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  • Gordon Campbell on the Supreme Court’s collusion with Trump
    This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. In the week preceding the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses, a US Supreme Court stacked with Trump appointees obligingly handed the former President a couple of huge victories. First, the Court helped Trump to run down the clock to the next election by ...
    2 weeks ago
  • DAVID FARRAR: DPMC-funded Director calls Government a death cult
    You can have a reasonable disagreement on whether boot camps are effective. But someone who states that the Government hates children and is a death cult is a bad faith extremist. They’re the equivalent of someone on the right who thinks Jacinda did vaccine mandates because she is paid by ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 weeks ago
  • An atheist finds his God.
    Given the intensity of the last few days I thought that I would share what I wrote on a personal page because of the kindness displayed by family and friends, including KP readers. It basically summarises the core of the … Continue reading ...
    KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
    2 weeks ago
  • Policy of Truth.
    You had something to hideShould have hidden it, shouldn't you?Now you're not satisfiedWith what you're being put throughAnd so it was that the great benevolent leader, who had been elected on a platform of cutting taxes and reducing the cost of living, declared that in future we should pay him ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    2 weeks ago
  • Why Willis is talking the economy down
    Finance Minister Nicola Willis seemed anxious to talk down the economy during Parliament’s Question Time yesterday. Things have gone downhill since December 20. It is now clear the Government is caught in a squeeze between lower-than-expected revenue and higher-than-expected cost projections, made more difficult to resolve by the promise of ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    2 weeks ago
  • At a glance – Human activity is driving retreat of arctic sea ice
    On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Unintended Consequences.
    The Basilisk’s Glare: From his eyrie in the Kremlin, Putin’s eyes remain fixed upon the United States. Not in fear does he gaze upon the world’s unconquerable continental Goliath, but with rising hope. In President Biden’s palsied hand, the sword of freedom is loosely held. Meanwhile, from the heartland of ...
    2 weeks ago
  • 15 RONS don't make a right
    To the Beehive, by video, for an audience with prime minister Christopher Luxury and his evangelical sidekick Simeon Let-It-All-BurnSimeon has stood up to show the class his project entitled Draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport 2024-2034.Other suitable titles he might have chosen are:What I Didn't Read In The Holidays, ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    2 weeks ago
  • Be cheered by the govt’s $20bn transport programme – but then you should ask how much (and how) ...
    Buzz from the Beehive Announcing the return of “boot camps” for delinquent Kiwi youths was sure to win headlines for Children’s Minister Karen Chhour. “Boot camps” wasn’t the language used in the minister’s press statement, let’s be clear.  Chhour said the coalition Government is delivering on its promise to create ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    2 weeks ago
  • CHRIS TROTTER:  For the self-loathing Left, charity definitely does not begin at home
    Chris Trotter writes – GEORGE GALLOWAY’S STUNNING VICTORY in Rochdale, Britain, has provoked a sharp response from leftists whose primary analytical focus remains socio-economic. Galloway turned the by-election into a referendum on the two main British political parties’ stance on the war in Gaza. Successfully exploiting the fact that ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 weeks ago
  • Drawn
    A ballot for a single Member's Bill was held today, and the following bill was drawn: Evidence (Giving Evidence of Family Violence) Amendment Bill (Tracey McLellan) This was the smallest ballot in a long time, with only 53 bills entered. ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    2 weeks ago
  • ROB MacCULLOCH: The real estate industry’s Māori values course
    Lets’ even the tables – did Brash, du Plessis-Allan and right-wing media folks unfairly put a race slant on the true reason behind the cultural component of the requirements to get a licence?  Rob MacCulloch writes –  This Blog doesn’t aim to be a partisan vehicle that relentlessly ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 weeks ago
  • Climate Change: The opposite of what is needed
    Yesterday the National government announced its new draft Government Policy Statement on land transport 2024, which was of course all about roads. While the media is focusing on increases to car registration and fuel tax (both justified, and the latter should be done sooner IMHO), the real news is that ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    2 weeks ago
  • Great Lakes ice coverage hits a record low
    This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters Ice extent on the Great Lakes hit a record low February 8 and has remained at record low levels as of February 16 as a result of the warmest winter on record over much of the region. For the U.S. ...
