If They try an pin that on me people any more than personal its a setup they have all the means to plant my personal property anywere I have given them to many RED FACES .
Which is what Te Kooti did to them but Te Kooti did not have this 21 century communication device that puts my story out to the WORLD Ka pai and they put a bounty on his capture of $600.000
they made sure he was not killed because all Maori would have risen up an well you no what the out come of that would have been my tepuna Rapata Wahawaha was coned into assisting them in the chase and war in the Urewera’s . I would like to see Te Kootis words on his story I’m not sure If this is out there.
I agree that a lot of the beggars are on crack I can spot a crack head easy as crack is a human wasting substance don’t give them money give the money to some outfit that gives these people rehabilitation . This is Keys legacy homeless crackheads and a chronic crack problem and the talk is more about the houses that have traces of crack than all the people affected by this crap this shit is the flow up of money to some very bad people in NZ. My words on the weekend must have really got up there nose A because they were going hard yesterday but they can go and get ________ what do they expect me to do drop off the face of OUR earth well that is not going to happen.
Many thanks to the winning NZ Ladys Rugby League team Ka pai There is a explanation on the differences between these team I have allready writen about part of this Kia Kaha
I can tell a national supporter they give me the stink eye when they see my Eco Maori signs on my truck ha ha the left supporters smile they are going ahead of me and telling the road workers not to wave and what do the people do well I can SEE.
I have got to close to there reality with my older post because they backed off today.
They backed off but they were still present I see all there moves what a waste of resources chasing the Eco Maori . The best thing about my situation is I get to let my people know exactly how OUR system works and this will help them up there ladder of life stop some these kids slipping into jail I.E scared strait and behave like OUR Lady’s do and think before one acts .
Now all the people with Trust Farms If I was you I would get the farm management to run more stock for meat for you this will not affect the farm profits and will be a big saving to the share holders a extra 5 cows a year they wont even no they are there but make sure you own them get home kill to process the meat the farm killed meat is 10 x better than shop brought meat no fat in the mince and on dairy farm raising pigs is cheap as there is waste milk most time so just get 5 cows 5 pigs and you will be saving big time man average $15 a day on meat for 2 . My brothers and sisters want to raise there own stock I am going to get the farm lessor to raise them for them I have seen inexperienced people try to raise stock an was not impressed this is the work smarter way of doing things. I don’t take smokes to work and my work is getting easy as my lung heal I will be smoke free soon P.S I know whom reading my post. I have to cook tea so byby Kia Kaha
So what do I no about OUR law well any bullshit evidence gathered will be inadmissible in a court of law if the law is broken while gathering this bullshit evidence. Kia kaha
After listening to Brownlee on Morning Report I sent the following email to RNZ:
“It would be good if RNZ realised the “National” in its name doesn’t mean National Party. A lot of air time seems to be being given to the National Party in a way I don’t remember Labour being treated when they were in opposition.
“Balance, not bias please”.
I also picked up Brownlee referring to the “minority coalition”. It seems to me the underlying message taken from the attack lines sheet is minority = illegitimate.
I didn’t hear the former government referring to themselves as a majority coalition.
Didn’t stop National from packing broadcasting with ignorant right wing prats.
Don’t need to ask them their political views. Just make them pass a “facts” test.
Kelvin Davis was embarrassed by technical questions about the Economy. Had English/Joyce asked say Bennett the same questions, she would have stumbled.
English wanted the Manus Island refugees discussed so sent an expert Brownlee in his place.
Do you see? Horses for courses a privilege denied Kelvin.
Generally the media have some regard to the level of support a party has. Between 2014 and 2017 Labour had 25% of the seats in parliament. National now has 45%, and is in fact the largest party in parliament.
So you can expect, across visually all media outlets, that National will get more coverage in the next three years than Labour had between 2014 and 2017.
But as far as I see, National is pretty absent at the moment. Virtually all the media focus is on Jacinda. Even the Deputy PM gets virtually no coverage. It is not likely to change till next year, since for the time being Jacinda is having her political honeymoon.
“That’s a weak start to a new government”. Care to tell us what you think the percentages you quote actually mean, or will mean, CV ? Without identifying the upshot as you see it it’s not much better than saying it’s not very pretty. So what to that.
1) “Jacindamania” has only brought Labour up to a level slightly above Labour’s losing 2008 election result.
2) This current government in its first term governs with 50.4% of the party vote, only 1.2% more than National’s third term of 49.2% of the party vote
3) With margins this narrow, the fledgling government has no time to waste in terms of delivering on its promises. It won’t get a second term without clear, fast results.
There is almost no room for any erosion of its popularity.
I’ve forgotten……what’s the balance……two seats 61/59 ? Read some figures somewhere which suggested that National got by with a sometimes 2-3 margin during nine years of retention of power.
At this point talking percentages and not seats suggests troubling moral concerns. ‘Legitimacy’ and all that. I really get the feeling that you’re champing at the bit to come out with something more definitive of where you stand CV? C’mon bro’…….declare your quirky lefty ‘preferences’.
Same old nonsense eh Wayne – I hope no one pays you for that rubbish. The gnats lost, and are still losing – hearts and minds wayne the gnats are clueless lol.
But as far as I see, National is pretty absent at the moment.
Wayne if you truly think that you need to get out more. On the Manus Island issue alone Brownlee has been given regular opportunities to advise the government to not annoy the Australians, cut them some slack because it’s a complex issue, etc.
Even the Deputy PM gets virtually no coverage.
Yes he has had some particularly around his performance answering questions in the House in the absence of of Ardern and Peters.
Generally the media have some regard to the level of support a party has.
So how come the ACT “party” gets as much coverage as it does then?
“National now has 45%, and is in fact the largest party in parliament.”
Wayne, I’ll give you some facts.
Of the 3,569,830 estimated voting age population 92.54 were enrolled to vote.
Of those enrolled, 19% did not cast a vote.
Of those who voted 55.6% did not vote for national
Therefore, of the estimated voting age population of 3,569,830, only 1,152,075 voted for National.
Wayne, 67.7274548% of the population did not vote for National.
So it could logically be claimed that only a little over 32% support National.
That’s about one third, so for every three people you encounter today, or tomorrow, or anytime for the next wee while, only ONE will be a National supporter.
The figures are all here http://www.elections.org.nz/
Now that you know this I expect you wont want to show a lack of honesty and integrity by disseminating mis-information again.
Your post, while technically correct is nonsense. On the same basis Labour got about 26% of the vote. That is, just over one in FOUR actually support Labour!
The proper way to look at the vote, is the votes cast. These are the ones that actually determine the composition of parliament and the government. Under MMP it all depends on getting 50% or more of the MP’s in the parliament. Pointing that out is hardly a “lack of honesty and integrity by disseminating mis-information”. It is simply the facts about our parliament. Having an Opposition that is the largest party in parliament will (and should) change the political dynamic.
Grey Area,
I am not suggesting the Opposition has had zero coverage, clearly they get some. But apart from the selection of the Speaker, they are not the dominant player in the media.
In contrast, every day there are two or three articles/newsclips on Jacinda. The Deputy PM, maybe one tor two per week. I am not objecting or complaining. She was inevitably going to get that level of coverage.
“Your post, while technically correct is nonsense. ”
“The proper way……..”
Behold the arrogance.
It is only you Wayne, who is comparing National votes with Labour.
In case you hadn’t noticed the present government comprises a coalition of three parties, Labour being one of them.
FPP is sooo last century Wayne.
Do you STILL believe National should be leading the government?
Also how many Morning Report listeners have noticed such a huge difference to last week with the fantastic rapport between Kim Hill and John Campbell, they were a star act. Lots of serious stuff went down and also lots of banter and laughter, especially with Giles on the Finance report. Just what us morning listeners want from a morning show.
If the management of RNZ didn’t take notice of this then they need to be replaced. The ratings would soar through the roof if we had these two stars on. I realise Kim Hill wouldn’t want to do 5 days a week with early starts but surely they could accommodate such a quality act and allow her 2/3 days.
This morning it was just so dull and dreary that even Philippa Tolley couldn’t rescue it. Espiner needs replacing and quickly. Just my criticisms I know but it would be interesting to know what other TS browsers have to say on this matter.
Yes, last week on Morning Report was excellent and this week is just … dull. Sorry, Guyon just does not have it. Checkpoint last week was also just … dull.
However, John Campbell made it very clear last week that the early mornings were not him in any way, shape or form so I don’t expert to see him there too often.
On Friday morning also I woke up c 6.30am to catch a little bit of snark between JC and KH (I was only half awake and did not catch the issue*) and that seemed to temper their rapport for the remainder of the programme.
So I don’t expect to see a repeat pairing for a while, sadly.
* Maybe it was this tweet. LOL
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Having had to get up at 3 bloody 45 to participate in this one week switcheroo (an hour so indecent it should be banned), I can now confirm the entire Morning Report team are vampires.
“The ratings would soar through the roof if we had these two stars on.”
Yes, but RNZ could at least start with your suggestion of axing Espiner. The guy’s got no ability to formulate questions in a way that suits the context. Accordingly he just comes across as a fuckwit.
Chris he always has been a fuckwit. The main problem at natrad is the fuckwits running it. They should have resigned the day after the election, as should so many other political appointees. But oh no, they all want to carry on shafting us until they get an unearned golden handshake. Fuck them and fuck our silly system for letting them do it.
Grey Area. please let us all know when you get a reply. Be ready for more spin and bullshit. RNZ obviously think that National are still the Government.
Anyone else hear Gerry Brownlee waffling on about Manus Island on Morning Report this morning?
He sounded exactly like an ex-minister who no longer gets his talking points from ministry officials before he fronts the media.
It was particularly amusing when he tried to suggest Ardern should go easy on Australia because they take 5 times as many refugees per capita as we do. Well Gerry, the reason for that is, your government steadfastly refused to increase our quota, even in the face of the dreadful humanitarian crises we’ve seen in the last few years.
Today’s Stuff red -meat- to -the- wolves anti-welfare tirade is courtesy of Mike Yardley.
(I haven’t linked it it because it doesn’t deserve more clicks but will if mods want me to).
The usual routine- RW anti-benefits/anti-Greens rant, followed by opens comment section of course. To date 250+ comments. I can’t bare to look at them, but easy to guess- dominated by the ‘I couldn’t agree with you more Mike’ brigade, usual rednecks, paid Natz trolls, and general pricks, all up-voting each other of course. And the few that dare to dissent getting heavily down-voted by the above.
So business as usual at Stuff really. But it does beg the question- these “opinion” pieces are always very careful not to cross the line of course but come bloody close at times. They are, however, deliberately written with the sole aim to provoke, not to provide another point of view, which is evident by the fact the comments sections are always left open, the editors knowing full well what will happen.
I believe this practice is inciting hate speech. Is that an extreme statement? Maybe not “hate” under any current legal definition, but certainly encouraging the public to gang up on and at a bare minimum severely bully a group of society. How can this be stopped? (Closing off comments would be a start- the one decent thing the Herald did).
I just had a quick look and the balance between sanity and National Party hate speech isn’t as bad as you think.
Each and every talking point is rebutted, and it’s clear that people are familiar with them, and the facts.
I agree: I think they should be held accountable when the consequences of hate speech spill over into legally sanctioned human rights abuses, such as this gross attack on privacy and freedom of expression.
Actually Kay, 4, a huge number of comments were supportive of solo Mums getting that money, and saying Dads dodged. Also a number said Mike was stirring.
+1. I’d never heard of the prick so I decided to google, check out his self-promoting website and other places.
What a privileged ‘bloke’ – no doubt work-life balanced, well-connected but at a respectable distance from those dirty filthy solomums rorting the cistern.
Maybe that’s what has rubbed off on Jack the boy Tame
Quite reasonable in my view. I saw the offending clip before the fallout started and wasn’t too impressed with the way Jacinda handled it. In my view she should have launched into a short, simple explanation (no smiles etc.) then shut the story down. If Tane refused to accept the explanation then she should have ended the interview. Sometimes its the only way to handle youthful upstarts like Tane who think they “know it all”. Instead she pussy footed around and made things worse. I’m sure it was a lesson well learned by Jacinda.
As for Rachel Smalley. Not worth a link. A biased piece of claptrap from a sulking Nat. supporter.
