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  • There’s a name for this
    Every year, in the Budget, Parliament forks out money to government agencies to do certain things. And every year, as part of the annual review cycle, those agencies are meant to report on whether they have done the things Parliament gave them that money for. Agencies which consistently fail to ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    6 days ago
  • Echoes of 1968 in 2024?  Pocock on the repetitive problems of the New Left
    Mike Grimshaw writes – Recent events in American universities point to an underlying crisis of coherent thinking, an issue that increasingly affects the progressive left across the Western world. This of course is nothing new as anyone who can either remember or has read of the late ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    6 days ago
  • Two bar blues
    The thing about life’s little victories is that they can be followed by a defeat.Reader Darryl told me on Monday night:Test again Dave. My “head cold” last week became COVID within 24 hours, and is still with me. I hear the new variants take a bit longer to show up ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    6 days ago
  • Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' for March 13
    TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read: Angus Deaton on rethinking his economics IMFLocal scoop: The people behind Tamarind, the firm that left a $500m cleanup bill for taxpayers at Taranaki’s Tui oil well, are back operating in Taranaki under a different company name. Jonathan ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    6 days ago
  • AT Need To Lift Their Game
    Normally when we talk about accessing public transport it’s about improving how easy it is to get to, such as how easy is it to cross roads in a station/stop’s walking catchment, is it possible to cycle to safely, do bus connections work, or even if are there new routes/connections ...
    7 days ago
  • Christopher's Whopper.
    Politicians are not renowned for telling the truth. Some tell us things that are verifiably not true. They offer statements that omit critical pieces of information. Gloss over risks, preferring to offer the best case scenario.Some not truths are quite small, others amusing in their transparency. There are those repeated ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    7 days ago
  • Funding hole for tax cuts growing by the day
    The pressure is mounting on the Government as it finalises its Budget Policy Statement, but yet more predicted revenue ‘goes missing’. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The Climate Commission has delivered another funding blow to the National-ACT-NZ First coalition Government’s tax-cutting plans, potentially carving $1.4 billion off the ‘climate ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    7 days ago
  • Luxon’s brave climate change promise
    The Government now faces the prospect of having to watch another tax raise the price of petrol when, only six days ago, it abolished the Auckland Regional Fuel tax. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon argued that the regional fuel tax imposed costs on lower-income people with less fuel-efficient vehicles  and that ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    7 days ago
  • At a glance – The albedo effect and global warming
    On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
    1 week ago
  • The Library of the Ratio: Published
    New story out, as part of the Winter 2024 edition of New Maps Magazine: https://www.new-maps.com/news/2024/03/spring-2024-announcement/ You may recall that The Library of the Ratio is the one set in Central Otago, focussing on the preservation of knowledge in a deindustrial environment. So this one is uncharacteristically local. It’s ...
    1 week ago
  • Lifting the lid on advice given to Melissa Lee – or rather, lifting a small bit of it
    Let’s play “spot the difference”. Above this text, you can see a copy of one small part of a briefing paper prepared for the Incoming (but not very outgoing) Minister for Media and Communications, Melissa Lee. The amount of enlightenment which resulted from Point of Order’s request to have a ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    1 week ago
  • Govt will consider advice to cut the numbers of ETS units being traded – it has already decided to...
    Buzz from the Beehive The settings for New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme – a tool intended  to help meet the country’s climate goals – need adjusting and the number of ETS units reduced, Climate Change Commission Chair Rod Carr says in a report released today. There are too many units ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    1 week ago
  • The boy is home.
    It a remarkable turn of events my son is home 8 days after surgery. The contrast with his September surgical and post-operation experience is stark: what too 5-7 days in September (removal of most IVs and draining tubes, catheter, getting … Continue reading ...
    KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
    1 week ago
  • TV layoffs not a threat to democracy
    Barrie Saunders writes – A few weeks ago I joined some contemporaries by abandoning the near sixty year habit of watching nightly TV news. I dropped it because I felt it did not give me real information that I had not acquired from other media sources, including some ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    1 week ago
  • How strangling housing supply is killing our capital city
    Is Wellington absolutely, positively ensuring it has enough housing supply? Yeah, nah …. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Wellington faces an existential threat from NIMBYs, land-bankers and politicians of all shapes, colours and sizes who have successfully strangled housing supply until now.This week may well be the capital’s last ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    1 week ago
  • Manufacturing the truth
    Chris Trotter writes – HISTORICAL PARALLELS between the impact of the printing press and the impact of the Internet are not new. Both inventions almost immediately began to undermine the command and control hierarchies of their respective societies. In the case of the printing press, the reimposition of ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    1 week ago
  • Climate Change: A test for National
    He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission has released its latest advice on NZ ETS unit limits and price control settings for 2025–2029. This is, in theory, technical advice on how many units the government should allow to be auctioned. But because the ETS system is under pressure due to ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    1 week ago
  • Gordon Campbell on Luxon’s landlord myths, and the needless nightmare of high interest rates
    During the PM’s post-Cabinet press conference yesterday, Christopher Luxon claimed that renters will be feeling “grateful” for the way the government is putting “downward pressure“ on rents. Really. Allegedly, the coalition government is doing renters a massive favour (a) by giving landlords a huge tax break on the interest payable ...
    1 week ago
  • Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030
    This is a re-post from Carbon Brief A victory for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election could lead to an additional 4bn tonnes of US emissions by 2030 compared with Joe Biden’s plans, Carbon Brief analysis reveals. This extra 4bn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) by 2030 would cause global ...
    1 week ago
  • Wormy Encounters
    Note: A lot of you seemed to appreciate that I recorded last week’s story, “Gary”, as a mini-podcast. So I’ve done that again today. I can’t do this every time, but when I can, I will. Listen or read, you choose. Read more ...
    David FarrierBy David Farrier
    1 week ago
  • Collins vague about science-sector plans but (there’s no rush with this one) she does promise gene...
    Buzz from the Beehive As Minister of Science Innovation and Technology, Judith Collins had been perturbingly quiet – until now. She was invited to address a BioTechNZ and NZTech summit today, giving her a platform to explain what she intends doing in  the science domain. She told her audience she ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    1 week ago
  • Life’s little victories
    Woke up this morning with a head cold. Probably. On the other hand, you never know these days do you? Best to check. All good, pleased to say, just the single line on the COVID test.Do you do this too? Do you leave the test sitting there for the day ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    1 week ago
  • A giant Henry VIII clause
    National introduced its corrupt Muldoonist resource-consent fast-track legislation to the House on Thursday, and rammed it through its first reading. Having read the bill, it is every bid as bad as signalled, taking selected resource consent decisions away from independent panels and putting them directly in the hands of Ministers. ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    1 week ago
  • What media bias looks like
    Lindsay Mitchell writes – When news media took a pummelling last week at both TVNZ and TV3, a number of critics said part of the reason ratings are poor is the public don’t trust them. The public believe that the media is biased. The print media is similarly ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    1 week ago
  • Better Event Trains
    Sometimes it might not feel like it, but our public transport system is significantly better than what it was 10 to 15 years ago. However one area where Auckland Transport continue to really struggle is with events and the most recent weekend was no exception with complaints about trains from ...
    1 week ago
  • Resistance is Fertile.
    It's a stormWithout endWhere's the lighthouse?Where's a friend?Come to thinkIt can't lastOnly if we resist“How would you describe the Government's first 100 days?”, Gerard Otto asked the other night. I replied, “a catastrophic clusterf#ck of corrupt cronyism, colonialist comprehension, cigarette butt charisma and craven cruelty.” Maybe some of you agree, ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    1 week ago
  • Why isn’t the funding on the same fast track?
    Wellington’s Transmission Gully is an example of a PPP-funded project that was delivered late and over budget. Photo: Lynn Grieveson/Getty ImagesTL;DR: The Government is trumpeting the speed, breadth and single-decision-making tools it is creating for itself to get big projects consented quickly, but its funding plans remain on decidedly slower ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    1 week ago
  • The Kaka’s diary for the week to March 18 and beyond
    Photo by Savannah Wakefield on UnsplashTL;DR: The key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to March 18 include a Cabinet meeting today, selected price indices for February on Wednesday and migration data for January on Thursday.Next week, Parliament resumes on Tuesday for two weeks, the US ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    1 week ago
  • The great Parliamentarian who was not so good at politics
    Jonathan Hunt, who died aged 85 last week, was a Parliamentary institution. Few MPs have embraced its traditions and processes with as much devotion as Hunt. First as Labour’s Chief Whip back in the late 70s and early 80s and then as one its most successful Speakers between 1999 and ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    1 week ago
  • 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #10
    A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 3, 2024 thru Sat, March 9, 2024. Story(s) of the week Two stories on one topic inexorably lead to a third story. Fury after Exxon chief says ...
