NZ Herald Dec 15 2008
“Prime Minister John Key has said he will meet the Dalai Lama when he comes to New Zealand next year – one week after China retaliated against the French president for doing the same.”
“The Prime Minister will treat the Dalai Lama in the same way as any other significant visitor, and will meet the Dalai Lama should his diary permit,” said a spokesman for Mr Key.”
email reply to mine from PM office, Nov 20 2009
“On behalf of the Prime Minister, Hon John Key, I acknowledge your email regarding the upcoming visit of the Dalai Lama
The Prime Minister has met the Dalai Lama in the past, and may again in the future, but on this occasion he does not feel that he would get a lot out of the meeting.”
Jokes are always fewer funny for some people than others but the attempt to draw a parallel between Gage and the Dalai Lama is still super retarded, smiley or no smiley.
I said it before, this is just rude. “Hey Dalai, you stink!”
I can hear Key on the phone with the Chinese now “So Chinese, did you like what I said to the Dalai? Was it nasty enough for you? Want to mine in my backyard? Cool!”
Yes it was brilliant to see Kim rip Mr Gage a new proverbial.
The best bit was when he kept denying he was a Conspiracy Theorist but she pointed out that essentially the logical outcome of what he claims is a giant conspiracy to set up and cover up the ‘real’ story.
Mr Gage was shown to be the light weight joke that he is.
Subject: The March for Democracy – TODAY!!
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for being concerned for the state of democracy in New Zealand.
During the last couple of weeks there has been much debate in the media and many other issues have become attached to this cause.
The core focus is still democracy, the fundamental element that is being watered down as time goes by. This is the unifying driving force that underlies much of what has brought those other groups to join us today.
It will take some courage and conviction to front up today. You’ve come this far so don’t leave it to others – you count and we won’t get far without people like you.
Let us stand together today and send a clear message to government that democracy is not to be watered down at their will.
Regards, The March for Democracy.
1:30pm Corner Fort & Queen St.
(Volunteers 1pm – you can still help out if you want to come a little early)
The so called march for democracy is nothing more than a march for the child abusers , smackers and some religious nuts,
We have a huge problem with child abuse ,every day there is news of some innocent child being bashed or murdered.Yet we have angy bitter people like Family First’s (Fist) Bob McCoskie
urging us to march in support of the right to whack our children..
New Zealanders should be ashamed that so many people believe we should march in support of bashing our kids.
Decent people will avoid this march loke the plague .
“Decent people will avoid this march loke the plague”?
Well, they did — according to Nat Radio’s 4.00pm news, “around a thousand” people turned up in Queen St; $500,000 divided by 1000 equals — oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Or perhaps har de har har.
Apparently we’re still a representative democracy rather than one ruled by ambiguously worded referenda and we won’t march to support beating up kids. Fancy that.
I think you’ll find that almost all of those protesting for or against the repeal of section 59 aren’t those who are abusing children, and while both sides in the debate continue to vilify each other those who are most deserving of all our vilification continue to abuse and kill our most powerless.
Something really needs to be done about foreign fishing vessels in NZ. The easiest method would be to ban them the same as every other fishing nation does.
Anyone keen to support a march against the Citizens Inititiated Referenda? I don’t remember a sensibly worded, understandable question coming from this system, and as for binding ones from an emotional mob, words fail me. We have always had the option of petitions and perhaps can elevate these so they do get their day in parliament, with a sort of question time about them.
The previous referendum on crime has cost the country big through the ineffective measures introduced after it because it gave politicians the OK to get tough and lock people up. Didn’t help reduce crime did it? Why, because nobody tried except perhaps Kim Workman and similar groups. Longer sentences cost lots, they learn new things in prison, most negative (because the system doesn’t spend enough time enabling prisoners to learn something useful), and then they come out pissed off big time and do worse crimes than before. It is crime that is the hole in the bucket for our economy. If we could help the parents to think about what ethical standards they want to teach their kids and help them do it, it would take ten years but things would have changed for the better towards the end of that time. But no – blame the parents and take the light-hearted view that any ordinary person can bring up children well – it’s like housework or labouring, unskilled people can do it, there is nothing to know about it, and nobody cares to help parents, make their job easier and better. End of rant.
Apparently there is to be an increase in driver age.
My opinion is
1. that there should be a full licence available from age 18.
