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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:36 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Eugenius » Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:13 am https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeal ... JrzPWFylwM Rental prices have gone up for the third consecutive month in a row, with some properties reaching record highs, new figures have revealed. Trade Me's latest Rental Price Index, released on Wednesday, shows t...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I'd like to see someone interviewing Luxon say to him "Can you just say the thing you're saying please? I can see you and hear you saying things to me, you don't have to to tell me that you would say something to me every time you're going to say something to me. Just f**king say it" This?...... ht...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
https://i.postimg.cc/d1VZzxhK/tc1.png https://i.postimg.cc/HkBCxZSx/TC-4.webp The Treasury is expecting growth to be $42.8 billion lower in the coming years than was estimated in the Half-Year Update (HYEFU) in December, with core tax revenue tracking about $4b lower by the 2027/28 year compared to...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:20 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Surely then the sector needs renaming for what it would become......NZ Child Minding Centres.....no connection to Education....
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
ECE Education; Early Childhood Centres have always been rated as first and second class......First Class ....Kindergartens (MOE Centres)...and Second class the Rest (Community, Religious, Privately Run). The main difference between daycare and kindergarten is that you can enrol your child into dayca...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Geeez….who’d be a politician! The $200b problem: How broken is New Zealand? https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350222410/200b-problem-how-broken-new-zealand …….not the right timing for tax cuts! Delay them for 50 years, attack the problem and set up a bipartisan agreement to a plan for the future. We ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sail GP in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, NZ
- Replies: 118
- Views: 2082
Re: Sail GP in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, NZ
Yeah…..would have been good to see more races.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sail GP in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, NZ
- Replies: 118
- Views: 2082
Re: Sail GP in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, NZ
It wasn’t so bad…….
World record crowd at the sailing event……
NZ won the final………
With that win they are now ahead in the whole comp……
The Aussies knocked themselves out…….
And
We still have Hectors Dolphins……win win win win and win.
World record crowd at the sailing event……
NZ won the final………
With that win they are now ahead in the whole comp……
The Aussies knocked themselves out…….
And
We still have Hectors Dolphins……win win win win and win.
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:31 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Not only doctors……..but our police…….our army……our teachers……under paid and doing something about it……leaving!
No-one has ever offered to allow me to declare interest on my mortgage against earnings……and I am in business……the business of living and raising the next generation of New Zealanders…..
No-one has ever offered to allow me to declare interest on my mortgage against earnings……and I am in business……the business of living and raising the next generation of New Zealanders…..
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
In a report last year by Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand, New Zealanders learnt, for the first time, the extent of these staffing issues. The estimated shortfall was 1,700 doctors, a gap that is projected to increase to 3,400 by 2032. Many New Zealand doctors are choosing to move overseas to pract...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Here's the International Monetary Funds advice for the upcoming budget........... The IMF put emphasis on the need for the coming Budget to be tight to help get inflation lower and for any tax cuts to be paid for, and chart a path back to surplus in four years. "To avoid any upside pressure to infla...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Proposed Rugby Law Changes
- Replies: 176
- Views: 2589
Re: Proposed Rugby Law Changes
If the object of the law changes are to speed the game up…….then…….for the crooked throw to the line out, give a short arm penalty to the opposition, which must restart with a tap kick immediately on the 15m line, with opposition unable to defend inside the 10 m D line. ……..a quick restart….no faffi...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Eugenius: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-17/ ... J5ZCmWc1XQ Article........ Interesting article......seems the gap is widening all over the world.....not just a NZ thing. The image that went with the article was appropriate......suggested "Economic Aparteid"....in favour of the haves. https://i...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
They all speak to the same God…….they just use different phones……
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I think we’re already there……... It seems we're moving away from what's best for NZ and more into American style politics where it's us and them.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Booji - So you're saying we're in the shit? Thanks, I'll make sure I spend my $25 a week tax cut wisely. Your words not mine......pointing out the if NactNZ promote themselves as bettter economic managers, it would be expected that their policies be better costed. What I am also saying is ....wrong...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Ooops! Is that why Nactnz is cancelling kids lunches? Miscalculated by half a billion…..that makes a bit of a dent in “back pocket” tax returns. Hey Ho…… Inland Revenue (IRD) predicts the Government's plans to raise money from online casinos will bring in much less money than National had costed for...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The wordle thread.
