Yea, I think that's right. People will grouse to Labour because they know Labour will listen, people won't grouse to National because they know they won't listen and so just do their own thing anyway. It just means that National/Act will have to get more ...
What drivers are these? The protests were nominally about the requirement for people to be vaccinated if they held jobs that faced the public aka "the mandates". And then it became a hodge-podge of diverse protests without any coherency and shadow protests...
We have to do something in the mean time, may as well be well-read rather than ignorant.
I still think Putin got Iran to instigate the Palestinian attack to divert attention from Ukraine. On the face of it, the Palestinian attack looks like idiocy until you look at it while thinking about who is allied to who. The problem is that Hammas ...
Actually this adage is probably more apt. Campbell's law: the more important a metric is in social decision making, the more likely it is to be manipulated.
In one respect it will be good. In the high decile schools, you'll be able to see the spikes in non-attendance around holiday times. People don't want to pay for peak-season flight costs. The real problem is that people will game the system. Kids with ...
The thing is National isn't fit for office either. I guess another thing is the back-breaking bureaucracy of getting the ECE rebate. If anything gives away that they have no idea about scale and still have small business mindsets then that is it.
Yea, if you want to see who they owe their allegiance and funding too, then it's pretty clear.
Another dumb move by this govt is the ECE rebate that you have to get by submitting invoices to IRD. That's about the dumbest way to do it ever and so open to fraud. The people with the most social capital will do it and the people who need it the most ...
The golden rule is that you don't cut govt spending during a recession. It just makes everything worse. Cutting spending to give tax cuts to the rich is insane - as a time of instability the rich will just put the money in the bank where it doesn't help ...
The value of rental housing just went up. The risk has gone up not down.
If a kid chases a ball towards the road and an adult grabs the kid to stop him running onto the road - is that assault or is that physical contact to avert risk of an accident? Intent is important. It's like the Japanese subway - they have marshals to push...
For there to be an assault there has to be intent. Did the elderly women push/poke the other person to cause her physical harm or to try and keep some sort of social order (perhaps so there wouldn't be greater harm)? To me it sounds like she was trying to ...
She is there to get name recognition. If she fails spectacularly it won't matter because in four years time it will be her name that is remembered not the outcome.
I would guess Iran is playing to Russia's tune. Russia got the world off it's back over Ukraine when Iran set the Palestinian attacks on Israel in motion. What's the bet some rubles changed hands to get that going.
Her lawyers will be telling her to keep quiet. And if you think that is from a position of guilt watch this illuminating video from a defence lawyer who recommends never talking to the police even if you are innocent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-...
I guess not, he'll just recommend choking it to death as he tried before... https://www.greens.org.nz/greens-call-bill-english-stop-disciplining-housing-new-zealand
The "decline" is against international tests that test things in a way we don't teach or test, or new countries that selectively put kids into the tests. Overseas they tend to put an emphasis on very exacting, rote learning while NZ tends to put much more ...
David Seymour was silly to let Winston have first go at Deputy Prime Minister. What's the bet there will be a new election before Seymour gets his shot.
I think Luxon will change his mind because more time in the chamber is more time for Labour/MP/Greens to make them look bad. And time in the chamber is not their only working time. It's just fixed hours while time outside the chamber is more floaty which ...
There might not be any evidence for the two occurrences but the likelihoods of those occurrences happening are distinctly different. Who has the most to gain by crapping on ACT - National - National want their voters back. I have to say whoever put ...
The big deal is the undecideds. I have seen polls take big swings when the undecided firm up their choices. There is nothing Labour can do about the economic position as we are screwed by global trends with the added bonus of unfortunate weather events. ...
Universities were never in a position to make themselves sustainable. There are all sorts of crazy rules about how much loss or profit they can make (~3% per year) that means that every year is a scrape to get into the margin. There is no ability to build ...
House prices are only falling because interest rates are going up. People are still shelling out the same amount of money, just more of it is going to the bank in interest. What people need is for interest rates to go down and for house prices to go down. ...
Links, please. Directly quoted speech preferred.
Probably suicide counts are the best way to measure mental health distress at that time. Although they are probably undercounts since there was still quite a stigma to committing suicide.
Selling the airport shares is insane. You don't sell something that is giving you a profit unless it's for something that makes you a bigger profit. Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for life. Someone wants Auckland...
Wikipedia has a nice page on how gender evolved from it's meaning as terminology in describing language to it's use in academia to talk about the socio-political roles of women rather than the use of sex, as in the science/medical sphere, where it's about ...
You'd actually think there had been a lot of govt focus on Auckland rail given they are spending $5.493 billion on the City Rail Link, on top of all the work they have previously done to link up the south and east/west rail networks. But Aucklanders gotta ...
That's because, almost 60 years ago, they were using gender to have a different meaning then it has today. People separated into groups by sex or gender gave identical groupings but sex was related to their physical being while gender related to their ...
But some cultures could calculate square roots and some couldn't and that made a difference in what they could build. And buildings matter to culture - for law, government and arts.
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