Robertson is unelectable as a PM. He is completely unrelatable to the common man or woman. You may as well try resurrect Helen Clark. And if he wanted the job, he should have put his hand up when Ardern bailed. True leaders know when to act - they get the ...
Agreed. The NZ economy is pretty much totally driven by international factors. That’s just how things go when you are an exporting nation that relies on largely agricultural produce to pay for things. NZ is a price-taker not a price-maker.
Possibly I missed this detail in the post, but my questions would be: 1. How many of the 50,000 'randomly selected' replied, and were surveyed to get the 2,000 responses? 2. How many people are on the total CTU list? 3. Why was the full list not surveyed? ...
So, typically you're complaining that the new govt does the opposite of, or undoes, what Labour did, and now you're complaining that they shouldn't have done what Labour had planned? And as regards hybrids, they are a transition product, which is pivotal ...
Lol The NZ Labour Party is anything but teal, and none of them can think or act independently. Teal seems to be the name for those who are both capitalists (or at least understand that bills do need to be paid) and those who value the environment. Who in ...
RUC will come to petrol cars too, as they should - it's just a matter of time
Correct - and I think anyone who did their research would know this. I did, and got a PHEV which works well for my situation. It would help if the funds gathered from RUC were ring-fenced and demonstrated to be spent on maintaining infrastructure, but ...
I don't think anyone is remotely interested in an "opportunity to negotiate mutually acceptable outcomes"... That would mean that people ended up happy, and then there would be no need for political parties.
Links please?
Yep, and so obvious. Except for those in denial, or with vested interests. I think the Ardern years were a dead cat bounce for Labour, as they say in the markets. They’ve been struggling for decades now, and look to have handed the socialist vote to the ...
Which is why we should be putting the environment first, and not worry so much about the Left vs Right debate constantly - maybe one day this country will grow up, but probably not in my lifetime, sadly.
Speaking of naval gazing, there's plenty of jobs going in the forces. https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/15/defence-force-personnel-crisis-extremely-concerning-says-minister/
Burnout? Labour had more MPs than they knew what to do with! Could have shared the work around, but chose to concentrate the attention on a few. Basic management skills lacking.
Singapore was taken from a swamp to a place that people flock to, in 50 years. Warsaw was rebuilt brick by brick using old photographs as the plans. Hadrian's Wall took 6 years. And you claim a couple keels, nearly being laid, in 3 years, is an achievement...
Looks to me like yet another overblown, over consulted and under costed project that the previous government used for publicity as long as it could, but was always doomed to failure. Time for a reset. No idea whether a three party coalition can solve this ...
But nothing has changed since I said it last time - the absence of action following a sensible suggestion doesn't invalidate the logic of the suggestion. I really feel for James - he's sadly doomed to never achieve for the environment what he could have.
All this could have been avoided of course, if James Shaw had been offered, and accepted, the Climate Change ministership. One day this country will pull its big boy pants on and think further than next week - but today is not that day....
Yes, but who's voting for them.... Oh yeah, the kiwi public
No, it's not good enough. What's needed is a single, unifying document that people do agree on. Clearly that's the only way forward if we want lasting peace. Unfortunately, with all the vested interests on all sides, I don't think that's possible. Best to ...
Remind me again how climate change and child poverty are working out? Words are cheap, what matters is delivery. Labour had the first majority since MMP started but did sweet FA - cowards. [TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike as being ...
It would have been an interesting move by Luxon to offer Shaw the Climate Change minister role, and with the budget that Labour suddenly pulled from Shaw without telling him, restored. If Shaw declined, then the Greens would get questions about how much ...
Can someone explain please, what the value add would have been by having dedicated governance positions for Māori? Was the belief that this would improve the quality of the result, and if so, how?
My pick is that no-one will correct the systemic failures that give rise to a country with 90% renewable energy having to subsidise its citizens’ power bills. And that’s not just the latest crowd, that’s your beloved lefty parties too. All the power for ...
Yes, Lake Onslow, but it wasn’t a confirmed project as such yet. Just one of the many infrastructure projects around the country that was log jammed in consultation.
Ok, sure, while you pontificate on the perfect solution, and resist until that arrives, the world burns. But you kept your principles intact aye, so all good.
There’s only one right wing party in parliament in NZ and that’s ACT. And they’re about as far right as a mild Republican in the US, I’d say.
Well, the Greens and National worked together on the home insulation improvements, so collaboration is definitely possible. Collaboration on specific policies is a far better way to achieve improvements than having to wait until Labour gets its occasional ...
Agreed - but can’t happen unless all parties open to a conversation
Imagine if we had an environment party that included people with economic nous, and would work with whatever large party was leading the government. We’d be unstoppable.
Curious - why would you vote for TPM or Greens when they will never be in power? They haven't yet learned that politics is the art of the possible, not a stridently principled place at all. And in terms of Labour, I think they've cooked their goose this ...
Yes I read that a while back when it came out, before Covid, from memory. Key quote for me was “What we have been able to find out so far is not the whole truth,” said Olli Kangas at the University of Turku, who led the Finnish study in partnership with ...
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