The sooner the Greens drop support below 5% the better as they are unneeded in Parliament as all they are is Glorified Protesters and draconian policies. Take the money from the fake Climate Change Fund which is just a tax for the needy to feed the greedy....
One in 500 or however many years is easier for people to understand than it being an event with an 0.2% chance of occurring in any given year which is a bit more abstract. Return periods whilst useful to describe are somewhat misleading in that regard and ...
Problem that anyone looking to roll Bridges prior to the election has is that the script from above has him losing it and Luxon rolling him a few months after then winning the 2023 election. Are any of the current lot really going to want to be the leader ...
Definitely do not want a 4 year term. No thanks.
"One leader wanted to prevent further atrocities. The other leader wants to get re-elected no matter what." Why shouldn't she seek re-election?
Nothing more than you'd expect from a hard-line anti-union representative of the corporate class. Stewart McCrotchrot is a Tory administrator who can be relied on to brush inconvenient truths under his plush carpet. He's up for a night-hood next time ...
The placement of your comment "Wikileaks has responded by asking for money" seems deliberately placed to trivialise and denigrate the organisation. You know fully that the DONATE request in the link implies it is for his ongoing defence. I expect better ...
"Wikileaks has responded by asking for money". What sort of low smear is that?
Poission, Sadly, he already has. The posts on this thread are clear proof of that. On Friday morning I woke up an upstanding member of society with a number of licenses and statutory certificates and clearances to speak to that. By Friday evening most ...
So now it's not only the "right" people who should be hit over the head, but at certain acceptable times of the day/night.
the "wrong" people? So please tell us who you think the "right" people would be to receive this sort of treatment.
Postal voting was touted as likely to reverse the ever-decreasing turn-out in local government elections. It hasn't done that. Turnout is low because a majority of working people have concluded that voting for local government will achieve no change to ...
Some of the families who lost loved ones do not support this decision. That $38 M (assuming it doesn't balloon) could be spent in so many other says to benefit the living or save lives.
The only way the government will be able to really make KiwiBuild work is through a shared equity scheme for home buyers. When Phil Twyford first announced KiwiBuild there was a fleeting mention of it as a possible option, but nothing since. That was until...
I think we are simply waiting for the moment that overpowers the inertia to do something about it. Most likely it will arrive when things , like Netflix and 'click of a mouse' consumerist satisfaction are no longer affordable or accessible due to one type ...
The term Hate speech does not appear in this legislation
"We have laws against hate speech". Sorry but you've golrized your facts there. No NZ legislation even defines hate speech. Please provide evidence of which ones do.
You are right that the 1986 Waitangi Tribunal ruling did not call for Te Reo to be made compulsory. To those saying Te Reo should be compulsory because it is an official language: It was explicitly promised by the government at the time of the 1987 Maori ...
We do want a central and local government which serves the people, And even more, enables the people to serve themselves as much as practicable. This can't happen in 5 minutes, but the way could be opened to facilitate local citizen power over areas of ...
Gotta keep in mind that the Trumpeters are there to action the world dominance fantasies of that section of the US capitalist class. Simple. Like a school-yard bully, Trump and his fan club want to slap any serious opposition, be it China, North Korea, ...
They could have included a third option for National and ACT: C) Should the government cut taxes and sell-off all remaining state assets so we can live in a free market nirvana? We have to pay for the country's services and infrastructure somehow and ...
All coral atolls are porous and shape-shifting. To suggest this makes them of little use is directly contradicted by the people who have used them for millennia. And global sea levels are refusing to accelerate beyond the 3 mm/year that has been measured ...
Well maybe those who are unconcerned about climate alarmism are looking at real-world evidence, like the fact that Tuvalu is actually expanding www.nzgeo.com/stories/tuvalu-rising/
We need the government to use it's power against a flagrantly corrupt media serving the political interests of it foreign masters. Where was the trenchant editorial outrage at John Key's lies about the GCSB and a hundred other topics? The housing crisis? ...
I'd prefer a Royal Commission into the affect of foreign ownership on NZ media. We have been very poorly served for decades. I still remember Richard Long converting the The Dominion into an MMP opponent after that newspaper had solidly supported MMP for ...
NZ's tradition of toothless laws around privacy (and civil rights) remains unmolested.
Best. Comment. Ever.
Standing outside National Party HQ talking BULL as usual. (Check out the sign above the bull, he's standing in front of 'The RAT HOLE')
Yes, the ending of many abusive relationships is hard, and has consequences...but that does not mean they should not be ended. This is an abusive relationship because it's an abuse of power---landlords pass on this charge because they can. They have the ...
Maybe this is a clever long-game. The Nats, even with the number of questions they already have, are not really all that impressive. Bridges was getting owned by Ardern most of the time in the previous session. This is a "give them enough rope" strategy---...
Joyce is being spineless and if the main thrust of the article is as outlined here he wouldn't have grounds for a defamation case against Hooton and/or the NBR. Brent Edwards' piece is of more interest. I agree with the concerns about people from PR ...
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