Funny how keen he is to split the left vote, eh? Looks like he’s become a bit of a trumpist nowadays.
Tau Henare: “He’s a dictator, it’s his way or the highway. He’s a typical league player, there’s only one way to the try line and that’s straight ahead.” ” “I like Phil [Goff, the present mayor] but he’s such a f***ing politician. He doesn’t do anything. Tamihere would let loose the dogs of war. And whatever was left over, he’d work with.”
“Councillor Christine Fletcher will be Tamihere’s running mate. “JT has bravado,” she tells me, sitting on a couch in her comfortably sprawling house overlooking Mt Eden. “Phil is not sufficiently charismatic.”” Ah, left/right collaboration plus charisma. A potent brew!
He’s really quite an ugly human being eh?
We should watch out (with current immigration ‘policy settings’) that he can’t buy his way into a ‘lil ole NuZulln bolt hole somewhere down south.
And here’s me worrying about whether or not I’d have to adjust my Sunday morning media consumption given a Mora-Chapman swap, and always https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo.
So far so good. I’m almost tempted to go beg for a few coins and indulge in a Subway luncheon.
It’s possible I was to quick to judge. Beat me beat me please! beat me!.
I have sinned in my rush to judgement………….although…..
The Brits are in a tough place with their political ruling classes and structures, compounded by huge modern wealth disparities. It took a decade or so of it’s bungling with the rise of the Nazis to near annihilation, to step aside sufficiently, & the Brits got on track pretty quickly, essentially paving the way for the saving of western europe civilisation.
The Germans, also an admirable different people again, have proportional representation for instance, which i think was one of the models used in our change to mmp (which the Nats of course want to bin).
Anyhow, NZ should be friends with one and all where ever in the world as much as is practical, but particularly with those societal characteristics of any state(s) that more closely match the best of our commonwealth & western civilisation heritage with our NZ’s flavor.
A sad tale, and why NZ has to clamp down on bad immigration advisors and make it much simpler with little room for error for the applicants coming to NZ and hoodwinked by advisors what they can gain residency for.
For example it has become easy for wealthy people from around the world to just buy a restaurant or stand alone business that actually takes that opportunity away from a local person while also driving up commercial rents much of which is not owned by NZ companies domiciled in NZ for tax purposes.
While a restaurant or business might have a high turnover, the real issue is profitability and often they are not very profitable at all, and just employ low waged insecure staff who need government welfare top ups for wages, and most of the profits go to the lease holder of the commercial premise.
It seems hard to justify how running an existing restaurant can be considered “entrepreneurial” but that is how that interpretation has been spun by immigration consultants.
Meanwhile another issue is fake jobs in those businesses where the applicants pay their own wages or in some cases it is just a paper scam only!
I have a lot of sympathy for people lured here while enriching immigration lawyers and advisors, and feel NZ has a very poor immigration department that has made many mistakes, but NZ has now become a basket case, with the third highest immigration in the world, and a country full of people whose wages are so low they need food parcels and can’t afford to rent anywhere, let alone a local person starting a new business here with the overpriced offerings of commercial rents which has been hijacked by people coming to NZ and just buying an existing business to gain residency.
“Almost a decade ago now, I was at The Treasury trying to make sense of why New Zealand’s economic performance hadn’t been better. 100 years ago, you see, living standards in New Zealand were as high as those anywhere in the world – only the US and Australia were really close. These days, depending how you measure these things, we rank around 35th. When we analyse economic performance, economists put a lot of weight on measures of productivity – what a country manages to produce with the inputs its uses. The most accessible measure of productivity is real GDP per hour worked. And since 1970 we’ve had the second slowest productivity growth rate of any of the member countries of the OECD. Even in just the last 25 years, after all the reforms we did, we’ve still had productivity growth near the bottom of the OECD.”
Are you suggesting Aotearoa reinvent itself as a Brexit refuge for ethnocentric Brits ?
Iron was being smelted in Wales and traded in Europe long before the Roman invasion.
Those time have gone. Aotearoa increasingly reflects the Asia/Pacific. Perhaps we should be compared with our neigbours rather than “Croaking Cassandras”.
@ Quasimodo, if you read my post, I’m suggesting that we ditch lazy immigration of so called entrepreneurs who are just buying existing NZ businesses and assets like water or restaurants, often bringing in more migrant workers or creating overpriced residences that take up land but locals can’t afford to live in, and try to attract fewer but a better fit of migrants who can actually lift (or at least not drop) living standards aka true entrepreneurs and thinkers of the world and get away from the low wage economy of Asia that NZ has fallen into under Rogernomics, John n Bill and protectionist trade otherwise rebranded as free trade.
Aat the same time by removing our low wage culture and provide more high paid opportunities for our own youth and people residing here, that we can retain more skilled people born here including those of migrant children who are born here, have opportunities for those who might otherwise face unemployment in NZ as they may be low skilled Kiwis. (but not stupid enough to take a casual job, under minimum wages with no security in the middle of know where or a contract job that works out under minimum wages that you can’t live on in a city and so we now have hundred of thousands of kiwis who are the working poor or on a benefit as our increasing jobseeker figures are showing).
Its no great mystery….manufacturing has been the area of greatest productivity gain across the world due to its nature (and will remain so) and we off-shored ours almost entirely
“Correction: we off-shored obsolete manufacturing clearing the decks for innovative new models and technologies.”
A correction to your correction…we off-shored virtually all manufacturing regardless of obsolescence…we opened our markets without reciprocation…with no manufacturing industry to speak of the base and incentive (and expertise) from which to develop and make the productivity gains of the other advanced economies was given up as too difficult.
Now whether you think unlimited manufacturing is either desirable or achievable is a whole other argument
But there is no difference if a migrant is employing them or a Kiwi in a restaurant, so there is not net gain of jobs there James, and only a Natz thinker would consider running a middle of the road restaurant that was existing, is some sort of entrepreneurial activity that a Kiwi could not do.
I think the the Natz also love the criminal drug importers as much as Labour.
SaveNZ, This was common even 20 years ago. We know of several wealthy couples who bought Bed and Breakfast businesses in the Bay of Islands. They had to have an address and an income plus one million in the bank. Now a pound became three dollars, so selling a London property meant “Wealth” by NZ standards. They didn’t even have to hire locals. So our law in this area has always been poor.
Totally agree Patricia but it’s getting much worse than 20 years ago as we now have super cheap global travel, the rise of tax havens, no language requirements, and have a significant amount of NZ residents or overseas middlemen, ‘immigration’ consultants and lawyers trawling the world selling NZ residency and visas, taking $40k from then for the privilege of doing so.
We also now have the migrants that came here under categories like parents, marrying other migrants near retirement after 11 days online like the recent case that immigration failed to stop.
Also some of these people who arrived over 20 years ago have been operating in NZ as criminals for years… somehow getting residency without even putting in a tax return!
“According to Inland Revenue records neither Yim nor Wu, who arrived in New Zealand in 1991 and 1994, have ever declared their income nor paid any tax.”
“As part of the raids on Yim, police also seized 12 luxury sports cars valued at more than $1.3m, including a Ferrari worth more than $500,000 and a Lamborghini Gallardo. More than $1.8m in cash was seized and a further 1kg of methamphetamine found.
Watches, jewellery, electronics, and 48 bottles of vintage French wine valued at about $42,000 were also seized.”
“Yim was sentenced this month in the High Court at Auckland to 11 and a half years in prison for possession of a class A drug for supply.
During sentencing he was described by Justice Geoffrey Venning as being vital to the drug scheme which imported the equivalent of 30kg of pure methamphetamine with a street value of $40m.”
Yim, who came to New Zealand from Hong Kong on a resident visa before gaining citizenship in 1995, has previously been convicted on three unrelated charges.
In July 2006 he was convicted at the Auckland District Court for drink-driving and on a dangerous driving charge, while in April 1997 he was convicted of shoplifting.”
It’s National’s fault that this affair is public. More specifically, it’s deputy leader Paula Bennett’s fault.
It was Bennett who surprisingly lifted the bedsheets and publicly accused Ross of inappropriate behaviour as a “married Member of Parliament”.
Bennett’s stunt appeared a calculated attempt to deliberately discredit Ross. It took a story that had been about alleged electoral fraud and made it one about sex.
It seems the National Party had turned a blind eye to Ross’ affair when it suited them, then weaponised it when they wanted him gone.
If that behaviour is unbecoming of a male married MP, it must also be unbecoming of the female married MP involved.
Of course it was a distraction from the handling of the $100,000 donation. That’s why Bridges jumped in so quickly with his “internal investigation into who was the leaker”. Anything to take the media’s attention away from the donation.
Along with Fran O”Sullivan, IMO there are bigger issues than Dowie’s text.
The Police investigation into laundering, influencing party selection processes, etc of National Party regarding possible disguising of an over cap donation ($100 000.00 with links to China.) and the assertions JLR made.
However she concludes National Party internal organisation should deal with Dowie’s text.
Good try!! But as they too are being investigated, as above, that seems an odd suggestion.
Some considerations around Digital bullying.
We need to gauge whether free speech is impinged?
Have we allowed for a suitable range of charges open to the police to use?
Will a prosecution deter similar behaviours.?
Contribution to cause to be considered?
Better test case law will eventuate?
As we agreed when the law was passed, digital bullying is dangerous.
Then the larger issue of threats to sovereignty, The Treaty Partner, and our International integrity? These are currently in official hands.
What do we mean by sovereignty? The Crown.? Our Country’s Integrity? The Treaty Partner in relation to possible bribes for access.
So yes, of much greater importance than an emotional piece of digital bullying. are these issues, and no, I do not see the National party internal review would be enough. Not nearly enough.
So I am left wondering why an experienced journalist made such a suggestion?
An internal review may be limited by frames of reference? Related areas could be ignored.?…..So I think the Police are possibly the best choice, unless there is a Public Review.
Thanks VV. I’m flat on my back with bed rest with the cracked socket, but I’m winning lol. Can do a few more things now I’m off that opium shite. But i do need to learn to link. Cheers..Oh and your suggested long handled brush and shovel has won high praise from “Him in doors”
So pleased to hear the brush and shovel has won high praise! LOL. Always scared when making an recommendation such as that, that it will turn out to be “a lemon”.
And pleased to they have replaced the ‘opium shite’. What are you on now?
I hesitate to ask how the cracked socket happened – ie was it already cracked before the op or did it occur during the op? If the latter, a case of medical misadventure?
The Fran O’Sullivan article is also interesting. Not yet ‘with it’ enough this morning to have decided my views on it, and there are quite a few new articles on the whole sad saga this morning – but at least most of them are now focusing back on the real issues of the donations, etc than the affair aspects. Will put up a few more links in the next hour or so.
VV I am on 8 panadol and 8 small codeine. which I can increase to 4 each time 120mg. On trmadol I was ill and unbalanced lol lol some would say that was a regular condition.
I see the Dr on Tuesday to decide whether to bring my x ray forward.
I was also much more with it once off the tramdol but only had it for the first two days. Panadol (paracetamol) is relative safe, and a little codeine much better than tramadol etc. I cannot even touch codeine but a little paracetamol goes a long way for me to relieve pain. Fingers crossed that they bring the x-ray forward asap.
If the crack was caused by the op, then I would look into your rights for extra help etc through ACC. If there has been no discussion of whether it was pre-existing before the op or caused by the op, personally I would be asking those questions as a first step.
No, photos confirm all was well with the bone, especially as that is my weight bearing leg. this happened day 2. I felt it. very small on the inner edge.I can’t have anti inflammatory meds.
“The Fran O’Sullivan article is also interesting.”
My take on it…
Fran confirms that the National Party is deeply rooted, but they’ll sort it out behind the curtain, thank you.
Unfortunately the cat is well and truly out of the bag now and I can’t see this being shut down easily. And talking of cats, I have a feeling that the events that precipitated the text were business related (but totally stuffed any inter-personals) and the subsequent infidelity revelations were a dead cat to divert attention from the aforementioned events. That cat might have been a bit rough and is now quite pongy and shedding it’s copious fleas.