    2 weeks ago
  • The Government’s Ideological Transport Policy
    Yesterday the Government have launched their draft Government Policy Statement (GPS) for consultation to replace the draft version that Labour released last year prior to the election. As the name implies, the GPS sets out the government’s transport policies and spending on transport and does so over a 10-year horizon ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Simeon Brown’s road-taxing bait-and-switch
    Trawl through the five press statements released by New Transport Minister Simeon Brown and you will not find the word ‘climate’ once. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The new Government unveiled its draft Transport policy last night, surprising voters with a $50 increase in car registration fees, 22c/litre of ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    2 weeks ago
  • Ain't This Position Familiar?
    It's 4:30 A.M. on a TuesdayIt doesn't get much worse than thisIn beds in little rooms in buildings in the middleof these lives which are completely meaninglessHelp me stay awake, I'm falling...Some of you might’ve seen the title of this newsletter and smiled. It’s from a track on the Counting ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    2 weeks ago
  • On the road again
    The Government’s redraft of the Government Policy Statement on transport brings back funding for roads and cuts funding to public transport, rail, coastal shipping and activities like cycling and walking. Most notably, it is restoring the previous National government’s “Roads of National Significance”. It is the first real indication of ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    2 weeks ago
  • Lightning over Dunedin
    The local weather has been a bit peculiar tonight. A little rain – nothing out of the ordinary – but some truly impressive thunder and lightning. Here are some photos people have been posting on social media. This one looks over the city itself: This one looks out ...
    2 weeks ago
  • National’s linguistic engineering
    The National government came into office on a culture-war platform of eradicating te reo from public life. There are the obvious measures, like spending millions changing the names of government agencies, and requiring government agencies to primarily use English. But its not just government agencies. An OIA response I received ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    2 weeks ago
  • BRYCE EDWARDS: Anger at excessive politician pay and entitlements
    Bryce Edwards writes –  When the First Labour Government came into office in 1935, the new Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage was determined not to live a bourgeois, extravagant lifestyle. Being a representative of workers meant to him that he shouldn’t just take on the material comforts of the ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 weeks ago
  • DON BRASH: Perhaps the most important speech from the new government so far
    Don Brash writes – Last week, Housing Minister Chris Bishop gave perhaps the most important speech by the new Government since the election. In a speech to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, he said he wanted the ratio of house prices to median household income to more than ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 weeks ago
  • The Very Greedy Caterpillar
    He’s the man who rescued Air New Zealand after that useless Fyfe guy nearly tanked the outfit.But who is the real Christopher Luxon?He’s the husband, father, and global CEO who would kiss his kids goodnight, head off to the airport, fly from Chicago to Rio de Janeiro, get in a full ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    2 weeks ago
  • Govt takes steps to keep us safe in hospitals and from bank scams – and it aims to rehabilitate of...
    Buzz from the Beehive Crime and punishment is the common thread to be discerned in the ministerial statements posted on the government’s official website since Point of Order last checked on who is doing what in the Beehive. Three ministers had something to announce, when we checked the website this ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    2 weeks ago
  • BRIAN EASTON:  Why did child poverty increase recently?
    Not so much from a lack of nominal income but from rising mortgage interest rates Brian Easton writes – The just released Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) estimates child poverty for the year ending June 2023 show the proportions of children on nine different poverty measures are higher than ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 weeks ago
  • Gordon Campbell on the flaws in anti-gang laws
    Google “Christopher Luxon“ and “mojo” and you get nearly 60,000 matching responses. Over the past 18 months – here and here and again, here – Luxon has claimed that New Zealanders have either lost their mojo and/or are in the process of re-finding it. With mojo in hand, New Zealanders ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Luxon's housing-market-with-bits-tacked-on moment
    TL;DR: Aotearoa-NZ’s utterly broken, expensive and unhealthy housing market is at the heart of our economic, social and political problems. It distorts our behaviour, dominates our aspirations and complaints, and has again taken centre stage in our political economy in the most personal and stark way.PM Christopher Luxon’s decision to ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    2 weeks ago
  • Should we build a bridge or tunnel across Cook Strait?
    This post by Nicolas Reid was originally published on Linked in. It is republished here with permission. The idea of a bridge or tunnel between the North and South islands gets raised any time there are problems with the Cook Strait ferries, and the recent uncertainty about the ongoing ...
