Article comment that Levy/Luxon are friends... ...if the governance is changing from a board to a commissioner, has anyone checked to see if an appointment process was followed? Or was it deemed ok to just roll one of the two board members left over and ...
The best person to answer that is Mr X from Oliver Stone's JFKk move (based on a real person, btw): "Well that's the real question, isn't it? Why? The how and the who is just scenery for the public... Keeps 'em guessing like some kind of parlor game, ...
"A nation reinvented: 40 years on from its 1984 victory, the Fourth Labour Government still defines New Zealand" Don't you mean "...defiles..."?
Plus, people who feel genuinely screwed over by having done their part of a bargain and then been unceremoniously dumped won't feel happy about doing so again, we hope. It's all up to the opposition to warn voters not to go for the rhetoric "You've had the...
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National won't lose the next election if they do things right. The "dairy community" (my collective noun for dairy and small business owner fed up of risking their lives for the margins on milk, bread and potato chips) are closely watching this government....
The wealth disparity has grown so large that there isn't much to share around, imho. Those with the money and power to decide who rules the rest won't put up with anything meaningful being given to the "bottom 90%". Said bottom of the barrel (a bigger ...
I suppose when you think your duty is only to the top 10%..
Seems to me the game is to make rail freight as uncompetitive as possible to trucks. Truckers, road building, oil, PPPs, would all be happy with ferries that can't easily do rail.
But I always thought the private sector did things right, while public servants were the cause of all our woes. This is one to remember when Touchy-Luxy tries to trot that old chestnut out...
What an opportunity just fell. A justifiable reason to replace the board with loyal Nat buddies, who will throw their hands up in feigned horror, declare that only a private sector owner could possibly make it work, then sell it to other mates for peanuts....
On 7 sharp they called him Touchy-Luxy because he keeps touching people's arms and backs.
Journalists should be noting in their diaries for the final bill coming out or at the latest the government's travel bill stats. The lions share ought to show up on luxons own account since he diverted a plane just for himself and 3 others. What an ...
And my proposal, to tax the gas released at post-cabinet press briefings, won't work either, because our government, "...by some of the people for a minority of the people" (sorry, Karl) has cut those back, too. I guess if you want to know what's going on,...
Another take from this is that when this kind of thing happened during the 80s, people bought the spin. Voter's brought up during the boomer years, good times but with the downside they were raised to think that what the government told them was the truth....
https://parliamentarycatering.nz/bellamys Bellamy's Restaurant menu and prices Find the $3 nutritious lunch. [TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike as being off topic or irrelevant in the post it was made in. Be more careful in future.]
I keep wondering: When a party isn't in government, it is in opposition, with the job of holding the incumbent government to account. So, where was National, when it was supposed to be the people's watchdog? How could it have been giving appropriate ...
Like you said, there's a difficult balance in terms of lots of drugs that can give life to people with different ailments and only so much money. We all get that. But to deny cancer patients the drugs you promised them for either tax cuts or landlord ...
$280 million to people like us is like a lifetime's earnings, but to a government budget, it is far more affordable.
Good article, but it misses and important point... ...we are only into May of the first year of office.
Think about the issue not so much about the mining, but about conservation land. What is the point of having conservation land, if you are going to mine it? I don't like like all the current downplaying of 'colonialism' per se because there is a lot of ...
I know one thing: I've never voted FOR a government. I've always voted for the government that will keep out the one I think will do worst for my interests, and the interests of NZ as a whole. That's not really a democracy. Then again, I'm not sure there's...
Thanks, I still remember when I thought LGBT was probably a sports car... I do try to keep up.
People like Brian Tamaki and Bob McCroskie are gender conservative ...then, can someone please clarify the difference between "gender conservative" and "homophobic"? Clearly, I've got the wrong idea.
Poor old Seymour. Forced to endure a lower-quality education at Auckland Grammar, then a BA/BE from Auckland Uni. All state educated. Imagine what he could have achieved, has he gone to, say, Vanguard Military School, or, if he was younger, The Destiny ...
I agree Anne, I think the endgame will be 'proper' education for those who can afford it and the basic life skills for the bottom 90%. Were heading to the kind of world like HG Wells's 'Time Machine's predicted, if this lot could stay elected long enough. ...
Me too. Still kind of playing poker with myself about that. I recall the Lange/Douglas years, when, in the 87 election the campaign message was "You've done three years of hard times. Don't vote the other lot in, just as we're about to reap the good times"...
Maybe Luxon makes people see JC with a fresh perspective 🥳
A lesson this lot seems determined to learn the hard way...
You just need to get the message out to people, some of whom will be swinging voters. I said before the election this could be a one term government, but kind of hoped rather than believed. Now, it seems possible. No doubt the May budget has no chance of ...
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