ACC changes on song

the Pacific understanding of human psychology is being ignored and the changes favour a particular group of clinicians

Exactly on target for why ACC cuts are desperately needed. As another trough of colour is being closed off to the taxpayers purse, the squealing is deafening.

Quote of the day

Today, it seems, ordinary life has been made illegal.

Do you remember voting for that?

Ofsted basking in the halcyon days of employing "useful idiots".

FAIL: Horizons Regional Council

Estimated wave East Cape and Mt Maunganui 1m-0922.

Stay tuned to local media for more information.

Sent warning via text to those ratepayers who had signed on.

Text arrived at 1156. Apology sent 1230.

Tossers. I wonder whether I will get a reduction in my rates?

Petting Nanny

Kidz in Gordonistan are about to be banned from petting animals says Nanny.

 parents should "think very hard" about letting children under five touch the animals at petting farms

Apparently modern kidz have not consumed enough of their bushel of dirt to ward off such bacteria, so banning is the fix.

 admitted that he was "not terribly happy" with the idea of under-fives touching ruminants such as lambs, calves and young goats

Time for a Tui.   

Rugrats should be walked regularly through a warm cow pat or two in bare feet to harden up.  As for the bureaucrat, a real nanny with horns would deal properly to him.

Kremlin copies and implements the RMA

Corrupt workflow processes for building a 26 million Rouble Moscow warehouse.

Smacks of our RMA. I wouldn't wish that on any country!

HT The Devil's Kitchen.

