Statement by the New Lynn Labour Electorate Committee
November 21, 2012
The New Lynn Electorate Committee of the Labour Party, at a special meeting called today, voted unanimously to express its full confidence in its Member of Parliament David Cunliffe. While acknowledging that this decision was within the prerogative of the party leader, the LEC noted David’s demotion with regret.
The LEC also resolved to raise with the New Zealand Council of the Labour Party concerns about recent public statements made by Labour’s Senior Whip, and the leaking of confidential caucus information by unnamed MPs following Tuesday’s emergency caucus meeting.
As these processes are now internal party matters we do not intend making further comment.
ENDS
I can only point out to ALL again! Look at the website of ‘NZ Herald’, TVNZ, TV3 and the whole whore-mongering media in this country, it is ALL about crime, rape, pillage, deceit, natural catastrophes, who did what to whom, naturally sports, celebrity idiots, who is “in”, “out” and the dumbest, but yet “most appealing” “hulk”, “Slut” or whatever.
That is “media 2012′, and I do not care a damn about Mr Brown (now with “media3” for opportune employment reasons) AND others say to justify the CRAP we get fed day in and night out.
It is an INSULT to intelligence and it must be pointed at for such.
“Media” used to be called the “4th estate”. It is NO LONGER.
I and a few others informed also ’60 minutes’ and award winning “media celebrity” Melanie Reid about goings on at WINZ and MSD, but they choose to keep it damned QUIET! I wonder why?!
‘Israel commits war crimes’, says only Kiwi in Gaza
New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed only one New Zealander is registered as being in Gaza, and has issued an “extreme risk” advisory warning all New Zealanders to leave the country.
Webb-Pullman said she wouldn’t be going anywhere, despite two recent attacks on media buildings in the last two days.
Israel has in fact breached many international laws by violating the negotiated ceasefire, bombing refugee camps and killing innocent civilians. So far 130 Palestinians have been killed with another 920 injured. Many of these include woman and children. Israel has conducted over 1,450 rocket and airstrikes on Palestinian targets within the last week. Approximately five Israelis have died in retaliatory rocket strikes during the conflict so far.
I’d like to express something with a venn diagram.
I’m on vista home premium with office 2007.
Does anyone know of a facility in this software I could use?
Ta
Yep, but first you have some software issues to deal with. You’re going to meed to reformat your hard drive and install a new operating system.
The safest way to reformat your hard drive is to take your computer and anything that has ever been plugged into it and any furniture it has ever touched and make a pile outside, and pour petrol all over it and ignite. For best results leave it plugged in while you do this.
Some free downloadable software like paint.NET might be of help, although its just a generic drawing programme and not designed specifically to do venn diags. so will be a bit fiddly, it’ll do the job.
Yep, but first you have some software issues to deal with. You’re going to meed to reformat your hard drive and install a new operating system…
Thanks Felix. I appreciate your time and expertise. I was naive enough to think there would be something in one of my sub-menus that I could be directed to. I’m not up to the above level of computer competence.
Step 1: Upgrade to Windows 7.
Step 2: Download Irfanview.
Step 3: Design your Venn diagram.
Step 4: Type the text into Word.
Step 5: Take a screen shot of the Word text and open in Irfanview.
Step 6: Use the ellipse tool to draw the Venn diagram.
Might be better ways of doing it but it worked for me last time I needed one.
Ta all,
Unfortunately, One big circle almost entirely overlapped another which made it impossible to effectively label. (Also I couldn’t figure out how to put a smaller circle within….)
However useful knowlege for future venns.
And so the bizzare world of the rich and powerful grinds on, blind to the pitchforks being sharpened in their gatekeepers sheds…
1. Ecan boss receives a $70,000 pay rise when the organisation is widely condemned and causes anxiety and grief in its so-called customers.
2. The ex-directors of Pike River Coal, who have never once fronted personally to the victims families (that’s right, never once), issue a statement through their lawyers, one of the most expensive in the land Minter Ellison Trough, refusing to accept the objective findings of the Royal Commission of Enquiry. John Dow, Stuart Nattrass and Ray Meyer are pigs of men.
3. Banks lending to the Christchurch City Council demand ever more from the ratepayers of Christchurch. The stench of greed makes one wretch.
The sooner these types of people are (borrowing Mr Smith’s suggestion in the Eruption thread) buried, the better.
Demote. Mr Smith
who cares what the neighbours think
flock to the pews
pull the curtains tighter
Deny there is something greater
Bill to the Zimmerwald Left
programming errors
other through the bottom of a Steiny
all flesh is grass
the age of aquarius
Rhinoceros are dying out
Orphans on the Planet
Uturn away
drag on to the Left
bite the hand that feeds you
Fa’afafine far far away
“get your rocks off get your rocks off”
Nah honey
plagiarise
I TALKED TO GOD
IN A PHONEBOX
ON MY WAY HOME
I TOLD YOU MY
ANSWER AND
LEFT YOU MY
DREAMS
ON YOUR ANSWER MACHINE
urban hymns
beltway memes
manipulation
a prentice ship
hello hello
is there anybody out there
just knod if you can hear
there wil be no more
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
spontaneous; it is a curse; joy loves company
cup of tea and maybe some more
soon it will be Christmas Time
freakin philistinic-Amelakites
“give it away give it away give it away now”
junkies keep a whorin’, trolls keep a snorin’
diversion can be boring
“get ya rocks off…get ya rocks off…yeah Honey”
Hon John Banks is ASSOCIATE MINISTER OF EDUCATION (also Minister for Regulatory Reform, Minister for Small Business, and Associate Minister of Commerce) and he WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE ” He has never received any government information or briefings regarding Talent2 (or any company they are connected to, – such as Novapay for eg) or participated in any discussions at either Cabinet or Cabinet Committee. Over all those interconnected portfolios no mention of Talent2 or Novapay came across his desk. I smell bullshit.
first question that pops into mind: Banks is the one with the Charter School Plan, and those teachers will get paid via State agencies sometimes, surely the Novapay system had to be integrated into his planning?
The Hon John Banks Family Trust has not held shares in Talent2 International Limited since 28 May 2012 when Talent2 moved to privatise the company and de-list from the Australian stock exchange. Mr Banks advised the Cabinet Office of the sale of his Family Trust’s shares on 29 May 2012.
Mr Banks became a shareholder in Talent2 as a result of Talent2’s acquisition of Sugar International Limited which the Hon John Banks’ Family Trust held shares in.
Mr Banks declared his Family Trust’s shareholding in Talent2 to the Cabinet Office when he first became a Minister. He has never received any government information or briefings regarding Talent2 (or any company they are connected to), or participated in any discussions at either Cabinet or Cabinet Committee.
The issue of the pay system is outside Mr Banks’ responsibilities as Associate Minister of Education, and the Novopay contract was signed off in September 2008 by the previous Labour Government.
Note: Andrew Banks, Chairman of Talent2, is not related to Hon John Banks.
_____________________________________________________
Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries hold high public office and are entrusted with considerable privilege and power.
The people of Australia are entitled to expect that, in the discharge of their duties, they will act in a manner that is consistent with the highest standards of integrity and propriety.
In 2007, the Labor Government introduced new Standards of Ministerial Ethics, requiring our Ministers to conduct themselves to a higher standard of conduct than had been the case in the past.
The Standards are underpinned by the principle that Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries must act with due regard for integrity, fairness, accountability, responsibility and the public interest.
As Prime Minister, I will do all I can to ensure that Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries continue to live up to these high standards of conduct, and in doing so, continue to live up to the expectations of the Australian public.
Julia Gillard
___________________________________________________
Shareholdings
2.9. In recognition of the collective responsibility that Ministers bear in relation to Cabinet decisions, these Standards require that Ministers divest themselves of investments and other interests in any public or private company or business, other than public superannuation funds or publicly listed managed funds or trust arrangements where:
• the investments are broadly diversified and the Minister has no influence over investment decisions of the fund or trust; and
• the fund or trust does not invest to any significant extent in a business sector that could give rise to a conflict of interest with the Minister’s public duty.
2.10. If a Minister becomes aware that a fund or trust has invested in a company that might give rise to a perception of a conflict of interest, the Minister should inform the Prime Minister
immediately and liquidate the investment in the fund or trust if required to do so.
2.11. If a Minister is required by these Standards to dispose of an interest of any kind, the transfer of the interest to a family member or to a nominee or private trust is not an acceptable form of divestment.
