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March 5, 2018 8:00am by Kokila Patel

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Did I see over the weekend that the government had not extended and invitation to Todd McClay to the signing of the CTPPA.
If so, doesn’t this show the vindictiveness and pettiness of the CoL, and in particular David Parker.
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March 5, 2018 8:03am
- kevn
  
  @tri… I imagine McClay and parker would be polar opposites in many ways, politically and personally.
  Small minded all the same.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:08am
- igm
  
  Parker would be the vilest, immoral, dishonest, envious mongrel in this current line-up of losers. Even Dyky demoted him for misleading the House.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:08am
  - holysheet
    
    The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in the Parker family.
    
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    March 5, 2018 8:19am
    - RF
      
      Looks like a weasel and has the ethics of one.
      
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      March 5, 2018 8:58am
      - igm
        
        Bet he was one of those wimps at school who never played any sport and took goodies to the teachers.
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:08am
      - big bruv
        
        Is Parker not the one who ran off with his mates wife when that same mate had a stroke?
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:59am
      - RF
        
        big bruv.
        
        Yep …..as I previously stated the ethics of a weasel.
        
        Also known as a latrine rodent.
        
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        March 5, 2018 10:08am
    - Piniwi
      
      Funny holysheet but they have invited Kelsey? The wrap around text that accompanies the CTTPP lists the 20+ issues put aside remain in the original txt. They seem to have done this in cased the USA decide to join. Many will think they are unlikely to region this agreement but instead maybe establish a trading arrangement between the group and the USA. Both Parker and the old drunk have spun a line that the USA might re-join simply to try and deflect from their failure to really gain any changes to the original.
      
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      March 5, 2018 3:58pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        They probably plan to get her drunk and take compromising pictures to shut her up.
        
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        March 5, 2018 11:05pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Would you invite someone who’s work was so poor you had to redo the whole thing?
  
  It’s so beneficial for NZ that winny could fix all those years work in 5 mins!
  
  /sarc!!!!
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:08am
- Paulus
  
  Parker is a lying nasty little man anyway so what do you expect.
  Heather told him to leave any others out.
  So Labour signed the TPP – after having been totally against it and it is bullshit to say that they made changes of any consequence.
  Rubbish look at it.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:10am
- Inandout
  
  The protests have ceased over TPP and we hear crickets singing, because the Left have decreed. The hypocrisy and spin from Labour is Oscar material.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:13am
  - waikatogirl
    
    620,000 NZ’ers are employed due to our international trade. Shame on those who took to the streets, including Liarbor MP’s, in political protest against the TPPA. Those protesters are now silent with no peep of protest against the CPTTPA due to be signed.
    
    How idiotic do they look now?
    
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    March 5, 2018 8:23am
    - RF
      
      No no …….. it’s all good now as it did not work before Labour changed it.
      
      Utter bull shit. Bugger all difference.
      
      Notice that Parker when talking about it is all shifty eyed and looks down.
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:03am
    - KKKKatee
      
      Wasn’t the PM protesting about this?
      Another oxymoronism from her?
      
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      March 5, 2018 12:14pm
  - igm
    
    Teachers’ unions were very heavily represented in many of the demonstrations . . . shows their credibility.
    
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    March 5, 2018 8:31am
    - stephieboy
      
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      igm , more general support with Labour and NZ first now that the more objectionable provisions of TPP have been removed ( e.g heavy handed copyright and transnational legal rights for US multis etc )
      
      Other wise your and other whimperings blithely ignored
      
      Rightly so .
      
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      March 5, 2018 8:43am
      - Inandout
        
        steph, your hero of the Left, one Jane Kelsey, is disgusted with Labour’s revolving door and says the deal has changed little.
        
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        March 5, 2018 8:50am
      - Harkman
        
        “the more objectionable provisions of TPP have been removed ( e.g heavy handed copyright and transnational legal rights for US multis etc )”
        
        If America wants back in, these come straight back in. The “transnational legal rights for US multis etc” you mean investor-state provisions, they are still in there and Labour had no power to remove them.
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:22am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        I couldn’t understand what the protests were about when no one had read the agreement.
        I can’t understand why there are no protests when no one has read the agreement.
        
        Do you know that ‘objectionable provisions’ have been removed, or did you just believe Ardern when she said that?
        
        Show your evidence with sources please.
        
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        March 5, 2018 10:22am
  - publicwatchdog
    
    That is NOT true.
    Despite the spin from Labour & NZ First there were still New Zealanders who stood up to be counted against the regurgitated TPPA (CP-TPP) yesterday on 4 March 2017.
    
    I was one of them.
    
    Penny Bright
    
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    March 5, 2018 1:01pm
    - sooty
      
      If spinster Penny Bright, says its bad. It must be good.
      
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      March 5, 2018 1:31pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Good for you Penny. At least your principles, misguided as they may be in my ever-humble opinion haven’t changed.
      
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      March 5, 2018 1:49pm
- ztev
  
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  So a junket is in order for a MP to sit around a watch?
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:40am
  - cmm
    
    Sorry ztev, I upticked you by mistake. Don’t let it go to your head.
    
    They should do all this by Skype, but considering half an Airbus of Labour bureaucrats are probably going for no good purpose, it surely makes more sense to send someone who was actually instrumental in setting the whole thing up.
    
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    March 5, 2018 8:44am
    - KiWombat
      
      Haha – I wondered how trev managed an uptick for a senseless contribution ! Now I know
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:16am
    - Piniwi
      
      True cmm but there will be more than one stop on this South American trip as Parker is apparently chasing another trading group there as well.
      There must still be seats available as the have invited Kelsey to go with them. You just can’t make this shit up.
      
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      March 5, 2018 4:06pm
  - flipper
    
    But that is what all Union/Peters/Shaw pollies do. They lay claim to all the good things achieved by others and deny those things ( cock ups) for which they are responsible.
    And they continually suck on the taxpayer tit – like Peters, Ardern and their out of wedlock partners spending a week touring the Pacific
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:17am
    - Paulus
      
      Looks like a Cyclone about to hit again in the Islands.
      Would not like to be a pregnent woman when they try and outrun the Storms in a clapped out 757.
      Get the paper bags on board now.
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:55am
  - Liberty
    
    A junket is to go to Australia when a skype call would have achieved the same result.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:55am
    - Paulus
      
      To be told to Foxtrot Oscar but it looked a win by the New Zealand media who were on for the free ride.
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:56am
      - Liberty
        
        “media who were on for the free ride.”
        
        The spoils of pissing in Col’s pocket.
        
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        March 5, 2018 11:43am
- Gabby
  
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  McLazy din wanna go anyway tricatriti.
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:20am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Heavens – the animated dildo has shown up.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:51am
    - GazzaW
      
      The special needs bus obviously didn’t turn up this morning.
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:56am
      - Gabby
        
        It would have been on time f you hadn’t put your shoes on back to front again guzzla.
        
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        March 5, 2018 7:52pm
    - Gabby
      
      Crikey – the donkey wee is weak this morning.
      
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      March 5, 2018 11:12am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      That’s most unfair to dildos.
      
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      March 5, 2018 11:39am
      - Gabby
        
        Keeping Smug, Dildo Expert.
        
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        March 5, 2018 1:30pm
- dime
  
  David “it puts the lotion on or it gets the hose” Parker
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:14am
Rodney Randall

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/world/europe/sweden-crime-immigration-hand-grenades.html

New York Times breaks ranks with MSM
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March 5, 2018 8:04am
- kowtow
  
  One of the most dangerous things about Sweden is Somali drug dealers with hand grenades, another very dangerous thing is gummint laws to silence any dissent.
  
  From the link.
  “Last year, Peter Springare, 61, a veteran police officer in Orebro, published a furious Facebook post saying violent crimes he was investigating were committed by immigrants from “Iraq, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Somalia, Syria again, Somalia, unknown country, unknown country, Sweden.” It was shared more than 20,000 times; Mr. Springare has since been investigated twice by state prosecutors, once for inciting racial hatred, though neither resulted in charges.”
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:48am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    The words “hatred” and “fear” must be used by the Left according to their world view (irrespective of the truth).
    
    If “hatred” like “racism” is predicated on a perceived position of power in society, then the Left must find it impossible to conceive of whites (i.e., the “power holders” in Sweden) being capable of fear. In the minds of the Left, such disclosures by people like Springare can only give rise to hatred.
    
    Conversely, the reporting of skinhead violence towards “immigrants” in Sweden can only cause “fear” among immigrant communities there.
    
    Rather than “inciting racial hatred” I think Springare was “inciting racial fear.”
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:07am
  - freethinker
    
    To save any future specific offense to Pink Snowflakes just refer to the African Middle eastern Shitholes and let readers decide which county or countries are referred to.
    
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    March 5, 2018 2:05pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  When you say “break rank” Rodney Randall, I’m assuming you are meaning they are reporting actual news as opposed to the normal diet of moralising and propaganda like this:
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/101948389/asian-migration-debate-deserves-more-than-a-twitter-war
  
  I reminded them immigration is not new to New Zealand. Waves of immigration have made New Zealand what it is today. When I was growing up, New Zealand was much less diverse than it is now.
  
  Reflecting on this subject, I realised we perhaps all need to get better at acknowledging New Zealand’s recent economic prosperity would not have been possible without the skills and talents migrants have brought.
  
  And not just economic prosperity – our towns and cities are more vibrant and exciting because of migration
  
  Got that Kiwis (and Swedes) – we would be boring economic basketcases without 2nd and 3rd world immigration. Any contra opinion will have you shouted down by Pavlovs Dogs and their cries of “racism”, “hate” & of course “bigotry”.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:51am
- stephieboy
  
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  Rodney Randall,
  
  And not as straight forward as you might of hoped for . From your link ,
  
  “…Much of the problem is the supply of surplus weapons. The Dayton peace agreement, which ended the Bosnian war, required paramilitaries to disarm and decommission their arsenals. Sellers in Bosnia and Serbia have networks in Sweden’s diaspora and are so eager to unload excess grenades, often rusted from decades in storage, that they throw them in free with the purchase of AK-47s, Mr. Appelgren said. In Sweden the street price of a hand grenade is 100 kroner, or $12.50.
  
  …..
  …But lately, Mr. Zuniga had complained that he did not feel safe in his neighborhood.
  Varby Gard has produced a street gang, the Varby Gard Network, which the police have been monitoring for two years. It is led by a Tunisian man and populated by first- and second-generation immigrants from Finland, the Balkans and Africa, said Lars Broms, a detective who is investigating Mr. Zuniga’s death. Intent on protecting its monopoly on the local drug trade, it is fluid and loosely organized, but like other suburban gangs in Sweden, it is developing quickly, he said…”
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:55am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Yeah that’s right Stupidboy – it’s all the weapons fault. Why isn’t their the same crime wave in Switzerland which has far more guns per head per head of population than anywhere else?
    
    And what a load of shit trying to say the problems are caused by 1st and 2nd generation Finns. Like f*ck it is Finns responsible.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:02am
  - simpleton1
    
    Such nice people and ideals.
    
    Black Axe
    https://news.vice.com/article/the-notorious-black-axe-has-put-down-roots-in-canada
    University of Benin, the Black Axe started out as a benign group with “high-minded,” progressive ideals, like blackism and pan-African unity……
    …..the NBM is a non-profit charitable community organization that started in the university system…..
    “They were pure nationalists, pan Africans,” he said of the founders. “They also had a worldview that someday this organization, it will go from being just a campus organization to something that deals with contemporary world issues.”…..
    the NBM is involved in community organizing and volunteer work, adding that the group worked with Doctors Without Borders during the Ebola crisis and donated cash and toys to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children two or three times……
    
    Yet Canada and now Italy have clutched a viper to their breasts to keep it warm.
    Another ritual clue popped up in a Christchurch murder, a halal sheep’s tongue left close-by to a burnt out murdered body down in Christchurch.
    
    Some make out that there are no links, and can find innocence in so many things. 🙂
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:21am
  - KiWombat
    
    On the surface of it, this is an attempt by SB to engage in an intelligent conversation.
    
    It is an extremely rare occurrence, I know, but it does lead me to question whether the tide may be starting to change?
    
    A sign that there may be more to this mind than aimless conjecture and vile retorts. Just this once he deserves an uptick – subsequent post, who knows ?
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:25am
  - Rodney Randall
    
    “might of hoped for”
    
    Might have.
    
    Did you finish High School Ralph?
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:48pm
    - axeman
      
      No Walphy is illiterate and has to wait until his kids get home from Mt Albert Grammar to help him write his Stupid Boy lol-a-lols
      
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      March 6, 2018 12:11am
- Harkman
  
  Pat Condell was the only one banging on about these places turning into rapist havens for years, and he was labelled racist. Then Trump pointed it out and Swedish politicians all rushed to say there wasn’t a problem. There is, Sweden is stuffed.
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:26am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Pat Condell was the only one banging on about these places turning into rapist havens for years
    
    Wrong – Condell has been posting his rants since 2007. You really do need to read this – the opposition to non white immigration into Sweden started in the 60’s but like current times, it was drowned in a sea of “racism” chants:
    
    https://redice.tv/news/how-and-why-sweden-became-multicultural
    
    Schwarz was by far the most active opinion-former and accounted for 37 of a total of 118 contributions to the debate on the immigration issue in the years 1964-1968. Schwarz and his co-thinkers were so dominant and aggressive that debaters with an alternative view were driven on the defensive and felt their views suppressed. For example, Schwarz played the anti-Semitism card efficiently in order to discredit his opponents.
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:20am
holysheet

Go Trump. Anything China can do, America can do also. Trump wants to follow the Chinese premier and become leader for life.
Talk about winding up the SJW’s.
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March 5, 2018 8:05am
- flipper
  
  Bullshit
  His was a joking line at a dinner where every speech is “joke based”.
  It is a sign of immaturity that the vaunted media, and folks like you, take everything he says so seriously.
  Not Presidential?
  
  Also bullshit.
  No matter what he says or does idiots criticise.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:35am
  - cmm
    
    I think holy realises it was a joke, bit it is hard to tell.
    
    The numpties love just picking up soundbites to make into bullshit.
    
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    March 5, 2018 8:40am
    - holysheet
      
      Only a dumb arse like flipper would actually think I was serious. Did not the last sentence give you a clue?
      
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      March 5, 2018 3:58pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Refer to Poe’s law. In the absence of a clear indicator such as an emoji, attempts at irony and sarcasm will be misunderstood on the inter web. And even then, some still don’t get it. You know, like dumb bastards who take seriously claims regarding the trademarking of “holysheet’s school of wilfull and capricious spelling”.
        
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        March 5, 2018 4:19pm
  - sooty
    
    It’s like the left here still whinging over John Key, even though he’s left.
    
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    March 5, 2018 8:40am
    - kowtow
      
      No he was centre left.
      