….she’s learned the lesson that you don’t tell “your mates” fuck all about the incidental bullshit that goes on in such meetings.
Essentially what I was getting at… and I think it was the message Trevett arrived at too. Don’t know how long it will last, but have found Trevett’s columns reasonable since the change of government.
I’ll assume she’s learned the lesson that you don’t tell “your mates” fuck all about the incidental bullshit that goes on in such meetings.
That was my reaction as well Bill. I know it’s a steep learning curve with lots to learn but I hope she doesn’t have to learn too much by making mistakes. She doesn’t want to be handing out sticks for our biased media to beat her with.
If you’re going to insist on formal speech and manners, Chris, The Right Honourable Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, will talk to you when she’s good and ready.
I notice Chris getting attention from silly little comments. Various people will use various ways to reduce the vitality and standing of TS while Labour is in government, showing up lefties as easily diverted. Taking them seriously will only reduce TS as a place of intelligent, informed discussion.
Too bloody right. I should’ve said “Mapp, your analysis of the relationship between the number of MPs a party has and the level of media coverage they should expect is as relevant as something that’d come from Pete George”. Seriously though, if anyone will “use various ways to reduce the vitality and standing of TS while Labour is in government, showing up lefties as easily diverted” it’s in fact Wayne. The guy’s a disgrace.
TS is anoother public media platform that offers alternative views to n the scribbed corporate media we live inside of today, so to TS & TDB long live free speech.
Deadbeat Dads
No. 4: This scumbag still boasts that his parents were two of Auckland’s most notorious criminals (significantly, they were grog-runners)
A 16-year-old who died of alcohol poisoning earlier this year was reportedly egged on to drink by the son of Auckland Mayor John Banks.
Witnesses who saw Kings College student James Webster on the night he died say he was urged to keep drinking by fellow student Alex Banks…
You really have to admire the chap, don’t you?
Seventy one years old, a survivor of major heart surgery and still has the get up and go of a teen-ager.
He must follow the Hugh Hefner diet. Large doses of Viagra.
Actually calling Bill a randy old goat is probably more appropriate.
Please note, Bill Clinton is from the correct side of the political aisle so we must go easier on him and his long time enabler wife, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
From my random observations there is absolutely no difference in the behaviour of the different sides of politics.
For every John Kennedy there is a Nelson Rockefeller.
For every Don Brash there is a David Cunliffe.
It is probably something that Morrissey should consider. He considers Bill English to be a deadbeat Dad for Christ’s sake!
From what I can see Bill has been a truly admirable father and his family have all turned out to be fine adults.
If only every parent was so caring and successful in the most important activity of their life.
Still working your Clinton obssessions CV ? Your “long time enabler wife” comment is straight out of Repugs’ talking points and is utterly offensive. Mind your own fucking business about their personal dynamic. There’s something ‘crypto’ about you CV.
What, she’s eaten other people’s cats too? There are plenty of villains active and in power in this world today. Your obsession with someone who’s never going to hold significant office again is peculiar.
Same old CV what?…….still busybodying Ena Sharples like over someone else’s marriage. Phew! And then going all Trump like……”more is coming out shortly……” Better be better than a relaunch of Anthony Weiner’s weenie CV!
Admired sexual assault?
Do you think saying what I did “Actually calling Bill a randy old goat is probably more appropriate” is expressing “admiration”?
The Kaiapoi River is turning salty, and irrigation is to blame: A freshwater Canterbury river is on the brink of turning into a saltwater estuary, in part due to water abstraction, new data shows.
It has blindsided some in the community and would permanently alter the river’s character if the trend continued.
“The prospect of that river turning to a smelly, scum-filled seawater estuary is just totally unacceptable,” Waimakariri District councillor Sandra Stewart said.
The problem is caused by farmers taking too much water from the Waimakariri River, meaning that its flow is too weak to prevent salty tidal flows from entering the Kaiapoi. The solution is obvious: reduce irrigation flows. But that means reducing farmers’ profits, which was unacceptable under National. Hopefully with a different government (and a soon-to-be elected ECan) they’ll be able to stop the farmers poisoning this river before its too late.
I hope Clare Curran is making a list of government appointments in broadcasting, to change the tenor of the interviews (kind calling them that!!) questions and topics.
The childish point scoring, voices of the right, judgmental name calling going on currently does nothing about informing.
Thank heaven for the internet, there is always someone reasonable out there talking to climate change world politics, and scientists’ warnings among other important things.
No I dont buy that as CEO;s are also ‘political appointments CV.
Take a look at the RNZ CEO???
Totally absent when I asked the RNZ CEO why we did not have a ‘local HB/Gisborne repoprter two months ago and never got any reply from the CEO even though we asked for his response under OIA rules!!!!!
Best let the new Minister decide as then we wont get Steven Joyce and Brownklee hugging RNZ news every week now as is going on.
This morning it was Steven joyce featuring as if national was still in charge!!!!!!
When do we get the new government to take charge here??????
First you want the CEO to act alone and now you embrace “Boards'”????
Far to many people as not elected members here so we think boards should be disbanded/sacked; – and a single elected chair preside over the media not a bunch of ‘self interseted idiots’ whom are bought by corporates and well heeled right wing factions.
Did anyone notice the United States is going to be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court for its conduct in Afghanistan for crimes against humanity?
This, from the Economist’s daily Espresso newsletter, sent out by e-mail to subscribers..
“Uber will buy up to 24,000 self-driving cars from Volvo, potentially the biggest ever autonomous-vehicle order. The deal adds to the ride-hailing firm’s 200-strong fleet of driverless sport-utility vehicles, which it began testing in America last year. The XC90 SUV, with a starting price of around $50,000, will have both the carmaker’s and Uber’s self-driving technology”.
I hope that the current Governments Transport Minister sees stories like this. Then they can decide whether they should abandon current plans to waste billions on a technically obsolete technology like the “light rail” system proposed for taking people to Auckland Airport.
Autonomous vehicles are the way of the future. Who wants to travel in a tram to the airport when an autonomous vehicle will be able to pick you up from your home and take you in comfort to wherever you want to go?
This may be only a small start but it is certainly a great deal closer to the wide spread use of self-driving cars than most people seem to anticipate.
Ms Genter, who is concerned about traffic accident deaths may also like to keep in mind that these vehicles, as well as being cheaper to operate than public transport or self drive vehicles are also expected to be much, much safer.
Don’t let us waste money on old style travel technology. Let us plan for a 21st century solution. This is it.
I hope that the current Governments Transport Minister sees stories like this. Then they can decide whether they should abandon current plans to waste billions on a technically obsolete technology like the “light rail” system proposed for taking people to Auckland Airport.
/facepalm
No amount of self-driving is going to make cars economical for moving large numbers of people in the same direction at the same time.
Face it alwyn, you’re going to have to use public transport to get around.
Autonomous vehicles are the way of the future.
Such vehicles are one of the ways of the future but certainly not the way of the future.
Who wants to travel in a tram to the airport when an autonomous vehicle will be able to pick you up from your home and take you in comfort to wherever you want to go?
It’s not a question of who wants, but what the country can afford and it can’t afford personal cars. No country can. Everyone having their own car or two was a 20th century delusion.
as well as being cheaper to operate than public transport
[citation needed]
Or, put it another way: What a load of fucken bollocks. They must be more expensive because they use more resources to achieve the same end.
Why are you RWNJs so in denial of reality?
Don’t let us waste money on old style travel technology. Let us plan for a 21st century solution. This is it.
We are planning for the 21st century. You, and other RWNJs just like you, are trying to hold us back in the 15th.
I’ll just comment on a couple of things you say.
“as well as being cheaper to operate than public transport”
Have a look at this article. It was in the Fairfax papers on 31 August this year. The suggestion is that an AV from LaGuardia Airport to Manhattan could be as little as $US6.50. That is cheaper than the bus. https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-press/20170831/281805694066377
“Everyone having their own car or two was a 20th century delusion.”
You don’t need to have your own car. You can call one when you want it. If you aren’t using a vehicle it won’t have to sit idle. Someone else will be travelling in it, or it will park out of the way and recharge itself
“No amount of self-driving is going to make cars economical for moving large numbers of people in the same direction at the same time”
You will be travelling to where you want to go when you want to do it. The vehicles won’t all be going to the same place. The only reason you have to do that now is because public transport forces it on you.
You also won’t have to have your own vehicle to take you to the station, and you won’t need parking at the station while you continue on the tram.
“They must be more expensive because they use more resources to achieve the same end.”
Are you going to tell me that a bus with 5 passengers costs less to run than a car with 2? These vehicles will only be on the road when they are actually needed. They will also be available without the cost of a driver, which is the single greatest part of public transport fares.
The suggestion is that an AV from LaGuardia Airport to Manhattan could be as little as $US6.50. That is cheaper than the bus.
This should tell you something about our present socio-economic system. Something that’s really important.
See, the whole point of economics is to reduce resource use. Using cars, even AVs, does the exact opposite of that.
The reality is that it is not cheaper than the bus.
BTW, the bus can also be an AV.
You don’t need to have your own car. You can call one when you want it. If you aren’t using a vehicle it won’t have to sit idle. Someone else will be travelling in it, or it will park out of the way and recharge itself
/facepalm
What happens when everyone wants to go to work at the same time in their own personal space?
AVs may make taxis viable during the middle of the day and late at night. Peak time will be just as bad as it is now.
You will be travelling to where you want to go when you want to do it. The vehicles won’t all be going to the same place.
Wow, amazing. Alwyn just solved traffic congestion at peak times.
/sarc
The only reason you have to do that now is because public transport forces it on you.
Could have sworn that it was businesses that set the start and end times.
You also won’t have to have your own vehicle to take you to the station, and you won’t need parking at the station while you continue on the tram.
I thought you said that trams were out of date and going the way of the Dodo. So, which is it? Going the way of the Dodo or an integral part of transit system?
Are you going to tell me that a bus with 5 passengers costs less to run than a car with 2?
Probably. But that’s not actually the point.
It’s when we have tens of thousands all going down the same road at the same time that buses and trains come into their own. Thing is, once there are buses and trains even AVs aren’t economical. Why waste resources on a small, inefficient vehicle, when there’s already the big efficient ones going round their set ways that can get anyone from anywhere to anywhere efficiently?
They will also be available without the cost of a driver, which is the single greatest part of public transport fares.
Yep, quite aware of that. The Autonomous buses and trains also won’t have drivers.
“You also won’t have to have your own vehicle to take you to the station, and you won’t need parking at the station while you continue on the tram.”
“I thought you said that trams were out of date and going the way of the Dodo. So, which is it? Going the way of the Dodo or an integral part of transit system?”
I thought this would have been clear enough but obviously from you comment it wasn’t.
My remark was saying that, because there won’t be any trams that you have to use, you don’t need to get to the station and you won’t have to leave your vehicle there while you switch to another form of transport, a tram.
You will have a vehicle pick you up at your home that will take you directly to where you want to be. Is that clearer?
You really haven’t done the figures. Haven’t considered how many vehicles will be on the road at peak times if everyone used a car with one to four people in it instead of public transport.
“light rail can pack into one carriage about 600 metres full of autonomous-car-filled motorway. ”
I’ll take you word for that. So what. How close together do light rail vehicles travel? More that 600 metres I would suggest and there won’t be more than one tram every 10 minutes I should think. And bear in mind that AVs can travel much closer together than cars with drivers. The 2 second rule doesn’t apply to machines that can communicate their intentions to their neighbours.
Here’s some nice hopeful analysis for you on autonomous vehicles also operating as ride-share could eventually start to compete by cost against the train:
Start about 6:11 for when he has a good vent. Hi-tech, super fast, smart and luxurious electric cars are great, but… how about car-sharing instead of this commodity fetishism? Why spend a fortune on a lump of metal that spends 90% of its time just sitting and rusting. Moreover, electric cars, autonomous or not, aren’t particularly green. People ignore the enormous expenditure of energy that goes into manufacturing them and the environmental destruction that results.
The whole series he does, Fully Charged, is an inspiring thing. He’s quite the enthusiast for new electric technologies.
This is quite an interesting episode where he looks at a company trying to change the standard industry model:
I have glanced at this but I don’t have the time right now to give it the study it deserves.
