Thanks Drowsy. I personally am in favour of local solutions. In this case it sems the regulator is being a bit heavy handed?
Fair comment. But the poor character of politicians doesn't, in and of itself, remove the moral obligation to be responsible and prudent.
Thanks.
My understanding is Chlorine has been used intermittently in the Chch water supply? Back in 2018(??) Chch were talking about using UV and ozone treatments to avoid the use of Chlorine. What happened to that?
"You and I may agree or disagree with these decisions or outcomes, but this does not necessarily mean that they are failures or successes, as you incorrectly assert." There are some that are objective failures. "Auditor-General John Ryan today published a ...
"But to have a conversation what is the benefit of having it when people don't understand that the Govt is not spending their money. The Govt is spending its money." This is a philisophical divide. Any money the government derives is legally theirs by ...
"And no, it is not ‘our money’, as you have already stated, correctly, that the government becomes the owner of those monies." As I have said, that is the legal position. The moral position is that they have a duty of care to taxpayers, from whom the money...
Nah. Mark just doesn't like being confronted with the outcome. But if you don't like that one, here's another. Worlds of Journalism Study 2.0. Journalists in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. (farmersweekly.co.nz)
"All that they have to do is to put it up on the net. That is transparent. And guess what, it is already up on the net." No. Transparency is not just about access, it is about ease to access.
Seriously, if you think Jacinda was the best PM in your lifetime, and if you think she was pushed out by anything other than her own failure, then I have an old car to sell you. "it has a lot to do with fending off a corrupt Murdoch-style media that gives ...
So you're opposed to transparency? And yes, it is our money.
Bureaucrats cost money. If they are providing essential services, they are useful. But then there's the 46% increase on comms staff (Government blames COVID-19 for 46 percent increase in communications staff | Newshub), the $24m spent on renovating KO ...
"Receiving a 'receipt' each year gives the false impression that we have any control over the individual line items of government spending. " No, it gives information about how our money is being spent. No more, no less.
"Unlike trust beneficiaries, we do not have an equitable interest in the government’s money. " In strict legal terms, no. In ethical terms, absolutely we do. Taxpayers fund the government, and as such any responsible government has the obligation to spend ...
Tax is money taken lawfully from those who have earned it, that is tax payers. The government becomes the legal owner of those monies, by their ability to legislate for taxes. But who is the government? In a democracy they are the representatives of the ...
"To move it away from a generalised sense that society has to function and I'm obliged to contribute my share because I can earn what I do only because a functional society exists in the first place." The problem is not funding a functional society. The ...
Thanks Belladonna. Two quotes resonate: "We were once the little country that could. We beat the odds. Shouted above the noise. But, we seem to have slipped into a spiral of lowering expectations, accepting whatever we get." and "Yes, it’s time to abandon ...
Bruce Cotterill wrote a piece (behind a paywall unfortunately) in the herald over the weekend in which he said something about how NZ used to be the little country who could. A country which punched above its weight and innovated. And now? We are in a rut ...
Are you serious? This coulda been shoulda been tripe is from one alleged 'expert', is quoted in the article as telling Newsable "it’s very difficult to investigate or know how prominent it is in New Zealand" and “It’s impossible because it’s trying to ...
"Greed on their part is what has caused rents to rise so much.." No. What has caused rents to rise so much is a government with the stupidity to lift the costs of being a landlord in a market where said landlords have the ability to lift rents.
And yet our electoral system may well hand them power well out of proportion to that support.
Neither am I. Thanks for posting.
. Have a good evening, SPC,
Perhaps you should write to him and tell him that. I'm sure he'll be very keen to hear from you.
She's very good. One of Labour's better performers.
I'll let the speaker do that: "SPEAKER: That was a lot of information, but it didn't actually address the basic part of the question. Mr Bishop, do you want another question, or do you want to ask that one again?" "SPEAKER: That still doesn't answer the ...
The good doctor is a political commentator. Do you have anything to say about what he actually said, or just about what you think about him?
The Speaker, someone with both dignity and mana, disagrees with you. 3 times.
The Speaker held her to account for being entirely unable to provide anything approaching a coherent reply. He was remarkably patient.
Weka, it isn't necessary to be a green party person to have inside information on what is happening within the party. The people Edwards quotes from are far from disconnected from Green Party politics. As for Edwards assertions, what we do know, is that ...
Yes, she was challenged in the House on 3rd May about this. Her responses were farcical. Three times the Speaker had to intervene. Parliament TV On Demand - Parliament On Demand
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