The more I watch the Labour coalition government ignore the recommendations of the working groups it has set up (at considerable cost ) the more it’s clear to me that the Ardern/Roberston government is going to make the inmates of our neoliberal prison a little more comfortable with warmer cells to rent (for example) , but they are not going to open the prison gates.
Sustainable Otakiri has four days left to meet the costs of Sustainable Otakiri taking the Chinese owned company that wants to bottle .1 million m3 of deep-aquifer water/year (that’s 2,451, 960 bottles each day) to the Environment Court.
If you use one of those “free” electric scooters or bikes you are giving someone valuable data about your movements around the city. Is that something that concerns you – or not?
This is not good enough. Ratepayers need to see a proper, complete, financial accounting of the Henderson saga, and of what it has cost, from first to last. There is a new Council now, a different Mayor and new policies. I would like to see the Christchurch City Council do a public reckoning to its ratepayers of what this iniquitous and shambolic deal cost us, first and last.
Yes, I know, the decision not to increase benefits yet is terrible. It does condemn many households to a further miserable existence in povertyland. And it is wrong. But I am celebrating today. Because thousands of single parent families, whose only ‘crime’ was to refuse to name the father of their child/ren, will no longer be subject to a punitive and disgusting sanction of $28 per week.
This week – Slushies, Pike River Mine, trial coverage protocols, Simon Bridges still leader, Venezuela & trans athletes
The Israel Institute of New Zealand (IINZ) website carries a video message from National MP Alfred Ngaro, dated 23 December 2018, with the title National MP Alfred Ngaro on Israel and 2334. The same video can also be seen on YouTube – but under the heading New Zealand MP Alfred Ngaro – a staunch Zionist. The IINZ introduction to the video says: “National Party List MP, Hon Alfred Ngaro . . . recorded this video in which he declares his personal commitment to Israel while reminding his viewers of New Zealand’s historic support for the Jewish nation”. In his less than five-minute delivery, Ngaro states repeatedly: “I am a Zionist”.
If Kaupapa Māori means supporting draconian welfare reforms, needlessly drug testing beneficiaries, forcing contraception and pissing $120m against the wall while throwing 1000 state tenants into the street for meth hysteria, then Paula Bennett is Maui’s sister!
Yesterday Opposition leader Simon Bridges let forth in parliament with a rant of name calling that would get him banned from my page .
As the heat comes on Simon Bridges, he should be most mindful of lessons passed on by former party leaders.