    1 week ago
  • 2024 Regent Booksale
    As in 2023, Dunedin’s Regent Theatre Booksale is no longer held at the Regent Theatre. Nor does it run from noon Friday to noon Saturday, allowing midnight visits. No, it is now held at the Edgar Centre, and runs from 10 am to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday. So it ...
    1 week ago
  • Talkin' Bout A Revolution.
    How are you?Recent weeks have felt pretty rough for the left. The resignation of Grant Robertson, the loss of his towering intellect, wit, and compassion. The heartbreaking loss of Efeso Collins, a young man with so much positivity who wanted to do good things for people. All the while this ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    1 week ago
  • The State of David Seymour's Shameless Double Standards
    ..Thanks for reading Frankly Speaking ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.David Seymour has come a long way from portraying himself as a “lovable scamp”, etching a vision of his distended derrière - baboon-style - for unlucky viewers of Dancing with the Stars. It reinvented ...
    Frankly SpeakingBy Frank Macskasy
    1 week ago
  • Changing course
    I didn't just go to school to eat my lunch, I also went to play bullrush.Class time was fun too. We learned about Captain Cook and the Vietnam War and the life cycle of insects. One morning we trooped next door to the headmaster's house to watch something that might ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    1 week ago
  • The Bewildering World of Chris Luxon – Entitlement
    ..Thanks for reading Frankly Speaking ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Writing for Newsroom on a Friday mid-morning, veteran investigative journalist, Marc Daalder’s story on Chris Luxon’s ministerial allowances exploded onto the nation’s political stage:..The Prime Minister will receive a $52,000 top-up to his $471,000 ...
    Frankly SpeakingBy Frank Macskasy
    1 week ago
  • Another Brief on Intelligence Matters.
    Although my son is still in hospital he is recovering well and should be sent home soon. We dodged a bullet thanks to the Starship medical staff. While at the hospital a reporter from one of Argentina’s oldest and most … Continue reading ...
    KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
    1 week ago
  • Tama Potaka brings te reo into play in Parliament while avoiding giving guarantees about numbers of ...
    ************************* The biographical notes about Tama Potaka on the National Party website suggest he should be able to eloquently answer a Parliamentary question. He has had a diverse career across legal, public service, education, advisory, tribes, investment, charities and enterprise.  He was the chief executive of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    1 week ago
  • Why?
    Today’s newsletter is about things that make us ask - Why?I don’t mean the big philosophical unknowns, like why does God let good dogs die? Clearly she’s a cat person. But we all know the world would be a better place if she preferred dogs.You know where you are with ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    2 weeks ago
  • A week of it
    Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.Friday: Week in review, quiz styleThursday: Fast track is outright assault on environmentA new sweeping fast-track consenting bill being tabled in parliament today is anti-nature, anti-democracy, and will leave a mess for ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    2 weeks ago
  • Algorithms Are Eating Our Culture
    Hi,New Zealand is a pretty great place to be right now if you’re a bad person doing bad things. Aotearoa’s TV broadcast news is rapidly collapsing — one channel wiping out its entire news and current affairs division, and its state broadcaster axing a bunch of its news and current ...
    David FarrierBy David Farrier
    2 weeks ago
  • The Hoon around the week to March 9
    National, ACT and NZ First MPs at the signing of their coalition agreement, before launching their 100-day plan - achieved by using urgency in Parliament more than any other recent government. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    2 weeks ago
  • How Centralised Should Our Health System Be?
    The Government says it will give localities more control over healthcare decisions. But how? New Zealand’s political reflex is that any problem can be resolved by further centralisation. Students will be officially banned from having cell phones at school from Term 2. The decision could have been left to individual ...
    PunditBy Brian Easton
    2 weeks ago
  • Farewell to Fair Go: 1977-2024
    New Zealand journalism is in crisis. TVNZ – our state-owned television broadcaster – announced cuts to programming this afternoon. Spooked by falling revenues, they are dropping the axe on New Zealand institution Fair Go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Go For forty-seven years, New Zealanders have had a consumer-rights advocate in the form of ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Melissa’s media mystery – what lurks beneath the blackened text in a ministerial briefing paper?
