I'm tempted to say it's astonishing how these stories are disappeared from the media so quickly, while every transgression (often minor ones involving stupid personal conduct) by leftish politicians is dragged out for weeks until a scalp is obtained. But ...
Quite right tc. There is an extensive literature in human geography and anthropology around the notions of "home" and the distinction between "space" and "place" and the relative levels of attachment (love even) that we give to each. Damien Grant is a ...
As usual, the only things that matter are sustainability and ownership. Sustainability means the extraction and use of minerals etc. is carbon net-zero and has no/minimal effect on biodiversity. That pretty much rules out coal, but will allow other things ...
It shows he just does not care about the health of government finances. And wants to divest government of its assets and capability Yep - and and also true for Luxon, Willis, Seymour etc. The scary talk about debt is just to garner popular support for ...
Kiwi Keith and Kinloch. (Hamer, Paul. New Zealand Journal of History, 44, 2, 2010)
IMO, the whole debate is a bottomless swamp that's best avoided altogether and often a jumping-off point for dodgy political agendas. I think there's something of a false binary at play. Pre-determination is usually viewed as material in nature and based ...
Claire already knows the outcome of all/any investigations. It's a mere "stuff-up" that will hurt not end his ministerial ambitions. I don't think she's just guessing, she's a functioning piece of the right's PR ecosystem. Will Audrey also ride to the ...
McAnulty was good, while Ingrid showed how easily the public is confused once they hear the big scary word "debt". McAnulty might have gratuitously added that the guy who did the report was "the worst finance minister in NZ's history". Because if Luxon can...
Seems like a continuation of the Telecom business model that Gattung inadvertently confessed to years ago. Namely, that confusing your clients/victims can be profitable.
Looks like a civil case to me, so no chance of that I would have thought. Unless "having breached the US Exchange Act" (from your link) is both true and means something criminal. So we're not going to get the grim pleasure of Luxon having to agree to Key's...
Not sure I share Chris's faith in the electorate wanting to see credible evidence for any given Government policy. It would be nice if there was such a reasonable moderating force at work somewhere , perhaps it will show up soon. In any case, the extremism...
Pleased to see you support the principle of guilty until proven innocent. I wonder if the Herald has been so keen to feign horror over any non-female, non-brown, non-left-wing MPs in the past who have drawn a salary while temporarily suspended? Not that I ...
Agree Patricia. Not much has been said about this aspect of it, but it strikes me as maybe the saddest and most destructive feature of the policy. It wrongly elevates a principle of secondary importance (efficiency and more narrowly cost efficiency) to a ...
"I will not be lectured to by [insert name of person or organisation here]". That's the CoC's standard for evidence. The parties who proclaim their belief in liberty and free speech turn out to be closet authoritarians. No surprises there. It's Michael ...
It is likely to get worse with our self-inflicted experiment in Trussonomics. What would NZ look like if the Australian bolt-hole wasn't there?
One can note that the OECD average is declining and this is worldwide issue Thanks for touching on a point that is irritating as hell. Education seems vulnerable to pedagogic fads and fashions, the cultivation of moral panics, and bogus white knights with...
With Matthew, the first thing I'd want to know is who (and what) he wants to replace them with.
How does "cultural continuity" guarantee anything about children's well-being? I don't think anybody is seriously suggesting that any single element in a child's upbringing 'guarantees' anything about their well-being. So your statement in my opinion is ...
Labor-intensive industries like making sandwiches have limited economies of scale. Therefore the savings that enable the $3 cost must in part come from selecting less labour-intensive options such as packaged and tinned food. These offerings will be less ...
How many days a week would he have to make kids' lunchboxes in order to have a fair idea that $3/day is a stretch? Can this determination be made only if you do it every day?
Having to attend that seminar would make sense only if you were laid off for being scruffy - which itself would be an insufficient reason for the layoff. So they were clowns obviously, probably with an inbuilt bias towards thinking that unemployed people ...
Yep - and the question is why she didn't do exactly as you say.
What I took from her interview on RNZ this morning was that the word "exterminate" was used deliberately to provoke a response, because words like "deculturation" go over peoples' heads. The APA's definition of deculturation says: the processes, ...
If they get rid of the popular food, more of what is offered will be uneaten by the kids. Wastage therefore goes up and Seymour then has the manufactured evidence for declaring the whole thing a silly idea and canning it entirely. He's skinning the cat in ...
Luxon will (or should) soon pay the price of talking up a big game on crime during the election campaign and then 'delivering' an inevitable failure - where the failure is baked in to the way they're approaching the problem. Give it another 6 months and ...
Probably Newsense has just temporarily forgotten what a sanctified place business owners occupy within the right-wing mind. So sanctified, that any perturbation of their divine mission is a sin.
This approach - especially if it is repeated in regions without Auckland's large population and existing system of charging for water - seems designed to put small, local water-management entities into financial difficulty Thus making them ripe for ...
Labour in 1972-75 were tipped out of office by: the death of a charismatic leader who won them the 1972 election, an economic shock that originated offshore (OPEC oil price hikes); the appointment of an outstanding leader of the opposition (Muldoon) who ...
I'm delighted to be informed by somebody or other that "[m]en aren’t socialised to have social and emotional skills". Obviously I must be delighted because I lack the emotional skills to be upset by it. In fact, my appalling and brutalist lack of such ...
...it sounds as though there are serious problems with the way changes are being rolled out No doubt. It's hard to see how there couldn't be, especially when trying to retrofit a sane infrastructure to an insanely-designed city (I speak as an Aucklander.)...
She behaved as though shouting at them about the facts will make some difference to what they do. Whether that's because she imagined they were persuadable or just because she failed to understand that the chamber is a bear pit, is ultimately a guess.
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