People who have accepted climate change as fact need to stop using the word believe when talking about it . It is not a religion that needs you to believe for it to be real it is science fact .
Using the word believe means people have the room to use the word Don’t in front.
Theres alot of media enforced conditioning responsible for that and many other fact/science based issues like child poverty, housing, an underfunded health system, polluted waterways etc.
This is why Turnbull in Oz has the ABC/SBS in his murdoch sponsored gun sights. The annoying facts and science approach they want to shut down.
NBN is a debacle that’s all Malcoms own doing that he’ll not want a fact based approach over as one example. Their latest corp tax cuts another.
It’s also why he keeps pimping for national, those dead rats take awhile to digest and wupert didn’t have any media in NZ to offer up for his cause.
Tthat ‘stool pigeon for anti-climate club Turnbull’ – has just been punished for his igniorance of not accepting climate change is real and here now, – by loosing four out of five bi-election seats last night.
“Revenge is sweet”
Last night Australian Labour won four of the five bi-election seats and Bill Shorten is claiming it as a clear sign Labour will win the next General Election.
Much like the Obama administration, which paid lip service to human rights at the height of the Arab Spring, but behind the scenes gave the Egyptian military an extra $1.3 billion in military aid to the Egyptian Army. Within weeks of receiving the $1.3 billion from the US, the Egyptian military overthrew the democratically elected government and seized control, in a US backed coup.
Looks more certain that the Labor Party will win back control of the Aussie federal government next May. Would have liked to see that horrible, little reactionary John Howard’s face in Auckland last night when the news came through. Another nasty man, Peter Dutton, the Australian Immigration minister who is in a marginal seat in Qld may be soon out of a job.
Be a good one for the liberals to lose, having pushed corp tax cuts through by appeasing the racists in One nation, installed a google exec as ABC CEO and have begun the ‘it’s yesterdays model, we can’t afford the ABC today ‘ mantra in the MSM.
Rudds mining super tax may seem a long time ago but it serves as a reminder as to how long they have been knobbling the average Ozzie via corporate welfare. When they aren’t in power giving it away, they’re in opposition blocking attempts to rebalance it.
Labour will also have their appalling immigration/detention practices to deal with. Like his mate shonky, Mal’s kicked as many cans down the road as possible for someone else to deal with.
As for dutton gez he’s got plenty of mates like Chris Pyne, Michaela cash, George Brandis and remember Tony Abbotts still lurking with intent. Then there’s the christian breakaway led by Cori Bernardi after he was voted back as a liberal……my what a lovely bunch.
Well said Koff; that was a positive rtesiult for labor in Australia eh?
Rid the horrible Liberal/National/coalition Gov’t of Australia they are so bloody toxic.
Yes John Howard the “coward” is a very nasty person for sure.
Last night Australian Labour won four of the five bi-election seats and Bill Shorten is claiming it as a clear sign Labour will win the next General Election.
Dutton’s seat is next door to Longman. If the swing is similar at the general election he’s toast, as is the Coalition government which is becoming really unpopular in Queensland.
So it looks like the Guardian has given up all illusions of being a news source that reports in a fair and balanced way.
For one example they have been relentlessly attacking Corbyn on this ridiculous anti sematic angle for the past two months, only slightly easing up for a couple of days when the Israeli’s massacred over sixty unarmed protesters on the Gaza prison fence.
Of course there are no comments allowed on these stories (slurs) or on any stories that involve Gaza, Israel, Novichok, Russia the slow demise of the DNC establishment etc.
And if you do comment on any of these subjects on another story in a conversation with other commenters, they will delete your comment pretty quickly…no free speech on the Guardian…just shut up and follow the party line.
In fact The Daily Mail of all places, often has more balanced stories on some these subjects than the Guardian…that is the low level that the Guardian has sunk too.
yes wonder how long before their excellent football coverage is impacted.
They’ve outspoken contributors on the bent state of FIFA, UEFA and the run down state that grassroots football is in the UK. Not a message that’s popular among those benefiting from the current status quo.
The Guardian is a liberal establishment rag.
It engages in identitarian skirmishes , having long ago given up on the class and economic war.
Its vicious attacks on Corbyn shows its true colours.
Blow by blow tweeted report on speeches at the Canadian pair’s Melbourne event. In case you have any doubts that these are vile racists.
Trigger warning: there be endless expressions of European superiority and attacks on Aborigines, Chinese, etc and their cultures. And that’s just from Molyneux, before I even read reports on Southern’s stint.
Actually, Southern reported as lacking in charisma, and not as gross as Molyneux – probably the relatively benign and acceptable face of expressions of European ‘superiority’: attacking lefties and the media: attacks multiculturalism; praises free speech and democracy.
It predisposes then that if they come to NZ we will be entertained with a new twist on the history of the Maori race. Bring it on and see what sort of response they will get.
Since folk like them are cowards, they will be on a plane fleeing the country within hours of delivery.
Conservatives are the ones that need trigger warnings. Biggest snowflakes out there. They cry every time they see anything to do with sex on the TV or in literature.
This should be outed for the facism that it is, labelled as such and isolated with a “warning: contains facism” tag. Sheeple need warnings like on fag and medication products.
Compare this with the efforts to keep Holocaust deniers out Vs efforts to get the alt right in as that’s free speech as well isn’t it based on the alt rights definition ?
We allow the rise of facism at our own peril. The alt right is a cancer against a tolerant mutlicultural society.
Southern says women and men are not unequal, we are just different. Says feminists have made life shit for women. Says it was much better for women when they were put on pedestals and loved for the things we do well.
Hanson planning to come to Nz – So what if she does plan…or actually turn up…
The so called left is being absolutely played to perfection…the regressive tendancies are being pried out and are now exposed, by an open and public failure of coping mechanisms…
Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory, perception, and sanity.
Trying to make it about me is a diversion from a wider and very important issue. It is about power, and marginalised and demonised groups of people, where some advances have been made towards greater social and economic equity. And it’s about the attempts by some to turn back the clock and re-entrench insitutionalised racism, mysogyny, homophobia, etc.
It’s a bigger issue than any one person.
Are you trying to shutdown and silence all those who would speak out against the vileness of the hate speech of Molyneux in particular, and their even more vile followers on and off social media?
As I/S says, more speech at this time, is the way forward by those who oppose the neo-nazis.
Trigger warnings are for those who may find the content distressful. Using that to claim somehow I’ve gone off the deepend, is just diversionary.
The content of the Canadian pairs’ speeches targeted and viciously abused Aboriginal people, and immigrants, and asked for government policies to put them in their ‘inferior’ place in society.
You know the poem
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
The people organising for “Love Aotearoa, hate racism” are being led by immigrants, Māori and Pacific people.
‘Gas-lighting’…. for crying out loud Carolyn… clearly you find what others are saying as influential… I’m not concerned what I/S et al have to say…it is not relevant to how I think or feel about this…
Psychological manipulation is precisely what is going on…
The traps have been set…and are being walked into…
It is about the response, it is about the emotive reactions feeding oxyen to a manufactured fire that can’t sustain its energy levels without taking energy from elsewhere….or being handed it willingly…
So this is about you…and those who sound as though they think that confronting it head on is the appropriate approach to take….
People are free to put their energy into anything they so choose but need to realize that energy is finite and taking a ‘bombing the way to peace’ approach is unlikely to achieve genuine outcomes..
Hate – This is a word which too many people have no concept of why they should NEVER use it…and it’s being used as a counter concept…good grief that is poorly thought out…
Neo-natzi – No they aren’t
Bigots – Actors
The so called left are going to capitulate in a seething pile of regressive intolerance…becoming a parody of those very same traits they purport to stand for…
That is far more dangerous to positive future direction than anything those two Canadians ‘represent’….
OK, so we don’t give these two, or hanson, our attention.
That doesn’t mean they go away. That just means they have an unopposed opportunity to find and reinforce their support.
