Those parties can most certainly be held accountable. And it is well overdue that we got a lot more of those who are in Auckland local government. How easy it would have been for this current mayor to better align align with current government policy. ...
I agree with Ardern.
Once you strip away the codes of "Independents", the 2016 and 2019 elections had Labour-Green allied majorities. Even 2013 had 10. We have got to hold the feet of these people to the fire and make them improve.
I haven't time to do a full article on it, but structural theorists ought well have a crack at the reaggregation of the state since as of today we now have one single health entity. In the late 1980s and early 1990s so many public services gained fresh ...
I think you're in couldawouldashoulda land there. CRL was set in motion early 2015. Government signed up Oct 2016. Pre COVID central and local government were gearing Downtown up for AC36 (contracted Feb 2018) and APEC. COVID and Russia greatly accelerated...
Council doesn't control construction costs for supply timing, materials, or labour. CRL isn't the only line item to increase, it's just the most noticeable. Agree on depreciation policy.
C'mon Willis do your work.
Great to see R Kelly going down for 30 years. R. Kelly Is Sentenced to 30 Years on Sex Trafficking Charges: Live Updates - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Also Ghislaine Maxwell getting 20 years for sex trafficking. Let's see who else gets done for ...
Hey Minister Mahuta, if you want to be taken seriously in efforts to prize China out of the Pacific, you can now only do it by paying their debts off: China insists Tonga loans come with ‘no political strings attached’ | Tonga | The Guardian
Or put on Barry White and get the LadyLerrrrve goin on.
We haven't yet seen the energy equivalent of NATO evolve in Europe, but odds on this will occur. Every time European states intervene, the markets have been shown to fail. The hard open question is whether European countries can follow Lithuania's lead and...
TBF I'm looking forward to bypassing Hamilton post haste and doing a circuit of the Cambridge and Paeroa antique shops in an easy day.
NATO expansion is all on. Turkey agrees. Turkey ready to back Sweden, Finland NATO bids | News | DW | 28.06.2022 In your eye Putin.
It would be great to see any passenger train in New Zealand get to 80kms an hour, whereas now from Huntly to Karapiro you can now put the pedal down and go 110km an hour. Speed limit on parts of Waikato Expressway increasing to 110km/h (1news.co.nz) That's...
Great to see central government put its stake in the ground for public transport in central Wellington. Next test is to see Wellington Council and GWRC get on board and formally align. Right before an election, this is what elections were for. 'Once in a ...
Agree. But it also shows that our MSM are ridiculously loaded into specialist minor-use health areas when in terms of thousands of people using the service the far more important health crises are in Emergency Departments and Eldercare. Those areas are ...
I have a sneaky feeling the Scots are going to leave this time. Nicola Sturgeon to announce second Scottish independence vote, defying Westminster – POLITICO Happy 70th Anniversary O Queen.
Ripple cuts in Otago seemed to be pretty well communicated last week.
Right on target for the NATO conference, the Prime Minister of Poland asks a pretty pointed question: "The war in Ukraine puts before us one crucial question: Does the transatlantic free world still want to occupy a position of leadership? Do we still ...
Yes to the sunlight. But it would still be good to see the current relevant court case conclude this year, before we get fresh legislation rolled into Parliament. Practically you can't do a Select Committee process when no one can say anything.
Perfectly fitting to put an ex-Minister of Agriculture as Chair of the Meat Industry Association, but it sure cements the politicisation of New Zealand agriculture. Nathan Guy appointed the new Chairman of MIA | Scoop News
Looking forward to the Nelson Police investigation of this recalcitrant. Defiant counsellor ignores conversion therapy ban | RNZ News
This weekend feels like National's cut into Labour's support has peaked. I may be wilfully over-reading the vibe.
You know that patrician scolding left that juts fucks everyone off? That's you.
That farmer is not wrong. Uncomfortable though it is, the dairy industry is the single largest exporting business we have, and it pays for a whole bunch of the taxes that in turn pay for our hospitals, police, and teachers. That farmer responded to ...
I think your dad would have headbutted her flat. That was still the most awesome Catholic+Union funeral I've ever been to.
A real breath of fresh air thankyou so much Don.
... obtain [contraceptives],'” the justices added. “So one of two things...
One could reasonably say worse standing on the wasted vastness of the Somme, waving a little flag for ANZAC Day.
Lovely piece of snark from The Guardian on Rupert Murdoch divorcing Jerry Hall: "When Rupert and Jerry rushed down the aisle six years ago, aged 84 and 59 respectively, there was widespread suggestion that this fourth wife would see Murdoch out. See him ...
Suicide or lifelong depression. From the inside of a fundamentalist church for my early life I know exactly what it's like to watch people question their sexuality, let alone their gender assignment. I've seen the demon outcastings, the shunnings, ...
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