Rachel Smalley stop telling lies about Labour

Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, August 31st, 2017 - 65 comments
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I know I shouldn’t sweat the small stuff, but this piece by Rachel Smalley is full of lies about Labour. On the tertiary education policy:

It’s straight out of Helen Clark’s book on how you win an election. Her last minute decision in 2005 to make student-loans interest free was a masterstroke – it secured her a third term. But it saddled the country with an enormous debt that now sits at more then $14 billion.

It didn’t saddle the country with debt, Labour continued to pay down debt throughout it’s third term. We have a huge debt now courtesy of the global financial crisis and the spending priorities of the National government (mainly the unaffordable tax cuts for the rich).

It wasn’t a policy that was thought through. It wasn’t costed.

It was fully thought through and costed, you can find the costings here. 10 seconds on Google is all it took.

And the economic burden to the country is huge. … a report by the New Zealand Initiative says…

The NZI are a bunch of right wing nuts who write right wing spin. They’re your source for this? Really? Check out the costing link above, not a “huge” cost at all. Smalley then turns to health care:

Clark abolished waiting lists and hundreds of thousands of Kiwis have lived in pain, and have been denied treatment ever since.

Waiting lists were abolished by National in 1996 and replaced with a points-based booking system (ref here, here, here). It is true that the following Labour government effectively removed some “low priority” bookings, but the current National government has done the same and worse. After nine long years the current rundown state of the health system is entirely National’s responsibility.

Rachel Smalley, it’s election year. We the people deserve better journalism than this.

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  1. One Anonymous Bloke 1
    31 August 2017 at 7:15 am

    I wonder if Smalley made up these lies all by herself, or whether she was duped into reporting/believing them by a third party.

    Who knows, there might even be a story in it.

  2. red-blooded 2
    31 August 2017 at 7:46 am

    One assumes that the venerable Ms Smalley doesn’t see a problem with promising post-election tax cuts (yet again). That’s not an attempt to buy votes..?

    This is a partisan hit job on Labour. That’s OK if its claims can be validated, but this article is spin all the way. Sigh.

  3. lprent 3
    31 August 2017 at 7:47 am

    To date I haven’t read anything from NZ Initiative that couldn’t have been drafted from a purely ideological position. They are a toppling over to the right anti-taxation lobby group.

    To be precise, when I read their stuff what I never see is any hint of ANY benefit of applying taxation or government funding to any new proposal. For that matter if you applied their same approach to any investment in any business then you’d literally never be able to grow anything.

    Their approach is purely one of hoarding gold. And in essence hoarders are just a dead weight on political or economic basis.

    About the only difference between them and the so-called “Taxpayers union” is that NZI are simple hoarders.

    They don’t add the additional politically selective bias of the TU in their hypocritical practice of seldom applying the same logic to all parties and operations.

    That makes NZI slightly more useful as a critic than TU. But not much.

  4. UncookedSelachimorpha 4
    31 August 2017 at 8:39 am

    Both NZI, and the Herald are garbage beneath contempt. But “know your enemy”, I suppose.

    “But it saddled the country with an enormous debt that now sits at more then $14 billion.”

    What rubbish. This debt is saddled on the citizenry in either case, whether assigned to a large number of private students or the whole community via the government. Best if it was wiped.

    • Ed 4.1
      31 August 2017 at 8:43 am

      Once upon a time I thought Smalley was an ok journalist- but it’s impossible to get a steady career in the corporate mainstream media if you don’t spin big business ‘s lines.

      • Bearded Git 4.1.1
        31 August 2017 at 10:28 am

        Never thought much of her-more of a newsreader than a journalist. She is showing her true blue leanings in this piece though.

        A real journalist would not tell lies in this way-its called balance.

  5. Neil 5
    31 August 2017 at 8:41 am

    The Herald have given up pretending to be anything other than a trashy Labourphobic propaganda publication, staunchly aligned with the National Party.

    This piece is just one example of the anti democratic ignorance cultivation coming out of this appallingly partisan rag.

    Boycott this rubbish, and tell your friends. https://www.facebook.com/groups/fearfacts/

    #nzheraldwherebalancedjournalismgoestodie
    #nzheraldholdingtheoppositiontoaccountsince2008

    • Ed 5.1
      31 August 2017 at 8:44 am

      Have not bought the Herald for over 5 years.

      • UncookedSelachimorpha 5.1.1
        31 August 2017 at 12:54 pm

        I can’t bear to spend more than a minute on their website – clickbait and trash talk.

    • jcuknz 5.2
      31 August 2017 at 9:36 am

      That is funny Neill because over at Kiwiblog they are convinced the Herald is a den of left wingers plotting the demise of our Nation 🙂

      From my time in the newsroom I guess they must have it just about right. The H not KB 🙂

    • WILD KATIPO 5.3
      31 August 2017 at 12:54 pm

      … ” And the economic burden to the country is huge. 
 a report by the New Zealand Initiative says ”


      OHO ! ,… the New Zealand Initiative , eh ?