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      March 5, 2018 8:49am
    - GazzaW
      
      ztev has an extreme case of JK fixation.
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:00am
  - stephieboy
    
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    flipper , the guy is a disaster . Free trade has created lots of jobs on the USA .,
    
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-tariffs-jobs/hung-out-to-dry-twice-tennessee-city-stumped-by-trumps-washer-tariffs-idUSKBN1FI0G1
    
    A great many jobs have been lost to technology , AI , robotics and automation etc which Tariffs will never replace . It will only hit his constituency the hardest with higher living costs .
    
    https://www.recode.net/2017/3/25/15051308/us-uk-germany-japan-robot-job-automation
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:01am
    - Harkman
      
      Who does America have free trade with SB? Canada and Mexico? That hasn’t worked out that well for them (and I support free trade).
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:29am
    - simpleton1
      
      Hmmm
      Some are great supporter of unlimited free trade when it supports one of their ideologies.
      
      China just subsidizes cheap steel and aluminum into the peripheral countries that is reworked into angle, plate, H beams etc. and other goods that are then exported on to the USA,
      http://fortune.com/2016/09/09/chinese-aluminum-giant-is-tied-to-a-2-billion-mystery-mexican-stockpile/
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:32am
    - Liberty
      
      “Free trade has created lots of jobs”
      
      Then why is Col taking us back to Muldoonism?
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:33am
  - softail 1450
    
    flipper ,there must have been 39 people from KB on the piss yesterday to uptick your comment, you need a “humor radar transplant”.
    
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    March 6, 2018 6:10am
- Scott
  
  Yes I think everyone realises that Trump was making a joke to a friendly audience about becoming president for life. If you listen to the tape he is obviously obviously making a joke.
  
  But here in the New Zealand mainstream media they act as if he was not making a joke and as if his comment was deadly serious. This is a perfect example of what Trump calls “fake news”.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/donald-trumps-america/101962406/trump-says-maybe-us-will-have-a-president-for-life-someday
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:46am
  - Gabby
    
    It got you linking to it so it snott unsuccessful.
    
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    March 5, 2018 11:16am
    - softail 1450
      
      grubby ,oh dear what a pity you cant uptick yourself grub.
      
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      March 6, 2018 6:15am
igm

Palmerston North speedway is now under siege by Fairfax Filth supporting some losers’ claims that it is a family event and they will not allow prams. Being lefties, they must realise it is the result of health and safety regulations, and also who in their right mind is so ignorant as to push those bloody things around a speedway where there is an amount of danger. Seems Fairfax Filth want to assist doing the same as what happened to Wellington’s Sevens . . . “Think of the Children” is becoming more detestable by the day. But of course, it is a sport dominated by white males . . . it must go!
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March 5, 2018 8:06am
- Keeping Stock
  
  To be fair igm, it’s not the promoters of the speedway that don’t allow prams but those who run Arena Manawatu.
  
  They also banned the bringing in of food a few years ago, no doubt to bolster the royalties they receive from the hot dog and chip vendors. They was such an uproar that they had to back down and allow patrons to bring in home-prepared food, or snacks like chippies, but takeaways like fish and chips, Maccas, pizzas and K-Fried remain on the verboten list.
  
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  March 5, 2018 11:45am
cmm

So what does South Africa’s change of President really mean? Part 3

The Zulus

South Africa has countless tribes and groupings and it would be pointless to go into details of every one, since most of them are of little consequence in the grand scheme of things. However, it would be foolish to ignore the Zulus.

The Zulus are the most powerful single group of people in South Africa and have been for generations. Since they have no written language we are a bit limited in what we know, but they have likely been the dominant tribe of the region for over 500 years. As my late father said to me somewhere around 1975: “We all live here at the pleasure of the Zulus.”

The Zulus are over 12 million of the South African population of about 58 million. They have a king who still has considerable influence. About 4 million Zulus live on the Ingonyama trust lands which are governed according to tribal laws with the king at the head. People do not own their lands but instead pay rent to the trust (ie. the king). While this is technically called rent, it is probably better considered tribute, in line with the traditional thinking on the matter. Quite similar to the European feudal systems of the middle ages.

Most Zulus in the tribal areas, and likely even most who live outside those areas, still regard themselves as subjects of the king first and foremost. Thus, the king has considerable force at his disposal and could start a civil war by lifting his little finger. And, as mentioned before, nobody does warrior better than the Zulus.

It is also worth considering the history that brought them to this point. When black people (the Nguni) first migrated south, they brought with them cattle and their traditional crops of low-yield sorghum. Agriculture was low output. Population growth (and essentially tribal power) were very much limited by how much food people could raise using traditional methods. Then, mid 1500s, the Portuguese imported maize, beans and sweet potatoes (kumara) to Mozambique – within easy trading distance of the Zulus. This increased food output by a factor of 5 or so. That lead to rapid population growth in the areas where these new crops grew well – particularly in the areas inhabited by the Zulus and Xhosa.

The Zulus also had large estuaries etc allowing fishing which added food to their diet – giving them a further leg up the power ladder.

Increased food supply brings both population increases and the ability to direct part of the population to other purposes. In the case of the Zulus, that was directed into their military. This allowed them to build an empire that expanded from a small tribe to absorbing others until they has a small empire. The size of that empire was limited by technological limits: no roads, no wheel, no horses, no written language and no arithmetic.

That increased population also drove the need for more of the best land which triggered the Mfecane in the early 1800s – a period of approximately 20 years during which over a million people (50% of the South Africa population at the time) were killed or driven off. The domino effect of this extended far into Africa. A pretty good score for an army with no wheel, horses or other technology.

European settlers had been in the Cape (1500 km from the Zulu action) since the 1650s, but in the 1830s – around the end of the Mfecane – both boer and English settlers started arriving in the areas the Zulus controlled.

Even though we are talking of population increases, we’re still only talking of a two or three million people almost all living in the preferred lands of the Zulus and the Xhosas (which they still inhabit today). A family – say 5 or 6 people – could only till a very small area of land by hand (no ploughs) and needed a small area for grazing etc. Further, they would not want to live too far from their extended family or friends (within yelling distance) for security. Let’s just say they family actually used 2 hectares. There would have been half a million families occupying a million hectares throughout Zululand and Transkei. In other words, far less than 10% of the KwaZulu/Transkei region would actually have been in use.

Thus, when the Zulu king gave a vast tract of Kwa Zulu Natal (not the best bits of course) to the Brits for saving his life, land was not viewed with the value it has today. The same when the boers arrived and bought land in the north eastern areas of Natal.

So why would you want a boer or a Brit in your region? Remember that there was no legal system of ownership and police forces etc back then. You only owned what you could hold onto by force. Therefore security from raiding parties was an ongoing issue and having people with guns and horses helped stabilise the peace.

The king is a busy man. He had about a hundred wives and other duties. Having the brits in the area to help control the situation would have been seen as a huge plus.

The same would apply to weaker tribes in the north too. Having the boers and their horses and guns would be seen as a good way to protect against raids from stronger tribes.

Getting a bit long, so I will pick up the story of the Zulus in the modern day tomorrow, if there continues to be interest.
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- jp_1983
  
  Good read – Can DPF put this up as a guest post or can you collate these and put them up as a Google Doc and share the link?
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:17am
  - cmm
    
    Feel free to google doc them yourself.
    
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    March 5, 2018 8:21am
  - howitis
    
    Vastly superior to the dross from John Stringer.
    Thanks CMM.
    Very concise yet informative.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:54am
- ztev
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  A white south african who is a complete expert on black tribes. ?
  Who would have guessed he would be trotting out ‘history’ used to justify apartheid. That only came in the 1960s as before that they just said the blacks were inferior and left it at that.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:44am
  - SGA
    
    pfft – no where does he claim to being a “complete expert”. You can check his accuracy easily through Google anyway (which I do to various comments here that sound a bit off, often with disappointing results ? ). I don’t treat cmm’s comments as gospel, but still find them interesting.
    
    More generally, there are plenty of people with useful knowledge of peoples and places who weren’t actually members of the group. Some universities have whole departments of Classics, for example 🙂 .
    
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    March 5, 2018 8:54am
    - Kimbo
      
      In the 1930s the late great Dr Danie Craven of South African rugby fame gained the first of his three doctorates (all earned!) in Anthropology, a thesis on the native peoples of the Western Cape, I think. And he proved instrumental in finding ways to influence apartheid-government policy so that
      
      1. First Maori and Pacific Islanders could play in South Africa
      
      2. Then South African blacks and whites could first play on the same field
      
      3. Then South African rugby was integrated at all levels
      
      4. Then, on the release of Nelson Mandela, he flew to Zambia to meet with the then-still-banned ANC, thus preempting the Nationalist government’s decision to dismantle apartheid in full.
      
      Doc Craven was the greatest rugby man who ever lived, and worked tirelessly and as opportunity allowed from the time he first arrived in New Zealand as a player in 1937 (when he struck up genuine and long-lasting friendship with Guide Rangi of Whakarewarewa and her family) until the first fully-integrated All Black team toured South Africa in 1970, and then Errol Tobias toured with the 1981 Springboks, to ensure the best All Black and Springbok teams played one another.
      
      Not that you would hear much of that perspective about Craven in 1981 or the boycott-busting years of the rest of the 1980s. Nonetheless, he was a giant, and yes, his knowledge of other cultures and peoples other than his own gave him an expertise to bring those people together, often in spite of prevailing social and political systems.
      
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      March 5, 2018 12:04pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Oh, and just to clarify for cmm, Doc Craven earned those three doctorates (in Anthropology in the 1930s, in Psych in the 1960s and in Sports Studies in the 1970s) at a real Western Cape University, his beloved Stellenbosch! 🙂
        
        Plus there was the small matter of being a great player, coach, IRB rugby law maker, and running South African rugby for 35 years. Remarkable man. I digress…
        
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        March 5, 2018 12:14pm
  - cmm
    
    ztev: Nowhere have I ever claimed to be a complete expert on the matter.
    
    Unlike you, I actually lived in South Africa for 30 years, including 18 years living in Kwa Zulu Natal – where the Zulu people come from.
    
    I grew up speaking Zulu some of the time and playing with Zulu kids. I don’t claim to be an expert, but I might just know a teeny-tiny amount about some of this.
    
    I also spent time in Pondoland (Xhosa) and could see the difference between the way the tribes behave.
    
    If you have read anything else I have written, you will know that I have never tried to justify apartheid.
    
    Your last sentence about 1960 makes no sense at all. Either that or I am far too stupid to understand it.
    
    Lastly, for your education, there are no “white south africans” as a group. The whites are tribal too: in many ways Afrikaners are very different to English speaking people and even the difference between Transvaal Afrikaners in the North and those in the Cape is huge.
    
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    March 5, 2018 8:58am
    - stephieboy
      
      cmm, I have to say you present your post knowledgeably and 30 years in SA speaks for it self in any many kinds of ways .
      
      I’ll reserve my judgement until completely read . Apologises for any rash comment I may have made .
      However I still believe many of the land problems go back to the Native Lands Act 1913 which dispossessed the majority of their lands
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:15am
      - cmm
        
        Stephie: Yes the Lands Act of 1913 is problematic, particularly if viewed from a modern context without understanding why it was written and the underlying purpose.
        
        However, it must be understood that this has also been bent and twisted into a modern day political tool that is used to bolster many very rash and – quite frankly – incredibly wrong claims.
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:28am
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        Yes – like the ToW.
        
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        March 5, 2018 10:07am
      - NZpatriot
        
        Stephie, nice to see you being gracious while still disagreeing (I am being serious). It’s a good look – you should try it more often.
        
        I for one welcome different views and a challenging argument, but I always think it needs to be done respectfully, so please try to keep it up. Cheers.
        
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        March 5, 2018 10:23am
    - RF
      
      cmm.
      
      Game set match……
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:34am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Nice slap-down cmm, and nothing less than our resident shoot-from-the-lip ztev deserves.
      
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      March 5, 2018 11:48am
  - thedavincimode
    
    Is that it ztev, or are you going to have another try?
    
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    March 5, 2018 11:32am
    - RF
      
      Nah…. slunk away licking his wounds….
      
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      March 5, 2018 11:41am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Unlike you – who are a complete expert on everything.
    This places you in a fine position to critique cmm’s contribution. //
    
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    March 5, 2018 12:38pm
- kowtow
  
  ‘nobody does warrior better than the Zulus.’
  
  Chard , Bromhead and Martini Henry beg to differ.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:53am
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes, that’s a great line.
    But the Zulus were probably the best out of all tribal nations when it comes to warfare.
    Shaka had organised regiments and training etc.
    They had shields and stabbing spears.
    Meanwhile our maoris had wooden sticks .
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:08am
    - stephieboy
      
      DipNap15 , their weapons weren’t actually sticks but rather powerful and crafted like spears .
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:17am
      - fernglas
        
        Plus if you got a wallop upside the swede with one of those mere, you wouldn’t be saying that in addition to wooden sticks, they had some pieces of rock.
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:24am
    - RF
      
      Those stabbing spears were mean mothers that sent many of mother England’s finest soldiers to the happy hunting grounds.
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:19am
    - rangitoto
      
      The change to stabbing spears is reminiscent of the phallanx tactics used by the ancient Greeks. Although it seems that the Zulus liked to keep high mobility rather than the heavy shields and static engagements that the Greeks preferred.
      
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      March 5, 2018 11:15am
  - cmm
    
    Do not ascribe the superior technology to the actual warriors themselves.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:13am
  - Gabby
    
    Chelmsford reckons there may be something in it kobknob.
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:00am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      The animated dildo knows all about knobs.
      
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      March 5, 2018 11:13am
      - Gabby
        
        Donkey wee knows about pissing down his leg.
        
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        March 5, 2018 11:19am
  - Swifty
    
    And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind it.
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:45am
    - RF
      
      They don’t like it up them.
      
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      March 5, 2018 3:09pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  @cmm
  Yes, it is of interest.
  
  I do not subscribe to the stephieboy school of thought that you have no sources or knowledge of South Africa’s history.
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/02/general_debate_19_february_2018.html#comment-2142023
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:03am
  - flipper
    
    Agree Maggie. Good stuff cmm.
    Pity the sh** for brains cannot resist their talking points directives.
    
    As the WW2 spy-catchers always said: It is better to keep your mouth shut and let other people think you may be stupid, than to open it and remove any doubt that you are indeed [fuckwits].
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:29am
  - Manolo
    
    Cara Maggy, the mere phrase “stephieboy’s school of thought” is an oxymoron, isn’t it?
    
    The two terms are incompatible.
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:07am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Oxymoron is such an informative word, doncha think?
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:13am
- EAD_TWO
  
  I’ll make a prediction cmm……
  
  as Africa continues to ethnically cleanse itself of the white population who produces most of the food, economy, infrastructure, soon we’ll be bombarded w images of starving Africans, white westerners will be guilted into feeding, clothing, nursing Africa. Again.
  
  As such, can you explain what was immoral about apartheid? Because what’s happening to white people in South Africa right now is EXACTLY what the proponents of apartheid said would happen should it ever end.
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:07am
  - cmm
    
    Many places like Nigera and Mozambique purged themselves of the evil colonials then went hungy and are now opening their arms to displaced Afrikaner farmers who bring proper management and husbandry.
    
