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Comment: A different way of doing politics
Written By: KJT - Date published: 5:59 pm, June 29th, 2025
All of the above. Exerbated by blithering idiots who failed science class. Spread by social media and deliberate bad faith repitition, by people who should know better.Comment: Open mike 29/06/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 3:24 pm, June 29th, 2025
... know how well that works. KJT. Random musings on all sorts ...Comment: Open mike 29/06/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 9:11 am, June 29th, 2025
https://substack.com/@susanstjohn2/note/c-128141183?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=ryrbu Imagine how severe this slump would be if NZ Super was not there keeping up the spending in the economy. NZS is a really good fiscal cushion that does its job, other ...Comment: Open mike 27/06/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 4:30 pm, June 28th, 2025
Good gizmo, but very energy inefficient compared with simply running an electric motor from a battery. I suspect the current push for hydrogen is mostly oil and gas producers trying for a use for their soon to be "stranded assets". Just like all the hype ...Comment: Open mike 27/06/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 10:07 am, June 28th, 2025
Ammonia, is, a hydrogen storage medium. Wind very quickly runs into projected area vs stability restrictions. Note that the most efficient money earning wind powered vessels either had/have very light cargos, people/tea, or cargos that were not time ...Comment: Open mike 27/06/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 7:08 pm, June 27th, 2025
Not obvious what else could be done, in the short term, after the Key Government flogged off State houses while still bringing in thousands of people.Comment: Open mike 27/06/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 5:48 pm, June 27th, 2025
Well. Green hydrogen is about the only viable energy storage option for international shipping. Never been very enthusiastic about hydrogen, in any form of storage medium, by the accommodation, Though. Was bad enough transporting petrol in non-inerted ...Comment: Open mike 23/06/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 5:27 pm, June 23rd, 2025
In 1953. Iran. The USA and Britain replaced a democratic Government with a murderous totalitarian Dictatorship, the Shah. For the crime of trying to keep oil revenues in Iran. The current state of Iran is a US fuckup.Comment: Open mike 21/06/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 4:14 pm, June 21st, 2025
Those two at least are out in the open. There are more extreme and even scarier cults under the radar. The "Upper room"?Comment: Open mike 21/06/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 1:14 pm, June 21st, 2025
It also ignores the export costs, transport, marketing and duties/taxes paid to sell to another country. If we pay the same prices as, say, the UK, the sellers are making more profit from us than they are if it is exported.Comment: The West’s War Against Iran
Written By: KJT - Date published: 8:57 am, June 21st, 2025
But if your contribution is just to assign moral blame and perform allegiance, maybe sit down, sit this one out, and let the adults talk. The people caught in the middle deserve better from us: serious and sober analysis. Not slogans. Not outrage. Not ...Comment: The West’s war on Iran
Written By: KJT - Date published: 5:09 pm, June 15th, 2025
No time for the Iranian despots, or any others. Nor did any of many Iranians I knew. However. Israel attacked Iran.Comment: The West’s war on Iran
Written By: KJT - Date published: 9:31 am, June 15th, 2025
Right wing despots like to have a war/external enemy. It takes attention away from their inevitable failures. Both the Isreali Government and Trump'S GOP, need it.Comment: Open mike 11/06/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 3:27 pm, June 11th, 2025
They, are incandescent with rage that people, wellbeing and the future of everyone was prioritised over short term profit for a few. And the majority saw it worked. They are determined that it can never happen again! Then there are the ones who objected to ...Comment: The Thunberg dilemma
Written By: KJT - Date published: 8:39 am, June 11th, 2025
I don't agree. It was a brave attempt to bring attention back to the callous extermination by starvation and bombing, of Palastine. It is as effective as they could make it. There is no guarantee that the Israelis wouldn't react violently. Even though it ...Comment: Open mike 07/06/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 6:25 pm, June 7th, 2025
Extending the corporate rights, in way to many of our trade agreements.Comment: Trump vs Musk
Written By: KJT - Date published: 5:31 pm, June 7th, 2025
That's what two toddlers, who were never properly toilet trained before being allowed in public, look like. The parallels, with NZ'S coalition of cockups is frightening!Comment: BHN and CTU’s Craig Renney on the Budget
Written By: KJT - Date published: 7:25 am, May 23rd, 2025
You could equally say. "cashed up" parents of 18/19 year olds should support their own kids. We did! Unemployment should not be means tested. But neither should super. Means testing 18- 19 year olds parents, just like means testing super, is likely to ...Comment: What would the Greens’ inheritance/gift tax mean for farming?
Written By: KJT - Date published: 5:59 am, May 21st, 2025
17th March 2022 Who's paying for the environmental costs of farming? | News | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Government support for farmers is not limited to tax exemptions. Spending on primary services in 2019/20 was NZ$961 million and ...Comment: What would the Greens’ inheritance/gift tax mean for farming?