“I have a feeling that the events that precipitated the text were business related”
By that do you mean things like the relationship between Southland District Mayor Gary Tong and, among others, Chinese multi-millionaire Zhang Yikun – the wealthy and well-connected businessman linked by Jami-Lee Ross to a $100,000 donation to Simon Bridges and the National Party – and Dowie’s connection to those relationships? And also possibly the social/promotional event that took place in Wellington the night before the text was sent allegedly from her phone?
I commented on these at 31.2.1 on the ‘Herald outs Dowie’ post here yesterday; and also about ten days ago at 4.1 on the Chinese Herald post on 15 January.
I won’t attempt to provide links to these earlier comments as attempts to do so currently go to the post only, not to the actual comment. Both posts can be found by going to “Home” and searching down. The earlier “Chinese Herald” post is now on an earlier Home page which can be accessed from the bottom of the current Home page.
I was more commenting on the tone of the text, it seemed more related to a business matter than something personal, but went that way fast. Your connection about the timing added to my suspicions.
As to the event / action I wouldn’t have a clue, except when a political party see’s it’s main function as fund raising things can get rather messy.
My aside “the National Party is deeply rooted” is a quote from a speech Bill English delivered after the 2002 defeat to the faithful in Gore. It seemed rather apt right now. ( after a lengthy, wooden pause he said “in it’s membership” but the first bit is what stuck)
Re your last paragraph and English’s comment – ROFL!
Interesting that you saw the tone of the text as starting initially as more related to a business matter before turning personal. Everyone sees things slightly different to each other, so respect your opinion but I certainly did not see anything business related at all.
The event in Parliament’s Banquet Hall the night before the text was sent was not a party political affair, nor a fund raising one. It was the annual “Southland Party” – a promotional evening re what is happening, available etc in Southland in terms of business, investment opportunities etc. hosted by Dowie as the local MP plus others including Mayor Gary Tong. Dowie posted photos on her Facebook account (also posted on the separate ‘Southland Party” Facebook account). These were of her and Tong in very good spirits with drinks in hand etc. Links to the FB pages and photos etc are in my earlier comments referred to above. Alcohol, parties and phones sometimes are a bad combination …
However, going back to your focus on business-related factors, I actually agree from the perspective that the real story here which is unlikely to go away soon is exactly that – ie fundraising donations, and relationships like that between Tong and Zhang and colleagues (including Dowie) in respect of Southland land, businesses etc. At least some reporters are now starting to focus on those aspects again as well as the more personal ones.
Re deeply rooted, I was rescued by my employer who arrived with a plate of canapés (well, cheese rolls, this is Gore) before I had to exhale. Bless her soul.
Re the text, sloppy language on my part. I meant the events that precipitated the relationship breakdown, which led to the text, weren’t JLR playing around with the staff, but rather JLR maybe torpedoing some deal that was going down. Which may fit with other events. Money being more important than relationships on that side, and provoking much stronger reactions.
Great to see that our own good mickysavage has now put a separate post on the Fran O’Sullivan article and related matters, so perhaps we can continue discussion there. Yesterday’s post on the Herald outing Dowie was getting overloaded at about 200 comments so good to have somewhere else to continue the discussion. (Despite the attempts to shut the discussion down by a certain person, to whom I replied but have had no response to my reply …)
No, not Ross, although I did reply to one of his comments on the Herald/Dowie post – the one at 20.3.1.1. with my reply at 20.3.1.1.3. My reply also referred him to another of mine at 31.3.1 re what Dowie had been doing the night before the text being sent to JLR, allegedly from her phone.
Ross has been here a bit lately and I wondered if the one here was the same Ross at The Daily Blog who recently promoted one of his books there. LOL
[Edit – also included the link from the above to Amazon and the book supposedly written by the TDB Ross but it ended up with a full photo of the cover! So, just to give the name – “Sex, Power and Politics” by Ross Meurant. LOL]
But we are not supposed to try to identify commenters here, which is fair enough. But I googled and could not find any reference to the author Ross being resident in NZ these days, let alone down your way.
My reply which I referred to in my earlier comment is at 31.2 on the Herald/Dowie post. The examples quoted are only a few of the recent ones. What is good for the gander is good for the goose (or ‘goose’ in both cases?) etc – or, as marty mars says, I ‘mirrored’ the behaviour.
YES I noted that … Further to crack. I have a crooked pelvis, they shortened the leg during surgery..planned… but we think it is just a small crack which happened during my 2nd walk as it bedded in . Real bad luck, but as the Dr and Surgeon said “You are an original!!” I was thrilled they managed epidural xx
It seems the mating season is in full swing [pardon the pun] for National. With a so-called red-blue tilt at the Auckland Mayoralty and possibly a blue-green party in the offing led by Vernon Tava.
No room for fresh blood though; it’s the same old names & faces from yesteryear all with their baggage high public profiles. Is this because there are no young people brimming with idealism and political aspirations or because they cannot cut through the political party structures unless or until they assimilate into the ‘collective’?
Someone ought to call the Russian bluff – ask which section of that law they believe applies to the situation. None, as far as I’m aware! However this could be a pointer: “Russia also told the UN Security Council that the US should give a clear answer on whether Washington is willing to use military force in Venezuela”. Fair enough, eh?
“France, Germany, Spain and the UK are giving Maduro eight days to call elections, failing which they will recognise opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president, joining other nations like the United States in endorsing him.”
“”Venezuela will not allow anyone to impose on us any decision or order,” Arreaza told the UN Security Council. “We will continue following the path of our democracy.”” That fake democracy is unlikely to prevail – it opposes the will of the people. The stalinists can only hold on by starving the people and using the military against them, and the latter only if soldiers continue to obey orders…
Capitalist + narcissist + hedonist only. Stalinism way too complicated for him, plus he seems to have got elected as a republican, accidentally, so all that funding of the Dems doesn’t really qualify him as leftist…
John Tamihere and Christine Fletcher. Really?
Christine staunch blue has already
been Auckland’s mayor two decades ago.
Why would she stand again after a 20 year hiatus with JT?
John Tamihere known primarily for being the brother of convicted murderer David.
And despite all the evidence against his brother
John always championed David’s innocence.
John Tamihere always looks so totally ill at ease
despite good looks ready smile and being articulate.
Very much like Winston Peters constantly repressing
his true identity for fear of upsetting the huge white vote.
It’s all about spin and image saying just enough
at the right time to appeal to enough voters.
Tamihere looks brown so may garner brown and left voters.
However Tamihere speaks white and identifies as a white
so may garner the Peters support ie whites who like the
brown who did the right thing and became a white.
It’s a game of numbers and spin.
He may well split the left vote and let a righty win.
At the end of the day an ant could be mayor of Auckland.
It’s a celebrity job that’s all.
John key any one?
A good analysis rata, possibly why so few vote as it’s so depressing.
Sadly unless someone better comes along I might be tempted to vote for them, not because I think they will improve things or that they are deserving candidates, but more because Phil Goff is more far right than the righties and after another 14.5 million on top of the hundred million extra given to America’s cup while we have record food parcels and poverty, he spent nearly a million on a secret report for the Atlantis underwater stadium that nobody in Auckland wants apart from a group of super rich developers and hangers on who will profit from it, stealing our harbour for the polluting cruise ships and spending over half our rates on Auckland transport which they inexplicably removed the 2 democratically elected councillors off to create even less accountability to name but a few of his decisions!
Hopefully a massive audit will uncover more routs so they can have a clear out of the many scams and use our rates money more effectively!
So what will Tamihere change that? He is going to be committed to the America’s Cup. It is simply not possible for any Mayor in Auckland to now have a different view. The govt is really only the entity that can deal with poverty. The govt tax take out of Auckland is more than ten times the rate take.
Tamihere will need to have a credible plan to be worth considering as the Mayor. Not just a series of over the top slogans. The one thing Goff has on his side is his professionalism.
In short to replace anyone who has been in office for only one term, it has to be shown they have obviously and seriously failed.
Is Australia treating New Zealand as a bigger version of Christmas Island?
Is New Zealand seen by Australians as just an another offshore subservient dumping ground, for people the Australians no longer want, but who were moulded by growing up in Australia and fully shaped by that culture and society and are a product of it?
…..Were he to reoffend, there would be serious risk to the Australian community, Dutton said.
With this statement Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton, who has spearheaded the deportation of more than 1600 people to New Zealand, shows he is callously indifferent to any risk posed to the New Zealand community by him dumping these people here far away from family and their usuals support networks, where experts say they are more likely to reoffend.
My God, NZ truely is becoming the new Australia of dumping ground of criminals either deported here, get residency here from immigration or are created as criminals because it’s a viable alternative to working as a wage slave.
Times, change Jenny and I think judging in by the rise of offending for drugs like Meth and class A drug importation, corruption, fraud and so forth by our new resident migrants, make the OZ criminals deported here, seem petty by comparison. Even worse is that type of offending creates more criminals and poverty from our own vulnerable people so that some new residents can profit even more?
Time for NZ to close all the gaps because our own people now are in food banks while they work, 20% of kids have no lunch and the dysfunction continues. Adding more people to distribute NZ taxes to and put in prison or rest homes and NZ hospitals seems to be making things worse in particular while bad government policy seem to be lowering our productivity.
Saying that, judging by the media coverage and constant faux? outrage for the British tourists who littered and stole a couple of items while here, it seems that big crimes are minimised while tiny indiscretions are huge news. Part of the distraction campaign maybe?
About time too, countries close the loop holes of new residents piggy backing off easier residency . Ak new scam is to become a Cook Island resident to get NZ residency automatically while new Kiwi residents can then shift off to OZ.
But there is still another, darker way of judging what goes on when elites put themselves in the vanguard of social change: that doing so not only fails to make things better, but also serves to keep things as they are. After all, it takes the edge off of some of the public’s anger at being excluded from progress. It improves the image of the winners. By using private and voluntary half-measures, it crowds out public solutions that would solve problems for everyone, and do so with or without the elite’s blessing.
There is no question that the outpouring of elite-led social change in our era does great good and soothes pain and saves lives. But we should also recall Oscar Wilde’s words about such elite helpfulness being “not a solution” but “an aggravation of the difficulty”. More than a century ago, in an age of churn like our own, he wrote: “Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.”
Invasion Day, should also be remembered for the oppression and slavery, of the forced convicts transported to Australia.
The Western Australian records we’ve been using for our recent research and digitised for the Digital Panopticon project reveal the story of Samuel Speed, the last living Australian convict. He was transported to Western Australia in 1866 and died in 1938, just short of his 100th birthday.
Speed’s story
Samuel Speed. The Mirror (Perth), 1938.
Speed was born in Birmingham, England in 1841. He had one brother and one sister, but little else about his family or early life is known. He was in his early twenties when he was tried in Oxfordshire in 1863 for setting fire to a haystack. Homeless and begging for food, he had committed arson in order to get arrested and spend some time in a warm cell. He was sentenced to seven years of convict transportation to Australia……
Yum yum. New Zealand – The Jewel of De-Nial. They could make a satirical movie about us. How about it you bluff Kiwi film-makers? Or has some Kiwi political satire been happening lately that I have missed? (And remembering David McPhail and Jon Gadsby.)
I like this condensed quote from the book Ripping England!: Postwar British Satire… from google.
These ingenious satirists questioned the moral certainties of those often insular groups that held sway and power from the religious and political to the hidebound “preservationist’ societies.
“Shooting protestors will lead to disinvestment.” REALLY?
RNZ National, Monday 28 January 2019, 9:50 a.m.
Kathryn Ryan’s foreign correspondents are almost invariably substandard—Jack Hitt (“U.S. Correspondent”) warbling on for ten minutes about Game of Thrones on the day that Chelsea Manning’s “trial” began; Dame Ann Leslie (“Arrrrgggh! Every year we have to listen to the militant rabble rousing of the teacher unions!”); Kate Adie and her patrician disdain; Irris Makler; Jason Morrison, Matthew Parris. The fact that Matthew Parris is the best of them shows just how dismal this segment is.
Kathryn Ryan’s “African Correspondent” this morning was a South African, Deborah Patta. She had some interesting things to say about Zimbabwe. Apparently, shooting protestors will lead to investors staying away. Is that true? I sent the perky, unquestioning host the following email….
