Radiolive has tweeted “A prominent New Zealander’s due back in court today on 12 charges of indecent assault – the case is subject to heavy suppression orders”
The clues that a further hearing was scheduled for today in a certain District Court were there in the various media reports on previous hearings, including the urgent Auckland HC hearing of the appeal against the lifting of name suppression.
First – this media report on the Feb 18 DC hearing indicates that the next hearing was probably scheduled for today in what it says re remand on bail:
Several of the media reports of the urgent HC appeal hearing also suggested that the extension of name suppression was granted until the trial commences – eg this one:
So it will be interesting to see what today brings. However, as discussed here, today may just turn out to be a short hearing to extend the remand period ….
I am waiting for the sky to fall on my head as I too agree with her and I never thought I would say that! My only quibble is that more wasn’t made of the cross party unity amongst female mp’s on this issue. We could do with much more of that.
Sweetie Pie Judith! Though let’s remember her catty remark last year about Metiria Turei’s ugly” jacket. Now she wants to defend all females from comments about appearance.
Oh, I don’t for a moment think she has reformed but at least she had a moment of sisterhood. Tomorrow, or even today, it will be the Crusher we know and dislike. 😉
And so it starts. The ‘nice’ Judith Collins takes that first step to leading the National Party. The photo, the hands, the slightly messy hair, more casually dressed than usual. It’s all about winning hearts and minds.
It’s an interesting one with chess to be sure. Very difficult to tease out the effects of inate ability vs cultural expectations and so forth. However, the broad brush strokes are very clear.
Only one woman currently makes it onto the ‘mens’ list. Yifan Hou at #59. Meanwhile, the only woman to ever seriously compete at the highest levels (and qualify for a World Championship for example) is Judit Polgar – who along with her two sisters Susan and Sofia were essentially part of an educational experiment by their father who trained them at home from a very young age. Even so, the highest Judit ever made it on the overall rankings was 8th.
The stuff article, and the global reactions to Short’s statements are highly sensationalised. The media’s play has been to fan the flames of controversy by making it seem Short is sexist, whereas his position would likely best be summarized by this quote:
“One is not better than the other, we just have different skills. It would be wonderful to see more girls playing chess, and at a higher level, but rather than fretting about inequality, perhaps we should just gracefully accept it as a fact.”
We have no issue differentiating between the masculine and feminine on the physical plane. Pointing out a physically strong woman is no argument against the fact that men are typically stronger and are genetically predispossed to be so. Somehow when discussing the field of chess, where the general trends are almost as stark, it’s sexist to point out that men seem to have an advantage.
I feel the issue boils down to our society’s perception of intelligence as falling on a linear spectrum. I’m ‘more intellegent’ than him, and she’s ‘more intelligent’ than me. This is heavily reinforced throughout our childhood by our education system (and exam scoring in particular). Chess has been heavily associated with intelligence for yonks (even to the extent which intellegence is improved in games like ‘The Sims’ by playing Chess). So the by pointing out that, generally speaking, men seem better suited to chess than women, there is also perception of a sexist implication that men are more ‘intelligent’ (whatever it is that means). Intelligence is of course much broader than analytical ability, but we’re still labouring under that narrow view in many ways.
By devolving into an argument about sexism, we cut ourselves off from examining what’s really happening, and the insights that we can have about our own thought patterns and those of the opposite gender simply by sitting down and playing a game of chess with them.
I was impressed by Judit Polgar. Thank you for the link. Just goes to show that women can be as good as men.
I think the real question is not so much about their intelligence, but more about the mystery of why so few women take up the great sport of Chess as a serious endeavour, challenge or hobby.
Here is some info about Judit from your link:
‘Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is the strongest female chess player in history.[1] In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. She is the only woman to qualify for a World Championship tournament, having done so in 2005. She is the first, and to date, only woman to have surpassed the 2700 Elo rating barrier, reaching a career peak rating of 2735 and peak world ranking of #8, both achieved in 2005. She was the number 1 rated woman in the world from 1989 (when she was 12 years old) up until the March 2015 rating list, when she was overtaken by Chinese player Hou Yifan.
She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U.S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.
Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a reigning world number one player, and has defeated eleven current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.‘ Wow! That IS impressive!
Polgar certainly is amazing and testament to the fact that men and women share the same potential. Though I would say the fact that she remained the #1 rated woman for so long is a testament to quite how unusual she is. If you take a look here: http://ratings.fide.com/top_files.phtml?id=700070
You can see that Polgar retained the #1 spot until March 2015 despite playing very little chess since late 2011. Infact, if you scroll down a little, you can see that she stopped playing large numbers of games soon after breaking into the overall top 10 in 2003. It’s taken 12 years since that point for another woman to surpass her on the list.
As for why fewer women play chess, I think on one level the answer is fairly straightforward: fewer women are interested in playing chess. Just as fewer women are interested in mathematics and other endevours requiring that ‘churning analytical frame of mind’ if you will. It’s a frame of mind that is especially well honed and enjoyed amongst individuals in the autism spectrum (such as myself), due to having less focus on other perspectives. Males fall within the autism spectrum 4.3x more often than females, and this is part of the reason there are far more males in these fields, even as the women within the fields may be just as capable.
Of course, one also cannot understate the impact of the expectations we continue to place upon young girls continues to play a part in the paths they decide to take in life (young boys too, who are much more likely to be sheparded in that direction if they show promise).
Lastly, there’s a much more nebulous idea that I’ll put forward anyhow. Males seem much more hardwired for the instinct to compete with one another – the urge to dominate other males and all that. This acts both as a tremendously powerful motivator, and method of improvement. After all, word ‘compete’ comes from the latin ‘competere’ which means ‘together strive’. I feel, though am happy to be corrected on this, that typically women require a different motivational force in order to channel the total concentration required day after day, year after year in order to reach the top.
Judit Polgar shows that men and women have the same potential in chess, but ultimately it’s just far less likely to be unlocked with women, for a wide variety of factors.
Typed out a big reply that unfortunately didn’t end up being posted when I clicked submit, so I’ve lost it!
My basic position was that the likes of Judit Polgar show that men and women have the same potential when it comes to chess. However, a variety of factors make that potential less likely to be unlocked:
-There’s the link between chess/maths/analytical logical frame of mind and autism – which is 4.3x more prevalent in males than females.
-There’s the ever present weight of expectation on our young boys (who are encouraged when they show aptitude in these areas) and young girls (who typically are not).
-There’s the male instinct towards competing with other males for dominance, which, when channeled towards chess is an intensely powerful motivator, and tool for improvement in a field where virtually the only way to improve is to play people better than you over and over and hence lose again and again. One feels males are typically more bloody minded about overcoming those who have beaten them without losing motivation and moving on to something else. Females are just as capable of taking the requisite pounding, but probably typically require different motivation, hence making the required comittment to chess to reach the top statistically less likely.
Actually BOTH your long excellent replies are showing up!
Thanks for your detailed response. It was a pleasure to read, learn and agree with your points. Top marks! Looking forward to see more of your views on various topics. Cheers!
Speaking purely for myself, I don’t think that women cannot play chess and play it well should that be their thing, rather that, there are other things in life attracting their attention.
People are either drawn to chess or not. I am in the not category. However, it doesn’t surprise me to hear that some chess players are misogynists. Perhaps the two men concerned have discovered that the women of the world aren’t all that interested in Grand Masters of Chess and them in particular and putting all women down because some of us haven’t been suitably worshipful!
However, it doesn’t surprise me to hear that some chess players are misogynists. Perhaps the two men concerned have discovered that the women of the world aren’t all that interested in Grand Masters of Chess and them in particular and putting all women down because some of us haven’t been suitably worshipful!
I guess the “misogynist” word is quite fashionable to throw around nowadays. Has it replaced the sharing and discussion of insights into the differences between men and women? And your assumption of heteronormative desires is both blatant and disgusting.
I don’t think there’s any need for that CR. As I pointed out earlier, a quick skim read of the article, without knowing the context, would lead to the conclusion that he and other top players are misogynistic.
I’m more inclined to blame The Telegraph for writing such sensationalised rubbish, and Stuff for reprinting it than Hateatea. Though perhaps a degree of admonishment for leaping to conclusions is appropriate.
I may have leapt to a conclusion that was unjustified but I also had some personal experience of highly competitive chess players and gamers to base my comment on. If I have done these two individuals an injustice I freely apologise.
Not satisfied with their attempts to annouce their racism towards anyone remotely “asian looking” with the “Fresh off the Boat” series, TV2 have a new show to cover all the angles: “Black-ish”.
This follows closely on the heels of a new word they like to blurt out in news reports…
“… police seen shooting A BLACK MAN after he runs away from…”
It’s like they almost jizz themselves with relief. I would like to offer a new name for all news reports, reality TV, gardening shows, soaps, cartoons, infomercials… anything else on TV, really.
“WHITE-ISH”
(because who can tell them apart? Oh they’re Taiwanese? From here to there they look Cambodian…)
This is the same principle that enables rich overseas investors buy up property here. The relative prices of land in Auckland compared to other cities they can invest in.
A dodgy US businessman now has most of the priceless NZ newspaper archives, and his business has gone bung. the best thing would be for the government to fund scanning and making all of these open access (with a CC-BY licence) so we can share, research and profit from them.