    Greater AucklandBy Greater Auckland
    2 weeks ago
  • Health’s fiscal time bomb
    Health New Zealand which incorporates all the 20 old District Health Boards is overwhelmingly the biggest branch of government. Now, nearly two years old, it is beginning to show both the early gains that have come from the amalgamations at the same time as the financial challenges it faces are ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    2 weeks ago
  • 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #09
    A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, Feb 25, 2024 thru Sat, March 2, 2024. Story of the week This week's big news is close to home for Skeptical Science and comes via UNICEF: Seriously ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Aren’t we over bashing anyone not already rich into submission? This government reckons “Yeah na...
    Although many on the Right love to claim that the only people wasting away at the bottom, and even a great deal in the “squeezed middle” are simply “lazy, entitled buggers, not ambitious enough, not aspirational enough”, and that “just working hard” gets you ahead, gets you success in life, ...
    exhALANtBy exhalantblog
    2 weeks ago
  • Luxon's Entitlement.
    In a time when everybody feels entitledWhy can't I feel entitled too?Somebody took away my God given rightI guess God must have gave it to youYeah, I guess God must have slipped it to youSometime after the new government was sworn in an official must’ve had a wee chat with ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    2 weeks ago
  • I Got Shadow Banned
    Hi,Thanks to all of you asking questions over on the AMA — I’m having a blast. You Worms have the best questions. About 200 so far, and I’m having a better time than I ever had over on Reddit.If it’s one thing I’ve been reminded of this week, it’s how ...
    David FarrierBy David Farrier
    2 weeks ago
  • You brace for the worst, you make the most of the good, you keep going
    No matter how much you read about World War II, there is always more. More suffering, more deprivation, more cruelty beyond belief. And somehow, too, the human capacity to endure.That war keeps pulling me back. Three novels in recent weeks, as well as a book about the aftermath in Europe, ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    2 weeks ago
  • Hamish Rutherford always looks grim these days
    The Prime Minister’s spin doctor Hamish Rutherford used to a lot of fun. We were Twitter buddies back when he was working at The Dominion (later Fairfax); then he went to the NZ Herald as Wellington Business editor, for a wider circulation/better job security (ha!), I guess. There I noticed ...
    The PaepaeBy Peter Aranyi
    2 weeks ago
  • ROBERT MacCULLOCH: Economics 101 explains why Newshub bankrupted
    Rob MacCulloch writes –  Economics 101 explains why Newshub Bankrupted – it was the fault of its own journalists who should recognize they were the architects of their own demise. A thousand books and papers in economics and business strategy are about the topic of product differentiation – ensuring ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 weeks ago
  • Tone deaf and out of touch Luxon
    ...
    The PaepaeBy Peter Aranyi
    3 weeks ago
  • Speeches, beers, questionnaires
    Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.Friday: Week in review, quiz styleThursday: A speech and a beer, both delivered perfectlySo, what can we do about these deplorable people and the appalling things they are doing?Every time Chlöe Swarbrick ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    3 weeks ago
  • The Hoon around the week to March 2
    Premier House in 2018, when it was the home of then-PM Jacinda Ardern and her family. Luxon preferred living his own apartment and pocketing $1000 a week for doing so. Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    3 weeks ago
  • Why Did Child Poverty Increase Recently?
    Not so much from a lack of nominal income but from rising mortgage interest ratesThe just released Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) estimates child poverty for the year ending June 2023 show the proportions of children on nine different poverty measures are higher than they were in the June 2022 ending ...
    PunditBy Brian Easton
    3 weeks ago
  • C.Money Luxon puts his hand in yer pocket
    1. Which of these things did C.Money Luxon, owner of 7 properties and Keepa of da Mojo not say?a. If I can pay, I should payb. I know how hard you work to pay your taxesc. Under my government the culture of treating taxpayers like an ATM is overd. Look, ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    3 weeks ago
  • BRYCE EDWARDS: NZ’s “media apocalypse” is shifting us into a Public Relations Democracy of di...
