Posts by Newtown Toastmasters
2570 days ago

Be our guest - on Wednesday 27 February!

Jane Fisher from Newtown Toastmasters

It's time for another "Open Meeting" :) We'd love to introduce you to Table Topics, speeches, evaluations and all the other things we Toastmasters do. Bring your friends, family and anyone else who's keen.

27 February is also World NGO Day - we're excited to have a guest speaker to go with the theme, and will also be peppering the meeting with some related "icebreaker" activities! There'll be time to chat over supper, too.

"Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person". (Seth Godin)

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More messages from your neighbours
7 days ago

Some Choice News!

Kia pai from Sharing the Good Stuff

DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.

Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.

For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.

Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?

We hope this brings a smile!

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18 hours ago

Poll: If we want to reduce speeding, what do you think actually changes driver behaviour? 🛻🚨🚓

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

In the Post's article on speeding penalties, the question is asked whether speeding fines are truly about road safety, or are they just a way to boost revenue for the Crown?

What do you think? Should speeding motorists receive speeding fines or demerit points?

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If we want to reduce speeding, what do you think actually changes driver behaviour? 🛻🚨🚓
  • 31.9% The sting of a fine (Money talks!)
    31.9% Complete
  • 68.1% The threat of demerit points (Nobody wants to lose their license!)
    68.1% Complete
191 votes
15 hours ago

Poll: Divisive polls - should they be promoted here ?

Andrew from Miramar

Neighbourly encourages divisive opinion polls on pointless arguments constantly to get comments for the papers, should we put up with them trolling users this way ?

Divisive polls - should they be promoted here ?
  • 0% Yes, I'm happy for mindless content to be made.
    0% Complete
  • 0% No, but I can't resist arguing with other people for having an opinion other tha
    0% Complete
  • 100% No, I'm fed up with the pointless drama caused for comments.
    100% Complete
1 vote