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"Our concern is what is the consultation and exercises going on engaging with communities, including rural communities? And about what [the Natural and Built Environments Act] might look like, particularly the impact on our lives that this will have," Williams told Magic Talk's Rural Exchange over the weekend. A draft of the Natural and Built Environments Act will be referred to a select committee in the middle of this year. But Williams says this does not give communities enough time to "absorb, consider and submit on the contents of the Bill". "As we all know from our regional or district p...

Photo: 123RF It’s now three weeks since former MP John Banks - filling in as a talkback host on national network Magic Talk - took a call from 'Richard' who said Māori were “stone age” people predisposed to crime, addiction and doing badly at school.   Magic Talk‘s owner MediaWorks sacked Banks soon after that - after a number of companies warned they would take their advertising dollars somewhere else if the broadcaster didn’t take action.  One of the first was Vodafone, which said Magic Talk didn’t square with its recently-stated commitment to the principles of the Trea...

Owning a home provides security that no amount of rental law cannot. The trouble is that house prices do not reflect the cost of owning a home. They reflect the cost of the expected medium-term capital gains (post bright-line). It wasn't a problem when they reflected the expected gains upon retirement and downsizing, but now who honestly expects to be in that house for thirty years? Or do they expect to flip it in ten years or so? Ad 1.2.1.1.2.1 Agree with the security bit. I've seen the pro's and cons of home ownership debated at length in New Zealand literature. They...

Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:30 am, February 13th, 2021 - 84 comments Back in May, I wrote a post “Covid-19: may be endemic“. That is looking like it is more and more likely. The depth of infection in world populations means that recombinant variants are likely. Vaccines and previous immunity will reduce the death rates and infection rates. But won’t stop reinfection. Human behaviour will keep covid-19 as an endemic disease.

RNZ Government agencies are gearing up to combat a barrage of vaccine-related scams expected to hit during the Covid-19 immunisation campaign. OPINION: It looks like we'll be vaccinated by the end of the year - those of us who believe in science, that is. On Friday, a little ahead of a previous promised schedule, the government announced it will be just a week before the first New Zealanders - border workers - will begin offering their upper arms for a tiny jab, and take the first step to joining the unicorn group of around 160 million people worldwide, who have received at least the first ...