I suppose it is because nearly all of us have smartphones and computers that automatically adjust the time but do you notice that there is almost no publicity now about the changeover dates for Daylight Saving Time?
I woke up this morning thinking I had slept late and only discovered it was DST hours when looking at a Mitre 10 website and saw a reference to their new trading hours.
Some things creep up on you unaware.
Must be getting old, but surely the phone companies could send you a message the night before!
Well this article is not paywalled..and IMO gives a good account of W Peters in full hyperbolic flight.
Also carries his ACT attack into Seymour heartland…in more than one way : )
And so it was on Friday, deep inside Act leader David Seymour’s territory at the Remuera Club in Auckland, the NZ First leader took his place at the matinee session pulpit and preached to his choir.
The anarchy/idealism/practicality nexus was explored by Kim & Olive with suitable reference to key points – nuanced, and excellent cultural analysis.
I have to admire anyone who could hack it for a decade. My effort up at Reef Point only lasted three weeks in the late summer of '72. Human nature needs constraints – whether rules or laws – bounds are part of nature. Conventions & guidelines often don't suffice when politics plays out in local communities. When powerful folk compete, the group needs a referee to call time out when necessary. A method to control the dark side of human nature also must be incorporated for communal resilience…
Yes, my experience was mixed .Wonderful times, generosity, working together on big projects, child rearing not so isolating, mutual support amongst the women , true friendships.
But, invariably one person would emerge, without exception a man with a giant insane prophet complex ,who would rule the roost and try and conduct soviet style (or kangaroo…take your pick)purity trials .I recognise the same thing today, gone mainstream , very USSR.
Pain in the arse.
But I know of other communes still operating very happily and functionally today, who have opted for pragmatism over nutty ideology
Yeah pragmatism was my eventual stance too. I was ever so peace love & harmony at first. Did you know that there's an excellent survey of all the kiwi communes in print?
I read it as a library book maybe 10-15 years back, forget the title but it was two women I vaguely recall wrote it…
National is little better. They are promising a “Back Pocket Boost” by cutting taxes for locals, who can vote, by taking cash off foreigners, who cannot. It isn’t exactly a thousand points of light; is it?
Slogan that work impress people though, and political operators who make voters see a way to take money off wealthy visiting foreigners and sell it as altruism are cunning. Reagan called Bush Snr a wimp so his thousand points of light, though it got him the US presidency, was probably hallucinated by a staffer on LSD.
TV1 poll on Wednesday will be interesting. Predictions? How low can Labour drop to?
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Interesting to see if National continues their slide at the same rate as in the last poll – if so, they will struggle to form a government without Winston – if at all.
He goes back to the former Labour blogsite 'Red Alert' which died about 10 years ago. It was the same mindless meme then as it is now. He has a brain the size of a pea.
When the process of capitalism stutters sufficiently that it seems likely to lurch into degrowth, pretend it isn't happening. Denial of reality works on the basis that nobody can prove it's real:
First, everyone was resigning greatly, and now the ones left are quitting quietly. This trend, in which employees do the minimum and refuse to go above and beyond for their jobs, probably describes over half of the U.S. workforce, according to research from Gallup.
The decline in engagement is related to a marked decline in several areas: clarity of expectations, opportunities to learn, feeling cared about, and having a connection to the organization’s purpose.
Gallup has also found that disengagement is especially significant among younger workers and managers. It is easy to see quiet quitting as another manifestation of worker discontent in the wake of the pandemic, employment market chaos, and the trend toward remote work and virtualization. However, framing it this way places responsibility on individual employees rather than the organization. Casting blame on individuals or bemoaning a perceived lack of work ethic in a younger generation does not solve the problem.
When global media report such bad news, other global media ignore it if they don't like it. Manufacturing consent keeps the system going, so ignore the victims. Voters provide consent, so campaigners promise more of the same shit.
The story from Yahoo Finance jumps from one bogus explanation – that worker disengagement is a result of the pandemic and working at home – to a different one – that organisations are doing enough to meet workers' expectations. Both these fictions carefully skirt the truth – that many people hate being employed by anyone and that the indignities of the one-sided employer-employee power relationship might be tolerable most of the time, but they are are intrinsically demoralising and offensive. Expect significant fightback from business to discipline labour – clearly the Nats plan to crank up immigration even higher both directly and through selling residency in the guise of education (foreign students) – is designed to increase employee precarity.
clearly the Nats plan to crank up immigration even higher both directly and through selling residency in the guise of education (foreign students) – is designed to increase employee precarity.
And also the Housing Crisis? What crisis. Nats solution : They can live in a van..or car. Summer is coming…warmer weather . Tents maybe ?
Hmm. I don't know about "hate being employed by anyone". Most people know they have to work to keep food on the table (and the table in the rented accommodation). However, they feel (and are entitled to feel) that their relationship with their employer doesn't involve them giving the employer 'freebies' (out of hours work, overtime, etc.)
Covid and the post-Covid world, where employers are desperate for workers (rather than the other way around) – has meant that employees no longer feel forced into making these sacrifices just to keep their job.
Quiet quitting – is just not making a song and dance about your refusal to do more than you're paid for.
And, in my personal, worked, experience – public service was the absolute *worst* employer for this kind of expectation. I can remember being told that I had to attend a site blessing at dawn, and then being forbidden to take the afternoon off (since I'd started work at 5am); being expected to attend evening PR events and weekend management workshops. Not to mention a regular 10 hour day (since it wasn't actually possible to do everything I was responsible for in 8 hours, role creep and unfilled vacancies)
None of that happens in my current role in a business. If I work extra hours, I'm paid for them; if my job requires out-of-hours tasks, they're negotiated with me (and I'm compensated). If I want to take time off in lieu, or juggle my work day to accommodate family needs – not a problem. If my job changes (because I'm taking on a different area of responsibility in the company), I come to my boss with a salary request/negotiation, and reach a satisfactory agreement.
