"...'trans logic' can be seen through a lens of misogyny, ie inherent male beliefs." Which of course doesn't mean that 'misogyny' is an essential part of being male. What are 'male beliefs'? And David you say "If woman are concerned about transwomen in ...
If the public education and health systems were of a high enough standard you wouldn't need to ban private schools and health insurance, they just wouldn't exist.
Biologically we're all omnivores.
That's why I said Labour did nothing substantive. Any reduction in emissions over the last three years was largely confined to 2020 snd the pandemic. They began rising again as economic activity resumed. As for Labour's "actions", it watered down the Zero ...
Governments have control over human rights insofar as they put them into law. Human rights have little power if no one is obligated to honour or deliver them.
Labourdidn't do anything beyond the merely performative during all its years in office. Crying crocodile tears over the environment now won't impress anyone.
This is probably pie in the sky and wouldn't necessarily be effective in a legal sense, but in theory.... That's why a solution could be for the vast majority to grit their teeth and give up on the words 'man' and 'woman'. If everyone starts using only ...
"Or maybe we could just ignore people whose opinions and views differ from ours." Or better still, listen to them and try to understand why they have those differing opinions and viewpoints
How's he trying to have a foot in both camps. It says in the post that he believes in NZ it is non sexual and harmless. That to me would fairly clearly show him to be in one camp, the yep it's fine nothing to see here camp? How do you figure councils have ...
"If everyone in the world...." "..., if global emissions were allocated" Hard to take the commission completely seriously when they start throwing in so many "if's" for scenarios that don't exist. I think it says that emissions targets are allocated based ...
Am I reading the data correctly that is associated with this report. So for example in the worst case scenario of the modelling data (low technology and low systems change so basically if we do nothing from now on?) New Zealand's estimated contribution to ...
So if Hamas agrees to simply hands the hostages back, then they do that, the war will end. When are they doing that?
It mainly shows that less income inequality makes for a happier country and everything else will flow from there (IMO)
Leaky homes was a design issue not a materials issue. We've been getting absolutely ripped off in building materials prices and availability for decades so anything that may help to change this is welcome
"Reduce MPs/Ministers salaries to the living wage." 100% in my opinion our MP's get paid far too much. I think it's gotten so high that you start to get people attracted to the job for the high pay as a major consideration. I would make it equivalent to ...
Hemp and/or cannabis. For example: approx 15 billion trees per year cut down worldwide to make paper. (The number itself is irrelevant, it's a lot). Not sure why we don't make paper from hemp as it's much quicker and easier to grow than trees. ...
Volkswagon has developed a synthetic fuel for ICE vehicles which they say could be swapped for fossil fuel at service stations. ICE engines are using it today. Car magazine UK describes the process "It’s carbon-neutral fuel made in a lab. The process works...
FWICS, the Nactzis are delivering to the people who matter to them - the very rich. Unlike Labour, the Nats and ACT don't even pretend to care about people outside their base. They do need votes from people who are not rich but that's what the culture wars...
From what I can see, most of what the ACT website says on this looks pretty sensible. https://www.act.org.nz/firearms Luxon's advisors (if they are any good at all) will tell him to steer well clear of making center fire assault rifles legal to obtain for ...
"New Zealand Labour should not think that this is a blueprint of what will work here in Aotearoa." That is precisely what NZ Labour's apparatchiks will think. All they need to do is sit back, watch the wheels fall of the Nactzi threesome and walk back into...
Of course but Labour played into the Right's hands with its fixation on identity politics. It lost any capacity to rally people together through notions of solidarity. An atomised, individualist world is one where the right triumphs. And here we are.
This isn't the government being obsessed with petty culture battles. Surely there are people on the left (for lack of a better phrase) who can see this stuff for what it is. The government is just doing smart politics. They clearly understand how the vast ...
I'd prefer Parker to be Finance Minister (shadow), he's obviously committed to trying to make the tax system fair(er) For me, nobody is really standing out as an obvious leader at the moment. In my opinion to start with it needs to be someone at least a ...
A wealth tax isn't a tax on 'unrealised gains' (or what some might call estimated potential profit) , it's a tax on wealth, which is largely quantifiable. IRD when it wants to (and when it has the resources) is actually pretty good at tracking down and ...
100% Bearded Git Labour had 6 years in office, 3 of which they held a governing majority which would have enabled them to push through any reforms/changes to the tax system they wanted to. Ardern and Hipkins as Prime Ministers both categorically ruled out ...
"Limiting the uptake to those with the readies to cover three months worth of fees and the ability to deal with the bureaucracy." To be fair I'm pretty sure the government wanted IRD to pay the cash directly to those eligible on a fortnightly basis? Also ...
Seems like a perfectly reasonable question to me. Instead of your suggestion maybe he should just give an honest answer. People tend to appreciate honesty. Please explain why you believe it's a moronic question before calling me a moron. (Am happy to be ...
100% Bearded Git Labour had 6 years in office, 3 of which they held a governing majority which would have enabled them to push through any reforms/changes to the tax system they wanted to. Ardern and Hipkins as Prime Ministers both categorically ruled out ...
"...taxing savings upon which tax has already been paid." Not if the savings come from unearned income.... "And rich people would pay tax at the highest rate on the annual income those savings earn..." Except the very wealthy only pay around 8.5% income ...
"Kieren Mcanulty...." Yea....Nah "Labour has confirmed it would keep the new Government’s tax deductibility for landlords... Housing spokesman Kieran McAnulty clarified this when speaking to property developers last week" https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/...
Lprent why are you so uncivil? I didn't know that the sovereign fund was set up to cover the superannuation shortfall. Now that I do I will check it out to see how it will do that. On the CGT I do not understand why Jacinda categorically ruled it out if ...
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