" "boot up the arse"". My, my. You certainly have a vivid, albeit deranged, imagination if you think that that is the source of the phrase. Do you make your living inventing other such things like the pretense as to what the Maori Chiefs who signed the ...
Why on earth did the period examined stop in 1999? And why did it take 20 years to produce a report? From comments on RNZ this morning nothing improved after 1999 and the problems continued into this century. Is it a coincidence that the Government who ...
Does anyone happen to know whether Stats NZ public servant Nika Rua is still on their payroll? If so why? If he can't do his job properly why hasn't he quit? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/stats-nz-senior-adviser-nika-ruas-ratana-speech-offensive-to-...
Really? And when he (she) says "Biden can act with impunity " I suppose I am meant to assume that it is Jill Biden being talked about?
"better educated than their US equivalent now". Your statement interests me. What evidence do you have for your claim?
"maybe they should put up Obama. If there is anyone who could send Trump into a fatal froth, it's Obama." I suggest that you read the twenty-second amendment to the US Constitution. They cannot "put up Obama". The Constitution doesn't allow it.
Perhaps all the people who are entitled to benefits are actually getting them? The public service people who seem, at least by repute, to have not told people about the benefit levels to which they are entitled may have been told to do what they are paid ...
Did they say who they were going to sell them to? And what the price was going to be? And how did they come up with the figure for the sale which would not take place for a couple of years? And why they thought that there job was to be spec builders ...
And what would the cost of that be? If they did a full design and still didn't end up with any accuracy to the result why should we expect any more from a back of an envelope design with no number at all for the cost? Have a read on the history of the high...
Supposing that we did go ahead and buy the ferries, at whatever price it turned out to be, what would you do with them? You would have a couple of boats that could not be berthed in either Wellington or Blenheim. They couldn't take or unload vehicles or ...
Is that all the roads are going to cost? We have a cycle way under construction in Wellington that runs the 4.5 km or so from Ngauranga to Petone. The last figure I saw for that is $311 million but that was a year ago and had risen from $1990 million two ...
I fear you are far to innocent, just as Robertson was. I can only surmise what I think happened but for what it is worth here is my view. Robertson was sold a scheme that for a very low price they could two wonderful new ships that would allow for rail ...
Nearly all of the money went to spending on the terminals. If they went ahead and bought the ferries they had chosen we would be up for a minimum extra spend of about $2.5 billion. That is of course if the price came in at the current estimate and doesn't ...
True. Labour, New Zealand First and the Green party weren't a great success after the 2017 election.
It is still there. A Private member's Bill was put up by National in 2021, and supported by the Green Party but Labour refused to vote for it and so the law remains. Labour may have wanted to keep it in order to keep some control over their large group of ...
How many of them were ever ranked in the top half dozen of the Cabinet rankings. Even simpler, how many, as Ministers, were on the front bench and stayed there?
"…except when they are Nats". Your imagination is working overtime. I think that people who have done nothing else in life except in political activities really shouldn't be MPs. That is for every party. Those people work for the benefit of their own ...
"Genuine working class, left school early, worked as a caregiver, trade unionist". Perhaps we could compare her to the leading figures in the New Zealand Labour Party. The last one that was in this vein was Mike Moore. Since his time they have all been ...
"Shoo in", please. "Shoe in" would surely imply that he only got there because he got a good kick up the arse? Alternatively he will, if elected, give the electorate that treatment?
You certainly must be very busy following what I do. What is the fascination? I certainly didn't remember that. I'm not like Joe Biden though. Nor do I leave shops carrying goods I forgot to pay for.
I don't remember ever hearing of it before. I followed that link and I don't think I have ever seen such a cluttered arrangement of a website before.
BDF ? Of course. You must mean the Bolivian Defence Force who will no doubt be being liquidated after their abortive coup attempt the other day. If it isn't them who or what is the BDF?
" And I don't think that a charge of $100 (the current proposal) would deter people from visiting NZ". Why should a businessman from Australia, visiting Auckland for 48 hours while visiting businesses he is considering buying products from, be levied $100 ...
"Luxury Luxon might like his own ‘rock star’ style private jet". Really? When did he ever say this? The only New Zealand Prime Minister I can remember who wanted a plane dedicated to providing travel for the incumbent PM was Helen Clark. She was also the ...
I suppose you could class Hone Heke's cutting down flagpoles as being Terrorism couldn't you?
"*Posing the issue as one of ...." Well, I assure you that I am not currently a Labour voter and am unlikely to change at the next election. That said I can't answer the question. Neither can I comment on what National voters might think. I doubt if they ...
"Families aren't stock units to be moved around." You probably don't come from a family that was involved in the Police, School Teaching, a Bank or in the Military. Moving was a simple fact of life in those organisations. Whether it is still the case I ...
Can you imagine the Labour Party campaigning on a line that said that they would go into a coalition with the Maori Party, and include them in the Government? I find it hard to believe that the average Labour voter would go along with them on that ...
Wouldn't it be far cheaper if the Government simply told all the List MP's that their job was in Wellington and they were expected to live there. No accommodation allowance for any list MP. They don't need paid travel for family either except for the ...
I fear that your history is more than a little confused. The first combat troops from New Zealand involved in the Vietnam war left the country in 1970 and all the remaining combat troops were withdrawn in 1971. The last 17 soldiers left Vietnam on 19 ...
Correction. It WAS run by Logan Brown. I realised I had mistyped this just after my edit time expired.
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