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Would this be a conflict of interest, a serious one where the Chair of eke Panuku, Auckland councils ‘Fire Sale’ division that there to generate capital by selling everything that isnt bolted down.
Who is also a director or chairman or both of 27 registered companies that are mainly in housing and/or development and investors in developments or partnership(s) with other businesses personally as well as treaty settlements?
“Paul is Chair of Te Pūia Tāpapa, the Māori Direct Investment Fund ($115.5m) which was established by 26 iwi and Māori entities.”
As well as a promoter of a myth?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/council-selling-marutuahu-ockham-partnership-158ha-in-avondale-for-750-apartments/VCZLIEDBK56XESPVDJIQOEWYPY/
Wow that is a very useful position you have got there Paul. Right in the mosh pit you great w…er, and looking up their skirts and whatnot. How did; you manage that coup?
And another side gig for Majurey whilst chair at Panuku.
Is he leveraging Pare Hauraki earnings and Assets to fund investments in these schemes and 15,000 iwi beneficaries are none the wiser?
No wonder the 12 Hauraki iwi beneficiaries are some of the poorest in the country! Bernie Madoff Majurey has made-off with their putea and assets!
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55c6ee9ae4b029ac822ee591/t/62aa735307e4e2727e34d4e0/1655337815656/IEF+Impact+Report+2021.pdf
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018847962/popular-community-garden-s-growth-stunted-by-bureaucracy
This is interesting. Home schoolers tend to be from splinter groups who don’t want to be tainted by the real life hegemony that we others live with I think. Here they are asserting themselves as special and better and want to take over public spaces meant for everyone, on the basis of the ‘private charitable group’ theme. They don’t have school grounds to do their gardening in because they are home schooeers. So in setting themselves apart from schools, why should they then try to obtain public land? It;s a bit like a uber school movement, doing their own thing and separate from established systems.
It may be a good thing for some, but most that need a different school are those with special needs who want to learn at their own pace and way. It seems that there is a growing trend for public responsibilities of government are being shifted to citizens. They can then turn it into a project of interest and try to raise money to fund something that the government is receiving tax for already, so donors are paying twice.
Yet the government may pay perhaps $1000 a day for professional people to advise why things are going wrong in the country. A strange way for a modern efficient government to serve the interests of the people. Private charity groups phone me every week on my landline and want to chat in cheery tones about the great work they are doing where it is so needed in NZ!
Kāinga Ora, the government’s housing arm has demolished more houses in 2022, than it has built, according to data from the department.
Information from the Government Housing Dashboard reveals 202 houses have been demolished since January, while just 193 have been built, a net loss of nine homes.
Labour’s housing policies as “failed”, it has spent more than $1 billion on emergency housing since it came to power.
“Labour promised it would solve New Zealand’s housing crisis, Five years on, taxpayers have paid more than $1 billion in emergency housing special needs grants, mainly to motels, with thousands of people living in motels for months at a time.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/470184/rotorua-reserves-for-housing-council-urged-to-rethink-sale-of-community-assets
This is another example of public having land taken away. The government has invited people in to get their money and because they wanted faster growth than was essential. There are not jobs for everyone nor houses for everyone in NZ who want them, and still these extras are invited, encouraged in and pay large sums to come here for applications and visas and to their future employers. And that is aaprt from refugees to whom we owe a place on humanitarian grounds. Too many plus the mismanagement of housing for all NZs, with the way that accommodation has been withdrawn by government, but also the assistance and encouragement for first home buyers to find a home and stability.
It is just unbelievable that Labour is so craven after their strong beginnings, led by an Australian! They may not be able to drive policies through, but they could have a new style of communicating their wishes with the people. Come straight to us and tell us what is holding them back. If it is bureaucracy we want to know, if finance how can we work around that?
Sadly @Grey, they can’t tell us it’s the bureaucracy because they live in fear of it, and there’s a good chance a few of them will want to hop back into it if and when things don’t go their way after the election.
They need an escape hatch. It’ll either be the public service in some senior rank, corporate NuZull or some cosy slot in academia.
It’s in the book
Interesting doco review from stuff:
After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News trailer
Current Time 0:23
Duration 1:33
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/stuff-to-watch/300620032/five-nottobemissed-documentaries-on-neon-right-now
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After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News is now available to stream on Neon.