      Well now , … if those grubby manipulating neo liberal shitheads start squealing about economic burdens they had best start with themselves then , – instead of putting students who are primarily young in decades of debt and servitude.

      The New Zealand Initiative.

      The original treasonous bastards who backed Roger Douglas and his Mont Pelerin Society mates plunder and steal New Zealand’s assets and wealth and destroy our national sovereignty. Don’t believe me ?…

      THEN READ THIS !!!

      New Right Fight – Who are the New Right?
      http://www.newrightfight.co.nz/pageA.html

      No talk about the NZ Initiative SHOULD EVER be complete without this vital information being taken into consideration , – in fact , – if there was a govt / peoples movement to root out the historically treasonous individuals that originally caused the poverty and break down of our public services and all the wealth being siphoned out of this country , – and make them appear before our courts on treason charges ,- the NZ Initiative would be top of the list and then all the rest of these neo liberal scumbags would be slung on trial by working outwards from there.

      These criminals should be running and screaming and begging for mercy before an angry murderous mob intent on their slaughter rather than sitting in their ivory towers living the high life at our expense dispensing their democracy destroying non advice to gullible people like Rachel Smalley.

    • NewsFlash 5.4
      31 August 2017 at 1:02 pm

      I’ve been hoping the herald would follow the old Auckland Star and disappear into oblivion, albeit, there are many RWNJ’s who support it.

      Unfortunately, globally, most RW “news papers” do not report FACTUAL news, nearly all political content today is nothing more than OPINION

      • tc 5.4.1
        31 August 2017 at 1:12 pm

        They are messaging tools not profitable businesses.

        Murdoch’s leaked financials last year showed this with his newspapers in Oz and thats the nzme/fairfax merger rationale…….cost reduction/consistent messaging.

        • NewsFlash 5.4.1.1
          31 August 2017 at 1:54 pm

          Murdoch just lost big time in Aus over the sale of channel 10, CBS beat them to draw and Turnbull tried to change the rules to allow Murdoch to buy, I think Murdoch lost $600M on that one, good bloody job.

          Murdoch, imo, needs to be removed from any media, in any country, easily the most dangerous individual in the world today.

          • tc 5.4.1.1.1
            31 August 2017 at 2:42 pm

            All his own fault along with billionaire bed fellows gina reinhardt, bruce gordon, james packer and golden child lachlan.

            Turdbull cant pass an eye test let alone laws with a toxic senate cross bench of xenophobic interests…..that’s on malcom also.

    • Tony Veitch (not etc) 5.5
      31 August 2017 at 4:57 pm

      Mark Twain got it right:

      “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed!”

      • Incognito 5.5.1
        31 August 2017 at 10:43 pm

        A sloppy & lazy piece of tabloid ‘journalism’ or disinformation? Has Rachel Smalley ever worked with Mike “Disinformation” Hosking?

    • Muttonbird 6.1
      31 August 2017 at 9:06 am

      Must be an anti-Labour day today for Ad, because you are clueless on what the meme means.

      This is not a ‘trivial article’ distracting from ‘serious news stories’. This is an author discussing shock-jock journalism using false equivalence, and also the quoting of partisan lobby groups as independent sources.

      Today’s example of a ‘trivial article’ is the one about Hosking asking Adern what she’s wearing tonight.

      Please don’t let your jealous squabbles with fellow authors distract you from what’s important. That’d be great.

      • Ad 6.1.1
        31 August 2017 at 9:34 am

        You need to try a lot harder.

        Anthony knows like I do that Labour is now highly likely to win this election.

        Rachel Smalley is the distraction.

        • Muttonbird 6.1.1.1
          31 August 2017 at 9:45 am

          You still don’t understand the meme which you linked to. I assume it’s because you’re not of the age group who grew up with these things. Credit for trying though.

          Also, it’s pretty arrogant of you to state right here that it’s all over and Labour has won. That might well happen but there are many forces against it which you are also presumably aware of and small seeds of dishonesty and subterfuge can grow very quickly in a volatile campaign.

          Just can’t believe you’d air such confidence right now by dismissing the opposition and their attacks.

          • Ad 6.1.1.1.1
            31 August 2017 at 9:51 am

            I have such confidence.

            And with good reason.

            Check the polls in 9 hours.

            • Muttonbird 6.1.1.1.1.1
              31 August 2017 at 9:57 am

              Fine, but it’s naive of you to publicly state this is game over and dismiss discussion about the continued attacks on socially progressive policy.

  7. Dot 7
    31 August 2017 at 8:52 am

    Thank you for your vigilance Anthony.
    I do not listen to Smalley on the radio nor do I buy the Auckland daily newspaper
    because of its history of right wing bias. Was this story printed in the newspaper?
    As a young person in our local peace group, I remember we could never get a letter to the editor printed thirty years ago, sadly no real change.

    • lprent 7.1
      31 August 2017 at 11:18 am

      Who reads the news on paper any more? I will occasionally read a copy lying around the lunch room or a the cafe I frequent while I am at work. But typically I read 3-4 newspapers online in the morning before heading to work.

      • weka 7.1.1
        31 August 2017 at 11:27 am

        I read the ODT if I’m in a cafe, quite like the regional news.