    I’ll try to post something on my take on apartheid later this week, if there is interest.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:16am
    - Harkman
      
      In the early 90s, Jim Rogers traveled down Africa (and around the world) on his motorcycle and he claimed that the further south you went down the continent the harder the currency was. The locals either wanted Dollars, Yen or the neighbouring currency to the south. Now the Rand is an utter joke it makes me wonder how utterly shit all the other currencies are.
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:41am
  - Manolo
    
    Africa is condemned to be at the bottom of the heap for centuries to come.
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:09am
Paulus

Over coffee in the village at the weekend the question was asked as to who voted for Winston Peters, silence, then admitted by a few who are Grey Power members they did.
But all said they would never do it again but were unsure who to vote for next – certainly not Cindy or Greens. National ???
Somebody said that if Winston was not there and Tabetau, being from Rotorua, was leader they would reconsider NZF but only if the publically agreed before the election to work with National.
Until such time NZF would remain well below the 5% whilst Winston was there but could get up without him.
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March 5, 2018 8:08am
- Poppa
  
  Hopefully that vile Peters is dust at the next election.
  
  He pissed off most of his voters, all for his own benefit
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:39am
  - RF
    
    That object of derision is just a POS.
    
    He only picked the tooth fairy to ensure he got his grubby hands on the baubles of office. Hopefully Father Time will soon mark his card
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:44am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Yes, but he does that every election cycle. Then weeks before the vote he promises some stuff and gets elected. Democracy is a flawed system, and MMP the worst of it.
    
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    March 5, 2018 3:57pm
- Albert_Ross
  
  But if you’re willing to vote for NZF only if they are committed to work with National – then why not just vote National in the first place?
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:37am
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Remember, Peters is going to keep everyone honest!
    
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    March 5, 2018 1:02pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Laughable Albert Ross that even at this stage there are still people who are so naïve as to think that there could ever be an alliance between National & NZ First.
    They must be forgetting that this COL is operating on the content of a 38 page secret document produced by the old drunk. There is sure to be a life preserver safe seat for the old drunk especially as he knows his political future is very doubtful beyond 2020. Apart from his support levels still dropping he is also aging more rapidly in a dash to the end.
    
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    March 5, 2018 4:29pm
JIV

Is there a yin and yang between NZ and American politics.
We get the joy of seeing Hillary completely lose her marbles over the Trump victory, but have to suffer the idiocy of our own air-head buying New Zealand’s baubles of office. Prior to that we had the firm guidance of Key-English for 3 terms while America got Mr Climate Change himself, Barrack Obama.
I guess Clinton-Clark may spoil my theory
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March 5, 2018 8:09am
Gravelroad

Something different for a Monday:
We are all on board re gender equality, inclusiveness, balance etc etc (no groans pls).
So, is blogging – especially on blogs with a political theme – generally a male preserve?
Of the regular, and semi regular contributors on kiwiblog, what percentage would you say are male as compared to female?
No spinning off onto gender realignment distraction though.
My pick for KB contributors: 80% male, 20% female.
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March 5, 2018 8:10am
- Paulus
  
  My suggestion as we are being media bombarded is to say “go for it”.
  Let the women have everything they want then sit back and watch.
  History never changes.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:14am
  - tf78
    
    Milo Yiannopoulos’ theory is that all the feminists have got everything they want and now they are looking to create misery and mischief anywhere they can.
    
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    March 5, 2018 8:43am
    - Gabby
      
      Milo’s a big girl’s blouse.
      
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      March 5, 2018 1:46pm
- cmm
  
  I heard an interesting take on that from Stefan Molyneux. Men have traditionally been more interested in politics because they have more skin in the game.
  
  In war time, who gets to the fronts? Men or women? Hence, politics ends up being of much more consequence to males.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:17am
  - Kimbo
    
    Was always the argument used to deny women the vote, and, as in conservative Islam and similar religions and cultures, to restrict the rights of women to drive, or have an education: the domain of men in which they rule is the world, the domain of women in which they lead is the home. And God and/or biology has decreed it as so…
    
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    March 5, 2018 12:20pm
  - Gabby
    
    In Russia Front comes to you cmmiebokkie, even if you are soft weak woman.
    
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    March 5, 2018 1:45pm
    - cmm
      
      C’mon Gabby, admit it… The only fronts you have experience of are Y fronts.
      
      Yes, lots of wimminz on the Russian Front. Not much voting though!
      
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      March 5, 2018 5:46pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  KB is an egalitarian environment in which anyone my post, regardless of their gender or gender expression.
  
  If 80% of the posters are male, that is a result of free choice.
  
  Ought KB register all posters and then decree a quota of 50% female and 50% male postings to achieve “diversity”?
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:23am
  - waikatogirl
    
    No thanks O-s!
    Change the male/female ratio and it would change the whole tone of KB.
    
    signed 1 kiwi woman ?
    
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    March 5, 2018 8:30am
    - sooty
      
      Waiting for the Stranded to do that.
      
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      March 5, 2018 8:45am
    - CHFR1
      
      Can I upvote this more than once
      signed- another Kiwi woman
      
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      March 5, 2018 8:59am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        That’s a good idea!
        Instead of quotas (per se), KB can give registered female users the power of multiple voting!
        
        //
        
        This would increase the weighting of women.
        
        … (Oops!) Did I accidentally trigger??!
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:13am
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        Most of the women on here are sensible, with intelligent comment – they must be honorary males. 😉 (ducking for cover)
        
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        March 5, 2018 11:20am
    - KiWombat
      
      We can see that a number of contributors identify as women, so that does bring some balance.
      
      Several make regular valuable contributions – for which we are most grateful – as they negate in some small way the vile and negative comments posted by the few idiot male staffers who seem to troll seeking attention. These we can do without !
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:41am
      - Nermal
        
        Interesting you mention “identify as women”. There’s one contributor I have serious doubt about, as “she” often uses an expletive that is is extremely derogatory to women. Could be wrong
        
        BTW, much of what I identify as depends on my mood and is subject to change. Some are set in stone, ie male, Kiwi, white, right wing, alcoholic,
        
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        March 5, 2018 12:44pm
    - mic
      
      Being a woman, I’m also of the same opinion.
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:04am
    - Swifty
      
      Waikatogirl, in what way do you think it would change, out of curiosity?
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:50am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Swifty, I like the male interaction. If you guys don’t like something you say so. If someone oversteps the mark, they are told to pull their head in. KB is self-policing in the way society should be.
        
        KB is a refreshing breath of common sense by both the men and women who take part (excluding the obvious!) At least we on KB know there is some resistance out there to all this lefty bullshit.
        
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        March 5, 2018 12:15pm
      - Swifty
        
        Thanks – if there were a lot more women posting, do you think any of that would change?
        
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        March 5, 2018 12:44pm
  - RalphT
    
    And then we would need GLBTXYZ quotas as well.
    
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    March 5, 2018 8:46am
  - stephieboy
    
    Odakyu sen , anybody can post here gender or otherwise .Weirdo beliefs ( e.g climate denial , white genocide Clinton Foundation , Obama conspiracies etc ) included .
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:21am
    - Swifty
      
      Young nubile bodies, small but ample breasts, porn links – yes, all sorts of weirdos get to post here.
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:51am
  - fernglas
    
    Speaking as a member of the BLT community, I would like to suggest that I should be able to post twice for every one from people who identify as binary. Each of my sexual identities have separate and often conflicting opinions on matters of concern to this blog, and I/we would consider it discriminatory if our opinions were not given equal prominence and afforded equal weight
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:34am
    - KiWombat
      
      Meritorious FG.
      
      Mrs W and I have conflicting political views, not sure whether she knows it though ! I haven’t spoken to my wife for years, I don’t want to interrupt her !
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:44am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      fernglas,
      
      (Channeling Mr. Spock)
      
      Your logic is impeccable…
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:12am
    - Paulus
      
      I like BLTs from the cafe for lunch !
      Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato.
      
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      March 5, 2018 11:06am
    - VicParking
      
      I identify as non-Sexual. Does that mean I can not post at all.
      
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      March 5, 2018 11:24am
    - KevOB
      
      Bacon. lettuce. tomato?
      
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      March 5, 2018 11:46am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    KB is an egalitarian environment in which anyone my post, regardless of their gender or gender expression.
    
    No, it is a sexually abusive environment.
    
    Most women would not put up with the revolting crap I have been subjected to from a few anonymous bloggers.
    
    I realise most of you on KB are not an active party to the abuse, but there has been no call to clean up the personal filth that has been directed against me.
    
    Do you really think females who expressed green/left-wing/contrary opinions would get a fair-go on this site?
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:40am
    - Daphne Whitethigh
      
      I agree, Maggy. A while ago when the Sutton harassment was under early discussion, I suggested there may well be some truth in the whole thing. Apparently that made me a lesbian feminazi, among other insults. It was not a pleasant experience.
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:51am
      - Gabby
        
        Lots of frightened ex/ lawyers hoping to bluster their way to safety.
        
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        March 5, 2018 11:21am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Be of stout heart, Daphne.
        Gird your loins and prepare for the next onslaught.
        Abusers like to abuse.
        
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        March 5, 2018 11:27am
      - waikatogirl
        
        I keep my head below the parapet Maggy. Nasty harassing trolls need taking out behind the bikeshed to be taught some decency.
        
        The rest of us enjoy your posts. ?
        
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        March 5, 2018 12:25pm
    - GoVege
      
      Exactly, Maggie.
      I get downticked all the time just for trying to stick up for abused fellow species.
      But then most veges tend to be women or gay….not well-represented here. 🙂
      
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      March 5, 2018 11:09am
      - Padriv Ustoev
        
        Yes the elusive second species of man.
        
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        March 5, 2018 11:28am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I think a downtick is a little less abusive than being described as having a dry minge, or saggy little tits,
        or being menopausal or implying that I was a slut suffering from sexual jealousy, or that I was a piece of shit… (and did I mention mad, mad, mad, etc).
        However, I’m sure the mammals appreciate your efforts.
        
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        March 5, 2018 11:31am
      - GoVege
        
        Actually I could be outa date there.
        I read on the weekend that vegetarianism and veganism is becoming much more popular.
        Hence the development of meat substitutes.
        
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        March 5, 2018 2:16pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Yes MW it is a shame you have fielded so many insults and personal attacks. However it is with respect to some degree self inflicted by responding to the trolls. Think “sticks & stones” and take solace from the tick ration you attract by comparison to the trolls cornering the down ticks.
      In response to your last question it is just the same approach. They are free to post but must also accept the tick ratio they attract mostly from a silent majority.
      Your own tick ratio tells the real story of your contributions from a free speaker and any genuine response might challenge your view but certainly not you.
      
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      March 5, 2018 4:48pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @piniwi
        
        However it is with respect to some degree self inflicted by responding to the trolls.
        
        I disagree.
        The first instances of personal abuse came when I originally commented on KB about the NZ Temperature record.
        I would argue that I was sucker-punched.
        I had read the comments policy here and took it to mean that personal abuse/attacks would not be tolerated.
        As I am not going to offer back abuse, I have two courses of action:
        Accept the abuse and defamatory smears and stop commenting on climate science,
        or keep posting on topics that interest me and identify the abuse as abuse.
        For the life of me, I don’t see what my reproductive status has to do with NZ’s climate.
        
        .
        
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        March 5, 2018 5:29pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I would have put the female input much lower, nearer 10%.
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:07am
  - KiWombat
    
    Yes but it’s quality that counts Maggy !
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:45am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Hard to know with pseudonyms, I am positive on that note that the most erudite posters are exactly that, female. 😉
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:11am
  - Swifty
    
    5-10% would be my pick.
    
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    March 5, 2018 11:41am
- Gabby
  
  Not sure why you give a rat’s arse gravelrash.
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:04am
Chuck Bird

I watched the Sunday doco about Coral Burrows who was murdered by her mother’s boyfriend despite her father contacting authorities.

The mother would not front and in a statement failed to accept any responsibility. She just said if she had known Coral was in danger she would have done something.

When a woman makes a claim against a father it is much more likely to be investigated than when the father makes a complaint.

Children are still being murdered by mother’ s boyfriends.
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March 5, 2018 8:10am
- Gravelroad
  
  It is a sad indictment on our modern society that despite education and feminist encouragement towards independence, for many women and girls, having a partner/boyfriend (of any caliber) represents status and security. The children come second and sometimes lower than that.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:28am
- waikatogirl
  
  My concern with the mother of Coral Burrows was how she could take up with a total loser with 86 previous convictions. Was she totally naive? Then Coral began soiling herself soon after Stephen moved in.
  
  Seriously, was the mother totally blind!
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:35am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Read this appalling story of domestic abuse.
    http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/351755/domestic-abuse-nightmare-he-just-smashed-it-across-my-face
    The poor abused woman reckons it was easier to stay with her brute of a husband than it was to live life on her own.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:11am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Maggy,
      
      (She claims that it was easier to stay with her brute of a husband than it was to live life on her own.)
      
      I wonder what essential life skills this abused woman lacked?
      
      Can we list them?
      – Inability to make new friends?
      – Inability to generate income to pay for rent / food? (She won’t or can’t work.)
      –
      
      What benefits might her abusing partner have provided?
      – Status (look at my bad boy)
      – Cash flow
      – Security against other aggressive males
      –
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:32am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Good analysis Odakyu-san.
        
        To that list, I would add lack of self-worth.
        I expect she had been told countless times that she was useless.
        
        You are one of the only males I have ever come across who has correctly identified that some vulnerable women (solo mums) become prey to other men.
        Whether these predatory men think that women on their own are easy meat or can be an unpaid house-keeper, I’m not sure; but there seem to be plenty of them about.
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:49am
      - waikatogirl
        
        O-s, It is more about the abuser choosing a passive partner who sets about grooming his target by lulling her into believing they are the sweetest most caring partner who loves her so much and will always care for her. He then sets about isolating and demeaning her until she has no confidence.
        Sick, psychological trickery.
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:54am
      - Gabby
        
        A degree of brainwashing may have occurred okeydokey.
        
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        March 5, 2018 10:07am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Maggy,
        
        I suspect that the lower your level of self worth, the harder it is for you to cope with or make changes in your living environment.
        
        The overwhelming sense is that of “I want things to be different, but I am so scared…” In the end, no change is made.
        
        Men who seek control can spot a needy woman a mile off. Couple this with the tendency of the average woman to be attracted to what she perceives to be an “alpha” male, and you have a situation ripe for abuse.
        
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        March 5, 2018 10:25am
    - Anne Glen Eden
      
      Just a bit shallow, Maggy.
      
      Just how do you protect yourself from someone who is prepared to inflict injury, up to death, when you have no friends and nothing – and children to look after? It’s not quite as easy as, “Oh, I’ll go and live on my own.” As many dead women could testify.
      
      Many years ago I met some American women over here talking about domestic abuse. They had a saying – “Men beat their wives; women kill their husbands.” And then they go to jail for more punishment. That’s because it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to get out – safely. It’s all very well to talk about protection orders but paper isn’t a protection against physical assault.
      
      I’d give this woman points for leaving when she had the opportunity. Unfortunately, the kids had to be left behind – as they generally are in society. But she had the moral fibre not to kill her husband, despite that being the most rational action to take for self-preservation and that of her children. In the meantime, don’t tell me a whole lot of other people didn’t know what was happening and leave her and the children in the situation. They have no moral fibre at all and should have been jailed with him.
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:11am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Anne Glen Eden
        
        No disagreements from me.
        
        Sure, other people must have had a sense that something was wrong.
        
        But remember this woman kept going back to the guy. That must have been frustrating for folks who tried to help earlier on.
        We also have a CYFS that seem very reluctant to remove children from homes where there is violence.
        
