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Comment:Why haven't the police acted?
Date published: 7:38 pm, February 18th, 2022"Nope"... What? Again you dismiss the stupidity of the hypocritical nature of these angry slogans and how they're attached and labelled so flippantly and stupidly. @McFlock my kind sir, you represent the current state of the nation in a nutshell... ...
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Comment:Why haven't the police acted?
Date published: 5:38 pm, February 18th, 2022On one hand pro mandate citizens express that the minority (non-jabbed) shouldn't be allowed to undermine the effort of the majority (jabbed). And then hypocriticaly say the minority of citizens protesting (far right-neo nazi) represent the majority of ...
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Comment:Why haven't the police acted?
Date published: 5:29 pm, February 18th, 2022As is tying everyone apposed to the current mandates as "Nazi supported anti vaxer(s)". The angry slogans foolishly being attached to describe the majority of NZ citizens protesting are so boring and stupid! It's juvenile....!
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Comment:The difference between Black Lives Matter and the Anti Mandate protest
Date published: 4:43 pm, February 16th, 2022Apologies, yes that was wrong. It was Guled Mire who said that in the rnz article. And he was correct in revealing this by saying it. What Jacinda Arden did say was "... that's important to us as a nation that we don't shy away from those debates and those...
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Comment:The difference between Black Lives Matter and the Anti Mandate protest
Date published: 7:16 pm, February 15th, 2022"it feels like an imported protest to me" - Jacinda Ardern. Covid mandate protests https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/127764002/protest-at-parliament-looks-imported-jacinda-ardern-says-questions-the-motivations-of-those-involved "I've always said the ...
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Comment:Freakin useless
Date published: 4:11 pm, February 11th, 2022Andy, don't waste your time engaging with the angry bullies on this blog. It's an interesting read at times, but I'd recommend you leave it at that for a while... Many have become rabid and deranged here sadly and can only see one perspective which is most...
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Comment:Open mike 23/01/2022
Date published: 12:28 pm, January 23rd, 2022@weka is now the TS version of the 'whole truth'... Careful, he may ban you for having an opposing individual thought and opinion. [TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike as being off topic or irrelevant in the post it was made in. Be ...
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Comment:New Zealand's Omicron options
Date published: 8:49 pm, January 21st, 2022Mate, I had respect for TS for the longest time (had read long before commenting), but your childish ban, foul language and refusal to engage in the question postured shows how you've shifted. See ya.
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Comment:New Zealand's Omicron options
Date published: 9:46 am, January 20th, 2022As I explained l.... They blocked public access! Its not broken, its blocked. I then provided the link to the leaked doc. I then provided the link to the altered version after it was leaked. I then provided evidence of this in a further link questioning ...
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Comment:New Zealand's Omicron options
Date published: 9:30 am, January 20th, 2022Thanks @weka đ Now the links are provided and direct qoutes from these links. Do you think its good for big private companies to currently have access to rapid antigen tests whilst the gen public is banned, considering the direct qoutes provided from the ...
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Comment:New Zealand's Omicron options
Date published: 9:09 am, January 20th, 2022I did ask- "So you're good with business having access to these tests right now (AIRNZ, Vodafone, GP's etc etc) and not the general public. Very odd. Why are you OK with big business in NZ having access to these tests whilst the general public is banned??"...
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Comment:New Zealand's Omicron options
Date published: 9:05 am, January 20th, 2022I provided the links as evidence of the direct qoutes from the Ministry of Health. And you've kept them deleted? From the Ministry of Health document sent to all NZ Medical professionals, linked to multiple times above. : "Rapid Antigen Tests are less ...
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Comment:New Zealand's Omicron options
Date published: 1:17 am, January 20th, 2022So you're good with business having access to these tests right now (AIRNZ, Vodafone, GP's etc etc) and not the general public. Very odd. Why are you OK with big business in NZ having access to these tests whilst the general public is banned?? Of course a ...
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Comment:New Zealand's Omicron options
Date published: 1:10 am, January 20th, 2022I have provided this link previously, you know this, you requested it. This link was blocked for public access by the ministry of health. https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/pages/ministry_of_health_position_statement_on_the_management_of_...