        Lots of small places have weekly papers that are easier to read in print than online because they’re using awful online platforms.

        • tracey 7.1.1.1
          31 August 2017 at 11:37 am

          I read the Press when in a café. But perhaps we are both spoiled by two of the better publications in t he country?

          • weka 7.1.1.1.1
            31 August 2017 at 11:52 am

            This is true! I read the Press if I can find it, and also the Southland Times if it crosses my path.

  8. tracey 8
    31 August 2017 at 8:55 am

    No wonder young people do not vote. When a journalist finally provides something analytical it is in fact more unsubstantiated opinion.

    Well paid celebrity broadcasters seem to be panicking

  9. roy cartland 9
    31 August 2017 at 9:17 am

    “Journalist”, ptooie.

    Wasn’t she the one whose most notable moment was referring to “heifers” and lardos”?

  10. Muttonbird 10
    31 August 2017 at 10:07 am

    But it’s worth pointing out Ardern has had little more than one item a day on her campaign schedule for quite a while.

    – Stacey Kirk

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96340607/live-on-the-campaign-trail

    This is another lie from a right wing journalist in an attempt to paint Ardern as nervous and ill-equipped. I know for a fact she had at least three commitments on Monday at Western Springs College, Penrose, and Gisborne.

  11. tc 11
    31 August 2017 at 10:29 am

    A puppett with a pulpit who wouldnt know how to do the job of a journalist.

  12. ianmac 12
    31 August 2017 at 10:48 am

    Smalley is a blatant liar but will feed the Nat/Act appetite for lies, in the hope of halting National’s slide back into the swamp. Won’t work.

  13. silvertuatara 13
    31 August 2017 at 11:23 am

    It is my belief that the right are well aware that Jacinda is appealing, to many voters, however also strongly to the female voter for a number of reasons, and especially to woman that perhaps have voted in the past 2 elections for parties other than Labour.

    In terms of the recent issues with gender pay equity, what could be more fitting than the population of NZ, strongly reflected in a large percentage of woman voting for Jacinda, not just as the leader of the Labour Party, but as the next NZ Prime Minister on 23 September 2017.

    Such a display would go along way in addressing democratically the issue that gender bias in the current preferred PM contest can be also tackled outside of statute, based on today’s societal values that are espoused as fair, yet have recently been largely retrenched with the lengths National have taken to appease employers in the wake of the Kristine Bartlett case , by effectively making it extremely hard for others to make their cases, through Nation’s subsequent punitive and retrospective legislative changes.

    The main stream media, have seen the back lash in the polls against white middle age reporter/presenter attacking Jacinda’s and other woman’s statutory and human rights on matters that lie firmly in gender. Such public attacks have likely increased Jacinda’s appeal and also engaged more people who believe in the fairness of pay equity to actually support Jacinda as the preferred prime minister.

    I too was shocked with Rachel Smalley’s conclusions in her article, but this does not surprise me in the slightest, with my prediction that leading into the election the right leaning MSM will give a platform to a swathe of right wing leading woman, who will attempt to undermine, Jacinda/Labour, by espousing the line that Labour are too focussed on new taxes.

    The wedge has already been repeatedly planted on this matter over the past 3 weeks in the MSM, and the right will be aware that the female swing voters contemplating voting for Jacinda Ardern as prime minister are now less willing to be manipulated by the likes of Hosking, Soper, Garner, Gower, or any other highly paid male reporter, and therefore watch for the appearance of a slurry of sloppy, inaccurate and biased right wing propaganda being delivered from the mouths/pens and keyboards of right leaning political reporters/commentators.

    The problem for the right is though, is that many young and middle age woman have experienced negatively the gender bias within the workplace first hand, and are not as willing to accept without question as their mothers and grand mothers before them may have done, the validity of historical gender roles that in the past lead to the inequity of pay based on gender alone.

    As a distinct block of voters these same women are now in a powerful position to credibly support Jacinda into NZ’s top political job based on Jacinda’s political tenure and experience, positive attitude and an abundance of the right skills to comfortably assume the role of NZ’s next prime minister, and the political leader of NZ.

    I am therefore hoping that the NZ voting population have the common sense to see through further sloppy, biased and inaccurate reporting leading up to the 23 September 2017, should my prediction be validated with the spread of highly paid (but no where near as well remunerated as their male counterparts) female political reporters/commentators pushing commentary that is not accurate and favoring the political right in a biased way as a consequence of the use of omission or misreporting of the correct facts.

    • popexplosion 13.1
      31 August 2017 at 1:19 pm

      Tax wedge. Hey. If I get govt welfare, super, working for families, etc, then it’s like a tax cut right? Govt taxes the non-old, childless, etc more. That’s unfair. All welfare should be equal, yes every kid too. And lets not forget govt services, wealthy people use customs and diplomatic services, blind people don’t drive, rich people take their yachts and go help hunting, those doc services, coastal services, etc are all subdized. The lower half infrequent use should see better progressive taxes. Like crime, why does a millionarie pay the same fee for speeding, he has the ability to benefit from speding more and to write off the cost. So we heavily provide benefits to fewer and fewer ad inequity grows, in any society rebalancing means higher taxes on wealthy people. Not 200,000 on top up Peters. But the media highly paid front people immediately attack tax rises. As K.Marx predicted. Wealth would pull up the ladder, keep the gains, and moan about any potential loses, higher taxes.

