Gives a new meaning to military school...

But they're entitled to their entitlements...

I guess that's why they call them local body elections...

Living wage is calculated at 1.5EFT (60 hours, so $90,324). i.e. this is $25K less than what a family of 4 is needs to get by.

You also aren't charging your time - I imagine it takes a lot more time to do everything from scratch instead of buying from the supermarket, which should feed into the equation if someone tries to present it as a commonly viable solution.

I swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles the Third, King of New Zealand, His heirs and successors according to law, and that I will faithfully observe the laws of New Zealand and fulfil my duties as a New Zealand citizen. So help me God.

"I swear that I will respect the constitutional order of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, its liberties and rights and I swear that I will faithfully fulfill the duties which this citizenship imposes on me. So help me God."

I'd actually quite like to see a change in citizenship oath if it removed the oath of allegiance to the king/queen from it. It's a blocker for me. It's in the Te reo version as well.
Comparison of NZ and Netherlands oaths (both with a king as head of state):

Got an email this morning saying that my power price is increasing...

I'm pretty sure even just a bag of muesli has gone up by nearly $5

Time to ask for a raise for the same amount.

"Correction: This story has been updated as the initial headline and angle suggested that Collins was looking at possible crackdown at teachers’ right to strike. "

The increase offered doesn't cover 3 days striking...

How do you crack down on someone's right to withhold labour? Drive them into the office by force?

There's a reason that they told us on Friday afternoon...

Why is the call always for the workers to "negotiate in good faith", when the only reason they are striking is because the government won't negotiate in good faith and turns up with absurd proposals? I don't think it's common in the private sector for payrises to require agreed worsened conditions.

Don't worry, the next time he opened his mouth, he was once again attempting to relitigate the use of the word Aotearoa as a name for NZ in the house. He also only spoke after voting to kick her out.

And we saw the party of free speech vote against free speech again too.

In my student days we had a BBQ fire that melted one of the burner to supply pipe seals. We took it into bbq factory store and they refused to sell us the seal as a part (apparently safety policy) so we ended up finding something close elsewhere and cutting it to shape, which I'm sure was safer...