    Bryce Edwards writes – Democracy is the loser whenever a major media company disappears. We’ve seen a total consensus about this in the last two days – politicians, academics, and journalists have commented on the demise of Newshub, pointing out that a reduction in journalists reporting on and ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 weeks ago
  • MICHAEL BASSETT: TV One still doesn’t get the message
    Michael Bassett writes – It’s becoming clear that the state-owned TV One and its management have no intention of stopping their left-slanted news presentations despite being reminded by Karl du Fresne and others that using the airwaves to proselytise is improper journalism. Worse, it seems that the new ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 weeks ago
  • Govt is gunning for gangs – but McKee reckons some Firearms Prohibition Orders could be lifted mu...
    Buzz from the Beehive Having sorted out the war criminals and terrorists with a series of foreign affairs announcements yesterday, the government today confirmed its plans to allow police to search gang members, their vehicles and homes at any time using court-authorised firearms prohibition orders (FPOs). The orders – introduced ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    3 weeks ago
  • What does ‘entitlement’ look like, Chris Luxon?
    Wow. A mortgage free apartment, but he claims ‘accommodation expenses’ (really a taxpayer-funded allowance) of $1,000 per week – on top of his $471,000 pa salary and other benefits, etc etc. The National Party CEO must be so used to the good life, eh? The Prime Minister will receive a ...
    The PaepaeBy Peter Aranyi
    3 weeks ago
  • ELE LUDEMANN: What’s the cost of slow roads?
    Ele Ludemann writes –  It used to take us an easy hour and a half to get from home to Dunedin. If traffic was light with no hold-ups we could get get there in a little more than an hour and a quarter. That was then, now is a ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    3 weeks ago
  • How is that News?
    Before we begin today, a word of warning.Some of you might think this newsletter is some old leftie yelling into the internet that things ought to be better. You’d be right.That kindness wasn’t just a slogan that sounded good, and in our limited period of existence it just makes sense ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    3 weeks ago
  • The Prime Hypocrite
    National's Christopher Luxon unveils trio of fiscal transparency policies, RNZ, 15 May 2023: The government had "abused" taxpayers for the past six years, Luxon said. "I am sick of taxpayers being treated like a bottomless ATM, to be raided at any time, for any reason. National will respect taxpayers ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    3 weeks ago
  • NZ on Hamas and Zionist Settlers.
    Here is one for the road before I shut down for a while due to the previously mentioned family medical issues. It is about NZ designating Hamas as a terrorist entity, adding its political wing to the 2010 decision to … Continue reading ...
    KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
    3 weeks ago
  • Migration surge reduced inflation, says Orr
    Record high net migration in 2023 produced a net detraction from inflation because of a surge in labour supply, but the effects may be more inflationary this year. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Te Pūtea Matua (Reserve Bank) Governor Adrian Orr told me in an interview yesterday that record ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    3 weeks ago
  • Weekly Roundup 1-March-2024
    Welcome to Friday, and to March, traditionally the busiest month for people trying to get into and around our city. The Northwestern Cycleway has been going gangbusters this week. How’s it looking out there for you, around the rest of the isthmus? Here are some of the articles that caught ...
    Greater AucklandBy Greater Auckland
    3 weeks ago
  • February AMA
    Hi,As someone generous enough to pay for Webworm — literally allowing this thing to exist — I always want to give you extra stuff (next week a story I’ve been wanting to tell for about eight years) and make myself available to answer any questions.Hence these AMAs, which I really ...
    David FarrierBy David Farrier
    3 weeks ago
  • Skeptical Science New Research for Week #9 2024
    Open access notables Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming, Stoffel et al., Nature Geoscience: Rockfall in high-mountain regions is thought to be changing due to accelerating climate warming and permafrost degradation, possibly resulting in enhanced activity and larger volumes involved in individual falls. Yet the systematic lack ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Newshub awaits a miracle – but in the meantime its Mātauranga Māori debate has spurred Jerry Coy...
    Emeritus Professor Jerry Coyne, from his base in the United States, may well be oblivious to the furore raised about the state of  the news media in New Zealand – and the implications for our democracy – after TV3’s American owners announced Newshub’s fate.  The news service will be shut ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    3 weeks ago
  • Correction
    Sorry!!! Today’s edition has the wrong damn link for Chlöe Swarbrick’s excellent speech.This is the right one. Read more ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    3 weeks ago
  • Correction
    Sorry!!! Today’s edition has the wrong damn link for Chlöe Swarbrick’s excellent speech.This is the right one. Read more ...