    And what – dare we ask – lies under the blacking?   The officials who serve Media and Communications Minister Melissa Lee are keeping the answer a dark (what else?) secret. We should not be surprised. Lee took has not been bursting with eagerness to explain herself or the government’s ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    2 weeks ago
  • Public infrastructure and service potholes under massive population pressure
    TL;DR: A CTU analysis of Government spending and investment has found already gaping holes in promised public services and infrastructure will widen by as much as a further $22.1 billion over the next four years if the population keeps growing at recent rates, and as the new Government screws down ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    2 weeks ago
  • The tohunga suppression myth that won’t die
    Graham Adams writes — Jonathan Swift’s observation in 1710 that “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it” seems entirely apt for last week’s parliamentary debate on disestablishing the Māori Health Authority. No fewer than three MPs — MPs Cushla Tangaere-Manuel (Labour), Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke (Te Pāti Māori), ...
    Point of OrderBy gadams1000
    2 weeks ago
  • National’s firearms law is authoritarian, intrusive, and unreasonable
    On Wednesday night the National government rammed its new Firearms Prohibition Orders Legislation Amendment Bill through its first reading under urgency. The bill expands the existing FPO regime to apply it to gang-members convicted of non-firearms offences, and introduce a novel search power, allowing police to search any person (and ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    2 weeks ago
  • Health targets are back – but we heard of them from the ministry before the PM and Shane Reti pos...
    Buzz from the Beehive The Ministry of Health website early this afternoon advised that the Government had announced health targets for cancer treatment, childhood immunisation, emergency departments and wait times for first specialist assessments and elective treatment. These targets are intended to support the delivery of better health outcomes for ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    2 weeks ago
  • 100 Days of Wreckage
    1. Which of these did not happen this week?a. The Minister for Looking After Big Tobacco, who disavows any links to the tobacco industry, represented our country at a Global Fraud Conferenceb. The Prime Minister went to Melbourne to play spin the bottle c. Chris Bishop threw a crayfish lunch to ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    2 weeks ago
  • LINDSAY MITCHELL: Is real change on the cards?
    Lindsay Mitchell writes :  Sometimes the gems are buried. My ears pricked up when the following statement was reported on a news programme playing in the background: “MSD staff assessing anyone applying for emergency housing will increase their scrutiny of whether they have unreasonably contributed to their immediate emergency ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 weeks ago
  • DAVID FARRAR:  NZ Media income over time
    The news of the large loss by TVNZ got me interested in what has happened to revenue for major NZ media companies. So I went through the annual reports for those that have public ones. TVNZ’S revenue is 5% lower in 2023 than 2015. They are a commercial broadcaster, so ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 weeks ago
  • BRYCE EDWARDS:  Rising toxicity in NZ politics
    Bryce Edwards writes – A top university academic, selected by former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to head a big project aimed at reducing division and extremism in New Zealand, is currently in trouble for lashing out at the new Government, accusing it of racism, child-hatred, and being a “death-cult”. ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 weeks ago
  • The National Development Act (1979) redux
    “The ghost of Rob Muldoon has inhabited the mind and body of Shane Jones,” said James Shaw. (Image of Jones he chose to tweet/ image of Muldoon from Getty Images. Photo montage: Lynn Grieveson)TL;DR: The coalition Government has ticked off the last major item in its 100-day plan that expires ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    2 weeks ago
  • Gordon Campbell on the government’s fast track to trashing the environment
    With Shane Jones as the watchdog, who needs predators? Mining on DOC land now seems to be a fait accompli. Plainly, New Zealand‘s conservation estate is now open for business, regardless of the impact on the environment and on the endangered species for whom DOC land used to provide a ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Weekly Roundup 8-March-2024
    Welcome to Friday and what a week it’s been. Here are some of the other things that caught our attention this week This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday we ran a guest post from Nick Reid asking if should we build a bridge or tunnel across Cook ...