None of this is new with this company (i.e. it's not post Covid). It's a smart strategy from the business to get and retain the best staff in a highly competitive environment (not many in NZ with this qualification set, those and in high demand)
Of course, if you're talking about McDonalds level of employees – it's a different ballgame. But even there, front-line fast-food retail is struggling to retain workers.
Yes, where employees hold power due to a perception that they have skills, then the employee-employer relationship can be a much more comfortable one. But not always, in some businesses it draws a target on the employee's back for cost reduction through outsourcing/offshoring. Where power is asymmetric, it can be a very unpleasant experience. But yes, I exaggerated.
Where I work there is a definite vibe that I'm a slacker because I only work 730, to 5 with an hour for lunch,(I set my hours) yet I get everything needed done and meet my targets,
Waking up fresh each day surely gets you better outputs than running on e all the time.
My take is that it must be rather bad if Yahoo Finance are reporting it. Capitalists reporting bad news about capitalism doesn't usually happen. Yanks maybe in some kind of existential crisis? Just look at the Hollywood strike, for instance.
Dunno about here tho. Perhaps somewhat, but everyone does a cost/benefit analysis intuitively to weigh how badly they need that job they're in. Pragmatism.
Over the last year or so – almost anyone with any level of qualification/experience has had the freedom to look around for a role with better pay/better conditions.
Quiet quitting is more around no longer giving the employer anything they don't pay for, including role expansion without extra pay, and not agreeing to additional hours (unless the employee wants the cash).
Most sheep n beef employees are salary, the culture on some is massive hours when busy , with times where you take it easy in return, funny thing is the give back bit really happens.
Although the law bought in that means you can't work a salary earner more hours than what would put the employee under minimum hourly wage did help, .
I pretty sure the law is on a per week basis, so you can't legally be worked past the point where you would be earning less than minimum wage, so I guess the higher the wage the more hours they can legally get out of you, unless ypu practices a bit of quit quitting 😉
Half a million Tutsi were hacked to death with the machetes supplied by people like Kayondo.
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Pierre Kayondo, a former Rwandan prefect suspected of having participated in the 1994 genocide in the country, has been indicted in Paris and imprisoned, AFP learned on Saturday.
Kayondo was the subject of an investigation in France from the end of 2021 after a complaint from a collective of victims.
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The Rwandan former politician was the target of a complaint raised by the Collective of Civil Parties of Rwanda (CPCR) filed in September 2021, which gave rise to the rapid opening of a judicial investigation.
In its complaint, the CPCR affirmed that Kayondo, "former prefect of Kibuye and former deputy" in Gitarama prefecture, had "actively participated in the organisation of the exterminations in Ruhango and Tambwe in Gitarama prefecture by allowing the constitution of Interahamwe militia groups, by providing weapons and participating in meetings".
Interesting that one of the few columnists not paywalled on Stuff is Damien Grant, a libertarian with no progressive/egalitarian word on any topic.
Talk about preparing us “common folk/proletariat/precariat/renters” for the ethos of a NACT regime where the most protected species of haves in the OECD are catered to (35/36 have a CGT 24/36 have an estate tax, many have stamp duties and land banking rules etc).
How many floods in one year before voters get it, that raiding a fund for response to action on climate change events for tax cuts is gross incompetence.
Voters won't get it until their insurance company walks away from them, then they become homeless and broke in the next extreme event, then they are corralled into trailer parks that are essentially permanent, internal refugee camps, then they lose their jobs because local businesses can't survive, then they decamp to the cities to live in crappy, overcrowded rentals paying huge amounts to Luxon-style landlords while they compete for jobs with foreign students who have recently completed low-quality one-year diplomas in order to buy a pathway to citizenship. Then they'll be so shell-shocked and frightened that they'll vote for ACT or Vision NZ or some other far-right crackpot.
Does kinda feel like we're circling the plug hole, one hopes a plug worth having turns up,but suspects that like a p addict well have to hit bottom first.
QFT territory and explains the wrong choices taken by our governments on so many occasions – not having state super in the 70's, the most unbalanced tax policy in the OECD since 1984-1991, and our reliance on migration for growth is indicative of acceptance of continuing low productivity and incomes. Which means declining infrastructure and inability to cope with
water infrastructure costs (safe drinking water/wastewater) in the provinces.
the costs of climate change on habitation in flood areas.
an aging populations health needs and care.
the growing numbers unable to work who cannot afford to pay market rents – the sick and the old (which will over-run state housing capacity).
less ability to assist people into home ownership and raising a family.
By the time we have finally have wealth taxation and means testing of super – the 2030's, it will be treading water/TINA time and the minimum required to remain some sort of also ran first world nation (second tier in terms of infrastructure and GDP per capita).
Dim bulb-Brownlee was incandescent with rage about 'nanny state' energy-efficient lighting. The well-being of spaceship Earth – our only home – isn't a NAct priority.
You paint a grim picture AB but its probably true. Watching Q&A this morning was an eye opener. At one point Jack Tame produced some polling figures which included the result of a question along the lines "are you prepared to pay a bit more in tax in order to combat climate change?" A healthy majority said "No". Yet climate change is considered in most polls as the top serious problem facing the country.
