Okay I'll modify. People going about their lawful private business in a public or private space.
Maybe we could use it against the banks who promote hate and derision against people who want to use on the ground banking rather than the fraud infested online banking options.
Face Blur?
As far as I can see a private members bill in the name of Louisa Wall that was drawn by ballot. Which says even more about Labour's commitment to issues that harm women - they don't care enough to do anything about it at all. You women just got lucky in ...
Part of the trouble with some of their policy though is that when it gets huge dollars attached to it (cycling bridge for "not their voters") it hasn't road tested well in the wider community. They were lucky to survive their CGT policy at the last ...
I thought the link below was interesting - using novels to predict conflict up to 5 years in advance. Maybe we should be looking at these outbursts/speech more deeply to predict future flashpoints. No matter what we think of some of these statements they ...
Yes they don't seem to have seeded other manufacturers like they should have but they still trade train quite a lot of industrial skills - fitting and turning and others . Would be interesting to dive in and see why this mill, Tiwai the refinery etc didn't...
There is also a social cohesive aim. Not sure where that is going to go.
Maybe we could say that it can be done in person like it used to be at a speakers corner. Anybody with a grievance could use a well aimed tomato.
Yeah I didn't do so much here on the ground last time but my donations are going down. Think I'll focus them on the more balanced individuals. The Greens seem to have become a bit of a collection of grievance groups and I wonder if the way the party ...
Back in the Thatcher years Germany modernised it's steel industry Britain shut theirs down. A few decades later Germany has a high quality steel industry still. My view is that it is better to modernise ( and retain the benefits onshore by way of ownership...
Well there goes talk back radio! And we would no longer be able to comment in any negative way about Gloriavale or Destiny church? Nor am I too happy about protecting religion - most fundamentalist branches of all types of religion seem to have as a first ...
The subsidy is the "free" carbon units we are are allocating to the plant. If it goes electric/upgrades then the "subsidy" vanishes. The numbers means it makes more sense to upgrade than continue the free carbon allocation. I'd prefer that we owned it ...
Why buy it and shut it down? Why not buy it and clean it up which is also economically possible per the article? And I'd prefer buy rather than subsidise the current owners clean up and leaving them with the option to shut it at some future date on a whim
The / was meant to be a ?, as I was uncertain whether Westpac was looking at a stock market listing or whether it was someone else's suggestion. Happy to be advised by you of course.
Westpac where going to float the NZ business on the stock exchange weren't they/ Yes I do wonder what changed their mind. Too much profit from New Zealand no doubt? IMHO though it's high time the reserve bank attached a whole host of service conditions to ...
Around Wellington those excessive population projections plus Labour rolling out "one size fits all" transport plans demanding building around hubs have raised huge issues that go beyond nimbyism. Unlikely that that amount of intensification will ever be ...
Surely mainstream news outlets should use correct facts. Both these articles reference population projections for Wellington that were always at the top end of any projected range and have been modified when challenged https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/22-...
smile! but sheep do eat wilding pines seedlings.
And rabobank has stopped having transaction only customers. Issuing a banking licence should come with a lot of conditions of service to the public and the Reserve Bank needs to get onto this before it is too late. If banks only want to take customers who ...
I can see us using a lot more wool for insulation with plastics (which is what a lot of it is ) on the way out. As to kawerau - if we factored in the green cost of transport etc and maybe had a border levy to cover the lower health and OSh standards that ...
6p.m. might be a bit late. Town was pretty much emptied out by about 12.45pm.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that a lot of the catch quota's are now held by only a few people people with Talleys being one and working fishing boats being now largely excluded? Can't find the link but is this leasing of fishing quotas and ...
Chance test ideas and expand on them. Pushes them out into the wider community. Gives the wider community a larger voice than they would have under traditional models. Never forget the temperature of the community is often taken by decision makers viewing ...
And isn't interesting how a spirited discussion aka as crowd sourcing has highlighted issues and interest groups that current decisions have failed to take into account at any level and thanks to Jenny who has made a great synthesis producing a pretty ...
Can anybody tell me why there seems to be this obsession with making appointments for the covid vaccine ? Capital & coast and Wairarapa are. Surely the adult population given some general rules could organise themselves turn up in the right time and the ...
Lovely ideas Jenny and the bike trailer Weka. Now if you two were in a meeting any minute now some bloke would repeat all this at which point it would be seen as a great idea lets do it and give him a raise. Apparently this is a well known phenomena. And ...
I think we need to have enough wind farms and solar so that the dams become our back up batteries for when we have no wind blowing or sun shining. But to give the power companies the right signals we may well need to do a very solid restructure of the ...
I had this over in open mike. Who on earth is advising Labour for FFS. Shouldn't they mean "only home or something similar" for the peeps who wind up moving from Napier to Auckland sell and buy again and pay an increased price? If you can't afford a ...
A restaurant owner who has stolen from his staff and now lives back in India. Hardly the sort of person needed here so why does he not have his citizenship or residency stripped for not being "a fit or proper person". 2 years ban from employing is just a ...
Mmm if a city or town is functioning without new road building or major traffic jams and the ICE cars go to EV then why do we make people catch public transport? That's the sort of ideological stance that loses votes because the ew status quo is green and ...
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