Scotty in a former life worked as a marketing consultant for Tourism New Zealand in Christchurch and was the genius who came up with the slogan "Clean, Green New Zealand" so obviously never tells a lie!
The sub saga has been overshadowed massively recently in Oz by the shenanigans over the deal within the Coalition over "zero emissions by 2050" between the Libs and Nats. Not sure what ordinary Aussies think about anything as I listen too much to the ABC ...
The balance of opinion seems to be that Macron was right to suggest that Scomo's government failed to give adequate notice that it was about to renege on a sub build deal worth billions to the French and that Scomo lied when he suggested that the French ...
And Aussies don't vote in French presidential elections - Macron has the better argument but is also playing to RW French voters - ditto the spat with Boris over post-Brexit fishing rights.
I think we'll keep Fran Kelly (ABC's Radio National) or Leigh Sales (ABC's 7.30 report) any day over Barry Soapbox and his ilk. Quality media journalists. Of course there are plenty of RWNJ soapbox heros over this side of the ditch as well, but there is ...
Queensland is opening its borders to NSW, Vic and ACT on 17th December, whatever the vaccination rate (currently the lowest in Oz after WA). Qld, WA, SA, NT and Tas have been virtually virus free and relatively normal but the Delta outbreaks in the south ...
Sounds like our Aussie ones. We have Medicare issued vaccination certificates with no QR code, just names, Medicare numbers and details of the 2 Astrazeneca jabs with batch identification and who did the jabbing. We also have 'international' vaccination ...
Collins and Seymour can hardly complain about rising case numbers. They want to 'learn to iive with the virus'. It's here in all its glory. They should enjoy its presence.
Taiwan's big outbreak wasn't Delta - it was alpha. Also significant is which community the virus infects. Even Michael Baker thoughr that the level of compliance in South Auckland's most deprived wouldn't have improved if Auckland had stayed at level 4 any...
Been to Teahupo'o. Awesome but scary place and I wasn't even surfing!
Taiwan's whackamole stint this year was an outbreak of the alpha variant, not delta. Taiwan got complacent and took a few months to stamp the outbreak out. The other countries that used the elimination tactic last year have struggled with delta...Vietnam, ...
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Queensland has used the same elimination techniques as NZ for each Covid outbreak to date, including the 2 recent Delta outbreaks. (so did Victoria and ACT, but lockdown weariness/lack of compliance has affected Victoria much more than Qld). So far, so ...
Collins' comment has now been called out https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-spinoff-new-zealand-urgently-needs-a-serious-opposition-leader/VSJXHUHRKWZAHNDED7D6QD4A2I/ in the Herald (a reprint of the Spinoff editorial) rather surprisngly, presumably ...
Calling someone a "big, fat, hypocrite" has nothing to do with a health debate, but is a desperate, disgusting attack on someone who has made an outstanding contribution to educating NZers and beyond about how to combat the virus. The Spinoff editorial ...
49 today, bye bye Judith then?
No-one in NZ should be surprised if they have bothered to look across the ditch - half of Australia is locked down. The good news is that the states and territories that acted swiftly (Queensland, SA, WA, NT) all squashed the delta variant quickly, NSW not...
Perhaps the govt could request that dairy farmers replace their herds by 'farming' billionaires? Say, 1 billionaire to 1,000 cows. That would eliminate methane emissions, reduce pollution of waterways significantly and give billionaires a bolthole while ...
Niue, the Cooks and Tokelau, all associated with NZ, are (almost) fully vaccinated. NZ is actually (almost) at the bottom of the list of OECD countries as far as vaccine rollout is concerned.
The whole of Cairns in Queensland is currently locked down because of infection from that same ship via a reef pilot and taxi driver, so yes guess it might be a few days of anxiety in Tauranga. Not sure that finger crossing is a sensible strategy with ...
About the best post I have read on this topic for a long time. Thanks.
The latest IPCC report is out tonight, the first in 7 years. The IPCC reports tend to be on the conservative side of climate change analysis, but all previews sense the latest report will be a shocker. The evidence that action on climate change after a ...
Complaints about NZ's vaccine rollout heard from just about anywhere else seem rather ridiculous. The Tauranga ship workers caught the virus from a reef pilot operating out of Cairns who also spread it to a taxi driver in Cairns, an outbreak that has now ...
Victoria is going back into lockdown tonight for at least a week after mystery cases in Melbourne, NSW had 262 cases today with 5 more deaths and cases spreading up the central coast and into the Hunter, SE Queensland still in lockdown until Sunday. The ...
ACT....contributing to the climate crisis through its methane emissions....
Good analysis of the rise in ACT and lacklustre performance of Labour since October 2020 by Gordon Campbell (http://werewolf.co.nz/2021/08/gordon-campbell-on-populisms-changing-of-the-guard-plus-a-soul-music-playlist/). Campbell accounts for the rise in ...
Gladys Berejiklian was the Coalition's poster child, successfully quashing every outbreak (until the last one) by contact tracing alone, while all other states used the short sharp "hard and early" technique, whether Labor or Liberal controlled. Gladys and...
Oz sounds similar to Germany. Vaccine rollout is a federal (Coalition) responsibility, all other health decisions including Covid restrictions, lockdowns are state determined. Basically all states and territories, blue or red, have similar responses to ...
163 cases in NSW today, 50 odd infectious in the community, so scary stuff. NSW has been cut off from all other states as well as NZ. NSW is the only state that has avoided short, hard lockdowns and this time has come a cropper. SA, Vic and Qld will no ...
As Patricia Bremner points out there are many, many examples right now of how climate chage is ruining human existence on the planet... the excessive heat in the Pacific NW of America, the drying up of the Amazon, excessive rainfall in Germany, Belgium.......
Squatting was common when I was young in England. Unoccupied buildings were squatted and in London, there was an agreement between local councils and a well organised squatting movement that allowed people who couldnt afford the rents at the time to occupy...
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