Could you get a more crisp difference between Judith and Jacinda?
Jacinda announces a beautiful idea like celebrating Matariki as a public holiday while Judith was announcing another bullshit war on drugs.
Because you know, every war on drugs has been such a screaming success.
If you are so petty to not see the beauty in a gift like Matariki, I genuinely despair for you.
This is a moment of celebration, that a purely Māori cultural ritual can be shared & embraced by all is the very best promise of the Treaty.
This is a rare glow of joy at a dark time.
The Venn Diagram of people who hate Matariki being a public holiday, those who get REALLY angry whenever Neve is mentioned and those who call the Prime Minister ‘Cindy’ is a perfect circle.
In my experience I’ve found that those NZers currently bitching about making a ‘Māori thing like Matariki’ a public holiday are also the first people to strip their shirt off after a couple of beers to do a Haka.
Crusher wants to use the State to crush.
Jacinda wants to use the State to be kind.
What you value most, crushing or kindness, will shape your vote.
I want to believe the majority of us want kindness and I am setting my sail to that Northstar.
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Ya! we need inclusion with all races not just one over the other because that will brig bitterness to others left out of the “kindness circle’. so stamp out ‘gender and discrimination’ politics please.
Matariki declared a public holiday, with expert advice on the exact dates applicable each year, is a sign Aotearoa is maturing.
The British Monarchy, The Christian religion, and what province you happen to live in, all seem to be good enough reasons for public holidays…so lets add Matariki. The usual whingers appear to be Māori bashers, moaning SME operators–who would get two years to prepare–National Party die hards, and ACT’s David “Incel” Seymour who says public holidays are associated with fascist states! Sod off the lot of you.
And ACT announces a dropping of benefit levels to pre covid days, an immediate stop of payments to superannuation fund and a stop of Government subsidy to Kiwisaver .
Meanwhile Charter schools, Private partnership schools will be reintroduced and get tax payer funded support, go figure?
While they’re at it, the government can scrap the phony, and totally inappropriate, Christmas and Easter holidays, and replace them with something authentic and meaningful for this part of the world.
Christmas is nothing more than a Romanised version of the Northern Hemisphere midwinter festival -celebrating the ‘death and rebirth of the Sun’- and Easter is the Romanised version of the pagan equinox festival celebrating the ‘awakening of nature’ in the Northern Hemisphere. Neither have anything to do with Christ, not that NZ is a Christian nation. Both have been morphed into festivals of outrageous consumption by the anti-environmental forces that dominate NZ society.
Yea at long last.
Matariki is a specific Aotearoa/NZ event, recognising and celebrating something special that belongs to us here in Aotearoa/NZ. We non Maori might finally learn something about our clearly defined location in the Pacific.
Let’s celebrate Matariki as a united country, with the respect and focus it deserves.
Yea at long last.
Matariki is a specific Aotearoa/NZ event, recognising and celebrating something special that belongs to us here in Aotearoa/NZ. We non Maori might finally learn something about our clearly defined location in the Pacific.
Let’s celebrate Matariki as a united country, with the respect and focus it deserves.
Matariki mid- winter solstice holiday ….great idea !
A public holiday and incorporating Maori new year is great. Totally support.
However, when Jacinda says “I’ve heard the rallying calls of making Matariki a public holiday” I’m confused, I’ve never heard that many calls rather just suggestions but if she can hear those calls with her supersonic hearing how has she not heard the deafening screams for welfare reform? Because she’s ignoring them.
As for welfare reform the greens could have refused to vote for covid benifit rates unless all core benifits were raised or at the very least the winter energy payments were extended till next october and Labour would have had to do it or the covid benifit wouldn’t have happened and middle class Karen’s would be experiencing Winz for the first time, by voting in favor the Greens have created a disgustingly two tier system and most people will think that’s the normal rate and welfare isn’t so bad. I actually think there will never be welfare reform now because of this and the greens could have used this opportunity to get their coalition promises met.
Yay for the public holiday, boo that the most vulnerable people in NZ are gonna lose $40-60 a week at the same week their rents go up.
Genuinely screwed whoever gets in
Not forgetting our completely dysfunctional health system along with the lack of access to welfare funding for long term health issues.
So yes I agree the Greens should have held out over then covid benefit.
I agree with you, Martyn. I am personally terrified of National winning, but I take the view that the majority of New Zealand are kind, good people who will follow Jacinda’s lead (and they must actually get up and go and vote also, of course). National will immediately have the support of leech landlords, bastard bosses and all manner of other rich sociopaths who would vote for a party that will CUT benefits, health and many other well meaning policies, never mind having a horror like Judith Collins at the helm.It would be a sad indictment on NZ voters if they saw Collins as a better bet. As for the “business” argument, Labour has done an adequate job economically, even, dare I say it, a good job so far. They and our Honourable PM rightly deserve another 3 years. I hope the majority of voters see it that way, regardless of the skewed National party fuckwit right wing propaganda. Jacinda Ardern is an awesome brand for New Zealand, both here and worldwide. Do not let the “Tall Poppy” syndrome destroy that.
Celebrate Matariki is a great idea but one more holiday is another expense that employers do not need so let’s do away with Queens birthday. . Unions are asking for 10 days sick leave . In itself a good idea but once again the employer is being hit. The extra sick days should be covered by the state at say 80% of normal wages if the normal wages is more than the living wage .
A war on meths seems a good idea to me as if marajuana is made legal the meths market will grow.
Check out the Green parties ACC policy .
So we are facing the biggest crisis in 100 years and Jacinda’s first big policy is another holiday. Let that sink in – not child poverty, housing or health. Another fucking holiday…..
But hey while boxer (i.e business) is on their knees why not let Napoleon kick us in the balls. Snowball is busy tucking the into his lunch thinking how smart he is and squealer is about to trot along and tell us we should be thankful for the kick being team 5 million and all……FMD it’s quite clear serious policy is beyond Jacinda. It was too hard first time around so let’s just give the masses some more lollies.
FFS What’s next? A $50 warehouse gift voucher for all citizens?
We could always go back to the dark ages and arts of the 9 years of National when people lived in cars, people lived below the poverty line and hospitals were run down. But that’s okay because National built roads.
What next, chip implants and skin markings to tell everyone you earn less than the minimum wage?
I think you’ll find those issues haven’t disappeared under Labour and in fact most have worsened. As for ‘chipping’ i’m sure if St Ash and Chippy had their way this would already be implemented.
Name calling, how old are you, 5?
And they most certainly have got better.
Remember National ran them down. Now where did all the money disappear when the economy was a “rockstar”?
“A New War on Meths” is code for “Unleashing turbo-powered surveillance on every Kiwi”. (And a few other things such as arming the police, and re-empowering Serco and building new private prisons.)
Please wake up, people. Even if you are usually more to the “Right”, do you really want the massive surveillance into every aspect, every detail of your life, that Madame Wong-Tung represents? Wake up! Even many of her own party jumped ship at the sight of her brazen take-over. What that woman says and what she actually means, are two very different things.
There’s still time to regain some clarity as to the person being listened to (by some). Check it out here
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