Blueprint for National’s version of legalising medical marijuana? If you can’t fight it, then just take over it, and make people growing their own at a fraction of a price illegal. In the US, this has the bonus of keeping the private prisons full. It’s a win-win for corporates
Time to panic? Among the climate change effects we have to look forward to are massive “methane burps” (50 gigaton release of methane all at once) in the Bering sea that would within minutes speed up the process to the point that the human race will be instantly be in survival mode. “That would literally alter life on the planet in a matter of minutes.”
That methane burp wouldn’t have an immediate deadly effect on large numbers of people in NZ and Australia. First they are totally insensitive to any changes, and second it takes at least a decade and possibly two for world information to penetrate their consciousness and reach the insulated cool brains, in a state of hypothermia, of the power-complacent and friends.
Wow! first time in quite a while we don’t have any reckons or “huge” announcements for aspirational kinda like stuff which might be policy one day if Nats can actually get around to writing the “actual” policy thing out in ink or something, to distribute to fans and the general public……………. phew!
In a nutshell Nats aren’t front page today, WTF.
Simeon quick, get out the batphone and make an announcement…………. anything.
We are free to believe what we like but to use this school as leading the National Party Conference makes me a bit uneasy. Conservative Simon?
Fara Hancock at Newsroom wrote this:
The student from Mt Hobson Middle School said Darwinism was taught as an unproven theory and students were shown a video purporting to show science had found proof of God’s existence.
His impression was the school backed the concept of creationism “100 percent”.
The science teacher was Rachel O’Connor, sister of National Party leader Simon Bridges and wife of National MP Simon O’Connor.
A fundamentalist Christian friend of mine once commented to me – when reflecting on the morals and behaviours of some who would describe themsleves as Christian – that scientists such as quantum physicists had a better chance of finding God.
Yesterday after discovering that some of simons immediate family were teachers; I thought, did they all get around the dinner table and slam labours suggestion for smaller class sizes? I mean surely his family must have given their opinion to him before on education, surely.
After reading your post Ian, I’m like hmmmmm… what do they teach?
Working from home today so will listen to the audio of the clip Rosemary kindly posted.
I wonder which brand of god they are focusing on….. it’s all in the words, they have the power, just like spells, that’s why it’s called spelling 🙂
Poor kids don’t need to learn about Darwin. All they need to learn is a trade, how to budget, vote National and support the All Blacks. And do the occasional haka.
I stopped reading the article after this point:
“The mother of the student is a trained secondary teacher. She said she was shocked the video had been shown in a science class.”
I mean seriously, if qualified teachers were so opposed to Charter Schools, why send heir own kids there?
She sent her kid to a private school, not a charter school. But the charter schools run by the same organisation as the private school were billed as teaching the same curriculum.
Sorted? You can keep reading now that your distraction has been addressed?
Both of them, but apparently from different backgrounds. IIRC Simon Bridges’ father (and father of Rachel, Simon O’Connor’s wife) is a Baptist minister.
OTOH Simon O’Connor attended a Catholic seminary for some years and completed his studies to become a priest but was never ordained.
He married Rachel in late 2016. She is ten years older than both Simons, and was a divorcee with children when she married O’Connor. John and Bronagh Key attended their wedding about a week after Key stepped down as PM.
O’Connor made a bit of a name for himself two weeks before last year’s Sept 2017 general election when he posted a claim on Facebook that “It’s strange that Jacinda is so concerned about youth suicide but is happy to encourage the suicide of the elderly, disabled, and sick. Perhaps she just values one group more than the others? Just saying.”
Ardern’s response is in the above link. Bill English then stepped in and gave O’Connor the ‘slap over the wrist with a wet bus ticket’ treatment with a text telling him that it was wrong to link suicide and euthanasia.
So it appears that there is some pretty strong conservatism from both ends of the religious spectrum within some members at least of the Bridges’ whanau. (There may be some very opposite views as well that we don’t about.)
Oh, how interesting. So Slater has contacted Newsroom claiming they did a hit job on Ray Avery.
The blogger, Cameron Slater, has evidently been fed information on Avery’s email dealings with Newsroom over the past month – not from us – and the blogger promises “articles” which will show Newsroom has “decided to listen to claims of various low-rent ratbags that cast aspersions on a New Zealander of the Year and a person with an exemplary record of public service”.
The two-page email names a variety of people Slater thinks talked to Newsroom, including some unknown to us, and proceeds to make claims about their personal lives and accuse them of an assortment of behaviours which, even if true, would have had no bearing on the reports on Avery.
Slater seems excited to have been given a photograph of Avery with the former Prime Minister Helen Clark, a critic of Avery’s proposed fundraising concert at Eden Park which has since been cancelled. He claims she told a radio host she had never met Avery but his smoking gun photo is “photographic evidence that she has indeed met the man”.
Information to Slater is like milky sweet coffee, something mud coloured that you stir a lot. This coffee has a very peculiar design made by the barista – the shape of a hungry rat that looks as if it has no bounds on what it will gnaw.
I’m no great fan of Tim Murphy. He does seem to target selected individuals, e.g. Winston Peters. But Slater seems to be judging Murphy via his own Dirty Politics, pay for hits MO.
The ineptness of Slater’s accusations, and the descent into social media trivia, had me laughing out loud. e.g.
Slater complains that he sought comment from Clark over the bombshell photograph, in which both she and Avery look about 20 years younger, but her only response was to block him on Twitter.
Sam Schdeva @ Newsroom on Peter’s time as PM:
“It’s no surprise then that Peters’ last press conference in charge ended on a similarly random note, albeit after provocation from a reporter who asked whether whisky should be sipped or swilled – a reference to National Party president Peter Goodfellow saying his party had “dodged a whisky-swilling, cigarette-smoking, double-breasted and irrational bullet”.
“Have you asked him whether he’s going to repeat his comments again, because I wish he had the courage to do that and let’s see whether he does or not, but what is not going to happen here is someone like him thinks he’s going to have a free hit at Winston Peters.”
There’s been rumblings in the past about some of Goodfellow’s activities – including from Slater – but no-one has come out into the open with them. However there was something not very savoury occuring when he and his former wife were in the throes of a bitter separation. Goodfellow’s legal team managed to secure a permanent ban on any public revelations concerning the case. The high court judge who handed out the ban was a close family friend.
Is Labour going to clean up immigration loopholes, exploitation, and trafficking? aka workers promised x amount of money to work in NZ and then find they only make $10 a week or are actually in debt after expenses is trafficking. Nobody should be in this country as exploitable workers by third party recruiters like Allied Work Force and then be left without work or effectively working for $10 p/w after expenses.
Apparently some of their construction workers have not worked for up to 3 months but are taking up housing in the Auckland and should not be holding work visas at all unless there is 40+ hours work guaranteed straight away and immigration seems to be turning a blind eye to this type of exploitation by 3rd parties.
Imagine the profit margins if AWF can afford to pay people 30 hours to just sit around.
Also shows how the so called ‘skills shortages’ in construction are not as they seem. If there was such demand why are these workers sitting on the bench and doing nothing or just have 30 hours work in Auckland?
The demand for construction workers from overseas is a scam to drive wages and conditions by exploiting people new to this country and don’t know the laws or making them pay for the privilege of working here and add merging upon margin to labour so the end workers ends up on next to nothing and the cost of building skyrockets.
Then when the work is not up to scratch as construction has become about profiteering not quality jobs for decent wages, it is the new owners and council ratepayers that pick up the repair bills.
Imagine the profit margins if AWF can afford to pay people 30 hours to just sit around.
They only get paid when they work. They don’t get paid for sitting around but they need to be sitting around in case some work becomes available for them.
It’s a highly inefficient business that wastes far more time than it saves and leaves the taxpayers to pick up the costs in AS, UE and other indirect subsidies.
Yeah, it’s an often arising problem and we’ve had crappy solutions forever. Old depression era movies portraying watersiders hoping to get picked for a day’s work.
If I’ve won the contract to update the fireproofing in a 15 story building I need 20 men for 2 days to get the old ceilings out. Then I don’t need them again.
I wonder if we’d be better off nurturing groups of 4 or 5 of these ‘on call guys’ into their own small businesses. Then there is room for these people who are currently essentially ‘on call muscle’ to expand on their skills. Painting a house in 2 days pays much better than pulling the cladding off 10 leaky flats for 2 days.
Put this AWL corporate model out to pasture, cut them out of the deal. Nicely, current AWL customers will look for the best job for the lowest price and if that means ringing several of the diary holding wives of the guys in 4-5 man small businesses rather than the AWL sales rep, hey, market forces.
They’re making inroads, but SLOWLY! And part of the problem with all of this is of ‘our’ (INZ/MoBIE’s) own making. And of course, (as even dear wee Matty once said), some in the state apparatus – i.e. our corporaised public service, are more interested in preserving the status quo and their future ambitions than they are acting as ethical and independent servers of the public.
The actual record of failures is there for all to see, just as it is in places like MPI or Housing Corp and elsewhere. The sad thing is that the Joe Average public servant has to bear the brunt of managerial muppetry.
Still, there’s more than one way to skin a cat (“going forward”, “on the back of” a problem that’s clearly continuing – as a matter of fact, ekshully, to coin a phrase, so-to-speak). The coalition are slowly waking up – gradually learning that the bullshit artist, the supposedly ‘good bloke’, learned the art of bullshitting and spin, and lying straight-faced a long time ago
Radical restructures with mass ‘position disestablishments’ are out, and probably not really that necessary
Nothing to stop transferring functions elsewhere, bit by bit, peeling layers of the onion off, and getting the road blocking gatekeepers to have to re-apply.
Actually, I think what amuses me most (funny if it wasn’t so sad), is the latest from the pompous Michael Woodhouse- sounding off like a more ‘cultured’ version of Peter Dutton
Trump administration has deported about 400 children apparently on their own, not with their parents, and the States has no knowledge of where they are and how they are. Some could be as young as five years. There is some sort of deadline to improve things, but unlikely to meet obligations. Hideous humans, can’t we ever rise to our potential for good?
Report from USA Radionz about 9.55 am
Re trump… Grey, the latest episode (3) of Sacha Baron Cohens, ‘Who Is America?’ is rather telling about the type of people who vote for such things. Will try find a clip, super funny and very disturbing how brainwashed some people are over there.
1/ We obtained police reports and call logs from more than two-thirds of the shelters housing immigrant children. In the following tweets, we’ll share some of the most disturbing records we found. https://t.co/dDaZdF2Jpx— ProPublica (@ProPublica) July 27, 2018
Is this the safety standards of public buses we should have in NZ? The bus involved in the accident and death of a child was imported from Japan in 2004 and failed its Certificate of Fitness nine times over the 14 years.
Also apparently some of the buses used are in such disrepair the seats are broken and the handles falling off.
“Sophie Leather was a passenger on a different bus travelling between National Park and Whakapapa on Saturday.
She purchased tickets from the kiosk at National Park Village, which only sells tickets for RAL’s shuttle service.
She was so concerned about the state of it, she took photos.
“The chair in front of me was fully broken, not held up by wires and I was trying to hold that up with my feet.
“A lady went to go brace herself and her child and just going around a small corner the entire handle came off the chair and so we were pretty horrified at that to be honest and all started talking about how dangerous it was.”
The visible safety issues made her question whether other buses operating in the same area were in a similar condition.”
