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Love to know how bad their internal polling is, to precipitate something like this must be dire

Mutual exclusivity agreements are surprisingly common in retail trade in NZ. And usually both parties are very keen on them. Things like the retailer can’t stock competing brands, and the supplier can’t supply competing retailers. It happens in most …

I was being a bit cynical with the Traffic Jam Tax, because that’s how it will be perceived. And yeah, there’s a lot of work yet on scheme design and data collection, although the move to universal road user charges will go a long way there. Then there’s …

The pinch point is now movements to / from south through Frankton to / from east. Frankton Road is collateral from the roundabout. There’s been gentle feelers for a bypass from Remarkables gate to Bungy Bridge (very broad description) funded by tolls. The …

They are just talking to their extreme core though, not their left, or thinking flank. This is nearing desperation shit. Their internal poling must be a bit sad.

Final decision might be 20/1/27 but a draft decision to decline could be announced on 2/11/26 Could National chuck Santana under the bus to claim that Fast Track is working, a week before the election? I’m dreading the fallout if this is declined, a lot of …

when the women of the 70s and beyond hit the old age sector From my observation of the age care sector with Mum’s internment something will have to change in the sector’s attitude and methods or all hell will break loose. Some people absolutely thrived in …

Sage advice from Weka, a bit more independent than mine, it’s a very affecting situation to go through. Keeping through notes / logs is very handy, you can just about garruntee that care agencies and social workers are that overworked and strung out that …

McKenzie isn’t just Twizel and Tekapo, there’s still a lot of ratepayers who aren’t in that value chain, and residents who are just a challenged by living costs as people in QLDC land. Know a couple of people who move up there thinking lower land values / …

Oh good, so you’d happily pay more on your general residential rates to service visitor infrastructure. And a fundamental misrepresentation of the relationship between property value and rating ability.

The Visitor Levy was doomed at the point it became referred to as the Bed Tax. A levy is a charge on a specific item or service, a tax is something that everyone pays on income or is universal on what they spend. The morphing terminology created the …

No New Taxes, yeah right, heard that before from Key, then he went and put GST up.

When we manage a river we have to manage it from the source to the sea. So the management authority has to encompass all the land within the catchment. You can’t split the management about a point part way down the catchment. We’ve got that farce with the …

I first came across the UBI concept in one of the more out there right wing blogs. They touted it as getting rid of welfare and as a subsidy of employment costs, particularly at mid-level. It’s interesting to see TOP extending this to bring in reductions …

UBI is sorts like a big tax rebate, or a negative tax bracket. UBI is also a huge wage subsidy, so accomodation supplement in reverse. Pretty quickly wages will go down by the amount of the UBI, with that going straight into employer profits. Nothing in …