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Open mike is your post.
For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose.
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Step up to the mike …
So when Labour do it it's corporate welfare…
I'm thinking about helping shift heavy industrial businesses from gas to electric .
https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/04/02/diesel-storage-boosted-at-marsden-point-by-216m-funding/
What is this called? Channel NZ had a capital raise of $50 million end of 2024. Will we get the $ back?
TV1 asks no questions about this at all. Not a real journalist in sight.
It's framed as the COC doing a great job helping industry and farming with $216 million of public money from the Regional Infrastructure Fund that is (kind of) spare.
$216 million would pay for a lot of solar panels.
$21.6 million, but same questions should be asked.
ah yes that does make a bit of difference…..I took the number from the link above….but you are right aj.
Decimal points and dollar signs cannot be used in file names and hyperlinks.
I didn't know that either. That's a very easy mistake to make.
"The party of farmers finally come to the aid of farmers, after weeks of dithering."
Winston Peter’s is shutting down the Greyhound Industry with no compensation for the Industry Participants???
If he did that to the Thoroughbred Racing Industry there would be an uproar.
Surely the owners and trainers should be entitled to some form of compensation for the animals they have invested in which participate in the Greyhound Industry.
Some of these people have been in the Industry all their lives and Winston is pulling the rug out from under their feet.
Haven’t heard a squeak out of the Government how they are going to compensate the Greyhound Industry Participants???
Not to worry, New Zealand horse racing is also in terminal decline.
Winston has put a proposal out there to amalgamate all horse course assets and give all the participants a share of the proceeds.
Also the big betting company Entain will get a 25 year deal to run the TAB, with the operator's $NZ1 billion five-year funding guarantee expiring in 2 years time.
A separate report compiled by the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Association, has said the country’s foal crop was facing a yearly 500-horse shortfall if the industry was to maintain field sizes by the mid-2030s, causing a likely negative knock-on effect to wagering turnover.
IMHO the best use for all those horse racing courses is to turn them into retirement villages. Avondale is of course well on the way, Ellerslie has all but the track and stand sold off, but disused tracks like Paeroa or Riverton are long overdue to to be housing sites.
Looking forward to the demise of this highly exploitative industry: exploiting horses and gambling people.
No compensation needed anywhere: just let it die its natural death.
Because the world needs a Latin cover of Bowie's Heroes.
The Ugliest American? While there has been some competition, IMO Trump is the winner….such as that is.
I note also mad wannabe
fuhrerking Trump is fast losing any Allies. The man is deluded..and dangerously so. Will he end up alone in a bunker?For a change of perspective…Someone I can indeed respect. Onya !
The real problem is Trump has so many equally ugly American supporters, who think he is doing a great job.
The Coalition’s neoliberal manifesto in a nutshell:
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2604/S00031/oral-questions-questions-to-ministers-sitting-date-11-march-2026.htm
Not a hint of humour, irony, or sarcasm, just a deep unshaken belief in ideological dogma where the many make the sacrifices for the few on the free-market altars.
"…Government spending which led to higher levels of inflation,,,"
Well, theoretically it can, but according to German economist Isabella Weber, that's not what happened in the post-Covid and start of the Ukraine war period. And that's the period that Luxon is claiming to describe here. Weber here outlines the various phases of 'seller's inflation' . She starts talking at about 8min,30sec.
Luxon and Willis certainly do give off a vibe of being purist zealots who are turning the clock back to 1987 and taking us through the whole dismal experiment a second time.