Posts by Sacha
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Speaker: Correcting Auckland 2040's…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
no sleep til Epsom.
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Speaker: Correcting Auckland 2040's…, in reply to Johann Schoonees,
I, and it seems many others, did not in 2014 come across any obvious caveat that if I did not lodge a submission in support of the Proposed Unitary Plan, I would be barred from future submissions. And no, I did not have time to read the fine print of the process.
I have a lot of sympathy for that. Media have done an appalling job of explaining the process, to the extent that many Aucklanders believe it is the Council making these zoning decisions, not an independent panel.
Nor do enough of us grasp that this whole process was dictated in the supercity enabling legistation pushed through by Act and the Nats. Council can't change it.
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Speaker: Correcting Auckland 2040's…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Auckland Transport is already taking advice on how to quantify the costs it faces as a result of the additional sprawl already permitted by the Proposed Unitary Plan. But they want to address housing capacity in Auckland with even more sprawl? How very odd.
The same Act party inconsistency drives both Seymour and the woman who heads this northern brach of the Taxpayers Onion. Fringe nutjobbery.
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Hard News: Mt Eden: Not a closing but an…, in reply to BenWilson,
I know, of course, that it never actually belonged to me.
I belong to it, which also does not help.
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Hard News: Mt Eden: Not a closing but an…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I just think there has to be a better option
Assorted council staff have been thrashing it out for over a decade. Possibly not.
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The booing of teflon John at that league game must be worrying the Nat comms folk.
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ExportNZ provides a great example of the one-sidedness our business cheerleaders have exhibited:
All this is very good news for the New Zealand economy because Maori do not tend to sell their assets – they re-invest for future generations. This will mean in the future they are our globally competitive New Zealand based multi-nationals (investing here and overseas) that in a small economy a long way from our markets we struggle to build otherwise. When they get to the size where there are investing overseas (and some already are) they too will benefit from Investor State Dispute protection in the TPP, which means a foreign government must treat them fairly and not discriminate against them or appropriate their assets.
Larger entities are able to execute better in overseas markets (they will have deeper pockets) they can attract and retain better qualified staff, they can pay higher salaries and they can generate more economic activity for local suppliers. But in order for this to happen, all our exporters including Maori owned exporters, need to have a level playing field to compete.
Unfortunately, exactly the same argument applies to every large foreign company bidding for NZ contracts - including all government and council ones. Good luck growing a company here now.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Della,
a bunch of people saw those tweets and they know what you said and they have seen you do this before.
if only I were paranoid enough to screenshoot my tweets from months ago I could show you something different. But hey, whatever makes you happy.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Della,
I mean that specific one alone? Hundreds of tweets https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=twat%20from%3Akaupapa&src=typd&lang=en
Please do note the gender of the target in every case.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Thank you.
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