Look up the Māori King movement, it’s the same idea.
Regardless, I think as much hate as ACT gets for this - it seems obvious that clarity on the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi is required so that every New Zealander knows where they stand (legally speaking) and we can move on as a country.
What does this even mean? You can’t just ‘move on as a country’ if one side tries to unilaterally rewrite their obligations to an agreement. That is what ACT is trying to do, the so-called party of property rights.
Again though, how does one side unilaterally deciding how they are going to interpret it clarify anything. That’s how we’ve ended up where we are today - decades of breaches by the Crown.
It’s not impossible to tell but it can take time and effort to determine, that’s the function of bodies like the Waitangi tribunal you mention.
What Maori specific things do you think would be lost?
Edit: I didn’t realise National said they’d keep these before the election. When Bishop got asked about it he said “that was then, this is now”. What a bunch of fucking crooks.
I have mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand these types of subsidies ultimately just drive up prices further, same as when interest rates go down. People can pay more so prices move up.
On the other hand, in the absence of doing anything to drive landlords out of the market (and of course this government is doing the opposite of that), removing support like this just gives them yet another leg up to speculate on housing at the expense of people who just want a place of their own to live in.
A Google search on it pulls up a couple of studies, one from Germany, one from Australia appearing to show opposite results lol (also some commentary from the NZ Treasury, but not backed up from a quick scroll). It’d be interesting to know if someone’s evaluated our ones.
So I guess it goes to my earlier point about feeling mixed about it. I’d suspect they have a far greater equalising effect when the market isnt so constrained that the subsidies can just can be capitalised into prices, so it might depend on the broader market a bit. And so pairing them with a massive state house building programme and allowing density with good public transport should go alongside. You know, all the stuff this government has cancelled, cut or rolled back ;)
Sir John Key and other directors of Palo Alto Networks are named in a lawsuit alleging they made false and misleading statements about the company’s products....
Not mentioned in this article - our corrupt, self interested government abruptly cancelling a bunch of much needed infrastructure projects when they came into government, leaving whole sectors in limbo and their workforces leaving for Australia.
Unions effectively lost all legal status and recognition in 1991 with the employment contracts act and they have never fully recovered.
Since then it’s come back a little with the Employment Relations Act 2000, which is in place today, but there is no sector level bargaining (the new govt immediately repealed the fair pay agreement legislation the last govt passed), it’s incredibly easy for employers to pass on collective agreement conditions and sympathy strikes are unlawful (I think this might be the case now in Aus too?). In fact all strikes are unlawful except in bargaining for a collective and for health and safety.
Unions are mostly confined to public sector roles these days, although there are a few in other sectors.
I get lost with the new benefits. Are the 187k people on Jobseeker not all considered “unemployed”? Is this a case of some people with part time work (underemployed) being counted in one but not the other?
Yeah the unemployment rate and benefit rates don’t match up for a whole bunch of reasons.
you’re only counted as unemployed if you’re actively looking for work. Otherwise you’re not part of the labour force
Not all unemployed people will be on jobseeker. If you have a working partner/spouse you’re not usually eligible, for example.
‘Jobseeker’ rolled up all the old benefits into one, so there are people with disabilities who can’t work at all counted in those figures.
You can work a limited number of hours while on jobseeker before it starts to abate.
The underutilisation rate is arguably a better measure, as it includes unemployed but also people who want more work but can’t find it. It’s potentially a ‘truer’ measure to compare to when, as you say, 4.8% unemployment is relatively low compared to other times in the past. You can work a couple of hours a week and you don’t show up in the unemployment stats, but it hasn’t always been counted that way.
2010 was when underutilisation started being collected.
What I was getting at though was that a historically normal level of unemployment is tricky to work out as the measure itself has changed over time, in part because the labour market has changed.
There are far more part time, casual, flexible roles today so even when the labour market gets worse, people may still be working some hours so they don’t show up in unemployment stats, but they do in underutilisation. Employment has only been counted like this since (I think) the late 90s so it’s not directly comparable to before then.
***A push to legalise all drugs in New Zealand hasn’t come from stoners and the strung out - it’s backed by 155 academics and experts who say the current regime doesn’t work ***...
Yeah but that’s not forever. Big shifts like this don’t always happen over night, they often take years of groundwork so you gotta dare to dream in the meantime.
Sidenote, this govt being one term is entirely possible. It’s where labour/nz first was heading before covid and they decided to actually act and materially do things.
I think we’ll see an increasingly oscillating political landscape as our various crises pile up (climate change, cost of living, infrastructure deficit), and govts fail to actually do anything to address them in any meaningful way.
This is such a bizarre thing to have such a blow up over. I don’t use public transport, so I’ve never heard these announcements, are they really that bad?
I’m pretty sceptical about ground effect planes, there’s a very good reason why they’ve never really taken off, despite so many countries and organisations giving them a try over the years, but I’d love to know what everyone else thinks.
I agree there appear to be very good reasons not to use these.
Foling at 500kmph (edit: more like 250kmph by the looks of it) 10 metres above the water seems to just be inherently bonkers as a means of mass transportation given the very limited room for error/failure that results in everyone on board being instantly killed. Planes and helicopters can glide/autorotate, ships move slower.
The 3d mock ups and carefully shot video of the first flight (that obscures the fact it’s a very small scale model prototype) suggest vapour ware scam startup.