    Greater AucklandBy Greater Auckland
    2 weeks ago
  • The big Beehive power grab
    The Government’s new fast-track planning legislation unveiled yesterday is even more draconian than Sir Robert Muldoon’s 1979 legislation, which attempted to do the same thing. Muldoon sought to limit the role of the courts and have the Beehive play a bigger role in issuing resource consents but the coalition government ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    2 weeks ago
  • Skeptical Science New Research for Week #10 2024
    Open acccess notables Projections of an ice-free Arctic Ocean, Jahn et al., Nature Reviews Earth & Environment: Observed Arctic sea ice losses are a sentinel of anthropogenic climate change. These reductions are projected to continue with ongoing warming, ultimately leading to an ice-free Arctic (sea ice area 2). In this ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Media minister mute (on the Beehive website, at least) but her colleagues are busy rushing a raft of...
    Buzz from the Beehive The journalists who write this blog were expecting – or rather, hoping – to see something from Melissa  Lee when we checked the government’s official website this afternoon. We were disappointed.  Although TVNZ today announced it plans to cut up to 68 jobs in a proposed restructure ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    2 weeks ago
  • Finding out about Joanna Kidman – the tweets are private but her invective has not been removed fr...
    A professor by name of Joanna Kidman seems to have caused a stir in political circles this week. So what do we learn about her, if we put her name into the Google search system? The first items listed, in response to our inquiry, were news stories which suggest she ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    2 weeks ago
  • Join us for the weekly Hoon on YouTube Live
    Photo by Alvan Nee on UnsplashIt’s that new day of the week (Thursday rather than Friday) when and I co-host our ‘hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kākā for an hour at 5 pm. Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream for our chat about the week’s news ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    2 weeks ago
  • Fast track is outright assault on environment
    We love the stories about our godwits flying all the way from Alaska to Aotearoa, don’t we? What an amazing feat we say. All that way without stopping, we say. Welcome home, wonderful little birds we say. Sometimes we care a lot about nature and its silly little animals, sometimes ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    2 weeks ago
  • Saying what needed to be said
    National today announced that it would be introducing its corrupt Muldoonist resource consent fast-track legislation to the House today, and ramming it through its first reading under urgency. Unusually, the list of projects that will be pre-approved will not be included in the bill, but will be added later, so ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    2 weeks ago
  • For the Self-Loathing Left, Charity Definitely Does NOT Begin At Home.
    The Ill Wind’s Beneficiary: George Galloway’s Rochdale by-election victory will make not one whit of difference to the unfolding catastrophe in Gaza. He will be despised by virtually the whole of the British Establishment, including the overwhelming majority of his parliamentary colleagues. Aside from making speeches in front of evermore bloodthirsty ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Why Newshub Failed.
    Too Small To Survive: Was it ever realistic to believe that two commercial television networks could profitably share such a tiny market?TO UNDERSTAND WHY NEWSHUB FAILED, it is necessary to understand how TVNZ changed. Up until 1989, the state broadcaster had been funded by a broadcasting licence fee, collected from ...
    2 weeks ago
  • 'Couch surf. It's better than motels & cheaper for us'
    Critics say kicking people out of motels without increasing the stock of social housing will see more people living rough, sleeping in vans, cars, sheds, tents or on the street. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The Kākā TL;DR: In an effort to save $340 million a year, the new Government plans ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    2 weeks ago
  • All this climate data is wild
    This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Kristen Pope An elephant seal dives deeper than 1,000 meters below Antarctic waters with a tiny tag affixed to its fur, helping scientists collect valuable data about climate change. In Mongolia, pigeons fly around the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, with sensors on ...
    2 weeks ago
  • DAVID FARRAR: Meta withdraws Facebook News in Australia
    David Farrar writes –  Stuff reports: Facebook owner Meta has refused to continue paying for news in Australia, announcing it will end its deals with local publishers when they expire this year in a decision that news companies say blatantly ignores the value of their journalism. The government also blasted ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 weeks ago
  • Tell the Truth.
    Tell the truth.Tell me who's been fooling you?Tell the truth.Who's been fooling who?Sneering little bully boys who like to hand it out, that’s what they are. Belittling, abusing, and threatening those who disagree with them. Then recoiling in feigned injury, flopping about as if mortally wounded, at the slightest hint ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    2 weeks ago
  • The GPS is a disaster for local government
    One thing that’s not been reported much yet about the catastrophically bad draft Government Policy Statement released on Monday is what it means for local government around the country. Reading through the document, it was a bit surprising how little local government was mentioned at all – seemingly ignorant of ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Gary
    Note: As a paid-up Webworm member (thanks!), I’ve made this Webworm story available in audio form also — just in case you want to rest your eyes! Read more ...
