Seriously? Come on guys, this is ridiculous special pleading. There is no way anyone here defending TW would accept this behaviour from a right-wing politician. A single similar incident ended Aaron Gilmore’s political career. Alcoholism is a serious issue...
Kiwirail should join up the Gisborne to BoP link and thus complete a Great NZ Eastern Rail. Apart from tourism and freight etc, it would greatly open up all eastern N Is. Land. Why does no one suggest this but me? Costly, but surely logical.
Re: Māori input -- I don't have any inside view the details of what happened, but within the NCEA curriculum reform process there is an NCEA Māori Panel and Mātauranga Māori Expert Reviewers panel, I believe. (Please note, I would definitely not attribute ...
This is yet another discussion of this topic that ignores one of the core issues: what the NZ Ministry of Education put into the NCEA Level 1 Chemistry and Biology curriculum, which began the discussion of atoms and particles with "Mauri is present in all ...
Or an Imelda Marcos
Umm, electorate seat races in general elections are done by FPP. Regarding Epsom and "coatailing" alot of people seem to get the two issues mixed up. One issue is a party winning list seats and evading the 5% threshold purely because of strong local ...
Is that 20% increase in gross emissions or net emissions?
Interesting points. I can understand the upset over Epsom regarding the "coatailing" like how in 2008 Act won Epsom and got 5 Mps for 3.5% of the vote, but NZ First got no seats with 4.1%. However the days of Act polling like it can get a second MP from ...
There were quite a number of people on the right who had the same sentiment regarding Helen Clark over the Electoral Finance Act e.t.c. back in 2007. I disagree that "NZ has no mechanism to “impeach” / remove a PM." You can express a vote of no-confidence ...
How about this: Minimum wage to be adjusted to inflation (if inflation is 5%, the minimum wage goes up by 60c per year). Tax thresholds also be inflation adjusted. Workers are only to get pay rises (above inflation) with increased productivity. Market ...
How much of the domestic violence figures include parents prosecuted for smacking children?
How about repeal the Electoral Finance Act. Atleast we have a better idea of what National plans to do here than we knew about Labour planned to do prior to 2005. It's also interesting how you criticise broadband as restoring Telecoms monopoly position, ...
I too, like 56% of the NZ public in this poll (I suspect the poll may over-estimate support for National, and believe the true level of National support to be around 50% and Labour at around 37%) support National and plan to give it my Party vote on ...
My question would be: "can you give one issue, where you hold a view that is unpopular with the New Zealand public, that you are not willing to compromise your position on, even if the refusla to compromise on that position may cost you many votes in the ...
So labour has never used taxpayer money on its campaign?
Can you add in the cost of Working for Families?
I class the post "Poor Poor John" by Jasper on April 12 2008 as personal. Can you explain why it shouldn't be regarded as personal? [lprent: Probably someone has answered this already. a. This came from a newspaper article, so was in the public domain ...
Test [lprent: Made it - Nicholas has been having problems joining the fun (?)]
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