Buses not uo to standard, road steep not up to standard. A spokesperson might have said – We’re making good money, don’t stress, she’ll be right, nothing bad has ever happened yet etc The she’ll be right mentality, don’t fuss, stop criticising, that’s the NZ way. Not obvious law breaking, but sneaky slackness abiout standards, everybody does it.
She was so concerned about the state of it, she took photos.
“The chair in front of me was fully broken, not held up by wires and I was trying to hold that up with my feet.
“A lady went to go brace herself and her child and just going around a small corner the entire handle came off the chair and so we were pretty horrified at that to be honest and all started talking about how dangerous it was.”
The visible safety issues made her question whether other buses operating in the same area were in a similar condition.”
How is this shit on our roads and endangering the people on the bus and the other people on the roads?
Coach companies that aren’t having their hand held by direct subsidies struggle to turn a profit. The inevitable happens, they choose between buying new tyres or paying the ACC levy, corners get cut.
I think they should be trading the buses in for a fleet of electric bicycles that can pull a child pod. We need to start exploiting unique points of difference on the international tourism stage.
Families going up our mountains on electric bikes = the best advertising of all: Word of Mouth. Millions of amazing snapshots of our vistas posted to Facebook and Twitter accounts all over the world.
Our most attractive unique attraction is of course Maori. I think they should own tourism in our country, our primary greeters and hosts. Flying Dreamliners, guiding pony treks through battle sites, running resorts that market golfing weekends in Shanghai. The Chinese aren’t just buying cars at 1 a minute, check out golf club set sales. It’s cheaper to fly to NZ for a week than play 3 x 18 hole rounds in a Chinese city.
Lets get savvy with selling NZ to the world, try harder at living up to the hype, head for Pure on as many tangents as we can. It’s getting scarcer. We can be a world oasis if we wish.
So yeah, scrap the dinosaur buses. They bite and nobody’s making decent coin out of them.
International Tourist dollars are tasty. They empty fat wallets, money that wasn’t circulating here before their visit, pay GST for services they mostly carry insurance cover for and/or don’t require. Drive on a few of our roads, flush a few toilets then head off home. Nice.
I wonder how close to recharged again an electric bike would be after coming back down a mountain? Would just need a top-up and recharging downhill = brakes not getting hot and regulated descent speed. It would be all recharged again before the next bike mountaineer had signed the ‘If I’m stupid it’s entirely my problem.’ form.
Dave – have you forgotten the snow? Car-owners were putting on chains to avoid going by bus today. I know most bikes have bicycle chains, but I have never heard of snow chains for bike tyres. Just asking, since you seem so keen.
Hi Vino, these tyres seem to handle snow ok but they’d be dicey on ice. There are electric bike tyres available with metal studs in them like the Scandinavians use on cars for their winters, they bite into the ice. I can’t see the point in a tourist going up a mountain by any means during a snowfall. The view is the same at the bottom as the top.
Was on a double decker bus in Auckland that was newish, but looked like it had been made by the toxic Gujarat’s ship-breaking yards of metal waste. Window was already leaking, it smelt of e waste, and had a live bird stuck in the seats. It was for children charters.
NZ is going to the bottom for standards in many directions. Part of it is this idea you take the lowest tender with the lowers standards and cross your fingers it won’t kill anybody. Then all the other companies down grade standards to compete.
Look at this situation , in spite of having dangerous electrical standards for vulnerable people they have not stopped his other corporations doing other work for housing corp after an initial stand down… worth the risk maybe?
That is showing bad contractors that poor standards is ok and they will continue to be used after being prosecuted for allowing dangerous work!
This truck driver just killed someone after pleading guilty to a number of charges relating to falsifying statements in a logbook, exceeding more than 13 hours in a work day and failing to have more than 10 hours continuous rest.
He had two previous convictions for logbook offences and failing to take the required breaks.
In the quest for lower and lower wages, more hours of people having to work, unqualified workers doing work being signed off by others and lower standards people are being killed…
there needs to be a rethink back to quality and fairness in the workforce in this country and employers need to be made more accountable and not keep putting everything on the little guy or bad quality and making all these people “subcontractors” and “dependant or independent contractors’ so you have a plethora of offerings breaking the rules to get more money often just to survive.
Bullying threatening truck drivers are now threatening local residents in our rural areas in Gisborne now.
See this action of truck drivers thretening locals over using a rural road not fit for logging trucks so the police now have to control the truck drivers so we are reaching a very low standard of driver quality in NZ sadly
To make the issue more real I attended a greypower meeting several weeks ago and elder ladies were teling me that several of their members were also almost shunned of the highways way trucks forcing them to drive over 100kms and tailgeted them until they swerved off the road before being shunned off the road by the trucks.
Some government agency needs to control these bad drivers of heavy trucks now.
Even Ken Shirley of the “RTF” Road Transport Forum” needs to step into tjhos issues as he contriols all these ‘cowboy truck drivers’. https://www.rtfnz.co.nz/
Staff on Gisborne road cordons after Tolaga Bay storm were physically threatened by log truck drivers
Last updated 11:17, July 30 2018
MARTY SHARPE/STUFF
Aftermath of Tolaga Bay storm
Staff manning cordons on roads following the Tolaga Bay storm were verbally abused and physically threatened by logging truck drivers.
I’ve recently got me and wag junior into skiing (been twice) I thought about using the buses but after a bit of thought decided clapped out heaps driven by your average Joe wasn’t something I was keen on for going up a mountain rd . The rd is in very good condition .
I wonder if Time Garner is going to savage John Key for wanting to replace all New Zealand flags, with the same venom he attacked Lucy Lawless for saying she thought it would be all right if someone burnt one.
nah you’re pretending that if it was a while ago it doesn’t count as hypocrisy.
If a flag is replaced and the old flag is burnt, would Garner be outraged? That’s a trick question: the answer depends on “replaced on whose initiative” and “burnt by whom”.
Well maybe I missed something but I don’t see where John Key said he was going to burn, or destroy in general, the NZ flag so the two situations aren’t the same
They’re both saying that the flag does not represent the ideals the national myth projects upon it.
That what the flag does represent should be discarded alongside the flag.
One’s a bit more dramatic than the other, but they both have substantially the same message. People burning the US or NZ flag aren’t criticising the good things about either nation. The act of flag burning isn’t against the concept of freedom, or national independence, or humanitarian ideals.
Flag burning is almost invariably a protest against the reality of the activities of a state, a practical illustration that the concepts represented by that flag are no longer in existence and the flag is now meaningless. A referendum is just a bureaucratic assessment of the same thing.
Department of Conservation trying to ensure that NZs can get into parts of the country swamped by tourists and trying lower costs for us to assist. Not fair says some loudmouth NZt who lives in Australia (and not been allowed to have Australian citizenship?). Now he doesn’t care about NZ, thinks like an Australian, he is angry that his wife was charged more than him for going into a Nat Park and hut.
Incidentally it is not unknown for NZ in Oz to come back and try and gain advantage of their citizenship – for hospital costs for instance. It isn’t all being deported back here because of a whim of an Oz functionary.
Wikileaks saying they “may have set up a historic shift. The uniting of UK + Sweden+US together with Iran, China and Russia against the UN Human rights system. Leading to its eventual demise. +Saudi, Turkey.”
i>Comvita, the NZX-listed manuka honey company, declined to comment on whether it is interested in making a bid for honey company Manuka Health New Zealand which has reportedly been put up for sale by its Australian owner Pacific Equity Partners.
(Another prime NZ business owned by oiverseas interests. We can never get ahead when important businesses are not majorly owned by NZ interests and returning money as profit to the credit side of the nation’s bank ledger.) We need to put funds in to investment company. Once we had a few, they could be used as leverage to be able to afford more.
People like Graeme Hunt have been able to become world famous in NZ – a joint entity run proplerly and scrutinised closely by fundholders could surely utilise the same methods as used by others.)
We can never get ahead when important businesses are not majorly owned by NZ interests and returning money as profit to the credit side of the nation’s bank ledger.
Foreign ownership isn’t about us getting ahead but about foreign rich people getting richer.
Ownership of businesses itself is about a few people being able to bludge off as many people as possible. It prevents anybody but the owners getting ahead.
DT
Even if all that were completely true Draco it still would be good to have small nz owned and staffed viable small businesses remaining so. I go for practicality that is good over theoretical and purist every time.
Oh, it would definitely be better for NZ if all businesses in NZ remained owned in NZ but it would still, inevitably, end up with just a few owning everything and the collapse of both society and the economy. It’d just take longer.
Stuff.co.nz reporter Joanne Carroll publishes an extensive report on the threat to the coal mining industry on the West Coast. Carroll concentrates on how the Coal miners themselves perceive this threat.
However, by going to great pains to avoid the elephant in the room, Carrol’s investigation which could have been a good nitty gritty report into the miners’ concerns, just isn’t.
Without one single mention of the words ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ or ‘CO2 pollution’ in the whole report, this surely must rank as the most ignorant investigations into the threat to coal mining, and coal miners jobs on the West Coast ever written.
Where does the blame for this shoddy, half baked, piece of journalism lie?
Personally I think it must be the fault of the reporter who never raised the question.
I mean how patronising of the miners, not asking them their opinion on climate change and the threat it posed to their industry?
Did Carroll think that they could not give a rational adult response?
Or was Carroll indulging in self censorship because she knew this line of investigation would not be welcome?
Someone urgently needs to send a better reporter down there.
Someone with empathy, but also someone with enough respect for people not to patronise West Coasters by not asking them the hard questions.
West Coast miners fear their way of life is under threat
Should have asked the coal miners about climate change and their industries threat to life on earth and thus why they expect we should give a fuck about their way of life.
Be careful what bow you draw here Cinny how far have you gone to redress climate change verses the average person in the third world re your carbon footprint or is it about what every one else should do from a virtue signalling perspective that makes you feel better
Very difficult Cinny
I have heard the coal mining wages and the money side must dominate even after the deaths in the Pike River mine.
They are dying of black lung from coal in Appalachia. The machines used allow a huge increase in mining of 400% or something, but it also produces finer dust that is killing faster.
I have just been listening on line to Vice – Why the asbestos industry…
The Russian town of Asbest? that is built on mining asbestos and workers love it – they don’t talk about the badness of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-NyvLsNlEI
It is killing and sickening whole families there. We now know in the west it can be passed on to the families through washing the clothes used in mining, having them around. Whole families will show up as terminal cases from it in USA, Russia, also India and China that use the Russian asbestos, which is the main supply. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3piCUPIkc
Poor poor them and all us humans. I wonder what the Amish health rate is. hey have been able to limit the desire for modernisation. Perhaps they can conserve what is good in simple living and commdunity without being too patriarchal and oppressive.
First of all, no one is talking about getting rid of mining on the west coast. New mines will still be allowed on iwi and private land. You just won’t be able to mine on DoC land. Also, existing mines will still be able to continue on DoC land until they are exhausted. The government is not trying to steal their livelihoods.
Quite frankly, there are people all over the world who would give anything to live in a place like the West Coast with all it’s forests and mountains, and the coasters want overseas corporations to come in and dig it all up so they can have a few minimum wage jobs. They really don’t have an appreciation of how lucky they are.