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Comment:New Zealand's Omicron options
Date published: 9:05 am, January 19th, 2022You also both continue to conventionally ignore the Ministry of Health position statement on covid19 infections and testing: [deleted] [you have to provide a link when copy and pasting. Please post again with the appropriate link. - weka]
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Comment:New Zealand's Omicron options
Date published: 8:58 am, January 19th, 2022Because its a very basic preventative healthcare measure, that should be available now. Plain and simple. You guys can argue to the moon about when and how. So why are Vodafone using these tests in NZ for their call center staff? Why are the medical ...
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Comment:New Zealand's Omicron options
Date published: 9:33 pm, January 18th, 2022I hope you keep the same idealology when omricon hits and is rampant. Will be interesting.
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Comment:New Zealand's Omicron options
Date published: 9:30 pm, January 18th, 2022From selected pharmacies only, and only available to non-jabbed people travelling on AIRNZ etc. That's it. No one else has access.
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Comment:It's Time.
Date published: 8:57 pm, January 11th, 2022No games. Yes will read policy đ
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Comment:It's Time.
Date published: 8:56 pm, January 11th, 2022How am I bullshiting you (us)? Link away... Weird.
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Comment:It's Time.
Date published: 8:55 pm, January 11th, 2022It's not an argument. It's an obvious basic preventative healthcare measure that should be available to all citizens. Not just medical professionals and AIRNZ customers.
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Comment:It's Time.
Date published: 5:13 pm, January 11th, 2022@robertguyton are you still going to argue against this fact?
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Comment:It's Time.
Date published: 5:11 pm, January 11th, 2022Good question... Why? Why do all front line medical professionals have access to rapid antigen tests? Why are they acceptable tests used as a preventative healthcare measure for one group and not all? McDonald's heathcare, that's a pretty clear conceptual ...
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Comment:It's Time.
Date published: 5:04 pm, January 11th, 2022What's the issue of a vaccinated individual gathering with non-vaxxed individuals?
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Comment:It's Time.
Date published: 1:32 pm, January 11th, 2022Or maybe start asking yourself why the NZ public is currently banned from accessing rapid antigen tests, a simple preventative healthcare measure is intentionally being withheld by the MoH...? Only currently available to the medical professionals (good ...
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Comment:It's Time.
Date published: 1:14 pm, January 11th, 2022The fact you want to argue this more than well recognised fact, by reducing it down to the smallest of smallest details (my answer was yes) reveals your narrative? Who's the snake. McDonald's healthcare is not the answer to this issue of public health. ...
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Comment:It's Time.
Date published: 12:28 pm, January 11th, 2022If you're intending to corrupt my simple answer to your question by digressing and pulling every detail of the yes answer apart. Here, Y.... E.... S. Pull apart the word, and not the thought. If its individual thought your trying to destroy... Get your ph ...
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Comment:It's Time.
Date published: 12:24 pm, January 11th, 2022Nothing feeble or revealing about it. But you're free to keep pushing the angry slogans. And yes the worldwide scientific and medical concensus is that natural infection provides much greater long-term immunity, but with obvious risks to the individual. ...
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Comment:It's Time.
Date published: 12:11 pm, January 11th, 2022To answer your question from a general perspective, yes.
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Comment:It's Time.
Date published: 12:04 pm, January 11th, 2022@trickledown this fact is widely available from the most respected scientific and medical journals worldwide. Go open these docs yourself.
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Comment:It's Time.
Date published: 11:57 am, January 11th, 2022What's my agenda? I'm not your angry slogan (#antivax). Whats my unsubstantiated claim? That after 1,2,3,4 shots you'll still most likely contract and transmit covid19? If that's what your pushing towards, yes this is clear and widely acknowledged by the ...
- I could be a Florist.
