You are still defending that comment..? Right ho .! And just because you are old... doesn't stop your comment being ageist..
Lee was a bit of a shocker on her previous outing as a minister .. I was surprised when she popped up again.. ..made me think the national talent-pool must be ankle-deep... And penny Simmonds is still environment minister.. (That's reassuring..eh..?)
And you are some sorta oil painting..are you Adrian...? (That is the most sexist/ageist/shallow comment I have read in a while.. It makes me sympathetic to/defending Costello..and I didn't see that coming..)
..and gang patches...!
To his credit.. Holyoake resisted the heavy leaning on him from both u.s. and Australia (who were firmly attached to America's hip .and in there boots and all) They wanted him/NZ to 'do more'... He demurred...
No thanks...I wouldn't join dunne in a lifeboat..
Have you forgotten the Tories berating Clark for not taking us into Iraq...? Had they been in power..we would have had sent our soldiers to that imperial action..
@kat.. Um..!...he wasn't gung ho..but Holyoke did take us into Vietnam...
Kinda rare to agree with mahary...but I do...
Are you kidding Anne..?... H.clark took us into Afghanistan.. Wasn't that a good idea..?
@ Anne . Re labour being ignored....I can understand that... I know what my recent reaction was to Phil Twyford popping up to pontificate on social housing.. I watched gape-mouthed..as he banged on about what this gummint should do... As an example of bare...
So that's what Santana are doing now...
Of course they have the numbers...but given the opportunist party that is NZ first ..this dilutes somewhat the far-right mandate they claim to have.. What is also different this time is that national have lurched to the right..it can now be said that ...
Re homelessness: Now you are veering into the failures of the ardern gummint...(..which I can bang on about).. And/but are kinda off-topic..as far as this conversation goes..eh..?
Number one...you are talking apples and oranges as far as this discussion is concerned.. Number two:..that comes across as a reckon by you...not backed up by any evidence.. 3..and as a result of the failure to introduce capital gains tax/land tax/estate ...
Given as you are given to rely on numbers when making your case .I am kinda puzzled by your studious ignoring of the huge differences in what we pay for our public service..and what the likes of countries like Sweden/Norway pay (i.e.double..).and that we ...
@traveller.. See post of business roundtable report (below)..by d.o.s... Then get back to us...
Nice one..!..(first time I've said that about the business roundtable...those incorrigible lefties..) I am looking forward to the answer/mea culpa owed by traveller .. I wonder how those numbers are going down..
Heh..!...I just read one of those psychological profile things ..called the nine marks of the confident introvert.. And it nailed me..!..in a disturbing number of ways..given as we all like to fancy ourselves as being unique .. Mind you..it is kinda ...
There are also other factors to consider: So we have that three percent catch-up..but what would also need to be under consideration is changing demands on that public service.. necessitating an increase in staff to answer that demand.. I can think of ...
Seeing as you have all the facts at your fingertips.. Could you tell us how much the population grew during those key-years..? I guess I am wondering if the public service needed to make up for nine years of not enough to keep up with population growth.....
Nah..!..David.. This lot are rogernomics redux.. They don't give a fuck about hurting the most vulnerable..all in the name of their rightwing ideology...backed by the opportunists that are NZ 1st . And all this heavily laced with racism... They are so ugly...
Wot Anne said ..
Heh..!...aye..!
That is a very tidy description of s. Jones..(it could almost fit on a t-shirt..) And of course it could have life as a pub quiz question.. Just change the opening 'that'..to 'which'..
Re upcoming direct action: I have realised why there are no mass protests..as yet.. I think everyone is kinda shell-shocked at the moment... ..as this government mounts war on the poor ..as they wholesale dismantle the support mechanisms that ..decades of ...
Thanks for your comments articulating the hurdles to be faced...
Anyone looking at starting a different media model..could do worse than looking at the guardian..and seeing if their (eminently successful/long-lived) financial model could be tweaked to work here...as a multi media beast.. There are also tax breaks/...
That could also work..and I don't think these different ideas/models are in a competition for a winner.. They can co-exist next to each other.. The 'news' world has been dominated for too long by those two behemoths with their mirror-models... I think it ...
I think access to media should be guaranteed as a democratic/human right... I think it is fucked up that only those who can afford to pay get to read..what could be important information for those blocked.. Fuck that ..! Fuck you NZ Herald..! Tear down the...
I think a pillar of such a not for profit/workers co-op entity must be free access for all....no paywalls .. I don't need to make the case for that..do I..?
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