Good to see its spreading, at last.
Bill to decriminalise abortion passes NSW Lower HouseABC·16 hours ago
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Good to see its spreading, at last.
Bill to decriminalise abortion passes NSW Lower HouseABC·16 hours ago
Special select commitee is next for people with questions,for the public to submit too.Goodluck ,seeing other points of view and expressing yours,and finding a resolution for yourself.
From the "good News ' section on stuff. I whole heartedly agree.
"Abortion law
Reform of New Zealand's archaic abortion laws was long considered too hard, until all of a sudden it wasn't. Political commentators have noticed that Justice Minister Andrew Little has been playing a blinder this term and his abortion reform bill may turn out to be the highlight. Little negotiated a compromise that seemed to satisfy NZ First before mercurial NZ First leader Winston Peters stepped in to confuse the matter with talk about a referendum. Bad news for Peters, though: Little already had the votes lined up, thanks in part to National's Amy Adams, and the NZ First tantrum made the party's male MPs look irrelevant for once. The 94-23 vote must have taken many by surprise. Politics aside, it really matters that abortion should finally move from the criminal arena into public health. "
Stuff nz
Sorry to be a scratched record. But still no answers to hard questions. If it is any comfort, you are in the same boat as many of our politicians and the general public. Andrew Little should be forced to be present during a late term abortion. He would never look himself in the mirror again.
The Bible went the same way as the Catholic Church when pedophiles were allowed to masquerade as priests and holy men, abused children and were covered up and the criminals protected by the Church, and the innocents persecuted when they tried to get justice.
And what would you replace it with Balance? The Labour Party manifesto? Mein Kampf? Like it or not Western Society is based upon it. Do away with it at society's peril. Nietzsche grasped this with his "God is dead" statement. He was asking the rhetorical question of what do you replace Him with? Trust me, there are plenty already lining up.
Careful with your reading material jonu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuINOmsVAMA
For there to be Good, there must be not Good. Otherwise all would be Good and there could be no reference point. One of the basic arguments for the existence of God. Anyway...we digress along way from Cindy and her wayward gummint...who certainly are not good.
Yes. Rabbit holes are good brain fodder. While philosophically it is impossible to prove a negative, it must surely be accepted that the fact that thousands of god fans, over thousands of years, have never been able to prove any type of god exists, gives a pretty good indication. So like the abominable snowman and the Loch Ness monster, it's a fairly safe bet that the reason he hasn't fronted up or made the odd TV appearance is because he's simply a mythical creature - or at best he, she, or it certainly doesn't want to be worshipped. And if he, she or it did exist and sought worship, he, she or it would pop up regularly to blow the opposition away. There are more than 2000 gods competing for the title - to be the one true deity - the real deal.
https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-.../dp/0816029091
Andrew Little and other Ministers in this Government now want to relax the new safety regulations as they realise the risk to enter Pike River is too risky to fall within the rules. Little was the union boss who repeatedly said PRC was a safe and well run mine, before 29 of his members were killed. His moral compass is missing https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12263140
Andrew Little is a great example of the problems Labour had in pulling together a Cabinet from such a shallow talent pool.
I think this is one of the best decisions this Government has made. I hope it works out well https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12263774
It is likely to improve the situation and make it fairer. Question is however - why don't we do this for sufferers of of other diseases as well? The problem are the district health boards which all need to reinvent the wheel for any issue and which are mainly governed by an incompetent bunch of volunteers (some armed with lots of faith and goodwill and many with a hidden agenda) without any effective control (thanks to the ridiculous election system).
NZ does not need twenty independent district health boards which all need to put their limited resources into duplicating governance and management tasks instead of directing them towards the patients needs. We do need one properly resourced and competent authority responsible to the government.
What is happening at Ihumatao? How come it has disappeared from media coverage? Have I missed something?