I could be a florist'Round the corner from Rye LaneI'll be giving daisies to craziesBut, baby, I'll wrap you up real safe Oh, I can give you flowers At the end of every dayFor the center of your table, a rainbowIn case you have people 'round to stay Depending on ...2 weeks ago - The Kakaâs diary for the week to May 12 and beyond
TL;DR: The six key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to May 12 include:PM Christopher Luxon is scheduled to hold a post-Cabinet news conference at 4 pm today. Finance Minister Nicola Willis will give a pre-budget speech on Thursday.Parliament sits from Question Time at 2pm on ...2 weeks ago - Willis on defence
The price of the foreign affairs “reset” is now becoming apparent, with Defence set to get a funding boost in the Budget. Finance Minister Nicola Willis has confirmed that it will be one of the few votes, apart from Health and Education and possibly Police, which will get an increase ...2 weeks ago - 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #18
A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 28, 2024 thru Sat, May 4, 2024. Story of the week "It’s straight out of Big Tobacco’s playbook. In fact, research by John Cook and his colleagues ...2 weeks ago - A prerequisite for Vulture Capitalism.
Yesterday I received come lovely feedback following my Star Wars themed newsletter. A few people mentioned they’d enjoyed reading the personal part at the beginning.I often begin newsletters with some memories, or general thoughts, before commencing the main topic. This hopefully sets the mood and provides some context in which ...2 weeks ago - Early evening, April 30
April 30 was going to be the day we’d be calling Mum from London to wish her a happy birthday. Then it became the day we would be going to St. Paul's at Evensong to remember her. The aim of the cathedral builders was to find a way to make their ...2 weeks ago - Do Newsroomâs staff think theyâre culturally superior to the rest of us? Are they arguing that A...
Rob MacCulloch writes – Can’t remember the last book by a Kiwi author you read? Think the NZ government should spend less on the arts in favor of helping the homeless? If so, as far as Newsroom is concerned, you probably deserve to be called a cultural ignoramus ...2 weeks ago - Fun minor grudgesEric Crampton writes – Grudges are bad. Better to move on. But it can be fun to keep a couple of really trivial ones, so you’re not tempted to have other ones. For example, because of the rootkit fiasco of 2005, no Sony products in our household. ...2 weeks ago
- Bernardâs dawn chorus for Saturday, May 4 and pick ânâ mix for the weekend
A new report warns an estimated third of the adult population have unmet need for health care. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāHere’s the six key things I learned about Aotaroa’s political economy this week around housing, climate and poverty:Politics - Three opinion polls confirmed support for PM Christopher Luxon ...2 weeks ago - The Dark Side and the Rebel Alliance.
Today is May the fourth. Which was just a regular day when my mother took me to see the newly released Star Wars at the Odeon in Rotorua. The queue was right around the corner. Some years later this day became known as Star Wars Day, the date being a ...2 weeks ago - Imaginary mandate, imaginary leadership
Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.ShareVerity, Ilfracombe ...2 weeks ago - Winston Peters delivers a speech about NZâs relationship with China but media focus on Bob Carrâ...
Buzz from the Beehive Much more media attention is being paid to something Winston Peters said about former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr than to a speech he delivered to the New Zealand China Council. One word is missing from the speech:Â AUKUS. But AUKUS loomed large in his considerations ...2 weeks ago - The Post-Covid Economy
Is the economy in another long stagnation? If so, why?This is about the time that the Treasury will be locking up its economic forecasts to be published in the 2024 Budget Economic and Fiscal Update (BEFU) on budget day, 30 May. I am not privy to what they will be ...2 weeks ago - An awkward coincidence!
The annual list of who's been bribing our politicians is out, and journalists will no doubt be poring over it to find the juiciest and dirtiest bribes. The government's fast-track invite list is likely to be a particular focus, and we already know of one company on the list which ...2 weeks ago - The Israel/Palestinian metastasis.
