Another important testimony – tough reading for a sunday morning but not as tough as what these children endured
But, as my brother Tipene said to me: “Our stories have to be told. How would people know what it’s like for a child to go through state-imposed trauma unless we all tell our story?”
There are still thousands of kids in state care who don’t have a voice. And too many of them are Māori. According to the Children’s Commissioner, Māori make up 61 percent of all kids in state care and 71 percent of the total in youth justice residences.
i’ve been doing some self-defence course as means of empowerment. one of the things we’re taught is to shout no! loudly and with force. it got me thinking about how as women and as nurturers and carers we’re oppressed by the patriarchy not to say no to anything, not even to our mokopuna, and how this contributes to the rape culture we women live in. how many times as women have we said yes to something like “can you do this?” or “can I have this?” when we should have said no? as a means of taking power back we as women must learn to say no!
Pity a dim like you can’t let an interesting exchange play out because you’ve got some stupid and bogus point to talk about and by god YOU will talk, why not it’s YOUR right!!!
no! i certainly do not think all white men are oppressive. but as a male you are born into the patriarchy and until you make a conscious decision to leave the patriarchy you are part of that oppressive system.
As the psychologists say, the first thing that people need to accept when they need to change is that there’s a problem. A male denying that they’re part of the patriarchy is denying that there’s a problem.
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery,” Dumbledore, the headmaster wizard once said in the Harry Potter series. With this quote, author J.K. Rowling tapped into a core truth in the acceptance of a mental health problem… acceptance is key to managing mental health challenges.
My research has found that acceptance is not a simple outcome that is either there or not there. Instead, acceptance is a dynamic process that involves several factors that develop over time. This process requires moving from a passive state of denial to an active position of agency.
From my perspective as a white middle-class male, that’s probably a fair comment.
Not that every wmcm beats women or whatever, just that we each need to look at the daily assumptions we’ve been trained to make at home, at work, wherever. The shit we do without noticing.
Okey dokey, I’ll just throw this out there on the off chance then:
If it doesn’t concern you, then don’t tell us that we haven’t “critically thought through” something, or that something is obviously beyond our perception.
Instead, try telling us why your understanding of the issue differs from ours, and how you reached it. Explicitly, with a gradual progression of logical argument.
It’s not a private forum. Anyone can join a conversation, there’s no ownership.
DTB will pass comment, I’ll pass comment, you’ll pass comment.
But simply saying that someone lacks understanding or conceptual sophistication doesn’t develop the conversation. Saying why you think they’re on the wrong track, that leaves a space for someone to agree, or to bring the conversation forward by saying in turn why they disagree with you.
Poor ‘boy’ James @ 2.1.1.1…….just can’t resist the right-wing reflex to pour shit on a subject of significance outside the right-wing tunnel. Sad (bad) Trump man-child ? Well yeah…….stupid and unattractive……. just like the The Fake Prez.
I think they are honestly baffled by Tui’s original comment ‘as nurturers and carers we’re oppressed by the patriarchy not to say no to anything, not even to our mokopuna’. I suspect it does not match with their own life experience – them not having oppressed anyone recently or seen anyone being oppressed by the patriarchy – or even being entirely clear what the patriarchy _is_.
This has rather derailed the discussion of Tui’s perfectly reasonable point that women should be more assertive and ‘learn to say no!’
I suspect it does not match with their own life experience – them not having noticed that they oppressed anyone recently or noticed anyone being oppressed by their peers
Just tweaking it for a different perspective 🙂
Do fish always notice water, or understand its nature, I wonder?
You could be right and they could be unconscious oppressors, or you could be wrong and they could just be decent people, I don’t know, I haven’t met them in RL
just out of chance i happened to click on stephanie’s link on the right and (i hope she doesn’t mind me quoting her) found this bit:
“That’s another challenge, doing small things every day to stand up for ourselves and for all the women around us.”
i feel that fits perfectly what i’ve been trying to say here. we as women must learn to stand up for ourselves even in small ways so that when it comes to it when can stand up for ourselves in big ways too!
The US provided four Curtiss C-46 Commando planes and crew to fly cargo between Paraparaumu Airport near Wellington to Woodbourne in Blenheim on the South Island.
It was chartered to ensure that goods could still be shipped around New Zealand during the waterfront dispute of 1951. The pay dispute was the largest industrial confrontation in New Zealand history bringing the nation’s ports to a standstill and, at its peak, taking 22,000 workers off the job from February to July 1951.
Left-leaning political commentator Chris Trotter said the secret Kiwi mission was a revelation.
“It is an important historical detail because it shows how real the ideological battle was and it shows that a lot of the fears on the left have some real basis in fact.
“There was always a suspicion that the US was manipulating events from behind fronts. This detail reinforces all the worse fears of the people involved in the dispute.”
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A 1949 CIA document declassified in 2013 shows the US mission may have been motivated by Communist fears. The report claimed that the main Communist influence in New Zealand came from trade unions.
“Communists or Communist sympathisers in key union posts were strongest in the Waterside Workers Union,” the report states.
The New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union was forced to break into smaller unions for each port after the dispute ended in June.
Historian Dick Scott’s 1952 book about the dispute, 151 Days, noted the flights and claimed they were part of US support for the New Zealand Government during the confrontation. The flights were reported in local media at the time, but Kiwis would not have been aware that the airline was secretly owned by the CIA.
The CIA were here in force in the 1970s too. The election of the Kirk government would have been the motivating factor. Ya know, that terrible Commie Labour crowd wot wanted to stop the French from letting off nuclear bombs in their own backyard.
I noted in the article the reference to the “strange lights over Kaikoura in 1978”. That showed them up for a bunch of stupid ignoramuses. Those lights were a natural phenomena which occur over water in intense anticyclonic conditions. An inversion will form several hundred feet in the atmosphere trapping particles – including ‘light’ particles. There was a fleet of foreign fishing vessels in the area at the time and the lights from those boats was being reflected off the top of the inversion layer… making it look like flying saucer-like objects were bobbing about in the air.
I have always suspected that million dollars spent by the Exclusive Brethren at the time of the 2005 election, on a pamphlet demonizing Labour and the Greens, came from overseas. I have no evidence of course that this was the case but I just don’t see the “apolitical” Brethren spending their own money on such an enterprise.
This is old news, I read about it in the book written about the lockout back in the 1950’s. In the same book, the author also details Chinese assistance as well, that is from the Republic of China, lead by Chaing Kai-Shek, based in Taiwan.
Though presumably at the time the fact of the additional flights must have been well known, given that so many flights across Cook Strait by US planes would have been pretty obvious.
However, I suppose people would not have realised the aircraft and crew were supplied by the CIA.
Interestingly enough Key exits Parliament the following day.
And the troll attack on Hagar via Stuff is fierce. Considering the news has just been announced in the last few hours. I suspect some people will be freaking out.
Some of the commenters claim Hager is only announcing his book but not the topic for publicity. But, I recall that he did that with Dirty Politics so no-one could slap an injunction on the book before it is released.
Tracey Watkins seems clearly thinks the topic of the book has something to do with John Key.
The comments under the article are mixed – supporters and detractors of Hager.
I do recall Hager saying – not long after the release of Dirty Politics -something to the effect his next investigation was going to be about the police. He said several police officers – or maybe former officers – had approached him with some interesting material. Something like that.
If it proves to be correct then I’m picking the Kim Dotcom case will be one of the stories highlighted and that would definitely include John Key.
Hager’s definitely getting a hiding in the comments section. I suspect the Young Nats are at a bit of a loose end today, and they’ve all converged like buzzards on a rotting beef carcass. Some of the comments are spectacularly ignorant, and quite obviously prejudiced. Hager could provide them with a fresh corpse, a bloody knife and CCTV footage of the actual crime, and they’d still bleat, “It’s a conspiracy! It’s all a communist conspiracy!” Truly, there are none so blind as those who will not see.
The battle of Poitiers, Ottoman Habsburg wars, Anglofrench domination of Egypt and the middle east. Dutch supremacy in the east indies, Mahdist war, Mesopotamian campaign. When will they learn ?
Classic gnat speak – a 5 fold increase does not equal a “big buy up”
Government figures which show foreigners bought five times as much precious New Zealand land last year are not an accurate guide to foreign ownership, Land Information Minister Mark Mitchell says.
Mitchell rejected any claims that there was “a big buy-up of New Zealand land” today and ruled out calls for a detailed register which showed every foreign purchase, not just the sensitive or large purchases approved by the Overseas Investment Office (OIO).
