Alison Dewes (Mini)

@bernardchickey Hey @bernardchickey we have had CGT in Aus for many years plus stamp duty on new land purchases - you cld comp how this has worked in Aus for tax revenue versus NZ. It’s fine, it needs comparison and does not stifle growth nor private investment providing you get good advice

@HoraceSmith1945 @environmentgvnz Looks like grandparenting to me. No rewards to innovators who have moved ahead actively on nutrient mgt which is bereft from the FWFP regs yet crucial for freshwater health. It’s left up to fert companies to self manage again.

@alison_dewes There is a high degree of 'grandparenting' think hidden behind the FW Farm Plan @environmentgvnz locking-in existing land use disregarding the 'unseen' risk of externalised contaminant loss upon downstream receiving environments other than maybe put in place some GMP actions

Trying to understand how N and P and nutrients are totally left out of the freshwater farm plan legislation- is Govt assuming that regional councils will manage this? Just looks like more compliance with no meaningful envt gain. I hope I’m mistaken primaryinsight.co.nz/post/freshwate…

@egel34 Give it ten more years to go via court

@alison_dewes You do realize some farms in the Waikato will no longer be farmed under the current regulation...they are so poorly written that even in mediations have ceased and it lies now with environment court

@Ampandrew Swayback, copper deficiency in mothers and maybe too much molybdenum or sulphur on wintering pasture or crop impairing copper metabolism of mothers, impairing dam- neonate reserves

Anyone know what this is, kind of like a paralysis of the back legs, this is the second one I have had

@jo_moir @NewsroomNZ Wonder what rating on the MP selection scorecard is better: abuse of animals or women?

New: Barbara Kuriger has won the National Party nomination for Taranaki-King Country tonight after facing a challenge from high school teacher Brian Winter. @NewsroomNZ

@rnz_news His kids knew more about him than he knows about himself - what a dick, just like the other Sam U/ Jake Bezzant /Andrew F/ Hamish and Jamie Lee and the rest. Elite, arrogant/ ignorant/ outa touch with women. Nats need a decent Vet.

National's ex-candidate Stephen Jack accuses media of 'woke stupidity' and 'character assassination' rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Scallywags with a pattern thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-04…

Latest MfE freshwater report critique waterqualitynz.info/2023/04/13/lat…

@NewstalkZB Spot on …

Jack Tame: Crybaby silliness hides hypocrisy newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/saturda…

Horror movie is right _ a Fanta wetland makes a change from pea soup @ lake rotorua this week. theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…

@JoelHensman Yes. It’s repeating every hot period. Nutrient reduction hasn’t been achieved according to planned models

@alison_dewes That looks the worst it’s been in years?!

Do public funds for lake clean ups actually work? This is Lake Rotorua after almost a decade of incentives and millions of public funds via the regional council administered scheme rotorualakes.co.nz/incentives

@kiwibrew There’s resistance. Only 37 tonne of 100 tonne been traded/ bought….

@alison_dewes What was participation in the incentives scheme like? Did Ballance or Ravensdown encourage their customers to participate?

Insightful interview with farmer John Burke and @alison_dewes - doing what's right for the whenua🌳turns out to be good for the puku💰 even with a lower grassed area @TheSpinoffTV @bernardchickey thespinoff.co.nz/live-updates/1…

This is not about replacing exotics where they have their place. This study reviews a far lower cost method of restoring ngahere in vulnerable places that’s poorly suited to forest for harvest. Thankyou @OurLandandWater for sponsoring this work ourlandandwater.nz/news/the-timat…

Nothing like the real deal…Cyclone aftermath: Lies, damned lies and statistics newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/anne…

Thinking about how we reflank the whenua(land) this will need all types of trees, (not one or other) but- here’s a lower cost native establishment method that could save billions for NZ providing we manage weeds/ pests and plan it well. ourlandandwater.nz/project/retiri…

@HelenClarkNZ Simply unsafe … in general- females view risk in a different manner to males… & v positive to have diversity in governance. But not worth risking lives for… If we want good politicians - we need to offer decent protection.

@ZigZouave Yes - as demonstrated by the trolls 👿 who piled on to this tweet.

What does it say about our political systems when talented #women leaders withdraw saying that they no longer have the energy to do the job? Wake up call for our societies about the extra pressures imposed on women in public life. theguardian.com/politics/2023/…