Shooting protestors in Zimbabwe
Dear Kathryn,
Your African correspondent Deborah Patta claims that the shooting of protestors in Zimbabwe will lead to investors avoiding that country. What makes her think that? After all, Israeli army snipers kill peaceful, unarmed protestors near the Gaza-Israel fence every Friday. Has that led investors to flee from Israel?
Yours sincerely,
Morrissey Breen
Northcote Point
So far, she has not deigned to reply. I note that later on this morning there will be a segment featuring Palestinian cuisine. Perhaps she’ll address my email then, but I doubt it.
Kia ora Newshub there you go duncan spraying Wai in the wind our students needed that extra money did you hear of students haveing to preform un civil task to pay rent with a unequal society te Wahine get trapped into having to proform these tasks just to get a education that should be FREE.
Banks insurance now we know whom there m8 was he would have made it easy for banks to take OUR money he was in power for nine years shonky. He would have slipped all his bent m8 in the leadership position he could teaching doctors bankers every place he could to keep power were he could m8 help m8. And in the real world most people follow the flow If a leader is leading one down the wrong path people will follow but not Eco Maori. Hence I say teachers are being led by their noses down the wrong path. I say. Our youth are our future if we don’t make higher education easier to achieve then we have to import the skills dumb way to run a Country not investing in OUR future. The one thing I agree on is the unmanaged imagration that is a very serious subject these new kiwis shape our society so it needs to be managed smarter kicks keep it smart and easy to run. We are going to have heaps of climate change refugees in the very near future. Niki the Indian cricket team will love the heat
Kia ora we need to keep a eye out on our elderly with the heat wave we are getting if one looks at other heat wave events around the world it is the elderly who are affected the most if they can’t afford to pay for air conditioning and are sitting in their house by themselves they could easily over heat and dehydrate check on thy neighbours. That is not on our Wahine who have breast cancer are not getting the treatment they need to survive as long as Wahine in Australia come on they are the carers of our tamariki get it fixed. Yes Amanda those Saudi men have their heads and minds in the wrong place I would say were there heads are but it’s not nice you can work that out for yourself. EQUALITY IS Needed.
There you go Graham money is that phenomenon hitting your hip pocket with your opinion on the heatwave hitting Aotearoa at the minute our media should be talking about climate change I no why they are not taking about climate change the oil barrons are distorting our reality and they don’t care about our tamariki future. We have to let the elderly know to be careful in this heat I know it’s hotter now that when I was in my 20,s Ka kite ano P.S ECO Maori view on reality is unbiase and free.
Goverments and farmer’s are put off OGANIC farming WHY because the Big companys monsanto dupont chemical linked to big carbon companys. the first two don’t want us to stop using there very expensive chemical when they find evidence that there chemical’s cause cancer they bury the evidence with $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
The oil barrons well one need’s to burn lot’s of ”CARBON to suck nitrogen out of the air atmosphere to make urea this is the main form of nitrogen use in farming. The big companys making urea use there $$$$$$$$$$ to suppress the truth about the positives of organic farming mean while urea is leaching into OUR Wai water AWA river’s Tangaroa oceans and poisioning them. They don’t care they can afford to pay big money for there food and water I bet they eat organic food O WHY ARE CANCER cases in the world these Rates are rising so fast Know one NO,S YEA RIGHT the wealth are selling US all Lies OUR Scientists are the truth teller not the MEDIA.
The economics of organic farming, a subfield of agricultural economics, encompasses the entire process and effects of organic farming in terms of human society, including social costs, opportunity costs, unintended consequences, information asymmetries, and economies of scale. Although the scope of economics is broad, agricultural economics tends to focus on maximizing yields and efficiency at the farm level. Economics takes an anthropocentric approach to the value of the natural world: biodiversity, for example, is considered beneficial only to the extent that it is valued by people and increases profits. Some entities such as the European Union subsidize organic farming, in large part because these countries want to account for the externalities of reduced water use, reduced water contamination, reduced soil erosion, reduced carbon emissions, increased biodiversity, and assorted other benefits that result from organic farming.[57]
Traditional organic farming is labor and knowledge-intensive whereas conventional farming is capital-intensive, requiring more energy and manufactured inputs.[86]
Organic farmers in California have cited marketing as their greatest obstacle.
Links below Ka kite ano.
One of Eco Maori tipuna pridited the arrivals of the Europeens he said to learn there knowledge and work with them there are a few other predictions that my old tipuna,s made . Some tangata are still upset that Ngati Porou sided with the settlors in the old days .They new that the settlors had a huge war machine in Britain that would come to Aotearoa and take all there whenua . There were other reason Ngati Porou side with the settlors to at least we are better than every other colonized tangata whenua around Papatuanuku Eco Maori is proud of what is tipuna achieved and so should all Ngati Porou descendants be proud of our tipuna
The origins of Manuel José are clouded in mystery. It is not known for certain where he came from, nor when he arrived in New Zealand. He arrived in the Waiapu area on the East Coast, probably in the late 1830s, and became known to Maori as Manuera, and to Europeans as Manuel José (or Josef), Emmanuel, or ‘The Spaniard’. It is likely that Manuel and José were his given names. His surname is unknown, and he may have suppressed it because, as one tradition suggests, he had deserted from an American whaling ship. Tradition among his descendants states that he was born in Segovia, Spain, and came to New Zealand via Peru. He is recalled as a tall, strong man with fair skin, green eyes, and long, reddish hair. His voice was loud and his gestures animated.
By the 1850s Manuel José was regarded by Maori and European alike as the leading trader in Ngati Porou territory. In 1861 he established a trading-post at Te Awanui, between Waipiro Bay and the mouth of the Waiapu River. He owned five horses and held half an acre of Ngati Porou land ‘by sufferance’, paying rent of £12 a year. An olive tree, which still stands, marks the site of his store. In 1873 he established a further trading-post at Tikapa, on the eastern bank of the Waiapu River, near Waiomatatini. He has been credited with the introduction to Waiapu of the plough, and also of the gorse bush. Link below
“Mr. Rabbit-nose” was Thomas Atkins, many of whose descendants are to be found on the East Coast to-day. Reweti Kohere informed the writer that Atkins was known to his face by the natives as “Tame Akena” (Tommy Atkins), but, behind his back he was always referred to not as “Rabbit-nose” but as “Tame Huti,” or “Tommy the Sniffer,” a nickname which had its origin on account of his habit of twitching his nose in rabbit fashion.
When maize was first grown on Taumata-o-te-Whatiu No. 1 block, some of the crop was taken to Atkins. Kereama (one of the growers) took only a small quantity, and, as Atkins was not prepared to give him, in return, all the goods that he demanded, he helped himself to Atkins’s stock-in-trade. A chief threw a spear at Kereama, and then both fired off guns, but neither was hit. Eventually, Kereama recompensed Atkins. Hemi Tapeka (Waiapu N.L. Court minute book No. 19) told the court that the crop was grown just before Whanau-a-Apanui’s attack upon Ngati-Porou at Rangitukia and the return fight at Toko-a-Kuku (1834). Maize was grown there for two years to enable guns to be procured. Atkins was not the only pakeha buyer. link below
The people of Waiapu were greatly influenced by the Christian teachings of Taumata-a-Kura (who had been at Toka-a-kuku), and later of the CMS missionaries, who came to the East Coast in 1840. Mokena, who later became a lay synodsman in the Waiapu diocese, was responsible for constructing St John’s Church at Rangitukia. This church, capable of holding 800 people, was consecrated by Bishop G. A. Selwyn in 1856.
Mokena fostered those elements of European culture and technology which he regarded as beneficial for his tribe. Traditional expertise in cultivation and navigation was turned to advantage, and as early as 1840 his people had successful agricultural and commercial enterprises. Wheat and maize were grown on a large scale, and schooners were purchased to transport their produce to Auckland and even to Australia. Mokena saw to the purchase of a 20 ton schooner, named Mereana after his daughter. He is recorded as master of the vessel in 1852. He also negotiated with traders on behalf of his people.
In January 1862, as part of Governor George Grey’s scheme for local Maori self-government, Mokena was appointed principal assessor for the Ngati Porou runanga in the combined districts of Waiapu and Tokomaru Bay. His fellow chiefs, Iharaira Te Houkamau and Wikiriwhi Matauru, were appointed assessors at Wharekahika, and at Te Kawakawa (Te Araroa). Much of the business of the assessors, who were assisted by a European resident magistrate, concerned internal matters of law and order. These were largely dealt with by local runanga, of which the assessors themselves, because of their tribal status, were members. Grey’s system, in effect, reinforced an existing form of Maori self- link
the life of Rapata until the wars of the 1860s, when Ngati Porou were divided by mounting tensions. Delegates from the East Coast attended a meeting at Pawhakairo in Hawke’s Bay with Tamihana Te Rauparaha to discuss the movement for a Maori king; and in 1862 the flags of the King movement were raised at Waiomatatini by Tamatatai, a Waiapu man who had been to Waikato. In reply, Mokena Kohere raised the Queen’s flag at Rangitukia. With the onset of war in 1863 some Ngati Porou joined the King’s forces. In March 1864 a large Ngati Porou war party was prevented from entering Waikato by Te Arawa, but some East Coast warriors succeeded in reaching Waikato through Tauranga.
Warfare came to the East Coast with the arrival in 1865 of the Pai Marire emissaries Kereopa Te Rau and Patara Raukatauri. They made many converts among Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, and virtually took over Poverty Bay. Meanwhile, further north, fighting broke out within Ngati Porou. Some hapu sympathised with Pai Marire, some were divided, and others opposed the new religion. Each faction concentrated its forces in opposing pa, many of them newly built.
Rapata, a leading lay member of the Anglican diocese of Waiapu, was attending a church opening at Popoti in June 1865 when the Reverend Mohi Turei brought news that Hauhau had arrived in the Waiapu Valley and were at Pukemaire. Rapata led 40 men, mostly of Te Aowera hapu, against them. Although the Hauhau won the battles of Mangaone and Tikitiki, Rapata distinguished himself by killing a Hauhau chief in single combat at Tikitiki. After Henare Nihoniho was killed at Mangaone, Rapata became the leader of Te Aowera. link below Ka kite ano
The Ion Ages is here and now . We have thin sheets that can use be used to catch energy Tesla was on to some thing big . The fools who back a technology that is over 200 years old need to stop backing carbon and invest in the New Ion Age only fools keep back losing horses .
In a step in that direction, scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created super-thin, bendy materials that absorb wireless internet and other electromagnetic waves in the air and turn them into electricity.
The lead researcher, Tomás Palacios, said the breakthrough paved the way for energy-harvesting covers ranging from tablecloths to giant wrappers for buildings that extract energy from the environment to power sensors and other electronics. Details have been published in the journal Nature.
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“When you have one of these energy-harvesting devices you are collecting energy 24/7 and you could be storing that in a battery to use later,” Palacios said. “You could cover your desk with an electronic tablecloth and even though you’re only at the desk for so many hours a day, it would be harvesting energy the whole time.”
Palacios and his colleagues connected a bendy antenna to a flexible semiconductor layer only three atoms thick. The antenna picks up wifi and other radio-frequency signals and turns them into an alternating Ka kite ano links below
Kia ora Newshub It’s hot can fry a egg on a bonnet of a car could put glad wrap on it to spot ruining the paint. The roads are melting to climate change deniers please stand up. Life insurance they are leach to OUR society back in the day I new of someone who lost thousands in bullshit insurance one would think that they took a small % of one’s premium.
What do we know about the Westcoast they are carbon producers and fools and deniers of climate change time for a new council that council doesn’t care about there tamariki future. I seen that half a metre of rain in 24 hours in Queensland Australia let’s hope no lives were lost. That was a sham in Saudi Arabia Milisa what a joke. Ka kite ano
Kia ora The AM Show of course Mark does not like a capital gains tax the family homes not being tax is a good phenomenon. The tax burden needed to be lifted off the middle class most are treading water in Auckland it costs one person wages just to pay rent some people have to work 3 of those jobs that don’t guarantee a forty hour week. They can’t go on holiday and some end up at food banks.
