Federated farmers not at all happy about the AEV changes either!! Stephen Todd is our local Fed Farmers head. https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/people/visa-changes-devastating-for-farmers-and-workers/
Likely to be livestock trucks on the stranded ferry.
One of the 52 delegates is Greg Foran - Air NZ CEO. Was able to rustle up 50 empty seats and divert a Narita bound flight to Brisbane to pick them all up!
Here's one link - 52 trade delegates and press. https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350312535/government-faces-bills-fly-tokyo-after-defence-force-plane-woes
Was the policy a good one in the first place? Could National have delivered it without undermining Pharmac? What’s the truth behind the fiscal cliff? Professor Chris Jackson, oncologist writes in Newsroom: https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/04/cancer-patients...
Similar thing happening in the UK with the tories throwing unjustified crap at Labours deputy leader Angela Rayner. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/28/angela-rayner-cleared-of-criminal-wrongdoing-over-sale-of-home
March for Nature on 8th June. https://www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/protest-march-against-fast-track-bill-announced-auckland
Another positive anecdote about the value of hot school lunches from my local rural Area School newsletter. Are noodles woke food?? Garlic bread? Today we have a new lunch on the menu. Chicken Noodle Soup and Garlic Bread. Last year, what was then O class ...
Newsroom are well worth supporting with a subscription in my opinion.
My local Area School, roll of 220, age 5 to 18, has very a successful lunch program supplied by one of our local cafes. The owners have 2 children at the school, age 6 and 8 so they know what children will eat. The favourite meal is sushi !!! followed by ...
Have had experience of Nelson Hospital food over these past few months which is trucked from Christchurch - over 400kms. It is inedible, including the sandwiches. If Seymour is worried about uneaten/wasted food now, he's going to get a shock. Or maybe ...
Or the rest of them are slackers!!
Boris Johnson introduced photo ID for voting in the UK last year. Watch out for this government doing the same. Ironically Johnson was turned away from the polling station this week because he forgot his ID. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/boris-johnson...
New and expensive cancer drugs are part of the coalition agreement with ACT - twenty of them I believe. My partner has just finished six months of chemo (he is fine). The chemo suite in Nelson Hospital currently operates four days a week and will be going ...
Probably want to concentrate power/influence/money in golden triangle of Auckland Hamilton Tauranga.
Is there anything in the Murdoch Australia boss flying to Wellington to meet Luxon and Lee very recently? (paywalled but you can see the headline). https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/media-insider-top-rupert-murdoch-tv-exec-meets-pm-christopher-luxon-amid...
I describe my diet as 'plant led'. I eat eggs and fish but no meat or dairy products. My husband eats a bit of wild venison but otherwise the same as me. We grow most of our vegetables supplemented by a few field mushrooms off the lawn this morning. Big ...
How does that fit with what Shane Reti said when he announced the Maori Health Authority would be disestablished and that this heralds the start of a new vision for Maori health? https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/māori-health-authority-disestablished
Vitasoy is made from Australian soy beans - the original is creamy enough for my dairy cream loving husband to have on his porridge! Widely available. Also makes a good alternative to coconut milk in curries as I cannot eat coconut.
This is the original story from NZ Womans Weekly complete with christmas pyjamas. Classy. https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/celeb-news/christmas-with-christopher-luxon-and-family-48048/
Or singer/songwriters. Lyin' Luxon (and his Tobacco Goons) from Darren Watson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4nMZ5AO9S0
Casey Costello deserves to be added to the tight race list.
Think it's pronounced Sin Jin. Two weeks notice seems ..... rushed.
We do not have the oil reserves to support our consumption - as Joe90 says we rely on imported crude. Reopening Marsden Point is not going to change that. https://www.worldometers.info/oil/new-zealand-oil/
New Zealand has been buying all bitumen from overseas since early 2021 - more money in it. https://contractormag.co.nz/contractor/marsden-point-bitumen/
I'm in the West Coast Tasman electorate and Phelps ran quite a seductive campaign - vote for me and you'll get three MPs in parliament. I didn't vote for him but was unaware of the Bathurst money link although I knew he was a mining advocate.
If you subscribe, David Slack emails out a weekend freebie edition.
Lord Foulkes is a Labour life peer, not an hereditary peer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Foulkes,_Baron_Foulkes_of_Cumnock
"The machine" could be the international financiers sniffing round the ashes of Three Waters.... Nationwide water metering and security over water assets are likely to be conditions of international financiers backing the new Government’s water services ...
The RNZ report https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/508127/revealed-nz-first-minister-casey-costello-s-notes-on-tobacco-tax-freeze
Rod Carr stands down as chair of the Climate Change Commission in 6 months - could James Shaw step in there?
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