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holysheet

Only in NZ.
National Sleep-in day is on Friday 18. WTF?
How about a” National go to work day”, or a “I’ll get off my fat arse day” to say thank you for my dole and all other handouts I take from the taxpayers.

Why have it on a Friday? Oh thats right, another excuse for a long weekend.
“Hey boss, I am not coming in today, I slept in longer than I thought.”
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May 14, 2018 8:02am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  No problem Mr Committed Employee, I have deducted your pay accordingly. You are welcome and thanks for letting me know so I can make arrangements to cover for your absence.
  
  Mr CE: ‘whaaaa whaaaa wha, it’s not fair!’
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:12am
  - pdm
    
    BTW don’t come Monday.
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:35am
  - G152
    
    Or:
    Well thanks for that .
    As you may or may not know we are going to be cutting back our staff in your department .
    And I can tell you that the meeting is being held today as to who goes and who stays.
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:40am
- hullkiwi
  
  Funny That, at the weekend I was pulling out an extractor fan from our kitchen that had never worked. When I took the lid off the cupboard hiding said extractor, I found the reason it didn’t work. It hadn’t been connected to the extraction hose outlet, & compounding the piss poor job, it was held up by 4 x 10mm screws. It is productivity like this which is why NZ fails to improve workplace conditions!
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:12am
  - Lance
    
    I had exactly the same thing in our last house.
    No hole, nothing. It looked the part but was a complete fucked up scam. I couldn’t even call it half arsed.
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:15am
    - RF
      
      Years ago our local primary school that had a strong Maori roll was fund raising so a local pine plantation owner gave permission for pine cones to be collected.
      
      Local iwi were asked to help and they offered to collect cones and fill the sacks provided. A few months later there was a large stack of bulging sacks ready to be picked up. Iwi were thanked by one and all and the school excited …… until someone noticed that the sacks were stuffed with tussocks with a sprinkling of pines cones on top.
      
      I have never forgotten this.
      
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      May 14, 2018 8:35am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        The school children will remember the lesson taught to them by the local iwi for the rest of the lives, and will in turn tell it to their children and grandchildren.
        
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        May 14, 2018 8:36am
      - RF
        
        Just like I have…… many times….
        
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        May 14, 2018 8:52am
      - kowtow
        
        Had a quiet night in last night ( what’s new) , anyway watching Country Calendar (often great viewing ) and Coast NZ.
        
        Country Calendar , Ngai Tahu “deep attachment” to the land up country down south . Really ? They invaded from the North Island .
        
        Then Coast , more stories of Maori connections as well as the now PC pronunciation of Oh Ah Maru , that only media and cultural marxist types use.
        
        Plenty of agenda.
        
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        May 14, 2018 9:56am
      - Tamati2
        
        RF
        You might appreciate this Banjo Paterson poem if you have not read it…
        https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/paterson-a-b-banjo/the-maori-s-wool-0026040
        
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        May 14, 2018 11:30am
      - RF
        
        Tamiti2.
        
        Bloody hell……. that pulled the wool over their eyes.
        
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        May 14, 2018 1:14pm
    - srylands
      
      I lived in a rental about 15 years ago. New stove nice range hood with good extractor fans. First time I cooked a steak the smoke just blew out the back. There was no outlet. Totally fucked up. The property manager acted like he didn’t understand what I was on about.
      
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      May 14, 2018 8:45am
      - VicParking
        
        A good description of the Labour caucus
        
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        May 14, 2018 11:59am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Write into their terms an conditions
  Any day off that is not a sick day.
  Requires notice, of at least the amount of working days you are going to take.
  1 day off…..one FULL working days notice eg Friday off, must notify by Wednesday evening.
  Or you get a written warning etc.
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:55am
- artemisia
  
  Our small business has no employees. We do have a couple of self employed contractors and specialist service providers.
  
  The former get reasonable pay at minimum wage plus, paid on invoice. They can sleep in, turn down work offered, work other gigs. It’s a cooperative arrangement that works pretty well.
  
  The specialist service providers are mostly small businesses, also paid on invoice. They get regular work from us and we pay quickly so we get good service.
  
  Very very simple. Very little admin. No unions involved.
  
  I expect to see more of it.
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:06am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    You won’t see more of it because Labour are going to turn contractors into employees.
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:09am
    - artemisia
      
      There are already IRD rules around that. Our guys don’t meet them. If that changes we can also change. If it costs our clients a bit more that won’t be a problem. Or we can scale back a bit.
      
      We have not advertised for new clients for 2 years, plenty of work from existing clients and word of mouth references. Other tradies in the family say similar.
      