I would note though that it still talks about people having privately owned, even if shared AVs. I see no need for that at all. They can all be in a pool and one that suits you can be despatched from the pool.
I also believe that they will all be electric vehicles. As required they can charge themselves. Maintenance will be much lower than in current fossil fuelled vehicles. You only have a few parts and no gearbox in an electric car.
I will have a full read later when I have the time.
Thank you for the reference.
So if you wish to place ‘road vehicles’ as “environmentally friendly” to the rail please show how you will get rid of using tyres made from petrochemicals pleasse as I want to know if there is such a solution here please?
I presume you will get rid of all the buses then?
After all they run on tires.
Actually some of the Paris Metro lines (only a few) have trains that have tires. They are quieter and much more comfortable than the ones that use steel rails.
Fact; every tyre is toxic to our human existance now as the report clearly says we are expecting emissions from tyre particles to increase and it cleary states tyre particles are damaging our health.
I asked do you have any answer and if you dont then say it as we are trying to find an answer.
Rail is good but only if steel wheels are used.
This is so far the only answer.
Petroleum produced PVC tyres on rail is not the answer to public our health issue here either.
Ever been to Singapore Alwyn?….. Brisbane/Melbourne/ Paris/London/US? Seattle/Portland/San Fran…. or you could try Bluff. Or https://www.teararoa.org.nz/contacts/Take a Trip! You’ll be enlightened….
Please tell me what the relevance of Tokyo is to New Zealand?
The population of the Tokyo Metropolitan area is, I believe, about 8 times that of New Zealand.
Of course people don’t own cars, if they have any sense. With AVs neither will we. We will call one whenever we want to go out. They will, having no drivers, be much cheaper than taxis are today and we won’t have to worry about parking them or maintaining them. Why do you think than anyone will want, or need, to actually own their own private car?
Of course we can learn something from Japanese trains.
Here is a job for brawny young men. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7kor5nHtZQ
Somehow I don’t really look forward to living in such a society.
I really do think the smaller autonomous vehicles where I can sit in comfort are preferable.
Actually, I really should have explained why I put in this clip. It wasn’t just meant to show what people in such a large crowded city have to put up with.
There are so many people in Tokyo that it simply doesn’t compare with anything we have in New Zealand. Of course trains, crowded trains, can be on a four minute schedule. There simply aren’t the number of passengers on any given route in a New Zealand city to be able to justify such a timetable.
I spend a lot of time in Paris. The Metro there doesn’t really have any sort of published timetable. You don’t go to a station to catch a particular train. You just get the next one along which is normally within about 4 minutes of you getting there. It is rare for there to be a gap of more than 8 minutes between trains on any given line.
They can do that because there are so many people living in what is quite a small area.
We simply aren’t that crowded which is why I don’t think comparisons with very large cities like Paris or Tokyo make any sense.
Of your list I have been to Singapore, Melbourne, Paris, London and San Francisco.
I hope you realise that they are mostly much larger than any city in New Zealand and that a number are larger than New Zealand?
Greater Paris is about 11 million. Greater London about 9 million. Singapore about 6 million. Melbourne is around 4.5 million.
All of these, except Singapore have very old light rail networks and none of them are expanding them to any extent.
I am most familiar with Paris. Thirteen of the 14 Paris Metro lines opened more than a century ago. The last, 14, opened in 1998.
They have never been extended outside the Peripherique
They, like those in large cities were opened when they were the best choice, not today.
Autonomous vehicles are the 21st centuries monorails. They are expected to do all sorts of things. Especially extract money form investors. Lets just wait and see how these things work in the real world. Like around pedestrians, weather and other drivers and AVs.
And seriously, you take investment advice based on the behaviour of a company that’s bled how many billions of investor funds, and their only strategy is to “invest” how many billions more in unproven technology to take human interaction out of their business.
Yeah. Reading it was Uber did put me off a bit.
On the other hand almost every car manufacturer and some pretty good technical organisations are getting into it. Alphabet is a pretty well run organisation don’t you think?
I don’t say they are working now. They will be by the time the tram line to the Airport is working though, and the billions wasted on light rail will be gone for good.
My reading of where the tech is heading is more as augmented rather than totally autonomous.
The autonomous angle is just good for pulling in investment from cost side managerial types. Fully autonomous is only practical if human control and interaction is removed totally from the transport corridor.
Now, can you see how this is going to fit into early 21st century human society?
“more as augmented rather than totally autonomous”
Not by 2025 it won’t be.
Within 20 years I don’t think people will be allowed to drive on public roads. They aren’t safe.
Rubbish. Most people have accepted the desirability of wearing helmets when riding bicycles and putting sun hats and shirts on kids in the sun.
The helmetless cyclists I have seen in Wellington generally seemed to have straggly beards and look anything but right wingers.
I think that safety in vehicles will be readily accepted.
It’s not often I have to agree with Alwyn but here is a fascinating video I urge every one to take a look at – its long (1 hour) but the guy really does know his stuff and backs it up with a massive amount of examples.:
Tony Seba 0n Clean Disruption – Energy and Transportation.
Cars will become a thing of the past and very quickly he predicts. Why? because it will become economically foolish to own one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b3ttqYDwF0&t=728s
I have finally had the time to watch this.
My friends tell me I am an optimist about when the shared, electric, self driving car will take over.
If Seba is right, and I can’t really see any reason to doubt it, I may in fact be a pessimist. It is going to be even sooner than I think.
Thank you for the link. It is quite fascinating, and extremely thought provoking.
Anyone who doesn’t accept what I have been saying should watch this. Maybe he can persuade you.
I think the 2 photos of Wall St NY taken just a few years apart are quite telling – one is full of horses and the next full of cars. His examples of the uptake of digital technologies surpassing all the expert consensus at the time, and how even Kodak – the developer of the digital camera failed to see the impact it would have on their own business, and their going into bankruptcy just several years later.
He references the business style of AirBnB and Uber as the business methodology of the future, and he may well be right. The fight back we are seeing now against AirBnB by the hospitality industry shows that the old is giving way to the new.
My dear chap.
I am not anti-rail.
I am in favour of rail where it is a sensible option.
That means, roughly, in the following areas.
The main trunk from Auckland to Wellington. The Auckland/Hamilton/Tauranga triangle. Christchurch to the West Coast. Possibly Picton to Christchurch although, if most of the freight is really coming from Auckland, coastal shipping may make more sense. Urban transport from Porirua and Upper Hutt to Wellington City. Except for the Wellington commuter corridors, which make sense because of the topology of the region, everything else is for freight only.
That is about it. It doesn’t mean crazy schemes to bring back little trains from Gisborne to Napier which can be handled by a dozen trucks a week or suchlike.
And it doesn’t mean “light rail” in Auckland and Wellington cities. They are obsolete.
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If anyone has been wondering where i have been for the past 3-4 days. It has been due to the most awkward (and embarrassing) of injuries – bruising the tailbone..
While dismounting from my new commuter e-bike on Friday morning, I managed to catch my foot in a strap of the bag of work clothes on the back of the bike. Over I went landing arse first with the bike on top of me, and my blessed helmet managing to stop my brains from spilling on to the concrete.
Apart from wondering about concussion (got someone to keep an eye on me) and having my dignity bruised, all appeared to be ok.
But alas later that afternoon it turned out that when I stood up out of my chair for lunch, that wasn’t the only thing I’d bruised. My arse hurt to the point that I was having to waddle around my tail bone. Headed home early to get a med check (ok – nothing particularly busted), some anti-inflammatory support (mostly too late apparently), and several days lying in bed with my arse poking up in the air either bemoaning my fate or sleeping.
Sitting down or even rolling over in bed has brought a new meaning in just bloody painful. And somehow I have never managed to master the art of coding or writing on blogs standing up…..
Anyway, it seems to be subsiding, although the best advice is that it is going to be a pain for at least a month. It will be a few days I suspect before my normal attentions to the site resume. Currently all of my limited sitting down time is allocated to income generating activities.
But I’m not going to do that again. I’m going to be a lot less blase about getting off the bike – which appears ro be my least remembered skill (either that or my joints are a lot less flexible than they were when I was 30)..
I’d agree. That was why I stopped biking in Auckland about 30 years ago. It got frigging dangerous. Fortunately Auckland is starting to try to make itself habitable, and to get some people out of cars and off the roads.
There is a bike way that does virtually all of the way between home and work. It crosses roads, but the lights now often have separated bike and pedestrian sections.
Which is a damn good thing in commuting hours. It is about 2.6km to work as a bird would fly. But there isn’t a direct route and a fair chunk of hill either way.
It would take me about 40 minutes to walk if I didn’t have an arthritic big toe – which makes it seems like a lifetime.
It reliably takes me about 15-20 minutes to bike. Most of the time is waiting to cross at the lights.
It takes at least 25 minutes (two buses and 0.5km walking) and usually more than an hour on public transport.
It takes anywhere from 5 minutes (off peak) to an hour (peak) by car depending on the degree of jamming. Median is greater than 25 minutes. My ‘brief’ visit yesterday took 40 minutes to get there and 8 minutes to get home at midday. I had a cardio checkup at Greenlane (the treadmill did nasty things to the tailbone). Today it took 18 minutes to get to work. Variability is the biggest pain.
I have a car for the longer trips and shopping, but commuting is going to be by bikeways and bike as I’m just outright tired of the damn traffic and paying road taxes that don’t get used to alleviate the major traffic issues in the country.
They need to get the bloody trucks off the road or get them to pay their full whack – so we aren’t subsidizing the road wreckers and the frigging bridges and heavy duty maintenance.
You have my sympathy Lprent, I fractured my coccyx birthing my first child. It was sheer purgatory. The sitting down was okay – it was the rising up which brought tears to my eyes. Good luck with your recovery. Tailbone pain is not very nice at all. Try a ring cushion, its the tried and true accessory for all new mums with sore nether regions, they do work.
“While dismounting from my new commuter e-bike on Friday morning, I managed to catch my foot in a strap of the bag of work clothes on the back of the bike.”
Top work and commiserations.
Just as soon as they complete the New Lynn-Avondale cycleway that in turn joins to the Avondale-SH16 cycleway, I’ll be joining you.
They need to get the bloody trucks off the road or get them to pay their full whack
The latter will achieve the former.
All the nelo-liberals always say that all businesses should pay their way but then they come up with all sorts of reasons why some are special and need subsidising. Some of those reasons even make sense when what we’re talking about is social services but, then, we’d be better off if those were simply a government service paid for through taxes.
Trucks don’t meet any sort reason for continued subsidy and need to have their subsidies discontinued ASAP.
If anyone has been wondering where i have been for the past 3-4 days…
I doubt it but nevertheless our sincere commiserations. I have bad news for you. Having once damaged the same part of my anatomy some time ago, I now suffer painful arthritis in the base of my spine requiring frequent anti-inflamatory support. The good news is: it will take a few years before the arthritis sets in. 🙂
Fell off my bike a couple of weeks after I got it (bad transition from road to footpath) and bruised my ribs. Spent a couple of weeks living on painkillers after that. Hurt like hell when I tried to lie down but it was fine when standing/sitting thankfully. Still, the ibuprofen had me feeling sick after a couple of days so I switched standard panadol.
I must confess, my first thought upon hearing of Lprent’s misfortune was a well-meaning “that’s a bit of a bugger”, then thought better of it due to the double-meaning. Words failed me.
Traditional reasons. The men’s version was originally stronger, while women rode bikes wearing skirts. So, for “propriety” they were given the lower cross bar, but weaker frame.
These days, apparently, it’s not so much where the cross bar is, but other aspects of design. All designs tend to have stronger frames.
I gave up cycling years ago because, it was for me, literally a pain in the arse. (I guess I could have had it seen to – but those bike seats…)
Now it seems that there are two ways to develop such a malady.
Sorry to hear of your accident Lynn and hope the healing is speedy. I know about the worry of concussion too. On rushing back one evening to the dance hall, because I had left my pullover behind, I put my foot where I thought the gutter should be – but was instead a monsoon drain – the civil engineering in Thames in places leaves a lot to be desired – but that is another story (the town having been in administration from 1931 to 1947) and I ended up flat on my face in the middle of Queen Street (the one in Thames). When I came too I couldn’t move – having smashed my left shoulder- and thought “I hope no one runs me over!” Then I saw a flashing light and a police car stopped in the road in front of me. He had been on a call out – the Police station being just up the road a way, and had seen this person running down the street! Hmmm that looks suspicious and he watched me and saw me fall. A large box of chocs was presented to the Police station on my return.
