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[wizard of Tauranga]

So what are the parameters of a "meritocracy"? Who is deciding that? Hint: The Right. It seems the right are deciding those, precisely the point of the original post. And those parameters are deliberately divisive.

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So they, like yourself, are making shit up to reinforce a deliberate strategy of a weaponised fake culture war.

Immm… individuals (left or right) making individual judgements on who is best for the job rather than having a requirement for diversity targets.

Diversity targets are the divisiveness that gave NZ First and Act a platform last election. People don’t like being second class citizens.

Go ask the navy or the reserve bank what happens when you don’t go for the best

 

[Noitall]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

Will be interesting to see if the government listens to the public. Not a good chapter for Seymour

 

[MaybeTop8]

This lunch program - a complete fucking failure of privatisation. A disaster.


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[MaybeTop8]

Utterly corrupt. Utterly regressive.

Wind power firm departs, amid fast-track controversy over seabed mining

A plan for an offshore wind power generation site has been abandoned as the company has pulled out, as controversy continues over seabed mining also planned for the area.

www.rnz.co.nz

 

[defensivebomb]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

Will be interesting to see if the government listens to the public. Not a good chapter for Seymour

Not great for him.

It does raise an interesting point that voters and the media seem to be more concerned with the government’s role in providing free lunches and having a ferry across the cook strait than they are about the big issues like the brain drain, education, health, quality of life etc

 

[defensivebomb]

Utterly corrupt. Utterly regressive.

Wind power firm departs, amid fast-track controversy over seabed mining

A plan for an offshore wind power generation site has been abandoned as the company has pulled out, as controversy continues over seabed mining also planned for the area.

www.rnz.co.nz

I’d go with utterly incompetent more like

At the same time, Labour can’t throw stones in this regard

 

[defensivebomb]

This lunch program - a complete fucking failure of privatisation. A disaster.


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Probably wasn’t a great idea giving the contract to a company called Libelle Group

 

[Mr Drag]

I’d go with utterly incompetent more like

At the same time, Labour can’t throw stones in this regard

Why does Patea need a wind farm They got their own dam and sod all people to use the power!

 

[Tragic]

The school lunches is a cluster fuck. I don't know anyone who thought what labour brought in was a bad idea. $8 a day for something decent is fuck all in the scheme of things and it has so much down stream benefit.
Anyone who thinks you are going to get anything decent delivered for $3 a day hasn't been to the supermarket in a long time.

 

[John Nick]

The school lunches is a cluster fuck. I don't know anyone who thought what labour brought in was a bad idea. $8 a day for something decent is fuck all in the scheme of things and it has so much down stream benefit.
Anyone who thinks you are going to get anything decent delivered for $3 a day hasn't been to the supermarket in a long time.

Especially from a mob electioneering on a premise of getting kids back into school

 

[miket12]

Utterly corrupt. Utterly regressive.

Wind power firm departs, amid fast-track controversy over seabed mining

A plan for an offshore wind power generation site has been abandoned as the company has pulled out, as controversy continues over seabed mining also planned for the area.

www.rnz.co.nz

I'm wondering if there's more to this than meets the eye and the mining in the area is just a "convenient excuse" as why not look at moving the proposed location of the windfarm to the North Taranaki Bight. Access from the port at New Plymouth would still be the same. There are also at least five other proposals for offshore wind farms within the South Taranaki Bight. Perhaps Bluefloat just couldn't get the numbers to stack up while others could.

Bluefloat had also previously complained that neither the previous or current governments were prepared to offer them subsidies/tax breaks for their proposal.

 

[miket12]

Some "flippers" are starting to come out of the woodwork again.. buying properties with a long settlement date and then trying to flip them off before they have to settle. If it doesn't sell on again, they then walk away from the original deal which has written in them that they were able to market and sell a property before it settled or settled when they had on sold it.

I choose long ago not to do any work for some of these guys.... they'd buy a place then do un-permitted alterations then get drawings done by a designer so they could apply for either a Safe and Sanitary (S&S) claiming the work was done before 1992 or a Cert. of Acceptance (CoA) for work done after 1992 but claiming it was done by the previous owner. Why? It's cheaper and quicker to get either a S&S or CoA than apply for a Building Consent, have the work inspected and get a CCC.

‘These guys are hoping for a miracle’ - ‘Cheeky’ speculators return to South Auckland auction rooms

Agents have noticed a return of the quick flick.

www.oneroof.co.nz