Podcasts about David Lange

This was a rich and deep conversation with Sir Maarten Wevers who shared about his life journey on this episode of seeds podcast.  From being born in the Netherlands to moving to New Zealand with his family age 1, growing up with different cultural influences and then how he got into the diplomatic world, travelling the World, his learning Japanese to serve as Ambassador to Japan and then working with multiple Prime Ministers through pivotal moments in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s.  From 1985 to 1987 he was private secretary to then Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, David Lange.  He was also the Chief Executive of the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet from 2004-2012.  He has been involved in a lot more including currently as deputy Chair of the Fred Hollows Foundation.   We really do cover a lot in this conversation and I learned so much from his life and the stories he told.  I hope you enjoy it - if you do, why not post the link to it and tag me in so I can like and comment and it will benefit your networks too.   Thanks to Craig Fisher for suggesting this conversation as well! More conversations are at www.theseeds.nz 

Is there any such thing as a completely fair tax system? Surely the most you can hope for is a least unfair tax system. I ask this because a UN report is calling for countries to check taxes are being applied proportionally to the wealthiest individuals, and questioning the fairness of GST. The UN Committee for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights said a tax policy that maintains a low personal and corporate income taxes without adequately addressing high income inequalities is an example of a regressive and ineffective policy, and consumption taxes —of which GST is one— can have adverse impacts on disadvantaged groups, such as low-income families and single parent households, because they typically spend a higher percentage of their income on everyday goods and services. They don't have the option of withholding spending; they have to buy the basics. In New Zealand, personal income tax rates went to a high of 69 cents in the dollar in the late 70s/early 80s until the Fourth Labour government came crashing in with a hiss and a roar and made changes that are reverberating to this very day. One of them being the major changes to our tax system. They standardised indirect tax and introduced an across-the-board tax on goods and services that is GST. It started at 10% and went up to 12% and is now 15%. Tax incentives were removed, personal income tax rates were simplified. At the time, there were just two personal income tax rates, 24 percent on income, up to $30,000, 33% above that. The introduction of GST was sold as a tax that would get those who didn't pay it. It would collect those in the black economy, those who took part in cashier's drug sales, that sort of thing. You know, they might not pay tax, they might not declare income, but they had to buy stuff. And once they bought food and once they bought cars, that sort of thing, then they had to pay GST on it. But even then, when it was introduced, it was slammed as a regressive tax, hitting those who had to buy the basics the hardest. It was interesting that David Lange, towards the end of his life, had a great deal of regret about how New Zealand had changed with the introduction of his government. It wasn't him leading the charge so much —he was the public face of the changes— it was Roger Douglas and Rogernomics that caused the greatest change. He said for those who wanted little personal involvement with government, those who did not want government in their lives, it was a fantastic thing. But for the uneducated, disabled, the disadvantaged, it was an absolute tragedy. And there was, I think, much regret towards the end of his life as to the changes that he had been a part of. New Zealand's tax system is widely regarded as a sensible one, in as much as you have to have taxes —that's how governments raise revenue and that's how they pay for the roads and the schools and the hospitals and the police and the like— it's straightforward, there's little room and little need for tax avoidance. The international tax competitive index rates 38 OECD countries on the best tax environment for investment, as well as for workers and for businesses and New Zealand ranks third in that because it is so straightforward. But again, it comes down to the least unfair tax system. I think there are always going to be people who feel that they are hard done by when it comes to the taxes they pay. They feel that they pay too much. They pay a disproportionate amount of their income towards tax, while others aren't pulling their weight. And then you also look at the way governments use your money. That was one thing that really ripped my nightie during the Labour Government's last six years. We're getting up early, we're going to work, we're doing our bit, and they were squandering tax money, just burning it at a rate of knots with very little to show for it. You're always going to get people who say no, the government is spending money on projects I don't agree with it, I don't want my tax going to that. But I think the last government, the last Labour government, really took it to the nth degree and that's when you start resenting paying taxes. You don't want that in a society. Can you tax your way to a fairer society? I really don't think you can. You can certainly create an environment where those who cannot work, who need assistance get it. You can create an environment where it's easier for people to do business, to get work, for businesses to do well. I think the more you make it complicated and try and right inequities, the more room there is to evade tax to avoid paying it altogether. GST, most countries have it because it is a way of addressing the black economy – is that enough justification to maintain it? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If the New Zealand Labour Party wants to get real about re-election, they should look no further than the UK Labour Party. Keir Starmer blew up the NHS on Friday because he said it doesn't work. He says the bloating of the numbers has not improved anything. Jobs will be lost. Before he blew up the NHS, he attacked the welfare system. He called it unjust and unfair because, essentially, there are too many people sitting on welfare doing nothing and there is no incentive for them to change their habits. Remember, this is a British Labour Prime Minister. We are also expecting the chancellor to slash more spending. Why? Because they don't have any money. If only a Hipkins or an Ardern or a Robertson were anything close to this. What was close to this was Roger Douglas, David Lange, David Caygill, and Mike Moore - the proper Labour Party. The Labour Party many recognise as being a middle-of-the-road centrist-type party that a lot of New Zealanders could recognise. If what Starmer is up to works, he is Tony Blair 2.0, and the lesson Blair taught us is the same thing Bob Hawke taught us in Australia – a Labour movement doesn't have to be about wokeness and largesse and economic ineptitude. It needs to be about common sense and the worker. Not a hardcore unionist, but a middle class New Zealander who gets up, makes their kid's lunches, heads to work and comes home late, a bit tired and ready for a beer and a BBQ at the weekend, living in their own home in suburbia with a belief that life is pretty good, New Zealand is pretty good and the future is moderately bright. None of that is hard. But I bet you it's completely foreign to most of the current Labour lot who butchered the place between 2017-2023. The old adage around votes and political support about the centre being large and the place to get a lot of votes, is real. We wouldn't mind some wider representation. National or Labour can occupy the centre. History shows it's possible and it's successful. Hipkins needs to study Starmer and learn. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You may have heard, the 80's are making a comeback. Lookout for denim on denim, bubble skirts, and asset sales. David Seymour is stepping up his campaign to sell state assets and privatise public services. In his State of the Nation speech last week, the ACT leader said we should be continually asking ourselves do we own the right stuff? NZ First, Labour and the Greens have all pinned their respective colours to the mast and said they are dead against the sale of any state-owned assets under their watch. NZ First and Winston Peters, of course, famously, long-standing opponent of the sale of state-owned assets. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has done what he does best and equivocated. Oh sure, I'm open to the idea, open to having a discussion, but if anything were to happen, not that I'm saying it will, but if anything were to happen, if the for sale signs were to go up, it wouldn't be until the 26th election. So, he hasn't committed either way, just waiting to see which way the wind blows. The fourth Labour Government was the government that really sold off the silverware. New Zealand changed fundamentally as a society as a result of the economic reforms driven by Roger Douglas and his cabinet. David Lange, he might have been the Prime Minister, but it was Roger Douglas who was the driving force behind the economic reforms. One of those within the cabinet, Richard Prebble, argues it was the right thing to do in today's Herald. He says that they had huge debt, and they had to resolve that somehow. He says New Zealand's privatisation was extraordinarily successful. The investors provided much better services and lower prices. Only profitable businesses pay company taxes. The privatized businesses are paying every year in company taxes more than they ever did in dividends. In contrast, he says, the history of state-owned enterprises retained in government ownership is abysmal. Solid energy went from a valuation of $3.5 billion. To being worthless, that it's $390 million debt. He said his office valued TVNZ in 1990 at around $2 billion, $4.3 billion in today's money. The station now runs at a loss, he says. Brian Gaynor argues that the asset sales were not a success, that the prime pieces of silverware were sold off and overseas investors made an absolute killing from them. There is a counter to what Richard Prebble claims. John Key brought back the prospect of state asset sales in 2010 with a deeply unpopular promise to privatise state-owned electricity companies such as Meridian. But he told Mike Hosking on the Mike Hosking Breakfast this morning there are better ways to improve the economy faster than by selling off what remains of New Zealand's state-owned assets. “In the scheme of things, we want the boat to go faster. There's a million things you can do, from cutting bureaucracy and taxes, and you know, making a more permissive society, better foreign investment, all those kinds of things. If you want my view, they'll make the boat go a lot faster than a few asset sales because, frankly, there ain't a hell of a lot to sell.” And there isn't. What would we sell? We've got Quotable Value, which David Seymour quoted as being an example. It values property, it doesn't receive any taxpayer money. But it provides a dividend of between half a million and one million a year, which is the sort of chump change that Grant Robertson used to find down the back of the couch. So that's not going to save New Zealand. Anyone interested in buying a television station? Could chuck in a video store as well as a sweetener on the deal? Anyone? No? Because that's the thing, too, for a successful state asset sale, you have to find buyers. Anyone for a couple of clapped-out ferries? Anyone? No? There's sort of plans for a kind of port infrastructure that's really expensive and hasn't been costed properly, that we could chuck in for free. No? Nobody? State housing. Does the government have a responsibility to house vulnerable Kiwis? Which means owning a huge portfolio of properties and more to the point, maintaining that huge portfolio of properties. From what trades people have told us, anytime they know it's a job for Kianga Ora, everything gets inflated. The cost of the products that are going in there, the carpets, the door, the joinery, the electrics and the cost of the labour. And then, of course, there's Kainga Ora buying up houses at far more than their value and distorting the property market during the post-Covid boom. But I mean really, when you look at what's left after the fourth Labour government did the massive clean out in the 80s... Do we need to own homes to house people, or should that be left to charitable organisations and private individuals? I suppose the only thing left is health, maybe? Hospitals? I mean, let's face it, it is a huge cumbersome beast. With the best will in the world, the changes to the Ministry of Health and to the hospitals that it oversees as part of its job, the changes are not going to be made within the next 10 years. Bringing everything together under one roof, all of the different hospital boards merged together as one operating unit across the country. And there's no guarantee of success. Do you put health out, privatise that? Still free to the taxpayer but not governed by the government. I don't know. I think most of it's gone. I think John Key is right, there are other, better, faster ways to improve the economy. The only thing I can see, and this is just looking at it theoretically, the only thing I can see that we've got worth selling is the property portfolio and is that what we really want to do? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pesach and Doug sit down with David Lange of Isreally Cool to discuss a crazy year of antisemitism. They spend a good deal of time discussing Candace Owens's antisemitism, and then a few more lesser known people on the political right who exposed themselves this year as antisemites, from an MMA fighter to others.

Gone By Lunchtime is taking a break over summer. We'll be back soon with new episodes but, until then, here's one of our favourites from 2024: In a special crossover edition of Gone By Lunchtime meets Juggernaut, Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas take the stage at a packed Hannah Playhouse in Wellington, joined by NZ broadcasting legend Kim Hill. Exactly 40 years after the 1984 election that saw David Lange and Labour derail the Muldoon train and sweep to power, unleashing a head-spinning period of economic, social and foreign policy reform, we reflect on those giddy times and the ways the Lange-Douglas legacy remains very much alive in 2024. This event sold out in 48 hours; to get advance access to Spinoff events, join our members programme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While The Front Page is on summer break, we’re taking a look back at some of the biggest news stories and top-rated episodes from the podcast in 2024. On July 26th 1984, David Lange was sworn in as the 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand. His ascension into the country’s top job came after Robert Muldoon’s infamous 'Schnapps Election' ended his nine years in power. Best remembered for enshrining New Zealand’s nuclear free status, Lange also oversaw controversial economic policies that ultimately divided his caucus and saw his time on the ninth floor only last five years. For the 40th anniversary of his reign, we spoke with Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper – one of the few journalists who was there at the time and still working today. New episodes return January 13th. Host: Chelsea Daniels Audio Engineers: Paddy Fox, Richard Martin Executive Producer: Ethan Sills See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We share how leaders can master the art of giving and receiving regular, effective feedback—and the benefits when they get it right. As the end of the year draws closer, you're likely reflecting on your team's performance—and how to give feedback that helps your leaders develop and improve. But, these types of conversations aren't always easy to navigate. So, what skills are important to hone when giving feedback? And what are some of the common pitfalls you may encounter when having these honest conversations?    But it's not just about giving feedback. It's also important that you're getting the feedback you need to develop. So, how can you encourage honest, upward feedback? And what benefits will you see when you act on it? In this episode of Leadership Lounge, we talk to some of our trusted advisors—Dee Fitzgerald, David Lange, and Silvia Lago—who share their perspectives on: How to give actionable upward feedback What to do when someone disagrees with you during a feedback session The skills required to receive feedback effectively How leaders can create a feedback-rich culture. “If the direct report feels like there's an environment of psychological safety…upward feedback actually becomes something that a direct report will offer regularly and proactively to their leaders.” David Lange, Leadership Advisor, Russell Reynolds Associates. Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Four things you'll learn from this episode Effective feedback focuses on specific behaviors, not personality. Frame feedback constructively to enable growth and development, avoiding subjective or contradictory comments. Creating a culture of psychological safety is essential for encouraging honest, upward feedback, which requires leaders to actively solicit input at all levels. It's important to hone key skills, including actively listening to feedback, asking clarifying questions, and approaching it as a collaborative dialogue, rather than defensively. Integrating feedback into regular interactions, rather than relying on annual reviews, and seeking diverse perspectives through mentors or team debriefs, helps leaders continuously grow and innovate. In this 17 minute episode, we will cover: (1:32) How leaders can frame their feedback to ensure it's delivered effectively. (3:09) Why it's critical feedback is a two-way conversation. (5:06) What's at the root of all effective upward feedback. (7:18) The two key ways CEOs can generate constructive, unfiltered feedback. (9:53) Why nothing should come as a surprise at an end-of-year review. (10:33) Why active listening is such an important trait for leaders receiving feedback. A closer look at the research from this episode: Walk the Talk: Inclusive Leadership Development Moves the Needle On DE&I | Russell Reynolds Associates Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.

Writer/director J.R. Bookwalter, actor James L. Edwards, associate producer Scott Plummer, co-creator David Lange, and special makeup consultant David P. Barton

Forty years ago one of the most transformational governments in New Zealand history was sworn in. That government, led by the larger than life David Lange, who was accompanied by financial architect Roger Douglas, had the task of overhauling the country's fragile economy. Sitting in the inner sanctum of that government was Dr Michael Bassett, who became the Minister in charge of a run-down health service during an economic downturn. Sound familiar? Dr Bassett has a unique perspective on the fourth labour government and the Muldoon led National government that preceded them. Those days saw rapid inflation, a wage and price freeze and a run on the currency immediately before the 1984 election. Rogernomics was the new Labour government's fiscal response, as critical a part of their legacy as their introduction of our nuclear free legislation. Since his political retirement Dr Basset has gone on to become one of our most important historians, with fifteen books to his credit, including multiple political biographies. And in 2018 he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) for his services to history. There is no one better placed to reflect on New Zealand's greatest Prime Ministers. And he has plenty to say about our recent governments, and some advice for the current coalition.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our political pundit ponders Kamala Harris, Darleen Tana, child abuse and a podcast on David Lange.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On July 26th 1984, David Lange was sworn in as the 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand. His ascension into the country's top job came after Robert Muldoon's infamous snap election ended his nine years in power. Best remembered for enshrining New Zealand's nuclear free status, Lange also oversaw controversial economic policies that ultimately divided his caucus, and saw his time on the ninth floor only last five years. With this Ruby Jubilee prompting reflections on Lange's leadership and the legacy of the fourth Labour government, today on The Front Page we're joined by one of the few journalists who was there at the time and is still working today, Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent, Barry Soper, and Victoria University of Wellington politics professor Lara Greaves.  Follow The Front Page on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can read more about this and other stories in the New Zealand Herald, online at nzherald.co.nz, or tune in to news bulletins across the NZME network. Host: Chelsea DanielsSound Engineer: Paddy FoxProducer: Ethan SillsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ross Vintiner was right by David Lange's side in opposition and in government as his head of press. If you enjoyed the Juggernaut series on the fourth Labour government, you'll enjoy his insights into the singular figure of Lange and the whirl of the ninth floor across those wild years. Juggernaut was made with the support of NZ On Air.