  14. Psych nurse 14
    31 August 2017 at 11:31 am

    When I lived and worked in Dublin 02 to 05 Rachel Smalley was a news reader on Irish TV, therefore she wasn’t here for the events she records as happening. Someone is feeding her rubbish.

    • Wensleydale 14.1
      31 August 2017 at 11:56 am

      Probably the New Zealand Initiative. And people really need to be reminded that the NZI used to be the Business Roundtable (merged with the New Zealand Institute), so they’re hardly a reliable source of objective analysis. Someone really needs to haul people like Smalley over the coals for shit like this. She’s either gullible, disingenuous or incompetent, and as standards of journalism go, it’s pretty abysmal.

    • tracey 14.2
      31 August 2017 at 12:05 pm

      …and she can’t google it seems.

    • dukeofurl 14.3
      31 August 2017 at 12:33 pm

      You are right P N

      from Linkedin: her own words
      Rachel was appointed the first non-Irish news presenter for Irish channel TV3 in Dublin in 2001 – a position she held for two years before moving to London.
      Rachel was a Senior Producer for the multi-award winning Sky News UK for three years during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the 2005 British Election, the death of Pope John Paul II, the July 7th London bombings, Hurricane Katrina, the Bali bombings, the trial of Saddam Hussein, the Avian Flu pandemic, the Lebanon-Israel war and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

  16. McFlock 16
    31 August 2017 at 1:09 pm

    “But it saddled the country with an enormous debt that now sits at more then $14 billion.”

    That seems to be the current level of student loans owed by students. This was not increased by making the loans interest free. It was generated when tertiary education fees were raised to a point that people needed to take out loans to pay them, and allowance eligibility cut so people needed to take out loans to live.

    The damage was done thirty years ago.

  17. Michael 17
    31 August 2017 at 1:41 pm

    More to the point, why isn’t Labour’s campaign team insisting on correction? Isn’t that what opposition spin doctors are hired to do?

    • tc 17.1
      31 August 2017 at 3:24 pm

      Expect the lying to increase.

      It seems labour are taking the positive approach which is risky as the sheeple are easily led by the msm. There’s ample material to bury national with especially on the power gennie flogging, their gutting of health/housing nz etc

  18. North 18
    31 August 2017 at 1:54 pm

    Problematic asserting wilful lying by Smalley….more likely to be the love of the throw away line soundbite that so many of the savoir faire cafe society are into. They employ little else….makes them look authoritative, onto it. Ever scratched beneath the surface of such types. Usually bugger all there. I remember particularly one such of my onetime fairly close acquaintance. Pull them up they acknowledge but then pour enormous energy into detailing what they really meant….which of course is no advance on the shallow soundbite they advanced in the first place. Seems to me they are in the main incumbentists (if there is such a word) who take strength from placing themselves alongside power. So really it’s all about them….no matter what ‘it’ is.

  19. Eric Crampton 19
    31 August 2017 at 1:58 pm

    The many interested fans of the Initiative here at The Standard are encouraged to read our report on zero percent loans:
    https://nzinitiative.org.nz/insights/reports/decade-of-debt-the-cost-of-interest-free-student-loans/

    Long story short: the programme hiked the cost of tertiary education to the government, so it responded by layering on a pile of bureaucratic cost control measures on the tertiary sector and by restricting access to the loans programme in ways that disadvantaged students who faced higher living costs, and older students, and students in longer programmes of study. And if you want the simplest explanation for why the government’s been focused on turning university study into employment training: it’s the cost of zero percent loans combined with a means-tested repayment scheme.

    We argued that, instead of shoveling $600m per year in interest rate subsidies towards students who would disproportionately go on to be richer, the money instead should be split between means-tested funding for tertiary students and greater support for tertiary preparation in lower decile secondary schools that need help in getting their students through to tertiary. We weren’t recommending scrapping the programme to provide tax cuts, we said to flip the money over to things that would be more effective in actually improving access to tertiary education – and would be more progressive to boot.

    It’s a pretty left wing recommendation from what y’all are calling a right-wing think-tank. The shift would mean a pretty substantial transfer from richer and soon-to-be richer university students over to poor schools and poorer students.

    Have a great day!

    • r0b 19.1
      31 August 2017 at 2:57 pm

      I appreciate you dropping in Eric. It’s true that I dissed your report without reading it – assuming it was the source of Smalley’s nonsense (since she cited it). Apologies if I have done you an injustice.

    • WILD KATIPO 19.2
      31 August 2017 at 3:01 pm

      Interesting.

      Yet it was under the auspices of the then Business Roundtable ( now the New Zealand Initiative ) that provided the framework for student loans in the first place, – what ?,… are they now trying to present a new face on the stack of feces that they created to rescue their National party enablers?

