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June 27, 2015 8:00am by Kokila Patel

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kowtow

“the age of enlightenment and reason ?”

Even in their wildest dreams the greats of that age never countenanced such an aberration.

Nothing to do with reason, everything to do with ‘progressive” absolute equality. Enjoy it while the west lasts. The barbarians are outbreeding us and pouring across our frontiers. The future is Muslim.
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June 27, 2015 12:33pm
Shawn Herles

“The slippery road to perdition or the continuation or an extension to the age of enlightenment and reason ?”

That would be the age of reason and enlightenment that gave is the French terror, communism, Nazism, the Holocaust, nuclear weapons, global environmental destruction………?

Seriously though, it should have been left to the individual states to decide for themselves. This will only divide the country further and create resentment.
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June 27, 2015 12:37pm
Andrei

It just goes to show Stephieboy who the elites in the USA serve, who their real master is.

And no state “banned gay marriage” – they defined marriage to be the union of one man with one woman which is banning nothing, rather it is enshrining in words within their constitutions something that nobody has ever doubted until deceit conquered Western discourse

– but the Prince of Lies is at work here of that there is no doubt what so ever.
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June 27, 2015 12:38pm
Pete George

Parliament set a good example in carefully considering marriage equality and voting according to common sense and modern acceptance of individual rights.
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June 27, 2015 12:41pm
Shawn Herles

“Parliament set a good example in carefully considering marriage equality”

I don’t think they considered it carefully. Considered it yes, but not carefully.

“and voting according to common sense”

You mean Liberal ideology. The use of the term “equality” was the giveaway that ideology, not common sense, was at work. That’s not automatically bad, but let’s call it what it was, especially given that we already had civil unions.
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June 27, 2015 12:44pm
cha

Fortunately 10,000 to 20,000 pastors will stand up and die because homo marriage.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1N3zOqzNM8
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June 27, 2015 12:46pm
Pete George

In New Zealand in 2013 ‘marriage’ was defined in law as:

marriage means the union of 2 people, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1955/0092/latest/DLM292034.html

Prior to that the Marriage Act 1955 had no definition of marriage.
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June 27, 2015 12:51pm
wiseowl

If the decision re marriage in the US is all about the 14 th amendment and equality the the decision is wrong.

Gays have equality. Period.

Marriage is nothing to do with equality and it amazes me that so many fail to think this through.What we have now is special privelege for gays which is being used to further undermine society.
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June 27, 2015 12:51pm
Pete George

Civil union was an interim step that was insulting to some people, giving them inferior rights of legal union to rights that others had.
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June 27, 2015 12:54pm
Pete George

What we have now is special privelege for gays which is being used to further undermine society.

That’s nonsense.

“Marriage means the union of 2 people, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity” does the opposite of giving anyone a special privilege.
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June 27, 2015 12:57pm
AgentBallSack

WTF?
Maori TV crew to face Israeli navy blockade en route to Palestinian territories
Great use of public funds? What the article neglects to mention is how many protected bird species they have with them.
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June 27, 2015 1:01pm
waikatogirl

ShawhH
You have raised valid questions and concerns, I don’t deny that, but I think your enthusiasm for the pro side of the debate is clouding your appreciation for the concerns of those who are skeptical, and you are too easily ignoring the potential for that abuse, and the potential for it to be widened to include more than just the terminally ill.
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Maybe I have more faith in the fair decisions loved ones are involved in making in this critical situation. Medical professionals who choose to be involved won’t be out and about knocking off the vulnerable.

Laws will be in place to deal with any who cross the line and they will be dealt with, as they should be if relatives are killing off loved without their plea to end their own critical life.
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June 27, 2015 1:01pm
kowtow

Maori TV to try run Israel anti terrorist blockade.

Well fuck em then. On a day like today siding with Muslim terrorists is particularly offensive. Shame.

I have a huge problem with my tax dollar funding anti Israel propaganda stunts.
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June 27, 2015 1:24pm
wiseowl

Stringer now comes out and says the issue between McGregor and Craig ‘is now a private matter’. What a bloody shite.
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June 27, 2015 1:29pm
Manolo

The Israelis could always give the Stone Agers some Kohala disguised as bullets.
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June 27, 2015 1:29pm
kowtow

“Parliament set a good example in carefully considering marriage equality and voting according to common sense and modern acceptance of individual rights.”