In a special crossover edition of Gone By Lunchtime meets Juggernaut, Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas take the stage at a packed Hannah Playhouse in Wellington, joined by NZ broadcasting legend Kim Hill. Exactly 40 years after the 1984 election that saw David Lange and Labour derail the Muldoon train and sweep to power, unleashing a head-spinning period of economic, social and foreign policy reform, we reflect on those giddy times and the ways the Lange-Douglas legacy remains very much alive in 2024. This event sold out in 48 hours; to get advance access to Spinoff events, join our members programme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the urging of the gay community, Fran Wilde takes the homosexual law reform bill to parliament in 1985. The campaign encounters fierce resistance from MPs on both the National and Labour sides of the house. Is it fair for Labour today to claim it as a party triumph? At the same time, strides are being taken in introducing the Treaty of Waitangi into political and legal structures, as part of a blizzard of reforms. In one crucial example, change will come after David Lange misreads his notes. New and exclusive interviews with Fran Wilde, Bill Logan, Hekia Parata, Roger Douglas, Richard Prebble and Margaret Wilson. Click here for full details of archive material used in this series Juggernaut was made with the support of NZ On Air.

In a tense and divided cold war world, David Lange emerges as an anti-nuclear champion, despite being out of contact, deep in the Pacific when the crisis strikes. The Americans are furious: didn't the NZ PM pledge to smooth the waters in Labour to allow a US ship visit? They become even angrier when he takes the stage at the Oxford Union, to global acclaim. When an act of state terrorism sees a Greenpeace ship sunk and a photographer killed in Auckland harbour, the public mood on nukes only solidifies. New and exclusive interviews with Geoffrey Palmer, former US assistant secretary of state Richard Armitage, Fran Wilde, Richard Prebble and Margaret Wilson. Click here for full details of archive material used in this series Juggernaut was made with the support of NZ On Air.

We thought you might like a wee taster of our brand new #1 series, Juggernaut: The Story of the Fourth Labour Government, hosted by Toby Manhire. Click here to follow Juggernaut so you get every episode as soon as it's released! 1. I love you, Mr Lange Fuelled by brandy and fury, Sir Rob Muldoon calls a snap election, sparking a 1984 campaign of contrasts – the menacing, protectionist National PM against the fresh, upbeat Labour leader, David Lange. The pretext for the election is the decision by Marilyn Waring, a young, gay MP, to back an anti-nuclear bill and quit the National caucus, prompting an earful from Muldoon. Lange, meanwhile, is joined at the hip by a hungry would-be finance minister, Roger Douglas. They are about to confront a profound crisis, and launch a revolution. Includes previously unheard interviews with David Lange from the 84 campaign trail, and new and exclusive interviews with Marilyn Waring, Roger Douglas, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Prebble, Peter Harris, Margaret Wilson, Bob Harvey and Gary McCormick. Click here for full details of archive material used in this series Juggernaut was made with the support of NZ On Air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We thought you might like a wee taster of our brand new #1 series, Juggernaut: The Story of the Fourth Labour Government, hosted by Toby Manhire. Click here to follow Juggernaut so you get every episode as soon as it's released! 1. I love you, Mr Lange Fuelled by brandy and fury, Sir Rob Muldoon calls a snap election, sparking a 1984 campaign of contrasts – the menacing, protectionist National PM against the fresh, upbeat Labour leader, David Lange. The pretext for the election is the decision by Marilyn Waring, a young, gay MP, to back an anti-nuclear bill and quit the National caucus, prompting an earful from Muldoon. Lange, meanwhile, is joined at the hip by a hungry would-be finance minister, Roger Douglas. They are about to confront a profound crisis, and launch a revolution. Includes previously unheard interviews with David Lange from the 84 campaign trail, and new and exclusive interviews with Marilyn Waring, Roger Douglas, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Prebble, Peter Harris, Margaret Wilson, Bob Harvey and Gary McCormick. Click here for full details of archive material used in this series Juggernaut was made with the support of NZ On Air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We thought you might like a wee taster of our brand new #1 series, Juggernaut: The Story of the Fourth Labour Government, hosted by Toby Manhire. Click here to follow Juggernaut so you get every episode as soon as it's released! 1. I love you, Mr Lange Fuelled by brandy and fury, Sir Rob Muldoon calls a snap election, sparking a 1984 campaign of contrasts – the menacing, protectionist National PM against the fresh, upbeat Labour leader, David Lange. The pretext for the election is the decision by Marilyn Waring, a young, gay MP, to back an anti-nuclear bill and quit the National caucus, prompting an earful from Muldoon. Lange, meanwhile, is joined at the hip by a hungry would-be finance minister, Roger Douglas. They are about to confront a profound crisis, and launch a revolution. Includes previously unheard interviews with David Lange from the 84 campaign trail, and new and exclusive interviews with Marilyn Waring, Roger Douglas, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Prebble, Peter Harris, Margaret Wilson, Bob Harvey and Gary McCormick. Click here for full details of archive material used in this series Juggernaut was made with the support of NZ On Air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We thought you might like a wee taster of our brand new #1 series, Juggernaut: The Story of the Fourth Labour Government, hosted by Toby Manhire. Click here to follow Juggernaut so you get every episode as soon as it's released! 1. I love you, Mr Lange Fuelled by brandy and fury, Sir Rob Muldoon calls a snap election, sparking a 1984 campaign of contrasts – the menacing, protectionist National PM against the fresh, upbeat Labour leader, David Lange. The pretext for the election is the decision by Marilyn Waring, a young, gay MP, to back an anti-nuclear bill and quit the National caucus, prompting an earful from Muldoon. Lange, meanwhile, is joined at the hip by a hungry would-be finance minister, Roger Douglas. They are about to confront a profound crisis, and launch a revolution. Includes previously unheard interviews with David Lange from the 84 campaign trail, and new and exclusive interviews with Marilyn Waring, Roger Douglas, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Prebble, Peter Harris, Margaret Wilson, Bob Harvey and Gary McCormick. Click here for full details of archive material used in this series Juggernaut was made with the support of NZ On Air.

We thought you might like a wee taster of our brand new #1 series, Juggernaut: The Story of the Fourth Labour Government, hosted by Toby Manhire. Click here to follow Juggernaut so you get every episode as soon as it's released! 1. I love you, Mr Lange Fuelled by brandy and fury, Sir Rob Muldoon calls a snap election, sparking a 1984 campaign of contrasts – the menacing, protectionist National PM against the fresh, upbeat Labour leader, David Lange. The pretext for the election is the decision by Marilyn Waring, a young, gay MP, to back an anti-nuclear bill and quit the National caucus, prompting an earful from Muldoon. Lange, meanwhile, is joined at the hip by a hungry would-be finance minister, Roger Douglas. They are about to confront a profound crisis, and launch a revolution. Includes previously unheard interviews with David Lange from the 84 campaign trail, and new and exclusive interviews with Marilyn Waring, Roger Douglas, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Prebble, Peter Harris, Margaret Wilson, Bob Harvey and Gary McCormick. Click here for full details of archive material used in this series Juggernaut was made with the support of NZ On Air.

We thought you might like a wee taster of our brand new #1 series, Juggernaut: The Story of the Fourth Labour Government, hosted by Toby Manhire. Click here to follow Juggernaut so you get every episode as soon as it's released! 1. I love you, Mr Lange Fuelled by brandy and fury, Sir Rob Muldoon calls a snap election, sparking a 1984 campaign of contrasts – the menacing, protectionist National PM against the fresh, upbeat Labour leader, David Lange. The pretext for the election is the decision by Marilyn Waring, a young, gay MP, to back an anti-nuclear bill and quit the National caucus, prompting an earful from Muldoon. Lange, meanwhile, is joined at the hip by a hungry would-be finance minister, Roger Douglas. They are about to confront a profound crisis, and launch a revolution. Includes previously unheard interviews with David Lange from the 84 campaign trail, and new and exclusive interviews with Marilyn Waring, Roger Douglas, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Prebble, Peter Harris, Margaret Wilson, Bob Harvey and Gary McCormick. Click here for full details of archive material used in this series Juggernaut was made with the support of NZ On Air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spinoff editor-at-large Toby Manhire spent “nearly every waking hour” of the past six months living in 1984. Researching, hosting and executive-producing Juggernaut meant learning everything about the 1984 snap election, David Lange, Roger Douglas and the huge reforms they oversaw. Interviewing more than 20 key people from that era, Toby pulled together hours and hours of transcripts and archive material to create a six-part record of arguably the most impactful government (for better or worse) in New Zealand political history. Toby joins Madeleine Chapman live from the Juggernaut launch to talk switching mediums, working with unreliable memories and resisting the urge to interrogate former politicians. Listen to Juggernaut here.

Fuelled by brandy and fury, Sir Rob Muldoon calls a snap election, sparking a 1984 campaign of contrasts – the menacing, protectionist National PM against the fresh, upbeat Labour leader, David Lange. The pretext for the election is the decision by Marilyn Waring, a young, gay MP, to back an anti-nuclear bill and quit the National caucus, prompting an earful from Muldoon. Lange, meanwhile, is joined at the hip by a hungry would-be finance minister, Roger Douglas. They are about to confront a profound crisis, and launch a revolution. Includes previously unheard interviews with David Lange from the 84 campaign trail, and new and exclusive interviews with Marilyn Waring, Roger Douglas, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Prebble, Peter Harris, Margaret Wilson, Bob Harvey and Gary McCormick. Click here for full details of archive material used in this series Juggernaut was made with the support of NZ On Air.

Who would think that former Finance Minister Grant Robertson and current Finance Minister Nicola Willis could agree on anything? But it seems they do.  Both of them think that it's the job of politicians to give people hope. I think that's wishful thinking on their part.  When Grant Robertson gave his valedictory speech two months ago before leaving Parliament to become Vice-Chancellor at the University of Otago, he said: “You've got to give them hope”.  He said: “That is our job in this place: to give people hope. To give hope to those who seek a better tomorrow for their families and communities, to give hope to everyone that they can be who they are and live free of discrimination, and to give hope to those who have none.”  And then yesterday, in her pre-Budget speech, Nicola Willis said the thing New Zealanders need most right now is "hope that tomorrow will be better".   Well I tell you what, unless Nicola Willis announces next week that the guy with the thick accent who called her on a crackly line from Nigeria saying he had $200 billion to gift to New Zealand - unless she announces that it wasn't actually a scam and the money's already in the bank, then don't expect me to say today that I'm hopeful about where New Zealand is heading.  And, as for what Grant Robertson said about it being the job of MPs to give people hope - well, that might be the theory, but we're deluded if we expect politicians to change our worlds.  I remember on the night of the 1984 election, and I was just about to drop out of school. I say “drop out” because, now that I look back on it, that's what I was doing.  I had scraped through three school certificate subjects, failed two, and the last place I wanted to be was school, especially the school I was at. So, my parents agreed to let me leave and start working at the little shop they ran in Dunedin.   And I remember on the night of that 1984 election, we were all sitting around the TV watching David Lange make his big victory speech and I remember my mother turning around to me and saying that if Labour hadn't won, I wouldn't be leaving school.  That was the hope she had that the change in government was going to make it a better place. As we know, though, that night in 1984 was the starting point in a time of significant upheaval and turmoil.  Forty years on from then, here we are in another state of upheaval and turmoil.   And I think Nicola Willis is dreaming if she expects us to have hope. And I think Grant Robertson was big on theory when he said it's the job of politicians to give people hope - but he was dreaming too.  Because what gives people hope is sentiment. Not policies, not slogans, and certainly not politicians. And anyone whose hope level is dictated by the weasel words of politicians is only setting themselves up for disappointment.   So, on the basis of hope being based on sentiment, you've got to say that the sentiment right now in New Zealand is far from hopeful.  And I'm not just basing that on how things are for me, personally, because I'm actually at a stage in life where we no longer have all the expenses that come with having kids at school. We own a house. The big $400-$500 shops at Pak ‘n' Save only happen during the university holidays, not all the time.  Yes, things are blimmin' expensive and we've done what a lot of people seem to have been doing recently and we've ditched Netflix and Neon and all those things. But that's largely because we can - not because we have to. Not because it comes down to Netflix or a loaf of bread.  So you could say that I have more reasons than a lot of people to be hopeful.  But I don't. Because I'm looking at this obsession with government cost-cutting and I'm asking, ‘where's the thinking behind it, other than simplistic numbers and percentages?”. And the answer to that, is there isn't.  I'm not hopeful because I look around and see infrastructure falling to pieces around our ears.  I'm not hopeful because businesses are in survival mode, trying to stay afloat in an oily rag economy.   And I'm certainly not hopeful when politicians tell me that hope is what I need most, and that they're going to deliver it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

So, it looks like the Government is going to ditch the First Home Buyers Scheme which gives people up to $10,000 to help get them into their first home.   All up, it costs the Government $60 million a year. It seems that money's going to go into social housing instead.  And it's tick, tick, tick from me. That's because, even though I think there is a place for government involvement in helping people get ahead in life, buying assets is not one of them.  I was talking to someone who was saying that the First Home Buyers Scheme can be one of the only bits of government help some people get - over and above the usual public services. That would be aside from the pension, too, of course.  And that's government with a small g. This person wasn't talking about the current government. They were about the government, in general. Or taxpayer support, to put it another way.  But what I say to that is, just because you might never be on ACC, or you might never be on the unemployment benefit, or you might never need a sickness benefit, that doesn't mean you're owed anything.  And you're certainly not owed anything to help you buy your first home.  But, of course, there will be people who will be outraged that the scheme is going. Yes, they'll be unhappy. And that's because home ownership has come to be seen as something of a basic human right. When it's not.  Having a roof over your head is a basic human right. Owning that roof, isn't.  Interestingly, it was a National government in the 1950s which had the thinking that living in a state house should only be for people who needed it, and not for everyone.  So, what it did is it set an income limit and told all the so-called middle-class people that they could forget about getting a state house and started championing home ownership, instead, saying that was what New Zealand aspired to.  And so, it did a couple of things. It said to state house tenants that if they wanted to buy the house they were in, they could. And it increased the availability of what were known as state-advanced loans to help people get into their first homes.  Which meant, within a very short time, 34% of all home loans were from the state. And, of course, what happened was demand outstripped supply and the real estate merry-go-'round got going.  Over the years, it wasn't just National that fuelled this obsession with home ownership. The Labour government that came in after National in 1959 allowed low-income families to have their Family Benefit paid in advance, to help them get a deposit together for a house.  Fast-forward to 1984, and things changed a bit under David Lange's Labour government. It deregulated the banking sector which brought more competition into banking, stopped the scheme that allowed people to put their Family Benefit towards a deposit, and started introducing market rental rates for state houses.   And, by that time, the horse had well-and-truly bolted and home ownership was the be-all and end-all for a lot of people. As it still is today.  But even though we have a relatively long history of governments helping people out financially if they want to buy a home —to varying degrees, certainly— it's not a reason to keep doing it.  And the obsession with home ownership certainly isn't a reason to keep giving taxpayer money to people to buy houses.  And good on the Government —or National anyway— for being true to its word and, in relation to this anyway - being true to its word and basing its housing support on need.  Because no one needs to buy a house. They might want to, but they don't need to.  Unlike someone on the bones of their backside and on the edge of society, who does actually have a need. They need a roof over their head. And, if the Government is sitting there trying to work out the best way to spend $60 million - then, as far as I'm concerned, that $60 million has to go towards addressing people's needs. Not subsidising their wants. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There are thousands of hours of conversation with the likes of David Lange, John Key and Helen Clark. But no one has ever heard them, and now the project. run by the Alexander Turnbull Library, is shutting down.