    David FarrierBy David Farrier
    2 weeks ago
  • CHRIS TROTTER: Unintended consequences
    The Basilisk’s Glare:  From his eyrie in the Kremlin, Putin’s eyes remain fixed upon the United States. Not in fear does he gaze upon the world’s unconquerable continental Goliath, but with rising hope. In President Biden’s palsied hand, the sword of freedom is loosely held. Meanwhile, from the heartland of ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 weeks ago
  • Climate Change: More arson
    The planet is currently burning down around us. So naturally, Shane Jones has decided to grant another fossil fuel exploration permit to make it worse: Only a single onshore petroleum exploration permit has been granted through the Block Offer 2020 competitive tender process. Greymouth Gas Turangi had been granted ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    2 weeks ago
  • Waking up is hard to do
    The Ancient Egyptians believed that each morning was a mini-rebirth. The sun god Ra's journey through the night, battling the forces of chaos to rise again each morning, was mirrored in each individual's own passage from sleep (symbolising death) to waking (symbolising rebirth). The Greeks believed that waking up each morning ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    2 weeks ago
  • Let’s see if “blood on their hands” MP might be mollified by outcome of Shane Reti’s meeting...
    Buzz from the Beehive Shannan Halbert, a fellow who was dumped as a Labour MP by a majority of Northcote voters at the 2023 general election, returned to  Parliament as a list MP last month in the wake of Kelvin Davis’ retirement.  He took his seat just in time to ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    2 weeks ago
  • Our nation of inflation displacement
    The new Government zeal for freezing and cutting spending and investment is simply shifting costs and inflations onto Kiwi households.Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The new coalition Government’s zeal in its first 100 days for freezing and cutting spending and investment at the central Government level is having an ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    2 weeks ago

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  • Pacific Language Weeks celebrate regional unity
    This year’s Pacific Language Weeks celebrate regional unity and the contribution of Pacific communities to New Zealand culture, says Minister for Pacific Peoples Dr Shane Reti.  Dr Reti announced dates for the 2024 Pacific Language Weeks during a visit to the Pasifika festival in Auckland today and says there’s so ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    1 week ago
  • Coalition Government completes 100-day plan
    Today’s announcement of five major health targets means the coalition Government has delivered all 49 actions in its 100-day plan. “I am proud to lead a Government that delivers on its commitments. We committed to 49 actions in 100 days, and we have delivered 49 actions in 100 days,” Prime ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 weeks ago
  • Health targets will deliver better outcomes for New Zealanders
    The coalition Government’s commitment to five key health targets will drive better outcomes for all New Zealanders, in the concluding announcement to its 100 day plan. Health Minister Dr Shane Reti announced the targets in Whangārei, saying they represented a vigorous new direction in health from a Government determined to deliver ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 weeks ago
  • Government introduces gangs to law and order
    The Government has introduced legislation today which will give Police additional tools to go after gangs who inflict fear and misery on everyday Kiwis, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says.  “Gangs have recruited more than 3000 members over the last five years, a 51 per cent increase. Meanwhile, gang-related violence, public ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 weeks ago
  • Dr Shane Reti's speech to Iwi-Maori Partnership Boards, Christchurch
    Wednesday 6 March, Christchurch    Opening kōrero Can I start by first acknowledging the Te Aka Whai Ora staff, the leadership and the board, and all those who were a part of its establishment. I acknowledge for some, Te Aka Whai Ora was a dream and a vision. I understand ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 weeks ago
  • Unlocking investment in Build-To-Rent housing developments
    The coalition Government will introduce legislation to make it easier for overseas investors to invest in Build to Rent developments in New Zealand, Housing and Associate Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. Cabinet has agreed to make changes to the Overseas Investment Act 2005 to better support Build to Rent housing ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 weeks ago
  • Re-engaging with the world
    The Coalition Government has used its first 100 Days rejuvenating New Zealand’s connections with the world, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says.   “New Zealand is a country whose prosperity and security rely upon the quality of our international relationships. We have therefore spent our government’s first 100 Days re-engaging with ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
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