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Long live the King! As if. More like long live QEII’s son, at least until his sons make up. It’ll be KCIIIs death that accomplishes that though. I say we skip Chuck and Bill and just have Queen Catherine. She’s gorgeous
Kiwirail seems to have a lot of bounce, considering that their rubber mat is so perished.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/489392/transport-investigation-report-highlights-gaps-in-kiwirail-s-first-class-audit-regime
Once you have read this you may feel like watching a short history of scary clowns with or without rubber faces. It is less scary when you can see what is being done and how!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dS9WhGxfLE
People seking good journalism might like to support nz geographic.
This from th Weekender about young people in nz.
Being teen in 2023
The new edition of New Zealand Geographic is a special one—the result of almost a year documenting nine teenagers across the motu.
Pandemic, climate chaos, a cost-of-living crisis: in one of the major features to come out of this project, editor Catherine Woulfe lets the teens explain what it’s like to be growing up in these uncertain times.
One teenager –
Being teen in 2023
The new edition of New Zealand Geographic is a special one—the result of almost a year documenting nine teenagers across the motu.
Pandemic, climate chaos, a cost-of-living crisis: in one of the major features to come out of this project, editor Catherine Woulfe lets the teens explain what it’s like to be growing up in these uncertain times.
When the flood came, 18-year-old Seilala Muagututia was at church. The family van made a bow wave on the slow drive home across South Auckland. The lights of other cars stretched long and eerie in the knee-high water. People waded along footpaths, filming, stopping every now and then to look around and marvel.
The family were staying at the Auckland Airport Motel while builders patched leaky ceilings at their home in Papatoetoe. Inside their unit, the water was clear and completely still—no rushing rivers of sediment—so even when it rose past ankle height, it looked like someone had polished the carpet. The family waded from room to room in Fila slides and bare feet. With the power still on, they decided it was too dangerous to sleep inside. They gathered up duvets and pillows and sloshed back out to the van.
Don’t things register more when displayed in words rather than images!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018888861/redmer-yska-on-tracking-katherine-mansfield-across-europe
This was a great interview about Katherine Mansfield, much talked about but I find little known to me and no doubt many. She was very stalwart and it seems that she wrote some of her most poignant stories when she was very ill.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/489316/nz-reaches-out-to-draw-top-investors-to-country
WTF
The government is stepping up efforts to get more high value investors to apply for New Zealand reside
The investment arm of Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) was launching its first major piece of international marketing to support the government’s Active Investor Migrant Programme, which had been previously criticised for attracting too few applicants…
“I think if we could bring in 30 or so every year, that’s 300-plus million of new money into the economy – into the productive part of our economy every year.
“That is a substantial amount of money.”
The Active Investor Plus visa had a slightly different process to other visas as it was up to NZTE to determine what was an acceptable investment for applicants.
Lawrence said active investment included direct investments, managed funds, listed equities or philanthropy.
He said the upcoming event was being supported by New Zealand companies.
“As a country, we’re very good at the number eight wire mentality.
What a mendacious feel-good comment. The No.8 wire came from doing things ourselves not inviting the rich kids from over the way to come in and look at our great whatever and see the different ways there are of squeezing the country for private goodies. Even getting our rich-list sh..heads back would be good. To these people life and fun and work is combined in looking to see future tends and setting up a net to trap what swims in that movement.
Sir Angus Tait is the type of businessman we want in present NZ. Not a fruitfly hovering over the country like a sensitive drone looking for exploitable resources or businesses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Tait
https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/49104/Electronics-company-pioneer-Sir-Angus-Tait-dies-at-88
…Sir Angus was often an outspoken critic of government policies, particularly the level playing field and open market policies begun in the 1980s by former finance minister Sir Roger Douglas.
He refused many offers by foreigners to buy his company, which exports 90 percent of its production, and which he protected in 1994 from takeover by donating his shares to a charitable trust.
“As a result, many jobs were saved and the company has gone on to earn over two billion dollars in exports for New Zealand,” Chick said…
About Tait now –
We support our customers around the world from regional bases that cover the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Working alongside us is a global network of trusted partners, integrators and consultants that we’ve developed throughout the past four decades.
The hub of our global operations is in Christchurch, New Zealand and includes our principal design, engineering, and manufacturing facilities. Our campus sits at the hub of a network of suppliers and partners that fuels our local, regional and national economies.
https://www.taitradio.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/129287/TAI0151-Corporate-Overview_Fact-Sheet.pdf
The NZ Hall of Fame has – nothing it wants to put on to the internet.
It says – The connection has timed out.