Almost exactly 39 years ago, New Zealand was thrust into the international spotlight by its then-prime minister David Lange. Dr Jeya Wilson was standing right by him.

David Lange grew up in Perth, Australia, assuming his life's work would be dedicated to building wealth and a family in Australia. In high school, he had some experiences that would nudge him in the direction of Israel, but it was meeting his future wife Erica – later Ahava Emuna – zichrona livracha, that sealed the deal for a future in Israel, and transformed both his life and his life priorities. I visited David – also known for years as Ozzie Dave of the IsraellyCool blog – in his Bet Shemesh home, where we had a far-ranging discussion about his Aliyah, the cancer battle his wife waged with him by her side, career aspirations in Israel, raising kids and, of course, his Israel advocacy.

I think David Seymour has reason to be pretty salty if he isn't given the Deputy Prime Minister's job. This is not really about whether the job is really a job or whether it's just ceremonial. The fact is- it is a title. And that title implies seniority, it means whoever gets the Deputy Prime Minister role is the second most senior person in the Government. And it would be pretty bizarre if National gave that to Winston Peters over David Seymour, given how many times National told us before the election they really didn't want to have to work with Winston. Chris Luxon said it, Chris Bishop said it, Nicola Willis said it- and they weren't subtle. Nicola Willis said: “I don't want to go into Government with NZ First" Now we understand they didn't have a choice about going into Government in the end, but that is very different to making Winston the second most senior person in Government when he doesn't even have the second biggest party in the Government. It would be pretty insulting to David Seymour, especially given how close Seymour and Luxon worked together in the lead up to the election. The best argument for Winston to get the job is experience, but I'm not super convinced by that argument. There is a long list of people who've gone straight into the Deputy Prime Minister's job without having done a single day in Cabinet before. Don McKinnon under Jim Bolger, Geoffrey Palmer under David Lange- you can go back through history and find more. Probably the thing that counts most against David for the job is that he's plugged so hard for it when he's previously made is sound like he's not interested in the baubles of office. But then again, that's something he and Winston now have in common isn't it? Probably the easiest solution to this problem is to not pick between the two of them, but split the job instead. Whether with a time share- one does 18 months then hands it over to the other to do 18 months, or we just have two Deputy Prime Ministers. But it still doesn't solve that awkward problem, does it? The guy who the Nats really did want to work with is now sharing the job of equal seniority with the guy they really didn't want to work with. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What would it take for Jews to unite? We connect with Trisha and Gerald Posner, David Bernstein, David Lange, and Rolene Marks for this live podcast. #israel #humanity #antisemitism This talk was great. we even had a rocket alert in Israel in the middle of our conversation!

Doug and Pesach are joined by David Lange from Israellycool to discuss the rise in antisemitism around the word since October 7th. It leads into an interesting discussion of alliances that are forming around support for Hamas that, on the surface, make no sense. As we explore the connection between radical Islam and the secular far left, we find what is a seemingly spiritual alliance against believers of the God of the Bible. Become a Shoulder to Shoulder patron on Patreon! Go to https://www.patreon.com/ShouldertoShoulder, show your support, and join Doug and Pesach for patron-only Bible study sessions every week.

One of the ironies of MMP and the fact this year's election marked its 30th birthday, if birthday is the right word to use, was that a recommendation had been made years earlier over some sort of electoral reform, but nothing had been done about it.  But in a debate with Jim Bolger, David Lange promised that he would look to hold a vote on it if returned to power.  Sort of like David Cameron promised, under pressure, to have a vote on Brexit, never assuming in his wildest dreams that people would actually vote to leave Europe.  But reform it we did and here we are 10 elections later still wondering if it was all it was cracked up to be.  The greatest lesson is that there is no perfect electoral system.  The last Labour Government, with their First Past the Post numbers, surely nailed the coffin shut on any form of debate around resurrecting FPP.  If you wanted a show of a tin ear and blind arrogance and all that is weak about the old system, the Labour Government of 2020 to 2023 was it. But in this election alone we have several of the MMP frailties on show.  There will be an overhang, both from the Māori seats and an overhang from Port Waikato, based on a rule very few knew even existed, far less how bizarre it was. And, once again, a minor player may or may not have an outsider role when it comes to participating in the Government.  What both systems have managed to throw up is the frailty of democracy itself. Not that having a one person, one vote system is bad. But the outworkings can be.  From the very minor parties who literally wasted their time and money to drum up a percent or two's worth of support to no end whatsoever, to the ongoing confusion among so many three decades on as to just how the system works and the belief that a level of manipulation and control is available with your two votes, when nothing of the sort exists at all.  As I have said before, I honestly can't remember how I voted in 1983 when we held that binding referendum. It would have been my first vote, given I had just turned 18, but what I do remember is, like most elections, many turned up without a real clue as to just what it was they were voting for. As a result, a certain level of surprise and disappointment ensued.  But at 30 it's too late. We won't change it, we won't revisit it, we had a crack and it went nowhere.  It is what it is. But that's the point - what is it?  I'd say it's something OK, without being anywhere close to great. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the Labour party, still technically the Government of course, gather in Wellington to do that time-honoured thing of all losers, which is some soul searching, the trick is not to say you are doing it, but to actually do it. The trouble, as we have discovered these past three years, is they don't actually do anything except talk. To search one's soul, one has to accept what has happened to you and take a level of blame. You have to see it's actually on you, it is your fault, and if you don't want to repeat the exercise it needs to be different going forward. I'm not sure they have the slightest idea how to do that. Do you think, as Jacinda Ardern sits in Boston having wrecked the country and then scarpered for her own financial benefit, any of the carnage of Saturday night sits heavily with her? Or do you think she could blabber out a couple of one-liners about there being no play book and we thought we are right and we tried our best? As they gather in their offices this week and box up their three years worth of stuff, how many of them know in their heart of hearts they cocked it up in spectacular fashion? Or how many of them still hold the broader contempt, so often on display, that we are basically not that bright, but fortunately they are, so if only we could be as good as them things would be different? That is the fraud of soul searching. Very few people actually want to change and far less are actually capable of it. The end of the Helen Clark era is no different to this one - they were arrogant and we got sick of it. The last Labour Government that worked was David Lange's and even that only lasted one term before it blew up in their faces. The reason it worked is because that was the Labour of old, the Mike Moore Labour, the Labour that reflected a hard-working country of working class New Zealanders, who aspired to graft and do well for themselves and all we wanted was opportunity. The Clark/Ardern Labour Governments were about entitlement and race and laziness and crazed ideology. That view is shared by, comparatively, very few New Zealanders because it isn't who we are. Labour will be back. Both major parties have won and lost and come back for more. But I don't see this lot having the slightest intention of changing. Worse for them, I don't see enough talent left, once Grant Robertson and David Parker and whoever else quits, to even look like they know how to change. It's two terms minimum in the wilderness.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Becoming a leader is an exciting (and daunting) milestone. Here we share the common pitfalls—and how to avoid them.  Whether you're joining the C-suite for the first time or are about to take on the coveted CEO role—the stakes are high.  For CEOs in particular, you have the unique challenge of transitioning into a role that only a small number of people have ever held.  Any mistakes or missteps made will impact the entire organization, as well as investors, and stakeholders. Couple that with the fact that the current business climate is turbulent at best, and it makes for an incredibly complex role.  How do new leaders put their best foot forward? What sets successful leaders apart?  In this episode of Leadership Lounge, we put these questions and more to four of our leadership advisors; Shannon Knott, Joey Berk, Ty Wiggins, and David Lange. Here they use their extensive experience speaking with new leaders to share their tips and tricks. Tune in to discover why as a new leader you no longer need to be the smartest person in the room, the importance of humility, and why you need to become comfortable with constructive conflict.

Week two of the campaign has come and gone - so who are the winners? Well, if you go on polling alone, it's the new Government of National and Act. But if you believe that this campaign counts, if you believe that these events and stunts and announcements count for a lot, then there is still much to play for. For the record, I will repeat, I think the whole thing is a foregone conclusion. This, more than most elections, has already been decided on the Government's record. It's not about policy from the opposition, because most people already broadly know that the opposition is offering a change from the status quo. It's what happened when we tossed David Lange's Labour out. What happened when we tossed Robert Muldoon? What happened when we tossed Helen Clark out? For a variety of reasons, in Muldoon and Clark's case, we were over the agenda. In Lange's case, we were over the party imploding and the chaos. That's why they say Government's lose elections and oppositions don't win them. If you're interested in policy there have been some good ones. Act's law and order policy is full of common sense and scratches an itch felt by many a New Zealander fed up with crime. You can't argue with more doctors, except the fact Labour took six years to do it, which in and of itself is an example of why they are losing. National's literacy policy last Friday makes sense and many a parent will welcome a crack at tangible improvement in the classroom. But the downside of campaigns is the down in the weeds obsession you tend to get when the media put a lot of resource into a single event. When you're looking to eke every last dollar out of having journalists wander aimlessly around the country, you tend to end up with the nonsense we got on National's tax policy. Some economists thought there was a hole. My take - so what? There are other economists who don't think there is a hole. The Treasury PREFU said we aren't going into recession and the media swallowed that hook, line and sinker. Yet Bryce Wilkinson of the NZ Initiative wrote yesterday and said those numbers are bogus. Where was the media's obsession around that? Duelling economists is the sort of side show a campaign brings. But in summation, you can see poor, old Hipkins looking more and more deflated and Luxon looking more and more bullish. Seymour overplayed his hand a bit on the confidence thing, James Shaw called an Act MP a "clown show", Winston Peters refuted the polls, again, and I think one of the Maori leaders went surfing. Next week we have the debates. I don't put the weight some do on them. They're important, yes. But they aren't a deal breaker. As I say, my gut says this thing is over, the script was written over the past 24 months. We are, to a degree, going through the motions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pesach and Doug sit down with David Lange of israellycool.com to discuss the ways that the Anti-Defamation League may actually promote antisemitism even as it claims to fight it. And there's plenty more: they talk all about Elon Musk's threat to sue the ADL, whether the hashtag #bantheADL is antisemitic, some of the reasons that many people misunderstand the Jewish community, and much more. (Yes, of course, Roger Waters makes an appearance here, as well.) Become a Shoulder to Shoulder patron on Patreon! Go to https://www.patreon.com/ShouldertoShoulder, show your support, and join Doug and Pesach for patron-only Bible study sessions every week.

Small Parties on the rise, Election surprises possible - Chris Trotter political commentator writes the "From the Left" ODT column Chris foundation member of the New-Labour Party and the Alliance party in the 1990s in response to David Lange and Roger Douglas's Neoliberalism reforms. He is the author of No Left Turn, a political history of New Zealand. We may discuss the crisis of distrust of mainline political parties And the inequality and inequities of the present tax system. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Remember the Gliding On TV show about New Zealand's tired old Public Service? It was a sit-com written by Roger Hall - adapted from a play he'd written called Glide Time and, if you remember it, you'll know how it was about four staff working at a government supply office in the early 80s. I use the term “working” quite loosely. The show ran between 1981 and 1985 which meant it came to an end right at the beginning of the Rogernomics years. Imagine how the plot would have thickened if it had kept going? Given all the restructuring David Lange's government did in the public service in that first term between 1984 and 1987. I mention Gliding On because I'm wondering how much things have actually changed in the public sector because a new report out today is saying it needs to up its game. It's come from the New Zealand Initiative think-tank, which has been putting out all sorts of stuff recently. Dr Bryce Wilkinson is the person who's done the research and who's written this report out today. The title of it pretty much says it all: “Public Service Bloat - The Evidence”. It says that, despite the number of people employed in the public sector increasing by 28 percent in the past five years, we're not seeing the outcomes we should be seeing in areas like crime prevention, health, education, housing and welfare. Bryce Wilkinson says most of the extra money that's gone into the public sector seems to have gone into paying more managers and more PR people. And we're not getting the bang-for-buck we should be getting. He's come to this conclusion after setting out to try and answer a pretty simple question: Is New Zealand's public service bloated? His report says the large, ill-justified increase in New Zealand's public service is disturbing; there is an utterly inadequate interest in New Zealander's wellbeing when spending taxpayers' money; this situation will foster fraud and corruption; New Zealand's past high rankings for low corruption are at risk; lack of in-house competence is suggested by an increased reliance on outside contractors; spending on managers and comms teams has outstripped spending on analysts, and most other occupational categories; and those wishing to get quality information from government agencies often find that they hinder more than help. So remember the question he set out to answer was: “Is New Zealand's public service bloated?” Well, if you take those seven points from the report, what do you reckon they add up to? Bloated or not bloated? Has to be bloated, doesn't it? In fact, I'd say bloated and reckless.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Er historierne om Lizette Risgaard et koordineret angreb i et magtspil? I går skrev Anders Heide en klumme i Finans under overskriften: ‘'Alt handler om sex. Undtagen sex. Sex handler om magt.'' Heri redegør han for hvorfor topledere skal passe på med at forvalte deres magt som sex - der kan nemlig være ‘'øjne i halvmørket'', der følger med.  Knud Brix fra Ekstra Bladet klagede i går over en passage i klummen - og den er allerede blevet fjernet. Den lød: "Det hele blev gjort klart og forside-egnet og givet videre, koordineret, til Berlingske og Ekstra Bladet" Vi spørger Anders Heide Mortensen, om Lizette Risgaards fald var et kynisk koordineret angreb.  Velkommen til En Uafhængig Morgen! Din vært her til morgen er Kristian Henriksen. Tidskoder [03:00] Eva Smith, Professor Emerita // om Claus Hjorts retssag  [10:00] Anders Heide Mortensen, kommentator på Finans // Om medierne koordinerede et angreb på Lizette Risgaard  [16:00] Erbil Kaya, Samsams advokat // Om Samsam sender penge til en terrorist  [25:00] Lars Løkke, udenrigsminister // Om børnene i Syrien skal have lægetjek og om de snart kommer hjem [28:00] Gunnar Nielsen, Formand for bankoforeningen i Asnæs // Om hans bankoklub skaber ludomaner [40:00] David Lange, Direktør for Foreningen for Skånsomt Kystfiskeri // Om det danske havmiljø er døden nær [50:00] Carsten Norton, Skribent på Fri Bandit // Om der er en bandekrig på Amager på vej  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It is such a ridiculous argument about whether Jacinda's going to go down in history as one of the greats.  Of course she is! She will be considered one of the greatest Prime Ministers of this country, because she made us feel proud. Proud of our collective response to the mosque shootings, proud of being a place everyone else wanted to be in during Covid- even if we didn't necessarily agree with her policy responses. And she made us feel proud of also of being the kind of place where a woman can have a baby while PM, and it's not a big deal. The way that Jacinda made us feel on a global stage is her greatest achievement. She didn't really do much else, but just doing that is enough. Especially for a small trading nation like ours that is constantly fighting for attention and recognition on a crowded planet with a big brash neighbour right next to us. And what's also important here is that she is a Labour leader. It is always the Labour Prime Ministers who are marked down as the greats. Mickey Savage for rolling out social welfare, Norm Kirk for one sentence that nailed what makes a good life, David Lange for standing up to the US on our nuclear free stance, and Helen Clark for paying down our debt and getting the economy in a good place. I don't know why Labour leaders are marked down as the great ones and the National leaders get overlooked. Maybe it's because the left write the history books. But whatever it is, the chances are in Jacinda's favour that teachers and grandparents tell future generations how good she was. Right now, obviously we know the story is much more complex. We know her Government did almost nothing, she leaves no lasting achievements. We know how angry a lot of people in this country are at her. So angry she had to leave to as she says take the heat out of it. But as time goes on, we will forget that, and future generations won't even know that. And she will go down as one of the greats, and denying that is wishful thinking. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Doug and Pesach first speak to Tali Shalem, CEO of Holy Gems, about the remarkable discovery of precious stones in northern Israel - and the miraculous way they were found, despite the assurances of scientists that they didn't exist. Then they welcome back David Lange of Israellycool.com for the latest from the wacky world of high-profile anti-Semitism. (Roger Waters gets a starring role today; even his BDS-supporting bandmate thinks he's gone over the edge.) You might get depressed, but you'll laugh on the way there.

