Daily review 27/09/2024

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    1. 2.1

      Smithfield's, and Alliances problem goes back way before Luxon got into politics, but land in his lap because he's PM at the time.

      Interesting to see the CE of Alliance blame land use changes, when it the inability of sheep meat to make an economic return on the land that forced the land use change.

      Alliance Group chief executive Willie Wiese said the proposed closure was due to a decline in sheep processing numbers as a result of land-use change, which had resulted in surplus capacity in the company’s plant network.

      1. 2.1.1

        He means farm conversions (land use change) to dairy. Which means more waterway pollution and cows standing in mud.

        Local councils and central government should have regulated that land use change better.

        More mixed farming – growing crops to enable shedding cows in winter (and protection for spring lambs). A focus on quality of herd (identified via automated milking). 21st C (sustainable) farming.

          1. 2.1.1.1.1

            In the NI, not the SI where the meat works closed. My comment was mainly as per Southland.

            In the SI, there was also irrigation in Canterbury (ECAN) as per 2.1.2.

            The future issue there will be nitrate in the water and those pregnant using bottled water.

      2. 2.1.2

        Sir John Key National diverted funds from the sale of NZ Energy Assets into large Irrigation Schemes in the South Canterbury Area hence the conversions to Dairy and out of Fat Lamb Production.

    2. 2.2

      Its not often the owners of capital and the unions agree. I heard the union delegate opine that the change of land use, from livestock to pine forestry is the main contributor to the decline in sheep numbers.

      Another unintended(?) consequence of the greenrush.

      Far from Luxons fault you may want to look at the last two government's philosophy and decision making to find fault here.

      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/400417/green-rush-foreign-forestry-companies-nz-s-biggest-landowners

      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/529280/possible-closure-of-timaru-meatworks-exacerbates-risk-of-similar-closures

    3. 2.3

      Ah, but it's happening in "a faraway land …. of which we know nothing" (nor really want to), i.e. Te Waipounamu.

      Oh, and regarding comment 2.1 above: if there's something you didn't do yourself, but which you're keen to snaffle the credit for, then you've got to be prepared to cop any brickbats as well.

  4. 4

    The Civilian reporting on all things Beehive and MFAT at the UN.

    MFAT's resident Minister, Winston Peters, has lectured the world that they have been right about everything since 1945.

    Their first resident Minister, Peter Fraser was later PM and they sent him to found the UN, but he was betrayed by 5 backstabbers who seized veto powers in the UNSC.

    Winston Peters was required to bang his shoe to quieten an unruly assembly so they could witness this truth. The Russian FM sent his UN Ambassador to take the shoe – which they claimed was compensation for a shoe a Russian lost at the UN decades earlier (which the UN refused to return). Peters was then smeared with Kiwi shoe polish and told he had been banned from Russia. The Russian Foreign Minister for some reason yelled out Black Russian, then watch The Revenant.

    He was the second person banned from Russia after speaking at the UN this week.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/keir-starmer-lambasts-russia-over-ukraine-at-un-security-council

    In other news, MFAT notes, if the mainstream media and the C of C did not, the UN tried to imagine it was the organisation their first resident Minister wanted it to be.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/whats-the-uns-new-pact-for-the-future-and-why-did-russia-oppose-it

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/winston-peters-skewers-russia-in-un-speech-blames-both-hamas-israel-for-misery/H7O2XSVHDZCTJGZGIXXDQKENPY/

  5. 5

    In Late News,

    The PM said that there was no education improvement in subjects which count from any Maori language ability of teachers. Citing an ability to transfer resource to the teaching of maths, if teachers were not helped to have any knowledge of the Maori language.

    "Just because we've cancelled a programme, doesn’t mean that we're not committed to te reo," Luxon said.

    The next National Party PM, Gemima, year 12 of CGHS, said she could learn Maori online, the same way she learnt maths in year 10 (because she would not go to school while teachers were subjugated by vaccine mandates).

    https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/09/27/luxon-defends-move-to-cut-30m-from-te-reo-maori-teacher-training/

  6. 6

    This is so wrong, mayors should be able to sub-contract the job for half the pay they get, especially in Wellington, given so many people are retiring and looking for part-time work at the same time.

    If the government were to incentivise it, it could become common for public servants to sub-contract their job and spend more time on their lifestyle drinking coffee, eating food made by others and doing retail.

    Not everyone can do it by becoming a consultant for an understaffed ministry.

    https://thecivilian.co.nz/2024/09/20/tory-whanau-may-have-to-sell-wellington-mayoralty-to-make-ends-meet/

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