      To soften the blow and make it more acceptable looking as it were ?… or has Labour’s policy of taxing multinationals kinda put the wind up the old boys club?

      I seem to remember , … that on one of the documentary’s The Standard provides, – possibly hosted by Ian Fraser , – that it was a particular female member of the Business Roundtable ( NZ Initiative ) who not only was in charge of pushing for private schools , – but also had financial interests in many of them.

      It strikes me and thousands of others that at one stage pre 1984 this country had no problems at all providing free education , – that is , until , a few shady opportunists saw an angle with which to enrich themselves.

      Same goes for our health services, … hell ! … lets go the full hog about this , – how about our rail , power company’s , telecommunication company’s , our forestry , Ministry of Works , banks ,- oh yes our banks – BNZ ring a bell? – or maybe Fay / Richwhite and the Cook Islands?

      And that’s only a few to boot.

      There was a time in this country where our public services created more or less full employment , – and the wages of those workers went in to the local economy and provided tax to finance our social services and keep them world class. Just like our education was.

      AND THERE WERE many , many millionaires in this country .

      But all that wasn’t good enough for the psychopaths who wanted to rape , pillage and plunder this nations wealth ,… oh no ,… so after dreaming up fictitious lies for use as reasons , – primarily the joke about govt ‘ waste’ , of all things, – to justify their theft , they proceeded to use Roger Douglas to do the thieving. And when he was all used up and tossed aside they went on to use Ruth Richardson to complete the job.

      Funny how BOTH Roger Douglas AND Ruth Richardson were active Board of Directors of the Mont Pelerin Society ,…… eh.

      Who were good mates of the Business Roundtable / New Zealand Institute .

      NEW$ZEALAND
      _____________________
      Hon. Sir Roger Douglas <——————————————
      1998, Life$Member

      Mrs. Hanne Janes
      1990

      MONT PELERIN SOCIETY DIRECTORY – 2010

      19/20_ = Year of Membership * = Past President

      Mr. Roger L. Kerr <——————————————————–
      New(Zealand(Business(Roundtable
      1986

      Honorable Ruth Richardson <—————————————–
      Director
      Ruth(Richardson([NZ](Ltd
      1996

      Dr. Bryce Derek Wilkinson
      Capital(Economics(Limited
      2000

      Mont Pelerin Society Directory – DeSmogBlog
      https://www.desmogblog.com/…/Mont%20Pelerin%20Society%20Directory%202010….

      And again ,… Hugh Price of Hugh Price Publishers got their number and called their name out back in the 1980's and 1990's concerning the Business Roundtable / New Zealand Initiative theft of the commons wealth and subversion of NZ' democracy , our Keynesian based social democracy – our SOCIAL DEMOCRACY that thousands of NZ soldiers fought , bled and died to protect .

      Those thousands who fought and died against the very scum sucking NAZI bastards who were the financial and philosophical founders of the Mont Pelerin Society.

      New Right Fight – Who are the New Right?
      http://www.newrightfight.co.nz/pageA.html

      Its time New Zealanders wised up to just whose been behind all of this poverty and massive social breakdown in this country and start demanding action against them.

      • In Vino 19.2.1
        31 August 2017 at 6:14 pm

        Good summary and informative. With you Wild Kaitipo.
        I would add that the Government’s focus is wrong. (Eric Crampton paragraph 2.) This foolish government sees no public good in education, so clamps down on expenditure instead of putting funds where they should go to do some good.

  20. Delia 20
    31 August 2017 at 3:15 pm

    Quite shocked at Rachel, she clearly wants the people to have more slugging from National for another three years.

  21. peterlepaysan 21
    31 August 2017 at 9:05 pm

    There are very few media denizens (I hesitate to use “journalist” or “reporter”) would know what verifying facts/statements means.
    They are too busy grooming their egos as they interview their keyboards/microphones/cameras.
    Alternative facts and fake news is alive and well in NZ.

    Take a bow rachel smalley.

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  • How to Factory Reset iPhone without Computer: A Comprehensive Guide to Restoring your Device
    Life throws curveballs, and sometimes, those curveballs necessitate wiping your iPhone clean and starting anew. Whether you’re facing persistent software glitches, preparing to sell your device, or simply wanting a fresh start, knowing how to factory reset iPhone without a computer is a valuable skill. While using a computer with ...
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  • How to Call Someone on a Computer: A Guide to Voice and Video Communication in the Digital Age
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    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    18 hours ago

  • Skeptical Science New Research for Week #16 2024
    Open access notables Glacial isostatic adjustment reduces past and future Arctic subsea permafrost, Creel et al., Nature Communications: Sea-level rise submerges terrestrial permafrost in the Arctic, turning it into subsea permafrost. Subsea permafrost underlies ~ 1.8 million km2 of Arctic continental shelf, with thicknesses in places exceeding 700 m. Sea-level variations over glacial-interglacial cycles control ...
    Skeptical Science
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  • Where on a Computer is the Operating System Generally Stored? Delving into the Digital Home of your ...
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    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
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  • How Many Watts Does a Laptop Use? Understanding Power Consumption and Efficiency
    Laptops have become essential tools for work, entertainment, and communication, offering portability and functionality. However, with rising energy costs and growing environmental concerns, understanding a laptop’s power consumption is more important than ever. So, how many watts does a laptop use? The answer, unfortunately, isn’t straightforward. It depends on several ...
    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    19 hours ago

