Bill English is hardly a hard right idealogue. He is unlikely to recommend that Home and Communities - Kainga Ora is going to be sold off.
You think the media landscape in NZ is not sufficiently balanced do you? You have major players like TVNZ and RNZ being State controlled and other media organisations like The Spinoff and Stuff openly promoting left wing progressive politics. Where is the ...
Looks like all the "missteps" the government has made has actually solidified their support among the wider public. https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/roy-morgan-nz-election-november-2023
Yes that is a great speech in terms of broadly setting out a path to grow the economy. It could have been given by any number of people in NZ from both the left and the right of NZ politics. This was given almost 20 years ago. Based on what was happening ...
Max Rashbrooke doesn't really address that question. He just claims that they have done so much like you are doing. How they do it is what I am interested in.
Let's pretend for a moment that you are correct on this. How is it possible that 1% of the population is able to stop you implementing a set of policies which supposedly would make life so much better for the vast majority of people?
Again not very helpful. It is kind of like stating "We should become rich but by doing something which is really good".
"high-quality, high value production" - What does this even mean? Who determines if something is high value? Does it mean highly profitable or does it mean something else?
"The term "authentication" refers to the procedure whereby the text of a treaty is established as authentic and definitive. Once a treaty has been authenticated, states cannot unilaterally change its provisions. If states which negotiated a given treaty do...
There is an international accepted norm in interpreting Treaties written in more than one language (as the Treaty of Waitangi was) It is spelt out in Article 33 of the Vienna convention of the law of treaties. It does not state one version takes precedence...
What they wanted to hear??? Are you claiming that the point of the Treaty from the British side was to gain Sovereignty over NZ? I thought the British merely wanted to take control of matters related to British Settlers and it was a Protection Treaty. Now ...
And the benefit for the business for doing this is what exactly? They still have to pay the same amount and the people they employ will need to be trained up so any new person is going to be less productive than existing staff. That is why I call BS on ...
Please give examples of Employers abusing the 90 day trial rules?
Ummm.... the Productivity commission was set up by a National led government as one of the conditions for the ACT party to support it. The reason it has now been ditched is that most of it's functions will be folded into the new Ministry for Regulation.
Why did Hobson get some Maori leaders to sign the English language version and why did he send both an English version and a Te Reo oine to London to be acknowledged? It makes no sense if only the Te Reo version was the one that was legitimate.
I'm not claiming anyone on your side is lying or misleading people. I am confident that you truly believe your position. However you don't accept that for people like Peters and Seymour. Why is that?
You state it is lying but many people disagree. If you feel it is a lie you should be able to easily point it out as part of your counter-argument. Please explain to me why co-goverance does not give people more rights over governance decisions than others...
Or perhaps the wider society has dedicded to push back against a set of policies that seek to split the nation along ethnic lines and award people different rights according to accidents of birth. Both your view and that are potentially valid. What we ...
I concede nothing of the sort. I presume the previous government thought 90-day trials provide some benefit hence why they allowed them to be used in certain circumstances. What was that benefit do you know?
You are wanting a particular law to apply to Politicians so you should have some idea about what it is you want to happen. Perhaps you should use your brain a little more before making comments like this.
Nicola Willis wouldn't be consulting on the removal of FPA's regardless. She is not the Minister in charge of the repeal of the legislation around this. I think you are meaning Brooke van Velden.
Explain how a 90 day trial would apply to Politicians. Would this only apply to newly elected MP's for their first 90-days? What mechanism would be in place to enable the voting public to fire a sitting MP?
The trouble is if the criticism that is stated about 90-Day trials is correct then it applies to ALL 90-day trials. The presvious government thought that 90-Day trials were okay for SME's. Would anyone care to explain that logic if they are so bad?
What's your solution to this issue then? Do you simply ignore the other side and impose your views whenever you get a chance to grab power?
That is exactly what the Treaty settlements were designed to enable. All major political parties support that.
Maori have significant representation in the current government. 40% of the Cabinet have Maori whakapapa. That is more than the last government.
Noone is disputing there weren't flaws in the purchase of much of the South Island but what is clear is that Nga Tahu was not utilising the vast majority of the land that they sold (given they numbered less than 5000 people) and even if they had retained ...
There was less than 10,000 Maori in the entire South Island in 1840 (I've seen some estimates at around 5,000). There was a reason that buying land in the South Island was easy for the Crown. Of course there was sale conditions that weren't kept and hence ...
Not at all. Access to land was never much of a hinderance to settlement in NZ outside the Waikato and possibly Taranaki. The South Island alone had more than enough available land and also a tiny Maori population that was willing to sell most of it. The ...
Even if we take the (for many people) quite radical position that the Treaty only gave the Crown ultimate authority over British or non-Maori people living in NZ it did not give Maori authority to stop mass immigration by British people into the country. ...
https://waitangitribunal.govt.nz/treaty-of-waitangi/translation-of-te-reo-maori-text/ "...to the end that their chiefs will agree to the Queen's Government being established over all parts of this land and (adjoining) islands4 and also because there are ...
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