That same economy that was highly rated internationally?Originally Posted by R650R
Geriatric hoon
That same economy that was highly rated internationally?
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
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100 days of success
The clear cut points that have been achieved:
Stop work on the Income Insurance Scheme. ✔️
Stop work on Industry Transformation Plans. ✔️
Stop work on the Lake Onslow pumped hydro scheme. ✔️
Withdraw central government from Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM). ✔️ (Wellington’s council and the Government agreed to end the long-running transport project in December.)
Introduce legislation to narrow the Reserve Bank’s mandate to price stability. ✔️
Introduce legislation to remove the Auckland Fuel Tax. ✔️ (Transport Minister Simeon Brown abolished the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax through an urgent bill passed on Wednesday.)
Repeal the Clean Car Discount scheme by 31 December 2023. ✔️
Stop central government work on the Auckland Light Rail project. ✔️ (Auckland Light Rail was shut down in January.)
Repeal the Fair Pay Agreement legislation. ✔️ (This was done just before Christmas.)
Stop taxpayer funding for section 27 cultural reports. ✔️
Introduce legislation to disestablish the Māori Health Authority. ✔️ (Health Minister Shane Reti went further than just introducing this legislation, he passed the entire bill under urgency to disestablish Te Aka Whai Ora.)
Commission an independent review into Kāinga Ora’s financial situation, procurement, and asset management. ✔️
Repeal amendments to the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990 and regulations. ✔️ (This was repealed under urgency at the end of February.)
Meet with councils and communities to establish regional requirements for recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle and other recent major flooding events. ✔️
Make any additional Orders in Council needed to speed up cyclone and flood recovery efforts. ✔️ (This week, ministers Mark Mitchell and Penny Simmonds proposed an ‘order in council’ - effectively a legal directive - to “streamline the resource consenting process for flood resilience work”.)
Stop blanket speed limit reductions and start work on replacing the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2022.✔️
Introduce legislation to restore 90-day trial periods for all businesses. ✔️ (Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden reinstated 90 day trials last year, through urgent legislation enacted just before Christmas.)
Introduce legislation to repeal the Water Services Entities Act 2022. ✔(The Government not only introduced the bill to repeal the previous three waters plan, but it progressed under urgency through Parliament. The Government is yet to present its alternative plan.)
Abolish the previous Government’s prisoner reduction target.✔
Repeal the Spatial Planning and Natural and Built Environment Act and introduce a fast-track consenting regime. ✔(The acts have been repealed and on Thursday the fast-track consenting scheme was introduced to Parliament.)
Introduce legislation to ban gang patches, stop gang members gathering in public, and stop known gang offenders from communicating with one another. ✔ (Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith introduced a bill on Thursday, day 99 of the 100 day plan.)
Sign an MoU with Waikato University to progress a third medical school. ✔
Give Police greater powers to search gang members for firearms and make gang membership an aggravating factor at sentencing. ✔
Introduce legislation to extend eligibility to offence-based rehabilitation programmes to remand prisoners. ✔
Begin to repeal and replace Part 6 of the Arms Act 1983 relating to clubs and ranges.✔
By 1 December 2023, lodge a reservation against adopting amendments to WHO health regulations to allow the government to consider these against a “national interest test”. ✔
Establish a priority one category on the social housing waitlist to move families out of emergency housing into permanent homes more quickly. ✔
Ban the use of cellphones in schools.✔ (The Government passed a regulation in December to ban cellphones in schools from term two.)
ere’s where work was set to ‘begin’ and ‘start’. These are things the Government can say it has started:
Begin work on a new GPS reflecting the new Roads of National Significance and new public transport priorities. ✔️ (In a way, Transport Minister Simeon Brown can say he exceeded this goal as he released a full draft GPS this week.)
Begin efforts to double renewable energy production, including a NPS on Renewable Electricity Generation. ✔️ (The Government says its work to reform the Resource Management Act will help boost energy production. Work to form an alternative act has begun.)
Start reducing public sector expenditure, including consultant and contractor expenditure. ✔️ (As we get closer to Budget Day, May 30, talk of cuts across public sector agencies have ramped up.)
Start work to improve the quality of regulation. ✔️ (ACT leader David Seymour has started a new role as minister for regulation. On Thursday, he confirmed he had hired a chief executive to lead his new ‘Ministry of Regulation’.)
Begin to cease implementation of new Significant Natural Areas and seek advice on operation of the areas. ✔️
Begin work to enable more houses to be built, by implementing the Going for Housing Growth policy and making the Medium Density Residential Standards optional for councils. ✔️
Begin disestablishing Te Pūkenga. ✔️
Take policy decisions to amend the Overseas Investment Act 2005 to make it easier for build-to-rent housing to be developed in New Zealand. (On day 99, Thursday afternoon, Chris Bishop issued a press release saying Cabinet has agreed to make changes to the Overseas Investment Act. ✔️
Stop all work on He Puapua. (On this, it’s unclear if any work was being done on ‘He Puapua’ at all - no one has said what has been stopped.)
Begin work to crack down on serious youth offending. (This is fairly broad, and hard to define.)
Improve security for the health workforce in hospital emergency departments. ✔️ (At the start of March, Shane Reti said extra security would continue working at eight “high risk” emergency departments.)
Require primary and intermediate schools to teach an hour of reading, writing and maths per day starting in 2024. ✔️
Appoint an Expert Group to redesign the English and maths curricula for primary school students. ✔️
Begin work on delivering better public services and strengthening democracy. (This is fairly broad, and hard to define.)