Performance-based engineering or the use of probabilistic methods in building design are not inventions of Fire Safety Engineering. But we sometimes tend to act like we need to 'discover' and work out everything on our own. I strongly believe this is not the best way forward. And certainly not the cheapest one...Where I see a lot of potential is the adaptation of methods and models that work in other parts of civil engineering, that could act as solutions to issues related to fire. Such a case is with The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center's Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) - brought to the fire safety engineering community by David Lange (a previous guest on the show) and Asif Usmani in 2014, and now is championed by my today's guest Dr Negar Elhami Khorasani. Negar gives us a very in-depth view of the status of Structural Fire Safety Engineering and shows an inspiring framework in which probabilistic inputs at different stages of the analysis can be used to build up a model of safety in a building, that is much more informative than whatever we assume through design with prescriptive rules. A step up from the structural fire safety engineering framework, but one that feels very smart and natural. The best part of this episode is reading this framework between the lines. Yes, it is adopted for structural design. But it does not have to. It can be adapted to many different areas of fire science, and in my case, we will definitely seek an implementation in wind-fire coupled modelling. So, no matter if you are dealing with the most impressive structural designs crafted for fire, or if it is something not very relevant to your current tasks, please have an open mind and try to understand the workflow and ideas behind this framework, it seems really worth it!And here are some resources I received from Negar, that may be relevant to you, if you find this topic interesting:  2014 paper by Lange et al. on the application of performance-based earthquake engineering framework to structures in fire2014 paper on a probabilistic model for fire load2015 and 2020 papers on probabilistic material models2016 paper on fire fragility curves2020 paper on probabilistic models for permanent and live loads2022 on the reliability of US prescriptive standard for steel column Fire Science Show is sponsored by OFR Consultants.OFR Consultants is a multi-award-winning independent consultancy dedicated to addressing fire safety challenges. OFR is the UK's leading fire risk consultancy. Its globally established team has developed a reputation for pre-eminent fire engineering expertise, with colleagues working across the world to help protect people, property, and the planet. 

Doug and Pesach have a great conversation with David Lange of Israellycool.com, a popular website dedicated to debunking anti-Semitic lies about Israel and the Jewish people (with more than just a touch of humor). David shares some highlights from 2022 in the world of anti-Israel propaganda.

David Lange of Minnesota hunts in a very high pressure area of the state that lives by the "if it's brown it's down" motto. With that said, David wanted to hunt an older age class of bucks, this means that he had to be willing to pass deer that he would normally shoot. And that, is the premise of this episode. David breaks down the neighborhood surrounding his 160 acre farm, the impact of adding row crops to the property, how the deer moved through their property, and ultimately having the guts to pass a good 2 year old buck. Check out the rest of the story to see if David had a 3 yer old to hunt the following year. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Lange of Minnesota hunts in a very high pressure area of the state that lives by the "if it's brown it's down" motto. With that said, David wanted to hunt an older age class of bucks, this means that he had to be willing to pass deer that he would normally shoot. And that, is the premise of this episode. David breaks down the neighborhood surrounding his 160 acre farm, the impact of adding row crops to the property, how the deer moved through their property, and ultimately having the guts to pass a good 2 year old buck. Check out the rest of the story to see if David had a 3 yer old to hunt the following year. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Lange turns up on the subject of Mashups - Avatar is back and is the subject of Flicks 'n That - Mark of New Plymouth's own Infinity Ritual phones in for What's Cooking - and apparently web domains end in .cum now... Thanks to The Beer Spot!

Trevor Mallard has ended his career as an MP this week after 38 years. Much has changed. We sat down to chat through his storied history and get his insights. 

After 40 years and 14 election campaigns, Phil Goff is departing politics. He completes his farewell tour in a discussion with Toby Manhire, spanning his early years as a long haired, idealistic activist and being at the controversial cabinet table with David Lange and Roger Douglas and later with Helen Clark. Plus: his time as mayor of Auckland, whether local government needs an overhaul, and what's next. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Lange is in segment management, the Michelin for East Asia and Oceana, particularly for their larger passenger car tires, which involves tires for performance vehicles, but also for electric vehicles. He is stationed in Thailand where I caught up with him on the line and asked him, what are the major factors that need to be considered when making tires for electric vehicles or EVs?

Australia has benefitted greatly from the two-way trans-Tasman trade in policy ideas in the last 40 years. In the early 1980s, a New Zealand Labour government led by David Lange and his remarkable treasurer Roger Douglas introduced deregulatory economic reforms later adopted by the Hawke government. Thirty years later, the incremental reforms and philosophical clarity of the National Party governments of John Key and Bill English inspired some of the successful policy initiatives of the Abbott government, notably in welfare policy. Does the evident warmth between Anthony Albanese and NZ PM Jacinda Ardern signal a meeting of minds on domestic policy? And if so, how scared should we be? NZ is after all the most woke jurisdiction in the Southern Hemisphere and its economy is officially going backwards. In this Watercooler Conversation held live before an audience in Sydney, Nick Cater and Oliver Hartwich weigh up the threat of contagion from sub-prime Kiwi policy in Australia. Oliver Hartwich is Executive Director of The New Zealand Initiative. Subscribe to his weekly newsletter here: https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/ Nick Cater is Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre. Subscribe to the MRC's Watercooler News for free: https://www.menziesrc.org/mailing-list Support these podcasts by becoming a premium subscriber from just $10 a month: https://www.menziesrc.org/subscribe1 Email Nick Cater: watercooler@menziesrc.org

I was stunned when I saw someone who keeps a close eye on China saying that New Zealand needs to think about upping our defence spending to protect us from the superpower.  It's 2022 and we're being told that we need to get serious about what we're seeing from China in the Pacific at the moment and up the defences here at home with drones and anti-ship missiles. The person who made these comments is Rodney Jones, who is a China analyst with an outfit called Wigram Capital Advisors. He spoke on TVNZ's Q&A show yesterday morning and his comments were on the six o'clock news last night.   He was speaking about China's Foreign Minister flying around the Pacific drumming up what's being described as “greater collaboration” with countries in the Pacific.  Before the delegation from China flew in, they already had a deal signed up with the Solomon Islands. But, over the weekend, we found out that Samoa has signed up too. Niue is looking like the next one to sign.  The details are pretty hush hush but we know from a draft document leaked last week that China wants economic and security arrangements with these countries.  And, as we've seen so far, if there's money on the table these countries are going to sign the dotted line.   So, Rodney Jones thinks New Zealand needs to accept that it's been gazumped by China on the diplomatic front and we need to get ourselves prepared for defending ourselves against China. Incredible stuff.  He says China's been building up to this for the past five years and New Zealand needs to better protect itself and he reckons we're not going to be able to do it with words.  He says China's motivation is “raw power”. And we need to fortify our independent foreign policy and increase our defence spending and buy things like drones and anti-ship missiles.   Remember Australia has signed up to a deal with the UK and the US to buy nuclear-powered submarines. Rodney Jones isn't saying we need to do anything like that but he is saying that we need to spend more on defence so that China gets the message not to even think about pushing us around.  Which is a pretty astounding thing to say, isn't it?  Now I don't think Rodney Jones would be saying this sort of thing if we didn't have the absolutely hopeless foreign affairs leadership we have at the moment in this country.  I think Nanaia Mahuta is the worst Foreign Affairs Minister New Zealand has ever had. Especially when you think about some of the people who have done the job previously. Here are some names for you: Norman Kirk, David Lange, Mike Moore, Phil Goff, Don McKinnon, Gerry Brownlee and Winston Peters.    But even without comparing the current minister to her predecessors, I think on her own Nanaia Mahuta is showing herself to be completely useless.  Can you believe that she has had absolutely nothing to say about China flying around the Pacific these last few days? There have been interview requests – but total silence.   Can you imagine Don McKinnon saying nothing? Can you imagine Gerry Brownlee saying nothing? Can you imagine Winston Peters saying nothing? Of course not.  And what about the Associate Foreign Minister, Aupito William Sio? Well, he's not hiding completely, he did put out a media release yesterday. Was it about China in the Pacific? No, he was making a statement about it being Samoan Language Week this week. To be fair, he is the Minister for Pacific Peoples. But he is also Associate Foreign Affairs Minister and, just like Nanaia Mahuta, he is saying absolutely nothing about what China is up to in the Pacific.   What's more – he is originally from Samoa and you would assume that he is the associate foreign minister because of his connections in the Pacific. Well, if that's the case, it's all token because his birth country has signed-up to China's offer of “greater collaboration”.  It is an embarrassment and the fact we have someone telling us that we need to start preparing to defend ourselves against Ch...

The great tragedy, or sadness, for me out of the Nanaia Mahuta revelation is that we are being let down so badly by hopeless people.Forget politics and your personal view of the world, surely what you want in the leadership of your country is enquiring minds, experience, and institutional knowledge. You want people, who even though you may not agree with, at least you can see what they are trying to do and why.One of the great privileges of this job has been to meet everyone who has run this place for the past 40 years, basically from David Lange on.Lange was brilliant. He was bright, well-read, and articulate. Different world view from me, certainly, as it turned out from Sir Roger Douglas, but came to the job with some credentials. Sir Roger himself had a plan, had a vision, and saved this country from economic calamity by floating the dollar and cutting the subsidies.Ruth Richardson. Yes, a purist. But she could back the arguments up with fact, knew what she wanted to do, and had the intellectual heft to make it happen.Helen Clark. Say whatever you like about her, but you can't possibly argue she isn't connected, isn't well read, and understands vast swathes of the world and how it works.Sir John Key. Self-made, been out in the world, understood the markets, money, and therefore the economy like few others.And so they go.Fast forward to Mahuta, who can't even pick up a phone. She was an appointment you knew from day one was odd. You wondered, "How the hell did that happen?" And now, we have evidence of the greatest crime of all, whether in politics or not, the lack of an inquiring mind.The best excuse they can come up with is that's not the way it's done.What crap.What insulting, condescending, and embarrassing crap. When you are in charge, it's done the way you want it done.People who can't be bothered do my head in. I detest laziness. The higher up the pole you are, the more you can do, and that's a privilege. What a thrill to be able to make a difference, to change a course, to be hungry, to grasp the detail, to immerse yourself into something you can affect and improve.And yet look at them.Clare Curran, hopeless and gone. David Clark was sacked for being an idiot. Kris Faafoi is asleep at the wheel and desperate to get out. Phil Twyford is an abject failure. Poto Williams is a disgrace hiding behind a lack of interest and Mahuta-type excuses about operational matters. Mahuta herself is too lazy and disinterested to even pick up a phone.For those of us who long for better, this is a shabby and incompetent let down. Being useless is one thing, but being lazy and useless is the ultimate crime.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the show - John's hot knives have tennis on the elements, Rog from the Morning Rumble calls out Mulls for his rural claim, an actual rural bloke and former All Blacks hard man Richard loe is on the phone, Nick's talking modern kids games and in Question Time it features sex addicts and Super Rugby. Enjoy! It's a bit of a David Lange this week.... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Lange grew up in Perth, Australia, assuming his life's work would be dedicated to building wealth - and a family - in Australia. In high school, he had some experiences that would nudge him in the direction of Israel, but it was meeting his future wife Erika – later Ahava Emunah – zichrona livracha, that sealed the deal for a future in Israel, and transformed both his life and his life priorities. I recently visited David – also known for years as Ozzie Dave of the IsraellyCool blog – in his Bet Shemesh home, where we had a far-ranging discussion about his Aliyah, the cancer battle his wife waged with him by her side, career aspirations in Israel, raising kids and, of course, his Israel advocacy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/return-again/support

Risk as a concept is well established in modern Performance-Based Design in Fire Safety Engineering. However, it comes in many flavours - from a simple calculation of consequences vs probability, through indexing methods and using some arbitrary measures (number of fatalities, cost of damage etc.). Most of these methods focus on the value or threshold of the risk... while my today's guests seem to focus much more on the process itself.Today I'm happy to host Dr Jaime Cadena Gomez (UQ, Transurban) and Dr David Lange from UQ, who will introduce us to the Maximum Allowable Damage risk assessment methodology. Two unique things about this approach are:1) you calculate the inherent risk of your building, and start working towards solutions from this point, making the whole engineering process better aligned with delivery of a *true* safety, rather than compliance.2) you focus on the process and not on the measure. This means you understand the building so much better, can include other parties and authorities in the process.If you are a Fire Safety Engineer you should listen to this episode. Even if the method will not be useful for you, the discussion is definitely refreshing.Connect to my guests:Jaime Cadena on LinkedinDavid Lange on LinkedinA short introduction to Jaime's work:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6YOBkS9UdsRead more on the Maximum Allowable Damage methodology at: Jaime's PhD thesisCadena et al. Overcoming risk assessment limitations for potential fires in a multi-occupancy buildingCadena et al. Uncertainty-based decision-making in fire safety: Analyzing the alternatives

Listen to Cindy Lange, David Lange, Victor Lennartz and Jacob Barr talk about the Choose Life license plates in Idaho.  These license plates will be used to raise thousands of dollars for pregnancy clinics across Idaho every year – if … Continued

Yesterday the Prime Minister said something that made me realise I have actually given up hoping we will become a republic any time soon.While Jacinda Ardern was announcing our new Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro, she said she believed New Zealand will become a republic in her lifetime.However, I don't think we will.  And I say that as someone who definitely a republican. But I just don't think we can counter the absolute star power of the royals. We are obsessed with them, even us republicans.Harry packing a sad and accusing his family of racism, Charles not taking his calls, Meghan telling absolute porkies - we know all the ins and outs.And it hooks in the younger generations who would expect to come of age being totally enlightened and ready for the move to republicanism, but no.Opinion polls seem weirdly stubborn. In the last decade support of the monarchy has tended to sit between 50 and 70 per cent.How old is Jacinda? 40? So she'll have another 50 years or so.So what do we think is going to happen in the next 50 years that might force public opinion to swing in behind a republic?The queen is going to die.., but I think predictions that will precipitate republicanism are wrong.William is the son of Diana so we will probably love him.Australia might become a republic, but even their stronger republican movement has recently lost popularity.But even if they do, it won't necessarily trigger us to do the same, because we have a wrinkle they don't have: the Treaty of Waitangi.And remember that is signed between iwi and the Crown, not iwi and our government.  Never mind the constitutional lawyers and academics who say dropping the Crown won't make a difference –  they're almost certainly right – but once you get public debate going it doesn't really matter, all kinds of hell will be kicked up about the implications of a republic on the Treaty. And that'll turn enough people off.Obviously I still hope it does happen but I think there is a good chance Jacinda becomes another David Lange on this topic.He once predicted “New Zealand will become a republic just as Britain will be blurred into Europe”. Well, he got the Brexit thing wrong, and he's long gone but we're still not a republic.