So based on that result it would seem the voters want certain things to happen but are not prepared to pay for it. A bit schizophrenic imo.
Edit: Someone may recall the actual wording of that question.
Climate change is rated in the top 20 by about 20% of people.
It was in the top 5 immediately after Gabrielle – but has dropped back out in the last 2 polls. It’s currently rated equal with petrol prices (the anti-climate change concern) – but if petrol continues its upwards surge, it's likely to drop Climate change even further down the list.
Climate change is rated in the top 20 by about 20% of people.
Hansen recognised that he had failed to convey the magnitude and immediacy of climate change threats – still, he did his best against well-resourced opposition.
Most will go about their business(es) as usual, playing CC Russian roulette – whaddya going to do?!! Keep paying those insurance premiums (while you can), and spare a thought for Granny on a pension in a house worth $3,000,000 – the horror.
Future generations will do it tough – possibly very tough – but I'm alright, Jack
Interested to know if any left women here at The Standard who have been pushed off social media due to intense misogynistic trolling during the election cycle we are in. This has mainly been occuring on the Labour Party page, Green Party page and even our council page any time there is any discussion of te reo Maori. Feels not just RW but RW/conspiracy theorist hybrid troll types.
Would be interested to know of any sites where women can safely speak, that is not terfy/transphobic. I have had to shut down my FB page and with that, my animal welfare page. Sucks.
And moving forward Mastodon (in development as an alternative to X).
One of the most important differences is that Mastodon is a completely decentralized network, where thousands of servers are linked together to create content. The best part, each user can have their own server, which gives them a power they didn't have before.
Or BlueSky (also in development as an alternative to X)
Not sure what you mean. I have been attacked for being a woman. What I was saying is I am not interested in the new faux feminism which is simply transphobia, and seems to be totally consumed by some invisible threat of public toilets. Think of groups like Let Women Speak. They simply promote hatred. That is not for me.
Who knew that Donald Trump is a radical proponent of 'transgender ideology'? Surprising it may be, but now a political PAC supporting Ron Desantis makes the case with this hilarious, bonkers ad. What fun. The bedfellows get odder and odder.
Musk does Mengele with allegations of potential securities fraud, misleadingcomments about the primate deaths and focally tattered macaques.
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For example, in an experimental surgery that took place in December 2019, performed to determine the “survivability” of an implant, an internal part of the device “broke off” while being implanted. Overnight, researchers observed the monkey, identified only as “Animal 20” by UC Davis, scratching at the surgical site, which emitted a bloody discharge, and yanking on a connector that eventually dislodged part of the device. A surgery to repair the issue was carried out the following day, yet fungal and bacterial infections took root. Vet records note that neither infection was likely to be cleared, in part because the implant was covering the infected area. The monkey was euthanized on January 6, 2020.
Additional veterinary reports show the condition of a female monkey called “Animal 15” during the months leading up to her death in March 2019. Days after her implant surgery, she began to press her head against the floor for no apparent reason; a symptom of pain or infection, the records say. Staff observed that though she was uncomfortable, picking and pulling at her implant until it bled, she would often lie at the foot of her cage and spend time holding hands with her roommate.
Animal 15 began to lose coordination, and staff observed that she would shake uncontrollably when she saw lab workers. Her condition deteriorated for months until the staff finally euthanized her. A necropsy report indicates that she had bleeding in her brain and that the Neuralink implants left parts of her cerebral cortex “focally tattered.”
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Thanks folks for your feedback, votes and comments this week. I’ll be making the changes soon. Appreciate all your emails, comments and subscriptions too. I know your time is valuable - muchas gracias.A lot is happening both here and around the world - so I want to provide a snippets ...
Data released today by Statistics NZ shows that unemployment rose to 5.1%, with 33,000 more people out of work than last year said NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi Economist Craig Renney. “The latest data shows that employment fell in Aotearoa at its fastest rate since the GFC. Unemployment rose in 8 ...
The December labour market statistics have been released, showing yet another increase in unemployment. There are now 156,000 unemployed - 34,000 more than when National took office. And having thrown all these people out of work, National is doubling down on cruelty. Because being vicious will somehow magically create the ...
Boarded up homes in Kilbirnie, where work on a planned development was halted. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāLong stories short, the top six things in our political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Wednesday, February 5 are;Housing Minister Chris Bishop yesterday announcedKāinga Ora would be stripped of ...
This week Kiwirail and Auckland Transport were celebrating the completion of the summer rail works that had the network shut or for over a month and the start of electric trains to Pukekohe. First up, here’s parts of the press release about the shutdown works. Passengers boarding trains in Auckland ...
Through its austerity measures, the coalition government has engineered a rise in unemployment in order to reduce inflation while – simultaneously – cracking down harder and harder on the people thrown out of work by its own policies. To that end, Social Development Minister Louise Upston this week added two ...
This year, we've seen a radical, white supremacist government ignoring its Tiriti obligations, refusing to consult with Māori, and even trying to legislatively abrogate te Tiriti o Waitangi. When it was criticised by the Waitangi Tribunal, the government sabotaged that body, replacing its legal and historical experts with corporate shills, ...
Poor old democracy, it really is in a sorry state. It would be easy to put all the blame on the vandals and tyrants presently trashing the White House, but this has been years in the making. It begins with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and the spirit of Gordon ...
The new school lunches came in this week, and they were absolutely scrumptious.I had some, and even though Connor said his tasted like “stodge” and gave him a sore tummy, I myself loved it!Look at the photos - I knew Mr Seymour wouldn’t lie when he told us last year:"It ...
