@civillibertynz excellent submission, thank you so much for sharing it before submissions close - I hadn't been keeping an eye on things and had no idea this bill existed. Have made a short submission on the website.
https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-submission/document/54SCJUST_SCF_D259D3B7-961B-4D71-C262-08DD56A9BDE4/term-of-parliament-enabling-4-year-term-legislation-amendment
#NZPol I guess? I'm never sure if civics is the same as politics.
@BobLefridge
"They have been struggling with incredibly high power prices"
So instead of a solar power plant, they'll get a meat works that'll require MORE power pushing prices up higher...
Shane Jones and a large entourage flew to the Chatham Islands today to see what the islanders need.
While nobody asked for one, Jones himself suggested they should get a “mobile abattoir.” He told them to put in a pitch, with urgency, to his $1.2 billion Regional Development Slush Fund.
"He (Jones) dismissed questions about the propriety of the minister in charge of judging funding pitches giving his own idea for a pitch."
Of course he did.
Phase Two of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Covid-19 is accepting submissions until 27 April. We know, this phase was initiated to appease the NZ First voters. Even if you've made a submission to Phase One, please make another submission to shift the balance:
https://haveyoursay.covid19lessons.royalcommission.nz/
Here's a submission guide from ACA:
https://covidaction.nz/en/covidinquiryphasetwo
PHCC just published an article that's worth a read, too:
https://www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/improving-our-pandemic-preparedness-counterfactuals-and-continuous-quality-improvement
Please boost for reach!
According to Paddy Gower, "How good is Amanda Luxon? I reckon she is really good. ... Because the Prime Minister’s wife has given one of the best takes on the polarisation of politics I have ever heard. .... “We seem to have lost the ability to hold differences and still be friends.”
Oh my giddy aunt. Only someone with immense privilege thinks like that. She should try being poor and see what that does to her politics. Never gonna happen of course.
#NZPol
The two major parties offer us a stark contrast - between wrecking the country while smirking or wrecking it while sighing.
#nzpol
Don't all Wellington mayoral candidates promise they alone will fix the Council and deliver better results for ratepayers - Little was one of the Ardern Gvt's best performing Ministers.
But what any Wellington mayor needs to understand is that the Councillors are endemically contrary and partisan - Wellington is not unsurprisingly a political city to it's roots. #NZPol
ICYMI: Last week, two orangutans occupied the roof of the main storage facility of Fonterra's primary supplier of palm kernel. They unfurled a giant banner reading 'Anchor Rainforest Killer', calling for an end to the use of palm kernel as supplementary feed for dairy cows whose milk is used in Fonterra's Anchor products.
Join us in protecting the rainforests that these orangutans call home from Fonterra's destruction - sign the petition now!
Ashburton District Council defends indefensible nitrate contamination health risks to babies
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ashburton... #nzpol
Is Ashburton's water supply a ...
Trying to explain Winston Peters’s whole…thing to people with very little knowledge of NZ politics beyond Jacinda Ardern is a challenge. Not sure I did a good job of it. #NZpol
"In all of this, Costello never mentioned a single woman complaining about the communications or finding it hard to understand. In fact, her only reference to it was the documents she herself had received and taken issue with. Perhaps the easiest solution to this non-existent problem would be to create special communications just for Costello, so she doesn’t get further confused by the separate concepts of sex and gender." 
oh, and the College of Midwives has also weighed in with yet more cis supremacist nonsense https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/558213/midwives-advocate-for-and-and-approach-to-pregnancy-language
Associate New Zealand Health Minister Casey Costello has told the agency "only women and people of the female sex can get pregnant"
what a load of transphobic BULLSHIT 
also this wilfully ignorant white cis lady has obviously never heard of a seahorse dad 
I can’t stop thinking about the moron we have as NZ’s Minister of Defence claiming that the world has changed and so should NZ. On that matter she’s not incorrect however, imo, she is taking NZ and its citizens on a voyage upon the ship of fools to buddy us up with the treacherous Trump regime at a time when it’s threatening NZ’s allies such as Canada, the EU and every country that abides with international law and norms. Judith Collins is a danger to our nation. #NZPol
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/557985/who-benefits-from-the-2-billion-of-accommodation-supplements-paid-out-annually Who do you think Susan? Have you asked Mr 7 houses? Have you asked our landlord mp’s?Who benefits indeed. #nzpol #subsidies #landlords #worstgovtever
Nitrate contamination in drinking water is putting babies at risk in Ashburton, where close to one in five bore water samples tested for nitrate exceeded levels linked with blue baby syndrome.
Read more now: https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/babies-at-risk-due-to-nitrate-contaminated-drinking-water-ashburton-district/
#nzpol #toomanycows #freshwater
The Luxon government has announced it'll chuck another $13.5m into tourism. They seem determined to stick with a quantity over quality approach and intend to target "China, Australia, the United States, India, Germany and South Korea."
Meanwhile, our tourism capital Queenstown is discharging effluent into the Shotover River and can't cope with the existing demand for wastewater.
But sure... bring in more tourists.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/135m-investment-turbocharge-tourism-marketing
ICYMI
Greenpeace has revealed footage of deep sea areas intensively fished by NZ bottom trawlers for decades.
The shocking footage shows huge areas of coral turned to rubble.
We have to #BanBottomTrawling.
#nzpol
‘Coral graveyard’: Environment...
