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Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 10:58 am, December 29th, 2024
Scare mongering by the right who are trying to suggest the public has no commonsense and that the right to juries should be diminished. Just part of a continuing attack on democratic rights. The fact is it is up to the prosecutors to build a case and ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 9:50 pm, December 25th, 2024
Kāinga Ora is quietly planning to sell over $1 billion worth of state-owned land under 300 state homes in Auckland’s wealthiest suburbs, including around Bastion Point, to give the Government more fiscal room to pay for tax cuts and reduce borrowing. https ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 9:43 pm, December 25th, 2024
By a strange co-incidence I'm watching Poldark..............Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 10:24 am, December 25th, 2024
Our Christmas albums we play are The Very Special Christmas ones - sadly only the first one on vinyl. Volume 2 has a sublime version of Dylan's I Believe In You by Sinead O'Connor. Sadly gone but not forgotten in this house at least. Faith and Courage one ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 1:55 pm, December 12th, 2024
A friend of mine, just happened to be at university with her, and said she was most horrible person in class. This was said unprompted and well before she was even an MP. I should catch up and ask if she thinks she has improved any.Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 12:57 pm, December 12th, 2024
What if it isn't state sponsored interests working against our interests but non-state wankers like Atlas? Can we jail them?Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 2:18 pm, December 11th, 2024
Trade agreements likely prevent local subsidisation. I've always felt this is a crock though as the local dairy can buy stuff cheaper from the supermarket than they can directly from the wholesaler. Seems corporate discounts are fine when they want them to ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 4:11 pm, December 9th, 2024
Sometimes just returning home is enough. One of the saddest stories I've ever read in a newspaper. It has always stuck in my mind alongside a couple of similar events. Uncle James Tumarae said his nephew had been "tied up with the Mongrel Mob" for a while, ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 2:19 pm, December 9th, 2024
When rap came out an interviewer - I think it might have been Parkinson - asked a rap artist why the lyrics were about guns and shooting, and hate for the police. His response was clear - I write about the environment I grow up in. You want to change my ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 8:39 pm, December 8th, 2024
So I'm a young Maori kid on a bootcamp being used as a demonstration PR stunt for a government that outwardly hates Maori, poor people and The Treaty of Waitangi. I'd be pretty incentivised to make sure it didn't work rather than be a National Government ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 11:03 am, December 6th, 2024
This will be interesting. The next emerging issue, although already present, will be the management of wilding pines coming from all those planted pine plantations purely for carbon credits - with little intention to harvest as you will have to pay credits ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 7:01 am, December 3rd, 2024
Nah. Rich people just put houses in family members names to have more first homes. Same with shares when they sell public assets - one for hubby, one for wife, one for each kid. I remember way back when they were overvaluing property to get excess capital ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 4:17 pm, December 2nd, 2024
While I'm in favour of turnover taxes there is no reason to try and event new taxes. Death duty, stamp duty on all house sales and higher tax rates on higher income have worked fine in the past and can work fine again. I'm fine with stamp duty on the ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 9:23 pm, November 30th, 2024
The DHB model also pushed privatisation by being unable to move patients as easily between DHB's to maximise capacity. You also get kicked out sooner in private - family member had varicose veins stripped done at public expense in a private hospital, got ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 6:10 am, November 29th, 2024
Except we are not really growing food to feed ourselves in NZ - we are growing food to sell overseas - so who cares really when we pay less for imported stuff than the premium we pay for local stuff. The landowners don't care either - they are happy to ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 2:47 pm, November 18th, 2024
The world is divided into three groups: people who like CP, people who loathe them, and those that don't know. Someone had to replace Everclear.Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 8:33 am, November 15th, 2024
I often see stories like this from a older particularly male generation who are the same who complain about young people and Maori sense of entitlement. They truly want the world to revolve around their wants and reckons. He could of course buy a little ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 2:19 pm, October 31st, 2024
Yep we're so much better off now that Trump and others opened the door for racist people to feel free to spout their vitriol, for cookers to spout their conspiracy bull-shit. It used to be I never got invited back when I challenged sexist and racist views ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 11:52 pm, October 29th, 2024
Tis less about the workers and more about the unions not wanting to be bankrupted in my view. But yeah they were much tougher back then. I still know the scabs who worked when we striked. I still have no time for them.Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 2:12 pm, October 28th, 2024
Yeah was talking to some young ones the other day about going on strike for better conditions and pay. They had no idea that such a thing could happen. Now if only we had a workers party who when in power would give is that right back. All unions currently ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 8:23 am, October 26th, 2024
Wonder if all those empty houses and conversions to B&B in wealthy suburbs end up showing as population drops.Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 4:01 pm, October 22nd, 2024
Likely worse. People will come out more hardened and bitter and their families will also be more dysfunctional in many cases. Even simple things like bring you "Dad to school day" can have quite significant impacts on children who can't cause their dad is ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 1:53 pm, October 22nd, 2024
So the right organised themselves to submit en mass Where was the left.? 771 submissions - not a lot of organised response when the chance was there. Iwi, Greens, Labour, .....Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 12:18 am, October 22nd, 2024
Why 12 months? Older people in particular have a torrid time finding work - esp in rural areas. Many will never work again if laid off in their 50's. 60 to 64 year olds once got super. Super also once allowed you to include younger spouses - Labour removed ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 12:10 am, October 22nd, 2024
My mistake - my thicker neural pathways still had him associated with the PSA. Point remains - unions should be buying into this. More cost shifting from employer to worker.Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 3:45 pm, October 21st, 2024
If these companies are so profitable how come the workers are so poorly paid? As I've noted previously the loan scam is exactly how a friend of ours pays no tax on his income. Just borrows more against the increasing capital value each year. Repay when you ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 11:50 am, October 20th, 2024
Even the PSA is buying into Jacinda's COVID assistance view that workers who lose their jobs should be treated better than existing beneficiaries. Deserving poor and underserving poor. Fuck Wagstaff and Labour. Maybe if you and other unions hadn't caved in ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 10:35 am, October 19th, 2024
We've seen here various National stooges caught on-line pretending to be left wing extremists in order to garner disdain for the left (usually be accidently forgetting which account they were logged in to) but when money is involved you can take it to a ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 10:01 am, October 19th, 2024
Aye and snapping up that wicket right at the end strengthens our position leading into tomorrow. Just hope we don't snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as we have done a few times in the last ten years.Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 1:00 pm, October 18th, 2024
I'd limit that to only the first 2.5 years of a term. I'm quite OK with forming new alliances, becoming independant, etc ahead of an election if a list member feels a party has moved too far from where they once were (or them themselves have)
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