The tighter sanctions are modelled on ones used in Britain, which did push people off ‘the dole’, but didn’t increase the number of workers, and which evidence has repeatedly shown don’t work. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāLong stories short, the top six things in our political economy around housing, ...
Catching you up on the morning’s global news and a quick look at the parallels -GLOBALTariffs are backSharemarkets in the US, UK and Europe have “plunged” in response to Trump’s tariffs. And while Mexico has won a one month reprieve, Canada and China will see their respective 25% and 10% ...
The Whangarei District Council being forced to fluoridate their local water supply is facing a despotic Soviet-era disgrace. This is not a matter of being pro-fluoride or anti-fluoride. It is a matter of what New Zealanders see and value as democracy in our country. Individual democratically elected Councillors are not ...
Nicola Willis’ latest supermarket announcement is painfully weak with no new ideas, no real plan, and no relief for Kiwis struggling with rising grocery costs. ...
Half of Pacific children sometimes going without food is just one of many heartbreaking lowlights in the Salvation Army’s annual State of the Nation report. ...
The Salvation Army’s State of the Nation report is a bleak indictment on the failure of Government to take steps to end poverty, with those on benefits, including their children, hit hardest. ...
New Zealand First has today introduced a Member’s Bill which would restore decision-making power to local communities regarding the fluoridation of drinking water. The ‘Fluoridation (Referendum) Legislation Bill’ seeks to repeal the Health (Fluoridation of Drinking Water) Amendment Act 2021 that granted centralised authority to the Direct General of Health ...
New Zealand First has introduced a Member’s Bill aimed at preventing banks from refusing their services to businesses because of the current “Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Framework”. “This Bill ensures fairness and prevents ESG standards from perpetuating woke ideology in the banking sector being driven by unelected, globalist, climate ...
Erica Stanford has reached peak shortsightedness if today’s announcement is anything to go by, picking apart immigration settings piece by piece to the detriment of the New Zealand economy. ...
Our originating document, theTreaty of Waitangi, was signed on February 6, 1840. An agreement between Māori and the British Crown. Initially inked by Ngā Puhi in Waitangi, further signatures were added as it travelled south. The intention was to establish a colony with the cession of sovereignty to the Crown, ...
Te Whatu Ora Chief Executive Margie Apa leaving her job four months early is another symptom of this government’s failure to deliver healthcare for New Zealanders. ...
The Green Party is calling for the Prime Minister to show leadership and be unequivocal about Aotearoa New Zealand’s opposition to a proposal by the US President to remove Palestinians from Gaza. ...
The latest unemployment figures reveal that job losses are hitting Māori and Pacific people especially hard, with Māori unemployment reaching a staggering 9.7% for the December 2024 quarter and Pasifika unemployment reaching 10.5%. ...
Waitangi 2025: Waitangi Day must be community and not politically driven - Shane Jones Our originating document, theTreaty of Waitangi, was signed on February 6, 1840. An agreement between Māori and the British Crown. Initially inked by Ngā Puhi in Waitangi, further signatures were added as it travelled south. ...
Despite being confronted every day with people in genuine need being stopped from accessing emergency housing – National still won’t commit to building more public houses. ...
The Green Party says the Government is giving up on growing the country’s public housing stock, despite overwhelming evidence that we need more affordable houses to solve the housing crisis. ...
Before any thoughts of the New Year and what lies ahead could even be contemplated, New Zealand reeled with the tragedy of Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming losing her life. For over 38 years she had faithfully served as a front-line Police officer. Working alongside her was Senior Sergeant Adam Ramsay ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson will return to politics at Waitangi on Monday the 3rd of February where she will hold a stand up with fellow co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick. ...
Te Pāti Māori is appalled by the government's blatant mishandling of the school lunch programme. David Seymour’s ‘cost-saving’ measures have left tamariki across Aotearoa with unidentifiable meals, causing distress and outrage among parents and communities alike. “What’s the difference between providing inedible food, and providing no food at all?” Said ...
The Government is doubling down on outdated and volatile fossil fuels, showing how shortsighted and destructive their policies are for working New Zealanders. ...
Green Party MP Steve Abel this morning joined Coromandel locals in Waihi to condemn new mining plans announced by Shane Jones in the pit of the town’s Australian-owned Gold mine. ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to strengthen its just-announced 2030-2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement and address its woeful lack of commitment to climate security. ...
Today marks a historic moment for Taranaki iwi with the passing of the Te Pire Whakatupua mō Te Kāhui Tupua/Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill in Parliament. "Today, we stand together as descendants of Taranaki, and our tūpuna, Taranaki Maunga, is now formally acknowledged by the law as a living tūpuna. ...
Labour is relieved to see Children’s Minister Karen Chhour has woken up to reality and reversed her government’s terrible decisions to cut funding from frontline service providers – temporarily. ...
It is the first week of David Seymour’s school lunch programme and already social media reports are circulating of revolting meals, late deliveries, and mislabelled packaging. ...
The Green Party says that with no-cause evictions returning from today, the move to allow landlords to end tenancies without reason plunges renters, and particularly families who rent, into insecurity and stress. ...
The Government’s move to increase speed limits substantially on dozens of stretches of rural and often undivided highways will result in more serious harm. ...
In her first announcement as Economic Growth Minister, Nicola Willis chose to loosen restrictions for digital nomads from other countries, rather than focus on everyday Kiwis. ...
The Government’s commitment to get New Zealand’s roads back on track is delivering strong results, with around 98 per cent of potholes on state highways repaired within 24 hours of identification every month since targets were introduced, Transport Minister Chris Bishop says. “Increasing productivity to help rebuild our economy is ...