Makes me wonder about our own hacks, commentators and opinion makers.
In hearing these individual tales, we’re not only learning about individual trespasses but for the first time getting a view of the matrix in which we’ve all been living: We see that the men who have had the power to abuse women’s bodies and psyches throughout their careers are in many cases also the ones in charge of our political and cultural stories.
This seems underhand. Immigration should be transparent. We need to work on this because so often their actions indicate they are a bit thick in the head.
The court thing is odd – I was under the impression that even if he had name suppression for something, it would still be on court documents and just not publishable.
Why doesn’t someone in the Labour ranks tell Ardern to pull her head in? She is embarrassing NZ on the world stage, and only four weeks in. Out of her depth and childish, NZ deserves much better than this. Winston, what say you now?? The silence is deafening…are people who voted Labour having buyers remorse?? I knew she wasn’t up to the job, but it’s an absolute nightmare so far. There is a reason more people voted for National than Labour and the Greens combined!
Bill English runs circles around Ardern in the PM stakes.
Personally, I quite hope that national stay aroung 37-44%. Otherwise the tories might ditch the nats and come up with a competent friend for them. At the moment Billy No-mates and his band of moaning minnies have nobody to make them look sane.
You were just panting for some bullshit controversy weren’t you Tanz? Fuck off with your ‘remorse’. Run around in any circle you care to stumble into troll!
I did my left knee in during a capsised 12ft dingy accident last december, and it is just comming back to use now, as I had many weeks restup and slow exersise using a $30 floor cycle “mini exercise bike” from Kmart, to slowly mobilise my knee again and lots of hot baths using hydrogen peroxide or baking soda.
Oh you poor folks. Hope conditions are improving and pain goes to nothing. Not comparable to your accident injuries but being of an age I’m noticing that I’ve always bloody well got something ‘niggling’. Bit annoying really. And blow me down I’ve got very cognisant of that institution ‘the weather’. And I need korero about ‘the weather’. What is it?
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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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
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 ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
A poem by Wellington writer Tayi Tibble.Hoki Mai She kisses him goodbye with her eyes still wet and alight from their last swim in the Awatere river. At the train station celebration, she leads the Kapa Haka but her voice keeps breaking under and over itself like waves. ...
A poem from Bill Manhire’s 2017 book of verse Some Things to Place in a Coffin.My World War I Poem Inside each trench, the sound of prayer. Inside each prayer, the sound of digging. Image courtesy of Auckland War Memorial Museum. ...
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There are three books I have wolfed down in one sitting over the last two years. Colleen Maria Lenihan’s gorgeous and sad debut Kōhine, Noelle McCarthy’s memoir Grand about becoming her mother and then unbecoming her, and now Hine Toa, a staunch yet gentle self-portrait by living legend Ngāhuia te ...
Asia Pacific Report Students and activist staff at Australia’s University of Sydney (USyd) have set up a Gaza solidarity encampment in support of Palestinians and similar student-led protests in the United States. The camp was pitched as mass graves, crippled hospitals, thousands of civilian deaths and the near-total destruction of ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James B. Dorey, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong Australian teddy bear bees are cute and fluffy, but get a look at that massive (unbarbed) stinger! James Dorey Photography Most of us have been stung by a bee and we ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Roberts, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong Aussie~mobs/FlickrVictor Farr, a private in the 1st Infantry Battalion, was among the first to land at Anzac Cove just before dawn on April 25 1915. Victor Farr ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Gregory Moore I had the good fortune to care for the sugar gum at The University of Melbourne’s Burnley Gardens in Victoria where I worked for ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra BagzhanSadvakassov/Upsplash, CC BY-SA Australia’s inflation rate has fallen for the fifth successive quarter, and it’s now less than half of what it was back in late 2022. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University Just when we think the price of rentals could not get any worse, this week’s Rental Affordability Snapshot by Anglicare has revealed low-income Australians are facing a housing crisis like ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meighen McCrae, Associate Professor of Strategic & Defence Studies, Australian National University American and Australian stretcher bearers working together near the front line during the Battle of Hamel in 1918.Australian War Memorial While the AUKUS alliance is new, the Australian-American partnership ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracey Holmes, Professorial Fellow in Sport, University of Canberra When the news broke last weekend that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive to a banned drug in early 2021 and were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games six months later ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cally Jetta, Senior Lecturer and Academic Lead; College for First Nations, University of Southern Queensland Australian War MemorialAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people, as well as sensitive historical information ...
RNZ News Melissa Lee has been ousted from New Zealand’s coalition cabinet and stripped of the Media portfolio, and Penny Simmonds has lost the Disability Issues portfolio in a reshuffle. Climate Change and Revenue Minister Simon Watts will take Lee’s spot in cabinet. Simmonds was a minister outside of cabinet. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lindenmayer, Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University laurello/Shutterstock Some reports and popular books, such as Bill Gammage’s Biggest Estate on Earth, have argued that extensive areas of Australia’s forests were kept open through frequent burning by ...
Analysis - Christopher Luxon framing the demotion of two ministers as the portfolios getting "too complex" is a charitable way of saying they weren't up to the job. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With Jim Chalmers’s third budget on May 14, Australians will be looking for some more cost-of-living relief – beyond the tax cuts – although they have been warned extra measures will be modest. As ...
Analysis: Melissa Lee has lost the media portfolio and her spot in Cabinet after multiple failed attempts to find solutions for a media industry in crisis. On Wednesday, the Prime Minister announced Lee would be losing her spot in Cabinet along with her media and communications ministerial portfolio. The job ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Wilmot, Senior Lecturer, Film, Deakin University Among the many Australian who served during the second world war, there is a small group of people whose stories remain largely untold. These are the Muslim men and women who, while small in number, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Saunders, PhD Candidate, University of Canberra There has been much analysis and praise of Justice Michael Lee’s recent judgement in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Channel Ten. Many people were openly relieved to read Lee’s “forensic” and “nuanced” application of law ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathy Gibbs, Program Director for the Bachelor of Education, Griffith University zEdward_Indy/Shutterstock Around one in 20 people has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It’s one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood and often continues into adulthood. ADHD is diagnosed ...
The Fairer Future coalition of anti-poverty groups say Whaikaha must be properly funded going forward, and that to argue that poor financial management of the new Ministry is a red herring by the Prime Minister. ...
The Taxpayers’ Union is today congratulating Hon. Paul Goldsmith on his appointment as Minister for Media and Communications and urges him to rule out state intervention in the private media sector. ...
Asia Pacific Report The West Papuan resistance OPM leader has condemned Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden, accusing their countries of “six decades of treachery” over Papuan independence. The open letter was released today by OPM chairman Jeffrey P Bomanak on the eve of ANZAC Day ...
Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional, in which we get to know the reading habits and quirks of New Zealanders at large. This week: writer and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2024, Lauren Groff.The book I wish I’d writtenIf I wish I’d written a ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Fechner, Research Fellow, Social Marketing, Griffith University mavo/Shutterstock Imagine having dinner at a restaurant. The menu offers plant-based meat alternatives made mostly from vegetables, mushrooms, legumes and wheat that mimic meat in taste, texture and smell. Despite being given that ...
“Three Strikes is a dead-end policy proposed by a dead-end government. The Three Strikes law ignores the causes of crime, instead just brutalising people already crushed by the cost of living.” ...
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Australian-born judge in Kiribati could well face deportation later this week after a tribunal ruling that he should be removed from his post. The tribunal’s report has just been tabled in the Kiribati Parliament and is due to be debated by MPs ...
With its clear mandate for police use, political nuances, and nuanced public trust, Denmark's insights provide valuable considerations for Australia and New Zealand. ...
Books editor Claire Mabey reviews poet Louise Wallace’s debut novel. A famous poet once said to me that he’s always suspicious when a poet publishes a novel. I never really understood why but maybe it’s something to do with cheating on your first form. Louise Wallace is a poet. She’s ...
For a few months at the turn of the millennium, TrueBliss burned bright as the biggest pop stars in the country. Alex Casey chats to two superfans who still hold the flame. During a humble backyard wedding in Nelson, 1999, one of the cordially invited guests had to excuse themselves ...
How will the recent wave of job cuts impact ethnic diversity in the media? In November last year, I was working a very busy day in the newsroom of a large online news site, interviewing whānau about their concerns over the imminent closure of one of the few puna reo ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth Knight, Researcher, Queensland University of Technology Have you ever felt sick at work? Perhaps you had food poisoning or the flu. Your belly hurt, or you felt tired, making it hard to concentrate and be productive. How likely would you be ...
Despite heavy criticism and an ongoing select committee process, the Police Minister says the Government will forge ahead with a ban on gang patches. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Whiting, Lecturer – Creative Industries, University of South Australia Shutterstock Everyone has a favourite band, or a favourite composer, or a favourite song. There is some music which speaks to you, deeply; and other music which might be the current ...
A new survey says ‘outlook not great’ for those charged with building infrastructure, while RMA changes delight farmers and depress environmentalists, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. First RMA changes announced ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olli Hellmann, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Waikato Getty Images When New Zealanders commemorate Anzac Day on April 25, it’s not only to honour the soldiers who lost their lives in World War I and subsequent conflicts, but also ...
A leaked document shows the Canterbury/Waitaha arm of health agency Te Whatu Ora is scurrying to save $13.3 million by July. The “financial sustainability target”, which was “allocated” to Waitaha, is consistent with what’s happening in other districts, says Sarah Dalton, executive director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists. ...
A look at the state of the previous government’s affordable housing scheme, and what could come next.Remind me: What’s KiwiBuild again?First announced in 2012, KiwiBuild was a flagship policy of the Labour Party heading into both its 2014 and 2017 election campaigns. With Jacinda Ardern as prime minister, ...
Labour in opposition will be shocked to learn which party had six years in power but squandered any chance to make real change. Grant Robertson’s valedictory speech was a predictably entertaining trip down memory lane. The acid-tongued incoming Otago University chancellor administered a sick burn to the coalition government. He ...
Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is seen some as its ‘silicon shield’ against invasion – but how will overseas expansion affect that protection? The post The state of Taiwan’s silicon shield appeared first on Newsroom. ...
There’s relief for building owners bending under the weight of earthquake strengthening rules – and costs – that came into force seven years ago. Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk has announced a scheduled 2027 review of the earthquake-prone building regulations will now start this year. Owners will also get ...
Opinion: It has been announced that nine percent of roles at Oranga Tamariki will be disestablished, presumably to help fund the tax cuts promised by the coalition Government. I am reminded of the graphics used to illustrate pandemic events, where five thousand people are standing in a field and then ...
After more than two sleepless days, running through savage terrain, Greig Hamilton didn’t know if he was going to finish one of the most gruelling psychological assaults in sport. He was metres away from the finish line, a yellow gate made famous in a Netflix documentary; a race he’d dreamed ...
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The following interview with former Green Party MP Sue Kedgley came about because she features in the new memoir Hine Toa by activist Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku; the two knew each other at the University of Auckland in the early 70s, when they were both took on leadership roles in the ...
COMMENTARY:By Murray Horton New Zealand needs to get tough with Israel. It’s not as if we haven’t done so before. When NZ authorities busted a Mossad operation in Auckland 20 years ago, the government didn’t say: “Oh well, Israel has the right to defend itself.” No, it arrested, prosecuted, ...
NEWSMAKERS:By Vijay Narayan, news director of FijiVillage Blessed to be part of the University of Fiji (UniFiji) faculty to continue to teach and mentor those who want to join our noble profession, and to stand for truth and justice for the people of the country. I was privileged to ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Three weeks from now, some of us will be presented with a mountain of budget papers, and just about all of us will get to hear about them on radio, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Lowry, Ice Sheet & Climate Modeller, GNS Science Hugh Chittock/Antarctica New Zealand, CC BY-SA As the climate warms and Antarctica’s glaciers and ice sheets melt, the resulting rise in sea level has the potential to displace hundreds of millions of ...