2. That there is a one year provisional licence for the first year of driving (at whatever age).
3. Provisional licences should be available from age 15 in rural areas (last for 3 years).
4. Provisional licences in other areas should come in from either age 16 (2 years) or age 17 (1 year).
5. Those on provisional licences – whatever their age have a zero blood alcohol level and no right to transport alcohol in vehicles they drive.
6. There should be a curfew (hours of use limitation) on provisional licence holders.
7. And compulsory third party insurance.
SPC Sounds like a lot of good practical ideas that will have beneficial effects. Don’t stand a chance of being adopted though! NZ legislation doesn’t work that way.
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Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. âOur Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealandâs hydrogen future, with the opening of the countryâs first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. âI want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealandâs own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealandâs energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. âThe report shows that New Zealandâs emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,â Mr Mitchell ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is today travelling to Europe where heâll update the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Governmentâs work to restore law and order. âAttending the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva provides us with an opportunity to present New Zealandâs human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while ...
Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the worldâs largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. âThe reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealandâs wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
Hon Andrew Bayly, Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing At the Southland Otago Regional Engineering Collective (SOREC) Summit, 18 April, Dunedin  NgÄ mihi nui, Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Ko Whanganui aho  Good Afternoon and thank you for inviting me to open your summit today.  I am delighted ...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to bring back the Three Strikes legislation, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced today. âOur Government is committed to restoring law and order and enforcing appropriate consequences on criminals. We are making it clear that repeat serious violent or sexual offending is not ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today announced four new diplomatic appointments for New Zealandâs overseas missions.  âOur diplomats have a vital role in maintaining and protecting New Zealandâs interests around the world,â Mr Peters says.  âI am pleased to announce the appointment of these senior diplomats from the ...
New Zealand is contributing NZ$7 million to support communities affected by severe food insecurity and other urgent humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and Somalia, Foreign Minister Rt Hon Winston Peters announced today. Â âOver 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across Ethiopia, with a further 6.9 million people ...
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Paul Goldsmith is congratulating Mataaho Collective for winning the Golden Lion for best participant in the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale. "Congratulations to the Mataaho Collective for winning one of the world's most prestigious art prizes at the Venice Biennale. âIt is good ...
The Government is reforming financial services to improve access to home loans and other lending, and strengthen customer protections, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly and Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced today. âOur coalition Government is committed to rebuilding the economy and making life simpler by cutting red tape. We are ...
âChina remains a strong commercial opportunity for Kiwi exporters as Chinese businesses and consumers continue to value our high-quality safe produce,â Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says.  Mr McClay has returned to New Zealand following visits to Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai where he met ministers, governors and mayors and engaged in trade and agricultural events with the New ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. âRecently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachersâ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul.  âThe Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. âScience, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During todayâs meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. âThe Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in TaupĹ as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the TaupĹ International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. âAnticipation for the ITM TaupĹ Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. âThe coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. âThis project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sectorâs productivity,â Mr Jones says. âThe project - ...
Ministry of Disabled People employees were promised a permanent role, but were told to start packing three weeks before their fixed term contract finished, says a former employee. ...
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan C. Walsh, Sessional Academic, The University of Queensland Arrest for witchcraft (1866) by John PettieNGV, CC BY-NC In recent decades, governments the world over have increasingly taken action to address the dark history of witch-hunting. In western Europe, memorials to ...
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent The US Department of Justice is being urged to condemn and cease its reliance on the âInsular Casesâ â a series of US Supreme Court opinions on US territories, which have been labelled racist. Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kara Dadswell, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Victoria University Ask your son or daughter, niece, or nephew to draw you a picture of a sport coach. They will most probably draw a man. Why? Our latest research published in the Psychology of Sport ...
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News that the great writer Vincent OâSullivan has died has spurred a wave of tributes. Here, fellow writer Emma Neale remembers her friend and colleague. I have a bright string of memories of Vince. The earliest moments are of sitting as a young student in his lectures on Katherine Mansfield, ...
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Ziegler, Collection Manager, Vertebrate Palaeontology, Museums Victoria Research Institute The fossil skeleton in a secluded alcove of the cave.Rob French/Museums Victoria Pitch-black darkness. Crushing squeezes, muddy passages, icy waterfalls. Bats and spiders. Abseiling over ledges into the unknown. How far ...