Talley’s has purchased Solid Energy’s West Coast operations. I would imagine they they will pursue a massive reduction in the wages and conditions of the mining staff similar to what has happened at AFFCO. The Coasters should be worrying about that more than an effort to preserve the Coast’s natural heritage from the ravagesnof capitalist developement.
However you’d still need a job to pay the mortgage so Its all well and good to have the forests and mountains on your back door step but the locals still need jobs to pay the bills and to keep young people around otherwise the West Coast will become just like the East Coast, except with more rain
Apropos of nothing in particular, it may be of interest to some people here or elsewhere such as organisers of other events this Friday night, that one of the online sellers of tickets to the Southern/Molyneux love feast in Auckland on Friday night have now indicated that the venue is in “Auckland 1010”.
Thanks. that may explain why the “Love Aotearoa, Hate Racism” protest organisers think it will be possible to walk to the Canadian pair’s event from Aotea Square.
I wondered what would happen if the venue turned out to be many Kms from Aotea Square, as the rally organisers are planning to go to the venue from Aotea Square.
Re the above, the following report back from someone who attended the Sydney love feast last Saturday is now up on the Herald site.
I originally read it on an Australian site and found it enlightening and fairly neutral (not over the top for or against) and put some things into perspective for me. As it says, when boiled down, who is this 23 year old?
It takes years of study to fully understand Islam, political philosophy, feminism and immigration. Yet somehow, a 23-year old college dropout seems to have figured them all out?
Lauren is entitled to her opinions, but to pretend she’s some kind of intellectual authority is ridiculous. She might not claim to be an expert, but she is certainly treated like one. I hope her audience doesn’t blindly accept everything she says.
Her critiques of multiculturalism were interesting and not completely outrageous. But for Lauren to be treated like an expert by more than her own fans, she first must understand the arts of expertise: nuance, balance and compromise.
Lauren spares no time for discussing the ugly side of Western civilisation, or the beautiful side of multiculturalism. Everything is either completely bad, or completely good.
The followers of this online right-wing movement have an astounding level of certainty in their ideology. Certainty is comforting for people who desperately want to understand the world.
Like her radical left-wing enemies, Lauren understands half the story of whatever she talks about (Islam, feminism, multiculturalism), and thinks it’s the whole story.
Nevertheless, Lauren represents a large number of Australians who feel they have no voice. There was a genuine feeling of persecution emanating from her audience. …”
It goes on to include an interesting comparison of Southern’s views vs those of Richard Spencer – and contends that they are not the same. (Damn it. It is hard to cut without losing the context, so here is most of it.)
She did manage to convince me about one thing: the Australian media is wrong to describe Lauren as “alt-right” — a mistake I myself have made.
Lauren has some very controversial opinions and she has engaged in some very provocative antics. But she simply doesn’t meet the criteria of alt-right. Associating Lauren with the alt-right makes a good headline, but it’s just not true.
The alt-right is a white nationalist movement with links to Neo-Nazism. The term “alt-right” was coined by a man named Richard Spencer, who is considered the movement’s leader.
Spencer supports the creation of a country exclusively for white people. He’s opposed to interracial relationships. And he supports abortion rights, partly because of their capacity to reduce the African population.
To lump Lauren in with Spencer is lazy and uncharitable. Whereas Spencer believes different races can’t coexist, Lauren believes different cultures can’t coexist. Spencer takes pride in the white race; Lauren takes pride in Western culture.
You might disagree with both of them. It doesn’t change the fact that they’re different and that one is clearly worse than the other. Race-based pride is one of history’s ugliest forces.
If you care about defeating the alt-right, don’t use the label as a cudgel to describe every right-winger on the internet. We should reserve the label for whom it actually applies. …”
As with his report oN Southern, the author of that op ed, Luke Kinsella, presents as providing an “objective” report on Jordan Peterson, who also questions terms like “white privilege”, and has also been associated with the alt-right – pro individualism, anti-feminism, ant-LGBT, and someone whose views get an alt-right following.
Peterson, like Southern, is also not directly or explicitly alt-right, but appeals to young men who lean alt-right. So both are very good poster people for the alt-right.
Like his report on Southern, Kinsella’s report on his reading of Peterson, is pretty antiseptic. It ignores the in depth critiques that have been provided of Peterson’s work and utterings.
For Kinsella, Jordon Peterson is to be highly commended for the way it focuses young men like himself, on the positive value of a certain kind of individualistic “self help”.
Kinsella’s op ed on Southern is very curious in that, while it mentions Molyneux also talked at the Sydney event, he does not report on anything Molyneux said. And that is the context in whuch Southern is doing her speaking tour. She is the PR poster, and more acceptable face of the event.
Molyneux says overtly racist, and-Aborigine, anti-black things. In that context, and for their audience and alt-right followers, Southern’s focus on “Western culture” and “multiculturalism” becomes a dog whistle for “white supremacy” and racist attacks on “non-western cultures”.
I don’t know what Southern’s underlying motives and views are, but she is contributing to a racist and toxicly masculinist movement.
Thanks Carolyn. I did not really notice the writer’s name and also read the article in the middle of the night – but did notice that he never mentions Molyneux.
You have made some good points re Kinsella and his background etc which I was not aware of. And I will follow up on looking at his other writings eg on Jordan Peterson.
As you point out Southern is the pretty face etc vs Molyneux and has to be seen in that light. I certainly agree that she is contributing to a racist and toxic masculinist movement.
Nevertheless, I also believe that the points made about her age, lack of experience and expertise etc are valid points on which to access her credibility – or rather lack of it.
Yes, veuto. The point about Southern’s lack of expertise is important. Otherwise, the article doesn’t say anything more about what Southern says than in the tweeted report of the Canadians’ Melbourne event.
And the tweeted report also showed how toxic Molyneux’s views are.
I read an interesting article a while back on Peterson, basically arguing that the real danger of that guy is that he does actually help some people, but this help is intertwined with his right wing politics. A bit like how David Irving’s legitimately good work on the Third Reich is also intertwined with his holocaust denialism. For years people argued that one was legitimate because the other was so thorough.
So one trouble with Peterson is that criticising his politics is often related to criticising the books that got some lazy twenty-something off his arse and into tertiary education, or helpd deal with their depression.
Another is that Peterson is a good and often respectful debater, not like the trolls here. So if you miss a beat, he’ll make a polite point, and then it’ll be posted by a fanboi as “Peterson SLAMS libtard!”
That’s an interesting take on Peterson, and an important point about how some young men some help with depression and inaction – but with the wider consequences you mention.
I do think there is a crisis in masculinity that the alt-right is responding to. However, they are doing it in a largely socially regressive way.
The last bit is interesting, but I think ignores two key pieces of context. Firstly, her “it’s ok to be white” tshirt – that’s not about culture. Secondly, she’s part of a double act, and the tweeting of their event the other day clearly places him in the alt-right area.
Now, they’re both after clicks, but one’s mutt and the other is Jeff. Molyneaux panders to the full alt-right, Southern dogwhistles at a high enough pitch that she can argue she’s not that bad. But they’re on the same team.
The audience for Lauren in /australia were at least able to go and listen to her. Some of the most despised people she talks about are on Manus or christmas Island or are dead. She is complaining from an easy chair in comparison with them.
Hamid Khazaei, who was 24, died when his life support was switched off at a Brisbane Hospital in September 2014, twelve days after he had gone to a clinic at Australia’s asylum seeker detention centre with a simple infection in his leg.
In a 131-page report, the Queensland Coroner, Terry Ryan, identified several systemic flaws in the healthcare provided for those detained by Canberra on remote islands in the Pacific.
Among the flaws was the fact the clinic at Manus, an equatorial island in the north of PNG, did not have the antibiotics needed to treat tropical infections, and a series of delays in transferring patients who need hospital care off the island.
No wonder the ratepayers can’t afford proper sewerage anymore, and are consenting construction that is unsafe like Bella Vista!
Instead the councils are so busy doing PPP’s and becoming developers with the risk that involves with ratepayers money! Absolutely disgusting – should go out for ratepayer votes to approve or be banned by government!
“Tauranga City Council’s vote to partner with development company Willis Bond & Co to build a $62 million pair of civic buildings and an international brand hotel in the CBD scraped through 6-5 behind closed doors last month.”
They’ll be crying in a downturn, with climate change influences and if the costs rise or if they do a Bella Vista and fuck it up as they have already done!
The central government enabled local bodies to get ambitious with powers of general competence.
Third Labour Government of New Zealand – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Labour_Government_of_New_Zealand
The Third Labour Government of New Zealand was the government of New Zealand from 1972 ….. Local authorities were authorised, under the Local Government Act of 1974, “to provide housing loans and subdivide council-owned land for …
And I’ll throw in a free inflation calculator FYI seeing it was there.
Inflation calculator – Reserve Bank of New Zealand https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/monetary-policy/inflation-calculator
Jul 1, 2018 – Want to know how much a house worth $50,000 in 1973 is worth in today’s money when adjusted for inflation? Or what a loaf of bread worth …
Meanwhile down at the ‘National Party circus’ this was written about their weekend junket of hollow talking heads meeting.
Gordon Campbell summed up the weekend Natiional Party Confrerence perpectly about their stupid policies annouced Sunday, as they tripped over again when Bridges attempted to attack Winston again and looked as silly as even as his verbal attack of Winston just bounced off and never made any impact at all.
Quote Gordon Campbell; – “Yet in line with the old timey nature of the National Party conference the public would be well advised to recall the old cliché…. about those who cannot remember the past, risk being condemned to repeat it. If the weekend’s conference told us anything, it is that this country can’t afford to put this lot back behind the wheel.”
In the meantime, Parakai/Kaipatiki oldies facing eviction from plush campground.
” “The last meeting they told us we had six months to move out, take our caravans and leave this place how it was when we first moved in.”
Roy Ayers, 88, who had lived at the park for four years, said he didn’t know if he could find a new home by January.
“I’d have to sell my caravan and all my belongings, but I doubt it would be easy to find a home fit for a pensioner at this time.”
The close-knit residents help each other out with cooking and keep an eye on each other, residents said.
Allen, 73, who had lived at the site for 17 years, said he was at a complete loss of his options.”
This is pretty shit, IMHO. Homelessness and poverty at near record highs and an Auckland Council/Iwi cooperative are going to put elderly caravan dwellers out on the street to make way for more lucre rich tourists.
….there’s no reason why the restoration and development of the reserve and campground cannot go on around these old people. FFS, just decree no new residents and inform the existing ones that there will be some disruption while work goes on. Heavens….some of them might be happy to plant a few trees or make morning tea for volunteer workers. Some of them look like they’ll be shuffling off soon anyway.
But hang on a minute….that might not go down too well with the mooted ‘private investors’. They might stipulate vacant possession.
This is really shit. Can’t say that too many times. Any chance they’ll reconsider? That the Parakai/Helensville community will rise up to defend these people?
Rosemary Mc
Something similar going on here. It seems that first you raze the ground of pesky citizens etc. and then you make it fit for the footloose wealthy who flow in and fill up all the gaps and the displaced just gasp!
Having meet and spoken with nick smith on a number of occasions, I’ve found him to be a ‘i’m always right, never wrong’ type of person.
So this came as no surprise….
Select Committee chair Raymond Huo said Nick Smith’s behavior disrupted the committee
Huo said that the committee had accepted the response from the officials that they had nothing to add to their submission.
“From the committee’s point of view all questions and answers were fourthcoming.”