The government's plan to reintroduce a three strikes regime is being strongly opposed by lawyers, who argue there is no evidence it reduces crime or helps people rehabilitate. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, Professor specialising in Internet law, Bond University Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform? Anyone inclined to answer “yes” to this question should perhaps also ask ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giovanni E Ferreira, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney Last week in a post on X, owner of the platform Elon Musk recommended people look into disc replacement if they’re experiencing severe neck or back pain. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hayward, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University anek.soowannaphoom/Shutterstock NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey caught the headlines yesterday, courtesy of a blistering speech condemning the latest GST carve-up. New South Wales, he claimed, would be A$11.9 billion worse off over the ...
If They try an pin that on me people any more than personal its a setup they have all the means to plant my personal property anywere I have given them to many RED FACES .
Which is what Te Kooti did to them but Te Kooti did not have this 21 century communication device that puts my story out to the WORLD Ka pai and they put a bounty on his capture of $600.000
they made sure he was not killed because all Maori would have risen up an well you no what the out come of that would have been my tepuna Rapata Wahawaha was coned into assisting them in the chase and war in the Urewera’s . I would like to see Te Kootis words on his story I’m not sure If this is out there.
I agree that a lot of the beggars are on crack I can spot a crack head easy as crack is a human wasting substance don’t give them money give the money to some outfit that gives these people rehabilitation . This is Keys legacy homeless crackheads and a chronic crack problem and the talk is more about the houses that have traces of crack than all the people affected by this crap this shit is the flow up of money to some very bad people in NZ. My words on the weekend must have really got up there nose A because they were going hard yesterday but they can go and get ________ what do they expect me to do drop off the face of OUR earth well that is not going to happen.
Many thanks to the winning NZ Ladys Rugby League team Ka pai There is a explanation on the differences between these team I have allready writen about part of this Kia Kaha
I can tell a national supporter they give me the stink eye when they see my Eco Maori signs on my truck ha ha the left supporters smile they are going ahead of me and telling the road workers not to wave and what do the people do well I can SEE.
I have got to close to there reality with my older post because they backed off today.
They backed off but they were still present I see all there moves what a waste of resources chasing the Eco Maori . The best thing about my situation is I get to let my people know exactly how OUR system works and this will help them up there ladder of life stop some these kids slipping into jail I.E scared strait and behave like OUR Lady’s do and think before one acts .
Now all the people with Trust Farms If I was you I would get the farm management to run more stock for meat for you this will not affect the farm profits and will be a big saving to the share holders a extra 5 cows a year they wont even no they are there but make sure you own them get home kill to process the meat the farm killed meat is 10 x better than shop brought meat no fat in the mince and on dairy farm raising pigs is cheap as there is waste milk most time so just get 5 cows 5 pigs and you will be saving big time man average $15 a day on meat for 2 . My brothers and sisters want to raise there own stock I am going to get the farm lessor to raise them for them I have seen inexperienced people try to raise stock an was not impressed this is the work smarter way of doing things. I don’t take smokes to work and my work is getting easy as my lung heal I will be smoke free soon P.S I know whom reading my post. I have to cook tea so byby Kia Kaha
So what do I no about OUR law well any bullshit evidence gathered will be inadmissible in a court of law if the law is broken while gathering this bullshit evidence. Kia kaha
After listening to Brownlee on Morning Report I sent the following email to RNZ:
“It would be good if RNZ realised the “National” in its name doesn’t mean National Party. A lot of air time seems to be being given to the National Party in a way I don’t remember Labour being treated when they were in opposition.
“Balance, not bias please”.
I also picked up Brownlee referring to the “minority coalition”. It seems to me the underlying message taken from the attack lines sheet is minority = illegitimate.
I didn’t hear the former government referring to themselves as a majority coalition.
100% Grey Area.
I think RNZ is being used by Natioonal still now as a propaganda tool.
When is Claire Curran going to get rid of the national cling-ons inside RNZ????
So you think staff should be got “rid of” by a government minister because of perceived political viewpoints?
Didn’t stop National from packing broadcasting with ignorant right wing prats.
Don’t need to ask them their political views. Just make them pass a “facts” test.
Kelvin Davis was embarrassed by technical questions about the Economy. Had English/Joyce asked say Bennett the same questions, she would have stumbled.
English wanted the Manus Island refugees discussed so sent an expert Brownlee in his place.
Do you see? Horses for courses a privilege denied Kelvin.
But Billshit didn’t send an expert. He sent Brownlee.
Generally the media have some regard to the level of support a party has. Between 2014 and 2017 Labour had 25% of the seats in parliament. National now has 45%, and is in fact the largest party in parliament.
So you can expect, across visually all media outlets, that National will get more coverage in the next three years than Labour had between 2014 and 2017.
But as far as I see, National is pretty absent at the moment. Virtually all the media focus is on Jacinda. Even the Deputy PM gets virtually no coverage. It is not likely to change till next year, since for the time being Jacinda is having her political honeymoon.
Hey Wayno! You any relation to Pete George?
44.4% Wayne
After 3 terms of National Government, Labour + Greens achieved a result in 2017 a mere 2.5% higher than the 2008 election.
That’s a weak start to a new government.
“That’s a weak start to a new government”. Care to tell us what you think the percentages you quote actually mean, or will mean, CV ? Without identifying the upshot as you see it it’s not much better than saying it’s not very pretty. So what to that.
1) “Jacindamania” has only brought Labour up to a level slightly above Labour’s losing 2008 election result.
2) This current government in its first term governs with 50.4% of the party vote, only 1.2% more than National’s third term of 49.2% of the party vote
3) With margins this narrow, the fledgling government has no time to waste in terms of delivering on its promises. It won’t get a second term without clear, fast results.
There is almost no room for any erosion of its popularity.
I’ve forgotten……what’s the balance……two seats 61/59 ? Read some figures somewhere which suggested that National got by with a sometimes 2-3 margin during nine years of retention of power.
At this point talking percentages and not seats suggests troubling moral concerns. ‘Legitimacy’ and all that. I really get the feeling that you’re champing at the bit to come out with something more definitive of where you stand CV? C’mon bro’…….declare your quirky lefty ‘preferences’.
Same old nonsense eh Wayne – I hope no one pays you for that rubbish. The gnats lost, and are still losing – hearts and minds wayne the gnats are clueless lol.
But as far as I see, National is pretty absent at the moment.
Wayne if you truly think that you need to get out more. On the Manus Island issue alone Brownlee has been given regular opportunities to advise the government to not annoy the Australians, cut them some slack because it’s a complex issue, etc.
Even the Deputy PM gets virtually no coverage.
Yes he has had some particularly around his performance answering questions in the House in the absence of of Ardern and Peters.
Generally the media have some regard to the level of support a party has.
So how come the ACT “party” gets as much coverage as it does then?
“National now has 45%, and is in fact the largest party in parliament.”
Wayne, I’ll give you some facts.
Of the 3,569,830 estimated voting age population 92.54 were enrolled to vote.
Of those enrolled, 19% did not cast a vote.
Of those who voted 55.6% did not vote for national
Therefore, of the estimated voting age population of 3,569,830, only 1,152,075 voted for National.
Wayne, 67.7274548% of the population did not vote for National.
So it could logically be claimed that only a little over 32% support National.
That’s about one third, so for every three people you encounter today, or tomorrow, or anytime for the next wee while, only ONE will be a National supporter.
The figures are all here http://www.elections.org.nz/
Now that you know this I expect you wont want to show a lack of honesty and integrity by disseminating mis-information again.
Brigid
Your post, while technically correct is nonsense. On the same basis Labour got about 26% of the vote. That is, just over one in FOUR actually support Labour!
The proper way to look at the vote, is the votes cast. These are the ones that actually determine the composition of parliament and the government. Under MMP it all depends on getting 50% or more of the MP’s in the parliament. Pointing that out is hardly a “lack of honesty and integrity by disseminating mis-information”. It is simply the facts about our parliament. Having an Opposition that is the largest party in parliament will (and should) change the political dynamic.
Grey Area,
I am not suggesting the Opposition has had zero coverage, clearly they get some. But apart from the selection of the Speaker, they are not the dominant player in the media.
In contrast, every day there are two or three articles/newsclips on Jacinda. The Deputy PM, maybe one tor two per week. I am not objecting or complaining. She was inevitably going to get that level of coverage.
“Your post, while technically correct is nonsense. ”
“The proper way……..”
Behold the arrogance.
It is only you Wayne, who is comparing National votes with Labour.
In case you hadn’t noticed the present government comprises a coalition of three parties, Labour being one of them.
FPP is sooo last century Wayne.
Do you STILL believe National should be leading the government?
Wayne,
You are technically ‘incorrect’, as we live in a MPP electoral process so get off the old FPP system anmd get over it for gods ake man!!!!!
And yet, Mr 0.1% David Seymour?!
Hey Wayne, how many honeymoons are the RWNJ allowing Jacinda to have?
Also how many Morning Report listeners have noticed such a huge difference to last week with the fantastic rapport between Kim Hill and John Campbell, they were a star act. Lots of serious stuff went down and also lots of banter and laughter, especially with Giles on the Finance report. Just what us morning listeners want from a morning show.
If the management of RNZ didn’t take notice of this then they need to be replaced. The ratings would soar through the roof if we had these two stars on. I realise Kim Hill wouldn’t want to do 5 days a week with early starts but surely they could accommodate such a quality act and allow her 2/3 days.
This morning it was just so dull and dreary that even Philippa Tolley couldn’t rescue it. Espiner needs replacing and quickly. Just my criticisms I know but it would be interesting to know what other TS browsers have to say on this matter.
Yes, last week on Morning Report was excellent and this week is just … dull. Sorry, Guyon just does not have it. Checkpoint last week was also just … dull.
However, John Campbell made it very clear last week that the early mornings were not him in any way, shape or form so I don’t expert to see him there too often.
On Friday morning also I woke up c 6.30am to catch a little bit of snark between JC and KH (I was only half awake and did not catch the issue*) and that seemed to temper their rapport for the remainder of the programme.
So I don’t expect to see a repeat pairing for a while, sadly.
* Maybe it was this tweet. LOL
John CampbellVerified account
@JohnJCampbell
Nov 14
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John Campbell Retweeted RNZ
Having had to get up at 3 bloody 45 to participate in this one week switcheroo (an hour so indecent it should be banned), I can now confirm the entire Morning Report team are vampires.
https://twitter.com/JohnJCampbell/status/930703166630518784
I agree entirely. Kim Hill is a national treasure.
“The ratings would soar through the roof if we had these two stars on.”
Yes, but RNZ could at least start with your suggestion of axing Espiner. The guy’s got no ability to formulate questions in a way that suits the context. Accordingly he just comes across as a fuckwit.
Chris he always has been a fuckwit. The main problem at natrad is the fuckwits running it. They should have resigned the day after the election, as should so many other political appointees. But oh no, they all want to carry on shafting us until they get an unearned golden handshake. Fuck them and fuck our silly system for letting them do it.
And yet the prime ministers boyfriend is on the panel this afternoon? Is that enough “balance” for you?
Get the pain from Tuppence.
Grey Area. please let us all know when you get a reply. Be ready for more spin and bullshit. RNZ obviously think that National are still the Government.
Anyone else hear Gerry Brownlee waffling on about Manus Island on Morning Report this morning?
He sounded exactly like an ex-minister who no longer gets his talking points from ministry officials before he fronts the media.
It was particularly amusing when he tried to suggest Ardern should go easy on Australia because they take 5 times as many refugees per capita as we do. Well Gerry, the reason for that is, your government steadfastly refused to increase our quota, even in the face of the dreadful humanitarian crises we’ve seen in the last few years.
Today’s Stuff red -meat- to -the- wolves anti-welfare tirade is courtesy of Mike Yardley.
(I haven’t linked it it because it doesn’t deserve more clicks but will if mods want me to).
The usual routine- RW anti-benefits/anti-Greens rant, followed by opens comment section of course. To date 250+ comments. I can’t bare to look at them, but easy to guess- dominated by the ‘I couldn’t agree with you more Mike’ brigade, usual rednecks, paid Natz trolls, and general pricks, all up-voting each other of course. And the few that dare to dissent getting heavily down-voted by the above.
