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Post by harrytom on Apr 10, 2024 19:01:54 GMT 12
This from Erica Stanford on FB. An extra 20,000 people went on the job seeker benefit in 2023, while 52,000 low skilled workers were brought into the country. The numbers just don't add up. That's why this government has announced changes to the work visa settings to prioritise jobs for Kiwis to help rebuild our economy. Jobs for Kiwis. Imagine. 2.500 since January? public/private sector lost their jobs.and heard on the news maybe up to 10.000 by June/July. So how do you reduce unemployed numbers by 50.00 over 6yrs?? Arr simple change the name of the benefit they recieve like Labour did.Hide the numbers on to sickness benefits. Boy keeps saying Winnie/Seymour know what they are up too. Break Luxon and Nicholis. Keep hearing the figure of 14.1 billion over 5yrs? cost for tax cuts. Bugger the cuts and put the money in police/teachers/nursing. Northern terriroty prepared to pay 100k starting rate for new cops.NZ 63k why would you stay in NZ.At least Aussie cops carry guns and supported by their bosses unlike Costner. |
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Post by fish on Apr 10, 2024 19:18:36 GMT 12
Keep hearing the figure of 14.1 billion over 5yrs? cost for tax cuts. Bugger the cuts and put the money in police/teachers/nursing. Northern terriroty prepared to pay 100k starting rate for new cops.NZ 63k why would you stay in NZ.At least Aussie cops carry guns and supported by their bosses unlike Costner. Yes I think cops should be paid more, but I doubt $100k in the Northern Territory is very good money. First of all, you'd have to live there. Second of all, you'd have to spend your whole time dealing with the people who already live there. Very few Aussies want to move to Darwin in the first place. And there are a lot of places in the Northern Territory that aren't Darwin, it would be like the arse end of Darwin. I'd expect newbies taking the cash would get sent to the shittiest of shitholes first. Like how all our new recruits get sent to Otara. But with drunk drug addled locals that don't give a shit about anything. Probably First Nations people, but I'm sure there is an equal measure of inbred white trash to deal with as well. It certainly wouldn't be like living and working in one of the large Aussie cosmopolitan cities with the option of being anonymous in your community when off duty, and a wide range of social and recreational activities. |
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Post by ComfortZone on Apr 23, 2024 13:12:04 GMT 12
interesting commentary on the closure of the Marsden point refinery, claiming to rebut the basis for closure thebfd.co.nz/2024/04/23/operation-good-oil-post-refinery-report-2024/excerpt The report concludes that the refinery’s switch from a refining model to an import only model for the supply of the New Zealand refined fuels market was “a grave error precipitated by a board that failed to present a balanced and rational case for shutdown of the refinery”.One claim of the board was that the refinery was not financially sustainable and was unlikely to recover its losses from Covid and be competitive against the mega refineries in Asia, says Operation Good Oil researcher Daniel Reurich – but that has been disproven.“The losses were contrived entirely by the writing off of plant between 2021 and 2022 financial years as per their own reports, and, setting the paper losses aside, the refinery ran a cash neutral position for 2020 and 2021 and would have returned to profit (operating above the cash neutral fee floor) in Q3 2021. Had the refinery run at full capacity through 2022 to 2023, the dividend would have been the highest payout to shareholders in ten years. This was actually predicted in the FY2018 annual report.”Another claim of the board was that shutting down the refinery would reduce carbon dioxide emissions. In contrast, Mr Reurich says, shipping of refined fuels has led to doubling the equivalent carbon dioxide emissions if the oil had been refined in New Zealand.My view is it should have been upgraded for continued operation as a strategic asset for New Zealand. In Australia the federal government has been subsidising the remaining refineries to keep them open |
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Post by ComfortZone on Apr 24, 2024 9:23:02 GMT 12