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      May 14, 2018 9:16am
      - thedavincimode
        
        Cute. Spoken with the naïve optimism of the oil and gas industry a couple of months ago.
        
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        May 14, 2018 11:41am
  - GazzaW
    
    You’ll be lucky artemisia. Labour and more specifically Lees-Galloway is determined that you will become unionised.
    
    I hope I’m wrong because since I semi-retired I have become an independent contractor and it suits me and my employer(s) just fine. Like you say it’s simple, minimal admin and there are no union leeches involved.
    
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    May 14, 2018 10:56am
    - Paulus
      
      Ask Lees Galloway whether Stenographers are to be Unionised.
      
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      May 14, 2018 1:16pm
      - RF
        
        Ah… sounds like what I was told could be true.
        
        Something about not dipping ones pen in the company ink…..
        
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        May 14, 2018 1:22pm
- Don the Kiwi
  
  “Why have it on a Friday?”
  
  It’s the Muslim holy day.
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:40am
- billr
  
  I think you’re getting a bit overworked on this, maybe you need a lie-in.
  
  It’s not national sleep-in day, see here:
  
  http://worldsleepday.org/
  
  here’s the banner from the front page.
  
  World Sleep Day is an annual event, intended to be a celebration of sleep and a call to action on important issues related to sleep, including medicine, education, social aspects and driving. It is organized by the World Sleep Day Committee of World Sleep Society (founded by WASM and WSF) and aims to lessen the burden of sleep problems on society through better prevention and management of sleep disorders. World Sleep Day is held the Friday before Spring Vernal Equinox of each year. Future dates will be: March 15, 2019 and March 14, 2020.
  
  that’s not so bad is it?
  
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  May 14, 2018 10:48am
holysheet

A Kiwi, an Aussie and an immigrant are in a bar and spot Jesus drinking on his own. They each send him a drink over and he sips each one slowly. When he’s finished he walks over to the Kiwi and shakes his hand and thanks him for the Steinlager. “Fuck me, my arthritis has gone!”
Jesus then thanks the Aussie for the Fosters. “Fucking hell mate, my bad back’s cured!”
Jesus approaches the immigrant who runs away screaming, “Fuck off, you prick – I’m on a disability benefit.”
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May 14, 2018 8:03am
- RW Capitalist
  
  An Aucklander, a Wellingtonian and a Maori walking on the beach.
  They all see an old oil lamp
  The Aucklander dives on it and grabs it
  They start fighting over it
  A Genie pops out and says he’ll give them one wish each
  The Auckland yells me first
  I wish to put a 20m high wall around Auckland to keep these buggers out.
  The Wellingtonian says, I wish for there to be no gates or doors in that wall, so we can keep the buggers in.
  The Maori said Is that thing waterproof, can you fill it up?
  Now that’s what the rest of the country think of you.
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:01am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Just to add some competition:
    
    A Marine squad was marching north of Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi terrorist who was badly injured and unconscious. On the opposite side of the road was an American Marine in a similar but less serious state. The Marine was conscious and alert and as first aid was given to both men, the Squad Leader asked the injured Marine what had happened.
    
    The Marine reported, “I was heavily armed and moving north along the highway here, and coming south was a heavily armed insurgent. We saw each other and both took cover in the ditches along the road. I yelled to him that Saddam Hussein was a miserable, lowlife scum bag who got what he deserved.”
    
    He yelled back, “Barack Obama is a lying, good-for-nothing, left wing Commie who isn’t even an American.
    
    So I said, “Osama Bin Laden dresses and acts like a frigid, mean-spirited lesbian!
    
    He retaliated by yelling, “Oh yeah? Well, so does Nancy Pelosi!”
    
    And, there we were, in the middle of the road, shaking hands, when a truck hit us.
    
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    May 14, 2018 12:07pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Flew into Auckland the other day
  It was raining
  I asked a kid
  How long has it been raining
  the kid said
  How the fuck should I know, I’m only 5.
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:02am
  - dime
    
    dare i ask which shit hole you inhabit? 🙂
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:10am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Touchy??
      or just agreeing, you live in a shit hole?
      
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      May 14, 2018 9:24am
      - dime
        
        neither really.
        
        its like how kiwis look at aussie. we give them shit. make fun of them etc and aussie doesnt notice.
        
        little brother/ big brother thing.
        
        if youre out of auckland, youre our little brother and youre just adorable.
        
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        May 14, 2018 9:51am
      - GazzaW
        
        Somewhat akin to Tasmanians eh dime?
        
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        May 14, 2018 10:59am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Hey, I’m an (ex) Aucklander and I can sympathize with that !
      