Utter bullshit. In these multiculty days equality demands that anyone can marry. Abdool should be able to have his four wives and any relative should be able to marry and fuck any blood relative. Where’s the equality for the incestuous? For the rag heads and the down right perverted? For the polyamorous?

Nope, “equality” was limited to homos, that’s not equality .That’s political activism. Like sex change a charade , human rights in drag.
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June 27, 2015 1:30pm
Dennis Horne

The reason the law did not define marriage as being between a man and a woman is it was so obvious it was taken for granted by everybody.

The simple fact is that marriage has now been redefined. Whereas once it concerned copulation and making the sacrifices needed to raise any offspring, now it doesn’t.
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June 27, 2015 1:36pm
SPC

Does anyone else wonder if the real issue in the Conservative Party is a certain possessiveness over the brand conservative?

Should Craig be removed it will be interesting to see whether it is

a democratic or
b continue on past policy settings.
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June 27, 2015 1:38pm
stephieboy

Shawn Hereles, your not seriously suggesting these Enlightenment Scientists were responsible for the evil of communism , Nazism, Nuclear weapons etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Enlightenment_scientists

Would you much prefer turning the back to the Western European wars of religion of the C 16th century ?
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June 27, 2015 1:46pm
kowtow

The Israeli action against the Islamist MV Marmara was poetry in motion, I like Israeli poetry, I’d love to see lots more of it.
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June 27, 2015 1:47pm
Manolo

Did you go hungry in Ramadan, stephieboy? Some bacon and pork chops after dusk?
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June 27, 2015 1:50pm
renderer

With Penny “Its all about ME”
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June 27, 2015 1:53pm
kowtow

Would you much prefer turning the back to the Western European wars of religion of the C 16th century ?

stephie would prefer to see the 7 to 17 th centuries wars of Islamic conquest, to Tours and Vienna all over again. Not to worry the streets of the west, from Ottawa and Boston to Paris and London are already witnessing it, thanks to our politicians allowing unrestricted Muslim immigration.
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June 27, 2015 2:08pm
RF

The boy child from the Greens who managed to get one vote for his tilt at the leadership has been very quiet lately. I hear that he was shocked to discover no one wanted him as co-leader. Well apart from himself so that’s where the one and only vote came from.

He can always be a clown at kids birthday parties as he has all the gear and he would be mixing with people his age.
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June 27, 2015 2:37pm
Odakyu-sen

“Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.” – Ben Jonson

I respect a man who speaks his mind and shows his colors.

“Japs” it is.
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June 27, 2015 3:19pm
Jack5

Fair enough Odakyu-sen (3.19).

But what is it then for African Americans?
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June 27, 2015 3:25pm
stephieboy

manolo, rest assured roast pork and crackle with apple sauce is a firm favourite of mine !

kowtow, so you oppose the idea of the enlightenment after all with all it’s progressive ideas government by the consent of the governed,limiting the powers of central government including monarchy , Republicanism etc, etc ?
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June 27, 2015 3:25pm
mandk

Picking up on something that HB said at 10.59, I can’t see any justification for paying a benefit to any 18-24 year old, unless they are sick or disabled.

It simply cannot be beneficial to allow any able bodied young person to sit on their bottom when there are jobs to be had and work to be done. Lefties will whine about there being no jobs, but that is plainly untrue. The country needs to dish out visas to willing foreign workers in order to keep the economy running.

Besides, what is an 18-24 year old going to do, if they are paid a benefit to do nothing? Smoke dope? Dabble in petty crime? Make babies and raise the next generation of welfare dependants?
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June 27, 2015 3:34pm
Jack5

The list of ethnic epithets that Boris Piscina lists at 11.50 is widely varied.

I’ve never heard of anyone who got upset being called a Taffy or a Jock but I have seen someone floored for calling someone a wop.

And, like “Hun” for German, “Jap” was left a hate word by World War 2.

