that the overuse of Parliamentary urgency ...
This article was prepared for publication yesterday. More ministerial announcements have been posted on the government’s official website since it was written. We will report on these later today …. Buzz from the BeehiveThere we were, thinking the environment is in trouble, when along came Jones. Shane Jones. ...
New Zealand now has the fourth most depressed construction sector in the world behind China, Qatar and Hong Kong. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 8:46am on Thursday, May 2:The Lead: ...
Hi,I am just going to state something very obvious: American police are fucking crazy.That was a photo gracing the New York Times this morning, showing New York City police “entering Columbia University last night after receiving a request from the school.”Apparently in America, protesting the deaths of tens of thousands ...
Winston Peters’ much anticipated foreign policy speech last night was a work of two halves. Much of it was a standard “boilerplate” Foreign Ministry overview of the state of the world. There was some hardening up of rhetoric with talk of “benign” becoming “malign” and old truths giving way to ...
Graham Adams assesses the fallout of the Cass Review — The press release last Thursday from the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls didn’t make the mainstream news in New Zealand but it really should have. The startling title of Reem Alsalem’s statement — “Implementation of ‘Cass ...
This open-for-business, under-new-management cliché-pockmarked government of Christopher Luxon is not the thing of beauty he imagines it to be. It is not the powerful expression of the will of the people that he asserts it to be. It is not a soaring eagle, it is a malodorous vulture. This newest poll should make ...
The latest labour market statistics, showing a rise in unemployment. There are now 134,000 unemployed - 14,000 more than when the National government took office. Which is I guess what happens when the Reserve Bank causes a recession in an effort to Keep Wages Low. The previous government saw a ...
Three opinion polls have been released in the last two days, all showing that the new government is failing to hold their popular support. The usual honeymoon experienced during the first year of a first term government is entirely absent. The political mood is still gloomy and discontented, mainly due ...
National's Finance Minister once met a poor person.A scornful interview with National's finance guru who knows next to nothing about economics or people.There might have been something a bit familiar if that was the headline I’d gone with today. It would of course have been in tribute to the article ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – Throughout the pandemic, the new Vice-Chancellor-of-Otago-University-on-$629,000 per annum-Can-you-believe-it-and-Former-Finance-Minister Grant Robertson repeated the mantra over and over that he saved “lives and livelihoods”.As we update how this claim is faring over the course of time, the facts are increasingly speaking differently. NZ ...
Chris Trotter writes – IT’S A COMMONPLACE of political speeches, especially those delivered in acknowledgement of electoral victory: “We’ll govern for all New Zealanders.” On the face of it, the pledge is a strange one. Why would any political leader govern in ways that advantaged the huge ...
Bryce Edwards writes – The list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill ...
TL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 10:06am on Wednesday, May 1:The Lead: Business confidence fell across the board in April, falling in some areas to levels last seen during the lockdowns because of a collapse in ...
Over the past 36 hours, Christopher Luxon has been dong his best to portray the centre-right’s plummeting poll numbers as a mark of virtue. Allegedly, the negative verdicts are the result of hard economic times, and of a government bravely set out on a perilous rescue mission from which not ...
Auckland Transport have started rolling out new HOP card readers around the network and over the next three months, all of them on buses, at train stations and ferry wharves will be replaced. The change itself is not that remarkable, with the new readers looking similar to what is already ...
Completed reads for April: The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling Carnival of Saints, by George Herman The Snow Spider, by Jenny Nimmo Emlyn’s Moon, by Jenny Nimmo The Chestnut Soldier, by Jenny Nimmo Death Comes As the End, by Agatha Christie Lord of the Flies, by ...
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
Have a story to share about St Paul’s, but today just picturesPopular novels written at this desk by a young man who managed to bootstrap himself out of father’s imprisonment and his own young life in a workhouse Read more ...
The list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill English, Simon Bridges, Steven Joyce, Roger Sowry, ...