I'm surprised that anyone cares so much about Christopher Luxon Christianity that he had to address it in his maiden speech last night But clearly there are people who do care, so smart move getting it out of the way and dealing with it before having what seems like an inevitable run for the leadership of the Nationals. The reason I'm surprised is because we have been electing Christian prime ministers for the longest time Bill English, who won most of the votes in 2017, is Catholic. Jim Bolger is Catholic. David Lange was a Methodist lay preacher, and probably most of them before that regularly went to church.Yes, you could argue we're a more secular society now, but we're surely not that much more secular than we were four years ago when English took 44 percent of the vote.  But clearly there is a need to placate voters. Bill English did this too when he took over from John Key – he said that he was proud of being an active catholic but wouldn't drag New Zealand off into social conservatism.It's a bit of a risky move for Luxon.  This could work well in terms of attracting the Christian vote, because we know there is a sizeable vote out there and the Christian aspect is important.Nearly four percent of voters held their nose and voted for the New Conservatives even though Colin Craig had been saying the weirdest things that election like suggesting he believed in chem trails.But it could also backfire. Luxon now needs to back up his promise that Christianity isn't a political agenda.A lot of the talk today has pointed that he voted against safe spaces outside abortion clinics to keep protesters away.He needs to move on fast so he doesn't become just the Christian guy, which is the very thing he's trying to avoid.

This episode I have the honor to sit with colonel David Lange as he took time off his book signing tour. To speak to me on his views of how the military has to address the mental health issues that affect our men and women in the armored services. he also talks about his book and his time in service --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/majesticaf845/message

Sir Graeme Dingle joins Purposely Podcast to share his founder story In this enlightening episode of Purposely you will hear his theory on family violence and how this has led to poor outcomes for children and young people in New Zealand. Sir Graeme is a renowned outdoor adventurer and mountaineer, He is also known for his writing. Sir Graeme and his wife Jo-Anne Wilkinson (Lady Dingle) formed the Graeme Dingle Foundation which was set-up to improve outcomes for young people. They both pledged to positively impact on New Zealand's negative youth statistics using the power of self efficacy to help make a positive and lasting difference. This episode explores their founder story with their foundation as well as his own evolution from an unsure and weak child to a confident and celebrated adventurer, businessman, leader, part-time builder and life time teacher and mentor. Sir Graeme also shares a wonderful story about getting things wrong with the late David Lange and his dear friend Sir Edmund Hilary. He also provides insights into Sir Ed's personality. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mark-longbottom2/message

Jeff and Chris interview David Lange, whose upcoming book on Whitman coin folders details objects that were once central to hobby culture, and American culture more broadly. They also discuss their own experience with coin folders and boards, a book about 1933 Double Eagles, and a 1978 edition of Coin World. This episode of the Coin World Podcast was sponsored by the Coin World Marketplace:https://www.coinworld.market/Contact info:Chris Bulfinch: cbulfinch@amosmedia.comJeff Starck: jstarck@amosmedia.com

Ross Vintiner has carved an interesting career - from the maelstrom of politics alongside David Lange to the relative peace of an olive grove in Wairarapa. Along the way he's developed an interest in biodynamic methods, nurturing his trees to produce oil which is rich in disease-fighting polyphenols. He says these micronutrients are becomingly increasingly important to health conscious olive oil consumers overseas.

This week's Jazz Northwest starts in Ellensburg, with Barney McClure at the Hammond B3 and the Central Washington University Big Band playing a Phil Kelly arrangement of Barney's tune, "Spot." Also this week, recordist and studio owner David Lange is featured on accordion with Pearl Django from a recent release, and vintage live recordings of Cannonball Adderley in Seattle and Ernestine Anderson in Culver City, CA. Jazz Northwest is recorded and produced by host Jim Wilke and airs Sundays at 2 p.m. Listeners may also subscribe to the podcast at KNKX, NPR, Apple , or Google .

I've been thinking about likability this week.It's a version of the over-used term ‘X-Factor', and in exactly the same way, you've either got it or you don't.What we've seen from the National Party this week once again shows us that while you may be a decent, capable, intelligent person, it's probably how you communicate your ideas and aspirations that will make or break you.Simon Bridges is just the latest ‘good guy to get a rough deal'; only a few years ago it was Labour whipping through their opposition leaders, ending with the last minute Hail Mary to Jacinda Ardern.Likability is important in life: it's really important in politics.Many of us would like to think policy is what counts when voters are considering which party best matches their values and aspirations. But there's no doubt likability plays a role encouraging those teetering on the fence to jump your way, keeping the party faithful happy, and ultimately in keeping your job.As Jacindamania took hold at the last election, many commentators and politicians warned of a rise in personality driven politics in New Zealand. Former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett warned New Zealand the choice was between "selfies, smiles and substance".Labour supporters must have rolled their eyes as they thought the same about Sir John Key - his campaign tool, “smile and wave”.Looking back at our most memorable leaders, many have been people kiwis' have loved, or loved to hate. Often, if you don't like a politician it's to do with policy; and if you do like them, it's something to do with personality.There are leaders that inspire regardless of whether you agree with their politics or not.In 1972 a reserved Jack Marshall had no chance against the engaging personality of Norman Kirk.In 1984 as a teenager I can remember the sea change that swept across the country as it bore witness to the cutting wit and eloquence of David Lange – a breath of fresh air after the Muldoon era.At the end of the last century, Helen Clarke brought an air of competence and stability to the Beehive; and then John Key frustrated every career politician by making it look like the easiest thing in the world.We can't know what impact the National leadership change will have on the election in September; but we're reminded last election that a change close to an election at least makes things more interesting, and potentially really shakes things up.Especially considering what we've heard from Todd Muller so far – a couple of days in he appears on the right track by pitching National as the party of economic recovery. His decision if he becomes Prime Minister to take on the Small Business portfolio is smart, as is his praise of Ardern's handling of this latest crisis.Muller clearly knows where he's going and, just as importantly, at first blush, he appears to know how to talk to people about it.It's very early days, but he appears quite likeable.

Adlicious, eine unabhängige programmatische Mediaagentur aus Hamburg, ist der Meinung: Benefits und Motivationsanreize für (potenzielle) Mitarbeiter definieren sich längst nicht mehr primär über Geld. Schon bei der Auswahl künftiger Arbeitgeber und vor allem auch in Bezug auf die Loyalität zu ihrem Arbeitgeber achtet vor allem die junge Generation der Mitarbeiter darauf, was der Arbeitgeber bietet. Dazu zählt nicht nur der frische Obstkorb.   Die High Potentials wollen Fragen beantwortet bekommen, wie: Wie kann ich meine Vorstellung von Work-Life-Balance verwirklichen? Wie stark werde ich intrinsisch motiviert in Bezug auf das, was ich jeden Tag tue? Wie sexy ist das Thema? Gerne geben die Gründer, Viktor Eichmann und David Lange, im Podcast Auskunft, wie sie vermitteln, dass der Job Spaß macht und Sinn ergibt („Purpose“), damit die Mitarbeiter den Inhalt ihrer täglichen Arbeit sehen und schätzen können.   David Lange, Gründer und Geschäftsführer von adlicious, nimmt uns mit hinter die Kulissen der Agentur für Programmatic Advertising   Ihr wollt euren Karriereturbo starten und Unternehmen wie adlicious persönlich kennenlernen? Meldet euch jetzt unter https://online-karrieretag.de/ an. Für unsere Hörer ist die Anmeldung mit dem Rabattcode PODCAST kostenlos.

As almost everything else in our world, marketing was radically disrupted by technology in this century. With highly sophisticated machine learning and big data analysis, the change will even be more profound in the future. The phenomenon where artificial intelligence buys and optimizes media based on data analysis is called programmatic marketing. Although most people outside the digital marketing space do not know what programmatic marketing is, it already effects the life of all of us. In this episode, David Lange explains programmatic marketing in a nutshell and describes some of the most impactful developments that we can expect in the future . David Lange co-founded the programmatic marketing agency adlicious 6 years ago and grew it with his partner into an international player with 30 employees and offices in Hamburg and New York. David has studied in China and lived there for 1.5 years. After university, he took a job at one of the first programmatic marketing agencies and quickly learned how powerful it is. That is when he teamed up with one of his colleagues to start their own agency, adlicious. Some of the questions I ask David: - What did you learn about China when you lived there? (6:52) - Why is programmatic marketing so powerful? (12:15) - What is the advantage of programmatic marketing versus booking in media manually? (15:02) - Although programmatic marketing is now very established, and many companies have their own teams. Why do they still hire you as an external agency instead of doing everything themselves? (18:46) - How will you disrupti your own business to be prepared for the next decade? (21:21) - How can someone who wants to get into programmatic marketing, acquire the necessary knowledge and skills? (24:37) - How will the future of marketing look like? How will it be shaped by highly sophisticated machine learning and big data analysis? (37:51) Create your future à Join The Business Artist Club here: https://www.businessartist.club More about David Lange: E-Mail: david@adlicious.me https://adlicious.me/en-home

Former New Zealand prime minister Mike Moore passed away early this morning aged 71.Moore was at his home in Auckland when he died, his wife Yvonne said.Moore, who was the country's 34th prime minister, suffered a stroke in 2015 when he was New Zealand's ambassador in Washington DC and had been in declining health in recent years.He became the prime minister for 59 days before the October 1990 general election.Following Labour's defeat in that election, Moore served as Leader of the Opposition until the 1993 election, after which Helen Clark successfully challenged him for the Labour Party leadership.Mike Moore was a member of the "fish and chip brigade" made famous in a photograph by Herald photographer Geoff Dale of Labour plotters Roger Douglas, Mike Moore, Michael Bassett and David Lange, who brought down leader Bill Rowling in 1983.Bassett joined The Weekend Collective to reflect on their time working together as MPs and Ministers, and what Moore's legacy will be. 

Former New Zealand prime minister Mike Moore passed away early this morning aged 71.Moore was at his home in Auckland when he died, his wife Yvonne said.Moore, who was the country's 34th prime minister, suffered a stroke in 2015 when he was New Zealand's ambassador in Washington DC and had been in declining health in recent years.He became the prime minister for 59 days before the October 1990 general election.Following Labour's defeat in that election, Moore served as Leader of the Opposition until the 1993 election, after which Helen Clark successfully challenged him for the Labour Party leadership.Mike Moore was a member of the "fish and chip brigade" made famous in a photograph by Herald photographer Geoff Dale of Labour plotters Roger Douglas, Mike Moore, Michael Bassett and David Lange, who brought down leader Bill Rowling in 1983.Bassett joined The Weekend Collective to reflect on their time working together as MPs and Ministers, and what Moore's legacy will be. 

Former New Zealand prime minister Mike Moore passed away early this morning aged 71.Moore was at his home in Auckland when he died, his wife Yvonne said.Moore, who was the country's 34th prime minister, suffered a stroke in 2015 when he was New Zealand's ambassador in Washington DC and had been in declining health in recent years.He became the prime minister for 59 days before the October 1990 general election.Following Labour's defeat in that election, Moore served as Leader of the Opposition until the 1993 election, after which Helen Clark successfully challenged him for the Labour Party leadership.Mike Moore was a member of the "fish and chip brigade" made famous in a photograph by Herald photographer Geoff Dale of Labour plotters Roger Douglas, Mike Moore, Michael Bassett and David Lange, who brought down leader Bill Rowling in 1983.Bassett joined The Weekend Collective to reflect on their time working together as MPs and Ministers, and what Moore's legacy will be. 

It’s the final episode of the Aotearoa History Show! Rogernomics, Ruthanasia and the referendum on MMP saw the total restructuring of our economy and voting system. Plus a snapshot of the changing demographics of Aotearoa/New Zealand, the growth of dairy and tourism and the challenges still to come.