Here’s Wikipedia on the latter word:

Jap is an English abbreviation of the word “Japanese.” Today it is generally regarded as an ethnic slur among Japanese minority populations in other countries, although English-speaking countries differ in the degree to which they consider the term offensive. In the United States, Japanese Americans have come to find the term controversial or offensive, even when used as an abbreviation.[1] In the past, Jap was not considered primarily offensive; however, during and after the events of World War II, the term became derogatory.

The arrival of classy Japanese motorcycles and cars, exchange visits, tourism, and the fading away of the generations affected directly by World War 2, have made the use of the term “Jap” archaic and nasty, IMHO.
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June 27, 2015 3:42pm
publicwatchdog

Where is the electoral mandate for the privatisation of State Housing – via ‘social housing’?

How obscene is THIS – Kiwibloggers?

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Hundreds of New Zealand’s state houses could be sold to Australians, Bill English said this morning.

Appearing on TV3’s The Nation this morning, Finance Minister Bill English said it was possible state houses could be sold to an Australian company.

A Gold Coast non-profit charity, Horizon Housing, had visited New Zealand this week to look at the houses. It was interested in possibly buying at least 400 state houses.

“So far it looks interesting to us, Horizon Housing’s chief executive Jason Cubit said.

“We’d like to expand our business because we’re good at it and we [will] hopefully make some surpluses and re-invest it into the community.”

English told The Nation that Australians would be able to buy the state houses if they were registered as community housing providers.

Labour’s housing spokesperson Phil Tywford described English’s admission as “the latest lurch in the Government’s stumbling, half-baked housing policy”.

“Bill English should face reality and admit his state house sell off policy has collapsed. The Salvation Army didn’t want a bar of it. Iwi leaders said they’d only take them if they got them for free.

“Now Bill English is so desperate to keep his failed policy afloat that he’ll even flick the houses off to the Aussies,” he said.
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June 27, 2015 4:16pm
waikatogirl

Jack5
Fair enough Odakyu-sen (3.19).

But what is it then for African Americans?
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Recently had nephew from Darwin way staying. Apparently it was not appropriate to refer to Aborigine as Abo’s. They prefer to refer to themselves as “Black Fellas”. You can’t win.
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June 27, 2015 4:45pm
wreck1080

Glenfield is pretty much a million dollar suburb now, if this is anything to go by…

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/home-property/69749865/three-bedroom-auckland-dump-sells-for-11m

Sitting on 675 sqm the neglected original 1960s three bedroom weatherboard bungalow had a CV $600,000. Even in the current environment no one had predicted it would go this high.

This is unbelievable. Up in the same category of belief as a 10 year old toyota corolla selling for 200k.
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June 27, 2015 4:47pm
KevinH

@Penny
In your ideal socialist world the State would provide everything. That would require the State to tax businesses and individuals into penury. The State would be compelled to collect taxes locally and federally in order to fulfil it’s obligations to taxpayers of which you are not one.
Can you not see the hypocrisy in your protestations?

Just Saying

Regards Kev
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June 27, 2015 4:50pm
Manolo

How to eliminate these followers of the religion of peace? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3140454/Tourists-run-lives-Tunisian-beach-gunman-carries-attack-outside-hotel-packed-Britons.html

To sun-seekers, he looked like any other tourist. In fact, Seifeddine Yacoubi was carefully selecting the victims he would murder with the Kalashnikov hidden in his parasol. The British were his prime targets on the crowded Tunisian beachfront.

One must be mad to visit any of these Muslim shitholes.
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June 27, 2015 5:01pm
stephieboy

Tunisia I hear is a rather beautiful place steeped in both ancient ( Phoenician , Roman, Byzantine and Islamic ) and more recent history.

Manolo , certainly nuclear weapons wont be a helpful way to eliminate the worlds 1.4 billion Muslims !
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June 27, 2015 5:10pm
Inandout

Manolo: You have to scroll down to even see the killer may have been an ISIS Muslim. No he must be a lone wolf. Brits are going to have to choose their holiday spots very carefully from now on; perhaps just Blackpool.
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June 27, 2015 5:25pm
Yvette

Lone wolves. See NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. It’s working.
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June 27, 2015 5:35pm
OneTrack

Inandout – “Brits are going to have to choose their holiday spots very carefully from now on; perhaps just Blackpool.”