    More than a fieldingBy David Slack
    3 weeks ago
  • A speech and a beer, both delivered perfectly
    So, what can we do about these deplorable people and the appalling things they are doing?Every time Chlöe Swarbrick gets to her feet or leans into a mic, she offers a very good  answer. Clear, plain, compelling words. Clear, plain, compelling thinking.Guys, she tells new MPs who have just given maiden ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    3 weeks ago
  • A speech and a beer, both delivered perfectly
    So, what can we do about these deplorable people and the appalling things they are doing?Every time Chlöe Swarbrick gets to her feet or leans into a mic, she offers a very good  answer. Clear, plain, compelling words. Clear, plain, compelling thinking.Guys, she tells new MPs who have just given maiden ...
    More than a fieldingBy David Slack
    3 weeks ago
  • 2024 Reading Summary: February (+ Writing Update)
    Completed reads for February: Tarzan of the Apes, by E.R. Burroughs The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures, by Heinrich Hoffman The Moon Hoax, by Richard Adams Locke The Strange Voyage and Adventures of ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Aoteraoa, Ukraine, and Gaza
    Today the government designated the political wing of Hamas as a terrorist entity, making supporting them a criminal offence. I honestly don't know much about Hamas' organisation, or how involved its politicians were in planning its crimes in October last year, but when Israel is actively carrying out a genocide ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    3 weeks ago
  • ETS review will be good news (we think) for the forest sector but govt gets tough with Hamas and Isr...
    Buzz from the Beehive When the Luxon government took office last year, forest owners and investors were among the myriads of interest groups who pressed incoming ministers with pleadings, urgings and advice – typically self-serving –  for change. The forestry bunch hoped the new government would give clearer direction on ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    3 weeks ago
  • Tougher Love.
    "Ullo, ullo, ullo, what's coming off here then?" Mark Mitchell’s Gang Laws are separating the Liberal Sheep from the Authoritarian Goats.  THE INTENSIFYING POLITICAL CONTROVERSY over the Coalition Government’s policy on gangs promises to be one of those sheep-from-goats moments. While the Left will veer instinctively towards the sociological, the Right ...
    3 weeks ago
  • The Clue Is In The Name.
    Truth In Advertising? The Nats do best when they take the “National” part of their name seriously, WHEN ITS FOUNDERS christened New Zealand’s newest anti-socialist party “National”, they had two objectives. The first was largely cosmetic. The second, and much more important objective, was ideological.In 1936, the year in which ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Another forced break.
    Well, the time has come yet again for my son to go back into Starship for another major surgery (the fourth in five months). The mass in his chest is growing and has enveloped his left carotid artery as well … Continue reading ...
    KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
    3 weeks ago
  • BRYCE EDWARDS:  How Wellington City Council got captured by vested interests
    Bryce Edwards writes – Wellington City has become a great case study for those that are suspicious that both local and central government politicians have become enthralled by property developers, the “professional managerial class”, and other vested interests. Politicians from parties of both left and right are increasingly ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 weeks ago
  • Member’s Day
    Today is an unscheduled Member's Day. It should have been yesterday, but that was eaten by urgency. But while ramming through the government's cancer promotion law, the House agreed to do Member's business today instead. First up is the first reading of Cushla Tangaere-Manuel's Local Government (Facilitation of Remote Participation) ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    3 weeks ago
  • Gordon Campbell on the Newshub/Smokefree twin fiascos
    H</spanere’s a tale of two sunset industries. One has a track record of quality investigative reporting, and sound reportage of the 24/7 news cycle. The other sunset industry peddles a deadly substance that kills and injures tens of thousands of New Zealanders every year, while imposing significant annual costs on ...
    3 weeks ago
  • RBNZ's dovish pivot revives rate cut hopes
    The question now is which hint banks will take: the one from Orr that they pass on rate cuts, or the one from Assistant Governor Karen Silk saying they have some leeway to continue not passing them on. File Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The Reserve Bank held the ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    3 weeks ago
  • That was Then, This is Now #32 – What's the difference between aluminium and democracy?
    ..Thanks for reading Frankly Speaking ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.That was then…Rio Tinto will not reimburse the $30 million Government subsidy it received to keep Tiwai Point open, in spite of posting a $3.7 billion 2013 profit.[…]…if Rio Tinto had closed straightaway and ...
