Given how little you appear know That's never a great start to a discussion lol. a significant percentage of adoptees have had disrupted lives due to their emotional reaction to their adoptive status. Yep life isn't fair. I'm sure a significant percentage ...
Weka I was commenting on Joe’s opinion. To repeat: adoption has been around a while and to a lesser extent surrogacy and IVF. Do the existence of each of these imply or suggest that women are broodmares? I wouldn’t have thought so but you may disagree. ...
There are costs and benefits to any course of action. Your focus is on the costs while ignoring the benefits. The costs of IVF are discussed above. Some of those costs are born by taxpayers. Should that be the case? Maybe society thinks the benefits ...
Weka As has been discussed previously, abortion is not an absolute right. Similarly, people who chose (perhaps sensibly) not to be vaccinated against COVID-19 apparently didn’t have the right to choose. I imagine that losing their job and possibly their ...
Women aren't brood mares producing a fucking commodity to be traded. Thats an opinion rather than fact. Adoption has been around for quite a while, and to a lesser extent surrogacy and IVF. What benefits have these brought parents-to-be and wider society? ...
What's your point, Joe? Here's an article from 2006 discussing the baby trade, or "reproductive market", in the US. Fewer abortions may help to make it easier, and cheaper, for couples to become parents. The gay community, in particular, could benefit from...
Yeah, I know, they're committing crimes but good on them. Protestors taking such action clearly don't have much between their ears. We've never had so many EVs in New Zealand or around the world. Yet climate change continues to worsen. The more EVs we buy,...
National brought it in? Is there no end to their evil?
It's a sexist attack on those people. Yes, those bloody sexist female Supreme Court judges. What were they thinking? Let’s replace them all with men!
nobody was absolutely required to have a vaccine or not have one. To continue in their employment, some workers were required to be vaccinated. Some workers were terminated because they refused to do so. Women who want an abortion don’t have an absolute ...
The state apparently will have the power to dictate to women about their bodies. You might wish to explain what the problem is with the State having so much power. In New Zealand, the State introduced vaccine mandates. Experienced professionals lost their ...
this sent jitters through the global economy before the invasion. It did? In 2021, the Reserve Bank reviewed the Official Cash Rate (OCR) on seven occasions. You won't find any mention of conflict in Europe, Asia, or Africa (or anywhere else) during the ...
I did find it odd that Luxon got Singapore's inflation rate badly wrong. Well, politicians do make mistakes. (Singapore's core inflation is 2.2%.) But the fact remains that prices in NZ have been increasing at a faster rate for some time, and we can't ...
Luxon talking rubbish/lying again and again and again……….. Yeah I'm sure that will go down a treat with those visiting their local foodbank. Meanwhile, this graph clearly shows inflation increased significantly throughout 2021 in New Zealand. That date is ...
Yes, there is no mention in Micky’s piece about why this information wasn’t in the public domain last year. The Official Information Act is only 40 years old, and some people are still coming to grips with it. If the Government was content with its ...
Other than increasing benefits at nearly the rate of inflation, the Ardern Government has achieved close to nothing outside of Covid, and in many key areas the welfare of Kiwis has fallen. If KiwiBuild and other programmes had been delivered, the ...
You seem to have no clue about government spending, An infantile response which I expected lol. Clearly, I'm responsible for the Government's profligacy.
Labour won the party vote in Tauranga last time and fell short on the candidate vote by less than 2000. At at the last election, Labour's party vote across the country was 50%. Meanwhile, the latest Roy Morgan poll has Labour polling at 32%. https://www....
More money doesn't fix burnout. What fixes burnout is more staff. True, but that costs money. :) The Government wasted at least $51 million on a defunct cycle lane project. It has its priorities sorted. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/126575243/...
Which is why a landlord can currently put the rent up by $50 a week and there's nothing tenants can do if that's normal. But any increase can be done only once a year, with two months notice, and it has to be reasonable. If you control any increase now by ...
it prevents rents from rising faster than wages Perhaps in the short term and only artificially. Prices are rising at a higher level than many wage increases. Why not implement a price freeze? Presumably because when the freeze is lifted, prices - and ...
Any policy has to be realistic and this one isn’t. Rent can be increased only once every 12 months and with two months’ notice. Any increase has to be reasonable as tenants are entitled to complain to the Tenancy Tribunal. https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/...
A diagram of how 3 Waters will work. I've been assured that Mickey Mouse didn't create it. That's reassuring. I had pull out my magnifying glass to see a reference to customers. Clearly, customers are at the front and centre of this reform. https://www.dia...
Have you even read the link in joe90’s comment I read the link before joe90 posted it. :) To repeat: police usually need evidence before they can bring charges. These prosecution guidelines may be helpful. https://www.crownlaw.govt.nz/publications/...
When will these lunatics be charged with conspiring So, conspiracies are real? What makes this a conspiracy? I imagine that police would require evidence before any charges could be laid.
You cannot be serious. Why would Key want to re-enter politics? And he sure as hell wouldn’t complain about tax cuts for the rich lol
You can fool some of the people all of the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. :)
what else should anyone expect on a Left leaning blog? Some expectations of the Labour candidate? Positive comments about the Government? Why Three Waters is essential? The importance of free speech? The list goes on...
There's been 9026 fully vaccinated cases of Covid between 16 August 2021 and today. There were 7820 cases up to yesterday and 6910 up to the day before. So, between Tuesday and Wednesday, the number increased by 910, and between yesterday and today the ...
The data I’ve used comes directly from the MOH site. Feel free to check the figures from the last two days. I have a copy if you wish to view.
Weka You will see that I provided two links to the MoH site. One document discusses the 2009 influenza pandemic in New Zealand. The other link cites yesterday’s case numbers including vaccination status of those contracting Covid. The MoH updates these ...
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