You want a case study of a little closed group reinforcing its exclusivity while being ignored? It’s the gamergate culture that served as an uncubating cyst for this latest neofascist bullshit.
And don’t kid yourself. These two make neofascists feel tough. That’s why “14 words” posters and leaflets are now being distributed around Dunedin. It’s no coincidence.
That link provided a semblance of reporting what they actually said, so it was helpful. The earlier one was just a bunch of kids emoting at each other, total waste of time reading it. Why do such people think that their personal inadequacies deserve more space on the internet than the actual event??
As far as the reportage goes, I didn’t see as much crap as I thought I would. Depictions of abo culture realistic? How would anyone know? If based on historical investigations, then sources must be cited to validate them. Even then, white historical reports will be suspect. Anthropologists in the 19th & early 20th centuries are likely to be unwitting victims of their innate cultural bias. That’s why leftists are prone to conflating their reports with racism.
We’d be more informed if investigations and reportage dealt with current aboriginal cultural practices. If the Canadians had reported stats of child abuse, for instance, that showed children being victimised nowadays more than in white Oz, they’d be on solid ground. Not doing so just looks like cultural bias.
As regards multiculturalism operating like a cult, that’s only true for a small portion of the populace. To claim that most leftists think like that is unfair to leftists. They didn’t actually make that claim according to the report, just implied it. Interesting that she doesn’t identify as alt-right. I get the impression that their attempt to re-balance western societies in the interests of collective sanity is sincere, but the intellectual content of the reasoning must improve to get the result they’re aiming for. Assimilation is indeed the key, and the report suggests they failed to explain the toxic effect of immigrant enclaves operating in a separatist manner and trying to promote exclusive ideologies.
He might be thick but manages to attract curious insects on his flypaper.
It sounds as if Southern is mostly the angel face to provide the glamour to balance and gildd the ole’ down-home Joe dressed in a way that real blokes can identify with.
Do you need to go and explained to people what self-seeking attention seekers are, or indeed what trolls are? If that not enough of an explanation, then point out their racist’s who cause riot’s – should fix most conversations. Why this morbid need to give them oxygen by repeating what they say, I hardly think they are worth it.
As for do nothing, in this case feeding this behaviour helps them. Can’t see how people are missing that. These really are just attention seekers of the lowest order, they love the drama.
Why give way to people who do nothing but promote division, when you could do better by organising and working with people to make a better society – which isn’t racist, chauvinist, and violent.
Sure, if there’s a controversy the self-perceived victimhood is reinforced, and these two might get a flurry of clicks from people wanting to know why people think these two are shits.
But if the only people who know about people spreading this sort of message are the willing recipients of that message, their auditoria will still be full and people might think that this is a normal part of the political spectrum.
If you say “these people are racists who cause riots” the natural response is “what do they say that’s racist”? If you don’t know what they say, your first claim looks pretty weak. But now everyone knows what they say, we can have that discussion. And when that fails (because neofascists aren’t really interested in discussion) everyone knows why they’re fighting.
Come on racists say very few new things, so that argument is silly. Even if that the case, so here me guessing that they said Aboriginals were lazy and subspecies, just like Pauline Hanson said 25 years ago. It’s the same low life crap white people keep repeating like some sort of truth.
And so organising and working with other people is pointless in your opinion then? Because fighting these people is more important, yeah, nah, sorry not buying it.
The hard right have been on this waka for a very long time, these are just the latest bunch of turds to pop up. The people who will buy this crap, are already buying this crap.
The way to fight this stuff is to offer better examples and positive models going forward, and of course humour.
Fascists have been around for a century. How much support they get is what changes.
Organising and working with people who are dogwhistlers for people who like to do torchlight parades chanting about jews replacing them is pointless. History shows us they will work with anyone to further their own ends, then put their former allies on a train when they are no longer useful.
Humour is good, very good. I definitely follow the mel brooks approach to nazis: make them a laughing stock. But when they’re on your doorstep, in your neighbourhood or town, confront them as much as you can. Offer them scorn. Because if you give them respect, you give them validation.
But yes, there is a lot of material in a canadian who wears MAGA gear and US flags cruising around Australasia in order to talk about how bad multiculturalism is.
Like your last paragraph McFlock on the Canadian’s sartorial contradictions.
I was in London when the National Front was a malicious presence in the late 70s. They had marches in areas with a lot of Afro-Caribbean people, intending to intimidate them. Away from media glare, there were bashings and violence against black people – that kind of violence hid behind the public rhetoric.
There were some smallish counter demos by anti-racist groups in those neighbourhoods.
The demos I went on, were massive ones through the centre of London, and brought together diverse groups. (wikipedia on RAR says 100,000 people at one demo)
And there were some big Rock Against Racism gigs, with performers like Elvis Costello, The Clash, X-Ray Specs, and George Michael (at a time when the Wham boys were considered to be superficial airheads.)
Ah, I see where the name “Love Aotearoa, hate racism” comes from. I see the wikipedia article says RAR was reborn in 2002 as “Love Music, hate racism”.
Music can be a great source of inspiration and, done well, can bring people together in a positive way.
Your commentCarolyn_Nth brings up my main problem with this discussion for the last couple of weeks. It’s been reactionary and negative, just like people coming from canada.
Rock against Racism is awesome, having anti-racism rallies is awesome. Feeding into the narrative that attention seeking muppets are generating, is at best a waste of energy at worst, it just replicates them.
Organising a Rock against Racism concert would be better all round. Days of negative merry-go-rounds of “oh look they said such and such”, really help no one.
Are the police really than out of control? Not in NZ, a few casual racists, but NZ police would shut-down anything queer, in a flash. Army too, all good kids, just a bit wild. Anything like this negro shit happening in NZ would be fantasy, Middle Earth maybe…
Somehow writing this shit is beerable if you’re listening to Brian Eno or something smooth.
Yeah, every time ya go to read the news, ya have open a private search window. They have thrown the informed down like porn junkies.
But if the Brits ever really looked like losing there good sense of humour, Prince Harry would step in, rest assured.
Australian news about media. Nine is the magic number there which has been enabled by long ago wiping of controls on joint ownership of different types of media. Now Fairfax has gone and that name wlll be seen no more apparently.
NZ was mentioned in a large document covering the sale/transfer in two sentences at the beginning. They are also planning to get rid of regional newspapers over there. (Let’s face it we are regional also to them.) It is expected that entertainment, gossip and candy floss stuff will be pre-eminent for 9 and no doubt politics Australian style, all bluster, venom and power-and-money first (with gossip and sensation feeding public interest and clicks!).
Here Stuff in its digital reach is going to be of interest to some other owner (probably ME) and feel fairly confident about their future.
There is talk about merger or sale or something with a private equity entity. NZ public should start investing in a financial trust of integrity that holds sufficient funds to buy up base infrastructure and business that is in danger of passing into foreign predatory hands. I know we have Kiwisaver but that has a different role.
Mediawatch also includes coverage about disagreement emotional skewing about babies and pods that the manufacturer ofthem wants to gift and showcase at the ame time. Very interesting. Today, once someone with a business or craze wants to develop it, they have the right to utilise or wipe out anything that is valued by people in the relevant area they want to utilise.
Image caption: Sir Ray Avery on Newshub Nation earlier this month, accusing Helen Clark of grandstanding Actually the ‘grandstanding’ is a pun which he might not be aware of, along with other insensitivities.
Encouraging stuff to listen to. Especially the street choir which is a bridge to the future of what many can do in their periods between unemployment instead of falling between the cracks, and they will make music.
We can take up the mouthy powers-that-be who talked up how good it would be when technology took away the boring repetitive jobs, Which of course left us with nothing but kicks in the bum for being unemployed. The Auckland Street Choir is doing something uplifting. This is the sort of activity that can truly take place after being enabled by the technology doing the grunt work. That is the way we were going to develop so let’s advance this. We can have music wherever we go from the tech-outed now unemployed. And respect these great, creative people who know what aroha is, and we can learn the meaning of the Maori word ‘awhi’.
