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1 week ago |
kiwiblog.co.nz | David Farrar
Richard Prebble writes:Claims standards of parliamentary behaviour have fallen are nonsense. Except for Te Pāti Māori, this is a well-behaved House. The Speaker’s referral of the floor protest to the Privileges Committee was not discretionary. It was required by Standing Orders. The Speaker was lenient. He could have ordered the Sergeant-at-Arms to end the Māori Party haka. Any MP who resisted is automatically suspended for the rest of this Parliament.
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1 week ago |
kiwiblog.co.nz | David Farrar
Amid public debate over a controversial art installation that encourages people to walk on a New Zealand flag, a woman has pledged to pick the flag up from the floor each day in protest. This comes after the Nelson installation, with the words “please walk on me” written on a New Zealand flag, sparked a feud between local leaders this week. Ruth Tipu took to social media to share her anger towards the installation, showing herself in a video picking up the flag and draping it on another art piece.
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1 week ago |
kiwiblog.co.nz | David Farrar
Stuff reports:Prime Minister Christopher Luxon made some comments about local government, and Wellington in particular, which its mayor Tory Whanau has rejected. Speaking to Newtalk ZB, Luxon said there was “way too much ideology and party politics” in local government. “Wellington should be more than just a public service town.
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1 week ago |
kiwiblog.co.nz | David Farrar
Since 2020, the radio audience numbers are:NewstalkZB +110,800 listeners, a 20.7% gainRadio NZ -186,600 listeners, a 29.5% dropEach one individually is remarkable. A 21% increase is listeners in five years is massive, especially at a time when most media is losing audiences. But equally a 30% drop in listeners in just five years is also massive – the other way. If that was a commercial media outlet, they would be having to change things to stay afloat. The difference between the two is huge.
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1 week ago |
kiwiblog.co.nz | David Farrar
Newsroom reports:It’s audacious. It’s astounding. We’re doing the time warp again. Even ministers struggled to comprehend the scale of the tax incentive scheme they’d signed off in the Budget. Shane Jones left his own noisy beer-and-crayfish Budget night party, upstairs in Parliament Buildings, to return to the House to check with other ministers whether there really was no cap on the size of an asset that could receive the 20 percent tax deduction. Then he calls back, jubilant.
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Great find. An actual note from the editor decrying the use of the c word against female politicians
Just three years ago, the Dom Post ran this Editor's note about use of the C-word against politicians: "...we should all be shocked that women elected to public office are on the receiving end of this word. Our politicians should expect criticism, but it should be civil." 🤔 https://t.co/tRICvdqYAY
The recommended suspension of MPs has nothing to do with the haka. It is because they did it while the House was voting (preventing the House from voting) and they crossed the floor to intimidate MPs. If they had waited until after the vote, and did it from their seats, no issue.
Great call out of hypocrisy by @cjsbishop https://t.co/BH1mjl7ft4
