There are still dams to go ahead down here. biking and walking are fine over reasonable distances on fine days when you dont have alot to carry, but this is the real world we live in. The opinion I have about the sticking your head in the sand stunt is ...
My 10 cents worth. solar is not suitable for somè parts of nz, I live on the west coast, its rained a hell of a lot in the last 2 months. there is not public transport in most rural locations in nz, what would be the alternative option if we give up cars. ...
I wonder if the sis have a camera installed in there.
Im not saying there should be life long jobs in coal mining, im asking what do the people here now do?. The numbers of doc workers have been cut, resulting in tracks being very poorly maintained which is a real negative for the low wage seasonle tourism ...
Not sure that this is the best way to protest anything, not a good look, heads in a hole, bums in the air. as a westcoaster and having seen our regions economy destryed over the last few years, the reduction in mining fossel fuels needs to be managed or ...
I dont beleive there is one diet that will be good for all, our bodies are all differsnt and have different needs at different stages in life. milk in schools is a great idea, in that it gives kids who dont get any or enough of this type of food. It is not...
If it looks like a fish and smells like a fish its probably a fish. Are we still the least corrupt country in the world?
Key sounds alot like my kids when you're find one doing something wrong (that they know is wrong) the standard comment is"but they did it first" often you find out they didnt do it at all.
I stopped being a member of a union when the employment contracts act came in, but have alwaysed beleived in them. I joined the nzei a few years ago after I heard a different perspective on it. I was getting the benefits of the collective without paying my...
What are heritage seeds?
And now for the next asset sale, new zealands forshore. what do hear for an opening bid, who will start off with a bid of 5 billion?
This whole thing is just bizarre, I bet sutton is breathing a sigh of releif. clearly whaleoil thrives in the limelight, almost as much as the pm.
What a potential mess and disaster for nz. Some stones shouldnt be looked under and this is one.
If someone is paid to sell petrol, and someone takes it without paying is a similar thing, they didnt do there job. but can we send the police a bill for not getting stolen good back as we pay taxes for them to do this?. This isnt about legally is right, ...
Lol, where employees are afraid of loosing there job, where this seen as the norm, where employeres and staff dont know there rights and requirements, where the employee feels guilt over a situation out of there control this happens. ask around your ...
I dont think this will be a small number of emplyers. I think they will have alot of things in common though, unskilled staff, low paid staff, staff scared about loosing there jobs, employers part of larger organisations weather its as owner operator or ...
We all know that the dirty politics team are going to have a strategy for attacking andrew, it will be interesting to see what track they take. although I think andrew comes across as being a bit grumpy I agree with almost everything he says. I hope he ...
National are a centre right party, its not there job or beleifs that they shoulg jump in and help the youngest citizens of this country. The population needs to know that its the left who beleives in helping everyone up, the right beleive in trickle down. ...
99.875 % of the worlds climate scientists agree that we have global warming due to carbon emmisions. They also agree that this warming will have adverse effects on the human race within the next 50 years if we dont reduce carbon emmisions significantly ...
If a liquor trust has a chance to buy a half price house, why cant mum and dad investors. I would like a half price house.
The comment about the gay shirt is alot less controvercial than this one. most of his comments are controlled and appropriate to his target market. not sure what target market he was trying to reach with this comment. bizarre
It is beleved there is a body up the drift. Maybe a portion of the 26 mill being spent to decide about our flag could have been ùsed in the recovery.
I personally think it is asset sales, but this goes on all the time, the soe, s sell bits and buy bits. has transpower sold any lines to private companys recenlty?
Hi grant, what are your general interests and can you connect with ordinary kiwis?
Although I dont like how he acts, what he says and who he seems to support, I do feel sorry for him. He does represent a portion of our society, and some of his blogs I agree with, but there is a real diiference in the way some of his posts are written. ...
Some people just arnt nice, it makes perfect sense business wise to do what they do, but not moral sense.
From my perspective, beneficiarys are the only one who should be in poverty, as a benefit is a stop gap measure to help people through a rough patch. There kids should have hope and full bellys in this country though. my concern are the working poor how ...
Maybe icf the left stopped talking to and leaking to the media for 12 months things would get better. If journos had to do work and not simply get handed storys we would get better journalism.
National are a centre right party with a pm who is trying to appear centrist, and has done it very well. At some point the message fails, as they always do with a falsehood. Then nz will look to the left, people havnt changed, they still have needs and ...
How many jobs will this cost?. Retail wil not have to employ cover for breaks, I can think of a business I know of that will use this to reduce staf numbers. daycare centres that require ratios of teachers to kids will need less staff. there has always ...
One obvios one would be the amount of money you have left over at the end of each week. Kids in housholds where the parents earn 150k combined, but where there is no spare money after mortgage, and all the other other basic needs have come out are still in...
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