By ignoring these loopholes in the latest RMA reforms, where the new Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill offered an obvious fix, the government has actively chosen to protect bogus consultation fees over real progress.
We don’t want the racists in the driver’s seat or even the back seat. Preferably they should be given the boot – quite literally.
Good intentions are no substitute for good policy, yet questioning expensive subsidies is increasingly treated as a moral failing rather than a legitimate debate about priorities.
All I can think of is that we’re still living in clown world. You couldn’t make this stuff up.
It may sometimes appear a thankless task contacting MPs and sharing your views, but what is clear is that if enough voters present the case for change, politicians will listen – especially in election year.
Voters are watching closely. The campaign has not even fully kicked off and already the trends favour a more fragmented parliament with stronger minor parties.
In theory, a soldier who refuses to comply with these ‘spiritual’ orders on the grounds of a conflict with their own personal faith or conscience faces a charge of disobedience – an offence punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment.
Together, these three bills create a layered, compounding risk for the organic sector and for all non-GE farmers, producers and consumers. Public submissions close for two of the bills tonight.
Reflecting on how entirely mad the situation is.
But it is not ‘a little slice of paradise’ for too many of our little ones. A New Zealand child is killed every four to five weeks and hundreds are harmed each year.
…which leave New Zealand’s public ‘servants’ free to fill their DEI boots.
This $20 fare cap looks like just another ride on the taxpayer-funded gravy train, with the rest of New Zealand holding the ticket.
The next few months will be critical. If the coalition cannot deliver tangible improvements and start climbing in the polls, Winston might decide it is time to remind everyone who really holds the balance of power.
The first point on how to improve all things education in NZ is that, so long as any government think that they are the podium of truth in this area, they will fail and all improvements will be marginal (at best).
Why are we not surprised to see the long-suffering taxpayers have been forced to foot the bill for this overhyped ‘compass’.