The former Cadbury factory will be the site of the Inpatient Building for the new Dunedin Hospital and Health Minister Simeon Brown says actions have been taken to get the cost overruns under control. “Today I am giving the people of Dunedin certainty that we will build the new Dunedin ...
From today, Plunket in Whāngarei will be offering childhood immunisations – the first of up to 27 sites nationwide, Health Minister Simeon Brown says. The investment of $1 million into the pilot, announced in October 2024, was made possible due to the Government’s record $16.68 billion investment in health. It ...
New Zealand’s strong commitment to the rights of disabled people has continued with the response to an important United Nations report, Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston has announced. Of the 63 concluding observations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), 47 will be progressed ...
Resources Minister Shane Jones has launched New Zealand’s national Minerals Strategy and Critical Minerals List, documents that lay a strategic and enduring path for the mineral sector, with the aim of doubling exports to $3 billion by 2035. Mr Jones released the documents, which present the Coalition Government’s transformative vision ...
Firstly I want to thank OceanaGold for hosting our event today. Your operation at Waihi is impressive. I want to acknowledge local MP Scott Simpson, local government dignitaries, community stakeholders and all of you who have gathered here today. It’s a privilege to welcome you to the launch of the ...
Racing Minister, Winston Peters has announced the Government is preparing public consultation on GST policy proposals which would make the New Zealand racing industry more competitive. “The racing industry makes an important economic contribution. New Zealand thoroughbreds are in demand overseas as racehorses and for breeding. The domestic thoroughbred industry ...
Business confidence remains very high and shows the economy is on track to improve, Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis says. “The latest ANZ Business Outlook survey, released yesterday, shows business confidence and expected own activity are ‘still both very high’.” The survey reports business confidence fell eight points to +54 ...
Enabling works have begun this week on an expanded radiology unit at Hawke’s Bay Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital which will double CT scanning capacity in Hawke’s Bay to ensure more locals can benefit from access to timely, quality healthcare, Health Minister Simeon Brown says. This investment of $29.3m in the ...
The Government has today announced New Zealand’s second international climate target under the Paris Agreement, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand will reduce emissions by 51 to 55 per cent compared to 2005 levels, by 2035. “We have worked hard to set a target that is both ambitious ...
Nine years of negotiations between the Crown and iwi of Taranaki have concluded following Te Pire Whakatupua mō Te Kāhui Tupua/the Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill passing its third reading in Parliament today, Treaty Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith says. “This Bill addresses the historical grievances endured by the eight iwi ...
As schools start back for 2025, there will be a relentless focus on teaching the basics brilliantly so all Kiwi kids grow up with the knowledge, skills and competencies needed to grow the New Zealand of the future, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. “A world-leading education system is a key ...
Housing Minister Chris Bishop and Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson have welcomed Kāinga Ora’s decision to re-open its tender for carpets to allow wool carpet suppliers to bid. “In 2024 Kāinga Ora issued requests for tender (RFTs) seeking bids from suppliers to carpet their properties,” Mr Bishop says. “As part ...
Associate Education Minister David Seymour has today visited Otahuhu College where the new school lunch programme has served up healthy lunches to students in the first days of the school year. “As schools open in 2025, the programme will deliver nutritious meals to around 242,000 students, every school day. On ...
Minister for Children Karen Chhour has intervened in Oranga Tamariki’s review of social service provider contracts to ensure Barnardos can continue to deliver its 0800 What’s Up hotline. “When I found out about the potential impact to this service, I asked Oranga Tamariki for an explanation. Based on the information ...
A bill to make revenue collection on imported and exported goods fairer and more effective had its first reading in Parliament, Customs Minister Casey Costello said today. “The Customs (Levies and Other Matters) Amendment Bill modernises the way in which Customs can recover the costs of services that are needed ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says the Department of Internal Affairs [the Department] has achieved significant progress in completing applications for New Zealand citizenship. “December 2024 saw the Department complete 5,661 citizenship applications, the most for any month in 2024. This is a 54 per cent increase compared ...
Reversals to Labour’s blanket speed limit reductions begin tonight and will be in place by 1 July, says Minister of Transport Chris Bishop. “The previous government was obsessed with slowing New Zealanders down by imposing illogical and untargeted speed limit reductions on state highways and local roads. “National campaigned on ...
Finance Minister Nicola Willis has announced Budget 2025 – the Growth Budget - will be delivered on Thursday 22 May. “This year’s Budget will drive forward the Government’s plan to grow our economy to improve the incomes of New Zealanders now and in the years ahead. “Budget 2025 will build ...
For the Government, 2025 will bring a relentless focus on unleashing the growth we need to lift incomes, strengthen local businesses and create opportunity. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today laid out the Government’s growth agenda in his Statement to Parliament. “Just over a year ago this Government was elected by ...
Associate Education Minister David Seymour welcomes students back to school with a call to raise attendance from last year. “The Government encourages all students to attend school every day because there is a clear connection between being present at school and setting yourself up for a bright future,” says Mr ...
The Government is relaxing visitor visa requirements to allow tourists to work remotely while visiting New Zealand, Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis, Immigration Minister Erica Stanford and Tourism Minister Louise Upston say. “The change is part of the Government’s plan to unlock New Zealand’s potential by shifting the country onto ...
The opening of Kāinga Ora’s development of 134 homes in Epuni, Lower Hutt will provide much-needed social housing for Hutt families, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “I’ve been a strong advocate for social housing on Kāinga Ora’s Epuni site ever since the old earthquake-prone housing was demolished in 2015. I ...