The OIO said 466,000 hectares of land was sold to offshore buyers in 2016 – five times more than the previous year.
I watched Q&A today. the panel afterwards proclaimed that Mitchell is a holding minister, a newby keeping control until the election.
The panel discussion was very frustrating. Robert Reid questioned the whole notion of private ownership of land. Jaimie Whyte disdainfully dismissed any notion of “collective ownership” of land, saying it had never worked where it had been tried. I’d like to know the evidence, because Māori relationship to land pre-European.
Whyte was saying it didn’t matter whether a foreigner of an NZ owned the land, and to have a go at foreign land ownership had no basis – said it was just Xenophobic. But no-one pointed out how it was very wealthy people buying big tracts of NZ land, putting it well out of the reach of most Kiwis’ bank balances.
We probably need to have some form of private ownership of land, but it should be realized, I think, that ultimately the and belongs to all of us collectively and that such ownership should be subject to such conditions as we democratically decide.
I tore my hair out watching it. Like you say, nobody talked about the downstream effects of wealthy people from bigger countries that operate on way bigger scales than NZ coming here to buy huge amounts of pristine and sought after land that NZers can’t afford. Nobody talked about how that then pushes the prices up of all similar land and sets the ball rolling until no New Zealander can afford to do a fucking thing.
The people on the programme talked about access to the land, walking tracks etc. Mitchell had a sweet ride. Poor old Robert Reid should’ve been talking about NZer’s access to buy that sort of land. Whyte got away with reducing the argument to foreigners versus NZers – and he seemed credible! But the real point wasn’t made, which isn’t about foreigners, but about the prices foreigners can afford, and the effect that has on NZers’ potential to purchase. We see the same thing in residential property with Auckland fucking “investors” lower down the food chain buying in the regions – the effect is the same, which is a massive reduction on NZer’s ability to buy property – and it’s spreading throughout the provinces like a fucking virus.
The logical extension is that fewer and fewer NZers own the land, tenants in our own country, or how ever you want to describe it. History tells us that situations like that never end well. Counties that restrict foreign land ownership do so for a reason.
The fuckers who won are intent on burning down the house with women, children, the poor, the elderly, POC, LGBT folk, immigrants, non xtians and the ill locked inside and you’re so glad she lost.
And then you salve your conscience with a trite not happy who won.
sorry Joe90, but there are sadly many that rather burn the house down in which they and their families live then vote for the lesser evil and maybe buy some time.
Don’t put words in my mouth Sabine, I don’t do it to you.
My stance is simple, h.r.c is a corporate poodle, and economically a regressive liberal.
Buy time for what, exactly? Every time the democrat corporate’s get in, it gets worse for everyone. And yet you too seem to be under some illusion that some miraculous will happen.
I’m under no illusions with the corruption, and failings of the USA political system. Most of my friends are under no illusions either. What we worried about is that weak spine liberals are walking us all to slavery.
I like freedom, and I like the democracy. These are things you have to fight for. Not give away incrementally, whilst waiting for some miracle day.
If you think h.r.c and her cohort actually give to cents about you, then you’r well off with the fairies.
I will never vote for a lesser evil. Because evil is evil.
I just stated what i have observed. In order to not vote for the lesser evil – which by the way – some seem happier to vote for the evil that will burn down the house, or vote for some feel good pusher that will end up helping the evil to burn down the house.
at the end of the day, the house is burned down and everyone ends up homeless with third degree burns. Win Win. NO?
but some will manage to keep their purity intact, and will be able to tell their kids, I wuz pure.
As for H.R.C, she would not gut Planned Parenthood, she would not take away school lunches, she would not increase the defense budget by 54 billion, she would not cut the endowments of the arts, she would not cut job programmes in the Appalachian region, she would not cut Meals on Wheels. Just for a starter.
She would also not hang up on the PM of OZ, be a rude fuck towards a female head of State blah blah blah.
Do you think that D. T, cares about you? Really? i have some beautiful healthcare to sell to you, Its called Trumpcare. It will cover you beautifully – in medical bills.
And btw, democracy means nothing if you are not being able to control your fertility, means nothing if you are not worth common decency because of the colour of your skin, means nothing when everyday you wonder if you should eat or your children.
Freedom? Yeah, i like my freedom from pregnancy, from 20 children born, from having to marry a man i might not like just to have security, freedom from not going to the doctor cause no money, freedom to be skinny cause no money for food, freedom from heating costs cause no money. Yeah, we all loves us some freedom.
Maybe if people would actually vote in their self interest instead voting against the evil women having sex, having to many babies they can’t afford, or abort the babies they don’t want to have, or voting against the migrant worker who takes the jobs that non of the white blokes wants to do, maybe then they would vote for their interest, but they don’t. so sorry mate, i have no use for you and your high ideals for purity and bullshit, if you can only have your revolution by throwing women, children, disabled, old, poc, and others under the bus, your revolution ain’t worth shit.
Where have i said ” russia, ukraine, emails, syria and shit.” so you can’t say you just say “I just stated what i have observed.” because I have never said those things.
What makes you think h.r.c. would not have done the cuts incrementally? If you do, then you are seriously kidding yourself.
I draw a line in the sand, and you shout purist. I’m not calling for a revolution, I’m saying this chipping away at out rights incrementally is evil. And anyone who supports that, is just as evil.
Did you miss I called out a corporate lackey, a hawk, and a conservative, and you rush to defend them. Are you left or is it just all for show?
As for women’s control of their bodies, damn right women should control there bodies. But how is that going to happen when state after state, and the whole Federal government went to the republicans. It’s not about trump, it never has been. If you think supporting the same corrupt people to get back a few rights, whilst they take away others is the answer, then sorry for you.
joe90, your in lala land if you think h.r.c was going to be any better. The murder rate of transgender women was the worst ever last year. And has been on the rise since 2009.
As for people of colour, well same shit just different package, at least with this fool we know he is a racist. Not just another supporter of white privileged.
As for you faux angst – what are you doing to help?
Anything??
But h.r.c and the democrat’s will save us, grow up. You lost because you did not listen to the likes of me, and well you deserved too.
I wish you would all stop attacking each other quite sharply because the USA is in such a shit state. Trying to work out what is going to happen next and look for any possible good side is a reasonable line of discussion. But falling out over the pile of steaming dog poo that is USA politics, that is no way to help with our problems which will take all our attention to try and alleviate and ameliorate. We can’t solve our problems, but we have to think smart how we can soften the crash landing. FGS leave the USA to themselves, we can’t help them and have to try to limit the wash from their cruise liner.
I remember about one city there that contracted out the disposal of rubbish, which was barged to some poor country I think in Africa and dumped there. We have to worry what their externalities to us are, so think of us, concentrate your minds instead of all this crap flying.
We have big problems and not much money. They have bigger problems and create money up to trillions. It’s David and Goliath. David was a clever little fellow and skilled at attack and defence. Let’s be clever like him, he concentrated and learned and perfected his skills which were important for survival.
Well we can help them greywarshark, and I do. Even sending emails to your friends and taking the time to listen to their stresses is somthing. Helping them organise, and offering advise on what does not work, also is great.
Leaving aside the fact you missed that the USA is the only Empire in town, turning you back on people, is like turning back boat loads of Jew from Germany in 1939.
I’m saying we should stop trusting the untrustworthy, and get out of this fiction that the liberal elites give a damn about working and middle class people.
There is a real disconnect from that reality, and this site is awash with penny dime liberals who wouldn’t know social democracy if it hit them in the face, let alone have the ability to embrace a world where they actually have to work with, and get on with, working people.
Your antennae are fluttering in the tempest and you can’t sniff out the smell of pork and puha in that situation. Good on you for trying but look out while you are looking overseas and far or near, someone will be removing your own opportunities.
Your telling them you are caring and wanting to help working people, will produce a response that they would be working people if they could find a job and at present the best work they can find is robbing you. I think you have to tighten up your protest portfolio. Charity begins at home in your case.
Removed a failing SSD from The Standard’s raid. Smart was reporting a failure on the available reserved space. That is really odd because it indicates a wear pattern.
It isn’t old, the other drives on that array contain much older versions of the same general range of Intel SSDs. It has only done about 5300 hours !
Added two more 120GB drives into the array. Odd. I will look at it in the morning.
smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.4.0-62-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Intel 53x and Pro 2500 Series SSDs
Device Model: INTEL SSDSC2BW120A4
Serial Number: CVDA506303KB1207GN
LU WWN Device Id: 5 5cd2e4 04bf46805
Firmware Version: DC32
User Capacity: 120,034,123,776 bytes [120 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Mon Mar 20 00:13:48 2017 NZDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes.