David Lange, former Prime Minister of New Zealand (1984-1989), entered Parliament as MP for Māngere 1977. David Lange worked at the Westfield Freezing Works as a student In this track he recalls how stock was driven through the streets and recounts an incident. Reference: David Lange talks to the Otahuhu Historical Society, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections MNP_OH_139. By courtesy of the Otahuhu Historical Society. tinyurl.com/y6s4qfnv Photo credit: Prime Minister David Lange and other dignitaries at the opening of the new Māngere police station, 3 April 1987. Photograph reproduced by courtesy of Stuff Limited. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections Footprints 00598

David Lange, former Prime Minister of New Zealand (1984-1989), entered Parliament as MP for Māngere 1977. David Lange worked at the Westfield Freezing Works as a student In this track he talks to members of the Otahuhu Historical Society about his personal recollections of 'Otahu' and growing up there in the 1940s-1970s. Reference: David Lange talks to the Otahuhu Historical Society, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections MNP_OH_139. By courtesy of the Otahuhu Historical Society. https://tinyurl.com/y6s4qfnv Photo credit: Prime Minister David Lange and other dignitaries at the opening of the new Māngere police station, 3 April 1987. Photograph reproduced by courtesy of Stuff Limited. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections Footprints 00598

Each week The Front Page takes you behind the scenes of the biggest story from the New Zealand Herald and Newstalk ZB. Today it's the Covering Climate Now campaign, and the groundswell of urgency. Hosted by Frances Cook.Climate change is an issue that's being treated with increasing urgency, as voters take up the cause, and politicians take notice. Data from the Pew Research Centre shows that internationally, 67 per cent of us see climate change as a major threat to our country.That number is from the median of respondents in 23 countries in 2018. It's a jump up from 56 per cent in 2013.But the issue has been bubbling away for decades. The first report on climate change by a New Zealand government was commissioned in 1988, a year when David Lange was Labour Prime Minister, the first Die Hard movie was in cinemas and All Black Ryan Crotty was born.So why are people suddenly wanting change now? And, is all of this awareness and urgency just too little, too late?For the latest Front Page podcast I talked to Herald science reporter Jamie Morton.We discussed the best and worst case scenarios, why it's taken so long to act, and what the average person can do to make an impact. If you have questions about Herald investigations, or want to stay up to date on social media, you can find host Frances Cook on Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist/ Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/ and Twitter here https://twitter.com/FrancesCookSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Groups of people are organising across the country to have the discussion that the Teleco's are not prepared to have.  This is especially to do with health.  Recently groups have sprung up in Albany, Waiheke Island, Mangawhai, Torbay, West Auckland - Coromandel, Tauranga, Wanganui, Wellington, Nelson, and the Golden Bay/Takaka area so there is a grassroots movement spreading like mushrooms - because inherently there is a distrust of corporates, world wide as well as a reticence to believe in what our Governments are saying and not necessarily doing. The Controversy. Sue originally was involved in researching 4G telephone wireless networks and that there was wifi very near to schools. Also, that telephone towers were placed close to play centres - like in one case 5 metres away and that the 'standards for this technology are written by the ‘corporates' who produce this technology. She also researched how the standards are enforced - about the NZ Government Advisory Committee and that if you are concerned about the harm - you are not allowed on the Government Advisory Committee. 5G Technology 5G radio waves are very short but very intense radio waves - and there is yet, not enough health data to support the safety of this technology. There is also the deployment of telephone towers dispersed at around 100 meters distance from each other - especially in major built up areas like the inner city - but also across the suburbs and residential areas. Where our children spend most of their lives, including biota - pets, cats and dogs as well as flora - trees and shrubs. But, we as a community have not been asked if we agree to having the close proximity of these towers to our homes. What Sue questions is, where is the public dialogue around this, when did the Teleco's engage us to ask us for our permission? It's like Spark and Vodafone and the NZ Government are all ready to roll this technology out and we the community are still waiting to have the conversation as to its safety. Where is the engagement with the localised community? The ‘Precautionary Principle’  Scientific Experts who are 'independent' who are not profiting from this 5G tech are realising that there are some serious deficiencies in the actual technology that is being ‘sold’ to us - as well as the process as to how we should approach this ‘new’ technology.  The ‘Precautionary Principle’ is not being adhered to - in the rush to get this technology out into the marketplace. Why the Hyped Up Rush to Roll 5G Out? As of this moment - if 5G was not rolled out for another year or two - how many people would it really affect? Would it affect you and your family? Would the world come to an end? Lets dwell on this, if we waited another year or two to really get clarity to its safety, would this not be prudent? Especially as we already see so many children suffering from health effects, that doctors can not diagnose as to what is the source.  Should we not also add to this a question around the decline in bee numbers? (The canaries in the coal mine?) Sales over Civilisation? The hype that big business is salivating over is driverless cars - well take one look at the coagulated motorways into and out of Auckland at rush hour every day - what's the urgency of a driverless car or wanting to download a movie or a video game into our smart phone in 10 seconds ...? Really, is this where the narrative is going - that ‘we have to have it now’ and get it ‘whilst it is hot?’ If this is the general consensus - then we have to realise that the term 'conscious' choices will never prevail, as we as a civilisation lose our moral compass in a race to the bottom. The Time lag of Learning the Pros and Cons. People who have been alive for 50 years or longer will realise that ‘old NZ’ - was a country where there was a closer relationship between neighbours and community. That we once had politicians who we could approach and genuinely converse with. Political parties had ‘Manifestos” - which they produced prior to an election and that they would follow or do their best to adhere to.  Now-a-days it’s ‘ad hoc’ everything and intentions are thrown out the window as politicians 'make up policy on the fly' and they trust that because the world is moving at such a rapid pace that any flak or faux pas will have its 5 minutes in the headlines - to then be subsumed by more outrageous news to be quickly forgotten by the public - by the next election. With the Corporate Agenda interlocking with Government, as the premise of the eroding of public confidence - we are finding that there is no real intent to educate the public on this global 5G issue. We are being subjected to glitzy advertising - telling us how much better the world is going to be with slick computer graphics and yet, all these videos do not show anything of nature - no trees, flowers or pastures green. (see Spark) - Because they are all being commissioned by head trippers who are controlling the narrative to buy into 5G. Grass Roots Awakening across NZ. However - across NZ there are concerned people who are aware of the problems that 5G may carry with it. Groups of people are organising to have the discussion that Teleco's will not have. Such as recently in Albany, Waiheke Island, Mangawhai, Torbay, West Auckland - Coromandel, Tauranga, Wanganui, Wellington, Nelson, and the Golden Bay/Takaka area that there is a grassroots movement spreading like mushrooms - because inherently there is a distrust of corporate’s worldwide as well as a reticence to believe in what our Governments are saying and not necessarily doing or ... vice versa. Global 5G Awakening This grass roots uprising is happening overseas and at this stage it is in Brussels the seat of the EU Governmental Centre which has come out for a moratorium. But, Mill Valley in California is calling for a halt - Byron Bay in Australia is making a lot of noise and in Switzerland one of the Cantons has dug in and said stop.There are many other places, such as in Italy, Florence is pushing for the Precautionary Principle and the Rome district wants to follow suit. Even in Russia the Defence Ministry has acknowledged 5G’s problems. However, as MSM - ‘mainstream media’ (along with Google) is all pro 5G - it is extremely difficult to get a full coverage of how many regions of all the world’s countries are involved in pushing back. The Minister of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, Céline Fremault, has vowed to halt 5G deployment. “The people of Brussels are not guinea pigs whose health I can sell at a profit,” states Fremault in an interview with L’Echo. “I cannot welcome such technology if the radiation standards, which must protect the citizen, are not respected, 5G or not.” Brussels halts 5G deployment indefinitely: 5G project, says authorities, not compatible with radiation safety standards https://www.newstarget.com/2019-08-20-brussels-halts-5g-deployment-indefinitely-radiation-safety-standards.html How Citizens Can Organise To Come Together In this interview NZ's Nuclear Free Movement back in the mid 1980s was invoked as an example of how individuals and communities across the country came together back then. This was when local people, like mothers, churches, disarmament activists and people just wanting a peaceful world went to their local, regional councils, including towns, cities and boroughs and having them pass municipal by-laws that made each particular area a Nuclear Free Zone. That over time the numbers increased until there were around 105 Nuclear Free 'Zones' across the whole nation. These covered an area of around 67% of human habitat - that allowed David Lange the NZ Prime Minister the mandate to make into Law, that NZ become a Nuclear Free Country. This was an example of democracy being allowed to fulfil itself. Building a Groundswell This example of community involvement could be used to encourage NZer's to instigate more 5G communities to show the Government our ‘elected servants’ that there is a huge groundswell of public opinion that is not at all happy with the way 5G technologies is being enforced on the NZ public. More so, that next year NZ is having its general election and this could very well be an election issue. Elections Coming Up Also that later on this year there are Local Government elections and Councillors have to be elected - and already mentioned in this interview 4 Board Members attended the Albany local 5G presentation that allowed them to see the seriousness of what this technology presents. As well as the concerns of the electorate. How to Organise Locally at Grassroot Levels 5GFree-NZ on Facebook and www.5G.org.nz are places for you to peruse - especially - if you want to start up a local 5G Group. Sue is also involved with Oceania Radiofrequency Scientific Advisory Association (ORSAA)  It’s an Advisory Panel that brings together multidisciplinary scientific experts from the Oceania region as well as from other parts of the world. They are connected to many other leading experts globally.  https://www.orsaa.org/advisory-board.html  Doctors and Professionals are ‘encouraged’ not to speak out against 5G. As a side note - because Doctors are in a profession with exacting standards - they have to have permission from their 'Medical Association' - if they wish to make any pronouncements on health issues in the public arena. In the case of speaking up against technologies such as genetic modification, vaccines, fluoridation etc - this is way outside the bounds of what the Medial Association allows. It is forbidden and if a medical professional speaks out against such subject matter they are  'warned' that they will lose their license and thus all such doctors etc are kept on a very short leash.  Hence, you will rarely see a Dr speak out on public health issues. The same goes for scientists and many University professors - as  well. Doctor’s Grouping in Large Numbers. There is a large group of Doctors ready to speak out - so they are grouping in numbers large enough to have safely in numbers. This is about to happen very soon. This is a Global Issue … and we are exposed to 5G radiation 24/7/365 Science is finding DNA damage - and even our ability to clearly think, when in the presence of wireless radiation. Some liken this radiation to living in an airport security zone 24/7/365  The NZ Health Act Legislation and the 1956 NZ Health Act.  It says that they are for  improving, promoting and protecting public health. What does it mean 'protecting public health? This is where the focus of 5G needs to concentrate on. What are the NZ Authorities, the Government and the Health Department doing to prove that this technology is safe? In this interview we learn that the Ministry of Health is interpreting the Act differently and not necessarily protecting public health - but more so vested interests! (Listen) - even just for the first 1 minute will give you a startling understanding of what we are having to deal with. Time for a 5G Moratorium across NZ. By enacting a ‘moratorium’ in the meantime - allows the ‘precautionary principle’ to be acknowledged - this to any wise, civic, responsible elder is the prudent thing to do. Can New Zealand become a global leader and become 5G Free? This is a very quick synopsis of only 15 minutes into this very important understanding of the dangers of deploying 5G before the facts of its safety and efficacy are made known.   5GFree-NZ on Facebook and www.5G.org.nz are places for you to peruse - especially - if you want to start up a local 5G Group. https://takebackyourpower.net/ I enjoyed talking with Sue on this vexing subject, and to find a way to solve the 5G challenge. - Tim

Spend an hour with one of New Zealand’s favourite figures as he discusses with Michele A’Court his best-selling memoir, Drawn Out. Tom Scott is a political commentator and cartoonist, satirist, scriptwriter, playwright, raconteur and funny man. Famously banned from the Press Gallery by Rob Muldoon, he’s observed David Lange, Mike Moore and Helen Clark. His memoir, which covers his childhood, his university days, his parliamentary career, his work with close friend Ed Hillary and much more, is both multi-layered and a ripping good yarn.

Last century, NZ became the first major country to become Nuclear Free. Thanks to the work of dedicated activists supported by thousands of ordinary New Zealanders we are still essentially GE & GMO Free today, too. Can we quickly mobilise the populace, especially loving mothers, so as to empower all district councils, towns and cities nationwide to enact laws against the rollout of 5 G wireless networks? The propaganda war is increasing exponentially as financially flush Telcos, like Spark, Vodafone and 2 Degrees - ‘spin’ the benefits of streaming nonstop media to our smartphones and target our unknowing youth. All the while they are saturating the environment and us with intensifying frequencies from ubiquitous cell phone towers…Now they are planning to place new more powerful radiation-emitting “small cells” around 250 metres apart in our cities and towns. Yet, we have not been told of the ‘health benefits' - as there are none! On the contrary, knowledgeable scientists and health professionals have been warning us against this coming technology as the wireless industry has migrated from 1G to 2G to 3G and 4G. https://www.5gappeal.eu/ . Now “Big Wireless” wants to introduce 5G and flood our neighbourhoods with even more wireless radiation whilst at the same time cancer and ill effects keep escalating countrywide. This is also now slowly overwhelming NZ’s ‘free’ national health system. No, this is not a scare tactic - do the research yourself. 150 years ago - there was no microwave radiation other than extremely low levels from the sun and an occasional pulsar in space - coming in from millions of light years away. Now we are metaphorically wading through a jelly of accelerating magnitude of microwaves and other artificial forms of electromagnetic radiation - and the general health and wellbeing of the populace has not been taken into consideration. Nor has the health of nature, the biota within the biosphere such as animals and especially your pets, your cats and dogs - plus insects, bees and all trees and plants.  http://www.5g.org.nz/2018/10/06/like-trees-enjoy-breathing-oxygen-you-should-oppose-5g/ Where is the scientific evidence proving that this latest technology is safe? It is known (listen to the interview) that the telecommunications industry along with broadcasting - be it TV or radio and in particular the relationship to ‘smart’ phones – had a huge amount of influence in the development of the current standards in NZ as to what sort of level of microwave and other wireless radiation is acceptable and where cellular phone infrastructure can be sited. There was negligible input from people who were advocates for ‘human health’ involved in the process of setting NZ’s current standards. This was an ‘inside’ job, almost completely focussed on how it would benefit the telecommunications industry and profits. What this means that essentially no consideration to ‘due diligence’ or ‘the precautionary principle’ was taken in relation to biological life - meaning we humans! So how do we relay this information to ordinary New Zealanders when we realise that MSM, mainstream media, the Fourth Estate have reneged on their duties to inform you the public. Well, just like the many loving mothers and concerned ordinary New Zealanders back in the 1980’s who did not want to be targeted in a nuclear war between the USA and the Soviet Union - when we had no say what so ever in the matter other than we were obliged to go and do whatever America decreed. So thoughtful New Zealanders became activated and banded together over tea and coffee and gatherings or all manner of situations to convince local council, boroughs, towns and eventually city councillors to enact Nuclear Free Zones across the whole country. That finally when around 105 councils across the nation representing about 76% of the electorate happened, it gave the mandate to David Lange, Prime Minister of the 4th Labour Government to make NZ - ‘Nuclear Free NZ.’ And be a beacon of peace to the world. This continues to be followed up in relation to becoming a GE and GMO Free country as well. With Hastings/Napier becoming GE Free, and all of Northland now becoming the largest GE Free area in New Zealand. However we have arrived at a crunch time. The previous NZ National Government in realising that people power was still prevalent and that GE Free activists were writing submissions, signing petitions and attending meetings and gatherings to advise and invigorate local Councils - that ordinary citizens did not want this unhealthy biotech in their regions. The Government took action. They decided to keep ‘control’ of the narrative by endeavouring to usurp the power of local councils, towns and cities from governing their own local areas and regions. The Government wanted to prohibit councils from passing by-laws banning GE and GMO’s. Fortunately the High Courts of the land sided with the Councils. However, we cannot be at all sure how the present Government will react to such a powerful global technology that is omnipresent and in everyone’s lives. Why? Because (with the exception of putting out a consultation which appears to have been basically intended to elicit feedback from the telecommunications industry) they have remained deathly silent all of this year! So the game plan is to share this information as much as possible especially texting this to family members and talk about this at the table, when hanging out with friends - because there is an imperative for New Zealanders to come together, share, cooperate and collaborate and start the movement to make NZ a 5G Free Country. There is a 5G information website for NZ which is www.5G.org.nz

I was intrigued this morning to read an opinion piece on Tomorrow’s Schools written by Bali Haque.Now Bali Haque is an educational consultant. He has been a principal, deputy principal, head of the department, teacher and deputy chief executive of NZQA. He’s a guy who back in February, said the teachers call for a 14.5 per cent pay rise was not just reasonable but not enough. He wrote in his opinion piece on teachers pay that a teacher is worth as much as a backbencher MP and using that logic a teacher should be paid $164,000 a year.Now what was so intriguing about Bali Haque’s editorial this morning, was that it said that the Tomorrow’s School model belongs in the past and that’s interesting because Bali Haque is the chairman of the Independent Taskforce charged with reviewing the Tomorrow School’s system but it appears before the end of that review he’s already wanting to take the system apart. Maybe I’m just being naïve but it doesn’t sound like the reviewer of the system is going into the review with an open mind.I also wondered whether it was appropriate for him to be writing such thoughts while he’s deep in the process.But the piece was interesting as it went through the history of the model. It sprung out of the Picot report into education by Brian Picot who was a supermarket director and business leader, who believed in market forces and competition and wanted some of those principles introduced into schoolsSo under David Lange, Tomorrow’s Schools was launched in the 90s and it is the most devolved education system in the world. At its essence, it devolved power away from a centralised bureaucracy to the schools themselves and their independent boards. It was thought that they would know more about the community and its needs than faceless administrators in Wellington. And then the schools could do the best job, become the best they could be and win their community.It’s that aspect of competition and bulk funding that gave many the jitters. After all, with competition, you have winners, but you also have losers.Bali Haques' opinion piece focuses on this as the main reason for a new system. As he says “Most of us would expect that our children should have access to quality schooling regardless of where we live, but how can this be achieved when the system is designed to create winner and loser schools?”But I worry that Bali Haques review is about to throw the baby out with the bathwater. New Zealand schools have never been truly competitive with each other with zoning in place. Loser Schools have been rescued by commissioners and central bureaucracy.The devolved power base to the schools themselves though does mean greater flexibility and adaptability to a community’s needs.In this time, when people bemoan the amalgamation of councils and the loss of local representation due to the super cities, why would we want to do the same to our schools?The question I have with you is whether we really want to go back to the old days where the Ministry of Education building in the centre of Wellington was all powerful over the schools in New Zealand from Bluff to Blenheim, Buckland to Balclutha to Bulls.

