Other than three properties held in their names, the Donkins’ ownership is largely held under various companies, including C & J Donkin Enterprises Ltd, Tall Poppies Trustee Company Ltd, and Jardine Holdings Ltd, and the more creatively named I M Broke 2 Ltd, Filthy Rich Ltd and Who Cares Ltd.
I'm so glad Filthy Rich Ltd and Who Cares Ltd will get their interest deductability back so they can gobble up the rest of the houses in Ōpōtiki a bit faster
"Some of the workforce - we don't know how much - but some of the workforce see the 10 days as an entitlement and so we were expecting to see an increase, and we have," Astwick said.
This is just total reckons with fuck all to back it up, he admits as such but still comes to his predetermined conclusion. What an utter ghoul
An absolute dumpster fire of policies from national that are designed to make the housing crisis even worse and completely gut our climate response. He seems to think he can just hand wave it away and just repeat his lines over and over trying to tell us the sky is green. And it might work...
Add in act, who want to do even furtherand add a layer of cruelty over the top just coz, and I think a lot of people are in for a very hard time over the next three years if they become the govt.
Anyone know why the article says on a scale unseen since the First World War? I would have assumed since the second world war given the scale of that conflict. Did WW1 have more amputees than ww2?
What really stands out with these incidents is that all the handwringing against the protests themselves and how they should be 'doing it the right way' is total bullshit.
Turns out direct action (up to and including violence) is justified... If you're delayed getting somewhere in your car by 15 mins. However, nonviolent direct action about our own government dithering on the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced is too much.
As a civil disobedience tactic I can see why you'd do this. Its pretty straightforward to pull off and hard to prevent, which if disruption and attention is your goal is kind of ideal.
By comparison, any political party event of note will have security and therell be only a few key points to disrupt. Roads are everywhere and way harder for the police/security to anticipate and prevent ahead of time.
But people are not "seeing this happen all around them", that's the point of the article you linked.
People are largely seeing it blasted to their eyeballs via the media that makes it feel like its everywhere, even when crime rates are in a decades long decline.
Personally I find these cyclical crime panics unhelpful and insensitive because theyre used by cynical politicians to whip up fear, and push 'tough on crime' that don't make us safer.
I just moved to 2 degrees. I'd give it an 8.3 because it works fine and speeds are good. However, customer service is horrible, I had to wait an hour on hold to ask for a static ip (because cgnat) they were like "yep all good, you'll get an email with the details" and... Nothing. Now I'll have to go through that gauntlet again (emails appear to go unanswered)
Generally I look for a deal on broadband compare every year and switch to whatevers cheapest. It's all the same fibre anyway. The only one I've heard about being iffy on speed was Myrepublic and I think they've since gone kaput.
It's amazing this argument still gets trotted out, but in a way kinda not because it serves a purpose. It's an excuse to do nothing, or if we're being charitable a coping mechanism, to avoid confronting the reality of a very bleak future if we don't act.
I think Rod's point lands particulary well because it balances the urgency of the crisis with a bit of hope that small countries can act and can make a difference.
They make it easy by being such total assholes