I disagree that you have to be a serial abuser to abuse power, and that someone always knows. Think about outwardly respectable abusive marriages, before widespread access to contraception and the DPB.
Looking for black and white where there are human shades of grey. One of the hardest things with abusers of power, whether emotional, physical or sexual, is that they can honestly offer good things - opportunities, mentorship, financial support - along ...
BigHairyNews give their views on National's Laura Norder tough on gangs mantra
No one in NZ voted in a referendum for rogernomics, it was thrust upon us.
The UK Conservative government's anti-woke priorities: Minister tells asylum processing centre for children to paint over a mural of disney characters that make the place "too welcoming". Meanwhile, food and rents/mortgages rise, the seas and rivers are ...
Plus I think, although covid introduced a big backlog, the court system has maintained streamlined processes introduced then. This includes judge-only trials, and remote attendance for simple court appearances, cutting down the need to move prisoners back ...
If you look at NZ incarceration stats, they were going down until July 22, mostly due, apparently, to a new support programme for functionally illiterate 1st offenders on remand being given help to apply for home detention in place of remand prison. (A ...
The backroom policework is 8000 offenders and 40000 charges laid in taking down drug networks since 2022. Criminal gangs up their nuisance raids, and add community violence as the advertising, because Operation Cobalt is taking out their easy revenue ...
Walking a fine line down the middle of the road, internationally, I note. One thread: NZ must make sure to have eggs in many basket...EU FTA...South East Asia tensions. And another thread...independent foreign policy, as in Clark over Iraq, is not the same...
I am no great fan of colonisation and militarism, but the Century of Humiliation for China was as much due to weak Chinese rule, as to rapacious expolitation of trade concessions by European powers, Russia, and the very Eastern Japan.
newshub with the gutter-joke 'menu from Leo Malloy's fundraiser yesterday As nice as the Ardern toilet seat 'just light-hearted fun'. Obvious that these guys have never outgrown their 3rd form boys' school 'humour'.
Visubversa...The Trots?
And the other side of the story. Trans youth charity Mermaids was supported by a coalition of LGBTQ+ groups in the challenge to LGB Alliance's charity status. They argued the group "shouldn’t be recognised as a charity because of it ‘exclusively focuses’ ...
I agree exactly SPC. While the noise appears in the white corner, the points are being scored quietly with migrants from South East Asia and China.
Paul the other one has a podcast series around the election. His latest is on AI viral marketing. National has employed the same marketing company that did the 2019 UK election. In Paul's the Public Gallery No. 5 podcast The Public Gallery series #5 ...
Taking a whole life-cycle approach to costing nuclear power: 'Using their model, Barron and Hill found that nuclear power is likely to be a far less cost-effective, low-carbon energy source than others had suggested. In fact, their models find nuclear ...
An elite fighting for life, and making sure it takes down others with it.
Can't imagine you had time to watch mica's vessay, which examines the ableist attitude that autistic people cannot decide for themselves they are trans. There is already an ableist attack on autistic persons accessing transition care in some US states.
Singer has recently lost respect with many in the autistic community because of her support for a gender-critical position. Mica at ponderful discusses where GC and trans autistic people disagree.
Not Reti, it was Nats 2017 election policy, and I don't think he was around then. It would be set up at Waikato, according to RNZ item.
This home-school curriculum site describes student-led science teaching which harnesses childrens' natural curiosity about the world. This sort of activity is what I was thinking would go on in a real-world, project-based curriculum. The site points out ...
twitter platform changes - do they affect NZ emergency services? RNZ interviews emergency services and media spokespeople about role of restricted twitter (3 min from checkpoint).
Also paywalled, but different first sentence: nbr claims government to put CERT (computer emergency response team) into the National Cybersecurity Centre, without consulting industry stakeholders Without further info, can't tell whether squawking is about ...
The first priorities of any social safety net are adequate wages and secure, affordable housing. I strongly feel that relying on first-responder charity model to plug gaps in government support is disgusting. And prone to stress as even more government ...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018896851/te-whatu-ora-turns-one-what-s-changed Kathryn Ryan works over the health system changes this morning.
For those with cataracts stuff reports another 3500 ops per year have been okayed 'Thresholds had varied from 46 to 61 points under DHBs, [Verrall] said - with 46 representing "mildly reduced vision" and 61 poor vision to the point that the person could no...
Allowing GMO-makers in back-yard labs a potential side-effect of lifting GMO restriction in NZ? (Shudders). Do-it-yourself CRSPER gene editing is a thing, apparently. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0OTQtlHRPWc
'Power held the roles of Minister of Justice, Minister for State Owned Enterprises, Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Deputy Leader of the House. He was appointed CEO of TVNZ in 2021 [from Wiki] (and just left a few days ago). Bet Labour regret...
Too much of this stuff is left for self-reporting, or to property managers, ie, often lies. Give healthy home registration to local bodies to administer, as well as doing airbnb licencing. Let councils clip the inspection fee ticket, like food service ...
Father of her 2022 newborn.
The boom-boom-boom nature of the personal attacks looks like a pre-planned electioneering offensive, timed to drop bombs regularly onto Hipkins' front bench. Clouds policy wins with reputational ambiguity.
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