Are there less muslim terrorists in Blackpool than Tunisia? And is the must-have holiday accessory now a Glock?
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June 27, 2015 6:13pm
OneTrack

stephie – “Tunisia I hear is a rather beautiful place steeped in both ancient ( Phoenician , Roman, Byzantine and Islamic ) and more recent history.”

Well most people now won’t get to see it as their tourism market has just collapsed.
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June 27, 2015 6:18pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Very good essay by SB reflecting on her series of articles on Charter schools.
http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2015/06/danger-will-robinson/

Her observations about teaching in different types of secondary school are some of the most informative I’ve read.
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June 27, 2015 6:53pm
publicwatchdog

What’s your view on this one Kiwibloggers?

Especially the suggested remedy to ‘ghost housing’ in Auckland?

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As the Auckland property market continues to heat up, our readers share their ideas for cooling it down. Peter Johnson says it’s simple math.

The numbers are self-evident – any high school student can work out these questions yet the so-called experts can’t see the basics:

Question 1: If New Zealand has net immigration of 55,000 each year and 80 per cent move to Auckland, assuming we have four people per house how many extra houses are needed each year in Auckland?

Answer 1: 11,000

Question 2: If Auckland needs 11,000 houses per year just for immigration and is only building 7,500, how many houses short is Auckland each year?

Answer 2: 3,500

Question 3: If Auckland has been building 3,500 houses less than demand each year for 10 years, how many houses is Auckland short of?

Answer 3: 35,000

Question 4: Basic economics states that free market pricing is a combination of supply and demand. If supply is low but demand is high, what will happen to the commodity price?

Answer 4: The price will go up

Here’s how we answer these questions in relation to Auckland housing:

Limit immigration: If we do not have the housing we have nowhere for immigrants to live. In effect it is time to hang out the No Vacancy sign until there is a surplus of housing.

Build more houses: This is part of the plan and it should continue until the backlog is dealt with.

Ghost housing: Auckland has the housing stock, it just has low utilisation, which in some ways could be seen as market manipulation. A simple law that makes it illegal to have a house unoccupied for a period of 12 months without a suitable reason should be implemented. To have a situation where houses are being bought for capital gain and taken out of circulation to add heat to the market is ridiculous. Failure to have your house occupied could result in forfeit to the crown for forced sale.

Special legislation, similar to the Christchurch rebuild legislation, to fast-track building in Auckland: We have the skills, experience and personnel for the agency in Christchurch right now. Also, the agency that handled the fast-track of building Christchurch is about to be made redundant.

How can we reduce demand?

Firstly, by reducing immigration, as above.

We can also give New Zealand citizens first rights over residents and over foreign buyers. If you are a New Zealand citizen then you can have multiple ownership rights. If you are a resident then you can only own one house – the house that you live in. If you want to have multiple houses then you need to commit to New Zealand and become a citizen.

Anyone from overseas who wants to buy housing in New Zealand needs to stand in line behind New Zealand citizens and then residents. The house must first be offered to the domestic market and if it does not sell then it can be offered overseas.

If the property does sell overseas for a premium then an overseas purchase levy of 10-20 percent as way of tax/stamp duty must be paid on both purchase and sale. If we are going to sell property offshore to the detriment of New Zealand citizens then there should be some additional benefit to New Zealand.

Overseas interests can only own property for a maximum of 50 years, then the property must be put on the open market to give New Zealand citizens a chance to purchase their land back at market rates.

I see the problem as very simple math. I know there are complexities of foreign exchange flow into New Zealand propping up a poorly performing economy, but the price we are paying is just too high.

This is basic math and economics 101. Trying to sell us on the idea that supply will fix the problem is utter dribble.
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Penny Bright
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June 27, 2015 6:54pm
stephieboy

Inandout, like kowtow, Manolo etc we get an incessant carping and whinging about the scourge that is ISIS and jihad terrorism but little in the way of realistic workable solutions . Not silly dumb ones like banning or nuking all of Islam.