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x05) Offline data collection activity
was aborted by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 33) The self-test routine was interrupted
by the host with a hard or soft reset.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 2930) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7f) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Abort Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 48) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x0025) SCT Status supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Oh dear. Perhaps you have been eating your salted peanuts over the hard drive!
Sounds like Smart is on the job though. Advising 24 hours ahead of stop.
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Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Amanda Kvalsvig, Prof Michael BakerCompared with other OECD countries NZ is a stand-out success story by ending community transmission of COVID-19. While there have been some well-publicised recent deficiencies (eg, quarantine organisation), there has still been no evidence of community transmission for many weeks. Nevertheless, ...
It’s June 30th, marked as Asteroid Day by many people of an astronomical bent around the globe. On this date in 1908, early in the morning in a remote part of central Siberia, the sky fell in. Well, not literally. What happened is a substantially-sized lump of cosmic detritus ...
There really is not much about Paula Bennett concerning her career trajectory, the policies she promoted, and most importantly, the socio-economic effect this had upon New Zealand (and particularly the most vulnerable in this, our oft-cited “egalitarian” society of this country) that can be said now that hasn’t already been ...
Don Franks Poverty, inequality – really – aren’t politicians paid to sort that stuff ? Why can’t they just get it together and come up with something fair and sensible? A cold rainy 2020 morning, a headline showed promise. “Green Party’s $8b plan would guarantee an income of $325 a ...
A guest repost by Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF) staff attorney Augusta Wilson. Fundraising is not the objective of this article but readers may wish to know that CSLDF is currently conducting a summer fundraiser to support defense of research scientists and research integrity from anti-science interference by politicians and industrial interests. The COVID-19 pandemic ...
Helloy… My name is Todd Muller and I am the leader of the National Party of New Zealand. Many people come up to me on the street and ask me who I am. I’m often walking through Tauranga, or in a mall in suburban Auckland, or maybe even a farmers’ ...
The US state of Mississippi has finally voted to remove the Confederate emblem from its state flag. Good. Its appalling that it was put there in the first place, but even more appalling that it took so long to remove it. Its basicly as if a German Länder still had ...
No one could have predicted when David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill was passed by Parliament last November that the referendum required to bring the legislation into force would be held against the backdrop of a deadly global pandemic. Since then, the mounting tally of casualties around the world ...
Paul GoldsmithYou can often tell just how effective a progressive policy proposal will be by how much the right wing criticise it. The more socially beneficial, the more vitriolic and unhinged they seem to become.That was the case when the Green Party announced their Poverty Action Plan yesterday. The response ...
Back at the beginning of April, when we had much else on our minds, I wrote this post urging some caution in interpreting the results of the latest Horizon poll, conducted in February, on voting intentions in this year's cannabis referendum, which was paid for by Helius Therapeutics.I wrote that ...
Over the weekend the Greens made their first election policy announcement, and promised transformational change: a more progressive tax system, with new rates applying to incomes of $100,000 and $150,000; a new wealth tax on net wealth over $1 million; and a guaranteed minimum income to eliminate poverty. Its bold, ...
Story of the Week... El Niño/La Niña Update... Toon of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review... Story of the Week... Global Warming Is Melting Our Sense of Time Satellite image of smoke from active fires burning near the ...
. . Plague town? There are two things right now in Aotearoa New Zealand that are guaranteed to piss people off. Firstly, it’s National playing silly-bugger politics with the covid-19 pandemic. This cost Simon Bridges his job as National’s Leader. Lately, Michael Woodhouse has been playing fast and loose with ...
Tertiary fees in New Zealand versus Australia: Fees Are Important, but not as Important as Financing In Australia, the Education Minister Dan Tehan has proposed an overhaul of the existing higher education funding system to offer 39,000 additional study places by 2023 and 100,000 by 2030. The proposal has been ...
The latest opinion poll forecasts a landslide win by Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party, but when taken alongside other polling, it illustrates New Zealand politics remains volatile and the contest is still very open. According to the Colmar Brunton poll published by TVNZ last night, Labour would easily romp back ...
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, June 21 through Sat, June 27, 2020Editor's ChoiceFacebook creates fact-checking exemption for climate deniers Facebook is "aiding and abetting the spread of climate misinformation,” said Robert Brulle, an ...
The images and reports delivered to us by the world’s media leave us in no doubt that the rest of the world is still in the grip of a coronavirus pandemic that shows no signs of slackening, but is actually uncontrolled and picking up pace in many countries; and even ...
Minister of Health - David ClarkIf you follow politics at all in New Zealand, David Clark is likely a name you’re a bit familiar with. The current Minister of Health is perhaps the most disliked Member of Parliament at the moment, which amongst very stiff competition is really saying something. ...
SUNDAY JUNE 28Beat the Chasers (TVNZ 1, 8.30pm). Judging by the tweets, which is probably a bad idea, over lockdown, all of New Zealand found itself in front of The Chase every night at 5pm. It is a brilliant fomat: hardly anyone wins any money ...
SATURDAY JUNE 27Banksy and the Rise of Outlaw Art (Sky Arts, Sky 017, 8.00pm). There was graffiti before Banksy, but perhaps his pungent political messages hit home a bit harder. Anyways, a doco about his influence on street art featuring a bunch of cool people.SUNDAY JUNE 28Beat the Chasers (TVNZ 1, ...
We have been assailed by Fox News-style headlines, lurid stories of “a breach!”. An almost nuclear level disaster on the horizon scream, “Fiasco!” here, “Hero to Zero!” there… Oh quick, panic everyone!This has fueled an unbelievably stupid environment of panic among some, and spurred useless, counterproductive political ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters A massive dust storm formed over the Sahara Desert last week and invaded the Caribbean over the June 20-21 weekend, bringing dangerous levels of air pollution and low visibility to the islands. The dust is accompanied by a large amount ...
Will the Covid Crisis lead to a dramatic redirection for New Zealand and the World? A hinge in history occurs where the past and present are connected but they point in different directions. Big hinges are rare but crucial in the development of humankind. Not in Narrow Seas identifies six. ...
RNZ reports that Refining NZ is considering shutting down Marsden Point and effectively turning itself into a fuel distribution service. The problem they're immediately trying to address is that running a refinery is expensive, and it is cheaper just to import processed fuel. But there's a longer-term problem too: climate ...
We all know that the COVID-19 virus is a terrible infectious disease that has already caused untold misery and numerous deaths around the world. Nearly half a million people have already died, and those are just the cases we know about.But how bad could things actually get exactly?Today, the NZ ...
This essay by Alex Hochuli examines the global phenomena of BLM protests . He is a freelance writer and research consultant based in São Paulo, Brazil. He is the co-host of the global politics podcast, Aufhebunga Bunga, and co-author of the forthcoming Politics at the End of the End of History (Zero ...
Are You Still Here? Just like his colleague, Phil Twyford – of KiwiBuild fame – David Clark juts out his chin and shamelessly apportions blame to everybody but himself. Even worse, he has turned viciously on Ashley Bloomfield, the nearest approximation to a competent, decent, humble and accountable public servant ...
. . 20 June The bad news: Aotearoa New Zealand has two new cases of covid-19. The good news: the two cases were picked up at an Auckland quarantine facility. The terrifying news: had the story of the two women leaving quarantine without testing not broken four days ...
New Zealand First is pleased to announce Jenny Marcroft as the party’s election 2020 candidate for the Auckland Central electorate. Jenny spent years working in Auckland Central, having spent a vast proportion of her broadcasting career there. She says she, "knows the place and knows the people." Ms Marcroft says ...
New Zealanders deserve healthy rivers and lakes that are safe to swim in - but they have been getting worse for decades. That's why, with our latest announcement, we're investing in projects that will help clean up our rivers and lakes and restore them to health, within a generation. ...
This week we moved into the second half of 2020 - and our Government delivered another week of big changes and major progress for New Zealanders. Read below for a wrap of the key things moments from the week - from extending paid parental leave, to making major investments in ...
The Green Party has opposed the COVID-19 Recovery Fast-track Consenting Bill which shortcuts normal consenting processes under the Resource Management Act (RMA), reduces public participation and narrows environmental considerations. ...
Hon Shane Jones, Minister of Regional Economic Development A regional freight hub for the lower North Island will be built just northeast of Palmerston North, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones has announced. The Government is investing $40 million through the Provincial Growth Fund to designate and buy land and design ...
Green Party Co-leader Marama Davidson is calling for the introduction of a Guaranteed Minimum Income to lift hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty and prevent more families entering into further debt with the Ministry of Social Development. ...