In the weeks after the October 7 Hamas attacks on Southern Israel I wrote about the possible 2nd, 3rd and even 4th order effects of the conflict. These included new fronts being opened in the West Bank (with Hamas), Golan … Continue reading ...2 weeks ago - 27,000That's the number of submissions received on National's corrupt Muldoonist fast-track legislation. Except its higher than that, because the number doesn't include form submissions, such as the 15,000 people who supported Forest & Bird's submission, or the 14,000 who supported Greenpeace. And so many people want to appear in person ...2 weeks ago
- MPsâ salaries â when is the best time to increase them?Peter Dunne writes – It is one of the oldest truisms that there is never a good time for MPs to get a pay rise. This weekâs announcement of pay raises of around 2.8% backdated to last October could hardly have come at a worse time, with the ...2 weeks ago
- Genter under fireDavid Farrar writes – Newshub reports: Newshub can reveal a fresh allegation of intimidation against Green MP Julie-Anne Genter. Genter is subject to a disciplinary process for aggressively waving a book in the face of National Minister Matt Doocey in the House â but itâs not the first time ...2 weeks ago
- New Treasury paper on the productivity slowdown supports the downgrading of forecastsThe Treasury has published a paper today on the global productivity slowdown and how it is playing out in New Zealand:Â The productivity slowdown: implications for the Treasuryâs forecasts and projections. The Treasury Paper examines recent trends in productivity and the potential drivers of the slowdown. Productivity for the whole economy ...2 weeks ago
- Bernardâs pick 'n' mix for Friday, May 3
TL;DR: Here’s my top 10 ‘pick ‘n’ mix of links to news, analysis and opinion articles as of 9:26 am on Friday, May 3:Climate 'Ministerial override must go' - Hearings begin over fast-track bill RNZ Kate GreenPopulation: Labour hire firm struggling to find staff as Australia lures away workers. HireStaff ...2 weeks ago - Weekly Roundup 3-May-2024
Here we are in May already! And here are a few of the stories that caught our eye this week. This Week on Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt highlighted that it’s been a decade since Auckland’s rail system was electrified. On Wednesday, Matt looked at AT’s rollout of new ways ...2 weeks ago - The Hoon around the week to May 32 weeks ago
- Pamphlets at Ten Paces.
These puppet strings don't pull themselvesYou're thinking thoughts from someone elseHow much time do you think you have?Are you prepared for what comes next?The debating chamber can be a trying place for an opposition MP. What with the person in charge, the speaker, typically being an MP from the governing ...2 weeks ago - A land without pier
The land around Lyme Regis, where Meryl Streep once stood, in a hood, on the Cobb, is falling into the sea.MerylThe land around Lyme Regis, around the Cobb that made it rich, has always been falling slowly but surely into the sea. Read more ...2 weeks ago - Skeptical Science New Research for Week #18 2024Open access notables Generative AI tools can enhance climate literacy but must be checked for biases and inaccuracies, Atkins et al., Communications Earth & Environment: In the face of climate change, climate literacy is becoming increasingly important. With wide access to generative AI tools, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, we explore the potential ...2 weeks ago
- Join us for the weekly Hoon on YouTube Live
Photo by Jari Hytönen on UnsplashIt’s that new day of the week (Thursday rather than Friday) when and I co-host our ‘hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kākā for an hour at 5 pm. Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream for our chat about the week’s news ...2 weeks ago - Ruckus over AUKUS â Labour demands Peters step down as Foreign Minister, but he still had the job ...Buzz from the Beehive Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters was bound to win headlines when he set out his thinking about AUKUS in his speech to the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. The headlines became bigger when â during an interview on RNZâs Morning Report today – he criticised ...2 weeks ago
- Secrecy undermines participationThe Post reports on how the government is refusing to release its advice on its corrupt Muldoonist fast-track law, instead using the "soon to be publicly available" refusal ground to hide it until after select committee submissions on the bill have closed. Fast-track Minister Chris Bishop's excuse? âIt's not ...2 weeks ago
- Agribusiness following oil and gas playbookAs pressure on it grows, the livestock industry’s approach to the transition to Net Zero is increasingly being compared to that of fossil fuel interests. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / Getty ImagesTL;DR: Here’s the top five news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above ...2 weeks ago