_______________________________________________________________
followed by Thursdays in The Park
With Maurie
phishing fiscing fiskit
slippery biscuit flys
through the air
Frankly, I’m smacked
in the head by a sugary golfball
standing in a warm puddle
of auburn amber gum
existentially
came back as a cat
and all may be rosie
Son is shining
“otherwise fine”
makes one hoarse
Those Murphy boys
taking off vertically
from the fat of the land
Rimmer round a red dwarf
Hi ho hi ho
life’s more than
Who You know
we see your credentials
and raise you
one scaffolder
peasants
Trotsky oh Trotsky
“where art thou?”
Vygotsky
engineer up some
technicians and and
thy will be done
dark art-noveaupay
Israel widens the net
no happy Noel
ring tone heightens
the driving experience
as we follow the GPS
map will tell us where we are
all ways reference pedantically
scribe on the arms
of sailors
spend six months
on a leaky boat
slaving in the shopping mall
BUT I’M A MILLION
DIFFERENT PEOPLE
FROM ONE DAY
TO THE NEXT
YES THERES
LOVE
IF YOU WANT IT
DON’T SOUND
LIKE NO SONNET
“it’s oh so quiet”
footnote format
manicure the herbs
al wyns a winner
Baby that’s for sure
even the pope observes
the commentary
TBI
sure is a kick in the head.
The Boy who cried Wolf
to the lioness with a thorn
in her side where her rib should be
The Jackal circles Hide
Nevermind
The Laws is on our side
Dishonour Dishonour Your Honour
shoulda taken the red pill
anyway freakin Jeeezus bloody Wept
sadly violence is necessary
bookmark that Chrome dome
Ellis Ellis, anyone remember Ellis?
Who? the Duck is Ellis
Big mouth little boy
Go to the back of the class
clean up after woodwork
ecocide is Ghandian
well we are in Right company
sold to the company store
just saying something nicely
spinning Jenny.jelly beans
for diabetics.eat the red ones last
Lanth that boile excuse the cusp
androgenous enhancement
“can I have some more please”
Your’e not Popula. enough
Asterix please.* Thankyou
So many davids only one Clark
credentials line up Davids
Granted. Not true.
freedom comes freedom goes
Where zet goes no body noes
flame on war fair?
Seriously – unless people were asking about the massive bruise on his face, why the fuck is this taking up space? Fucking msm. Grumble grumble grumble…
Lol, he was so delighted the way that shearer is handling everything, he fell over backwards
to support him.
Ok. Having followed the link and read the story, I can’t see where it says that, or anything to support that contention.
Wow, I dream of a world where the Standard leaves off criticising Shearer, and praising our homosexual brethren for long enough to criticise National .. that would be so wonderful! 😀
“Get up Tonto
we might need to call
on that Sky-god of
yours.” Mana
Not how much you have
How much you give away
hi ho Silver away too day
here’s lookin at you kidding
what we are working on now
cuppa joe. Excellently yours
signed The Pink Postman
Round up the lambs boys
she’s dockin’ time
who takes John Banks
seriously anyway, nobody
takes me seriously anyway
I see rocks Fred.
Just Killing Time.
When the child was a child, it didn’t know it was a child. Everything was full of life, and all life was one.
Now there are as many small states as there are individuals …and every state is mobile. Everyone carries his own state and demands a toll when another wants to enter. But one can only enter each state with a password.
Lover lover let’s pretend
We’re born as innocents
Cast into the world
With apple eyes
The soul of today can only be conquered by one who arrives with the password. Everyone migrates, and waves his one-man-state flag in all earthly directions. Their children already shake their rattles and drag their filth around them in circles.
She really loves to break
Her Dad says it’s OK
She really loves to break
And give it all away
Inescapably gen x on thursdays
Entertain me Entertaining you
I’ll be the first to toast, to my rotten soul
we’re the rolling people
Following Wim and urban hymn
Don’t ask why, we just go.
man asks about denominations
God in Wisdom
provides an answer
checking foundations
Eriksonian Institute (or thoughts from the Louvre) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowler%27s_stages_of_faith_development
or
infant-trusting, mythical literal
adolescence-searching, chaotic
adult-affiliation, conformity, doctrine
adult individuation-separating, critical
adult integration-generative, figurative
churches may correspond to either / or latter three with difference within and between individuals
politically speaking 🙂
007 reporting from duty to Russia with Love; spied a few Goldfingers and U.N.C.L.E Joe.Stiglitz
M.mmmm.such a wench.Field.ing Tom Jones. Fielding Tom Jones.picaresque Prism revealing
A prominent government lobbyist is standing by his leaked comments which slam leading scientists for speaking out about New Zealand’s poor environmental record.
Mark Unsworth, of government relations consultancy Saunders Unsworth, e-mailed Massey University environmental scientist Dr Mike Joy on Wednesday in reaction to Joy’s comments to the New york Times on New Zealand’s ‘fantastical’ 100% pure image.
These idiot go round destroying things and then get upset that people take offence at the destruction and think that if people just weren’t told about it that destruction would go away.
amusing; foot in mouth spin unsworthy
one ring to rue them all
kiwibuilds deflation
prophecy To Be Indicated
Still The Herald Rules over my Dominion
The Sisters of Mercy
“gotta give the people something good to read on a Sunday”
Level41? Take me on Take on me
better give me a poulan ed.Finest cheddar. Tastes better.
He’s an odd fellow but it’s OK.Takes care of his needs
and he’s not gay. 🙂
Clearly environmental degradation is not going to risk jobs and tourism, but talking about it does.
In the emails, Mr Unsworth said although he was an academic, Dr Joy had “let his ego run riot worldwide” while risking jobs and incomes from decreased tourism
I see. No point in telling him to lobby to create jobs by cleaning the sh*t up?
It’s hard to believe that a senior partner at a govt lobbying consultancy would send such an email without realising it would become public. So what gives?
what gives? Stupid escalation of the information war
Dispatches from the trenches
Wonder why.Sorry but your son
won’t be coming home far away
so Closer
Nation of Shopkeepers Grosser
Do you like Pina coladas’
ethanol Kills the brain
Brenner is my bier
No hang-ups and over we go
to the Bibliography
English plays to the gallery
without blinking
Like! a cool cat
descending from Cort
is glowing
MY LORD MY LOVE
THE WORLD DONT STOP
THERE AINT NO TIME
FOR CRACKING UP
BELIEVE ME FRIEND
caps off to the green and red
and now, the end is near
regrets I’ve had a few
The Great Rock and Roll Swindle
Roll Swindle.Roll Swindle
fairlysavage s y d
a Requiem for a friend
not in a sly way
Although Taubmans helped me
I tumbler’d My Way
through “the water of life”
Slainte! Bill and lefty
awaken the Tane wha
why don’t you pete
denied three times
well Gahhhly Golly gosh
gotta get up early
buy the Tangerine jimmie
although Mandarin is helpful
to beat the bonobo to the bars
Kevin Spacey and David Fincher are making a US version of House of Cards for Netflix. I hope it screens in NZ. I’ve watched the Ian Richardson series multiple times.
Jesus and The mary chain
gotta have the right tool
for Job.The Johnnys
Poor ol’ injun joe
Took on the wrath of God
It’s up to you not to feel
The Clampdown
they say the immigrants
steal the hubcaps
of Property gentlemen
they say it would be wine
and roses at Ads house
for scones again
Remember me
your telephone number?
The News of The World
garnered bribery Uriah.Heaps
while the BBC channels war porn
on the Spreadsheets
“and I tell myself it’s
Just.a Blue Day”
hard to see it any
other way.Free falling
in and out with U
had Chinese for dinner.nom nom
with a cable tie can get
a DH going right back at ya
Have a cigar, you gonna go far
Sanctus Dei.On the left side
of Pascals wager? hmmmm
you ‘um it son I’ll play spit
PoliticallyCorrected off course
What do we learn if other people
fix our fucks.Mandarin
can be bitter experience
segmentation united
within the forbidden city
What three Albums
Tyranno saw us Rex
Telegram Sam
she’s my main man
might bus down to
Barmy Palmy.Fitz right in.
Open 24 hour CaGE
sumo wrestling economy
Boing! Back on Tigger Mountain
with a Harvest Moon
seen from the Treetop
not focused souly on trees
Starlight Star Bright
YES I’M COMING DOWN
YOUR BEAUTY
IS A COLOUR
SURROUND INTO
THE HALF LIGHT
NEON WILDERNESS
red is a logixal choice
Beware the Fokker
taking a Macro-analysis
AmaKiwi too North
Te Reo is a language
language sticks. games.
Hooten nanny
I’m On Fire
wayne wayne
go to Spain
Palm.Oil.