Fairfax obviously had no clue about the value of these objects, and are obviously not competent to deal with them.
“But today, as he unveils a memorial to the mindless destruction of a century ago, Tony Abbott is quietly drawing a veil across the genocide being committed by his own government in Western Australia through the enforced closure of remote Aboriginal communities…
…When John Howard introduced the hated Northern Territory Intervention Plan back in 2007, he earned the universal animosity of Indigenous people the world over as “a racist bastard imposing racist policies on a people who are not in a position to fight back”
Tony Abbott’s backing of Western Australia’s Closure of Remote Communities in 2015 is exactly the same, and deserves exactly the same response – “Tony Abbott is a racist bastard imposing racist policies on a people who are not in a position to fight back”
White Australian governments happily dumped Aboriginals into the outback, out of sight and out of mind – until they realised that they had inadvertently given them rights to millions of acres of land beneath which sat vast deposits of billion dollar minerals and oils.
I am always totally amazed and saddened by the total lack of Aboriginals on the streets of the three cities I have mainly visited, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Once, several years ago when in Melbourne I saw a small group outside the Anglican Cathedral – they were totally out of their minds, bodies and whatever else due to what they had been partaking of – it certainly wasn’t to my thinking, alcohol. They cut a sad sight and were quite agitated. People simply walked around and totally ignored them. On another occasion when staying on the outskirts of Darwin – my partner and I walked to a local shopping centre to purchase something for tea and came across a group by a bus stop. They too were high on something and were crawling around on all fours, probably because they couldn’t stand up. As we walked past, we said ‘Hi’ to them. They looked at us as if we were aliens – probably waiting for us to verbally abuse them! They were totally gobsmacked and said ‘Hello’ back to us before we continued on our way. We were travelling on the Ghan the next day and had a stopover in Alice Springs, where there were several groups plying their wares to us touristy types. I purchased a small painting from one group which sits on a sideboard in our lounge.
@ Jilly Bee: As am I. However having once been an Australian (at a time when one didn’t even need a passport to go there, I was heartened by the increase in numbers I saw in Sydney and Melbourne.
In the late 60’s the only contact I had was babysitting kids during the school holidays when they were ‘treated’ to a holiday in the big smoke by a Swedish Professor from Monash Uni.
Other than that, “Bloody Aboes’ were confined to living it rough in the park and totally absent from the streets.
Recently in Sydney, then Redneckville QLD, it was interesting to see certain racial mixes (Oz Aboriginee/Philipino kids, amongst other things). And I have relatives that are Oz Aboriginee/NZ Maori mix- and they are stunningly beautiful.
Over the past 50 years, there has been a real ‘browning’ of the citizenry – which can only bee a good thing – except for the fact that there’s still a core that do there best to fight against it.
I had a ceremonial ‘burning’ of my Australian passport in the late 70s.
WASHINGTON — As world leaders converge here for their semiannual trek to the capital of what is still the world’s most powerful economy, concern is rising in many quarters that the United States is retreating from global economic leadership just when it is needed most.
The spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have filled Washington with motorcades and traffic jams and loaded the schedules of President Obama and Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew. But they have also highlighted what some in Washington and around the world see as a United States government so bitterly divided that it is on the verge of ceding the global economic stage it built at the end of World War II and has largely directed ever since.
The US’s drive to enrich the already rich over the last 40 years is destroying the economy and our society with it.
Have I missed something due to my habit of having ‘technology free days’ (whilst I analyse my portfolio and interact with human beings directly?) …….. Anyone know what has happened to Phil Ure?
The options are endless really
– he’s in a pot induced coma
– he got the dog to do the steering on his 50cc moto-sickle whilst on a trek to protest
– he outraged TS people so much he has been banned for weeks or permanently
If its the latter, I haven’t seen him pop up on the alternative hard left-wing kinsprissy thereist sites like TDB.
Hopefully he’s OK – I just happened to notice the absence lately
Isn’t twitter limited to 140 characters, or is that some other site?
Phil wouldn’t get more than two words in at that rate, by the time he put in all the padding characters he seemed to use.
He has a quick comment and points to his whoar blog – which I haven’t looked at to date. Takes up much less than 140 characters – hope it works for him.
National’s housing crisis is causing even further damage with the second consecutive quarter of deflation a genuine concern the Reserve Bank can do little about, as it focusses on Auckland house prices, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson Grant Robertson.
Interesting because the last time I looked two consecutive quarters of decreasing GDP were a recession. A decrease in GDP would normally be concomitant with a period of deflation so we can assume the only reason why we’re not in a technical recession is because of house price inflation.
I suppose that the next thing we”l hear from the RWNJs is that our ‘rock star economy’ is twerking – otherwise known as rock bottom.
“If businesses struggle to sell overseas and their products prices are dropping at home, the economy will get into real trouble.
When are these imbeciles going to realise that we can’t actually export ourselves to wealth?
Take our milk exports. Due to our success there other countries have been increasing production. This is especially true in the US but China and Europe have been doing so as well. That means that there will be no demand for our milk products. Even if we get a FTA with the US we aren’t going to be exporting agricultural products there.
This will happen to everything we make and to every country. It is this reality that capitalism fails to take into account.
Your definition of a recession is correct.
However a decline in GDP is not the same thing as a decline in prices.
GDP is currently increasing quite happily, even though the price level may be declining.
However a decline in GDP is not the same thing as a decline in prices.
And I didn’t say that they were did I? Now go read what I actually said because the implication is that we have increasing GDP while the economy looks to be in a recessionary state.
Liar No. 46 Julia Gillard: “I have got a lot of respect for people who whistle-blow, ummm….” http://thestandard.org.nz/ope-mike-08022015/#comment-965394
Liar No. 45 Zara Potts: “Sir Bob Geldof has assembled the best of modern musicians for this year’s record, including Ed Sheeran and One Direction.” http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-11112014/#comment-924196
More liars HERE….
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-09102014/#comment-907232
Inflation now just 0.1%. That’s right 0.1%. Prices in general are not rising. Sell your overpriced Auckland house and buy four houses. Buy in Masterton, Otaki, Aotea and Churton Park. Be a landlord.
Funny, that is almost word for word what Matthew Hooton said on N2N today, until he lost it that is, and went on an emotionally based rant about Hager. He must be in quite a dilemma. In order to hysterically deride Hager he had to provide a great defence for Key and his lying government.
Funny to see a PR guy falling lock and stock barrel for his own person “hot button” and making himself seem foolish.
That was very “entertaining”. Kathryn Ryan desperately trying to shut him up and Mike Williams unable to get a word in. KR resorted in the end to pointing out “there’s no difference between Nicky Hager and right-wing PR commentators like yourself” which caused him to pause long enough for KR to sign the show off and kill his mike. Just as well otherwise he’d still be there ranting…
Log prices falling .milk prices falling, dollar staying up which will slow tourism the future s not to bright if people put on there glasses and see through the sun shining out of keys arse .
Although more trees, less cows and jets in the air might not be a bad thing.
FBI forensics specialists gave consistently incorrect testimony to juries pre-2000
Including in the trials of 32 people sentenced to death.
Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.
The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison
One of the drawbacks of an adversarial judicial system with prosecutors and judges who are elected or look forward to political careers.
The one that’s really dodgy is actually fingerprint analysis. Pretends to be scientific and often uses the magic of computers, but still needs a proper series of evaluations even after 100 years.
As with fingerprints, not enough research has been done to quantify the probability of error in ballistics matching. So it’s impossible to say with certainty that the marks made on bullets as they are fired are truly unique to an individual gun.
And I’m pretty sure that with modern manufacturing being ever more precise and thus less difference between the same parts on different guns it’s getting even more difficult to say if a bullet came from one gun or another.
until he lost it that is, and went on an emotionally based rant about Hager. He must be in quite a dilemma. In order to hysterically deride Hager he had to provide a great defence for Key and his lying government. he couldn’t be stopped he wound himself up more and more and even Kathryn Ryan almost laughed at him.
Funny to see a PR guy falling lock and stock barrel for his own person “hot button” and making himself seem foolish.
The funniest thing was him attacking Hager as not being a journalist, attacked the media for reporting things he ethically thought they shouldn’t, and attacked the media for deliberately framing things in a particular way. He was frothing so much he lost perspective and couldn’t see the irony of what he was saying, given his job and role.
i am always fascinated that he is described as PR company owner and right wing commentator but not former Nat Party strategist. Him not correcting it is almost, what’s the word? Unethial 😉
You say you didnt hear it until about 3pm and yet you parroted almost his exact words at 14.2
Matthew’s archilles heel is Hager. Hager exposed him as a duplicitous, lacking ethics, self serving person in Hollowmen. He seems to hate him with a passion (which we heard today). Reason goes out the window and ranting take sover, and the volume rises.
extreme
“furthest from the centre or a given point.”
right wing
” the rightist division of a group”
activist
“Someone who’s actively involved in a protest or a political or social cause can be called an activist.”
So, Hoots ranted about Hager being an extreme left wing activist, yet his views on complete lack of government intervention and having worked for the Nats make him an extremist in that party and by being ACT extreme right in NZ, make him, by the definition, an extreme right wing activist.