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        March 5, 2018 10:32am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        “It’s all very well to talk about protection orders but paper isn’t a protection against physical assault. ”
        
        A Glock is.
        
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        March 5, 2018 11:54am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    No not blind. Just placed her own emotional needs ahead the physical and emotional safety of her daughter.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:52am
  - Northland Wahine
    
    Totally agree WG.
    
    As a mother, surely your child is paramount? But sadly, to often it’s not the case. We’ve raised more than one generation of women who believe their male partners define them. And if they have no partner, then they see themselves as undesirable and worthless. I’m sorry, in cases like this, mother’s like Burrows piss me off to the max.
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:01am
    - Anne Glen Eden
      
      I’m playing Devil’s Advocate here because I completely agree with you.
      
      But you can’t deny the feminist movement which has preached for years that women must put their own needs first, including to be able to provide appropriate care for their children. This was augmented, even, in the Refuge movement where children always came second – and it continues in social services now.
      
      I realise that such situations are a matter of degree but social movements never take note of ‘degrees’ and always talk in absolutes. So NZ mothers have been told ad nauseum to put themselves and their relationships first and their children last.
      
      It’s a mistake because if it’s not ‘fit’ for children, it’s not ‘fit’ for them.
      
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      March 5, 2018 11:03am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Anne in some ways both men and women must put their relationships first. Children can be very jealous when the custodial parent takes a new partner – even a very good one. They will sometimes try and destroy a relationship.
        
        However, putting a relationship first does not mean the one should allow a partner to abuse children. It gets even more difficult with a blended family. They are no easy answers to new relationships aside from not allow children to be abused.
        
        Hoskings and Hawesby deserve credit for how they make their marriage work.
        
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        March 5, 2018 12:12pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Wouldn’t deny that at all Anne and I think your last sentence sums it up.
        
        I want for my children as I want for myself. Good and healthy relationships. And if you can not find that in a partner, find that with yourself. And our kids, daughters and sons need to be taught that and have examples of this in their lives. And as a parent, you will be their first example in everything.
        
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        March 5, 2018 12:45pm
  - KKKKatee
    
    Too hooked on drugs and the dysfunctional sex that goes with it. Who cares about the kids? They only are about them when they’ve been bashed to death by the boyfriend I’m afraid.
    
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    March 5, 2018 12:18pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  The safest environment for children is to live with both biological parents married to each other.
  
  If Cindy really cared about the children she would get married to set an example.
  
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  March 5, 2018 2:59pm
oldpark

Noticed that the self appointed NZs Dictator Peters and his selected gang of no hopers are gallivanting around the Pacific islands handing out NZs taxpayers money willy nilly.
Commie Chic Comrade Ardern performing in the stance of NZs PM selected by Peters should take a bit of ignored home grown advice.
A lot of NZs and their properties were also whacked by cyclone Gila and they also need some of NZs taxpayers funds to help them get back to normal living.
Seems in the haste of the Peters selected cabal to big note in the world of its only make believe in the pacific Islands they have missed the obvious.
“Charity begins at home”.
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March 5, 2018 8:10am
- fernglas
  
  “Charity begins at home”
  
  Tell that to the Chinese, who are buying up influence in the Pacific at an astonishing rate.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:16am
  - kowtow
    
    And if Peters and Ardern think we can match that …….
    
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    March 5, 2018 8:56am
    - simpleton1
      
      We do, in allowing work visas, immigration, benefits, education and health.
      
      Would Islanders want to go to China to find work, schools, hospital care and live?
      
      China may have this available, so soon Mandarin/Cantonese speaking Pacific Islanders?
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:54am
      - Paulus
        
        We give the PI’s KFC that is not available in the Islands.
        And Social Welfare benefits.
        
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        March 5, 2018 11:10am
  - Piniwi
    
    However fernglas many see the irony in this claim by the old drunk as it is exactly what NZ has been doing all along. Often at severe cost to the taxpayers where so little in seen in return.
    
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    March 5, 2018 5:13pm
- tf78
  
  What galled me this morning is a headline about Cindy’s role as a “pregnant PM” – I’m sorry, but since when was she selected to be pregnant, not part of the job description as far as I’m concerned. Long may the maternity leave last.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:48am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    I was offended by the term ‘charm offensive’. What charm, the media fabricated one?
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:18am
    - Paulus
      
      Remember the media have been flown there with her for free plus perks and are feted as part of the charm offensive.
      
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      March 5, 2018 11:11am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        They would hardly have been made to walk home if the left the word ‘pregnant’ from the headline.
        …Would they …?
        
        [I suppose it is the left we’re taking about]
        
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        March 5, 2018 12:47pm
- KiWombat
  
  The delegation to the Pacific has traditionally comprised a cross section of parliamentary support from all parties. When National was in government, they would invite four opposition members to join the delegation.
  
  On this occasion the government only invited one opposition member to join them. Following some pressure, WeeWinnie allowed two opposition MP’s to join the delegation.
  
  I wonder whether they will apply the same principles when selecting the Parliamentary Rugby side?
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:57am
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes Labour are very vindictive
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:10am
  - Gabby
    
    He may have noted Bingles’ declared intention for the opposition to be obstructive and negative keywomble.
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:11am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Because Labour in opposition weren’t? Not as upfront about it, yes.
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:19am
      - Gabby
        
        Did you just answer your own question?
        
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        March 5, 2018 11:24am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I hope they are not handing out largesse to the corrupt Tongan Government.
  http://kanivatonga.nz/2018/03/police-charge-minister-of-internal-affairs-and-husband-for-fraud/
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:14am
- Tricati
  
  My bet is a dialysis machine for Tonga given all the recent coverage on TV by Barbara Deaver to keep South Auckland happy
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:49am
- KevOB
  
  Charity is free to them. Grant only has be told it’s coming from the Foreign Aid Vote and the Auditor General assured that the item will be voted.
  
  Public monies —> handouts at will.
  
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  March 5, 2018 11:56am
  - Piniwi
    
    True KevOB but it is not seen as charity to the recipient however it does have a strong influence on the mind set of the them. More people in such situations expect it to be bottomless and just keep flowing in.
    Living in a third world country where 10% of GDP comes from off shore workers sending money home to family embeds an expectation in much of the population. Seeing it first hand it is amazing that when their circumstances change they never seem to share/give much at all.
    
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    March 5, 2018 5:24pm
- Piniwi
  
  Truly scary oldpark as so many of us watch on as these incompetent COL members say so much and do nothing then proceed to spread their havoc on the International front.
  The storm damage is at the extreme level since it is all on the surface making it so much more visible. Local funds and resources to repair and recover are very limited since it is across a lot popular tourist areas that are sparsely populated. It also means very limited political representation with so few covering so much of the South Island.
  Added to this is the results of saltwater contamination now being witnessed by so much dead ground, flora and trees. At least we can see that disaster is the one event to be sure to see true gender balance.
  
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  March 5, 2018 5:07pm
holysheet

Clarke Gayford dies and goes to Heaven. He meets St. Peter at the Gates, and notices thousands of clocks. “What are all these clocks for?” he asks St. Peter. “Each person has one,” he replied. “They start at midnight, and every time someone tells a lie, it moves ahead one minute. This one is Mother Teresa’s. She never lied, so it never moved. This one is Norm Kirk’s. He told only two, so it is at two minutes past midnight.” Clark looks around and asks, “So, where is the mother of the nations baby’s clock?” “Oh ,”St. Peter chuckled, “Jesus has that one in his office. He’s using it as a ceiling fan.”
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March 5, 2018 8:15am
- KiWombat
  
  And WeeWinnie’s clock? Probably sent off to create cyclones in the Pacific !
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:48am
- Inandout
  
  Gaylord is on Prime at 8pm, going fishing for the ‘big one’ that nearly killed him. Some would say ‘give that fish a medal’, rather than a spear in the gills.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:56am
  - RF
    
    Jethro was boasting about how on a dive session he held his breath under water for 2 minutes.
    
    His ability to breath through his ears is the reason for the chicks toothy grin.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:13am
    - KiWombat
      
      He’s starting to look more and more like Jethro now with his multimillion dollar digs and not too much between the ears RF !
      
      Now all he needs is a bloodhound to match !
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:49am
    - G152
      
      Holding your breath and swimming for 2 minutes isn’t to much to boast about as a snorkeller.
      In fact it borders on the ordinary
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:55am
      - Colville
        
        Yeah its really ordinary to the one person in a thousand that can do that.
        
        I am no fan of that twat but anyone that can shoot a kingie at 20 meters is better at it than I will ever be.
        
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        March 5, 2018 2:09pm
- Gabby
  
  Wholly shit, that’s so old.
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:12am
- thedavincimode
  
  Last time I heard that joke it was about the poisoned dwarf.
  
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  March 5, 2018 11:43am
oldpark

Ardern last week in NZ commenting on NZs housing habits. She said in the 50s people lived in 70sm houses. Next day she bought a house circa $2,000,000 dollars. Wonder was that properties size similar to 70sm. What a giggle. Eat cake Kiwi first home buyers.Ardern is suggesting that that is the way to go.
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March 5, 2018 8:16am
- cmm
  
  I wonder if they’ve still got the broken fan from the attic to prove they’re just a regular struggling couple.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:20am
- burt
  
  I’m sure she will provide one of her houses rent free to Manus Island refugees.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:50am
- Paulus
  
  But has she sold the $1,000,000 one or is it part of her collection like the seven Helen Clark has ?
  
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  March 5, 2018 11:13am
  - KKKKatee
    
    No, unsold as yet. To show that she walks the talk, she has the perfect opportunity to rent it out for a peppercorn rental just to demonstrate she has done the moral thing and, hopefully other Landlords will follow in her footsteps (sarc).
    
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    March 5, 2018 12:23pm
Paulus

What about the 2,500 possible Christchurch Insurance claims still to be settled.

Must be worried about the PI South and West Auckland voters so more local KFC – with gravy.
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March 5, 2018 8:17am
redeye

I was on the right track last week with my faux announcement of Bridges and the baby.

https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/parenting/parenting-news/national-party-leader-simon-bridges-introduces-his-newborn-daughter-36756

God help us. I can see now the next election will be fought on the pages and web site of Womans Day.
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March 5, 2018 8:24am
- waikatogirl
  
  Saw that last night redeye. What a sweet, normal looking family, 2 cute boys and no mention of Simon’s new baby girl recently born. Guess the media don’t want the limelight taken off the nations baby.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:42am
  - Gabby
    
    See oneeye, it just might work.
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:14am
    - redeye
      
      Just wondering if anybody bothers to read this illiterate toe-rag’s comments. I’m surprised it even gets downticks as most of it’s ramblings are unreadable.
      
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      March 5, 2018 1:01pm
      - Harkman
        
        I’ll take her seriously when she learns to spell sweety properly.
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:15pm
  - ztev
    
    “no mention of Simon’s new baby girl recently born. ”
    
    I guess you missed the baby on the front page of the mag and the top of the online version.
    Yep no mention at all….
    
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    March 5, 2018 11:05am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Unlike you ztev, I don’t bother reading the womens’ mags.
      
      So, in your opinion ztev, we won’t be bombarded in the mainstream TV news with the birth and pictures of the nations baby due in June! ?
      
      We’ll see…
      
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      March 5, 2018 12:40pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Sad waikatogirl that Bridges is also showing up as a failure with Politics 101. Leave the family out of it or accept them as targets. He really is a B choice.
    
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    March 5, 2018 5:37pm
- Inandout
  
  Looking at Mike (of Mike and Zara) in that WD magazine photo, he looks like a young Stephen Fry with his broken nose.
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:00am
  - Gabby
    
    What is this power the women’s rags exert over you downanout?
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:15am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Good on them and good on Woman’s Weekly.
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:23am
Happychappy

So Winston has decided to pull his pet hate the Chinnese to save his Party and con NZ’ers by stating that NZ and Australia have to up their game in the Pacific and gain back the respect they had in the past. Who does this self serving prick think he is and what has the Pacific Islands done for NZ apart from taķing aid and trying to belittle our PM when things don’t go their way. We should be using that money to solve our so called Housing Problem, Poverty and inequality before looking after other Nations especially if these problems are the evil of our country with the Coalition trying to remind us daily of this being the reason they are the Government to fix these important issues. But getting back to Peters he obviously believes this Policy will lead to the return of his voters and being the Messiah he is destained to Lead the Pacific.
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March 5, 2018 8:25am
- waikatogirl
  
  Haven’t you noticed the campaign by TV1 news to raise awareness that Tonga doesn’t have kidney dialysis treatment available for their growing problem of their overweight population. The patients believe the Lord will solve their health problem and don’t take responsibility to lose weight.
  
  NZ has their own long list of citizens requiring kidney dialysis. Watch out for an announcement from the travelling roadshow about NZ funding a Tongan dialysis machine.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:52am
  - Nostalgia-NZ
    
    Good prediction. I saw one of the Doctor’s describing how dialysis was too expensive and the problem was the food the people ate – not a very sympathetic man.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:32am
  - ztev
    
    The Tongan government considered the issue and likely could have had aid money to set it up.
    They chose not spend money on running it.
    
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    March 5, 2018 11:00am
  - KevOB
    
    Who will get the use of it? The nobles, sufficient in number and obesity will take precedence. Public servant and the higher ranking will be next.
    
    The Doctor rightly made the decision that the whole nation needs to re-orientate their lifestyle and even if they could offer dialysis to a very large number that was not going to change the future.
    
    Where fat = beauty or rank, diabetes rules.
    
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    March 5, 2018 12:07pm
- KevOB
  
  NZ is 10 years to late. The Chinese are well entrenched in Samoa. Samoa will expect NZ to continue its special relationship and may well push for more if Winston ignorantly insults them.
  
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  March 5, 2018 12:01pm
Captain Mainwaring

OK Stupidboy, here’s something to get your head around before you try and engage your mushed-up brain for another day battling with the keyboard and the experts on here.

Do you enjoy living in a country where freedom of expression is a basic right?

1. No, so fuck off.
2. Yes, so do you realise that if you were in one of the countries that you obviously idolise, if you used such an offensive expression as ‘alt-right’, you would be rounded up and sent to the gulag?
3. Do you understand this?
4. No, so fuck off anyway.
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March 5, 2018 8:26am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Captain Mainwaring , go visit your Doctor !
  
  https://www.glamour.com/story/the-history-of-doctors-diagnosing-women-with-hysteria
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:34am
  - Harkman
    
    Obviously ztev gave you a thumbs up.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:44am
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy ,rabies on diplay for all to see.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:44am
    - Gabby
      
      softcock14yo, tangled tits on display for all to see.
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:20am
- Gabby
  
  Did you shit your pants and forget to change again cap’n crustygruts?
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:19am
cmm

So the murderer had been issued a deportation notice.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/101938891/murderer-sainey-marong-arrived-in-new-zealand-on-a-fake-passport

Funny how a bloke that has been hopping from country to country he gets issued a deportation notice and then didn’t comply.

Is this Immigration dropping the ball or are their hands tied behind their backs by the government so this is all they can do?
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March 5, 2018 8:29am
- ztev
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  The murder was some time back…you know …well before the election.
  You know the rest
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:47am
  - cmm
    
    We’ve got to where we are through decades of pretending everyone is the same.
    