- Hereâs hoping they arenât counting on a 100 per cent acceptanceâŠThe New Zealand Herald reports – Stats NZ has offered a voluntary redundancy scheme to all of its workers as a way to give staff some control over their âfutureâ amidst widespread job losses in the public sector. In an update to staff this morning, seen by the Herald, Statistics New Zealand ...2 weeks ago
- Gordon Campbell on unemployment, Winston Petersâ low boiling point and music criticismOn Werewolf/Scoop, I usually do two long form political columns a week. From now on, there will be an extra column each week about music and movies. But first, some late-breaking political events: The rise in unemployment numbers for the March quarter was bigger than expected â and especially sharp ...2 weeks ago
- TVNZ and poll results2 weeks ago
- Mana or MoneyMuriel Newman writes – When Meridian Energy was seeking resource consents for a West Coast hydro dam proposal in 2010, local Maori âstrenuouslyâ objected, claiming their mana was inextricably linked to âtheirâ river and could be damaged. After receiving a financial payment from the company, however, the Ngai Tahu ...2 weeks ago
- Bernardâs pick 'n' mix for Thursday, May 2
TL;DR: Here’s my top 10 ‘pick ‘n’ mix of links to news, analysis and opinion articles as of 11:10 am on Thursday, May 2:Scoop: Government sits on official advice on fast-track consent. The Ombudsman is investigating after official briefings on the contentious regime were held back despite requests from Forest ...2 weeks ago - The Art of taking no ResponsibilityAlwyn Poole writes – âAn SEP,â he said, âis something that we canât see, or donât see, or our brain doesnât let us see, because we think that itâs somebody elseâs problem. Thatâs what SEP means. Somebody Elseâs Problem. The brain just edits it out, itâs like a ...2 weeks ago
- The shabby âParliamentary urgencyâ ploy â shaky foundations and why our democracy needs trustOur trust in our political institutions is fast eroding, according to a Maxim Institute discussion paper, Shaky Foundations: Why our democracy needs trust. The paper â released today – raises concerns about declining trust in New Zealand’s political institutions and democratic processes, and the role that the overuse of Parliamentary urgency ...2 weeks ago
- Jones has made plain he isnât fond of frogs (not the dim-witted ones, at least) â and now we lea...This article was prepared for publication yesterday. More ministerial announcements have been posted on the government’s official website since it was written. We will report on these later today ….  Buzz from the Beehive  There we were, thinking the environment is in trouble, when along came Jones. Shane Jones. ...2 weeks ago
- Infrastructure & home building slumping on Govt funding freeze2 weeks ago
- Brainwashed People Think Everyone Else is Brainwashed
Hi,I am just going to state something very obvious: American police are fucking crazy.That was a photo gracing the New York Times this morning, showing New York City police “entering Columbia University last night after receiving a request from the school.”Apparently in America, protesting the deaths of tens of thousands ...2 weeks ago - Petersâ real foreign policy threat is Helen ClarkWinston Petersâ much anticipated foreign policy speech last night was a work of two halves. Much of it was a standard âboilerplateâ Foreign Ministry overview of the state of the world. There was some hardening up of rhetoric with talk of âbenignâ becoming âmalignâ and old truths giving way to ...2 weeks ago
- NZâs trans lobby is fighting a rearguard action
Graham Adams assesses the fallout of the Cass Review â The press release last Thursday from the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls didnât make the mainstream news in New Zealand but it really should have. The startling title of Reem Alsalemâs statement â âImplementation of âCass ...2 weeks ago - Your mandate is imaginary
This open-for-business, under-new-management cliché-pockmarked government of Christopher Luxon is not the thing of beauty he imagines it to be. It is not the powerful expression of the will of the people that he asserts it to be. It is not a soaring eagle, it is a malodorous vulture. This newest poll should make ...2 weeks ago - 14,000 unemployed under NationalThe latest labour market statistics, showing a rise in unemployment. There are now 134,000 unemployed - 14,000 more than when the National government took office. Which is I guess what happens when the Reserve Bank causes a recession in an effort to Keep Wages Low. The previous government saw a ...2 weeks ago
- Bryce Edwards: Discontent and gloom dominate NZâs political mood
Three opinion polls have been released in the last two days, all showing that the new government is failing to hold their popular support. The usual honeymoon experienced during the first year of a first term government is entirely absent. The political mood is still gloomy and discontented, mainly due ...2 weeks ago - Taking Tea with 42 & 38.
