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Open mike is your post.
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Step up to the mike …
A Green MP differentiates his party from Labour, saying they have no problem undoing every dumb thing the current government has done.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360960608/criminalising-homelessness-not-compassion-its-cruelty
I am fully on the side of this sentiment but more usefully I am on the side of the many churches who for over a century here have been tending to New Zealand’s ultra-poor and drugged and sleeping-rough people who have nowhere to go.
Why the Actual isn't Hipkins treating total poverty as a central political issue?
Poverty eradication is so important to me it makes me want to vote Green and I don't say that lightly.
Doesn’t pass the fact-check.
Long form.
Who will pay the fine?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/587659/no-doubt-new-move-on-orders-for-homeless-will-drain-police-resources
Building roads we do not need (neglecting other infrastructure – flood protection "wastewater and sewage treatment" etc) and now enabling more pollution/emissions from the cars on them.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/360961079/government-considering-scrapping-entire-clean-car-standard
I wonder who/what will get the vehicle importers donation
Heard i think todd mclay on radio this mornimg talking about the impact t of the US/israel war on iran will have on NZ trade. Significant mentions include disruptions to supply chains and transport costs with high oil prices. Mclay was quick to point out how his govt was opening up trade "opportunities" for kiwi exporter, he proudly mentioned a free trade deal with the UAE. UAE, ok, slap bang in the middle of the conflict zone, closed shipping lanes and closed skies. Yeah, that will really help kiwi exporters. That comment from a senior government minister said a lot about the lack of preparedness of this regime for the consequences of the conflict, even the inability to convey a clear message to the public. Best they can offer is a free trade deal with a country we cannot reach. Woeful
Yes exactly what I was on about in my recent post.
The PM and Minister of Finance ken keep supporting the massacre of tens of thousands of people through the demolition of the Iranian government, but doesn't have the intelligence to understand the impact on our own fucking national interests.
This isn't a government; it's so incoherent as to be just a set of talking heads that appear on mainstream media with no relation to each other.
Obviously more to come.
In particular in the transport portfolio where the previous Minister drove us to higher and higher petroleum dependency.
"I'd like to be principled I really would in a time like this, but …".
This does seem to be somewhat different from the viewpoint you professed a couple of days ago. Could it be, to use a reference from a good film series rather than a rubbish TV set that in the opinion of the rather anti-USA set you may be accused of having gone over to the dark side?
[TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike as being off topic or irrelevant in the post it was made in. Be more careful in future.]
All this goes for us as well. We just don’t have the smarts.
https://theconversation.com/australia-can-no-longer-be-complacent-about-trumps-america-its-time-to-chart-a-new-course-276530?
”Australia has become too dependent on the idea of the US as the guarantor of the international order. We failed to recognise that Trump’s rise to power in 2016 was not an accident – the country on which we had pinned our future had changed.”