There is no crisis if you're a Wotton and can make 100 thou on a house in weeks on reality tv. The viewership probably agrees.
You can still build your own home if you're unexperienced or untrained in building, the catch is that it has to be less than 10 metres squared I think. Still if you're a little creative you can have multiple small 10m2 "shed" structures butting up against ...
Ok, so it's taken the New Zealand Planning Institute about 65 years to figure out the suburban dross that they've been party to designing, that litters our cities and towns might have some large negative effects on the climate and people's general ...
You really have to hope you're not in government when that happens because your government will be right royally screwed.
From my experience their tv is about as trashy as ours. I don't seem to remember channels 7, 9 or 10 doing hard hitting stuff. Breakfast tv and current affairs afters the news were about our seven sharp quality. They do have ABC and SBS which are good ...
The thing is when things start breaking down, whether that be a hard financial crash or fuel shortages/price escalation (likely scenarios at some point) then people are going to shift to any system that can keep them alive with the resemblance of an ...
Are the alarm bells going off yet. According to information released by the Ministry of Social Development under the Official Information Act, the numbers of times police have been notified of security incidents at the Ministry's sites has multiplied by a ...
At least it's clear now that if du Plessis Allan wants to moonlight as a troll on the Standard she would fit in seamlessly. It's also no wonder that the public opinion of journalists is plummeting when some represent bias, junk reporting and are ...
Hmm, not sure if I've ever seen a poll asking "are you happy with the current economic system?". So bringing party politial polls into this may be spurious. You could just say 1 million people who vote National out of a nation of 4+ million possibly want ...
She's almost as dishonest as you BM, which takes some beating!
An interesting look at Pope Francis and the work by the church to address poverty. http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-argentina-slum-priests-20130806-dto-htmlstory.html I also saw a Natgeo doco recently called Rebel Pope and that talks about how the Pope ...
I'm starting to wonder that whatever the opposition does people still won't vote for them. Labour or the Greens aren't seen as cool by the public, they're not part of the "in" crowd, and they don't fit in with the it's all about "me" culture we've built up...
Nice work! there's nothing more annoying than someone else having the web address you want.
Absolutely, I agree he's not worthy of a knighthood, so why should he be given greater recognition by being put in the top 20 honourable kiwis! Also anyone who puts their name behind a crap house building company like Versatile and helps create banal ...
The poor just need to be a bit more personably responsible and upskill and all of a sudden hundreds of thousands are finally paid a decent wage. Yeah right! This is what its like being stuck on the bottom rung of the ponzi scheme.
Clinton v Sanders political debate from Brooklyn, New York is on at 1pm NZ time today. Broadcast by CNN, there might be a live stream on their website.
Why is banning them not an option? Health and dog professionals are saying they are a problem and an option is banning dangerous dogs. Pitbulls have only been in NZ for 20 years, not 200 or 2000 years. Sounds perfectly rational to me as a possible option.
Ok so if you're right and the media can't get the breed correct, are you also saying the dog control officers with decades of experience can't get it right? Animal control veteran John Payne has compiled statistics on attacks in the central North Island ...
Ok reasoned and sensible... let's say NZ introduced one of Aussie's poisonous snakes into the country, the snake was responsible for multiple hospitalisations each year, sometimes death. Wouldn't it be sensible to try and eradicate that snake from the ...
Well a lot of the media reports referring to attacks say pitbull, pitbull cross, etc. So the reporters are getting that information somehow, from the owner or the dog control officer I assume, they don't have to do a DNA test to identify the breed of dog ...
The dogs of fighting breeds make up much of the statistics for serious injuries though. If you could eliminate say half serious dog attacks by outlawing those breeds that would be good for society. Although not so nice for those dog owners I admit.
Ban the fighting breeds. They're the ones that can cause serious injury. You're not allowed to walk round with a concealed weapon, so you shouldn't be able to walk round with a dangerous dog either.
:) http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/business/qoa/51HansQ_20160413_00000002/2-tax-system%E2%80%94overseas-trusts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU0f5icb8hQ
Strange coming from someone so enamoured with left wing blog writings.
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I think I have heard Mike Joy say that even planting is not enough to stop pollution, you have to destock paddocks if you want to clean streams and rivers. That makes sense if each cow is producing something like 25 litres of urine a day times that by a ...
Yeah but lots of bad news for the Government doesn't mean the tide is turning. I may have just missed the signs of a change of tide though...
Hope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrDXM8ROdls
I'm sure the PM has his fortune saved in Kiwibank at negligible interest for the good of the country and all that. Such an honourable nice guy would do that...
The door knocking scene from Labyrinth now has new meaning. "What do you think Ludo, which do we choose out of these two ugly characters?"
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