  • How to Screen Record on a Dell Laptop A Guide to Capturing Your Screen with Ease
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    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    19 hours ago

  • How Much Does it Cost to Fix a Laptop Screen? Navigating Repair Options and Costs
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    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    19 hours ago

  • How Long Do Gaming Laptops Last? Demystifying Lifespan and Maximizing Longevity
    Gaming laptops represent a significant investment for passionate gamers, offering portability and powerful performance for immersive gaming experiences. However, a common concern among potential buyers is their lifespan. Unlike desktop PCs, which allow for easier component upgrades, gaming laptops have inherent limitations due to their compact and integrated design. This ...
    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    19 hours ago

  • Climate Change: Turning the tide
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    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
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    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    21 hours ago

  • Faxing from Your Computer A Modern Guide to Sending Documents Digitally
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    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    21 hours ago

  • Protecting Your Home Computer A Guide to Cyber Awareness
    In our increasingly digital world, home computers have become essential tools for work, communication, entertainment, and more. However, this increased reliance on technology also exposes us to various cyber threats. Understanding these threats and taking proactive steps to protect your home computer is crucial for safeguarding your personal information, finances, ...
    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    21 hours ago

  • Server-Based Computing Powering the Modern Digital Landscape
    In the ever-evolving world of technology, server-based computing has emerged as a cornerstone of modern digital infrastructure. This article delves into the concept of server-based computing, exploring its various forms, benefits, challenges, and its impact on the way we work and interact with technology. Understanding Server-Based Computing: At its core, ...
    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    21 hours ago

  • Vroom vroom go the big red trucks
    The absolute brass neck of this guy.We want more medical doctors, not more spin doctors, Luxon was saying a couple of weeks ago, and now we’re told the guy has seven salaried adults on TikTok duty. Sorry, doing social media. The absolute brass neck of it. The irony that the ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    21 hours ago

  • Jones finds $410,000 to help the government muscle in on a spat project
    Buzz from the Beehive Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones relishes spatting and eagerly takes issue with environmentalists who criticise his enthusiasm for resource development. He relishes helping the fishing industry too. And so today, while the media are making much of the latest culling in the public service to ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    22 hours ago

  • Again, hate crimes are not necessarily terrorism.
    Having written, taught and worked for the US government on issues involving unconventional warfare and terrorism for 30-odd years, two things irritate me the most when the subject is discussed in public. The first is the Johnny-come-lately academics-turned-media commentators who … Continue reading → ...
    KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
    1 day ago

  • Despair – construction consenting edition
    Eric Crampton writes – Kainga Ora is the government’s house building agency. It’s been building a lot of social housing. Kainga Ora has its own (but independent) consenting authority, Consentium. It’s a neat idea. Rather than have to deal with building consents across each different territorial authority, Kainga Ora ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    1 day ago

  • Coalition promises – will the Govt keep the commitment to keep Kiwis equal before the law?
    Muriel Newman writes – The Coalition Government says it is moving with speed to deliver campaign promises and reverse the damage done by Labour. One of their key commitments is to “defend the principle that New Zealanders are equal before the law.” To achieve this, they have pledged they “will not advance ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    1 day ago

  • An impermanent public service is a guarantee of very little else but failure
    Chris Trotter writes –  The absence of anything resembling a fightback from the public servants currently losing their jobs is interesting. State-sector workers’ collective fatalism in the face of Coalition cutbacks indicates a surprisingly broad acceptance of impermanence in the workplace. Fifty years ago, lay-offs in the thousands ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    1 day ago

  • What happens after the war – Mariupol
    Mariupol, on the Azov Sea coast, was one of the first cities to suffer almost complete destruction after the start of the Ukraine War started in late February 2022. We remember the scenes of absolute destruction of the houses and city structures. The deaths of innocent civilians – many of ...
    Open ParachuteBy Ken
    1 day ago

  • Babies and benefits – no good news
    Lindsay Mitchell writes – Ten years ago, I wrote the following in a Listener column: Every year around one in five new-born babies will be reliant on their caregivers benefit by Christmas. This pattern has persisted from at least 1993. For Maori the number jumps to over one in three.  ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    1 day ago

  • Should the RBNZ be looking through climate inflation?
    Climate change is expected to generate more and more extreme events, delivering a sort of structural shock to inflation that central banks will have to react to as if they were short-term cyclical issues. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāMy pick of the six newsey things to know from Aotearoa’s ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    1 day ago

  • Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links
    The top six news links I’ve seen elsewhere in the last 24 hours, as of 9:16 am on Thursday, April 18 are:Housing: Tauranga residents living in boats, vans RNZ Checkpoint Louise TernouthHousing: Waikato councillor says wastewater plant issues could hold up Sleepyhead building a massive company town Waikato Times Stephen ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    1 day ago

