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KiWombat

Today is April 1 – April fools day, the day we all try to fool our friends !

Don’t confuse it with April 30 – the day we all try to fool the IRD !

Our host has already hit us with a doozy – well done DPF !
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April 1, 2018 8:01am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Um, I don’t wish to rain on anything, but when Ardern announced her pregnancy wasn’t DD being PM discussed?
  Same reasoning given that we have an acting PM (Davis) while she is out of the country and a full PM (Peters) when she is on maternity leave.
  I recall comments about his Parliamentary pension being set at an average of his earnings, and how the PMs salary would boost his retirement income.
  Perhaps I wasn’t paying due attention, in which case I invite correction from wise KBers.
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:17am
- Monique Watson
  
  That was brilliant. Had me pacing. And not just due to the Good Friday hangover. Wait, isn’t Peters the ultimate political hangover?
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:26am
duggledog

Who else thinks Claire Curran is a dead ringer for the hapless, out-of-his-depth barrister Dennis Denuto in the Australian classic ‘The Castle’?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJuXIq7OazQ

She is so ‘transparently’ shit at this. I suspect next week her coffee meeting will result in a Coffey meeting. Ticks a lot of boxes doesn’t he?

Cindy will reshuffle CC shortly though and the absurd $30 mil RNZ+ idea may well disappear with her. It’s not like the masses are screaming out for it; even RNZ doesn’t want it, nor TVNZ.

That money is needed for nurses etc, not an already well over-endowed NZ media landscape.

But if the Communists push ahead, don’t worry. A long line of Hirschfelds is available for the top job starting with, hmmm, Findlay?

Here’s what CC and CH would have discussed IMHO. Set up the RNZ+ framework, puncture TVNZ, bleed out the right people into RNZ+ and let the current State Broadcaster collapse under the shit weight of no funding, audience or Hillarys. They shoot lame horses don’t they?

I wonder if DPF and others in Wellington understand the sheer scale of Labour / Green support in the radio, television broadcast operations, TV production, film production, advertising etc in New Zealand most of which is in Auckland. It’s practically uniform and we’re talking hundreds of people who are in a position to influence, and do, subtly, every day in many ways – I will post an example that has gone completely under the radar tomorrow in GD.

But back to the tawdry Curran / Hirschfeld scenario – the National Party must use this. Not to get rid of the relic Curran whose career is over but to expose the agenda of (at least) RNZ. The next National administration (won’t be long) must begin the rout on Day One.

All it takes is some intestinal fortitude and two twists of the wrist to turn the money tap off. The Left controls the narrative
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April 1, 2018 8:01am
- milkmaid
  
  I understand the Minister of Glasnost will be appearing on Q & A this morning. Will she come across as credible?
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:03am
  - 3-coil
    
    milkmaid (8:03am) – Claire Curran was anything but credible on her Q+A interview this morning. Credible – no, but readable a big “yes”.
    
    It was crystal clear every time she told a lie – it was the blush of her bosom that gave her away. With every porky she uttered (and there was a string of them) her chest went a deeper shade of red, such was her inner shame. By the end of the interview she looked like a Frigate Bird, I had to check I hadn’t flipped over to some David Attenborough programme.
    
    Expect to see Claire Curran, the “Minister of Open Government”, fronting for all her further tv interviews wearing a polo neck top. ( The more cynical would suggest a full-face crash helmet or a hijab would help too). Labour’s media experts will have to try to eradicate Curran’s default position of telling porkies – bizarrely she chooses by reflex to tell a lie, even when she doesn’t need to.
    
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    April 1, 2018 9:34am
    - milkmaid
      
      Oh, OK. Silly me! I was watching her face the whole time. Stoney would be my best description. I didn’t even think to look at the bosom.
      
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      April 1, 2018 9:50am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        I couldn’t take my eyes off her face either as I was struck by the total lack of expression.
        Does the woman ever blink?
        I wondered if the immobile face was because of Botox, weed, or palsy.
        
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        April 1, 2018 10:55am
      - starboard
        
        “I didn’t even think to look at the bosom”
        
        Gay, much. Told ya.
        
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        April 1, 2018 11:16am
      - RF
        
        They say that when the duck was dealing to her on her desk she was eating a cold pie over his shoulder.
        
        Tough as old boots.
        
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        April 1, 2018 11:17am
- KiWombat
  
  What a laugh – yes there is real synergy there ! They must have both graduated from the same class – even the paper shuffling is the same !
  
  And her cardigan is more than a match for his tie – as if they have both been fashioned by the same pair of hands !
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:06am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Good analysis duggledog.
  
  I think there is a major disconnect between Auckland Labour and Wellington Labour.
  We need a fly on the wall.
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:43am
SJ Actual

Only 70 odd days until New Zealand(s) first(s) regency commences.

*Can’t decide which “s” should be deleted and which should remain…
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April 1, 2018 8:02am
Manolo

Warning the violent:
https://apnews.com/fcb59618f063452c9c701aab8538dbe1/Israel-says-it-will-expand-response-if-Gaza-clashes-go-on

Israel will target militant groups inside Gaza if violence along the territory’s border with Israel drags on, the chief military spokesman warned on Saturday, a day after 15 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the area’s deadliest violence in four years.
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April 1, 2018 8:05am
- mandk
  
  The world needs to stand behind Israel defending itself from attack by the vile Hamas.
  
  Shalom Eretz Israel!
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:11am
  - Kimbo
    
    Agreed. Just as the world needs to stand against Israel when they attempt to conquer and annex territory by stealth and increment in the occupied West Bank. Hence our co-sponsoring of UNSC2334.
    
    If you want shalom/salaam/peace, then while you cannot control what others do, nonetheless as much as it depends on you, do the things that make for shalom/salaam/peace.
    
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    April 1, 2018 9:04am
    - mandk
      
      Fair enough, but where is the UN Resolution demanding that the Palestinians disavow their intention to wipe Israel off the map?
      
      Is there any country in the world, other than Israel, whose neighbours want to annihilate it?
      
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      April 1, 2018 5:12pm
      - Kimbo
        
        UNSC2334 already does that. Calls upon all parties to cease targeting civilians, engaging in terror
        
        …and negotiate a peace based on the two-state solution:
        
        http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/SRES2334-2016.pdf
        
        Also, I think you will find not all of Israel’s neighbours want her destruction. Egypt and Jordan once did, but have now made what has thus-far proved to be an abiding peace of many years. But if one is convinced your enemy will never change, nor that you should ever yield an inch (which seems the Likud policy’s) and everything must be done your way, then no, little likelihood of peace. Even if and when the opportunity arises.
        
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        April 1, 2018 5:22pm
      - mandk
        
        @ Kimbo above. UNSC2334 doesn’t do what you say it does.
        
        It demands absolutely nothing from the Palestinians. It simply reiterates a vision of a two-state solution.
        
        It is a pro-terrorist resolution and it is fundamentally flawed because it does not recognise that one side wants to annihilate the other.
        
        And Yes you are correct that Israel is not threatened by Egypt and Jordan (at least not at the moment). They recognise Israel’s right to exist in peace. And they have gained much from their peaceable relations with Israel.
        
        And, apologies, I hit the wrong button and accidentally reported you.
        