So business as usual at Stuff really. But it does beg the question- these “opinion” pieces are always very careful not to cross the line of course but come bloody close at times. They are, however, deliberately written with the sole aim to provoke, not to provide another point of view, which is evident by the fact the comments sections are always left open, the editors knowing full well what will happen.
I believe this practice is inciting hate speech. Is that an extreme statement? Maybe not “hate” under any current legal definition, but certainly encouraging the public to gang up on and at a bare minimum severely bully a group of society. How can this be stopped? (Closing off comments would be a start- the one decent thing the Herald did).
Fresh meat….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY4V3UUY95A
I just had a quick look and the balance between sanity and National Party hate speech isn’t as bad as you think.
Each and every talking point is rebutted, and it’s clear that people are familiar with them, and the facts.
I agree: I think they should be held accountable when the consequences of hate speech spill over into legally sanctioned human rights abuses, such as this gross attack on privacy and freedom of expression.
Actually Kay, 4, a huge number of comments were supportive of solo Mums getting that money, and saying Dads dodged. Also a number said Mike was stirring.
Rather makes you wonder what he thinks a Godfather does…
+1 Kay. I thought it was an appalling piece full of exaggeration, assumptions and bile. Just like most of the comments.
+1. I’d never heard of the prick so I decided to google, check out his self-promoting website and other places.
What a privileged ‘bloke’ – no doubt work-life balanced, well-connected but at a respectable distance from those dirty filthy solomums rorting the cistern.
Maybe that’s what has rubbed off on Jack the boy Tame
Notice his “I don’t have any children that I know of” line. What a lad.
Someone should check the sheep paddock…
Hilarious!!
@ marty mars (5.1.1.1) … oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Can’t stop laughing. Brilliant response 🙂
Marty Marty Marty……
I did not spray coffee all over my keyboard through my nose, but only because I wasn’t drinking coffee.
Ha ha ha, thanks marty mars.
Has the idiot gone to mars? Mabe came from mars?
Two Herald opinion pieces by Claire Trevett and Rachel Smalley about Jacinda Ardern’s unfortunate interview with Jack Tane yesterday morning:
Claire Trevett
Quite reasonable in my view. I saw the offending clip before the fallout started and wasn’t too impressed with the way Jacinda handled it. In my view she should have launched into a short, simple explanation (no smiles etc.) then shut the story down. If Tane refused to accept the explanation then she should have ended the interview. Sometimes its the only way to handle youthful upstarts like Tane who think they “know it all”. Instead she pussy footed around and made things worse. I’m sure it was a lesson well learned by Jacinda.
As for Rachel Smalley. Not worth a link. A biased piece of claptrap from a sulking Nat. supporter.
Just watched the edited vid that’s through your link.
I didn’t see too much wrong with Adern’s responses. Reporter seeks to give substance to gossip. PM laughs.
I’ll assume she’s learned the lesson that you don’t tell “your mates” fuck all about the incidental bullshit that goes on in such meetings.
….she’s learned the lesson that you don’t tell “your mates” fuck all about the incidental bullshit that goes on in such meetings.
Essentially what I was getting at… and I think it was the message Trevett arrived at too. Don’t know how long it will last, but have found Trevett’s columns reasonable since the change of government.
That was my reaction as well Bill. I know it’s a steep learning curve with lots to learn but I hope she doesn’t have to learn too much by making mistakes. She doesn’t want to be handing out sticks for our biased media to beat her with.
She’s Ardern, not Jacinda.
Uggh? I know “Jacinda” and I will call her by her christian name if I think it is appropriate.
NB: I used her full name in the first sentence. That is enough.
+ 1, Anne.
The obsession with use of her first name comes from treating her as a child. She’s Ardern.
“Ardrern” ??????? Really?????????
Thanks, you gave me time to fix it.
What an offensive and arrogant assumption to make. Yet another upstart who makes claims with no backing evidence? Grow up and act your age.
Hey hey!
If you’re going to insist on formal speech and manners, Chris, The Right Honourable Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, will talk to you when she’s good and ready.
On Earth, however, you can relax.
Thank you, Master Po.
I get where you’re coming from, maybe, but don’t forget Dr. Sir John Key more or less encouraged journalists to call him “mate”.
Chris also needs to be consistent – example 2.3.1 above
Hey Wayno! You any relation to Pete George?
https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-21-11-2017/#comment-1416649
I don’t usually agree with the POVs of either Wayne * or Peter George, but I found that comment both childish and mildly offensive.
* AKA The honourable Dr Wayne Mapp
I notice Chris getting attention from silly little comments. Various people will use various ways to reduce the vitality and standing of TS while Labour is in government, showing up lefties as easily diverted. Taking them seriously will only reduce TS as a place of intelligent, informed discussion.
Too bloody right. I should’ve said “Mapp, your analysis of the relationship between the number of MPs a party has and the level of media coverage they should expect is as relevant as something that’d come from Pete George”. Seriously though, if anyone will “use various ways to reduce the vitality and standing of TS while Labour is in government, showing up lefties as easily diverted” it’s in fact Wayne. The guy’s a disgrace.
100% Greywarshark.
TS is anoother public media platform that offers alternative views to n the scribbed corporate media we live inside of today, so to TS & TDB long live free speech.
Ardern handled it well…can’t believe it warranted any further media coverage.
“…can’t believe it warranted any further media coverage.”
It didn’t but biased media + any opportunity =?
100% Anne you summed this perfectly.
“As for Rachel Smalley. Not worth a link. A biased piece of claptrap from a sulking Nat. supporter.”
Deadbeat Dads
No. 4: This scumbag still boasts that his parents were two of Auckland’s most notorious criminals (significantly, they were grog-runners)
He’s a deadbeat husband as well….
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/08/john-banks-told-mum-of-alleged-love-child-to-get-an-abortion-court-hears.html
Deadbeat Dad No. 1: Sir John Key
Deadbeat Dad No. 2: Bill English
Deadbeat Dad No. 3: Sir Douglas Graham
You need a new attack angle, this one is out of line.
In what way is it out of line?
It’s stupid and cruel and meaningless imo. And alsò, why bother?…
GROPERS
No. 6: Arnold Schwarzenegger
“GROPERS” is researched and presented by GroperWatch, a division of Daisycutter Sports Inc.
No.1 George Herbert Walker Bush
No. 2 Bill O’Reilly
No. 3 Al Franken
No. 4 Robin Brooke
No. 5 Lester Beck
Hes back!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/20/bill-clinton-facing-four-sexual-assault-lawsuits-fresh-allegations/
You really have to admire the chap, don’t you?
Seventy one years old, a survivor of major heart surgery and still has the get up and go of a teen-ager.
He must follow the Hugh Hefner diet. Large doses of Viagra.
Actually calling Bill a randy old goat is probably more appropriate.
Please note, Bill Clinton is from the correct side of the political aisle so we must go easier on him and his long time enabler wife, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
From my random observations there is absolutely no difference in the behaviour of the different sides of politics.
For every John Kennedy there is a Nelson Rockefeller.
For every Don Brash there is a David Cunliffe.
It is probably something that Morrissey should consider. He considers Bill English to be a deadbeat Dad for Christ’s sake!
From what I can see Bill has been a truly admirable father and his family have all turned out to be fine adults.
If only every parent was so caring and successful in the most important activity of their life.
Yes, when English had children appear in his election campaign ads they were usually his own, and he was very proud of them justifiably so.
Shame his parenting includes teaching his children that lying is ok to get what you want…
English has been the Prime Minister. He knows you have to lie sometimes.
“For every John Kennedy there is a Nelson Rockefeller.
For every Don Brash there is a David Cunliffe.”
For every john key there is a George Soros or 100 other carpetbaggers?
Still working your Clinton obssessions CV ? Your “long time enabler wife” comment is straight out of Repugs’ talking points and is utterly offensive. Mind your own fucking business about their personal dynamic. There’s something ‘crypto’ about you CV.
Hillary ate his cat. He’s never forgiven her for it.
Hillary has enabled decades of Bill’s bad behaviour. Turn a blind eye if you wish, but more is coming out shortly.
What, she’s eaten other people’s cats too? There are plenty of villains active and in power in this world today. Your obsession with someone who’s never going to hold significant office again is peculiar.
Same old CV what?…….still busybodying Ena Sharples like over someone else’s marriage. Phew! And then going all Trump like……”more is coming out shortly……” Better be better than a relaunch of Anthony Weiner’s weenie CV!
Nope dont admire sexual assault, not even tongue in cheek as you have just done.
Admired sexual assault?
Do you think saying what I did “Actually calling Bill a randy old goat is probably more appropriate” is expressing “admiration”?
Farmers ruin another river
17 November 2017
The Kaiapoi River is turning salty, and irrigation is to blame: A freshwater Canterbury river is on the brink of turning into a saltwater estuary, in part due to water abstraction, new data shows.
It has blindsided some in the community and would permanently alter the river’s character if the trend continued.
“The prospect of that river turning to a smelly, scum-filled seawater estuary is just totally unacceptable,” Waimakariri District councillor Sandra Stewart said.
The problem is caused by farmers taking too much water from the Waimakariri River, meaning that its flow is too weak to prevent salty tidal flows from entering the Kaiapoi. The solution is obvious: reduce irrigation flows. But that means reducing farmers’ profits, which was unacceptable under National. Hopefully with a different government (and a soon-to-be elected ECan) they’ll be able to stop the farmers poisoning this river before its too late.
http://norightturn.blogspot.co.nz/2017/11/farmers-ruin-another-river.html
https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/f/i/z/s/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620×349.1lfi0o.png/1504501119377.jpg
I hope Clare Curran is making a list of government appointments in broadcasting, to change the tenor of the interviews (kind calling them that!!) questions and topics.
The childish point scoring, voices of the right, judgmental name calling going on currently does nothing about informing.
Thank heaven for the internet, there is always someone reasonable out there talking to climate change world politics, and scientists’ warnings among other important things.
Sorry, but politicians should never be making hire and fire decisions of journalists that they like or do not like.
The CEO’s ability to hire the best person for the job has to remain independent.
+1 CV.
CV,
No I dont buy that as CEO;s are also ‘political appointments CV.
Take a look at the RNZ CEO???
Totally absent when I asked the RNZ CEO why we did not have a ‘local HB/Gisborne repoprter two months ago and never got any reply from the CEO even though we asked for his response under OIA rules!!!!!
Best let the new Minister decide as then we wont get Steven Joyce and Brownklee hugging RNZ news every week now as is going on.
This morning it was Steven joyce featuring as if national was still in charge!!!!!!
When do we get the new government to take charge here??????
But the government can make sure they hire the right CEO for the job
Indeed, technically the Minister chooses the Board members who then pick the right CEO/senior managers
Exactly , and over the last nine years they have all been Right.
CV You love dictatorships or Beaurocrats do you?
First you want the CEO to act alone and now you embrace “Boards'”????
Far to many people as not elected members here so we think boards should be disbanded/sacked; – and a single elected chair preside over the media not a bunch of ‘self interseted idiots’ whom are bought by corporates and well heeled right wing factions.
CEOs should never hire journalists. Editors should
Colonial Viper, 10.1 I didn’t know journalists were government appointments. sarc.
hmmm fair enough.
I believe some Journalists were National government appointments.
Claire Curran & Jacinda both need to clean house there.
Right……like Campbell and weak man Key tool Mark Weldon. Quite right! Quite right!
Did anyone notice the United States is going to be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court for its conduct in Afghanistan for crimes against humanity?
http://www.dw.com/en/us-afghanistan-forces-likely-to-face-war-crimes-investigation-alongside-taliban/a-41459624
Puts U.S. military on the same level as the Afghanistan Security Force and the Taliban.
I’m keen to see how President Trump – and Premier Xi and other world leaders – react to this investigation.
Trump will insult the investigators. Xi will say “they do it too!” and then lock up anyone who mentions it.
This, from the Economist’s daily Espresso newsletter, sent out by e-mail to subscribers..
“Uber will buy up to 24,000 self-driving cars from Volvo, potentially the biggest ever autonomous-vehicle order. The deal adds to the ride-hailing firm’s 200-strong fleet of driverless sport-utility vehicles, which it began testing in America last year. The XC90 SUV, with a starting price of around $50,000, will have both the carmaker’s and Uber’s self-driving technology”.
