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If you can stand it, try and listen to today’s RNZ’ The Panel.
I had to take time out from Radio Shizoid and Smooth Jazz Monterray – an hour or so I’ll never get back.
Can someone tell Wallace he’s not ever going to be the congenital hipster’s Devil’s advocate with a lisp.
Be yourself Wallace and you could even end up on Today FM, or features editor for the Spinoff.
Interesting conversations for NZ future: Coastal shipping will be more important.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018842231/forgotten-highway-reviving-a-domestic-coastal-shipping-service
“The shipping companies are very profitable at the moment. But if you go back in time, they weren’t very profitable, why was that? Because of competition.
“The analogy I like to say to people is that owning a ship is like owning a building, it has a life. That ship you’re looking at there would be about 10 to 15 years old, it’s probably got 10 years of life in it, so like owning a building you want to get a return on it.
“To build that ship today would cost you US$60 million. Shipping companies at the moment, yes, they’re doing very well but they’ve got assets and the cost of shipping isn’t cheap.”
Stevens is taking The Detail on a tour of the Ports of Auckland to give an insight into what’s going on in shipping, what’s behind the supply chain crisis, the sky-high costs and the push for a revival of a domestic coastal shipping service.
Disappointed our Left hasn’t grasped on to the renewed call for democracy Ukraine represents like we found in
WW ll. I consider it over-complex of us.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/467390/a2-milk-faces-class-action-claims-again
The opt-in class action is seeking compensation for A2 Milk shareholders, who allegedly suffered losses when the company’s shares fell between August 2020 and May last year.
A2 Milk is also facing two class action suits in Australia, which were filed in October and in November last year.
Australian news of importance or is it impotence.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2205/S00038/peter-duttons-defamation-defeat.htm
Defence Minister Peter Dutton, ever the nasty enforcer of the Morrison government, was one who had every reason to feel confident when he took refugee activist Shane Bazzi to court in April last year. In February 2021, Bazzi published a six-word tweet: “Peter Dutton is a rape apologist.”
The tweet was made some hours after Dutton had told a press conference that he had not been furnished with the finer details of a rape allegation made by former Coalition staffer Britney Higgins. The context here was also important. Dutton had, when Home Affairs Minister, characterised refugee women being held on Nauru, one of Australia’s carceral domains, as “trying it on” to get access to the Australian mainland for medical treatment.
The following month, this sadist-in-chief promised that he would start to “pick out some” individuals who were “trending on Twitter or have the anonymity of different Twitter accounts” posting “all these statements and tweets that are frankly defamatory.” It was an informal declaration of war against critics.