National's Finance Minister once met a poor person.A scornful interview with National's finance guru who knows next to nothing about economics or people.There might have been something a bit familiar if that was the headline I’d gone with today. It would of course have been in tribute to the article ...2 weeks ago - Beware political propaganda: statistics are pointing to Grant Robertson never protecting âLives an...Rob MacCulloch writes – Throughout the pandemic, the new Vice-Chancellor-of-Otago-University-on-$629,000 per annum-Can-you-believe-it-and-Former-Finance-Minister Grant Robertson repeated the mantra over and over that he saved “lives and livelihoods”. As we update how this claim is faring over the course of time, the facts are increasingly speaking differently. NZ ...2 weeks ago
- Winding back the hands of historyâs clockChris Trotter writes – ITâS A COMMONPLACEÂ of political speeches, especially those delivered in acknowledgement of electoral victory: âWeâll govern for all New Zealanders.â On the face of it, the pledge is a strange one. Why would any political leader govern in ways that advantaged the huge ...2 weeks ago
- Paula Bennettâs political appointment will challenge public confidence
 Bryce Edwards writes – The list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill ...2 weeks ago - Business confidence sliding into winter of discontentTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 10:06am on Wednesday, May 1:The Lead: Business confidence fell across the board in April, falling in some areas to levels last seen during the lockdowns because of a collapse in ...2 weeks ago
- Gordon Campbell on the coalitionâs awful, not good, very bad poll resultsOver the past 36 hours, Christopher Luxon has been dong his best to portray the centre-rightâs plummeting poll numbers as a mark of virtue. Allegedly, the negative verdicts are the result of hard economic times, and of a government bravely set out on a perilous rescue mission from which not ...2 weeks ago
- New HOP readers for future payment optionsAuckland Transport have started rolling out new HOP card readers around the network and over the next three months, all of them on buses, at train stations and ferry wharves will be replaced. The change itself is not that remarkable, with the new readers looking similar to what is already ...2 weeks ago
- 2024 Reading Summary: April (+ Writing Update)
Completed reads for April: The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling Carnival of Saints, by George Herman The Snow Spider, by Jenny Nimmo Emlyn’s Moon, by Jenny Nimmo The Chestnut Soldier, by Jenny Nimmo Death Comes As the End, by Agatha Christie Lord of the Flies, by ...2 weeks ago - At a glance – Clearing up misconceptions regarding 'hide the decline'On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...2 weeks ago
- Road photos
Have a story to share about St Paul’s, but today just picturesPopular novels written at this desk by a young man who managed to bootstrap himself out of father’s imprisonment and his own young life in a workhouse Read more ...2 weeks ago - Bryce Edwards: Paula Bennettâs political appointment will challenge public confidenceThe list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill English, Simon Bridges, Steven Joyce, Roger Sowry, ...2 weeks ago
- NZDF is still hostile to oversightNewsroom has a story today about National's (fortunately failed) effort to disestablish the newly-created Inspector-General of Defence. The creation of this agency was the key recommendation of the Inquiry into Operation Burnham, and a vital means of restoring credibility and social licence to an agency which had been caught lying ...2 weeks ago
- Winding Back The Hands Of Historyâs Clock.
