Distributing? I thought they wanted payment. So long as that 'hard labour' has a healthy market value and is enough to pay for bed and board and some of the pay for those who have to supervise. They can have pocket money, if they earn enough - with a big ...
Missing from this delightful rally is any information about whether said child toy was labelled as being unsuitable for kids under a certain age. If it was - that's a parent responsibility issue. That toy should not have been acquired in any household with...
ianmac: you're not talking about paracetamol are you? "questionable health remedies on sale. Unproven. Quack" Or are you recalling the wonders of thalidomide? Those pharmaceutical companies can be real scalliwags at flicking dubious remedies into the ...
+111 :-))
I wonder why DoC would offer such a grazing right... Do we know the conditions of the offer? Are they choosing to allow grazing to conserve habitat from weed invasion? Will the cattle actually be in the area over the breeding/nesting season? Has anyone ...
You know, Baba Yaga, for many of us it never felt that anything at all was 'kick-started'. Despite nine long years of cringe-cluttered 'government by people who clearly couldn't run a lemonade stand on a hot day and make a profit. And the pity about ...
The old 'sinking lid' joke - played forever by National. The vital feet on the ground workers are cut back, workloads either become ridiculous, or particular portions of relevant Acts go unadministered. Pay is frozen in near-perpetuity. Then they hire ...
Did you copy to NZ First and the Greens? They're all in it together. Labour has been reluctant since Prebble sold the rail system. (I don't count Cullen's buy-back. It wasn't exactly the best-supported decision in terms of follow through.) Stir up the ...
We also suspect that rampant house prices are some sort of Ponzi scheme supported by banks. Local government may also have a hand in this silly-go-round. And retirement funds aren't exactly local or national, either. Plump internationals moving vast ...
Labour is NOT 'the government'. It is a coalition arrangement and it's time we saw more of that collaboration. A change in modus operandi, however awkward it may be at first. Could coalition partners act as a 'senate' or 'House of Peers'? We surely do need...
Bill Gates is not Microsoft. Microsoft is a company and an entity in its own right. People at Microsoft, perhaps with a personal interest in the wealth and benefits that flow from working there, will be making these decisions for charging and creating a ...
A recognisable fist. At least it wasn't ...---... :-)
Zorb6: You're having a laugh, right? "had to be removed,because they were jealous of the freedom and democracy" If it wasn't sarcasm... ? The great USof A where voters are routinely kicked off the electoral roll. The lesser Great Britain where legitimate ...
Thanks, Wow. And thanks to Jonathan Pie. Agree. (Though I was 'offended' by his saying that Scottish law was backward. ;-) )
Too late! All available islands have been allocated to the prats in Israel who either say 'kill the arabs!' or follow through by shooting Palestinian youngsters several hundred metres from the border - in Palestine. All the legislation about 'hate speech',...
Does equivalence come into this? People who have done similar work overseas. People who have worked in special education. People who are willing to gently ripple the PC shroud, too. Training on the job, under supervision, is always an option, as well. As ...
"Without them we’d still be a highly ignorant bunch incapable" A minor edit: 'we'd continue to be a highly ignorant,' etc
There are people who would definitely be capable of committing such a move and calling it 'collateral damage'. If you'd been living in a brutalised state for the past few years, and you knew surrender was not a safe option - anything is possible. The ...
How you do cheer one! Wasn't it David Cameron who toddled off to Saudi Arabia touting British arms? And look what then happened to Yemen...
I wonder what the several million spread across Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan were running from, then. I also wonder at Father Daniel's term 'terrorists'. Who are these people? There's the before and after picture: how did that happen? Fireworks? Something ...
Chlorine is still available. It's used to make water potable. It was also used in WWI in trench warfare. Creates respiratory problems. I'm sure the necessary inventiveness to produce such a bane would easily be in the repertoire of urban fighters with much...
It depends who is raising the costs, doesn't it? The farmers producing cashews or cacao aren't getting the price rises from scarcity due to a poor season - yet Someone is. Seems a lot like minimum wages here. People toiling hard and long for very little ...
When prices drop - do you buy more of it? Only if you have the means and need to store it - and some things don't store well. (If in doubt, try putting a cheap lettuce in the deep freeze for later...)
Trickle up, Gosman. With a lift in income there may* be enough in the rainy day box to 'splurge'. A wish becomes a reality. Someone further up the income chain, further away from the bowl of despair, can also afford to 'splurge'. And so on. It takes ...
If you want an answer to your question - ask Stats to go snooping or get WINZ to add it to their multipage compendium. Their snoots are in to most personal matters; why not this?
"I would cite cooperation, patience, tolerance, skills improving with practice as some examples of the benefits of sport." Did you ever manage to convince the screechy parents on the sidelines???
When a young bloke of ANY colour is wanting a way out of poverty and ratty jobs he will often start thinking about working to be a professional fighter of some kind. Some join the military. Some become MMA fighters. Some are bouncers or enforcers. Some ...
Did anyone mention the growing deficit of general practitioners? Or the amazing and verifiable fact that a helluva lot of Kiwis cajn't access the 'medical system' either in or out of hours? This health system only covers some citizens. Many are excluded ...
All that foam from Labour: the details are required. At the moment it reads like a Key promo: you know - 'aspirational' far more than actionable. The Greens - despite the harrowing experiences of Saint Metiria - another bunch of fluff. "9% on income under ...
Superannuitants are NOT safe. Winston Peters for one and my far-less visible mother for another. Plus security guards who bark at seniors to take off their headcoverings. Those points come quickly to mind. It's a matter of degree: the oldies have fewer ...
Oh the fuel pittance! Isn't that there to pay for the announced price hike so the electricity companies can get around to replacing passed its use by date equipment, etc? It has to pass through the frozen fingers of The Poor so it looks as if it's not ...
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