What about unemployed migrant workers with no other options? Food parcels if they're lucky
Oh gee .... maybe one should show up to the NZ protests (in a mask) with a sign demanding more funding for vaccine development ....
I believe the chief medical officer can delgate under the Act
Can't believe I missed this when it came out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nZQRt4BXr8
Vultures? no .... but pīwakawaka? - yup
Oh for heavens sake doesn't he realise that walking is PRIVATE transport? and should get the same sort of support that other forms of private transport get? Maybe he doesn't really understand what Walking School Buses are
Only believe in half of what you see and nothing of what you hear, there is so much bullshit past around we have to stick to facts. they don’t come to us with media
I have just watched the CNN story about our country's approach to the pandemic. It filled me with pride. Mostly, I think because we have put peoples lives and well being first. Because the governments actions have matched their stated philosophy. And, I ...
I think that they will have to b e practical about it - what can they enforce? if your town has 10 roads out of it it may not be practical, but Glenorchy with 1 road will be
Yes, sadly, and I live in Dunedin too - but I don't begrudge others getting out earlier than me if they're safe ... I can imagine for example say Waimate coming out of lockdown, with cops sitting on the roads out of town, and then Timaru with the cops ...
Of course there is already a big incentive - while a month is the nominal length of the lockdown it will be longer if the virus is still around. I expect some parts of the country to come out earlier than others, that will because they did the right thing ...
Some of us still remember the MOW as the enemy, damming our rivers ruining our lakes ... does no one still remember .... Way back up in Cromwe-ell Gorge Tons of co-oncre-ete they-ey will-ill forge All our farmland they will drown Right back up to Albert ...
My grandmother walked with a brace her whole life because of polio. I got a shot. i got rubella (german measles), I was kept away from school for a month, because everyone in NZ knew someone who knew someone who had had a child who had a birth defect ...
Yeah, that photo above, Woodhouse doing that WTF look
We still don't have a vaccine for SARS, the previous serious coronavirus outbreak (~20 years ago), it's unlikely we'll have a vaccine this year, maybe not even next. We have to plan on not having one, most of us will get it until we build up a herd ...
Correction: The March 15 atrocity was not "possibly" the worse terrorist attack on a religion in the Southern Hemisphere in over a century. The 1994 attack on the Jewish Community Centre (AIMA) in Buenos Aires killed 85 and injured hundreds. If one ...
Or just use electric rail
Bridges thinks the solution to everything is "tax cuts" except when it's "more roads" An d yet these are two things that are mutually exclusive, you can't have both, you can have more roads and more taxes to pay for them, or tax cuts and drop roading ...
Given that the IRD just got rid of cheques it would be a CF, it would take months to get everyone's bank details down so that they could send the money (rather than a 2 day print/mail run of cheques)
Every Western Country does this, cherry picks bright students from 3rd world countries, educates them, and hopes they'll stay and boost their economy. I used to work designing chips in Silicon Valley, probably 1/3-1/2 of the people I worked with had come ...
We talked about doing it as a public service - the real trick though is to be able to produce something that the various councils will accept as a ballot
For years Dunedin had a proxy-National "Citizen's Party" who usually ran the council. They were an old-boys club, to run as a candidate you had to join them at one meeting and be nominated at the next, meetings happened every 3 years, unless they really ...
Here in Dunedin we get 40 people to rank - there's about 10^47 possible answers .... I'd like an online tool that helps me do the ranking: drag and drop with possible links to candidate's election material This is not online voting, because we'd still ...
Or simply give NZF Northland .... even though they've ruled that out for now it's really a late binding decision
Nope in a FPP election a governing party needs fewer than 50% of the votes to govern, not so for MPP where you need at least 50%+1 confidence and supply
You're asking the wrong question, should be: "which ones were National Party members at the time?" Simon is on tape admitting that he'd been to dinner at the donor's home, and was going to invite him over to his and had arranged a quid pro quo for the ...
Time to remind people that the WhaleOil clobbering machine was essentially for sale to the highest bidder - don't like some people who are doing science on sugary drinks? accuse them of horrible personal malfeasance by just making stuff up. Want to run for...
Well having trucking companies no longer externalising many of their costs allows us to have a more efficient transport system - a lot of stuff we send long distance today will likely end up going by rail - overall we'll all pay less (while end users may ...
I mostly agree, but I think that much of that can be mitigated by charging trucks their true road costs (something closer to 1000 times what a car is charged, depending on the truck's weight), as I mentioned above that's likely to move truck freight to ...
I don't have a problem with paying my share (ACC too). I do think that things like lowering the RUC to encourage people to convert (or in California allowing electric cars into car pool lanes) is a good thing, I don't mind taxing petrol or diesel to reduce...
I lived in California for 20 years, no WoF, but a yearly smog test, it's long past time we did the same and got the worst of the vehicles off of the road Dunedin diesel buses, I'm talking about you in particular). We bought a 2nd hand Leaf a month or so ...
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