And be able to start up small local businesses and not be smothered by big-business centred extreme health and safety barriers and middle class perceptions of ‘best practice’. Let us do what we can to get by at a reasonable standard, which is watched over and held to.
Making ice cream for instance.
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Caitlin Goodin, Lillie Cripps, Eda Ye, Victoria Roebuck and Charlotte Houten won the Excellence in Food and Beverage award at the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise regional awards.
Left to Right: Caitlin Goodin, Charlotte Houten, Victoria Roebuck, Lillie Cripps, Eda Ye (Harrison Bell absent).
Testing their wares
Caitlin Goodin, Charlotte Houten, Wallace and Eda Ye
It’s the last day of the Auckland Food Show on Sunday and a group of young college students are taking their cool food product to market. The six students, five from Westlake Girls High School on Auckland’s North Shore and one from Westlake Boys, have been making ice-cream in tubs for the past couple of years, after setting up a business as part of an extra-curricular project. It’s called Miss Tubs and the flavours they make are Jaffa Junkie, Pumpin Pineapple and the newly released Pav-lover. Miss Tubs CEO Caitlin Goodin, marketing manager Charlotte Houten and communications manager Eda Ye explain why they set it up and their plans.
Most of us live our lives without contact with the homeless and marginalised in society. We might pass each other in the street, or throw a couple of coins in the hat. But the Auckland Street Choir is that rare thing: a project where people from profoundly different worlds work together. Auckland Street Choir founder and musical director Rohan MacMahon and some of the choir’s members, including Rawiri Sears-Ngatai, come into the RNZ studio.
A wide ranging look at Syria, its internal future, and how Russia is managing the international politics (investment in Iran’s energy sector while limiting their role in Syria).
Why oh why are our heavy weight boxers such top blokes . You can be trained to perfection but if you havent got the arrogant self belief you will never beat a guy who pulled a bullet out of his own leg
“Finally, the indictment seeks the forfeiture of property involved in the criminal activity. There’s no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime. There’s no allegation that the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election result.”
So the full speech from Rod Rosenstein has this little gem or nugget in it.
I’m beginning to wonder if we all been taken for a ride whilst the GOP and trump hack and slash what is left of US social services, and plunge their economy full tilt into a war economy.
And since his statement, a woman has been charged with acting as a Russian agent and top NRA officials along with numerous political figures have been implicated, an ongoing probe into whether or not foreign monies were fed to Republican candidates via the NRA has just gotten way juicier, and tRump’s former lawyer has only just begun to sing.
She’s a Russian. So still no yanks. I’m still dubious and what your suggesting is more of the same we have had since trump was elected, lots of allegations – bugger all substance. Reading Vox on it, this is somthing that been happening for years. The sucking up to the NRA, that is.
If as previously alleged, the NRA has been used to funnel offshore money to the tRump campaign, dollars to donuts there will be American neck deep in the scheme.
I’m not going to hold my breath, still to many alligations and not enough substance. I hope it gets the whole campaign, otherwise it’s going to be pence time, and I think that will be worse.
That said, still think we being played – so more evil shenanigans comes from the GOP. Like this.
We won’t see trump resign or be impeached by this. The first requires him to have shame or honour, the second requires the same of the repugs in both houses. A Pence presidency is a very low probability.
At best he’s a one-termer and his replacement doesn’t pardon him. Then Trump is open to federal charges if they happen.
If he gets a federal pardon, New York State might have some hard questions for him.
But he could always walk away scott-free, even if everyone around him gets done for a variety of charges.
As for the GOP evildoing, I think Paul Ryan (at least him) is on record openly hoping the medicaid and federal assistance can be rolled back to pre-FDR levels. As in, literally used the New Deal as being too much big government.
They don’t want to trim the programme. They want it all repealed.
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Good evening The Am Show I’m working for my favorite charity over the last week
my condolences go out to the Aussie farmers going through drought at the minuet
The problem is the banker is your best friend but when one needs there help the most I.E the farmers going through hardship they run and hide farmers are hard workers and deserve our help when in times of extreme weather events thats bankers for you.
I see bridges try to have another kick at that old horse this morning the unemployed stats its time to talk about universal wage this way kiwis only get this I.E resident for 6 years and they could afford to work for $ 16.50 and be better off.
What no one is talking about is one of our biggest exports cash how many billions of cash is exported out of our economy because of the system we have of importing Labour just because business want there profits over whats best for Aotearoa with a unervisal wage they business get there cake and Aotearoa.
Julian Dennison brother has the correct political ambitions a young Labour member
they are intelligent moko’s.
The dentist industry needs a over haul it’s way to expensive the dentist have to much control of there market this is the only reason it cost so much for dental care in
Aotearoa at the minuet. Ka kite ano P.S Eco Maori charity is whano
Good evening Newshub There you go national and dairy dack dune thats what you do to a poison that kill’s people you don’t make it leagle to kill people you ban it and jail the suppliers ka pai Winston Peters .
It makes amazes Eco Maori we have a alcohol problem that cost us in peoples lives and heaps of resources and we go HOW DO WE FIX THIS PROBLEM .
Its quite easy no sales of alcohol after 8 pm no sales in shops that are not bottle stores and brand it with the brand it deserves as a killer of people and ignore the alcohol lobbing group.
Its the same with sugar everyone is saying we have a obesity problem people are dying from this stuff but because two main company’s control the sugar market and have the influence to lobbie for there sugar poison not to be taxed out of reach from the poor common person that’s reality money man wins.
The Auckland city mission patients have dubbled since 2008 and this is on of the reason one reason Eco Maori rains his wrath on the national party who thinks its ok to die on Aotearoa streets while you are sipping your fine wine with out blinking Capitalist that’s WHO.
That fight should have been a draw what example does boxing set for the mokopunas
that if you cheat you win Kevin don’t go talking ——- Joe get people who you can trust to manage your future and you will be fine if it was not for that head but you would have won . Ka kite ano P.S we are getting Rain Ingred it was a beautiful day today
This is the reality of what the Capitalist have dished out to Tangata Whenua
Labour has tryed to stop the facial capitalist from doing serving Tangata Whenua this ———–system ka kite ano
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Screen recording has become an essential tool for various purposes, such as creating tutorials, capturing gameplay footage, recording online meetings, or sharing information with others. Fortunately, Dell laptops offer several built-in and external options for screen recording, catering to different needs and preferences. This guide will explore various methods on ...
A cracked or damaged laptop screen can be a frustrating experience, impacting productivity and enjoyment. Fortunately, laptop screen repair is a common service offered by various repair shops and technicians. However, the cost of fixing a laptop screen can vary significantly depending on several factors. This article delves into the ...
Gaming laptops represent a significant investment for passionate gamers, offering portability and powerful performance for immersive gaming experiences. However, a common concern among potential buyers is their lifespan. Unlike desktop PCs, which allow for easier component upgrades, gaming laptops have inherent limitations due to their compact and integrated design. This ...
The annual inventory report of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions has been released, showing that gross emissions have dropped for the third year in a row, to 78.4 million tons: All-told gross emissions have decreased by over 6 million tons since the Zero Carbon Act was passed in 2019. ...
Experiencing a locked computer can be frustrating, especially when you need access to your files and applications urgently. The methods to unlock your computer will vary depending on the specific situation and the type of lock you encounter. This guide will explore various scenarios and provide step-by-step instructions on how ...
While the world has largely transitioned to digital communication, faxing still holds relevance in certain industries and situations. Fortunately, gone are the days of bulky fax machines and dedicated phone lines. Today, you can easily send and receive faxes directly from your computer, offering a convenient and efficient way to ...
In our increasingly digital world, home computers have become essential tools for work, communication, entertainment, and more. However, this increased reliance on technology also exposes us to various cyber threats. Understanding these threats and taking proactive steps to protect your home computer is crucial for safeguarding your personal information, finances, ...