The BIGGEST difference is that Hager publishes his views, Hoots works clandestinely, for pay, to achieve his ends, until flushed out by Hager
“Groser also said NZ was on target to meet its Kyoto Protocol commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 5% below 1990 levels by 2020.
However, gross emissions in 2013 were 21.3% higher than 1990 and net emissions were 42.4% higher.”
Grosser must be amazing if he’s going to cut emmisions 27% in 5 years,still if the nats have turned us into a failed economy by then we might get close.
Crikey. An important read:
An Andrew Geddis post on the rights we give up in the case for war in “Lest We Forget.” Freedom of Speech. Rights to disagree. Conscription. And of course a different perspective on the standard belief that all those brave boys went off willingly to fight and die in WW1. (From the sidebar on TS thanks.) http://www.pundit.co.nz/content/lest-we-forget
Amidst all the commemorations, and all the tearful invocations of the 18,000 young men who did not “grow old, as we grow old”, it is as well to remember that it is not in the monarchical tradition to ask the King’s (or the Queen’s) subjects if they want to – let alone whether they should! – go to war. It remains a matter for the “Executive” exclusively.
This is as true today, as a much smaller force of New Zealand soldiers prepares to depart for the Middle East, as it was in 1914 when thousands of volunteers embarked for their fateful rendezvous with terror, disfigurement and death on the sheer slopes of Gallipoli.
And after that first bout of enthusiasm for war there wasn’t that many volunteers either.
ianmac, I discovered a book stashed away in a forgotten spot by my father, after his death. It was an anti-war treatise written in the 1920s, with many horrific photos of WW1 death pits, gallows victims in Austria (they hung conchies, had 11,000 gallows it said), of soldiers whose faces had been blown apart but still alive, terrible stuff. I was quite young when I found this, maybe 9 or 10, and I couldn’t read the words because they were mostly not in English. Later I identified them as German but with French, Dutch and English translations. Dad did not go to war (WW2), health reasons apparently, but I still wonder why he had that book and where it came from.
Just had a look at it – by Ernst Friedrich, called Krieg dem kriege! War against war. Plainly anti-capitalist – possibly underground press as it would be regarded as utter treason, especially in the light of that Andrew Geddis article on how legal freedoms were curtailed in WW1. Found a link to pictures, it’s been republished. war against war
It pretty clear the Auckland Council are a bunch of idiotic muppets, they don’t even bother selling off our assets, they just give them away!
All run through the council resource consents department – no matter how bad the development the answer if always YES, just give us FEEs and we will grant ANYTHING.
Ring a ding, Auckland council CEO and councillors – your resource consents department is out of control and your Ports of Auckland are out of Control!
Are you too lazy to do anything? The ports of Auckland board are giving you, and the rest of Auckland, and Maori and indeed the country the finger.
“An Open Letter to Wicked Campers from Women’s Refuge
Dear Wicked Campers,
Women’s Refuge supports 20,000 women and children affected by domestic violence every year. On behalf of our volunteers and workers and the women and children who use our services we respectfully ask you to reconsider the wording you have on your vans. The hateful slogans and ‘jokes’ we have seen denigrate and humiliate human beings, normalising violence towards women and inflicting on-going harm to victims. Misogyny masquerading as humour is still misogyny! We are concerned for instance that you consider a ‘joke’ about drowning your wife to be amusing? This is just one of many objectionable slogans and images that we see plastered across your campers as they travel the roads of this country. We ask you, in this open letter, to take a different tack in future – perhaps even to think about peaceful and respectful slogans. Please rethink the slogans on your vehicles and think about adding something to society rather than taking it away. As a suggestion, how about ‘wicked campers apologises for dangerous slogans, forgive us.’
Dr Ang Jury
Chief Executive”
I agree completely. In our various necks of the woods we see heaps of these and yep, the slogans and “jokes” are sickening often, rude and bigoted nearly always, and cringeworthy 100%. It doesn’t pay to be with someone more sensitive when one of these turds drives so close that you cant help but read them
Any folks here who are in Dunedin and have an interest in Irish/working class/left history might be interested in a couple of talks I’m giving on campus about the 1916 Rebellion in Ireland and its aftermath.
The talks are at 5pm, tomorrow (Tuesday), April 21 and 5pm, the following Tuesday (April 28) and are in Room 4, upstairs in the Clubs and Societies building at 84 Albany Street.
In the first talk I’ll be looking at the lead-up to the Rising, in particular the arrival in Irish society of the working class as an organised industrial/political force with the formation especially of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, founded by James Larkin and later led by James Connolly, the development of its newspaper (the widely-read Irish Worker, edited by Sean O’Casey) and of the workers’ militia (the Irish Citizen Army, led by Connolly, Michael Mallin and Countess Markievicz; the formation of the first republican paramilitary organisation, Na Fianna Eireann, founded by Countess Markievicz; the revitalisation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood by young militants like Sean MacDiarmada and the return of the veteran Tom Clarke; the formation of a republican women’s movement (Inghinidhe na hEireann), founded by Maud Gonne; and the Irishwomen’s Suffrage League.
I’ll look at the 1913 Dublin Lockout and the Home Rule Crisis and the different responses within Irish nationalism to World War 1.
If there’s much interest in these talks, I’ll look at organising the showing of two very famous documentaries, among the first feature-length documentaries ever made: Mise Eire (I am Ireland) and Saoirse (Freedom).
Mise Eire was made in 1959 and features a lot of newsreel footage from the late 1800s up to the immediate after of the 1916 Rising.
Saoirse was made in 1961 and takes the story through the reorganisation of the independence movement in 1917, its sweeping victory in Ireland in the Westminster election of 1918, the establishment of an independent Irish parliament in January 1919, the declaration of independence and the war with the British state as the British ruling class refused to recognise the will of the Irish people and attempted to suppress Dail Eireann.
I usually take part in the Campbell Live votes via text messages. I didn’t partake in the vote on whether Martin Crowe should receive a knighthood, simply because I don’t agree with titular honours, though I firmly feel that Martin should be honoured in some way for his wonderful contribution to N Z cricket. Order of N Z would be OK with me.
I understand and agree with your view, but I voted YES because that seemed the most appropriate answer for the two choices given.
The government has given these titles to a large number of shady characters and crooks over the years! I bet Key is looking forward to get one too asap!
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I am not sure what his contribution outside his job has been? Many many people are outstanding in their chosen professions, for far less remuneration than our sportspeople. So over and above that? I am sorry he is dying, but writing about his experience also ought not qualify for the highest of honours. IMO.
Ports of Auckland has been ordered to pay $40,000 for deliberately breaking the law by employing contractors during industrial action at the port.
The Employment Relations Authority ruled that Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL) broke the law in February and March when they employed an engineer from overseas at a cost of $10,000 a week to do the work of striking Maritime Union members.
It also illegally used local contractors to carry out engineering work.
At the time union members were on strike and locked out in their battle to stop management contracting out their jobs.
In a decision released yesterday, authority member Anna Fitzgibbon said the port had made “calculated decisions” to break the law.
The ANZAC Bullshit continues with everybody trying to out do others with exhibits. Southland has got the prize so far as shown on TV1 news tonight. A genuine exhibit of a Gallipoli dunny c/w with feces in it
I am sure the poor guys who were there would not like their personal habits dysentery or otherwise exhibited.
That is bloody disgusting and an insult to the guys who fought there.
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We all know something’s not right with our elections. The spread of misinformation, people being targeted with soundbites and emotional triggers that ignore the facts, even the truth, and influence their votes.The use of technology to produce deep fakes. How can you tell if something is real or not? Can ...
This video includes conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Simon Clark. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). This year you will be lied to! Simon Clark helps prebunk some misleading statements you'll hear about climate. The video includes ...
It is all very well cutting the backrooms of public agencies but it may compromise the frontlines. One of the frustrations of the Productivity Commission’s 2017 review of universities is that while it observed that their non-academic staff were increasing faster than their academic staff, it did not bother to ...
Buzz from the Beehive Two speeches delivered by Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters at Anzac Day ceremonies in Turkey are the only new posts on the government’s official website since the PM announced his Cabinet shake-up. In one of the speeches, Peters stated the obvious: we live in a troubled ...
1. Which of these would you not expect to read in The Waikato Invader?a. Luxon is here to do business, don’t you worry about thatb. Mr KPI expects results, and you better believe itc. This decisive man of action is getting me all hot and excitedd. Melissa Lee is how ...
…it has a restricted jurisdiction which must not be abused: it is not an inquisitionNOTE – this article was published before the High Court ruled that Karen Chhour does not have to appear before the Waitangi Tribunal Gary Judd writes – The High Court ...
Lindsay Mitchell writes – One of reasons Oranga Tamariki exists is to prevent child neglect. But could the organisation itself be guilty of the same?Oranga Tamariki’s statistics show a decrease in the number and age of children in care. “There are less children ...
David Farrar writes: Graeme Edgeler wrote in 2017: In the first five years after three strikes came into effect 5248 offenders received a ‘first strike’ (that is, a “stage-1 conviction” under the three strikes sentencing regime), and 68 offenders received a ‘second strike’. In the five years prior to ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has surprised everyone with his ruthlessness in sacking two of his ministers from their crucial portfolios. Removing ministers for poor performance after only five months in the job just doesn’t normally happen in politics. That’s refreshing and will be extremely ...
