Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards LOCAL GOVERNMENT, THREE WATERS Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Luxon has officially abandoned localism Thomas Manch (Post): Mayors, councillors given their marching orders from Wellington (paywalled) Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Day after accusing councils of wasting money, government puts $750K toward dance festival Glenn McConnell (Stuff): What
Darleen Tana has decided to fight after the Greens signalled they may be prepared to use the waka-jumping legislation. Stock up on Fairtrade vegan GM-free popcorn: this will get interesting.
In order to demonstrate to the courts that those who oppose the mass medication of water are not a fringe minority, as the judge claimed, we need thousands of signatures on the parliamentary petition.
At no taxpayer cost (and forget the Commerce Commission).
If we’re being honest, the chances are good that their political leverage has already eroded beyond the point of return, which is why they sound so shrill.
Rather than thanks, it will continue to be the same old violent language. That is the name of their game.
It seems foolish to me that mature people should want the current confusion over the “principles” of the Treaty to continue. For 50 years now, governments of all stripes have failed to correct the mess.
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Knock me down with a feather. I think I need a cup of tea and a lie down having heard that Christopher Luxon has told Parliament he believes Māori ceded sovereignty to the Crown.
The interplay between methamphetamine use, HIV and ill-equipped health facilities creates a vicious cycle that perpetuates and exacerbates each individual issue.
If both trends continue, New Zealand could face a shrinking, ageing population, with profound and catastrophic implications for the nation’s social and economic health.
Of course we already have a fusion reactor. It’s called the sun.
An exclusive excerpt from her upcoming autobiography.
All 120 MPs’ mouths seem zipped tight about the Covid-19 vaccination.
Without others to keep pushing forward its recommendations, those in power will too easily let it languish.
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