Trade and Investment Minister Todd McClay will travel to Australia today for meetings with Australian Trade Minister, Senator Don Farrell, and the Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum (ANZLF). Mr McClay recently hosted Minister Farrell in Rotorua for the annual Closer Economic Relations (CER) Trade Ministers’ meeting, where ANZLF presented on ...
A new monthly podiatry clinic has been launched today in Wairoa and will bring a much-needed service closer to home for the Wairoa community, Health Minister Simeon Brown says.“Health New Zealand has been successful in securing a podiatrist until the end of June this year to meet the needs of ...
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I suppose it is because nearly all of us have smartphones and computers that automatically adjust the time but do you notice that there is almost no publicity now about the changeover dates for Daylight Saving Time?
I woke up this morning thinking I had slept late and only discovered it was DST hours when looking at a Mitre 10 website and saw a reference to their new trading hours.
Some things creep up on you unaware.
Must be getting old, but surely the phone companies could send you a message the night before!
That'll be why I didn't wake up to 730 am, didn't realize till I read your comment, love ds personally
Good to see my candidate Ethan Reille get an interview on Stuff.
Maybe he could have something more to say other than that he is young.
Article is paywalled..but some of the tone can be gathered from the link video…. Winston massaging his target audience with what they want to hear.
The Happy Clappers : )
Well this article is not paywalled..and IMO gives a good account of W Peters in full hyperbolic flight.
Also carries his ACT attack into Seymour heartland…in more than one way : )
Lol that header .."A Country for old men" …
And…keep up the infight guys. Onya !
Nice retrospective on one of them Motueka communes I kept hearing about but was too busy to check out at the time: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018908219/olive-jones-anarchy-and-idealism-at-the-graham-downs-commune
The anarchy/idealism/practicality nexus was explored by Kim & Olive with suitable reference to key points – nuanced, and excellent cultural analysis.
I have to admire anyone who could hack it for a decade. My effort up at Reef Point only lasted three weeks in the late summer of '72. Human nature needs constraints – whether rules or laws – bounds are part of nature. Conventions & guidelines often don't suffice when politics plays out in local communities. When powerful folk compete, the group needs a referee to call time out when necessary. A method to control the dark side of human nature also must be incorporated for communal resilience…
Yes, my experience was mixed .Wonderful times, generosity, working together on big projects, child rearing not so isolating, mutual support amongst the women , true friendships.
But, invariably one person would emerge, without exception a man with a giant insane prophet complex ,who would rule the roost and try and conduct soviet style (or kangaroo…take your pick)purity trials .I recognise the same thing today, gone mainstream , very USSR.
Pain in the arse.
But I know of other communes still operating very happily and functionally today, who have opted for pragmatism over nutty ideology
Yeah pragmatism was my eventual stance too. I was ever so peace love & harmony at first. Did you know that there's an excellent survey of all the kiwi communes in print?
I read it as a library book maybe 10-15 years back, forget the title but it was two women I vaguely recall wrote it…
Damien Grant's subtle put-down of animal cunning:
Slogan that work impress people though, and political operators who make voters see a way to take money off wealthy visiting foreigners and sell it as altruism are cunning. Reagan called Bush Snr a wimp so his thousand points of light, though it got him the US presidency, was probably hallucinated by a staffer on LSD.
TV1 poll on Wednesday will be interesting. Predictions? How low can Labour drop to?
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Interesting to see if National continues their slide at the same rate as in the last poll – if so, they will struggle to form a government without Winston – if at all.
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Ohh I was kinda enjoying watching the most inept troll ever!!
He goes back to the former Labour blogsite 'Red Alert' which died about 10 years ago. It was the same mindless meme then as it is now. He has a brain the size of a pea.
That's mean to peas!!
Yip I always thought the might be more than one operator of fisiani , occasionally it seemed bright, most of the time not so.
You obviously haven’t a clue so you are inviting others to do your work for you.
Not very clever.
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God Bless the UAW!
Some wins, but the strike spreads because the companies keep rejecting the deal.
When the process of capitalism stutters sufficiently that it seems likely to lurch into degrowth, pretend it isn't happening. Denial of reality works on the basis that nobody can prove it's real:
When global media report such bad news, other global media ignore it if they don't like it. Manufacturing consent keeps the system going, so ignore the victims. Voters provide consent, so campaigners promise more of the same shit.
The story from Yahoo Finance jumps from one bogus explanation – that worker disengagement is a result of the pandemic and working at home – to a different one – that organisations are doing enough to meet workers' expectations. Both these fictions carefully skirt the truth – that many people hate being employed by anyone and that the indignities of the one-sided employer-employee power relationship might be tolerable most of the time, but they are are intrinsically demoralising and offensive. Expect significant fightback from business to discipline labour – clearly the Nats plan to crank up immigration even higher both directly and through selling residency in the guise of education (foreign students) – is designed to increase employee precarity.
And also the Housing Crisis? What crisis. Nats solution : They can live in a van..or car. Summer is coming…warmer weather . Tents maybe ?
Hmm. I don't know about "hate being employed by anyone". Most people know they have to work to keep food on the table (and the table in the rented accommodation). However, they feel (and are entitled to feel) that their relationship with their employer doesn't involve them giving the employer 'freebies' (out of hours work, overtime, etc.)
Covid and the post-Covid world, where employers are desperate for workers (rather than the other way around) – has meant that employees no longer feel forced into making these sacrifices just to keep their job.
Quiet quitting – is just not making a song and dance about your refusal to do more than you're paid for.
