by Mike Joy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington. Cross posted from The Conversation Shutterstock/Matt Sheumack You may not have noticed, but earlier this month we passed Earth overshoot day, when humanity’s demands for ecological resources and services exceeded what our planet can…
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I get the feeling that David Seymour has decided to model himself on Winston Peters. Peters has made a career of saying really outlandish news worthy quotes and getting publicity for them. It appears that Seymour is attempting to do the same. It is one…
It's hard for New Zealanders to imagine this, because we chopped down so many of our trees a long time ago, but there is a town in Canada that has just been ordered to evacuate because a forest fire is expect to engulf the city…
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Winston's term with Ardern shows what high-delivery, low-foolishness government looked like. That's why he's rising again. Ron Mark the Minister of Defence got through two of the biggest defence purchases in decades: the replacement into new 'Super-Hercules' to replace the old ones for troop deployment…
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There is a lot at stake at this election. A change in Government could see a radical change in direction for the country for the worse. For housing it pays to recall what Labour inherited in 2017 which was basically a full blown housing crisis. …
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As I have commented previously National and Act have built up impressively large war chests this year. Clearly the wealthy amongst us want to preserve their privilege. Even Labour's fairly middle of the road incrementalism is to them a threat. One wonders at the response…
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Winston Peters clearly hopes that enough of us have short memories. He was an integral part of the 2017 Government whose Covid policies saw our death rate from the disease amongst the lowest in the developed world. As shown by this graph. He performed something…
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The news has now been confirmed. Labour has announced that if re-elected it will take GST off fresh fruit and vegetables. It will also increase working for families for about 160,000 families. From Radio New Zealand: Labour has confirmed its worst kept election promise -…
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This is Barbie, and this is a phenom. At Wanaka’s Cinema Paradiso on a minus 2C Thursday night they were queuing out the door. In Barbieland all the Supreme Court justices are Barbies, construction teams are Barbies, the president is a Barbie, everything with any…
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When the news about an Act MP being shot in the foot when he was 17 during a drug deal was released I did not think too much about it. But on reflection maybe there is a story here ... Two days ago Newstalk ZB…
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National has this propensity of announcing policies that scratch conservative itches, cost nothing and hog media attention. Yesterday we had a classic example of this as they announced that cell phones would be banned at schools. From Adam Pearse at the Herald: The National Party…
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