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it’s all rumours until you read it in the papersCome on Wiz.
Don't leave us in the dark.
What are your sources?
What areas.
Someone with your status must be able give us a heads up.
Come on mate.
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And this same chestnut comes out every time there is a change in political party running govcoit’s all rumours until you read it in the papers
Same song every time
Reminds me of that Michael Hurst Lion Red beer ad
Same song wins every time
Oh no. I heard it here first.it’s all rumours until you read it in the papers
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The books are so bad, landlords are getting a 3B package rushed through?!!? Hahaha fucking pull the other one.
Like Schrodingers Putin… The mental gymnastics required to hold two diametrically opposed viewpoints as both true at the same time.
And Mike King got 3 million
But we are in the shit for money
Happens every change of government.
Amazing we still have so many gullible out there
$6m per year!And Mike King got 3 million
But we are in the shit for money
Happens every change of government.
Amazing we still have so many gullible out there
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TBF $3mil is probably a saving over bloated programs delivering fuck all.And Mike King got 3 million
But we are in the shit for money
Happens every change of government.
Amazing we still have so many gullible out there
True. My point was they didn't have problems finding it while claiming the books are fucked
Wondering what Butterbean and many other charities are thinking
Very true. Seymour and Winnie are cunning but I don’t think Luxon and Bishop could count to 20 with their shoes on. They are probably waiting for an adult to tell them what the numbers mean.True. My point was they didn't have problems finding it while claiming the books are fucked
Wondering what Butterbean and many other charities are thinking
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Winnie promised to go down the Pike River site but never did because it was a no smoking area.
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More evidence we are unproductive, costly, and get less for more money with the city rail project - remember most of the contractors are the same once that travel the world leading these projects so it reflects local conditions:
Portugal, South Korea, Spain and Finland manage to build transit lines for around US$100m/km. More than nine times less than New Zealand.
(The lead tunnelling contractor for the CRL was the French company Soletanche Bachy.)
Extrapolate this across building highways, housing, bike lanes, our food costs, etc and it shows things are going majorly wrong.
Portugal, South Korea, Spain and Finland manage to build transit lines for around US$100m/km. More than nine times less than New Zealand.
(The lead tunnelling contractor for the CRL was the French company Soletanche Bachy.)
Extrapolate this across building highways, housing, bike lanes, our food costs, etc and it shows things are going majorly wrong.
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Surprisingly, an article in this just this morning. Is it just playing politics or something bigger to come:it’s all rumours until you read it in the papers
What ‘fiscal holes’ does Finance Minister Nicola Willis face as she puts together mini-Budget?
All will be revealed at the much-signalled opening of the books in December - an event known as the Half-Year Economic and Fiscal Update, or Hyefu, but which politicians often call opening the books probably because it sounds more dramatic.This week, Willis will have sat down with Treasury officials and been given an unvarnished briefing on the state of the books, seeing details and figures that would have been unavailable to her in opposition.
The “opening the books” shtick is more accurate you get to the topic of risks to the fiscal forecasts. These risks are declared, but don’t have specific dollar figures attached to them, at least not in publicly available documents.
Willis also mentioned these in her interview on Newstalk ZB, saying she would soon “declare some massive spending blowouts [the former Government] have had in a couple of very poorly managed projects because I think New Zealanders need to know what’s been going on with the books under Labour”.
In some instances, Treasury is able to get away with not publishing the cost of specific projects. This is often because the cost of that project is commercially sensitive, or because there is no accurate figure of how much something will cost.
In situations like this, Treasury’s update declares the fact that these blowouts exist, but doesn’t put a figure on them. Willis could choose to reveal more information about these projects, although she too would be limited by commercial sensitivity in some cases.
The risks mentioned in the Prefu, the most recent update, include cost pressures in health, potentially including the new Dunedin hospital.
Treasury was fairly scathing about these, saying in Prefu that they were “largely driven by construction sector inflation and insufficient planning ahead of investment decisions for many legacy investments”.
Potential blowouts loom over at Kāinga Ora, where Treasury warned large-scale projects faced “ongoing risk around cost overruns and changes to operating and capital costs given the scale and complexity of the projects”.
There are two other big projects which are likely to be in Willis’ sights. The first is something Treasury calls iRex, which is a rather strange abbreviation for the “Inter-Island Resilient Connection”. Outside of The Terrace, it’s known as a project to replace the ageing Interislander ferries and upgrade the portside infrastructure in Wellington and Picton. The project has been beset by rumours of ballooning costs. At the Prefu, Treasury warned that iRex “cost estimates have increased significantly since the initial funding application”, but did not give an indication of how much.
The project has already run over budget, ballooning from $775m in November 2018 to $1.76 billion in March 2021 - making the two ferries already four times more expensive than the Titanic, which cost $381m in 2023 dollars. Let’s hope we get more use out of them.
The final thing to keep an eye on is the NZ Upgrade programme, an Ardern-era infrastrucutre programme mainly targeted towards road building. One particular road, the Ōtaki to north of Levin road has ballooned to $1.6b, roughly double the cost estimate from 2020. The last Government received advice on trimming the scale of the project, or tipping in additional funding.
National has pledged to build the road no matter the cost. Famous last words. Whatever cost blowout there is will need to come from somewhere.
It's such a shame that the average person cannot visualise the difference of magnitude between million and billions, especially when it comes to dollars.
I haven’t read every comment on this thread, so if this has been discussed before excuse me.
The national government wants to change Pseudoephredine from prescription, only, to over the counter. Availability.
Its a cold decongestant cure but is also the main ingredient in speed, bennies, uppers. P.