Honestly for the love of god, can we just have trains?
Jones is a controversial force in the new Government, with his nakedly pro-mining stance criticised for being anti-environment. His meetings with industry heavyweights, including those in the commercial fishing sector, have led to accusations of conflicts of interest....
NZ First out there doing blatant corruption while their voter base goes down rabbit holes looking for conspiracies in the World Economic Forum and vaccines and trans people.
It boggles the mind, like your actual conspiracies are right there, you’re voting for them.
More austerity for the government. Lucky for all the people who lose their jobs the government is going to make them go to seminars before they do on the benefit.
This one’s weird too. In the reporting I’ve seen it’s said ACC doesn’t have the 6.5% reduction target because they’re a crown entity and get most of their funding from levies. But the CE is quoted saying they’re doing it anyway just cause vibes?
Hipkins did not say they should have cut services in favour of mega prisons.
I don’t care if they campaigned on their terrible policies (although the ones they didnt campaign on are worse in that regard), they’re still terrible.
Wellington City Council have put plans to build a permanent cycleway in Brooklyn on hold after losing over half of its funding. Waka Kotahi was expected to fund 51 percent through the Transport Choices fund, however Transport Minister Simeon Brown confirmed there would be no funding for the project in December....
Well the trial one is just most of the way up Brooklyn hill, and the proposed one would expand it to connect it to other ones according to the article.
It also talks about upgrades to what’s there already - at the moment its just part of the existing roadway blocked off with plastic bollards and those curb segment things bolted to the surface. It could be referring to something like what they’re doing on Thorndon Quay, where the cycle lane is actually going to be grade separated from the roadway at the level of the footpath, not sure.
Its a shame it’s not going ahead because a connected up network is what’s really needed for cycling to be a safe enough option for many people.
Oh yeah for sure there is, but whether structurally, institutionally we’ll actually do that in a proactive way, I’m not so sure. Dairy farms carry quite a lot of debt so their business models are pretty locked in to an extent.
I wonder when they say sugar as a feedstock, do they mean like sugarcane or is it any sort of crop given everything we eat breaks down into sugars in the end. I wish these articles would link the reports theyre reporting on…
Nearly 200 police staff to lose jobs, as Government demands savings (www.stuff.co.nz)
Te Pāti Māori wants to establish its own parliament (www.stuff.co.nz)
Im quite surprised by this, isn’t Parliament a crown/british concept? And Te Pati Maori are usually quite opposed to Crown concepts....
Live: Budget Day Hīkoi heads to Parliament as thousands gather around country (www.rnz.co.nz)
Budget Day ‘carkoi’ protests delayed traffic on Auckland and Tauranga motorways ahead of a hikoi on Parliament....
Revealed: Govt set to scrap grants to help first-home buyers onto property ladder | Newshub (www.youtube.com)
Pull up the ladder after you.
No merit to Palo Alto Networks insider trading allegations, Sir John Key says (www.stuff.co.nz)
Sir John Key and other directors of Palo Alto Networks are named in a lawsuit alleging they made false and misleading statements about the company’s products....
As NZ unemployment rises, Kiwis are making their way across the Tasman (www.abc.net.au)
Bad in NZ or hyperbole ?
Another 26,000 'will be unemployed' before peak reached (www.rnz.co.nz)
Surely all these people losing decent paying jobs will have no impact on the economy right? Definitely not a recession right?
Overhauling our drug policies (www.rnz.co.nz)
***A push to legalise all drugs in New Zealand hasn’t come from stoners and the strung out - it’s backed by 155 academics and experts who say the current regime doesn’t work ***...
Rebuke issued in stoush over volume of on-bus announcements for blind passengers (www.rnz.co.nz)
This is such a bizarre thing to have such a blow up over. I don’t use public transport, so I’ve never heard these announcements, are they really that bad?
Seagliders' 35-minute trips to Auckland closer with $145m deal (www.nzherald.co.nz)
I’m pretty sceptical about ground effect planes, there’s a very good reason why they’ve never really taken off, despite so many countries and organisations giving them a try over the years, but I’d love to know what everyone else thinks.
Jones’ undeclared dinner had two more mining industry attendees (newsroom.co.nz)
Jones is a controversial force in the new Government, with his nakedly pro-mining stance criticised for being anti-environment. His meetings with industry heavyweights, including those in the commercial fishing sector, have led to accusations of conflicts of interest....
ACC proposes cutting more than 300 jobs (www.rnz.co.nz)
More austerity for the government. Lucky for all the people who lose their jobs the government is going to make them go to seminars before they do on the benefit.
Government considers removing election day voter enrolment (www.rnz.co.nz)
Add voter suppression to the list of disasters
MP's comments 'bang on' despite negative response from other parties - Te Pāti Māori (www.rnz.co.nz)
In Parliament last Wednesday, Te Tai Tokerau MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi said the government “will not waver in its mission to exterminate Māori”....
Plans for permanent cycleway in Wellington suburb on hold (www.rnz.co.nz)
Wellington City Council have put plans to build a permanent cycleway in Brooklyn on hold after losing over half of its funding. Waka Kotahi was expected to fund 51 percent through the Transport Choices fund, however Transport Minister Simeon Brown confirmed there would be no funding for the project in December....
'Right in the firing line': New lab-grown milk substitute could threaten NZ's dairy sector (www.newshub.co.nz)