There’s some more on Nobby here: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/520252/who-is-nobby-clark-a-brief-history-of-invercargill-s-controversial-mayor

He sounds like an all around top bloke.

Huh, is there some drama I missed?

I’m telling you, the boats are coordinating an uprising.

Was it earlier this year the two ferries hit the dock in Wellington? We might expect a ferry uprising soon, they don’t seem very happy.

You posted it to NZ Off Topic, which may have been accidental. But from what I can see it hasn’t been posted in !newzealand@lemmy.nz until now.

(Edit to add link to the other post which has more discussion in case people want to check it out: https://lemmy.nz/post/11586877)

Haha who put the project manager in charge 😆

Yeah my original comment did a terrible job of communicating my point 😆

Yeah sorry, poor wording. What I meant was companies only get investigated when they are negligent or breaking a law, and only if they get charged do we get information about it.

Government departments will do internal investigations and then the results are accessible under the Official Information Act, regardless of outcome, so we tend to get more info if it’s government.

But on thinking about it, Transpower are probably keen to give people an explanation if it was some freak accident to protect their reputation, so we may find out anyway.

Sorry I should have been more careful with my words. The government does investigations into itself all the time, and because of the Official Information Act they results generally get made public, even if they was no issue found.

But for a company, the rules are different. If there is some legal action to be taken, then that happens whether it’s SOE or company, but if it wasn’t negligent then we don’t have any path to get info from the internal investigation.

I wonder if we will ever know, or because they are a SOE they may fall outside the power of anyone to investigate them.

Yeah, that’s a good guess. I presume they do regular inspections, so it would be interesting to know how this got missed.

I’ve never seen an entire tower fall over like that, that’s kinda terrifying.

Me neither! I wonder what caused it. Looks like maybe some bolts came off the feet? Since normally there would be huge concrete pads that they are connected to.

I think the issue is the kiwifruit kiwi image seems to be supposed to be sitting down or something? If you rotate it to how a kiwi walks, it doesn’t look right. Maybe it’s climbing the side of the South Island?

I don’t get how checking keyboard activity or number of emails sent is helpful from an employer perspective.

If these people aren’t working… then why can’t this be measured by, you know, their work not being done?

If you can’t tell if their work is being done without a keylogger then maybe you don’t need them?

I dunno. I think their explanation fits:

“It’s important that licensees when conducting there business and engaging with consumers are conscious of the fact that not everybody is like them, that different people have different cultural understandings and the way conducting oneself can have a negative impact on a person.”

However, the thing that really makes me side with the REA is that I looked up the course. It’s a 1.5 hour module. I’m sorry but if you go to court because you want to be a real estate agent but don’t want to do a 1.5 hour module on cultural diversity… well then you’re probably the person that needs it the most.

1/4 of NZers weren’t born here, and 1/5 are Māori, so it seems like a valuable use of time for an old white lady wanting to work with the public in a regulated profession.

Extra article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/519815/airline-working-to-get-passengers-to-australia-after-horror-take-off

I thought planes couldn’t take off at Queenstown in the dark? Air NZ got in trouble for leaving 2 mins after sunset or something a few years back. Have the rules changed? It looks pretty dark in the videos.

Great idea! More like this?

@BlueEther@no.lastname.nz @eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz and anyone else, what do you think of this? I’ve pulled together some of the things from last year plus added something new (I hope it’s recognisable).

I have heard the canvas will be smaller this year, I think in response to all the leftover space last year. So I think we will need to be prepared to move things a bit. Maybe we start with the New Zealand flag, building into the others as we get to them but moving them a bit if others have taken the space? We can coordinate on matrix again.

Haha dumb autocorrect. Firefish is what I was trying to say.