Newsroom has a story today about National's (fortunately failed) effort to disestablish the newly-created Inspector-General of Defence. The creation of this agency was the key recommendation of the Inquiry into Operation Burnham, and a vital means of restoring credibility and social licence to an agency which had been caught lying ...
The Government needs to be clear with the people of the Nelson Marlborough region about the changes it is considering for the Nelson Hospital rebuild, Labour health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall said. ...
Ministers must front up about which projects it will push through under its Fast Track Approvals legislation, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
The Government is again adding to New Zealand’s growing unemployment, this time cutting jobs at the agencies responsible for urban development and growing much needed housing stock. ...
With Minister Karen Chhour indicating in the House today that she either doesn’t know or care about the frontline cuts she’s making to Oranga Tamariki, we risk seeing more and more of our children falling through the cracks. ...
The Labour Party is saddened to learn of the death of Sir Robert Martin, a globally renowned disability advocate who led the way for disability rights both in New Zealand and internationally. ...
Labour is calling for the Government to urgently rethink its coalition commitment to restart live animal exports, Labour animal welfare spokesperson Rachel Boyack said. ...
Today’s Financial Stability Report has once again highlighted that poverty and deep inequality are political choices - and this Government is choosing to make them worse. ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to do more for our households in most need as unemployment rises and the cost of living crisis endures. ...
Unemployment is on the rise and it’s only going to get worse under this Government, Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds said. Stats NZ figures show the unemployment rate grew to 4.3 percent in the March quarter from 4 percent in the December quarter. “This is the second rise in unemployment ...
The New Zealand Labour Party welcomes the entering into force of the European Union and New Zealand free trade agreement. This agreement opens the door for a huge increase in trade opportunities with a market of 450 million people who are high value discerning consumers of New Zealand goods and ...
The National-led Government continues its fiscal jiggery pokery with its Pharmac announcement today, Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall says. “The government has increased Pharmac funding but conceded it will only make minimal increases in access to medicine”, said Ayesha Verrall “This is far from the bold promises made to fund ...
This afternoon’s interim Waitangi Tribunal report must be taken seriously as it affects our most vulnerable children, Labour children’s spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime. ...
Te Pāti Māori are demanding the New Zealand Government support an international independent investigation into mass graves that have been uncovered at two hospitals on the Gaza strip, following weeks of assault by Israeli troops. Among the 392 bodies that have been recovered, are children and elderly civilians. Many of ...
Our two-tiered system for veterans’ support is out of step with our closest partners, and all parties in Parliament should work together to fix it, Labour veterans’ affairs spokesperson Greg O’Connor said. ...
Stripping two Ministers of their portfolios just six months into the job shows Christopher Luxon’s management style is lacking, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. ...
Tonight’s court decision to overturn the summons of the Children’s Minister has enabled the Crown to continue making decisions about Māori without evidence, says Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Children, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “The judicial system has this evening told the nation that this government can do whatever they want when ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The government's decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system, said Te Pāti Māori Justice Spokesperson, Tākuta Ferris, today. During the time Three Strikes was in place in Aotearoa, Māori and Pasifika received ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced Rosemary Banks will be New Zealand’s next Ambassador to the United States of America. “Our relationship with the United States is crucial for New Zealand in strategic, security and economic terms,” Mr Peters says. “New Zealand and the United States have a ...
The Government is considering creating a new tier of minerals permitting that will make it easier for hobby miners to prospect for gold. “New Zealand was built on gold, it’s in our DNA. Our gold deposits, particularly in regions such as Otago and the West Coast have always attracted fortune-hunters. ...
Minister for Trade Todd McClay today announced that New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will commence negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA). Minister McClay met with his counterpart UAE Trade Minister Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi in Dubai, where they announced the launch of negotiations on a ...
New Zealand Sign Language Week is an excellent opportunity for all Kiwis to give the language a go, Disabilities Issues Minister Louise Upston says. This week (May 6 to 12) is New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Week. The theme is “an Aotearoa where anyone can sign anywhere” and aims to ...