I’m on a Plain
Dr I like your medicine
Saarbo like a catchy virus
“eet doz geet een”
olwynd back the clock
1 2 3 O’clock
6 O’clock Rock
5 7 M8 O’clock
faiths all ya got
words are all I have
to take apart the grey
I’ts only words
from Herod the Great
remember Figures well
let’s see more
of bomber’s damage
not wallow in whaling
wendering along
on Wings of Desire
queen Anne
chocolate orange
cream centres
mmmmmmmm
glazed SPC pears
cracker fatty
two top cats tc
flinstones Fred’s a flintstone
come on baby
Light My Fire
the crystal ship
is being filled
don’t leave muzza
behind
No End of Violence
NZ politics are so SICK, I must say. There is little if any integrity, sincerity and solid purpose. It is such a rotten system here, maintained by one of the most corrupt, self serving and rotten lots of media you could find anywhere.
I hear and read NO criticism apart from here and the odd few other blog sites.
It is time to block and sabotage ALL MSM for good, but I see and hear few have the GUTS needed.
So the corrupt and manipulated system will go on.
I for sure have noticed my emails and other behaviour having been “screened”, and just put one and one together WHY!?
We are “observed” by SIS and others. This is NOT a free country, for sure!!!
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The Justice Committee has called for submissions on the Referendums Framework Bill. The Bill does what it says on the label - establishes a framework for referenda. Things you may want to address in your submission: Whether the bill should apply only at the 2020 election, or whether it should ...
The Thompson and Clark / MBIE spying scandal continues to result in fallout, this time in the form of a report on the implementation of MBIE's "Operation Exploration", its internal operation to enforce the infamous Anadarko Amendment which criminalised protests against the oil industry. MBIE's enforcement operation was tainted by ...
So, Winston Peters is defending his last-minute demand for a referendum on abortion by claiming he was "blindsided" by the bill. Really? The bill is a government bill. It has been working through the cabinet approval process since December last year. As part of that process, NZ First was consulted, ...
The Green Part has been accused of lack of transparency in two recent situations. The first was the claimed media lockdown during Green's annual conference and the second was Julie Ann Genter's refusal to release a letter she had sent to Phil Twyford.I do get frustrated when journalist's succumb to ...
The Green Part has been accused of lack of transparency in two recent situations. The first was the claimed media lockdown during Green's annual conference and the second was Julie Ann Genter's refusal to release a letter she had sent to Phil Twyford.I do get frustrated when journalist's succumb to ...
Last week, the ongoing democracy protests in Hong Kong saw a pro-Hong Kong student assaulted at the University of Auckland. The Chinese consulate in Auckland followed this up with a press release "express[ing] its appreciation to the students for their spontaneous patriotism" - effectively condoning the assault and inciting further ...
Only those who close their eyes and minds to the evidence can still be in any doubt that we are facing a climate change crisis. The evidence is conclusive that the world is not only getting inexorably hotter, but also that the rising temperatures are creating a number of other ...
Rural communities are wailing about forestry conversions "taking land out of production" and putting it into locking up carbon. Its driven purely by economics: there's more money and lower costs in carbon than in sheep or beef, and if carbon prices rise, there'll be more net money than dairy even. ...
This week, the government introduced its (underwhelming) Abortion Legislation Bill. And despite having negotiated the text of the bill through the coalition process, Winston Peters is now suggesting that he will demand a referendum on it:NZ First leader Winston Peters has hinted that his party may only support the Government's ...
Blowing-Up The House: Is Winston Peters planning to put himself at the head of all those New Zealanders who refuse to countenance the Coalition Government caving-in to the Ihumatao protesters? The most effective way of doing this would be to issue Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern with an ultimatum. If she ...
Last night the police dramatically incresed their numbers at Ihumātao, shoving over protestors and threatening them with arrest. Despite police talk about the need to maintain "public order" and prevent a "breach of the peace", there appeared to be absolutely no justification for this: the protest camp is, was, and ...
A Cult, that many actors, politicians, and those with a low IQ are joining is sweeping across civilisation, with one main intention – ending humans reign on Earth. Starting as a well meaning though deeply flawed theory, that the Earth was warming due to mankind emitting greenhouse gasses, it was ...
Today's abortion reform announcement is just the latest in a long line of disappointing decisions or outright failures from the Labour government. The 90-day law. KiwiBuild. A capital gains tax. Climate change. Every time they make one of those decisions, we hope for better next time. No repeal of the ...
The Greens used their party conference over the weekend to push for a rent-to-own scheme, where people would be able to work towards home ownership by renting from the government. Its a sensible policy, and one which could make a real difference to home ownership rates. But its also basicly ...
by Daphna Whitmore Over the past fortnight, thousands of people have come to the Ihumātao land protest in South Auckland. On 23 July police prepared to evict a few dozen people who had maintained the encampment at Ihumātao for the past three years. As hundreds of supporters arrived the ...
The following article is translated from an article in Lutte de Classe (Class Struggle), the magazine of the French revolutionary workers’ organisation Lutte Ouvrière (Workers Struggle). The United States’ blacklisting of the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, which took shape in Google’s ban on Huawei using its systems on its phones, marks a ...
There is a military phrase: “Full spectrum dominance”. It refers to the all-encompassing policy to dominate across all spheres of war. Lately, that has come to include the internet – in other words, cyberwarfare initiatives. That is in addition to land, sea, air and the like. Now, if ...
The IMF issued a Report on the state of the Economy as it is at present. Some of it points out significant issues that certainly warrant attention, but that we know already exist. Some of it is very much tied to the very obvious context of global concerns, that everyone ...
I'm glad to see the Lib Dems won.I had a moment of terror yesterday thinking that the Conservatives might cling on, due to a combination of Johnson's elevation to the premiership, the apparent uselessness of the Lib Dem candidate (who had failed to be elected in other constituencies) and the ...
. . Current Leader of the National Party, Simon Bridges gave the usual rah-rah speech to the Loyal & Faithful in Christchurch today (27 July). With National’s party polling and his own personal popularity sliding steadily in the polls, Mr Bridges has not much left to reverse his fortunes. ...
Those concerned for Langridge’s wellbeing say they hope he’ll change his mind when he sees the ocean coming. The protester who has vowed to stand outside Parliament every day until the Government announces a climate emergency says he accepts that his quest will most likely end in drowning. Ollie Langridge, ...
What will climate change do to our capital city? The Wellington City Council has updated its projections, ditching its optimistic 0.6m estimate for sea-level rise in favour of a more realistic 1.5m. And the result is devastating:Wellington City Council has unofficially ditched an optimistic sea-level rise scenario in favour of ...
Image Credit: How To Start a Blog – Beginner’s Guide for 2019 I notice a few regulars no longer allow public access to the site counters. This may happen accidentally when the blog format is altered. ...
More complaints have been aired about the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCICh) into the Christchurch terrorist attacks. These have centred on the perception that the RBICh has not paid enough attention to the Muslim community who were the targets of the attacks and the sole victims of them. Even though ...
Opportunities to dodge tax are shrinking with the completion of a new tax agreement with Switzerland, Revenue Minister Stuart Nash announced today. Mr Nash and the Swiss Ambassador David Vogelsanger have today signed documents to update the double tax agreement (DTA). The previous DTA was signed in 1980. “Double tax ...
Small Business Minister Stuart Nash says the report of the Small Business Council will help maintain the momentum for innovation and improvements in the sector. Mr Nash has thanked the members of the Small Business Council (SBC) who this week handed over their report, Empowering small businesses to aspire, succeed ...
Extra Police officers are being deployed from Northland to Southland with the graduation of a new wing of recruits from the Royal New Zealand Police College. “The graduation of 78 constables today means that 1524 new constables have been deployed since the government took office,” says Police Minister Stuart Nash. ...
Almost $600 million has been paid into taxpayers’ bank accounts in the past two months, after the first season of automatic tax assessments. Revenue Minister Stuart Nash says the completion of this year’s tax refund season is a significant milestone. “The ability of Inland Revenue to run auto calculations for ...
The Government’s proposed rescue plan must be strengthened because it is the last chance to save Māui dolphins from extinction and secure the future for Hector’s dolphins, Forest & Bird says. ...
Simon Shepherd: Roads, schools, hospitals, prisons, the building blocks that keep society functioning. And we don't have enough. It's called the infrastructure deficit and will be the focus of a major conference this coming week. The man charged with ...
New Zealand has been issued a stark challenge from Pacific leaders to dramatically upscale its action to address climate breakdown, Oxfam says, after a clear rallying cry from nations at this week’s Pacific Islands Forum. ...
