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Open mike is your post.
For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Step up to the mike …
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/19/the-govt-to-echo-uber-in-saying-take-it-or-leave-it/
Government ignores the courts to shaft workers.
Any wage earners that votes nact is a turkey voting for Christmas
Oh they are, but all so many people have to hear is "tax cuts", and think they're going to be richer. So brilliant political manipulation, and pure greed.
Trump derangement. Amerikan fascism gets closer….
Note..the illegal orders
IMO NZ should not be appeasing, or schmoozing, any of the hard right fascists coterie of criminal creeps.
I've been driving Mum around a lot more lately. Drs visits, shopping, pharmacy.
Mum has a mobility parking permit and it seems the most common transgressor in these parks is a fellow mobility permit holders.
There will be someone without mobility issues 'just ducking in' while the lesser mobile one stays in the car.
I decided to mention this to the last people I saw doing this. I prefaced it with 'I am being gentle here' and said to look at the 6th paragraph on the permit.
I am bigger than average and don't want to intimidate folk. Any tips on wording or tactics?
It can be a rigmarole getting someone out and onto their walker let alone an independent wheelchair user
Mobility parking permits seem to a be a sensitive issue even among those who could qualify. People get defensive when they are in the wrong.
I have a permit, and we have a friend who is 75 and has had a mild stroke affecting one leg. He doesn't have a permit but has been using the parks. He was seemingly blissfully unaware of the permit arrangement and got quite antsy when I explained it and suggested he go through the application process including payment!
Yr first paragraph sums it up. When folk go on the defensive most communication is useless.
I'm aware of checking the righteousness that arises within me. It is disappointing when someone with mobility issues consciously denies easy access to another.
What do you think of this article by Ani O'Brien?
And Now a Woman Is Dead
Makes you think, doesn't it?
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Any rehabilitation programs in NZ are lip service.Ticking boxes .There is no serious program .Look at the recent UN audit of NZ prisons .Raises a lot of of red flags.
Look at the recidivism rates of countries who do take rehabilitation seriously, and endeavour to reduce crime by addressing the core issues that lead to it.
They are half NZ's rates, not by being tougher on criminals and making prison life as brutal as it can be .
Correctional facilities in Norway focus on maintaining custody of the offender and attempting to make them functioning members of society. Norway's prison system is renowned as one of the most effective and humane in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_Norway#
it is difficult for a judicial system built by and for men to cope with the fact that these violent men will not stop until they kill.
I totally agree that this man should never have been allowed out .I just disagree with the generalised "offenders" .It smacks of the Sensible sentencing trust.It's violent offenders that require the most rigorous assessments.
While Norway has historically low levels of crime – and their approach to dealing with criminals appears to have worked well with a highly homogenous population – their crime rate, especially for violent crime, is ticking upwards.
https://www.lifeinnorway.net/crime-figures/
And, it too has launched a 'war on crime'
https://www.newsinenglish.no/2024/09/17/government-launches-a-war-on-crime/
The FBI's Behavioural Science Unit did a worldwide study of crime levels in the 1980's for a link to pornography.
They found Japan and Scandinavia has low levels of crime and high levels of pornography. They explained this as a consequence of monoculture and egalitarianism.
Then noted higher levels of crime was based on inequality related to ethnic difference.
It does not mention
1.the assessment made by the medical experts.
2.the regime the person was under, after release.
The new stalking law has its processes.
One would have thought any threat at all made by the person after release would have been grounds for return to prison. And also that their location was constantly tracked.
Based on the reports of this and other cases, the commonsense approach you outline – just doesn't happen. Recidivist criminals are rarely recalled to prison. And location tracking is routinely evaded with few, if any, consequences.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/editorial-foiled-attempts-to-curb-offenders/ZREWBMZEUNC3BDQMPPFHGYU2XI/
This is an old study – but it's unlikely anything has changed
https://share.google/2mrHP735QL8iKqnLR
Yeah, but any threat would have invalidated the assessment made that led to the release … .
If they abided by the terms this should be the case.
But not where they do not. That should have consequences.
Final Mod note
The UK Covid enquiry has reported back.
The former Tory government was said to have acted too little too late on a number of occasions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8030xvvlv0o
Yes, thankfully we had someone who heeded scientific advice, and I don't mean Plan B.
And not Boris ..or Rishi Dr Death Sunak ! (Interesting how these types are the same World wide : (
the replies!
@krassenstein
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is expected to require ALL New York Elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals.
As a Jewish American I still support this 100%
https://xcancel.com/krassenstein/status/1991242950144065672
WTF! Not even Erica Stanford or Charter Schools would dream of pushing this kind of madness onto our innocent little children.
Clever to pose them as Arabic numerals rather than Indian (both his parents were born in India).
Arabic numerals refers to a system that originated in ancient India and was transmitted to Europe by Arab mathematicians.
Western Europe also received knowledge of Greek learning via Arabs who cultivated what Christianity chose to suppress.