TL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the two days to 6:06am on Thursday, April 25:Politics: PM Christopher Luxon has set up a dual standard for ministerial competence by demoting two National Cabinet ministers while leaving also-struggling ...
Hi,Today I mainly want to share some of your thoughts about the recent piece I wrote about success and failure, and the forces that seemingly guide our lives. But first, a quick bit of housekeeping: I am doing a Webworm popup in Los Angeles on Saturday May 11 at 2pm. ...
It is hard to see what Melissa Lee might have done to “save” the media. National went into the election with no public media policy and appears not to have developed one subsequently. Lee claimed that she had prepared a policy paper before the election but it had been decided ...
Open access notablesIce acceleration and rotation in the Greenland Ice Sheet interior in recent decades, Løkkegaard et al., Communications Earth & Environment:In the past two decades, mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet has accelerated, partly due to the speedup of glaciers. However, uncertainty in speed derived from satellite products ...
Buzz from the Beehive A statement from Children’s Minister Karen Chhour – yet to be posted on the Government’s official website – arrived in Point of Order’s email in-tray last night. It welcomes the High Court ruling on whether the Waitangi Tribunal can demand she appear before it. It does ...
Mr Bombastic:Ironically, the media the academic experts wanted is, in many ways, the media they got. In place of the tyrannical editors of yesteryear, advancing without fear or favour the interests of the ruling class; the New Zealand news media of today boasts a troop of enlightened journalists dedicated to ...
It's hard times try to make a livingYou wake up every morning in the unforgivingOut there somewhere in the cityThere's people living lives without mercy or pityI feel good, yeah I'm feeling fineI feel better then I have for the longest timeI think these pills have been good for meI ...
In 1974, the US Supreme Court issued its decision in United States v. Nixon, finding that the President was not a King, but was subject to the law and was required to turn over the evidence of his wrongdoing to the courts. It was a landmark decision for the rule ...
Every day now just seems to bring in more fresh meat for the grinder.In their relentlessly ideological drive to cut back on the “excessive bloat” (as they see it) of the previous Labour-led government, on the mountains of evidence accumulated in such a short period of time do not ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Megan Valére SosouMarket gardening site of the Itchèléré de Itagui agricultural cooperative in Dassa-Zoumè (Image credit: Megan Valère Sossou) For the residents of Dassa-Zoumè, a city in the West African country of Benin, choosing between drinking water and having enough ...
Buzz from the Beehive Melissa Lee – as may be discerned from the screenshot above – has not been demoted for doing something seriously wrong as Minister of ...
Morning in London Mother hugs beloved daughter outside the converted shoe factory in which she is living.Afternoon in London Travelling writer takes himself and his wrist down to A&E, just to be sure. Read more ...
Mike Grimshaw writes – The recent announcement of the University Advisory Group, chaired by Sir Peter Gluckman, makes very clear where the Government’s focus and priorities lie. The remit of the Advisory Group is that Group members will consider challenges and opportunities for improvement in the university sector including: ...
Eric Crampton writes – The Reserve Bank of New Zealand desperately wants to find reasons to have workstreams in climate change. It makes little sense. They’ve run another stress test on the banks looking to see if they could find a prudential regulation case. They couldn’t. They ...
Rob MacCullough writes – Pundits from the left and the right are arguing that National’s Fast Track Bill that is designed to speed up infrastructure decisions could end up becoming mired in a cesspool of corruption. Political commentator ...
Looking at the headlines this morning it’s hard to feel anything other than pessimistic about the future of humanity.Note that I’m not speaking about the future of mankind, but the survival of our humanity. The values that we believe in seem to be ebbing away, by the day.Perhaps every generation ...
Swabbing mixed breed baby chicks to test for avian influenzaUh oh. Bird flu – often deadly to humans – is not only being transmitted from infected birds to dairy cows, but is now travelling between dairy cows. As of last Friday, Bloomberg News reports, there were 32 American dairy herds ...
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 ...
What is it with the mining industry? Its not enough for them to pillage the earth - they apparently can't even be bothered getting resource consent to do so: The proponent behind a major mine near the Clutha River had already been undertaking activity in the area without a ...
Photo # 1 I am a huge fan of Singapore’s approach to housing, as described here two years ago by copying and pasting from The ConversationWhat Singapore has that Australia does not is a public housing developer, the Housing Development Board, which puts new dwellings on public and reclaimed land, ...
Buzz from the Beehive Reactions to news of the government’s readiness to make urgent changes to “the resource management system” through a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) suggest a balanced approach is being taken. The Taxpayers’ Union says the proposed changes don’t go far enough. Greenpeace says ...
I’m starting to wonder if Anna Burns-Francis might be the best political interviewer we’ve got. That might sound unlikely to you, it came as a bit of a surprise to me.Jack Tame can be excellent, but has some pretty average days. I like Rebecca Wright on Newshub, she asks good ...
Chris Trotter writes – Willie Jackson is said to be planning a “media summit” to discuss “the state of the media and how to protect Fourth Estate Journalism”. Not only does the Editor of The Daily Blog, Martyn Bradbury, think this is a good idea, but he has also ...
Graeme Edgeler writes – This morning [April 21], the Wellington High Court is hearing a judicial review brought by Hon. Karen Chhour, the Minister for Children, against a decision of the Waitangi Tribunal. This is unusual, judicial reviews are much more likely to brought against ministers, rather than ...
Both of Parliament’s watchdogs have now ripped into the Government’s Fast-track Approvals Bill. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāMy pick of the six newsey things to know from Aotearoa’s political economy and beyond on the morning of Tuesday, April 23 are:The Lead: The Auditor General,John Ryan, has joined the ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sarah SpengemanPeople wait to board an electric bus in Pune, India. (Image credit: courtesy of ITDP) Public transportation riders in Pune, India, love the city’s new electric buses so much they will actually skip an older diesel bus that ...
The infrastructure industry yesterday issued a “hurry up” message to the Government, telling it to get cracking on developing a pipeline of infrastructure projects.The hiatus around the change of Government has seen some major projects cancelled and others delayed, and there is uncertainty about what will happen with the new ...
Hi,Over the weekend I revisited a podcast I really adore, Dead Eyes. It’s about a guy who got fired from Band of Brothers over two decades ago because Tom Hanks said he had “dead eyes”.If you don’t recall — 2001’s Band of Brothers was part of the emerging trend of ...
Buzz from the Beehive The 180 or so recipients of letters from the Government telling them how to submit infrastructure projects for “fast track” consideration includes some whose project applications previously have been rejected by the courts. News media were quick to feature these in their reports after RMA Reform Minister Chris ...
It would not be a desirable way to start your holiday by breaking your back, your head, or your wrist, but on our first hour in Singapore I gave it a try.We were chatting, last week, before we started a meeting of Hazel’s Enviro Trust, about the things that can ...
Calling all journalists, academics, planners, lawyers, political activists, environmentalists, and other members of the public who believe that the relationships between vested interests and politicians need to be scrutinised. We need to work together to make sure that the new Fast-Track Approvals Bill – currently being pushed through by the ...
Feel worried. Shane Jones and a couple of his Cabinet colleagues are about to be granted the power to override any and all objections to projects like dams, mines, roads etc even if: said projects will harm biodiversity, increase global warming and cause other environmental harms, and even if ...
Bryce Edwards writes- The ability of the private sector to quickly establish major new projects making use of the urban and natural environment is to be supercharged by the new National-led Government. Yesterday it introduced to Parliament one of its most significant reforms, the Fast Track Approvals Bill. ...
Michael Bassett writes – If you think there is a move afoot by the radical Maori fringe of New Zealand society to create a parallel system of government to the one that we elect at our triennial elections, you aren’t wrong. Over the last few days we have ...
Without a corresponding drop in interest rates, it’s doubtful any changes to the CCCFA will unleash a massive rush of home buyers. Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: The six things that stood out to me in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Monday, April 22 included:The Government making a ...
Sunday was a lazy day. I started watching Jack Tame on Q&A, the interviews are usually good for something to write about. Saying the things that the politicians won’t, but are quite possibly thinking. Things that are true and need to be extracted from between the lines.As you might know ...
In our Weekly Roundup last week we covered news from Auckland Transport that the WX1 Western Express is going to get an upgrade next year with double decker electric buses. As part of the announcement, AT also said “Since we introduced the WX1 Western Express last November we have seen ...
TL;DR: The six key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to April 29 include:PM Christopher Luxon is scheduled to hold a post-Cabinet news conference at 4 pm today. Stats NZ releases its statutory report on Census 2023 tomorrow.Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivers a pre-Budget speech at ...
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 14, 2024 thru Sat, April 20, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week hinges on these words from the abstract of a fresh academic ...
The ability of the private sector to quickly establish major new projects making use of the urban and natural environment is to be supercharged by the new National-led Government. Yesterday it introduced to Parliament one of its most significant reforms, the Fast Track Approvals Bill. The Government says this will ...
This is a column to say thank you. So many of have been in touch since Mum died to say so many kind and thoughtful things. You’re wonderful, all of you. You’ve asked how we’re doing, how Dad’s doing. A little more realisation each day, of the irretrievable finality of ...
