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Comment:How low can Simon Bridges go?
Date published: 10:15 am, June 26th, 2018You said "quotes from a link you already put up makes you look crass,". Quoting from a link is common. As I said.
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Comment:How low can Simon Bridges go?
Date published: 6:25 pm, June 25th, 2018Sometimes its hard to tell you apart!!
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Comment:How low can Simon Bridges go?
Date published: 6:24 pm, June 25th, 2018You mean you don't know? The industry that is being shut down to save emissions but will actually increase them. The industry that is being shut down despite overwhelming advice to the contrary. The industry that is being shut down that was told the day ...
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Comment:How low can Simon Bridges go?
Date published: 6:22 pm, June 25th, 2018Because you don't want to actually learn anything. Next.
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Comment:How low can Simon Bridges go?
Date published: 6:21 pm, June 25th, 2018It's easy to deride business confidence when it suits you Robert, but it is businesses who employ people, pay taxes that keep your socialist schemes going, and generally earn the country it's living standards. Of course you wouldn't understand that.
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Comment:How low can Simon Bridges go?
Date published: 6:04 pm, June 25th, 2018Quoting from a link is common. Surely you're not running interference for OAB?
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Comment:How low can Simon Bridges go?
Date published: 6:01 pm, June 25th, 2018"Parker doesn’t have a “pet” company;" https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12075267 Next.
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Comment:How low can Simon Bridges go?
Date published: 5:54 pm, June 25th, 2018It hasn't worked, OAB. It is a failure. "Chris Whelan, executive director of University New Zealand, spoke with Larry Williams about the numbers. He says the numbers suggest the fee frees policy has not worked, and that money was not a major factor for ...
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Comment:How low can Simon Bridges go?
Date published: 5:38 pm, June 25th, 2018Another day, another screw up. http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/larry-williams-drive/audio/chris-whelan-fees-free-policy-has-little-impact/
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Comment:How low can Simon Bridges go?
Date published: 4:52 pm, June 25th, 2018It's not badmouthing, its stating the facts. How do you feel about Twyford having to use the private sector to build his 'kiwibuild' homes eh? Or Parker trying to exempt a 'pet' company from the foreign buyers ban? Or Little's pinch on the bottom? Or the ...
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Comment:How low can Simon Bridges go?
Date published: 4:48 pm, June 25th, 2018It's actually a really easy job. My list above is just a start. Collapsing business confidence, the failure of kiwibuild, the $1b provincial slush fund...and we're less than a year in! And you mention growth! When Labour is even turning that sour!
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Comment:How low can Simon Bridges go?
Date published: 4:05 pm, June 25th, 2018Ah no. ""We didn't file it on time. And because of that we also didn't have time to hand it over to National," Davidson said." They really are inept.
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Comment:How low can Simon Bridges go?
Date published: 4:03 pm, June 25th, 2018"But they are lightyears ahead of their predecessors." No, they simply aren't. They are more corrupt, more dishonest and more incompetent.
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Comment:How low can Simon Bridges go?
Date published: 2:27 pm, June 25th, 2018Crass? Not as crass as shutting down an entire industry without consultation or even a business case. Not as crass as Andrew Little describing a sexual assault as just a pinch on the bottom. Not as crass as David Parker's attempt to exempt one company from...
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Comment:Immigration Now
Date published: 9:46 pm, June 24th, 2018I must say you have a remarkable imagination OAB.
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Comment:Immigration Now
Date published: 9:45 pm, June 24th, 2018Not well. In fact, terribly. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/dispatches/2015/07/greece_immigration_crisis_why_would_someone_want_to_live_in_greece_during.html
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Comment:Open Mike 22/06/2018
Date published: 12:56 pm, June 22nd, 2018Desist from what? Defending themselves against terrorism?
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Comment:Open Mike 21/06/2018
Date published: 12:53 pm, June 22nd, 2018"His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done ...
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Comment:Open Mike 21/06/2018
Date published: 12:52 pm, June 22nd, 2018" It is not the homeland of the Jewish people. " Your own silly prejudices caused you to go off on totally the wrong tangent. I wasn't talking about God or the bible. I was talking about the Balfour Declaration and the acceptance of UN resolutions by ...
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Comment:Open Mike 21/06/2018
Date published: 6:33 pm, June 21st, 2018It isn't the Palestinians homeland, it is the homeland of the Jewish people, and of course all of the other ethnic groups who live in the democratic nation of Israel. Including Arabs. Israel was established by an entirely legal process, endorsed by ...
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Comment:Open Mike 21/06/2018
Date published: 1:17 pm, June 21st, 2018https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel When the Palestinians show they truly want peace, they will have it. But not before.
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Comment:Givealittle legal fund set up for Renae Maihi for defence against Bob Jones' claim
Date published: 9:26 pm, June 20th, 2018My vote for comment of the week. Well said.
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Comment:Open Mike 20/06/2018
Date published: 12:57 pm, June 20th, 2018So what? Are you serious? Businesses employ people. They provide capital which produces profits on which taxes are paid to fund government spending. You do know that, right? You do know that governments only survive because of private enterprise? That ...
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Comment:Open Mike 20/06/2018
Date published: 11:41 am, June 20th, 2018Desperate attempt to get Sanctuary out of a massive hole fails. We are undoubtedly seeing a new era of industrial problems beginning, with unions emboldened by a weak government who stoked expectations and now merrily destroys business confidence.
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Comment:Open Mike 20/06/2018
Date published: 11:36 am, June 20th, 2018The fact that Sanctuary used data from a different time period than Hosking was referring to makes you both look a bit silly.
