Posts by Katharine Moody
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Hard News: Team Little: pretty good, in reply to BenWilson,
oops - quite right :-).
Also interesting that Winston's favourite issues (immigration, seniors and racing)have been left to the unranked in Labour - and energy and water (likely big issues coming up wrt deep sea oil exploration and on-going freshwater issues) have also gone to unranked Labour members - perhaps going to let the Greens lead the attack on those in QT? Same goes for primary industries - also unranked. Not sure whether there is anything in this but perhaps opposition tag-team noteworthy.
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Portfolio sparring partners:
Little vs Key
King vs Coleman
Robertson vs English
Mahuta vs Flavell
Twyford vs Bridges and Smith/Bennett
Hipkins vs Parata
Sepuloni vs Tolley
Davis vs Woodhouse and Lotu-Iiga
Ardern vs Adams, Barry and Foss
Clark vs Joyce
Sio vs Lotu-Iiga and Bennett
Lees-Galloway vs Woodhouse and Joyce
Woods vs Smith and Groser
Cunliffe vs Joyce
Parker vs Finlayson and Groser
Shearer vs McCully and Goldsmith
Goff vs Brownlie and Foss -
Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Ianmac,
(Sadly it would just about wipe out the Social Welfare Department. How sad.)
Yes, to my mind, its most redeeming quality! Additionally as Gareth commented when speaking on it to the NZ Society of Accountants - they too would (largely) be out of a job - were his proposal of CCT implemented.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to BenWilson,
Wow, he’s talking UBI. Now I officially actually like him.
Yes, nice to hear him mention Gareth Morgan and the Big Kahuna - it shows he doesn't just discount radical ideas in favour of the safer status quo.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Russell Brown,
As Parker kept pointing out, the CGT consistently polled better than Labour. And the idea that people didn’t vote Labour because it proposed to gradually raise the superannuation age to 67 is just preposterous. But Little’s already declared he’s ditching both policies.
Not saying these are bad ideas, but I wonder if it isn't more likely an opposition wins elections based on broad-based ideology/principles (as opposed to detailed policy prescriptions) - then you bed yourself in on the TSY benches for at least a term before consulting with the wider public on such significant fiscal policy changes. Same as National did as a means to win those TSY benches - it promised no assets sales in its first term, it promised to retain WFF and so on and so forth... but behind these things that may have seemed alien to their conservative base - that conservative base still knew what they stood for.
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In the previous contest, I was hoping for a Shane Jones (leader) and Andrew Little (deputy) as an outcome. I suspect that would have been a very different general election.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Tom Semmens,
Representatives of two of biggest sections of New Zealanders that still heavily vote Labour (Maori and unionised workers) therefore supported Little. Hopefully, he will now get on and talk about issues that concern those supporters.
Agreed.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Tom Scott nails it …. more than once
Someone should do a study of how Key's nose in caricature lengthens over the period of his time in office :-).
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Speaker: David Fisher: The OIA arms race, in reply to izogi,
allowing the Ombudsman to invoice agencies for investigations into their OIA handling would go a significant way towards addressing this.
That's a very good suggestion - also noting that the Office investigates not only central but local government inquiries as well.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Russell Brown,
If you’d like to help Nicky Hager with legal costs related to the search and action he has begun to retrieve his materials, there’s a GiveALittle fund.
Great idea - has it been verified that the account holder is genuine and that Nicky is certain to receive the full benefit?