In the ever-evolving world of technology, server-based computing has emerged as a cornerstone of modern digital infrastructure. This article delves into the concept of server-based computing, exploring its various forms, benefits, challenges, and its impact on the way we work and interact with technology. Understanding Server-Based Computing: At its core, ...
The absolute brass neck of this guy.We want more medical doctors, not more spin doctors, Luxon was saying a couple of weeks ago, and now we’re told the guy has seven salaried adults on TikTok duty. Sorry, doing social media. The absolute brass neck of it. The irony that the ...
Buzz from the Beehive Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones relishes spatting and eagerly takes issue with environmentalists who criticise his enthusiasm for resource development. He relishes helping the fishing industry too. And so today, while the media are making much of the latest culling in the public service to ...
Having written, taught and worked for the US government on issues involving unconventional warfare and terrorism for 30-odd years, two things irritate me the most when the subject is discussed in public. The first is the Johnny-come-lately academics-turned-media commentators who … Continue reading → ...
Eric Crampton writes – Kainga Ora is the government’s house building agency. It’s been building a lot of social housing. Kainga Ora has its own (but independent) consenting authority, Consentium. It’s a neat idea. Rather than have to deal with building consents across each different territorial authority, Kainga Ora ...
Muriel Newman writes – The Coalition Government says it is moving with speed to deliver campaign promises and reverse the damage done by Labour. One of their key commitments is to “defend the principle that New Zealanders are equal before the law.” To achieve this, they have pledged they “will not advance ...
Chris Trotter writes – The absence of anything resembling a fightback from the public servants currently losing their jobs is interesting. State-sector workers’ collective fatalism in the face of Coalition cutbacks indicates a surprisingly broad acceptance of impermanence in the workplace. Fifty years ago, lay-offs in the thousands ...
Mariupol, on the Azov Sea coast, was one of the first cities to suffer almost complete destruction after the start of the Ukraine War started in late February 2022. We remember the scenes of absolute destruction of the houses and city structures. The deaths of innocent civilians – many of ...
Lindsay Mitchell writes – Ten years ago, I wrote the following in a Listener column: Every year around one in five new-born babies will be reliant on their caregivers benefit by Christmas. This pattern has persisted from at least 1993. For Maori the number jumps to over one in three. ...
Climate change is expected to generate more and more extreme events, delivering a sort of structural shock to inflation that central banks will have to react to as if they were short-term cyclical issues. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāMy pick of the six newsey things to know from Aotearoa’s ...
It’s a simple deal. We pay taxes in order to finance the social services we want and need. The carnage now occurring across the public sector though, is breaking that contract. Over 3,000 jobs have been lost so far. Many are in crucial areas like Education where the impact of ...
Hi,A friend had their 40th over the weekend and decided to theme it after Curb Your Enthusiasm fashion icon Susie Greene. Captured in my tiny kitchen before I left the house, I ending up evoking a mix of old lesbian and Hillary Clinton — both unintentional.Me vs Hillary ClintonIf you’re ...
This is a re-post from Andrew Dessler at the Climate Brink blogIn 2023, the Earth reached temperature levels unprecedented in modern times. Given that, it’s reasonable to ask: What’s going on? There’s been lots of discussions by scientists about whether this is just the normal progression of global warming or if something ...
The schools are on holiday and the sun is shining in the seaside village and all day long I have been seeing bunches of bikes; Mums, Dads, teens and toddlers chattering, laughing, happy, having a bloody great time together. Cheers, AT, for the bits of lane you’ve added lately around the ...
Today in our National-led authoritarian nightmare: Shane Jones thinks Ministers should be above the law: New Zealand First MP Shane Jones is accusing the Waitangi Tribunal of over-stepping its mandate by subpoenaing a minister for its urgent hearing on the Oranga Tamariki claim. The tribunal is looking into the ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. ...
Citizen Science writes – Last week saw two significant developments in the debate over the treatment of trans-identifying children and young people – the release in Britain of the final report of Dr Hilary Cass’s review into gender healthcare, and here in New Zealand, the news that the ...
One night while sleeping in my bed I had a beautiful dreamThat all the people of the world got together on the same wavelengthAnd began helping one anotherNow in this dream, universal love was the theme of the dayPeace and understanding and it happened this wayAfter such an eventful day ...
This is a guest post by Oscar Simms who is a housing activist, volunteer for the Coalition for More Homes, and was the Labour Party candidate for Auckland Central at the last election. ...
Turning what Labour called the “holiday highway” into a four-lane expressway from Auckland to Whangarei could bring at least an economic benefit of nearly two billion a year for Northland each year. And it could help bring an end to poverty in one of New Zealand’s most deprived regions. The ...
Tonight’s six-stack includes: launching his substack with a bunch of his previous documentaries, including this 1992 interview with Dame Whina Cooper. and here crew give climate activists plenty to do, including this call to submit against the Fast Track Approvals bill. writes brilliantly here on his substack ...
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
You're in the mall when you hear it: some kind of popping sound in the distance, kids with fireworks, maybe. But then a moment of eerie stillness is followed by more of the fireworks sound and there’s also screaming and shrieking and now here come people running for their lives.Does ...
Karl du Fresne writes – There’s a crisis in the news media and the media are blaming it on everyone except themselves. Culpability is being deflected elsewhere – mainly to the hapless Minister of Communications, Melissa Lee, and the big social media platforms that are accused of hoovering ...
I don’t normally send out two newsletters in a day but I figured I’d say something about… the news. If two newsletters is a bit much then maybe just skip one, I don’t want to overload people. Alternatively if you’d be interested in sometimes receiving multiple, smaller updates from me, ...
Buzz from the Beehive David Seymour and Winston Peters today signalled that at least two ministers of the Crown might be in Wellington today. Seymour (as Associate Minister of Education) announced the removal of more red tape, this time to make it easier for new early learning services to be ...
Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. Our political system is suffering from the ...
David Farrar writes – The Broadcasting Standards Authority ruled: Comments by radio host Kate Hawkesby suggesting Māori and Pacific patients were being prioritised for surgery due to their ethnicity were misleading and discriminatory, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has found. It is a fact such patients are prioritised. ...
PRC and its proxies in Solomons have been preparing for these elections for a long time.A lot of money, effort and intelligence have gone into ensuring an outcome that won’t compromise Beijing’s plans. Cleo Paskall writes – On April 17th the Solomon Islands, a country of ...
Is speeding up the trip to and from Wellington airport by 12 minutes worth spending up more than $10 billion? Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The six news items that stood out to me in the last day to 8:26 am today are:The Lead: Transport Minister Simeon Brownannounced ...
You're a fraud, and you know itBut it's too good to throw it all awayAnyone would do the sameYou've got 'em goingAnd you're careful not to show itSometimes you even fool yourself a bitIt's like magicBut it's always been a smoke and mirrors gameAnyone would do the sameForty six billion ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The June general election in Mexico could mark a turning point in ensuring that the country’s climate policies better reflect the desire of its citizens to address the climate crisis, with both leading presidential candidates expressing support for renewable energy. Mexico is the ...
2024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay.Do you give up yet? It seems to ask.No? How about this? Or this?How about this?When I say 2024 I really mean the state of humanity in 2024.Saturday night, we watched Civil War because that is one terrifying cliff we've ...
Buzz from the Beehive A pet project and governmental tunnel vision jump out from the latest batch of ministerial announcements. The government is keen to assure us of its concern for the wellbeing of our pets. It will be introducing pet bonds in a change to the Residential Tenancies Act ...
A recent report generated from a Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) survey of 1,224 rangatahi Māori aged 11-12 found: Cultural connectedness was associated with fewer depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms and better quality of life. That sounds cut and dry. But further into the report the following appears: Cultural connectedness is ...