There has been renewed focus on New Zealand First acting as a handbrake on the Government after our decision to not support Auckland light rail. We are a handbrake for bad ideas, that istrue, but our track record since 2017 has seen New Zealand First constructively also serve as an ...
Mark Patterson MP, New Zealand First List MP New Zealand First’s Fair Residency for Superannuation Bill passed its First Reading in Parliament today. The Bill makes a significant change to NZ Super by raising the minimum residency requirement from 10 to 20 years, after age 20. “Currently, a migrant of ...
Darroch Ball MP, Spokesperson for Law and Order A New Zealand First member’s bill in the name of Darroch Ball introducing a six-month minimum prison sentence for assaults on first responders has passed its second reading in Parliament. The new offence of "injuring a first responder or corrections officer with ...
Fletcher Tabuteau MP, Deputy Leader of New Zealand First New Zealand First welcomes the launch of the new Criminal Cases Review Commission, gifted with the name from Waikato-Tainui - Te Kāhui Tātari Ture, announced in Hamilton today by Justice Minister Andrew Little. “New Zealand First has long believed in and ...
The Green Party is celebrating over $800m in new funding for green projects, which will get people into jobs while solving New Zealand’s long-term challenges. ...
Mark Patterson MP, Spokesperson for Primary Industries New Zealand First is appalled that Meridian seems to have been unnecessarily spilling water from its dams to drive up its profits."While New Zealanders have been coming together in some of our darkest hours, we don’t expect power gentailers to waste water and ...
We wrapped up the first half of 2020 with a busy month, taking additional steps to support New Zealanders as we continue with our economic recovery. We rolled out targeted packages to support key industries like tourism and construction, helped create jobs in the environmental and agriculture sectors, and set ...
Hon Shane Jones, Minister for Infrastructure Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones has welcomed the appointment of Maurice Davis and his deep infrastructure and construction experience to the board of the Infrastructure Commission. Mr Davis (Ngāti Maniapoto), is the seventh and final appointment to the board led by former Reserve Bank Governor ...
Rt Hon Winston Peters, Leader of New Zealand First New Zealand’s click bait journalism is taking a turn for the worse, with yet another example of sensationalist, wilful-misrepresentation of the facts. “New Zealand First has worked constructively with its Coalition partner on hundreds of pieces of legislation and policy, and ...
The Green Party is today unveiling its Poverty Action Plan, which includes a Guaranteed Minimum Income to ensure people have enough to live with dignity. ...
Rt Hon Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister Fletcher Tabuteau MP, Under-Secretary for Regional Economic Development The Rotorua Museum redevelopment and Whakarewarewa and Tokorangi Forest projects will be accelerated thanks to a $2.09 million Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) boost, Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and Under-Secretary for Regional Economic Development Fletcher ...
This week, we rolled out the next steps of our recovery plan, with new infrastructure investment, extra support for tourism operators, and a new programme to get Kiwis into agriculture careers. The global economic consequences of COVID-19 will continue to be a challenge, but we have a detailed plan to ...
Jenny Marcroft MP, Spokesperson for Health New Zealand First welcomes the passage of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Bill through its final reading in Parliament today fulfilling a coalition agreement commitment. “This is an important step in saving the lives of New Zealanders and delivers a key coalition commitment ...
Whakatāne has been given a $2.5 million boost to speed up previously funded projects and create more than 450 jobs in the next decade. Of those, the equivalent of 160 full-time jobs could be delivered in the next six weeks. Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters is in town to make ...
Rt Hon Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister Fletcher Tabuteau MP, Under-Secretary for Regional Economic Development The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) is investing $2.5 million to accelerate three infrastructure projects in Whakatāne, Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and Under-Secretary for Regional Economic Development Fletcher Tabuteau announced today. “This package is about ...
Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones is throwing his weight behind a bid by the Auckland Council to fast-track the more than doubling of the city's water allowance from the Waikato River. And he's coming out strongly against anyone who plans on getting in the way of this campaign. "It is my ...
The Green Party is thrilled to see changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that mean consents for large projects can be declined if they will have significant climate change implications that are inconsistent with the Zero Carbon Act and Aotearoa New Zealand’s Paris Agreement obligations. ...
Hon Ron Mark, Minister of Defence The Royal New Zealand Navy’s new ship, Aotearoa, set sail for New Zealand on 10 June from the Republic of Korea, and is due to arrive in Auckland tomorrow, announced Minister of Defence Ron Mark. “Aotearoa is the Royal New Zealand Navy’s new fleet ...
Rt Hon Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Racing Racing Minister Winston Peters has today welcomed the Racing Industry Bill passing its third reading, creating the legislative framework for revitalising the racing industry while limiting the need for future government intervention. “For too long our domestic racing industry has ...
The Green Party has today put forward an amendment to the Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Bill to ensure all people in prisons can vote in general elections. ...
The Green Party welcomes the decision to not proceed with Public Public Investment (PPI) delivery of Auckland’s light rail project and to instead run the process through the public service. ...
Hon Ron Mark, New Zealand First List MP based in the Wairarapa New Zealand First List MP Hon Ron Mark welcomes the announcement of Provincial Growth Funding investment of $1.4 million to help secure the Wairarapa’s water supply. The funding boost will allow the Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC), and ...
New Zealand First list MP Mark Patterson has been selected to represent the party in the newly formed Taieri electorate at the upcoming election. Mr Patterson, his wife Jude and two daughters farm sheep and beef at Lawrence and Waitahuna. He previously stood in the Clutha-Southland electorate however boundary changes ...
Hon Shane Jones, Associate Minister for State Owned Enterprises A new ‘super depot’ to be built for NZ Post in Wellington will create around 350 jobs during construction, Associate Minister for State Owned Enterprises Shane Jones says. Shane Jones today attended a ground-breaking and blessing ceremony for the parcel-processing depot ...
Our strong economic management prior to COVID-19 - with surpluses, low debt and near-record-low unemployment - put us in a good position to weather the impact of the virus and start to rebuild our economy much earlier than many other countries.Now we're putting our plan to recover and rebuild ...
Darroch Ball MP, New Zealand First Spokesperson for Law and Order Recently released Police fleeing driver statistics have shown yet another increase in incidents with another record-high in the latest quarter. “This new quarterly record-high is the latest in a string of record-high numbers since 2014. The data shows incidents ...
New Zealand First MP Fletcher Tabuteau is pleased to be confirmed today as the party’s candidate for the Rotorua electorate. Speaking at the Rotorua AGM for New Zealand First, Mr Tabuteau said this is an election that is incredibly important for the people of Rotorua. “The founding principles of New ...
The Human Rights Commission’s PRISM report on the issues impacting people based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) provides an excellent programme of work for future governments to follow, say the Greens. ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said the trans-Tasman bubble had not been jeopardised after aborder botch-upresulted in New Zealand having two active cases of COVID-19. On Friday, Mr Peters told RNZ's Morning Report he had heard from Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison that borders for trans-Tasman travel would open by ...
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters said today he was pleased the army was now running the quarantine and isolation process - up until now it has been the Ministry of Health. Peters told Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking that the army knew how to introduce and follow protocols and instil discipline. ...
Hon Ron Mark, New Zealand First List MP based in the Wairarapa New Zealand First MP and Minister for Defence and Veteran’s Affairs Ron Mark has confirmed his bid for the Wairarapa seat.“The Coalition Government has done a lot of good work throughout the Wairarapa, but many constituents have told ...
New Zealand First is pleased to release the names of its next tranche of candidates for the 2020 election. We’re proud to announce these hardworking New Zealanders that have put their hand up to fight for a commonsense and resilient future.Jamie Arbuckle – Kaikoura Mark Arneil – Christchurch Central Jackie ...
The Government is maintaining current levy rates for the next 2 years, as part of a set of changes to help ease the financial pressures of COVID-19 providing certainty for businesses and New Zealanders, ACC Minister Iain Lees-Galloway says. “New Zealanders and businesses are facing unprecedented financial pressures as a ...
Small businesses are getting greater certainty about access to finance with an extension to the interest-free cashflow loan scheme to the end of the year. The Small Business Cashflow Loan Scheme has already been extended once, to 24 July. Revenue and Small Business Minister Stuart Nash says it will be ...
A package of 23 projects across the country will clean up waterways and deliver over 2000 jobs Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Environment Minister David Parker announced today. The $162 million dollar package will see 22 water clean-up projects put forward by local councils receiving $62 million and the Kaipara ...