Support for Recreational Dope Going ‘Up in Smoke’ Family First NZ is welcoming yet another poll showing plummeting support for legalising cannabis in New Zealand. The Horizon Research poll shows support for legalising has plummeted from 60% last ...
The prospect of ending wider cannabis prohibition looks increasingly unlikely. Over the last nine months, the percentage of New Zealanders who would vote for legalising the personal use of cannabis has declined at a near linear rate of around 10% per ...
“It’s disappointing that news out of the United States of hospitalisations linked to illegal street drugs is somehow seen as relevant to the New Zealand vaping scene,” says Ben Pryor, Director of Alt New Zealand – the largest Kiwi-owned vaping company. ...
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) welcomes the successful passing of Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill through parliament, by the New Zealand Government. ...
Today’s news from the Electoral Commission has provided the party with the clarity it was seeking around use of the word “Coalition” being used as the brand name of the party. ...
A recently released Otago University study has provided further evidence that low-quality housing is a significant problem in Aotearoa. This has prompted the Chief Executive of the Association of Consulting Engineers (ACENZ) Paul Evans to question “why ...
With the BNZ-Business NZ PMI signaling manufacturing is contracting , the Government needs to seriously consider tax relief, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union . ...
The New Zealand Maori Council has called for an overhaul of the Public Services executive ranks as the Corrections debacle shows mis-management and incompetence at the highest level. Matthew Tukaki, Executive Director of the New Zealand Maori Council has said ...
Findings from the 2018 New Zealand Consumer Survey have been released and the results are in; 48 per cent of respondents consider their purchases based on how ethically employees are treated. ...
The responsibility for the fact that Westland Milk Products is now in the hands of an overseas conglomerate 25% owned by the Chinese government can be laid fair and square at our government's doorstep. ...
As Fonterra is projecting multi million dollar losses for the second year in a row, it is clear the writing is on the wall for dairy as more and more Kiwis turn to plant milks. 22nd August is International Plant Milk Day and there is now a different plant ...
The $65,000 granted to Interislander so it can install electric vehicle chargers on its ferries is the most absurd waste of money yet to be delivered by the “Low Emissions” vehicle fund, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. ...
Wellingtonians will have the chance to hear international child rights experts from Ireland, Scotland and Samoa speak at the Making Child Rights Real in Aotearoa New Zealand seminar to be held in the city on Wednesday 21 August. ...
Paul Evans, Chief Executive of the Association of Consulting Engineers (ACENZ), is advocating a balanced approach to the development of productive land. ...
CPAG (Child Poverty Action Group) says that new research from the University of Otago provides a solid foundation for why the Government must not delay instating a comprehensive Warrant of Fitness for tenanted homes in Aotearoa-New Zealand, and ...
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that an officer drove carelessly during a pursuit and that this was the primary cause of a collision with a motorcycle that injured the rider. ...
Responding to the Prime Minister’s commitment of $150 million in funding for climate change response in the Pacific, New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says: “It is no secret that many Pacific nations lack serious oversight when it ...
AUT research not only shows an increase in political affiliation, but that candidates affiliated to a central political party are more likely to win seats in Auckland local government. ...
On the 23rd of August School Strike NZ will join Ollie Langridge in his 100th day of sitting outside of New Zealand Parliament calling for the government to declare a climate emergency. School Strike 4 Climate NZ also demand that Parliament acknowledge ...
You have stood up for what is fair, and I am sure you will speak for over 7 million people who have been muted and rendered voiceless in Indian occupied Kashmir for more than a 10 days now. I am writing to bring to your notice the plight of Kashmiri ...
In the last 10 months alone, 11 petitions have been delivered to Parliament calling for medicines to be funded by Pharmac. Today, another nine petitions have been launched by Patient Voice Aotearoa (PVA) members asking that life changing, saving and extending ...
When we were first working to get Miscanthus approved for import into New Zealand, the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) waived the fee for their work because they thought that having Miscanthus in New Zealand was so very much in the ...
PHARMAC’s recent decision to fund two additional drugs from December this year has been widely welcomed by patients and the general public alike. The drugs, Kadcyla and Ibrance, are used in the treatment of advanced lung and breast cancers and will ...
Animal rights organisation SAFE is urging the Government to include experts and advocates from outside the agriculture industry on its newly announced winter crop grazing taskforce. ...
The Government’s plans to prohibit housing on ‘productive’ farmland will serve as yet another regulatory tax on housing, and is a shameful breach of Jacinda Ardern’s promise to fix housing supply, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union . ...
The latest round of the Ethnic Communities Development Fund opens today, supporting projects that grow the leadership and capability of ethnic groups, improve cultural understanding, and ensure our ethnic communities are a vibrant and celebrated part ...
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is warning of the dangers of hiking excise tax, in response to calls from a former Prime Minister for stronger action on alcohol harm. Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, “It seems inevitable ...
LGNZ will be cautiously assessing the wider implications of the newly proposed National Position Statement on Highly Productive Land (NPS-HPL), noting that that it traverses a number of highly complex policy areas including housing affordability and property ...
Horticulture New Zealand has welcomed the Government’s draft National Policy Statement on Highly Productive Land, saying it will help ensure that New Zealand can grow its own vegetables and fruit. ...
Background documents for Budget 2019 are now available from on the Treasury website: https://treasury.govt.nz/publications/information-release/budget-2019-information-release ...
The Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry has welcomed a move by Crown agencies to lift confidentiality obligations on survivors of abuse in State care arising from settlement agreements with the Crown. ...
An evaluation of New Zealand’s first sexual violence court has confirmed that the approach taken in the judge-led pilot considerably reduces the time that cases take to reach trial. ...
The National Party is pleased to announce the appointment of Paula Bennett as our Campaign Chair for the 2020 General Election, President Peter Goodfellow says. ...
14 August 2019 – 18 senior business leaders and employment experts have been appointed as judges for New Zealand’s sixth annual Equal Pay Awards reflecting the breadth of companies who have entered. The Awards added three new categories in 2018: Innovation, ...
Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, “This is more proof that bureaucrats do not make good tech tycoons, no matter how much taxpayer money they throw at geeks in Silicon Valley.” ...
August marks five years of the Community Finance initiative. In addition to its well established Financial Mentoring service, The Salvation Army has held more than 5800 financial conversations with Community Finance clients. The loan program helps ...
Today 14/8/19 on news hub AM show Duncan Garner asked National Party leader Simon Bridges ‘what would he do to combat climate change and improve the economy again if he is the next PM”. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/simon-bridges-says-most-kiwis-believe-system-gamed-at-last-election.html ...
DairyNZ Chief Executive Dr Tim Mackle is urging the Government to work with agricultural groups to drive real behaviour change on farm, instead of imposing a broad-based tax. Sector organisations have put forward an alternative Primary Sector Climate ...
Iwi forging closer relationship with Stats NZ over Māori data solutions The Data Iwi Leaders Group supports the findings of an independent review into the 2018 New Zealand Census – but says its failings provide a unique opportunity to co-design ...
“Any justification for paying exorbitant salaries to senior managers in business has just been buried in the Fonterra debacle” said Peter Malcolm spokesperson for Income Equality Aotearoa New Zealand Inc---“Closing the Gap” ...
Good on their own, even better with cheese – these crisp, moreish crackers are destined to become your new go-to savoury snack.These crackers have been on high rotation in our household – they’ve filled lunchboxes, accompanied fine cheeses on evening platters and been eaten by the fistful straight from the jar. ...
Lists are good and so are Sundays. We combine both those things in a new Spinoff feature. This week: Headlines from the past six months about the the Reserve Bank governor, Adrian OrrRBNZ prepares to stick its Orr inASB, March 29Banks Orr-struck yet againThe Australian, April 10Big banks brace for ...
Over 300 hours of interviews condensed into five episodes that cover the entirety of New Zealand’s comedy history – how do you even start to approach that? Sam Brooks interviews Paul Horan, the documentarian behind the show.It’s one of those projects that sounds utterly futile – how does one cover ...
Judgement prevents understanding, which in itself is a barrier to preventing unsafe behaviour. Are different approaches to harm reduction in the Rainbow community needed? Sex. Drugs. Carly Rae Jepsen. This is the iconography that tends to be massaged into mainstream conceptions of gay culture. Depictions in TV/film see us railing lines ...
The Spinoff is covering local elections across the country with a new pop-up section. To kick things off, Hayden Donnell went to a mayoral debate at Grey Power on the North Shore of Auckland.John Tamihere walked into the mayoral debate at North Shore Grey Power on Friday just minutes after ...
The Spinoff is covering local elections across the country with a new pop-up section. To kick things off, Hayden Donnell went to a mayoral debate at Grey Power on the North Shore of Auckland.John Tamihere walked into the mayoral debate at North Shore Grey Power on Friday just minutes after ...