  • Gordon Campbell on the public sector carnage, and misogyny as terrorism
    It’s a simple deal. We pay taxes in order to finance the social services we want and need. The carnage now occurring across the public sector though, is breaking that contract. Over 3,000 jobs have been lost so far. Many are in crucial areas like Education where the impact of ...
    Gordon CampbellBy lyndon
    1 day ago

  • Meeting the Master Baiters
    Hi,A friend had their 40th over the weekend and decided to theme it after Curb Your Enthusiasm fashion icon Susie Greene. Captured in my tiny kitchen before I left the house, I ending up evoking a mix of old lesbian and Hillary Clinton — both unintentional.Me vs Hillary ClintonIf you’re ...
    David FarrierBy David Farrier
    1 day ago

  • How extreme was the Earth's temperature in 2023
    This is a re-post from Andrew Dessler at the Climate Brink blog In 2023, the Earth reached temperature levels unprecedented in modern times. Given that, it’s reasonable to ask: What’s going on? There’s been lots of discussions by scientists about whether this is just the normal progression of global warming or if something ...
    Skeptical Science
    1 day ago

  • Backbone, revisited
    The schools are on holiday and the sun is shining in the seaside village and all day long I have been seeing bunches of bikes; Mums, Dads, teens and toddlers chattering, laughing, happy, having a bloody great time together. Cheers, AT, for the bits of lane you’ve added lately around the ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    2 days ago

  • Ministers are not above the law
    Today in our National-led authoritarian nightmare: Shane Jones thinks Ministers should be above the law: New Zealand First MP Shane Jones is accusing the Waitangi Tribunal of over-stepping its mandate by subpoenaing a minister for its urgent hearing on the Oranga Tamariki claim. The tribunal is looking into the ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    2 days ago

  • What’s the outfit you can hear going down the gurgler? Probably it’s David Parker’s Oceans Sec...
    Buzz from the Beehive Point  of Order first heard of the Oceans Secretariat in June 2021, when David Parker (remember him?) announced a multi-agency approach to protecting New Zealand’s marine ecosystems and fisheries. Parker (holding the Environment, and Oceans and Fisheries portfolios) broke the news at the annual Forest & ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    2 days ago

  • Will politicians let democracy die in the darkness?
    Bryce Edwards writes  – Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 days ago

  • Matt Doocey doubles down on trans “healthcare”
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 days ago

  • A TikTok Prime Minister.
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    Nick’s KƍreroBy Nick Rockel
    2 days ago

  • Texas Lessons
    This is a guest post by Oscar Simms who is a housing activist, volunteer for the Coalition for More Homes, and was the Labour Party candidate for Auckland Central at the last election. ...
    Greater AucklandBy Guest Post
    2 days ago

  • Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links at 6:06 am
    The top six news links I’ve seen elsewhere in the last 24 hours as of 6:06 am on Wednesday, April 17 are:Must read: Secrecy shrouds which projects might be fast-tracked RNZ Farah HancockScoop: Revealed: Luxon has seven staffers working on social media content - partly paid for by taxpayer Newshub ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    2 days ago

  • Fighting poverty on the holiday highway
    Turning what Labour called the “holiday highway” into a four-lane expressway from Auckland to Whangarei could bring at least an economic benefit of nearly two billion a year for Northland each year. And it could help bring an end to poverty in one of New Zealand’s most deprived regions. The ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    2 days ago

  • Bernard's six-stack of substacks at 6:26 pm
    Tonight’s six-stack includes: launching his substack with a bunch of his previous documentaries, including this 1992 interview with Dame Whina Cooper. and here crew give climate activists plenty to do, including this call to submit against the Fast Track Approvals bill. writes brilliantly here on his substack ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    3 days ago

  • At a glance – Is the science settled?
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    Skeptical Science
    3 days ago

  • Apposite Quotations.
    How Long Is Long Enough? Gaza under Israeli bombardment, July 2014. This posting is exclusive to Bowalley Road. ...
    Bowalley Road
    3 days ago

  • What’s a life worth now?
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    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    3 days ago

  • Howling at the Moon
    Karl du Fresne writes –  There’s a crisis in the news media and the media are blaming it on everyone except themselves. Culpability is being deflected elsewhere – mainly to the hapless Minister of Communications, Melissa Lee, and the big social media platforms that are accused of hoovering ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 days ago

  • Newshub is Dead.
    I don’t normally send out two newsletters in a day but I figured I’d say something about… the news. If two newsletters is a bit much then maybe just skip one, I don’t want to overload people. Alternatively if you’d be interested in sometimes receiving multiple, smaller updates from me, ...
    Nick’s KƍreroBy Nick Rockel
    3 days ago

  • Seymour is chuffed about cutting early-learning red tape – but we hear, too, that Jones has loose...
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    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    3 days ago

  • Bryce Edwards: Will politicians let democracy die in the darkness?
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    Democracy ProjectBy bryce.edwards
    3 days ago

  • Was Hawkesby entirely wrong?
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 days ago