This tax is aimed at the people that shonky gave our assets to the SHARE MARKET Mark you are a greedy fool. The reason we are taxing low income is because we don’t have a capital gains tax.If there was a capital gains tax on the family home you people would be jumping up and down about that to. I’m sure I seem two flags wavering people for the man who is the best deal maker in the world YEA RIGHT. Damien Farmers were making hay for Christmas after all they are in the best farming country in the Papatuanukue were else can one dig a garden and spend 1 hour a fortnight working it and at Christmas time harvest a bounty with no watering and no fertiliser .??? Amanda ECO Maori trys to keep that value if one going to say something bad don’t say it at all but when I see people denying our Mokopunas a future by denying climate change we’ll they get the – – – – from ECO Maori. I seen some data that said NZ has one of the highest insurers cover in the Papatuanukue??????. Taumaranui is a cool place I spent a bit of time farming there a we while ago. Tova It’s a different game now and I say the capital gains tax will get through now people change their minds Winston that is he’s looking quite sprightly lately Kia kaha.
Mark is just a greedy fool there you go crying we don’t get the old white man privileges you have all the management roles are filled by fools like you. Who keep all the best deals and jobs for fools like you. A society with equal income distribution is a safer and happier place to live raise tamariki. If human were not socialist dick we would have died out like the neanderthal like Mark and Duncan are neanderthal. 25 % is a % were the tipping point in favour of capital gains tax is not far out you guys must have rallied your poll trolls for that poll. The Old Taupo Mayor there is a lot of old Maori Mana in Taupo???????. What neanderthal business owners can’t see is the more money one gives the lower classes the more money they have to spend =more money for business it’s not Rocket Science neanderthal. There you go the insurance company /banks ripping the people off taking huge %. No wonder the banks have been sending 5 billion a year over seas I tryed to get life insurance because of the sandflys behaviour I wanted to leave something behind for the whano. It got rejected because the sandflys were going into my bank and playing silly buggers Ana to kai Ka kite ano.
What about alcohol it kills hundreds and is easy for the tamariki to get we are locking people up for weed and a drug that kills hundreds is the main causes family Violence that is a bigger problem in NZ than weed the only health alcohol has is cleaning wounds so neanderthal eat that. Ka kite ano
Fans $20 at the wha whare heaps of shade around the house mark you are full of it test have been done that proves that it’s cheaper efficient if the car is traveling to drive with the windows down and the air conditioning off in a car than having the air conditioning on and windows up but if stuck in a traffic jam windows closed air conditioning on or else you will cook I can see the needle move when I drive with air conditioning on
The truth is that the $400 a day for tree planting bull was a spin aimed at the lower classes on social security people from national poor people bashing to give national A tool to hit the Coalition govement on the HEAD with to lift nationals polls it does not matter to the neanderthal,s if they are hurting the poor people in the process. Eco Maori could see that a mile away The big forestry companys are keep all the creamy money for there m8 and pay the workers crap. The Drug testing is full of lop hole that favour alcohol and PEE . PEE is out of ones system in 12 hours alcohol one can have a drink the night before and nothing shows up weed if you had a smoke 3 days before the test fail no job. When one can work perfectly safe if weed was smoked the night before work what a sham . Because of this testing sham work place TESTING it actually pushes workers on to the drug that does not show up on these test and thats PEE
The average worker planted 600 trees a day, receiving 18 cents to 25c per tree, Geddes said.
“The highest I have paid a tree planter is 30c a tree, because of the rates we get from the forestry companies. The 50c to 60c a tree goes to the contractor.”
He said the solution to finding tree-planters was an increase in pay for everyone, and that industry wages failed to recognise the skill and work required for the job.
“In my opinion, the planter should be getting 40c to 50c a tree and the contractor more than $1 a tree. Then we would not have a problem getting planters,” Geddes said.
“It is quite a technical job and takes at least two years to get really good at it.”
He said the big forestry companies had put the screws on the industry to plant trees as cheaply as possible.
“A lot of Kiwis left the industry as it was no longer a good career option.”
Another silviculture contractor said, on average, his planters made 25c to 35c per tree, and planted anywhere from 800 to 1500 a day, depending on the conditions.
“It’s bloody hard work and even harder trying to find the right people that are willing to give it a go.” Ka kite ano PS Thanks for the truth stuff links below
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The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
Māori are yet to see anything from this Government except cuts, reversals and taking our people backwards, Māori Development spokesperson Willie Jackson said. ...
The Coalition Government’s refusal to commit to ongoing funding for social housing is seeing the sector pull back on developments and families watch their dreams of securing a home fade away, says Labour Housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty. ...
Changes to minimum wage and benefit indexation means many New Zealanders will get less this year, as the Government gives a big tax break to landlords instead. ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today paid tribute to Singapore’s outgoing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Meeting in Singapore today immediately before Prime Minister Lee announced he was stepping down, Prime Minister Luxon warmly acknowledged his counterpart’s almost twenty years as leader, and the enduring legacy he has left for Singapore and South East ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. While in Singapore as part of his visit to South East Asia this week, Prime Minister Luxon also met with Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and will meet with Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has made further appointments to the Board of Antarctica New Zealand as part of a continued effort to ensure the Scott Base Redevelopment project is delivered in a cost-effective and efficient manner. The Minister has appointed Neville Harris as a new member of the Board. Mr ...
Finance Minister Nicola Willis will travel to the United States on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Five Finance Ministers group, with counterparts from Australia, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. “I am looking forward to meeting with our Five Finance partners on how we can work ...
The coalition Government has today announced purrfect and pawsitive changes to the Residential Tenancies Act to give tenants with pets greater choice when looking for a rental property, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Pets are important members of many Kiwi families. It’s estimated that around 64 per cent of New ...
State Highway 1 (SH1) through Wellington City is heavily congested at peak times and while planning continues on the duplicate Mt Victoria Tunnel and Basin Reserve project, the Government has also asked NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) to consider and provide advice on a Long Tunnel option, Transport Minister Simeon Brown ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters have condemned Iran’s shocking and illegal strikes against Israel. “These attacks are a major challenge to peace and stability in a region already under enormous pressure," Mr Luxon says. "We are deeply concerned that miscalculation on any side could ...
Hundreds of people in little over a week have turned out in Northland to hear Regional Development Minister Shane Jones speak about plans for boosting the regional economy through infrastructure. About 200 people from the infrastructure and associated sectors attended an event headlined by Mr Jones in Whangarei today. Last ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti has today thanked outgoing Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora Chair Dame Karen Poutasi for her service on the Board. “Dame Karen tendered her resignation as Chair and as a member of the Board today,” says Dr Reti. “I have asked her to ...
The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has signalled their proposed delivery approach for the Government’s 15 Roads of National Significance (RoNS), with the release of the State Highway Investment Proposal (SHIP) today, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Boosting economic growth and productivity is a key part of the Government’s plan to ...
New Zealand is renewing its connections with a world facing urgent challenges by pursuing an active, energetic foreign policy, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “Our country faces the most unstable global environment in decades,” Mr Peters says at the conclusion of two weeks of engagements in Egypt, Europe and the United States. “We cannot afford to sit back in splendid ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced the Australian Governor-General, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley and his wife Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley, will make a State visit to New Zealand from Tuesday 16 April to Thursday 18 April. The visit reciprocates the State visit of former Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy ...
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced that Medsafe has approved 11 cold and flu medicines containing pseudoephedrine. Pharmaceutical suppliers have indicated they may be able to supply the first products in June. “This is much earlier than the original expectation of medicines being available by 2025. The Government recognised ...
New Zealand and the United States have recommitted to their strategic partnership in Washington DC today, pledging to work ever more closely together in support of shared values and interests, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “The strategic environment that New Zealand and the United States face is considerably more ...
April 11, 2024 Joint Declaration by United States Secretary of State the Honorable Antony J. Blinken and New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs the Right Honourable Winston Peters We met today in Washington, D.C. to recommit to the historic partnership between our two countries and the principles that underpin it—rule ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced further New Zealand cooperation with the United States in the Pacific Islands region through $16.4 million in funding for initiatives in digital connectivity and oceans and fisheries research. “New Zealand can achieve more in the Pacific if we work together more urgently and ...
Māori representation brings a perspective that encompasses not only the interests of Māori communities but also a broader, holistic approach to environmental stewardship and community well-being, principles deeply embedded in Te Ao Māori (the Māori ...
This week in Auckland, a group of young people took over the microphone at a ministerial press conference, to explain why they oppose the Fast-Track Approvals Bill. One young woman said, ‘We’re here because we love Aotearoa New Zealand. We want to raise our children in an environment that’s thriving, ...
The summer was wonderful. Evie was wonderful, too; finally a teenager, finally worthy of long, hot days. She shaved her legs for the first time and bought cut-off shorts from the op-shop that made them look long. She got a Warehouse singlet so tight on her new shape that her ...
When Thomas James was on his solo camp as part of Outward Bound, the keen outdoorsman didn’t find it too challenging, as others often do. In what might just be the perfect illustration of his character, he saw it as a great opportunity to solve a few problems. “I thought, ...
From the unstable and drippy to the hi-tech and pretty, here’s our ranking of all the tunnels you can drive through in this country. The first tunnel seems to have been built in 2200BC in Babylonia, kicking off a global phenomenon for digging holes in order to get places more ...
Lucinda Bennett on the art of being greedy but resourceful. This is an excerpt from our weekly food newsletter, The Boil Up. When I picture the market, it is always this time of year. Crisp air, dripping nose, counting coins with cold fingers. Sunlight pale, filtered through specks of dew still ...
Zoë Colling’s favourite piece in the ‘That’s So Last Century’ collection is a lubrication chart for a sewing machine from the ’60s. It’s about the size of a postcard, and carefully maintained. “I like it that this piece of ephemera highlights that manual and technical side of the skill involved ...
Kia Ora Gaza A passionate haka reverberated through Auckland International Airport as a medical team of three New Zealand doctors received an emotional farewell from a big crowd of supporters before flying to Turkey to join the international Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. The doctors, who left Auckland yesterday, hope to ...
With submissions closing today, Macassey-Pickard says groups around the country have been supporting a huge range of people to make their submissions. ...
Our response to the new legislation is informed by targeted conversations with practitioners working in the system and through an implementation lens. ...
The new ‘Fast-track Approvals Bill’ would give just three Ministers the power to approve or deny development projects. They would avoid the usual checks and balances that are in place to protect rivers, land, the ocean, and communities. ...
COMMENTARY:By Eugene Doyle Helen Clark, how I miss you. The former New Zealand Prime Minister — the safest pair of hands this country has had in living memory — gave a masterclass on the importance of maintaining an independent foreign policy when she spoke at an AUKUS symposium held ...
The government's released the list of organisations provided with information on how to apply - just hours before public submissions on the bill close. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Before climate change really got going, eastern Australia’s flash floods tended to concentrate on our coastal regions, east of the Great Dividing Range. But that’s changing. Now ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Finkel, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University Sia Duff / South Australian Museum In February, the South Australian Museum “re-imagined” itself. In the face of rising costs and inadequate government funds, CEO David Gaimster, who took the reins last June, declared ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Pearce, Professor, School of Allied Heath, Human Services & Sport, La Trobe University, La Trobe University This week, Collingwood AFL player Nathan Murphy announced his retirement, brought on by his concussion history and ongoing issues. The 24-year-old’s seemingly sudden retirement, ...
The Mental Health Foundation provides support and resources for those facing the loss of their job, so it’s wrong in the very week the Government adds another 1000 jobs to its tally of cuts, that this is happening. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney Daniel Boud/Sydney Theatre Company Decay, terror, revulsion. These are three of the central themes of Thomas Bernhard’s rarely performed play The President. The Austrian is one of the greatest ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says threats by ministers Shane Jones and David Seymour to reform or close down the Waitangi Tribunal were “ill-considered”, as legal experts say the ministers may have breached Cabinet Manual conventions. “I think those comments are ill-considered and we expect all ministers to actually exercise good ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ye In (Jane) Hwang, Postdoctoral Research Associate at School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock You’d be hard pressed to find any aspect of daily life that doesn’t require some form of digital literacy. We need only to look back ten ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Newton, Professor of Exercise Medicine, Edith Cowan University Pexels/RDNE stock project You’re not in your 20s or 30s anymore and you know regular health checks are important. So you go to your GP. During the appointment they measure your waist. ...