    I am not claiming this is a Labour-government-dropped-the-ball issue, but rather a government-dropped-the-ball issue and blaming this on any particular group is pointless.
    
    Right now Labour party are in the driver’s seat so they have the responsibility of tightening up the controls and, I suggest, one factor in that is having a really good look at the Manus Islands kisses-and-cuddles policies.
    
    Also telling Ms Ghahraman to pull her head in might be a good idea too…
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:35am
    - Piniwi
      
      Right cmm but surely you have noticed that things are only a problem if the COL say they are otherwise it is all the fault of the previous Government.
      It something that always seems to be clutched at during OQT as every response ends with their standard insults which might have actually come from The Standard. Or they opt to quote their policy intentions to avoid an answer while Speaker just lets them prattle on.
      It has no effect on those putting questions as they go to the next supplementary if the Speaker hasn’t already deducted them.
      
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      March 5, 2018 5:49pm
- SGA
  
  Is this Immigration dropping the ball or are their hands tied behind their backs by the government so this is all they can do?
  
  As ztev rightly points out, it would have been the National-led government when all this took place.
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:25am
- Gabby
  
  Immigration were too busy hunting down homeschoolers cmmiebokkie.
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:23am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Perhaps he preferred a NZ prison to his home conditions, I am not sure why we insist on paying for room and board instead of sending them back immediately.
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:26am
  - SGA
    
    If our standard policy was to send convicted murderers back to their home countries immediately (where they haven’t committed the crime and won’t be punished), then I think some people would get upset about them getting off lightly. No?
    
    I can’t imagine how you would word a law (you’ve done law, I seem to remember?) that let you deport only in cases where you thought the country of origin was worse than our prisons?
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:54am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Do you think they might do the old Brer Rabbit trick, please don’t send me home? The briar patch?
      
      There are some that do not consider our prisons to be much of a punishment, certainly not as much of a deterrent as those of some other jurisdictions.
      
      If given a choice, I wonder which one he would choose. Yes to the law and philosophy too, sometimes the tenets are in conflict. One is seemingly more objective than the other.
      
      Do you think it inconceivable that people would commit crime to stay here and not be deported?
      
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      March 5, 2018 1:48pm
      - SGA
        
        Do you think it inconceivable that people would commit crime to stay here and not be deported?
        
        Anything is possible, Rachael. But none of what you’ve written addresses the point I raised. Maybe I wasn’t clear.
        If all foreigners convicted of a serious crime like murder in NZ were simply deported immediately (with no further direct consequence), wouldn’t some people complain that they’d gotten off lightly? And, in some cases they would have.
        How exactly can one know if being sent back will be worse than prison here (and how would you write a law to cover that)?
        At the moment, having them serve the time for their crime and then deporting them seems the most workable, albeit imperfect, course of action.
        
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        March 5, 2018 3:06pm
- Nermal
  
  Illegal immigrants should be taken to the airport immediately and put on the first flight out. Any belongings should be auctioned off to pay for the ticket, and any funds left over either remitted to a bank of their choice or to a lawyer to lodge an appeal.
  
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  March 5, 2018 1:01pm
DigNap15

So why wasn’t he deported.
Immigration NZ need to front up

Also in that Stuff article, he said that he was saving up so he could see his family.

Well if you were saving up would you buy an Audi and pick up prostitutes?

Anyone that arrives at an airport without a passport should be sent right back on the next flight!
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March 5, 2018 8:39am
- MT_Tinman
  
  Anyone that arrives at an airport without a passport should be sent right back on the next flight!
  
  I disagree.
  
  Make them walk back to where they come from – immediately.
  
  Illegals will very soon stop coming.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:54am
- srylands
  
  I thought he arrived on a fake passport. As soon as that was detected he should have been arrested and detained until he was deported.
  
  The thought processes of people on bail for serious offences can lead to destructive behaviour. If they think they will ultimately be incarcerated or deported, many of them seem to become destructive while on bail. It is a huge problem with men who bash their wives. They are bailed and go back to bash her again.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:56am
  - waikatogirl
    
    If Angry wants to lower the prison population he could start with stopping blokes like this Somalian coming across the border on fake passports. Illegally crossing borders shows little concern for the laws of that nation. Who is to say they won’t go on to commit crimes while living in NZ.
    
    If that Somalian had been turned around at the border the murder of the prostitute would not have happened. He and all others must be instantly returned where they arrive from, no excuses.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:25am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Sainey Marong is Gambian.
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:59am
      - simpleton1
        
        and worked in New Zealand as a halal butcher.
        
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        March 5, 2018 10:24am
      - ztev
        
        Just because he was a muslim required at the halal slaughter part doesnt mean he was a butcher on the chain.
        
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        March 5, 2018 10:57am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Fair enough Maggy.
        Apologies to Somalia. ?
        
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        March 5, 2018 12:44pm
- kowtow
  
  “Anyone that arrives at an airport without a passport should be sent right back on the next flight!”
  
  But then tvnz and any number of luvvies wouldn’t have been able to create and foster their “celebrity detainee” Zaoui.
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:02am
  - Paulus
    
    And as it is reported Zaoui’s 18 relatives who came with him.
    
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    March 5, 2018 1:02pm
- Gabby
  
  It’s just possible he’s a lying sack o’ shit bignipis.
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:24am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Wanting to bring them to our utopia?
  
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  March 5, 2018 3:01pm
DigNap15

Here’s my three words for today

F..k Cycle lanes
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March 5, 2018 8:42am
- stephieboy
  
  DipNap15 , road lice getting on your frail nerves ?
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:26am
  - DigNap15
    
    No council bureaucrats are getting on my nerves spending our rates money on rubbish like cycle lanes and buslanes, when no one uses them!
    Who wants to cycle round a city and get killed.
    Our cities are too hilly and too spread for mass cycling
    And what about the older people they wont be cycling.
    When I see ALL of our councillors and council staff cycling to work then I might agree.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:42am
Hugh Pavletich

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
AUSTRALIA: Housing risks ‘catastrophic’: Grattan Institute … Sydney Morning Herald

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/links-5-march-2018/#comment-3061356

AUSTRALIA: Housing risks ‘catastrophic’: Grattan Institute … Sydney Morning Herald

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/housing-risks-catastrophic-grattan-institute-20180304-p4z2qx.html

By Peter Martin

Australia’s eight-year house price boom has savaged the living standards of poorer Australians while so far leaving the wealthy untouched, a new Grattan Institute analysis finds.

But the report, to be released on Monday, warns of a “catastrophic” impact on all income groups should mortgage rates rise by more than a few percentage points. … read more via hyperlink above …
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AUSSIE & KIWI HOUSING … THE DAYS OF EXCESSIVELY RISKY HIGH MULTIPLE LENDING ARE OVER …
… read more via …
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/weekend-reading-3-4-march-2018/#comment-3060651

… Essential viewing …

AUSTRALIA: ABC’s The Business does liar loans – MacroBusiness Australia

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/abcs-business-irresponsible-mortgage-lending/
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March 5, 2018 8:48am
- stigie
  
  Oh fuck Hugh !
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:52am
  - MT_Tinman
    
    No thanks.
    
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    March 5, 2018 8:55am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      AUSTRALIA: Interest-only mortgage reset tsunami towers over housing – MacroBusiness Australia
      
      https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/interest-mortgage-cliff-grows-steepens/
      
      Via Martin North:
      
      Today we discuss which post codes will be most impacted by the interest only mortgage loan reset issue, and update our estimates of the number and value of loans likely to be impacted. This received media coverage in the AFR and the Australian over the weekend. … read more via hyperlink above …
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:11am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
        AUSTRALIA: Newspoll prints relentless Labor march to victory – MacroBusiness
        
        https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/newspoll-prints-relentless-labor-march-victory/
        
        Via The Australian:
        
        Labor has maintained its 53-47 two-party-preferred lead over the Coalition, re-enforcing its dominance and confirming the erosion in the small gains the government made at the beginning of the year. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        RECENT UNITED KINGDOM ARTICLES …
        
        THE BRITISH HOUSING CRISIS & LIKELY POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES (REPEATING NEW ZEALAND’S RECENT ELECTION EXPERIENCE) …
        
        Tories fear middle-class millennials priced out of housing market could sink party at next election … UK Telegraph (behind paywall)
        
        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/16/millennials-middle-incomes-half-likely-homeowners-1990s/
        
        Young middle-class professionals are half as likely to get on the housing ladder as they were 20 years ago, a new study has found as Tory MPs warned that the issue is an “iceberg” that could sink the party at the next election.
        
        A report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies said that just one in four young middle-income families now owns their own home, down from two in three in the 1990s. read more via hyperlink above …
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        Middle-income millennials priced out of homes market … Institute of Fiscal Studies Report … Financial Times
        … google search title to access if blocked…
        
        https://www.ft.com/content/024b1282-1236-11e8-940e-08320fc2a277
        
        Ownership among young adults has ‘collapsed’, says IFS report … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:51am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Barfoot & Thompson’s average price eased back in February and is now lower than it was 12 months ago | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/property/92451/barfoot-thompsons-average-price-eased-back-february-and-now-lower-it-was-12-months
        
        Barfoot & Thompson’s sales report for February was a mixed bag, with a substantial increase in the number of properties sold compared to February last year, while prices weakened from what was being achieved over the previous few months. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        March 5, 2018 11:04am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … FROM AUSTRALIA …
        
        What’s wrong (and right) with “suburban sprawl”? … Alan Davies … Crikey Australia
        
        https://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2018/03/05/wrong-right-suburban-sprawl/
        
        Our major cities require a more sophisticated understanding of the role of fringe development in accommodating forecast growth ( Pavletich comment … Aussies are slower learners than Kiwis … refer NZ PM Ardern / Housing Minister Twyford section http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org … and too … this year’s Demographia Survey Introduction Message by Pavletich http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf ) than reflexively dismissing it out of hand as “sprawl” … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        … Interest Co NZ February 19th, 2018 report …
        
        Housing Minister Phil Twyford says he’s planning a workshopping event for representatives of the finance community and players in the development and construction sector to help crack NZ’s problems around infrastructure financing | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/property/92190/housing-minister-phil-twyford-says-hes-planning-workshopping-event-representatives
        
        The Government is planning to bring together players from the finance community with people representing development and construction interests to hammer out a plan to solve New Zealand’s infrastructure financing problems. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        March 5, 2018 6:36pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Warnings of financial blow-up in Hong Kong … Ambrose Evans Pritchard … Sydney Morning Herald
        
        https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/warnings-of-financial-blow-up-in-hong-kong-20180305-p4z2ts.html
        
        Hong Kong’s currency regime is coming under serious strain as the US Federal Reserve steps up the pace of monetary tightening, threatening to set off an unpredictable chain of events in the world’s most over-stretched financial system. …
        
        … The territory’s property boom is officially out of control. Carrie Lam, the chief executive, said eight rounds of mortgage controls have failed to stop the speculation, and may even have been counter-productive.
        
        “The government really has no way to curb property prices,” she said.
        
        Consultants Demographia estimate that prices are 19.4 times median incomes, up from 18.1 last year, making it the “least affordable” city in the world. (Sydney is 12.9, and London 8.5). Prices have jumped fourfold since 2003 in real terms. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        Hong Kong risks becoming epicentre of the next global crisis as property boom spirals out of control … Ambrose Evans Pritchard … UK Telegraph
        
        https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/03/04/hong-kong-risks-becoming-epicentre-next-global-crisis-property/
        
        2018 14th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
        
        http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
        
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        March 5, 2018 8:33pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Back 22 February this year The Financial Times reported …
        
        Sky-high Hong Kong: can anything stop the property price boom? … Hugo Cox … Financil Times
        … google search title if blocked …
        
        https://www.ft.com/content/a6d33890-11a8-11e8-a765-993b2440bd73
        
        Do what it may, the Hong Kong government seems powerless to rein in the territory’s booming property market.
        
        In January, the city was judged the world’s least affordable by US planning consultancy Demographia for the eighth successive year (the survey reviewed nine leading global housing markets including the US, China, Singapore, UK and Japan). The median property price in Hong Kong is now 19.4 times the median income. In London — which is itself working through an unaffordability crisis — it is 8.5 times. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:45pm
  - Nermal
    
    I treat his boring posts like the pop up adverts that litter my screen. A quick click to make them disappear, and scroll on to the next item of interest. It worked wit Penney
    
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    March 5, 2018 1:06pm
- Harkman
  
  “THE DAYS OF EXCESSIVELY RISKY HIGH MULTIPLE LENDING ARE OVER …”
  
  Sure, we have a Labour government that just removed the 20% deposit rule, a debt bubble of gigantic proportions is coming.
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:47am
  - ztev
    
    Reserve bank sets the home loan lending ratios, not the government
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:55am
    - Harkman
      
      And they changed it all on the same day as the new MPA was signed, coincidence? I think not.
      
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      March 5, 2018 2:33pm
VicParking

Food grants went up last year. Last year was an election year. Same as last election year. Women complains about the price of bread. Bread is the cheapest its been for years. Last year Labour MP’s where matching against TPP, this year they are signing it. MSM just suck this up and don’t ask any hard questions. This morning David Parker was asked this. His response: “we have made the five changes we said we would”. Guyon’s Reply : “Fair enough”
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March 5, 2018 8:53am
Happychappy

It looks like Labour has solved the problem of how to recreate the slum housing of 1960’s/ 70’s latest update on 1 and two bedroom modular prefab housing that will be able to be put together in days. They can be erected on many properties that have large gardens and could save our homelessness with many large constructing companies including Fletchers looking at the incentives and whether it would be viable. I thought Winston and Jacinda said their is no place for capitalism in a country they would Lead.
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March 5, 2018 8:55am
- Gabby
  
  You thought crappily, chappy. No place for capitalism? Catch yourself on.
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:41am
- rangitoto
  
  I doubt that Fletchers will be constructing anything. I thought they said they are exiting the construction business apart from the contracts they are finishing off.
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:44am
  - ztev
    
    Bullshit.
    Fletchers are very profitably in the housing side of things.
    Its just the ‘commercial’ side of things with office towers, and big infrastructure projects they are leaving behind.
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:54am
brett68

National seems to think that they can do some sort of deal with the Greens?

Personally, I think they’ve deluded the green party membership is completely irrational when it comes to National.

National is the great Satan and from what I’ve
read/heard they’d prefer to burn the Greens to the ground than work with National.

National would practically have to reinvent itself to even get their foot in the door.

Utterly pointless and self destructive.
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March 5, 2018 8:56am
- KiWombat
  
  GangGreen is the poisoned chalice.
  
  They will destroy everything they touch, cheat, lie and obfuscate, opposing anything that smells like any sort of progress.
  
  GangGreen is an opposition party – they have no place in a government – this government will be burned by them – beware !
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:05am
  - DigNap15
    
    I hope so
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:43am
- Ross12
  
  brett
  I agree but if Simon Bridges is saying it to rattle a few cages within the Greens camp then it might have some benefit. I heard the other day that there is quite a bit of disquiet in the Green camp at the moment.
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:17am
  - brett68
    
    Yes, there’s disquiet because they don’t think the Greens are being left enough and are just enabling Labours continuation of the evil that is “Neoliberalism”.
    