Tena koutou katoa Nga tangata whenua o tenei rohe o Pōneke, tena koutou Nau mai, haere mai ki te hui a tau mo te roopu reipa Ko tatou! Ko to tatou mana! Ko to tatou kaupapa kei te kokiri whakamua Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena tatou katoa Welcome. I ...
The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) is investing $1.5 million to ensure QE Health in Rotorua can proceed with its world class health service and save 75 existing jobs, Under Secretary for Regional Economic Development, Fletcher Tabuteau announced today. The PGF funding announced today is in addition to the $8 million ...
A new programme, which sets a firm course for the Building and Construction sector to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, has been announced by the Minister for Building and Construction Jenny Salesa. “A significant amount of New Zealand’s carbon emissions come from the building and construction sector. If we’re serious ...
The Provincial Growth Fund is investing more than $7.5 million in Northland ventures to combat the economic impact of the COVID-19 virus, Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones have announced. The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) investment is going to the Northern Adventure Experience and ...
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Education Minister Chris Hipkins today announced significant funding for Auckland’s Northcote College as part of the first wave of a new nationwide school redevelopment programme to upgrade schools over the next 10 years. The $48.5 million project brings the total investment in Northcote College to ...
The Government has opened an urgent response fund to support schools and early learning services to get children and young people back on track after the Covid-19 lockdown. “While we are seeing improvements in attendance under Alert Level 1 Ministry of Education data shows that attendance rates in our schools ...
The law to boost the economic recovery from the impact of COVID-19 by speeding up resource consenting on selected projects has passed its second and third readings in the House today. “Accelerating nationwide projects and activities by government, iwi and the private sector will help deliver faster economic recovery and ...
Five port-related projects in Whanganui will receive a $26.75 million Provincial Growth Fund investment to support local economic recovery and create new opportunities for growth, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today. “This is a significant investment that will support the redevelopment of the Whanganui Port, a project governed ...
Whanganui’s Sarjeant Gallery will receive an investment of up to $12 million administered by the Provincial Growth Fund to support its redevelopment, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today. The project is included in a $3 billion infrastructure pipeline announced by Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Shane Jones yesterday. ...
The Provincial Growth Fund is investing nearly $2.5 million into three Te Ara Mahi programmes to support Manawatū-Whanganui jobseekers and employees to quickly train and upskill, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today. “Up to 154 local people will be supported into employment within the first year by these ...
This morning I have formally tendered my resignation as Minister of Health, which was accepted by the Prime Minister. Serving as Minister of Health has been an absolute privilege – particularly through these extraordinary last few months. It’s no secret that Health is a challenging portfolio. I have given ...
Scholarships for 57 early-career agricultural emissions scientists from 20 developing countries is another example of New Zealand’s international leadership in primary sector sustainability, says Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor. Mr O’Connor, announcing the scholarships today, says hundreds of applications were received for this fourth round of the CLIFF-GRADS programme (Climate, Food ...
A project to help rejuvenate the Horowhenua town of Foxton will receive a Provincial Growth Fund investment of $3.86 million, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today. “This funding for the Foxton Regeneration project will be used to make the well-known holiday town even more attractive for visitors and ...
Moa bones and other sub-fossil remains of extinct species are set to have improved protection with proposals to prevent the trade in extinct species announced the Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage today. “We have lost too many of our native species, but these lost species, such as moa, remain an ...
The Government’s free and healthy school lunches programme moves south for the first time creating jobs for around 30 people in Otago and Southland. “Eighteen schools with 3000 students are joining the programme – 11 have already begun serving lunches, and seven are preparing to start during Term 3. This is ...
Thousands of Kiwi jobs and investment in New Zealand productions will be protected through a screen sector support package announced today by Associate Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage Carmel Sepuloni, Minister for Economic Development Phil Twyford and Minister for Broadcasting Kris Faafoi. The package also includes investment in broadcasting ...
The Government has established a new $10 million fund for the domestic events sector to help save jobs and protect incomes as it recovers from the impacts of COVID-19, Minister of Economic Development Phil Twyford announced today. This funding from Budget 2020 follows talks with the event sector designed to ...
The Government has taken another step in its commitment to making sure New Zealanders get a fairer deal at the petrol pump with the introduction of legislation to improve competition in the retail fuel market, says Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods. “The fuel market study that this Government ordered ...
New Zealand has joined a global initiative that aims to enable all countries to access a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters announced today. The COVAX Facility was recently launched by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. The Alliance includes the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank ...
From today new legislation takes effect to both restore the right to legal representation at the start of a Care of Children (CoCA) dispute in the Family Court, and allow parties to those proceedings to access legal aid where eligible. During a visit to the Family Court in Auckland today, ...
Home-based early childhood education (ECE) subsidised by the government will transition to a fully qualified workforce by 2025 to ensure better and more consistent quality, Education Minister Chris Hipkins announced today. “Quality early learning helps provide children with a strong foundation for their future,” Chris Hipkins said. From 1 January ...
The new Criminal Cases Review Commission | Te Kāhui Tātari Ture (CCRC) has started work and can now independently investigate claimed miscarriages of justice. “Even though we have appeal rights and safeguards against unsafe convictions, from time to time our justice system does get things wrong. The design of the ...
E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā karangatanga maha, tēnā koutou Ki a koutou Te Āti Awa, Taranaki Whānui, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, ngā mana whenua o te rohe nei, tēnā koutou Ko Te Whare Wānanga o Aotearoa ki ngā take o te Ao (NZIIA), Ko te Rōpū Tohu Tono ...
The Government’s increase to paid parental leave kicks in today with another 4 weeks taking New Zealand up to a full 6 months (26 weeks, up from 22 weeks) leave for new parents, and the maximum weekly payment will increase by $20pw, Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Iain Lees-Galloway says. ...
A new package of infrastructure investments will help kick-start the post-COVID rebuild by creating more than 20,000 jobs and unlocking more than $5 billion of projects up and down New Zealand. Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones today outlined how the $3 billion infrastructure fund in the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters today expressed the New Zealand Government’s deep disappointment at the passage by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee of a national security law for Hong Kong. “New Zealand has consistently emphasised its serious concern about the imposition of this legislation on Hong Kong without inclusive ...
More jobs and more family time with newborns are the centrepiece of a suite of Government initiatives coming into effect today. July 1 is a milestone day for the Government as a host of key policies take effect, demonstrating the critical areas where progress has been made. “The Coalition Government ...
Environment Minister David Parker has today “called in” Auckland’s application to the Waikato Regional Council to take an extra 200 million litres of water a day from the lower reaches of the Waikato River for Auckland drinking water and other municipal uses. The call-in means the application has been referred ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters and Trade and Export Growth Minister David Parker announced today that New Zealand’s hosting of APEC in 2021 will go ahead using virtual digital platforms. Mr Peters said the global disruption caused by COVID-19, including resultant border restrictions, had been the major factor in the ...
The start of construction on a new link road between Matakana Road and State Highway 1 will create jobs and support the significant population growth expected in the Warkworth area, Transport Minister Phil Twyford and Mayor Phil Goff announced today. Transport Minister Phil Twyford said construction of the Matakana Link ...
The Government is prioritising its latest investment in PPE for frontline health workers, including staff at managed isolation and quarantine facilities, Health Minister David Clark says. “With no community transmission of COVID-19 our response now has a firm focus on keeping our border safe and secure. “We must ensure that ...
The Parihaka Papakāinga Trust in Taranaki will receive up to $14 million for a new visitor centre and other improvements at the historic settlement that will boost the local economy and provide much-needed jobs, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones and Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Andrew Little have ...
Protections for workers who are employees of one employer but working under the direction of another business or organisation have come into force, closing a gap in legislation that made the personal grievance process inaccessible for some workers, says Workplace Relations Minister Iain Lees-Galloway. “This Government is working hard to ...
A range of improvements are already underway to address issues identified in the rapid review of the Managed Isolation and Quarantine system released today, Housing Minister Megan Woods said. The review was commissioned just over a week ago to identify and understand current and emerging risks to ensure the end-to-end ...
The important brown kiwi habitat around Whakatāne will receive added protection through an Iwi-led predator free project announced by Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage and Under Secretary for Regional Economic Development Fletcher Tabuteau. “The Government is investing nearly $5 million into Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa’s environmental projects with $2.5 ...
An extra 4,000 tonnes of offcuts and scraps of untreated wood per year will soon be able to be recycled into useful products such as horticultural and garden mulch, playground safety surfacing and animal bedding as a result of a $660,000 investment from the Waste Minimisation Fund, Associate Environment Minister ...
