So, on windup they can give the assets to anyone they want, but this seems to be subject to the earlier prohibition against profiting from membership. A company in which the board are the shareholders is an "associated person" of each of them, surely?

Anyone know what these are, and does Wikipedia need a photo of them? (Big brown mushrooms, growing in PN, NZ)

The 1958 Exchange of Notes on Operations in Antarctica. The US gets to establish bases here to support Antactic operations, and their people are not subject to NZ law while here. So if they exile a war criminal to McMurdo, we can't arrest and extradite them ont he way through

Seriously; GDP is currently $450 billion. So in all years but the first, its higher, and overall growth vs the reference path is 8.6 vs 9.2%. Big fucking deal. Not shown in the table: the economic cost of climate damage, which is increasing every year.

Someone made a silly thing, so I had to ask the obvious question:

[Starts searching for PD maps of the Beehive]

The actual problem: someone's property values got lowered.

Rich people trying to gulp it all down.

Parties wanting to be "kingmakers" forgetting what happened to the original "Kingmaker".

Satchell's "The Greenstone Door" on Auckland (and the NZ economy). Even in the C19th NZ was just a real estate scam.

Dredging back through old climate change impacts reports, and while I recall them warning of that happening for droughts and floods, I don't think they did it for storm surges. The closest is this, from 2001.

This is more an admission than an excuse: Labour deliberately distored its selection processes in order to provide deniability to a potential candidate, allowing them to continue in their job.

Yep, better start banning those US prison labour imports...

On that front, at least, you're good: there's explicitly no copyright on NZ laws (or NZ parliamentary stuff). So this screenshot isn't an infringement:

Things I learned from Tutira: rabbits - a plague on Aotearoa - were introduced at least in part as an act of biological class warfare against rich sheep farmers

Urgency for budget-related bills. Not a lot of other stuff. A regime running out of steam.

So this then

maybe some sort of central procurement agency as well, a Department of Supply.

So i think this is why parliamentTV is failing for me ATM, and there's some variant of it in every browser I try

How did we get this result? The Petitions Committee does real work, rather than posturing, so of course ACT doesn't have a member on it to wreck things. So instead the 2 Nat, 1 Labour and 1 Green member (+1 from NZ First) got to actually consider the evidence.

Fuck yeah! So, how long until legislation can be introduced? Can we get it done by November?

Now there's a juxtaposition of headlines

National has refused to let us decarbonise the easy way, so they're setting us up to do it the hard way instead. But I'll take that win regardless.

And when I say "near-universal", I mean 99% (the other 1% were merely not _overtly_ opposed)

I'm also wondering if this isn't part of the reason its been kept: stop a whole bunch of top law firms acting in cases against the govt

[Image by Sigurdas on Wikicommons; licensed CC-BY 2.0]

But also: here's what they normally say (from the commerce commission's secrecy bill) Its like MPI just didn't see the human rights issue at all (or were told to ignore it, because Minister Wants It)

Reading the departmental disclosure statement for the Fisheries Amendment Bill - the one with all the secrect. Is this good?

Shame Jones in the Stuff version blames the gentailers. meanwhile, what's missing from this picture?

Meanwhile new s45C lets them spy on you in your own home if they are "lawfully on the property"...