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Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn wrote on Thursday: Back in 2018, National's unelected Canterbury dictatorship issued a resource consent to take water from the Rangitata river for irrigation, in violation of its Water Conservation Order. Now, after two years of legal battles, the company has…
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Auckland is back into level three lockdown. The check points around the city have again been put in place and big events, including the round the bays run have been cancelled. The caution is understandable. The latest two cases, a son and his mother, were…
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It seems that the Springbok tour protests in 1981 had a deep and abiding effect on David Seymour, even though he would not be born until two years later. He was clearly affected by the experience or lack thereof and has clearly harboured a deeply…
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You can't read legislation for very long without finding instances of weird edge cases. My favourite used to be the old Summary Offences Act which had prohibitions against wearing carpet slippers in public. Simon Collins at NewstalkZB writes about an example. Why we have kids…
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It is good to see that National is still in chaos. Its caucus discipline is still shot and Judith Collins clearly has no control over her MPs. The latest piece of evidence is Simon Bridges attacking Police Commissioner Andy Coster by describing him as being…
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If the Government ever wanted to start burning political capital on addressing poverty now is the time. The economy is in remarkably good shape, such good shape that Standard and Poors has just given us an improved credit rating of AA+. From Radio New Zealand:…
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Press Release from Greenpeace NZ 16 February 2021 Nick Young 3 minutes Greenpeace is celebrating the announcement that New Zealand Oil & Gas and its partner Beach Energy will relinquish their oil and gas exploration permit off the Oamaru coast as “another win for the…
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The Covid pandemic is entering into an interesting stage. In America and in England new infection rates are plummeting after hitting post Christmas highs. The American reduction is understandable. They now have a President who accepts the science and is willing to listen to the…
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In February 2002 I was at a union-NDP conference in Ottawa watching US television in my hotel room. Back home I reported on the conference to the Labour Party caucus and stated as an aside that the US was going to war with Iraq. Helen…
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What should a Texan representative do when the state is frozen over following an extreme weather event? Tour the state? Make sure that Federal supplies of generators and fuel are delivered to where they need to be? How about fly off to Cacun for a…
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So we have just witnessed round one of Facebook v Australia. It is not that often that I agree, or at least don't violent disagree, with the actions of the Scomo led Australian Government. But on this particular issue they are right, Facebook is getting…
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Over in the US of A in the great state of Texas and in surrounding states locals are experiencing unusually cold weather and are suffering from the effects. From the BBC: A huge winter storm sweeping across the southern US has killed at least 21…
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Ad's post on New Zealand as the very, very luck country has some good stuff in it. It's worth reading for a nuanced take on what Labour are doing. This gem stands out, The Cabinet paper said the pandemic was expected to cost education providers…
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While Australia is rightly branded The Lucky Country, it looks like we can reasonably be called the Very, Very Lucky Country. Because of the way both the government and society have handled Covid-19, New Zealand is now one of the most successful countries on earth.…
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Some international news yesterday as Jacinda Ardern chose to use decidedly undiplomatic speech to address Australia’s removal of its citizenship from a Jihadi bride leaving her as New Zealand’s problem, even though her link to New Zealand was tenuous and she was for all intents…
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Most of us have grown up where at the end of the working week, you head down to your town's main street and hang out. What will become of our towns and cities without it? There are still a few centres in New Zealand where…