Huo said by holding back the report Smith was letting down his party and the submitters whose voices would now be lost.
“He has not just let his party down but also the general public, including those submitters,” Huo said.
“The Justice Committee is a very busy committee. We have enjoyed a strong level of collegiality, until, very frankly the arrival of Nick Smith,” Huo said.
“He should be the father of the House rather than the bane of the Select Committee.”
Hon Dr NICK SMITH to the Minister of Justice: Does he agree with the statements on the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill made by Greens co-leader Marama Davidson on Friday that, “it is a bill which is undemocratic”, and that this bill “does threaten democracy”?
Despite the seemingly constant reports of violence = are we becoming less so when you take an overview.
Posited in recent Reith lecture. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9249f
Good morning NewsHub
Heaps of tangata are looking at house’s on the internet I wonder why .
Mark you had a big wasp nest in your house Eco Maori had another indirect connection to the Block through my old job there will be some who know what I’m on about.
Yes Eco Maori gives Winston Peters a 10 out of 10 for his time as acting Prime Minster .
of Aotearoa .
Duncan just because a government is humane and care about the environment does not mean that they are not a business friendly government they are just going to share the pie more evenly whats so wrong with that.
A strong mind is good to have its good to have a couple of tools to cope with the pressure’s of society looking for the positive thing in most situations being proud of your heritage and the gifts from my tipuna.s
Martin good on your son becoming a teacher yes becoming a grandparent changes the way one see’s life its a eye opener .
Ka kite ano P.S back to chasing my mokopuna.s
This is a positive move for te mokopunas future there would have been more wind farms built they were in the planning stages but some short sighted government decided to invest in coal and got burned .
We need to use all of the green energy options so we can provide a clean green future for te mokopunas link below ka kite ano
Here we go the the GO OIL PARTY link below do these people have children or mokopuna’s this show’s Eco Maori the care more for money and power than a future for there offspring WTF one is using my hand signs lol Ana to kai link below.
Good evening Newshub there you go big apple grower’s cheating and have been caught they will put Aotearoa bio security at risk just to make more money is what I see.
That’s the way te tangata of the Bell Vista scandal take the Tauranga council to court and expose all the ways the wealthy cheat and the dirty work they do.
That’s the way Chris look out side the square to solve our tradey shortage .
I think its stupid that Air New Zealand is advertising meat free bugers when NZ is a major high quality meat exporter who’s on the board of Air New Zealand he did not look to confident about the prospects of the dingy he bailed on .
Ka pai Qantas Australier for tautokoing Aotearoa Farmers .
Ka kite ano . P.S I can see the blocking or trying to block Eco Maori’s influnce since the national convention. simon with both hands with fingers crossed looks real confident.
Ka kite ano
The Crowd Goes Wild The rugby on the weekend was exciting.
The Warriors Wahine team is a big step up for Wahine sports ka pai.
You will already know what Eco Maori thought of Joseph fight on the weekend
Good on the Big man Steven Adams coming out with his depression problems Ka pai.
Yea M8 I know what its like to have false story being spread about you Ka kite ano
P.S James and Mulls how’s about you two go no pole danceing with the stars . YEA RIGHT
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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. ...
Mai ia tawhiti pamamao, te moana nui a Kiwa, kua tae whakaiti mai matou, ki to koutou papa whenua. No koutou te tapuwae, no matou te tapuwae, kua honoa pumautia. Ko nga toa kua hinga nei, o te Waipounamu, o te Ika a Maui, he okioki tahi me o ...
Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. “Our Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealand’s own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealand’s energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. “The report shows that New Zealand’s emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,” Mr Mitchell ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is today travelling to Europe where he’ll update the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Government’s work to restore law and order. “Attending the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva provides us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while ...
Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the world’s largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. “The reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealand’s wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
Hon Andrew Bayly, Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing At the Southland Otago Regional Engineering Collective (SOREC) Summit, 18 April, Dunedin Ngā mihi nui, Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Ko Whanganui aho Good Afternoon and thank you for inviting me to open your summit today. I am delighted ...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to bring back the Three Strikes legislation, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced today. “Our Government is committed to restoring law and order and enforcing appropriate consequences on criminals. We are making it clear that repeat serious violent or sexual offending is not ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today announced four new diplomatic appointments for New Zealand’s overseas missions. “Our diplomats have a vital role in maintaining and protecting New Zealand’s interests around the world,” Mr Peters says. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of these senior diplomats from the ...
New Zealand is contributing NZ$7 million to support communities affected by severe food insecurity and other urgent humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and Somalia, Foreign Minister Rt Hon Winston Peters announced today. “Over 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across Ethiopia, with a further 6.9 million people ...
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Paul Goldsmith is congratulating Mataaho Collective for winning the Golden Lion for best participant in the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale. "Congratulations to the Mataaho Collective for winning one of the world's most prestigious art prizes at the Venice Biennale. “It is good ...
The Government is reforming financial services to improve access to home loans and other lending, and strengthen customer protections, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly and Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced today. “Our coalition Government is committed to rebuilding the economy and making life simpler by cutting red tape. We are ...
“China remains a strong commercial opportunity for Kiwi exporters as Chinese businesses and consumers continue to value our high-quality safe produce,” Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says. Mr McClay has returned to New Zealand following visits to Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai where he met ministers, governors and mayors and engaged in trade and agricultural events with the New ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
Asia Pacific Report Chief Mandla Mandela, a member of the National Assembly of South Africa and Nelson Mandela’s grandson, has joined the Freedom Flotilla in istanbul as the ships prepare to sail for Gaza, reports Kia Ora Gaza. Mandela is also the ambassador for the Global Campaign to Return to ...
Pacific Media Watch Journalists who report on environmental issues are encountering growing difficulties in many parts of the world, reports Reporters Without Borders. According to the tally kept by RSF, 200 journalists have been subjected to threats and physical violence, including murder, in the past 10 years because they were ...
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards, Democracy Project (https://democracyproject.nz)Political scientist, Dr Bryce Edwards. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has surprised everyone with his ruthlessness in sacking two of his ministers from their crucial portfolios. Removing ministers for poor performance after only five months in the job just doesn’t normally happen in ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra BagzhanSadvakassov/Upsplash, CC BY-SA Australia’s inflation rate has fallen for the fifth successive quarter, and it’s now less than half of what it was back in late 2022. ...
ACT's Rural Communities and Veterans spokesman Mark Cameron responds to cancellations and protests of ANZAC Day commemorations in Wellington. He says, "These pitiful attempts to detract from ANZAC Day are not at all indicative of the feelings of mainstream ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meighen McCrae, Associate Professor of Strategic & Defence Studies, Australian National University American and Australian stretcher bearers working together near the front line during the Battle of Hamel in 1918.Australian War Memorial While the AUKUS alliance is new, the Australian-American partnership ...
Pōneke based peace activists staged a silent protest at the ANZAC day service to highlight New Zealand’s complicity in war and genocide, and urge the government to take concrete steps to stop the genocide in Palestine. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Magdalena M.E. Bunbury, Postdoctoral Researcher, James Cook University Burial with a horse at the Rákóczifalva site, Hungary (8th century AD).Sándor Hegedűs, Hungarian National Museum, CC BY How do we understand past societies? For centuries, our main sources of information have been ...
Amanda Thompson doesn’t really do Anzac Day. But what she does do is remember the people she knew who had a lifetime to remember stuff they didn’t really want to, because of a war they didn’t ask for. And she does make Anzac biscuits.First published in 2021.All my ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathryn Willis, Postdoctoral Researcher, CSIRO Xavier Boulenger/Shutterstock In the two decades to 2019, global plastic production doubled. By 2040, plastic manufacturing and processing could consume as much as 20% of global oil production and use up 15% of the annual carbon ...
With our collective remembrance, and steadfast belief in our common humanity, we strengthen our hope and resolve to do what we can to foster dialogue and understanding, and to heal divisions in our pursuit of peace. ...
Principal reasons for the opposition is the loss of the public’s democratic right to have “a fair say” and the vital need for a government free from corruption, said Casey Cravens of Dunedin, president of the New Zealand Federation of Freshwater ...
Never mind the scoreboard – in the 2000 Bledisloe Cup decider, the real trans-Tasman battle was won before kickoff.First published in 2016. The dawn of the new millennium was a dark time for the All Blacks. Their final game pre-Y2K was a 22-18 loss to South Africa in the ...
I’m on the wrong side of 40, I never pursued creative work and now my job is killing my soul. Help! Want Hera’s help? Email your problem to helpme@thespinoff.co.nzDear Hera,May I start with the least original conversation opener you’re likely to hear around the motu at the moment, particularly in Wellington: ...
“Never again - No AUKUS” was the message of the wreath laid at this morning’s national ANZAC Day commemorative service at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park this morning by the Stop AUKUS group. ...
Until this month, Auckland swimmer Hazel Ouwehand had never met a qualifying time in an Olympic event for a New Zealand team, even as a junior. Now she’s very likely off to the Paris Olympics after swimming well under the qualifying standard in the 100m butterfly twice – both in ...
While Anzac Day has experienced a resurgence in recent years, our other day of remembrance has slowly faded from view.The Sunday Essay is made possible thanks to the support of Creative New Zealand. Original illustrations by Hope McConnell.First published in 2022.The high school’s head girl and ...
Australian and New Zealand volunteers fought together in the Waikato War, yet still its place in the Anzac tradition is unacknowledged by our defence forces or Returned Services Association.First published in 2018.When I was a boy cub I attended Anzac Day services in the South Auckland suburb of ...
A poem by Wellington writer Tayi Tibble.Hoki Mai She kisses him goodbye with her eyes still wet and alight from their last swim in the Awatere river. At the train station celebration, she leads the Kapa Haka but her voice keeps breaking under and over itself like waves. ...
A poem from Bill Manhire’s 2017 book of verse Some Things to Place in a Coffin.My World War I Poem Inside each trench, the sound of prayer. Inside each prayer, the sound of digging. Image courtesy of Auckland War Memorial Museum. ...
There are three books I have wolfed down in one sitting over the last two years. Colleen Maria Lenihan’s gorgeous and sad debut Kōhine, Noelle McCarthy’s memoir Grand about becoming her mother and then unbecoming her, and now Hine Toa, a staunch yet gentle self-portrait by living legend Ngāhuia te ...
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Asia Pacific Report Students and activist staff at Australia’s University of Sydney (USyd) have set up a Gaza solidarity encampment in support of Palestinians and similar student-led protests in the United States. The camp was pitched as mass graves, crippled hospitals, thousands of civilian deaths and the near-total destruction of ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James B. Dorey, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong Australian teddy bear bees are cute and fluffy, but get a look at that massive (unbarbed) stinger! James Dorey Photography Most of us have been stung by a bee and we ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Roberts, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong Aussie~mobs/FlickrVictor Farr, a private in the 1st Infantry Battalion, was among the first to land at Anzac Cove just before dawn on April 25 1915. Victor Farr ...
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RNZ News Melissa Lee has been ousted from New Zealand’s coalition cabinet and stripped of the Media portfolio, and Penny Simmonds has lost the Disability Issues portfolio in a reshuffle. Climate Change and Revenue Minister Simon Watts will take Lee’s spot in cabinet. Simmonds was a minister outside of cabinet. ...