Things I Learned at Art School is a new series featuring artists discussing how they do what they do and know what they know. In the second instalment, Megan Dunn talks to Berlin-based New Zealander Simon Denny about Michael Parekowhai, teaching and technology, and an idea involving the online shoe ...
With the acquisition of global rugby streaming leader RugbyPass, Sky might have just secured its future, writes Trevor McKewen.For several months now, the war between Sky and Spark Sport for the peerless prize of All Blacks and New Zealand rugby rights from 2021 onwards has been escalating. Every week, one ...
The Lightbulb asks innovators and entrepreneurs how they turned their ideas into reality. This week we talk to Jamie Cashmore, co-founder of Auckland-based edible packaging company Twiice. First of all, give us your elevator pitch for Twiice.Twiice is a company making edible coffee cups with plans to progress into other areas ...
The recent discovery of a fossil parrot the size of a human toddler is even more reason for Foulden Maar to be protected, writes the chairperson of Save Foulden Maar, Kimberley Collins.Last week, scientists discovered a new species of extinct parrot in the St Bathans Fauna. Weighing in at seven ...
Could a new hybrid of all the government’s major media holdings solve multiple media and government problems? Duncan Greive assesses the case.The media industry, despite what some of us might like to believe, really doesn’t matter all that much economically. Doesn’t employ all that many people. Relatively low wage. ...
The three governing parties are turning their attention to next year’s general election. RNZ‘s Jo Moir surveys the field.The night New Zealand First formed a government with Labour and the Greens, its leader Winston Peters quoted the song “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”.Almost two years later all three ...
Analysis: The botched census brings down a chief executive, there's another wave of speculation about Christopher Luxon standing for National and NZ First could sink an attempt to reverse the ban on prisoner voting. ...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Wording has played a crucial role in a reportedly “fierce” Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu with Australia allegedly managing to alter documental terms to downplay its commitment to climate change mitigation. According to RNZ Pacific, a communiqué and separate statement on climate change was released ...
Australia’s coal policy and its use of carry over credits to fulfill its obligations under the Paris Agreement have come under fire and been major points of contention at this year’s 50th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Meeting in Funafuti, Tuvalu. READ MORE: ‘We should have done more for our ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael O’Keefe, Head of Department, Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University The Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tuvalu this week has ended in open division over climate change. Australia ensured its official communique watered down commitments to respond to climate change, gaining ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Xanthe Mallett, Forensic Criminologist, University of Newcastle Even in death, the voice of Carl Williams is louder than that of his victims. Intimate prison letters written by the convicted murderer and drug trafficker to his ex-wife, Roberta – herself arrested this month ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brianna Chesser, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Justice, RMIT University In September 2018, a prominent Melbourne surgeon and academic was charged with rape and sexual assault for alleged offences committed a year earlier against a male doctor. The surgeon and doctor had ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Dearnaley, Associate Professor, University of Southern Queensland The blotched butterfly orchid (Sarcochilus weinthalii) looks fairly unremarkable when it’s not flowering, generally resembling the far more common orange blossom orchid. But when it flowers, it is exquisite. Dark purple blotches stand out ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Cropper, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne Almost every person throughout the existence of humankind has looked up at the night sky and seen more than just a random scattering of light. Constellations of stars have helped ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Desbrow, Associate Professor, Nutrition and Dietetics, Griffith University A recent study published in the journal Depression and Anxiety has attracted widespread media attention. Media reports said eating chocolate, in particular, dark chocolate, was linked to reduced symptoms of depression. Unfortunately, we ...
He’s the artist who launched a million memes and over a billion streams. Sam Brooks picks out Bazzi’s best moments so far, from his career-making breakthrough to his mature new mixtape Soulsearching.1. ‘Mine’“You’re so fuckin’ precious when you smile.”It’s the line that didn’t just launch a million memes, it’s the ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Crosby, Professor, Monash University Since President Trump tweeted about imposing new tariffs on China, global equity markets have gone into a tailspin. Trump’s more recent announcement that the new tariffs would be delayed has not calmed the markets, with recent days ...
A new poem by Waikato poet Loren Thomas.to convince myself we’re dreamingwe were walking through suburbia houses kissing front lawns copied one after anotheryou tasted like mint leaves and chlorophyll that’s been pissed on by catsI held your hand and we walked towards the ocean dodging planks from dead train ...
The ancient Australian shock-jock yesterday targeted Jacinda Ardern, urging Australia’s PM to ‘shove a sock down her throat’. It’s all in keeping with a substantial history of being an arse.The plucky nation of Australia excels in a range of endeavours, but nowhere more than the angry, anguished howls of bloated, ...
Today, TVNZ released its latest findings on who is watching what on TVNZ OnDemand. Sam Brooks analyses the results.Today, TVNZ released the 2019 figures for who is watching TVNZ OnDemand, what they’re watching and in what kind of numbers. The big numbers are hopeful – over 1.4 million people reached ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jock Collins, Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney The federal government wants to boost the number of migrants moving to regional areas in Australia to fill job vacancies and reduce the pressure on our cities. That’s why ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasia Powell, Associate Professor, Criminology and Justice Studies, RMIT University There can be no doubt violence against women is a national crisis. On average in Australia, one woman every week is killed. A 2016 survey found one in four women experienced violence ...
One dignified resignation was a bouquet in a sea of brickbats this week as low levels of accountability had eyes rolling. James Elliott has the news of the week. ...
Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein on the band’s ninth studio album, working with St Vincent, and the departure of bandmate and drummer, Janet Weiss.It’s been almost five years since Sleater-Kinney broke their decade-long hiatus with an album that received almost near-universal praise. It was “raw”, “bristling”, “emotive”, “taut” – all adjectives you’d ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Colleen Murrell, Associate Professor, Journalism, Swinburne University of Technology When news of the stabbings in Sydney on Tuesday afternoon came through, one of the first tweets about the incident came from Sky News reporter Laura Jayes. Immediately it got retweeted and sent ...
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.AUCKLAND1 Normal People by Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber, $23)Sally Rooney Sally Rooney Sally Rooney Sally Rooney2 An ...
When Emily Writes reviewed a life-changing sex toy, the response from orgasm-starved women was huge. So why are so many having so few orgasms, and what can be done?For the last two years I’ve been running a pretty small – about 600-odd member – group for mostly New Zealand women ...
When Josie Adams broke her laptop last week, she knew she’d never find love like that again. Can the Asus Chromebook Flip C213SA offer a new kind of technological relationship? She reviews how it stands up to everyday use and the cosmic forces that seek to destroy her.Last Thursday I ...
Wine should be fun, not intimidating, all you need is a little knowledge. Yvonne Lorkin co-founder and chief tasting officer of WineFriend provides some simple tips to help you empower your palate. Even I can get scared by wine. I’m usually super-meek and a tad feeble at high-brow, ‘industry’ wine tastings. ...
Pacific Media Watch NewsdeskBy Makereta Komai in Funafuti, Tuvalu Tonga’s Prime Minister, ‘Akilisi Pohiva, has delivered a stinging attack against regionalism and the Pacific Islands Forum’s stance of leaving no one behind, for failing to amicably resolve the issue of West Papua. Pohiva admitted the issue has divided ...
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage.New Zealand Parliament Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand.Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards.Corrections, Christchurch mosque shootings Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Upholding The Accused’s Right To Write Mark Daalder ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amber Marshall, Research fellow, Queensland University of Technology Farming families and communities in Queensland’s remote north are being left behind by the digital economy, putting them at significant social and economic disadvantage. Our report, launched in Cairns today, details the impacts of ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Cameron, Associate professor, and Associate Director of the Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University Half-price chips, “two for one” chocolates, “buy one get one free” soft drinks: Australian supermarkets make it very easy for us to fill our trolleys with junk food. ...