Written By: KJT - Date published: 5:44 am, May 21st, 2025
I am looking for where I found the numbers to reference, * but I remember some years ago quoting the average income tax paid by farm owners. I think it was something like $1700. A farmer pulled me up on it and said "that was a bad year, how about in a good ...Comment: Open mike 18/05/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 8:30 am, May 19th, 2025
Both Redmi phone and windows surface tablet. Often have to reopen and close the reply box several times, before I can type anything in it. No problem if I attach a Bluetooth keyboard. But it is both android and Firefox on the phone and windows with edge on ...Comment: Open mike 15/05/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 11:44 am, May 15th, 2025
A lot of the "fleeing capital" is tradespeople and other skilled professionals. You know, the very entrepreneurial types who run and start businesses. Giving up and leaving because our customers are too poor. Land speculators and financial fraudsters ...Comment: Louisa Wall – This Is Not Feminism – It’s Fiscal Evasion Dressed in Lipstick
Written By: KJT - Date published: 11:36 am, May 15th, 2025
Everyone who works as a Teacher, knows that the main reason it is underpaid, both men and women, is because it is considered "women's work".Comment: The worst Finance Minister ever?
Written By: KJT - Date published: 9:18 am, May 14th, 2025
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0107/S00263.htm When Peters at least pretended to be working for NZ.Comment: Open mike 14/05/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 9:06 am, May 14th, 2025
Could try paying people? https://theconversation.com/a-looming-workforce-crisis-in-nz-tourism-and-hospitality-threatens-industry-growth-plans-256212?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Zealand%20Weekly%20-%203371634387&utm_content=New%20Zealand%20Weekly%20 ...Comment: The worst Finance Minister ever?
Written By: KJT - Date published: 8:51 pm, May 13th, 2025
The idiots were the total loons who sold rail in the first place. Making the buy back necessary. Yet another example of why essential infrastructure should not be privatised.Comment: Open mike 09/05/2025
Written By: KJT - Date published: 5:41 pm, May 9th, 2025
Creepily like the Trumpoids statements. Same song sheet?Comment: Dark day for women as Government slams brakes on pay equity to save money
Written By: KJT - Date published: 7:52 am, May 7th, 2025
Don't forget removing the requirement for a living wage from Government contracts. Also.Comment: The Greens’ Industrial Strategy: Green Jobs Guarantee and Ministry of Green Works
Written By: KJT - Date published: 9:07 am, May 2nd, 2025
Aotearoa has been a pioneer in laminated timber for many years. Including fire rating LVL beams for extremely large buildings. Unfortunately plants such as the LVL plant at Marsden point has been run down and sawmills closed. Timber is mostly used as raw ...Comment: The Greens’ Industrial Strategy: Green Jobs Guarantee and Ministry of Green Works
Written By: KJT - Date published: 7:51 am, May 2nd, 2025
Hopefully not the current WINZ stance. That a person MUST take the first job offered, regardless of , abusive or exploitative employers, being a low paid uncertain Mc job, the job preventing a person having time to look for a better position, reducing ...
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The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi is warning that the FamilyBoost changes announced today by Finance Minister Nicola Willis will fail to make early childhood education more affordable for the families who need it most and will instead widen inequities. “The Government has missed an opportunity ...1 week ago
- Unresolved Questions About Epstein’s Paedophile Network
Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal enterprise represents one of the most sophisticated pedophile and blackmail operations in modern history, facilitated by an extensive surveillance network that recorded illicit activities across his Manhattan townhouse, Palm Beach mansion, Little St. James island, New Mexico’s Zorro Ranch, and the New Albany estate. Despite numerous investigations ...1 week ago
- 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #27
A listing of 27 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, June 29, 2025 thru Sat, July 5, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (4 articles) What does climate change mean for agriculture? Less ...2 weeks ago
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- NZ Jewish Council Clarifies Position: Advocating For Safety And Accountability, Not Censorship
Our call was, and remains, for a coordinated, principled, and effective government response to antisemitism, following recent actions taken by the Australian Government. ...20 hours ago - Retail crime advisory group costs $500k in three months
The government is defending the amount of money spent on its retail crime advisory group, but Labour says it is a hard sum of money to stomach. ...20 hours ago - Bougainville election: More than 400 candidates vie for parliament
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist More than 400 candidates have put their hands up to contest the Bougainville general election in September, hoping to enter Parliament. Incumbent President Ishmael Toroama is among the 404 people lining up to win a seat. Bougainville is involved in the process of ...20 hours ago - Lifting advertising restrictions will enable medical conferences in NZ – David Seymour
The Associate Health Minister says medical conferences can happen in New Zealand now, because the government is lifting advertising restrictions on medicines. ...21 hours ago
- Retail crime advisory group spends $500k in three months
