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    Quote Originally Posted by Joshuatree View Post
    Great to see terms of trade at historically high levels near all time highs.
    Getting back to last year’s level under the previous government
    “ At the top of every bubble, everyone is convinced it's not yet a bubble.”

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    Sure, a lot of good things are happening but the politics get in the way ..........

    We're all doomed i tell ya doomed
    It's about tribal loyalty, from Gordon Campbell Gordon Campbell on trying to cheer up the business sector Here’s the weird thing. Essentially, the right wing in New Zealand is treating Jacinda Ardern in exactly the same way as the left wing in the United States is treating Donald Trump. Meaning: the people who support the Opposition (Democratic Party supporters in the US, National Party voters here) are refusing to accept that someone whose policies and personality they distrust so much is presiding over an economy that’s actually performing rather well - not for everyone, but by all the usual imperfect indicators. In the US, the Vox news service has pointed to polling evidence that Democrats have been far more spooked by the Trump presidency than Republicans have been elated by it. An extended discussion of how political partisanship affects the perceptions of the economy can be found in this recent Atlantic article.
    Much the same phenomenon has taken root in New Zealand, in that the right still appears to be utterly inconsolable about their election loss, while the left seem pleased enough, without being exactly over the moon about their victory. In what look like acts of tribal solidarity, the business sector therefore still professes itself pessimistic, and fearful that the good times are not all that good anyway, and that worse is bound to come of it, just you wait and see.
    Currently, this means there’s an almost religious belief in firms large and small in New Zealand that the end is nigh – and that surely Jacinda Ardern or Grant Robertson or the Greens or Shane Jones are going to wreck the economy, come some rainy day. This Eeyore attitude reflects an article of faith among many of our corporate chieftains that centre-left governments just can’t run the economy well, despite all recent (and historical) evidence to the contrary. Basically, it is a blind political judgment that’s being expressed in the stream of recent business confidence surveys, not a reasoned economic one.

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    Glad Jacinda going to Nauru ......even of costing a fortune

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12118575

    Wish she would stop using words like reset, transition etc .....she’s sounding worse than some of our corporate leaders and nobody believes their speeches/presentations full of buzz words
    “ At the top of every bubble, everyone is convinced it's not yet a bubble.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by winner69 View Post
    Glad Jacinda going to Nauru ......even of costing a fortune

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12118575

    Wish she would stop using words like reset, transition etc .....she’s sounding worse than some of our corporate leaders and nobody believes their speeches/presentations full of buzz words
    I'm more cross with her using the Airforce as a personal taxi due to her mothering duties. Other mums cant do that - they have to find work arounds. Like delegate. Winston adequately held the fort - and its only Pacific Island leaders. Or use some A2 baby formula.

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    Ummm,she is our Prime minister .Row a boat doesn't quite fit

    What if national had won?

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    The minimum wage would barely keep up with inflation making sure those on the bottom stayed there, with no sense of hope that it may improve.Our Minister of Health would continue to take a hands-off approach to our mental health system and ignore all suggestions it needed attention, while nurses would be still be striking given that National's pay offer to them was less than half what the current Government offered. Or they may not have taken strike action at all because they knew that National just didn't give a damn.

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    Wow that simple, an app and some inefficiencies and acknowledgement of difficulties for ilitterate prisoners reduces numbers by 1,000

    "Davis said the scheme - called the High Impact Innovation Programme - had eased pressure across the prison network. Crowding had eased in prison units, reducing stress among inmates and concern among Corrections officers.

    "I just think, why wasn't this stuff done before," he said. "We haven't made changes to any laws. It's getting efficiencies in the system. We want to look at other ways we can make the system work more efficiently."
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    Quote Originally Posted by jonu View Post
    What's your thoughts on D Handley and the Tech job JT?

    I'm sure you're aware of his high standing on the Snakk thread. Should he get a job reference from Balance?
    Just shows how disconnected the Labour Party are from industry. He is a terrible choice, it will galvanise the ICT industry against the government.

    It's impossible to believe that of the 60 previous applicants there were none better than this self annointed imposter.

    It will go badly from here if he is appointed.

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    I dont know anything about the guy, any info welcome.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joshuatree View Post
    I dont know anything about the guy, any info welcome.
    Starting point would be Feverpitch. Then Snakk, a dabble in Kidicorp and then board Member of SkyTV.

    Baa Baa - not hard to understand. Labour have no idea how to assess merit or competence. Anyone with these would have confuddled curran by using words of more than two syllables.

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    Thats a typical ignorant attention seeking thing to say mm. Key had two or three demoted ministers in his first term , goes with the course. An awful lot of protocols, rules to remember as a minister and first timers stuff up or get demoted if they dont perform/ pick it up. Worst job imaginable for first time ministers ,advisors &minders & secretaries, very stressful for some.

    "Labour have no idea how to assess merit or competence. Anyone with these would have confuddled curran by using words of more than two syllables."

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