The year begins – join Lisa Owen & panel at our first 2016 Table Talk on Tues 9 February.
With the state of the nation speeches, Waitangi Day, the TPPA gatherings (inside and outside the signing) behind us & the opening of Parliament on the day, & local elections & much more ahead, Lisa Owen of TV3’s The Nation will host commentator and PR man Matthew Hooton, Metro Editor-at-large Simon Wilson, and AUT senior lecturer Ella Henry in a discussion on the year ahead.
Book now to eat and meet up at our first talk event of the year. The panel discussion will start at 7.30 pm – so you’ll need to arrive by 7.15. Great food will be served throughout the evening and the kitchen and bar will be open from 5.30 pm.
The discussion will be live streamed on TDB at 7.30pm
Why the heck do you give Mathew Hooton a platform to present his public relations crap…I mean seriously the guy is a national danger, remember he was one of the nutters reported on in Dirty Politics…and was proven to be…nothing more than a John Key / Cameron Slater / Jason Ede drone…find some one from the right side who is honest if you can…if not just put up a cardboard replica, of Paula Bennett or Judith Collins.
That’s what I was thinking, why listen to National party shills, one would never hear the truth.
Was thinking the same thing, why listen to National party shills, one would never hear the truth.
Give poor old Martyn a chance, jesus
Another example of undermining democracy in action!! This is a shared article
Fight to save Christchurch’s trees
Written By: GUEST POST – Date published: 7:01 am, February 9th, 2016 – 28 comments
Categories: activism, christchurch earthquake, Conservation, Gerry Brownlee – Tags: christchurch, Christchurch City Council, christchurch council, Conservation, gerry brownlee, nick smith, trees
Gerry Brownlee has not accomplished very much in his role as earthquake recovery minister. But he has, with the help of his good friend Nick Smith, managed to saddle the people of Christchurch with the expense of paying to have our district plan reviewed — his way.
In order to ensure that only the best quality outcomes get delivered, he has used the CER Act to make sure that the whole process is run by a panel of very expensive independent commissioners, who are running a fast-tracked, no expense spared, quasi-Court like process that is virtually inaccessible to ordinary citizens.
And of course, since the democratic process just costs time and money, this hearing panel is a one stop shop. The decisions it makes are final, and there is no right of appeal to the Environment Court to test facts, or the quality of the decisions that are being made. You can only to the High Court, on points of law – if you happen to have a spare 100 grand or so.
One of the changes proposed under the new district plan will see 80% of the currently registered notable and heritage trees in Christchurch, lose their protected status. Take that, Garden City!
De-registered trees can be cut down at any time, without notice.
2000 trees that are currently protected will lose that status if these changes go forward. Because of the fast track time frame there was no time allowed for consultation so most people in Christchurch are not aware that this is happening.
I am part of a group that is supporting individuals who did submit, and who are fighting back.
And we are fighting back effectively. So far we have presented evidence, and negotiated settlements with the Crown and with the Christchurch City Council that would see over 1000 trees make it back on to the register.
We are still fighting for the rest.
In order to be taken seriously by the hearing panel, we have had to pay for expert and legal representation. This has been a very expensive process. Volunteers have donated hundreds of hours of their own time and thousands of dollars of their own money fighting this fight.
We need help to continue, and to make sure that the negotiated settlements we have reached so far, are honoured.
If you are able to help us financially, then please consider visiting our “give a little page” and making a donation:
https://givealittle.co.nz/fundraiser/chchnotabletrees
If you are not able to help us with money, then please consider putting the word out.
As a group, we are exhausted, but we are keeping up the fight. Because no one else is in a position to do what we are doing, and what we are doing needs to be done.
— Andrew Robins
Stopped watching cause of Hooten. Don’t trust a thing he says.
Thanks anyway.
@Hooton. That’s what you call exporting jobs eh sport
Look, live streams, radical, now and all that but – could someone please start putting these up onto a platform like You Tube? Seriously every time we’ve watched live it lags chronically on our computer, it’s on the computer with it’s weeny screen and it’s impossible to share with anyone. Hey, being a member of a small club’s great but I’m not sure the Young Turks would have ended up famous enough for Youtube Rewind this year without allowing people assess to non live content.
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