It’s 'Our Place’, to do our thing. Kiwis can put quality-made programmes up on the site. He says it asks of Kiwis “What are you going to DO with this new resource? You can MAKE things with this. You don’t have to ask permission” . At 6.24, Bryan explains the problem with our current NZ media: a producer has to go through the gateways of the commercial television channels who really are trying to assess your programme on the one question of : “How big an audience can you bring to the commercial gaps?”. It has always been thus. And if you’re good at that, then they will buy your next programme. It’s not about how good a programme is, it’s about what kind of audience? and how big will it be? to cater to the advertisers in the commercial gaps - and it all comes down to producing money instead of quality. At 7.16, Bryan says the main channels are going to self-edit. They re not going to take a programme that is not going to fit well with their sponsors. The other side of it is we tend to think of government- funded broadcasters as being more independent, but that is not true either, because they are not going ‘to bite the hand that feeds them’ and stand up to their government money-source. If mainstream media gets money from a business, then that piper calls the tune. At 7.46, Bryan explains that the idea for this came up about 3 years ago when he walked out of TVNZ one day having had it explained to him that his programme on health was probably going to get lots of ratings but “Really we’re not necessarily into the business of doing programmes in the public good. They have to be commercial because we might sell ourselves off one day” . Bryan walked out of that building and thought: “ Well, if these guys aren’t going to do NZ public television, maybe I can.”. Bryan registered a company called ‘NZ Public Television Ltd”, and he talked to friends: “ If you were starting television today, you wouldn’t do it in the way that the BBC told us how to do it all those years ago - no big dishes, sky satellites, large building. How would we do it today ?” At 8.43, he says the answer is clear: we’d use the World Wide Web. And how would we put our programmes up? When Bryan talked to servers , they had gleeful visions of making lots of money out of this being a version of Netflix. But Bryan instead saw it as a bus station. You, the viewer, come to NZPTV to be pointed in the right direction of a programme that someone else is hosting on Vimeo or YouTube or other sites. So NZPTV is a curator of quality programmes with NZ content. And at 9.13 he says the producers and their websites - the people who own the copyright to their own work- will be acknowledged . At the same time, NZPTV will also make its own programmes and put those up on NZPTV Vimeo and direct viewers to that content also. So Vimeo might be the host of a programme but NZPTV will direct traffic there. At its core, the aim is to work out how to make cost-effective television and then also make it a People’s Channel which says - Look , you might see Bryan Bruce or others doing an introduction but it’s not his channel, it’s OUR channel. NZPTV will also help producers. Bryan says he has been to see NZ on Air and asked how many eyeballs a week does NZPTV need for independent producers to be able to be funded to make and put their programme up on this new platform. “ They couldn’t tell me” he says. At 10.07, he says “ This is a new world for them !” NZ on Air don’t know what the numbers might be so NZPTV will educate them on what the numbers CAN be. At 11.30, Bryan talks of his own motivations in programme making: “ What I try to do in a programme is say “ Here’s a problem. How did we get to this? Let’s unpack it a bit and look at some solutions”. That’s where hope arises - rather than leave people in a dark place with overwhelming negative story-telling “ When he made ‘The Investigator’, each case involved some element of The Law that needed further examination - for example- David Tamihere was identified while wearing handcuffs outside the courtroom . Was this a correct identification? And what are the rules for identifying someone? The Defence said this was unfair. The Court allowed it- so now there are new rules that apply to each of us. At 13.20 Bryan says when making a programme it’s important that you’re not just doing ti because ‘crime rates’. Why are you upsetting people and going through all of this misery again for the families that were involved for no good reason? At 13.39 Bryan says he encourages producers to ask ‘Why am I making this? What is the outcome I want to have from it?”. At 14.41 he says the question we all need to ask is “ Who owns the media now? Who owns the way that our attitudes and our opinions and our thoughts about life are formed?” . The Big Questions to ask are “ Who -How-What -Where- Why”. He says those questions are often not being asked in journalism today. “ It worries me. I watch reporters ask very simple questions - even , are you having a nice day ?”. At 16.14 he says he sees Free Media and True Democracy as connected . At the start of the last century, the total number of people you could address verbally was on a street corner through megaphone. But the end of the 20th Century, you could address the whole world through the various media and now with the internet, you can reach places that don’t even have broadcast facilities but have telephone lines. At 17.01, he says “ If you can control the means of talking to people, whether for your private ends or for the government’s ends, that’s a lot of power. That’s actually a means of accumulating power. And now what NZPTV does is give the power BACK to the People and says “ YOU are in control of the stories” . At 19.05 he says this is a Wake Up. it’s more than just a channel. “ We’ll grow as much as the People want to do it. My call is out to independent producers. Our gateway is much wider than any of the public or private broadcasters. You can come to us with a programme provided that it is professionally made , something you might see on a commercial channel in terms of its quality of production. For example, if you have made a programme about the TPPA or Water Issues, and you’ve done your homework and kept to the Broadcasting Standards Authority issues of fairness and balance . At 21.04 he explains balance in the context of his programme 'Jesus, the Cold Case' which was criticised because Bryan talked to certain theologians but not others. He says that the ‘balance’ is that, on any given day, a viewer can turn to the Christian channels and hear the opposite view. It’s equally so for NZPTV, which would make sure that, with a controversial programme, then somewhere there is the counter view shown, or NZPTV itself would run the counter view so the viewer could see both sides. At 22.00 he says that it’s not true to say there are NO editing gateways to go through, but they relate more to the legal ones- you cannot defame people , and if it’s an argument for one viewpoint, it must be well though out , or if it’s science-based, it must be peer -reviewed. But at 22.19, he says NZPTV is not going to say to a producer “ It doesn’t quite fit with our sponsors” (because there are no sponsors of the channel)- or “It doesn’t quite fit with our ‘brand’ “ (which is commonly heard in Mainstream Media ). In fact The NZPTV ‘Brand’ is Independence ! “ If it fits with that, we should have it “. At 23.23 Bryan underlines that “ If we don’t hold on to life rafts like this , we’re all going to drown”. At 24.19, he says public education has taught questioning and yet we have a media that tried to manipulate popped who are actually very intelligent . “ I’m always amazed at the wisdom that comes out of people from whom, at face value, you wouldn’t assume that wisdom”. At 24.50, he gives an anecdote from a programme he made called “Stand By Your Man’ about three women whose partners had committed major crimes. “ And she said “ They never fixed his drug and alcohol addiction - and that was his problem” And you’re just about to move from this interviewee, when suddenly they come out with this absolutely insightful gem about what we’re NOT doing for men or women in prison. We’re not addressing the issues that have led to them being IN there!” At 27.55 Bryan outlines that one of the ways that governments gain power over us is: if they don’t collect data on, for example, how much Chinese money is coming in to the country, then they can pretend it isn’t a problem. No one knows! “ Oh”, they say “ it’s all just anecdotal. You’re just bashing the Chinese”. Bryan says "NO! I’m saying: let’s collect the data! You’re giving away visas to very wealthy people - gold visas. If you have ten million you can buy a residency in our country . But what are these people DOING for our country ? And where is that money going ?”. And the answer comes back from the government: “I’m sorry we don’t know because we don’t follow the money trail” . At 29.10, Bryan suggests that one of the roles for NZPTV is to encourage independent producers to pick a topic, investigate it, and bring us the data that the government is not collecting because it’s' inconvenient ‘. “ The last thing that governments want is inconvenient truths”. At 29.58 he says that if you DO your homework and collate the data, then policy changes” . At 30.23 he talks of the effect of his programme ‘Inside Child Poverty” which went out on TV3 the week of the election in 2011. "There was a debate about whether it should have been screened in election week, driven by right wing commentators like Sean Plunkett who said Bryan Bruce should not be funded to make programmes like this! Then a marvellous thing happened. The National Government which had initially said “ This is made up by a left wing journalist”, then started to change its tune and admitted “ Well it might exist but we can’t measure it”. Then the Children’s Commissioner Russell Wills said “ Ok, I’ll get a group off academics together and we WILL measure it” They put out an amazing report. It could not be ignored any more. The word “child poverty’ became part of our vernacular. And by the NEXT election it was an election issue” . So Bryan uses this example to say that this is what we can do as media people: we can investigate, we can collate data, we can inspire people. He credits The Child Poverty Action Group with inspired him to make the programme . He says they had been doing their work for years and he thought “ Well maybe I have few skills in terms of taking complicated things and trying to make them understandable - and that was my role. Something like 580 thousand Kiwis watched that programme and then the Public started asking questions. I had offered the programme to TVNZ and I seem to remember someone saying “ Who’s going to watch a programme with ‘Poverty’ in the title?” ( and 580,000 viewers is up there with All Black fixture numbers in terms of ratings ) “ . At 33.17, Bryan says NZPTV is not competitive- but rather, co-operative. “ We could make a programme that is of great public interest and make it in a dynamic way. We could take the online rights and a mainstream media outlet could take the broadcast rights. That would be an adult way of dealing with different kinds of distribution “ At 34.48, Bryan says it’s no accident that one of the longest running programmes in this country is called ‘Fair Go’. He feels that deep down, most Kiwis believe in a fair go and many of felt terribly betrayed by 1984 and the adoption of Neo Liberalism and being told it was the only way we could go. “ Well it wasn’t. there are about 30 different kinds of capitalism in the world and if you look at what happened in Scandinavia, they took a deep breath and paused - and then they adopted certain elements ONLY. They fenced off policies to do with children, the elderly and housing, and then they said they would allow OTHER policy to be more entrepreneurial . Whereas in New Zealand , the government said “ ALL of that is wrong and this new evangelistic way is right, and there is now only ONE way to do this”. Bryan cites David Lange’s book which shows he later realised this was the worst thing he did. In fact, he may not have fully understood it and “ To be fair, I’m not sure that many of us understood it at the time. I certainly didn’t” says Bryan. “ I did up one house and sold and got a better house. What I didn’t think about was that 20 years down the track, other people’s children would not be able to afford a house because of what I was doing - and many of us were doing. We were just doing the best by our families and we were encouraged to think that that’s what you should do. Even Roger Douglas may have thought he was doing the right thing. I’ve never spoken to him. I’d like to interview him. But the reality is; it WASN”T the right thing. It created a HUGE inequality. When the National Party came in afterwards and created The Mother of All Budgets under Ruth Richardson, then ALL of the childhood diseases that relate to poverty, skyrocketed. And that’s nothing to be proud of. That should have told anybody who had social concern that there is something fundamentally wrong with this economic system that is creating this.” . From 40.30 in, Bryan discusses the structure of NZ Public Television. At 50.09 he says one of the way it will benefit producers who have good product, is that they give that programme to NZPTV for free for 7 days and then it goes to the ‘Pay Per View’ section . But all that money goes directly to the producers, not to NZPTV. (This is also a reminder to viewers to check the weekly offerings on NZPTV as there is a brisk turnaround of programmes). At 53.07 Bryan says the whole idea of New Zealand Public Broadcasting is to return to an early idea of television: namely , using it to communicate with one another , to talk to each other. To find out more, go to nzptv.org.nz or sign up to Bryan Bruce on Facebook.

