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Written By: barry - Date published: 2:12 pm, August 16th, 2026
The implication that Mitchel discusses things with senior police that can't be shared with the Labour party is deeply troubling. The police are not an arm of the national party. I can understand having private conversations with the commissioner and ...Written By: barry - Date published: 6:56 pm, July 23rd, 2026
Name recognition has caused NZ First to be full of zombies and ACT to be full of clowns. Ex-MPS are ex for a reason.Written By: barry - Date published: 1:02 pm, June 14th, 2026
They are primarily libertarians. The difference from ACT is that they are not neo-liberal. They advocate for everyone paying their way, and not for handouts for the rich and externalising risks and costs onto everyone else. However they are not necessarily ...Written By: barry - Date published: 3:48 pm, April 20th, 2026
I think the authors confuse "movement" with "organisation" (they are not alone in this). If they want to form an organisation to work on climate action which is not ideological then they are welcome to. If they don't like some aspects of Greenpeace or ...Written By: barry - Date published: 5:05 pm, March 11th, 2026
How can there be a problem with petrol prices? After 5 years of clean car rebate and ute tax our fleet is mostly electric. Oh wait....Written By: barry - Date published: 5:29 pm, February 3rd, 2026
Jones, (and Seymour) don't believe in Anthropogenic Climate Change. They can't - as it contradicts their view of reality. Luxon and the other National Party decision makers, know it is real, but choose to prioritise growth and sacrifice the future ( ...Written By: barry - Date published: 1:32 pm, December 20th, 2025
LRT or trams work well if they are designed properly. level street entry for wheel chairs really make life easier for everyone. A lot of people find the current bus service unusable, and revert to ubers. synchronised traffic lights with trams never having ...Written By: barry - Date published: 3:12 pm, June 29th, 2025
When j.a left office we had more people in emergency housing, but not on the streets. Now we have fewer in emergency housing and nobody knows where they have gone. The j.a. government was not perfect, but lets not make stuff up to slander it.Written By: barry - Date published: 5:29 pm, April 29th, 2025
The right don't despise weakness. They love to see it in their opponents, and attack it mercilessly. They are quite capable of being compassionate when it suits them (i.e. when it is one of them) - remember Muller's problems when he got compassion from ...Written By: barry - Date published: 5:27 pm, April 22nd, 2025
better than the average popeWritten By: barry - Date published: 7:10 am, April 8th, 2025
I take it as the SST finally realising that the Greens are the only party with policies that will reduce crime.Written By: barry - Date published: 1:10 pm, March 23rd, 2025
I sense a rather large heap of straw! Sure "tankies" do exist, but they get lost in the multitude of astroturf users. The author is in danger of exactly the same hubris that he/she is railing against. To defend Chinese incarcerations by comparing them with ...Written By: barry - Date published: 5:23 pm, January 16th, 2025
If the boats had been finished they would have been worth much more than we were to pay for them. Even if we sold them and bought cheaper boats we would be better off. How is the government planning to build new port infrastructure more cheaply. They will ...Written By: barry - Date published: 5:51 pm, December 14th, 2024
So fast track legislation for fast track development shows up the problems of fast tracking.Written By: barry - Date published: 5:13 pm, November 21st, 2024
I spent far too much of my youth working in various jobs at Kinleith, so this hurts. I loaded paper on to railway wagons for destinations all around the pacific. Oji will continue to make paper at its plants in Japan. My question is how can it be cheaper ...Written By: barry - Date published: 5:06 pm, November 19th, 2024
I don't like the fact that Seymour is framing the issue and forcing everyone to respond. We can't not fight back, but it is all completely unnecessary In the end it is a distraction while they pick our pockets.Written By: barry - Date published: 8:57 am, November 10th, 2024
You have to remember that news media is about entertainment. Golriz shoplifting a few thousand is entertaining in a way that a billion or 2 in tax cuts or cancelled ferries is not. So yes we need to support good journalism (with money as well as views). We ...Written By: barry - Date published: 1:19 pm, August 17th, 2024
He said that was “not only untrue, it is incompatible with the fundamental democratic value that all citizens are equal under the law”. We are a hereditary monarchy. Fundamentally in our inherited British law, some people have more rights than others.Written By: barry - Date published: 11:47 am, June 25th, 2024
Actually the way it has worked out has probably been the best outcome. Pharmac has got more money in a way that doesn't influence its purchasing power. Pharmac's success in bargaining down prices is due to its shortage of money. If the government just ...Written By: barry - Date published: 5:12 pm, June 18th, 2024
Of course it would be cheaper to charter an AirNZ plane when needed, the same as it is cheaper for most people to use taxis than own their own cars. It is the convenience that you/we/they are paying for. The Air Force pilots need to fly, and if they are ...Written By: barry - Date published: 4:39 pm, June 8th, 2024
While there is an element of truth, in that Russian early detection of ballistic launches is a good thing, the rest is overblown. The F16s may be nuclear capable but they will operate from/by a non-nuclear Ukraine, and will not have nuclear warheads. ...Written By: barry - Date published: 1:46 pm, March 9th, 2024
Even assuming that somehow journalists get paid enough for their work that we have a corpus of quality, objective news available, the question is how do we curate news feeds. When we only had one source of news, there was no choice, but the whole country ...Written By: barry - Date published: 7:52 pm, February 20th, 2024
never underestimate the average new zealander's desire to see people punished.Written By: barry - Date published: 2:21 pm, February 11th, 2024
The majority of the electorate in the US have already made up their minds. the election will be decided by who doesn't vote. Trump voters don't seem to care what he does, or how he behaves, and losing court cases, or getting bad press just confirms their ...Written By: barry - Date published: 5:23 pm, December 12th, 2023
Whether immigration is right or not depends on ideology. Some people are clearly motivated by racism. Others just want to drive down wages. In any case it must be balanced with an increase in infrastructure and housing. Migration cannot solve NZ's labour ...Written By: barry - Date published: 7:06 pm, December 6th, 2023
The ban is not prohibition. It is just an extension of the current restrictions. A shop is currently not allowed to sell tobacco to someone under the age of 16. Under the new law that would change in 2026 to be an age of 17, and then 18 the next year etc. ...Written By: barry - Date published: 10:08 am, November 25th, 2023
It is all very well to enjoy the ability to criticise the government without feeling like you are betraying our side, but if they do half of what they have committed to we will be significantly worse off. Economically we are guaranteed a recession by this ...Written By: barry - Date published: 10:28 am, November 12th, 2023
At the beginning of last century Palestine was occupied by the Ottoman empire, but the Turks never colonised as much as the British. The majority of the population were arabs. There were muslim arabs, and christian arabs and jewish arabs. Hebrew was only ...Written By: barry - Date published: 9:01 am, November 12th, 2023
Netanyahu is recruiting for Hamas, but he doesn't care because it keeps Israelis living in fear and voting for him, and those like him. Hamas doesn't care either, as they know they will win in the end and the sacrifices are necessary. Likud and Hamas need ...Written By: barry - Date published: 11:48 am, November 11th, 2023
A lesson for the next government! https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-federal-government-kpmg-consulting/
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