You may be right about food quality in terms of what reaches the table, but if you consider environmental impact of getting milk products from New Zealand to Britain, not so much. Firstly, you add some 20,000 "carbon-km" to everything. And even worse, your...
AWW, your faith in the system is touching. The review by Designated Doctors scheme is a farce. You have a choice who you want to see, but from a list of doctors contracted to WINZ (or whatever they call themselves now). If you live anywhere other than in a...
Charity shops, along with $2 shops, seem to be the only kind of shop that can still afford shop rentals in many towns and cities. In the case of charities, that's because it's not their money they have to budget and so long as something gets to the ...
Last time I had anything to do with seasonal work it was piecemeal, not hourly. So shit weather = no income. Nothing ripe = no income. That's on top of the stand down periods you mention.
You missed the bit where it says "IF no person has a majority in the Bundestag....". A majority does not have to come from one party, it can be of any number of participants. So it is very possible for a person to become chancellor if his/her party does ...
Given that the policy setting that got 50,000 children into poverty are unchanged, it is reasonable to assume that those lifted out of poverty will soon be replaced by 50,000 others flung into it. How will we tell the difference?
With 2 disabled people in the family, I know to well what you are talking about. We are in the category that has chosen permanent hardship over having to deal with WINZ. In the end, your dignity is all you have left and they will go out of their way to ...
In 2014, the July CB poll had National on 52 % ('they could be governing ALONE', gasp). In fact, CB only got close to the Nats actual final result just before the actual election. All other polls in the lead-up had them at 50+ %. Fake? Probably not. Margin...
That's a good idea for a sign. You could add "for good, no-one will miss you, Nick"
Viewing ahead ever further: reduce debt by 2020, rivers swimmable in 2040, predator free in 2050, sufficient housing in 2060, 2070 equality.....2080
Some are trying Edit: Meant as a reply to 6
That's not a knife, Mike. THIS is a knife.
Dann on One News mentions that Wayne learned about the dead girl on Maori TV. I think he refers to this Maybe those who have become sources for Hit and Run are the same who raised the allegations referred to in the article. It states as fact that "During ...
Can you point me to the 55+ benefit that currently exists please? As far as I'm aware, 55+ year old people who did hard work are exactly the same as 18-year old unmotivated school leavers as far as WINZ is concerned. I do agree there should be something ...
"There's no way National's ever going to support workers' unions". He meant the Taxpayers Union.
The war on drugs became the war on the poor on the same day it was allowed that potential employees could be drug tested for minimum wage jobs. What could they possibly be impaired in doing? Zero tolerance policies are in most cases a cheap cop-out also, ...
If the government gets more dividends now than they did with 100 % shareholding, it is absolutely theft. Off the consumer...
As for the possible influence of meth, I think the words were that the perpetrator "may have been high on P" or somesuch on the news last night. Well, he may also have been an alien from Mars, or a shapeshifting lizard, we won't know until we've looked. ...
Nor does it say that $ 5000 is the amount anyone who moves is going to get. Firstly, its "up to"..., secondly knowing WINZ they will want quotes for everything, then pay out not a cent more, even if those quotes were a guess. Family and friends helping out...
Here we have the typical usage of statistics in politics. Hilary tells the truth 80 % of the time. Hooray. The grass is green, the sky is blue, the pope's a catholic, water is wet, the economy works great for everyone. 80 % of that is true. It's not just ...
Thing is, it doesn't matter what your GP puts into your medical assessment. When one applies for Supported Living, the evident medical experts at WINZ take one look at you and decide whether they "have enough information", ie you're missing an arm and a ...
The ones who do now, instead of the evaders and avoiders? I'd even wear a GST rise to pay for the prisons
"ministers may get too enthusiastic".. I just wish, just once, to see a National minister get enthusiastic about, say, disabled New Zealanders. As in helping them, not deprive them further. But foreign tax dodgers are much more the scene they enthuse about...
Polls tend to get election results "right" about a week or 24 hours prior to the actual election. A year or even a month out, there is no checking whatsoever how accurate they might have been. They can however be used to create a perception, which is what ...
Some of the crux at WINZ is that there are no "entitlements". The rules are set up deliberately to allow maximum discretion to the case worker at the expense of certainty. The purpose, I presume, is to "encourage" good and compliant behaviour. (It also ...
'It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.' Nelson Mandela "Let me sit there Richie!...
We are in a similar situation to you, Kay, with 2 disabled people in the family. For me, the most hideous part of all National's rules is the "discretion" awarded to case workers. They have these draconian regulations, from which your individual case ...
See, no worries. The whole country is failing to keep left at crucial times.
I wonder if this Stuff article has something to do with this story. No great analysis, but NZ spies on the Indonesian candidate for a job in the very organisation (WTO) that the US and NZ want to use to force Indonesia to buy their product, in direct ...
I read a column by one Jamie Gray, business reporter, in the mobile version of the Herald this morning (can't find it on the main page, didn't try to hard). In it, he said that dairy futures had dropped by 15 % in the few days before this announcement. ...
As parent of a seriously ill child (now adult), I can tell you that the child will get most of what it needs in NZ quite freely. However, if as parent one is not well off to begin with, there is absolutely nothing in the way of financial support (for the ...
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