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Daily review 30/09/2019
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Parliamentary TV – should we shut it?
Occasionally, this site puts up a video from parliament. Probably happens a few times per month at best. Which since this site is one that is dedicated to politics in NZ indicates not a whole lot of interest. The number of readers of posts who…
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The Government’s Economic Development Plan
Last week the government launched its Economic Development Plan. Now, yes, we are two years into the government so it's a wee bit late. But this kind of stuff is still worth doing. At a fairly high level, these are its aims: Moving the New…
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Open mike 30/09/2019
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Fonterra, again
So, finally, Fonterra have released their annual results, and they are $600 million in the red. They are selling most international ventures off, rapidly shrinking their ambition, and focussing on basic ingredients rather than more capital intensive product lines. No apology for wasting two decades…
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Open mike 29/09/2019
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How To Get There 29/9/19
This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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Another world is possible
https://twitter.com/tweetwithkieran/status/1177394961139978241 Yesterday, 170,000 New Zealanders took to the streets as part of the global Climate Strike. This is one of the biggest protest mobilisations we've had. To put it into perspective, https://twitter.com/MattNippert/status/1177458980546699264 170,000 is also a curious number for NZ at 3.5% of the population.…
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Still not sure what anything National says means?
https://twitter.com/CheckpointRNZ/status/1177484030079463431 Background.
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Open mike 28/09/2019
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Daily review 27/09/2019
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Battery power gets way more interesting
Anyone who has been around tech for the last couple of decades will be aware of the liberating and industry disruptive effect of batteries. A piece that showed up in my Medium feed yesterday caught my attention - "Tesla May Have Invented a Million-Mile Electric…
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National’s faux outrage
National's social media attack team has been hit by further problems. As part of their ongoing denigration campaign they spliced together film of Deborah Russell speaking in Parliament. They took a whole lot of her comments out of context and joined them all together randomly…
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Strike for Climate today
https://twitter.com/ss4cnz/status/1176055757747261442 https://twitter.com/OraTaiao/status/1177117139716558848 https://twitter.com/akinafoundation/status/1176298324795637760 https://twitter.com/akinafoundation/status/1177311863349997568 Whangārei - Strike 4 Climate NZ08:00 Traffic lights, Corner Bank and Cameron Streets Lower Hutt - Strike 4 Climate NZ08:30 Dowse Square Lower HuttLower Hutt City Dunsandel - Strike 4 Climate NZ08:30 Near Dunsandel toilets on SH1 Porirua - Strike 4…
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Local government: who to vote for?
Voting papers arrive this week for local body elections - regional councils, city and district councils, community boards and local boards, district health boards and licensing trusts. Local elections have a lower turnout than general elections, which is a shame given how much impact local…
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Open mike 27/09/2019
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Daily review 26/09/2019
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How to vote in STV
It's that local democracy time of year again, and thanks to initial efforts at local body voting reforms, even more councils1 are adopting Single Transferrable Vote for wards, have it for District Health Boards, and use Instant Runoff Vote (which we weirdly also call STV…
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Unrelentingly negative
National has been unrelentingly negative about Jacinda Ardern lately. Clearly they have decided that the best way to win back power is to tarnish her reputation and spray mud everywhere. Which is why it seems that they have decided to criticise everything that she does…
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Civilian offers a bleak look at our future.
The Civilian 'reports' in "Trump repeatedly asked Ardern if New Zealand gives asylum very often" During his 20-minute closed door meeting with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, United States President and trigger-event for shifting timelines, Donald Trump, jarringly and repeatedly pressed Ardern about requirements for asylum in…
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The Greens on the need for rental law changes
Press Release from the Green Party Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 08:00 The Green Party is welcoming the Real Estate Institute’s campaign to change property management rules, launched today. “We’ll be looking to meet with industry leaders to discuss how we can make progress together,”…
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Robot creep
A very large supermarket chain in the US has installed in-store robots. The purpose of the robots is apparently not to replace workers, or spot shoplifters, or surveil shoppers for commerce, but to keep an eye out for spills and other hazards in the aisles.…
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Open mike 26/09/2019
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Daily review 25/09/2019
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Greta Thunberg’s speech to the UN Climate Action Summit: “This is all wrong”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAJsdgTPJpU Transcript from NPR: "My message is that we'll be watching you. "This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How…
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Open mike 25/09/2019
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BoJo cornered
Lady Hale and the UK Supreme Court have torpedoed Boris Johnson's cunning plan to prorogue Parliament. His request to the Queen was "unlawful, void, and of no effect." Her Maj will not be pleased. Johnson is now boxed in - ask for an extension to…
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Daily review 24/09/2019
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Fairy tales of eternal economic growth
Greta Thunberg is visiting the United Nations and was offered an opportunity to speak. For a young person her composure is superb and her statements are simple yet deadly accurate descriptions of the situation the world is in. The Independent has the details: Greta Thunberg has…
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Climate choices
I have this weird vacillation with climate change at the moment. Despite having written a fair bit about the need for human civilisations to power down, and that green BAU will not save us from runaway climate catastrophe, I find myself often looking at the…