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Comment:Open Mike 20/06/2018
Date published: 11:34 am, June 20th, 2018At the risk of ruining your day, you data is not for the period Hosking was referring to. "Between 1986 to 1991" is not the 1970's.
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Comment:Pulling Teeth For Poverty
Date published: 11:00 am, June 19th, 2018Actually we all should. It would be far better for our health than sugary drinks. And water costs a lot less.
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Comment:Pulling Teeth For Poverty
Date published: 8:27 pm, June 18th, 2018"...or get in front of the issue with credible voluntary standards or other mitigation approaches that will produce some improvement in outcomes and thus move you down the government priority list." Education - all good with me. Compulsion - nah.
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Comment:Pulling Teeth For Poverty
Date published: 8:25 pm, June 18th, 2018Four year olds given money and the ability to purchase said drinks from parents either too lazy or too permissive to intervene.
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Comment:Pulling Teeth For Poverty
Date published: 8:23 pm, June 18th, 2018"...the latest research shows sugar and fats are as addictive as cocaine and heroine." So? Addictions can be kicked. And in moderation, and with sound parental guidance, sugar can be incorporated into a healthy diet. Unlike cocaine.
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Comment:Pulling Teeth For Poverty
Date published: 8:21 pm, June 18th, 2018"Therefore your comment specifically excludes children, you lying piece of shit." Nope, it specifically INCLUDED children. ““Another article shows that an extraordinary number of children are admitted to hospitals because of tooth decay. ” Well ignorance ...
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Buzz from the Beehive The government’s official website – which Point of Order monitors daily – not for the first time has nothing much to say today about political happenings that are grabbing media headlines. It makes no mention of the latest 1News-Verian poll, for example. This shows National down ...3 weeks ago - Listening To The Traffic.3 weeks ago
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- Ending The Quest.Dead Woman Walking: New Zealand’s media industry had been moving steadily towards disaster for all the years Melissa Lee had been National’s media and communications policy spokesperson, and yet, when the crisis finally broke, on her watch, she had nothing intelligent to offer. Christopher Luxon is a patient man - but he’s not ...3 weeks ago
- I’m pregnant. Do I need a multivitamin?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Linda Gallo, Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences, School of Health, University of the Sunshine Coast gpointstudio/Shutterstock Growing a healthy baby relies on getting enough nutrients while pregnant. But rather than following a healthy diet to provide those nutrients, we’re concerned too many ...5 days ago - Green industry yes, conservation no: a budget for people, not for natureSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Neal, Senior lecturer in Economics / Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney Sonpichit Salangsing/Shutterstock Last night’s budget is another missed opportunity to arrest the poor and deteriorating state of the Australian environment. Subsidising green industry in Labor’s ...5 days ago
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- Cricket’s pilgrimage: Go north, young woman
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The government is still trying to work out how it will meet its pledge to end Covid mandates, given the mandates were scrapped more than a year ago. ...5 days ago - Questions about coalition's Covid-19 vaccine mandate pledgeThe government is still trying to work out how it will meet its pledge to end Covid mandates, given the mandates were scrapped more than a year ago. ...5 days ago
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- Doubts about value, results from charter schools – education figuresReintroduced charter schools will be tightly monitored, but a lack of transparency in reporting was a key criticism they faced last time around. ...6 days ago
- At a glance: the 2024 federal budget split four waysSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Garrow, Editorial Web Developer The government has handed down its budget for 2024–25. It’s delivered a $9.3 billion surplus for the financial year just about to finish but is forecasting a $28.3 billion deficit for next year. Here’s the key points: ...6 days ago
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- Influence, authority and power: how elite women played a crucial role in the Italian Wars of the 16t...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Broomhall, Director, Gender and Women’s History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University Andrea Mantegna, Minerva (Athena) expelling Vices from the Garden of Virtue, from the Studiolo of Isabella d’Este, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua (c. 1499–1502). Louvre Museum/Wikimedia Commons Wartime has often presented opportunities ...6 days ago
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- Botched prison mutiny, protests ahead of New Caledonia constitution voteBy Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia has gone through yet another day of tense political protests and a failed prison mutiny — a few hours ahead of a vote in Paris’s National Assembly on a government-tabled Constitutional amendment. This amendment would “unfreeze” the list of ...6 days ago
- Winston Peters cancels New Caledonia visit amid violent unrestThe Foreign Affairs Minister was due to visit the capital Nouméa this week. ...6 days ago
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- Behind the roller door: How people are using their garages for much more than storageResearch from AA Insurance reveals more and more people are taking pride in their garage. Meet three New Zealanders using their space in creative ways. If you think of a garage, you might picture a dark room with a parked car. There might be some tools on the wall, or ...6 days ago
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- Scrapping the waste export levy threatens Australia’s emerging lithium battery recycling industrySource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yasir Arafat, Senior Research Associate, Edith Cowan University asharkyu, Shutterstock As electric vehicle (EV) demand accelerates, so does the need for lithium batteries. But these batteries contain valuable critical minerals, as well as toxic materials, so they should not be treated ...6 days ago
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- AI can make up songs now, but who owns the copyright? The answer is complicatedSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wellett Potter, Lecturer in Law, University of New England Eugenio Marongiu/Shutterstock Artificial intelligence (AI) text and image generation tools have now been around for a while, but in recent weeks, apps for making AI-generated music have reached consumers as well. ...6 days ago
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- What the Court of Appeal’s latest ruling means for the future of the Waitangi TribunalThe children’s minister could have been legally brought before the tribunal after all, writes Stewart Sowman-Lund in this extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. The end of ...6 days ago
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