Identifying the engine type in your car is crucial for various reasons, including maintenance, repairs, and performance upgrades. Knowing the specific engine model allows you to access detailed technical information, locate compatible parts, and make informed decisions about modifications. This comprehensive guide will provide you with a step-by-step approach to ...
Introduction: The allure of racing is undeniable. The thrill of speed, the roar of engines, and the exhilaration of competition all contribute to the allure of this adrenaline-driven sport. For those who yearn to experience the pinnacle of racing, becoming a race car driver is the ultimate dream. However, the ...
Introduction Automobiles have become ubiquitous in modern society, serving as a primary mode of transportation and a symbol of economic growth and personal mobility. With countless vehicles traversing roads and highways worldwide, it begs the question: how many cars are there in the world? Determining the precise number is a ...
Maintaining a safe and reliable vehicle requires regular inspections. Whether it’s a routine maintenance checkup or a safety inspection, knowing how long the process will take can help you plan your day accordingly. This article delves into the factors that influence the duration of a car inspection and provides an ...
Mazda Motor Corporation, commonly known as Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automaker headquartered in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The company was founded in 1920 as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd., and began producing vehicles in 1931. Mazda is primarily known for its production of passenger cars, but ...
Your car battery is an essential component that provides power to start your engine, operate your electrical systems, and store energy. Over time, batteries can weaken and lose their ability to hold a charge, which can lead to starting problems, power failures, and other issues. Replacing your battery before it ...
In most states, you cannot register a car without a valid driver’s license. However, there are a few exceptions to this rule. Exceptions to the RuleIf you are under 18 years old: In some states, you can register a car in your name even if you do not ...
Mazda, a Japanese automotive manufacturer with a rich history of innovation and engineering excellence, has emerged as a formidable player in the global car market. Known for its reputation of producing high-quality, fuel-efficient, and driver-oriented vehicles, Mazda has consistently garnered praise from industry experts and consumers alike. In this article, ...
Struts are an essential part of a car’s suspension system. They are responsible for supporting the weight of the car and damping the oscillations of the springs. Struts are typically made of steel or aluminum and are filled with hydraulic fluid. How Do Struts Work? Struts work by transferring the ...
Car registration is a mandatory process that all vehicle owners must complete annually. This process involves registering your car with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and paying an associated fee. The registration process ensures that your vehicle is properly licensed and insured, and helps law enforcement and other authorities ...
Zoom is a video conferencing service that allows you to share your screen, webcam, and audio with other participants. In addition to sharing your own audio, you can also share the audio from your computer with other participants. This can be useful for playing music, sharing presentations with audio, or ...
Building your own computer can be a rewarding and cost-effective way to get a high-performance machine tailored to your specific needs. However, it also requires careful planning and execution, and one of the most important factors to consider is the time it will take. The exact time it takes to ...
Sleep mode is a power-saving state that allows your computer to quickly resume operation without having to boot up from scratch. This can be useful if you need to step away from your computer for a short period of time but don’t want to shut it down completely. There are ...
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. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
Te Pāti Māori is disgusted at the confirmation that hundreds are set to lose their jobs at Oranga Tamariki, and the disestablishment of the Treaty Response Unit. “This act of absolute carelessness and out of touch decision making is committing tamariki to state abuse.” Said Te Pāti Māori Oranga Tamariki ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi, and Mema Paremata mō Tāmaki-Makaurau, Takutai Tarsh Kemp, will travel to the Gold Coast to strengthen ties with Māori in Australia next week (15-21 April). The visit, in the lead-up to the 9th Australian National Kapa haka Festival, will be an opportunity for both ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
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 ...
Ambassador Millar, Burgemeester, Vandepitte, Excellencies, military representatives, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen – good morning and welcome to this sacred Anzac Day dawn service. It is an honour to be here on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood – a deeply ...
Distinguished guests - It is an honour to return once again to this site which, as the resting place for so many of our war-dead, has become a sacred place for generations of New Zealanders. Our presence here and at the other special spaces of Gallipoli is made ...
Mai ia tawhiti pamamao, te moana nui a Kiwa, kua tae whakaiti mai matou, ki to koutou papa whenua. No koutou te tapuwae, no matou te tapuwae, kua honoa pumautia. Ko nga toa kua hinga nei, o te Waipounamu, o te Ika a Maui, he okioki tahi me o ...
Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. “Our Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealand’s own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealand’s energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. “The report shows that New Zealand’s emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,” Mr Mitchell ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is today travelling to Europe where he’ll update the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Government’s work to restore law and order. “Attending the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva provides us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while ...
Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the world’s largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. “The reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealand’s wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
Hon Andrew Bayly, Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing At the Southland Otago Regional Engineering Collective (SOREC) Summit, 18 April, Dunedin Ngā mihi nui, Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Ko Whanganui aho Good Afternoon and thank you for inviting me to open your summit today. I am delighted ...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to bring back the Three Strikes legislation, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced today. “Our Government is committed to restoring law and order and enforcing appropriate consequences on criminals. We are making it clear that repeat serious violent or sexual offending is not ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today announced four new diplomatic appointments for New Zealand’s overseas missions. “Our diplomats have a vital role in maintaining and protecting New Zealand’s interests around the world,” Mr Peters says. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of these senior diplomats from the ...
New Zealand is contributing NZ$7 million to support communities affected by severe food insecurity and other urgent humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and Somalia, Foreign Minister Rt Hon Winston Peters announced today. “Over 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across Ethiopia, with a further 6.9 million people ...
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Paul Goldsmith is congratulating Mataaho Collective for winning the Golden Lion for best participant in the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale. "Congratulations to the Mataaho Collective for winning one of the world's most prestigious art prizes at the Venice Biennale. “It is good ...
The Government is reforming financial services to improve access to home loans and other lending, and strengthen customer protections, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly and Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced today. “Our coalition Government is committed to rebuilding the economy and making life simpler by cutting red tape. We are ...
“China remains a strong commercial opportunity for Kiwi exporters as Chinese businesses and consumers continue to value our high-quality safe produce,” Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says. Mr McClay has returned to New Zealand following visits to Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai where he met ministers, governors and mayors and engaged in trade and agricultural events with the New ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
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Radiolive has tweeted “A prominent New Zealander’s due back in court today on 12 charges of indecent assault – the case is subject to heavy suppression orders”
Are they hoping everyone looses interest as they rack up copious costs in all this legal muscle to keep a name from the public disclosed.
The clues that a further hearing was scheduled for today in a certain District Court were there in the various media reports on previous hearings, including the urgent Auckland HC hearing of the appeal against the lifting of name suppression.
First – this media report on the Feb 18 DC hearing indicates that the next hearing was probably scheduled for today in what it says re remand on bail:
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/prominent-new-zealander-name-suppression-extended-vy-170285
Several of the media reports of the urgent HC appeal hearing also suggested that the extension of name suppression was granted until the trial commences – eg this one:
Sorry for the full Google link – a shorter one I found did not work.
https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzherald.co.nz%2Fnz%2Fnews%2Farticle.cfm%3Fc_id%3D1%26objectid%3D11424208&ei=Ry80VbHfG5Lq8AWoroAQ&usg=AFQjCNG9RpB1073VRwrJ4a7umke997T4-w
So it will be interesting to see what today brings. However, as discussed here, today may just turn out to be a short hearing to extend the remand period ….
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-17042015/#comment-1001295
Oops – forgot this link re name suppression being granted only until commencement of trial. From the Police News no less.
https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEoQFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolicenews.nz%2Fcrimenews%2Fprominent-new-zealander-charged-with-indecent-assault-granted-interim-name-suppression%2F&ei=Ry80VbHfG5Lq8AWoroAQ&usg=AFQjCNFaPNWh4fpxSb2CMkTeofmRO-fPCw
It’s possible that today is the call over date. The actual trial may still be a couple of months away.
Will the subject of the suppression order be re-visited at today’s hearing?
I believe that may also be suppressed!
If the suppression is suppressed then it is gloves-off surely..
Isn’t this the first time ‘indecent assault’ and the number of charges have been mentioned in the open ? Interesting they have tweeted those details.
I think those details have already been published.
Well I suppose it had to happen one day.
I’m in agreement with Judith Collins !
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11434890
I am waiting for the sky to fall on my head as I too agree with her and I never thought I would say that! My only quibble is that more wasn’t made of the cross party unity amongst female mp’s on this issue. We could do with much more of that.
Sweetie Pie Judith! Though let’s remember her catty remark last year about Metiria Turei’s ugly” jacket. Now she wants to defend all females from comments about appearance.
Oh, I don’t for a moment think she has reformed but at least she had a moment of sisterhood. Tomorrow, or even today, it will be the Crusher we know and dislike. 😉
She is building a constituency but for what. THAT is the question, imo.
And so it starts. The ‘nice’ Judith Collins takes that first step to leading the National Party. The photo, the hands, the slightly messy hair, more casually dressed than usual. It’s all about winning hearts and minds.
Yes. The hearts and minds of the Tory ‘ladies’ she hopes will cheer-lead for her at the upcoming Nat. leadership contest.
Paula won’t be happy.
I am keen to read what Judith Collins ( or any of you ) will have to say about the following comment in the news today:
“Chess grandmaster Nigel Short has angered female players by claiming they are not “hard-wired” for the game.
