Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Katharine Moody,
For instance, Marsden Point is owned by Z Energy and several overseas oil companies and uses huge amounts of water. So does BHP owned Glenbrook steel works. Not to mention Tiwai Point.
Are the NZ government going to buy these substantial, if dying, assets? Or will they close down - that'd be popular...
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Sacha,
I don't understand a party employing hired guns whose underlying allegiance is to a very different party.
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Which might have been the Greens, but they lost my vote for:
- dumping Metiria. Frankly, I don't care if she spend her teenage summers interning for the Baader Meinhof. She was their most effective MP and James Shaw is not.
- supporting the repeal of health and safety legislation preventing people going into dangerous mines so that people can go into a dangerous mine and search for corpses. It's a minor issue, but it indicates they favour dumb populism over rational policy.Not to mention that if the Greens do get 5%, and Labour are in a position to form a government with NZF, then I can fully see them being dumped at the instigation of Peters and then pliantly giving that government a free ride on confidence and supply.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I think you have it there.
Personally, I'm just going to do something weird and vote for the party whose policies I most agree with.
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Hard News: The new establishment, in reply to Henry Barnard,
Well no, NZ citizens or permanent residents can just email.
(I'm not sure why they even bothered putting those clauses into the Act about who has standing to make a request as they're so easily circumvented. If you were an overseas corporation, you'd just have a lawyer do it and I'm sure they do. I guess it just acts as a spam preventor).
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Hard News: The new establishment, in reply to izogi,
But the same effect could have been achieved, just a bit more slowly, if a member of the Australian Labour Party had hopped on a plane and as a person who is in New Zealand lodged an OIA asking for Joyce's citizenship status, if any?
They might not even need to do that - does the ALP have a branch in NZ, like the NZ Greens have a branch in London?
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Hard News: The new establishment, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
So does the husband of a dame get some sort of title?
And what about David Furnish, who is the wife (or husband if he prefers) of a knight?
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Hard News: The new establishment, in reply to izogi,
The details of anyone's citizenship isn't secret or private information as far as I'm aware. Certainly the register of births is a public document and consequently you can get an idea on anyone's status by birth or descent. I'd think it would be OIA-applicable for that reason?
I'm opposed to the idea that dual citizenship should disqualify one from becoming a legislator, with the proviso that candidates must disclose their citizenships (along with any other material conflicts of interest) on standing, so that the voters can decide.
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Well, that's one vote the Greens just lost
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to ,
Well yeah. People will still have to justify themselves to Winz, the money will just be a bit more generous, until National get back in and quietly erode it back.
That's the thing that attracted me about TOP - their UBI policy gets rid of all that (it basically removes unemployment as a concept) and reversing it would become a big hurdle for a future government.