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        April 1, 2018 6:22pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Thanks for the response, but, nope. You also overlooked the following, which, of its very nature calls upon the Palestinians to accept the two-state solution, work towards it, and thereby reject the call for the destruction of Israel:
        
        Recalling also the obligation under the Quartet roadmap for the Palestinian Authority Security Forces to maintain effective operations aimed at confronting all those engaged in terror and dismantling terrorist capabilities, including the confiscation of illegal weapons,
        
        …Calls upon both parties to act on the basis of international law, including international humanitarian law, and their previous agreements and obligations, to observe calm and restraint, and to refrain from provocative actions, incitement and inflammatory rhetoric, with the aim, inter alia, of de-escalating the situation on the ground, rebuilding trust and confidence, demonstrating through policies and actions a genuine commitment to the two-State solution, and creating the conditions necessary for promoting peace
        
        And yes, I agree, unless the Palestinians accept Israel’s right to exist, there can be no lasting peace, and the likelihood of Palestinian state is next to nothing. But unless Israeli settlement of the West Bank desists, there may very soon be little, if any possibility of a viable Palestinian state. Palestinian acceptance may take some time,…but Israeli annexation of territory by conquest, stealth and increment is the pressing issue that could permanently derail any hope of future negotiated peace.
        
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        April 1, 2018 6:35pm
- SPC
  
  The reality, the Palestinians of Gaza planned a protest at the border (involving a tent settlement until May 15) over their refugee status (most of the Palestinains in Gaza are 1948 era regfugees).
  
  Israel told them not to go to close to the border fence, or they would be killed (they sent in hundreds of snipers). Two picking parsley from a field near the fence were hit by a tank shell, those killed since unarmed men in Gaza territory shot by snipers.
  
  Reminds me more of unarmed protestors shot in the streets of Damascus some years ago, than justified self defence by Israel.
  
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  April 2, 2018 12:04pm
  - SPC
    
    Erdogan criticised Israel over the occupation of Palestinian land and killing of unarmed civilians, if only the other “democracy” in the region, Turkey, was not occupying parts of Syria and shelling unarmed Kurds in Afrin … .
    
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    April 2, 2018 12:07pm
Captain Mainwaring

So some idiot commits suicide by cop and State Highway One has to be shut down for 12 hours.
When is this ridiculous over-reaction going to stop so people can continue to go about their lawful business?
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April 1, 2018 8:06am
- cmm
  
  The reason for these over reactions is all the post-event inquiries. These require all the evidence be captured from an uncontaminated (and safe) scene.
  
  In a more rational society we’d just take a few pictures then tow the vehicle off the road and get a fire engine to hose the road down if there was blood.
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:22am
  - RF
    
    That happen once after a fatal Police shooting that I think was the Wallace one. Could be wrong.
    
    A female Police Inspector was forced to apologise
    to NOK for hosing down the scene to wash away the blood.
    
    FFS…
    
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    April 1, 2018 3:14pm
- Harlequin
  
  And how far away are his bereft family from setting up a Bludge a little page.
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:37am
- fernglas
  
  I’m utterly with you in respect of traffic accidents. The cops treat every vehicle death as a potential homicide, ever since they missed one a few years back. It is almost always completely pointless, and any cost/benefit analysis would tell them to get on with clearing the wreckage and letting traffic flow. But in this case, it’s a police killing, and they will be meticulous because if they miss anything, they will be pilloried.
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:58am
- kowtow
  
  Talking of ridiculous , the Plodette with the huge mane of hair who gave the press briefing referred to somewhere called Tamaki Makaurau .
  
  ( Promotion through pushing the right buttons)
  
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  April 1, 2018 1:38pm
holysheet

Sing along with Elvis

are you lonesome tonight
is your bra strap too tight
are your corsets just drifting apart
have you got a big chest making holes in your vest
does your spare tyre reach out into the night
are your stockings all laddered
are you wearing them thin
do you hold up your knickers with a big safety pin
are your false teeth all worn do they drop when you yawn
well its no wonder your lonesome tonight
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April 1, 2018 8:09am
- suzieq
  
  Change line two to “jock strap” and the ditty could refer to one or two chaps I know ….
  
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  April 1, 2018 4:09pm
Manolo

Shame on this bugger. While the con-man says something, his troops look for young children to abuse:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pope-ashamed-young-inherit-fractured-world-214526551.html

Speaking in Rome at the end of the traditional Good Friday Stations of the Cross procession, the pontiff said the world was “devoured by egotism in which the young, the sick, the old are marginalised”.
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April 1, 2018 8:10am
- VicParking
  
  Especially old white men
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:28am
  - minto57
    
    u are a racist/agest troll possibly even a cultural marxist are u infact a Russian 5th columnist.
    
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    April 1, 2018 12:13pm
stephieboy

Easter Week

See the land, her Easter keeping,
Rises as her Maker rose.
Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,
Burst at last from winter snows.
Earth with heaven above rejoices;
Fields and gardens hail the spring;
Shaughs and woodlands ring with voices,
While the wild birds build and sing.

You, to whom your Maker granted
Powers to those sweet birds unknown,
Use the craft by God implanted;
Use the reason not your own.
Here, while heaven and earth rejoices,
Each his Easter tribute bring-
Work of fingers, chant of voices,
Like the birds who build and sing.

Charles Kingsley
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April 1, 2018 8:14am
- Harkman
  
  So 557 thumbs down yesterday SB. Quite the charmer. You’ve obviously read Dale Carnegie’s ‘How to win friends and influence people.’
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:50am
Paulus

There could be be a possible assumption that Hirshfeld and Curren were conspiring towards making Hershfeld the new CEO in July when the role becomes possibly vacant.
She and Curren are of like mind, against the current bosses current thinking.
So why tell the current CEO that his job goes then.
Hershfeld is a highly respected and paid executive as well she and her husband Finlay McDonald is believed to also have a very successful business in the Radio and TV production – particularly in the Maori world.
In any other business Hershfeld would have been given the same resolution – instant dismissal.
Curren should go also – no doubt that she instigated the meetings and conversations.
No – it was just a casual coffee meeting – sound like the liar has been caught.
More to come soon I understand.
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April 1, 2018 8:17am
- stephieboy
  
  Let us all shun shallow worldly concerns and remember what this day can mean for us all :
  
  Ressurection Day
  
  Christ is Risen
  
  Alleluia !
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:22am
  - milkmaid
    
    Do you really believe someone rose from the dead? I mean, really??? Just curious.
    
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    April 1, 2018 8:24am
  - Manolo
    
    Do you have a split personality: half Christian, half Muslim? Please, clarify it for me.
    
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    April 1, 2018 8:25am
    - VicParking
      
      Depends on what goat he sleeped with the previous night ??
      
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      April 1, 2018 8:30am
      - minto57
        
        also atheism which would also point to being a cutural marxist
        
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        April 1, 2018 12:19pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Let us all shun shallow worldly concerns
    
    So you won’t be requiring the measurements of my underwear today?
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/03/general_debate_31_march_2018.html#comment-2175550
    
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    April 1, 2018 9:12am
  - Kimbo
    
    So if you think we should shun worldly concerns, especially on Easter Day…why are you ~~posting~~ trolling here?
    
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    April 1, 2018 9:20am
- KevOB
  
  It sounds like Curran is an operative–making things happen. Sometimes in Government it’s the only effective way.
  
  Curran my have a rare quality for an MP.
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:49am
- Harkman
  
  Finlay McDonald might actually now have to go get a job. Misses no longer bringing home the bacon.
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:53am
hmmokrightitis

What are the chances the pensioner has enquired about instituting emergency powers once he has his hands on the levers?

And what are the odds his years of bad habits finally get the better of him before he gets to sit in the Big Chair?
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April 1, 2018 8:18am
stephieboy

A Shropshire Lad

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

A. E. HOUSMAN
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April 1, 2018 8:18am
- All_on_Red
  
  You missed a verse (Stephie version)
  
  ‘And very soon, I’ll get a call
  To do some perving at the Mall
  What fun to leer at a young lass
  While I sit there passing lots of gas’
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:23am
  - Jack5
    
    The Stephie song continues:
    
    Oh to see the boobs – young titties,
    They inspire my ditties.
    How would SHE go in my seventy?
    Nope, too old – she’s twenty.
    
