Suspending Parliament is a red herring as Parliament would have been in recess anyway. Last year there was a recess bewtween 13 September and 9 October. This year its marginally longer due to the suspension: 10 September to 14 October. But not all of those...
Newshub ran a story earlier this year about gun related deaths in NZ. In 2016, there were nine such deaths. In the same year, 15 people died after being stabbed. Between 2007-2016, 73 people died after being shot. That's just over seven each year. Last ...
knowing some of those sad little men will end up going berserk with assault rifles against innocent defenceless people if they keep going down that sad little path. In NZ, how many sad little men have killed with assault rifles versus suicide or car ...
Not if it's the fascist-adjacent doing the talking. Try listening to Jonathan Rauch. It might open your mind.
If you don't like him, don't listen to him. But others may wish to listen to him.
Yep McFlock is confusing free speech with speech that he agrees with. And nowhere does he discuss resilience. Those who fought the Nazis were resilient. Nowadays the thought of Don Brash speaking publicly can bring out a cold sweat in some. Oh how times ...
I notice they were strangely quiet during the israel folau drama. You support Israel Folau? Good for you!! Free speech has proven to be vitally important over many, many years, especially for minorities. Without free speech, we possibly wouldn't have gay ...
dcnbwz, You've clearly never heard of Pol Pot who was situated firmly on the Left. Like Mickey, he wasn't a big fan of free speech. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot
Where someone's right to free speech endangers someone else's right to life, the line needs to be drawn Yeah it must be difficult trying to sleep at night when Don Brash might break in and assault you...with information about GDP, inflation and the balance...
Don't forget that climate deniers are also anti-vaccination, don't want fluoride in the water supply, believe the moon landing was faked, believe Elvis is still alive and believe more than one shooter killed JFK. :)
I feel your concern isn't genuine.
"It feels like we are at a breaking point." There you go, it's about feelings. I feel differently.
The Australian Government spent $12 billion on Y2K and took it very seriously. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/howard-government-feared-slow-y2k-bug-preparations-cabinet-documents-reveal-20181230-p50ot1.html
The only people disappointed will be the doom and gloom merchants saying “well, that wasn’t so bad after all. Y2K? No problem. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/Y2K-bug/ [I don't allow climate change denial under my posts. See older posts for...
She should’ve caught a plane, or perhaps used skype. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/08/18/doh-climate-messiah-greta-thunbergs-plastic-boat-trip-will-result-in-two-airline-flights/
Don’t diss Simon, he is Labour’s biggest asset.
Adam, I'll tell you what was crazy - Cyclone Tracy. The northern Australian city of Darwin was devastated early on Christmas morning 1974 when hit by the tropical weather depression that was given the name Cyclone Tracy. As the eye of the cyclone passed ...
Your lack of comprehension is truly something to behold. Several times I’ve referred to climate change in this thread. There I did it again!
Hmmm you may need to read my comment again if you think I’m pinning all extreme weather events in the past on current climate change. Nowhere did I say that.
So climate change isn’t responsible for all the adverse weather events as there were such events before climate change.
Cyclones aren’t climate. But it is interesting we had truly awful weather events before we had climate change. What might have caused them?
Fires in the Amazon, interesting perhaps but relevant?
Kevin It seems to me your comments should be directed at Mickey who is discussing fires, not climate. :)
What do you get out of scaring the shit out of people? And why are you denying that we had truly awful weather before we had climate change?
Yes, climate change appears to be the latest moral panic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic
There is extremism on both sides. Apparently climate change is genocide! No, it’s not and scare-mongering won’t work. https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/115230184/climate-change-is-genocide What is interesting is that 150 years ago we had some ...
Not buying something does not mean you do not want it – usually, it means you do not have enough money. Banks can often help if you don't have enough money. But in this case, the land possibly isn't worth much - maybe $50 million. Treaty settlements ...
The idea is that the Crown buys the land, which means it's no longer private. Or Maori could buy the land if it is of such significance. If they have no desire to buy the land, perhaps its significance has been overstated. the sooner NZ gets to grips with ...
That begs the question of why Maori should be gifted private land if the Waitangi Tribunal wouldn't have a bar of it. More importantly, how many other bits of private land could be the subject of a claim? "Land that is privately owned is generally not ...
I have seen timelines but they are not at all helpful. For example there is no mention of whether a claim was made by the local iwi to the Waitangi Tribunal. Was a claim made prior to September 2008? If a claim wasn’t made, those wanting Government ...
A settlement could be imminent. http://politik.co.nz/en/content/politics/1632/Ihumatao-settlement-looks-close-Ihumatao-Kingitanga-Jacinda-Ardern-Maori-land-confiscations.htm
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