I hope that the current Governments Transport Minister sees stories like this. Then they can decide whether they should abandon current plans to waste billions on a technically obsolete technology like the “light rail” system proposed for taking people to Auckland Airport.
Autonomous vehicles are the way of the future. Who wants to travel in a tram to the airport when an autonomous vehicle will be able to pick you up from your home and take you in comfort to wherever you want to go?
This may be only a small start but it is certainly a great deal closer to the wide spread use of self-driving cars than most people seem to anticipate.
Ms Genter, who is concerned about traffic accident deaths may also like to keep in mind that these vehicles, as well as being cheaper to operate than public transport or self drive vehicles are also expected to be much, much safer.
Don’t let us waste money on old style travel technology. Let us plan for a 21st century solution. This is it.
/facepalm
No amount of self-driving is going to make cars economical for moving large numbers of people in the same direction at the same time.
Face it alwyn, you’re going to have to use public transport to get around.
Such vehicles are one of the ways of the future but certainly not the way of the future.
It’s not a question of who wants, but what the country can afford and it can’t afford personal cars. No country can. Everyone having their own car or two was a 20th century delusion.
[citation needed]
Or, put it another way: What a load of fucken bollocks. They must be more expensive because they use more resources to achieve the same end.
Why are you RWNJs so in denial of reality?
We are planning for the 21st century. You, and other RWNJs just like you, are trying to hold us back in the 15th.
I’ll just comment on a couple of things you say.
“as well as being cheaper to operate than public transport”
Have a look at this article. It was in the Fairfax papers on 31 August this year. The suggestion is that an AV from LaGuardia Airport to Manhattan could be as little as $US6.50. That is cheaper than the bus.
https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-press/20170831/281805694066377
“Everyone having their own car or two was a 20th century delusion.”
You don’t need to have your own car. You can call one when you want it. If you aren’t using a vehicle it won’t have to sit idle. Someone else will be travelling in it, or it will park out of the way and recharge itself
“No amount of self-driving is going to make cars economical for moving large numbers of people in the same direction at the same time”
You will be travelling to where you want to go when you want to do it. The vehicles won’t all be going to the same place. The only reason you have to do that now is because public transport forces it on you.
You also won’t have to have your own vehicle to take you to the station, and you won’t need parking at the station while you continue on the tram.
“They must be more expensive because they use more resources to achieve the same end.”
Are you going to tell me that a bus with 5 passengers costs less to run than a car with 2? These vehicles will only be on the road when they are actually needed. They will also be available without the cost of a driver, which is the single greatest part of public transport fares.
Yes but they showed it as a 4 seater… Even with amazing technology that will have to be an amazing loss leader to cost that upin launch.
This should tell you something about our present socio-economic system. Something that’s really important.
See, the whole point of economics is to reduce resource use. Using cars, even AVs, does the exact opposite of that.
The reality is that it is not cheaper than the bus.
BTW, the bus can also be an AV.
/facepalm
What happens when everyone wants to go to work at the same time in their own personal space?
AVs may make taxis viable during the middle of the day and late at night. Peak time will be just as bad as it is now.
Wow, amazing. Alwyn just solved traffic congestion at peak times.
/sarc
Could have sworn that it was businesses that set the start and end times.
I thought you said that trams were out of date and going the way of the Dodo. So, which is it? Going the way of the Dodo or an integral part of transit system?
Probably. But that’s not actually the point.
It’s when we have tens of thousands all going down the same road at the same time that buses and trains come into their own. Thing is, once there are buses and trains even AVs aren’t economical. Why waste resources on a small, inefficient vehicle, when there’s already the big efficient ones going round their set ways that can get anyone from anywhere to anywhere efficiently?
Yep, quite aware of that. The Autonomous buses and trains also won’t have drivers.
“You also won’t have to have your own vehicle to take you to the station, and you won’t need parking at the station while you continue on the tram.”
“I thought you said that trams were out of date and going the way of the Dodo. So, which is it? Going the way of the Dodo or an integral part of transit system?”
I thought this would have been clear enough but obviously from you comment it wasn’t.
My remark was saying that, because there won’t be any trams that you have to use, you don’t need to get to the station and you won’t have to leave your vehicle there while you switch to another form of transport, a tram.
You will have a vehicle pick you up at your home that will take you directly to where you want to be. Is that clearer?
Yes, much clearer – and still delusional.
You really haven’t done the figures. Haven’t considered how many vehicles will be on the road at peak times if everyone used a car with one to four people in it instead of public transport.
HINT: The congestion will be a lot worse.
Jesus Alwyn.
Come up to Auckland and figure it out.
Autonomous vehicles will barely fingernail-scratch the congestion that people face here.
Whereas light rail can pack into one carriage about 600 metres full of autonomous-car-filled motorway.
Failing that, go up to Shanghai.
“light rail can pack into one carriage about 600 metres full of autonomous-car-filled motorway. ”
I’ll take you word for that. So what. How close together do light rail vehicles travel? More that 600 metres I would suggest and there won’t be more than one tram every 10 minutes I should think. And bear in mind that AVs can travel much closer together than cars with drivers. The 2 second rule doesn’t apply to machines that can communicate their intentions to their neighbours.
Here’s some nice hopeful analysis for you on autonomous vehicles also operating as ride-share could eventually start to compete by cost against the train:
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2016/transportation-travel-tourism-automotive-will-autonomous-vehicles-derail-trains.aspx
I’m still waiting for my jetpack.
An invigorating rant from Robert Llewellyn (whom you might remember as Kryten):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Y8crkXcaU
Start about 6:11 for when he has a good vent. Hi-tech, super fast, smart and luxurious electric cars are great, but… how about car-sharing instead of this commodity fetishism? Why spend a fortune on a lump of metal that spends 90% of its time just sitting and rusting. Moreover, electric cars, autonomous or not, aren’t particularly green. People ignore the enormous expenditure of energy that goes into manufacturing them and the environmental destruction that results.
The whole series he does, Fully Charged, is an inspiring thing. He’s quite the enthusiast for new electric technologies.
This is quite an interesting episode where he looks at a company trying to change the standard industry model:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utmkddBFUg0
Riversimple is the company’s name and they’re looking at cars as a shared mobility service rather than penis extensions.
I have glanced at this but I don’t have the time right now to give it the study it deserves.
I would note though that it still talks about people having privately owned, even if shared AVs. I see no need for that at all. They can all be in a pool and one that suits you can be despatched from the pool.
I also believe that they will all be electric vehicles. As required they can charge themselves. Maintenance will be much lower than in current fossil fuelled vehicles. You only have a few parts and no gearbox in an electric car.
I will have a full read later when I have the time.
Thank you for the reference.
Alwyn,
Apart from your apparent love of roads vehicles, what will you do about the tyre dust that is toxic to humans and animals?
All tyres contain serious health risks whereas rail uses steel wheels.
http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC89231/jrc89231-online%20final%20version%202.pdf
So if you wish to place ‘road vehicles’ as “environmentally friendly” to the rail please show how you will get rid of using tyres made from petrochemicals pleasse as I want to know if there is such a solution here please?
I presume you will get rid of all the buses then?
After all they run on tires.
Actually some of the Paris Metro lines (only a few) have trains that have tires. They are quieter and much more comfortable than the ones that use steel rails.
Alwyn,
Please learn what we are saying!!
Read this report, you are not listening here.
http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC89231/jrc89231-online%20final%20version%202.pdf
Fact; every tyre is toxic to our human existance now as the report clearly says we are expecting emissions from tyre particles to increase and it cleary states tyre particles are damaging our health.
I asked do you have any answer and if you dont then say it as we are trying to find an answer.
Rail is good but only if steel wheels are used.
This is so far the only answer.
Petroleum produced PVC tyres on rail is not the answer to public our health issue here either.
And personal AVs still won’t get anywhere near the density that public transport will get.
They simply cannot due to physical limitations.
Ever been to Singapore Alwyn?….. Brisbane/Melbourne/ Paris/London/US? Seattle/Portland/San Fran…. or you could try Bluff. Or https://www.teararoa.org.nz/contacts/Take a Trip! You’ll be enlightened….
Or Tokyo.
Recently there was an apology for a train leaving 20 seconds early!!!
(the next train was in 4 mins!!!)
Cars are still a problem, with lots traffic.
Often people don’t own a car and rent when need for a longer trip.
Please tell me what the relevance of Tokyo is to New Zealand?
The population of the Tokyo Metropolitan area is, I believe, about 8 times that of New Zealand.
Of course people don’t own cars, if they have any sense. With AVs neither will we. We will call one whenever we want to go out. They will, having no drivers, be much cheaper than taxis are today and we won’t have to worry about parking them or maintaining them. Why do you think than anyone will want, or need, to actually own their own private car?
Oh well nothing to learn
Let’s move on
Of course we can learn something from Japanese trains.
Here is a job for brawny young men.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7kor5nHtZQ
Somehow I don’t really look forward to living in such a society.
I really do think the smaller autonomous vehicles where I can sit in comfort are preferable.
Actually, I really should have explained why I put in this clip. It wasn’t just meant to show what people in such a large crowded city have to put up with.
There are so many people in Tokyo that it simply doesn’t compare with anything we have in New Zealand. Of course trains, crowded trains, can be on a four minute schedule. There simply aren’t the number of passengers on any given route in a New Zealand city to be able to justify such a timetable.
I spend a lot of time in Paris. The Metro there doesn’t really have any sort of published timetable. You don’t go to a station to catch a particular train. You just get the next one along which is normally within about 4 minutes of you getting there. It is rare for there to be a gap of more than 8 minutes between trains on any given line.
They can do that because there are so many people living in what is quite a small area.
We simply aren’t that crowded which is why I don’t think comparisons with very large cities like Paris or Tokyo make any sense.
Of your list I have been to Singapore, Melbourne, Paris, London and San Francisco.
I hope you realise that they are mostly much larger than any city in New Zealand and that a number are larger than New Zealand?
Greater Paris is about 11 million. Greater London about 9 million. Singapore about 6 million. Melbourne is around 4.5 million.
All of these, except Singapore have very old light rail networks and none of them are expanding them to any extent.
I am most familiar with Paris. Thirteen of the 14 Paris Metro lines opened more than a century ago. The last, 14, opened in 1998.
They have never been extended outside the Peripherique
They, like those in large cities were opened when they were the best choice, not today.
Autonomous vehicles are the 21st centuries monorails. They are expected to do all sorts of things. Especially extract money form investors. Lets just wait and see how these things work in the real world. Like around pedestrians, weather and other drivers and AVs.
And seriously, you take investment advice based on the behaviour of a company that’s bled how many billions of investor funds, and their only strategy is to “invest” how many billions more in unproven technology to take human interaction out of their business.
I’ve a monorail to sell you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOI0cq6GZM
Yeah. Reading it was Uber did put me off a bit.
On the other hand almost every car manufacturer and some pretty good technical organisations are getting into it. Alphabet is a pretty well run organisation don’t you think?
I don’t say they are working now. They will be by the time the tram line to the Airport is working though, and the billions wasted on light rail will be gone for good.
My reading of where the tech is heading is more as augmented rather than totally autonomous.
The autonomous angle is just good for pulling in investment from cost side managerial types. Fully autonomous is only practical if human control and interaction is removed totally from the transport corridor.
Now, can you see how this is going to fit into early 21st century human society?
“more as augmented rather than totally autonomous”
Not by 2025 it won’t be.
Within 20 years I don’t think people will be allowed to drive on public roads. They aren’t safe.
Very nanny state socialist of you alwyn.
I’ll be watching to see how that’s accepted by the personal responsibility and freedom loving right wingers in society. Should be rather entertaining.
Rubbish. Most people have accepted the desirability of wearing helmets when riding bicycles and putting sun hats and shirts on kids in the sun.
The helmetless cyclists I have seen in Wellington generally seemed to have straggly beards and look anything but right wingers.
I think that safety in vehicles will be readily accepted.
Wouldn’t it be even safer to reduce the number of vehicles, and go towards busses, trams and trains.
It’s not often I have to agree with Alwyn but here is a fascinating video I urge every one to take a look at – its long (1 hour) but the guy really does know his stuff and backs it up with a massive amount of examples.:
Tony Seba 0n Clean Disruption – Energy and Transportation.
