The coalition government – made up of the centre-right National party and two minor partners, the libertarian Act party and populist New Zealand First party – released its first draft emissions reduction plan on Wednesday.
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Although food price increases have been noticeable over the long term, the change in relative prices — the cost of one food category compared to another — often goes unnoticed.
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Yum yum fairy bread! A compulsory item at any self-respecting kids birthday party (and still a firm favourite with many adults). Good times on a plate. :-)
"A referendum based on misinformation would not just be unhelpful, but divisive."
Dr Carwyn Jones: The Treaty bill is an act of extreme bad faith
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If you've noticed these symptoms call 111, tell them what's happening and ask could it be sepsis? I've been feeling sleepy. I feel like I'm going to die. My skin is blotchy. I haven't been to the toilet in a while. I can't stop shivering. It's hard to breathe.
There's been a bit of press about peeps who have had sepsis - sepsis is an OTT immune response to infection, like the flu or staph - prevention is far better than cure. So if you're feeling some or all of these just go to A&E and ask could it be sepsis?
Horrific.
Under the fast track bill, three govt ministers are set to get power that would allow them to approve killing of tūi, toroa, tuatara, and more, newly released documents about the consenting regime reveal.
THIS is why we march on Sat 8 June:
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3502...
"Iwi Chairs Forum reps pull out of anti-racism plan due to ‘continued racist rhetoric’ "
Good on them - but - why are we (Pakeha) still so ignorant about this?
The website they're promoting here isn't the actual Covid Inquiry. It's their own petition.
If you want to have an *actual* say on the government's handling of Covid, the website is:
haveyoursay.covid19lessons.royalcommission.nz
A slightly rounded wall painted pale grey, overgrown green grass at the base. Capital lettering on the wall, in two long lines, reads: 'With grey paint we silence some voices in a society. Advertising is fine - it is, after all, the graffiti of the rich"
Once upon a time, the ever-evolving graffiti on this reservoir near the psych unit was a cave-painting-record. I photographed much of it over months.
One day they painted it grey. The next day:
There’s a very real effort to rewrite NZs early COVID experience. Let’s make sure the enquiry don’t just hear from those who’ve fallen for disinformation!
If only there was a way to travel which carried lots of people at the same time. Then we could avoid all this. 🙄
New study shows NZ had one of the best Covid strategies in the world, with up to 12,000 lives saved during the Omicron phase alone.
It wasn’t perfect, but it was damn good.
“…if Māori vaccination rates had been on par with Pākehā, up to a quarter of the nearly 300 Māori who died would still be alive.” | Vaccines saved thousands of lives during Omicron outbreak, study estimates
🇳🇿 "Thanks to the leadership of Indigenous scholars and allied collaborators, Indigenous knowledge is receiving long overdue recognition for its potential to provide solutions for the mutual thriving of lands and cultures." 🧵 1/2
Love this! ❤️
FREE Digital download #toitūtetiriti #waitangiday #honourthetreaty #honourtetiriti #aotearoa #aotearoalove #arohanui
TREATY OF WAITANGI
The myth of the cession of Māori sovereignty
Part 1 of a 3 part series ahead of Waitangi Day: Believing Māori ceded sovereignty in 1840 requires a suspension of disbelief – and also a suspension of humanity #Kikorangi
newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/03/t...
"The first article of the covenant awarded total custodianship of Aotearoa to the Crown. It did not award ownership."
"Treaty, a binding formal agreement, contract, or other written instrument that establishes obligations between two or more subjects of international law (primarily states and international organizations)."
www.britannica.com/topic/treaty
I'm just gonna leave that here.
The (British) Colonial Office was confused as to why section 71 was never invoked by Governors Browne or Grey, even though it appeared an obvious answer to the growing crisis in the early 1860s but failed to issue orders for it to be implemented.
The problem was that section 71, which remained on the statute books until 1986, was never implemented, even though it provided an obvious way for the Crown to engage with the Kīngitanga and other Māori communities in a peaceful way.
When Britain's Parliament passed the New Zealand Constitution Act in 1852, their assumption was that most Māori would not be subject to the authority of the NZ Parliament to be established under it but would instead continue to govern their own affairs under section 71.
Don't give them anything...it just creates a cycle of dependency.
#nzpol #capitalism
First world problems: Don't want to watch the rest of Lucifer final ep bcos oh, no it might end badly! (Yes, I'm watching it for the first time.)
#Lucifer
#NoSpoilersPlease
RNZ reported it was Andy Bay
Yup, they're called "Kick bars". Obviously too many public servants with their hands full of secret papers having to use their feet to push the button. Now we've all been forced to get briefcases so we can put secret papers down safely and use our hands to push the buttons.