NZ Business Hall of Fame
NZ Business Hall of Fame
https://www.businesshalloffame.co.nz
Kelly Tarlton · Kingi Smiler · Michael Barnett · Sir Paul Adams · Ted Manson · Theresa Gattung · Wally Stone …
It seems that NZ business has shrivelled on the vine. Perhaps there have been few formative and formidable talents since Sir Angus Tait, and that is why CEOs like Theresa Gattung are on the list ; those who run businesses that others have started from scratch and developed themselves with real No.8 wire perspicacity and perspiration.
RNZ shows its priorities.
Top in its showcase of features – the Coronation views moved aside to offer 9 people killed in a mall in USA. Which is more meaningfrul to us? Depends on how empty and fly-blown the particular brains are. Well the bit about our PM at the Coronation is still there so that covers that. And we must keep up with the latest USA ‘killing spree’ news eh. They have given it top feature even though there are no reports yet about deaths (but we are hopeful eh)!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/489434/police-responding-to-shooting-at-texas-mall-multiple-injured
(Is it possible that we get a USA newsfeed cheap from which we have to print one item each day to keep them in front of our eyes? I miss Reuters, it seemed better.)
This under heading of ‘The top coronation moments you may have missed.’
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/489418/coronation-katy-perry-trying-to-find-her-seat-and-other-top-moments
Love us or sneer – but we are great and kwerky and irrepressible – we would be fine if we could get our act together and sand off the sharp edges. I love this from Gerard Hindmarsh in some nostalgia. We must hold ourselves together, some might have to be abandoned but keep the good.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131956387/kiwis-should-get-first-shot-at-great-walks
What do we think about this – good or not-so? Some good info and stats. We will be able to get gin, chocolate and campervans cheaper apparently. But there is a 15 year transistion. Was there 15 years when UK entered the EU and left us punch drunk in 1975 was it? If anyone builds a business that can be undermined by the UK imports they had better organise.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/489338/the-nz-uk-free-trade-agreement-what-you-need-to-know
This book about cults might give some understanding on spotting them and whether the people you mix with are what you think, they are, or in fact your own status.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018866608/anke-richter-delving-into-the-world-of-cults-and-control
A leading journalist’s intense, riveting and personal investigation into the worlds and minds of cults
At a new age festival in Byron Bay, journalist Anke Richter is finding her spiritual awakening when she meets a woman – a survivor of the Auckland cult Centrepoint – who will change the course of her life and career.
Over the next ten years, Anke pursues a labyrinthine investigation into how and why cults attract, entrap and destroy otherwise ordinary people, asking what the line is between tribe and cult, participant and perpetrator, seduction and sexual abuse.
From the emotional and criminal carnage of Auckland’s Centrepoint to an anti-cult conference in Manchester, the infamous Osho’s ashram in India, the tantric Agama Yoga school in remote Thailand, and culminating in a visit to Gloriavale on the West Coast of the South Island, Anke uncovers a disturbing pattern of violence and suffering. Cult Trip is a powerful exploration of what really goes on inside the groups we call cults, and how to reckon with their aftermath.
‘Wild stuff. Anke Richter is one of my favourite writers, blurring the line between participant and reporter’ David Farrier, journalist behind Dark Tourist and Tickled
‘Thorough and compassionate … Cult Trip is a brittle, sensitive book’ Steve Braunias
‘What a book and what a writer! Cult Trip is an incredibly immersive, intense and necessary reading experience put together with doggedness and skill. The stories are heart-rending, told with bravery and care.’ Noelle McCarthy, author of Grand
‘Phenomenal. I cannot recommend this book enough.’ Tova O’Brien, Today FM
‘Cult Trip is incredibly painful and powerful – an eye opener, a tour de force and a call for justice’ Janja Lalich, author of Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships
‘Bringing together information from around the globe, Anke Richter pinpoints the internal struggles of those coming out of cults, and the debilitating harm that lingers afterwards’ Rachel Bernstein, cult specialist and educator
https://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/p/cult-trip-by-anke-richter/R2843027.html
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/489540/surgeons-frustrated-still-no-national-criteria-for-who-gets-planned-surgery-and-how-quickly
Just as well Ian Powell beavers away on medical matters. There seems a collective deafness about matters affecting us peeps and our lives from Wellington and a profoundly disturbing reluctance to enable us to get what we want in matters that have moral and practical importance. We might as well be being run by an old fashioned mincing machine grafted into the side of a hill with government turning the handle and we and all our belongings gradually being extruded in recognisable but altered, twisted form.
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