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1 week ago |
newstalkzb.co.nz | Andrew Dickens
There was a letter to the editor over the weekend about the Auckland Harbour Bridge which made a very good point. The writer remarked that the Harbour Bridge is the coat hanger shape it is because it needed to let freighters in to get to the Chelsea sugar works. The works are under Birkenhead, and they’ve been there long enough that they’ve become historically significant. But that is the only reason the bridge goes up so much and down so much.
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2 weeks ago |
newstalkzb.co.nz | Andrew Dickens
Benjamin Doyle spoke on the controversy surrounding them yesterday and basically called themself stupid. We’ve found out that the Greens actively asked them to delete their accounts which introduced us all to the bussy. But they refused, wanting to stand up for what they are and who they stand for. Given that if I was the Greens I would have gone to the next person on the list. If Doyle wasn’t going to drop it, I would have dropped him. I said last week they should go, and I stand by that.
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2 weeks ago |
newstalkzb.co.nz | Andrew Dickens
Oranga Tamariki is getting rid of its target to place 58% of the kids in its care with wider Whanau. And it's also ditching a target for investment with Māori organisations - 23% of funding was targeted for those organisations. The Minister for Children Karen Chhour says this is part of OT's 'Safety First' approach. She says the targets were outdated and went against the ‘need not race’ directive.
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2 weeks ago |
newstalkzb.co.nz | Andrew Dickens
The news that New Zealand is going to spend 12 billion dollars on defence is not news to welcome, and yet it is welcome news. In an unsettled world, defence is essential. And the equation for a credible defence is spending 2 percent of GDP. So now within 8 years we’ll get to that target - it’s a doubling. The question is why we are only just doing this now. If we’d spent that for the past 30 years we would not be facing so dramatic a spend today. But we didn’t.
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2 weeks ago |
newstalkzb.co.nz | Andrew Dickens
So it looks like the Treaty Principles Act is toast as Christopher Luxon assured us it would be. Much was made over the weekend that 90 per cent of the submissions were against it. But that means nothing if all the opposing submissions were just photocopies of one. Māori are organised. Anyone who’s seen their multiple Hikoi's and the awesome organisation of the Kings Tangi should know that. You underestimate Māori at your peril. But it must also be noted that Act’s act was a simplistic dog.
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