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      May 14, 2018 11:50am
Inandout

That businessman and his wife on TV3 who are desperate to stay in NZ should reconsider their religion; go Islam and you will be welcomed with open arms.
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May 14, 2018 8:04am
- waikatogirl
  
  The English couple run a successful flooring company they set up 8 years ago, the need for which is on the preferred list for immigrants. Immigration NZ changed the status of their business from business to business/entrepreneur but failed to inform them of the change. Immigration NZ have said they have no right of appeal, they must close their successful flooring business and make their staff redundant. Departure date for them is 12 July. Nuts!
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:26am
  - softail 1450
    
    waikatogirl ,you have overlooked the overwhelming reason that he and his wife are getting the boot, They are not “PEOPLE OF COLOUR” unfortunately these hard working folk are white so out they go.
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:59am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Was going to mention the “old white guy thing” but it seemed redundant considering the stupidity of forcing a hard working bloke and his wife running their flooring business helping finish off all the required housing, paying their way and employing staff.
      
      Please ask JAG what does she say?? ?
      
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      May 14, 2018 9:17am
  - Inandout
    
    Oh, Chris Fafooee replied from his sick bed that he would ‘look into it’ when he gets back to work. Don’t you have email Chris?
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:33am
    - G152
      
      Then the fat Kraut must be on his way to the US then?
      Since they’re deporting people
      
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      May 14, 2018 1:18pm
  - kowtow
    
    There’s a story going ’round about all these small shops in strip malls run by , ahem , immigrants of certain ethnicities, that open and close as regular as clock work ,on a two year cycle.
    
    ie rorting the system.
    
    Urban myth or are we being taken for a ride on the diversity train ?
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:41am
    - Padriv Ustoev
      
      As the local Immam and part time immigration adviser. I can tell you with authority that it is not an urban legend.
      It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book. Essntially buying NZ business immigration for the running cost of said strip mall shop or restraunt. Then hand on to next aspirant.
      
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      May 14, 2018 10:23am
    - Fletch
      
      Didn’t Cat Stevens have a song called Diversity Train 😉
      
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      May 14, 2018 1:34pm
    - Faroffsound
      
      A $2 shop closed down in a mall near where I used to live.
      
      It had always looked busy but when I mentioned that to the next door shop owner she just shrugged and said that the owner had gained residency.
      
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      May 14, 2018 1:47pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Steady waikatogirl it seems there might be a lot more to this than presented in the sob story offered. Firstly it has come from NewShub where facts are often the most absent ingredient.
    “When we first came we took the LTBV which is long-term business visa – there was no criteria in that to invest money into the company,” he said.
    It appears though they opted for the LTBV soft choice they do not seem to have used any of their own money for their “business”. It is likely he simply operates as a flooring contractor and there is no real substance or justification to remain on a LTBV. This category is for migrants who intend to invest in a business which would lead to creation of jobs.
    After 8 years they have not done much it seems to “invest” or create anything more than self employment or even bothered to move towards citizenship? Seems there has just been enough to drag more sympathy than sense presented so far.
    
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    May 14, 2018 2:54pm
Paulus

Heard so called Education Minister this morning – is he is a natural liar or has he been brainwashed into it ?
Actually it is very sad to see that the future of the children in our country are to be left with the machinations of a stupid boy supported by a stupid girl (or whoever is running them )
W Peters – I have no words that can express my views of this very mentally sick geriatric – and I am a geriatric too.
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May 14, 2018 8:07am
- softail 1450
  
  paulus , let me help you with some words for the drunken gnome, smirking,grinning,lying,sidestepping,slippery,conniving,slimey,self serving maggot, hows that for a truthful start?
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:06am
- Piniwi
  
  Unfortunately Paulus for Chippy short and medium history are seriously stacked against his version to be known as “his-story”. From a recent report:
  “Many buildings constructed between 1994 and 2004 have been significantly affected by weather tightness problems,” said the report. Under who’s watch?
  In addition to which Nikki Kaye has released cabinet papers and documents that clearly show that his claims of planning shortfalls by National are false. Aka fibs. Plus the other critical negative that the COL has with nothing left to handle the normal “business as usual” processes National provided contingency funds for in every budget. After the hard lessons learned after Labour were last in office that not everything in every forecast years expenditure can be “budgeted” some wiggle room is essential. While Labour were bemoaning the missing million voters National were having to cover Cullen’s missing billions.
  It is becoming very clear that for 9 years of opposition Labour did absolutely nothing to plane, cost or develop any working policies they now find them lost in grappling with the reality of governing. Shame John Key and Bill English made it look so easy and while they did not satisfy all expectations they at least funding the essential needs of voters first in every budget. Always with a bit to spare on hand and not just borrowed to “invest” in a fund that might yet be gambled of folly.
  
