So here's the question: With Luxon extending direct Ministerial control into so many areas that have previously been protected by entity boards and management layers, is Luxon in fact undoing 1980s New Public Management theory that stripped democratic ...
Ardern reshuffled way too late and too light, so by the end it was just a political laxative. Luxon could do one of these a quarter and enable his bench to play to their peak.
Well at least he's treating his own team with the same disdain he shows for public servants.
+100 Mickey The entire centre and left united and marched for climate and the environment in 2018. Only needs Hipkins and Chloe to talk to start it again. Pick up the phone people.
Hard to disagree with Goldsmith in there. Dry as toast and quite happy for market forces in purest form alter the media landscape. Simmons without any TEC guardrails is turning our tertiary education sector into risible mash. Her blindsided of the ...
That is precisely the kind of political "strategy" this moment doesn't need. Think back to the last time we had a massive all-in protest on the left. No party was so vain as to seek ascendancy. What they did was work together on draft legislation using ...
The very simplest thing anyone can do is call their MP and demand that Green and Labour leaders front to the media with unified attack against this government. That in itself is the signal to unions and NGOs and the newly unemployed thosands that there's ...
It's not a "war", its a disaster. If 5,000 people lost their jobs from (say) the collapse of Fletchers or Fonterra, it would be viewed as an economic crisis so grave that government would form an immediate crisis Cabinet with a plan akin to the East Coast ...
Yes it really was China that keeps pouring money into the UN and UNRWA, China that last month fought back against the Houthis and enabled sea trade to go through the Red Sea again, China that has armed Taiwan to deter invasion, China that just completed ...
These "South Pacific neighbours" Clark wants us to join with are for the most part strongly aligned already with just four countries: New Zealand, Australia, France and the United States. By strongly aligned I mean already part of their territory in a ...
In most respects Muldoon was more Labour than Labour dared to be.
May you never be asked to defend yourself.
... that Putin must lose." He added that the U.S. had...
Oh you propose Mike Johnson for nobility? Mike Johnson of Louisiana has bragged that he doesn't believe in the climate crisis - even though his home state has been ravaged by it. He is comprehensively against abortion in fact calling it "An American ...
Very hard to see a massive and sustained depression in the Wellington region being worth a minor income tax bracket adjustment (unless you're a landlord of course in which case the payoff is stupendous).
But clearly we have too many public servants, and it's bloated because Jacinda hired too many, and they're all unproductive backroom paper shufflers.
Starting the lettuce countdown on US Speaker Johnson now the Ukraine package has a successful vote.
Huge shoutout to all those brave workers at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee who have successfully fought to form a union with the United Auto Workers. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/tennessee-volkswagen-workers-vote-join-uaw-historic-win-...
An adventurous president of either party would propose legislation to make the big tech platforms subject to the same broadcasting regulations as tv news, and subject to publishing libel laws. It's a clear bipartisan need.
This won't be the last time this Cabinet gets in trouble with the judiciary. https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350249617/lawyers-politicians-battle-over-waitangi-tribunals-oranga-tamariki-inquiry And the question that will follow will be: will this ...
As a long time member I am so proud of the role Forest and Bird are playing in both this legislative contest and in the many battles won against stupid major projects. Their latest huge win in the Supreme Court against NZTA is precisely the kind of project...
Well in front of Tarras Airport on the Ministers's approval pile will be the massive open cast gold mine close to Tarras. After open cast comes tunnelling, and best of luck finding A Grade tunnellers in New Zealand. https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-...
Hey congrats but keep your self-satisfied smugness to yourself while thousands of lives are ruined.
We have to go back as far as the late 1980s when Richard Prebble reduced the size of the NZRail work for from 20,000 in 1984 to under 5,000 by 1991. That's the scale Wellington is facing. The poll sugar hit National will get in May's budget will ensure ...
Wellington has very few other industries other than public service. Not much policy work in Weta Workshop. Those fired will be either retiring or moving city. Most are just lost to retirement. Also this guts the PSA's remaining union membership.
2,000 direct job losses in the public sector, and massive cuts to the subcontractor services in design, construction, policy advice, and beyond. This is how to collapse the Wellington region economy for over a term.
Sure makes me wonder what a Labour-Green government could make happen with the same ministerial powers.
Yes I've restricted both my comments and what I comment on for that reason. The right hunt you down.
Impressive to see Shane Jones extolling the virtues of accelerated coal mining consents in order to pay for climate change effects.
I draw the line at dogs. And they need to convince me about cats.
BHN looks great thanks for the link.
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