The government is defending a half-million dollar spend-up in 100 days by its retail crime advisory group, but Labour says it is a hard sum of money to stomach. ...21 hours ago
- Parliament considering big changes to employment law
Parliament is considering an employment relations bill that would cement contractor status, water down or eliminate grievance claims, and end '30-day rule' requirements. ...21 hours ago
- Scientists could be accidentally damaging fossils with a method we thought was safe
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mathieu Duval, Adjunct Senior Researcher at Griffith University and La Trobe University, and Ramón y Cajal (Senior) Research Fellow, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) 185,000-year-old human fossil jawbone from Misliya Cave, Israel. Gerhard Weber, University of Vienna, CC ...22 hours ago
- Right-wing political group Advance is in the headlines. What is it and what does it stand for?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Riboldi, Lecturer in Social Impact and Social Change, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney Advance/Facebook Political lobby group Advance has been back in the headlines this week. It was revealed an organisation headed by the husband of the Special ...22 hours ago
- We travelled to Antarctica to see if a Māori lunar calendar might help track environmental change
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Winton, Senior Research Fellow in Climatology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Holly Winton, CC BY-SA Antarctica’s patterns of stark seasonal changes, with months of darkness followed by a summer of 24-hour daylight, prompted us to explore how ...22 hours ago
- ER Report: A Roundup of Significant Articles on EveningReport.nz for July 16, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on July 16, 2025. How a drone delivering medicine might just save your lifeSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Centaine Snoswell, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Services Research, The University of Queensland Flystock/Shutterstock Drones can ...22 hours ago
- Have Your Say On The Online Casino Gambling Bill
The bill would establish a licensing regime for online casino gambling to facilitate a safer and regulated online casino gambling market. ...22 hours ago
- How a drone delivering medicine might just save your life
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Centaine Snoswell, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Services Research, The University of Queensland Flystock/Shutterstock Drones can deliver pizza, and maybe one day your online shopping. So why not use them to deliver urgent medicines or other emergency health-care supplies? ...22 hours ago
- Gone By Lunchtime: ‘The one thing they could blow up the government over’
We rattle through the reg stan bill, its advocates, its dissenters, and the tension it has created within the coalition. There has plenty plenty of heat, and occasional shafts of light, in the arguments around the government’s regulatory standards bill (or reg stan bill, as nobody except the Gone By ...22 hours ago - Why it’s important young, unemployed Australians get a good job instead of just ‘any’ job
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Churchill, ARC Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Melbourne Lightfield Studios/Shutterstock We often hear young people need to get a job – any job – but what if the problem isn’t whether they’re working or ...23 hours ago
- Chaos on Courtenay: Inside Ray Chung’s unruly, incomprehensible campaign rally
The controversial mayoral candidate’s rally devolved into a mess of yelling, finger-pointing and claims of assault. I’m not sure where to start. I’m not even sure I understand what I just witnessed. On Tuesday night, Wellington mayoral candidate Ray Chung and his oxymoronically-named party Independent Together hosted a campaign rally ...23 hours ago
- Why do some autistic people walk differently?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Rinehart, Nicole Rinehart, Professor, Clinical Psychology, Director of the Neurodevelopment Program, School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how people’s brains develop and function, impacting behaviour, communication and ...23 hours ago
- Can gas from food scraps fill an energy void?
Proponents of biogas say it has the potential to help fill the shortfall from declining gas fields in this country. ...24 hours ago
- Watch: Minister Erica Stanford makes education announcement
The Education Minister says all new classrooms will be designed in a flexible way to ensure better student outcomes. ...24 hours ago
- Govt to halt ‘pricey, pointless’ council planning work ahead of RMA overhaul
Chris Bishop says much work now underway will be outdated by the time the new regime takes effect. ...24 hours ago
- Two New Bills Show Cross-Party Support For Modern Slavery Laws – Parliament Needs To Act!
World Vision’s Head of Advocacy and Justice, Rebekah Armstrong, says there are aspects of both bills that are very similar which shows that MPs from both sides of the house want legislative change to combat forced labour, worker exploitation, ...1 day ago
- ‘Immersed in stacks of picture books’: Isobel Joy Te Aho-White’s reading life
Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional, in which we get to know the reading habits of Aotearoa writers, and guests. This week: Isobel Joy Te Aho-White (Ngāti Kahungunu, Kāi Tahu), illustrator of three books up for awards at the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. ...1 day ago
- Government announces $600,000 support package for flood-affected farmers
The government has given the Mayoral Relief Fund $300,000 for the Nelson Tasman rural sector. ...1 day ago
- Echo Chamber: Shane Jones, greatest ever Australian politician?