I like the new label 'reset' for nonsense policies that don't work - or were never going to. Very inventive. Labour must have found themselves a new PR company for that one. Anyway, Megan Woods still doesn't have her head around housing supply, but nevertheless is one hell of an improvement over the hapless Twyford.
It’s times like this I really miss minimoke
He would not have let some of you guys do a Jacinda and pretend nothing untoward has gone on with Labour people in the Beehive
Whole affair beggars belief.
Shame Jacinda has got embroiled in what is a Party matter
As leader of the government she got more important things to worry about.
The man concerned is evidently employed by the Public Service not the Labour Party.
The only mistake the Labour people concerned made is not referring the complainant directly to the police.
The police are the only organization capable of deciding the facts and deciding what action needs to be taken.
The rest is just a beatup by right leaning media.
westerly
Jacinda is a good soul .....going to support the victims and all that ...and good on her for taking decisive action and getting rid of Haworth
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...aworth-resigns
“I want a justice system in New Zealand where people feel comfortable coming forward and are listened to, but I also need to ensure the Labour Party lives up to that expectation too," Ardern said.]
Whoever this ‘predator’ is he must be one indispensable whizz kid - do all this stuff he’s alleged to have done and still have the powers to be protect him and keep part in on.
Looks like Labour will need to call for a reset on Jacinda's explanation.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...t-its-not-over
Seems the alleged ‘predator’ at The Beehive might have been a mate of the Minister of Finance (rumour/speculation/pub talk)
Maybe this Predator Free 2050 initiative has to start at The Beehive
Looks to me that Cindy has finally used up her stardust with the media. It has taken the best part of 2 years, but they are calling BS on her statements about not knowing of the sexual nature of these complaints.
What has irked me about her since the get go is her absolute cynicism. She claims transparency but has been willing from the start to brush over, delay, order an inquiry into the inquiry, and generally smile and BS her way through anything awkward. She is worse than Key in this regard because she is claiming to be above all that.
My impression of her is that she has found herself in a position way above her competency level and that she has bluffed her way through it by and large, with a healthy dose of help from a doting media. Time is up and chickens are looking for a roost.
Way to treat it, the gossip mongers. Alot of people standing firm with their beliefs here, who's right and who's wrong, stuffed if i know, happy to await the QC report. Protocols and terms of reference (focused on bullying only?). Its messy and not acceptable.
Also remembering the national party only released the sexual assault and bullying behaviour of jamie lee ross to get rid of him , no care for the victims atp.
Heard on the radio that the ‘predator’ was hired / employed after the complaints were laid
Anyway he has resigned now
Weird
But Cindy didn't knowwwww JT. Labour is in real trouble here. Cindy is the only thing that holds them up, and she has just been shown to be a cynical, throw 'em under the bus, save my own skin, truth averse politician. While all the time claiming the moral high ground. I think she's toast...and Grant Robertson with her.
Yes the shaky house of COL is looking likely to collapse(Just like Kiwibuild) well before the 2020 election ... pretty sorry state of politics in NZ these days... as not like Bridges is a leader NZD'er want ... A new leader for National that is respected would see a whitewash of the COL back to backwater they held for many years prior IMHO
So much for all the fine, compassionate words uttered after the Christchurch shootings. Now Cabinet isn't prepared to do the compassionate thing to allow special visas for family members to support those widowed by the shootings. If current legislation doesn't allow it, isn't that what government is for, to pass amending legislation as a matter of urgency?
Yeap… Duncan Garner on the attack https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/natio...cid=spartanntp
Plausible deniability but the trouble is almost nobody thinks its plausible.
Even if she survives in the short term this one will "dog" her for a very long time.
If she's toast you're peanut butter;). Wishing and hoping doesn't help here. Facts are what i want to see.Just have to wait. But somethings a bit strange here. Sounds like some planned scripts have been read out, The communication and use of words are so well written and expressed , vey political, professional spin, really aimed at undermining the govt. Crosby/textor sounding tactics.
i just hope like hell im wrong that a part of this isn't some sort of sting setup. Some plants, i just dont know? And now we have to wait some time for the QC investigation.