  • PRC shadow looms as the Solomons head for election
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 days ago

  • Climate Change: Criminal ecocide
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    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    3 days ago

  • Is saving one minute of a politician's time worth nearly $1 billion?
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    3 days ago

  • Long Tunnel or Long Con?
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    Greater AucklandBy Matt L
    3 days ago

  • Smoke And Mirrors.
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    Nick’s KƍreroBy Nick Rockel
    3 days ago

  • What is Mexico doing about climate change?
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    Skeptical Science
    3 days ago

  • State of humanity, 2024
    2024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay.Do you give up yet? It seems to ask.No? How about this? Or this?How about this?When I say 2024 I really mean the state of humanity in 2024.Saturday night, we watched Civil War because that is one terrifying cliff we've ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    4 days ago

  • Govt’s Wellington tunnel vision aims to ease the way to the airport (but zealous promoters of cycl...
    Buzz from the Beehive A pet project and governmental tunnel vision jump out from the latest batch of ministerial announcements. The government is keen to assure us of its concern for the wellbeing of our pets. It will be introducing pet bonds in a change to the Residential Tenancies Act ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    4 days ago

  • The case for cultural connectedness
    A recent report generated from a Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) survey of 1,224 rangatahi Māori aged 11-12 found: Cultural connectedness was associated with fewer depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms and better quality of life. That sounds cut and dry. But further into the report the following appears: Cultural connectedness is ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    4 days ago

  • Useful context on public sector job cuts
    David Farrar writes –    The Herald reports: From the gory details of job-cuts news, you’d think the public service was being eviscerated.   While the media’s view of the cuts is incomplete, it’s also true that departments have been leaking the particulars faster than a Wellington ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    4 days ago

  • Gordon Campbell On When Racism Comes Disguised As Anti-racism
    Remember the good old days, back when New Zealand had a PM who could think and speak calmly and intelligently in whole sentences without blustering? Even while Iran’s drones and missiles were still being launched, Helen Clark was live on TVNZ expertly summing up the latest crisis in the Middle ...
    Gordon CampbellBy lyndon
    4 days ago

  • Govt ignored economic analysis of smokefree reversal
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    4 days ago

  • True Blue.
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    Nick’s KƍreroBy Nick Rockel
    4 days ago

  • Who is running New Zealand’s foreign policy?
    While commentators, including former Prime Minister Helen Clark, are noting a subtle shift in New Zealand’s foreign policy, which now places more emphasis on the United States, many have missed a key element of the shift. What National said before the election is not what the government is doing now. ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    4 days ago

  • 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #15
    A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 7, 2024 thru Sat, April 13, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week is about adults in the room setting terms and conditions of ...
    Skeptical Science
    5 days ago

  • Feline Friends and Fragile Fauna The Complexities of Cats in New Zealand’s Conservation Efforts

    Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...

    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    5 days ago

  • Or is that just they want us to think?
    Nice guy, that Peter Williams. Amiable, a calm air of no-nonsense capability, a winning smile. Everything you look for in a TV presenter and newsreader.I used to see him sometimes when I went to TVNZ to be a talking head or a panellist and we would yarn. Nice guy, that ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    5 days ago

  • Fact Brief – Did global warming stop in 1998?
    Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. This fact brief was written by Sue Bin Park in collaboration with members from our Skeptical Science team. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline. Did global warming stop in ...
    Skeptical Science
    6 days ago

  • Arguing over a moot point.
    I have been following recent debates in the corporate and social media about whether it is a good idea for NZ to join what is known as “AUKUS Pillar Two.” AUKUS is the Australian-UK-US nuclear submarine building agreement in which … Continue reading → ...
    KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
    6 days ago

  • No Longer Trusted: Ageing Boomers, Laurie & Les, Talk Politics.
    Turning Point: â€œWhat has turned me away from the mainstream news media is the very strong message that its been sending out for the last few years.” â€œAnd what message might that be?” â€œThat the people who own it, the people who run it, and the people who provide its content, really don’t ...
    Bowalley Road
    6 days ago

  • Mortgage rates at 10% anyone?
    No – nothing about that in PM Luxon’s nine-point plan to improve the lives of New Zealanders. But beyond our shores Jamie Dimon, the long-serving head of global bank J.P. Morgan Chase, reckons that the chances of a goldilocks soft landing for the economy are “a lot lower” than the ...
    Point of OrderBy xtrdnry
    6 days ago

  • Education Minister heads to major teaching summit in Singapore
    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 ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 hour ago

  • Value of stopbank project proven during cyclone
    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 ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 hour ago

  • Anzac commemorations, TĂŒrkiye relationship focus of visit
    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 ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 hours ago

  • Minister to Europe for OECD meeting, Anzac Day
    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 ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 hours ago

  • Comprehensive Partnership the goal for NZ and the Philippines
    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 ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    15 hours ago

  • Government commits $20m to Westport flood protection
    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 ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    21 hours ago

  • Taupƍ takes pole position
    The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupƍ as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupƍ International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupƍ Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    22 hours ago

  • Cost of living support for low-income homeowners
    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 ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
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