Ram raids on Chemists?
Bulk loads from chemist warehouse?
Good idea?
I don’t think so.
comments?
The national government wants to change Pseudoephredine from prescription, only, to over the counter. Availability.
Its a cold decongestant cure but is also the main ingredient in speed, bennies, uppers. P.
Ram raids on Chemists?
Bulk loads from chemist warehouse?
Good idea?
I don’t think so.
comments?
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Personally, I thought it was an unnecessary and unneeded change. If you are struggling from a winter cold, take a few panadol and have a lie down. I would have thought the risks of pseudoephedrine outweigh the benefits
But I don't like taking them anyway as I can't sleep later on at night
I can't recall the electorate ever wanting to have them back
I find that the Day/night tablets are great for me. Disappointed when they are not available.Lucky I very seldom need them .
It’s just plain weird. They are effective at keeping you working if you have a cold and you can power through. But then again so is speed or P. They have a bounce back effect. Rest, time off and lemon honey works for me….it just seems a policy for big pharma - the US companies, but then again that’s what this government is about. Look at the way we’re trying to get American money in here and the hard on for the gun and tobacco lobby.
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Those ferries are going to be problematic - they need to upgrade the terminals at both ends and then they haven’t tested whether they can actually safely get through Tory channel.
I heard a long interview with the Picton harbour master and he said it’s a disaster waiting to happen. It’s a dangerous entry at the moment and they’re almost doubling the length of the boats….he said if a boat did hit the rocks in big seas then there are no rescue ships
I heard a long interview with the Picton harbour master and he said it’s a disaster waiting to happen. It’s a dangerous entry at the moment and they’re almost doubling the length of the boats….he said if a boat did hit the rocks in big seas then there are no rescue ships
I googled and from what I read, this is another one of the idiot ideas driven by David Seymour's Guns and speed party.
As for Ram raids for speed, that one is harder to predict. Pharmacies already have stocks of Controlled substances like opiates, Benzos, and prescription pseudo and there are no Ram Raids (maybe a function of having these drugs locked in a safe, but where there is a will there is a way).
We did not have Ram raids when Pseudo was legal, so like I say, it is harder to predict.
Serious organized crime groups in NZ do not need to Ram raid chemists for Pseudo because they have a direct line to industrial quantities of Meth Pre cursors made in massive factories in China. The Hong Kong Triad and the Fujian triad in Southern China live here in New Zealand or fly back and forth.
I used to look after these Triads when they went potty from using product, their passports were a give away, stamped eighteen times in a bunch of years for entry to NZ and China, unemployed young male millionaires from poor families out of China, driving brand new Super Cars and just leaving them here in NZ parked on the side of the road when have to get the heck out of NZ in a hurry.
Thanks to those guys I know a lot about the Meth rings in NZ because when they go psychotic on Meth they tell me stuff that they are not supposed to because are paranoid as shit house rats expecting to be killed by their employers.
Before the Triads started operating out of Sky City Auckland (a hidden in plain sight, a perfect base for Chinese nationals to blend in by posing as regular gamblers - offering a twenty four hour base for operations run seven days a week) the NZ meth scene was indeed supplied by over the counter Pseudo.
Like an episode of breaking bad, 'Smurfs' would shop for the Gangs and buy up as much product as they were allowed across a wide network of chemists.
The problem with that old model is that it is labor intensive, expensive, attracts attention, and the product...the cold and flu remedies need to be cooked/more cost, more hassle.
Still, there is a market for homebake Meth using pseudo pills, the smaller operators, the backyard cooks can and will run less pure product onto the streets over and above the several tonnes of pure industrial Precursors that the Triads control, some of it coming from unstable countries partnered with China (Myanmar for example) and imported directly to Australia in mega tonne loads to be converted for the US market.
With Australia a key link in the world supply, we are invariably right up there and part of the largest Meth chain in the world.
A massive amount of Meth being trafficked by Mexican Cartels comes through Australia and to a lesser extent NZ. The Cartels use Australia to cook the precursors, which then get shipped as product to the US.
Because the DEA target Mexican and South American imports, Australia became the back door to the US market. And because Australia while having decent law enforcement, is historically and currently subject to a culture of police corruption, also to be fair to the Australian police they are not the DEA, they are not that big army if you like of Cartel hunters like the DEA....who are backed by a US budget and a US president in the 'war on drugs'.
Excuse the rant.
As for Act saying that this move is to help the Elderly access pills that work....yes pseudo is the most effective symptom reliever of flu like symptoms by targeting the lack of energy, drying up the sinuses and all round decongetstion.
What I want to know, is where did David Seymour get his medical degree?
Since Pseudo ephedrine speeds up the heart rate and increases blood pressure, causes insomnia, can cause hallucinations and seizures....I am left wondering whether this is the Act parties way of culling off the very group that is highly represented in the heart disease/blood pressure/ mental frailty grouping.
All elderly should only use Pseudo ephedrine with the supervision of a doctor, the thing is that drug interacts with the raft of other pills the Elderly are on and of all groups they need medical monitoring.
But David Seymour is the most dangerous NZder I have ever encountered, and as someone else said, this big pharma, big tobacco, US gun blood money this guy is trading us in for, and it is obscene. I hope gets hit by a bus. I don't know how anyone could defend this bastard, he is the worst thing that has ever happened to NZ.
Your other problem is addiction and abuse.
Of course young people are going to just buy this shit and take handfuls and go out partying, dance and drink, drop dead from overdose or over exertion / dehydration / mixing substances.
Sounds a bit worse than Vaping but wait for the excuse making by defenders of the new far right lunacy in here on this issue.
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