    How that translates into a potential opportunity for National to partner up with the Greens, I’m at a complete loss.
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:27am
    - Ross12
      
      Maybe he thinks he can rattle a few so called Blue/Greens loose from them or perhaps the more unsettled they are the less settled the coalition are and he just wants to keep them unsettled.
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:52am
    - rangitoto
      
      A good proportion of their voters are not loony activists. There are plenty of votes to be taken.
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:04am
      - brett68
        
        Disagree, you’re getting down to the hardcore, there are no Blue/Greens left if they ever existed
        
        The moderate Green voter has left the Greens and is now voting for the cool and youth adjacent Jacinda.
        
        Which is why the Greens are hovering around the cut off level of 5%, there are no people left in the Greens who want the Greens to side with National.
        
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        March 5, 2018 10:15am
    - Paulus
      
      Understand there is much disquiet in the Green Party as they know they are getting no meaningful traction with Cinderella, and Winston will not even acknowledge them.
      
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      March 5, 2018 1:05pm
      - RF
        
        I know of several greens and one NZ First voter who will now vote for Labour. All thanks to the commie chick.
        
        They are all feminists so no surprises there.
        
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        March 5, 2018 3:24pm
Duxton

I see that Jacinda Ardern and Handbag Boy managed to buy their new doer-up in Sandringham before the new bright-line test takes effect in March. What fortunate timing for them both.

Someone needs to start asking questions here. Like, why wasn’t the new bright-line test introduced earlier? If it was such a high priority before the election, why wasn’t it addressed sooner by the incoming govt (ie, before Christmas)?

Or were they holding off until Ardern bought her new house?

And, have any other CoL members, or partners/relatives of those members, bought houses between October 2017 and now?

Something stinks to high heaven.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/350479/bright-line-test-on-house-sales-extended-to-five-years
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March 5, 2018 8:58am
- alex Masterley
  
  They will be moving from one main home to another.
  Main homes are exempt from any “speculation tax”.
  So unless they buy and sell 2 or 3 times within the now 5 year period they will be exempt from any tax on gains they make through appreciation of the property value.
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:06am
- stephieboy
  
  Duxton , not their fault that the Nats failed to resolve the housing affordability question in their nine years of power .
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:28am
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Do you think before you talk/type Stephie-confused?
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:53am
  - Padriv Ustoev
    
    As much as I hate stephie, he has a point. The proverbial camel bolted while National was in. At least Labour are trying something.
    
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    March 5, 2018 12:03pm
    - KevOB
      
      Very trying.
      Who’s acting PM?
      
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      March 5, 2018 12:13pm
- ztev
  
  Bright line test was indroduced some time back- by national.
  
  Its just added another 24 months
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:51am
  - thedavincimode
    
    Yes, but she only bought it during the election. She couldn’t afford a home in Auckland before that – remember?
    
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    March 5, 2018 11:46am
    - fernglas
      
      You are referring to the Whaleoil find, where in 2012 she said that as a single 31 year old backbencher she couldn’t afford a place in Grey Lynn? Now, on a PM’s salary, with a partner, 6 years on she can afford a place in Sandringham? There is a non sequitur there.
      
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      March 5, 2018 11:58am
      - Paulus
        
        And sell the previous property – cannot find on the normal sales market ?
        Trying to catch up Helen Clark’s seven houses.
        
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        March 5, 2018 1:08pm
  - KevOB
    
    36 months?
    
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    March 5, 2018 12:14pm
  - howitis
    
    The Bright line test is being lengthened from 2 years to 5 years.
    That is from 24 months today to 60 months.
    The difference here is 36 months.
    
    Sounds like typical Labour Pardy arithmetic:-
    -How is that $11.7 billion hole looking now?
    -Where are these affordable homes on $114,000 pa household income, not $60,000 pa?
    -How are those trees going, has the land been purchased or leased; do you plant in January when the plant may wither and die; do Chinese leased forests count?
    
    The research unit that works and posts as ‘ztev’ in KB shows just how massively incompetent Labour is at simple math.
    Forget about the moral issue of a taxpayer-funded research unit trolling a private legitimate blog!
    
    All those resources and you lot can’t deduct 60 less 24 = 36
    Yeah, nah under Labour Pardy rules it is 24.
    
    Q. How many Labour Pardy MPs does it take to change a light bulb?
    A. None. They redefine the standard as darkness.
    
    Labour- out to lunch, since 8 Nov 2008.
    
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    March 5, 2018 2:17pm
cas

I predict that, despite the James and Golly Q and A in Parliament last week telling us how wonderful the census will be, the census will be a massive flop. Loads of people haven’t got forms here yet, a lot of my district contains the socially deprived who don’t have access to a computer and who probably can’t be bothered ringing up to get a form. I expect our district’s population will plummet accordingly!!
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- KiWombat
  
  Patsy question after patsy question, smiles from ear to ear.
  
  And when somebody threw a curly supplementary into the mix, all the minister could manage was “refer to the website”
  
  Moron !
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:07am
lastmanstanding

Dont forget its Census Day tomorrow. I suspect around 5% at least wont complete the form. Many because its on line and they dont have access to our understand computers.

So the population as per the Census could be 250,000 plus less than the population clock at the Stats website.

Of course we will never know. The Pollies and civil servants will cover it up or Cindy will say its the homeless that make up the shortfall and use this as an excuse to raise more taxes to “fix the poverdy”.
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March 5, 2018 9:07am
- cmm
  
  ” Many because its on line and they dont have access to our understand computers.”
  
  No I don’t think that is the reason. If you can do facebook and cat videos then you can do the census.
  
  Rather there is little motivation: “What is in it for me eh?”
  
  Nor is there any obvious repercussions. In the old system you had people drop off the forms then come back and ask for them back. That surely intimidated quite a few people into actually filling in the forms that would not have otherwise.
  
  Now they will just say they never got anything in the post so it isn’t their fault.
  
  I’m expecting a flop, but I hope I’m wrong.
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:43am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Will everyone complete the census online or just enough to register they exist? Too many intrusive questions!
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:00am
    - kevn
      
      @waikato… I hope all home occupier/owners ticked damp etc. Might get some (not) free upgrades.
      
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      March 5, 2018 10:08am
    - dave_c_
      
      Indeed – Like questions asking for name and date of birth. I do not believe that this data is required, nor will it be secure (given the number of instances where data has been stolen, misplaced, left lying in the streets), and you can bet bottom dollar that IRD will be rubbing their hands together, with their data matching algorithms.
      
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      March 5, 2018 3:21pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  I understand some elderly have been getting help from Citizen’s Advice Bureaux.
  What were they trying to save, every household got a letter, why not just send forms out with the option of doing it on line?
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:33am
  - KKKKatee
    
    Mainly because people who run these departments are rather stupid when it comes to using commonsense.
    
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    March 5, 2018 3:13pm
DigNap15

I see that nice Somalian lady on Stuff on the weekend likes to watch movies to learn English.
But she also reads the Koran everyday.
And she still wears muslim clothing
So send her back!
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March 5, 2018 9:13am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  DigNap15 , now who out in the real world really cares about your pointless posts .
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:30am
  - DigNap15
    
    More people than give you green ticks
    
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    March 5, 2018 9:44am
    - Harkman
      
      Only ztev & Gabby give him/her/it the thumbs up. Labour pays him/her/it for each pink post.
      
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      March 5, 2018 9:57am
  - softail 1450
    
    septicboy, isnt it time to feed the goats?. hows that for a pointless post to a pointless troll?
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:04am
  - dave_c_
    
    Stephie – I care about their ‘points’ more than I care about your inane comments
    
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    March 5, 2018 3:23pm
- Gabby
  
  You don’t go around knocking kippers of blokes’ heads do you bignipis?
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:46am
- Swifty
  
  I wonder if she will insist on FGM for any daughters she may have in the future?
  
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  March 5, 2018 11:19am
  - KKKKatee
    
    Who would know?Will probably be a backyard job with a rusty pocket knife and some strong women to hold the wee girl down and prise her legs apart against her will. I would rather think that was abuse.
    
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    March 5, 2018 3:16pm
- KKKKatee
  
  What I’d like to know is this “How the hell did they let her in?”
  
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  March 5, 2018 3:14pm
DigNap15

And most of our new immigrants wont be bothered with the census, especially the illegal ones, or the ones living ten in a house and being paid under the table.

Its going to be a joke!
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March 5, 2018 9:15am
DigNap15

Departure Cards
I don’t know much about them.
But surely it is good to know why someone is leaving NZ
Are they on a two weeks holiday, or a business trip
or are they leaving forever?
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March 5, 2018 9:16am
- KiWombat
  
  Who cares ?
  
  If and when they return – now that’s a different matter !
  
  No real point in collecting data on those who have left the country, better to concentrate on those who are here.
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:55am
  - DigNap15
    
    At one stage before 2008 more kiwis were leaving and our population was staying still or going backwards.
    Now good kiwis are still leaving and being replaced by flotsam.
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:13am
  - KevOB
    
    It has been useful to determine who are the overstayers. Labour needed that previously to round them up with dogs in dawn raids. What has happened to the dogs?
    
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    March 5, 2018 12:17pm
Harkman

Do we really care if China wants to piss away it’s dough in the Pacific? I can’t think of a worse investment but Winnie wants to waste our money there instead. The guy is an innumerate imbecile. Considering Barbara Dreaver wants to turn our health system into a Polynesian free for all, I’d be delighted if the Chinese paid for things.
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March 5, 2018 9:54am
- simpleton1
  
  And they can obtain work visas for China too and help harvest the crops.
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:05am
- MCos
  
  You want to know why we should be concerned about growing Chinese influence in the Pacific?
  Somewhere down the track when they have military bases on our you’ll know why.
  
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  March 5, 2018 11:12am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    It is worrying. Chinese leadership are not troubled by pesky things like ethics or morality, are huge race and cultural supremicists, and have a very strong belief in Chinese manifest destiny, as well as grudges about why they were so far behind in the first place.
    
    They will drive the pacific into a nuclear arms race with their expansionism
    
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    March 5, 2018 1:58pm
- Jack5
  
  Does Dreaver want NZ taxpayers to pay for dialysis in the islands for Pacific Islanders? This while there is a scamble to buy latest drugs for critically ill New Zealanders?
  
  Next she’ll want New Zealanders each to donate a kidney for Pacific aid.
  
  Why do islands Polynesians suffer so much from kidney problems? Is it the diet? Is it hereditary? Is it because they have grown too big for human organs to cope sufficiently? (Look at another species: in dogs, big Great Danes have short lives, little dogs live up to twice as long.) Or is it, well, just the white man’s fault?
  
  ~~Beaver~~ Dreaver seems to look accusatively into the camera when she’s showing rows of south Aucklanders on dialysis machines. I can sense her brain ticking: “Fix it, you white buggers.”
  
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  March 5, 2018 11:30am
  - Jack5
    
    Or perhaps..
    
    In the Sunday night TV news (when team B of the news tasters apparently is on duty) we get regular reports of science “breakthroughs” as various NZ institutions shore up State finance.
    
    It would be good to hear of research projects into the kidney problems of Pacific Islanders. A productive form of aid.
    
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    March 5, 2018 11:43am
    - KevOB
      
      They eat too much carbs and fat. Also you don’t often see a skinny ranking chief or his daughter. The latter were specially fattened up.
      
      Fat has merit in the hurricane belt it can help survival when food is scarce.
      A Pacific hurricane can destroy present crops and prevent plantings. Also all the village chickens, pigs, cats and dogs killed or eaten out necessity.
      
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      March 5, 2018 12:24pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Do the Islanders want to stay in the islands?
    
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    March 5, 2018 3:15pm
    - KevOB
      
      Tuvalu is virtually uninhabitable. Too many people on almost no area. The lagoon is a cesspit and the seas wash over all occasionally.
      
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      March 5, 2018 4:57pm
Manolo

The flesh is weak claim some sellers of smoke:
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/naples-archdiocese-rocked-by-scandal-drugs-gay-prostitution-blackmail

Father Luca Morini, known to his flock as “Don Euro” for his extravagant lifestyle, has recently been scheduled for a hearing in the Court of Massa, the medieval town in Tuscany where he used to run two parishes. The preliminary hearing is set to take place on March 8, where the judge will examine the evidence for accusations of fraud, drug distribution, embezzlement, extortion and self-laundering.
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March 5, 2018 10:05am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The judge will examine the evidence for accusations of fraud, drug distribution, embezzlement, extortion and self-laundering.
  
  Oh God, I’ve been indulging in a spot of self-laundering.
  
  Hope I can iron things out by the evening.
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:40am
- AgentBallSack
  
  Basically the same argument GoVege uses to explain why men put their cocks in other women.
  “I couldn’t control my dick, it jumped out and started screwing your best friend”
  
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  March 5, 2018 6:03pm
  - softail 1450
    
    ABS yeah, i had a mate years ago that was banging his solo mum neighbor, there was a big party and he ended up sneaking home with the neighbor thinking his partner was asleep at home, the silly prick was so pissed that he fell asleep on the job of course totally naked and was awakened hours later by the bedroom light coming on he looked around to see his mrs standing there and without thinking (as you would in this situation) said “its not what it looks like” needless to say that was the end of that.
    
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    March 5, 2018 6:23pm
Inandout

Leader Simon is on ZB now, so listen and judge.
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March 5, 2018 10:11am
- GazzaW
  
  ……..and taking questions.
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:17am
  - DigNap15
    
    And answers them very well, with no dithering.
    You can tell he wants to carry on where Bill English left off.
    Work hard to get ahead.
    Get a good education
    Dont rely on the state!
    
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    March 5, 2018 10:49am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      That message needs to be loud and sustained.
      
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      March 5, 2018 1:19pm
dime

ok, so property tycoon jacinda..

she applies for a new mortgage on her $2 million home (not to be confused with her other million dollar house)..

when she did this, the extra 10 grand she was incorrectly paid didnt stick out to her? is she that rich??
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March 5, 2018 10:17am
- GazzaW
  
  Pffft! Petty cash.
  
  What’s a weeks pay between friends?
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:24am
  - KiWombat
    
    At least we now know why she didn’t report the mysterious extra $10,000 in her bank account, needed it for the deposit !
    
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    March 5, 2018 12:47pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Perhaps the man in her life did all the donkey work.
  Jacinda has the country to run and schools to visit. Might have been too difficult to schedule a visit to the bank.
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:43am
  - dime
    
    she has a man?
    
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    March 5, 2018 11:03am
    - Gabby
      
      dim’s gettin homosexual tendencies?
      
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      March 5, 2018 1:37pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Comment of the day!
      
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      March 5, 2018 5:18pm
- Manolo
  
  The unions have plenty of money…
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:47am
- Longknives
  
  So what’s the Property Tycoon who preaches that ‘Capitalism is Evil’ going to do with her old place in Point Chevalier??
  Surely she isn’t going to rent it out? That would make her one of those (*Gasp!) Landlords that Labour are always painting as Capitalist Bond Villains….
  
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  March 5, 2018 11:26am
  - itstricky
    
    who preaches that ‘Capitalism is Evil’
    
    Does she? I thought she just said that capitalism had failed low income people.
    