David Farrar writes – The Herald reports: From the gory details of job-cuts news, you’d think the public service was being eviscerated. While the media’s view of the cuts is incomplete, it’s also true that departments have been leaking the particulars faster than a Wellington ...
Remember the good old days, back when New Zealand had a PM who could think and speak calmly and intelligently in whole sentences without blustering? Even while Iran’s drones and missiles were still being launched, Helen Clark was live on TVNZ expertly summing up the latest crisis in the Middle ...
Costello did not pass on analysis of the benefits of the smokefree reforms to Cabinet, emphasising instead the extra tax revenues of repealing them. Photo: Hagen Hopkins, Getty Images TL;DR: The six news items that stood out to me at 7:26 am today are:The Lead: Casey Costello never passed on ...
True loveYou're the one I'm dreaming ofYour heart fits me like a gloveAnd I'm gonna be true blueBaby, I love youI’ve written about the job cuts in our news media last week. The impact on individuals, and the loss to Aotearoa of voices covering our news from different angles.That by ...
While commentators, including former Prime Minister Helen Clark, are noting a subtle shift in New Zealand’s foreign policy, which now places more emphasis on the United States, many have missed a key element of the shift. What National said before the election is not what the government is doing now. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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People who have accepted climate change as fact need to stop using the word believe when talking about it . It is not a religion that needs you to believe for it to be real it is science fact .
Using the word believe means people have the room to use the word Don’t in front.
Theres alot of media enforced conditioning responsible for that and many other fact/science based issues like child poverty, housing, an underfunded health system, polluted waterways etc.
This is why Turnbull in Oz has the ABC/SBS in his murdoch sponsored gun sights. The annoying facts and science approach they want to shut down.
NBN is a debacle that’s all Malcoms own doing that he’ll not want a fact based approach over as one example. Their latest corp tax cuts another.
It’s also why he keeps pimping for national, those dead rats take awhile to digest and wupert didn’t have any media in NZ to offer up for his cause.
Yes TC and bwaghorn;
Tthat ‘stool pigeon for anti-climate club Turnbull’ – has just been punished for his igniorance of not accepting climate change is real and here now, – by loosing four out of five bi-election seats last night.
“Revenge is sweet”
Last night Australian Labour won four of the five bi-election seats and Bill Shorten is claiming it as a clear sign Labour will win the next General Election.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-28/by-election-justin-keay-wins-braddon-antony-green-says/10047350
Long way to go with Murdoch backing Turnbull who btw just removed Hawke/Keatings cross media ownership rules.
By bye fairfax…merging with a celebrity sports tv operation under private equity.
The correct term is (AGW). Anthropocenic Global Warming, BTW.
Climate change, is one of the results.
…guess this shows there are still plently of realists amoung the left.
Fascism in Eygpt
The US writes the cheques while the Al Sisi regime takes a page out of the Al Assad playbook.
“U.S. lifts restrictions on $195 million in military aid for Egypt: official”
Reuters – Wednesday, July 23, 2018
“Egyptian court sentences 75 to death for their involvement in a 2013 sit-in”
The Associated Press – Saturday, July 28, 2018
Much like the Obama administration, which paid lip service to human rights at the height of the Arab Spring, but behind the scenes gave the Egyptian military an extra $1.3 billion in military aid to the Egyptian Army. Within weeks of receiving the $1.3 billion from the US, the Egyptian military overthrew the democratically elected government and seized control, in a US backed coup.
Whatever happened to the real hard men, like Pope Paul II.
He would get this shit sorted in a jiffy.
Good results for the ALP across the ditch in 4 by-elections yesterday.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-28/by-election-justin-keay-wins-braddon-antony-green-says/10047350?section=politics
Looks more certain that the Labor Party will win back control of the Aussie federal government next May. Would have liked to see that horrible, little reactionary John Howard’s face in Auckland last night when the news came through. Another nasty man, Peter Dutton, the Australian Immigration minister who is in a marginal seat in Qld may be soon out of a job.
Yeah, but what a lot of simple minded bullshit about nothing..
Sometimes Aussies appear to be as brainless as a Trump.
‘Sometimes Aussies appear to be as brainless as a Trump’ yeh and definitely just as racist.
Yeah an interesting that aussies voted recently the second most happiest population !! No brain …no pain ?
Be a good one for the liberals to lose, having pushed corp tax cuts through by appeasing the racists in One nation, installed a google exec as ABC CEO and have begun the ‘it’s yesterdays model, we can’t afford the ABC today ‘ mantra in the MSM.
Rudds mining super tax may seem a long time ago but it serves as a reminder as to how long they have been knobbling the average Ozzie via corporate welfare. When they aren’t in power giving it away, they’re in opposition blocking attempts to rebalance it.
Labour will also have their appalling immigration/detention practices to deal with. Like his mate shonky, Mal’s kicked as many cans down the road as possible for someone else to deal with.
As for dutton gez he’s got plenty of mates like Chris Pyne, Michaela cash, George Brandis and remember Tony Abbotts still lurking with intent. Then there’s the christian breakaway led by Cori Bernardi after he was voted back as a liberal……my what a lovely bunch.
Well said Koff; that was a positive rtesiult for labor in Australia eh?
Rid the horrible Liberal/National/coalition Gov’t of Australia they are so bloody toxic.
Yes John Howard the “coward” is a very nasty person for sure.
Last night Australian Labour won four of the five bi-election seats and Bill Shorten is claiming it as a clear sign Labour will win the next General Election.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-28/by-election-justin-keay-wins-braddon-antony-green-says/10047350
Dutton’s seat is next door to Longman. If the swing is similar at the general election he’s toast, as is the Coalition government which is becoming really unpopular in Queensland.
If anyone deserves to be thrown under the bus, it’s Dutton. He’s a graceless, vindictive troglodyte with all the empathy of a landmine.
So it looks like the Guardian has given up all illusions of being a news source that reports in a fair and balanced way.
For one example they have been relentlessly attacking Corbyn on this ridiculous anti sematic angle for the past two months, only slightly easing up for a couple of days when the Israeli’s massacred over sixty unarmed protesters on the Gaza prison fence.
Of course there are no comments allowed on these stories (slurs) or on any stories that involve Gaza, Israel, Novichok, Russia the slow demise of the DNC establishment etc.
And if you do comment on any of these subjects on another story in a conversation with other commenters, they will delete your comment pretty quickly…no free speech on the Guardian…just shut up and follow the party line.
In fact The Daily Mail of all places, often has more balanced stories on some these subjects than the Guardian…that is the low level that the Guardian has sunk too.
yes wonder how long before their excellent football coverage is impacted.
They’ve outspoken contributors on the bent state of FIFA, UEFA and the run down state that grassroots football is in the UK. Not a message that’s popular among those benefiting from the current status quo.
The Guardian is a liberal establishment rag.
It engages in identitarian skirmishes , having long ago given up on the class and economic war.
Its vicious attacks on Corbyn shows its true colours.
Blow by blow tweeted report on speeches at the Canadian pair’s Melbourne event. In case you have any doubts that these are vile racists.
Trigger warning: there be endless expressions of European superiority and attacks on Aborigines, Chinese, etc and their cultures. And that’s just from Molyneux, before I even read reports on Southern’s stint.
Actually, Southern reported as lacking in charisma, and not as gross as Molyneux – probably the relatively benign and acceptable face of expressions of European ‘superiority’: attacking lefties and the media: attacks multiculturalism; praises free speech and democracy.
https://twitter.com/SimonCopland/status/1023146540649537536
It predisposes then that if they come to NZ we will be entertained with a new twist on the history of the Maori race. Bring it on and see what sort of response they will get.
Since folk like them are cowards, they will be on a plane fleeing the country within hours of delivery.
‘Trigger Warning’
To be ‘triggered’… Being ‘triggered’…
Given the free publicity offored by this blog and other media…anyone ‘triggered’ is still feeding the problem…
‘Triggered’
Oh my
.