    Ah, small titty girls at the mall,
    you don’t stack up at all.
    In heaven, pretty houris wait,
    Tiny tits will me sate.
    
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    April 1, 2018 9:03am
- Jack5
  
  It looks as though a new packet of khat has arrived from Stephiestan.
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:29am
Happychappy

What is Labour and the Coalition doing about fuel pricing after spending the last few months leading up to the last Election complaining Judith Collins and National were letting the Fuel Company’s rip off customers and especially those in the low wage bracket. I went to Te Kuiti on Friday and petrol their seems to be the cheapest in the Waikato being several cents a ltr cheaper than Huntly and Ngaruawahia with the BP Station being 10 cents dearer in Ngaruawahia.
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April 1, 2018 8:24am
- noskire
  
  An interim working group has been formed and will report back with initial findings. Then a parliamentary committee will be established to look into how a permanent oversight committee can be established.
  However a pre-interim working group will first need to be formed to determine the breadth and scope that will be required.
  All of this will probably need to be overseen by a commissioner, so another working group will need to be established to consult with the government on possible candidates.
  
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  April 1, 2018 11:05am
- KiWombat
  
  I was paying 94.7cpl just after the election for diesel – what is it now in Waikato ?
  
  I watched price of diesel climb about 30-35% in the couple of months after the election, at the same time price of crude was falling !
  
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  April 1, 2018 11:37am
Jack5

Got to give it to Heather du Plessis-Allan, she knows how to mix metaphors.

From her column in the Hooerald today:

How good is she at running this ship? It’s now impossible not to ask that question.

The Government has had three weeks of car crash problems and Jacinda Ardern dropped the ball virtually every time.

C’mon Heather, this is Barely passable.
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April 1, 2018 8:25am
Thought Criminal

It must be April’s fools. Even the Herald is calling out Ardern for repeated incompetence.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12022383
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April 1, 2018 8:27am
- noskire
  
  and Stuff is having another crack https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102585655/stacey-kirk-government-comedy-of-errors-belies-serious-questions-of-credibility
  
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  April 1, 2018 9:20am
Monique Watson

My five kids (and one extra) rose from the dead this morning. From the time I woke and they woke, I’d done five loads of laundry, put two dishwashers on and cleaned two shitters.
And where in the bible is the mention of all the work done by the women while Christ is havin’ a wee sleep?
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April 1, 2018 8:30am
- VicParking
  
  Dont worry the meek will inherit the earth.
  Six feet by two feet by six feet
  “Meekness is an active and deliberate acceptance of undesirable circumstances that are wisely seen by the individual as only part of a larger picture.”
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:36am
  - kowtow
    
    The Greek won’t , too much debt.
    
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    April 1, 2018 1:50pm
- milkmaid
  
  Imagine doing all that with no washing machine or dishwasher. That is why women had no time to make their submissions for the bible. That, and they weren’t allowed to know how to write 🙂
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:44am
rightoverlabour

I have had a change of heart. Good morning Stephieboy, hope you have a lovely day, and I think I’ll retract all my previous comments. Now that we have it confirmed that Honourable Winston Peters will be PM in a short while, I have suddenly realised that things in the country will only get better. I now see the logic of tax increases, the removal of charter schools and the ring fencing of rentals. I exhort all kiwibloggers to be nice to Stephieboy, he has been a shining light in the darkness, a lonely prophet in the desert, a true sage in the blogosphere…
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April 1, 2018 8:36am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Good morning Easter Bunny
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:52am
- Viking2
  
  Take your bloody meds you fool.
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:53am
Paul Marsden

I assume Ascot Hospital will therefore be not claiming GST on this invoice (and neither Tainui)….

“Andrew Wong, the managing director of MercyAscot said patient confidentiality and privacy laws meant he was also unable to resolve the mystery for the Herald on Sunday.

“Nor am I in a position to comment on what may or may not have been said to you by the patient concerned as related to the invoice,” he said.

Asked about the unusual nature of the invoice submitted to Tainui, particularly the blank spaces where patient identification details are typically printed, Wong said: “At times we are requested to direct invoices in a certain way, and we accommodate those requests. Whatever the arrangement is between the patient and the person to whom the invoice is sent is a matter for them to handle as they see fit.”
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April 1, 2018 8:45am
- milkmaid
  
  I’m so glad these charities are not burdened with any taxes. /
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:53am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Hmm, so who’s been having secret surgery then?
  
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  April 1, 2018 5:45pm
lastmanstanding

Until the Board of Cricket Australia resigns and is replaced nothing will change. Its all about culture. The culture of any organisation is set at the top and flows downwards.Just as the fish rots from the head so the tone is set at the top.

The Board of CA hired the CEO. The CEO hired the Coach. The Coach selected the players.

So each took their lead from those above them. Mind you as with the Curran affair as a fervent Black Cap supporter I dont want to see the Board go. I want to see CA in a state of chaos at least until we can whipped their sorry arses a few times.
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April 1, 2018 8:51am
Viking2

His father left them penniless; Chris Liddell tells of his path to White House power

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/102627938/his-father-left-them-penniless-chris-liddell-tells-of-his-path-to-white-house-power

Interesting read. As usual in the comments the lefties are vitriolic.
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April 1, 2018 8:55am
- Inandout
  
  Yes, but also some sensible comments from normal people. Who cares if he has had two former wives, at least he appears a decent chap.
  
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  April 1, 2018 9:06am
- stephieboy
  
  V2, makes me think of Sir John Keys humble beginnings and path to Prime Minister.
  
  Mickey Savage’s humble beginnings too.
  
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  April 1, 2018 9:06am
  - Inandout
    
    Savage was obviously a man of his times and maybe Jacinda copied his persona:
    
    ‘We might make mistakes but we will make other things too’.
    
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    April 1, 2018 9:10am
    - Viking2
      
      Savage was not a nice person.
      
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      April 1, 2018 10:34am
      - stephieboy
        
        V2 , according to whom? Sworn enemy John A Lee?
        
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        April 1, 2018 12:51pm
  - Jack5
    
    A Stephie talks Christianity and chats about Michael Joseph Savage. With a marked change in pronunciation (no spaces before full stops), and suddenly the Peter Sellars-style Indian English idiom changes.
    
    Is the Stephiestani troll team diversifying, or have they just always had roped in one thick local Kafir?
    
    But as for Michael Joseph Savage – he was a popularist who was hailed as an Economic Saviour though the tide of recovery from the Great Depression was lifting all ships.
    
    The Labour rebel and World War 1 hero, John A. Lee, was interesting on Savage.
    
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    April 1, 2018 10:11am
    - DigNap15
      
      Once Stephie replied to one of my posts that he was not a muslim!
      
      Its sort of liek those Nigerian love scammers, they are a 24/7 businesses, and different staff members take over the script.
      
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      April 1, 2018 8:18pm
Harkman

I had to laugh last night, a Newshub ad came on during the movie and it finished with Sam Hayes saying, “The Government has embarrassed the country internationally.” My gosh if they’ve lost the lefty media already they’re in trouble. Heck I might even watch them.
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April 1, 2018 8:58am
Right of way is Way of Right

Corin Dann has Curran on Q and A, should be fun. Spinning like a top.
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April 1, 2018 9:07am
- Harkman
  
  Clare Curran looks like a possum in the headlights. She’s stuffed and on this one, One & 3 don’t want RNZ to become a TV channel so they are going to hound her to muddy the waters. Which is funny.
  
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  April 1, 2018 9:09am
  - Harkman
    
    “Public investment” in news and current affairs. It is not an investment. More Maori and Pasifica news content, ha? There is a Maori channel, scores of Maori radio stations. Pasifica, why? They should just assimilate. What Pacific language?
    