Cars will become a thing of the past and very quickly he predicts. Why? because it will become economically foolish to own one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b3ttqYDwF0&t=728s
I have finally had the time to watch this.
My friends tell me I am an optimist about when the shared, electric, self driving car will take over.
If Seba is right, and I can’t really see any reason to doubt it, I may in fact be a pessimist. It is going to be even sooner than I think.
Thank you for the link. It is quite fascinating, and extremely thought provoking.
Anyone who doesn’t accept what I have been saying should watch this. Maybe he can persuade you.
I think the 2 photos of Wall St NY taken just a few years apart are quite telling – one is full of horses and the next full of cars. His examples of the uptake of digital technologies surpassing all the expert consensus at the time, and how even Kodak – the developer of the digital camera failed to see the impact it would have on their own business, and their going into bankruptcy just several years later.
He references the business style of AirBnB and Uber as the business methodology of the future, and he may well be right. The fight back we are seeing now against AirBnB by the hospitality industry shows that the old is giving way to the new.
Alwyn,
Finally has showed himself as an anti rail advocate.
So thanks for confirming what I suspected.
I am not surprised you are a road lover.
You want tyre dust pollution and will be happy killling us all prematurely then.
I wont take you seriouslly again.
My dear chap.
I am not anti-rail.
I am in favour of rail where it is a sensible option.
That means, roughly, in the following areas.
The main trunk from Auckland to Wellington. The Auckland/Hamilton/Tauranga triangle. Christchurch to the West Coast. Possibly Picton to Christchurch although, if most of the freight is really coming from Auckland, coastal shipping may make more sense. Urban transport from Porirua and Upper Hutt to Wellington City. Except for the Wellington commuter corridors, which make sense because of the topology of the region, everything else is for freight only.
That is about it. It doesn’t mean crazy schemes to bring back little trains from Gisborne to Napier which can be handled by a dozen trucks a week or suchlike.
And it doesn’t mean “light rail” in Auckland and Wellington cities. They are obsolete.
Merkel fails to negotiate a coalition:
After the RWNJs walk off in a huff.
And they claimed Peters was holding the NZ potential government to ransom, and was taking too long to make a decision!
If anyone has been wondering where i have been for the past 3-4 days. It has been due to the most awkward (and embarrassing) of injuries – bruising the tailbone..
While dismounting from my new commuter e-bike on Friday morning, I managed to catch my foot in a strap of the bag of work clothes on the back of the bike. Over I went landing arse first with the bike on top of me, and my blessed helmet managing to stop my brains from spilling on to the concrete.
Apart from wondering about concussion (got someone to keep an eye on me) and having my dignity bruised, all appeared to be ok.
But alas later that afternoon it turned out that when I stood up out of my chair for lunch, that wasn’t the only thing I’d bruised. My arse hurt to the point that I was having to waddle around my tail bone. Headed home early to get a med check (ok – nothing particularly busted), some anti-inflammatory support (mostly too late apparently), and several days lying in bed with my arse poking up in the air either bemoaning my fate or sleeping.
Sitting down or even rolling over in bed has brought a new meaning in just bloody painful. And somehow I have never managed to master the art of coding or writing on blogs standing up…..
Anyway, it seems to be subsiding, although the best advice is that it is going to be a pain for at least a month. It will be a few days I suspect before my normal attentions to the site resume. Currently all of my limited sitting down time is allocated to income generating activities.
But I’m not going to do that again. I’m going to be a lot less blase about getting off the bike – which appears ro be my least remembered skill (either that or my joints are a lot less flexible than they were when I was 30)..
And I thought riding them in traffic would be too dangerous. Good luck with your recovery, and empathy for the dent in your pride for such a landing.
I’d agree. That was why I stopped biking in Auckland about 30 years ago. It got frigging dangerous. Fortunately Auckland is starting to try to make itself habitable, and to get some people out of cars and off the roads.
There is a bike way that does virtually all of the way between home and work. It crosses roads, but the lights now often have separated bike and pedestrian sections.
Which is a damn good thing in commuting hours. It is about 2.6km to work as a bird would fly. But there isn’t a direct route and a fair chunk of hill either way.
It would take me about 40 minutes to walk if I didn’t have an arthritic big toe – which makes it seems like a lifetime.
It reliably takes me about 15-20 minutes to bike. Most of the time is waiting to cross at the lights.
It takes at least 25 minutes (two buses and 0.5km walking) and usually more than an hour on public transport.
It takes anywhere from 5 minutes (off peak) to an hour (peak) by car depending on the degree of jamming. Median is greater than 25 minutes. My ‘brief’ visit yesterday took 40 minutes to get there and 8 minutes to get home at midday. I had a cardio checkup at Greenlane (the treadmill did nasty things to the tailbone). Today it took 18 minutes to get to work. Variability is the biggest pain.
I have a car for the longer trips and shopping, but commuting is going to be by bikeways and bike as I’m just outright tired of the damn traffic and paying road taxes that don’t get used to alleviate the major traffic issues in the country.
They need to get the bloody trucks off the road or get them to pay their full whack – so we aren’t subsidizing the road wreckers and the frigging bridges and heavy duty maintenance.
You have my sympathy Lprent, I fractured my coccyx birthing my first child. It was sheer purgatory. The sitting down was okay – it was the rising up which brought tears to my eyes. Good luck with your recovery. Tailbone pain is not very nice at all. Try a ring cushion, its the tried and true accessory for all new mums with sore nether regions, they do work.
Terminal Hipster Syndrome definition
“While dismounting from my new commuter e-bike on Friday morning, I managed to catch my foot in a strap of the bag of work clothes on the back of the bike.”
Top work and commiserations.
Just as soon as they complete the New Lynn-Avondale cycleway that in turn joins to the Avondale-SH16 cycleway, I’ll be joining you.
The latter will achieve the former.
All the nelo-liberals always say that all businesses should pay their way but then they come up with all sorts of reasons why some are special and need subsidising. Some of those reasons even make sense when what we’re talking about is social services but, then, we’d be better off if those were simply a government service paid for through taxes.
Trucks don’t meet any sort reason for continued subsidy and need to have their subsidies discontinued ASAP.
If anyone has been wondering where i have been for the past 3-4 days…
I doubt it but nevertheless our sincere commiserations. I have bad news for you. Having once damaged the same part of my anatomy some time ago, I now suffer painful arthritis in the base of my spine requiring frequent anti-inflamatory support. The good news is: it will take a few years before the arthritis sets in. 🙂
Arrggh…..
Don’t depend on anti-inflams – get yourself to an osteopath and an acupuncturist as soon as you can and ward off the arthritis before it happens.
Get well soon, broken-arse 😉
Fell off my bike a couple of weeks after I got it (bad transition from road to footpath) and bruised my ribs. Spent a couple of weeks living on painkillers after that. Hurt like hell when I tried to lie down but it was fine when standing/sitting thankfully. Still, the ibuprofen had me feeling sick after a couple of days so I switched standard panadol.
Oh Iprent, my heart went out to you.
Many years ago as a fit and active hiker and tramper, I was climbing a bank and was offered a hand literally.
Suffice to say when the grip slipped so did I. Right onto a large stone. I had broken my tailbones, all 3!!!
The pain was almost unbearable, and it was before anti inflammatory meds. It was six weeks of misery.
When the story was told people would snigger, then apologise. I guess where the injury was “seated” caused the mirth.
Get well soon
I must confess, my first thought upon hearing of Lprent’s misfortune was a well-meaning “that’s a bit of a bugger”, then thought better of it due to the double-meaning. Words failed me.
Is there a reason for having a man’s bike not a woman’s? Seems odd that women’s style bikes aren’t standard. No throwing the leg over the back end.
Traditional reasons. The men’s version was originally stronger, while women rode bikes wearing skirts. So, for “propriety” they were given the lower cross bar, but weaker frame.
These days, apparently, it’s not so much where the cross bar is, but other aspects of design. All designs tend to have stronger frames.
That’s what I would have thought Maybe it’s cheaper to build a bike with a cross bar.
Interesting article. I bit caught my attention:
Now imagine how much damage to the environment would have been done if all those bicycles were actually cars as the RWNJs want.
I gave up cycling years ago because, it was for me, literally a pain in the arse. (I guess I could have had it seen to – but those bike seats…)
Now it seems that there are two ways to develop such a malady.
Sorry to hear of your accident Lynn and hope the healing is speedy. I know about the worry of concussion too. On rushing back one evening to the dance hall, because I had left my pullover behind, I put my foot where I thought the gutter should be – but was instead a monsoon drain – the civil engineering in Thames in places leaves a lot to be desired – but that is another story (the town having been in administration from 1931 to 1947) and I ended up flat on my face in the middle of Queen Street (the one in Thames). When I came too I couldn’t move – having smashed my left shoulder- and thought “I hope no one runs me over!” Then I saw a flashing light and a police car stopped in the road in front of me. He had been on a call out – the Police station being just up the road a way, and had seen this person running down the street! Hmmm that looks suspicious and he watched me and saw me fall. A large box of chocs was presented to the Police station on my return.
Makes me wonder about our own hacks, commentators and opinion makers.
In hearing these individual tales, we’re not only learning about individual trespasses but for the first time getting a view of the matrix in which we’ve all been living: We see that the men who have had the power to abuse women’s bodies and psyches throughout their careers are in many cases also the ones in charge of our political and cultural stories.
https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/halperin-wieseltier-weinstein-powerful-lecherous-men.html
Oh Iprent, my heart went out to you.
Many years ago as a fit and active hiker and tramper, I was climbing a bank and was offered a hand literally.
Suffice to say when the grip slipped so did I. Right onto a large stone. I had broken my tailbones, all 3!!!
The pain was almost unbearable, and it was before anti inflammatory meds. It was six weeks of misery.
When the story was told people would snigger, then apologise. I guess where the injury was “seated” caused the mirth.
Get well soon
The dead hand of Ozment.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/344353/canberra-rejects-claim-it-s-wrecked-norfolk-economy
This seems underhand. Immigration should be transparent. We need to work on this because so often their actions indicate they are a bit thick in the head.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/344341/anti-semitic-blogger-detained-for-nearly-six-weeks
More on Oz.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018621702/richard-denniss-every-time-we-waste-money-we-count-it-as-wealth
It’s certainly irregular, and disconcerting.
The court thing is odd – I was under the impression that even if he had name suppression for something, it would still be on court documents and just not publishable.
Weird.
Why doesn’t someone in the Labour ranks tell Ardern to pull her head in? She is embarrassing NZ on the world stage, and only four weeks in. Out of her depth and childish, NZ deserves much better than this. Winston, what say you now?? The silence is deafening…are people who voted Labour having buyers remorse?? I knew she wasn’t up to the job, but it’s an absolute nightmare so far. There is a reason more people voted for National than Labour and the Greens combined!
Bill English runs circles around Ardern in the PM stakes.
No she’s not.
And I’m pretty sure you didn’t say anything about when John Key embarrassed us on the world stage.
Why the double standards?
Is it because Jacinda is a woman?
Or is it because she’s Labour?
And there’s a reason why most people didn’t vote national at all – no matter how much you try to hide from that fact.
No he doesn’t. Too bloody conservative.
Grieving is a process.
Personally, I quite hope that national stay aroung 37-44%. Otherwise the tories might ditch the nats and come up with a competent friend for them. At the moment Billy No-mates and his band of moaning minnies have nobody to make them look sane.
Always good to get an update from the alternate universe on Planet Key.
You were just panting for some bullshit controversy weren’t you Tanz? Fuck off with your ‘remorse’. Run around in any circle you care to stumble into troll!
Get better soon Iprent,
I did my left knee in during a capsised 12ft dingy accident last december, and it is just comming back to use now, as I had many weeks restup and slow exersise using a $30 floor cycle “mini exercise bike” from Kmart, to slowly mobilise my knee again and lots of hot baths using hydrogen peroxide or baking soda.
Oh you poor folks. Hope conditions are improving and pain goes to nothing. Not comparable to your accident injuries but being of an age I’m noticing that I’ve always bloody well got something ‘niggling’. Bit annoying really. And blow me down I’ve got very cognisant of that institution ‘the weather’. And I need korero about ‘the weather’. What is it?