Heavy freight (trucking) companies are delighted of course. It's what their election donations bought. The minister claims the policy will open up vast areas for green fields development while informed opinion says that cities such as Auckland need to go ...
I think that the reserve bank made a mis-judgement when it made cheap money available to all. It should have been targeted towards struggling businesses and first home buyers. Instead avaricious property speculators took huge advantage of this windfall in ...
Couldn't have put it better. From an article in The Independent: The word "woke" originated in African American Vernacular English to refer to being "woken up" to" or alert to issues around racial injustice. ......Boris Johnson, with reference to a newly ...
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Totally agree Patricia. But we will never get poor old Ad to see sense. I think he is too tribally orientated.
There is another perspective to this whole unhappy development. Kim Hill had a fascinatingly awful interview this morning with Andrew Cockburn about his recent publication, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine and the quote below ...
The problem for the government is that we are now told that there is legislation pending that might have given the authorities the power to have (probably) prevented this incident but that has been moving very slowly through its various processes. This is ...
David Shearer is being courted by the "other side". I would think that Shearer would win in contest between he and Mitchell.
While the cameras were waiting for the Prime Minister to appear at the daily press conference recently, they panned the audience. It was clear that the reporters were social distancing and I think most were wearing masks.
Not sure who Coreyjhumm is talking about but he is entitled to his point of view. A case of damming with faint praise. Michael was fighting for the security of superannuants throughout his parliamentary career and I seem to recall that at one point he ...
Just like they did in Iran when the CIA assisted MI6 in overthrowing the socialist government in the coup d'etat of 1953. It was all about oil. Surprise, surprise. The socialist government had nationalised the industry. Perfidious Albion!!
Helen Clark made a salient point on Morning Report this morning when she pointed out that tens of thousands of US troops have been based in South Korea for the last seventy years and thousands more are deployed throughout the world in "peace keeping" roles...
To what extent is the uncertainty of the future of Tiwai point a factor in all of this. It uses thirteen percent of the the countries power generation. If and when it finally closes down the amount of electric power that will become available to the ...
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Sorry. Careless
Then good riddance to them. David Cunliffe had the intelligence and skill to be a great leader. All history now and I am happy to be where we are but he should have followed Helen. Gough was yesterday's man and barely kept the seat warm. That cost the ...
Totally agree Gwwnz. This line, 'Thirdly, opposing this kind of representation about her leadership role stands against the entire Prime Minister Ardern publicity machine' is a gratuitous slur on Jacinda Adern and totally out of order. Our Prime Minister ...
I would disagree with nothing you have said but that is not what Foreign Waka meant by "social engineering" in my opinion. In the context of his comment I see it as having a "subversive" connotation.
I too was a teacher for over forty years. Perhaps because I taught mathematics throughout that time I never thought of it in terms of social engineering. I like to think that I did my best in the subject for my students and I tried to treat them all with ...
How can you equate the teaching of and learning of our history with social engineering is beyond belief. When I was at secondary school in the fifties the standard text for the study of New Zealand's post European history was a very thin little book called...
"A land fit for hero's." Yeah, right. Totally agree with all that Anne and those who have supported her, have said. To what extent has this government been transformative and do we have a timid Treasurer who is dominating procedures?
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Labour repeating 1984??? Were you round then. The policies of Douglas opened the (flood) gate for neo-liberal economics, and, inch by inch, this government is closing it again, to everyone's advantage. The business model has been a disaster for Health and ...
Why don't you stay on Farrar's blog where you would feel much more at home. His incessant negativity is pathetic. He was slagging off at the new Hamilton - Auckland rail link the other day. The cost of that initiative pails in comparison to Transmission ...
I think it was Bishop who teamed up with the despicable Woodhouse in an attempt to embarrass the Government re the returnees who got special dispensation to travel Christchurch at the height of last year's lockdown. I cant stand the arrogance of the man. ...
Doesn't specify by how much though or have I missed something.
Rents should be frozen at their current levels and landlords should have the ability to raise them annually by an amount pegged to inflation.
KJT you have missed off a zero. 40 000 at the last census. This is an obscene situation. Have to agree with Gosman on the point of intensification but not expansion onto valuable arable land. What has happened in the Pokeno, Pukekohe area over recent years...
Judith Collins tweets this morning "Our petition is working" which obviously refers to the petition she started a few days ago demanding that the "bubble" with Australia be opened immediately. I guess when you are polling as lowly as she is (and falling) ...
Who is this guy "David". Good answer RBO to a vacuous statement.
In his rant Soper refers to the "accidental PM" "plucked from nowhere. Typical of the a...e he and his ilk are, he conveniently forgets that, in 2017 and within weeks of the election, Labour and the Nats were polling neck and neck and then arch villian and...
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