Yet fewer are able to buy their own home, at least most could afford to buy their own home 10 years ago, so the info has little relativity. It would also appear that the high cost of renting is not included in the CPI. And there are more over 65's ...
There are people who remember Peters promises and his betrayal, those with a reasonable memory bear that in mind at every election.
Words " Did people seriously think that a derivatives trader would change his ways just because he became a NZ politician then Prime Minister?" There are some who recognised that that was his plan, to run the NZ economy as he would one of his clients, but ...
Pat So far, the environment is not a main stream issue, but It will become one, the current policy of paying the biggest polluters $4B a year as an enticement to reduce emissions is little more than a joke, I saw Turnbull and Key in Paris and they were ...
Muttonbird And this style of management of NZ has been going on for 8 years, the race to the bottom.
The latest channel 7 news reach poll has Labour 52 and Liberals 48, only 6 weeks out from the election, Shorten is actually doing a pretty good job, Labour wants to spend $50B on Australia (health, education) and Turnball wants to spend the same $50B on ...
I suppose it is if you only have one eye, those bloggers over there have no social conscience at all, so no, they're not the same at all, in this blog here today, where is the attack on the right???............my point.
James Slater is an unsavory character by any ones standards, his attack on the Standard is just another example, yet you seem to endorse him, good luck with that, he's got a lot less integrity than Penny Bright, and a history of character assassination, ...
Well his name wasn't Rolf Harris obviously, cos Rolf denied the charges, but he's still in jail though. Just a thought Instrider, are there no murders or rapists living in NZ?.........and how many deny doing any wrong, I know of at least one "prominent" ...
25 years is very long time in current tech development time spans, just have a look at the last 15 years as evidence of that, tech research and development are accelerating, not maintaining a constant rate, anyway, will you still be around to find out, I ...
That plan to run the motorway through there was in place since the mid 90's, some of the locals in the back of Waiwera weren't too happy though, a lot sold and moved.
And so they should, the rail link goes all the way through to Kawakawa, but Iv'e never seen a train on it, except for the local steam train ride in Kawakawa on weekends. Winston was also pushing for development of the rail system into Northland as part of ...
Good on you Penny for holding him accountable, another black mark against the rissole.
The latest pv solar panels, prismatic solar cells, have increased the efficiency of solar cells from nearly 25% to nearly 35%, a huge increase. these cells are currently used in space exploration, but, albeit, probably wont become available for consumer ...
Just a point about the UK not burning any coal, there is in the northern parts, a coal fired generator that has been converted to wood chip, which is more environmentally friendly than coal, and is a great idea if there's forestry activities near by to ...
Yes it is, and were're all guilty of that.
Yeah, but the positive is that it's a big step in the right direction, the narrative is being changed, and even nuclear energy is being considered, as Aus has one of the largest deposits of uranium, the nuclear plant here in Sydney (Lucas Heights) is only ...
PR I recently went to k1w1 blog, and after reading the dribble and constant BS, attacks on the left, and really disgusting behavior, I came to the conclusion that yourself and others (BM) were actually fairly reasonable by comparison, and could understand ...
PR I have to congratulate you on your balanced comments, a shame more on the right don't emulate your behavior, and even some on the the left as well.
Yeah, but gas only produces 20% of the emissions of coal, if that, SA does not have the opportunity on Hydro, as there is only one in the whole of Aus, at the snowy mountains, the combination of water and high mountains are extremely rare in Aus. but it ...
South Australia shut down it's last coal fired generator two weeks ago and are now completely running on renewables, both wind and solar, they are considering modifying the old plant to solar thermal. SA is still connected to the national grid, so, if ...
And Jenny, they've been working on that northern side for the last 2 years, with restricted speed and a reduction in lanes, this adds to the transport costs, since very little freight is moved by train. With time and money spent on the Bryn's over the last...
Bracket creep only occurs when wages go up, not down. It's a BS argument when the countries experiencing deflation, only those with a limited number of brain cells would fall for this argument.
+1 Sacha But isn't that why Key put him there, to control the narrative. What was the ratio of "others" being ejected to National?
Draco You can't improve transport around a city by just Tolling existing roads, it doesn't work as many cities have found, you first have to have an exceptional public transport system as the alternative, "first" being the operative word, a public ...
That spaceship is really Keys arse, and it's NOT alien to them.
It will be interesting to see if the media or opposition pick this up, there is an election campaign going on that has 55 days to run, and at the moment the race is 50/50. Turnbull is an absolute disappointment, at the beginning of the election he said he ...
save nz Tolls on motorways are nothing new, but they are generally confined to new infrastructure, not existing, as existing has already been paid for, the Auckland Harbour bridge is a good example of where tolls have worked, and when paid for, the toll is...
Yeah, only if he's the Governor though, in NZ, wealthy people don't tend to be convicted, justice is dependent on how much your willing to pay.
Nick I just don't think Key is particularly good at operating in a democracy, he's very use to authoritarianism.
I reckon Johnny is gone in 2017, his continual bad behavior has become unacceptable for a PM, he's become a liability and an international embarrassment. I agree with all above, it certainly looks like a duck, it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, a...
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