Please New Zealand don't. That list is precisely why the coalition needs NZF.
The one thing that won’t happen is a forcible socialist revolution (looking at you Tiger Mountain). But to take the examples of Finland, Israel and Ireland, they all had to reimagine themselves in the last 40 years. In all cases built around innovation. In...
Dennis, That is certainly true. The US has a bipartisan approach on this and has done so for some years. China's actions in Hong Kong and its treatment of Uighurs is not helping China's position, particularly the latter. Camps for 1 million Uighurs are ...
I note the World o Meter site does not have any data from Sweden since July 2. Very odd. I am inclined too go with Dennis Frank on this. Unlikely to be a real fascist conspiracy. It would very extremely difficult for the administration to convince ...
Voters don't look at things the way you suggest. For instance they won't compare what happened between 2014 to 2017 and 2017 to 2020, as being equivalents. Labour made Kiwibuild a flagship policy and have transparently failed. That failure is what will be ...
I am opposed to all the ideas about roof water and grey water. Go down that path and water borne diseases will increase. Children playing in water, drinking it, etc. Way too big a risk. Having said that, in an old established suburb, I do have a 15,000 ...
Auckland takes 1% of the flow of the Waikato, which is the only big water source in the region. It is the only logical source, irrespective of whether the CEO was paid $1 or $1 million. I am sure some of the leakages could be fixed, but some leakage is ...
A China US war is not going to happen. Both nations are nuclear powers. China has a huge military presence in its immediate region. Way too big a risk for the USN. The continental land masses of the two countries is too great and too invulnerable to be ...
Iprent, Are you congenitally unable to debate a subject without copious insults. Why would you assume I have no idea of how the transmission system works.
Yes, it is worth another $30 million, last paid in 2013. Say $4 million per year. Pretty cheap for 3000 jobs.
I don't believe the $100 million cost, not for main transmission lines taking 700Mw for several hundred kilometres. The ETS subsidy is not what you think. It is the state not taking the full ETS payment from the smelter. Instead the smelter pays a much ...
Iprent, New Zealand is not an odd place to have a smelter.The most expensive part of the aluminium smelting process is the energy, specifically in the form of electricity. Hence the importance of the power cost. The smelter was in Southland for the same ...
Marie Leadbeater has had recent opinion pieces on West Papua and I think Rimpac. The readers submitted items are on the editorial page below the cartoon, and cover a wide variety of opinion topics. They are well read, but everyone reading them knows they ...
The Jazeera link (which I have read) is not remotely a news item. It is a partisan opinion article. The Herald always has opinion articles submitted by readers from right across the political spectrum. They are what they are and readers know that.
Uncooked, All of that clearly indicates Todd Muller was completely unaware of how the information was leaked. He was obviously unaware of the involvement of either Walker or Boag.
The speech by the PM was actually rather disappointing. That is how I interpreted Audrey's comment. I have read the speech, and though it read well, and no doubt would have been well delivered, it didn't actually have much in it that we didn't already know...
Why would a major party basically just endorse a minor party on something as fundamental as tax policy? It would be crazy politically. I appreciate that a lot of the commenters on The Standard are partial to Green Party policy generally, but I reckon you ...
Tricledrown, I know from direct experience that National does not give Act whatever they want. Because Act is dependent on National, they basically have to accept what National is prepared to give. And as is always the case with major parties, that is as ...
The way the polls are going the options seem to be a Labour/Green government of a National/Act government. NZF looks like it might not get back with probably a 50% chance of not getting 5%. So in both cases, what does the major party have to offer the ...
It is not neo-liberalism to oppose what would have been the closure of the mine, with the loss of hundreds of jobs and the rapid decline of Waihi and Waihi beach. I recall what both these places were like before the mine. The issues considered by the ...
Actually both the DG and the Minister are both responsible for the failure of the staff of MOH. It is part of the role of the DG as CE to be responsible. That is why he gets such a high salary. Now that is not to say that the DG would have direct knowledge...
It is much more likely that the work visas will not be renewed, that is the current work visa applies till it runs out. Only only in exceptional circumstances would it be renewed. That would be fair to the people on the work visas and fair to the returning...
I can't imagine a system where an MP would be talking directly (as the first point of contact) to a charge nurse on this matter. They contact the organisation at a much higher level, then the organisation deals with it thereafter. From what has been ...
Middle Class snowflake maybe, but why is it also "white privilege"?
Most corporates do not have that level of reserves. A couple of months would be the norm. NZ corporates are not nearly as cashed up as US companies. It is why we are such a debt laden (non govt debt) country compared to the US. In any event a very large ...
The subsidy did work. It saved the jobs for the 12 weeks of the subsidy. Without the subsidy, a lot of the jobs would have gone a couple of months ago. Govt support can't save jobs when so much of the economy has retrenched. The subsidy can only soften the...
The government did not have licence to use Covid as device to drastically change industry. That would have been tantamount to using government power for coercive blackmail. It would have resulted in a real backlash, at the very time when they were asking a...
Surely you mean improve the system. Abolishing the police is a only slogan. Is there a single large scale society that does not have police? Are the police in the US likely to become similar to the NZ police. Probably not. The US has way more gun violence ...
The US was key in helping Asia, including China, make the dramatic burst of growth. Basically from the 1960’s the US has been open to free trade in just about everything other than temperate agricultural product. They were the great market for Asia, much ...
I can't see why you think the two policies are inconsistent. You need to bear in mind that New Zealand already has the 90 day trial period, albeit limited to SME's with less than 20 people. So any job creation programme implemented by the current ...
There does not need to be any long term problem about Auckland water. At present Auckland takes 1% of the Waikato flow. Even if that increased to 5% (which would be twice Auckland’s normal daily usage) it would be literally unnoticeable in terms of the ...
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