Just one example of how the bureaucrats blow out the cost of projects www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350246034/how-did-cost-moving-two-schools-blow-out-more-400mstarting from a base of $63M the estimate was finally over $400M until the current government came to power and pulled the rug out from under it. one excerpt “Ministry documents show the design costs alone reached more than $17m. School and iwi costs were more than $3m and relocating council hockey turf to the new site cost $4.5m.” |
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Post by sloopjohnb on Apr 24, 2024 15:21:06 GMT 12
The cost was in the toilets: Male Female Male trying to be female Female trying to be male  |
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Post by fish on Apr 24, 2024 15:26:49 GMT 12
The cost was in the toilets: Male Female Male trying to be female Female trying to be male I'm in the process of renewing my life insurance. Did you know, insurance companies don't fuck around with gender? You get two options, male or female... Was reading a story on Stuffed the other day about endometriosis. It kept on referring to suffers being women, girls, or those assigned female at birth... |
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Post by muzled on Apr 24, 2024 15:48:00 GMT 12
The cost was in the toilets: Male Female Male trying to be female Female trying to be male I'm in the process of renewing my life insurance. Did you know, insurance companies don't fuck around with gender? You get two options, male or female... Was reading a story on Stuffed the other day about endometriosis. It kept on referring to suffers being women, girls, or those assigned female at birth... Your description is 100% accurate. A story is exactly what it was... |
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Post by muzled on May 1, 2024 13:23:10 GMT 12
Imagine this happening in nuzld... 12 days after the bridge collapsed due to a truck fire, done, dusted, reopened. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/resurrection-of-i-95-in-just-two-weeks-is-dubbed-small-miracleMy mind wanders back to the kopu hikuai. Could have had that open in the same time while they worked on the full repair. But no, resource consents, iwi negotiations, and god forbid, pushing some trees over. oh, forgot cones and traffic manglement... I bet the crew that worked on that bridge felt extremely proud that they'd managed such a feat in such a short timeframe. |
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Post by ComfortZone on May 1, 2024 20:45:02 GMT 12
Imagine this happening in nuzld... 12 days after the bridge collapsed due to a truck fire, done, dusted, reopened. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/resurrection-of-i-95-in-just-two-weeks-is-dubbed-small-miracleMy mind wanders back to the kopu hikuai. Could have had that open in the same time while they worked on the full repair. But no, resource consents, iwi negotiations, and god forbid, pushing some trees over. oh, forgot cones and traffic manglement... I bet the crew that worked on that bridge felt extremely proud that they'd managed such a feat in such a short timeframe. bit more commentary www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/05/the_power_of_an_emergency.htmlAn interview in the NY Times tell us something very interesting:
And you mentioned that Governor Shapiro was able to relax and pause a bunch of rules. What he was able to do was declare a state of emergency. There had been a tanker with more than 8,000 gallons of fuel. It overturned. It set on fire. And then the bridge above it collapsed.
And in declaring that state of emergency, the normal procurement rules, the normal contracting rules, the normal going out for comment rules, the normal ways you might sue or have to do environmental review, all of that got swept away. So Mike Carroll told me that he got the call that this had happened. He makes his way to the bridge as fast as he can.
And not far from him are two contractors who are already doing work in that area. And basically, by the day’s end, he has chosen these two contractors to manage the demolition and the rebuild. And he could only do that because all of this got waived.
I said, how long would that have normally taken you? And he said to me that the normal way — and here, I’m quoting him — so in a traditional delivery of a project, it would be months. We’d hire a consultant to design it. We’d need final design approved by the Federal Highway Administration. Then there would be bidding from interested contractors. Then we’d process the bids. Then we’d issue a contract.