We remember one of Aotearoaâs towering literary figures, who died on Sunday 28 April. Sir Vincent OâSullivan, one of Aotearoaâs most prolific writers, has died in Dunedin at the age of 87. His son, Dominic OâSullivan, shared the news on social media on Sunday 28 April:Â âHei aitua hoki, kua ...
Ariana Stevens founded Reo MÄori Mai in 2018 to help people connect with te ao MÄori through the reo. On Friday she was awarded TĹŤ Rangatira, the supreme award at the NgÄ Tohu Reo MÄori awards.Te Tai Poutini (the South Islandâs West Coast) is often characterised by its remote ...
Bad, bad records are going to be broken this year, and itâs time for business leaders to accept that the transition to a low-carbon economy is going to be spiky, writes business leader Dame Therese Walsh. When I was on the board of the stock exchange, the NZX, a gentleman ...
1 May marks a year since New Zealandâs world-leading ban on live exports by sea came into effect. Instead of it being cause for celebration the anniversary is marred by the Governmentâs plan to restart the unpopular trade. ...
More than a thousand claims have been lodged with ACC over children, some younger than a year old, being injured by shopping trolleys in the last five years. Stewart Sowman-Lund looks at why.Madeleine Holden was at her local Countdown when she heard something no mother wants to hear: her ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nalini Joshi, Professor of Mathematics, University of Sydney Tavrius / Shutterstock Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brigid McCarthy, Lecturer in Journalism, La Trobe University Sports media misogyny was alive and well this month. In just the few short weeks it took for star United States basketball players Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese to shoot their way from ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacob Crouse, Research Fellow in Youth Mental Health, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock The core experiences of depression â changes in energy, activity, thinking and mood â have been described for more than 10,000 years. The word âdepressionâ ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Wilson, PhD Candidate in Quantum Technology & Innovation Governance, Institue for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney EdBelkin/Shutterstock A landmark legal settlement has once again focused our attention on the dangers of âforever chemicalsâ. This class of chemicals, technically ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Davies, Professor and Head of School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia Australians are having fewer babies, so many fewer that without international migration our population would be on track to decline in just over a decade. In most ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Oscar, Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney /imagine a photograph of a Thai woman, pregnant in a green and white dress with luggage at an airport departure terminal in Bangkok in 1974 with her eyes closed ...
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It took Act’s arts spokesman Todd Stephenson 20 minutes to think of a single New Zealand author and a single New Zealand book. The only artistic experience he could think of is that he went to see Hamilton in New York. His only press release on the arts has been ...
If the council isnât sure if it wants a bigger airport, it probably shouldnât own hundreds of millions of dollars worth of airport shares. Any fan of a professional sports team, especially in the big-money US and European leagues, knows how much team success relies on the right owner. Good ...
Plagued by industry lobbying and design flaws, the system may be on the chopping block under National. Is it delivering what it says on the box?At the supermarket, a woman with a baby strapped to her front pushes a trolley piled high with groceries, and two young children sit ...
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Arrrgggh!!!
The New Zealand Fox News Herald pisses me off first thing in the morning!!
Compare headlines:
Someone is lying, however. I wonder, is it Key or The Herald?
Well, that pretty much proves that the NZ Faux Herald really is just a JK/National promotional rag.
NZ Herald Dec 15 2008
“Prime Minister John Key has said he will meet the Dalai Lama when he comes to New Zealand next year – one week after China retaliated against the French president for doing the same.”
“The Prime Minister will treat the Dalai Lama in the same way as any other significant visitor, and will meet the Dalai Lama should his diary permit,” said a spokesman for Mr Key.”
email reply to mine from PM office, Nov 20 2009
“On behalf of the Prime Minister, Hon John Key, I acknowledge your email regarding the upcoming visit of the Dalai Lama
The Prime Minister has met the Dalai Lama in the past, and may again in the future, but on this occasion he does not feel that he would get a lot out of the meeting.”
Perhaps you should push John Key to meet up with Richard Gage as well BLiP đ
The smiley face doesn’t make your comment any fewer retarded, Gosman.
….’any fewer retarted’?
Have you actually finished High School, (or is that Primary), yet Felix?
Jokes are always fewer funny for some people than others but the attempt to draw a parallel between Gage and the Dalai Lama is still super retarded, smiley or no smiley.
I said it before, this is just rude. “Hey Dalai, you stink!”