Some fake stuff mixed in with some real stuff?
that's the way the world learns about Labor's cover up and Jacinda's loss of trust: interesting opinion piece written by a NZ journalist (Alison Mau) - but published in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/co...ed-asset-trust
... and no, westerly - the guardian is not a "right-wing" newspaper, nor is it funded by CT as - I am sure JT and EZ would like to tell us ... :p;
Just seems to me its all been too perfectly orchestrated, for maximum negative mud effect, am suggesting there may be a plant or two in there.
Yardley, Garner, they are on radio, television, and write for the two dominant media companies in NZ. Both companies are struggling to survive. Both are well known to have a National bias.
Company and journalist that is. In my view they have too much influence.
Are you so open minded ?
westerly
Or...it is much more likely that Cindy aint the saint you thought she was. She displays cynicism of the highest order. Her lines sound like the scripted ones. How many times did she repeat "harm has been done"? Honest, transparent government under Cindy? Not if she can dodge it by throwing others under the bus!
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other...cid=spartandhp
This dog smells a big load of bull****
Last night Jacinda gave her coat to a young lady who was feeling the cold at some Christchurch do
She a good person.
It's just that Labour stepped into a puddle and turned it into a wallow. All of their own making. Grant Robertson is supposedly hiding behind privacy as his reason for not answering questions. Labour's 1&2 as cynical and lacking in transparency as each other. But it's all OK because Cindy will just look really earnest, or even better, smile and sprinkle some stardust. Quick, find her someone to give her coat to....see...she just oozes empathy...she couldn't possibly be a manipulative cynic...could she?
Yes FP, I was thinking the same. Also wonder if he is one of the many members and volunteers that have advised the Labour Party they no longer wish to be members nor volunteer in 2020.
Sadly I think Jacinda will go down in history as the worst PM NZ ever had
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/115...ld-have-shrunk
Oh dear. So many chickens looking for a roost!
Justakiwi no I’m definitely not dreaming. This flakey and inexperienced (dare I say incompetent) PM is definitely not in my dreams. Look at how the media have turned on her after catching her out with her BS on the latest Labour Party sex scandal where she and Robertson have not cared one iota for the young female victims. Her credibility is shot !
One good thing - Jacinda will stop the boat people coming.
If your one liner is true, than it must be lucky Jacinda was not around over the last thousand years or so. Both the Maori as well as the rest of us came for most of the time with the boat.
On the other hand - Moa's probably would be happier these days with Jacinda around at an earlier stage ...
All good - Jacinda admits The Party stuffed up
Another enquiry and report
Jacinda off to Japan to rev the ABs up - if they keep winning and the RWC is exciting nobody will worry about this carry on for a few months
Hope Sonny Bill is OK
I'm not convinced. When you take the holier than thou position your credibility is shot when you slip up. Ardern and Robertson have done more than slip up, they have covered up and cynically misled the public at the expense of these alleged victims. It cuts to the core of the Leftie culture. The pair of them have shown themselves to be as politically expedient with their values as anyone you can name in recent NZ political history. She's a sham...and been found out.
Sure sure sure.facts get in the way of a good story ehh?
Mud mud mud by the usual suspects and woman haters??:confused::scared:
Labour lawyer: I wasn't told
Thats what you want to believe. I will wait until the facts and truth come out, not into prejudging or being sucked in by Bennett and some totally biased media,( hoskins, garner etc), what a pack of self serving hyaenas we have on radio, self appointed gurus manipulating and divisive all in a hunt for declining ratings and advertising and fat salaries.
A shame some really good things are not getting the attention they deserve.
NZ history to be taught in our schools.Its unbelievable that it hasn't been.
Rua being pardoned and apologies made , a long time coming but great to see injustices acknowledged.