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    April 1, 2018 9:14am
  - Harkman
    
    Gosh she is stupid. Corin asked her if it is sensible to create a competitor to TVNZ and harm an SOE, Curran claimed it wouldn’t hurt revenue! If less people watch One or Two, they can’t demand current revenue from advertisers if less people are watching. Stupid on a spectacular scale.
    
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    April 1, 2018 9:19am
    - dubya
      
      Now McCarten is on the defensive for Curran… One wonders if he got The Duck’s sloppy seconds…
      
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      April 1, 2018 9:29am
      - milkmaid
        
        Gross Thanks for ruining my breakfast 🙁
        
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        April 1, 2018 9:33am
    - KevOB
      
      Is Curran setting herself up for a position in a Hirshfeld TV business operating under a government contract?
      
      Some people are devious–they lose only if caught,
      
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      April 1, 2018 12:36pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Is Curran setting herself up for a position in a Hirshfeld TV business operating under a government contract
        
        Put that thought together with duggledog’s comment
        about the Auckland Left-wing/Green media powerbrokers and there is a powerful stench about the Curran-Hirschfeld coffee date.
        
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/04/general_debate_easter_sunday_2018.html#comment-2175766
        
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        April 1, 2018 2:34pm
Anne Glen Eden

PR spin has had a go at the Guardian article on Jacinda which can be read here https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/30/new-zealand-likely-to-become-a-republic-in-my-lifetime-says-jacinda-ardern

Either that or the Guardian have a less than rosy view of her and are being a little sarcastic, which is possible after making fun of her over the Russian spies. You compare what’s above with the vomit-inducing ‘unicorns and rainbows’ picture presented in the Herald http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12023771

Whoever is responsible for the Herald artcile, clearly they really do believe NZers are gullible suckers – and we do have them because they voted for her.

Try to reconcile Ardern’s statements:
“”I had 16 weeks of morning sickness. And no one knew about it…”
Oh, isn’t she just wonderful. Vomit can’t touch her and hey, you women out there, it’s your job to pretend you have no problems, deal with everything in isolation, and just keep working, working, working no matter what you may be suffering or how you may be damaged by it. Do I believe that ‘no-one knew about it’? No.

“But I think the beauty of children, at least I know this to be true of my family, is that they draw you away from that thing, and just make you have that wider perspective…”

Really? Is that why she and Labour spend their every waking moment politicising children – even her own – to convert their existence to political tools and prevent them having any ‘innocent’ childhood. The children certainly don’t get to have the ‘unicorns and rainbows’. They’re joining in political meetings from the womb to maximise their indoctrination and make full use of them for political purposes – the good of the Labour Party. Nothing more than convenient political tools. Just imagine what it’s going to be like when she breastfeeds in Parliament – pictures all over the world, perhaps a flash of nipple in the name of ‘women’s rights’.

I wonder what the ‘wider perspective’ is as well. Apparently, it’s not changing an iota of her life. Just what ‘guilt’ is she suffering from that she consulted with Obama on, in this picture of perfect womanhood? Once they’re a little older, children are bribed with alcohol, drugs, and sex, engaging their natural ‘experimentation’ to discover the ‘dirty side of human nature’ – and with the ever-present politics. No ‘fairy tales’ for them. It’s all hard reality from go to whoa.

‘Trump’s treatment of women, she said: “All I know is that is something I can control and feel responsible for. And I know what I feel comfortable with, so when that comes to the way we portray women for me it’s just how I like to be treated, how would I like to be talked about, how would I like my mother to be treated and talked about, and that is the lens that I apply.’

Really? Once again, back to the alcohol, drugs, and sex. Did the Labour camp reveal how she would like her child or mother to be treated; a predator with his hand shoved down their pants grabbing their genitals – the way they ignored the kids, tolerating sexual assault? Or the parents? Does the behaviour of the women in her government describe the implied standards for women? Lies, blackmail, use and abuse of children, sewing as much division in society as they can achieve.

And speaking of division, then there’s the men. They get no such consideration. They’re apparently never children. They’re, as Genter describes, ‘old, white men’ and Ardern’s hang out in underwear sections making ‘awkward’ requests of her. But she doesn’t let that get to her because that’s when she interacts with ‘people’ – which apparently is a group ‘men’ don’t belong to.

In addition to all that utterly mythological gloss, she says she tries to ‘find ways not to inconvenience a whole raft of other people’, immediately after saying she makes life particularly difficult for her Police protection squad by ignoring them completely.

“The wonderful police officers who spend time with me I don’t think appreciate that…”
I daresay they don’t. They have a serious function to perform. They’re probably also all/partly men who she clearly despises. Just as well that she’s far too meaningless for anyone to ever threaten. Having said that, I think she unconsciously despises everyone including herself.

This vacuous rubbish is rivalled only by Trudeau – her idol. My response to her is the same as the Indians was to him. More like disgust and contempt. Thank Heaven the world isn’t treated to Theresa May or Angela Merkel telling us about buying their underwear or going for milk. But then, they are serious world leaders, seriously concerned with real issues. I can’t imagine NZ ever having a PM who is such a total airhead and makes NZ look so utterly ridiculous. Vapid would be a compliment and she’s doing nothing for the status of ‘women’. One can only hope this article is a product of April Fool’s.
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April 1, 2018 9:07am
Kimbo

General Debate Easter Sunday 2018

To be a pedant (is a speciality of mine, but you don’t get to lead Kimbo’s kick arse pub quiz team by being imprecise ?)

…but there is no such day as Easter Sunday. Instead, the Sunday of Holy Week, when the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is celebrated, is Easter Day.
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April 1, 2018 9:16am
KevOB

Happy Easter morn.
He, Jesus, is risen.
Alleluia.
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April 1, 2018 9:25am
- ross411
  
  “He” rises every morning. Cute name for it. I guess if “Jesus” is only rising once in a while, it’s time to celebrate on the days “he” gets around to it. Congrats!
  
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  April 1, 2018 10:11am
Swifty

Kimbo – I have heard that the dead rising from the grave was quite common in 1st Century Judea.
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April 1, 2018 9:57am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  The Roman’ s weren’t able to stamp out the Zombie/Vampire problems in Judea.
  
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  April 1, 2018 10:11am
- Kimbo
  
  @ Swifty
  
  No. The resurrection of the widow’s son in Nain occurred in Galilee (Luke’s reference to word of the incident spreading throughout Judea refers to where Jesus was headed at that stage in his ministry), as also did the raising of Jairus’ daughter.
  
  So that leaves Lazarus, Jesus Christ himself, and the intriguing passage in Matthew 27: 52-53 (a later textual interpolation?) where the saints who had died were disturbed in their graves by the earthquake at Jesus’ crucifixion, and then appeared in Jerusalem after his resurrection
  
  …which occurred in Judea. Oh, yes, and Tabitha/Dorcas was later raised to life in Joppa by the Apostle Peter, which, while part of Ancient Philistia, was then part of Judea.
  
  So, no, not “quite common”. Still very unusual hence the miracles/signs were remembered, and then the oral and later written accounts were preserved. ?
  
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  April 1, 2018 10:46am
Gravelroad

Fabulous day here on the Gravelroad, KB’ers.
Sun shining, not a breath of wind and the only sounds are the stags roaring.
Dishwasher has broken down, but Other Half being pressed into interim service. Had to dig out the on-bench dish drainer and OH seriously asked: “What is that?”
Now for the cricket and Easter eggs.
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April 1, 2018 9:58am
Komata

GR

Re: ‘Now for the cricket and Easter eggs’.

Is it a New Zealand cricket? Do you cover it with chocolate first, or just munch it with the Easter eggs?

