I agree. For all his warts, Muldoon communicated with Joe Public in plain language. Three Waters needs to be explained clearly, its rationale, and how it affects us individually (if at all). Unfortunately the overworked-and-hard-done-by Groundswell, in ...
... before you try to rewrite history, and an understanding of division (in this case splitting the country down the middle), at the time of the implementation of the mandates, over 90 % of the nation appeared to be supportive, including for the most part ...
Well informed comment Mr Harrison. You were obviously too young to experience the Holland and Muldoon governments when it comes to dividing a country. Please give examples of the current administration's divisiveness. Just keep repeating the tired old meme...
Franks of Franks Ogilvie. Ex (ambitious) ACT MP? Franks entered Parliament in the 1999 election, having been ranked in third place on the party list for the ACT Party, and coming fourth in Rongotai electorate. This high ranking (above several sitting MPs) ...
Wayne Brown's first action was to "Open the Books" and of course has revealed that Auckland is headed for a storm. That statement was obviously going to be made - allows Brown to make his own mistakes but blame the former administration. So, now that Goff ...
Three Waters Is there a lot of noise or is there genuine concern? It looks as though the local polling is lower than ever, yet apparently councils are telling us that their constituents are "up in arms" at the prospect of the theft of their precious water ...
Dairy owners and cigarette sales. I have some sympathy for these small owner-operators who will apparently lose out in the event of sales of cigarettes falling/being prohibited. It is reality however. There are countless industries where large numbers of ...
edit. (Loose cannons.)
Apparently Parker has now scrapped the Tax. Is there any party coordination or consultation on policy releases? Jacinda appears to have a lot of loose canons in her cabinet and it is not a good look. It is getting hard to defend failed on-the-hoof policies...
It would appear that Mallard has offered an apology to Peters for trespassing him at the occupation earlier this year. Perhaps Peters could now apologise to the rest of New Zealand for helping to inflame the protest by supporting the 5 percent and ...
I understand schools raise loans all the time for projects. And why give any profits to an Aussie bank when Kiwibank would benefit anyway.
Making Kiwibank stronger and meaningful. At the moment schools receive their government funding and put it into Aussie banks. What say schools were required to put all of there operational accounts through Kiwibank. (They can leave their fundraiser/PTA ...
Good afternoon Moderator I am following Lynn's instructions to advise you that I have changed my email address. It used to be a [deleted] email. Thanks.
Just saying. Would it not be a an opportunity for "openness" for the caucus to invite the journalists who have been posting on this story to be in on the forum? It seems to me that, while the source of information for the press is Mr Sharma alone, the ...
A lot is being made of the Cost of Living Payment going to an unknown number of NZers overseas. Perhaps they should see it as the government just giving them back some of the tax they reckon they deserve to receive. After all, they'll get sod all of any ...
What a golden opportunity missed to connect with the Pacifica electorate. I wonder why he didn't go to (and make a big play of) one of Samoa/Nuie/Tonga/Cook Is for his family break. Suggests there is more to the Hawaiian break after all - meeting the MAGA ...
Presumably this junket is from the public trough. I may have missed it, but is Seymour calling it out?
Pandemic Seymour continues to assert that we should be at level Green. Last time I looked (though I stand to be corrected) I could not find any evidence of his qualifications as an expert in Pandemics and how they should be managed. He has seemed to be ...
Anker. Not sure how you can draw a conclusion that I am denying any serious workforce shortages in health or any of the state sector professions. I do not believe it is a recent issue however - it has been going on for years. Bargaining has never had a ...
I agree entirely - I have not forgotten the scourge of Douglas and the neo-liberals at all. (Read Richardson and ACT) As a former teacher I used to get frustrated at the constant focus of NZEI, in its negotiations with the ministry, on more pay. There was ...
Just the last 5 years. Do me a favour. Doctors, nurses, teachers, firemen, police et al have been crying paucity of salaries for decades. There is only so much of a public purse to spread around, while the monied in our society salt it all away overseas. ...
We get what we pay for. While our captains of industry, major banks, and their shareholders, multinationals, reap the benefits of others' labour, our "parlous" state will continue. So nurses, doctors, teachers are all shouting that they are underpaid and ...
Is it appropriate for an executive of a large corporate (bank) to get down and dirty in expressing his political views? Twice now I have seen snippets from a former prime minister on primetime news bulletins on Covid issues. Perhaps it would be more ...
... I assume you read the whole of my post.
Not in question. Much easier to take a few risks with other peoples' money - a bit like another of our whiz kid former PM's.
It has interested me to know how the claims of "champions of small hardworking kiwis/small business owners" (otherwise known as the National party) stand up. So I did a little "unscientific" research - using Wiki - to see what "Start-up/self-employed" ...
”Public transport ultimately 'can't be subsidised or underwritten' - Christopher Luxon.” headline on RNZ this morning This from someone whose only claim to fame was to run a totally underwritten and publicly subsidised business.
Janice, living rurally, we're unable to offer support physically. However, perhaps some groups could volunteer to help out in these situations by taking in some laundry and doing some of the shopping etc. Obviously the parental duties still have to be done...
Thanks for that Pat.
And most of the major manufacturers produce 2 wheel drives as well. So how does this EV compare with those vehicles. Nissan/Toyota/Ford/Mitsubishi/Mazda etc must think they have a market for their two wheel drives. Perhaps someone here can give an informed...
On the 24th on OM Jenny posted an article from Stuff profiling an electric ute. Part of the thrust of her comment appeared to be aimed at the Politically motivated Groundswell group and how hard done by they are and their spurious arguments for joining the...
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