And, in my personal, worked, experience – public service was the absolute *worst* employer for this kind of expectation. I can remember being told that I had to attend a site blessing at dawn, and then being forbidden to take the afternoon off (since I'd started work at 5am); being expected to attend evening PR events and weekend management workshops. Not to mention a regular 10 hour day (since it wasn't actually possible to do everything I was responsible for in 8 hours, role creep and unfilled vacancies)
None of that happens in my current role in a business. If I work extra hours, I'm paid for them; if my job requires out-of-hours tasks, they're negotiated with me (and I'm compensated). If I want to take time off in lieu, or juggle my work day to accommodate family needs – not a problem. If my job changes (because I'm taking on a different area of responsibility in the company), I come to my boss with a salary request/negotiation, and reach a satisfactory agreement.
None of this is new with this company (i.e. it's not post Covid). It's a smart strategy from the business to get and retain the best staff in a highly competitive environment (not many in NZ with this qualification set, those and in high demand)
Of course, if you're talking about McDonalds level of employees – it's a different ballgame. But even there, front-line fast-food retail is struggling to retain workers.
Yes, where employees hold power due to a perception that they have skills, then the employee-employer relationship can be a much more comfortable one. But not always, in some businesses it draws a target on the employee's back for cost reduction through outsourcing/offshoring. Where power is asymmetric, it can be a very unpleasant experience. But yes, I exaggerated.
This quiet quitting is it really bad?
Where I work there is a definite vibe that I'm a slacker because I only work 730, to 5 with an hour for lunch,(I set my hours) yet I get everything needed done and meet my targets,
Waking up fresh each day surely gets you better outputs than running on e all the time.
My take is that it must be rather bad if Yahoo Finance are reporting it. Capitalists reporting bad news about capitalism doesn't usually happen. Yanks maybe in some kind of existential crisis? Just look at the Hollywood strike, for instance.
Dunno about here tho. Perhaps somewhat, but everyone does a cost/benefit analysis intuitively to weigh how badly they need that job they're in. Pragmatism.
Over the last year or so – almost anyone with any level of qualification/experience has had the freedom to look around for a role with better pay/better conditions.
Quiet quitting is more around no longer giving the employer anything they don't pay for, including role expansion without extra pay, and not agreeing to additional hours (unless the employee wants the cash).
Most sheep n beef employees are salary, the culture on some is massive hours when busy , with times where you take it easy in return, funny thing is the give back bit really happens.
Although the law bought in that means you can't work a salary earner more hours than what would put the employee under minimum hourly wage did help, .
is that per week? How many hours is it?
I pretty sure the law is on a per week basis, so you can't legally be worked past the point where you would be earning less than minimum wage, so I guess the higher the wage the more hours they can legally get out of you, unless ypu practices a bit of quit quitting 😉
crickey. So if someone was on $100,000/year, that's say $2,000/wk, which means they could technically be expected up to work 88 hours a week 😬
I hope even NZ isn't that bad.
Half a million Tutsi were hacked to death with the machetes supplied by people like Kayondo.
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Pierre Kayondo, a former Rwandan prefect suspected of having participated in the 1994 genocide in the country, has been indicted in Paris and imprisoned, AFP learned on Saturday.
Kayondo was the subject of an investigation in France from the end of 2021 after a complaint from a collective of victims.
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The Rwandan former politician was the target of a complaint raised by the Collective of Civil Parties of Rwanda (CPCR) filed in September 2021, which gave rise to the rapid opening of a judicial investigation.
In its complaint, the CPCR affirmed that Kayondo, "former prefect of Kibuye and former deputy" in Gitarama prefecture, had "actively participated in the organisation of the exterminations in Ruhango and Tambwe in Gitarama prefecture by allowing the constitution of Interahamwe militia groups, by providing weapons and participating in meetings".
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/genocide-rwanda-former-prefect-indicted-100900418.html
https://theafricancriminologyjournal.wordpress.com/2022/04/20/inside-the-hunt-for-one-of-the-worlds-most-wanted-men/
Interesting that one of the few columnists not paywalled on Stuff is Damien Grant, a libertarian with no progressive/egalitarian word on any topic.
Talk about preparing us “common folk/proletariat/precariat/renters” for the ethos of a NACT regime where the most protected species of haves in the OECD are catered to (35/36 have a CGT 24/36 have an estate tax, many have stamp duties and land banking rules etc).
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300975763/can-we-believe-political-slogans
Atleast the guys honest, surly if his beliefs are spotlighted they'll hurt act, the whole tax is theft ideology from a their defies belief!!
How many floods in one year before voters get it, that raiding a fund for response to action on climate change events for tax cuts is gross incompetence.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/09/weather-bay-of-plenty-to-be-drenched-but-reprieve-from-wild-weather-on-the-way-for-new-zealand.html
Voters won't get it until their insurance company walks away from them, then they become homeless and broke in the next extreme event, then they are corralled into trailer parks that are essentially permanent, internal refugee camps, then they lose their jobs because local businesses can't survive, then they decamp to the cities to live in crappy, overcrowded rentals paying huge amounts to Luxon-style landlords while they compete for jobs with foreign students who have recently completed low-quality one-year diplomas in order to buy a pathway to citizenship. Then they'll be so shell-shocked and frightened that they'll vote for ACT or Vision NZ or some other far-right crackpot.
Does kinda feel like we're circling the plug hole, one hopes a plug worth having turns up,but suspects that like a p addict well have to hit bottom first.
