Problem?

Oh for sure the guy's a bit of a muppet. But he's a comparatively conservative law & order promoter with somewhat of a public profile. I'm speculating that politically he'll appeal to soft National voters in the same way his cousin does.

Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

Hmm, must be tied to cookies, never thought of that. It was just a forum search for "greg o'connor".

Nah, it's that the search-cache only lasts about 5 min.

It seems cyc loves the guy.

'It really gets people riled' - call to make te reo Maori mandatory in schools fires up Breakfast viewers

Some good points in the vid about people focusing on practical aspects and not appreciating how it would benefit societal relations.

US Govt 2016 net loss more than doubled to $1 trillion

Collapse already...

It just keeps getting worse:

Cuts to Auckland sexual health services

When did ACT become a voice of reason?

BNZ economist forgets economics

try not to vomit in your mouth.

Is it just me, or is it a bit fucked up that our Auditor General missed long-term serious fraud going on under his nose?

Depends what echo chamber you're in, I guess.
http://www.interest.co.nz/node/55704/property

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9023...out-each-other

Best i've read in a while. I thought I was the only one who remembered how they denied urban sprawl until they flipped after the "chink" incident.

Also, good old angry andy thanking national for the surpluses today for his future plans. What a surprise.

Re: a potentially independent Scotland.

Breaking up the UK has to be one of the most epic of stretch goals Putin could have considered. He must be getting some wild ideas right now, given his success.

Word.

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Given that this is the momentoftruth fakenews clickbait era, I can't help but notice Maddow's tweet says "Trump tax returns" rather than "Donald Trump's tax returns".

MSNBC: Trolling dems since '96?

Stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACkRqpBj7n4

Sounds like a Campbell Live intro so far.
Get to the meat.

12 year old tax return?

SO how about them chemtrails...
 

My money is on it's a deliberate leak by the WH themselves to deflect from something else that's about to drop.

It's too convenient, a leaked return that shows nothing untoward wrt Russian ties.

So... uh... so far this is sounding a lot like Geraldo and Capone's Vault.

Actually that's the first thing that the reporter guy said - he said that not only could this leak have come FROM Trump, but that Trump has form for leaking about himself to achieve what he wants.

Also if you think that's Trump's only income... Dude seems dodgy as fuck.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/poli...r-cent-of-vote

So, does Morgan have much of a chance? For my money, it'd be a no.

Yeah Morgan and his wackadoodle 1960s ideas have (I hope) zero chance of doing anything aside from embarrassing him (which I'm not sure he actually is capable of).

NASSIH

^^
WTF?

A question about budgets. If the education minister's budget has increased by 35%, yet schools are reporting an increase in budgets of ~3%, where is this budget being spent?

Is healthcare and other budgets similar? Because the story does seem to be both increased budgets and reduced services due to insufficient funding?

Um, on stuff that isn't primary and secondary teachers?

Off the top of my head: buildings
Or: anything connected with tertiary education

It strikes me as disengenous that when teachers complain about funding the minister retorts back that spending has increased 35%.

And do we know that this is where money is being spent? It's not like tertiary institutes are reporting being flush.

I need to learn how to write effective official information requests.

Maybe just email the minister?

the government doesn't exactly keep this stuff a secret.

http://www.education.govt.nz/ministr...s-budget-2016/

Though that is a disingenuous use of the decimal point.

Can this data be used to understand the discrepancy between education ministers claim of a 35% increase in funding and the education community's claims that they're​ not seeing this funding? Is it just those not getting funding are having a sook while those enjoying the boon are just too busy using the money to talk about it?

The Nzherald used to do a really informative visual breakdown of budget data back before NZH became tabloid reality tv shit, you could instantly see not just dollars but percent change. Is that shit still online?