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Analysis - Christopher Luxon framing the demotion of two ministers as the portfolios getting "too complex" is a charitable way of saying they weren't up to the job. ...
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Analysis: Melissa Lee has lost the media portfolio and her spot in Cabinet after multiple failed attempts to find solutions for a media industry in crisis. On Wednesday, the Prime Minister announced Lee would be losing her spot in Cabinet along with her media and communications ministerial portfolio. The job ...
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Saunders, PhD Candidate, University of Canberra There has been much analysis and praise of Justice Michael Lee’s recent judgement in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Channel Ten. Many people were openly relieved to read Lee’s “forensic” and “nuanced” application of law ...
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The Fairer Future coalition of anti-poverty groups say Whaikaha must be properly funded going forward, and that to argue that poor financial management of the new Ministry is a red herring by the Prime Minister. ...
The Taxpayers’ Union is today congratulating Hon. Paul Goldsmith on his appointment as Minister for Media and Communications and urges him to rule out state intervention in the private media sector. ...
Asia Pacific Report The West Papuan resistance OPM leader has condemned Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden, accusing their countries of “six decades of treachery” over Papuan independence. The open letter was released today by OPM chairman Jeffrey P Bomanak on the eve of ANZAC Day ...
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“Three Strikes is a dead-end policy proposed by a dead-end government. The Three Strikes law ignores the causes of crime, instead just brutalising people already crushed by the cost of living.” ...
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Australian-born judge in Kiribati could well face deportation later this week after a tribunal ruling that he should be removed from his post. The tribunal’s report has just been tabled in the Kiribati Parliament and is due to be debated by MPs ...
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Books editor Claire Mabey reviews poet Louise Wallace’s debut novel. A famous poet once said to me that he’s always suspicious when a poet publishes a novel. I never really understood why but maybe it’s something to do with cheating on your first form. Louise Wallace is a poet. She’s ...
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Despite heavy criticism and an ongoing select committee process, the Police Minister says the Government will forge ahead with a ban on gang patches. ...
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A new survey says ‘outlook not great’ for those charged with building infrastructure, while RMA changes delight farmers and depress environmentalists, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. First RMA changes announced ...
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A leaked document shows the Canterbury/Waitaha arm of health agency Te Whatu Ora is scurrying to save $13.3 million by July. The “financial sustainability target”, which was “allocated” to Waitaha, is consistent with what’s happening in other districts, says Sarah Dalton, executive director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists. ...
Blueprint for National’s version of legalising medical marijuana? If you can’t fight it, then just take over it, and make people growing their own at a fraction of a price illegal. In the US, this has the bonus of keeping the private prisons full. It’s a win-win for corporates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB-kR76zpx8&feature=share
Time to panic? Among the climate change effects we have to look forward to are massive “methane burps” (50 gigaton release of methane all at once) in the Bering sea that would within minutes speed up the process to the point that the human race will be instantly be in survival mode. “That would literally alter life on the planet in a matter of minutes.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQPHhxLyV2I&feature=share
That methane burp wouldn’t have an immediate deadly effect on large numbers of people in NZ and Australia. First they are totally insensitive to any changes, and second it takes at least a decade and possibly two for world information to penetrate their consciousness and reach the insulated cool brains, in a state of hypothermia, of the power-complacent and friends.
Guy MacPherson tends to be persona non grata round here, but maybe, just maybe, he will be proved right.
Accelerated climate change will end up killing us all, and sooner rather then later!
Lol if he’s proved right everyone is dead and no one gives a fuck that he was right.
Yes, it’s deliciously ironic! Ah, such was life!
Wow! first time in quite a while we don’t have any reckons or “huge” announcements for aspirational kinda like stuff which might be policy one day if Nats can actually get around to writing the “actual” policy thing out in ink or something, to distribute to fans and the general public……………. phew!
In a nutshell Nats aren’t front page today, WTF.
Simeon quick, get out the batphone and make an announcement…………. anything.
For a brief moment I thought that Simon had heard your clarion call but alas, it was somebody else’s important announcement: https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/105876990/vogue-decrees-pubic-hair-is-back
Mine never left!
We are free to believe what we like but to use this school as leading the National Party Conference makes me a bit uneasy. Conservative Simon?
Fara Hancock at Newsroom wrote this:
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/07/30/172058/creationism-taught-in-science-class?preview=1
“… students were shown a video purporting to show science had found proof of God’s existence.”
One of youtube’s better offerings, and some of the comments beneath are just plain sarcastic. Rude buggers. They’re all going to hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er9D00DXQQs
A fundamentalist Christian friend of mine once commented to me – when reflecting on the morals and behaviours of some who would describe themsleves as Christian – that scientists such as quantum physicists had a better chance of finding God.
Holy smoke Batman !!! What the?
Yesterday after discovering that some of simons immediate family were teachers; I thought, did they all get around the dinner table and slam labours suggestion for smaller class sizes? I mean surely his family must have given their opinion to him before on education, surely.
After reading your post Ian, I’m like hmmmmm… what do they teach?
Working from home today so will listen to the audio of the clip Rosemary kindly posted.
I wonder which brand of god they are focusing on….. it’s all in the words, they have the power, just like spells, that’s why it’s called spelling 🙂
Don’t panic Cinny. The late Stephen Hawking has endorsed this concept so it must be Science.
Ipso facto, okay to teach in Science class.
“…. did they all get around the dinner table…”
Like this….?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msvOUUgv6m8
Which I imagine is not far far from reality.
Lololola, disney for sure 🙂 🙂
Poor kids don’t need to learn about Darwin. All they need to learn is a trade, how to budget, vote National and support the All Blacks. And do the occasional haka.
I stopped reading the article after this point:
“The mother of the student is a trained secondary teacher. She said she was shocked the video had been shown in a science class.”
I mean seriously, if qualified teachers were so opposed to Charter Schools, why send heir own kids there?
She sent her kid to a private school, not a charter school. But the charter schools run by the same organisation as the private school were billed as teaching the same curriculum.
Sorted? You can keep reading now that your distraction has been addressed?
Agreed,
When are our Schools & other public institutions also going to stop pushing maori creation myths as well?
There is a difference between a myth and religion .
Conservative Simon?
Both of them, but apparently from different backgrounds. IIRC Simon Bridges’ father (and father of Rachel, Simon O’Connor’s wife) is a Baptist minister.
OTOH Simon O’Connor attended a Catholic seminary for some years and completed his studies to become a priest but was never ordained.
He married Rachel in late 2016. She is ten years older than both Simons, and was a divorcee with children when she married O’Connor. John and Bronagh Key attended their wedding about a week after Key stepped down as PM.
O’Connor made a bit of a name for himself two weeks before last year’s Sept 2017 general election when he posted a claim on Facebook that “It’s strange that Jacinda is so concerned about youth suicide but is happy to encourage the suicide of the elderly, disabled, and sick. Perhaps she just values one group more than the others? Just saying.”
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/election/2017/09/no-apology-from-national-mp-simon-o-connor-over-suicide-comments.html
Ardern’s response is in the above link. Bill English then stepped in and gave O’Connor the ‘slap over the wrist with a wet bus ticket’ treatment with a text telling him that it was wrong to link suicide and euthanasia.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11921134
So it appears that there is some pretty strong conservatism from both ends of the religious spectrum within some members at least of the Bridges’ whanau. (There may be some very opposite views as well that we don’t about.)
ianmac (4) … and Rachel O’Connor’s husband Simon O’Connor trained as a Catholic priest!
Why is O’Connor allowed to teach science, if her perspective on life and how it came to be, is so biased?
Whaleoil vs Newsroom, as reported on Newsroom by Tim Murphy.
Oh, how interesting. So Slater has contacted Newsroom claiming they did a hit job on Ray Avery.
Information to Slater is like milky sweet coffee, something mud coloured that you stir a lot. This coffee has a very peculiar design made by the barista – the shape of a hungry rat that looks as if it has no bounds on what it will gnaw.
Well something does seem a little murky
https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/07/sounds-like-a-smear-campaign-to-me-helen-clark/
https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/07/i-have-to-be-honest-ive-never-heard-of-him-part-2/
and if anyone knows murky
Slater is a strange self-destructive creature.
I’m no great fan of Tim Murphy. He does seem to target selected individuals, e.g. Winston Peters. But Slater seems to be judging Murphy via his own Dirty Politics, pay for hits MO.
The ineptness of Slater’s accusations, and the descent into social media trivia, had me laughing out loud. e.g.
Sam Schdeva @ Newsroom on Peter’s time as PM:
“It’s no surprise then that Peters’ last press conference in charge ended on a similarly random note, albeit after provocation from a reporter who asked whether whisky should be sipped or swilled – a reference to National Party president Peter Goodfellow saying his party had “dodged a whisky-swilling, cigarette-smoking, double-breasted and irrational bullet”.
“Have you asked him whether he’s going to repeat his comments again, because I wish he had the courage to do that and let’s see whether he does or not, but what is not going to happen here is someone like him thinks he’s going to have a free hit at Winston Peters.”
Goodfellow has something to hide???
Smells fishy, like a sanfords trawler…
Video footage of the exchange:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12098032
There’s been rumblings in the past about some of Goodfellow’s activities – including from Slater – but no-one has come out into the open with them. However there was something not very savoury occuring when he and his former wife were in the throes of a bitter separation. Goodfellow’s legal team managed to secure a permanent ban on any public revelations concerning the case. The high court judge who handed out the ban was a close family friend.
Those weren’t ‘rumblings’ about Goodfellow in the past from Slater – they were pretty much full frontal.
Is Labour going to clean up immigration loopholes, exploitation, and trafficking? aka workers promised x amount of money to work in NZ and then find they only make $10 a week or are actually in debt after expenses is trafficking. Nobody should be in this country as exploitable workers by third party recruiters like Allied Work Force and then be left without work or effectively working for $10 p/w after expenses.
Apparently some of their construction workers have not worked for up to 3 months but are taking up housing in the Auckland and should not be holding work visas at all unless there is 40+ hours work guaranteed straight away and immigration seems to be turning a blind eye to this type of exploitation by 3rd parties.
Imagine the profit margins if AWF can afford to pay people 30 hours to just sit around.
Also shows how the so called ‘skills shortages’ in construction are not as they seem. If there was such demand why are these workers sitting on the bench and doing nothing or just have 30 hours work in Auckland?
The demand for construction workers from overseas is a scam to drive wages and conditions by exploiting people new to this country and don’t know the laws or making them pay for the privilege of working here and add merging upon margin to labour so the end workers ends up on next to nothing and the cost of building skyrockets.
Then when the work is not up to scratch as construction has become about profiteering not quality jobs for decent wages, it is the new owners and council ratepayers that pick up the repair bills.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/357079/questions-over-filipino-labour-hire-contracts-they-re-scared
They only get paid when they work. They don’t get paid for sitting around but they need to be sitting around in case some work becomes available for them.
It’s a highly inefficient business that wastes far more time than it saves and leaves the taxpayers to pick up the costs in AS, UE and other indirect subsidies.
Yeah, it’s an often arising problem and we’ve had crappy solutions forever. Old depression era movies portraying watersiders hoping to get picked for a day’s work.
If I’ve won the contract to update the fireproofing in a 15 story building I need 20 men for 2 days to get the old ceilings out. Then I don’t need them again.
