The Daily Blog Open Mic – 24th October 2022

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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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  1. If you move your wharenui from Hauraki to Waikato to be repaired and then get it installed in the Auckland Museum. Does that give your iwi a right to claim ahikaroa over Auckland CBD and across Auckland in treaty claims displacing iwi from Auckland?

    Majurey’s cunning plan(s).

    An interesting “Development”.

    Eke Panuku and H.U.D, Kainga Ora in Court soon?
    A conflict of interest?
    The Chairman of eke Panuku Paul Majurey and Ockham, Mark Todd, housing development get the green light for consents and government investment and the developments in South Auckland gets the bums rush.

    This development by Winton …

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/130223791/property-development-company-winton-takes-kinga-ora-to-court-over-refusal-to-fasttrack-4b-carless-neighbourhood

    Versus these ones … by Majurey and Ockham.
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/new-multi-billion-dollar-village-planned-for-owairaka-mt-albert-by-marutuahu-ockham/OHN4SJNAJ5VSQMGCRTC5CKA4ZQ/

    You wouldnt get away with this bs on a marae!

    Oh. Majureys also the Co Governance Chairman of Aucklands Tupuna Maunga Authority. No a democratic board.
    Here is an example of how it’s run.
    The ‘Public’ are invited one by one to make oral submissions to the panel under these rules. It’s not public. It’s a closed door investigation, interrogation!

    “Please note the following:

    a. At the appropriate time your name will be called for presentation during the above time slot. If you are not present the Authority will move on to another speaker and your time will be lost.

    b. The above timeslot is the time slot available for you.

    c. Your verbal submission will be before the Tūpuna Maunga Authority members available for the hearing.

    d. Your written submission will have been read by the Tūpuna Maunga Authority members prior to the hearing.

    e. Each verbal submission can be presented for up to 10 minutes in total, including any questions from Tūpuna Maunga Authority members. So, it is for your judgment if you leave any time for questions.

    f. Management will indicate when we have reached the 7 minute mark and 10 minute mark.

    g. There is to be no repetition.

    h. No recording is permitted throughout the hearing and given previous experience, this will be monitored.

    i. Only verbal submitters will be invited to attend during their hearing time slot.

    We attach an information sheet that sets out the protocols for the hearing.

    If you have since decided you do not wish to present your submission, please let us know by return email. We will contact you on this email should any matters change, otherwise please send us a phone contact.”

    Oh why not!

    AUCKLAND TAXPAYERS ALLIANCE RUNNING A CAMPAIGN TO ‘DEFUND PANUKU’!”

    “In the last financial year, Auckland Council’s property management and development agency spent $34 million on staff salaries and office space. To cover these costs, Panuku “recharged” the Council $14.5 million in staff time and received an $18.3 million handout from ratepayers.

    Panuku employs 203 full-time staff but 9 of them are executives paid over $200,000 a year and 41 of them are lower-tier managers paid an average of $143,000 per year! That is a manager for every three staff.”

    https://www.ratepayers.nz/defund_eke_panuku

    • Wow! That’s a lot of overpaid managers. I have a management degree (accountant but don’t manage staff) but don’t earn anywhere near that. I’m good at what I do and am reasonably well paid for my skills and experience. Others slightly more qualified and less experienced than me but paid much less still only earn $60k to $70K in my region. Most at the lower end. I wonder if those earning $143K are working 60 hour weeks or something? How is there job success rate measured? Is their salary reviewed every year and what are pay rises based on? Looks obscene to me.

      • It’s a top-down mates club.

        Majurey likes to buy loyalty with ratepayers’ money.

        He has as much pulling power within Auckland council as the executive Directors for Governance & for all of the Council. Phil Wilson and Jim Stabback. They both have let him run loose within eke Panuku and across council.

    • Sounds like The King giving audience to the peons. That’s not what I expected and felt ok with. How do the trusting Maori think of this? Do they know and feel bewildered and whakamaa?

  2. For the swelled heads in Groundswell – the ones who wouldn’t know teats from a tangle.
    They probably think wellies is a friendly name for Wellington bureaucrats. Fred Dagg we loved you. RIP inside John Clarke’s magical head as well as outside. (That word well again, let’s try to hear more of it, plain and simple, even if Fred isn’t around any more.)

    If it wasn’t for your wellies…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tAWwqKNI7g
    We Don’t Know How Lucky We Are
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYvMeT2GC14
    Fred Dagg on Real Estate advancement
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbFlstJ4u8E

  3. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/477174/passenger-punches-driver-in-head-after-row-over-bringing-lit-cigarette-on-bus

    Simple anti-social violence like this is expensive to cure, and NZ is making no attempt to build a civil society or even to cure those who offend. I suggest we have stocks where people who can’t consider others or work in with what systems we have left and feel entitled to do anything they want should be given a lesson that all can see.

    Prison is expensive and why take someone whose head is in a mess and spend a lot of time in with similar others expecting to have something good happen. What a piece of work is man – Shakespeare being satirical about how satyrical* we may be underneath.

    If we all try to be a bit gooder and deliver and expect fair behaviour, we could be better, better, better – oooooh! nah nah nah nah-nah-na-nah
    Part of the requirement while they are in the stocks will be that they have to sing Hey Jude right through with all the nah-nahs.
    https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/beatles/heyjude.html

    *What is Satyric?
    n. 1. often Satyr Greek Mythology A woodland creature depicted as having the pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. 2. A licentious man; a lecher.