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  May 14, 2018 3:17pm
  - tf78
    
    As I have said before, National thought they would win the election and therefore had everything in order.
    
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    May 14, 2018 6:36pm
hullkiwi

Joke of the morning, Phil “Goofy” Goff’s staff at Auckland Council. Lowest employee satisfaction score in Council employee survey.

Just shows what happens when you stuff an office with inexperienced, unqualified political appointees & pay them council salary bands.
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May 14, 2018 8:07am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  An approval rating of something like 21% but hey ratepayers, the miserable overpaid indulgent f***s achieved this at a saving of 3% over the pants down office regime staffing costs!
  
  A bargain or what!
  
  I bet these knobs never turn up 15 minutes early for an unpaid staff meeting as revealed at some large employers recently; try turning up two hours before the 9.00 o’clock bell start for school like some teaching staff I am aware of.
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:18am
Left Right and Centre

I’m going to change your nappy now, is that ok ?
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May 14, 2018 8:12am
- Longknives
  
  Check out a picture of the lunatic who is calling for this L,R & C.
  She is everything you would imagine…
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:14am
  - Chris R
    
    Knives:…and everything we should disdain,ridicule and dismiss!
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:17am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Bet she has never changed a baby’s nappy in her life.
    
    My question is, why do outfits like the ABC put these people forward as experts, when they are clearly not?
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:20am
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Expert: X is an unknown quantity, and a spurt is a drip under pressure
      
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      May 14, 2018 8:29am
    - G152
      
      Currently its a snowflake world aided by the fake news
      
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      May 14, 2018 8:43am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    I think this bloke sums it up quite well . . .(skip to 00:37)
    
    pink short hair . . . you know bat-shit crazy libtard types
    
    calls herself some bat-shit crazy title “sexuality educator” like that’s a thing. What a head fck.
    
    they actually PAY these leftards actual money to talk this shit
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:51am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      That video was hillarious. 😆
      
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      May 14, 2018 9:53am
    - Left Right and Centre
      
      Let it go mate, just let it go . . .
      Aaaaargh !!!!
      I *can’t* – when they’re making shit up like . . .
      **infant bodily autonomy**
      What. the. fark. people ?? Nappy consent ??????
      
      Make it stop, make it stop, make it st-o-o-o-o-p !!!!
      I wouldn’t let that queer childless retard **self-described expert** anywhere near children.
      
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      May 14, 2018 11:10am
      - GoVege
        
        She looked very nice to me, and the point she was trying to make was that it was good to teach children from an early age that they have choices in life, even such simple ones as having their nappy changed.
        That way they are less likely to be abused/coerced later on and have more control over their lives.
        One of the definitions of depression is the extent to which you DON’T have control over your own life.
        
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        May 14, 2018 7:59pm
Longknives

This is disgraceful-

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/103828184/joel-maxwell-compulsory-te-reo-is-nothing-to-fear–its-the-decent-and-civilised-choice

Rather than simply launching into a sneering attack on Pakeha Mr Maxwell- How about providing a logical and concise argument to support your cause??
Stuff should be ashamed of themselves.
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May 14, 2018 8:12am
- Inandout
  
  Shit the first thing I see when that link is opened is a Maori with an unwashed chin. Maxwell is merely a cog in a failing media machine.
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:18am
  - softail 1450
    
    inandout ,come on be fair thats her legacy under her bottom lip,didnt you know she is the 1st female parliamentarian on the planet to have a moku, its true she actually stated that when she was interviewed after having it done.FFS.
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:26am
  - dime
    
    that piece of trash earns 250 a year..
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:57am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      That ‘piece of trash would get paid $250.00 per year if we were paying her a wage commensurate to her skills, ability and what she brings to the job rather than what the trough provides.
      
      The moronic woman is not worth a fing penny let alone her position!
      
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      May 14, 2018 10:12am
    - Colville
      
      “earns” ??
      
      The fuck she does.
      
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      May 14, 2018 10:29am
    - Sideoiler
      
      that piece of trash earns 250 a year..
      
      Fark! we must be paying by the kilo.
      
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      May 14, 2018 11:03am
  - KevOB
    
    “She has strong links to the Te Kingitanga (Māori King Movement), being the daughter of Sir Robert Mahuta, who was the adopted son of King Korokī and the elder brother of Māori Queen Te Atairangikaahu.”
    https://www.geni.com/people/Nanaia/6000000013136393330
    
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    May 14, 2018 10:40am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      She’s the Duchess of Ngaruawahia. Show her some respect.
      