Six tertiary students have been selected to work on NASA projects in the US through a New Zealand Space Scholarship, Space Minister Judith Collins announced today. “This is a fantastic opportunity for these talented students. They will undertake internships at NASA’s Ames Research Center or its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where ...
New Zealanders will be safer because of a $1.9 billion investment in more frontline Corrections officers, more support for offenders to turn away from crime, and more prison capacity, Corrections Minister Mark Mitchell says. “Our Government said we would crack down on crime. We promised to restore law and order, ...
The OECD’s latest report on New Zealand reinforces the importance of bringing Government spending under control, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The OECD conducts country surveys every two years to review its members’ economic policies. The 2024 New Zealand survey was presented in Wellington today by OECD Chief Economist Clare Lombardelli. ...
The Government has delivered on its election promise to provide a financially sustainable model for Auckland under its Local Water Done Well plan. The plan, which has been unanimously endorsed by Auckland Council’s Governing Body, will see Aucklanders avoid the previously projected 25.8 per cent water rates increases while retaining ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters discussed the need for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and enhanced cooperation in the Pacific with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock during her first official visit to New Zealand today. "New Zealand and Germany enjoy shared interests and values, including the rule of law, democracy, respect for the international system ...
The Minister Responsible for RMA Reform, Chris Bishop today released his decision on four recommendations referred to him by the Western Bay of Plenty District Council, opening the door to housing growth in the area. The Council’s Plan Change 92 allows more homes to be built in existing and new ...
Thank you, John McKinnon and the New Zealand China Council for the invitation to speak to you today. Thank you too, all members of the China Council. Your effort has played an essential role in helping to build, shape, and grow a balanced and resilient relationship between our two ...
The Government is modernising insurance law to better protect Kiwis and provide security in the event of a disaster, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly announced today. “These reforms are long overdue. New Zealand’s insurance law is complicated and dated, some of which is more than 100 years old. ...
The coalition Government is refreshing its approach to supporting pay equity claims as time-limited funding for the Pay Equity Taskforce comes to an end, Public Service Minister Nicola Willis says. “Three years ago, the then-government introduced changes to the Equal Pay Act to support pay equity bargaining. The changes were ...
Structured literacy will change the way New Zealand children learn to read - improving achievement and setting students up for success, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. “Being able to read and write is a fundamental life skill that too many young people are missing out on. Recent data shows that ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay says Canada’s refusal to comply in full with a CPTPP trade dispute ruling in our favour over dairy trade is cynical and New Zealand has no intention of backing down. Mr McClay said he has asked for urgent legal advice in respect of our ‘next move’ ...
The rights of our children and young people will be enhanced by changes the coalition Government will make to strengthen oversight of the Oranga Tamariki system, including restoring a single Children’s Commissioner. “The Government is committed to delivering better public services that care for our most at-risk young people and ...
The Government is making it easier for minor changes to be made to a building consent so building a home is easier and more affordable, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “The coalition Government is focused on making it easier and cheaper to build homes so we can ...
New Zealand lost a true legend when internationally renowned disability advocate Sir Robert Martin (KNZM) passed away at his home in Whanganui last night, Disabilities Issues Minister Louise Upston says. “Our Government’s thoughts are with his wife Lynda, family and community, those he has worked with, the disability community in ...
Good evening – Before discussing the challenges and opportunities facing New Zealand’s foreign policy, we’d like to first acknowledge the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. You have contributed to debates about New Zealand foreign policy over a long period of time, and we thank you for hosting us. ...
From today, passengers travelling internationally from Auckland Airport will be able to keep laptops and liquids in their carry-on bags for security screening thanks to new technology, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Creating a more efficient and seamless travel experience is important for holidaymakers and businesses, enabling faster movement through ...