Holding On To The Present: The moment a political movement arises that attacks the whole idea of social progress, and announces its intention to wind back the hands of Historyâs clock, then democracy, along with its unwritten rules, is in mortal danger.ITâS A COMMONPLACE of political speeches, especially those delivered in ...2 weeks ago - Sweet Moderation? What Christopher Luxon Could Learn From The Germans.Stuck In The Middle With You: As Christopher Luxon feels the hot breath of Actâs and NZ Firstâs extremists on the back of his neck and, as he reckons with the damage their policies are already inflicting upon a country heâs described as âfragileâ, is there not some merit in reaching out ...2 weeks ago
- A clear warningThe unpopular coalition government is currently rushing to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act. The clause is Oranga Tamariki's Treaty clause, and was inserted after its systematic stealing of MÄori children became a public scandal and resulted in physical resistance to further abductions. The clause created clear obligations ...2 weeks ago
- Poll results and Waitangi Tribunal report go unmentioned on the Beehive website â where racing tru...Buzz  from the Beehive The governmentâs official website â which Point of Order monitors daily â not for the first time has nothing much to say today about political happenings that are grabbing media headlines. It makes no mention of the latest 1News-Verian poll, for example. This shows National down ...2 weeks ago
- Listening To The Traffic.2 weeks ago
- Comity Be Damned! The Stateâs Legislative Arm Is Flexing Its Constitutional Muscles.Packing A Punch: The election of the present government, including in its ranks politicians dedicated to reasserting the rights of the legislature in shaping and determining the future of MÄori and Pakeha in New Zealand, should have alerted the judiciary â including its anomalous appendage, the Waitangi Tribunal â that its ...2 weeks ago
- Ending The Quest.Dead Woman Walking: New Zealandâs media industry had been moving steadily towards disaster for all the years Melissa Lee had been Nationalâs media and communications policy spokesperson, and yet, when the crisis finally broke, on her watch, she had nothing intelligent to offer. Christopher Luxon is a patient man - but heâs not ...2 weeks ago
- Will political polarisation intensify to the point where ânormalâ government becomes impossible,...Chris Trotter writes –Â New Zealand politics is remarkably easy-going: dangerously so, one might even say. With the notable exception of John Keyâs flat ruling-out of the NZ First Party in 2008, all parties capable of clearing MMPâs five-percent threshold, or winning one or more electorate seats, tend ...2 weeks ago
- Bernardâs pick 'n' mix for Tuesday, April 30
TL;DR: Here’s my top 10 ‘pick ‘n’ mix of links to news, analysis and opinion articles as of 10:30am on Tuesday, May 30:Scoop: NZ 'close to the tipping point' of measles epidemic, health experts warn NZ Herald Benjamin PlummerHealth: 'Absurd and totally unacceptable': Man has to wait a year for ...2 weeks ago - Why Tory Whanau has the lowest approval rating in the countryBryce Edwards writes – Polling shows that Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has the lowest approval rating of any mayor in the country. Siting at -12 per cent, the proportion of constituents who disapprove of her performance outweighs those who give her the thumbs up. This negative rating is ...2 weeks ago
- Worst poll result for a new Government in MMP history2 weeks ago
- Pinning down climate change's role in extreme weatherThis is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler In the wake of any unusual weather event, someone inevitably asks, “Did climate change cause this?” In the most literal sense, that answer is almost always no. Climate change is never the sole cause of hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, or ...3 weeks ago
- Serving at Seymour's pleasure.
Something odd happened yesterday, and I’d love to know if there’s more to it. If there was something which preempted what happened, or if it was simply a throwaway line in response to a journalist.Yesterday David Seymour was asked at a press conference what the process would be if the ...3 weeks ago - Webworm LA Pop-Up
Hi,From time to time, I want to bring Webworm into the real world. We did it last year with the Jurassic Park event in New Zealand — which was a lot of fun!And so on Saturday May 11th, in Los Angeles, I am hosting a lil’ Webworm pop-up! I’ve been ...3 weeks ago - âFeel goodâ school is outEducation Minister Erica Standford yesterday unveiled a fundamental reform of the way our school pupils are taught. She would not exactly say so, but she is all but dismantling the so-called “inquiry” “feel good” method of teaching, which has ruled in our classrooms since a major review of the New ...3 weeks ago
- 6 Months in, surely our Report Card is âIgnored all warnings: recommend dismissal ASAPâ?
Exactly where are we seriously going with this government and its policies? That is, apart from following what may as well be a Truss-Lite approach on the purported economic “plan“, and Victorian-era regression when it comes to social policy. Oh it’ll work this time of course, we’re basically assured, “the ...3 weeks ago - Bread, and how it gets buttered
Hey Uncle Dave, When the Poms joined the EEC, I wasn't one of those defeatists who said, Well, that’s it for the dairy job. And I was right, eh? The Chinese can’t get enough of our milk powder and eventually, the Poms came to their senses and backed up the ute ...3 weeks ago - Bryce Edwards: Why Tory Whanau has the lowest approval rating in the countryPolling shows that Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has the lowest approval rating of any mayor in the country. Siting at -12 per cent, the proportion of constituents who disapprove of her performance outweighs those who give her the thumbs up. This negative rating is higher than for any other mayor ...3 weeks ago
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