The Governor-General has referred Scott Watson’s convictions for murder back to the Court of Appeal, Justice Minister Andrew Little announced today. Mr Watson was convicted in 1999 of the murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope. His appeal to the Court of Appeal in 2000 was unsuccessful, as was his ...
For all The Spinoff’s latest coverage of Covid-19 see here. Read Siouxsie Wiles’s work here. New Zealand is currently in alert level one – read about what that means here. For official government advice, see here.The Spinoff’s coverage of the Covid-19 outbreak is made possible thanks to donations from Spinoff Members. To support this ...
Good morning and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: Problems looming for temporary visa holders, state house waiting list balloons again, and US ban could hit NZ seafood exports.There are some real problems looming for temporary visa holders and their employers, with thousands set to expire all once, reports Nona ...
Publisher Stuff is turning its back on Facebook. Anna Rawhiti-Connell explains why, and how that might affect readers In a bold move, one of our biggest media companies announced on Monday it will cease all activity on Facebook and Instagram for an unspecified time. Stuff’s action follows in the wake ...
A call by Peter Gluckman, Helen Clark and Rob Fyfe for a 'conversation' on opening our border lacks serious economic analysis and ignores real risks to New Zealanders, writes Geoff Bertram From the start of the coronavirus pandemic there has been a steady drumbeat of demands from tourism and other ...
A new port report before Cabinet is a U-turn on the last one, which recommended Auckland's port be moved to Northland Moves to shift Auckland's port from the CBD to Northland have ground to a halt on the back of a new report before Cabinet that suggests Manukau Harbour is a better option. ...
Sarah Cowley Ross sits down with Mary Thompson, one of New Zealand's great sports volunteers, who's given much of her life to netball. Mary Thompson clearly remembers the conversation with Dame Lois Muir. It was during Thompson’s stint as president of Bay of Plenty Netball, and two candidates had applied to ...
Matt Bartlett explains why Facebook should come to see political advertising and its challenges in the same way as Twitter Even before Covid-19 prevented most of us from leaving our homes, social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter had become society’s main public square. We gather online in Facebook and ...
Cat MacLennan argues there's scanty evidence for a decision to rule footage of a sharemilker beating cows with a metal pole inadmissible on the grounds it would encourage more undercover filming The judge in the cow cruelty case of Ministry for Primary Industries v Luke ruled that hidden camera film footage ...
I’m one of many applauding the Government’s decision to prescribe the teaching of New Zealand history in our schools. But wait – prescription – isn’t that anathema to the Ministry of Education? We now have a localised curriculum, with the national document giving guidelines only. It’s up to schools to ...
An author finds historical parallels with the dog-whistling comments made by Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker. The recent race-based comments by the Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker have been described as “disgraceful, scaremongering and racist”. But I found them fascinatingly familiar. My wife Jenny and I, both Otago-born teachers, lived in Central ...
In quitting the social media giant, Stuff has taken a risk. But the gamble is not as big as it may seem, writes Hal Crawford.Ceasing all activity on Facebook is a bold move for a news publisher, and I’m not surprised that it has come from the company now owned ...
Bullying behaviour is embedded in institutions across our country, and parliament is no exception. But it can be different, writes Jess Berentson-Shaw.Every now and then I find myself imagining what it would look like if our political system was built around the sorts of ideals most of us deeply aspire ...
Clare Curran’s interview has resurfaced concerns about the toxic nature of parliamentary politics. But while politics shouldn’t be toxic, or misogynistic, or cruel, for the system to be work, nor should it be nice, writes Danyl Mclauchlan.Two high-profile MPs are leaving parliament at the end of this term: National’s Paula ...
Our economy's taking a hit, our wallets are thinner - and this pandemic has also changed our direction of travel when it comes to spending. Covid-19 may have felt like a death sentence for some businesses but it hasn’t all been bad news. Today The Detail looks at how ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has repeatedly and vociferously championed keeping state borders open. But on Monday, Morrison was forced to change course, agreeing, in a hook up with premiers Daniel Andrews and Gladys Berejiklian that the Victorian-NSW ...
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Another important testimony – tough reading for a sunday morning but not as tough as what these children endured
http://e-tangata.co.nz/news/it-sticks-like-a-knife-in-my-guts
What I love about the link the most marty mars, was the comments section below.
Her writing was that good, it inspired such well thought out and written responses.
i’ve been doing some self-defence course as means of empowerment. one of the things we’re taught is to shout no! loudly and with force. it got me thinking about how as women and as nurturers and carers we’re oppressed by the patriarchy not to say no to anything, not even to our mokopuna, and how this contributes to the rape culture we women live in. how many times as women have we said yes to something like “can you do this?” or “can I have this?” when we should have said no? as a means of taking power back we as women must learn to say no!
~Tui
Are you a Maori woman?
are you a white oppressive male?
~ Tui
Do you think all white men are oppressive?
Pity a dim like you can’t let an interesting exchange play out because you’ve got some stupid and bogus point to talk about and by god YOU will talk, why not it’s YOUR right!!!
thank you marty.
no! i certainly do not think all white men are oppressive. but as a male you are born into the patriarchy and until you make a conscious decision to leave the patriarchy you are part of that oppressive system.
Thinking such as that ensures any and all genuine issues will continue…
An unfortunate comment, and thought process!
What a load of bollocks.
As the psychologists say, the first thing that people need to accept when they need to change is that there’s a problem. A male denying that they’re part of the patriarchy is denying that there’s a problem.
On certain subject matter it appears you have critically thought through, and your comments are somewhat coherent…
This is not one them, neither is it for Tui, taking the written comments at face value
The bollocks you’re projecting is the apparant shallow level of thinking applied through yours, and Tuis comments…
Five Tips to Accept a Mental Health Problem
So, yeah, it’s you who’s talking bollocks.
Not even using your own thoughts, Draco
Which is why you find yourself trapped in boxes, such as this one
Using your own mind, not the one defined for you by others…
Read Tuis comment which I responded to, and see if you can identify one key fault in it
There are a number of them, but see if you can identify one…
“Information is entangled in a symphony of belonging”
so oppressive by default until a conscious decision to leave?
From my perspective as a white middle-class male, that’s probably a fair comment.
Not that every wmcm beats women or whatever, just that we each need to look at the daily assumptions we’ve been trained to make at home, at work, wherever. The shit we do without noticing.
YOU need to look at the daily assumptions YOU’VE been trained to make…
The shit YOU do without noticing…
That’s why I used the word “we”, a the plural first person pronoun.
By “we” I referred to a group of people that includes James, myself, YOU…
For example, the assumption that you have understanding that nobody else here comprehends in the slightest.
We’re each at different levels of understanding , McFlock
That we each continue to learn and evolve is important
But that’s only my opinion, based on my own understandings
How to learn and evolve is beyond the conscious thought of far too many…..IMO
But that’s not for me to concern over….
Okey dokey, I’ll just throw this out there on the off chance then:
If it doesn’t concern you, then don’t tell us that we haven’t “critically thought through” something, or that something is obviously beyond our perception.
Instead, try telling us why your understanding of the issue differs from ours, and how you reached it. Explicitly, with a gradual progression of logical argument.
That was in response to Draco, who jumped in on my comment to Tui
‘It doesn’t concern me’….except where someone jumps in on a response I make to another handle…in actuality it didn’t concern Draco…it concerned Tui
Regardless, it is not my concern to guide the thoughts of others…but I do pass comment at times….
It’s not a private forum. Anyone can join a conversation, there’s no ownership.
DTB will pass comment, I’ll pass comment, you’ll pass comment.
But simply saying that someone lacks understanding or conceptual sophistication doesn’t develop the conversation. Saying why you think they’re on the wrong track, that leaves a space for someone to agree, or to bring the conversation forward by saying in turn why they disagree with you.
Poor ‘boy’ James @ 2.1.1.1…….just can’t resist the right-wing reflex to pour shit on a subject of significance outside the right-wing tunnel. Sad (bad) Trump man-child ? Well yeah…….stupid and unattractive……. just like the The Fake Prez.
You are a strange person – and your reply is rambling and disjointed.
Read it slowly.
Fucking hell what a display this thread is from the righties. Brash’s Hobsons pledge meets Bob Jones. Heh
I think they are honestly baffled by Tui’s original comment ‘as nurturers and carers we’re oppressed by the patriarchy not to say no to anything, not even to our mokopuna’. I suspect it does not match with their own life experience – them not having oppressed anyone recently or seen anyone being oppressed by the patriarchy – or even being entirely clear what the patriarchy _is_.
This has rather derailed the discussion of Tui’s perfectly reasonable point that women should be more assertive and ‘learn to say no!’
