Ah, but prove he was driving it at the time ....
It also benchmarks in case it wasn't obvious that Maori business are no friend of liberal causes Green, Labour or TMP. Those people are businessmen first and foremost, whose Maoriness is largely incidental.
According to Wikipedia, they lost their charitable status in 2022.
What, no formal Mod Note for Mr Vercotti Sanctuary's comment?
I too detest this mindless tribalism. No one person or party has a monopoly on good ideas (or bad ones).
Data that's specifically about persistent (i.e. long-term and/or inter-generational) poverty is no longer being collected: https://www.stats.govt.nz/help-with-surveys/list-of-stats-nz-surveys/about-the-living-in-aotearoa-survey/ As Kate Prickett remarks in...
"Taxes on unrealised gains are an accountants dream and the publics nightmare." Taxes on unrealised capital gains were tried in the UK nearly 60 years ago, via an outfit known as the Land Commission. It was a fiasco. The way it was set up. people were ...
Rule One for drafting questions to be included in a poll: don't use hypothetical ones!
I've held aloof from the GI debate so far, mainly because of a personal conflict. On the one hand I want to be tolerant of non-binary people, but on the other I'm unconditionally supportive of cis-women's right to be unmolested by male-bodied bullies of ...
Queue Cue.
But serious deforestation only began around 300 years ago. Even earlier than that, I believe. Population of the British Isles AD1600 is estimated at around 6.5 million, less than a tenth of today's. But already by then forests - an essential resource for ...
As I said five years ago: https://thestandard.org.nz/what-if-trump-wins-again/#comment-1676109 The de-education process has continued in the meantime, with the Covid pandemic providing an accelerant.
.... because they knew damn well he would probably try to restore BAU, pre-war style - a prospect up with which they were determined not to put.
Predictions: * prescription fees return * independent (community) pharmacies have no choice but to charge them * meanwhile, big international chains like Chemist Warehouse refrain from charging them because they can afford the temporary dip in cash flow, ...
And most importantly, it damages our chances of getting an implementation of the Treaty that we can all agree to. Classic extremist technique - don't take out the opposition (it's needed to justify your own existence). Take out the bridge-builders instead,...
He seems to enjoy creating controversy where none is necessary. Straight out of the Trump playbook. All done to distract attention; while the media zoom after the "story" like a lot of reef-fish, the real dirty-work is being done by others, elsewhere and ...
Which one? There's at least two which are pretty incendiary.
Poor Fiona - from the Antiques Roadshow to that antic toadshow.
Trouble is, even when wheels start to fall off, the vehicle can still sort of keep moving, tearing up a lot of road surface as it goes.
Mr Luxon on comparing a trainee police officer's pay with the amount he was trying to claim as an accommodation allowance: “Well just just say I think conflating those two issues is a bit unfair.” Of course, neither he nor any of his coalition colleagues ...
Nothing much changes, does it? Almost 50 years ago there were two political scandals, one on each side of the spectrum, but with very different outcomes. 1976: Colin Moyle, tipped by some as a possible future leader of the Labour party, gets hounded out of...
Agree totally, Res. The Greens (and other centre-left parties) can't afford any more f***-ups of this sort. Even if Ms Tana is eventually exonerated - and properly, not just on some legal technicality - enough mud will have been slung in the meantime for ...
Thanks, KJT. I remember reading about that business at the time. It was the mention of Fiona K (a former acquaintance of Obtrectatrix, no relation to Joanna K) that had me wondering.
Can we have a link to the Kidman/Campbell item as well? I must have missed it.
Sounded more like an AI-generated voice-over than anything! So little variation in pitch or speed of delivery. I don't think he was putting it on, though. There was the odd rolled "r", but that had probably been absorbed unconsciously by osmosis during his...
I can't see how opposing things in itself makes a credible government. It doesn't. Which is one reason Labour came such a cropper last October, defining themselves in effect as opponents of the party that opposes things.
The first Speaker to do away with that silly business of feigned reluctance to take on the role. Good for you, Jon.
I have a busy and rather complicated life that doesn't leave much time for extensive reading or deep analysis. So I'll just throw out these thoughts and leave it to others to do the picking-over. It seems to me that in some ways we're regressing to a kind ...
All very well .... unless those contracts are set up in such a way as to incur ISDS proceedings against NZ should they be terminated. A recent example involving the USA's next door neighbour: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/31/how-a-us-...
Actua-Lee?? Gotta be joking. She is improving, though. Checkpoint finally got her to front up for an on-air interview the other day, and we were treated to only 36 occurrences of her most characteristic verbal tic in that 9-10 minutes.
It's the market, stupid: https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350201635/parliament-gouged-over-bowen-house-rent-brownlee-says?cx_testId=1&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=5&cx_experienceId=EXLK9YLJ8JM4&utm_content=end-of-article-test&cx_qa=true#cxrecs_s
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