Conservatives are the ones that need trigger warnings. Biggest snowflakes out there. They cry every time they see anything to do with sex on the TV or in literature.
LOL, they must be bawling their eyes out each time they connect to the internet then …
This should be outed for the facism that it is, labelled as such and isolated with a “warning: contains facism” tag. Sheeple need warnings like on fag and medication products.
Compare this with the efforts to keep Holocaust deniers out Vs efforts to get the alt right in as that’s free speech as well isn’t it based on the alt rights definition ?
We allow the rise of facism at our own peril. The alt right is a cancer against a tolerant mutlicultural society.
Oh. And Southern is anti-feminist:
https://twitter.com/SimonCopland/status/1023179452837023744
Yes, Aunt Lydia.
One Two, it’s gone beyond that now. Internationally, the neo-nazis are on a roll. It is something that the Trump presidency has green-lighted.
Pauline Hanson is now planning to come to NZ.
Initially, my thoughts were to not give these people oxygen. Now, we need to publicly stand up and support a better view of society and inclusiveness.
Hanson planning to come to Nz – So what if she does plan…or actually turn up…
The so called left is being absolutely played to perfection…the regressive tendancies are being pried out and are now exposed, by an open and public failure of coping mechanisms…
Tc says sheeple need warnings like on fag packets
It’s all dumbing down, and regressive…
Have you been Triggered, CN ?
You are mis-using the term trigger warning, one two.
Those who have least to fear are complacent about the rise in neo-nazis: i.e. white, middle and upper class, heterosexual males.
There is a group now forming (“Love Aotearoa, hate racism”)
If you think standing by and saying nothing while this rolls on internationally, you have not been paying attention.
As Idiot/Savant says:
How have I ‘misused’ , CN ?
Those
Least to fear
Complacent
White
Middle Class
Upper Class
Heterosexual
Males
Standing by
Saying nothing
Not paying attention
Love
Hate
So very misguided …playing directly into the agenda…
So very regressive…
You’re one of the more considered posters on this site over time…but recently your comments have indicated distress…
Sincerely, I hope you’re ok…
You’re first instinct was and still is, appropriate…
Gas lighting isn’t helpful. See the first sentence in the definition.
Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory, perception, and sanity.
Trying to make it about me is a diversion from a wider and very important issue. It is about power, and marginalised and demonised groups of people, where some advances have been made towards greater social and economic equity. And it’s about the attempts by some to turn back the clock and re-entrench insitutionalised racism, mysogyny, homophobia, etc.
It’s a bigger issue than any one person.
Are you trying to shutdown and silence all those who would speak out against the vileness of the hate speech of Molyneux in particular, and their even more vile followers on and off social media?
As I/S says, more speech at this time, is the way forward by those who oppose the neo-nazis.
Trigger warnings are for those who may find the content distressful. Using that to claim somehow I’ve gone off the deepend, is just diversionary.
The content of the Canadian pairs’ speeches targeted and viciously abused Aboriginal people, and immigrants, and asked for government policies to put them in their ‘inferior’ place in society.
You know the poem
The people organising for “Love Aotearoa, hate racism” are being led by immigrants, Māori and Pacific people.
And Morgan Godfery has been quite vocal on twitter this morning, in response to the report of the Canadian pairs Melbourne appearance.
A big anti-racist demo in Auckland, away from the bigots’ venue, and in other NZ cities, would also be a great way to stand up for a better way.
‘Gas-lighting’…. for crying out loud Carolyn… clearly you find what others are saying as influential… I’m not concerned what I/S et al have to say…it is not relevant to how I think or feel about this…
Psychological manipulation is precisely what is going on…
The traps have been set…and are being walked into…
It is about the response, it is about the emotive reactions feeding oxyen to a manufactured fire that can’t sustain its energy levels without taking energy from elsewhere….or being handed it willingly…
So this is about you…and those who sound as though they think that confronting it head on is the appropriate approach to take….
People are free to put their energy into anything they so choose but need to realize that energy is finite and taking a ‘bombing the way to peace’ approach is unlikely to achieve genuine outcomes..
Hate – This is a word which too many people have no concept of why they should NEVER use it…and it’s being used as a counter concept…good grief that is poorly thought out…
Neo-natzi – No they aren’t
Bigots – Actors
The so called left are going to capitulate in a seething pile of regressive intolerance…becoming a parody of those very same traits they purport to stand for…
That is far more dangerous to positive future direction than anything those two Canadians ‘represent’….
It is unsurpising to witness…
OK, so we don’t give these two, or hanson, our attention.
That doesn’t mean they go away. That just means they have an unopposed opportunity to find and reinforce their support.
You want a case study of a little closed group reinforcing its exclusivity while being ignored? It’s the gamergate culture that served as an uncubating cyst for this latest neofascist bullshit.
And don’t kid yourself. These two make neofascists feel tough. That’s why “14 words” posters and leaflets are now being distributed around Dunedin. It’s no coincidence.
A group called “…Hate Racism?” Countering hate with hate? How does that work? Guess the name could attract good funding though.
Southern carries on about freedom of speech but wants gay pride parades banned.
She would put every single LGBT person in concentration camps.
I need a fucking bath after reading that.
But anyhoo, unrolled.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1023146540649537536.html
That link provided a semblance of reporting what they actually said, so it was helpful. The earlier one was just a bunch of kids emoting at each other, total waste of time reading it. Why do such people think that their personal inadequacies deserve more space on the internet than the actual event??
As far as the reportage goes, I didn’t see as much crap as I thought I would. Depictions of abo culture realistic? How would anyone know? If based on historical investigations, then sources must be cited to validate them. Even then, white historical reports will be suspect. Anthropologists in the 19th & early 20th centuries are likely to be unwitting victims of their innate cultural bias. That’s why leftists are prone to conflating their reports with racism.
We’d be more informed if investigations and reportage dealt with current aboriginal cultural practices. If the Canadians had reported stats of child abuse, for instance, that showed children being victimised nowadays more than in white Oz, they’d be on solid ground. Not doing so just looks like cultural bias.
As regards multiculturalism operating like a cult, that’s only true for a small portion of the populace. To claim that most leftists think like that is unfair to leftists. They didn’t actually make that claim according to the report, just implied it. Interesting that she doesn’t identify as alt-right. I get the impression that their attempt to re-balance western societies in the interests of collective sanity is sincere, but the intellectual content of the reasoning must improve to get the result they’re aiming for. Assimilation is indeed the key, and the report suggests they failed to explain the toxic effect of immigrant enclaves operating in a separatist manner and trying to promote exclusive ideologies.
Ta joe – Molyneux is your classic very thick pseudo everything. His thoughts on aboriginal culture show how thick he is and really he is ludicrous.
He might be thick but manages to attract curious insects on his flypaper.
It sounds as if Southern is mostly the angel face to provide the glamour to balance and gildd the ole’ down-home Joe dressed in a way that real blokes can identify with.
Glamour or sex appeal? She’s oft called a “poster girl”, which has a denigrating sound to it when taken literally …
Which virus does that link give? … have they also make modifactions on the malwear softwear..?
Why are you giving them oxygen Carolyn_Nth?
Just wondering how you think that tactic helps?
I found it useful for a start – next time someone asks “but what are they actually saying that’s so bad”, there’s a nice recent blow-by-blow.
Why do you think that doing nothing will help?
Do you need to go and explained to people what self-seeking attention seekers are, or indeed what trolls are? If that not enough of an explanation, then point out their racist’s who cause riot’s – should fix most conversations. Why this morbid need to give them oxygen by repeating what they say, I hardly think they are worth it.
As for do nothing, in this case feeding this behaviour helps them. Can’t see how people are missing that. These really are just attention seekers of the lowest order, they love the drama.
Why give way to people who do nothing but promote division, when you could do better by organising and working with people to make a better society – which isn’t racist, chauvinist, and violent.
Because it’s not just about these two jerks.
