Is this Labours election policy programme or is it just what Bryce Edwards would like it to be? I presume the latter. In my view Labour won't be as radical as that. It would simply be too expensive. And despite what the activist left think, it would be out...
Biden won't preside over a radical do over of the US economy or society, so the programme outline above won't happen, at least not in the way suggested. In fact quite a lot of it is beyond his jurisdiction as President. It belongs to the states. He also ...
I presumed the item was about how Biden would have handled the current crisis, not about his general platform of policy. So what would have been different. I think Joe would have been more disciplined and more reassuring. So these are my most important ...
The recession will put huge pressure on wages. For the next two or three years, no-one will be getting wage increases. The biggest challenge will be just keeping people in work. Obviously the state will be involved in that with wage subsidies (on a ...
This set of comments has the same level of KDS as there is JDS on the part of many Kiwiblog commenters.
Pat, It is a fallacy that resources are limited and diminishing. Resources are invented all the time. Lithium was a non resource until it became necessary for lithium batteries. But when the next generation of batteries come along, lithium may no longer be...
KJT You are mixing up controls for residency and work visas, with tourist and short term list visaS. The US (pre covid) was generally open for tourist and visitor visas.
Solkta, Technically, yes. But it is only repressive countries that actually tie up their borders and make it difficult for visitors to come as tourists. Once the pandemic is over, and international travel is generally safe again (lets say 12 months from ...
Or just a second pipeline from the Waikato. I understand the current pipeline takes less than 2% of the river flow. New Zealand has zero need for a hugely energy intensive process like desalination.
The first four comments all seem to be against virtually any international tourism. But unless New Zealand becomes like an Iron curtain country of the 1950's and 1960's, international tourism is going to happen. And probably in much the same mix as before....
Blame the PM and "her tricky moral dilemma". She was the one who canned CGT. I was simply speculating on one of the reasons that she did. Incidentally I don't own a holiday home.
I am pretty sure the pictures are from a holiday from 2 or so years ago. Yes, Barack Obama did go on holiday on the island. As a former president he is going to be invited to places that you and I can only imagine. He could have done the same thing on his ...
You missed my point, which is that Australia is at no more risk of a second wave than New Zealand. Within a few days both nations will have near identical levels of lockdown.
anker So you want the Herald to only reflect your views. Given that the Herald is the only Auckland daily paper it highly apprpriate that it has columnists from across the spectrum. It might be fine for the UK to have many different papers with different ...
Sacha, Why would that happen any more than in New Zealand? Australia borders are locked tight. They have a Level 3 lockdown, just like we will have in 4 days time. Australia is at no more risk of a re-infection bounce than New Zealand, because in essence ...
It was obvious to the majority of caucus in 2006 that Key was the best option. It was also obvious when he first turned up to National party meetings in 2000 that he was very able. Even so I understand he only just won the contested selection on ...
Micky You are making an automatic assumption that the government will win the election. The election is not next month, it is 5 months away. By then the economy will be in very deep trouble. The double digit unemployment will have actually happened. Tens ...
National has bought in a lot of MP's in the last few years. Very few are still there from when I was an MP. And there will be at least 10 new MPs this time round, mostly in safe National seats. As for how National changes the Leader, I can assure you it is...
Scott Morrison is on all time high in terms of voter support. Aussies reckon he is doing a good job. Obviously he he learnt something over the bushfires. I have seen a few of his press conferences. They are all very professional and will be reassuring to ...
Winston being called "Mr Peters" by his staff is entirely what I would expect. For instance does the Prime Minister's staff call her Jacinda, or do they say "Prime Minister"? I reckon the latter. I note the PM just about always refers to Dr Bloomfield as ...
No they won't. NZF is Winston, in the sense he is the one name the public associate with NZF. As with the captain of the ship, Winston will stay with the ship. It will either float or sink with him. Covid will change the electoral calculation. Will the ...
I hope not. One of New Zealand's strengths is that we do not have a politically appointed public service. In fact I don't have to worry about this. There is simply no way that the PM, if she is re-elected, is going to overturn the basic systems of the ...
Thank you everyone for your comments. I will have a look at the Country Calendar episode.
Red Logix, I seem to read a lot here by various commenters about "sustainable and regenerative farming". The term is never explained, it is just used. I come from a farming background and have relatives who still farm, so I have a reasonable knowledge on ...
Hendy on Morning Report also said Monday night would be a reasonable compromise. He would prefer 2 extra weeks but that next Monday night would be OK.
My prediction is that Level 4 will be extended till next Monday midnight. In terms of work days for most businesses that could open, it is only two work days (Thursday and Friday) that are lost, but it extends the lockdown by five days. So a reasonable ...
Iprent, Try and stop the insults for a while. I am obviously aware of latent demand. It really is impossible to have a sensible debate with you if your first recourse is insults, simply because I have a different view to you.
So what is your recommendation? Level 4 for another 2 weeks, another 4? Because that is what the Cabinet will ask. They will want actual recommendations, not just a series of questions. And then they have to make a judgement, because reputable people are ...
Compounding your insults I see. Again typical. As is typical of you, you don't know how to conduct a reasonable debate. The points I was raising are perfectly reasonable, and don't require the level of insult that you seem to think is OK. Frankly if you ...
Usual insult from you Iprent. Typical. You can't seriously suggest Australia has a whole lot of unknown cases, not when they have a higher testing rate and better contact tracing than New Zealand. In short there is no more likelihood they have undetected ...
Something is not quite right about the graph for Australia. On a number of days they have had fewer new cases than New Zealand. On the Worldometer, yesterday they had 26 new cases and NZ had 9. Australia clearly has substantially less new cases per million...
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