I wonder if we’d be better off nurturing groups of 4 or 5 of these ‘on call guys’ into their own small businesses. Then there is room for these people who are currently essentially ‘on call muscle’ to expand on their skills. Painting a house in 2 days pays much better than pulling the cladding off 10 leaky flats for 2 days.
Put this AWL corporate model out to pasture, cut them out of the deal. Nicely, current AWL customers will look for the best job for the lowest price and if that means ringing several of the diary holding wives of the guys in 4-5 man small businesses rather than the AWL sales rep, hey, market forces.
They’re making inroads, but SLOWLY! And part of the problem with all of this is of ‘our’ (INZ/MoBIE’s) own making. And of course, (as even dear wee Matty once said), some in the state apparatus – i.e. our corporaised public service, are more interested in preserving the status quo and their future ambitions than they are acting as ethical and independent servers of the public.
The actual record of failures is there for all to see, just as it is in places like MPI or Housing Corp and elsewhere. The sad thing is that the Joe Average public servant has to bear the brunt of managerial muppetry.
Still, there’s more than one way to skin a cat (“going forward”, “on the back of” a problem that’s clearly continuing – as a matter of fact, ekshully, to coin a phrase, so-to-speak). The coalition are slowly waking up – gradually learning that the bullshit artist, the supposedly ‘good bloke’, learned the art of bullshitting and spin, and lying straight-faced a long time ago
Radical restructures with mass ‘position disestablishments’ are out, and probably not really that necessary
Nothing to stop transferring functions elsewhere, bit by bit, peeling layers of the onion off, and getting the road blocking gatekeepers to have to re-apply.
Actually, I think what amuses me most (funny if it wasn’t so sad), is the latest from the pompous Michael Woodhouse- sounding off like a more ‘cultured’ version of Peter Dutton
Migrant worker bans: 70 firms fall foul of new rules – averaging 1 every 2.6 days and – sounds like the tip of the iceberg!
Those in breach are those not having written employment contracts, underpaying workers or breaching the Holidays Act.
Sunny Sehgal, who represents exploited migrant workers, said while the Inspectorate’s new powers were welcome it needed more inspectors to catch up.
“There are thousands out there who are still looking for justice, but because this department is understaffed they are not getting any justice.”
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/340785/migrant-worker-bans-70-firms-fall-foul-of-new-rules
Trump administration has deported about 400 children apparently on their own, not with their parents, and the States has no knowledge of where they are and how they are. Some could be as young as five years. There is some sort of deadline to improve things, but unlikely to meet obligations. Hideous humans, can’t we ever rise to our potential for good?
Report from USA Radionz about 9.55 am
That’s heinous.
Re trump… Grey, the latest episode (3) of Sacha Baron Cohens, ‘Who Is America?’ is rather telling about the type of people who vote for such things. Will try find a clip, super funny and very disturbing how brainwashed some people are over there.
Being hideous humans is their thing.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1022887313372835840.html
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigrant-youth-shelters-sexual-abuse-fights-missing-children?
WTF? Woahs…. no good, no, no no… 🙁 far out…
Thanks? for the link… woahs Joe…this is… I’ve no words..
Here is the link to the 7 minute audio of the report on this on Nine to Noon this morning.
Mention of the 400 children deported is covered in the first minute or so.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018655961/deadline-passes-for-us-border-children-reunification
Ta all. I thought this was a new low. Old song – ‘Limbo – how low can you go.’l
Even the Abyss is going “shit, that’s too dark and empty for my taste”
Is this the safety standards of public buses we should have in NZ? The bus involved in the accident and death of a child was imported from Japan in 2004 and failed its Certificate of Fitness nine times over the 14 years.
Also apparently some of the buses used are in such disrepair the seats are broken and the handles falling off.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018655853/bus-that-crashed-had-failed-fitness-certificate-9-times
“Sophie Leather was a passenger on a different bus travelling between National Park and Whakapapa on Saturday.
She purchased tickets from the kiosk at National Park Village, which only sells tickets for RAL’s shuttle service.
She was so concerned about the state of it, she took photos.
“The chair in front of me was fully broken, not held up by wires and I was trying to hold that up with my feet.
“A lady went to go brace herself and her child and just going around a small corner the entire handle came off the chair and so we were pretty horrified at that to be honest and all started talking about how dangerous it was.”
The visible safety issues made her question whether other buses operating in the same area were in a similar condition.”
Buses not uo to standard, road steep not up to standard. A spokesperson might have said – We’re making good money, don’t stress, she’ll be right, nothing bad has ever happened yet etc The she’ll be right mentality, don’t fuss, stop criticising, that’s the NZ way. Not obvious law breaking, but sneaky slackness abiout standards, everybody does it.
How is this shit on our roads and endangering the people on the bus and the other people on the roads?
Because New Zealand governments have worshipped at the altar of free market neoliberal capitalism for the past 34 years.
Coach companies that aren’t having their hand held by direct subsidies struggle to turn a profit. The inevitable happens, they choose between buying new tyres or paying the ACC levy, corners get cut.
I think they should be trading the buses in for a fleet of electric bicycles that can pull a child pod. We need to start exploiting unique points of difference on the international tourism stage.
Families going up our mountains on electric bikes = the best advertising of all: Word of Mouth. Millions of amazing snapshots of our vistas posted to Facebook and Twitter accounts all over the world.
Our most attractive unique attraction is of course Maori. I think they should own tourism in our country, our primary greeters and hosts. Flying Dreamliners, guiding pony treks through battle sites, running resorts that market golfing weekends in Shanghai. The Chinese aren’t just buying cars at 1 a minute, check out golf club set sales. It’s cheaper to fly to NZ for a week than play 3 x 18 hole rounds in a Chinese city.
Lets get savvy with selling NZ to the world, try harder at living up to the hype, head for Pure on as many tangents as we can. It’s getting scarcer. We can be a world oasis if we wish.
So yeah, scrap the dinosaur buses. They bite and nobody’s making decent coin out of them.
International Tourist dollars are tasty. They empty fat wallets, money that wasn’t circulating here before their visit, pay GST for services they mostly carry insurance cover for and/or don’t require. Drive on a few of our roads, flush a few toilets then head off home. Nice.
I wonder how close to recharged again an electric bike would be after coming back down a mountain? Would just need a top-up and recharging downhill = brakes not getting hot and regulated descent speed. It would be all recharged again before the next bike mountaineer had signed the ‘If I’m stupid it’s entirely my problem.’ form.
Dave – have you forgotten the snow? Car-owners were putting on chains to avoid going by bus today. I know most bikes have bicycle chains, but I have never heard of snow chains for bike tyres. Just asking, since you seem so keen.
Hi Vino, these tyres seem to handle snow ok but they’d be dicey on ice. There are electric bike tyres available with metal studs in them like the Scandinavians use on cars for their winters, they bite into the ice. I can’t see the point in a tourist going up a mountain by any means during a snowfall. The view is the same at the bottom as the top.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtBRP4_Ib9A
Our buses falling apart isn’t a unique point of difference?
/sarc
And one the reasons that purity is getting scarcer is the increasing number of tourists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWwUJH70ubM
New Zealand is a cowboy country at the far extremes of the neoliberal cult.
Yes the Chavez socialism cult as far as cults go is the way to go
Was on a double decker bus in Auckland that was newish, but looked like it had been made by the toxic Gujarat’s ship-breaking yards of metal waste. Window was already leaking, it smelt of e waste, and had a live bird stuck in the seats. It was for children charters.
NZ is going to the bottom for standards in many directions. Part of it is this idea you take the lowest tender with the lowers standards and cross your fingers it won’t kill anybody. Then all the other companies down grade standards to compete.
Look at this situation , in spite of having dangerous electrical standards for vulnerable people they have not stopped his other corporations doing other work for housing corp after an initial stand down… worth the risk maybe?
That is showing bad contractors that poor standards is ok and they will continue to be used after being prosecuted for allowing dangerous work!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/104856157/shock-finding-shoddy-wiring-put-vulnerable-housing-nz-tenants-at-risk-of-dying-in-fire
This truck driver just killed someone after pleading guilty to a number of charges relating to falsifying statements in a logbook, exceeding more than 13 hours in a work day and failing to have more than 10 hours continuous rest.
He had two previous convictions for logbook offences and failing to take the required breaks.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/105802088/truck-driver-menace-jailed-for-accident-that-killed-one-and-injured-five
In the quest for lower and lower wages, more hours of people having to work, unqualified workers doing work being signed off by others and lower standards people are being killed…
there needs to be a rethink back to quality and fairness in the workforce in this country and employers need to be made more accountable and not keep putting everything on the little guy or bad quality and making all these people “subcontractors” and “dependant or independent contractors’ so you have a plethora of offerings breaking the rules to get more money often just to survive.
Yes SaveNZ
Bullying threatening truck drivers are now threatening local residents in our rural areas in Gisborne now.
See this action of truck drivers thretening locals over using a rural road not fit for logging trucks so the police now have to control the truck drivers so we are reaching a very low standard of driver quality in NZ sadly
To make the issue more real I attended a greypower meeting several weeks ago and elder ladies were teling me that several of their members were also almost shunned of the highways way trucks forcing them to drive over 100kms and tailgeted them until they swerved off the road before being shunned off the road by the trucks.
Some government agency needs to control these bad drivers of heavy trucks now.
Even Ken Shirley of the “RTF” Road Transport Forum” needs to step into tjhos issues as he contriols all these ‘cowboy truck drivers’. https://www.rtfnz.co.nz/
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/105849558/staff-on-gisborne-road-cordons-after-tolaga-bay-storm-were-physically-threatened-by-log-truck-drivers
Staff on Gisborne road cordons after Tolaga Bay storm were physically threatened by log truck drivers
Last updated 11:17, July 30 2018
MARTY SHARPE/STUFF
Aftermath of Tolaga Bay storm
Staff manning cordons on roads following the Tolaga Bay storm were verbally abused and physically threatened by logging truck drivers.
I’ve recently got me and wag junior into skiing (been twice) I thought about using the buses but after a bit of thought decided clapped out heaps driven by your average Joe wasn’t something I was keen on for going up a mountain rd . The rd is in very good condition .
I wonder if Time Garner is going to savage John Key for wanting to replace all New Zealand flags, with the same venom he attacked Lucy Lawless for saying she thought it would be all right if someone burnt one.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/07/duncan-garner-slams-attention-seeker-lucy-lawless-for-nz-flag-comments.html
When did John Key want to replace all New Zealand flags?
If Key had won his selfish little jaunt and won his flag change then all current NZ flags would be gotten rid of.
Last week? Last month? Last year? I’m just trying to get some context here
nah you’re pretending that if it was a while ago it doesn’t count as hypocrisy.
If a flag is replaced and the old flag is burnt, would Garner be outraged? That’s a trick question: the answer depends on “replaced on whose initiative” and “burnt by whom”.
I’m not sure what Jenny was expecting Duncan do though, rehash what was done and dusted 2 and 3 years ago?
Duncan has already made his feelings on the matter clear
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/the-flag-debate/78253159/duncan-garner-the-flagging-fortunes-of-a-leader-chasing-a-legacy
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/68392405/duncan-garner-flag-this-irrelevant
Well, gosh, we’re almost there. Between Jenny’s link and yours, do you have enough information to answer her wondering?