(Just asking; out of interest).
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April 1, 2018 10:29am
- Gravelroad
  
  You have to be vigilant and careful around here.
  There are a lot of chocolatey looking items to be gathered up. Could be a cricket, could be a possum, could be a stag’s offering (looks like small cricket ball but chocolate colour).
  They don’t all taste the same.
  
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  April 1, 2018 10:43am
  - Komata
    
    Gravelroad
    
    Thank you; so no ‘Crickets’ have (so far) been hurt durign your consumption of Easter eggs.
    
    The SPCA can be stood down (or on, depending on your perspective).
    
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    April 1, 2018 11:44am
Hugh Pavletich

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
WHY BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS A NONSENSE ISSUE …

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/macro-afternoon-393/#comment-3079568 … and …

WHY BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS A NONSENSE ISSUE …

… WATCH THESE THREE IMPORTANT SHORT VIDEOS …

… NOTE IN PARTICULAR HOW BILL LEVITT (NEW HOUSING) AND MALCOM McLEAN (CONTAINERIZATION) TALKED STRAIGHT. THEY DIDN’T WAFFLE …

Bill and Alfred Levitt figured out how to supply new housing at or below $10,000 after World War 11 … when access to low cost products was extremely difficult and often impossible …

This Man Is the Father of Modern American Suburbia | Smithsonian

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/smithsonian-channel/this-man-is-the-father-of-modern-american-su/

… then … soon after … Malcom McLean created the modern container industry … dropping shipping costs dramatically … for example with what cost $6 with break – bulk cargo handling to just 16 cents with containerization ! …

The Power of Outsiders – Video – NYTimes.com

https://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000004807604/the-power-of-outsiders.html

… note here the extremely small costs of shipping selected items around the planet … so that transportation costs are pretty much irrelevant today in the whole scheme of things (thank you Malcom McLean ! ) …

Malcom McLean and Containerisation | Maersk Line – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq8UU9kafJ0

… so that today …

1. Standard detached housing should not cost any more than 3.0 times annual household incomes of specific metros ( refer Annual Demographia Surveys ; recent Glaeser & Gyourko paper ; recent Reserve Bank of Australia paper ).

2. New fringe starter house and land packages should cost around 2.5 times … at development ratios of 20% serviced lot and the balance construction ( Definition of an affordable housing market http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning ).

3. Apartment / townhouses should be around 2.0 times ( to illustrate refer Houston Association of Realtors Monthly Report ).

4. Fringe manufactured house and land packages should be around 1.5 times ( refer Leaky Homes And An Architect’s Musing’s | Scoop News March 2010 published Interest Co NZ as ‘Houston: We have a housing affordability problem’ … extract below General Email) .

Following 13+ years of intense public discussion of these issues in New Zealand, there is no excuse not to have a sound grasp of these ‘structural basics’.

After all … housing development and construction is a very formulaic business today.

With the gross annual median household income in Auckland now about $94,000 (refer Demographia Survey schedules) … the detached median house prices should not exceed $282,000 … fringe starter house & land packages $235,000 … apartments / townhouses $188,000 and fringe manufactured house & land packages about $141,000

Have Auckland Mayor Phil Goff and New Zealand Housing Minister Phil Twyford told you this ?
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April 1, 2018 10:52am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Point 4 above. Back early 2010 I wrote ‘Leaky Homes And An Architect’s Musing’s ( http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00799/leaky-homes-and-an-architects-musings.htm ) , which appeared around the same time at Interest Co NZ as ‘Houston: we have a housing affordability problem’.
  
  … extract …
  
  … I was in Houston a couple of years back as part of a housing study tour. At that stage, 235 square metre new fringe starter housing on 700 square metre lots, was being put in place for $US140,000. These comprised a double garage, 4 bedroom, master with ensuite, separate dining room and ducted air conditioning. The serviced lot cost was $US30,000 and the actual housing construction cost $US110,000. The construction cost for the 235 square metre house worked out at $US468 per square metre – all up development costs (land and building) for the 235 square metre house with 700 square metre lot – $US595.
  
  Manufactured housing of 160 square metres on large lots was being put in place for $US73,000 – $53,000 for the manufactured house and around $US20,000 for the serviced lot. $US331 per square metre manufactured unit construction – $US456 per square metre all up (land and manufactured house). … read more via hyperlink above …
  
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  April 1, 2018 10:54am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Hugh, take a holiday.
    Somewhere warm.
    
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    April 1, 2018 11:08am
    - Manolo
      
      Hell? ?
      
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      April 1, 2018 11:58am
      - rightoverlabour
        
        Nah, the Devil won’t allow someone to sprout shit like that all day..
        
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        April 1, 2018 8:10pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      March 2016 … Catherine Harris of Fairfax NZ writes …
      
      The missing piece of the Auckland housing puzzle | Stuff.co.nz
      
      https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/77529177/The-missing-piece-of-the-Auckland-housing-puzzle
      
      In Houston, Texas, there’s no such thing as a housing shortage.
      
      The state’s biggest, blue-collar dominated city rolls out as much as is needed, and land is cheap. Real cheap.
      
      A decent house that might cost more than a million in Auckland will set you back US$200,000 to $300,000 in Houston. … read more via hyperlink above …
      .
      .
      … and recently … well known New Zealand property economist Rodney Dickens wrote …
      
      Rodney Dickens says section prices are the key to solving the housing affordability problem, not higher density around transport hubs. He warns against force-feeding in areas that won’t deliver the intended outcome
      
      https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/92556/rodney-dickens-says-section-prices-are-key-solving-housing-affordability-problem-not
      .
      .
      With economist Gareth Kiernan of Infometrics accurate perspective on New Zealand Labours Kwibuild garbage …
      
      KiwiBuild – otherwise known as “pulling numbers out of your arse” | Infometrics
      
      http://www.infometrics.co.nz/kiwibuild-otherwise-known-pulling-numbers-arse/
      .
      .
      Sadly … since the Christmas break, this new Labour – led government has gone off the rails on housing issues … big time … with constant doses of dim-witted density drivel …
      
      4,000 houses in 29 hectares … Kiwiblog
      
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/03/4000_houses_in_29_hectares.html
      
      … where I had plenty to say on the above thread yesterday … starting with …
      
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/03/4000_houses_in_29_hectares.html/comment-page-1#comment-2173004
      
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      April 1, 2018 11:58am
      - stigie
        
        Fuck Hugh !!
        
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        April 1, 2018 12:18pm
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        Are you confident about the new governments commitment to your obsession Hugh? Anne GE’s accurate and succinct skewering of the bereft soundbite that is our current PM should give you a clue.
        
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        April 1, 2018 12:23pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Salacious Crumb …
        
        Very good points. Thank you.
        
        First … the previous government lost the last election … Labour DID NOT win it … refer GONE GONE GOING section http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org .
        
        Winston Peters of NZ First made it clear with his Party’s coalition decision October last year, that a continuation of the modified status quo was not acceptable and change was required.
        
        That was obvious.
        
        Therefore … they went with Labour.
        
        The jury is very much out on this government. Since Christmas …it’s performance on housing (e.g Unitec) and transportation (e.g light rail Downtown Auckland to Airport) have been disasters.
        
        The wider public has high expectations the Labour – led government will ALLOW ( in reality the building of affordable housing is currently politically BANNED … that’s all) the development and building of increasingly affordable new housing on the fringes of our metros.
        
        This current government will be judged rather quickly and harshly on this.
        
        My view is that if we don’t start seeing this happening by the end of the year, we will start seeing serious political instability emerge (and possibly earlier) … as this current government fractures under intense public and media. pressure.
        
        It is all shaping up to get very ugly indeed.
        
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        April 1, 2018 1:28pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Housing – New Zealand Labour Party
        
        http://www.labour.org.nz/housing
        
        … extract …
        
        Remove barriers that are stopping Auckland growing up and out
        
        Labour will remove the Auckland urban growth boundary and free up density controls. This will give Auckland more options to grow, as well as stopping landbankers profiteering and holding up development. New developments, both in Auckland and the rest of New Zealand, will be funded through innovative infrastructure bonds.
        
