Absolutely, Jenny. After all National have told us how they will fix it - more money in the pocket from tax cuts! Is that all you were looking for?
With the electricity market there are more players - they just take turns to be highest costs / lowest cost, as market prices generally continue to rise. Now that is changing however as they complicate charges so that it is difficult for anyone to ...
Where has personal responsibility gone? From the media, we see videos of these raids, and often hear that they are youth who should not have been driving, but look at how exciting it appears to a young gamer . . . Who made the vehicles available, or did ...
Thanks for that link. From the chart, we have Labour + Green at 46.6, National + ACT at 46.9, and 2.5+1.7+0.9+0.7 = 5.8 not at this time committed to either major party.. Does any media reporter really believe that the Green Party or ACT will not support ...
I agree. We have had coalition / confidence and supply governments for all MMP governments until this government; so it is not as if 50% by one party is normal. Reporting is the issue, not the poll. What would we think of a comparison on Australia of Labor...
I agree that The Standard should be seen to avoid mis-naming politicians. This is not obviously a deliberate attempt to denigrate; it may just reflect that Luxon has not been long in the job, and mistakes are made; but The Standard should I believe at ...
Many years ago there were Truancy Officers, and from memory for a period there were also Visiting Teachers (both in primary schools; secondary may have had somebody doing some work on truancy). The jobs overlapped to a certain extent; I think the Truancy ...
I came across this link this morning - in reply to something from Judith Collins: https://twitter.com/drdeanknight/status/1516345300062928896 From memory, this was just as we were seeing the coming wave of Omicron, and preparing for it. At that time, (and ...
It has been a silly thread - Puckish has repeatedly asserted that the ban on voting is justified, without giving any reason. How does the ban help rehabilitation,; why is it justified - and if the ability to vote is withdrawn, what else could be withdrawn?...
I don't recognise all of them. Jenny Gibbs is the wife of Alan Gibbs, but perhaps just as well known for her art philanthropy. I think of Graeme Hart as a New Zealand oligarch - he successfully packaged up a lot of money from neo-liberalism; Rod Dury from ...
Diversity yes, but more diversity of political opinion than of either gender or ethnicity. The examples of the Social Credit party getting over 20% of votes and only 2 out of 92 seats in 1981, and Values which gained over 5% in 1978 with no seats. Many who...
Re Housing, the biggest need currently is getting our population into affordable and suitable housing; and social housing needs continue to grow. THe scale of need is such that I believe we need to go back to something like the State Advances Corporation ...
Perhaps not for small changes, but I suspect GST on food is not trivial. Before complicating our GST system considerably it would be good to see some evidence that such a policy has led to better results (either for health or income inequality) than a ...
Percentages are tricky - a 7% increase in the over $150k rate could be interpreted as taking the over 150k tax rate and multiplying it by 1.07 (giving 41.7%, say 42%) or by adding 7% to 39%, giving 46%. I suspect the first calculation was anticipated by dv...
I don't know what the situation is now, but some years ago those paying the highest effective rate of tax were those earning enough that benefits were being phased out - the abatement rates meant that they lost more of any real increase in pay to tax and ...
Its a long way to the next election. This is a clear statement that traditional principles remain; it is all about money. Some of the ''promises'' may need to be modified in light of Labours profligacy in saving lives, they may be sufficient for some of ...
Someone had to suggest a firm reaction - by playing the Laura Norder card early, Mallard was being true to his job which is to keep all of our MPs (including the delicate Opposition MPs) safe - that it was so quickly responded to negatively merely ...
Fully vaccinated means having had as many as they are eligible for, with a few days leeway of course, and allowance for there they may have been. It may also be affected by whatever documentation Australia provides; and many New Zealanders have not updated...
"note: alongside this te tiriti and its agreements and breaches must still be acknowledged and accommodated or compensated in some way.. but this highlights the flawed nature of the treaty.. it needs repair" So unless you are proposing that we just ignore ...
We saw a decrease in overall mortality for the first year of the pandemic - more vaccinated for flu, more staying home if showing any symptoms. It is part of why housing got harder - we even put rough sleepers under cover . .
The 500 number may have been correct pre-covid, but as I understand it that has lowered significantly with a much wider vaccination last year for influenza. It did not stop all deaths, but saved most. It is debatable whether free flu vaccines should become...
And an hour later it is 12,000.
The standard planning model was probably not been based on Covid, and would assume no actions taken to slow cases. Denmark has just removed all restrictions - they had a fairly good record, but not as good as New Zealands in preventing deaths, but they ...
Given the timing, there was a huge amount happening, this was a minor mis-communication compared with sorting out vaccines (were they approved at that stage? - we do know that Aus and NZ had difficulty ordering because of our low death rates) and ...
Kiwiblog used to do a Poll average, but the table currently showing has the date 16/10/20 on it.
Advice was clear, you cannot rely on getting back. I cannot recall any promises.
Assuming that all those people going overseas to see family, deal with sale of a business, etc, etc were "fully informed" is perhaps a long bow to draw. Certainly they lacked imagination, and did not anticipate the Omicron variant, just as if another ...
I posted the following late in Daily Review on 1 Feb, and not surprisingly did not see any responses: I was surprised to see this from Josie Pagani https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/127627615/transmission-gully-shows-we-need-to-rethink-the-public-sector ...
I was surprised to see this from Josie Pagani https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/127627615/transmission-gully-shows-we-need-to-rethink-the-public-sector Apart from problems caused by Covid and weather and possibly problems with the private construction ...
I don't think I am a RW, but I do think that it would have been helpful to have given urls for the "reports," and the question relates to the post it follows.
More tests may give a better measurement of how quickly people are getting infected - but would it have made any the number of infections lower if we had followed his policy of opening up borders before Christmas? Currently we are not overwhelmed in ...
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