Well maybe I missed something but I don’t see where John Key said he was going to burn, or destroy in general, the NZ flag so the two situations aren’t the same
Take your time. Try rereading Jenny’s comment.
Having a referendum to change a nations flag is a just a tad different to burning a flag don’t you think
They’re both saying that the flag does not represent the ideals the national myth projects upon it.
That what the flag does represent should be discarded alongside the flag.
One’s a bit more dramatic than the other, but they both have substantially the same message. People burning the US or NZ flag aren’t criticising the good things about either nation. The act of flag burning isn’t against the concept of freedom, or national independence, or humanitarian ideals.
Flag burning is almost invariably a protest against the reality of the activities of a state, a practical illustration that the concepts represented by that flag are no longer in existence and the flag is now meaningless. A referendum is just a bureaucratic assessment of the same thing.
Garner is quite a hateful personality.
He sold his soul sometime in the past 15 years.
Can he be saved or born again Ed, possible penance been a diet of lentils and George Galloway videos with a sleep over at Ed place
Department of Conservation trying to ensure that NZs can get into parts of the country swamped by tourists and trying lower costs for us to assist. Not fair says some loudmouth NZt who lives in Australia (and not been allowed to have Australian citizenship?). Now he doesn’t care about NZ, thinks like an Australian, he is angry that his wife was charged more than him for going into a Nat Park and hut.
Comment from Australians gained said they were angry and mightn’t come here, so there. Self-centred to the last molecule as usual!
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018655947/doc-great-walks-tourist-fee-gets-human-rights-complaint
Incidentally it is not unknown for NZ in Oz to come back and try and gain advantage of their citizenship – for hospital costs for instance. It isn’t all being deported back here because of a whim of an Oz functionary.
Seems that Easter Island – Rapa Nui is having similar problems.
Rapa Nui Mayor Pedro Edmunds said foreigners are now taking over the island and damaging its culture, AFP reported.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/362999/rapa-nui-limiting-visitor-time-to-stop-overcrowding
Wikileaks leaked.
https://emma.best/2018/07/29/11000-messages-from-private-wikileaks-chat-released/
anything overly earthshattering? Skimmed through it a bit.
This picked up by Russel Brown:
Wikileaks saying they “may have set up a historic shift. The uniting of UK + Sweden+US together with Iran, China and Russia against the UN Human rights system. Leading to its eventual demise. +Saudi, Turkey.”
Other than openly preferring a tRump win and every Greenwald tweet mentioned appears to have been deleted, nah.
edit The Intercept has published interesting bits and bobs
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4378830-Excerpts-From-Private-WikiLeaks-Twitter-Group.html
NZ Business latest
31 july 2018
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12098057
i>Comvita, the NZX-listed manuka honey company, declined to comment on whether it is interested in making a bid for honey company Manuka Health New Zealand which has reportedly been put up for sale by its Australian owner Pacific Equity Partners.
(Another prime NZ business owned by oiverseas interests. We can never get ahead when important businesses are not majorly owned by NZ interests and returning money as profit to the credit side of the nation’s bank ledger.) We need to put funds in to investment company. Once we had a few, they could be used as leverage to be able to afford more.
People like Graeme Hunt have been able to become world famous in NZ – a joint entity run proplerly and scrutinised closely by fundholders could surely utilise the same methods as used by others.)
Foreign ownership isn’t about us getting ahead but about foreign rich people getting richer.
Ownership of businesses itself is about a few people being able to bludge off as many people as possible. It prevents anybody but the owners getting ahead.
DT
Even if all that were completely true Draco it still would be good to have small nz owned and staffed viable small businesses remaining so. I go for practicality that is good over theoretical and purist every time.
Oh, it would definitely be better for NZ if all businesses in NZ remained owned in NZ but it would still, inevitably, end up with just a few owning everything and the collapse of both society and the economy. It’d just take longer.
Once over lightly
How the West Coasters discuss climate change.
Clue, they don’t.
Or, if we don’t mention it, it is not a problem.
Stuff.co.nz reporter Joanne Carroll publishes an extensive report on the threat to the coal mining industry on the West Coast. Carroll concentrates on how the Coal miners themselves perceive this threat.
However, by going to great pains to avoid the elephant in the room, Carrol’s investigation which could have been a good nitty gritty report into the miners’ concerns, just isn’t.
West Coast miners fear their way of life is under threat
Joanne Carroll – July 28, 2018
Without one single mention of the words ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ or ‘CO2 pollution’ in the whole report, this surely must rank as the most ignorant investigations into the threat to coal mining, and coal miners jobs on the West Coast ever written.
Where does the blame for this shoddy, half baked, piece of journalism lie?
Personally I think it must be the fault of the reporter who never raised the question.
I mean how patronising of the miners, not asking them their opinion on climate change and the threat it posed to their industry?
Did Carroll think that they could not give a rational adult response?
Or was Carroll indulging in self censorship because she knew this line of investigation would not be welcome?
Someone urgently needs to send a better reporter down there.
Someone with empathy, but also someone with enough respect for people not to patronise West Coasters by not asking them the hard questions.
John Campbell maybe?
Should have asked the coal miners about climate change and their industries threat to life on earth and thus why they expect we should give a fuck about their way of life.
Some coasters are ONLY worried about their standard of living, personal acquisitions taking priority over climate change. Mining pays well.
It’s about money. It’s not so much about jobs, it’s more about top dollar lifestyle maintaining jobs.
It’s puzzling and sad that some value personal wealth over the planet, which gives them life in the first place.
Be careful what bow you draw here Cinny how far have you gone to redress climate change verses the average person in the third world re your carbon footprint or is it about what every one else should do from a virtue signalling perspective that makes you feel better
Very difficult Cinny
I have heard the coal mining wages and the money side must dominate even after the deaths in the Pike River mine.
They are dying of black lung from coal in Appalachia. The machines used allow a huge increase in mining of 400% or something, but it also produces finer dust that is killing faster.
I have just been listening on line to Vice – Why the asbestos industry…
The Russian town of Asbest? that is built on mining asbestos and workers love it – they don’t talk about the badness of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-NyvLsNlEI
It is killing and sickening whole families there. We now know in the west it can be passed on to the families through washing the clothes used in mining, having them around. Whole families will show up as terminal cases from it in USA, Russia, also India and China that use the Russian asbestos, which is the main supply.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3piCUPIkc
Poor poor them and all us humans. I wonder what the Amish health rate is. hey have been able to limit the desire for modernisation. Perhaps they can conserve what is good in simple living and commdunity without being too patriarchal and oppressive.
First of all, no one is talking about getting rid of mining on the west coast. New mines will still be allowed on iwi and private land. You just won’t be able to mine on DoC land. Also, existing mines will still be able to continue on DoC land until they are exhausted. The government is not trying to steal their livelihoods.
Quite frankly, there are people all over the world who would give anything to live in a place like the West Coast with all it’s forests and mountains, and the coasters want overseas corporations to come in and dig it all up so they can have a few minimum wage jobs. They really don’t have an appreciation of how lucky they are.
Talley’s has purchased Solid Energy’s West Coast operations. I would imagine they they will pursue a massive reduction in the wages and conditions of the mining staff similar to what has happened at AFFCO. The Coasters should be worrying about that more than an effort to preserve the Coast’s natural heritage from the ravagesnof capitalist developement.
“They really don’t have an appreciation of how lucky they are.”
So you’ll be moving there then, plenty of cheap housing:
https://www.realestate.co.nz/residential/sale?by=lowest-price&lct=r44&minba=2&minbe=3&ql=20
However you’d still need a job to pay the mortgage so Its all well and good to have the forests and mountains on your back door step but the locals still need jobs to pay the bills and to keep young people around otherwise the West Coast will become just like the East Coast, except with more rain
Apropos of nothing in particular, it may be of interest to some people here or elsewhere such as organisers of other events this Friday night, that one of the online sellers of tickets to the Southern/Molyneux love feast in Auckland on Friday night have now indicated that the venue is in “Auckland 1010”.
Being a non-Aucklander, I had to look at a map of the NZ postal zone 1010 – https://www.google.co.nz/maps/place/Auckland+1010/@-36.8435932,174.7537248,14z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x6d72caf8a2cd8a15:0x693dad2b3037da65!8m2!3d-36.8502824!4d174.7657015
I am not really any the wiser, but Aucklanders may be. The map would seem to rule out some possible venues – but still cover a lot of others.
I might as well provide a link to the ticket seller’s webpage as well – https://www.tickettailor.com/events/axiomaticevents/184382/#
The Axiomatic website (the main organiser/seller) does not mention Auckland 1010.
Thanks. that may explain why the “Love Aotearoa, Hate Racism” protest organisers think it will be possible to walk to the Canadian pair’s event from Aotea Square.
I wondered what would happen if the venue turned out to be many Kms from Aotea Square, as the rally organisers are planning to go to the venue from Aotea Square.
Re the above, the following report back from someone who attended the Sydney love feast last Saturday is now up on the Herald site.
I originally read it on an Australian site and found it enlightening and fairly neutral (not over the top for or against) and put some things into perspective for me. As it says, when boiled down, who is this 23 year old?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12097931
A taste.
It goes on to include an interesting comparison of Southern’s views vs those of Richard Spencer – and contends that they are not the same. (Damn it. It is hard to cut without losing the context, so here is most of it.)
As with his report oN Southern, the author of that op ed, Luke Kinsella, presents as providing an “objective” report on Jordan Peterson, who also questions terms like “white privilege”, and has also been associated with the alt-right – pro individualism, anti-feminism, ant-LGBT, and someone whose views get an alt-right following.
Peterson, like Southern, is also not directly or explicitly alt-right, but appeals to young men who lean alt-right. So both are very good poster people for the alt-right.
Like his report on Southern, Kinsella’s report on his reading of Peterson, is pretty antiseptic. It ignores the in depth critiques that have been provided of Peterson’s work and utterings.
For Kinsella, Jordon Peterson is to be highly commended for the way it focuses young men like himself, on the positive value of a certain kind of individualistic “self help”.
Kinsella’s op ed on Southern is very curious in that, while it mentions Molyneux also talked at the Sydney event, he does not report on anything Molyneux said. And that is the context in whuch Southern is doing her speaking tour. She is the PR poster, and more acceptable face of the event.
Molyneux says overtly racist, and-Aborigine, anti-black things. In that context, and for their audience and alt-right followers, Southern’s focus on “Western culture” and “multiculturalism” becomes a dog whistle for “white supremacy” and racist attacks on “non-western cultures”.
I don’t know what Southern’s underlying motives and views are, but she is contributing to a racist and toxicly masculinist movement.
Thanks Carolyn. I did not really notice the writer’s name and also read the article in the middle of the night – but did notice that he never mentions Molyneux.
You have made some good points re Kinsella and his background etc which I was not aware of. And I will follow up on looking at his other writings eg on Jordan Peterson.
As you point out Southern is the pretty face etc vs Molyneux and has to be seen in that light. I certainly agree that she is contributing to a racist and toxic masculinist movement.
Nevertheless, I also believe that the points made about her age, lack of experience and expertise etc are valid points on which to access her credibility – or rather lack of it.
Yes, veuto. The point about Southern’s lack of expertise is important. Otherwise, the article doesn’t say anything more about what Southern says than in the tweeted report of the Canadians’ Melbourne event.
And the tweeted report also showed how toxic Molyneux’s views are.
