People may recall the total crisis Auckland was in during the 2020-21 drought. Poor planning by Watercare following its near-total reliance on low dam investment and high Waikato draw was initially opposed by Maori and Hamilton Council and Waipa. https://...
With this government preparing to pass legislation barring Auckland Council support for Auckland's Watercare, as an alternative to Labour's Three Waters Reform, the smaller weaker councils across New Zealand will only wonder what hostile takeovers they ...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516051/district-mayors-welcome-auckland-s-new-water-deal-with-govt#:~:text=Auckland%20Council%20has%20struck%20a,spread%20over%20a%20longer%20period.
With this government preparing to pass legislation barring Auckland Council support for Auckland's Watercare, as an alternative to Labour's Three Waters Reform, the smaller weaker councils across New Zealand will only wonder what hostile takeovers they ...
Parker at Finance and Sepuloni as Leader.
None of those things are true. So now let me tempt you with Labour out of power until 2029, and the Greens passing on a National "confidence and supply + specific policy areas" agreement. It's a long time to let the climate burn and not be at the ...
There's risk and opportunity to calculate. The risk is that the smaller party gets dragged down. The opportunity is that the Greens don't require Labour. While it is true that the Green membership is its own democratic handbrake, as we saw with the re-...
If Shaw can imagine the Greens going with National, carving out specific policy wins just as they did with Labour, then we get a proper realignment of our politics that threatens NZF, ACT, TPM, and Labour at once. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/...
Labour under Hipkins will seek to win by default. With Labour essentially subcontracting policy formation out to the Greens, there's not a heap of work for Hipkins to do other than be as boring as Starmer and just wait for National to fail.
First step is a digital drivers license. https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/nzta-app-first-step-towards-digital-driver-licence After that a nationwide public transport digital app that only you can use. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300908558/digital-...
Yea day smashed it
You don't even understand the word robust. Weaklings like you never achieve anything in politics.
Treasury are as usual wrong in their forecasts. It will be 7% by end 2024. If you're not aware of windows being smashed you simply have no idea about political life at all.
Also shoutout to Mickey for the heartfelt post. The fire still burns brother.
We don't need to wonder. Shaw got punched in the head just outside. At Foreshore and Seabed hikoi 2004 there were a good few Labour MPs who faced up to that roaring crowd, right to their face. The moment it got a bit far is when a few thousand occupied ...
Stop being such a wet poodle. Why are the right so weak when they're challenged? 7,000 public servants down and counting, rapidly heading from 3 to 6% unemployed inside 12 months. Expect emotion at large scale. In the 1930s this government would have had ...
Just horseshit. We have one of the politest Parliaments in the world. We need more rudeness and fight not less.
That NZFirst donation haul of just $1.8 million and still gets over 6% has to be a super-efficient vote-per-dollar equation. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/election-donations-national-party-raises-massive-104-million-haul-in-donations-for-election/...
With Tangi Utikere barely visible, Genter is by a long way our most important opposition MP in transport. We need more like Genter who are matching the outrage of this government with outrage of their own.
We have had since the late 1980s a public service that is under-led and poorly resourced, with no cross-departmental strategy or even an attempt at it, disaggregated by deep funder-policy-provider spits, under-regulated or worse self-regulating, ...
When our MPs on the Inter Parliamentary Alliance on China are hacked, by China together with our leading China security expert, and our own agency doesn't have the guts to actually inform them, it's probably time for Clark and Carr to just front up and ...
Also HRL Morrison at that level is a whole bunch more useful to the world than Shaw getting recycled into a government entity like NZSuperFund or ACC. Shaw is one of the few elected members on either side of the house who operate outside the Wellington ...
Labour should propose a full dfence Treaty with Australia. We are near fully interoperable already. So it sounds a lot bolder than it is. Well overdue to re-write the 1944 Canberra Pact.
That's a natural step for Shaw. And a strong signal from HRL Morrisons that the sustainability investor truly values policy expertise inside their management entity. Their investment themes are here: Innovative Investing with Morrison: Alternative Asset ...
"seeing"
Just seeking major US universities cave on this is truly sad. Lest one forgets the number of armed civilians patrolling US streets in utes after the 2020 election.
Hipkins has taken on a most formidable opponent in Winston Peters. Live: Chris Hipkins says Winston Peters’ has ‘embarrassed the country’ with remarks | Stuff Hipkins will have been begging for this kind of fight when Labour arranged for the foreign ...
Imagine what Auckland would look like with a "levelling up agenda". There are 20 Councillors serving 1,700,000 people. That's 1 elected member for every 85,000 people. Auckland has 31,000 state housing units, a waiting list of 25,000 nationally and over 10...
In 6 months National have made more people unemployed than Labour did in a term. Can't wait to see their next economic rebuild move.
Monthly pay as PM.
How many of us could hand our pay rise to charity? How many of us got pay rises since COVID? How high an elite is Luxon actually?
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