So that would be 12 to 24 months. And he said, that is probably an underestimate because you’d have to do a bunch of things before you got to that point in the process to even get the process off of the ground. It’s not like they threw everything out the door. They used union labor to rebuild this. They had union labor going 24 hours a day, which would not normally be allowed. But again, under the emergency rules, it was allowed.One point to be mindful of that it appears neither the foundations or piers were damaged which made the repairs a whole lot easier say than what happened on the SH27A Kopu to Hikaui Meanwhile on the Brynderwyns the job just got worse www.1news.co.nz/2024/05/01/watch-massive-slip-takes-out-trees-on-closed-brynderwyns-route/ |
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Post by fish on May 1, 2024 21:10:53 GMT 12
Imagine this happening in nuzld... 12 days after the bridge collapsed due to a truck fire, done, dusted, reopened. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/resurrection-of-i-95-in-just-two-weeks-is-dubbed-small-miracleMy mind wanders back to the kopu hikuai. Could have had that open in the same time while they worked on the full repair. But no, resource consents, iwi negotiations, and god forbid, pushing some trees over. oh, forgot cones and traffic manglement... I bet the crew that worked on that bridge felt extremely proud that they'd managed such a feat in such a short timeframe. bit more commentary www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/05/the_power_of_an_emergency.htmlAn interview in the NY Times tell us something very interesting:
And you mentioned that Governor Shapiro was able to relax and pause a bunch of rules. What he was able to do was declare a state of emergency. There had been a tanker with more than 8,000 gallons of fuel. It overturned. It set on fire. And then the bridge above it collapsed.
And in declaring that state of emergency, the normal procurement rules, the normal contracting rules, the normal going out for comment rules, the normal ways you might sue or have to do environmental review, all of that got swept away. So Mike Carroll told me that he got the call that this had happened. He makes his way to the bridge as fast as he can.
And not far from him are two contractors who are already doing work in that area. And basically, by the day’s end, he has chosen these two contractors to manage the demolition and the rebuild. And he could only do that because all of this got waived.
I said, how long would that have normally taken you? And he said to me that the normal way — and here, I’m quoting him — so in a traditional delivery of a project, it would be months. We’d hire a consultant to design it. We’d need final design approved by the Federal Highway Administration. Then there would be bidding from interested contractors. Then we’d process the bids. Then we’d issue a contract.
So that would be 12 to 24 months. And he said, that is probably an underestimate because you’d have to do a bunch of things before you got to that point in the process to even get the process off of the ground. It’s not like they threw everything out the door. They used union labor to rebuild this. They had union labor going 24 hours a day, which would not normally be allowed. But again, under the emergency rules, it was allowed.One point to be mindful of that it appears neither the foundations or piers were damaged which made the repairs a whole lot easier say than what happened on the SH27A Kopu to Hikaui Meanwhile on the Brynderwyns the job just got worse www.1news.co.nz/2024/05/01/watch-massive-slip-takes-out-trees-on-closed-brynderwyns-route/I did things in the Chch Earthquake Recovery that would normally get me put in jail. Not just prosecuted or fined under the RMA, but put in jail. Even got the Police to help me do it. And no I'm not going to tell you what they were now, cause it is out of context and you'd all have a fit. What I would say is it was all in the interests of public health, in getting wastewater off the streets (literally) and out of people's back yards, but at a cost to the environment / waterways and beaches. Strangely though, I still had to personally pay speed camera tickets I got in the rental car. My last day of work down there as part of the recovery was the day the lifted the state of emergency. And they'd started bring in more control and regulation before the SoE was formally lifted. Fuck it was a ball-ache trying to get anything done AND follow the rules. An absolute ball-ache. One job I got called to turned out to be a tomo over a primary sewer, but the tiny wee hole in the road was right in the wheel track of a live traffic lane. Phoned traffic management saying I need TM urgently, to get told I must submit all requests in writing, with prior approval of the approved traffic layout, and there is a current processing time of 3 days. Knicked some cones (there were plenty in Chch at the time) put in an illegal tapper to get traffic out of the tomo area, and fairly sure I just flew home after that. I think one of the reasons there is so little planned maintenance in NZ, and why the cost of disasters such as the Auckland floods is so high, is cause all the asset managers wait for an emergency then go and fix loads of shit that was too hard to do under regular circumstances. There are loads of known slips around on key roads that don't get looked at until the shit goes down. Also, it's easier to get funding from the purse keepers once there has been a big disaster. Doesn't have to come out of existing allocations ;-) |