Now is your chance to have yet another go.
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June 27, 2015 7:02pm
Manolo

A heavy shower of neutron bombs over the region, starting with Mecca? 😀
Only Israel deserves to survive.
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June 27, 2015 7:14pm
nasska

Just been reading wreck’s 4.47pm re a basket case property in Glenfield’s Archer St selling for north of a million.

Obviously bought for the land value but how long would it take to commute from there to Auckland Central in rush hour traffic?
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June 27, 2015 7:17pm
Left Right and Centre

After foolishly enduring Countdown Porirua trying to save a dollar and all the braindead ugly ferals in Porirua – go the Brumbies.
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June 27, 2015 7:42pm
nasska

You sound a little disgruntled about the shopping opportunities in Low Life Central LR&C.

Didn’t by chance happen to notice the price of povi masima & mutton flaps? 🙂
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June 27, 2015 7:48pm
Left Right and Centre

I had to look up wtf povi masima was Nazz.

I only eat frozen chicken myself. It’s ‘economic’.

Don’t think I’ve ever eaten mutton flaps.
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June 27, 2015 7:53pm
nasska

I reckon you’d find that 50% of the bulk of the eighteen stoner waifs waddling the aisles could be attributed to povi masima LR&C.

Helps steady the beef schedule though. 🙂
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June 27, 2015 7:59pm
Left Right and Centre

What’s the other 50% – hahahaha
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June 27, 2015 8:06pm
stephieboy

Manolo (16,294 comments) says:
June 27th, 2015 at 7:14 pm
A heavy shower of neutron bombs over the region, starting with Mecca?
Only Israel deserves to survive.

As i said,

” Not silly dumb ones like banning or nuking all of Islam.”

DUH !
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June 27, 2015 8:13pm
Left Right and Centre

I wonder if Canberra has it own ‘Porirua’ ? Does it have a lot of state house ghettos?
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June 27, 2015 8:15pm
publicwatchdog

What’s your view on this one Kiwibloggers?

Should ALL ‘facilitation payments’ be outlawed as BRIBES – yes or no?
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The Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Legislation Bill:

Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand minority view

The Green Party supports the majority of the Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Legislation Bill in its current form. The Green Party intends to continue with its support of this bill; it will bring us in line with our obligations under various international treaties and conventions dealing with national and international organised crime and corruption, and it will strengthen our ability to effectively respond to people trafficking and private sector corruption.

However, the Green Party holds the view that this bill is a missed opportunity to address the issue of facilitation payments, which will still be excepted from the foreign bribery offence under section 105C(3) of the Crimes Act 1961–

(3)This section does not apply if—

(a)the act that is alleged to constitute the offence was committed for the sole or primary purpose of ensuring or expediting the performance by a foreign public official of a routine government action; and

(b)the value of the benefit is small.

The Ministry of Justice departmental report refers to these payments as being for things such as “small payments relating to the grant of a permit or licence, the provision of utility services, or loading or unloading cargo.” The Ministry commented that these payments do not yield an “undue advantage”, and that measures in the bill to ensure the recording of these payments mitigate any concerns that the exception may be abused.

However, the select committee heard persuasive submissions on the issue from the Human Rights Commission, Transparency International New Zealand and Michael Macaulay, Director of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Government.

These ‘grease’ payments are bribes, no matter their size, and help breed a culture where low-level corruption is permitted and accepted, contrary to international guidance from groups like the Serious Fraud Office, the UNCAC Implementation Review Group, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, and the OECD.

New Zealand is seen as a leader in public sector ethics and transparency, and we are proud of that legacy. It is disappointing that when provided an opportunity to take a strong stance on a controversial and unethical practice like facilitation payments – a stance already taken by the United Kingdom and Australia, and allegedly being pursued in China and India – we choose to split hairs about semantics and ‘balance’, leaving the door open for facilitation payments and subtly undermining our international reputation for honesty and transparency.
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Absolutely agree with the Greens on this point.

After the sordid Saudi sheep gate debacle – in my view – ALL political parties should support the outlawing of ‘facilitation payments’ as BRIBES – end of story.

