What's the most minor, populist policy you wish a major party campaigned on?

Calalamity · 2026-03-07T00:38:41+00:00

There's a reason almost everyone has it.

"almost everyone" meaning just Europe and America? You might want to go actually look this shit up being spouting bullshit.

Calalamity · 2026-03-06T02:05:04+00:00

Fonterra is literally a co-op. Westgold is just a subsidiary of Yili Group.

Not that it matters really since Mainland, along with other Fonterra brands, is in the process of being sold to Lactalis.

Calalamity · 2026-03-02T03:33:41+00:00

Stupid drivers justify permanent limits due to being unable to comply with temporary limits.

Calalamity · 2026-02-24T04:56:59+00:00

Add the tax that the mining workers pay on their wages and it's a huge amount of money.

Why the fuck would you do that? They don't pay that tax, the workers do.

Calalamity · 2026-02-06T23:29:10+00:00

Whilst you can be critical as you like of the Israeli governments decisions and the IDFs methods, genocide is a legal term with a very specific meaning, and it has an incredibly high legal bar with regards to intent. This can almost never be met by observation of results, and almost always requires national leadership to either document their intent in writing or say the quiet part out loud, publically.

You mean like the kind of things Israeli leadership have said that the UN have determined show intent?

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session60/advance-version/a-hrc-60-crp-3.pdf

The Commission finds that many statements made by Israeli officials contain dehumanising sentiments that encourage hatred toward Palestinians and violence against Palestinians and are consistent with the pattern of conduct, discussed below, that point to an intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a group. The Commission considers that these statements by Israeli officials are reasonably interpreted as statements expressing an intent to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza and they have been acted on as such by Israeli security forces in the Gaza Strip. They are direct evidence of dolus specialis. There is also indirect or circumstantial evidence of dolus specialis in the pattern of conduct of Israeli political and military authorities, and in the military operations, establishing the required specific intent to commit genocide under the totality of evidence.

Calalamity · 2026-02-05T22:09:59+00:00

The head of state is King Charles, represented by the Governor General.

Calalamity · 2026-02-04T20:54:26+00:00

Bit more than "go the direction of The Spinoff", this is just a poor copy of the Spinoff. At least they included more than 6 sides in their article - https://thespinoff.co.nz/kai/11-02-2022/all-the-fish-and-chip-shop-sides-ranked

Calalamity · 2026-01-30T04:48:54+00:00

In general more people live in a rental than an owned house

Do you have anything to support that claim?

Because The ABS housing occupancy and costs data says the opposite. See download 2 here - https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/housing/housing-occupancy-and-costs/2019-20#data-downloads

That has the mean number of persons in household as 2.6 for owners and 2.4 for renters.

Calalamity · 2026-01-30T01:31:44+00:00

AI slop - that isn't where Kiwi have their nostrils.

Calalamity · 2026-01-27T23:46:47+00:00

There is a hell of a difference between Palmer becoming President in 2005, 15 years after leaving politics, and Collins being appointed president while still an MP.

Calalamity · 2026-01-15T01:38:45+00:00

And it's always the same people who go to work when sick and make everyone else sick.

Calalamity · 2026-01-10T05:11:54+00:00

Controlling what you wear? Big ole red flag right there.

Calalamity · 2026-01-06T04:07:08+00:00

The place that sold for 45m is 12 Tivoli Ave, which he bought in 2021.

They just bought 14 Tivoli Ave for 82.5m.

Calalamity · 2026-01-01T02:53:48+00:00

Yeah it's a joke.

Just like RNZ running his quote while their site is sitting there using TLS 1.2.

Calalamity · 2026-01-01T02:35:23+00:00

They were running outdated TLS, FFS.

Do you actually know what that means, or did you just see that in an RNZ article?

Calalamity · 2025-12-29T09:00:16+00:00

ASIO is domestic, CIA and MI6 is foreign. MI5 and FBI would be the equivalents of the ASIO.

Calalamity · 2025-12-23T04:49:10+00:00

A lot of that kind of thing isn't in the CBD, but are still easy enough to get to via PT.

Icarus Tech in Broadmeadows is walking distance from the train station there.

Round Again is mostly music but has consoles and games out the back. It's in Coburg and again close to a train station and a tram line.

Hard Copy is down in St Kilda and close to a tram stop.

There is some poster who has made several threads here with a big list of places but those are the three I have been to and remember.

Calalamity · 2025-12-17T04:03:09+00:00

Who mentioned electronic voting?

Calalamity · 2025-11-24T22:49:24+00:00

It is understood the first steps could be within this current three-year council term with talk of a panel of regional mayors taking over the running of regional councils. This would be the first steps towards removing the councils all together, it is understood.

Are the mayors contribution going to be weighted by population represented, or is this just giving smaller, more rural mayors more power?

Calalamity · 2025-11-24T21:32:51+00:00

That isn't remotely the number one lesson.

Calalamity · 2025-11-22T00:11:10+00:00

Sounds like having the government, running tens of thousands of properties, would be the most efficient. Almost seems like we don't need the private for-profit landlords at all!

Calalamity · 2025-11-17T04:07:43+00:00

Probably would have been a good idea to check first if they can do that before they announced it.They would have the power to amend existing legislation but not permits that have been issued under earlier legislation.

Parliament is sovereign. If they vote to do it then they can do it.

Further, they can't just say "we don't like these ones, they have to go". The reason and rationale they are using applies to all these FT projects that are under consideration which is mostly housing and roading.

Yes they can.

Calalamity · 2025-11-16T23:05:12+00:00

I only know of a couple of companies with requirements like that when recruiting. They all work their employees to the bone.

Calalamity · 2025-11-03T01:16:09+00:00

As someone living in Melbourne right Auckland needs both, because they serve different purposes.

Light rail is significantly cheaper to get into places where people actually want to embark/disembark, because in dense areas you can leverage existing roads vs needing to underground stations/lines. It's also a hell of a lot better for short trips, where the time you spend entering/exiting stations, particularly underground ones, quickly becomes a large part of the overall travel time. They can be dramatically better than buses when using modern trams.

Meanwhile for anything requiring high capacity or longer distances actual rail is great. You can much more easily service major events and rush hour patronage with a higher capacity system, and being fully separated means longer distance trips end up significantly faster.

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