People with an interest in the health of Northland’s marine ecosystems are invited to a public meeting to discuss how to deal with kina barrens, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones will lead the discussion, which will take place on Friday, 10 May, at Awanui Hotel in ...
Kiwi exporters are $100 million better off today with the NZ EU FTA entering into force says Trade Minister Todd McClay. “This is all part of our plan to grow the economy. New Zealand's prosperity depends on international trade, making up 60 per cent of the country’s total economic activity. ...
There are heartening signs that the extractive sector is once again becoming an attractive prospect for investors and a source of economic prosperity for New Zealand, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The beginnings of a resurgence in extractive industries are apparent in media reports of the sector in the past ...
The return of the historic Ō-Rākau battle site to the descendants of those who fought there moved one step closer today with the first reading of Te Pire mō Ō-Rākau, Te Pae o Maumahara / The Ō-Rākau Remembrance Bill. The Bill will entrust the 9.7-hectare battle site, five kilometres west ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has announced 25 new high-speed EV charging hubs along key routes between major urban centres and outlined the Government’s plan to supercharge New Zealand’s EV infrastructure. The hubs will each have several chargers and be capable of charging at least four – and up to 10 ...
The coalition Government will not proceed with the previous Government’s plans to regulate residential property managers, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “I have written to the Chairperson of the Social Services and Community Committee to inform him that the Government does not intend to support the Residential Property Managers Bill ...
The Government has announced an independent review into the disability support system funded by the Ministry of Disabled People – Whaikaha. Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston says the review will look at what can be done to strengthen the long-term sustainability of Disability Support Services to provide disabled people and ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has attended the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva and outlined the Government’s plan to restore law and order. “Speaking to the United Nations Human Rights Council provided us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while responding to issues and ...
The Government and Rotorua Lakes Council are committed to working closely together to end the use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua. Associate Minister of Housing (Social Housing) Tama Potaka says the Government remains committed to ending the long-term use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua by the ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay heads overseas today for high-level trade talks in the Gulf region, and a key OECD meeting in Paris. Mr McClay will travel to Riyadh to meet with counterparts from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). “New Zealand’s goods and services exports to the Gulf region ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford has outlined six education priorities to deliver a world-leading education system that sets Kiwi kids up for future success. “I’m putting ambition, achievement and outcomes at the heart of our education system. I want every child to be inspired and engaged in their learning so they ...
The new NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) App is a secure ‘one stop shop’ to provide the services drivers need, Transport Minister Simeon Brown and Digitising Government Minister Judith Collins say. “The NZTA App will enable an easier way for Kiwis to pay for Vehicle Registration and Road User Charges (RUC). ...
Whānau with tamariki growing up in emergency housing motels will be prioritised for social housing starting this week, says Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka. “Giving these whānau a better opportunity to build healthy stable lives for themselves and future generations is an essential part of the Government’s goal of reducing ...
Racing Minister Winston Peters has paid tribute to an icon of the industry with the recent passing of Dave O’Sullivan (OBE). “Our sympathies are with the O’Sullivan family with the sad news of Dave O’Sullivan’s recent passing,” Mr Peters says. “His contribution to racing, initially as a jockey and then ...
Assalaamu alaikum, greetings to you all. Eid Mubarak, everyone! I want to extend my warmest wishes to you and everyone celebrating this joyous occasion. It is a pleasure to be here. I have enjoyed Eid celebrations at Parliament before, but this is my first time joining you as the Minister ...
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced Pharmac’s largest ever budget of $6.294 billion over four years, fixing a $1.774 billion fiscal cliff. “Access to medicines is a crucial part of many Kiwis’ lives. We’ve committed to a budget allocation of $1.774 billion over four years so Kiwis are ...
Hon Paula Bennett has been appointed as member and chair of the Pharmac board, Associate Health Minister David Seymour announced today. "Pharmac is a critical part of New Zealand's health system and plays a significant role in ensuring that Kiwis have the best possible access to medicines,” says Mr Seymour. ...
