The NZ Army has started deployment of its new Multi-Terrain Camouflage Uniforms (MCUs).
The NZ Army has taken on a new look with an updated uniform and the first soldiers to get to enjoy the new clothing and wear the Multi-Terrain Camouflage Uniforms (MCUs) is New Zealand 1st Brigade. Read more »
Here’s the most untrusted person in New Zealand… telling us Pakeha don’t ‘get’ koha…
Mana Party leader Hone Harawira is standing behind his party’s by-election candidate saying Pakeha don’t understand koha if they have a problem with him keeping the $12,000 raised for his surgery.
Mana’s Ikaroa-Rawhiti candidate, Te Hamua Nikora, raised the money for an operation on a brain tumour but the Auckland District Health Board decided to do it free of charge.
Nikora gave back some of the more than $30,000 raised, but said people would not take back the final $12,000. Read more »
When failed Labour Leader Phil Goff threatened National MP Jacqui Dean with a ‘fight’ at select committee, it must of reminded her of a past life.
After 30 years, she’d hope to have moved on from Play School….turns out no, the Labour party wants to play in the sand pit.
The snow in Dunedin and 17 years of unchanged temperatures don’t matter.
According to the Cook Islands UN representative, if it is cold outside, it is because of Global Warming.
Know one thing, if you let the green taliban have any say in anything it will cost you much, much more in the long run. Their solutions for everything require huge subsidies, reductions in service and/or both, and certainly increased costs for everyone.
Electricity prices in Britain may be almost double those in Germany within three years due largely to the impact of a new tax aimed at supporting renewable power generation, a report by bank Credit Suisse has claimed.
The bank’s analysis showed wholesale prices, which form the backbone of energy bills, would top those in Germany by 85pc in 2016-17 and would be higher in general for the next seven to 10 years.
The bank blamed the roughly fivefold rise in the government’s new tax on carbon-dioxide emitting power generation over the next seven years, while also pointing to Britain’s lack of infrastructure to import power from the European mainland.
Prices in the two countries had tracked one another for years, but they diverged last year as Germany spurred a boom in renewable energy generation by pouring billions into subsidising the green sector. Read more »
TV3′s Pedro Gower has run a clip of Phil Goff’s offensive behaviour at Select Committee:
However, Pedro goes on to say that he can’t recall the F word being used at Select Committee before and it’s ‘uncharted’ territory. Read more »
Moira Coatesworth has been hopeless as a fundraiser, and all these by-elections are getting expensive.
Her one solution is to tax caucus members more, and sources inside the Labour caucus are saying this is not going down well and Moira needs to start raising more money or leave, rather than taxing them more. Read more »
The DomPost editorial suggests that teachers, or more accurately the teacher unions are part of the problem not the solution regarding national standards.
The time has come for teacher unions to accept that national standards in reading, writing and mathematics are here to stay.
Parents clearly want plain-English reports about how their children are progressing in the three most important building blocks for a sound education, and the policy has been overwhelmingly endorsed at the last two elections.
It is therefore in teachers’ interests to work with the Ministry of Education to ensure a sound system of assessment and data collection. Sadly, the signs this week are that teacher unions and representatives will continue cutting off their noses to spite their faces. Read more »
Not quite this cold yet, but good grief, that’s a cold snap we’re having…
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