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Wow! They’re coming for Shubz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x9SBrf_nIs
Keep a very, very close eye on the ACC reforms and the very slippery CEO
Music has its own rules, its own language, and produces sounds that go beyond speech, to the heart of humans; we need to make change from our present society to living for music, but keeping watch on the people becoming increasing alien to what our parents and their parents wanted and died for in our society and world.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/concert/programmes/three-to-seven/audio/2019013594/remembering-sir-donald
Do it now, not laugh and dismiss – but keep an eye on the twisted blisters who are ‘that’, not ‘who’ as they aren’t really people as we understand it; that are blighting our lives, destroying values and our civil, fair achievements in a modern society.
Maori can think of Inia Te Wiata, trained by pakeha, married a pakeha, and not only sang overseas to acclaim, but left a pou carved meticulously, laboured over in the depths, of night after work, and those of NZ House. But which NZ had no commitment to as a great cultural art work and left there in London. It was too big to cope with. And so is our original idea of NZ – if we want NZAO we have to take it into our own hands, the concept and carry it forward, finding our way past the blisters to honour all the good and committed people of the past, and those who still have vision here and the will to work together doing what is both rational and spiritual. Music as our drive*, doing things together in harmony or not, but a plan to do together that has an outcome that we can applaud; those of us who care and aren’t too deep in our ‘comfy chairs’ (Monty Python). But we may have to face a Sp.iteful Inquisition, as the ‘broad church’ (a tradition from within the Anglican Church) is not what is desired by the blisters. Think widely now!
* Our vision and thinking could be summed up as ‘drive’.
What are the four human drives?
Drive to Bond: the desire to be loved and feel valued in our relationships with others. Drive to Learn: the desire to satisfy our curiosity.
Drive to Defend: the desire to protect ourselves, our loved ones and our property.
Drive to Feel: the desire for emotional experiences like pleasure or excitement.
Core Human Drives – The Personal MBA https://personalmba.com › core-human-drive
This Concert Program item is honouring our Sir Donald McIntyre who a lot of people won’t remember. He is singing a Wagnerian piece that in the day might have fired up the Nazis as Hitler was pretty keen on Wagner I think.
What aria of sustained emotion would echo NZs spirit? Have a think, I can think of songs about Maori and colonial times, but something deeper about this land. My two favourite duets are two superb men presenting in the Depths of the Temple from the Pearl Fishers and the Flower Duet with two women, beautiful as singers and in appearance. Very stirring. But not Kiwi.
Here is Hvorostovsky and Kaufmann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIbU4OldP-s
and Elina Garanca and Anna Netrebko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrm59zqCKEU
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/579940/takuta-ferris-alleges-despicable-treatment-of-dying-mp-takutai-tarsh-kemp
Maori mirroring a John A Lee and Micky Savage scenario – deja vu all over again?
Priceless! That’s lucky because we have already paid a lot up-front.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/new-zealand-gov-t-blames-consultants-for-ferry-program-s-cost-blowout
…Early this year, the government established Ferry Holdings to oversee the project with the main aim of reducing costs and ensuring the timely delivery of the new ferries, following the cancellation of project iReX, which was responsible for the rising costs.
KiwiRail decided to terminate the contract for two large ferries that had been awarded to Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Shipyard in 2021 after the government decided not to provide funding to the iReX project. That cancellation was finalized in August 2025 at a total cost of about US$125 million. When including consulting fees and other expenses, the sunk cost for the iReX program came to a total of US$375 million.
Since its establishment in March, the new Ferry Holdings has been working closely with KiwiRail, CentrePort, Port Marlborough, and government agencies to ensure the program delivers better value for money…
Speech writers and media consultants – where would gummint be without them? A great big hole in the middle of the indestructure would be revealed.
Watch this – bring your own orange cone.
New Zealand Politics
42 minutes ago Tuesday Nov.25/25
No more regional councils – major shake-up of local government announced
Russell Palmer
Russell Palmer, Political Reporter
russell.palmer@rnz.co.nz
Mayors of city and district councils would take over the duties of regional councils, in a coalition proposal pitched as the biggest shake-up of local government in three decades.
The mayors would form 11 Combined Territories Boards (CTBs), which would meet regularly and – on top of handling the business of regional councils – would be tasked with coming up with a “Regional Reorganisation Plan” for reorganising how their councils are structured in the long term.
The CTBs would also have responsibility under the government’s Resource Managment Act (RMA) reforms for developing the region-wide spatial plan chapter, and a national environment plan chapter, to be included in combined regional plans.
The changes are now out for consultation, which remains open until 20 February, with the resulting legislation expected to be introduced mid-next year and passed in 2027.
And so it goes….