https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmHcGw6RV-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7eNeon9vKU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDD3mJcfb5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBZreokpA_s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_0cXkyvTBg
So many school building projects are being halted, one has to suspect a crisis is being created for a purpose - the ACT party wants building in the health and education sector funded by the private sector. https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/07/26/ministry-of-...
The high level of consents in 2022 has resulted in a lot of new housing coming onto onto the market.
With the top 3 teams eliminated, the door opens for France vs the Olympic sevens champions Fiji. France now favourites.
https://www.justsecurity.org/80806/still-at-war-the-united-states-in-yemen/
The C of C is to amend 2011 legislation to clarify its intent. Apparently this has changed since the TPM was part of the government. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/523143/customary-marine-title-government-to-overturn-court-of-appeal-precedent
There Are Reasonable Alternatives?
It's been 20 years since I asked a columnist (TM) at the Herald to cover Maori issues, given they seemed frightened to hire someone who might do that. From the Public Interest Journalism Fund stable. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/whenua-ngati-whatua-orakei...
"Following the election, new estimates of cost inflation and of population growth were made and those were not funded by this government - that's why there's a deficit." In the link, inflation since then.
So not an ambitious government then. More a government of by and for the ambitious ...more wealth than others, more for themself - not enough taxation to fund government.
Maybe they should begin to provide an improved circumstance before taking them out of their urban environment. Mentoring, providing opportunities - tutoring and activities. Networking with ancestry marae. Thus, this is what they return to. It would also ...
The part below this, is interesting How the land was taken in 1970s New Zealand The separation of Rameka and Tahere from Pākinga Pā reflects deliberate government strategies of the 1960s. Those strategies took two forms – engineering the move of Māori from...
One Crown Institution, the New Zealand police, has its own history of abuse of Maori (forced confessions), so it is little wonder it never investigated abuse elsewhere. An above the law middle class enforces state power and gave/gives religious groups (...
The CEO referred to planning for greater connection to consultation with regions (the years of transition) https://www.health.govt.nz/new-zealand-health-system/health-system-reforms/health-system-reform-roadmap But the Commissar reveals an organisation ...
The thing is National was tempted towards keeping borders open, and give away the option of closed borders during a pandemic - something the Oz right wing government of the time chose to do despite a stronger public health system than our own.
The 1992 Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act was amended in November 2021. https://thelawassociation.nz/mental-health-reform-tinkering-or-transformation/ https://terauora.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Repeal_Replace_Remove-the-MH-Act-...
It will interesting to see if the stalkers legislation promoted by Ginny Anderson MP, now taken over by the current government, covers the use of "technology". The technology to abuse people in their homes, anonymously, is the topic that politicians ...
She was of the Bill English school and opposed setting up the Fund. This explains their thinking at the time. They and Rod Donald were completely wrong. https://www.goodreturns.co.nz/article/976486989/greens-want-to-dismantle-the-cullen-fund.html The ...
In the year 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkxH1qWZz2I
You must have missed it, but Project 2025 was raised while Biden was still a candidate. The trend from religion to secularism in the USA is one reason for the Second Revolution (making the USA an overtly Christian nation) language of the Heritage ...
Stating the facts is no criticism. In 1971 New Zealand joined Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and the United Kingdom in forming the Five Power Defence Arrangements {FPDA} https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/strategic-studies/documents/strategic-background-papers/09_Five...
There was no resolution of the territorial dispute. The Chinese have simply allowed supplies to a Philippines outpost (a grounded ship) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/23/china-philippines-south-china-sea-sierra-madre/
What independent "foreign policy"? Independent from what? Our foreign policy is based on a UN centred multilateralism. Respect for international law, collective security (action with others in defence of nations such as Ukraine, international sea lanes ...
Labour spent an inordinate amount of time developing a Maori-only health provision arm that just pissed everyone off. Hardly, not even all white people. Lock down major IT reform in 2 years ...
2500 extra staff - $130M over budget. 1250 at $100,000 laid off. Presumably the other 625 split between interface and 625 to the regions. The sort of 2023 grand budget design on a napkin accounting that made Nicola Willis the C of C Minister of Finance. ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm0OuaWadyA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeJDSrKOpNE
JD "Mr Gilead" Vance (channelling his inner Don Brash) explains how only women who have children have a stake in his America. https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350352893/donald-trumps-vp-pick-criticising-childless-kamala-harris-earns-widespread
The re-education of Christopher Penk continues. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/522965/insulation-s-role-in-overheating-a-myth-building-experts
In the West the issue is complicated by resort to immigration If mass immigration remains unacceptable, but becomes essential, then something more acceptable must be found. The only likely solution is temporary contracts. Few will embrace this option. But ...
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