- Replies: 4491
- Views: 250374
Re: The wordle thread.
First word: RAISE
Second word: YOUTH
Second word: YOUTH
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The wordle thread.
- Replies: 4491
- Views: 250374
Re: The wordle thread.
First word: RAISE
Second word: YOUTH
Second word: YOUTH
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:12 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
A problem that NZ has is the “over the ditch” problem. Australia has a real advantage in that when compared to NZ, wages and salaries are better. Public services are much better paid in the health, education, and policing systems to mention three. Currently being in Term 1 of the school year, there ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 3:54 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Health, education, housing, crime and infrastructure are all deteriorating and nobody seems to have an answer that will stop their decline, never mind having a clear vision of what it will take to improve them. Agree with your observation there…….one thing that would help though would be an end to ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:32 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Gerard Otto is a stirrer but this made me giggle
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:58 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Broadened the taxbase.....mystery to me...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Mr Mike...... With regard to the asset from which the income stream is derived , property (brightside aside) is treated the same as a business or shares would be. If originally purchased for resale then later resale is taxable, otherwise it's a Capital gain. If so......then why do other countries ha...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Genuine question re taxation……….. Person A has a lump sum of 250,000 and decides to by a second house. That person goes into the property rental business. The rent received pays part of the of the mortgage….lessens income by claiming mortgage interest deductions from income, along with repairs, rate...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
The three waters thing was all about who was going to pay for the upgrades……the NActs shifted the responsibility for financing the work from central government tax collection….to local body rate collection. Without such a move the consistent theme of the money managers is less government, less taxat...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I think you missed my comment’s meaning there Booji……..media volume on one piddling little issue v media silence on another of real significance…….when translating between one language and another……you hear what you want to hear……
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:17 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
The haka seems to me a big whooooosh! If it wasn't for the media........99% of kiwis wouldn't have understood what was being chanted during the haka. It's funny how many are offended by the translation and believe in the veracity of the words used.......then ignore the translation of maori in the tr...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
School lunches....... The most effective method of providing for the kids with little or no food, are the programmes provided within the school where kids get a bit of a choice...one model doesn't fit all....and they serve the kids who need it. All schools have duty teachings during breaks, and part...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:45 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
What radio station does Darcy Waldegrave broadcast from?
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Feck the tax cuts!......infrastucture is crying out for government investment..... National Heatland.....Selwyn.....A second campus for Rolleston College will be delayed, stripped back and redesigned amid a Ministerial Inquiry into new plans for school buildings. The campus is losing classrooms, off...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Tubby: NZ be prioritizing costal shipping of goods to Lyttleton, Timaru, Dunedin and Invercargill from Auckland, Tauranga, Napier and Wellington rather than trucks on ferries? All our cities are mainly on the coast with large ports . Have to agree with Tubby…….coastal shipping and rail would remove...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:42 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Has Reti outlined his "replacement" Maori Health Authority yet......as the "replacement" three waters has been outlined......and as we await the "replacement" Cook Strait link.....as we await the "replacement" NZ new homes programme.....as we await the "replacement" Road infrastructure programme.......
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Eug noted: It does however seem that many billions on roads are exponentially more important If that is the case, I sincerely hope that at least one of these billions will be spent on the main highways between Christchuch-Greymouth, and Christchurch - Nelson/Marlborough. All my life I have been trav...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I think the puppet master had a big say in the 180 reversal........
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51875
- Views: 3454432
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Onya Luxon....180......political perception is every thing.....match your personal life with your expectations for others....your original decision to keep the 52K was naive as a leader!