A new poem by Evangeline Riddiford Graham. Mitochondrial Problem I. It was long drive to Kansas for the man and his dog but you have to understand he said She doesn’t fly. Which calls to mind not carsick shitting barking or whining but a dog who chooses not to as ...
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 Hemingway’s Goblet by Dermot Ross (Mary Egan Publishing, $38)Hot off the press, this debut ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Wajnryb McDonald, PhD candidate in Criminology, University of Sydney Less than 24 hours after Ashlee Good was murdered in Bondi Junction, her family released a statement requesting the media take down photographs they had reproduced of Ashlee and her family without ...
Chief executive Shaun Robinson said it has not had any government funding cut, but government-funded contracts have not kept pace with rising costs. ...
The Ministry of Health has delayed the release of its evidence brief on the safety, reversibility and mental health and wellbeing outcomes for puberty blockers. While we wait, Julia de Bres speaks to those with firsthand experience. Best practice gender-affirming healthcare is based on trans people’s self-determination and agency. The ...
Barcelona’s city streets have gone from traffic-clogged to pedestrian-friendly. How? Superblocks. Ellen Rykers explains. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. Last week I read a great interview with renowned urbanist Janette Sadik-Khan by The Spinoff’s Wellington editor Joel MacManus: “You can reimagine streets, ...
Student groups ‘Climate Action VUW’, Schools Strike 4 Climate and VUWSA will be on the street in Wellington today, the last day for submissions on the Fast-track Approvals Bill, with a message that the fight against the Government’s ‘War on ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sofia Ammassari, Research Fellow, Griffith University Since 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity has grown exponentially – and so has the formidable organisational machine of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). These two factors will be key to delivering the BJP a ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendon Hyndman, Associate Professor of Education (Adjunct) & Senior Manager (BCE), Charles Sturt University During COVID almost all Australian students and their families experienced online learning. But while schools have long since gone back to in-person teaching, online learning has not gone ...
Yes, they’re better for the environment. No, that’s not a good enough reason for me to use them. Once every 26 days or so, my period arrives, and if struck by an act of God, I am caught red-crotched without products. How, after 17 years of this, do I still ...
“It will cause significant harm to our environment and communities. It is completely at odds with New Zealanders’ relationship with nature and our need for a low-carbon, sustainable economic future." ...
The Chair of the National Maori Authority, Matthew Tukaki, has warned a Parliamentary Select Committee that fast-tracking legislation is a perilous practice that undermines the core tenets of democracy, transparency, and accountability. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Tenbensel, Associate Professor, Health Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images Since coming into power, the coalition government has adopted a simple but shrewd see-how-fast-we-can-move political strategy. However, in the health sector this need for speed entails ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasia Hronis, Clinical Psychologist, University of Technology Sydney Darya Sannikova/Pexels Whether you’re watching TV, attending a footy game, or eating a meal at your local pub, gambling is hard to escape. Although the rise of gambling is not unique to Australia, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Wong, Forrest Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia Have you ever wondered if there are more insects out at night than during the day? We set out to answer this question by combing through the scientific ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carol T Kulik, Research Professor, University of South Australia IR Stone/Shutterstock In Australia, it’s not the done thing to know – let alone ask – what our colleagues are paid. Yet, it’s easy to see how pay transparency can make pay ...
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is sounding a warning to migrants, that running foul of the law may see them leaving the country prematurely. ...
The government’s plan to get 50,000 people off jobseeker support by 2030 has had a rocky start, writes Catherine McGregor in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Beneficiary numbers are up – and so are ...
Raglan Roast is a staple of Wellington coffee culture. But with five branches across the capital, which one is the best? I am a die-hard Raglan Roast fan. It’s consistently the most affordable cafe in Wellington, and one of the only places you can get a coffee after 3pm. So, ...
Residents of University of Auckland halls are being urged to withhold their accommodation fees from May 1, in a bid to force the university to take student concerns over rent hikes seriously.The University of Auckland is facing a strike from students over the cost of on-campus accommodation. The Students ...
New Zealand and the Philippines have signed a new maritime security agreement and stated their concerns over activity in the South China Sea, as Chinese vessels continue to flout international law. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Philippines President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos committed to signing a Mutual Logistics Supporting Arrangement by ...
The thousands of government “back-office” job cuts are causing widespread pain in the capital city. In today’s episode of The Detail, we speak to three journalists and a think tank researcher, looking at the larger picture around the cuts and what effect it will have on Wellington, a city that’s ...
Opinion: The famed American architect and urban designer Daniel Burnham once said, “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood!” Burnham wouldn’t have been referring to the transport plans in Aotearoa New Zealand over the past five years; projects so big they hadn’t the credibility to ...
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra When ASIO boss Mike Burgess delivered his annual threat assessment earlier this year, he stressed the rising danger posed by espionage and foreign interference. “In 2024, threats to our way of life have surpassed ...
The Tribunal had called on Minister for Children Karen Chhour to provide evidence at an urgent inquiry into the repeal of Section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act. ...
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Simon Wilson’s detailed article about baggage-laden John Tamihere running for Auckland Mayor, alongside Christine Fletcher and with the help of Her Boagness: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12196024
Boag is poison. Goodness knows why JT would want anything to do with her.
Funny how keen he is to split the left vote, eh? Looks like he’s become a bit of a trumpist nowadays.
Tau Henare: “He’s a dictator, it’s his way or the highway. He’s a typical league player, there’s only one way to the try line and that’s straight ahead.” ” “I like Phil [Goff, the present mayor] but he’s such a f***ing politician. He doesn’t do anything. Tamihere would let loose the dogs of war. And whatever was left over, he’d work with.”
“Councillor Christine Fletcher will be Tamihere’s running mate. “JT has bravado,” she tells me, sitting on a couch in her comfortably sprawling house overlooking Mt Eden. “Phil is not sufficiently charismatic.”” Ah, left/right collaboration plus charisma. A potent brew!
Stale and spent both of them.
Anyone with a soft spot for nutso foul-mouth rants should check this out:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-indictment-just-a-hint-of-roger-stones-bonkers-email-abuse-of-frenemy-randy-credico?ref=home
He’s really quite an ugly human being eh?
We should watch out (with current immigration ‘policy settings’) that he can’t buy his way into a ‘lil ole NuZulln bolt hole somewhere down south.
Ali Mau and Colin Peacock on RNZ Media Watch re the Parker’s busted roast .
Well worth a listen.
Link not yet up
Link: https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018679753/roastbuster-s-re-emergence-reopens-old-wounds
Thanks.
And here’s me worrying about whether or not I’d have to adjust my Sunday morning media consumption given a Mora-Chapman swap, and always
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo.
So far so good. I’m almost tempted to go beg for a few coins and indulge in a Subway luncheon.
It’s possible I was to quick to judge. Beat me beat me please! beat me!.
I have sinned in my rush to judgement………….although…..
How to cope with Brexit uncertainty .. anger, disbelief, and impotence as debates become more fractious.
“Divorce, whch is what Brexit is, takes a long time because it is serious.” Someone should have told Boris and Teresa May.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/26/which-way-next-how-to-cope-with-the-psychological-uncertainity-of-brexit
The Brits are in a tough place with their political ruling classes and structures, compounded by huge modern wealth disparities. It took a decade or so of it’s bungling with the rise of the Nazis to near annihilation, to step aside sufficiently, & the Brits got on track pretty quickly, essentially paving the way for the saving of western europe civilisation.
The Germans, also an admirable different people again, have proportional representation for instance, which i think was one of the models used in our change to mmp (which the Nats of course want to bin).
Anyhow, NZ should be friends with one and all where ever in the world as much as is practical, but particularly with those societal characteristics of any state(s) that more closely match the best of our commonwealth & western civilisation heritage with our NZ’s flavor.
A sad tale, and why NZ has to clamp down on bad immigration advisors and make it much simpler with little room for error for the applicants coming to NZ and hoodwinked by advisors what they can gain residency for.
For example it has become easy for wealthy people from around the world to just buy a restaurant or stand alone business that actually takes that opportunity away from a local person while also driving up commercial rents much of which is not owned by NZ companies domiciled in NZ for tax purposes.
While a restaurant or business might have a high turnover, the real issue is profitability and often they are not very profitable at all, and just employ low waged insecure staff who need government welfare top ups for wages, and most of the profits go to the lease holder of the commercial premise.
It seems hard to justify how running an existing restaurant can be considered “entrepreneurial” but that is how that interpretation has been spun by immigration consultants.
Meanwhile another issue is fake jobs in those businesses where the applicants pay their own wages or in some cases it is just a paper scam only!
I have a lot of sympathy for people lured here while enriching immigration lawyers and advisors, and feel NZ has a very poor immigration department that has made many mistakes, but NZ has now become a basket case, with the third highest immigration in the world, and a country full of people whose wages are so low they need food parcels and can’t afford to rent anywhere, let alone a local person starting a new business here with the overpriced offerings of commercial rents which has been hijacked by people coming to NZ and just buying an existing business to gain residency.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12194263
We need to change what we are doing in NZ!
“Almost a decade ago now, I was at The Treasury trying to make sense of why New Zealand’s economic performance hadn’t been better. 100 years ago, you see, living standards in New Zealand were as high as those anywhere in the world – only the US and Australia were really close. These days, depending how you measure these things, we rank around 35th. When we analyse economic performance, economists put a lot of weight on measures of productivity – what a country manages to produce with the inputs its uses. The most accessible measure of productivity is real GDP per hour worked. And since 1970 we’ve had the second slowest productivity growth rate of any of the member countries of the OECD. Even in just the last 25 years, after all the reforms we did, we’ve still had productivity growth near the bottom of the OECD.”
https://croakingcassandra.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/large-scale-non-citizen-immigration-to-new-zealand-is-making-us-poorer-mana-u3a-sept-2017.pdf
Are you suggesting Aotearoa reinvent itself as a Brexit refuge for ethnocentric Brits ?
Iron was being smelted in Wales and traded in Europe long before the Roman invasion.
Those time have gone. Aotearoa increasingly reflects the Asia/Pacific. Perhaps we should be compared with our neigbours rather than “Croaking Cassandras”.
@ Quasimodo, if you read my post, I’m suggesting that we ditch lazy immigration of so called entrepreneurs who are just buying existing NZ businesses and assets like water or restaurants, often bringing in more migrant workers or creating overpriced residences that take up land but locals can’t afford to live in, and try to attract fewer but a better fit of migrants who can actually lift (or at least not drop) living standards aka true entrepreneurs and thinkers of the world and get away from the low wage economy of Asia that NZ has fallen into under Rogernomics, John n Bill and protectionist trade otherwise rebranded as free trade.
Aat the same time by removing our low wage culture and provide more high paid opportunities for our own youth and people residing here, that we can retain more skilled people born here including those of migrant children who are born here, have opportunities for those who might otherwise face unemployment in NZ as they may be low skilled Kiwis. (but not stupid enough to take a casual job, under minimum wages with no security in the middle of know where or a contract job that works out under minimum wages that you can’t live on in a city and so we now have hundred of thousands of kiwis who are the working poor or on a benefit as our increasing jobseeker figures are showing).
Its no great mystery….manufacturing has been the area of greatest productivity gain across the world due to its nature (and will remain so) and we off-shored ours almost entirely
Correction: we off-shored obsolete manufacturing clearing the decks for innovative new models and technologies.
If I knew what they were I would not be able to disclose on this blog for reasons of commercial confidentiality.
“Correction: we off-shored obsolete manufacturing clearing the decks for innovative new models and technologies.”
A correction to your correction…we off-shored virtually all manufacturing regardless of obsolescence…we opened our markets without reciprocation…with no manufacturing industry to speak of the base and incentive (and expertise) from which to develop and make the productivity gains of the other advanced economies was given up as too difficult.
Now whether you think unlimited manufacturing is either desirable or achievable is a whole other argument
And I think there’s a lesson in that for all of us eh possums?
Maybe some of that manufacturing offshored isn’t necessarily quite yet so obsolete.
+1 Pat
17 full time staff.
I’m guessing that 17 more than you employ.
Still. Jacinda and our immigration minister would prefer people who arrive on false passports and import drugs.
