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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/556433/remote-village-fights-for-survival
Note – this is indicative of how hard it will be to save the spirit of NZ against the encroaching financial vultures and those who in my favoured author Georgette Heyer’s folk saying, ‘are queer in their attic’. The authorities that were supposed to be employed to help the nation and the citizenry are instead either hindering or squashing us with their expensive stratagems and scenarios which often are to appeal to tourists rather than serve our needs.
To find an alternative – take back our country etc – will require the efforts of that old phrase – ‘Now is the time for all-good men to come to the aid of the party’. And we will need to be good-natured about it too so that we can cope with the situation referred to by that sly dig that ‘he’ embraces ‘she’. One needs a grasp of wider Engl;ish to understand the nuances and niceties of how to get where you want to be without a lot of brouhaha.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/556428/benefit-struggle-i-ve-fallen-into-the-trap-of-being-100-percent-reliant-on-it
This guy should become a stand-up comedian, he has a big and mobile mouth and is very good at seeing everything from his own viewpoint which makes it easy for a comedian who find laughs at other people. Trouble is that he will be used as an exemplar and everyone hasn’t got to being as smugly coping as him. Just remember that the people in charge don’t care about individuals except in their own societal class.
People like this are in need of looking after, they have no ability to envisage the future or even the present. Government needs to use education time to learning about life and humanity and our past world history with analysis of why it can be so bad, and even why we don’t get better politicians – it being an important job for which people are not well trained or required to have suitable experience. Have classes in philosophy and sociology and about being human and understanding history and how we mess things up in cycles, and that they are not just things with wheels!
The emphasis tends seems to teach how to budget etc but that is already taught at sunday schools of churches that veer towards the prosperity type. Learning to be a good financial manager is part of being a good sensible Christian of the new churches.
Hooray for Christchurch trying to keep quasi government agency at bay – might need whips!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/556317/christchurch-buses-ecan-remains-defiant-on-fares
Canterbury’s regional council continues to push back against government pressure to raise bus fares.
Environment Canterbury (ECan) voted for a gradual increase in bus fares over the next three years, despite Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency pushing for sharper fare rises.
The existing $2 and $1 bus fares contribute just 11.7 percent to the cost of fares, but NZTA has set targets of increasing the private contribution to 18 percent for the 2024/25 financial year, 25 percent for 2025/26 and 38 percent for 2026/27.
However, ECan councillors accepted a staff proposal to increase the private share to 12 percent this year, followed by 13 percent and 14 percent increases each year after, at a council meeting on Wednesday.
The council’s public transport services general manager Stewart Gibbon said NZTA wanted the council to be ”more aspirational” but the agency’s proposal was not ”achievable”.
Staff hoped to offset some of the shortfall through advertising revenue and the increased patronage expected when new sports facilities open in central Christchurch. Te Kaha Stadium is expected to open next year.
ECan’s funding woes stemmed in part from adopting its 2024/34 Long Term Plan before the government released the latest National Land Transport Plan in September, where significant funding reductions were made for public transport.
There has also been significant under-investment in public transport in Greater Christchurch over the last decade, which is a legacy of the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, Gibbon said….
Join Assange for the notable person voted Most Unpopular Award for telling the Ttrruuutthh. Gladding!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/556508/councillor-niki-gladding-may-be-stripped-of-responsibilities-after-information-leak
Queenstown councillor who revealed a confidential council plan to discharge treated sewage into the Shotover River may be stripped of her responsibilities.
Niki Gladding last week revealed the council was planning to invoke emergency powers to pump at least 12,000 cubic metres of treated sewage into the Shotover River per day.
The council had been plagued by compliance issues relating to sewage disposal from its wastewater treatment plant and said ponding wastewater created danger for planes at the neighbouring Queenstown Airport.
An extraordinary meeting was called by Mayor Glyn Lewers for next Tuesday.
Stuart McLauchlan, the independent chairperson of the council’s audit, finance and risk committee, wrote to Lewers and said Gladding had breached the council’s code of conduct.
“I have been made aware of the actions of Councillor Gladding leaking confidential information to a third party and taking a position in public (for or against the Council ) based on knowledge of confidential information,” McLauchlan’s letter said….
This would gladden any decent person in Queenstown and also those who try to be decent around the motu.
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