After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News
from Alex Behan Jun.29/22
One of my favourite documentaries is 2011’s Page One: Inside The New York Times. It captures one of the world’s most important newspapers facing a financial crisis, it foretold the challenges media would face in coming years and asked important questions about the value of the fourth estate.
From the same director (Andrew Rossi) comes After Truth, which details the rise of fake news, the weaponisation of it, the use of it by both sides of the political spectrum in America and the total mess the rest of us find ourselves in.
The film introduces us to the very nice staff at the pizza shop at the centre of “Pizzagate”. Then, we go on tour with conspiracy theorist Jacob Wohl and fraudster Jack Burkman, as they crusade to unveil former FBI director Bob Mueller as a child molester.
It might seem crazy that two charlatans would let a camera crew follow them and reveal their shady tactics, but such is their brazen nature. They don’t care about coming across as dishonest or incredible – so long as their big fabrication is out there and being talked about, they’re winning.
A lot of blame lands at the feet of big tech and shady, unknowable algorithms. You may feel sick of the whole fake news topic, but the more you know, the better equipped you are to protect yourself in an increasingly murky world.
Guitar so great it;s beyond description. Hotel California
2.32 – theres a longer version which is wonderful. Lucas Imbiriba Argentinian I think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5XQryZfPfY
Tax time folks! You show us yours – the authorities have already seen ours. your turn. https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/129144328/inland-revenue-hits-brick-wall-trying-to-contact-14-richlisters
…Revenue Minister David Parker ordered the High Wealth Individuals survey last year, in a bid to gather information that many assume could be a precursor to the Government proposing an inheritance tax or some other form of wealth tax at or after the next election….
Inland Revenue has not heard back from 14 of the 376 wealthy people who it instructed to participate in a compulsory survey that could help reshape the tax system.
Spokesperson Gay Cavill said that failure to comply with its requests for information would be a breach of the Tax Administration Act, but could not say whether it was considering enforcement action.
………..”but could not say whether it was considering enforcement action.”
So instead they’d rather go after easy pickings – such as UBER or courier drivers, or the self-employed who HAD to claim the wage subsidy. Gotta keep them in debt somehow.
Why we can’t get an honest and understanding attitude to sex and babies and single mothers and parents in general. Bent at the core.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/129032595/a-secret-world-of-power-abuse-and-coverups-in-new-zealand-schools
This would not happen to such an extent if we did accept that sex is good but must be special even reasured and not used as a home sporting occasion for people who have never learned the art of conversation! Let priests and nuns marry if they wish and all before marriage talk about their relationship, expectations, and understand each other. And forget Tinder except as a friendly dating program not one to get strangers as sex partners.
Look at these figures about early sex experience – high in USA which is so against abortion because? – they are obsessed with sex and want to deny that and consider it impure. During last century filmmakers weren’t able to portray a married couple lying in the same bed.
https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/30862/teenage-pregnancy-international-comparisons
In the 2010s New Zealand had one of the highest rates of teenage births of the high-income countries in the OECD. In 2013 New Zealand’s birth rate for women aged 15-19 years was 22 per 1,000 – the fourth highest, behind Turkey, the United States and Slovak Republic.
While the rate of teenage pregnancy is high in New Zealand relative to other OECD countries, the percentage of all births that are to women under 20 years old has dropped dramatically since the 1970s.
Earlier days and actions: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5401/healthhist.12.1.27
I’ve thought of a way to raise our stndard of living and get government to get going. Another country that wants to improve things too will set us both a goal and we will award our own dual-rise medal to which of the two countries gets the best score in that particular aspect in the year. Each country will measure the other and argue their way to who gets the medal followed by a feast held by the winning country for both countries.
We need a spur, we need competition, we only get exercised by challenges, sport, winning and losing. The UN doesn’t rate I’m afraid. Byrt the other country? Not Australia, not Brunei, not Indonesia. It must be with a similar mixed faith place with similar aspirations. Sri Lanka, is trying to get on its feet after a background of fighting. Smallish country, perhaps South American one that isn’t dealing with drug corruption or whatever. We need a reasonably equal playing field. A Small Nations Confederation?
Being wet has been a putdown in the past. But now we welcome water, in manageable amounts. Mulloon Institute in Australia is both practical and environmentally aware and this is the latest clip they have made of their efforts – about 10 mins.
https://vimeo.com/706852580 Resilient landscapes
https://themullooninstitute.org/blog/2022/6/9/trialling-our-advanced-curricullum
Basic contact – info@themullooninstitute.org