Clean water rules being bought in, some intensive farms will have to convert. Dairy on 80 metres of Gravel was always a dumb thing to allow.
This is like reading a story from The Brothers Grimm whose stories were designed to scare children into conforming.
Leave you to your Grimm fantasies.;)
Meanwhile good stuff keeps a coming.Kudos to our PM , Trudeau etc and brickbats to the usual negative broken do nothing bridges .
Raft of changes to Facebook prompted by Christchurch Call
[QUOTE=jonu;771948]Trudeau and Ardern are certainly birds of a feather. Both virtue signalling shams!
Just a little off there;)
"The global effort is part of a wider clampdown on real-world harm from manifesting on social media, with the Home Office sharing the footage with other technology companies to develop similar solutions."
Facebook teams up with police to stop streaming of terror attacks
[QUOTE=Joshuatree;772059]Regardless of what Tudeau and Ardern are doing in the particular space you are linking to, they are both virtue signalling shams. Trudeau has been exposed somewhat more quickly within Canada than Ardern has been in NZ, but the air is hissing from her balloon. The media, for all their fawning have smelt blood. They have been taken for fools, which they may well have deserved, but they are an unforgiving mob.
I have a lot of respect for people who push for change even more so when they make it happen. I have no respect for the negative do nothing, take no responsibility people of this world. The changes created above are quite amazing when its huge global companies like facebook who have had history of doing nothing , until now. Try, try ,and try again or do nothing and whinge, no respect or care there .
And its also so true the following article
Read more »COLLIERS DEFENDS KIWIBUILD AS 'FAR FROM A COLOSSAL FAILURE'
"He's citing Colliers' experience marketing the Fraser Avenue, Northcote development in Auckland of 102 apartments, 72 of which are available to first-home buyers under the KiwiBuild scheme and 30 available on the open market, as proof KiwiBuild is working."
"Early this month, the government dropped its KiwiBuild target of 100,000 homes over a decade and announced a policy "reset" which includes setting up a new crown agency, Kainga Ora, to be both a public housing landlord and to facilitate urban development projects.Legislation establishing it passed its final reading in parliament yesterday and Kainga Ora, which will incorporate Housing New Zealand, its development subsidiary and the KiwiBuild unit, is set to begin operating from Oct. 1." Action speaks louder then denying.
Didn't it occur to you that Colliers have something of a vested interest? Your willingness to pigeonhole people with jingoistic slogans just further highlights the curious blind bigotry that the Left has adopted in recent years. I take no joy in Ardern being a shameless hypocrite and her leading an incompetent government. I wish they were better. The country needs them to be.
Women haters heres a goodie for you;)
Impressive how much time Tiny lil NZ got with the leader of japan. a great relationship there.
"Ms Ardern is in Japan this week, before heading to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
She was formally welcomed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, who said she was "reconciling parenting and Prime Ministership" and was a role model for "women around the world".
"New Zealand is a co-operative partner with whom we share universal values", he told reporters.
The two leaders agreed to promote "security and defence co-operation" through high level exchanges and joint training, Mr Abe said.
They also discussed how the two countries could work together for a "free and open" Indo-Pacific.
That would include climate change, capacity building, maritime law enforcement and investment in quality infrastructure."
PM meets with Japanese counterpart
Business tax changes back Kiwi companies to innovate and grow"The changes announced today as part of the Government’s Economic Plan build on initiatives already announced. These include a $1 billion investment for R&D tax incentives, record transport infrastructure investment, boosts to apprenticeships and trades training, and changes to immigration settings to make it easier for businesses to access the workers they need."
Don't allow yourself to be so easily impressed with this complete claptrap obviously written for the Japanese P.M. He would have no idea about her parenting skills and practises, and how she reconciled them with her PM duties. Like so many of these welcomes, just a gob-full of meaningless waffle, no doubt taken from bio notes provided by Adern's entourage.