I don't much trust one off leaked polls without all the information or any track record. It's feasible Greens could have been on 8% recently. Even Donald Trump's approval improved quite a bit for a short time in the thick of Covid. But we have never had ...
... dive into even more disruption. [Pete, can you please clarify if...
(would you seriously even consider sitting shoulder to shoulder with a few hundred people in a plane for a few hours in the next few years?). Yes I would if I thought the risk low enough, because that may be the only way I get to see children and ...
I'm not desperate. How New Zealand has dealt with Covid looks very promising for now, and I'd rather be here than anywhere else, but it's far too soon to know what the cost in lives health and to the economy will be. What we do soon will be as important as...
Yes, all countries are having to experiment in a rapidly evolving situation. They didn't have any choice. Personally I'd far rather be here with what our Government is doing, leaning towards caution and saving lives. The Government says this should have ...
I said quite similar, which they are. Our death total has jumped largely due to one rest home with high risk patients getting infected. It could easily jump again today. Because of our small numbers another death or three can make quite a difference ...
Ardern announced going to level 2 on Saturday 21 March - "New Zealand has been moved up to COVID-19 Alert Level 2". https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/nation-steps-covid-19-alert-level-2 Then we moved to level 3 on Monday 23 March "That’s why Cabinet met ...
The question shouldn't be based on 9 deaths. If we had given a priority to the economy over health then the number of deaths would likely have been quite a few more. All it would have taken is a few more rest homes to get Covid-19 to have made a big ...
"You say Sweden in now a bad example, but have they reached a peak? Yes no maybe?" Sweden had low death numbers reported over Easter (as they did the previous weekend) but have just jumped back up with 114 deaths to now total 1,033, which is 102 per 1 m ...
Actually after the 4 death increase here yesterday the New Zealand and Australian death rates are quite similar at 2 per million population. Because of our small population and low death rate nearly doubling the number of deaths in one day yesterday has ...
Thornley et al make some reasonable points that should be considered along with others. It's important to debate various approaches, as everyone is learning as we go about the virus, it's effects and the effects of various degrees of restrictions and ...
You’ve read the article by Anna Rawhiti-Connell that Cinny linked to yesterday. False. National knows how it works and launched an unnecessary petition through which it collated e-mail addresses of voters. I expect National knows how it can work. It's ...
"This is what National was banking on" Have you got any evidence of this? Or is it wilfil ignorance?
"technically he’s never said what you claim he has said" Technically you're making that up because you don't know. I didn't claim Bridges said it, I quoted a Henry Cooke tweet. If Cooke is correct and Bridges claims plausible deniability (something you ...
A lot of the cruise ship business is in Dunedin's CBD, so that will be hit hard by what's likely to be a big drop in visits.
"People received a follow-up e-mail after signing Nationals ‘petition’. Are you denying that?" Of course not, I showed that it looks like a standard response to other petitions, just like the Greenpeace petition. But that doesn't show that National are ...
Most local body money does go into roads because a huge majority of people usually use the roads. However Dunedin is putting quite a bit into cycle paths and they keep removing car parks from around the CBD, which pleases some and annoys others. ...
Of course most things are connected to various extents. So why the Green focus on just the environment and social issues?
Why are pop-up bike lanes important when the roads (that cyclists can use) are probably the safest they have ever been?
While there is some obvious crossover there should be a separation between environmental and green issues. There's a crossover between social issues, environmental issues, business and employment issues, financial issues and health issues, so it seems odd ...
Oddly though nothing will be done until we drop from Level 4 - in other words, extend footpaths and cycle lanes when people take to their cars again to get back to shopping and work. Automobubbles will be safer virus-wise than public transport. Not sure ...
That may be the case for Shaw and Genter and perhaps Sage. But what about the backbench Green MPs? Hughes seemed to lose interest some time ago. The others are probably not so motivated by green issues?
The Green Party has been quite quiet lately. Nothing on anything like this on their website or on their Facebook or Twitter feeds that I can see. James Shaw was interviewed on NZ Q+A this morning but nothing stood out (I admit I didn't take much notice of ...
Some interesting and good ideas here but no cost analysis. I'm surprised that there's no mention of double glazing, as with insulation reducing energy needs should be the priority. Immediate shovel-ready projects to prioritise: 4. Introducing a Universal ...
That's from August last year. I'm well aware of contact harvesting techniques used by various parties in the past. But on this petition Bridges has explicitly said National won't retain any contact details from this petition. So far I haven't seen any ...
The Green Party initial list (as per Stuff Green Party initial election list puts newcomer Teanau Tuiono ahead of several sitting MPs): Marama Davidson James Shaw Jan Logie Eugenie Sage Teanau Tuiono (" veteran activist and education consultant who has ...
You'd rather not be called to account for making false accusations?
Thanks for clarifying that. I presume you're referring to replies to the tweet like this: https://twitter.com/AudioConsultNZ/status/1247724053739307009 That looks like an automatic response with an opt out option. From what Bridges said National will ...
You're making false accusations again Robert. Why do you think Bridges is worth what?
Can you confirm you don't require evidence or links to evidence posted here to support accusations made?
So is telling someone to go elsewhere and find claimed but undefined evidence good enough here now?
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