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Post by harrytom on May 2, 2024 0:17:38 GMT 12
Imagine this happening in nuzld... 12 days after the bridge collapsed due to a truck fire, done, dusted, reopened. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/resurrection-of-i-95-in-just-two-weeks-is-dubbed-small-miracleMy mind wanders back to the kopu hikuai. Could have had that open in the same time while they worked on the full repair. But no, resource consents, iwi negotiations, and god forbid, pushing some trees over. oh, forgot cones and traffic manglement... I bet the crew that worked on that bridge felt extremely proud that they'd managed such a feat in such a short timeframe. HaHa traffic manament cones. Yes went throught Karapiro works on state hwy 1 yesterday,not just cones on road but pallets,at least 5, sitting in a paddock |
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Post by ComfortZone on May 3, 2024 8:36:39 GMT 12
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Post by eri on May 6, 2024 16:43:11 GMT 12
the oecd has 4 recommendations for nz - get inflation under control- balance the books- raise educational achievement- lift productivity.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/516100/inflation-education-and-productivity-some-of-the-problems-nz-needs-to-fix-according-to-the-oecdnothing new there and after 6 years of labour, the greens and maori party fiddling we can safely say they would - continue the inflation they fueled - leave balancing the books until someone else is in gov - continue to let educational standards slide by removing standards, tests and proven educational systems - continue strangling productivity by increasing wages, holidays, sick leave and job entitlements without linking them in any way to productivity increases when will the left stop digging the financial debt hole that nz is finding increasing difficult to climb out of? as a small country selling primary products
let's NOT do the argentinian thingHow Argentina went from one of the world's richest nations to 100 per cent inflation, with 'mountains of money worth nothing'www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-11/argentina-100-per-cent-inflation-crisis/102179458 |
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Post by fish on May 6, 2024 18:07:15 GMT 12
the oecd has 4 recommendations for nz - get inflation under control- balance the books- raise educational achievement- lift productivity.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/516100/inflation-education-and-productivity-some-of-the-problems-nz-needs-to-fix-according-to-the-oecdnothing new there and after 6 years of labour, the greens and maori party fiddling we can safely say they would - continue the inflation they fueled - leave balancing the books until someone else is in gov - continue to let educational standards slide by removing standards, tests and proven educational systems - continue strangling productivity by increasing wages, holidays, sick leave and job entitlements without linking them in any way to productivity increases when will the left stop digging the financial debt hole that nz is finding increasing difficult to climb out of? as a small country selling primary products
let's NOT do the argentinian thingHow Argentina went from one of the world's richest nations to 100 per cent inflation, with 'mountains of money worth nothing'www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-11/argentina-100-per-cent-inflation-crisis/102179458You forgot regulation. The Labour govt piled on the regulation. I honestly believe the one key thing that is limiting NZ's productivity is regulation. No one will know what I mean, until you try doing something productive. The SME owners on here probably have the best idea what I mean, followed closely by farmers. Regulations make it so hard to do productive things... |
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Post by GO30 on May 7, 2024 18:12:56 GMT 12
You forgot regulation. The Labour govt piled on the regulation. I honestly believe the one key thing that is limiting NZ's productivity is regulation. No one will know what I mean, until you try doing something productive. The SME owners on here probably have the best idea what I mean, followed closely by farmers. Regulations make it so hard to do productive things... Total 101% agree with you.
We have become a country more concerned about the placement of road cones to protect what a pile of people many regard as having less intelligence and worse thought processing abilities than a 6 year old school girl, than we are about getting shit done.
As we heard the news worksafe is now going to fuck kids education by taking time, effort and coin away from the pupils of Whangarei Collage, I told the Wa it's time to bail before we get screwed for spelling mistakes or some equally pathetic reason.
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