Surely now Labour is finished. Gone the way of all the formerly socialist parties, that engaged in the death embrace with neo-liberalism and abandoned any commitment to represent their constituency. The stupidity is astounding.
100% agree Ad. I actually thought that Andrew Little would be just the right person to put together, and run, a coalition of Lab/Grn/NZF. All that experience of figuring out ways to achieve things that everyone can work with, and looks like the usual ...
I'm not advocating mercy killing anyone (or beating anyone off!). I'm saying any lifeboat has a given capacity to sustain life (i.e float) If the hundreds in the sea all try to climb aboard everyone will perish as the lifeboat will sink. So Pat, yes, there...
Well Pat, if the boat holds 40, and you're in the boat, you better be prepared to take an oar to bring down upon the grasping hands of them as want to clamber on board
Pleased to see my local council looking ahead and planning for the next 50 years http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/158990-councillors-go-car-park-tower.html read and weep.
maybe they just want a doctor in patea?
The orange tree is real and is also an analogy. WINZ seems to share your world view, that everyone is out to rip each other off, that everyone requires monitoring so that whatever is grudgingly given is only used in an approved manner, that each and every ...
Oh my goodness - entitlement! To gifts! I can just imagine the wastrels, their lives of sloth, awaiting, nay expecting, oranges for gratis! Monitoring my giving? People are free to do with gifts as they wish. I have better things to do with my time than ...
sharing. contributing. spreading the largesse. looking out for our neighbours. plenty to go around mate, we are not a poor country. I have an orange tree - it's laden with sweet, tasty fruit. Way more than we can ever get through. So we give away what we ...
amen to less supplements and better wages.
c'mon, the 'welfare' system and 'beneficiary' are essential tools - DO NOT rock the boat, or you will be there too. This is the threat. Take that away and whats to stop a kiwifruit picker/cleaner/caregiver/fastfood operative/warehouse intern/hammer hand ...
The message might be OK, but the messaging? hopeless. Why is National even mentioned Why is the National font bigger than Labour why is Blue the dominant colour. even the jacket and tie can't decide...labour or national or a bit of both... Does no one step...
I'm sick of the acceptance that wages are so crap, that pretty much all workers need a top up from each others taxes to make ends meet. Labour. The name says it. There should be an absolute focus on ensuring wages and work conditions where, at the end of ...
Experience in other places (e.g. Waihi Beach) would tend to reinforce a view that protective works are carried out based, mainly, on who owns the property that may be affected.
SHA's are being (ab)used to circumvent the rights of local communities and affected persons to have any voice in large scale developments. It is intended to short circuit the meagre provisions for notification in the RMA and is being used to great effect, ...
This is the self same Mr Plested who is on record as a large donor to the National Party.
waiting for a dead cat....
Nah, Ad just pointed out that you have to present things in a way that lets other voices be heard. You can't let anger cloud clear thinking or you'll simply be sidelined.
Wayne, Wayne ....."But the real exemplar is the Port of Tauranga. No one would seriously dispute that it is a much better operation than the Port of Auckland" Better for whom? Workers Health and Safety ? The local environment? POT is the real exemplar of :...
Ha, Xero indeed......Best ask citizen Thiel about making money out of xero. The company also seem to have IRD actively drumming up customers via the updated provisional tax proposals. An indeed there is sense that some have special knowledge about when to ...
... the current lot. Macron’s success, and Trudeau’s success, suggests an... Guardian "About 43% of Macron’s voters cast their ballot for... incensed by Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigrant discourse. “France is...
spot on Adrian, and now I have a vivid image of Ad (see comment 11) standing in the absolute middle of the sinking centrist liferaft, ankles awash, demanding that those already in the water keep lifting the raft, lest his suit get wet.
well the 'number of people' were all agreed that the communists had to be stopped at any cost, and if Nazism was the cost, so be it.
So... salaries for NZ workers are insufficient to survive in Auckland, but the same salary (or less, perhaps?) is sufficient for an immigrant in the same circumstances?
so we need to bring in overseas immigrants, cos Wellington? I'm fairly sure that people in NZ can move for work.
why would NZ need nursing & teaching immigrants when.... "Hundreds of nursing graduates are failing to get job offers straight after graduating, according to their union. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation says there could be a "talent pool" of about 400 ...
and yet the NZ Herald has this, right now at the end of their story "Earlier, the Herald reported Little was guilty of defamation on one occasion. This has now been corrected and clarified in this story." and then later on their front page video piece has ...
Classic fis, I bet Keating bought in his personal VHS copy and showed ol' bill the ride of the valkyries scene from apocolypse now.....all the evidence needed, fully informed. They had 50cals and citreons!
Motels are not State Houses - mate, in some parts, even State Houses are not State Houses In our National Party provinces, state housing is being given to private sector chums, for unknown sums (if any)... is it a sale? is it a transfer? a signing across? ...
Yes Augustus, Mr Key is I think maintaining that either, both or some of each of the following apply: 1. people don't kill people, it's the bullets and rockets that kill people. 2. it was a US helicopter pilot that fired the rockets 3. nz'ers only ordered ...
and, perhaps later he may be called as a defendant?
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