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    March 5, 2018 12:10pm
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      I’d argue that successive governments who aided and abetted welfarism have been the ones that have failed them. Capitalism tends to reward aspiration, intelligence and conscientiousness.
      
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      March 5, 2018 1:23pm
      - Gabby
        
        And leaving your shit for someone else to clean up sebaceous cumb.
        
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        March 6, 2018 8:07am
    - Gabby
      
      That’s not true, because I want her to have said something else.
      
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      March 5, 2018 1:35pm
- itstricky
  
  she applies for a new mortgage on her $2 million home
  
  Ah, you lefties and the green eyed monster. Always jealous of successful people…
  
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  March 5, 2018 12:04pm
  - marcw
    
    The difference is itstricky is that us successful ones don’t go around claiming capitalism has failed, or that all those living in rental houses are in poverty, or that their mouldy windows are someone elses fault, or that their kids go to school without breakfast because of unfair, or that we think that a good education is worth nothing, or that …
    
    You get the drift?
    
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    March 5, 2018 12:57pm
    - Gabby
      
      That you don’t give a shit? Long time ago .
      
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      March 5, 2018 1:34pm
      - itstricky
        
        Those green eyed lefties; always living in the SEP field.
        
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        March 5, 2018 3:23pm
    - itstricky
      
      that us successful ones don’t go around claiming
      
      Please feel free to go around modestly and humbly claiming you are successful. And please feel free to not claim whatever else you don’t like, even if they’re incomplete recalls of complete generalisations of generalisations of soundbites of something someone may have said! “a good education is worth nothing”….pffft!
      
      My note was to dime, who seems to have a case of JDS again. Or was it ADS? We never quite got to the bottom of it. I mean JDS could be confused with John, and we wouldn’t want that.
      
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      March 5, 2018 3:27pm
tedbear

Oldpark @ 8.10am Looks like the gang of thieves, including the boyfriend, are there for a holiday.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e74c144b9326fe27915052946fd4a24750377a3761a890cb503d12f2876af642.png
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March 5, 2018 11:23am
- RF
  
  Beverley Hillbillies come to town.
  
  Looks like Jethro has pushed in front of granny in the lineup.
  
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  March 5, 2018 12:09pm
- marcw
  
  Looks like the Clamberts have upgraded the jalopy.
  
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  March 5, 2018 12:59pm
stinkypete

incredible netflix documentary about police and poverty and race in the US city of Flint
binge watched it in 2 days and cant stop thinking about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfNURrdgWTU
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March 5, 2018 11:40am
GazzaW

Sounds as though the census is a complete fuckup with thousands of homes and even uni halls of residence still without their logins. It’s evidently going to take weeks to resolve.

James Shaw is the Minister in charge. Will he be yet another to join the CoL witness protection programme to avoid Question Time?
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March 5, 2018 12:40pm
- Longknives
  
  I have phoned Census NZ twice trying to get my Log-in number.
  The Left couldn’t organise a Piss up in a Brewery.
  
  *They would have to find an Organic Vegan Brewery of course…
  
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  March 5, 2018 12:55pm
- marcw
  
  Gazza, you mean the ‘witless’ protection program?
  
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  March 5, 2018 1:02pm
DigNap15

I think the next question time is not for a few weeks
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March 5, 2018 12:42pm
- GazzaW
  
  20 March. Never mind – he’ll keep until then given that the census will probably still not be completed.
  
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  March 5, 2018 1:15pm
Surely Knott

Dumbing down at Auckland Council. Akd Council are looking for the public to support their long term plan (10 year budget) the local boards priorities and 3 new taxes. But the last plan (done 3 years ago) they gave us prices and breakdowns. For example the local boards would say their top projects and the expenditure etc. This year nothing just words. Their is no accountability. Re their stormwater tax $70 per household, they give no breakdown of how much it generates and the projects it will go to and how much those projects will cost. Instead they have a nice animated video showing why we need the project but no details. The video symbolises everyhting that is wrong with Auckland Council whose PR team is on fire making fun graphics and spin, but their is no numbers or breakdown showing what they are proposing. Environment tax, they make vague comments like $70 will stop Kauri dieback spreading with 30% certainty. Really. What projects are you proposing to spend the money on. Surveillance cameras and security is the main expenditure from what I heard. But would be nice to actually get a breakdown of the projects and prices. Please stop treating us like we are stupid Auckland Council.
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March 5, 2018 12:55pm
- GazzaW
  
  If the council had even considered some major cost cutting initiatives then the Auckland public might just have cut them a bit of slack.
  
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  March 5, 2018 1:19pm
publicwatchdog

Where is the EVIDENCE that I’ve ever said ANYTHING about Auckland Council or the CEO of Auckland Council that was factually inaccurate?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/aucklander/property/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503367&objectid=11342260

“Ms Bright has made wild and inaccurate accusations about the council and its probity and is using this as the basis for not paying her fair share to the ongoing running of Auckland. These assertions are completely unfounded and her actions are at the expense of all Aucklanders,” says council chief executive Stephen Town.

My latest formal request to Auckland Council elected representatives to ‘do their jobs’ and INSTRUCT the CEO to provide details of awarded contracts to be made available for public scrutiny.

27 February 2018
Finance and Performance Ctte.

Scroll through to 1.50 minutes for my 5 minute presentation:)

https://councillive.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/video/270218-finance-and-performance-committee-item-1-5

Documents I had appended to the Minutes of the 27 February 2018 Finance and Performance Committee meeting.

Included are current details of awarded contracts for:

Auckland Council
Auckland Transport
Watercare Services
ATEED

Also includes my invitation to The Hague by the World Justice Project to the 2017 International Rule of Law Forum as a ‘NZ expert’.

Plus the list of names, positions and email addresses of fellow ‘International Rule of Law experts’ who attended this Forum at The Hague.

http://infocouncil.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/Open/2018/02/FIN_20180227_MAT_6804.PDF

Penny Bright
(Unprotected) citizen ‘whistle-blower’.

5.1 Public Input – section 17A ‘value for money’ review of Auckland Council and CCO services – Penny Bright

A. 27 February 2018 Finance and Performance Committee:

Item 5.1: Public
Input, Penny Bright- tabled document
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March 5, 2018 1:12pm
- stigie
  
  “Scroll through to 1.50 minutes for my 5 minute presentation:)”
  
  People have other better things to do Penny like when your hovel is going to be put up for auction..?
  
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  March 5, 2018 1:24pm
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Apologised to Banks and Key yet for the slanderous comments you have made on this very site?
  
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  March 5, 2018 1:28pm
  - RalphT
    
    Of course not, we’ve “moved on” from that, to more important matters.
    
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    March 5, 2018 1:30pm
    - sooty
      
      Like pay your rates or get biffed out.
      
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      March 5, 2018 5:01pm
- Swifty
  
  Attention-seeking nutcase.
  
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  March 5, 2018 1:47pm
- fernglas
  
  Penny
  
  You didn’t even bother to turn up for the strike-out hearing so you must have known your claim was a
  lost cause. I am still surprised the Council hasn’t pursued you for costs.
  
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  March 5, 2018 3:33pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Penny:
  
  You should read the High Court judgment that decided Mr Town won (the legal term is “summary judgment”) without needing to go to a full hearing. Your defamation case was doomed from the outset
  
  You couldn’t be bothered turning up to a hearing in your own case – twice
  
  The resumed hearing took place on 20 May 2016. As with the hearing on 5 November 2015, Ms Bright elected not to appear.
  
  Your claim
  
  Ms Bright pleads that, in their natural and ordinary meaning, the words used in that passage meant and were understood to mean the following:
  
  (1) Ms Bright’s factual statements concerning Council affairs and its probity were, in general, not truthful or accurate.
  
  (2) Ms Bright’s criticisms of Council affairs and Council probity were personally reckless and crazy.
  
  (3) Ms Bright is not worthy of the public’s trust when it comes to information about Council affairs or Council probity.
  
  (4) Ms Bright’s recklessness with facts and actions based upon inaccurate facts is costing (harming) all Aucklanders.
  …
  Ms Bright claims general damages of $250,000, and aggravated and punitive damages of $100,000.
  
  The judge regarded you as a person with diminished credibility
  
  In my view a reasonable juror would note first that Ms Bright was seriously in default in payment of her rates. The juror would also probably accept the proposition in the Press Release that Ms Bright’s refusal to pay her rates was, to some extent, an action taken at expense of those Auckland ratepayers who were paying their rates. The hypothetical juror might reasonably conclude that the Council was doing no more than taking what was clearly a “last resort” step in discharging its statutory duties to levy and recover rates from ratepayers.
  
  The judge said Mr Town won – a full hearing wasn’t necessary
  
  In my judgment of 10 March 2016 I held that the Press Release was issued on an occasion of qualified privilege. That was sufficient to provide Mr Town with a complete defence to Ms Bright’s claims, subject only to the question of whether Ms Bright’s claims of ill will/improper taking of advantage were reasonably arguable. I have now found that those claims, as articulated in the amended s 41 notice, are not reasonably arguable.
  
  In those circumstances Mr Town must succeed on his qualified privilege argument, and that is sufficient to dispose of Ms Bright’s claims. As Mr Town’s application for summary judgment has been based entirely on an affirmative defence which I have held must succeed, summary judgment in his favour is the appropriate remedy: this is not a case for striking out Ms Bright’s statement of claim. I enter summary judgment for Mr Town accordingly.
  
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  March 5, 2018 4:57pm
  - stigie
    
    “Ms Bright claims general damages of $250,000, and aggravated and punitive damages of $100,000.”
    
    Bwahahahahahahaha !!
    
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    March 5, 2018 5:11pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stigie:
      
      Do you suppose she intended to spend the money on house renovations? 🙂
      
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      March 5, 2018 5:16pm
      - stigie
        
        350k would not get rid of the putrid cat stench Nostra !~
        
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        March 5, 2018 5:48pm
  - Swifty
    
    Beautiful, just beautiful….sniff.
    
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    March 5, 2018 5:17pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    That High Court decision really is a slam dunk against Our Pen…
    
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    March 5, 2018 7:44pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  See?
  I Spray and Walk Away
  Rubbish Stays
  I walk away
  
  Steve N/S
  Attendee Glenfield Trolley Derby 1986
  Fuck I got trolleyed
  
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  March 5, 2018 5:26pm
publicwatchdog

How many Kiwibloggers are aware that now two Auckland Council elected representatives have resigned from the Auckland Council Strategic Procurement Committee because of concerns about the alleged lack of transparency and probity?

Penny Bright
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March 5, 2018 1:14pm
- stigie
  
  Just pay ya fucking rates Penny, after 10 years of bludging off other ratepayers, your time has finally arrived where your hovel will be sold in the coming months !~
  
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  March 5, 2018 1:17pm
- Swifty
  
  The system is working then.
  
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  March 5, 2018 1:44pm
Surely Knott

Hahaha. I’m paying my fucking rates, every year thanks for asking, although I am tempted to go on strike! If they could provide even the slimmest detail of what the fuck they are spending them on, seeing they are asking for well above the 2.5% rise, I would feel a bit happier about it. As I’m not getting any fucking services .
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March 5, 2018 1:18pm
- Poppa
  
  You are not allowed to go on strike old son
  
  Comrade chompers said there would be no strikes under her watch……..oh yeah except rail & bus plus all the others lining up
  
  Ok then you are free to go ahead
  
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  March 5, 2018 1:56pm
Fletch

Good to see that Bridges says he would vote against euthanasia..

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/theres-sanctity-life-argument-simon-bridges-still-doesnt-support-euthanasia-bill-despite-pleas-tauranga-constituents?auto=5744785143001
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March 5, 2018 1:33pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  How we die is none of the Governments business. If you would put down an animal in pain, then give the same right to people to choose for themselves.
  
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  March 5, 2018 3:08pm
- fernglas
  
  The local rag down there ran an opinion poll on euthanasia and it was about 87% in favour, so Bridges is well out of step. Is a conscience vote one in which an MP votes with his own conscience or those of his constituents?
  
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  March 5, 2018 3:37pm
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch , but changed his mind about the Marriage Equality Law .
  
  Flip flop from opposition to support !
  
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  March 5, 2018 6:44pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    You don’t like Bridges because he’s Maori, you racist.
    
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    March 5, 2018 6:58pm
    - stephieboy
      
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/03/the_debate_over_how_maori_is_simon_bridges.html
      
      Sigh , snigger etc !
      
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      March 5, 2018 7:05pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Waaaycist!
        And thick too
        Racist Ralph/Stephieboy- Kiwiblogs Dumbest Commentator
        
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        March 5, 2018 7:07pm
    - Gabby
      
      You’re not Maori are you All on Retard?
      
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      March 5, 2018 7:59pm
Inandout

NIB, or Ngati Insurance Brown, will give free medical insurance to their tribe. As we all know, nothing in this world is free. So Auckland Maoris get usual generous government assistance for medical, plus free private cover.
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March 5, 2018 2:02pm
- GazzaW
  
  It will be interesting to see what increases (if any) are applied to existing Ngati Pakeha & Ngati Asia policy holders of NIB.
  
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  March 5, 2018 2:27pm
  - Inandout
    
    Wait till NIB face the claims, some of which will fall outside the insurance cover wording. Reminds me of the insurers who jumped into the ACC client base when it was opened up by National. Most lost millions by undercutting ACC premiums.
    
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    March 5, 2018 5:57pm
KKKKatee

Now that the PM’s out of the country having ‘conversations’ with all and sundry, it begs the question “Who’s in charge in the event of an apocalypse occurring? Can we count on Kelvin or did Winston come back from Oz to run the fort?”
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March 5, 2018 3:11pm
- DigNap15
  
  What about ET (Ron Mark) he will defend us with his medals
  
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  March 5, 2018 3:14pm
- Poppa
  
  Kelvin “the lightbulb” I believe
  
  I doubt he will be exposed to the media, he has been locked away out of sight
  
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  March 5, 2018 3:31pm
DigNap15

So Germany finally has a government.
After 6 months.
What would we have done here in NZ (also under MMP) if it had taken 6 months to do a deal?

Blamed Winston
Demanded a new system SST/STV/STD,HIV.
Carried on moaning
Watched the cricket
Read the women’s magazines
Rioted in the streets
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March 5, 2018 3:12pm
- stephieboy
  
  DigNap15 ,in the meantime business as usual . Audi , Siemens , VW, BMW ,Porsche etc, etc assembly production lines still roll out irrespective of MMP
  
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  March 5, 2018 6:42pm
Morrissey

GROPERS
No. 32: Otago law students

Russell McVeagh has to get its old gropers from somewhere. Otago University is obviously one of those sources….

“Further concerns about the camp have come to light over the weekend,” Professor Tony Ballantyne, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Humanities confirmed.

The meeting follows Herald revelations of excessive drinking, jelly wrestling and nudity at previous years’ law camps.

The university is investigating after a former student, who did not want to be named, said she attended a second-year law camp in 2012, which descended into “an American fraternity house”.

Meanwhile, a former University of Otago law student has claimed members of the law faculty have acted inappropriately towards women for years.

“Otago Law has been a . . . smorgasbord of young, impressionable women for men in the faculty,” said the woman in a message to a third party following a Herald on Sunday investigation.

The woman agreed to allowing the Herald to use her comments albeit anonymously.

