Now that the requirement that the Cabinet Minister's are required to step up when the Waitangi Tribunal tell them to I would like to know if it is going to work the other way. There is a law relating to the necessary conditions for claiming customary ...
You appear to disapprove of people who don't provide any satisfactory statistical evidence for their claims when you say. "Since those statistically validated numbers haven't been presented by the dimwits who are in favour of the repeal of section 7AA, I'd...
It would be pretty easy to do I would think. If they wanted to I imagine the Government could even get the Labour Party pleading for it's removal. The term of all the judges is, if I have read it correctly, three years. Just let all the current members' ...
I might have believed you if you had claimed "Labour are planning to turn on the largest Solar Storm on Record" Labour actually doing it? Who are you trying to kid? They never in actually succeeding with anything significant.
Short term smoothing of supply from wind and solar was not what Lake Onslow was intended to perform. It is supposedly going to supply water to a new hydro station in the event that we have a very long drought and there are low flows for years in the hydro ...
Lake Onslow is a totally crazy idea. Pumped hydro is a way of using using up, and storing, the electrical energy that you have no immediate use for but which you don't really have the option of not generating. It is a great way to store the power from a ...
"But it's very difficult to find Greenies prepared to agree….." Give them the choice. Nuclear or Gas. After all that is the choice we made, in favour of gas, back in about 1970. New Zealand was in the process of getting ready to put in a nuclear power ...
I suggest that you read this. " Try and keep the temperature between 18 and 21 degrees especially if you have babies, people with illnesses, or older people living in your home." Ten degrees is a dangerously low temperature. https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-...
I have just been reading a report produced by The Global Warming Policy Foundation on "Net Zero for New Zealand" You can read it here. https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2022/07/Kelly-NZ-Net-Zero.pdf It is an examination of what would actually be ...
Simeon Brown certainly doesn't seem to be in favour of the pumped hydro, Lake Onslow, scheme. Neither is anyone else that I know. However I am not aware of him having commented on any proposal for backing up short term gaps with batteries. Do you have a ...
If we have another couple of terms of a Labour Government, particularly if the Green Party were involved we would certainly qualify. With the collapse of our electricity system the whole country would be in the dark whenever the wind stopped blowing. ...
I wouldn't know how many days it would take. Chippie claims that he makes his kids lunches every day though. Isn't it amazing that he does such a thing? Frankly I think his story is b**s intended to make him look like a man of the people.
As Traveller has pointed out, it was Hipkins who mentioned the children. It was also Hipkin's claim I was talking about, not his children activities.
""As someone who makes kids' lunchboxes every day, I wouldn't be able to fill my kids' lunchboxes with good quality healthy food for $3 a day," Labour leader Chris Hipkins said. ". Really? Who actually believes that Hipkins carries out this activity every ...
I suggest that you read that article again. You clearly didn't read it very cardfully the first time. There were two people who are mentioned in the article. The first was the florist. That happened recently. She is Laura Newcombe. The second was about ...
Are you always like this?
"Nothing like working hard for something for over a decade and someone moves in and trashes both your years of work and then lies about what you did. ". That isn't a very nice thing to say about Genter, even if she has led to the wrecking of both those ...
It was not uncommon in the past for them to have other jobs, Perhaps the best example was Frank Kitts. He was MP for Wellington Central from November 1954 until November 1960. He was also Mayor of Wellington from December 1956 until 1974 so he held both ...
He left out a couple of great ideas from the left. Bring in a UBI of at least $50,000/year. Introduce a 95% tax rate on all income over $150,000/year. That will increase your rather optimistic 6 years to a more realistic 60 years.
Or perhaps some of the returns are a bit misleading.
Nic. I was merely demonstrating why YOUR definition of poverty is pretty useless. You would appear to agree with me. After all, if your definition of poverty were used, there really would be the same number supposedly in poverty if everybody's real income ...
That is a way of doing it. However what that means is that it is really just a fixed number that has nothing to do with poverty. After all, if everyone in New Zealand was to double their income, and be like Singapore say, then there would still be exactly ...
And just what do you mean by "the dole". I don't think I have neard that phrase since the 1960's. I would also like to know what you mean by "the poverty line". New Zealand doesn't have such thing defined. If you mean Charles Waldegrave's little exercise ...
When I said "If you mean we will be spending less on benefits I hope you are right. There are a lot of people who could be working who aren't, for a variety of reasons." I wasn't suggesting that we should be cutting benefits. I want people who can work to ...
My claim was that it wasn't necessarily the case, as is implied by a statement like - "To point out the bleeding obvious, if you've been earning over a hundred grand a year, your ability to survive a cost of living crisis is vastly different than someone ...
At the time, which was in the period leading up to the 2020 election, wages were rising faster than inflation. However who is to say that that will always be the case? It is unlikely to be the case this year as we try and kill the bout of inflation ...
"as a large part of this will just go into investments". Really? Can you please explain why such a large percentage of the MPs appear to have very few investments worth a damn? Have a look at this return and tell me what some of the longer serving, then ...
You persist in saying "while benefits are being cut ". Can you demonstrate this claim? Where are the real value of benefits dropping if the after tax benefit value is indexed to inflation?
Just a couple of things to remember. The indexing of benefits to wage rates was only in place for a few years. Prior to April 2020 benefits were indexed to inflation. It now will be again. It isn't a sudden change to a new regime. It is a reversion to the ...
You used to be able to sit inside, turn on your television and watch the remnants of the Big Bang. When someone told you that there was nothing important ever shown on the TV you could show them the remains of what surely would count as the greatest event ...
I suspect the your memory is faulty. Please provide a reference for Key saying those words when he was PM.
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