QFT territory and explains the wrong choices taken by our governments on so many occasions – not having state super in the 70's, the most unbalanced tax policy in the OECD since 1984-1991, and our reliance on migration for growth is indicative of acceptance of continuing low productivity and incomes. Which means declining infrastructure and inability to cope with
By the time we have finally have wealth taxation and means testing of super – the 2030's, it will be treading water/TINA time and the minimum required to remain some sort of also ran first world nation (second tier in terms of infrastructure and GDP per capita).
Dim bulb-Brownlee was incandescent with rage about 'nanny state' energy-efficient lighting. The well-being of spaceship Earth – our only home – isn't a NAct priority.
"It’s a case of slower to go faster." Sounds ponderous – back to the drawing board?
You paint a grim picture AB but its probably true. Watching Q&A this morning was an eye opener. At one point Jack Tame produced some polling figures which included the result of a question along the lines "are you prepared to pay a bit more in tax in order to combat climate change?" A healthy majority said "No". Yet climate change is considered in most polls as the top serious problem facing the country.
So based on that result it would seem the voters want certain things to happen but are not prepared to pay for it. A bit schizophrenic imo.
Edit: Someone may recall the actual wording of that question.
The polling indicates that no one over 50 will see any improvement in our low standard of governance in their lifetime.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/09/24/exclusive-polling-how-kiwis-feel-about-paying-for-poverty-climate-change/
Not in most of the polls, I've seen. Typically it's cost of living, crime, housing, health & the economy.
This recent one by Ipsos is fairly typical
https://www.ipsos.com/en-nz/21st-ipsos-new-zealand-issues-monitor
Climate change is rated in the top 20 by about 20% of people.
It was in the top 5 immediately after Gabrielle – but has dropped back out in the last 2 polls. It’s currently rated equal with petrol prices (the anti-climate change concern) – but if petrol continues its upwards surge, it's likely to drop Climate change even further down the list.
Most will go about their business(es) as usual, playing CC Russian roulette – whaddya going to do?!! Keep paying those insurance premiums (while you can), and spare a thought for Granny on a pension in a house worth $3,000,000 – the horror.
Future generations will do it tough – possibly very tough – but I'm alright, Jack
Who’s laughing now?
https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby-world-cup-2023/300976721/rugby-world-cup-ireland-too-good-for-south-africa-in-pulsating-match-in-paris
Ireland will win the world cup, imho
At least Kiwi's will be on the winning team, All Black rejects in Aki and Lowe.
Aki had a ripper, the amount of try line pressure Ireland soaked up at times without conceding penalties shows a team in top form.
They'd be a good bet for sure, along with SA (their scrum was dominant) and England.
It may come down to the bounce of the ball, or the ref doing a Wayne Barnes and not seeing a forward pass.
I don't rate the ABs given their performance vs France.
Kia ora
Interested to know if any left women here at The Standard who have been pushed off social media due to intense misogynistic trolling during the election cycle we are in. This has mainly been occuring on the Labour Party page, Green Party page and even our council page any time there is any discussion of te reo Maori. Feels not just RW but RW/conspiracy theorist hybrid troll types.
Would be interested to know of any sites where women can safely speak, that is not terfy/transphobic. I have had to shut down my FB page and with that, my animal welfare page. Sucks.
Look at the Feeds here and at No Right Turn.
Wider afield.
And moving forward Mastodon (in development as an alternative to X).
Or BlueSky (also in development as an alternative to X)
Otherwise Discord.
Thanks again. It was only the faceblabblabblab I was on but I know of folks who have moved over to Mastodon, who were formerly on X.
Sounds interesting and thank you for being helpful. I'll have a look at Discord.
So – only "free speech" that you approve of then? If a woman cannot say what a woman is – then where do we have women's rights at all?
Thank you SPC.
Not sure what you mean. I have been attacked for being a woman. What I was saying is I am not interested in the new faux feminism which is simply transphobia, and seems to be totally consumed by some invisible threat of public toilets. Think of groups like Let Women Speak. They simply promote hatred. That is not for me.
That's an interesting point of view Rosie – thanks for sharing and all the best.
Thank you Drowsy M. Kram. It is off the scale vicious.
Who knew that Donald Trump is a radical proponent of 'transgender ideology'? Surprising it may be, but now a political PAC supporting Ron Desantis makes the case with this hilarious, bonkers ad. What fun. The bedfellows get odder and odder.
Musk does Mengele with allegations of potential securities fraud, misleading comments about the primate deaths and focally tattered macaques.
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For example, in an experimental surgery that took place in December 2019, performed to determine the “survivability” of an implant, an internal part of the device “broke off” while being implanted. Overnight, researchers observed the monkey, identified only as “Animal 20” by UC Davis, scratching at the surgical site, which emitted a bloody discharge, and yanking on a connector that eventually dislodged part of the device. A surgery to repair the issue was carried out the following day, yet fungal and bacterial infections took root. Vet records note that neither infection was likely to be cleared, in part because the implant was covering the infected area. The monkey was euthanized on January 6, 2020.
Additional veterinary reports show the condition of a female monkey called “Animal 15” during the months leading up to her death in March 2019. Days after her implant surgery, she began to press her head against the floor for no apparent reason; a symptom of pain or infection, the records say. Staff observed that though she was uncomfortable, picking and pulling at her implant until it bled, she would often lie at the foot of her cage and spend time holding hands with her roommate.
Animal 15 began to lose coordination, and staff observed that she would shake uncontrollably when she saw lab workers. Her condition deteriorated for months until the staff finally euthanized her. A necropsy report indicates that she had bleeding in her brain and that the Neuralink implants left parts of her cerebral cortex “focally tattered.”
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/