When Nigel Short, one of UK’s greatest ever chess players, challenged Garry Kasparov for the world title in 1993 the pair met as bitter rivals.
But it appears the British grandmaster has finally found common ground with his Russian opponent – they both believe women are not suited to the game.
Short, who lost to Kasparov in the championships, has claimed men and women should just accept they are “hard-wired very differently”.
Speaking in the magazine New in Chess about the lack of women playing the game, Short said the sexes were just different.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/67879887/grandmaster-nigel-short-girls-dont-have-the-brains-to-play-chess
It’s an interesting one with chess to be sure. Very difficult to tease out the effects of inate ability vs cultural expectations and so forth. However, the broad brush strokes are very clear.
Take a look at the current top 100 rankings:
http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men
http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=women
Only one woman currently makes it onto the ‘mens’ list. Yifan Hou at #59. Meanwhile, the only woman to ever seriously compete at the highest levels (and qualify for a World Championship for example) is Judit Polgar – who along with her two sisters Susan and Sofia were essentially part of an educational experiment by their father who trained them at home from a very young age. Even so, the highest Judit ever made it on the overall rankings was 8th.
More on Judit Polgar here, if you’re interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r
The stuff article, and the global reactions to Short’s statements are highly sensationalised. The media’s play has been to fan the flames of controversy by making it seem Short is sexist, whereas his position would likely best be summarized by this quote:
“One is not better than the other, we just have different skills. It would be wonderful to see more girls playing chess, and at a higher level, but rather than fretting about inequality, perhaps we should just gracefully accept it as a fact.”
We have no issue differentiating between the masculine and feminine on the physical plane. Pointing out a physically strong woman is no argument against the fact that men are typically stronger and are genetically predispossed to be so. Somehow when discussing the field of chess, where the general trends are almost as stark, it’s sexist to point out that men seem to have an advantage.
I feel the issue boils down to our society’s perception of intelligence as falling on a linear spectrum. I’m ‘more intellegent’ than him, and she’s ‘more intelligent’ than me. This is heavily reinforced throughout our childhood by our education system (and exam scoring in particular). Chess has been heavily associated with intelligence for yonks (even to the extent which intellegence is improved in games like ‘The Sims’ by playing Chess). So the by pointing out that, generally speaking, men seem better suited to chess than women, there is also perception of a sexist implication that men are more ‘intelligent’ (whatever it is that means). Intelligence is of course much broader than analytical ability, but we’re still labouring under that narrow view in many ways.
By devolving into an argument about sexism, we cut ourselves off from examining what’s really happening, and the insights that we can have about our own thought patterns and those of the opposite gender simply by sitting down and playing a game of chess with them.
Women can be just as good as men just let them have an I-phone that they can use in the Toilet. Worked for guys
@Alethios : Thanks for your detailed response.
I was impressed by Judit Polgar. Thank you for the link. Just goes to show that women can be as good as men.
I think the real question is not so much about their intelligence, but more about the mystery of why so few women take up the great sport of Chess as a serious endeavour, challenge or hobby.
Here is some info about Judit from your link:
‘Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is the strongest female chess player in history.[1] In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. She is the only woman to qualify for a World Championship tournament, having done so in 2005. She is the first, and to date, only woman to have surpassed the 2700 Elo rating barrier, reaching a career peak rating of 2735 and peak world ranking of #8, both achieved in 2005. She was the number 1 rated woman in the world from 1989 (when she was 12 years old) up until the March 2015 rating list, when she was overtaken by Chinese player Hou Yifan.
She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U.S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.
Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a reigning world number one player, and has defeated eleven current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.‘ Wow! That IS impressive!
Polgar certainly is amazing and testament to the fact that men and women share the same potential. Though I would say the fact that she remained the #1 rated woman for so long is a testament to quite how unusual she is. If you take a look here:
http://ratings.fide.com/top_files.phtml?id=700070
You can see that Polgar retained the #1 spot until March 2015 despite playing very little chess since late 2011. Infact, if you scroll down a little, you can see that she stopped playing large numbers of games soon after breaking into the overall top 10 in 2003. It’s taken 12 years since that point for another woman to surpass her on the list.
As for why fewer women play chess, I think on one level the answer is fairly straightforward: fewer women are interested in playing chess. Just as fewer women are interested in mathematics and other endevours requiring that ‘churning analytical frame of mind’ if you will. It’s a frame of mind that is especially well honed and enjoyed amongst individuals in the autism spectrum (such as myself), due to having less focus on other perspectives. Males fall within the autism spectrum 4.3x more often than females, and this is part of the reason there are far more males in these fields, even as the women within the fields may be just as capable.
Of course, one also cannot understate the impact of the expectations we continue to place upon young girls continues to play a part in the paths they decide to take in life (young boys too, who are much more likely to be sheparded in that direction if they show promise).
Lastly, there’s a much more nebulous idea that I’ll put forward anyhow. Males seem much more hardwired for the instinct to compete with one another – the urge to dominate other males and all that. This acts both as a tremendously powerful motivator, and method of improvement. After all, word ‘compete’ comes from the latin ‘competere’ which means ‘together strive’. I feel, though am happy to be corrected on this, that typically women require a different motivational force in order to channel the total concentration required day after day, year after year in order to reach the top.
Judit Polgar shows that men and women have the same potential in chess, but ultimately it’s just far less likely to be unlocked with women, for a wide variety of factors.
Typed out a big reply that unfortunately didn’t end up being posted when I clicked submit, so I’ve lost it!
My basic position was that the likes of Judit Polgar show that men and women have the same potential when it comes to chess. However, a variety of factors make that potential less likely to be unlocked:
-There’s the link between chess/maths/analytical logical frame of mind and autism – which is 4.3x more prevalent in males than females.
-There’s the ever present weight of expectation on our young boys (who are encouraged when they show aptitude in these areas) and young girls (who typically are not).
-There’s the male instinct towards competing with other males for dominance, which, when channeled towards chess is an intensely powerful motivator, and tool for improvement in a field where virtually the only way to improve is to play people better than you over and over and hence lose again and again. One feels males are typically more bloody minded about overcoming those who have beaten them without losing motivation and moving on to something else. Females are just as capable of taking the requisite pounding, but probably typically require different motivation, hence making the required comittment to chess to reach the top statistically less likely.
@Alethios:
Actually BOTH your long excellent replies are showing up!
Thanks for your detailed response. It was a pleasure to read, learn and agree with your points. Top marks! Looking forward to see more of your views on various topics. Cheers!
Cheers 🙂
I actually have a little blog in which I talk about a range of topics if you’re interested:
http://www.alethios.net
Will do my best to post here more often however. Have been reading TS since circa 2009, so it’s probably about time.
Speaking purely for myself, I don’t think that women cannot play chess and play it well should that be their thing, rather that, there are other things in life attracting their attention.
People are either drawn to chess or not. I am in the not category. However, it doesn’t surprise me to hear that some chess players are misogynists. Perhaps the two men concerned have discovered that the women of the world aren’t all that interested in Grand Masters of Chess and them in particular and putting all women down because some of us haven’t been suitably worshipful!
I guess the “misogynist” word is quite fashionable to throw around nowadays. Has it replaced the sharing and discussion of insights into the differences between men and women? And your assumption of heteronormative desires is both blatant and disgusting.
I don’t think there’s any need for that CR. As I pointed out earlier, a quick skim read of the article, without knowing the context, would lead to the conclusion that he and other top players are misogynistic.
I’m more inclined to blame The Telegraph for writing such sensationalised rubbish, and Stuff for reprinting it than Hateatea. Though perhaps a degree of admonishment for leaping to conclusions is appropriate.
I may have leapt to a conclusion that was unjustified but I also had some personal experience of highly competitive chess players and gamers to base my comment on. If I have done these two individuals an injustice I freely apologise.
Not satisfied with their attempts to annouce their racism towards anyone remotely “asian looking” with the “Fresh off the Boat” series, TV2 have a new show to cover all the angles: “Black-ish”.
This follows closely on the heels of a new word they like to blurt out in news reports…
“… police seen shooting A BLACK MAN after he runs away from…”
It’s like they almost jizz themselves with relief. I would like to offer a new name for all news reports, reality TV, gardening shows, soaps, cartoons, infomercials… anything else on TV, really.
“WHITE-ISH”
(because who can tell them apart? Oh they’re Taiwanese? From here to there they look Cambodian…)
Latest on the TPP ..
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https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/latest-tpp-leak-shows-systemic-threat-to-software-freedom
This is the inevitable result of allowing Auckland’s housing inflation to run rampant;
“Aucklanders taking advantage of capital gain on properties and settling in cheaper regions.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/residential-property/news/article.cfm?c_id=76&objectid=11435225
And for those who think this is a good thing… think again.
This is the same principle that enables rich overseas investors buy up property here. The relative prices of land in Auckland compared to other cities they can invest in.
A dodgy US businessman now has most of the priceless NZ newspaper archives, and his business has gone bung. the best thing would be for the government to fund scanning and making all of these open access (with a CC-BY licence) so we can share, research and profit from them.
Fairfax obviously had no clue about the value of these objects, and are obviously not competent to deal with them.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11432690
Grrr. Arrgh.
This irks me.