  4. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2210/S00158/one-stop-ticketing-solution-for-public-transport.htm

    Oh gawd – all set for another major stuff up this time in transport. Or we are putting all our important transport eggs into the hands of some giant corpse. When can we get it through our heads that these technical advances we have made are glorious expensive toys that we will fall off and scrape our knees from and run home to mother bawling? But she will have decdided to let out her innate masculinity and gone off in a space ship or turned into a guru handing out poetic sounding nostrums not realising that its not the latest trend – Nostradamus did it centuries ago.

    Stick to simplicity and get those convoluted fools out of the political seats and use the Chamber for discrete concerts for the upper classes. Keep them corralled up with their dainty habits and fools fancies and we get on with the living for our time left, working at useful stuff, then throwing in some loving and singing. Let’s do things the unflash way, manually.

  5. News that S(UK)s – https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2210/S00034/exit-liz-truss-enter-lettuce.htm

    …British politics has revealed hidden depths, each one being sought as each prime minister succumbs. The announcement by Liz Truss that she would be resigning came after a mere 45 days in office. In terms of duration, this would make her the shortest serving PM since the Tory George Canning, who died of tuberculosis in August 1827 after holding office for 119 days.

    The sequence of events from the moment Truss entered Downing Street on September 6th is bound to induce vertigo. She promised a package of eyebrow raising energy-price guarantees and tax cuts on September 23rd. She fantasised about growing Britain and demonised a fictional cabal of anti-growth opponents lurking on the opposition benches and on the streets. Central to such policies, as Tim Bale of Queen Mary University describes it, is “the myth that we can have Scandinavian levels of welfare on American levels of taxation.”

    The boys and girls that have done their internship as political gofers, in the UK had better attend another Alma Mater. Why not go right away before a new wave of pandemic rolls over us like mustard gas in the First World War!! Brush off the fallout on your CV – come to the UK in its brief period of vacation from stuff-ups that anyone of moderate working brain would detect. You will shine compared to our current crop of basking lizards.

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    Te wiki o te tāke; recovering wage subsidy payments from MNCs, chasing crypto tax transparency, Frucor decision a lost cause

    23rd Oct 22, 2:03pm
    by Terry Baucher
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    The Week In Tax · Inland Revenue targets multinationals re overpaid wage subsidy, the Asia Initiative & more on Frucor
    Earlier this week a scoop by Rebecca Stevenson revealed that Inland Revenue had collected an extra $33 million from multinational firms as part of a campaign to keep COVID-19 wage subsidy payments in New Zealand.

    During 2020 a total of 376 multinationals (those with annual turnover in excess of $30 million) received a total of $830 million in wage subsidies.”

    So what are they gunna do about rest of the $797m?

    • I can’t handle all those big numbers – what do they mean. Are they only numbers that politicians and corpse are familiar with. I’m familiar with meat costing twice as much as usual and some good quotes on what house prices should be.

      From – https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/10/22/bernard-hickey-explains-why-the-nz-political-economy-is-doomed-and-why-i-love-listening-to-low-wage-exploiting-businesses-cry/#comment-687723
      “The rule of thumb long used by real estate agents and homebuyers is that you can afford a house if its price is equivalent to roughly 2.6 years of your household income” .May 2018 Bloomberg while The United Nations reckons the housing affordibility ratio should be 3.0.

      NZ median wage is $61,000 ($1189 per week StatsNZ Jun22)

      NZ median house price $956,000 (QV Sep22)

      Money was created to assist trading and acquisition and also loans to carry someone over a low earning period, like a swing bridge over a ravine.
      But the getting or winning of it has an unholy fascination for humans.

      I like the line from Simon and Garfunkel about it being a pocketful of mumbles and a duo have adopted that name. Here singing in a low-key (literally) The Boxer.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cWao3CUYuM

      And here are the potent poetic words from the first verse by Paul Simon. The link goes to the long song which is apposite for today and possibly the days to come.:
      The Boxer –
      I am just a poor boy
      Though my story’s seldom told
      I have squandered my resistance
      For a pocketful of mumbles
      Such are promises
      All lies and jest
      Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
      And disregards the rest…
      https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/simongarfunkel/theboxer.html

    • Sweet f.a. no doubt. Most of IRD is contracted out to wobbles after they made most of their staff redundant about a year or so back. IRD are hopeless to work with now.

  9. I accuse my brother of being syncretic — in his case he mushes up Hare Krishna with racist skinhead, never disavows anything. None of my four sibs are much beyond teenage views. The brilliance is to be open to different views and ‘change your mind’. Trotter does it all the time. I’ve heard there has been quite a lot of house-building under Labour. Don’t know if that’s true but it would be a good I’d hold for them. Now note my NZ politeness by not pointing out things about you.

  10. Australia admits that NZ has a few tricks up its sleeve. Introduces another sporting contest – a race to the bottom. Tourism minster says that now Uluru/Ayers Rock is not available for tourists to toil up, there needs to be a new attraction of interest, and going downhill is likely to be easier so more popular with tourists looking for ways to fill their time.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/477240/australia-taking-notes-on-new-zealand-wellbeing-budgetsAustralia's Budget, to be released on Tuesday will have a “wellbeing” section, modelled on the New Zealand budget concepts.
    New Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers said his country should start to measure wellbeing in other ways than the usual economic statistics, such as measuring the state of the environment or access to childcare.

  14. Dear comrade, there is only reality now. Our wilyness over forty fucken freemarket years and climate end now. You’re as expressive as it gets already. We need a public orator like Norm Kirk from his pulpit.

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