        JUST TWO QUESTIONS …
        
        1. When are the Auckland Urban Limits being abolished ?
        
        2. When is the (long overdue) bond financing of infrastructure to be introduced nationally ?
        
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        April 1, 2018 8:31pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Will houses be affordable? | Otago Daily Times Online News
        
        https://www.odt.co.nz/business/will-houses-be-affordable
        
        Housing Minister Phil Twyford has been in the headlines lately about his plan to build thousands of houses in New Zealand. Not all commentators believe his plans are possible. Business editor Dene Mackenzie reports.
        
        The Government’s KiwiBuild initiative will deliver 100,000 affordable houses over the next 10 years, giving hope to first-home buyers and addressing New Zealand’s housing crisis, Minister of Housing and Urban Development Phil Twyford says. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        April 2, 2018 6:36am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Posted at … https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/04/general_debate_2_april_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2176387 … and …
        
        THE LIKELY KIWIBUILD TRAIN WRECK …
        
        A repeat of the British housing disaster … another bureaucratic lunatic asylum …
        
        Inquiry. The Great British Housing Disaster (Adam Curtis, 1984) – YouTube
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5VorymiL4
        
        Notice how the language within the above video is eerily similar to the Kiwibuild drivel.
        
        Repeating the mistakes of history.
        
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        April 2, 2018 9:55am
DifferentPerspective

Parker better than expected, needs a better trainer

What a good performance against a bigger man with a better fight-plan. Parker has whiplash speed and bullish strength but it really looked like he wasn’t prepared to fight a fighter with reach, height and a good jab. Looking at Joshua you’d have to say, what were they training for if it wasn’t a plan to deal with reach and strong jab?

While he’s a bit on the short side for a modern heavyweight, he does look the complete package. I suggest that all he needs is a top level trainer and team around him. Barry was good enough to get him there, Barry isn’t good enough to help Joshua reach his potential.
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April 1, 2018 10:54am
Luke Piewalker

I still maintain this government won’t last 2018
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April 1, 2018 11:22am
- Kimbo
  
  No, they’ll go the distance through to 2020. Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas.
  
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  April 1, 2018 11:24am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Agreed. Unless Labour have an absolute brain fart and decide to renege on the deal with Winnie. They’re dug in like ticks and holding on to the baubles of office for all they’re worth.
    
    And if Jacinda comes back and spends the lead up to the 2020 election with a sprog on her hip, I’d say they’re safe until 2023.
    
    I hope like hell I’m wrong, but I’m not seeing National retreating from the losing Labour Lite strategic approach
    
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    April 1, 2018 12:04pm
- noskire
  
  I’m quietly picking the proverbial shit will really hit the fan when the boat jumping bill goes to a vote.
  
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  April 1, 2018 3:46pm
Prince

Today marks the start of National’s tax package, adjusting the lowest tax bracket for years of inflation. Most New Zealanders would have found an extra $20 a week in their net wages, salary,super or benefit.
Instead we pay for swathes of committees, freebies for students, Cook Island pensioners, Skid Marks’ helicopters, Jenny Salesa’s taxis. And the waste is only beginning.
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April 1, 2018 11:30am
- Piniwi
  
  But Prince you have forgotten the 50,000 children who would have been lifted out of poverty with theses tax cuts. It is now officially an increase in income tax with the unintended consequence of most of those children now waiting until 2021 for the Commie Chick to assist.
  
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  April 1, 2018 1:07pm
Fletch

Happy Easter!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huFra1mnIVE
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April 1, 2018 11:53am
Manolo

Merkel’s heritage: Barbarians at large in Germany.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/938824/Germany-news-duisburg-state-of-emergency-fight-riot-machetes

A horryfying street battle between 60 men armed with machetes and metal pipes forcing a state of emergency to be declared in Duisburg.
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April 1, 2018 11:57am
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo , from your link there is this,
  
  “A police official told the newspaper Der Westen: “There are three rival groups. It may be a conflict between Turks, Lebanese and Kurds.
  
  “Unlike with a demonstration of that size, we do not have a contact person, nobody wants to talk to the police.”
  
  He added: “The officers got the situation under control before it escalated.”
  
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  April 1, 2018 12:53pm
- kowtow
  
  The barbarians are at large thanks to the German political elites , who are now engaged in even more Orwellian Ministry of Truth silly games…….
  
  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-army/german-army-needs-to-remove-ww2-era-names-defense-minister-idUSKCN18A0IL
  
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  April 1, 2018 1:45pm
GazzaW

The Barmy Army are starting to give me a headache with their Boy Scout campfire songs and chants and it’s only midday.

Well done NZ on getting so close to wiping out the runs deficit.
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April 1, 2018 12:09pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  The Barmy Army guys are wonderful Gazza. The words of some of their songs are priceless, and as they say in one of the songs “We are the loyalist cricket supporters, that the world has ever known”. They will have a field day next year when the Australians tour England 😀
  
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  April 1, 2018 2:01pm
infused

Pretty incredible post on thestandard blaming the media for labours stuff ups. it blows my mind

https://thestandard.org.nz/the-manufacturing-of-a-narrative/

maybe if labour stopped acting like corrupt baffons, the media wouldn’t have to do these stories Weka?

the post is actually doing what they say the media is doing.
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April 1, 2018 12:50pm
Jack5

Parker was dignified after losing on points to Joshua this morning (our time).

The Telegraph called the refereeing pitiful, but Parker declined to blame the ref, saying, “I’ll be back.”

A good performance going the full distance against a boxer with so much longer reach.

Parker looks like an old-style sportsman. More power to him.
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April 1, 2018 1:08pm
Monique Watson

As a couple approaches the altar, the groom tells his wife-to-be, “Honey, I’ve got something to confess: I’m a golf nut, and every chance I get, I’ll be playing golf!”

“Since we’re being honest,” replies the bride, “I have to tell you that I’m a hooker.”

The groom replies, “That’s okay, honey. You just need to learn to keep your head down and your left arm straight.”
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April 1, 2018 1:23pm
Manolo

Will the Brits allow it? They should.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/russia-demands-visit-to-poisoned-spy-sergei-skripals-daughter-yulia-in-hospital-as-she-makes-incredible-recovery/ar-AAvjdLI

The Kremlin is demanding to see Yulia Skripal in hospital after it was revealed she is awake and talking.
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April 1, 2018 2:32pm
- Monique Watson
  
  Yeah, lets give the Russians access and we’ll see if a dose of strychnine will take the Skripals out seeing as the Polonium-210 failed to make the mark.
  
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  April 1, 2018 3:18pm
publicwatchdog

NZ ANTI-CORRUPTION WHISTLE-BLOWER ALERT!

(Sunday 1 April 2018)

31 March 2018

Press Release : Anti-corruption whistle-blower Penny Bright

“Stop the forced rating sale of my home! How is Auckland Council lawfully compliant with its own ‘Rating Sale Policy’?”

“Today (Saturday 31 March 2018) the forced rating sale of my freehold property was publicly advertised,” says ‘anti-corruption whistle-blower, Penny Bright.

” I have contacted the Barfoot and Thompson agent, and advised him that I do NOT consent to anyone ‘viewing’ my property, and that I am raising this matter directly with the Attorney-General because I believe that lawful due process has not been followed by Auckland Council.”

“The Auckland Council Rating Sales Policy (CP2013/01403) states:

“14: The rating sales process is outlined by the following steps:

1. legal proceedings are initiated, and a court judgment issued with a Charging Order (registered on title documents) against the property.
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16. The power to enforce a rating sale comes with a significant responsibility to ensure that the power is not used inappropriately.