”Even if relationships weren’t consummated, there were a lot of inappropriate conversations, caresses and carry-ons,” she said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12006563

https://www.stuff.co.nz/otago/101964869/concerns-over-behaviour-at-otago-university-law-camp-held-in-2012

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March 5, 2018 5:14pm
- Morrissey
  
  Looks like at least one former or current Otago law student is on this thread, as of 5:19 p.m. Keep your hands to yourself, you creep!
  
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  March 5, 2018 5:20pm
  - stigie
    
    Lets just say some of those students like to have a good grope when they get pissed.
    
    What the hell is all the fuss about..?
    
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    March 5, 2018 5:35pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    You missed out that creepy perv Morrissey Breen who inveigled his way illegally into a computer system by convincing a young female intern to “give him access”.
    What was the outcome of that?
    
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    March 5, 2018 5:53pm
  - Inandout
    
    Lesbians also grope, idiot Messy.
    
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    March 5, 2018 5:59pm
- rangitoto
  
  Deep water is the best source of groper.
  
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  March 5, 2018 5:22pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Careful, someone might grab you by the pussy
  
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  March 5, 2018 5:29pm
- stigie
  
  Still no Darren Hughes amongst that lot, he was the last bum bandit to disappear from parliament..?
  
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  March 5, 2018 5:57pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Stigie:
    
    I don’t think Morrissey could match this first-hand account:
    
    One witness told 3 News a flustered man, matching a description of the complainant, was near the Mt Victoria tunnel around 5 o’clock on the morning in question.
    
    “He was standing there with one hand over his private parts and the other hand with his thumb out, hitch-hiking,” the witness said.
    
    “I thought, ‘Oh boy, the husband’s come home and it’s a quick exit’.”
    
    A “quick exit” from whose hole, one has to ask? 🙂
    
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    March 5, 2018 6:02pm
    - Inandout
      
      It is wrong that our MPs are almost exempt from being reported for anything of a sexual nature. If this had happened in the US it would have been minutely dissected by the media.
      
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      March 5, 2018 6:50pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Goff and King had to call in every favour owed to them by the MSM to keep that dampened down. I’ll bet there was a hell of a lot more that we didn’t hear about at all.
        
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        March 5, 2018 7:30pm
    - Swifty
      
      I think that the lack of adequate investigation and transperency in to this episode reveals a sort of corruption in NZ politics.
      
      The whole thing was squalid and sordid and the NZ pubic have a right to know exactly what occurred – and the fact that Labour party folk conspired in the concealing of this episode is one of the more shameful events in their recent history.
      
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      March 5, 2018 7:00pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”I think that the lack of adequate investigation and transperency in to this episode reveals a sort of corruption in NZ politics”….
        
        Not to be unexpected amongst a crowd of career seat warmers who have sold their souls to the unions.
        
        What is terminally corrupt is the MSM who sold out their last sliver of credibility to protect their chosen political party.
        
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        March 5, 2018 7:36pm
  - GazzaW
    
    @stigie
    
    Weren’t there a couple more who got jobs with the UN?
    
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    March 5, 2018 7:37pm
- All_on_Red
  
  PERVWATCH
  A division of Groperwatch
  Today we look at one of Kiwiblogs Biggest Creeps.
  Yes, it’s RALPH/STEPHIEBOY
  This sleezy creep has had Strikes for linking to porn sites on KB.
  Who has such a lack of judgement.
  Yes, it’s STEPHIEBOY.
  An admitted PERV who said this:
  
  ‘19,565 COMMENTS
  stephieboy
  Yesterday I was at the Robert Harris cafe St Lukes Megacentre , Mt Albert enjoying a cappuccino. I noticed next door three Muslim women enjoying their lattes with their children . Two of these honeypots .were wearing their Nijabs with stylish jeans and blouses . The other in more typical kiwi informal attire?
  Thumb up 7 Thumb down 36REPLY REPORTAUGUST 21, 2016 8:51AM’
  
  ‘Honeypots’!!!
  And this;
  Jack 5, recently i was at St Luke’s shopping mall and I saw a Muslim lady dressed in traditional apparel accompanied by her two beautiful young daughters dressed in modern western tight jeans and blouses , revealing lovely supple body proportions , including small but ample breasts .
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  Wow, just wow.
  PERVWATCH is brought to you as a public service to out the creeps amongst us.
  RAPLH/STEPHIEBOY is PERV #1
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  March 5, 2018 7:12pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    All on Red:
    
    Was Morrissey speaking to Stephieboy when he said (above): “Keep your hands to yourself, you creep!”
    
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    March 5, 2018 7:17pm
  - stephieboy
    
    All on Red Herring ,
    
    Tsk, tsk, tsk , There , there ….
    
    Still traumatised by those behind the school bike shed encounters with mates sharing Dad’s Penthouses and wanking off ?
    
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    March 5, 2018 7:22pm
    - Swifty
      
      Stephieboy – are you a sicko?
      
      Be honest now.
      
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      March 5, 2018 7:24pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Nope.
        
        And yourself ?
        
        But All on Wed definitely is with his unhealthy obsessions and stalking tendencies !
        
        And maybe those like you who seem to support him !
        
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        March 5, 2018 7:25pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Nice bit of self projection you got going on there Pornlink boy
        So funny.
        
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        March 5, 2018 7:44pm
      - Swifty
        
        Stephieboy – be truthful now, how many times per day do you masterbate, and who do you think of when you do it?
        
        What would Jesus think of your behaviour?
        
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        March 5, 2018 7:54pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Stephieboy on 24 January 2016:
    
    Inandout , recently I observed a young Muslim couple with their babe on the infants swing at Mt Roskill Park. They were having a lovely time taking photos.of their new child
    
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    March 5, 2018 7:39pm
    - nasska
      
      “babe”! “infant”! “swing!” “park!”
      
      It’s worse than we thought.
      
      I’m not sure whether we should advise the CYPF or the Police!
      
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      March 5, 2018 7:54pm
      - Swifty
        
        Both.
        
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        March 5, 2018 7:57pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Nostradamus , merely giving an example of the peaceful presence and acceptance of Muslims in Auckland’s Community .
      
      Why does it disturb you so much ?
      
      None of the Paranoid hysterical based drivel at so called Mt Roskill stan .
      
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      March 5, 2018 8:12pm
      - DigNap15
        
        It doesn’t matter how peaceful they are.
        They are just building up numbers till they can demand islamic privileges and Sharia law.
        
        I bet they read the Koran when they go home.
        Just about the most evil book in the world.
        
        And what about their children when they grow up?
        
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        March 5, 2018 8:16pm
      - stephieboy
        
        DigNap 15 , like my good Iranian neighbours family grow up to be University and professionally qualified peaceful Citizens .
        
        Next question ?
        
        BTW Mt Roskill is not an Islamic dominated state ( stan ) or Caliphate
        
        Show otherwise ?
        
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        March 5, 2018 8:21pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        Why does it disturb you so much ?
        
        I’m not sure how you drew that inference from what I wrote. I’ve met people from all walks of life, including Muslims, and I’ve never had any issues with them at a personal level.
        
        The point is that there are people (possibly in New Zealand but certainly elsewhere) who hate the Western way of life and want to disrupt it. Your anecdotes about young people at a St Lukes cafe and a Mt Roskill park, and your frequent effort to downplay overseas incidents, suggest that you have a rose-tinted view of the world.
        
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        March 5, 2018 8:30pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Nostradamus, that could be true . Yet I have to go by what I observe and experience in Auckland .
        
        It is very far removed from the Islamphobic ravings you see here from KB
        
        Just shows how you can have a really distorted and unhinged view of reality from a far
        
        The best proof is experience
        
        Francis Bacon !
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:03pm
      - stigie
        
        Christ, im starting to think Hagley Park is not a patch on what Stiffy’s been up to in the Mt Roskill area..?
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:06pm
      - stephieboy
        
        stage , Hagley Park a favourite haunt of yours ? Was kind of action appeals to you there ?
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:15pm
      - stigie
        
        There’s generally grown men at Hagley Park Stiffy with very warped features and activities, no little 9 year olds for you to play with sorry !~
        
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        March 5, 2018 9:24pm
Manolo

Hollywood madness:
https://www.thewrap.com/oscars-jimmy-kimmel-says-penis-free-oscar-hollywoods-ideal-man/

Kimmel also pointed to a massive Oscar statuette on the stage and said he was Hollywood’s perfect man.

“Keeps his hands where you can see them, never says a rude word, and, most importantly, no penis at all. He is literally a statue of limitations,” the host joked.
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March 5, 2018 5:34pm
- itstricky
  
  Clearly your sense of humor is not the same as mine.
  
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  March 5, 2018 5:48pm
Nostradamus

Jacinda Ardern on 4 September 2017:

Patrick Gower: If you are caught in a lie, or caught intentionally misleading the New Zealand public, how would you expect to be held to account?

Jacinda Ardern: Well, I actually believe that it is possible to exist in politics without lying, and by telling the truth. I do believe that. I have been in politics for 9 years. Yes, politicians make mistakes, but the true mark of leadership is whether you front those mistakes, be as transparent as possible with the public when you make them. That’s the sign of good leadership.

Patrick Gower: You’ve never told a lie in politics?

Jacinda Ardern: No. No. And if I have made a mistake, I fronted it. I’m going to make them in the future, too, Paddy, let’s be clear. But it’s all about fronting them when you do.

Has Jacinda lived up to this standard since she became PM? What do people think? Any specific examples?
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March 5, 2018 5:51pm
- nasska
  
  ….”Any specific examples?”…..
  
  Were you referring to instances of her telling the truth?
  
  That would get the punters thinking!
  
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  March 5, 2018 6:11pm
- RF
  
  The local yokel Granny Clampett is busy chasing butterflies to be worried about the lies she has told.
  
  She is running around demanding that she be treated as a princess and throwing our money around like there is no tomorrow.
  
  Meanwhile chubby cheeks is crying into his soup as the cupboard is fast being emptied by grannys pork barrel politics.
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:51pm
- RF
  
  I know one porky she has told. No strikes on her watch……
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:05pm
- Harkman
  
  Yes, she claimed that she made significant changes to the tppa, not true, she got nothing.
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:34pm
Longknives

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5452657/Outrage-image-child-smoking-ice-pipe.html

Anyone want to bet against these individuals being ‘Expat’ New Zealanders??
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March 5, 2018 6:21pm
- nasska
  
  From Longknives’ link:
  
  …..”the number of Australians using methamphetamine has tripled over the previous five years to 268,000″…..
  
  I don’t know the NZ figures but they’ll be equally shocking. While we wring our hands & wonder why this happened consider the anecdotes of people fronting up to their local gang operated “hole in the wall” & being told, “no dope bro…..the cops in helicopters pulled the plants & the hydroponic guys got busted. But, hey we got plenty of meth……want a try?”
  
  The geniuses who allowed & encouraged meth to proliferate while trying to eradicate marijuana should be shot with a pellet of their own shit!
  
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  March 5, 2018 6:39pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Nasska:
    
    the anecdotes of people fronting up to their local gang operated “hole in the wall”
    
    Are glory holes used for drugs now? How did things come to this?
    
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    March 5, 2018 7:22pm
    - nasska
      
      Holes can be different things to different people Nostra. 🙂
      
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      March 5, 2018 7:30pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        Starboard hasn’t commented much lately but, as you may recall, he’s previously shared his perspective on “holes” with us:
        
        Day off today. Thought Id take a drive down the Devils Staircase SH6 have a nosy around. Pleasant enough day, pulled into a rest stop beside the lake, parked the old vette, went for a walk. Minding my own business, taking in the view, heard some noise coming from behind a large tree..wandered past looked to me right..here’s some bloke up to his nuts in guts in some other bloke. I mean…really? Cant this sort of filth be kept in the toilet block? Of all the picturesque places, these fags had to violate my eyes and the location with their sordid goings on. So I gave them an earful and carried on. Ruined my arvo.
        
        It’s amazing what you can learn by reading Kiwiblog!
        
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        March 5, 2018 7:46pm
      - Swifty
        
        Hahaha!
        
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        March 5, 2018 7:59pm
      - itstricky
        
        It’s amazing what you can learn by reading Kiwiblog
        
        Given he is always the first to share his perspective on these things, and he shares it over and over and over again, it’s amazing that he “just found himself” in that situation.
        
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        March 5, 2018 8:00pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        itstricky:
        
        Are you suggesting that he was writing about himself using the first-person syntax, and implying a third-person view of an incident, when he was actually closer to the action? 🙂
        
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        March 5, 2018 8:18pm
      - itstricky
        
        Pretty much. I mean, he is always the first person to bring it up, and you know what they say…
        
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        March 6, 2018 9:02am
GazzaW

Auckland railway workers out, Lyttelton wharfies out. Common factor the Rail & Maritime Union and a pommy shop steward from the north of England.

It all sounds too familiar to those who remember the ’70s.
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March 5, 2018 7:16pm
nasska

South Aucklanders:

For fags, booze & meth there’s the DPB.

For everything else, there’s someone else’s MasterCard.
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March 5, 2018 8:23pm
- stephieboy
  
  nasska , precisely where Stars and Stripes dwells .
  
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  March 5, 2018 8:55pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Spend up quick punters, Cullen is coming for our goodies.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/101970814/new-taxes-could-change-bad-behaviours-suggests-sir-michael-cullen
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March 5, 2018 8:43pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Bugger. That smarmy prick back again. Begining to really hate Labour and their policies. A pox on all of them.
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:16pm
Nostradamus

Wellington to spend $1m on city’s begging problem by creating beggar ‘activities’

Wellington’s ratepayers could be about to write a million dollar cheque to help fix the city’s begging problem.

In an effort to clean up its streets, Wellington City Council is proposing to set aside $100,000 per year, over the next ten years, to provide “purposeful day activities for people on the street”. The initiative, suggested by the council’s social development portfolio leader Brian Dawson, would see ratepayer-funed [sic] grants offered to programmes that address antisocial behaviour and street begging in the city.

I wonder what sort of “purposeful day activities” Wellington City Council has in mind. After all, the more time beggars spend on purposeful day activities, the less time they have to collect money from passersby.
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March 5, 2018 8:52pm
- sooty
  
  Rolling the punters!
  
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  March 5, 2018 10:00pm
EAD_TWO

Just been reading an American Nationalist website and there is a section in there every week detailing all the weeks inter-racial killings (Black man/white women) and there are literally thousands of them. From just this week:

http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2018/02/man_sentenced_for_dismembering.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/suspect-charged-murder-death-23-year-old-virginia-mom-article-1.3852899?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=MPnydynews

As the famous saying goes, if you burn the coal, be prepared to pay the toll
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March 5, 2018 9:00pm
- stephieboy
  
  EAD TWO , consider these 20 or so evil and notorious serial killers ,
  
  https://www.scoopwhoop.com/world/most-evil-serial-killers/#.7s76ilivx
  
  Not the dominance of white faces .
  
  Thoughts ?
  
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  March 5, 2018 9:09pm
- Gabby
  
  Get some fresh air eadolf. Enjoy the scenery, plan a putsch..
  
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  March 6, 2018 8:13am
Jack5

Australia has second thoughts about its huge foreign-student industry.

https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2018/international-student-boom/
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