Nearly 30,000 New Zealanders crossed the ditch last year. Could the minister for resources be next? Echo Chamber is The Spinoff’s dispatch from the press gallery, recapping sessions in the House. Columns are written by politics reporter Lyric Waiwiri-Smith and Wellington editor Joel MacManus. The last time the 54th parliament ...1 day ago
- Local Government New Zealand Hits New Low
LGNZ are gaslighting ratepayers. So desperate to defend rates having gone up by more than 34 percent over the last three years – two and a half times the level of inflation – they now plan to spend ratepayer money to fight ratepayers. ...1 day ago
- The shocking truth behind the death of Jaffas – a Spinoff investigation
Claire Mabey uncovers a giant Jaffas conspiracy. “You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.” – Joni Mitchell in a song that was later covered by Counting Crows. “You don’t know what you’ve got til you realise you never had it.” – Claire Mabey Content warning: What I am ...1 day ago
- How to approach going to the cinema like a philosopher
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alain Guillemain, PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Deakin University Philosophy is the study of fundamental questions about reality, knowledge, and values. One “does philosophy” when they respond to such questions in ways that engage critical thought and inquiry. Many of us will often ...1 day ago
- Australia’s census is getting a stress test – keeping it going is good for everyone
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Allen, Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University GoldPanter/Shutterstock The Australian Bureau of Statistics will roll out a large-scale census test next month. About 60,000 households will take part across the country to stress test the bureau’s ...1 day ago
- How safe are the chemicals in sunscreen? A pharmacology expert explains
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Musgrave, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide aquaArts studio/Getty Last week, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) released its safety review of seven active ingredients commonly used in sunscreens. It found five were low-risk and appropriate for use in sunscreens ...1 day ago
- Control fire and ferals in Australia’s tropical savannas to bring the small mammals back
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alyson Stobo-Wilson, Research Adjunct in Conservation Ecology, Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Alyson Stobo-Wilson In remote central Arnhem Land, finding a northern brushtail possum is encouraging for the local Indigenous rangers. Though once common, such small ...1 day ago
- Florida is fronting the $450M cost of Alligator Alcatraz – a legal scholar explains what we still ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Schlakman, Senior Program Director, The Florida State University Center for the Advancement of Human Rights, Florida State University Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis leads a tour of the new Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention facility for President Donald Trump and U.S. Department of ...1 day ago
- Coalition rift opens over UN letter as Seymour defends rogue response
The Act leader’s unilateral reply to the UN has exposed fresh cracks in the coalition – and created a clean-up job for Winston Peters, writes Catherine McGregor in today’s extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Letter row underscores coalition strain David Seymour’s ...1 day ago
- As house prices drop, will the retirement nest egg still be such a safe bet?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Dale, Research Fellow, the Pensions and Intergenerational Equity (PIE) research hub, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau MonthiraYodtiwong/Getty Images Changes to KiwiSaver, global economic uncertainty and predictions house prices could drop by as much as 20% by 2030 all mean ...1 day ago
- Scandal, division and rumours – Gore District Council’s tumultuous term
Watch: RNZ checks in on what's been a tumultuous term and looks ahead to what October's election might hold. ...1 day ago
- Protest or court? The war against private helipads plots its next move
After a four-year process, a controversial helicopter landing site at the Westmere home of rich-listers Anna Mowbray and Ali Williams has been approved. What does that mean for their neighbours and the rest of Auckland? On a dark and stormy Thursday night last week, more than 100 people gathered at ...1 day ago
- Te Pūkenga loses over $80m in funding, 855 staff ahead of disestablishment
The exact number of job losses at Te Pūkenga can now be revealed, as the mega vocational education institute prepares to be split into 10. Mega-institute Te Pūkenga has lost over $80m in funding and one in 10 staff as the nation’s largest vocational education provider prepares to be split ...1 day ago
- Have we lost the art of the argument?
It’s a whole-of-politics problem – but is more vexing for the left, because it is progressives who seek change most profoundly. Duncan Greive attempts to persuade you all. There’s a clear and present danger in contemporary politics – which is conducted on global platforms and accessible from anywhere – to ...1 day ago
- Mini crossword, Wednesday 16 July
The post Mini crossword, Wednesday 16 July appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 day ago - Starlink approved for military use in NZ
Months-long process to obtain Starlink for unclassified communications seemingly veered off course after concerns were raised by information security director The post Starlink approved for military use in NZ appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 day ago
- Cheap Chinese peaches on Govt’s menu once again
Heinz Wattie’s convinces Govt to reinvestigate its claim that discounted Chinese peaches are damaging domestic industry The post Cheap Chinese peaches on Govt’s menu once again appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 day ago
- Cuisine Mag partnership launches food ‘expeditions’ at up to $20,000 a person
Cuisine editor says expeditions are a premium product targeting food-obsessed Kiwis and high-end tourists who ‘travel to eat’ The post Cuisine Mag partnership launches food ‘expeditions’ at up to $20,000 a person appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 day ago
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