    Frankly SpeakingBy Frank Macskasy
    3 weeks ago
  • A Market Model for Intercity Rail
    The North Island Main Trunk rail line between Auckland and Wellington is 680km long, mostly electrified, and low speed for intercity rail (80-100kph). It’s a major public asset, but woefully underutilised. How can we work this asset harder, to deliver way more benefits for our country and our people? This ...
    Greater AucklandBy Patrick Reynolds
    3 weeks ago
  • Redundancies Bite.
    We all knew this government meant redundancies - lots of them. National highlighted they’d be taking a scalpel to government departments, cutting them to the bone. ACT fantasized about going deeper.Thousands losing their jobs in a sector that won’t be hiring any time soon. I could make a joke here ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    3 weeks ago
  • Tough choices on climate change for new government
    Slowly but inexorably, the country is getting to the point where it is going to have to make some tough choices about actually lowering greenhouse gas emissions rather than planting or buying its way out of them. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, at the weekend, removed any last hope that climate ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    3 weeks ago
  • That was Then, This is Now #31 – Urgent for me, but not for thee?
    ..Thanks for reading Frankly Speaking ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.That was then…“In Parliament today, Labour was pushed to justify their use of urgency to rush through a Bill to get rid of a public veto on Māori wards, and they couldn’t,” National’s Local ...
    Frankly SpeakingBy Frank Macskasy
    3 weeks ago
  • Rattus Supermarketicus: Countdown Reopens
    So my infamously rat-infested local supermarket was finally able to re-open today, after spending a good two and a half weeks closed. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/510363/countdown-dunedin-south-reopens-after-rat-infestation I went in for a look this evening, having heard that they were offering chocolates earlier in the day. I was disappointed. No chocolates. ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Clearly still no adults in this Chaos Cabinet, aiming to sell Aotearoa off to the highest bidders…
    Grant Roberston has left the Labour team in Parliament, Efeso Collins tragically died at the outset of what was surely to be a stellar career as an MP… a heavy result last year, losses and a tragedy to start this year. That overall sense of tragedy is not limited ...
    exhALANtBy exhalantblog
    3 weeks ago

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  • Open ocean salmon farm a win for the economy
    The final approval of New Zealand King Salmon’s Blue Endeavour open ocean aquaculture project is a significant step for New Zealand’s aquaculture, and a win for the economy, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says.  “Blue Endeavour will be the first open ocean aquaculture salmon farm in New Zealand. It’s ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 weeks ago
  • NZ – UAE trade agreement consultation begins
    Following a meeting with UAE Trade Minister Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi, Trade Minister Todd McClay has launched public consultation for a trade agreement between New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).   “The UAE is a top-20 export market for ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 weeks ago
  • Minister thanks Public Service Commissioner
    Public Service Minister Nicola Willis has thanked retiring Public Service Commissioner Peter Hughes for his 43 years of service. Mr Hughes retires today, after serving eight years as Public Service Commissioner.  “Peter Hughes is an outstanding public servant who has served many governments, regardless of their political leaning, with professionalism and ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 weeks ago
  • Tourism data shows determination of sector
    New tourism data out today shows the continued importance of tourism to the New Zealand economy as tourism steps up to become our second-biggest export earner, Tourism Minister Matt Doocey says. “The Tourism Satellite Account shows how strongly tourism rebounded post-pandemic with total tourism expenditure in New Zealand of $37.7b ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 weeks ago
  • Housing Minister thanks outgoing Kāinga Ora Chair
    Housing Minister Chris Bishop has today thanked outgoing Kāinga Ora – Homes & Communities Chair Vui Mark Gosche for his many years of public service. “Mr Gosche tendered his resignation as Chair yesterday evening. He will remain a member of the Board until the end of March,” says Housing Minister ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 weeks ago
  • New sanctions package against Russia
    Foreign Minister Winston Peters today announced a new package of sanctions as part of the ongoing international sanction response to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.   The new sanctions are:   Implementation of the G7-plus price cap on Russian-origin oil; making explicit the prohibition on exporting restricted ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 weeks ago
  • Travel bans on extremist Israeli settlers
    Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters have announced travel bans on a number of extremist Israeli settlers who have committed violent attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank.   “New Zealand is seriously concerned by the significant increase in extremist violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinian populations in recent months. This is ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
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  • NZ designates entirety of Hamas as terrorist entity
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