Hundreds of New Zealand families affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) will benefit from a new Government focus on prevention and treatment, says Health Minister Dr Shane Reti. “We know FASD is a leading cause of preventable intellectual and neurodevelopmental disability in New Zealand,” Dr Reti says. “Every day, ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones today attended the official opening of Kaikohe’s new $14.7 million sports complex. “The completion of the Kaikohe Multi Sports Complex is a fantastic achievement for the Far North,” Mr Jones says. “This facility not only fulfils a long-held dream for local athletes, but also creates ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ engagements in Türkiye this week underlined the importance of diplomacy to meet growing global challenges. “Returning to the Gallipoli Peninsula to represent New Zealand at Anzac commemorations was a sombre reminder of the critical importance of diplomacy for de-escalating conflicts and easing tensions,” Mr Peters ...
Where some saw the worst press conference given by the government to date, Anna Rawhiti-Connell recognised girl maths game.Nicola Willis, recently exasperated by comparisons to Ruth Richardson, said she was “a bit sick of being compared with every female finance minister that’s ever been out there.”Some think that’s ...
The March results are reported against forecasts based on the Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update 2023 (HYEFU 2023), published on 20 December 2023 and the results for the same period for the previous year. ...
Jamie Arbuckle, the district councillor who became an MP but decided to keep getting paid for both roles, will instead donate one salary to charity. ...
Adding gender to the Human Rights Act would simply make the implicit explicit. So why is it so controversial? Paul Thistoll explain. At present, Aotearoa’s 1993 Human Rights Act (HRA) includes sex, marital status, religious belief, ethical belief (meaning a lack of religious belief), colour, race, ethnicity or national origin, ...
As part of our series exploring how New Zealanders live and our relationship with money, an 18-year-old who’s studying and working in hospo shares their approach to spending and saving. Want to be part of The Cost of Being? Fill out the questionnaire here.Gender: Transmasc Age: 18 Ethnicity: Pākehā/Māori Role: Student, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Kelsey, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images Resources Minister Shane Jones has reportedly asked officials for advice on whether oil and gas companies could be offered “bonds” as compensation if drilling rights offered by ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Gleeson, Associate Professor of Law, Macquarie University Shutterstock The Albanese government is weighing up the costs of delivering an election promise to protect religious people from discrimination in Commonwealth law. Such protections were relatively uncontroversial when included in state anti-discrimination ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yen Ying Lim, Associate Professor, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University Pexels/Andrea Piacquadio Dementia is often described as “the long goodbye”. Although the person is still alive, dementia slowly and irreversibly chips away at their memories and the ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Judy Bush, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne Adam Calaitzis/Shutterstock I met with a friend for a walk beside Merri Creek, in inner Melbourne. She had lived in the area for a few years, and as we walked ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Throsby, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University Arts companies and individual artists in Australia are supported by government arts agencies, philanthropists, industry bodies, private donors and patrons. However, it is frequently overlooked that a major source of support for the arts ...
Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa, a new incorporated society dedicated to ending harmful drug policies, officially launched today, seeks a new fit-for-purpose drug law for Aotearoa New Zealand, rooted in science, experience and evidence. ...
The Corrections Minister admits he "muddied the water" after he and the Prime Minister repeatedly provided incorrect information about a $1.9 billion prison spend-up. ...
It took a post-post-cabinet statement to confirm that 810 new beds will be built at Waikeria, writes Stewart Sowman-Lund in this extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. ...
Lili Tokaduadua was only 15 when she left her family in Fiji to pursue her netball dream in New Zealand. She’d been playing the sport for 10 years and was offered a netball scholarship at Auckland’s Howick College. Now, in her first year out of high school, the 19-year-old defender ...
The beloved local grocers lost a legal challenge to stop a new cycleway outside their store. Joel MacManus reports. In the annals of New Zealand legal history, there are a few brave people who have dared to stand up to the powers that be, no matter how bleak the odds ...
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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