Dodgy prick and his scam.
http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/john-rogers-owns-more-photos-than-anyone-anywhere/Content?oid=2478356&showFullText=true
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i-team/memorabilia-probe-turns-spotlight-arkansas-archivist-article-1.2020119
http://www.minnpost.com/media/2015/04/strange-saga-john-rogers-man-who-bought-star-tribunes-vintage-photo-archive
Good article by Hone
http://mananews.co.nz/wp/?p=4541
We will fight back and help our brothers and sisters over the ditch – they are not forgotten!!!
I am always totally amazed and saddened by the total lack of Aboriginals on the streets of the three cities I have mainly visited, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Once, several years ago when in Melbourne I saw a small group outside the Anglican Cathedral – they were totally out of their minds, bodies and whatever else due to what they had been partaking of – it certainly wasn’t to my thinking, alcohol. They cut a sad sight and were quite agitated. People simply walked around and totally ignored them. On another occasion when staying on the outskirts of Darwin – my partner and I walked to a local shopping centre to purchase something for tea and came across a group by a bus stop. They too were high on something and were crawling around on all fours, probably because they couldn’t stand up. As we walked past, we said ‘Hi’ to them. They looked at us as if we were aliens – probably waiting for us to verbally abuse them! They were totally gobsmacked and said ‘Hello’ back to us before we continued on our way. We were travelling on the Ghan the next day and had a stopover in Alice Springs, where there were several groups plying their wares to us touristy types. I purchased a small painting from one group which sits on a sideboard in our lounge.
@ Jilly Bee: As am I. However having once been an Australian (at a time when one didn’t even need a passport to go there, I was heartened by the increase in numbers I saw in Sydney and Melbourne.
In the late 60’s the only contact I had was babysitting kids during the school holidays when they were ‘treated’ to a holiday in the big smoke by a Swedish Professor from Monash Uni.
Other than that, “Bloody Aboes’ were confined to living it rough in the park and totally absent from the streets.
Recently in Sydney, then Redneckville QLD, it was interesting to see certain racial mixes (Oz Aboriginee/Philipino kids, amongst other things). And I have relatives that are Oz Aboriginee/NZ Maori mix- and they are stunningly beautiful.
Over the past 50 years, there has been a real ‘browning’ of the citizenry – which can only bee a good thing – except for the fact that there’s still a core that do there best to fight against it.
I had a ceremonial ‘burning’ of my Australian passport in the late 70s.
Start here:
The US’s drive to enrich the already rich over the last 40 years is destroying the economy and our society with it.
Have I missed something due to my habit of having ‘technology free days’ (whilst I analyse my portfolio and interact with human beings directly?) …….. Anyone know what has happened to Phil Ure?
The options are endless really
– he’s in a pot induced coma
– he got the dog to do the steering on his 50cc moto-sickle whilst on a trek to protest
– he outraged TS people so much he has been banned for weeks or permanently
If its the latter, I haven’t seen him pop up on the alternative hard left-wing kinsprissy thereist sites like TDB.
Hopefully he’s OK – I just happened to notice the absence lately
He’s taken to Twitter. I haven’t bothered to follow up on his blog – I find his style a difficult read.
Twitter….. mmmmm….. a medium better suited to him I think. Oh well then …. Goodbye Phil Ure. Twitter – the name says it all as far as it affects me
Isn’t twitter limited to 140 characters, or is that some other site?
Phil wouldn’t get more than two words in at that rate, by the time he put in all the padding characters he seemed to use.
He has a quick comment and points to his whoar blog – which I haven’t looked at to date. Takes up much less than 140 characters – hope it works for him.
Another economic headache from housing crisis – Robertson
Interesting because the last time I looked two consecutive quarters of decreasing GDP were a recession. A decrease in GDP would normally be concomitant with a period of deflation so we can assume the only reason why we’re not in a technical recession is because of house price inflation.
I suppose that the next thing we”l hear from the RWNJs is that our ‘rock star economy’ is twerking – otherwise known as rock bottom.
When are these imbeciles going to realise that we can’t actually export ourselves to wealth?
Take our milk exports. Due to our success there other countries have been increasing production. This is especially true in the US but China and Europe have been doing so as well. That means that there will be no demand for our milk products. Even if we get a FTA with the US we aren’t going to be exporting agricultural products there.
This will happen to everything we make and to every country. It is this reality that capitalism fails to take into account.
Your definition of a recession is correct.
However a decline in GDP is not the same thing as a decline in prices.
GDP is currently increasing quite happily, even though the price level may be declining.
And I didn’t say that they were did I? Now go read what I actually said because the implication is that we have increasing GDP while the economy looks to be in a recessionary state.
Liars of Our Time
No. 49: JAY CARNEY
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“He is not a human rights activist. He is not a dissident.”
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—White House press secretary JAY CARNEY pushes the Obama regime line on the subject of dissident Edward Snowden, July 17, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC9wE2OLZUk
Liar No. 48 Jim Mora: “Fantastic! I’ll have a listen to the full version [of Tony Doe’s new song] after The Panel.”
http://thestandard.org.nz/ope-mike-08022015/#comment-978969
Liar No.47 Simon Mercep: “Coming up in a few minutes, The Panel. …. Whoever they are, quality broadcasting will ensue.”
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-18022015/#comment-970927
Liar No. 46 Julia Gillard: “I have got a lot of respect for people who whistle-blow, ummm….” http://thestandard.org.nz/ope-mike-08022015/#comment-965394
Liar No. 45 Zara Potts: “Sir Bob Geldof has assembled the best of modern musicians for this year’s record, including Ed Sheeran and One Direction.” http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-11112014/#comment-924196
More liars HERE….
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-09102014/#comment-907232
Beware Aucklanders who care about the harbour .. ignoring Council again …
Fletcher Cranes on Bledisloe Wharf this morning with huts for workers:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11435529
Inflation now just 0.1%. That’s right 0.1%. Prices in general are not rising. Sell your overpriced Auckland house and buy four houses. Buy in Masterton, Otaki, Aotea and Churton Park. Be a landlord.
The Minister of Finance’s Budget figures are out by a full decimal place (in only one year) and you are celebrating ?
Please do not drive or operate heavy machinery of any sort and I implore you to seek medical assistance immediately.
Huh? what are you talking about.
😯 whoosh 😯
It wasnt in the PR release… so fisiani is clueless
Don’t be a landlord. Sell your million dollar house in Auckland and buy somewhere else in NZ and have $500,000 in the bank.
Funny, that is almost word for word what Matthew Hooton said on N2N today, until he lost it that is, and went on an emotionally based rant about Hager. He must be in quite a dilemma. In order to hysterically deride Hager he had to provide a great defence for Key and his lying government.
Funny to see a PR guy falling lock and stock barrel for his own person “hot button” and making himself seem foolish.
That was very “entertaining”. Kathryn Ryan desperately trying to shut him up and Mike Williams unable to get a word in. KR resorted in the end to pointing out “there’s no difference between Nicky Hager and right-wing PR commentators like yourself” which caused him to pause long enough for KR to sign the show off and kill his mike. Just as well otherwise he’d still be there ranting…
Did you note the press release mentioned up a bit that said that we actually have deflation?
Log prices falling .milk prices falling, dollar staying up which will slow tourism the future s not to bright if people put on there glasses and see through the sun shining out of keys arse .
Although more trees, less cows and jets in the air might not be a bad thing.
FBI forensics specialists gave consistently incorrect testimony to juries pre-2000
Including in the trials of 32 people sentenced to death.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-19/american-justice-fbi-lab-overstated-95-forensic-hair-matches-including-32-death-sent
One of the drawbacks of an adversarial judicial system with prosecutors and judges who are elected or look forward to political careers.
The one that’s really dodgy is actually fingerprint analysis. Pretends to be scientific and often uses the magic of computers, but still needs a proper series of evaluations even after 100 years.
The same can be said of forensic ballistics:
And I’m pretty sure that with modern manufacturing being ever more precise and thus less difference between the same parts on different guns it’s getting even more difficult to say if a bullet came from one gun or another.
Just listened to Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton. Williams is not winning hearts and minds for Labour and Hooton as always came up triumphant.
Yep, and Hooton also said the govt are arrogant and out of touch.
I think he was projecting. I hope Williams didnt get any of Hoots froth on him…
That must be the reason they are languishing at a mere 49%.
Yep slightly less than half.
Opposition parties also slightly less than half.
“Hooton as always came up triumphant.”
until he lost it that is, and went on an emotionally based rant about Hager. He must be in quite a dilemma. In order to hysterically deride Hager he had to provide a great defence for Key and his lying government. he couldn’t be stopped he wound himself up more and more and even Kathryn Ryan almost laughed at him.
Funny to see a PR guy falling lock and stock barrel for his own person “hot button” and making himself seem foolish.
The funniest thing was him attacking Hager as not being a journalist, attacked the media for reporting things he ethically thought they shouldn’t, and attacked the media for deliberately framing things in a particular way. He was frothing so much he lost perspective and couldn’t see the irony of what he was saying, given his job and role.
i am always fascinated that he is described as PR company owner and right wing commentator but not former Nat Party strategist. Him not correcting it is almost, what’s the word? Unethial 😉
You say you didnt hear it until about 3pm and yet you parroted almost his exact words at 14.2
Matthew seemed to have lost his alcohol persona today. Wonder why?