No:	Procedure	Time to complete:	Cost to complete:
1	Apply for an act of permission for use to the Department of City Planning Documentation Development at the Architecture and City Planning Committee of Moscow (MoskomArchitektura).	1 day	no charge
2	Request and obtain situation plan of district and conclusion for a District Land Commission from the Architecture Planning Department (APD)	15 days	RUB 43,680
3	Request and obtain a conclusion from Territorial Union of Land Use Regulation	15 days	RUB 4,330
4	Request and obtain a decision by the District Land Commission on land plot provision and city planning regulation	30 days	no charge
5	Request and obtain clearance of draft disposition of Prefect with the Architecture Planning Department (APD)	7 days	no charge
6	Request and obtain clearance of draft disposition of Prefect with the local government	7 days	no charge
7	Request and obtain clearance of draft disposition with the Territorial Union of Land Use Regulation	7 days	no charge
8	Request and obtain the disposition on preparation of an act of permission for use by the Prefect	7 days	no charge
9	Request and obtain a conclusion on compliance of the proposed building with specified city planning and territory use regulations	152 days	RUB 4,500
10*	Request and obtain technical conditions from water and sewage services	45 days	RUB 17,673
11*	Request and obtain technical conditions for an electricity connection with MosEnergo	30 days	RUB 5,490,520
12*	Request and obtain technical conditions to connect to telephone line	30 days	RUB 3,000
13*	Request and obtain approval from MoskomArchitektura on engineering of the facility	14 days	RUB 4,500
14	Request and obtain an act of permission for use from MoskomArchitectura	30 days	RUB 6,700
15	Request and obtain disposition of Prefect on the inception of construction design (decision on construction)	60 days	no charge
16	Request and obtain approval of design conditions by the Department of Well-Being of MoskomArchitektura	7 days	RUB 53,300
17*	Request and obtain approval of design conditions by the Department of Preparation of Project Approvals of MoskomArchitektura	14 days	RUB 12,100
18*	Request and obtain approval of design conditions by local government	7 days	no charge
19*	Request and obtain approval of design conditions by the Prefect's Office	14 days	no charge
20*	Request and obtain approval of design conditions by the Emergency Situation and Civil Defense Department	14 days	RUB 14,728
21*	Request and obtain approval of design conditions by Moscow State Expertise	14 days	RUB 7,364
22*	Request and obtain an act of the Moscow Geological-Geodesic Department	15 days	RUB 36,700
23*	Request and obtain approval of design conditions by the Sanitary Services (Rospotrebnadzor)	30 days	RUB 13,800
24*	Request and obtain approval of transport routes from the Moscow City Transport Agency	30 days	RUB 8,837
25*	Request and obtain approval from the State Inspectorate of Road Safety (GIBBD)	30 days	RUB 8,837
26*	Request and obtain approval from the Department of Comprehensive Well-Being of the city	30 days	RUB 4,600
27*	Request and obtain approval from the Department of Nature Use under State Ecological Expertise	21 days	RUB 29,455
28	Request and obtain Sketch No. 2 from the Moscow Geological Institute	30 days	RUB 10,100
29	Request and obtain approval of Sketch No. 2 from the Moscow Architecture Committee (MoskomArchitektura)	30 days	RUB 4,000
30	Request and obtain the construction passport from the Moscow Geological Institute	30 days	RUB 8,837
31*	Request and obtain approval of volumes of "outline of construction arrangement" and "GenPlan" from MoskomArchitektura	30 days	RUB 6,500
32*	Request and obtain approval of volumes of "outline of construction arrangement" and "GenPlan" from the Prefecture	30 days	no charge
33*	Request and obtain approval of volumes of "outline of construction arrangement" and "GenPlan" from the GenPlan Institute	30 days	RUB 12,200
34	Request and obtain Regulation No. 2 and certificate of approval of Architectural City Planning Decision	30 days	RUB 3,600
35	Request and obtain project approval by Moscow State Expertise	60 days	RUB 58,000
36	Request and obtain permission for construction (building permit)	10 days	RUB 11,460
37	Receive inspection by the State Inspectorate of Architecture and Construction Supervision during foundation construction	1 day	no charge
38	Receive inspection by the State Inspectorate of Architecture and Construction Supervision during structure construction	1 day	no charge
39	Receive inspection by the State Inspectorate of Architecture and Construction Supervision during engineering works	1 day	no charge
40	Receive inspection by the Union of Administrative Technical Inspection (UATI) – I	1 day	no charge
41	Receive inspection by the Union of Administrative Technical Inspection (UATI) – II	1 day	no charge
42	Receive inspection by Union of Administrative Technical Inspection (UATI) – III	1 day	no charge
43	Receive inspection by the Union of Administrative Technical Inspection (UATI) – IV	1 day	no charge
44	Receive inspection by the Union of Administrative Technical Inspection (UATI) – V	1 day	no charge
45	Receive inspection by the Union of Administrative Technical Inspection (UATI) – VI	1 day	no charge
46	Receive inspection by the Union of Administrative Technical Inspection (UATI) – VII	1 day	no charge
47	Connect to water services	30 days	no charge
48*	Request and receive inspection by the Energy Supervision Board	1 day	no charge
49	Connect to electricity and sign an agreement with Energosbyt	14 days	no charge
50*	Request and connect to telephone services	5 days	no charge
51	Request and convene the Approval Commission	30 days	no charge
52	Request and receive the disposition on operation of building (occupancy permit)	10 days	no charge
53	Request and receive plans from the Bureau of Technical Inventory (BTI)	30 days	RUB 55,000
54	Register the building after completion	30 days	RUB 7,500
* Takes place simultaneously with another procedure.

Who am I?

The oxygen thieves at Department of Statistics sum up 5 years of work in this short paper.

Fence sitting waste of space. Looking for places to save on the bureaucracy, John?

I am not a European New Zealander or a New Zealand European. Much less a Kiwi or worse still a Pakeha from the fantasyland of Aotearoa.

There is only one answer. Looks like I will still be looking for the Other field and writing in New Zealander as I have done for the past decades.

I am a New Zealander.

Update: Twin Horsemen ride in with lit blowtorches

Wellington is a Labour town;

thus the trepidation felt now the Twin Horsemen of the state sector's Apocalypse -

a National Government and bad economic times - have taken up residence in the capital.



National has positioned itself as the party putting the emphasis on customers and services.

putting the onus on departmental chief executives to do the job.

All good stuff. Would have never happened under Liarbour.

if there was ever a time to apply the blowtorch to the bureaucracy it is now.

With widespread job losses anticipated in the private sector, not much notice is going to be taken of squealing by the public sector.

Keep the torches lit and go hard!