I can hear Key on the phone with the Chinese now “So Chinese, did you like what I said to the Dalai? Was it nasty enough for you? Want to mine in my backyard? Cool!”
Great to hear him and Kim Hill heading off this morning! http://static.radionz.net.nz/assets/audio_item/0011/2137592/sat-20091121-0910-Richard_Gage_architecture_of_destruction-m048.asx
Yes it was brilliant to see Kim rip Mr Gage a new proverbial.
The best bit was when he kept denying he was a Conspiracy Theorist but she pointed out that essentially the logical outcome of what he claims is a giant conspiracy to set up and cover up the ‘real’ story.
Mr Gage was shown to be the light weight joke that he is.
key insults native americans
http://mars2earth.blogspot.com/2009/11/key-insults-native-americans.html
and protecting rock art
http://mars2earth.blogspot.com/2009/11/ancient-rock-art-protect-it-here-and.html
Should I stay or should I go? its a toughie
Which brand of Democracy do you prefer? Is it allergy-free?
The so called march for democracy is nothing more than a march for the child abusers , smackers and some religious nuts,
We have a huge problem with child abuse ,every day there is news of some innocent child being bashed or murdered.Yet we have angy bitter people like Family First’s (Fist) Bob McCoskie
urging us to march in support of the right to whack our children..
New Zealanders should be ashamed that so many people believe we should march in support of bashing our kids.
Decent people will avoid this march loke the plague .
“Decent people will avoid this march loke the plague”?
Well, they did — according to Nat Radio’s 4.00pm news, “around a thousand” people turned up in Queen St; $500,000 divided by 1000 equals — oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Or perhaps har de har har.
Apparently we’re still a representative democracy rather than one ruled by ambiguously worded referenda and we won’t march to support beating up kids. Fancy that.
I think you’ll find that almost all of those protesting for or against the repeal of section 59 aren’t those who are abusing children, and while both sides in the debate continue to vilify each other those who are most deserving of all our vilification continue to abuse and kill our most powerless.
Surely that’s what we should be ashamed of ?
Election 2011 KEY says Personal tax Cuts back on the agenda
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/business/82835/personal-tax-cuts-back-pm039s-sights
The Great New Zealand Fishing Scandal
Something really needs to be done about foreign fishing vessels in NZ. The easiest method would be to ban them the same as every other fishing nation does.
Anyone keen to support a march against the Citizens Inititiated Referenda? I don’t remember a sensibly worded, understandable question coming from this system, and as for binding ones from an emotional mob, words fail me. We have always had the option of petitions and perhaps can elevate these so they do get their day in parliament, with a sort of question time about them.
The previous referendum on crime has cost the country big through the ineffective measures introduced after it because it gave politicians the OK to get tough and lock people up. Didn’t help reduce crime did it? Why, because nobody tried except perhaps Kim Workman and similar groups. Longer sentences cost lots, they learn new things in prison, most negative (because the system doesn’t spend enough time enabling prisoners to learn something useful), and then they come out pissed off big time and do worse crimes than before. It is crime that is the hole in the bucket for our economy. If we could help the parents to think about what ethical standards they want to teach their kids and help them do it, it would take ten years but things would have changed for the better towards the end of that time. But no – blame the parents and take the light-hearted view that any ordinary person can bring up children well – it’s like housework or labouring, unskilled people can do it, there is nothing to know about it, and nobody cares to help parents, make their job easier and better. End of rant.
I see Hone got himself a white m*****f**** lawyer. I hope no-one here will attempt to defend him again- the man is a total hypocrite.
Apparently there is to be an increase in driver age.
My opinion is
1. that there should be a full licence available from age 18.
2. That there is a one year provisional licence for the first year of driving (at whatever age).
3. Provisional licences should be available from age 15 in rural areas (last for 3 years).
4. Provisional licences in other areas should come in from either age 16 (2 years) or age 17 (1 year).
5. Those on provisional licences – whatever their age have a zero blood alcohol level and no right to transport alcohol in vehicles they drive.
6. There should be a curfew (hours of use limitation) on provisional licence holders.
7. And compulsory third party insurance.
SPC Sounds like a lot of good practical ideas that will have beneficial effects. Don’t stand a chance of being adopted though! NZ legislation doesn’t work that way.
Well, give it a few years and we won’t have to give up meat to become a vegan.