Hope that helps
A.
Just tweaking it for a different perspective 🙂
Do fish always notice water, or understand its nature, I wonder?
You could be right and they could be unconscious oppressors, or you could be wrong and they could just be decent people, I don’t know, I haven’t met them in RL
Don’t their comments online give you anything to go on?
Heh.
It’s a fine thing to be able to say ‘No!’ when the occasion calls for it 🙂
A.
just out of chance i happened to click on stephanie’s link on the right and (i hope she doesn’t mind me quoting her) found this bit:
“That’s another challenge, doing small things every day to stand up for ourselves and for all the women around us.”
i feel that fits perfectly what i’ve been trying to say here. we as women must learn to stand up for ourselves even in small ways so that when it comes to it when can stand up for ourselves in big ways too!
~ Tui
Women say no to me all the time. It’s a deeply pedestrian occurrence.
Are you a Spanish Inquisitor?
CIA flights to NZ helped break the 1951 waterfront strike.
The CIA were here in force in the 1970s too. The election of the Kirk government would have been the motivating factor. Ya know, that terrible Commie Labour crowd wot wanted to stop the French from letting off nuclear bombs in their own backyard.
I noted in the article the reference to the “strange lights over Kaikoura in 1978”. That showed them up for a bunch of stupid ignoramuses. Those lights were a natural phenomena which occur over water in intense anticyclonic conditions. An inversion will form several hundred feet in the atmosphere trapping particles – including ‘light’ particles. There was a fleet of foreign fishing vessels in the area at the time and the lights from those boats was being reflected off the top of the inversion layer… making it look like flying saucer-like objects were bobbing about in the air.
I have always suspected that million dollars spent by the Exclusive Brethren at the time of the 2005 election, on a pamphlet demonizing Labour and the Greens, came from overseas. I have no evidence of course that this was the case but I just don’t see the “apolitical” Brethren spending their own money on such an enterprise.
“I have no evidence of course”
kinda sums it up.
This is old news, I read about it in the book written about the lockout back in the 1950’s. In the same book, the author also details Chinese assistance as well, that is from the Republic of China, lead by Chaing Kai-Shek, based in Taiwan.
First I’ve ever heard of it.
I would agree, the first time I have heard this.
Though presumably at the time the fact of the additional flights must have been well known, given that so many flights across Cook Strait by US planes would have been pretty obvious.
However, I suppose people would not have realised the aircraft and crew were supplied by the CIA.
I wonder how the aircraft were branded?
US Air, or Air America. Those were the later names they used.
The planes were branded CAT,the NZ operations were headed by a kiwi,Mrs Olive King (The south pacific area manager)
I would imagine that, as minister of defence, you would have access to info such as this.
A short film by Rui Xavier
http://www.zeit.de/video/2017-02/5333742431001/berlinale-shorts-superficie-ein-kurzfilm-von-rui-xavier
Sydney Harbour Bridge celebrates 85th birthday with release of archival footage and worker interviews
Interesting piece of history.
Nicky Hager is releasing a new book on 21st March 5pm.
Felix Geiringer tweeted:
Thrilled to hear this news. Rock on Tuesday 😀
I suspect tax havens or tax avoidance.
Was thinking the same Carolyn.
Interestingly enough Key exits Parliament the following day.
And the troll attack on Hagar via Stuff is fierce. Considering the news has just been announced in the last few hours. I suspect some people will be freaking out.
Nicky Hagar, the only New Zealand member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Big up’s to you Sir.
Some of the commenters claim Hager is only announcing his book but not the topic for publicity. But, I recall that he did that with Dirty Politics so no-one could slap an injunction on the book before it is released.
Tracey Watkins seems clearly thinks the topic of the book has something to do with John Key.
The comments under the article are mixed – supporters and detractors of Hager.
Isn’t Key giving his final address on Wednesday 22 March?
Coincidence that Nicky’s book is publishing the day before 21 March?
Surely unconnected!
I do recall Hager saying – not long after the release of Dirty Politics -something to the effect his next investigation was going to be about the police. He said several police officers – or maybe former officers – had approached him with some interesting material. Something like that.
If it proves to be correct then I’m picking the Kim Dotcom case will be one of the stories highlighted and that would definitely include John Key.
Hager’s definitely getting a hiding in the comments section. I suspect the Young Nats are at a bit of a loose end today, and they’ve all converged like buzzards on a rotting beef carcass. Some of the comments are spectacularly ignorant, and quite obviously prejudiced. Hager could provide them with a fresh corpse, a bloody knife and CCTV footage of the actual crime, and they’d still bleat, “It’s a conspiracy! It’s all a communist conspiracy!” Truly, there are none so blind as those who will not see.
A stab in the dark, but I am picking that it could be about health, welfare and state housing.
I had another thought, maybe it’s about the media?
ONE MORE SLEEP.
I hope it has a handy dandy index like his last book. Gosh I’m excited.
A couple or three centuries slaughtering Muslims and subjugating Indonesia and now they cry wolf.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/03/netherlands-geert-wilders-islam-election-empire/519648/?
The battle of Poitiers, Ottoman Habsburg wars, Anglofrench domination of Egypt and the middle east. Dutch supremacy in the east indies, Mahdist war, Mesopotamian campaign. When will they learn ?
UK sends 800 troops to Estonia
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39311670
Sir Michael insisted it was a “defensive deployment” and was not “designed to provoke or escalate”.
He added that Nato wanted to “deter any possible Russian aggression”
Indeed the Rifles at the double would allay any aggression.
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Classic gnat speak – a 5 fold increase does not equal a “big buy up”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11821313
Really a register seems like a good idea to me – but the gnats would be scared of what it would show I think.
Agree.
I watched Q&A today. the panel afterwards proclaimed that Mitchell is a holding minister, a newby keeping control until the election.
The panel discussion was very frustrating. Robert Reid questioned the whole notion of private ownership of land. Jaimie Whyte disdainfully dismissed any notion of “collective ownership” of land, saying it had never worked where it had been tried. I’d like to know the evidence, because Māori relationship to land pre-European.
Whyte was saying it didn’t matter whether a foreigner of an NZ owned the land, and to have a go at foreign land ownership had no basis – said it was just Xenophobic. But no-one pointed out how it was very wealthy people buying big tracts of NZ land, putting it well out of the reach of most Kiwis’ bank balances.
We probably need to have some form of private ownership of land, but it should be realized, I think, that ultimately the and belongs to all of us collectively and that such ownership should be subject to such conditions as we democratically decide.
I tore my hair out watching it. Like you say, nobody talked about the downstream effects of wealthy people from bigger countries that operate on way bigger scales than NZ coming here to buy huge amounts of pristine and sought after land that NZers can’t afford. Nobody talked about how that then pushes the prices up of all similar land and sets the ball rolling until no New Zealander can afford to do a fucking thing.
The people on the programme talked about access to the land, walking tracks etc. Mitchell had a sweet ride. Poor old Robert Reid should’ve been talking about NZer’s access to buy that sort of land. Whyte got away with reducing the argument to foreigners versus NZers – and he seemed credible! But the real point wasn’t made, which isn’t about foreigners, but about the prices foreigners can afford, and the effect that has on NZers’ potential to purchase. We see the same thing in residential property with Auckland fucking “investors” lower down the food chain buying in the regions – the effect is the same, which is a massive reduction on NZer’s ability to buy property – and it’s spreading throughout the provinces like a fucking virus.
The logical extension is that fewer and fewer NZers own the land, tenants in our own country, or how ever you want to describe it. History tells us that situations like that never end well. Counties that restrict foreign land ownership do so for a reason.
We need to ban offshore ownership ASAP. This is what this data shows.
We’re clearly becoming tenants in our own land.
When African-American oratory was more than pursed lips,
pregnant pauses, pious platitudes and horrible method acting
http://normanfinkelstein.com/2017/03/18/when-african-american-oratory-consisted-of-more-than-pursed-lips-pregnant-pauses-and-pious-platitudes/
Is he visiting key?
I see the loser, and corporate lap dog still can’t accept reality. The delusional comments in this link are as always, deleterious.
This is what happens when all liberal elites know is the language of suffering, without actually living it.
I’m so glad she lost. Not happy who won, but really glad this out of touch corporate lackey lost.
Hillary Clinton says she's 'ready to come out of the woods'
The fuckers who won are intent on burning down the house with women, children, the poor, the elderly, POC, LGBT folk, immigrants, non xtians and the ill locked inside and you’re so glad she lost.
And then you salve your conscience with a trite not happy who won.
