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Two positives for councils.
Funding growth becoming easier.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/lgfa-increases-borrowing-capacity-support-high-growth-councils
The prospect of easy growth (more rate revenues) at low cost.
Going beyond granny flats.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/record-number-submissions-received-granny-flat-proposal
Excellent about the council borrowing? It's straight out of the UK Tory playbook. And the endgame is councils making crap decisions and having to sell off their public assets. Another PTD (Politically Transmitted Disease) picked up by Luxon on his UK tours while in Opposition.
BBC this year – Councils in crisis: Town Hall debt levels staggering
That they can, is a good thing.
Given there is also need to fund (water) infrastructure.
How they do it is on them, as per ability to pay it back from realised growth.
The Five Eyes group now in uniformity.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360494072/hezbollah-and-houthi-designated-terrorist-entities-nz-government
Not enough for some.
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/11/about_time-9.html
Those wanting parliamentary dictate …"order of rule"… are coming out of their closet.
The legacy of Massey – white race nation imperialism/settler conquest manifest destiny and then onto assimilation.
The Treaty of Waitangi Act (1975) and hikoi and the forces of reaction, dancing cossacks and a mob of robber barons (fearful of a sovereign wealth/super fund).
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/11/do_the_kcs_believe_in_democracy.html
Here’s the letter in full, nicely formatted, and with footnotes, that makes it readable: https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=165818
A look at the approach taking by the right to silence opposition within media.
I suspect it is indicative of this being a phony war. To identify and silence opposition to the real power play moves to come. WT and OIO changes.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2024/11/22/mediawatch-when-the-nz-political-right-demand-neutrality-in-media-they-mean-dont-tell-the-truth-about-us/#comment-893090
RW (and LW, for that matter) arm-chair critics, including partisan shills and apologists, usually conflate opinion pieces and editorials, neutral and impartial and balanced, and fact- and evidence-based arguments and populistic rhetoric, to name just a few.
As for Todd Stephenson, he happens to be the one and only ACT MP on the Justice Select Committee.
Oh, what a surprise. Late Friday, and it's time for a document dump.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/andrew-bayly-loser-incident-frantic-texts-thumbs-up-from-pm-photo-of-drinking-from-wine-glass/6GPCV42HCBGVPJFFJF2CZ5CH44/
The giveaway line is the last one from Bayly. When he's supposed to be expressing sincere regret, he lets the mask slip and criticises his critics. So it was all just an issue to be "managed".
Luxon levels of (non) self-awareness there.