A policy on rating sales has therefore being developed to ensure that there are clear rules regarding rating sales.”

“The ‘Composite Computer Register Under Land Transfer Act 1952, that I have, (search date 8 March 2017) hows no Charging Order registered against my property for the Judgment Debt of $47,431.76, given in the Auckland District Court on 18 January 2017.”

It appears that Auckland Council CEO Stephen Town, has not followed Auckland Council’s ‘Rating Sale Policy’.
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Penny Bright

‘Anti-corruption whistle-blower’.

PS: A ‘Give A Little Page’ will be set up ASAP, because a number of people have requested it.

The goal will be to raise the $20,000 to cover outstanding rates, and the money will be deposited into a solicitor’s account.

This money will be held there, until the Public Records Act 2005, s.17 is fully complied with, regarding transparency and accountability in the spending of public monies on private sector consultants and contractors, and the following information is published on the websites of Auckland Council and all Auckland Council-Controlled Organisations (CCOs), under ‘Procurement – Awarded Contracts’:

* The unique contract number.

* The name of the consultant / contractor.

* A brief description of the scope of the contract.

* Contract start / finish dates.

* The exact dollar value of each and every contract – including those sub-contracted.

* How the contract was awarded – by direct appointment or public tender.

There will be a LOT of good that comes from this draconian municipal bullying of an unprotected ‘citizen whistle-blower’ in New Zealand ‘perceived’ to be ‘the least corrupt country in the world’, and WE ‘turn this bad thing into a good thing’!

I’m fighting for transparency, I’m not wrong and I’m NOT backing down.
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April 1, 2018 2:42pm
- niggly
  
  Hang on a minute, you want to use Give a Little to have the public raise $20k to cover outstanding rates … but you won’t be paying the ACC instead “money will be held there” (in a solicitors account) “until the Public Records Act 2005, s.17 is fully complied with”.
  
  In other words you intend to continue your “get-nowhere” crusade against the Council (in which the matter has escalated to the High Court anyway) and clearly have no intention to pay your outstanding rates charges?
  
  Meanwhile the High Court will turf you out anyway whilst you devalue the house sale costs due to your protest actions, meaning you’ll end up with less money to buy a new house?
  
  Good grief woman, just pay your rates and keep your house, keep its value (and keep campaigning), how hard is that?!!!!
  
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  April 1, 2018 2:59pm
- noskire
  
  A Give A Little Page? The deadline for April Fools is 12pm Penny.
  
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  April 1, 2018 4:00pm
  - nasska
    
    We got the drivel first. Ten minutes later she cut & pasted the crap on ‘The Standard’.
    
    We deserve better. That’s my 1o cent donation to the Bludge a Little appeal going to the SPCA instead. 🙂
    
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    April 1, 2018 4:13pm
  - sooty
    
    Penny’s house for auction by Barfoot and Thompson for the court. Trade me listing number 1587196158. Closes april 24th. Photo of the roadside only on trade me, no inside etc. No open homes. Bring your own gang to get possesion. Prefferably in the middle of the night. The countdown is on. I hope someone knows how to keep track of the give a little for her. She’s in the shit if she don’t come up with rates, fees, court cost etc. It’s not only the rates anymore,it’s the whole kit and kaboddle now.
    
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    April 1, 2018 4:20pm
    - sooty
      
      STUPIP WOMAN. How many days from when you searched the records on the 8th march to easter. They could have registered it anytime after you, even two seconds. Get you shit together.
      
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      April 1, 2018 4:27pm
- KevOB
  
  Penny there is a point where Law is a game. Where the Courts are involved it’s stacked against you unless you are powerful enough to pay high legal bills in the possible multiple filing, responding and hearing processes. These may have to be met up front. Lawfare is for the rich and powerful. Justice can be a straggler.
  
  You may have a good argument about Council and transparency but they have the force of Law . You can protest defect but the outcome can be determined by what a judge had for breakfast. You cannot show payment for a long time so that speaks to many of lack of good faith. It does not help in discretionary consideration.
  
  Rating is viewed as a local tax so it is unfair to others for you not to pay your share. Everyone gets the same say about the reasonableness or otherwise of Council expenditure. That puts you immediately off side with the principles of fairness and the legal system including the AG. To expect others to be fair to you they expect you to be seen to be fair too.
  
  The choice is retreat or martyrdom. Why not live to continue the fight. Get together what you can however you can and reluctantly and pointedly pay duly protesting. Rally the Cause.
  
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  April 1, 2018 4:18pm
  - Monique Watson
    
    Yeah, you’re fucked Penny.
    
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    April 1, 2018 4:28pm
    - nasska
      
      But she’s not totally buggered yet Monique. A budding architect has designed and developed a foldable, portable, emergency housing shelter based on the principles of origami: 🙂
      
      …..”Her Cardborigami shelter is constructed from recycled cardboard and expands into a shelter big enough for two people to sleep in. The cardboard origami shelter can then fold down small enough to carry or even be placed on bus bike racks for long distance transport.”…..
      
      Better still:
      
      ….”Field research and testing of the current homeless shelter has already occurred on Skid Row in Los Angeles.”…..
      
      https://inhabitat.com/cardborigami-unfolds-into-a-portable-housing-shelter/
      
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      April 1, 2018 4:34pm
      - Monique Watson
        
        The shelter looks good on the face of it, but where do you wipe your arse? I guess Penny can just grab a moggie and bunch it up but what do the rest of us plebs do?
        
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        April 1, 2018 4:49pm
      - sooty
        
        But she needs somewhere to put it. She wont hav3 access to her present section.
        
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        April 1, 2018 6:47pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I fear Penny will not read your sensible post.
    Clearly, she has not been taking good advice from those who are concerned about her welfare.
    
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    April 1, 2018 6:19pm
    - nasska
      
      I’ve been missing in action today Maggy. Have you managed to get through the day (so far) without any sick requests for your underwear measurements?
      
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      April 1, 2018 6:28pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Yeah, that was more than a little bizarre!
        
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        April 1, 2018 7:08pm
      - nasska
        
        He’s a total sicko AC. Between his harassment of Maggy & his weird references to pubescent schoolgirls I predict that sooner or later he’ll act out his fantasies on some poor female.
        
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        April 1, 2018 7:22pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Well, I’ve had a little homily about how important it is for me not to ascribe attention or grievance to myself.
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/04/the_hate_speech_temptation.html/comment-page-1#comment-2176035
        I think that translates to: I should just shut up and suck up any abuse/requests thrown at me.
        
        Apparently I’ll be living a lie, if I don’t.
        
        I haven’t found out yet why stephieboy wants my undie measurements.
        
        I’m wondering what to do on Tuesday morning when my builders arrive… should I peg out my knickers and bras on the clothesline as usual, or do you think one or two of them might be tempted to run their carpenter’s ruler across the crotch panels?
        
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        April 1, 2018 7:35pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Agree Nasska, Maggie I’m sure the builders will appreciate all your efforts ?
        
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        April 1, 2018 7:44pm
      - nasska
        
        From Maggy’s link:
        
        …..”Plenty here on the rabid right use abuse liberally towards their detractors”…..
        
        Shit! I haven’t even started on the little perve! 🙂
        
        But you’re probably okay with the builders. Most of the one’s we’ve had the misfortune to deal with prefer to rip their customers off financially rather than play around with their washing.
        
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        April 1, 2018 7:46pm
    - stigie
      
      Give a little to Penny……For fuck sake, how about she give a little to the Auckland Council..?
      
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      April 1, 2018 7:13pm
- 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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  April 1, 2018 4:26pm
- starboard
  
  “WHISTLE-BLOWER ALERT!”
  
  Blow this ya stupid tart..
  