Matthew’s archilles heel is Hager. Hager exposed him as a duplicitous, lacking ethics, self serving person in Hollowmen. He seems to hate him with a passion (which we heard today). Reason goes out the window and ranting take sover, and the volume rises.
extreme
“furthest from the centre or a given point.”
right wing
” the rightist division of a group”
activist
“Someone who’s actively involved in a protest or a political or social cause can be called an activist.”
So, Hoots ranted about Hager being an extreme left wing activist, yet his views on complete lack of government intervention and having worked for the Nats make him an extremist in that party and by being ACT extreme right in NZ, make him, by the definition, an extreme right wing activist.
The BIGGEST difference is that Hager publishes his views, Hoots works clandestinely, for pay, to achieve his ends, until flushed out by Hager
Fis … “triumphant”?You really are running out of bait. I’d like to say nice try but even I wouldn’t bite at that-that was weak even for you mate.
http://agrihq.co.nz/article/falling-forests-miss-gas-level-targets?p=7
“Groser also said NZ was on target to meet its Kyoto Protocol commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 5% below 1990 levels by 2020.
However, gross emissions in 2013 were 21.3% higher than 1990 and net emissions were 42.4% higher.”
Grosser must be amazing if he’s going to cut emmisions 27% in 5 years,still if the nats have turned us into a failed economy by then we might get close.
Crikey. An important read:
An Andrew Geddis post on the rights we give up in the case for war in “Lest We Forget.” Freedom of Speech. Rights to disagree. Conscription. And of course a different perspective on the standard belief that all those brave boys went off willingly to fight and die in WW1. (From the sidebar on TS thanks.)
http://www.pundit.co.nz/content/lest-we-forget
And this from Trotter:
And after that first bout of enthusiasm for war there wasn’t that many volunteers either.
ianmac, I discovered a book stashed away in a forgotten spot by my father, after his death. It was an anti-war treatise written in the 1920s, with many horrific photos of WW1 death pits, gallows victims in Austria (they hung conchies, had 11,000 gallows it said), of soldiers whose faces had been blown apart but still alive, terrible stuff. I was quite young when I found this, maybe 9 or 10, and I couldn’t read the words because they were mostly not in English. Later I identified them as German but with French, Dutch and English translations. Dad did not go to war (WW2), health reasons apparently, but I still wonder why he had that book and where it came from.
Just had a look at it – by Ernst Friedrich, called Krieg dem kriege! War against war. Plainly anti-capitalist – possibly underground press as it would be regarded as utter treason, especially in the light of that Andrew Geddis article on how legal freedoms were curtailed in WW1. Found a link to pictures, it’s been republished.
war against war
It pretty clear the Auckland Council are a bunch of idiotic muppets, they don’t even bother selling off our assets, they just give them away!
All run through the council resource consents department – no matter how bad the development the answer if always YES, just give us FEEs and we will grant ANYTHING.
Ring a ding, Auckland council CEO and councillors – your resource consents department is out of control and your Ports of Auckland are out of Control!
Are you too lazy to do anything? The ports of Auckland board are giving you, and the rest of Auckland, and Maori and indeed the country the finger.
The harbour is public ownership.
STOP STEALING OUR HARBOUR
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11435607
Good letter
“An Open Letter to Wicked Campers from Women’s Refuge
Dear Wicked Campers,
Women’s Refuge supports 20,000 women and children affected by domestic violence every year. On behalf of our volunteers and workers and the women and children who use our services we respectfully ask you to reconsider the wording you have on your vans. The hateful slogans and ‘jokes’ we have seen denigrate and humiliate human beings, normalising violence towards women and inflicting on-going harm to victims. Misogyny masquerading as humour is still misogyny! We are concerned for instance that you consider a ‘joke’ about drowning your wife to be amusing? This is just one of many objectionable slogans and images that we see plastered across your campers as they travel the roads of this country. We ask you, in this open letter, to take a different tack in future – perhaps even to think about peaceful and respectful slogans. Please rethink the slogans on your vehicles and think about adding something to society rather than taking it away. As a suggestion, how about ‘wicked campers apologises for dangerous slogans, forgive us.’
Dr Ang Jury
Chief Executive”
Good. It’s about time some campaigning was done on this. I’ve seen a few things on Twitter but it needs a major push.
I agree completely. In our various necks of the woods we see heaps of these and yep, the slogans and “jokes” are sickening often, rude and bigoted nearly always, and cringeworthy 100%. It doesn’t pay to be with someone more sensitive when one of these turds drives so close that you cant help but read them
Full ups to Womens Refuge
Any folks here who are in Dunedin and have an interest in Irish/working class/left history might be interested in a couple of talks I’m giving on campus about the 1916 Rebellion in Ireland and its aftermath.
The talks are at 5pm, tomorrow (Tuesday), April 21 and 5pm, the following Tuesday (April 28) and are in Room 4, upstairs in the Clubs and Societies building at 84 Albany Street.
In the first talk I’ll be looking at the lead-up to the Rising, in particular the arrival in Irish society of the working class as an organised industrial/political force with the formation especially of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, founded by James Larkin and later led by James Connolly, the development of its newspaper (the widely-read Irish Worker, edited by Sean O’Casey) and of the workers’ militia (the Irish Citizen Army, led by Connolly, Michael Mallin and Countess Markievicz; the formation of the first republican paramilitary organisation, Na Fianna Eireann, founded by Countess Markievicz; the revitalisation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood by young militants like Sean MacDiarmada and the return of the veteran Tom Clarke; the formation of a republican women’s movement (Inghinidhe na hEireann), founded by Maud Gonne; and the Irishwomen’s Suffrage League.
I’ll look at the 1913 Dublin Lockout and the Home Rule Crisis and the different responses within Irish nationalism to World War 1.
Bigi linn (all welcome).
For poster, see: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/dunedin-talks-on-the-1916-rebellion-in-ireland/
Phil
Thanks Philip. Shame I live in Auckland …
If there’s much interest in these talks, I’ll look at organising the showing of two very famous documentaries, among the first feature-length documentaries ever made: Mise Eire (I am Ireland) and Saoirse (Freedom).
Mise Eire was made in 1959 and features a lot of newsreel footage from the late 1800s up to the immediate after of the 1916 Rising.
Saoirse was made in 1961 and takes the story through the reorganisation of the independence movement in 1917, its sweeping victory in Ireland in the Westminster election of 1918, the establishment of an independent Irish parliament in January 1919, the declaration of independence and the war with the British state as the British ruling class refused to recognise the will of the Irish people and attempted to suppress Dail Eireann.
Phil
Don’t forget to watch Campbell Live today, 7 pm, TV3.
Some of the topics are : (from Twitter)
* See where your money from Lunchbox Day has gone!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CC_9VOFUEAASMnR.jpg:large
* Imagine being told you’d have to boil your drinking water for the next decade. Tonight, the invention that may save the town with no water.
* Poll: Should Martin Crowe receive a knighthood? http://bit.ly/1F4U8uY
You can vote now at the link above or you can wait and vote during the show.
Also, (from ad during news)
* How to solve water purifying problem
* What happened to the donations to Vanuatu for the Pam cyclone
I usually take part in the Campbell Live votes via text messages. I didn’t partake in the vote on whether Martin Crowe should receive a knighthood, simply because I don’t agree with titular honours, though I firmly feel that Martin should be honoured in some way for his wonderful contribution to N Z cricket. Order of N Z would be OK with me.
72% said YES, 29% said No.
I understand and agree with your view, but I voted YES because that seemed the most appropriate answer for the two choices given.
The government has given these titles to a large number of shady characters and crooks over the years! I bet Key is looking forward to get one too asap!
Martin Crowe is certainly not one of those types!
@ iprent :
Attention iprent: I have noticed that in the last few days, when I try to click on ‘reply’ from my email feed, I am unable to do so, because I get this message:
Gone
The requested resource
/open-mike-20042015/
is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource.
Ok, I will check what the email feed does. I closed a feed loophole a week or so ago to stop some attacks.
I am not sure what his contribution outside his job has been? Many many people are outstanding in their chosen professions, for far less remuneration than our sportspeople. So over and above that? I am sorry he is dying, but writing about his experience also ought not qualify for the highest of honours. IMO.
Ports of Auckland has been ordered to pay $40,000 for deliberately breaking the law by employing contractors during industrial action at the port.
The Employment Relations Authority ruled that Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL) broke the law in February and March when they employed an engineer from overseas at a cost of $10,000 a week to do the work of striking Maritime Union members.
It also illegally used local contractors to carry out engineering work.
At the time union members were on strike and locked out in their battle to stop management contracting out their jobs.
In a decision released yesterday, authority member Anna Fitzgibbon said the port had made “calculated decisions” to break the law.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10853815
Ding a ling, sound familiar with stealing our harbour?
The ANZAC Bullshit continues with everybody trying to out do others with exhibits. Southland has got the prize so far as shown on TV1 news tonight. A genuine exhibit of a Gallipoli dunny c/w with feces in it
I am sure the poor guys who were there would not like their personal habits dysentery or otherwise exhibited.
That is bloody disgusting and an insult to the guys who fought there.
That’s bizarre.