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but russia, ukraine, emails, syria and shit.
sorry Joe90, but there are sadly many that rather burn the house down in which they and their families live then vote for the lesser evil and maybe buy some time.
Don’t put words in my mouth Sabine, I don’t do it to you.
My stance is simple, h.r.c is a corporate poodle, and economically a regressive liberal.
Buy time for what, exactly? Every time the democrat corporate’s get in, it gets worse for everyone. And yet you too seem to be under some illusion that some miraculous will happen.
I’m under no illusions with the corruption, and failings of the USA political system. Most of my friends are under no illusions either. What we worried about is that weak spine liberals are walking us all to slavery.
I like freedom, and I like the democracy. These are things you have to fight for. Not give away incrementally, whilst waiting for some miracle day.
If you think h.r.c and her cohort actually give to cents about you, then you’r well off with the fairies.
I will never vote for a lesser evil. Because evil is evil.
i don’t put word in your mouth.
I just stated what i have observed. In order to not vote for the lesser evil – which by the way – some seem happier to vote for the evil that will burn down the house, or vote for some feel good pusher that will end up helping the evil to burn down the house.
at the end of the day, the house is burned down and everyone ends up homeless with third degree burns. Win Win. NO?
but some will manage to keep their purity intact, and will be able to tell their kids, I wuz pure.
As for H.R.C, she would not gut Planned Parenthood, she would not take away school lunches, she would not increase the defense budget by 54 billion, she would not cut the endowments of the arts, she would not cut job programmes in the Appalachian region, she would not cut Meals on Wheels. Just for a starter.
She would also not hang up on the PM of OZ, be a rude fuck towards a female head of State blah blah blah.
Do you think that D. T, cares about you? Really? i have some beautiful healthcare to sell to you, Its called Trumpcare. It will cover you beautifully – in medical bills.
And btw, democracy means nothing if you are not being able to control your fertility, means nothing if you are not worth common decency because of the colour of your skin, means nothing when everyday you wonder if you should eat or your children.
Freedom? Yeah, i like my freedom from pregnancy, from 20 children born, from having to marry a man i might not like just to have security, freedom from not going to the doctor cause no money, freedom to be skinny cause no money for food, freedom from heating costs cause no money. Yeah, we all loves us some freedom.
Maybe if people would actually vote in their self interest instead voting against the evil women having sex, having to many babies they can’t afford, or abort the babies they don’t want to have, or voting against the migrant worker who takes the jobs that non of the white blokes wants to do, maybe then they would vote for their interest, but they don’t. so sorry mate, i have no use for you and your high ideals for purity and bullshit, if you can only have your revolution by throwing women, children, disabled, old, poc, and others under the bus, your revolution ain’t worth shit.
Where have i said ” russia, ukraine, emails, syria and shit.” so you can’t say you just say “I just stated what i have observed.” because I have never said those things.
What makes you think h.r.c. would not have done the cuts incrementally? If you do, then you are seriously kidding yourself.
I draw a line in the sand, and you shout purist. I’m not calling for a revolution, I’m saying this chipping away at out rights incrementally is evil. And anyone who supports that, is just as evil.
Did you miss I called out a corporate lackey, a hawk, and a conservative, and you rush to defend them. Are you left or is it just all for show?
As for women’s control of their bodies, damn right women should control there bodies. But how is that going to happen when state after state, and the whole Federal government went to the republicans. It’s not about trump, it never has been. If you think supporting the same corrupt people to get back a few rights, whilst they take away others is the answer, then sorry for you.
joe90, your in lala land if you think h.r.c was going to be any better. The murder rate of transgender women was the worst ever last year. And has been on the rise since 2009.
As for people of colour, well same shit just different package, at least with this fool we know he is a racist. Not just another supporter of white privileged.
As for you faux angst – what are you doing to help?
Anything??
But h.r.c and the democrat’s will save us, grow up. You lost because you did not listen to the likes of me, and well you deserved too.
I wish you would all stop attacking each other quite sharply because the USA is in such a shit state. Trying to work out what is going to happen next and look for any possible good side is a reasonable line of discussion. But falling out over the pile of steaming dog poo that is USA politics, that is no way to help with our problems which will take all our attention to try and alleviate and ameliorate. We can’t solve our problems, but we have to think smart how we can soften the crash landing. FGS leave the USA to themselves, we can’t help them and have to try to limit the wash from their cruise liner.
I remember about one city there that contracted out the disposal of rubbish, which was barged to some poor country I think in Africa and dumped there. We have to worry what their externalities to us are, so think of us, concentrate your minds instead of all this crap flying.
We have big problems and not much money. They have bigger problems and create money up to trillions. It’s David and Goliath. David was a clever little fellow and skilled at attack and defence. Let’s be clever like him, he concentrated and learned and perfected his skills which were important for survival.
Well we can help them greywarshark, and I do. Even sending emails to your friends and taking the time to listen to their stresses is somthing. Helping them organise, and offering advise on what does not work, also is great.
Leaving aside the fact you missed that the USA is the only Empire in town, turning you back on people, is like turning back boat loads of Jew from Germany in 1939.
I’m saying we should stop trusting the untrustworthy, and get out of this fiction that the liberal elites give a damn about working and middle class people.
There is a real disconnect from that reality, and this site is awash with penny dime liberals who wouldn’t know social democracy if it hit them in the face, let alone have the ability to embrace a world where they actually have to work with, and get on with, working people.
Your antennae are fluttering in the tempest and you can’t sniff out the smell of pork and puha in that situation. Good on you for trying but look out while you are looking overseas and far or near, someone will be removing your own opportunities.
Your telling them you are caring and wanting to help working people, will produce a response that they would be working people if they could find a job and at present the best work they can find is robbing you. I think you have to tighten up your protest portfolio. Charity begins at home in your case.
What dribble greywarshark.
Picking apart your incoherent rant, you need to stop what ever drugs you are on, and work on you communication skills.
That’s funny it really mirrors what I was saying to you. Seems you have got the message.
an interesting write up on the Mercer Family.
You know the people that own Breitbart Media, Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/mercers/
Removed a failing SSD from The Standard’s raid. Smart was reporting a failure on the available reserved space. That is really odd because it indicates a wear pattern.
It isn’t old, the other drives on that array contain much older versions of the same general range of Intel SSDs. It has only done about 5300 hours !
Added two more 120GB drives into the array. Odd. I will look at it in the morning.
smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.4.0-62-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Intel 53x and Pro 2500 Series SSDs
Device Model: INTEL SSDSC2BW120A4
Serial Number: CVDA506303KB1207GN
LU WWN Device Id: 5 5cd2e4 04bf46805
Firmware Version: DC32
User Capacity: 120,034,123,776 bytes [120 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Mon Mar 20 00:13:48 2017 NZDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes.
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x05) Offline data collection activity
was aborted by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 33) The self-test routine was interrupted
by the host with a hard or soft reset.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 2930) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7f) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Abort Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 48) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x0025) SCT Status supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours_and_Msec 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5299h+15m+40.160s
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 97
170 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033 001 001 010 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 0
171 Program_Fail_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
172 Erase_Fail_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
174 Unexpect_Power_Loss_Ct 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 23
183 SATA_Downshift_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 8
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0033 100 100 090 Pre-fail Always - 0
187 Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032 033 053 000 Old_age Always - 33 (Min/Max 18/53)
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 23
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
225 Host_Writes_32MiB 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 881157
226 Workld_Media_Wear_Indic 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 65535
227 Workld_Host_Reads_Perc 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 9
228 Workload_Minutes 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 65535
232 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033 001 001 010 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 0
233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0032 065 065 000 Old_age Always - 0
241 Host_Writes_32MiB 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 881157
242 Host_Reads_32MiB 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 85017
249 NAND_Writes_1GiB 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 204692
SMART Error Log not supported
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 5058 -
# 2 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 5058 -
# 3 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 5058 -
# 4 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 5052 -
# 5 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 5052 -
# 6 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 5052 -
# 7 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 5052 -
# 8 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 5052 -
# 9 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 5052 -
#10 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 5052 -
#11 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 5051 -
#12 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 5051 -
#13 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 5051 -
#14 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 5051 -
#15 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 4977 -
#16 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 4783 -
#17 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 4733 -
#18 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 4733 -
#19 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 4732 -
#20 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 4515 -
#21 Offline Interrupted (host reset) 10% 4514 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Sounds expensive?
Oh dear. Perhaps you have been eating your salted peanuts over the hard drive!
Sounds like Smart is on the job though. Advising 24 hours ahead of stop.