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Fully Informed? Labour’s 2017 promises raised expectations that were little short of revolutionary. Unfortunately, they were never adequately shaken through the fiscal sieve. The hard economic work was not done – and it shows. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s critics have long complained that her grasp of the way the New ...36 mins ago
You cannot expect to pound communities into the ground day after day, year after year, decade after decade and just expect them to take it lying down. There’s a point at which the place will explode. And we’re faced with some very big ructions on both sides of the Atlantic ...2 days ago
Back in May, Destiny Church leaders Brian and Hannah Tamaki launched another political party. Despite consisting entirely of followers of their religion, they grandly called it "Coalition New Zealand", in a vain effort to suggest it was something broader. But when they applied for registration, submitters opposed the name, as ...2 days ago
The following article is excerpted and translated from two articles in recent issues of Lutte de Classe (Class Struggle), the magazine of Lutte Ouvrière (Workers Struggle), the revolutionary workers group active in France. We don’t necessarily agree with everything in it – for instance, the 1956-62 war for independence involved rather more revolutionary forces than ...2 days ago
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Going Down? Once truth and propaganda become fused in the minds of one’s followers, debate and discussion become redundant. If one’s opponents are all outrageous liars, then engaging with them in any way is pointless. Rather than waste its time, a political party should, instead, target all its messages at ...2 days ago
This section builds on Part 1 of this series to provide a theoretical basis for the final instalment (part 3 – to come). Self-determination: law or resurgence — or both? International law promotes the principal of equal treatment and self-determination, which includes peoples’ rights to freely pursue their social, cultural and ...3 days ago
We need to fundamentally reframe our systems settings to address the drivers causing and underpinning inequality; structural change in systems especially financial. The Equality Network Hui was held in Wellington on 27 June 2019. The hui covered important topics such as child poverty; a living wage; taxation; public health; mental ...4 days ago
The views-per-page for some of my recent postings:Depressing, isn't it? Provide thoughtful and wise commentary on the mainstream of British politics and no-one notices. Make a passing reference to Tommy DICKHEAD Robinson in a thread title and you get hundreds of views. Write something about anti-Semitism and you get another ...4 days ago
The government has announced plans to move the Treaty of Waitangi and other taonga to a new site. Great news! So where are they going? Right next to the old one:The new plan will see a new 22,000-square-metre archive built on the former site of Defence House - the former ...4 days ago
Back in June, StatsNZ went public about a project to track population data on an hourly level by using people's cellphones. It wasn't as bad as it initially looked - they were receiving no individual data, only counts by suburb - but there was still a huge consent problem, so ...4 days ago
Most economists agree that a currently slowing economy could do with some stimulus – and they would also agree that there is no shortage of infrastructure projects which could be brought to productive fruition with help from that stimulus. In view of the current practice of sub-contracting economic policy decisions ...4 days ago
I did an interview on the TVNZ Breakfast Show about the situation in Hong Kong. I tried to frame the issue as a collective action problem between two sides with very different end games. The video is here. Because of time constraints we could not discuss the fact that the ...4 days ago
Image Credit: Wild Rose College A new study reporting the ranges of values for kidney and liver parameters in a healthy population is being actively misrepresented by anti-fluoride campaigners. The Fluoride Action Network’s (FAN) latest ... 4 days ago
Alone, Alone. All, All Alone: Will it be a good or a bad thing, when humanity’s bright blue spacecraft is stricken by the civilisation-destroying problem of Climate Change, that no Huston Control will be standing-by to rescue the crew?“WE HAVE A PROBLEM, HUSTON.” These were the words used by the ...5 days ago
Divided Loyalties: Can the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, be relied upon? That’s what the boys and girls at Foggy Bottom and the Pentagon needed to be reassured about. Because, from the perspective of Washington, it’s looking more and more like Jacinda Ardern and her Labour Party comrades are getting ready ...6 days ago
This handy Queer Theory Glossary is from thetranswidow.com In case you’ve had trouble keeping up with the spate of new queer theory terms, here’s a handy glossary for your reference. Queer – A straight person with an interesting haircut. Non-binary/genderqueer – A chubby young female, typically 16-28, who has ...7 days ago
The winter grazing issue is becoming a highly sensitised one that I hope will not become so politicised that it delays solutions and results in the suicides of some very stressed farmers.Winter grazing has hit the headlines after a determined campaign, including the release of a video of some very ...1 week ago
The Green Part has been accused of lack of transparency in two recent situations. The first was the claimed media lockdown during Green's annual conference and the second was Julie Ann Genter's refusal to release a letter she had sent to Phil Twyford.I do get frustrated when journalist's succumb to ...2 weeks ago
Blowing-Up The House: Is Winston Peters planning to put himself at the head of all those New Zealanders who refuse to countenance the Coalition Government caving-in to the Ihumatao protesters? The most effective way of doing this would be to issue Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern with an ultimatum. If she ...2 weeks ago
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Kia Ora te Whanau and Mike Smith.
Statement by the New Lynn Labour Electorate Committee
November 21, 2012
The New Lynn Electorate Committee of the Labour Party, at a special meeting called today, voted unanimously to express its full confidence in its Member of Parliament David Cunliffe. While acknowledging that this decision was within the prerogative of the party leader, the LEC noted David’s demotion with regret.
The LEC also resolved to raise with the New Zealand Council of the Labour Party concerns about recent public statements made by Labour’s Senior Whip, and the leaking of confidential caucus information by unnamed MPs following Tuesday’s emergency caucus meeting.
As these processes are now internal party matters we do not intend making further comment.
ENDS
Hope that goes well, micky. Good point about the unnamed MPs leaking caucus info to the media.
May I extend my full support to the New Lynn Labour Electorate Committee, and wish you every success in your endeavour to seek justice and fair play.
+1
+1
+1
😎
Indeed
+1
Yes, this!
I can only point out to ALL again! Look at the website of ‘NZ Herald’, TVNZ, TV3 and the whole whore-mongering media in this country, it is ALL about crime, rape, pillage, deceit, natural catastrophes, who did what to whom, naturally sports, celebrity idiots, who is “in”, “out” and the dumbest, but yet “most appealing” “hulk”, “Slut” or whatever.
That is “media 2012′, and I do not care a damn about Mr Brown (now with “media3” for opportune employment reasons) AND others say to justify the CRAP we get fed day in and night out.
It is an INSULT to intelligence and it must be pointed at for such.
“Media” used to be called the “4th estate”. It is NO LONGER.
I and a few others informed also ’60 minutes’ and award winning “media celebrity” Melanie Reid about goings on at WINZ and MSD, but they choose to keep it damned QUIET! I wonder why?!
No integrity in MSM media, thanks.
Auckland mobilisation: end Israel’s siege on Gaza
Wellington: rally in solidarity with Gaza
‘Israel commits war crimes’, says only Kiwi in Gaza
Oops forgot to include link:
http://kiaoragaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/israel-commits-war-crimes-says-only-kiwi-in-gaza/
That’s definitely one worth going to… Thanks for the info Jenny.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
Israel has in fact breached many international laws by violating the negotiated ceasefire, bombing refugee camps and killing innocent civilians. So far 130 Palestinians have been killed with another 920 injured. Many of these include woman and children. Israel has conducted over 1,450 rocket and airstrikes on Palestinian targets within the last week. Approximately five Israelis have died in retaliatory rocket strikes during the conflict so far.
I’d like to express something with a venn diagram.
I’m on vista home premium with office 2007.
Does anyone know of a facility in this software I could use?
Ta
Yep, but first you have some software issues to deal with. You’re going to meed to reformat your hard drive and install a new operating system.
The safest way to reformat your hard drive is to take your computer and anything that has ever been plugged into it and any furniture it has ever touched and make a pile outside, and pour petrol all over it and ignite. For best results leave it plugged in while you do this.
Next, get another computer and install any other operating system supported by Office 2007, and follow these instructions: http://office.microsoft.com/en-nz/word-help/create-a-venn-diagram-HA010335959.aspx
Thanks for your call and have a good day.
Gawd you’re cruel.
Some free downloadable software like paint.NET might be of help, although its just a generic drawing programme and not designed specifically to do venn diags. so will be a bit fiddly, it’ll do the job.
Yep, but first you have some software issues to deal with. You’re going to meed to reformat your hard drive and install a new operating system…
Thanks Felix. I appreciate your time and expertise. I was naive enough to think there would be something in one of my sub-menus that I could be directed to. I’m not up to the above level of computer competence.
Subtext duly noted.
The link above has the submenu info you seek…
lol. I didn’t read past that first sentence.
Ta others advising too.
Do you have powerpoint in the office 2007 suit? Go to powerpoint > insert > smart art > basic venn.
Step 1: Upgrade to Windows 7.
Step 2: Download Irfanview.
Step 3: Design your Venn diagram.
Step 4: Type the text into Word.
Step 5: Take a screen shot of the Word text and open in Irfanview.
Step 6: Use the ellipse tool to draw the Venn diagram.
Might be better ways of doing it but it worked for me last time I needed one.
Ta all,
Unfortunately, One big circle almost entirely overlapped another which made it impossible to effectively label. (Also I couldn’t figure out how to put a smaller circle within….)
However useful knowlege for future venns.