Take first steps to extend free breast cancer screening to those aged up to 74. ✔️ (Reti says he “met with officials” to deliver on this.)
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket - Eric Hoffer
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She could've been sent it via Youtube or the free version of Spotify?
Anorak
Seem to be a lot of stops and making starts but not so much completed or came up with solutions.
Maybe a fresh round of tax cuts for the rich and upping gst is in order. With another round of selling off assets .
Pamu and state houses plus dropping funding for everything seems like a way to bring in some quick cash
Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken
Highway Biker
Sell TVNZ, RNZ and Air NZ. Governments (i.e. taxpayers) have no reason to own a broadcaster or an airline.
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Well, this is awkward...
That's an interesting point, what we taxpayers have already paid for is the infrastructure that supports television and radio broadcasts, which hopefully still has some value. TVNZ has for a long time been a poor imitation of a commercial US network which, if it isn't making enough money to pay its VERY well paid staff anymore, might as well be sold (if they can find a buyer.)
We seem to have more TV channels available than can usefully be used, given how many +1 channels there are repeating the same content. I'd still like to see a low budget channel where space can be made available to genuine local producers to broadcast original content – maybe it could be run by and branded as a 'NZ on air' channel. Youtube has a lot of content which is 'good enough', so it doesn't have to be expensive to produce.
RNZ is a tricky one, they make exponentially more local content than anyone else, and do it for a lot less money than anyone else, they may already be a bargain. There's only two non-music stations left on the radio, I prefer that to the music ones, so selfishly I'd be in favour of keeping them.
There must be a Civil Defence argument for keeping at least one radio and one TV channel owned by the government also, the mobile phone networks seem to still be very fragile when disaster strikes.
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Highway Biker
Every broadcaster in NZ operates under a licence controlled by the government. I'm sure there would be a clause to cover the broadcast of Civil Defence emergencies. If there's not, it's a relatively easy task to make amendments and Gazette them.
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NactFirst campaigned hard on Law and Order, Supporting the Police, etc. Now in power, they offer the Police a pathetic payrise, while wsting no time of giving landlords a massive tax cut. Bunch of clowns. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...%20on%20Friday.
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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“In September last year, the previous Government offered a $4000 increase, backdated to April 2023, followed a 4% pay rise effective April 2024.
The offer that arrived on Friday offered a $5000 increase to base wages, backdated only to November 2023. That would be followed by 4% pay rises starting July 2025.
Annual inflation was 4.7%.
The latest offer also proposed reducing the leave police could accumulate, taking it down from 45 to 35 days, and removing compensation for officers called in early by up to three hours on late notice.”
But rich for labour trying to milk this when their offer was quite similar . It was clear a change of govt was coming they should have taken labours offer knowing they have no care for spraying public cash about.
Wage bargaining is always tough affair in any industry eventually the dust will settle. If large country like Aussie is offering big dollars it’s telling you they have problems attracting people to the job too. That’s a worry when you consider the bigger talent pool they have as a larger population.
That tells you the job is difficult over there too plus you have the heat, dust, spiders and snakes that’s gotta make searching cars fun.
One way to fix this would be to tie all public service jobs and the minimum to MP salaries. So every time they get a rise so does everyone else, problem solved.
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket - Eric Hoffer
Geriatric hoon
Reminds me of a tale from I man I know. He was a former SAS soldier, joined the NZ Police, then when the Oz police advertised he crossed the Tasman. First day on the job he was told to interview/interrogate a suspect. The suspect was staunch and he was giving nothing away. The sergeant strode into the room with the Brisbane phone book and gave the suspect an almighty whack over the ear. "That's how we do it here." Problem solved.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
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I’d fully believe that just from watching how the highway cops treat mere speeders. Not that long ago was prob same here before they got wokified via govt policy.
If you like traditional styles I recommend searching out some of the docos and interviews with Roger Rogerson, although he went full scale corrupt he got results and eventually a jail term.
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket - Eric Hoffer
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NZ cops to Australia, double the pay, benefits, carry weapons full time AND get to use them. Whats not for them to like? Meanwhile Mark Mitchells salary has gone from about $164K (opposition member) to about $250K (Govt member in cabinet, 3 portfolios) not counting benefits, and sees no problem denying Police officers the money they should be getting. Almost as tone-deaf as his boss
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/doze...CL7GWPZETTCF4/
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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Rossi wanna be, then I wake up
Agreed the cops should be paid more, and additionally, we need more of them
But, there’s a finite amount of government money
Who misses out, in order to pay the police more ?
Serious question
Cuts have to come from somewhere, every essential ministry seems under funded
Health ? Can’t be the armed forces, they’re under funded now.
So, what cuts do you lot want to see ?
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Yes there is an apparent shortage of money (according to the Minister of Finance, whose qualification for the job seems to be a first-class honours degree in English literature from Victoria University of Wellington in 2003, and a post-graduate diploma in journalism from the University of Canterbury in 2017) but that hasn't stopped the m from giving a $2.9 billion tax cut for landlords
"The cost of reinstating full interest deductions for residential property will be $2.9 billion over the four-year forecast period, according to data from the Government." https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...in%202025%2F26.
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
(PostalDave on ADVrider)
Anorak
As well as claiming a 50K subsidy for the house he owns in wellington its been revealed "Man of the people"luxton has just spent 100K doing up parliament house including redecorating.
Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken
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