Would anyone regard this loophole as problematic? As citizens we could expect to be able to find out how the rules operate in relation to any aspect of legislation. To do this the Citizenship Act part 9 should have been amended to include additional parts ...
Yes - that's a good point. None of the downsides of the current arrangements should be too hard to explain by a progressive politics willing to address the issues. Starting with concepts like predistribution as a solution and the inevitability of poverty ...
I think Wilson's analysis is more explanatory than advocating. I've observed one of the problems with the social investment approach is that the government is seeking to use it to 'renew the social licence"' However the data decisions were made in advance ...
Yes. and Yes,yes, yes. Yes AI systems will be cleverer in some respects - but only to the extent that AI models are only a subset of humanity and can only encode the thinking that created them. Anne Pettifor described an example of this when discussing ...
Thanks :-) Exactly - although I think that 'unscientific thinking' like Jung's can be a good prompt to seeking thinking about what is shared in consciousness across populations and culture and what is by what route it is shared - language, the nature of ...
These maybe of interest in relation to contemporary attempts to include join a humanities and science approach and to support a depth of truth seeking in politics. A strand of progressive work developing in NZ and elsewhere called Mindfulness for Change. ...
So pertinent to be having this discussion about the nature of evidence and truth and the nature of scientific proof when 'truthiness' is regarded as adequate in so many places. To add to the useful links about the nature of knowledge Jess Berentson-Shaw ...
To be fair the GCSB interview between Key and John Campbell took place when the Prime Minister had been unwilling to be interviewed on the programme for many weeks and then agreed to appear with, as I recall, less than an hour's notice. In the interview, ...
The post is a really thought provoking post and also Stephanie for the response! I think there is something refreshing and attractive when someone appears to 'speak their mind' ie. whose reality is in touch with their value system - even if the value ...
No-one has mentioned this aspect of the distraction. On 21 September Sir Geoffrey Palmer launched "A Constitution for Aotearoa New Zealand. http://constitutionaotearoa.org.nz/news/speeches/book-launch-speech-geoffrey-palmer/. An interesting co-incidence ...
Wasn't it the Colmar Brunton poll which was the reason for the UMR data release which had National on 48% and Labour on 26% not the Roy Morgan Poll?
Yes. Thanks. Idiot/Savant has been a solid and reliable reporter on these issues for several years and follows the twists and turns. Publishing the independent reviewers (critical) report of the NZ OGP in NZ is i understand a requirement of the OGP ...
Thanks. :-) Yes. I think so. The whole issue of open government is ripe for a different set of approaches and it's a useful entry point for the rest of the policy arena - from algorithms to work on a constitution to demanding real engagement between ...
To take this issue sideways a bit this points to a larger problem of service delivery by algorithm in both public and private sectors. Given that there is a holiday pay calculator on the Mobie? department website it appears that someone in government could...
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Yes, but also the positive side. I can't help thinking the growing cynicism is starting to formulate itself into something much more useful. Informed, immune to spin and exploratory - people keen to discover on their own terms what will be good for ...
I'm so impressed with this. WMBAD and his co-creators - some very smart women - are very talented and there's a lot of research behind what they do - presented very lightly. More More! I've recently done a much more earnest thing - an article to cover the ...
Also to paraphrase Dickens about money. 100 houses 101 house- seekers - house misery. 100 houses 99 house seekers happiness. Just like a game of musical chairs a small percentage of additional people chasing an insufficient number of houses causes endless ...
Yes - meanwhile numerous well-run NZ firms have been driven out of business by the over-zealous restrictions to prevent money laundering. Prometheus Finance was a victim of these new rules, the Independent Retirement Plan - a scheme used by some public ...
In my view "Does God exist in any form?" is not a useful question to spend much time on. The other issue - do we need to grow up as a species - the answer is yes. What is much more interesting is that there is good evidence to show that communities who ...
So, a perfect time to mention that Scoop has just kicked off the 2016 fundraising / membership drive Locally owned independent news has never been more important and Scoop's publishing model and in-house journalism ensures that local organisations and a ...
Just wanted to second your suggestion on the Interregnum. It is an inspiring and positive read from the premise of the title to the last essay on the politics of love and pretty much everything between. If there was more debate and discussion on some of ...
In my early years in Auckland I noticed the cost of housing rose and fell reliably in line with whether immigration exceeded emigration or not. This is some three decades ago but it was persistent over the decade I lived in Auckland. It's a theory that Mr ...
Isn't the point here that prior to the election we were reassured that there would be no further privatisations because there was 'little left to sell'. This is effectively a sale because it will take $495M out of the public sphere and into debt reduction ...
Since when is anti-semitism acceptable on this blog? This comment is extremely offensive and should be removed. [It's not acceptable. A bit late in being picked up, but stupid and offensive portion of comment now removed] - Bill
The lack of action on foreign trusts is incredible in relation to the stringent restrictions being applied to New Zealand individuals and companies. Here is yesterday's article by Vernon Small. He came up against the government's anti-money laundering ...
Mistake in my post actually 2800 houses were 'transferred'. I overestimate by ninefold. Apologies. No excuse but exaggeration is kind of zeitgesity.
Clearly already having upwards of 30% of people in precarious temporary, part-time & low wage employment and under-employment that doesn't count in this worldview.
"The time to pick it up is when the concept is more fully developed and the structural change has actually emerged." This is as accurate a summary of the conservative worldview as it would be possible to make. From structural unemployment to poverty and ...
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I agree. The attempt is a fiasco for ethical and efficacy reasons and because of the way that universal services are being withdrawn in favour of intrusive targetted ones. When Gareth Morgan's ideas shop is onside with both UBI and highly critical of the ...
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