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So today I have had: a txt alert 10 min after the local Tsunami Sirens started in my Community, about a half hour after the last quake that put my region in harms way. Excellent work a txt alert once it was deemed safe to return home, gratefully received. a PM begin a PRESS Conference (not a Covid briefing) of all the days happenings detailing some of todays important issues an announcement of the carefully thought out by experts decision to complete the full 7 days lockdown as advertised (some people criticised the shortness of the previous 3 day lockdown) Some people just love a good cheese...

if it is the failure of the left to deliver this. Yes I agree with you, the left has been way too timid on this. To be fair a UBI would be a dramatic reform and any govt would consume a great deal of political capital getting it over the line. And until this past few post-COVD months there has never been a Labour govt in a strong enough position to do this. But the ground has shifted – it's my sense that NZ right now would be more receptive to the idea than at any time in my life. Perhaps the most pernicious effect of our conventional targeted benefit welfare (and the one that personally f...

Trigger-happy people are dangerous, guns shoot people and males get high on guns more than females. Police tried the careful approach to a guman in Aramoana and lost out. There has to be a better program for these 'lost boys' sent away from home by the sleazy-peazy Australian government wanting to slide out of their failures to integrate people. We are much the same here, but we haven't the option to pass the parcel. So let's have a sensible program, and give them something to ground them here, ability to turn their lives around and have a regular earning job and still keep in touc...

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:07 am, February 26th, 2021 - 5 comments It seems that the Springbok tour protests in 1981 had a deep and abiding effect on David Seymour, even though he would not be born until two years later. He was clearly affected by the experience or lack thereof and has clearly harboured a deeply felt opposition to apartheid ever since. But regrettably his deeply felt opposition to apartheid is not matched by his understanding of what it involves.  Because he has confused the ability of par...

An Aucklander who spent six minutes at a store where a Covid-19 case was working had to wait nearly eight hours on the phone to get advice from Healthline. Even if this item isn't correct in every detail it illustrates cracks in the Covid management policy widening. Are front-line workers being properly paid and rested? Are investigators really on top of their job keeping up with the urgency needed, that was shown earlier on? NZ can't afford to be complacent. Recently one student was phoned a number of times without success, and a visit to the house wasn't made. In the meantime the...