It's 2018: why do so many NZers not understand that few Maori have the mandate to speak for anyone, let alone 'Maori'. Bill English couldn't manage a mandate from his 'ethnic group' (god I sound like Ancestry Dot Con). PS: I've lived in Canterbury and this...
Go for it.
There was an interesting dynamic b/w tribal development plans and post 9/11 US strategies, which included a security installation (ie prison) for illegals, to be corralled by tribal police. Didn't go ahead as far as I know but an indication of the ...
I saw a presentation by Tohono O'odham tribal member, Mike Wilson, about 8 years ago in Tucson where he outlined how the traditional (and sovereign) practice of providing water to travelers across their lands had been systematically undermined by the US ...
Heather Simpson for the Trump White Hse CoS pozzie. (No, I'm serious).
Never been so much quality ganja available, hell you can even order the shit on-line! The distinction between crops and varieties is more meaningful than the often spurious comments on craft beers (matching beer and food? BFD...).
One niche will be the coupling of, say, artisanal marijuana and craft beer, with requisite ambience (no slot machines or pop music). I would pay a premium for that. Current BC (Canada) market is humming. I'm curious as to how SK (Saskatchewan) will fuck it...
Oh I accept the evidence-based approach, it's what I do as a job, but my engagement with any website has become less committed and more random: there's more to be gained from reading one good book. But I acknowledge the importance of this particular blog. ...
I got moderated once on this site - honestly can't recall why or by who - but can remember being surprised and disappointed. Unlike you, I have no idea what term here was deemed unnecessary or inflammatory. I will say that Israel is easy pickings for ...
Canada very corrupt, at least my neck of the arboreal (Saskatchewan), and also a lot but racist than many would suspect. All very politely done of course...
It's shorthand for Pakeha male dominated fora which, lacking diversity, are poorly informed. Sooooo, dumb honky yobs? Arrogant EuroTrash - ooops, taken. Pasty Blokey Jokies? Oh wait, you can tweet 280 characters now. We can surely debate at length ;-)
And what does Jackson know about Weinstein's raping? Surely not zero...
Agree that Labor will get tired too... In about 2026.
The PM's Chief Science Adviser, Sir Peter Gluckman, recommended we ban cold and flu remedy (the stuff that works, not the stuff subsequently sold that doctors admit doesn't really work). Wonder what the productivity cost was on that? Anyways, it was a ...
I'm embarrassed no ones called me a name. Anally. Root. The pollsters. And Jim was a Catholic. Hmmm, are you still a virgin if...
Anally root the pollsters, what Mr Bolger sez...
How fucken hard is it to run an isolated, well-received country of under 5 million? Don't diddle your reimbursement, don't fiddle with any young kids, don't get drunk in public, get some good advisers around you. Jeez wayne....
Fuck it. I'm going to vote for Labour. And I really, REALLY, hated the racist neoliberal mofo's for 2 decades.
Exactly. (Though Mr. Headroom was played by an actor). We don't need overpaid talking heads. Gimme a bot!
Rutherford's contribution (to the philosophy of science) being "There's physics and stamp collecting..." ;-)
NSC's were structured to reduce competitive process but big players defaulted to territorial games. Excessive oversight and interference, then budgets often cut (I was in two succesful bids; emigrated to better job offshore). There's no game changer in ...
Let's do this.
What's a good CV for running NZ? Currency trader for a big bank? Farmer? C'mon, any halfway decent person should be able to do 8/10ths of it, and the last 2/10ths, well there's over 100 others in Parliament or you could just roll the dice. Getting in is ...
I (and several others) blew a whistle on racism at a NZ university. Alongside these concerns were others (held by us and other colleagues) of financial 'waste' including the classic Kiwi thing of large amounts of international travel! Most of us have gone ...
He's so Catholic. Could easily ship pedophile priests from one slaughterhouse to another. And he knows he's going straight to hell...
In the mid 90s I was tipped as a barman in a chch hotel (owned by Earl Hagerman...) And so were the housemaids. We all needed the money.
His was the last column I bothered reading, except for that fella who wrote on beer. He went too from memory. I expect to see Mr Oram's work channelled through one or more Web portals because there is a market for his analyses.
What's a 'European NZer'?
But mining communities, like fishing communities, accept that danger as part of the obligations of working in such a place. Sure, you minimise the risks but ultimately, you risk your life for your mates. It's based on mutual need, respect, and reciprocity....
Fiji, Samoa and Tonga have not 'remained in control' if by remained you mean uninterrupted Indigenous self-determination (Tonga has gone closest but was a British Protectorate). And I think you overstate British universal values though that country ...
Fair points. In my defence, i can't attend a roadshow at my own marae which is where the worth of their face-to-face efforts would be tested. (There's 700, 800 marae? Each with its own politics. And mine are off the beaten track). And second, i don't vote ...
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