What’s cruel and divisive is that the problems with the no-debate crowd have long been raised by very brave biologically sexed women and females has resulted in perjorative slurs being developed and thrown at those biologically sexed women and females ...
One of the interesting things about this comment thread: Women - biologically sexed, are commenting in good faith and highlighting the actual and real concerns. Men - as usual, not affected by the encroachment onto women’s spaces by men wanting to be women...
Johnr - because LPrent owns the standard he considers it gives him absolute license to be abusive and small minded and be a bully to people on here, which is totally against the rules here. however, none of the mods pull him up against it no matter how ...
Cannabis is not addictive. the 10% finding is likely a result of those who do chop - cannabis mixed in with tobacco. such users get addicted to the nicotine in such a mix. cannabis itself has no addictive properties.
People go to prison as punishment, not for punishment. putting them under lock and key already curtails them of their freedom. there is no good public policy reason why prisoners should not be able to vote. Taking away one of their civil rights when they ...
Thanks Robert. my guess is no Randian will respond given how few of them seem to have read the book (although that is based on my limited experience) but even David Seymour has said he hasn’t read the book. Anyone who believes the private sector is better ...
I struggled through Atlas Shrugged. Most of the novel was a turgid maelstrom of fantastical thinking insofar as private enterprises would deliver social goods better and cheaper than the public sector. halfway through, the diatribe really doubled down on ...
Wealth tax is rather hard to quantify effectively given that stores of wealth in shares, property, etc can be variable in nature. Add to that, the difficulties in finding the sources of wealth due to the various ownership structures of trusts, companies, ...
I think new MP's that sit on the backbenches should only be paid the average wage of around $55k for their first year, with CPI increases each year of their first term. If they get back in again in the second term, then they get usual backbench salary of $...
Instead of Q-individuals why not Qindividuals Indiquiduals Inquiduals
I believe he was referencing Winston meeting with Labour plenty of times in 2017 toward the end of negotiations - not now.
Not really. Under MMP there is more than one way to skin a cat. It is old media thinking that constantly frames Labour or National as the two main parties around which all others orbit. For example, NZ1, Greens, and TPM have not said they would not work ...
Imagine Green/TPM/NZ1 as a minority govt with 35 seats and Labour impliedly offering C&S on budget, but not part of any formal coalition or agreement. On current numbers, total is about 67 seats… none of the aforementioned 3 parties have ruled out working ...
Careful Roy dont forget you need at least 3 verified sources and footnote your comments to put anything referencing things that can be found using a 2 second google search or has been repeated elsewhere by multiple news sources!
I don’t come to open mike to read hard hitting facts and analysis. I come to open mike to see what people are thinking and what opinions people have on the news of the day. I don’t want to be assaulted by a page of links and screeds of detailed analysis. ...
Comment makers are now expected to supply the same level of detail as a post maker. Notwithstanding that in the main, many commentators have a brain, and are most likely to have read the news or in the event that a reference to something is made, will be ...
No. It doesn't matter how much you earn, the super amount remains the same. Its why I am a fan of income testing (not asset testing) with superannuation paid by IRD as they can easily verify whether in any one fortnight your income will break the threshold...
The problem, Robert, is that it is male voices who are amplifying the rhetoric against females from speaking out. When it comes to KJKM, the majority of talking heads were men. It was men saying she shouldnt talk. It is men who are making the oft baseless ...
Dunno that Lal deserved it. He is not a transgender person; just a lost soul. Rainbow Labour circa 2004 has been pushing for the ban on conversion therapy. Lal was just another brick in the (stone)wall before it was banned. Utterly undeserved.
Feels like the last few days on twitter has been full of performative heteros telling the “other” queers who voice dissenting views as to the abhorrent way that the TRAs acted on 25 March. Its notable that the performative heteros tend to say how they ...
Any “landlord” knowing there is a fixed cost ought to have their mortgages fixed at the lowest rate possible for the longest period. Add in roughly 10% for yoy increases for rates and insurance, and annual maintenance of roughly 5% of property value, its ...
That is not what TOP said at all. If your various top ups mean you get more than what the UBI is, you keep it + UBI. If your various top ups etc are less than UBI, then UBI replaces it (i.e. you receive more with a UBI). So there is no disadvantage to ...
Thats the one. Golly, 2010 seems a lifetime ago now. I would support that (and I suspect given the uber profits being made by MNCs) as would many other voters. Expanding ACC to cover illness and disability is a no brainer.
Darien Fenton had a redundancy bill prior to 2008 that I believe got to first reading. that put the onus of paying redundancy squarely on the employers (where it should be) the rationale was that if MNCs made employees redundant, they would be more ...
Latest RM poll not good for Lab/Grn. Will be interesting to see if Chippy stems the tide. https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/9152-nz-national-voting-intention-december-2022
Secondary tax has been removed with the tax codes now much more reflective of the current earning rates. That took effect a few years ago. However, the downside is that people now working more than 1 job may potentially end up with a tax bill at the end of...
If you want booths, there is nothing stopping the elected councillors from choosing that option under the Local Electoral Act 2001. the question then becomes whether either of the two private companies contracted to the local councils have the ability, ...
Correct me if I’m wrong but I understood that Douglas was a sell out at the time of the Employment Contracts Act 1991 in that he decided that the past of least resistance was the best choice, and that led to the destruction of working conditions. Much ...
Her brother is Johnathon Young who once was a national party MP for New Plymouth, iirc
Glad to see people are coming around to my (nearly) 2 year old view of Kiri and Kieran. https://thestandard.org.nz/what-should-labour-do-in-the-next-three-years/#comment-1762086
There are two of us. One vegetarian. I only eat chicken as the cheapest meat. We go to the open air market for veges (farmers market in NZ is an oxymoron as it’s essentially just artisanal items for the audi set). Our weekly shop is no less than $185. We ...
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