May 26 2021, 11:53 am | BY Ricki Green | No Comments
The Together Society has launched more new work with the Surf Life Saving Foundation to inspire people to leave a bequest in their will to help keep surf lifesavers on our beaches.
The campaign called “The Keepers”, is delivered via a poem written by Kate Cantrell which talks to the humble heroism that the red and yellow guardians of our beaches display every day. They watch over us, and see danger long before we do, the spot tells us.
The moody spot which draws on ominous skies and less than ideal weather conditions reminds us that surf lifesavers remain at their post.
So today I have had:
a txt alert 10 min after the local Tsunami Sirens started in my Community, about a half hour after the last quake that put my region in harms way. Excellent work
a txt alert once it was deemed safe to return home, gratefully received.
a PM begin a PRESS Conference (not a Covid briefing) of all the days happenings detailing some of todays important issues
an announcement of the carefully thought out by experts decision to complete the full 7 days lockdown as advertised (some people criticised the shortness of the previous 3 day lockdown)
Some people just love a good cheese with their half empty WHINE.
if it is the failure of the left to deliver this.
Yes I agree with you, the left has been way too timid on this. To be fair a UBI would be a
dramatic reform and any govt would consume a great deal of political capital getting it over the line. And until this past few post-COVD months there has never been a Labour govt in a strong enough position to do this.
But the ground has shifted – it s my sense that NZ right now would be more receptive to the idea than at any time in my life.
Perhaps the most pernicious effect of our conventional targeted benefit welfare (and the one that personally first clued me into the whole idea of a UBI over 20 yrs ago) is what happens when you try to transition
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