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  April 1, 2018 5:02pm
  - sooty
    
    You are funny!
    
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    April 1, 2018 6:44pm
- Longknives
  
  Hmmm Which ‘Give a Little’ Page shall I donate my $20 to?
  Little Timmy- Who needs to fly to America for his Cancer Treatment?
  Or Penny Bright for her Rates?..
  
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  April 1, 2018 5:12pm
  - Harkman
    
    Longknives, mate we face some tough choices in life, the kid with cancer vs Penny “the rates dodger” Bright is not one of them.
    
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    April 1, 2018 5:57pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Penny is a ‘cancer’ Do not fund this cancer
    
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    April 1, 2018 6:25pm
- alex Masterley
  
  Council doesn’t need to be compliant with it’s rating sales policy.
  It only needs to be compliant with sections 67-76 of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002.
  Face it Penny pay up or get off the pot, to mangle the saying.
  
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  April 1, 2018 5:36pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  If Penny Bright showed any good faith she would have been depositing her rates instalments into her solicitor’s trust account from the outset.
  Now she wants other rate payers to chip in for her salvation. That’s more nerve than a bad tooth.
  Hope your principles keep you warm under Auckland Harbour Bridge Penny.
  
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  April 1, 2018 6:59pm
- lifesgood
  
  What a half wit!
  
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  April 1, 2018 8:00pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Just pack up your junk and fuck off.
  Idiot.
  
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  April 1, 2018 9:03pm
  - stigie
    
    What’s there to pack Captain, bulldoze the fucking hovel and the shit in it !~
    
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    April 1, 2018 9:24pm
Jack5

I don’t follow cricket, but I’ve always thought of it as a fairly cultured game, with civilised fans.

But they are a fairly rough mob, at least in South Africa:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/102750102/its-all-my-fault–candice-warner-blames-herself-as-ball-tampering-scandal-hits-home
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April 1, 2018 3:20pm
- Kimbo
  
  Not nice or fair for Candice. All the more reason her fool of a husband shouldn’t have started a sledging war, especially in a hard arse place like South Africa. Like bringing a knife to a gun fight.
  
  Plus she tried to run subsequent interference when former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan, who unlike her husband is a classy guy, was calling Warner out for his hypocrisy whinging about unfair abuse:
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/102626725/candice-warner-sparks-twitter-row-with-michael-vaughan-over-personal-abuse-of-aussies
  
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  April 1, 2018 4:45pm
Maggy Wassilieff

For 40+ years Penny has been fighting the good socialist fight against nasty capitalists.

How bloody tragic is it that in her hour of need her socialist mates have left her in the lurch and she has to bring out the begging bowl to Kiwibloggers?
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April 1, 2018 6:25pm
- nasska
  
  Socialists hold the view that it’s compassionate to spend other peoples’ money.
  
  They seldom let the moths out of their own wallets.
  
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  April 1, 2018 6:33pm
  - sooty
    
    I hope she does not a brass razoo here.
    
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    April 1, 2018 6:42pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Sooty:
      
      Just responding to your comment above, Penny said there’s no charging order registered against her property based on a title search dated 8 March 2017 – last year. I think we can safely assume that Auckland Council has tidied up the paperwork since then.
      
      Penny doesn’t seem to realise that the matter is now with the High Court, so her silly negotiation game with Auckland Council is pointless. Not the sort of behaviour that I’d expect from a purported rule of law expert! (Perhaps she needs to attend another conference to refresh her memory on the basic principles?)
      
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      April 1, 2018 8:56pm
      - nasska
        
        I’m certain that her lift doesn’t go to the top floor Nostra. Alex Masterly, David Garrett, PeterWn, yourself, et al have offered her serious professional advice via these forums for a fair while now. Advice that would cost me & most others $1000’s had we asked your opinions in your own offices.
        
        As such I have less than zero sympathy for her. Protest is one thing……a pig headed drive for sympathy & self promotion is another.
        
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        April 1, 2018 9:09pm
      - sooty
        
        I missed that date was over one year ago when she searched. Doubly stupid woman. How thick can she be.
        
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        April 1, 2018 9:12pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        I’ve put the boot into Penny and exposed her hypocrisy many times, which I do as a public service and for my personal entertainment, but my advice (to Penny and anyone else) about legal matters is genuine.
        
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        April 1, 2018 9:24pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”my advice (to Penny and anyone else) about legal matters is genuine.”…..
        
        And very much appreciated it is too Nostra. It’s the individual contributions utilising the skills of our fellow commenters that make this blog interesting.
        
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        April 1, 2018 9:29pm
      - stigie
        
        I’ve given Penny advice too Nostra but the entertainment has been massive, and that’s without having to erect any seating outside the hovel for extra gain !~
        
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        April 1, 2018 9:38pm
      - Kimbo
        
        I especially look forward to the contributions of eminent and distinguished theologians and biblical scholars such as yourself, nasska. ?
        
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        April 1, 2018 9:40pm
      - nasska
        
        Thank you Kimbo. I accept your acknowledgement with a heart full of grace & humility! 🙂
        
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        April 1, 2018 9:48pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stigie:
        
        We’ve tried different approaches with Penny. I’ve tried logic and reason. David Garrett has tried roses and chocolates. Nasska has tried sarcasm. Others have tried repetition: “Pay your rates!”. But we can always rely on you to ensure that the spectators’ lounge outside Bright Manor is well-stocked with furniture and refreshments!
        
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        April 1, 2018 9:48pm
      - KevOB
        
        There may be an automatic charge under a Rating Act. No registration may be necessary.
        
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        April 1, 2018 10:30pm
Nostradamus

I’ve just checked out Penny’s Facebook page. Unsurprisingly, Penny and her merry band of deluded supporters just don’t understand the situation.

Sandra Mclean: Penny Bright as was suggested to you today via that phone call i would absolutely be interested in partaking in a collective of our rates being held in a ? Trust? Until AUCKLAND SUPER SHITTY council start obeying the *illegal* law

Penny Bright: Right now – that’s not going to help save my house ? What I need right now is people to ‘stick it to Ak Council’ by supporting me – because I’m the only one under attack? Because for the last 11 years I’ve been the only one who’s been prepared to put my home in the line to defend the transparency in rates spending to which ALL citizens are lawfully entitled? Right now – the pressure needs to go on Ak Council to withdraw these forced rating sale proceedings and OPEN THE BOOKS!

Sandra Mclean: I don’t know any other better way to stick it to them than to deny them my money. How. Else do I *stick it to them*?

Penny Bright: Email Mayor Goff and demand that he instruct CEO Stephen Town to withdraw these rating sale proceedings against me and to OPEN THE BOOKS!

Reading between the lines, I think Penny (despite her bravado) realises that she’s in trouble, but she’s still dogmatically stuck in the “fight Auckland Council” mindset – the matter is now a High Court process.

Hans Heumann: Lets all go to barfood&thompson and tell them, I will never list with them because of this proposed sale. And where can we deposit that money?

Penny Bright: I have to sort out a solicitor’s account – hopefully on Tuesday

So it now turns out that Penny hasn’t got the money. I’m pretty sure (but can’t be bothered checking now) that she’s previously told us on Kiwiblog that she had the money set aside in a separate account. If so, she told a barefaced porky.

And Sacha makes an interesting point at The Standard:

It could easily be considered fraudulent to solicit money from the public on the basis of mis-reading the Public Records Act as a law about publishing information. It simply isn’t. You have been told this repeatedly.
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April 1, 2018 10:40pm
Manolo

Those cheeky Mexican invaders:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/mexico-aids-easter-invasion-of-over-1-000-illegals-into-us

Mexican officials have aided a “Holy Week” caravan of over 1,000 migrants headed to the U.S. border to demand Easter asylum, according to reports.
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