Sure, if there’s a controversy the self-perceived victimhood is reinforced, and these two might get a flurry of clicks from people wanting to know why people think these two are shits.
But if the only people who know about people spreading this sort of message are the willing recipients of that message, their auditoria will still be full and people might think that this is a normal part of the political spectrum.
If you say “these people are racists who cause riots” the natural response is “what do they say that’s racist”? If you don’t know what they say, your first claim looks pretty weak. But now everyone knows what they say, we can have that discussion. And when that fails (because neofascists aren’t really interested in discussion) everyone knows why they’re fighting.
Good reply – reasoned like their polemic won’t be.
Come on racists say very few new things, so that argument is silly. Even if that the case, so here me guessing that they said Aboriginals were lazy and subspecies, just like Pauline Hanson said 25 years ago. It’s the same low life crap white people keep repeating like some sort of truth.
And so organising and working with other people is pointless in your opinion then? Because fighting these people is more important, yeah, nah, sorry not buying it.
The hard right have been on this waka for a very long time, these are just the latest bunch of turds to pop up. The people who will buy this crap, are already buying this crap.
The way to fight this stuff is to offer better examples and positive models going forward, and of course humour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBC-9k3y1ew&ab_channel=ComedyCentral
Fascists have been around for a century. How much support they get is what changes.
Organising and working with people who are dogwhistlers for people who like to do torchlight parades chanting about jews replacing them is pointless. History shows us they will work with anyone to further their own ends, then put their former allies on a train when they are no longer useful.
Humour is good, very good. I definitely follow the mel brooks approach to nazis: make them a laughing stock. But when they’re on your doorstep, in your neighbourhood or town, confront them as much as you can. Offer them scorn. Because if you give them respect, you give them validation.
But yes, there is a lot of material in a canadian who wears MAGA gear and US flags cruising around Australasia in order to talk about how bad multiculturalism is.
Like your last paragraph McFlock on the Canadian’s sartorial contradictions.
I was in London when the National Front was a malicious presence in the late 70s. They had marches in areas with a lot of Afro-Caribbean people, intending to intimidate them. Away from media glare, there were bashings and violence against black people – that kind of violence hid behind the public rhetoric.
There were some smallish counter demos by anti-racist groups in those neighbourhoods.
The demos I went on, were massive ones through the centre of London, and brought together diverse groups. (wikipedia on RAR says 100,000 people at one demo)
And there were some big Rock Against Racism gigs, with performers like Elvis Costello, The Clash, X-Ray Specs, and George Michael (at a time when the Wham boys were considered to be superficial airheads.)
Ah, I see where the name “Love Aotearoa, hate racism” comes from. I see the wikipedia article says RAR was reborn in 2002 as “Love Music, hate racism”.
Music can be a great source of inspiration and, done well, can bring people together in a positive way.
Your commentCarolyn_Nth brings up my main problem with this discussion for the last couple of weeks. It’s been reactionary and negative, just like people coming from canada.
Rock against Racism is awesome, having anti-racism rallies is awesome. Feeding into the narrative that attention seeking muppets are generating, is at best a waste of energy at worst, it just replicates them.
Organising a Rock against Racism concert would be better all round. Days of negative merry-go-rounds of “oh look they said such and such”, really help no one.
Bugger the haters.
Are the police really than out of control? Not in NZ, a few casual racists, but NZ police would shut-down anything queer, in a flash. Army too, all good kids, just a bit wild. Anything like this negro shit happening in NZ would be fantasy, Middle Earth maybe…
Somehow writing this shit is beerable if you’re listening to Brian Eno or something smooth.
Where did I say anything to work with them? Sheesh McFlock that is really dishonest argument from you, a total misrepresentation of what I said.
I specifically said why bother with them, then went on to say organise with people for a better society.
Oh sorry.I took the other people question to be the folk we were discussing rather than a complete change in topic.
I can work with a third party while opposing fascists. It’s not my full day.
Yeah, every time ya go to read the news, ya have open a private search window. They have thrown the informed down like porn junkies.
But if the Brits ever really looked like losing there good sense of humour, Prince Harry would step in, rest assured.
Australian news about media. Nine is the magic number there which has been enabled by long ago wiping of controls on joint ownership of different types of media. Now Fairfax has gone and that name wlll be seen no more apparently.
NZ was mentioned in a large document covering the sale/transfer in two sentences at the beginning. They are also planning to get rid of regional newspapers over there. (Let’s face it we are regional also to them.) It is expected that entertainment, gossip and candy floss stuff will be pre-eminent for 9 and no doubt politics Australian style, all bluster, venom and power-and-money first (with gossip and sensation feeding public interest and clicks!).
Here Stuff in its digital reach is going to be of interest to some other owner (probably ME) and feel fairly confident about their future.
There is talk about merger or sale or something with a private equity entity. NZ public should start investing in a financial trust of integrity that holds sufficient funds to buy up base infrastructure and business that is in danger of passing into foreign predatory hands. I know we have Kiwisaver but that has a different role.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018655484/takeover-terminates-trans-tasman-media-titan
Mediawatch 30.30 mins
Mediawatch also includes coverage about disagreement emotional skewing about babies and pods that the manufacturer ofthem wants to gift and showcase at the ame time. Very interesting. Today, once someone with a business or craze wants to develop it, they have the right to utilise or wipe out anything that is valued by people in the relevant area they want to utilise.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018654971/grandstanding-on-the-big-gig-stadium-stoush
Image caption: Sir Ray Avery on Newshub Nation earlier this month, accusing Helen Clark of grandstanding Actually the ‘grandstanding’ is a pun which he might not be aware of, along with other insensitivities.
(These days people get knighthoods for being thrusting, determined capitalists, and when you see Sir or Dame you know there is an 80/20 chance that they are people to regard warily.)
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018655684/mediawatch-for-29-july-2018
Radionz on Wallace this morning – good stuff.
Encouraging stuff to listen to. Especially the street choir which is a bridge to the future of what many can do in their periods between unemployment instead of falling between the cracks, and they will make music.
We can take up the mouthy powers-that-be who talked up how good it would be when technology took away the boring repetitive jobs, Which of course left us with nothing but kicks in the bum for being unemployed. The Auckland Street Choir is doing something uplifting. This is the sort of activity that can truly take place after being enabled by the technology doing the grunt work. That is the way we were going to develop so let’s advance this. We can have music wherever we go from the tech-outed now unemployed. And respect these great, creative people who know what aroha is, and we can learn the meaning of the Maori word ‘awhi’.
And be able to start up small local businesses and not be smothered by big-business centred extreme health and safety barriers and middle class perceptions of ‘best practice’. Let us do what we can to get by at a reasonable standard, which is watched over and held to.
Making ice cream for instance.
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https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018655692/miss-tubs-school-students-kiwiana-ice-cream-business
11:04 Miss Tubs: school students’ Kiwiana ice-cream business
Caitlin Goodin, Charlotte Houten and Eda Ye in RNZ.
Caitlin Goodin, Lillie Cripps, Eda Ye, Victoria Roebuck and Charlotte Houten won the Excellence in Food and Beverage award at the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise regional awards.
Pumpin Pineapple
Jaffa Junkie
Pav Lover
Tasting success
Left to Right: Caitlin Goodin, Charlotte Houten, Victoria Roebuck, Lillie Cripps, Eda Ye (Harrison Bell absent).
Testing their wares
Caitlin Goodin, Charlotte Houten, Wallace and Eda Ye
It’s the last day of the Auckland Food Show on Sunday and a group of young college students are taking their cool food product to market. The six students, five from Westlake Girls High School on Auckland’s North Shore and one from Westlake Boys, have been making ice-cream in tubs for the past couple of years, after setting up a business as part of an extra-curricular project. It’s called Miss Tubs and the flavours they make are Jaffa Junkie, Pumpin Pineapple and the newly released Pav-lover. Miss Tubs CEO Caitlin Goodin, marketing manager Charlotte Houten and communications manager Eda Ye explain why they set it up and their plans.