And so the bizzare world of the rich and powerful grinds on, blind to the pitchforks being sharpened in their gatekeepers sheds…
1. Ecan boss receives a $70,000 pay rise when the organisation is widely condemned and causes anxiety and grief in its so-called customers.
2. The ex-directors of Pike River Coal, who have never once fronted personally to the victims families (that’s right, never once), issue a statement through their lawyers, one of the most expensive in the land Minter Ellison Trough, refusing to accept the objective findings of the Royal Commission of Enquiry. John Dow, Stuart Nattrass and Ray Meyer are pigs of men.
3. Banks lending to the Christchurch City Council demand ever more from the ratepayers of Christchurch. The stench of greed makes one wretch.
The sooner these types of people are (borrowing Mr Smith’s suggestion in the Eruption thread) buried, the better.
The downward sloping slide continues…
vto. Your words about greed are very quotable: “The stench of greed makes one wretch”. Greed in today’s world might be considered its worst feature.
Stephen Hawking said, “We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity”.
And Mahatma Ghandi remarked, “There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed”.
Nevertheless, take heart! Some of us persist in believing that goodness of character will, in the end, prevail.
Demote. Mr Smith
who cares what the neighbours think
flock to the pews
pull the curtains tighter
Deny there is something greater
Bill to the Zimmerwald Left
programming errors
other through the bottom of a Steiny
all flesh is grass
the age of aquarius
Rhinoceros are dying out
Orphans on the Planet
Uturn away
drag on to the Left
bite the hand that feeds you
Fa’afafine far far away
“get your rocks off get your rocks off”
Nah honey
plagiarise
I TALKED TO GOD
IN A PHONEBOX
ON MY WAY HOME
I TOLD YOU MY
ANSWER AND
LEFT YOU MY
DREAMS
ON YOUR ANSWER MACHINE
urban hymns
beltway memes
manipulation
a prentice ship
hello hello
is there anybody out there
just knod if you can hear
there wil be no more
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
now better do some work
50 Shades of Grey
is that your work?
spontaneous; it is a curse; joy loves company
cup of tea and maybe some more
soon it will be Christmas Time
freakin philistinic-Amelakites
“give it away give it away give it away now”
junkies keep a whorin’, trolls keep a snorin’
diversion can be boring
“get ya rocks off…get ya rocks off…yeah Honey”
It was quite good
😯
Watch murder shill Gregg Roman get torn a new one
Suppress your urge to vomit whenever Gregg Roman opens his mouth and enjoy the spectacle of his being bollocked…
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1353510449.html
Outstanding economic – production – energy model by Steve Keen. This is a real world breakthrough in concepting economics.
Just saying,
http://www.act.org.nz/posts/statement-from-hon-john-banks-re-talent2
Hon John Banks is ASSOCIATE MINISTER OF EDUCATION (also Minister for Regulatory Reform, Minister for Small Business, and Associate Minister of Commerce) and he WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE ” He has never received any government information or briefings regarding Talent2 (or any company they are connected to, – such as Novapay for eg) or participated in any discussions at either Cabinet or Cabinet Committee. Over all those interconnected portfolios no mention of Talent2 or Novapay came across his desk. I smell bullshit.
first question that pops into mind: Banks is the one with the Charter School Plan, and those teachers will get paid via State agencies sometimes, surely the Novapay system had to be integrated into his planning?
Certainly a large rodent.
JOHN BANKS – IN MORE TROUBLE?HOW COME NZ MINISTERS CAN OWN SHARES IN PUBLIC OR PRIVATE COMPANIES OR BUSINESSES?AUSTRALIAN MINISTERS CAN’T.
21 NOV 2012
4:28PM
Statement from Hon John Banks re: Talent2
JOHN BANKS / BLOG
The Hon John Banks Family Trust has not held shares in Talent2 International Limited since 28 May 2012 when Talent2 moved to privatise the company and de-list from the Australian stock exchange. Mr Banks advised the Cabinet Office of the sale of his Family Trust’s shares on 29 May 2012.
Mr Banks became a shareholder in Talent2 as a result of Talent2’s acquisition of Sugar International Limited which the Hon John Banks’ Family Trust held shares in.
Mr Banks declared his Family Trust’s shareholding in Talent2 to the Cabinet Office when he first became a Minister. He has never received any government information or briefings regarding Talent2 (or any company they are connected to), or participated in any discussions at either Cabinet or Cabinet Committee.
The issue of the pay system is outside Mr Banks’ responsibilities as Associate Minister of Education, and the Novopay contract was signed off in September 2008 by the previous Labour Government.
Note: Andrew Banks, Chairman of Talent2, is not related to Hon John Banks.
_____________________________________________________
AUSSIE RULES:
http://www.dpmc.gov.au/guidelines/docs/ministerial_ethics.pdf
FOREWORD
Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries hold high public office and are entrusted with considerable privilege and power.
The people of Australia are entitled to expect that, in the discharge of their duties, they will act in a manner that is consistent with the highest standards of integrity and propriety.
In 2007, the Labor Government introduced new Standards of Ministerial Ethics, requiring our Ministers to conduct themselves to a higher standard of conduct than had been the case in the past.
The Standards are underpinned by the principle that Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries must act with due regard for integrity, fairness, accountability, responsibility and the public interest.
As Prime Minister, I will do all I can to ensure that Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries continue to live up to these high standards of conduct, and in doing so, continue to live up to the expectations of the Australian public.
Julia Gillard
___________________________________________________
Shareholdings
2.9. In recognition of the collective responsibility that Ministers bear in relation to Cabinet decisions, these Standards require that Ministers divest themselves of investments and other interests in any public or private company or business, other than public superannuation funds or publicly listed managed funds or trust arrangements where:
• the investments are broadly diversified and the Minister has no influence over investment decisions of the fund or trust; and
• the fund or trust does not invest to any significant extent in a business sector that could give rise to a conflict of interest with the Minister’s public duty.
2.10. If a Minister becomes aware that a fund or trust has invested in a company that might give rise to a perception of a conflict of interest, the Minister should inform the Prime Minister
immediately and liquidate the investment in the fund or trust if required to do so.
2.11. If a Minister is required by these Standards to dispose of an interest of any kind, the transfer of the interest to a family member or to a nominee or private trust is not an acceptable form of divestment.
_______________________________________________________________
Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption campaigner’
http://www.dodgyjohnhasgone.com
Maybe he thinks that`a grubby envelope filled with equally grubby 20’s and 10’s will do the job better. And on reflection it probably would.
hot son beating down
followed by Thursdays in The Park
With Maurie
phishing fiscing fiskit
slippery biscuit flys
through the air
Frankly, I’m smacked
in the head by a sugary golfball
standing in a warm puddle
of auburn amber gum
existentially
came back as a cat
and all may be rosie
Son is shining
“otherwise fine”
makes one hoarse
Those Murphy boys
taking off vertically
from the fat of the land
Rimmer round a red dwarf
Hi ho hi ho
life’s more than
Who You know
we see your credentials
and raise you
one scaffolder
peasants
Trotsky oh Trotsky
“where art thou?”
Vygotsky
engineer up some
technicians and and
thy will be done
dark art-noveaupay
Israel widens the net
no happy Noel
ring tone heightens
the driving experience
as we follow the GPS
map will tell us where we are
all ways reference pedantically
scribe on the arms
of sailors
spend six months
on a leaky boat
slaving in the shopping mall
BUT I’M A MILLION
DIFFERENT PEOPLE
FROM ONE DAY
TO THE NEXT
YES THERES
LOVE
IF YOU WANT IT
DON’T SOUND
LIKE NO SONNET
“it’s oh so quiet”
footnote format
manicure the herbs
al wyns a winner
Baby that’s for sure
even the pope observes
the commentary
The European Environment Agency report on past and projected climate change and the impacts on Europe.
http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/climate-impacts-and-vulnerability-2012/
TBI
sure is a kick in the head.
The Boy who cried Wolf
to the lioness with a thorn
in her side where her rib should be
The Jackal circles Hide
Nevermind
The Laws is on our side
Dishonour Dishonour Your Honour
shoulda taken the red pill
anyway freakin Jeeezus bloody Wept
sadly violence is necessary
bookmark that Chrome dome
Ellis Ellis, anyone remember Ellis?
Who? the Duck is Ellis
Big mouth little boy
Go to the back of the class
clean up after woodwork
ecocide is Ghandian
well we are in Right company
sold to the company store
just saying something nicely
spinning Jenny.jelly beans
for diabetics.eat the red ones last
Lanth that boile excuse the cusp
androgenous enhancement
“can I have some more please”
Your’e not Popula. enough
Asterix please.* Thankyou
So many davids only one Clark
credentials line up Davids
Granted. Not true.
freedom comes freedom goes
Where zet goes no body noes
flame on war fair?