WOBH smells bacon sarnies.

Sinner has the comment of the day:

Frankly I'd start with the unions. Just pass a simple law: every civil servant (except police and army) in a union fired. non benefits.

Couldn't agree more.

Redbaiter has been winding up socialists.

Make the grasping greedy leftist bastards face the real consequences of their selfish power driven junket. It will do them so much good.

What will be so good for them is also good for me and you on so many different levels as the bureaucrats are pared to the bone.

High Noon at toxic Corrections

And who is going to blink first?

Mr Matthews said he believed that he personally had "nothing to fear" from an inquiry into who was accountable after a damning Auditor-General's report on how the department managed parole.

Not Barry. He has upped the ante be telling her indoors that he's there to stay. A couple of years to run on a $375K contract and super added in is going to look like a golden parachute if he is forced out early.

Leading employment lawyer John Haigh, QC, said it would now be "very difficult" for the Government if it wanted to remove Mr Matthews.

Big gun lawyers are lining up for the slice of the post-shootout action.

Ms Collins cannot sack Mr Matthews herself, but refusal to express confidence and blunt criticism of the department have been interpreted as a signal to his employer, the State Services Commissioner, that she cannot work with him.

Not her indoors. She has told him indirectly that he is a goneburger.

Mr Matthews said he did not believe Ms Collins was trying to get rid of him, and said he looked forward to working with her.

Bazza must be the only person in NZ that thinks that way.

Ms Collins said she was pleased Mr Matthews was staying on and acting in a professional way but could not comment on whether she had confidence in him until the State Services Commissioner reported back.

Ten days is not going to pass quickly.

Labour Corrections spokesman Clayton Cosgrove said Ms Collins' position had shifted significantly and it looked as if "this toxic relationship is going to have to co-exist".

As always Liarbour sees it differently through rose tints. Barry must be a card carrying member.

The tension is palpable.

Talk is cheap. I want to see the whites of their eyes with guns blazing as this new government stamps its authority on the Public Service and other Liarbour minions. Bugger the cost, bring it on.

Transpower, Maintenance

Mutually exclusive terms.

Nanny's last gasp

and they need to be protected

Straight from the ivory towers of academia, suggesting once again, we need to be protected from ourselves. Thank God there is an election tomorrow.

Hopefully, the last gasp from Nanny State.

Propeller Alert!

Our tests show very little difference in concentrations of ... particulates between indoors and outdoors.

I wonder how much these propeller head rocket scientists get from the taxpayer teat telling us that the air inside our houses is the same as the outside?

It's too late and it's not enough

So says the next PM of NZ if he plays his cards right. Trying to gazumph Mickey no doubt as Adolf at No Minister has suggested. Even goes so far to suggest Liarbour

has been asleep at the wheel, blinded by the ideological belief that it knows best how to spend your money

You see, the future PM has, shall I say, a different but maybe necessarily conservative view at the edge of the abyss of what could be required to stay in business as a NZ battler, not as a consumer of welfare at the WINZ trough. Some, like myself, have been down this road before with interest rates in the low 20's. Ideals such as those below could also be good for you.

* An ongoing programme of personal tax cuts;

* A disciplined approach to government spending so interest rates track down, not up;

* Putting an end to the "massive" rise in head office bureaucracy and deal with regulatory and compliance issues that smothered businesses;

* An "unwavering focus" on improving education standards; and

* Investment in infrastructure that the country needed to grow.

The PM to be suggests

big economic challenges New Zealand was facing and present a serious, considered plan delivering financial security

He has all the necessary answers.

an economic plan to deliver that step change...it isn't a short-term set of band-aid solutions

I look forward to the offerings on the table and wish the next PM of NZ well. Yes the bribes so necessary to be relelected to be offered by the incumbent are too little and too late.

Yes Sir! Another job for the bureaucracy

The Thom family, resident in their house for a long time, yesterday single handedly have given Nanny over at local government an excuse for more regulation and interference in our lives.

Nothing about a lack of maintenance and personal responsibility.

Just like swimming pool regs and inspections, coming to a view near you, an Inspectorate of Balconies.