11:26 Rohan MacMahon: how the Auckland street choir changes lives
Auckland Street Choir with founder and music director Rohan MacMahon front right.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018655693/rohan-macmahon-how-the-auckland-street-choir-changes-lives
Auckland Street Choir with founder and music director Rohan MacMahon front right. Photo: RNZ
Most of us live our lives without contact with the homeless and marginalised in society. We might pass each other in the street, or throw a couple of coins in the hat. But the Auckland Street Choir is that rare thing: a project where people from profoundly different worlds work together. Auckland Street Choir founder and musical director Rohan MacMahon and some of the choir’s members, including Rawiri Sears-Ngatai, come into the RNZ studio.
Some sweet music farcapella? from the people over the seas.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018655693/rohan-macmahon-how-the-auckland-street-choir-changes-lives
Some sweet music arcapella? from the people from over the seas.
Nordic polska
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ghuDUs0DvY
An idiot once said:
“In the west we’re all about altering nature, because nature sucks.”
A wide ranging look at Syria, its internal future, and how Russia is managing the international politics (investment in Iran’s energy sector while limiting their role in Syria).
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/white-helmets-syria-civil-war-rebels-army-assad-trump-putin-a8465066.html
Why oh why are our heavy weight boxers such top blokes . You can be trained to perfection but if you havent got the arrogant self belief you will never beat a guy who pulled a bullet out of his own leg
“Finally, the indictment seeks the forfeiture of property involved in the criminal activity. There’s no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime. There’s no allegation that the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election result.”
So the full speech from Rod Rosenstein has this little gem or nugget in it.
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/13/17568838/mueller-rosenstein-russian-hacking-election-dnc-transcript-indictment-announcement
I’m beginning to wonder if we all been taken for a ride whilst the GOP and trump hack and slash what is left of US social services, and plunge their economy full tilt into a war economy.
It’s the lies that hurt.
And since his statement, a woman has been charged with acting as a Russian agent and top NRA officials along with numerous political figures have been implicated, an ongoing probe into whether or not foreign monies were fed to Republican candidates via the NRA has just gotten way juicier, and tRump’s former lawyer has only just begun to sing.
She’s a Russian. So still no yanks. I’m still dubious and what your suggesting is more of the same we have had since trump was elected, lots of allegations – bugger all substance. Reading Vox on it, this is somthing that been happening for years. The sucking up to the NRA, that is.
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/19/17581354/maria-butina-russia-nra-trump
If as previously alleged, the NRA has been used to funnel offshore money to the tRump campaign, dollars to donuts there will be American neck deep in the scheme.
I’m not going to hold my breath, still to many alligations and not enough substance. I hope it gets the whole campaign, otherwise it’s going to be pence time, and I think that will be worse.
That said, still think we being played – so more evil shenanigans comes from the GOP. Like this.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/apr/05/ron-wyden/do-republicans-congress-want-take-away-social-secu/
http://www.thestand.org/2018/06/gop-targets-social-security-medicaid-for-cuts/
We won’t see trump resign or be impeached by this. The first requires him to have shame or honour, the second requires the same of the repugs in both houses. A Pence presidency is a very low probability.
At best he’s a one-termer and his replacement doesn’t pardon him. Then Trump is open to federal charges if they happen.
If he gets a federal pardon, New York State might have some hard questions for him.
But he could always walk away scott-free, even if everyone around him gets done for a variety of charges.
I hope you’re right about pence, he gives me nightmares. Especially after his visit to the middle east, and then that speech in Jerusalem.
Burrr.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/full-text-u-s-vice-president-mike-pence-s-speech-at-the-knesset-1.5751264
The phrase “American Taliban” comes to mind
As for the GOP evildoing, I think Paul Ryan (at least him) is on record openly hoping the medicaid and federal assistance can be rolled back to pre-FDR levels. As in, literally used the New Deal as being too much big government.
They don’t want to trim the programme. They want it all repealed.
Yeap, trump is a distraction.
For some truly nasty crap from these people.
A big shout out to every parent I’ve ever met!
She’s good – she’s really good!
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/watch-jacinda-ardern-rocks-baby-neve-she-gives-update-ahead-return-parliament?auto=5815181839001
At 1.06 a woman hands a migrant a what looks like a bottle of water, and he legs it into the dunes. Decency and humanity live.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjIQug-XoAEDnyN.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjIXwH8X0AEXl9W.jpg
“I’m pleased to inform members and supporters that there has been a significantly
positive response to my offer to support a political party that continues to promote
the policy manifesto that The Opportunities Party assembled to contest the 2017
election.
The Board, therefore, has decided to put on hold its plan to deregister TOP as a
political party to give us time to evaluate the responses and specifically to
evaluate how TOP may evolve as a political party.
In order that TOP is given the best chance of continuing, it’s imperative that we
successfully hold our AGM on Monday July 30th. To this end the Board has changed the
quorum rule for the AGM from a minimum of 50 members to 20 members and if this is
not achieved the quorum for the subsequent adjourned meeting from 25 members to 10
members.
We expect to be in a position to announce the results of our deliberations over the
future of the Party during August.”
Good evening The Am Show I’m working for my favorite charity over the last week
my condolences go out to the Aussie farmers going through drought at the minuet
The problem is the banker is your best friend but when one needs there help the most I.E the farmers going through hardship they run and hide farmers are hard workers and deserve our help when in times of extreme weather events thats bankers for you.
I see bridges try to have another kick at that old horse this morning the unemployed stats its time to talk about universal wage this way kiwis only get this I.E resident for 6 years and they could afford to work for $ 16.50 and be better off.
What no one is talking about is one of our biggest exports cash how many billions of cash is exported out of our economy because of the system we have of importing Labour just because business want there profits over whats best for Aotearoa with a unervisal wage they business get there cake and Aotearoa.
Julian Dennison brother has the correct political ambitions a young Labour member
they are intelligent moko’s.
The dentist industry needs a over haul it’s way to expensive the dentist have to much control of there market this is the only reason it cost so much for dental care in
Aotearoa at the minuet. Ka kite ano P.S Eco Maori charity is whano
Good evening Newshub There you go national and dairy dack dune thats what you do to a poison that kill’s people you don’t make it leagle to kill people you ban it and jail the suppliers ka pai Winston Peters .
It makes amazes Eco Maori we have a alcohol problem that cost us in peoples lives and heaps of resources and we go HOW DO WE FIX THIS PROBLEM .
Its quite easy no sales of alcohol after 8 pm no sales in shops that are not bottle stores and brand it with the brand it deserves as a killer of people and ignore the alcohol lobbing group.
Its the same with sugar everyone is saying we have a obesity problem people are dying from this stuff but because two main company’s control the sugar market and have the influence to lobbie for there sugar poison not to be taxed out of reach from the poor common person that’s reality money man wins.
The Auckland city mission patients have dubbled since 2008 and this is on of the reason one reason Eco Maori rains his wrath on the national party who thinks its ok to die on Aotearoa streets while you are sipping your fine wine with out blinking Capitalist that’s WHO.
That fight should have been a draw what example does boxing set for the mokopunas
that if you cheat you win Kevin don’t go talking ——- Joe get people who you can trust to manage your future and you will be fine if it was not for that head but you would have won . Ka kite ano P.S we are getting Rain Ingred it was a beautiful day today
This is the reality of what the Capitalist have dished out to Tangata Whenua
Labour has tryed to stop the facial capitalist from doing serving Tangata Whenua this ———–system ka kite ano
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/07/29/169208/deafening-silence-on-racial-wealth-gap
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/29/socialism-no-longer-dirty-word-us-scary-for-some these people —————-this show’s Eco Maori that to much money ———your reality SO MAXIMUM EARNING will cure this illness Ana to kai I agree with Draco T basted words