Penny Bright
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June 27, 2015 8:44pm
Inandout

stephieboy: There is a workable solution and that is to remove the rogue gene that appears to dwell within Muslims, that seems to surface in the way their belief is taught by mosque preachers. This would need a whole new way of interpreting the Koran, which from what I can see is little better than ‘Mein Kampf’ and its fatalistic writings:

“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.”
― Adolf Hitler
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June 27, 2015 8:58pm
Reid

Just been reading wreck’s 4.47pm re a basket case property in Glenfield’s Archer St selling for north of a million.

The point is nasska Glenfield is a shit burb akin to Homebush in Masterton to give you an analogy.

Some of my rellies bought a place in Cockle Bay 18 months ago. That’s risen by 250,000 since they bought it.

As one of my rellies commented a few days ago: what have they done to earn 250k in that time?

That’s how mental the Akld market is.

It’s been mental before, but this time, it’s more mental than ever before.

And what happens when the music stops?

And people on 200k household income have 700+ mortgages?

And because the music stopped one of them doesn’t have a job?
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June 27, 2015 9:27pm
Reid

Reid, before I do apologise can you assure me you do not hate Jews in any form or shape whatsoever ?

Why of course stephie.

I don’t hate Jews at all. I don’t actually hate anyone, but I condemn plenty, just like Jesus did.

One of the people I condemn most strongly are those people who pretend they are Jews but are not, just like Jesus did.

The reason I do this stephie is because those people give the real Jews a very bad name indeed.

Like say, when the leadership of Israel slaughter innocent Palestinian civilians.

That gives all Jews a bad name, doesn’t it stephie.

That’s why I condemn those liars who claim to be Jews stephie.

What’s the next question?
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June 27, 2015 9:39pm
publicwatchdog

The Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Legislation Bill has completed its 2nd reading.

The next stage is the Committee of the whole House:

“The committee consists of all members of the House.

The Deputy Speaker or an Assistant Speaker presides over the committee.

The committee has delegated authority from the House to consider the bill in detail and make further amendments members may propose in writing.

Sometimes members, particularly Ministers in charge of a bill, release their amendments in advance in the form of a supplementary order paper.

There is no specific time limit on this stage and members have opportunities for up to four 5-minute speeches on each provision. On large bills of a controversial nature, this process can take place over several days.

At this stage some bills, for instance, a Statutes Amendment Bill, can be divided into several smaller bills with new names, depending on the principal Acts they amend.

Once the final form of the bill has been agreed, it returns to the House and is reprinted to show any new amendments that were made.”
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I look forward to ALL MPs supporting the outlawing of ‘facilitation payments’ as BRIBES, as outlined in the above-mentioned SOP 076 of David Clendon, Green Party MP, so the lessons of the Saudi ‘sheep gate’ debacle can be learned, and never happen again.

Consequences for any ‘misleading the House’ on this matter, are, in my view, a separate albeit related issue.

Penny Bright
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June 27, 2015 9:58pm
Awww C-mon

@Reid

Is the differentiation you are making Reid that of an Isreali by nationality and a Jew through religion?
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June 27, 2015 11:12pm
Reid

Why don’t you research Jews who claim they are but are not, ACM. Then you’ll know.
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June 27, 2015 11:38pm
SPC

Reid, I would question your ability to discern a true Jew from a false Jew. The language used in Revelation follows the writing of Paul as to true and false Christ’s.

What is truth in matters of faith?
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June 27, 2015 11:45pm
Manolo

Dhimmitude will stop the apologists and defenders of vile, violent Islam from seeing this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/tunisia/11701043/Tunisia-attack-shooting-15-british-tourists-dead-live.html

Isis release smiling image of gunman responsible for Tunisia attack that left at least 15 British tourists dead on popular beach resort in Sousse.
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More lawlessness from National
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A Day of Reckoning
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This will not end well
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Top 14 Predictions for Round 10
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Pretty (il)legal
Croaking Cassandra
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The Accidental Engagement
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Legal Beagle: Election '23: The Special Votes
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Why I am retiring from political blogging
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