I read an interesting article a while back on Peterson, basically arguing that the real danger of that guy is that he does actually help some people, but this help is intertwined with his right wing politics. A bit like how David Irving’s legitimately good work on the Third Reich is also intertwined with his holocaust denialism. For years people argued that one was legitimate because the other was so thorough.
So one trouble with Peterson is that criticising his politics is often related to criticising the books that got some lazy twenty-something off his arse and into tertiary education, or helpd deal with their depression.
Another is that Peterson is a good and often respectful debater, not like the trolls here. So if you miss a beat, he’ll make a polite point, and then it’ll be posted by a fanboi as “Peterson SLAMS libtard!”
Thanks, McFlock for both your replies.
That’s an interesting take on Peterson, and an important point about how some young men some help with depression and inaction – but with the wider consequences you mention.
I do think there is a crisis in masculinity that the alt-right is responding to. However, they are doing it in a largely socially regressive way.
So what you’re saying is Dr Peterson someone that should be followed by all, I agree 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
https://i.imgur.com/ZytIQr4.png
https://i.imgur.com/mrs1NYI.jpg
You’re having a really bad day for English comprehension, aren’t you.
🙂
The last bit is interesting, but I think ignores two key pieces of context. Firstly, her “it’s ok to be white” tshirt – that’s not about culture. Secondly, she’s part of a double act, and the tweeting of their event the other day clearly places him in the alt-right area.
Now, they’re both after clicks, but one’s mutt and the other is Jeff. Molyneaux panders to the full alt-right, Southern dogwhistles at a high enough pitch that she can argue she’s not that bad. But they’re on the same team.
The audience for Lauren in /australia were at least able to go and listen to her. Some of the most despised people she talks about are on Manus or christmas Island or are dead. She is complaining from an easy chair in comparison with them.
A young Iranian who looks too young to die, but did was featured on Radionz this morning. Does she care to think about his young life?
https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/362988/a-litany-of-errors-that-led-to-manus-refugee-s-preventable-death
Hamid Khazaei, who was 24, died when his life support was switched off at a Brisbane Hospital in September 2014, twelve days after he had gone to a clinic at Australia’s asylum seeker detention centre with a simple infection in his leg.
In a 131-page report, the Queensland Coroner, Terry Ryan, identified several systemic flaws in the healthcare provided for those detained by Canberra on remote islands in the Pacific.
Among the flaws was the fact the clinic at Manus, an equatorial island in the north of PNG, did not have the antibiotics needed to treat tropical infections, and a series of delays in transferring patients who need hospital care off the island.
No wonder the ratepayers can’t afford proper sewerage anymore, and are consenting construction that is unsafe like Bella Vista!
Instead the councils are so busy doing PPP’s and becoming developers with the risk that involves with ratepayers money! Absolutely disgusting – should go out for ratepayer votes to approve or be banned by government!
“Tauranga City Council’s vote to partner with development company Willis Bond & Co to build a $62 million pair of civic buildings and an international brand hotel in the CBD scraped through 6-5 behind closed doors last month.”
They’ll be crying in a downturn, with climate change influences and if the costs rise or if they do a Bella Vista and fuck it up as they have already done!
Shocking!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12094383
The central government enabled local bodies to get ambitious with powers of general competence.
Third Labour Government of New Zealand – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Labour_Government_of_New_Zealand
The Third Labour Government of New Zealand was the government of New Zealand from 1972 ….. Local authorities were authorised, under the Local Government Act of 1974, “to provide housing loans and subdivide council-owned land for …
Then this was reviewed 2002 about.
http://www.mdl.co.nz/site/mckinley/files/resources/Adapting_to_new_powers_general_competence2003.pdf
Local government 2012 report covering issues and FAQs.
http://www.lgnz.co.nz/assets/Uploads/Our-work/Mythbusters-Examining-common-perceptions-about-local-government-in-New-Zealand.pdf
And I’ll throw in a free inflation calculator FYI seeing it was there.
Inflation calculator – Reserve Bank of New Zealand
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/monetary-policy/inflation-calculator
Jul 1, 2018 – Want to know how much a house worth $50,000 in 1973 is worth in today’s money when adjusted for inflation? Or what a loaf of bread worth …
1000% well said Savenz.
Meanwhile down at the ‘National Party circus’ this was written about their weekend junket of hollow talking heads meeting.
Gordon Campbell summed up the weekend Natiional Party Confrerence perpectly about their stupid policies annouced Sunday, as they tripped over again when Bridges attempted to attack Winston again and looked as silly as even as his verbal attack of Winston just bounced off and never made any impact at all.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1807/S00170/gordon-campbell-on-nationals-obsolescence-and-the-greens.htm
Quote Gordon Campbell; – “Yet in line with the old timey nature of the National Party conference the public would be well advised to recall the old cliché…. about those who cannot remember the past, risk being condemned to repeat it. If the weekend’s conference told us anything, it is that this country can’t afford to put this lot back behind the wheel.”
In the meantime, Parakai/Kaipatiki oldies facing eviction from plush campground.
” “The last meeting they told us we had six months to move out, take our caravans and leave this place how it was when we first moved in.”
Roy Ayers, 88, who had lived at the park for four years, said he didn’t know if he could find a new home by January.
“I’d have to sell my caravan and all my belongings, but I doubt it would be easy to find a home fit for a pensioner at this time.”
The close-knit residents help each other out with cooking and keep an eye on each other, residents said.
Allen, 73, who had lived at the site for 17 years, said he was at a complete loss of his options.”
This is pretty shit, IMHO. Homelessness and poverty at near record highs and an Auckland Council/Iwi cooperative are going to put elderly caravan dwellers out on the street to make way for more lucre rich tourists.
Maybe they have dealt with the mozzie problem.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/northland/102238701/exotic-mosquito-larvae-found-near-kaipara-harbour?rm=m
The Transformation Group have Big Plans…
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2017/09/12/47415/kaipatiki-a-parakai-transformation
….there’s no reason why the restoration and development of the reserve and campground cannot go on around these old people. FFS, just decree no new residents and inform the existing ones that there will be some disruption while work goes on. Heavens….some of them might be happy to plant a few trees or make morning tea for volunteer workers. Some of them look like they’ll be shuffling off soon anyway.
But hang on a minute….that might not go down too well with the mooted ‘private investors’. They might stipulate vacant possession.
This is really shit. Can’t say that too many times. Any chance they’ll reconsider? That the Parakai/Helensville community will rise up to defend these people?
Iwi completely throw the principle of manakitanga out the window when it comes to $$$$. Again.
The settlement process should be put on hold until there is a full investigation. Of things like this.
Rosemary Mc
Something similar going on here. It seems that first you raze the ground of pesky citizens etc. and then you make it fit for the footloose wealthy who flow in and fill up all the gaps and the displaced just gasp!
Then there are the digital nomads who want to move freely, find somewhere attractive, miss the bad weather, find somewhere cheaper than home and can replace settled populations of citizens.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/business/digital-nomads-work-tourism.html
https://www.careershifters.org/expert-advice/work-from-anywhere-in-the-world
Having meet and spoken with nick smith on a number of occasions, I’ve found him to be a ‘i’m always right, never wrong’ type of person.
So this came as no surprise….
Select Committee chair Raymond Huo said Nick Smith’s behavior disrupted the committee
Huo said that the committee had accepted the response from the officials that they had nothing to add to their submission.
“From the committee’s point of view all questions and answers were fourthcoming.”
Huo said by holding back the report Smith was letting down his party and the submitters whose voices would now be lost.
“He has not just let his party down but also the general public, including those submitters,” Huo said.
“The Justice Committee is a very busy committee. We have enjoyed a strong level of collegiality, until, very frankly the arrival of Nick Smith,” Huo said.
“He should be the father of the House rather than the bane of the Select Committee.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/105873084/justice-committee-fails-to-report-back-on-waka-jumping-bill
Q9 today…
Hon Dr NICK SMITH to the Minister of Justice: Does he agree with the statements on the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill made by Greens co-leader Marama Davidson on Friday that, “it is a bill which is undemocratic”, and that this bill “does threaten democracy”?
Link for the 2pm live stream
https://www.parliament.nz/en/watch-parliament/
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/105884678/politicians-rate-winston-peters-time-as-pm
bridges appears to call bennett, paula benefit classic .😁
“Benefit and bridges” for President!!!!!!
Yuk no,no,no.
Eh. Another breach of name suppression of a sex abuse victim, the second in only a month or so.
Prison time for you.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/363054/kapiti-councillor-s-supporter-accused-of-breaching-suppression
Yes, that Kerry Bolton.
So, does that mean he expects the judge to understand it from a man’s perspective?
Despite the seemingly constant reports of violence = are we becoming less so when you take an overview.
Posited in recent Reith lecture.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9249f
Good morning NewsHub
Heaps of tangata are looking at house’s on the internet I wonder why .
Mark you had a big wasp nest in your house Eco Maori had another indirect connection to the Block through my old job there will be some who know what I’m on about.
Yes Eco Maori gives Winston Peters a 10 out of 10 for his time as acting Prime Minster .
of Aotearoa .
Duncan just because a government is humane and care about the environment does not mean that they are not a business friendly government they are just going to share the pie more evenly whats so wrong with that.
A strong mind is good to have its good to have a couple of tools to cope with the pressure’s of society looking for the positive thing in most situations being proud of your heritage and the gifts from my tipuna.s
Martin good on your son becoming a teacher yes becoming a grandparent changes the way one see’s life its a eye opener .
Ka kite ano P.S back to chasing my mokopuna.s
This is a positive move for te mokopunas future there would have been more wind farms built they were in the planning stages but some short sighted government decided to invest in coal and got burned .
We need to use all of the green energy options so we can provide a clean green future for te mokopunas link below ka kite ano
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/105862289/biggest-wind-turbines-in-the-country-proposed-for-the-kaimai-ranges
Here we go the the GO OIL PARTY link below do these people have children or mokopuna’s this show’s Eco Maori the care more for money and power than a future for there offspring WTF one is using my hand signs lol Ana to kai link below.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jul/30/america-spends-over-20bn-per-year-on-fossil-fuel-subsidies-abolish-them Ka kite ano
Good evening Newshub there you go big apple grower’s cheating and have been caught they will put Aotearoa bio security at risk just to make more money is what I see.
That’s the way te tangata of the Bell Vista scandal take the Tauranga council to court and expose all the ways the wealthy cheat and the dirty work they do.
That’s the way Chris look out side the square to solve our tradey shortage .
I think its stupid that Air New Zealand is advertising meat free bugers when NZ is a major high quality meat exporter who’s on the board of Air New Zealand he did not look to confident about the prospects of the dingy he bailed on .
Ka pai Qantas Australier for tautokoing Aotearoa Farmers .
Ka kite ano . P.S I can see the blocking or trying to block Eco Maori’s influnce since the national convention. simon with both hands with fingers crossed looks real confident.
Ka kite ano
The Crowd Goes Wild The rugby on the weekend was exciting.
The Warriors Wahine team is a big step up for Wahine sports ka pai.
You will already know what Eco Maori thought of Joseph fight on the weekend
Good on the Big man Steven Adams coming out with his depression problems Ka pai.
Yea M8 I know what its like to have false story being spread about you Ka kite ano
P.S James and Mulls how’s about you two go no pole danceing with the stars . YEA RIGHT