Sunny will not be happy until we have summary executions for ram raiders. I'm probably going to be banned for saying this, but a lot of these migrants seem to bring over some of their attitudes from their home country, ie no due process, police brutality, ...
I have read the Te Huahua report. It is basically waffle with no concrete policies proposed.
Speaking of Tankies, it always amuses me how they really think that Putin is a communist who wants to bring back the USSR. Essentially this is the equivalent of supporting Franco's Spain and Pinochet's Chile in the 1970's. Putin has trashed the USSR and ...
You too Mary. have a great Xmas -- and that goes for the rest of the posters here, even the admins, who have largely banned me from commenting over the course of 2022. Looking forward to pulling out all the stops in 2023 to make sure that Labour gets a 3rd...
LOL. Vector's network isnt exactly gold plated. Ask any Aucklander when a storm comes.
On Dec 31, 1983, we had the Ministry of Works, DSIR, Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Transport, etc. These were all larger than most current government departments, with most functions done in house (if you were to belive Prebble, et al, the Ministry of ...
Hopefully not the last Xmas under a Labour government.
Most of those ministries you listed are policy advise ministries, which at the most, would just take up a single floor in an office block. The Department of Conservation is effectively the non commerical arm of the NZ Forestry Service which was broken up ...
It would have worked better has the housing actually been a good side cheaper than privately built houses at the time, and/or the loans for them were decently subsidised. I think one guy, ex NZ Army engineers, etc, offered to undercut private developers ...
"New Zealand's troops in Vietnam were also entirely volunteers, and New Zealand's involvement betrays a distinct whiff of only being there because we were paying lip-service to Washington." I read somewhere that Holyoake and his cabinet had misgivings ...
That is a whole debate for another day. The key issue is allowing US Evagalical groups to gain control of the learning of countless kids in impoverished areas and exposing them to things like creationism, and heteropatriarchial ideas, such as traditional ...
Fact of the matter is, National and ACT support imposing the US system of health care (user pays and insurance) on this country. This goes back to the early 1990's, when National tries to impose charging on hospital stays, and failing that, turning what ...
Regulation gets them out blocking the roads with their tractors. Paying them not to pollute will ensure that they are placated.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/105889179/creationism-taught-in-science-class-at-villa-education-trust-school
You call them 'vandals', I call them modernisers.
We can forget about any more payrises if ACT had their way. Or access to health care? Or anything really.
Those schools had authoritarian zero tolerance polices or were run by evangalicals. Indeed, Alwyn Poole's school taught creationism.
Dirt poor? A coal miner in China had access to better health care and housing in 1976 than a Kentucky coalminer in the same year.
Chinese workers/citizens had access to education, housing, welfare, pensions, guaranteed employment, and free healthcare prior to the Dengists coming to power, which they all chopped.
That is because of the funder/provider/policy advise split that was implemented (more like imposed) from the 80's onwards. For example the Deparment of Education was split into NZQA, ERO, Ministry of Education, Learning Media, etc and so on.
The only way to get farmers on board with reducing their carbon/methane emissions and overall environmental impact is to pay them the big bucks in return for doing so.
Fiji has had 4 coups over the past 35 years. I find it amazing how the major players in each coup (Rabuka, Speight, Bainimarama, etc) seem to a) be prominent in Fijian politics and b) play major roles in each of the coups).
Auckland Council (AC) owns 18% of the shares in AIAL. It is the biggest shareholding, according to the companies register. There is a little point in the AC owning the shares, as it has little control over company affairs, as it has to take into account ...
ACT want an across the board reduction in wages and living standards. That is the first reason why they need to be stopped. If they had their way, most workers would be stuck on the same wage in real term for most of their careers.
The government plans to take money off NZ on Air, and give it to to the merged media company to commission content. Well that is what I understand anyway.
I don't know....Castillo is a hard line social conservative, who is anti abortion, LGBT, etc, and has also walked back a lot of his economic agenda, so I'm not really sorry to see him go.
Jacinda didnt bring TPM into the fold after 2020. She could have easily offered them some sort of arrangement
When TVNZ's charter was implemented, there was an improvement in quality, as they were required to carry out public service objectives. The merged entity would be about the same. Also, there would be no expectation of the dividend by the government, which ...
I dont see any instances where Labour has worked with TPM, or had any cordial discussion. Happy to be proven wrong though.
The government plans to give ANZPM a mandate and funding to commission content directly, rather than have to go through NZ on air, which is a flawed model. If I had my way, NZOA would be folded into the merged entity, which would deliver wall to wall docos...
Labour don't like TPM. Even though it would be in it's best interests to keep them onside. Especially since if and when they lose the maori seats to TPM, they will not get them back.
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