Sigh.
Key’s expanding his “I don’t remember” alibi for the next couple of years.
Seriously – unless people were asking about the massive bruise on his face, why the fuck is this taking up space? Fucking msm. Grumble grumble grumble…
headdesk
Often, King Kong’s comments and fantasies would be most appropriate for that prime monkey.
Lol, he was so delighted the way that shearer is handling everything, he fell over backwards
to support him.
Ok. Having followed the link and read the story, I can’t see where it says that, or anything to support that contention.
Wow, I dream of a world where the Standard leaves off criticising Shearer, and praising our homosexual brethren for long enough to criticise National .. that would be so wonderful! 😀
As, I suspect, is being inferred… he and Tim spent too long in the 19th hole.
Dunnokeyo got drunnokeyo?
steep
“Get up Tonto
we might need to call
on that Sky-god of
yours.” Mana
Not how much you have
How much you give away
hi ho Silver away too day
here’s lookin at you kidding
what we are working on now
cuppa joe. Excellently yours
signed The Pink Postman
Round up the lambs boys
she’s dockin’ time
who takes John Banks
seriously anyway, nobody
takes me seriously anyway
I see rocks Fred.
Just Killing Time.
.
time
sublime
always cort in a bind
of corset.
other than this ‘ere mower Gower all gardening is done with hand tools
off to theology :707 now
the laity synod need educating it seems
(a higherstandard can be expected)
includes queer theology
that will go down like a
round rock 🙂
When the child was a child, it didn’t know it was a child. Everything was full of life, and all life was one.
Now there are as many small states as there are individuals …and every state is mobile. Everyone carries his own state and demands a toll when another wants to enter. But one can only enter each state with a password.
Lover lover let’s pretend
We’re born as innocents
Cast into the world
With apple eyes
The soul of today can only be conquered by one who arrives with the password. Everyone migrates, and waves his one-man-state flag in all earthly directions. Their children already shake their rattles and drag their filth around them in circles.
She really loves to break
Her Dad says it’s OK
She really loves to break
And give it all away
Inescapably gen x on thursdays
Entertain me Entertaining you
I’ll be the first to toast, to my rotten soul
we’re the rolling people
Following Wim and urban hymn
Don’t ask why, we just go.
man asks about denominations
God in Wisdom
provides an answer
checking foundations
Eriksonian Institute (or thoughts from the Louvre)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowler%27s_stages_of_faith_development
or
infant-trusting, mythical literal
adolescence-searching, chaotic
adult-affiliation, conformity, doctrine
adult individuation-separating, critical
adult integration-generative, figurative
churches may correspond to either / or latter three with difference within and between individuals
politically speaking 🙂
007 reporting from duty to Russia with Love; spied a few Goldfingers and U.N.C.L.E Joe.Stiglitz
M.mmmm.such a wench.Field.ing Tom Jones. Fielding Tom Jones.picaresque Prism revealing
This Naomi Klein interview with Bill Moyers is really worth watching if you haven’t seen it.
Climate change, shock doctrine, Hurricane Sandy, Central Planning, Decentralization, deregulation… it’s all in there and it’s all interconnected.
Sorry …. I’ll go back in my cave now …. I’m a bloody troll …. *zzzzzz*-*thud* D-:
not in the dark anymore at all. Boing! 🙂
Enlightened even , self aware , and disgusted all at the same time …. more right wing ? D-:
I think I blew my fufu valve 😈
Poor little lobbyist, getting upset about the truth coming out.
These idiot go round destroying things and then get upset that people take offence at the destruction and think that if people just weren’t told about it that destruction would go away.
Marked Unworthy of Saunders Unworthy
amusing; foot in mouth spin unsworthy
one ring to rue them all
kiwibuilds deflation
prophecy To Be Indicated
Still The Herald Rules over my Dominion
The Sisters of Mercy
“gotta give the people something good to read on a Sunday”
Level41? Take me on Take on me
better give me a poulan ed.Finest cheddar. Tastes better.
He’s an odd fellow but it’s OK.Takes care of his needs
and he’s not gay. 🙂
But it’s okay to piss in the pool if nobody finds out about it…
Clearly environmental degradation is not going to risk jobs and tourism, but talking about it does.
I see. No point in telling him to lobby to create jobs by cleaning the sh*t up?
It’s hard to believe that a senior partner at a govt lobbying consultancy would send such an email without realising it would become public. So what gives?
what gives? Stupid escalation of the information war
Dispatches from the trenches
Wonder why.Sorry but your son
won’t be coming home far away
so Closer
Nation of Shopkeepers Grosser
Do you like Pina coladas’
ethanol Kills the brain
Brenner is my bier
No hang-ups and over we go
to the Bibliography
English plays to the gallery
without blinking
Like! a cool cat
descending from Cort
is glowing
MY LORD MY LOVE
THE WORLD DONT STOP
THERE AINT NO TIME
FOR CRACKING UP
BELIEVE ME FRIEND
caps off to the green and red
and now, the end is near
regrets I’ve had a few
The Great Rock and Roll Swindle
Roll Swindle.Roll Swindle
fairlysavage s y d
a Requiem for a friend
not in a sly way
Although Taubmans helped me
I tumbler’d My Way
through “the water of life”
Slainte! Bill and lefty
awaken the Tane wha
why don’t you pete
denied three times
well Gahhhly Golly gosh
gotta get up early
buy the Tangerine jimmie
although Mandarin is helpful
to beat the bonobo to the bars
Kevin Spacey and David Fincher are making a US version of House of Cards for Netflix. I hope it screens in NZ. I’ve watched the Ian Richardson series multiple times.
Ian Richardson. “smile while I murder” Long Live King Richard
🙂
Jesus and The mary chain
gotta have the right tool
for Job.The Johnnys
Poor ol’ injun joe
Took on the wrath of God
It’s up to you not to feel
The Clampdown
they say the immigrants
steal the hubcaps
of Property gentlemen
they say it would be wine
and roses at Ads house
for scones again
Remember me
your telephone number?
The News of The World
garnered bribery Uriah.Heaps
while the BBC channels war porn
on the Spreadsheets
“and I tell myself it’s
Just.a Blue Day”
hard to see it any
other way.Free falling
in and out with U
had Chinese for dinner.nom nom
with a cable tie can get
a DH going right back at ya
Have a cigar, you gonna go far
Sanctus Dei.On the left side
of Pascals wager? hmmmm
you ‘um it son I’ll play spit
PoliticallyCorrected off course
What do we learn if other people
fix our fucks.Mandarin
can be bitter experience
segmentation united
within the forbidden city
What three Albums
Tyranno saw us Rex
Telegram Sam
she’s my main man
might bus down to
Barmy Palmy.Fitz right in.
Open 24 hour CaGE
sumo wrestling economy
Boing! Back on Tigger Mountain
with a Harvest Moon
seen from the Treetop
not focused souly on trees
Starlight Star Bright
YES I’M COMING DOWN
YOUR BEAUTY
IS A COLOUR
SURROUND INTO
THE HALF LIGHT
NEON WILDERNESS
red is a logixal choice
Beware the Fokker
taking a Macro-analysis
AmaKiwi too North
Te Reo is a language
language sticks. games.
Hooten nanny
I’m On Fire
wayne wayne
go to Spain
Palm.Oil.
I’m on a Plain
Dr I like your medicine
Saarbo like a catchy virus
“eet doz geet een”
olwynd back the clock
1 2 3 O’clock
6 O’clock Rock
5 7 M8 O’clock
faiths all ya got
words are all I have
to take apart the grey
I’ts only words
from Herod the Great
remember Figures well
let’s see more
of bomber’s damage
not wallow in whaling
wendering along
on Wings of Desire
queen Anne
chocolate orange
cream centres
mmmmmmmm
glazed SPC pears
cracker fatty
two top cats tc
flinstones Fred’s a flintstone
come on baby
Light My Fire
the crystal ship
is being filled
don’t leave muzza
behind
No End of Violence
NZ politics are so SICK, I must say. There is little if any integrity, sincerity and solid purpose. It is such a rotten system here, maintained by one of the most corrupt, self serving and rotten lots of media you could find anywhere.
I hear and read NO criticism apart from here and the odd few other blog sites.
It is time to block and sabotage ALL MSM for good, but I see and hear few have the GUTS needed.
So the corrupt and manipulated system will go on.
I for sure have noticed my emails and other behaviour having been “screened”, and just put one and one together WHY!?
We are “observed” by SIS and others. This is NOT a free country, for sure!!!