I'm a bit puzzled about what was the point of including a "green" setting in the Traffic Light Framework if they never intended to use it. Seems odd to just throw away the entire regulatory framework as soon as there's a lull and then have to start over ...
Susie Ferguson has made calling Luxon on his bullshit a national sport. Unfortunately within the key MSM interviewers she is the only one playing at the moment.
Not sure why Roy Morgan bundles TPM in with Act and National as a potential coalition government in waiting. I'd say it will be a particularly chilly day in hell before we say Act and TPM in any form of working relationship.
The drag queen storytime thing is a storm in a teacup. My wife took my five year old daughter to one of these events at our library. The content was entirely age appropriate around being yourself - no gender indoctrination going on. It does children no ...
Any candidate who hires Jordan Williams to do anything more sophisticated than a coffee run lacks judgment and can't fail soon enough for my liking.
If the Greens aren't saying that having six children is a problem, then they should be. Overpopulation is one of the main contributors towards climate change and reducing the birth rate is part of the solution. It is environmentally irresponsible for ...
Excellent post, observer.
What does billion-dollar Essity think it is playing at by threatening to sue factory workers that it has already locked out? We don't need these corporate bully-boy tactics in NZ - I think a consumer boycott is in order. There are plenty of other (and ...
Completely agree. Last year we sold our house which was next door to three brand new Kainga Ora family homes which had been occupied for about a year when we left. All three families had plainly come from difficult circumstances and had some complex needs....
A real miscalculation to definitively rule out a Grand Coalition with Labour but not this. Makes him look utterly immoral and power hungry. Furthermore of all the people I know who support National (both the close-to-Act right and the more centrist who ...
If this is the juiciest stuff Sharma has got from almost two years in government then Labour is running a pretty tight ship. Discouraging junior MPs from leaping into print unnecessarily without speaking to a senior colleague first seems like pretty ...
Is it really the party whips' role to manage employment issues between their MPs and the staff assigned to them by Parliamentary Service? Genuine question. I had always thought the whips were there to keep MPs in line on political/policy issues rather than...
I have very little trust in anything like this which is released as a "snippet" out of context from the whole. A bit like JLR's recorded call of Simon Bridges about donation splitting which was supposed to expose Bridges but ended up being a total own goal...
This is what I'm struggling with Weka. I'm completely lost as to what they're meant to be enquiring into and what the substance of the complaint is. For all the noise there are not a lot of hard allegations of fact in the public domain (unlike Uffindell ...
I hope somebody vets the Auckland council/local board candidates. Otherwise given the threat of stealth infiltration by VFF and the like I sadly won't be voting for any "independent" candidates this year unless I am personally familiar with them. It's not ...
One can't help but observe that despite all the "dumps" of communications we've had out of Sharma, none of it comes close to evidencing the type of aggressive bullying which he claims is rife. I assume that if he is willing to selectively leak private ...
Also "not giving a shit" is different from "moving on". 300 people still dying from Covid daily in the UK (almost 50% worse than NZ's 17 average deathsper day on a per capita basis) in addition to the 182,000 who have already died. If Luxon thinks that's ...
Has any NZ politician ever been given such a big platform to say nothing at all so as to remain as politically beige as possible? First he says he won't criminalize abortions despite the fact he also considers them to be murder, and now the guy can't even ...
I agree with Luxon that New Zealand's constitutional arrangements as they pertain to abortion are different to America's. Until the weekend, New Zealand's were considerably worse as the US had an enshrined constitutional right which no state legislature ...
Interestingly on this point, National is actively trying to deliberately obscure the extent to which their tax plan favors the ultra rich. Their online tax savings calculator does not factor in the effect of abolishing the 39% top bracket, which is part of...
Yep, tax cuts for the poor is what this is all about. I'm sure the extra $105 a year that our full time minimum wage earners can expect under National's tax plan will more than make up for the inevitable reduction in public services.
Has Luxon yet done an interview in which he has successfully held his own when asked to go beyond his bog standard talking points about how hopeless/wasteful/"woke" the current government is? It seems that every time he is pushed by an interviewer he ends ...
In theory the same could happen here, although any legislation which substantially erodes reasonable access to abortion would be highly vulnerable to being declared to be an unjustified limitation on the rights set out in the NZ Bill of Rights Act by the ...
Indeed. I wonder what those hospitality advocates think will happen to local patronage when their demand that infected tourists be allowed to enter NZ freely causes a massive Omicron spike and Covid-risk-averse Kiwis (the majority of our middle class from ...
100% Frank. If we want to trace back to the point at which our tremendously successful Covid response went down the wrong track for the first time, it was the Government's capitulation to the incessant whining of National and the hospitality/tourism sector...
100% Frank. If we want to trace back to the point at which our tremendously successful Covid response went down the wrong track for the first time, it was the Government's capitulation to the incessant whining of National and the hospitality/tourism sector...
Absolutely tc. I'm so sick of the right wing trope that the government should have sonehow rustled up extra permanently staffed ICU beds in the last year and a bit. Anyone can buy a bed and medical equipment but it is no use if there's nobody available to ...
It suggests that those who are not vaccinated have only themselves to blame. Come on mate, really? Who else do they still have to blame? I understand that the original rollout was targeted at the "average" (read white middle-class) New Zealander and ...
Agree with your comments about the need for care in opening up, and a good analysis but perhaps slightly pessimistic on the numbers? Wouldn't a high double vaccination rate reduce the R value further (on top of the assumed reduction to 3.0 due to extra ...
What was their reason Treetops? What does the Pfizer vaccine contain which is objectionable that wouldn't be in a hypothetical alternative vaccine?
Not that it excuses the behaviour but why are you so certain that the Fran tweet was meant for Key? The Key opinion piece was only published yesterday (26/9), so she could only have been referring to that in a tweet on Saturday afternoon if she was given ...
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