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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Are we entering the stage where permanent residents are now considered equivalent to prisoners in terms of their right to political engagement?
The real question being do the crypt-dwellers, NZF and their hangers-on, David Farrar etc consider permanent residents and prisoners equally guilty of a crime?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_of_prisoners_in_New_Zealand
Anyone legally resident in New Zealand for a year can vote – that includes those studying here without permanent residency.
I would prefer a permanent residency test myself (most nations require citizenship).
If these clowns have an issue with the permanent resident, or legally resident structure in NZ then focus on that policy setting and look to tighten it up (I believe NZ is very loose with residency compared to the world).
Don't strip their rights to what incarcerated people enjoy, it's a really bad look.
No not really … looking again at the right to enrol criteria.
A resident for electoral purposes is being on a visa that has no time limit – if they mean permanent resident they should make that more explicit.
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So that clears that up.https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361038305/political-scientist-says-nz-stands-apart-one-year-voting-rule
I don't know how any self employed person could consider voting National this election with their ill-considered compulsory KiwiSaver announcement.
By doing so they are inviting an immediate 3% lift in tax from 2028, rising to 6% by 2032.
For wage and salary earners it's no change immediately but a 3% lift in tax by 2032.
These demands will be unavoidable and penalised sending a large percentage of NZ's 450,000 sole traders into severe financial stress.
Agree totally MB, I am self employed as are lots of my mates and we agree if this comes in everyones charge out rates will rise to pay for this, We think this would happen industry wide so, who pays ultimately, the customer again. My mates and me are all in trades so construction costs will keep rising, houses will cost more, leading to more unaffordability, more people without housing etc etc
Yeah, inflationary much? So all goods and services provided by the self-employed will be more expensive to cover this tax. That's a lot of goods and services and I'm no economist but those cost rises will have many downstream effects.
Then there's the hit to the economy from the other side, money taken out of the productive economy now and buried where no-one can access it for decades.
Cause & effect are real hard to grasp when maya is your veil:
The bully gets a bad reputation is a causal relation between behaviour & others countable as sociopathy manifested. In terms of geopolitical ecology, such tendencies are usually constrained by other key players – we get a pivot between sovereignty & team ethos.
Tim Groser favours the Indian FTA (one wonders what FTA he would oppose, negotiating them sought of predispositions one to affirm their value)
Once favouring bi-lateral deals on top of the WTO and now as a work around.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361037919/election-2026-national-lifts-trade-stakes-direct-challenge-nz-first
The very recent flooding throughout NZ follows….
IMO the weather extremes are all part of our Planet heating dangerously, due to Anthropogenic Activity. As anyone uncooked already knows. IMO while National and ACT are all part of the Coalition of Climate Deniers….I feel NZFirst to be the biggest lead/have the most deniers. Shane dig baby dig Jones and assorted cooker cronies… now joined by Platformer Michael Laws.
How/do they think about any of this?
A real worry.
Under internationally-set guidelines NIWA (now Earth Sciences NZ) has long used 30-year baselines to calculate “climate temperature normals”, its current yardstick is 1991-to-2020, which are updated each decade.
It means that today’s temperature difference from 'normal' becomes less stark when compared with an earlier time period. For those with a deeper interest in this subject a relevant study can be found at this link:
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.8521
The change from 1941-1970 to 1991-2020 is in the order of nearly 0.7°C and about 1°C over the last 100 years
https://niwa.co.nz/climate-and-weather/nz-temperature-record/seven-station-series-temperature-data
aj. Oh I do indeed have a deep interest. Not quite sure of your "less stark" ?
And I have read and been deeply interested in NZ's last decade (which was then again recently broken…)
https://www.stats.govt.nz/indicators/temperature/
And from RNZ Climate. (Since 2013 !)
Apologies.
Worded badly. Yes the comparison with the 1991-2020 period is bad enough but when looking back 100 yrs it is more stark.
The use of the 1991-2020 period doesn't give a full picture of where we are. Appreciate your comments on climate matters.
Hi aj. No problem…i just had wondered as didnt seem to fit either your comment… or you : )
And yea we definitely need to still combat the Climate Deniers…even with the evidence alternately burning and flooding them, they seem to have new impetus with the likes of NACT1?
Go figure…?
Anyway, take care and be aware : )
It was past my bed-time 🙁