Daily review 20/11/2024

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18 comments on “Daily review 20/11/2024”

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    1. 1.1

      Apparently, he was 'Mercenary Mark's' choice. I guess he will be damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. . . . . . .

    2. 1.2

      Read No Right Turn's take on the new commissioner – in the side bar!

      I don't think you're far off the mark!

    4. 1.4

      He's probably the better of the two choices I guess time will tell. He will definitely be better than Coster as seems to focus more on frontline policing.

    5. 1.5

      Haven't heard a lot but the one snippet in the media suggested he's more focussed on Police rather than the public which the Police serve. Feels like an 'us and them' approach but we'll see how that plays out.

      Anyway, in breaking news, crime is up…

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    Media doom again: https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/19/nz-medias-second-wave-of-doom/

    Some of New Zealand’s best-loved media programmes and publications are dying in a wave of economic hardship which is starting to rival the cataclysm of mid 2020 when the Covid pandemic paralysed the industry.

    Imagine how you'd feel in journalism school seeing this. Our neolib economy was always darwinian but the cutting edge is way sharper now.

    Retail NZ, quoting Stats NZ’s latest numbers, reported this month that electronic card spending on retail fell in October by 1.1 percent compared with October 2023, and September was worse, down 5.6% percent on the year earlier month… further jobs and products will be under threat as a soggy economy continues 2024’s woes into 2025. The mantra of some business people to ‘survive until 25’ could increasingly become ‘exist until 26’.

    The economic malaise is showing in less consumerism and less advertising. The good news is this means economic growth has flat-lined as an overall trend – can't blame the pandemic any more (too long ago). People will cling to the mirage because inertia rules their thoughts, then reality will bite them. An economy based on collective resilience instead of wishful thinking is essential.

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      Well IMO National has deliberately crashed the economy I presume they have identified profit for themselves in doing this angry

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    Lux may feel the need to grow a spine quite soon:

    While criticising those who disrupted the parliament yesterday, Finlayson said that David Seymour should have realised there would be high emotions and it wouldn’t just be “sort of a nice polite little seminar”. But the former high profile MP directed his strongest critique for the prime minister, suggesting that his mentor Sir John Key would never have allowed this debate to happen. “I think Key would have said to Seymour, ‘you’re not getting it’. Call his bluff.

    And if Seymour had had a tantrum and said, ‘we’ll I’ll go to to the crossbenches’, I know what Key would have said: ‘Yeah, fine, do that and I’ll stand against you personally in Epsom at the next election, I’ll destroy you’.” https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin/15-11-2024/how-the-first-reading-of-the-treaty-principles-bill-played-out

    Nats will be discussing this right now! Someone, at some point, will feel the need to report it to their leader. Yesterday's men, he will bravely assert. Yet the niggle will begin, because he knows how gossip drives a groundswell of opinion.

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