To Patricia Bremner at 8 : the proposed demise of 'Fair Go' suggests an accommodating motive to those who would cheat customers!
to joe90 at 3.1 : truly enlightening research/reporting connecting so many threads, shocking this cynical activist, but I am thankful to have this info to justify being such.
to weka at 2.1 : I have had like concerns for some time, his commending of Modi exposes the fact.
The recent non-referrals to neither select committees nor debate feels alarmingly akin to dictatorship. Reasons for use of this practice at beginning of covid emergency ( to save thousands of lives and keep hospitals functioning ) bears no resemblance ...
To Robert Guyton at 7.1.1 : I was very pleased to see that. It was certainly Luxon who ( probably) spoke without thinking.
To Ffloyd @ 4 : Couldn't agree more with your last sentence. The rushed law-passings heralded earlier are frightening enough, but more recent undebated introductions seem akin to dictatorship.
To Stephen D at 1.2 : I was writing from a cynical point of view, believe me! We can just hope multitudes can see through what's happening. [Please change your email address in your next comment, thanks – Incognito]
It's beyond belief that Simeon Brown has instructed all councils to stop construction of walking and cycling tracks, even to extent of preventing proposed work in Thames Street, Oamaru, intended to to provide safe biking to school for children and enable ...
to bwaghorn at 2 : a frightening situation from my long-experienced viewpoint as a white woman hugely concerned for future of my great - grandchildren and their peers, male and female.
To RoG at 4 : Indeed!
To Darien Fenton at 19: Indeed these facts must keep on being said! I guess that those who have no need to 'count their pennies' have no idea of the relief to those receiving these measures. One wonders whether their constant protestations are purely to ...
to Anne at 11.1.1.1: in regard to the main culprits being 'obvious to anyone who goes looking '. The culprits you mention , by their disgusting behaviour , must now be plainly obvious to many more than before their innate nastiness was released.
To Anne at 4.1 : My thoughts too Anne...the scene has always been toxic for many women, some obvious, much coped with in silence. I know of four prominent women parliamentarians who suffered such abuse in earlier years, three resigning on account of it.
I find it hugely enthusing to read Geoffrey Palmer's thinking on democracy, particularly his suggestions of ways to lessen workload of ministers. The latter must be obvious to any who have seen the strained faces in times of calamities during recent years....
to weka at 2.1.1 : I was envisaging an ideal world scene with optimal universal access to education. Dreams don't cost and if the huge global wealth presently squandered in war games was diverted to providing higher human needs (education being specific to...
To joe90 at 2.2 : agree
To Weka at 2 : Agree with your observation that some cannot differentiate between metaphor and literality, and have long thought this fact predominates in contemporary global problems, emphasising the need for education that includes e.g. critical thinking...
To RosieLee at 1.1 : Your comment shows it's own me/me frame-of-reference. I am not a teenager taking umbrage, but in my tenth decade, acutely concerned for my greatgrandchildren ( one sixteen, more soon to be ) and their peers in their future. I find much...
To Sanctuary at 2 : Jacinda certainly deserves to sleep easy, and be freed from the ever-present need for bodyguards, a situation I've not ever seen alluded to.
To PLA : at 1.1.2 Steve Walker a most commendable guy!.....proven hard worker, caring and doesn't blow his own trumpet.
Aaron Hawkins' quiet competence in promoting forward-thinking measures needs the strongest possible support from prospective Council members and voters to elect them who would NOT be " rubbed up the wrong way".
Mike, your assertion " we should be arguing for a stop to the war" is my fervent wish. As so many times in recent decades I have spoken out and been an activist for this seemingly endless cause. Indeed I felt ill at our sending other than humanitarian aid ...
My reference to 'terrorists and traitors' was in connection with that being Muldoon's constant cry about activists on any/all of the urgent problems of those years. I do know I was on the list, but won't divulge more because was leaked by person who knew ...
and to cheer you on this rather cold day: Think most hilarious memory not in disdain this time, but in admiration of them and their mentors, was the group from an Auckland girls' school marching up Queen St to rallying area carrying large banner ' DONT ...
To Anne and PLA : Maybe the reason these things not known now is precisely that it certainly was a frightening time for many both in public service and others, fear of losing job, need to use passwords in certain situations, and knowing one's name listed, ...
To Anne at 10; Join the club....I still wonder whether that stuff's been discarded and yes , my boss was rung that should I be absent particular day's anti-tour event, that my pay would be docked. Rest of staff shocked and had worked out how to cover me, ...
To Anne at 10 : Don't forget the many listed as 'terrorists and 'traitors' , about which most people will know nothing.
Matariki was certainly not manufactured out of nothing! At least fifty years ago teaching in a southern city school, I had pupils whose Maori parents took them fishing for Matariki, asking for homework so that children didn't miss out. The story was ...
To Dennis Frank at 2 : Surely you have seen and heard repeated advice from Chris Hipkins , other M.P.'s and epidemiologists that wearing of masks, distancing, good hygiene practice are advised, meaning that mature commonsense should prevail.
Sounds like Utopia! and in big scheme of things not a costly change, the greatest necessary change being a fast embracing of such creative energy. One factor I've long thought sensible is the use of ferries across the Otago harbour as operated in my ...
To Felix at 5.2 : not sure who you're replying to...if me, I certainly didn't say public broadcasting should report only the pro-government line. I maintain that critical thinking was a very necessary component in the education of the young.
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