The Daily Blog Open Mic – 4th September 2025
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More weasel words from the bullshitess-in-Chief at ACC. Formerly with the Munstry of Everything (MoBIE) Kim Ploince division.
It won’t happen again until it does.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360813336/we-have-fallen-short-accs-apology-staff-major-review-findings-revealed
It used to be hard to know which senior managerialists in departments/munstries are/were worse – Krekshuns, MSD, MoBIE, Health, Education, ACC etc.
MoBIE is the clear winner, and now keep an eye on ACC.
These entities have their diligent lower level PS minions working in spite of their senior management “crews”, (or is it “teams”) rather than because of them.
Good will is fast going down the shitter, and rightfully so.
Thank God we have Katie Halper and her wonderful journalism. Cutting through the BS spun by Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ5nSLIzUfk
The news about the ferries will emerge soon – it’s a bit like the Dance of the Seven Veils. Keeping away from biblical precedent, I hope no-ones head will be brought forth on a platter.
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/chris-mackenzie-ferry-holdings-ltd-chair-on-the-govt-choosing-the-preferred-interisland-ferry-suppliers/
Smooth sailing as Govt selects preferred ferry supplier
On Air Mike Hosking Breakfast
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date Thu, 4 Sept 2025, 8:38am
Smooth sailing so far for Ferry Holdings, as a preferred supplier of two new Cook Strait vessels is selected.
Rail Minister Winston Peters has announced a fixed price has been agreed for two 200-metre-long ferries with road and rail decks, and room for 1500 passengers each.
Ferry Holdings Limited Chair Chris Mackenzie says final negotiations have started – and contracts will be signed by the end of the year.
He told Mike Hosking a letter of intent was signed with the shipyard and now technical discussions have begun before contracts can be signed.
The name of the shipyard will be released when the contracts are signed.
Mackenzie told Hosking 60 shipyards were in the mix to begin with, and it had shipyards in four countries, that’s now come down to one.
Latest news from NZ Geographic. A new spider in town. Isn’t it great being in this global ball of goodwill and trade. Contact – find your way from subs@nzgeographic.co.nz
Late June brought a flurry of news pieces about the noble false widow spider, Steatoda nobilis, which had become established in New Zealand. But there was a lot more to this story. Like Alesha Picknell, the 22-year-old Porirua student who first twigged that the spider was here. And while DOC and MPI downplayed the risk, scientists in the United Kingdom who have long been dealing with the invasion there were emphatic. Don’t be complacent, they told us.
“What should be of most concern, more than bites, more than the symptoms that it can produce, is the speed and the efficiency with which the spider can invade new habitats,” Michel Dugon, head of the venom lab at the University of Galway, told our writer Michelle Duff. “Within eight years, this globally invasive spider has become the most common household spider in Ireland, and that is really impressive. It has taken over these environments, and it has taken them over fast.”…