Obviously, you’re entitled to your opinion and from your history on this site it’s crystal clear that you won’t change your biased views of the Labour Party no matter what anybody would try to provide as counter argument. Even before Labour got in ...
When the Right parents take the right kids out of the right schools for the right reasons that’s ok. When the wrong parents take the wrong kids out of the wrong schools for the wrong reasons that’s not ok. Seymour’s simplistic and cynical proposal is just ...
Not under this Government, but perhaps in the not-so-distant future we might see more of the environment be granted legal status of a person similar to Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017. Such double-sided/dual protection seems ...
BORA is an important piece of NZ legislation; wherever there are humans [living together] their rights need to be protected. You seem to have a warped idea of what human rights are, of why they’re necessary (and vital), and why they apply to all humans not...
“precisely zero”, that’s utter nonsense and B&W arguing of the worst kind, which re-emphasises that you’re a bad faith commenter or just a dimwit. Given that you work in a NZ university, the former seems more likely and I think it’s time to give you a Mod ...
Even BORA is not absolute and there are limitations to it under certain justified circumstances. In addition, breaches of Human Right still occur despite BORA – some of those even by [our] government itself. This doesn’t make BORA worthless and a waste of ...
You continue with your bad faith comments. You argue for absolutism, which is unrealistic and thus unattainable. No government can have or exercise “complete control” and this is just nonsense. The only waste here is you wasting our time, again.
How does a government guarantee everyone a clean, healthy and sustainable environment? This seems to be straw man; the Bill’s wording doesn’t mention a guarantee per se. However, an amendment of BORA would mean affirmation, protection, and promotion of ...
CEO = Cliché Ex Orifice
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Claims were also made by some that the news media was captured by government funding through the pandemic-related Public Interest Journalism Fund. At present, this theme is weaker than last year. Bottom of pg. 27 of the Report.
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I wonder who they will have in Winny's seat … Statler or Waldorf
The Taxpayers’ Onion are such a bunch of disingenuous shit-stirrers aided by useful RWNJs and idiot trolls for spreading their spawn. As usual, they’re trying to connect dots in the time-space continuum by digging wormholes that only exist in their ...
In fact a short article on the Generation Zero site ties together decolonisation here and climate concerns in a manner that resonates with many. Hence why one sees tino rangitiratanga signs at Palestine activities and Palestine signs at climate activities...
One possible approach is to meet somewhere in the middle where top-down and bottom-up deliberation through extensive consultation synthesises explanations and policy proposals that can be understood by most people if they want to. Here’s just one ...
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Because in Aotearoa – New Zealand the people have such rights protected by BORA. This is a political blog site for robust and genuine (political) debate, so why do I see RW trolls here?
No idea either. The comment_parent = 0, i.e., it was a stand-alone comment and not a reply to another comment. You did edit it but that wasn’t the cause either. So, I put it down to human error ;-)
Yeah, the second long paragraph was not a strong analogy, IMO, and going off-topic a wee bit. I don’t consider Left and Right ideologies as equivalent on a simple linear axis (e.g. one of the two axes of political compasses) or, simplistically, the other ...
I find that many Right views & opinions sound very similar to generative AI: persuasive, compelling, and convincing (bordering on manipulative if/when wielded in certain situations targeting certain receptive audiences). However, at the same time they tend...
453 voters from a total pool of 1,486 electors, which is an overall turnout of 30.5%, which is pretty much the mean of all Māori Wards. https://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/Files/Local-Elections/$file/Local-Authority-Election-Statistics-2022-1.xlsm [tab ...
Where exactly am I 'playing the victim's..? Hmmm, let me see: “I was blocked from their site” “Now ..I am not lying” “And it was rose who accused me of 'spreading bullshit'…” I was clarifying for weka that it was not her who said I was lying.. Weka doesn’...
FFS, Phil, are you 5 years old? Stop with this tedious BS and playing the victim and link to what you heard on RNZ Morning Report. Here’s the link to the archive (https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/library), find the episode, find the ...
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Labour 2017-23 shows what too much democracy looks like. Hardly. The only major policies that Labour implemented in this context involved increased centralisation in a top-down approach that hasn’t (yet) trickled down to local level; status quo remained. ...
For the TS records: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/the-house/audio/2018932115/getting-specific-or-aiming-wide-the-tactics-of-question-time Some commenters here might want to educate themselves before they start criticising Left, Right, and ...
We have grown used to democratic and technocratic processes that stop projects or reduce them down, and disempowered elected ministers from carrying out policy that we voted for. The democratic process isn’t limited to and doesn’t stop at (general) ...
so why is it a big deal now? Because of the little Napoleon.
The Standard is a left-leaning blog site after all , with “the values and principles that underpin the broad labour movement” (https://thestandard.org.nz/about/#political_angle). Weekly DR has its own Category here and has been a regular occurrence since 1...
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