False equivalence James. You are teetering on that ladder lol lol
James, the flames are too high and your BBQ is catching fire! Go easy on the wee Cheerios as they have a thin skin.
But there is no difference if a migrant is employing them or a Kiwi in a restaurant, so there is not net gain of jobs there James, and only a Natz thinker would consider running a middle of the road restaurant that was existing, is some sort of entrepreneurial activity that a Kiwi could not do.
I think the the Natz also love the criminal drug importers as much as Labour.
SaveNZ, This was common even 20 years ago. We know of several wealthy couples who bought Bed and Breakfast businesses in the Bay of Islands. They had to have an address and an income plus one million in the bank. Now a pound became three dollars, so selling a London property meant “Wealth” by NZ standards. They didn’t even have to hire locals. So our law in this area has always been poor.
Totally agree Patricia but it’s getting much worse than 20 years ago as we now have super cheap global travel, the rise of tax havens, no language requirements, and have a significant amount of NZ residents or overseas middlemen, ‘immigration’ consultants and lawyers trawling the world selling NZ residency and visas, taking $40k from then for the privilege of doing so.
We also now have the migrants that came here under categories like parents, marrying other migrants near retirement after 11 days online like the recent case that immigration failed to stop.
Also some of these people who arrived over 20 years ago have been operating in NZ as criminals for years… somehow getting residency without even putting in a tax return!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11842563
“According to Inland Revenue records neither Yim nor Wu, who arrived in New Zealand in 1991 and 1994, have ever declared their income nor paid any tax.”
“As part of the raids on Yim, police also seized 12 luxury sports cars valued at more than $1.3m, including a Ferrari worth more than $500,000 and a Lamborghini Gallardo. More than $1.8m in cash was seized and a further 1kg of methamphetamine found.
Watches, jewellery, electronics, and 48 bottles of vintage French wine valued at about $42,000 were also seized.”
“Yim was sentenced this month in the High Court at Auckland to 11 and a half years in prison for possession of a class A drug for supply.
During sentencing he was described by Justice Geoffrey Venning as being vital to the drug scheme which imported the equivalent of 30kg of pure methamphetamine with a street value of $40m.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11842563
Yim, who came to New Zealand from Hong Kong on a resident visa before gaining citizenship in 1995, has previously been convicted on three unrelated charges.
In July 2006 he was convicted at the Auckland District Court for drink-driving and on a dangerous driving charge, while in April 1997 he was convicted of shoplifting.”
Heather du Plessis-Allan occasionally surprises with a well balanced article. Here is her take on the latest developments re- the JLR affair:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12196285
Excerpt;
And that sums it up in a nutshell.
Yes Anne, HDA is right about Paula Bennett pouring fuel on the fire…To distract from what.? National leak or announce trying to control the narrative.
Of course it was a distraction from the handling of the $100,000 donation. That’s why Bridges jumped in so quickly with his “internal investigation into who was the leaker”. Anything to take the media’s attention away from the donation.
Along with Fran O”Sullivan, IMO there are bigger issues than Dowie’s text.
The Police investigation into laundering, influencing party selection processes, etc of National Party regarding possible disguising of an over cap donation ($100 000.00 with links to China.) and the assertions JLR made.
However she concludes National Party internal organisation should deal with Dowie’s text.
Good try!! But as they too are being investigated, as above, that seems an odd suggestion.
Some considerations around Digital bullying.
We need to gauge whether free speech is impinged?
Have we allowed for a suitable range of charges open to the police to use?
Will a prosecution deter similar behaviours.?
Contribution to cause to be considered?
Better test case law will eventuate?
As we agreed when the law was passed, digital bullying is dangerous.
Then the larger issue of threats to sovereignty, The Treaty Partner, and our International integrity? These are currently in official hands.
What do we mean by sovereignty? The Crown.? Our Country’s Integrity? The Treaty Partner in relation to possible bribes for access.
So yes, of much greater importance than an emotional piece of digital bullying. are these issues, and no, I do not see the National party internal review would be enough. Not nearly enough.
So I am left wondering why an experienced journalist made such a suggestion?
An internal review may be limited by frames of reference? Related areas could be ignored.?…..So I think the Police are possibly the best choice, unless there is a Public Review.
Here is the link to the Fran O’Sullivan Herald opinion piece today which you are referring to:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12196315
Thanks VV. I’m flat on my back with bed rest with the cracked socket, but I’m winning lol. Can do a few more things now I’m off that opium shite. But i do need to learn to link. Cheers..Oh and your suggested long handled brush and shovel has won high praise from “Him in doors”
So pleased to hear the brush and shovel has won high praise! LOL. Always scared when making an recommendation such as that, that it will turn out to be “a lemon”.
And pleased to they have replaced the ‘opium shite’. What are you on now?
I hesitate to ask how the cracked socket happened – ie was it already cracked before the op or did it occur during the op? If the latter, a case of medical misadventure?
An interesting court ruling on the latter just a few months ago –
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/108336590/high-court-ruling-means-acc-will-accept-more-treatment-injury-claims-lawyers.
The Fran O’Sullivan article is also interesting. Not yet ‘with it’ enough this morning to have decided my views on it, and there are quite a few new articles on the whole sad saga this morning – but at least most of them are now focusing back on the real issues of the donations, etc than the affair aspects. Will put up a few more links in the next hour or so.
VV I am on 8 panadol and 8 small codeine. which I can increase to 4 each time 120mg. On trmadol I was ill and unbalanced lol lol some would say that was a regular condition.
I see the Dr on Tuesday to decide whether to bring my x ray forward.
I was also much more with it once off the tramdol but only had it for the first two days. Panadol (paracetamol) is relative safe, and a little codeine much better than tramadol etc. I cannot even touch codeine but a little paracetamol goes a long way for me to relieve pain. Fingers crossed that they bring the x-ray forward asap.
If the crack was caused by the op, then I would look into your rights for extra help etc through ACC. If there has been no discussion of whether it was pre-existing before the op or caused by the op, personally I would be asking those questions as a first step.
No, photos confirm all was well with the bone, especially as that is my weight bearing leg. this happened day 2. I felt it. very small on the inner edge.I can’t have anti inflammatory meds.
“The Fran O’Sullivan article is also interesting.”
My take on it…
Fran confirms that the National Party is deeply rooted, but they’ll sort it out behind the curtain, thank you.
Unfortunately the cat is well and truly out of the bag now and I can’t see this being shut down easily. And talking of cats, I have a feeling that the events that precipitated the text were business related (but totally stuffed any inter-personals) and the subsequent infidelity revelations were a dead cat to divert attention from the aforementioned events. That cat might have been a bit rough and is now quite pongy and shedding it’s copious fleas.
“I have a feeling that the events that precipitated the text were business related”
By that do you mean things like the relationship between Southland District Mayor Gary Tong and, among others, Chinese multi-millionaire Zhang Yikun – the wealthy and well-connected businessman linked by Jami-Lee Ross to a $100,000 donation to Simon Bridges and the National Party – and Dowie’s connection to those relationships? And also possibly the social/promotional event that took place in Wellington the night before the text was sent allegedly from her phone?
I commented on these at 31.2.1 on the ‘Herald outs Dowie’ post here yesterday; and also about ten days ago at 4.1 on the Chinese Herald post on 15 January.
I won’t attempt to provide links to these earlier comments as attempts to do so currently go to the post only, not to the actual comment. Both posts can be found by going to “Home” and searching down. The earlier “Chinese Herald” post is now on an earlier Home page which can be accessed from the bottom of the current Home page.
You have a good nose for the scent, veutoviper.
At some points in my career, I used to get paid for it! Sigh, “those were the days my friend …” LOL.
I was more commenting on the tone of the text, it seemed more related to a business matter than something personal, but went that way fast. Your connection about the timing added to my suspicions.
As to the event / action I wouldn’t have a clue, except when a political party see’s it’s main function as fund raising things can get rather messy.
My aside “the National Party is deeply rooted” is a quote from a speech Bill English delivered after the 2002 defeat to the faithful in Gore. It seemed rather apt right now. ( after a lengthy, wooden pause he said “in it’s membership” but the first bit is what stuck)
Re your last paragraph and English’s comment – ROFL!
Interesting that you saw the tone of the text as starting initially as more related to a business matter before turning personal. Everyone sees things slightly different to each other, so respect your opinion but I certainly did not see anything business related at all.
The event in Parliament’s Banquet Hall the night before the text was sent was not a party political affair, nor a fund raising one. It was the annual “Southland Party” – a promotional evening re what is happening, available etc in Southland in terms of business, investment opportunities etc. hosted by Dowie as the local MP plus others including Mayor Gary Tong. Dowie posted photos on her Facebook account (also posted on the separate ‘Southland Party” Facebook account). These were of her and Tong in very good spirits with drinks in hand etc. Links to the FB pages and photos etc are in my earlier comments referred to above. Alcohol, parties and phones sometimes are a bad combination …
However, going back to your focus on business-related factors, I actually agree from the perspective that the real story here which is unlikely to go away soon is exactly that – ie fundraising donations, and relationships like that between Tong and Zhang and colleagues (including Dowie) in respect of Southland land, businesses etc. At least some reporters are now starting to focus on those aspects again as well as the more personal ones.
Re deeply rooted, I was rescued by my employer who arrived with a plate of canapés (well, cheese rolls, this is Gore) before I had to exhale. Bless her soul.
Re the text, sloppy language on my part. I meant the events that precipitated the relationship breakdown, which led to the text, weren’t JLR playing around with the staff, but rather JLR maybe torpedoing some deal that was going down. Which may fit with other events. Money being more important than relationships on that side, and provoking much stronger reactions.
Aaaahhh. I hear what you are implying and defer to your much more local knowledge. Kia kaha.
Great to see that our own good mickysavage has now put a separate post on the Fran O’Sullivan article and related matters, so perhaps we can continue discussion there. Yesterday’s post on the Herald outing Dowie was getting overloaded at about 200 comments so good to have somewhere else to continue the discussion. (Despite the attempts to shut the discussion down by a certain person, to whom I replied but have had no response to my reply …)
Ross? Deep South National Party exec.
No, not Ross, although I did reply to one of his comments on the Herald/Dowie post – the one at 20.3.1.1. with my reply at 20.3.1.1.3. My reply also referred him to another of mine at 31.3.1 re what Dowie had been doing the night before the text being sent to JLR, allegedly from her phone.
Ross has been here a bit lately and I wondered if the one here was the same Ross at The Daily Blog who recently promoted one of his books there. LOL
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2019/01/25/you-deserve-to-die-is-the-nicest-part-of-that-text-message/#comment-450831
[Edit – also included the link from the above to Amazon and the book supposedly written by the TDB Ross but it ended up with a full photo of the cover! So, just to give the name – “Sex, Power and Politics” by Ross Meurant. LOL]
But we are not supposed to try to identify commenters here, which is fair enough. But I googled and could not find any reference to the author Ross being resident in NZ these days, let alone down your way.
My reply which I referred to in my earlier comment is at 31.2 on the Herald/Dowie post. The examples quoted are only a few of the recent ones. What is good for the gander is good for the goose (or ‘goose’ in both cases?) etc – or, as marty mars says, I ‘mirrored’ the behaviour.
YES I noted that … Further to crack. I have a crooked pelvis, they shortened the leg during surgery..planned… but we think it is just a small crack which happened during my 2nd walk as it bedded in . Real bad luck, but as the Dr and Surgeon said “You are an original!!” I was thrilled they managed epidural xx
It seems the mating season is in full swing [pardon the pun] for National. With a so-called red-blue tilt at the Auckland Mayoralty and possibly a blue-green party in the offing led by Vernon Tava.
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/the-sunday-session/audio/vernon-tava-blue-green-party-being-considered-for-next-years-election/
No room for fresh blood though; it’s the same old names & faces from yesteryear all with their
baggagehigh public profiles. Is this because there are no young people brimming with idealism and political aspirations or because they cannot cut through the political party structures unless or until they assimilate into the ‘collective’?You’re right – the ruling collective grooms and promotes favoured new talent.
JLR was one of them until he blew his chances.