Liz, is asking for some leader in NZ to stand up and have the courage to say that we as an island nation, want a GE Free country and be the organic food bowl for the world. With no more Monsanto influence and definitely no more glyphosate.   She wants us to become a ‘planetary ark' and be that 'organic food bowl’ for the world. Plus, she WANTS a really clear - NZ Government funded - free from influence - media platform TV - Radio and newsprint / digital where we have quality policy journalists back again, investigating anything within the public domain as well as envisioning healthy possibilities for all of our children’s - collective future. After leaving broadcasting, Liz spent a decade in Australia as a full time Mum and having to learn child rearing with no backup of grandparents or nanny help which she had had when she had worked full time for TVNZ. So she really learnt to be a hands on Mum and how to connect emotionally with her little ones and so it was a wonderful learning curve as a human being, noting that she underlines that she learnt more from her children than they learnt from her. Deeper learning of the Self. Liz also speaks about her experience then of a profound lack of confidence. At first she thought it was post natal depression, but realised that there was a deeper layering - where she had parents that they themselves struggled and Liz shares the challenges that her mother had and the subsequent burden that Liz carried as a result of their relationship and she was not able to really be there for how Liz wanted - a mother to-be. To this end Liz learnt to become very adept at putting up a front - and ironically ending up on television - very capable on the outside - she was seen as always happy when she was a young lawyer yet struggled with health related problems that resulted in a deep lack of confidence - yet she was able to portray the opposite in the world, by looking and acting happy. With bringing up her children and marrying the inner Liz to the outer Liz and then understanding what has shaped her and in decoding what is it she is here to be and do - who is the Liz? How does she integrate her desire to serve in the world with being a whole authentic human being and realising and reconciling that both her parents did their very best to bring her up as best as they could. And Liz goes into this in expressing her humility - realising that we can let go of things that do not serve us and that are not real - and we can become the people we probably were put on this earth to be - but often through painful experience. A difficult marriage was another part of her learning and she states sincerely how grateful she is in many ways - though she laughingly says she is not fully reconciled with that yet:). Because like her childhood experiences with her mother - it dug up all  the things that she did not want to look at - and what she couldn’t escape … So she says to her kids as well -  that life - like the Buddha says is about suffering - so you accept the suffering - but Liz then brightens saying that this life is like a gorgeous mysterious university course that we did not even know we had signed up for! That the lessons will keep coming back and back - the same lesson often until we have the inner resilience, the inner fortitude  - and the willingness to look at what that lesson brings us.  Thus we learn and we grow and we can then graduate to another class. Which she laughingly says - has been like the last 10 years … Covering myths and legends and Joseph Campbell and our journey of traveling deep dark valleys - and the struggle to get through the day, like just getting by by crawling as if in a dark place - but being a mum and committed to her children there is no recourse other than to hang in with her kiddies as she was so committed as a mother and a parent. A Near Death Experience and a Greater Understanding. Then Liz tells of a broken heart moment in hospital when she nearly died as doctors worked diligently on her heart and she witnessed this by ‘looking down on everything from the ceiling - (this could be said to be an out of the body experience or a near death experience) - she said for a moment she felt that she was floating on the softest warmest, most loving golden clouds and realising that she could stay there, this was wonderful - I can give up - this is easy - and at that moment both her beautiful children were right at the forefront and the feeling was so powerful - ‘I can’t leave them, they still need me’  - and that the urge for life was so much greater than the urge to run away from the pain of life - and she came back to her body - to recuperate and heal. Then the discussion covered ‘the purpose for existence - is to find out the purpose for existence’ - and Liz was emphatic it was certainly not about power or money or status - the house we own or the cars we drive  … that those things are so deeply ephemeral and so transient and for many it is a frightening place because so many people fear death. What Liz says that experience taught her that she had nothing whatsoever to fear. The interview then covers names like Ramana Maharshi and Gangaji to the Dalai Lama. Questioning Material Values Liz surmises - why do we in the Western developed world set about to amass so much material wealth, houses, bach’s, numbers of cars, boats clothes etc.  If we didn’t fear death would we just get on and experience life instead? What she feels is that material wealth means nothing other than what she can leave in the hearts of those that she loves. And her greatest achievement is loving her children with all her heart. Listen to this as Liz expresses herself so deeply, in such a warm and humble way. That for children to open like the lotus flower and being the humans they can be - and this is what she feels needs to be extended across the community of NZ. This interview also covers an experience Liz had in Sydney when she was at a function of the media magnates the Murdoch’s where she witnessed these very successful media barons and realised that with all their collective expertise and media and satellite outreach that if only they wanted to bring whole countries together and have communities connect and share in a better tomorrow - these people could basically create a large shift in changing the world into a more peaceful and harmonious place. However in her intuitions of seeing them huddled most of the night with Rupert and Lachlan, including James Packer in a corner - out of the way at this function - she realised how close yet how far away we are at pulling the threads of humanity together. That if they only felt connected to all people - they would feel so loved and valued in the world - that wherever they went they would feel so much goodwill flowing toward them - however this is not the case. That Liz found that she had so much compassion for them - because the elder Murdoch who owns Sky Television and the Australian newspaper and a huge slice of Australian and British newspapers and until recently virtually 75 % of all NZ suburban newspapers  Once owning the Controlling Interest in Wellington’s Dominion newspaper and being the 2nd largest media conglomerate on earth owning 20th Century Fox and the Wall St Journal and a huge number of media companies. That she just intuited that their energy was not warm and light hearted and that they were basically not happy at all. Generosity of Spirit This conversation then continues around generosity of spirit of giving and bringing a little joy to people who are experiencing unhappy lives - especially on the streets here in Auckland where the homeless are seen in greater numbers even though the NZ Government is crowing about our $4 billion surplus for the last year. Then Liz tells  that when back in Australia of giving her last $2-00 to a homeless person when she found that she was unable to withdraw any cash from her account at an ATM. So being in Sydney away from NZ - taking a leap of faith giving that $2.00 minute amount away to a destitute person in the street and making them feel acknowledged and then having to go through the challenge of having to rely on the goodwill of friends to help her out over the ensuring days. Micro Funding those less fortunate Liz’s dream is of having enough funds to set up micro finance for women, especially those women who have come out of failed marriages and have to start again to make a living - or in Africa where a death or disability throw the onus on the woman to make a living. And it has been proved over and over again when women are able to receive a loan for a chicken coop or garden seeds - that they are fastidious at paying back their loan. That they in most cases are brilliant at running their little businesses and they get the family back on their feet when they may have to learn totally new skills to find a creative way to make a living. So with micro funding Liz wants to assist NZ woman to get back on their feet by becoming independent as in many cases they have given up their career to take on family responsibilities whilst the husband has continuously advanced his own career thus he is always skilled up. Thus there is a lot of fear and trepidation for middle aged women having to rejoin the workforce and back into the thick of things in a new job, new technologies, new expectations - new performance quotas etc   This is a difficult arena for women - look at TV in NZ there is no older women there, at the moment.Ageism is still prevalent. Liz’s talks about her work, when starting out as a young lawyer - and how she saw the reality of it. But, she found what disillusioned her was that if you have the money - you can get the best lawyer in town and they can stitch up the case by getting someone off - when in fact they were the guilty party.  When she thought that Law was about justice - that the present government has made huge cuts to legal aid in NZ recently, that many Lawyers did not agree with this - even those who were innately conservative themselves. Homelessness - how could this happen in New Zealand?! Liz says her heart aches to see the number of homelessness we have here in NZ especially Auckland )and particularly in a year where the NZ government are 4 billion dollars in surplus - which coincides with the election coming up in less that 3 months time). That she has been going around Auckland and making videos and interviewing the homeless and hearing all their various stories. She is mortified - as this should not be in NZ - we are basically an extraordinarily caring people - but … and she in meeting so many of these homeless people and seeing a profound dignity in many of them and the hopeless situation they are in. A kind and caring compassionate woman … Stand up before this election and make a fuss about homelessness. The Dalai Lama’s statements about humility and connection come up and yet there are many laughs during this interview. Covering what Mike King is doing with youth suicide in NZ and that this too is a stain across our nation. She tells of an experiment with rats and heroin and the environment. The end result is that after rats are put in a stark and boring environment - given the choice they all turn to heroin instead of drinking water. But, when they turn their cage into a myriad of things to do - to climb, swing, run on a wheel, snuggle into warm covered areas - they eventually all end up rejecting the heroin and instead they enjoy the variety and opportunities of a captivating environment. Many people in a state of homelessness have been involved with drugs, but had they been in an environment that had offered them possibilities to learn and to grow and experience a more conducive atmosphere - of connection - many would not be suffering as they are today. Possibilities of changing both our outlook and our inner state of being This then introduces Bruce Lipton and our body of around 50 trillion cells - and his theme - change the environment for the better and the situation will change accordingly. That all our organs are working in unison and we are not doing any of this consciously. That as a top scientist / professor at Stanford University in the USA, he realised that we need not be a captive and slave to our genes. That we can by ‘shifting our consciousness’ evolve our genome and become far more healthier humans.  Books - Biology of Belief and Conscious Evolution.  Liz see NZ as having changed dramatically in the last 9 years She sees so many homeless and as a mother - wonders how this has continued to escalate. Liz shares that NZ needs to become more sovereign and independent - that when David Lange of the NZ Labour Government saw that our country had a large majority wanting to be nuclear free nation this gave him the mandate to make us a Nuclear Free country. Liz feels that as a small independent nation (and we trust a moral force for good) that we be weary of US influence being too strong here and for example the lack of transparency with the Waihopai Face Eyes Echelon spy station in the South Island being cause for concern. Regarding trade  she like many here in NZ who were voiceless felt a great relief that the TPPA did not go ahead and that we need to be adept at finding innovative ways to sort out fair trade. However there is also the challenge of transparency of Government - and this is an important issue - which is also a global issue. That we New Zealanders have to be both more alert and proactive to make our elected servants in Wellington bow to the wishes of ‘we the people.’ In reiterating what she sees as issues. 1)    The homeless 2)    NZ becoming a GE and GMO Free organic agricultural food bowl for our world. 3)    A new Transparent media outlet for open communications - TV, Radio & Digital. This is what in a democracy media is all about, not glove puppets  - John Campbell has gone - this is dangerous for democracy we dependent on a free and courageous media. Nicky Hagar if you like him or not - he was vilified for laying out so many truths - which were all shoved aside - with no-one in Government prepared to accept the lies that the Government had hidden.  This is why we need a conscious NZ public and this is why Liz has been called to act like a warrior woman, and a Mother. There is too much at stake and too much to lose.

June 1984 and a drunken decision late one night leads to a snap election. Sir Robert Muldoon's ruling National Government is thrown out of office and David Lange's reforming Labour Party voted in. But before they could take power, an unprecedented constitutional crisis gripped the country and for three days, no one knew who was in charge.

Ken Oath compares apples with Alistaire, John Key orders a pizza and David Lange calls the psychic tui from purgatory.

John Cowan interviewed the Rt Hon David Lange shortly before his passing, 10 years ago.

To mark Hiroshima Day, Professor Kevin Clements, Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, and Mr Gerald Hensley CNZM, former diplomat and Head of the Prime Minister's Office under both Robert Muldoon and David Lange, debate "That New Zealand is safer out of ANZUS and nuclear free". 6 August 2013

To mark Hiroshima Day, Professor Kevin Clements, Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, and Mr Gerald Hensley CNZM, former diplomat and Head of the Prime Minister's Office under both Robert Muldoon and David Lange, debate "That New Zealand is safer out of ANZUS and nuclear free". 6 August 2013

To mark Hiroshima Day, Professor Kevin Clements, Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, and Mr Gerald Hensley CNZM, former diplomat and Head of the Prime Minister's Office under both Robert Muldoon and David Lange, debate "That New Zealand is safer out of ANZUS and nuclear free". 6 August 2013

Seminar delivered by Gerald Hensley at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 5 June 2013. In 1984 the anti-nuclear policy of the newly elected Labour Government collided with the United States policy of nuclear deterrence. It led to the rebuff of a US naval visit and after two years in which tempers rose and diplomacy struggled with David Lange's free-wheeling press conferences, the standoff ended in New Zealand's suspension from the ANZUS alliance. In his talk Gerald Hensley, who was one of the participants, draws on interviews and classified files in New Zealand, the US, Australia and the United Kingdom to look at how this came about and how the clash of powerful personalities shifted the foundations of New Zealand's foreign policy. Gerald Hensley was trained as an historian. He served as a diplomat for twenty years before becoming Head of the Prime Minister's Department under both Sir Robert Muldoon and David Lange, and subsequently Secretary of Defence.

On this episode of The Coin Show Matt tells us about Suttler Tokens, Mike brings us a review of "The History of the United States Mint and Its Coinage" by David Lange, we talk about the coolest thing to walk into Matt's shop this week and we bring you a take on the news in the world of coins unique to The Coin Show.    Enjoy! 

The Right Honourable David Lange (1942-2005) served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. A skilled debater, he was well known for his quick wit and oratory. Perhaps his greatest legacy is New Zealand's anti-nuclear legislation, which remains in force today. Here he presents the inaugural Otago Chaplaincy and Interfaith Group Peace Lecture on the topic of “Old Faiths, New World”. 5 August 2004.

The Right Honourable David Lange (1942-2005) served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. A skilled debater, he was well known for his quick wit and oratory. Perhaps his greatest legacy is New Zealand's anti-nuclear legislation, which remains in force today. Here he presents the inaugural Otago Chaplaincy and Interfaith Group Peace Lecture on the topic of “Old Faiths, New World”. 5 August 2004.

The Right Honourable David Lange (1942-2005) served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. A skilled debater, he was well known for his quick wit and oratory. Perhaps his greatest legacy is New Zealand’s anti-nuclear legislation, which remains in force today. Here he presents the inaugural Otago Chaplaincy and Interfaith Group Peace Lecture on the topic of “Old Faiths, New World”. 5 August 2004.

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Celebrate 25 years of NZ being Nuclear Free ... Hooray!... At Auckland's Aotea Square 12:00-3:00pm Saturday the 9th June. Town Hall Concert Chamber if wet.Listen to an enthusiastic and inspired interview of one of NZ's tireless advocates of Peace in the World and Inner Peace, Within.Hear how Auckland has passed a resolution as a 'City of Peace.'That back in the early to mid 1980's, Citizen groups established 105 Nuclear Free Zones across NZ that comprised 73% of the country and gave a mandate for David Lange, the Labour PM to pass legislation through Parliament for NZ to become a Nuclear Free Nation.That in 1992 at the World Court in the Hague in the Netherlands, NZ championed the Declaration 'that nuclear weapons are illegal,' this was another major break-through for this country. Then on the 31st May 2012, the 'whole NZ Parliament' passed a resolution revalidating NZ as a 'Nuclear Free Zone' and committed us to supporting Norway's proposal to hold a conference in 2013, for the 'Abolition of all Nuclear Weapons'.This all with the support of 5,000 Mayors globally, who have joined voices to have their cities proclaimed 'Cities of Peace' and for the abolition of nuclear weapons also. The interview covers the celebration this weekend on the 8th and 9th in Auckland City, especially the Saturday afternoon concert of music, acts and speeches.Celebrating those who work behind the scenes at policy level, to shape the way forward and that peace be your heart and peace be within you and your family, as well as in schools, in your community, with volunteer groups, as well as acknowledging Auckland's Peace Foundation and it's tireless work over all these years.Laurie also takes a serious look at how we work towards peace and of higher values and virtues as we consciously evolve to a greater unity of purpose, that of a peaceful country embedded in a peaceful biosphere.This brings us to how does Auckland become one of the most livable cities on earth and what is the criteria?Behind all this is to have NZ become an independent neutral country, and have the skill to self organize the community just like we did to set up the 105 nuclear free zones, (but in todays context, for example, have GE or GMO free zones, like they are endeavoring to do in Northland).The imperative being for conscious New Zealanders to become really savvy from the grass roots up - get together in groups and then lobby their local council to put benevolent change through. Then Councils can lobby the Central Government.And yes, the continuing challenge of Fukushima in Japan and the radiation spewing out of reactor No 4 needs to be urgently addressed in the Nuclear Free debate.* You are encouraged do something different this Saturday, something out of the ordinary, and gravitate to where you can become inspired by surrounding yourself in a field of goodwill, joy and purpose.http://www.disarmsecure.org/people.phpCelebrate 25 years of New Zealand being Nuclear Free, at Auckland's Aotea Square 12:00-3:00pm Saturday the 9th June.

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David L. Lange, Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law at Duke University Law School, revisits the Supreme Court case, Golan v. Holder, discussing the decision and its aftermath. Read more about Professor Lange at http://bit.ly/rw3ueY.

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Listen in as Patrick Adams, Jordan de Boer, and David Lange talk about Batman, Uncharted 3, Rage, the GTA V trailer, Mark Burnett, the VGA’s and more! Fish Food – Episode #47 Intro and Outro –  “Sensitive Kid” by Cold War Kids GAMING -What we’ve been playing -Gaming News MOVIES AND TV -What we’ve been […]