Idiot/Savant
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Just done my submission (such as it was) on He Pou a Rangi's proposed 4th emissions budget. I've managed to do all the submissions I had planned this week.
He won't even need to pay up front, because they'll be willing to do anything for the prospect of future favours from a billionaire vampire.
"Even a cold sausage roll is good with enough tomato sauce"
"But they're not offering tomato sauce, are they?"
I can think of other parties who will work harder to earn it www.newshub.co.nz/home/politic...
Labour asks Kiwis to donate tax cuts to them | Newshub
"Friend, will you donate some of your tax cut to Labour?"
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Naked corruption
There's been all sorts of corruption swirling around the government's Muldoonist fast-track law, with various donors invited to apply . And ...
norightturn.blogspot.comObvious amendment paper for the fast-track bill: stripping all donors from the schedule (which hasn't been announced yet, but you know they'll be there). Make the government explicitly vote for their corruption, on the record, where we can all see.
Trump being convicted is great news to wake up to. And we can all call him "Convicted criminal Donald Trump" forever.
Donor wants corrupt payoff www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Quarry company J Swap's fast track plea after donations to Shane Jones and NZ First
J Swap gave money to Shane Jones, and then to NZ First after it got into power. Now the company is asking for protected land to be opened for quarrying.
www.rnz.co.nzHmmm. He Pou a Rangi is subject to the #OIA, so someone could just request and publicize all their preliminary work on this.
So, am I right in thinking the English curriculum thing is just more right-wing culture war bullshit?
Government defunding actually independent advice that it does not want to hear.
Labour should have made He Pou a Rangi an officer of Parliament to prevent this kind of fuckery.
So stoked to get $17 per week so that we can... (checks notes)... ignore the very real existential crisis that we all face and leave the world worse for our kids. #nzpol
It establishes a parallel information disclosure regime as well - again, without considering existing rights under OIA / LGOIMA. Its generally good - proactive disclosure - but allows peopel to be charged for basic info they could probably get for free under existing law.
This is another case of PCO cribbing from wildly outdated law - the Commerce Act 1986 - for an information sharing regime, without thinking about interactions with other law or changing constitutional structure since then #FFS
New Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Bill includes a clause which potentially overrides the #OIA. Of course, neither MoJ nor the Ombudsman were consulted #secrecy
www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...
Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Bill 52-1 (2024), Government Bill 41 Sharing of information and documents between Commission and department – New Zealand Legislation
The Commission and the department may share information with each other if the provider of the information believes that sharing the information is for either of the following purposes:
www.legislation.govt.nzWhen this bill gets debated, I think someone could have a lot of fun reading 2020-Shame's speech back to him, and asking him what has changed (and is it's name "Rimmer"?)
...and today, he's repealing it under all-stages urgency, because "red tape". Yes, really. bills.parliament.nz/v/6/5b41ce82...
Apologies for misplaced posts. Will send them to the proper thread.
When this bill gets debated, I think someone could have a lot of fun reading 2020-Shame's speech back to him, and asking him what has changed (and is it's name "Rimmer"?)
...and today, he's repealing it under all-stages urgency, because "red tape". Yes, really. bills.parliament.nz/v/6/3813e8f2...
In 2020 then-Forestry Minister Shame Jones passed the Forests (Regulation of Log Traders and Forestry Advisers) Amendment Bill, to protect small forest owners from predatory "advisors"... bills.parliament.nz/v/6/5b41ce82...
National is gutting the Clean Vehicle Standard - a key emissions reduction measure - by replacing legislated targets with ones set by regulation (which will of course be weaker). Under all stages urgency, of course www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...
Land Transport (Clean Vehicle Standard) Amendment Bill 59-1 (2024), Government Bill Contents – New Zealand Legislation
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:
www.legislation.govt.nzI'm not aware of it, and a quick search of papers past doesn't turn up anything in the 1980's.
If Māori decide to gather to discuss political issues without Pākehā, that's no business of ours. And its certainly not "sedition" or anything of the sort.
Sedition hasn't been a crime in Aotearoa since 2007.
Sedition has been a crime in Aotearoa since 2007.
Anyway: fuck off Luxon, you smug, entitled wanker #Budget2024
No. But still horrified.
These fuckers need to go to The Hague for ecocide.
Hipkins going hard on this, arguing that no government should be cutting climate action, pointing out enormous future liability if we continue to polluter
Only references to "climate" in Willis' #Budget2024 speech are to "climate resilience". Some waffle about the ETS (which they want to gut again), but nothing about actual emissions reduction. Fucking hell.
So, the obvious question: are vaccines and RATs funded after the end of June? #Budget2024
Willis: "Four is a good number of children to have"
What is this quiverfull bullshit? #Budget2024
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This matters
I've been watching the reports of the Māori-led protests all around the country this morning, seeing huge crowds not just in Auckland and We...
norightturn.blogspot.comThe government may go "these aren't our voters, so we don't care". The problem is that everyone - including their voters - can see that they're unpopular. So unpopular that they're drawing massive protests. And that has an impact.
Hopefully someone in the government is looking at all this, and thinking about what's going to happen when they introduce their racist bill to unilaterally redefine te Tiriti.
If Luxon and Mitchell think these (perfectly orderly) protests are "illegal", then that says something very ugly about their attitude to democracy.
While the legal basis for a refusal is clear, Auckland Transport has also equally clearly not complied with the Act in giving it. Suggests a training problem.
Also obvious: they can't hide the identities of ordinary backbench MPs under 9(2)(f)(iv) as they're neither Ministers nor "officials".
Or was it his NZ First coalition partners who openly took them, one of whom will be deciding who gets "consent"?
(The latter is obviously a clear case of high public interest, so #ToTheOmbudsman!)
He refuses to say which Ministers or MPs suggested which projects as it "would be likely to prejudice the ability to make future decisions on matters relating to this material". No shit! Conflicts of interest and clear pre-determination tend to do that!
Chris Bishop's frankly astonishing explanation for how his list of fast-track invitees was compiled. Whether this constitute a credible explanation or government process is left as an exercise for the reader www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...