In some places they don’t even have to wear seat belts ..
https://www.nzherald.co.nz//lifestyle/news/article.cfmc_id=6&objectid=12196762&ref=clavis
“Russia, a permanent member of the security council and Maduro’s ally, said it will insist on compliance with international law if the council holds a meeting on Venezuela”. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/venezuela-crisis-latest-updates-190123205835912.html
Someone ought to call the Russian bluff – ask which section of that law they believe applies to the situation. None, as far as I’m aware! However this could be a pointer: “Russia also told the UN Security Council that the US should give a clear answer on whether Washington is willing to use military force in Venezuela”. Fair enough, eh?
“France, Germany, Spain and the UK are giving Maduro eight days to call elections, failing which they will recognise opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president, joining other nations like the United States in endorsing him.”
“”Venezuela will not allow anyone to impose on us any decision or order,” Arreaza told the UN Security Council. “We will continue following the path of our democracy.”” That fake democracy is unlikely to prevail – it opposes the will of the people. The stalinists can only hold on by starving the people and using the military against them, and the latter only if soldiers continue to obey orders…
So trumpie’s a stalinist is he frankie.
Capitalist + narcissist + hedonist only. Stalinism way too complicated for him, plus he seems to have got elected as a republican, accidentally, so all that funding of the Dems doesn’t really qualify him as leftist…
John Tamihere and Christine Fletcher. Really?
Christine staunch blue has already
been Auckland’s mayor two decades ago.
Why would she stand again after a 20 year hiatus with JT?
John Tamihere known primarily for being the brother of convicted murderer David.
And despite all the evidence against his brother
John always championed David’s innocence.
John Tamihere always looks so totally ill at ease
despite good looks ready smile and being articulate.
Very much like Winston Peters constantly repressing
his true identity for fear of upsetting the huge white vote.
It’s all about spin and image saying just enough
at the right time to appeal to enough voters.
Tamihere looks brown so may garner brown and left voters.
However Tamihere speaks white and identifies as a white
so may garner the Peters support ie whites who like the
brown who did the right thing and became a white.
It’s a game of numbers and spin.
He may well split the left vote and let a righty win.
At the end of the day an ant could be mayor of Auckland.
It’s a celebrity job that’s all.
John key any one?
A good analysis rata, possibly why so few vote as it’s so depressing.
Sadly unless someone better comes along I might be tempted to vote for them, not because I think they will improve things or that they are deserving candidates, but more because Phil Goff is more far right than the righties and after another 14.5 million on top of the hundred million extra given to America’s cup while we have record food parcels and poverty, he spent nearly a million on a secret report for the Atlantis underwater stadium that nobody in Auckland wants apart from a group of super rich developers and hangers on who will profit from it, stealing our harbour for the polluting cruise ships and spending over half our rates on Auckland transport which they inexplicably removed the 2 democratically elected councillors off to create even less accountability to name but a few of his decisions!
Hopefully a massive audit will uncover more routs so they can have a clear out of the many scams and use our rates money more effectively!
So what will Tamihere change that? He is going to be committed to the America’s Cup. It is simply not possible for any Mayor in Auckland to now have a different view. The govt is really only the entity that can deal with poverty. The govt tax take out of Auckland is more than ten times the rate take.
Tamihere will need to have a credible plan to be worth considering as the Mayor. Not just a series of over the top slogans. The one thing Goff has on his side is his professionalism.
In short to replace anyone who has been in office for only one term, it has to be shown they have obviously and seriously failed.
Breaking News: Trump is gone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjUvfZj-Fm0
Rubbish
Weren’t these the same people who said that Trump could never win?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJD4gm7ijPU
Talk about deja vu, all over again
When will we ever learn?
Don’t you people understand that the Right have no sense of humour?
When we are goofing off and making fun of them they are going for the head wound.
Why the good guys never win.
Or as Steve Bannon put it;
“Our side, we go for the head wound. Your side, you have pillow fights.”
Is Australia treating New Zealand as a bigger version of Christmas Island?
Is New Zealand seen by Australians as just an another offshore subservient dumping ground, for people the Australians no longer want, but who were moulded by growing up in Australia and fully shaped by that culture and society and are a product of it?
“Australian man to be deported to NZ, despite never having been here”
Joel Ineson and Joanne Carroll – Sunday Star Times. January 27, 2019
With this statement Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton, who has spearheaded the deportation of more than 1600 people to New Zealand, shows he is callously indifferent to any risk posed to the New Zealand community by him dumping these people here far away from family and their usuals support networks, where experts say they are more likely to reoffend.
This is obviously no concern of Peter Dutton.
Why are we meekly tolerating this?
My God, NZ truely is becoming the new Australia of dumping ground of criminals either deported here, get residency here from immigration or are created as criminals because it’s a viable alternative to working as a wage slave.
Hi Save,
I think it is a mistake to conflate voluntary immigrants who want to come here, with convicts deported here against their will.
All studies show that willing migrants (both legal and illegal), have a lesser background of offending than the general population.
Times, change Jenny and I think judging in by the rise of offending for drugs like Meth and class A drug importation, corruption, fraud and so forth by our new resident migrants, make the OZ criminals deported here, seem petty by comparison. Even worse is that type of offending creates more criminals and poverty from our own vulnerable people so that some new residents can profit even more?
Time for NZ to close all the gaps because our own people now are in food banks while they work, 20% of kids have no lunch and the dysfunction continues. Adding more people to distribute NZ taxes to and put in prison or rest homes and NZ hospitals seems to be making things worse in particular while bad government policy seem to be lowering our productivity.
Saying that, judging by the media coverage and constant faux? outrage for the British tourists who littered and stole a couple of items while here, it seems that big crimes are minimised while tiny indiscretions are huge news. Part of the distraction campaign maybe?
About time too, countries close the loop holes of new residents piggy backing off easier residency . Ak new scam is to become a Cook Island resident to get NZ residency automatically while new Kiwi residents can then shift off to OZ.
Dutton is a sphincter-faced troglodyte of a man, and the sooner he’s hurled from his ivory tower, the better.
Why are our citizenship laws so crappy?
To celebrate yesterday’s Invasion day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8LcF0kwbjE
Good read that may be hard to swallow for some.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/22/the-new-elites-phoney-crusade-to-save-the-world-without-changing-anything
Invasion Day, should also be remembered for the oppression and slavery, of the forced convicts transported to Australia.
I wonder, one day, decades from now – Will we mark the death of the last living convict forcibly exiled to New Zealand from Australia?
PartizanZ says:
“Blue-Green is the colour of the dyed Roundup the Police have sprayed on hundreds if not thousands of people’s cannabis crops …”
Yum yum. New Zealand – The Jewel of De-Nial. They could make a satirical movie about us. How about it you bluff Kiwi film-makers? Or has some Kiwi political satire been happening lately that I have missed? (And remembering David McPhail and Jon Gadsby.)
Like Duck Soup? Marx Brothers.
Isle of Dogs
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5LqFjf7xgk
The Mouse that Roared
I like this condensed quote from the book Ripping England!: Postwar British Satire… from google.
These ingenious satirists questioned the moral certainties of those often insular groups that held sway and power from the religious and political to the hidebound “preservationist’ societies.
And here is Charlie Chaplin – good words from The Great Dictator.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibVpDhW6kDQ
While the world’s back is turned.
https://twitter.com/zenatahhan/status/1089201001402388487
“Shooting protestors will lead to disinvestment.” REALLY?
RNZ National, Monday 28 January 2019, 9:50 a.m.
Kathryn Ryan’s foreign correspondents are almost invariably substandard—Jack Hitt (“U.S. Correspondent”) warbling on for ten minutes about Game of Thrones on the day that Chelsea Manning’s “trial” began; Dame Ann Leslie (“Arrrrgggh! Every year we have to listen to the militant rabble rousing of the teacher unions!”); Kate Adie and her patrician disdain; Irris Makler; Jason Morrison, Matthew Parris. The fact that Matthew Parris is the best of them shows just how dismal this segment is.
Kathryn Ryan’s “African Correspondent” this morning was a South African, Deborah Patta. She had some interesting things to say about Zimbabwe. Apparently, shooting protestors will lead to investors staying away. Is that true? I sent the perky, unquestioning host the following email….
So far, she has not deigned to reply. I note that later on this morning there will be a segment featuring Palestinian cuisine. Perhaps she’ll address my email then, but I doubt it.
Kia ora Newshub there you go duncan spraying Wai in the wind our students needed that extra money did you hear of students haveing to preform un civil task to pay rent with a unequal society te Wahine get trapped into having to proform these tasks just to get a education that should be FREE.
Banks insurance now we know whom there m8 was he would have made it easy for banks to take OUR money he was in power for nine years shonky. He would have slipped all his bent m8 in the leadership position he could teaching doctors bankers every place he could to keep power were he could m8 help m8. And in the real world most people follow the flow If a leader is leading one down the wrong path people will follow but not Eco Maori. Hence I say teachers are being led by their noses down the wrong path. I say. Our youth are our future if we don’t make higher education easier to achieve then we have to import the skills dumb way to run a Country not investing in OUR future. The one thing I agree on is the unmanaged imagration that is a very serious subject these new kiwis shape our society so it needs to be managed smarter kicks keep it smart and easy to run. We are going to have heaps of climate change refugees in the very near future. Niki the Indian cricket team will love the heat
Kia ora we need to keep a eye out on our elderly with the heat wave we are getting if one looks at other heat wave events around the world it is the elderly who are affected the most if they can’t afford to pay for air conditioning and are sitting in their house by themselves they could easily over heat and dehydrate check on thy neighbours. That is not on our Wahine who have breast cancer are not getting the treatment they need to survive as long as Wahine in Australia come on they are the carers of our tamariki get it fixed. Yes Amanda those Saudi men have their heads and minds in the wrong place I would say were there heads are but it’s not nice you can work that out for yourself. EQUALITY IS Needed.
There you go Graham money is that phenomenon hitting your hip pocket with your opinion on the heatwave hitting Aotearoa at the minute our media should be talking about climate change I no why they are not taking about climate change the oil barrons are distorting our reality and they don’t care about our tamariki future. We have to let the elderly know to be careful in this heat I know it’s hotter now that when I was in my 20,s Ka kite ano P.S ECO Maori view on reality is unbiase and free.
Goverments and farmer’s are put off OGANIC farming WHY because the Big companys monsanto dupont chemical linked to big carbon companys. the first two don’t want us to stop using there very expensive chemical when they find evidence that there chemical’s cause cancer they bury the evidence with $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
The oil barrons well one need’s to burn lot’s of ”CARBON to suck nitrogen out of the air atmosphere to make urea this is the main form of nitrogen use in farming. The big companys making urea use there $$$$$$$$$$ to suppress the truth about the positives of organic farming mean while urea is leaching into OUR Wai water AWA river’s Tangaroa oceans and poisioning them. They don’t care they can afford to pay big money for there food and water I bet they eat organic food O WHY ARE CANCER cases in the world these Rates are rising so fast Know one NO,S YEA RIGHT the wealth are selling US all Lies OUR Scientists are the truth teller not the MEDIA.
The economics of organic farming, a subfield of agricultural economics, encompasses the entire process and effects of organic farming in terms of human society, including social costs, opportunity costs, unintended consequences, information asymmetries, and economies of scale. Although the scope of economics is broad, agricultural economics tends to focus on maximizing yields and efficiency at the farm level. Economics takes an anthropocentric approach to the value of the natural world: biodiversity, for example, is considered beneficial only to the extent that it is valued by people and increases profits. Some entities such as the European Union subsidize organic farming, in large part because these countries want to account for the externalities of reduced water use, reduced water contamination, reduced soil erosion, reduced carbon emissions, increased biodiversity, and assorted other benefits that result from organic farming.[57]
Traditional organic farming is labor and knowledge-intensive whereas conventional farming is capital-intensive, requiring more energy and manufactured inputs.[86]
Organic farmers in California have cited marketing as their greatest obstacle.
