This week the House debated the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Bill (No 2). This Bill simply allows for the Minister to set Total Allowable Catch (TAC) limits under the Quota Management Scheme (QMS) with incomplete information about the state of the fish stock. The Minister has to be able to […]
Someone just sent me this obviously viral email:
If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95, with HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50, £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5, but if you bought £1000 worth […]
This guy probably has a lot to be grumpy about with the passage of the Green’s fifth private members bill into law. The almost universally supported Waste Minimisation Act will reduce the amount of trash that we’ll see in land-fills and leave poor Oscar with less of that stuff he wouldn’t trade for gold.
I found […]
I never figured I’d be standing up for my Aussie cousins, particularly those living in Dunedin. However, a whole bunch of them have just been evicted for making too much noise in search of a mate. The Otago Daily Times reports that several Australian brown tree frogs have been rounded up and evicted from a […]
Although it won’t be New Zealand’s first electric car, it will be the first fully electric production model. But wait, there’s more! The conversion to fully electric will take place here, according to a press release from Hyundai today.
The project is in collaboration with engineer, Ross Blade who developed the Getz retro-fit electric car. He […]