Links below Ka kite ano.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_farming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvJsILNwjD0
A Eco Maori Video for the above post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YNr6lwFbsw
This is working with Papatuanuku mothernature not against her
One of Eco Maori tipuna pridited the arrivals of the Europeens he said to learn there knowledge and work with them there are a few other predictions that my old tipuna,s made . Some tangata are still upset that Ngati Porou sided with the settlors in the old days .They new that the settlors had a huge war machine in Britain that would come to Aotearoa and take all there whenua . There were other reason Ngati Porou side with the settlors to at least we are better than every other colonized tangata whenua around Papatuanuku Eco Maori is proud of what is tipuna achieved and so should all Ngati Porou descendants be proud of our tipuna
The origins of Manuel José are clouded in mystery. It is not known for certain where he came from, nor when he arrived in New Zealand. He arrived in the Waiapu area on the East Coast, probably in the late 1830s, and became known to Maori as Manuera, and to Europeans as Manuel José (or Josef), Emmanuel, or ‘The Spaniard’. It is likely that Manuel and José were his given names. His surname is unknown, and he may have suppressed it because, as one tradition suggests, he had deserted from an American whaling ship. Tradition among his descendants states that he was born in Segovia, Spain, and came to New Zealand via Peru. He is recalled as a tall, strong man with fair skin, green eyes, and long, reddish hair. His voice was loud and his gestures animated.
By the 1850s Manuel José was regarded by Maori and European alike as the leading trader in Ngati Porou territory. In 1861 he established a trading-post at Te Awanui, between Waipiro Bay and the mouth of the Waiapu River. He owned five horses and held half an acre of Ngati Porou land ‘by sufferance’, paying rent of £12 a year. An olive tree, which still stands, marks the site of his store. In 1873 he established a further trading-post at Tikapa, on the eastern bank of the Waiapu River, near Waiomatatini. He has been credited with the introduction to Waiapu of the plough, and also of the gorse bush. Link below
https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1m12/manuel-jose
“Mr. Rabbit-nose” was Thomas Atkins, many of whose descendants are to be found on the East Coast to-day. Reweti Kohere informed the writer that Atkins was known to his face by the natives as “Tame Akena” (Tommy Atkins), but, behind his back he was always referred to not as “Rabbit-nose” but as “Tame Huti,” or “Tommy the Sniffer,” a nickname which had its origin on account of his habit of twitching his nose in rabbit fashion.
When maize was first grown on Taumata-o-te-Whatiu No. 1 block, some of the crop was taken to Atkins. Kereama (one of the growers) took only a small quantity, and, as Atkins was not prepared to give him, in return, all the goods that he demanded, he helped himself to Atkins’s stock-in-trade. A chief threw a spear at Kereama, and then both fired off guns, but neither was hit. Eventually, Kereama recompensed Atkins. Hemi Tapeka (Waiapu N.L. Court minute book No. 19) told the court that the crop was grown just before Whanau-a-Apanui’s attack upon Ngati-Porou at Rangitukia and the return fight at Toko-a-Kuku (1834). Maize was grown there for two years to enable guns to be procured. Atkins was not the only pakeha buyer. link below
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-MacHist-t1-body-d16-d3.html
The people of Waiapu were greatly influenced by the Christian teachings of Taumata-a-Kura (who had been at Toka-a-kuku), and later of the CMS missionaries, who came to the East Coast in 1840. Mokena, who later became a lay synodsman in the Waiapu diocese, was responsible for constructing St John’s Church at Rangitukia. This church, capable of holding 800 people, was consecrated by Bishop G. A. Selwyn in 1856.
Mokena fostered those elements of European culture and technology which he regarded as beneficial for his tribe. Traditional expertise in cultivation and navigation was turned to advantage, and as early as 1840 his people had successful agricultural and commercial enterprises. Wheat and maize were grown on a large scale, and schooners were purchased to transport their produce to Auckland and even to Australia. Mokena saw to the purchase of a 20 ton schooner, named Mereana after his daughter. He is recorded as master of the vessel in 1852. He also negotiated with traders on behalf of his people.
In January 1862, as part of Governor George Grey’s scheme for local Maori self-government, Mokena was appointed principal assessor for the Ngati Porou runanga in the combined districts of Waiapu and Tokomaru Bay. His fellow chiefs, Iharaira Te Houkamau and Wikiriwhi Matauru, were appointed assessors at Wharekahika, and at Te Kawakawa (Te Araroa). Much of the business of the assessors, who were assisted by a European resident magistrate, concerned internal matters of law and order. These were largely dealt with by local runanga, of which the assessors themselves, because of their tribal status, were members. Grey’s system, in effect, reinforced an existing form of Maori self- link
https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1k15/kohere-mokena
the life of Rapata until the wars of the 1860s, when Ngati Porou were divided by mounting tensions. Delegates from the East Coast attended a meeting at Pawhakairo in Hawke’s Bay with Tamihana Te Rauparaha to discuss the movement for a Maori king; and in 1862 the flags of the King movement were raised at Waiomatatini by Tamatatai, a Waiapu man who had been to Waikato. In reply, Mokena Kohere raised the Queen’s flag at Rangitukia. With the onset of war in 1863 some Ngati Porou joined the King’s forces. In March 1864 a large Ngati Porou war party was prevented from entering Waikato by Te Arawa, but some East Coast warriors succeeded in reaching Waikato through Tauranga.
Warfare came to the East Coast with the arrival in 1865 of the Pai Marire emissaries Kereopa Te Rau and Patara Raukatauri. They made many converts among Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, and virtually took over Poverty Bay. Meanwhile, further north, fighting broke out within Ngati Porou. Some hapu sympathised with Pai Marire, some were divided, and others opposed the new religion. Each faction concentrated its forces in opposing pa, many of them newly built.
Rapata, a leading lay member of the Anglican diocese of Waiapu, was attending a church opening at Popoti in June 1865 when the Reverend Mohi Turei brought news that Hauhau had arrived in the Waiapu Valley and were at Pukemaire. Rapata led 40 men, mostly of Te Aowera hapu, against them. Although the Hauhau won the battles of Mangaone and Tikitiki, Rapata distinguished himself by killing a Hauhau chief in single combat at Tikitiki. After Henare Nihoniho was killed at Mangaone, Rapata became the leader of Te Aowera. link below Ka kite ano
https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1w1/wahawaha-rapata
The Ion Ages is here and now . We have thin sheets that can use be used to catch energy Tesla was on to some thing big . The fools who back a technology that is over 200 years old need to stop backing carbon and invest in the New Ion Age only fools keep back losing horses .
In a step in that direction, scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created super-thin, bendy materials that absorb wireless internet and other electromagnetic waves in the air and turn them into electricity.
The lead researcher, Tomás Palacios, said the breakthrough paved the way for energy-harvesting covers ranging from tablecloths to giant wrappers for buildings that extract energy from the environment to power sensors and other electronics. Details have been published in the journal Nature.
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“When you have one of these energy-harvesting devices you are collecting energy 24/7 and you could be storing that in a battery to use later,” Palacios said. “You could cover your desk with an electronic tablecloth and even though you’re only at the desk for so many hours a day, it would be harvesting energy the whole time.”
Palacios and his colleagues connected a bendy antenna to a flexible semiconductor layer only three atoms thick. The antenna picks up wifi and other radio-frequency signals and turns them into an alternating Ka kite ano links below
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/28/scientists-create-super-thin-sheet-could-charge-our-phones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-vons7xbdo
Kia ora Newshub It’s hot can fry a egg on a bonnet of a car could put glad wrap on it to spot ruining the paint. The roads are melting to climate change deniers please stand up. Life insurance they are leach to OUR society back in the day I new of someone who lost thousands in bullshit insurance one would think that they took a small % of one’s premium.
What do we know about the Westcoast they are carbon producers and fools and deniers of climate change time for a new council that council doesn’t care about there tamariki future. I seen that half a metre of rain in 24 hours in Queensland Australia let’s hope no lives were lost. That was a sham in Saudi Arabia Milisa what a joke. Ka kite ano
Kia ora The AM Show of course Mark does not like a capital gains tax the family homes not being tax is a good phenomenon. The tax burden needed to be lifted off the middle class most are treading water in Auckland it costs one person wages just to pay rent some people have to work 3 of those jobs that don’t guarantee a forty hour week. They can’t go on holiday and some end up at food banks.
This tax is aimed at the people that shonky gave our assets to the SHARE MARKET Mark you are a greedy fool. The reason we are taxing low income is because we don’t have a capital gains tax.If there was a capital gains tax on the family home you people would be jumping up and down about that to. I’m sure I seem two flags wavering people for the man who is the best deal maker in the world YEA RIGHT. Damien Farmers were making hay for Christmas after all they are in the best farming country in the Papatuanukue were else can one dig a garden and spend 1 hour a fortnight working it and at Christmas time harvest a bounty with no watering and no fertiliser .??? Amanda ECO Maori trys to keep that value if one going to say something bad don’t say it at all but when I see people denying our Mokopunas a future by denying climate change we’ll they get the – – – – from ECO Maori. I seen some data that said NZ has one of the highest insurers cover in the Papatuanukue??????. Taumaranui is a cool place I spent a bit of time farming there a we while ago. Tova It’s a different game now and I say the capital gains tax will get through now people change their minds Winston that is he’s looking quite sprightly lately Kia kaha.
Mark is just a greedy fool there you go crying we don’t get the old white man privileges you have all the management roles are filled by fools like you. Who keep all the best deals and jobs for fools like you. A society with equal income distribution is a safer and happier place to live raise tamariki. If human were not socialist dick we would have died out like the neanderthal like Mark and Duncan are neanderthal. 25 % is a % were the tipping point in favour of capital gains tax is not far out you guys must have rallied your poll trolls for that poll. The Old Taupo Mayor there is a lot of old Maori Mana in Taupo???????. What neanderthal business owners can’t see is the more money one gives the lower classes the more money they have to spend =more money for business it’s not Rocket Science neanderthal. There you go the insurance company /banks ripping the people off taking huge %. No wonder the banks have been sending 5 billion a year over seas I tryed to get life insurance because of the sandflys behaviour I wanted to leave something behind for the whano. It got rejected because the sandflys were going into my bank and playing silly buggers Ana to kai Ka kite ano.
What about alcohol it kills hundreds and is easy for the tamariki to get we are locking people up for weed and a drug that kills hundreds is the main causes family Violence that is a bigger problem in NZ than weed the only health alcohol has is cleaning wounds so neanderthal eat that. Ka kite ano
Fans $20 at the wha whare heaps of shade around the house mark you are full of it test have been done that proves that it’s cheaper efficient if the car is traveling to drive with the windows down and the air conditioning off in a car than having the air conditioning on and windows up but if stuck in a traffic jam windows closed air conditioning on or else you will cook I can see the needle move when I drive with air conditioning on
The truth is that the $400 a day for tree planting bull was a spin aimed at the lower classes on social security people from national poor people bashing to give national A tool to hit the Coalition govement on the HEAD with to lift nationals polls it does not matter to the neanderthal,s if they are hurting the poor people in the process. Eco Maori could see that a mile away The big forestry companys are keep all the creamy money for there m8 and pay the workers crap. The Drug testing is full of lop hole that favour alcohol and PEE . PEE is out of ones system in 12 hours alcohol one can have a drink the night before and nothing shows up weed if you had a smoke 3 days before the test fail no job. When one can work perfectly safe if weed was smoked the night before work what a sham . Because of this testing sham work place TESTING it actually pushes workers on to the drug that does not show up on these test and thats PEE
The average worker planted 600 trees a day, receiving 18 cents to 25c per tree, Geddes said.
“The highest I have paid a tree planter is 30c a tree, because of the rates we get from the forestry companies. The 50c to 60c a tree goes to the contractor.”
He said the solution to finding tree-planters was an increase in pay for everyone, and that industry wages failed to recognise the skill and work required for the job.
“In my opinion, the planter should be getting 40c to 50c a tree and the contractor more than $1 a tree. Then we would not have a problem getting planters,” Geddes said.
“It is quite a technical job and takes at least two years to get really good at it.”
He said the big forestry companies had put the screws on the industry to plant trees as cheaply as possible.
“A lot of Kiwis left the industry as it was no longer a good career option.”
Another silviculture contractor said, on average, his planters made 25c to 35c per tree, and planted anywhere from 800 to 1500 a day, depending on the conditions.
“It’s bloody hard work and even harder trying to find the right people that are willing to give it a go.” Ka kite ano PS Thanks for the truth stuff links below
Here’s why no-one wants to plant trees for $400 a day
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Aebjmgn0bw