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      May 14, 2018 11:40am
      - MrLovebucket
        
        She belongs in a paddock.
        
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        May 14, 2018 12:23pm
- Gravelroad
  
  This is the same boy as started on Stuff last week.
  Best not to give him the attention he craves.
  Stuff is using him to shock and awe in an attempt to boost ratings.
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:24am
  - RalphT
    
    “Stuff is using him to shock and awe in an attempt to boost ratings.”
    But the reality is that it will hasten their fall in readers and bring forward the day of their demise.
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:35am
    - The Real Tony
      
      Yeah but how many of you (myself included) clicked on the link? Stuff then can claim awesome interest in Mr Maxwell’s opinion piece…
      
      I like (not) how he states at the end how it would just great to have kids switch between speaking te Reo and Pakeha…wtf is Pakeha?
      
      I spent the April school holidays touring Northland in a campervan with the family. Part of the trip was a couple of days spent in Paihia/Waitangi as I wanted my sons to see the Treaty Grounds and learn an important part of our country’s history. The Treaty Ground’s tour guide (after having explained his whakapapapa exhaustively) described the definition of Pakeha as “Pa” white “keha” (scabs) – apparently because when Cook’s sailors landed they had scabs on their faces due to scurvy.
      
      I shit you not.
      
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      May 14, 2018 9:26am
      - calendar girl
        
        That reminds me – every time I click on a link to “The NZ Herald” Iim asked whether or not my location can be noted / captured / whatever. To date I’ve selected the “No” option every time, but it’s clear that the “Herald” intends to keep up this act until somehow it finally gets its way.
        
        Just three more experiences of this and I’ll avoid linking to the “Herald” altogether. If the publication cannot accept that I don’t want my location to be captured on its records, it can just go without being able to count my occasional referred visits.
        
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        May 14, 2018 9:52am
      - VicParking
        
        C Girl
        https://www.pcworld.com/article/3192344/windows/how-to-stop-websites-from-asking-for-your-location-in-chrome-edge-firefox-opera-safari.html
        
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        May 14, 2018 12:09pm
      - calendar girl
        
        VicParking: That’s brilliant, it works! Thanks for taking the trouble to explain it in words of one syllable to us electronic neanderthals.
        
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        May 14, 2018 2:21pm
  - sooty
    
    What benefiet is he on to be doing a one year long maori course. You can bet your bottom dollar the taxpayer is paying.
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:38am
  - G152
    
    Does this ‘Maori’ course include the pre European history of inter tribal warfare, cannibalism, slavery and murder?
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:47am
    - Komata
      
      G152
      
      Of course it doesn’t; that is too ‘inconvenient’ and doesn’t fit the desired (‘Maori were as pure and peace-loving as the driven snow’) narrative.
      
      It’s called ‘Revisionist History’ and James Belich and et al have a lot of support in very high places (and also a lot to answer for…).
      
      I’m told BTW, that the money for doing such work is actually quite good…
      
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      May 14, 2018 9:49am
  - Kabull
    
    Cancelled my DomPost sub as a consequence of this rubbish. Feeling much better!!
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:24am
    - Inandout
      
      I did that years ago, and since discovering firelighters, don’t even buy the Saturday paper.
      
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      May 14, 2018 9:30am
      - GazzaW
        
        I just accepted a five week free subscription to the Herald courtesy of my AA membership. It’s been a great reminder of why I cancelled my sub four years ago.
        
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        May 14, 2018 11:12am
- softail 1450
  
  longknives , how the frick is joel maxwell going to maorify his name because i’d bet money thats what the fucking idiot will be doing next FFS.
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:15am
  - Harkman
    
    Turiki Joel Maxwell
    Joel ‘Tuku’ Maxwell
    Joel Maxwell-Kahui
    Rangi J. Maxwell
    Joel Maxwell-Tamihere
    Te Reo Maxwell
    Joel Maxwhell (need those ‘h’s in there)
    
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    May 14, 2018 10:49am
- Rich Prick
  
  What is “irony” in Te Reo? Because that headline is full of it.
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:56am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    The irony is
    “Te Reo” is a teaching method of and in the Maori language.
    A system of education “invented” by the European culture.
    To teach a language that had many different versions and pronunciations (pre European)
    A language translated by a European
    A written version transcribed by a European
    A language kept alive for the VERY few, largely by non Maori taxes.
    That only a minority of Maori speak or even want to learn.
    For this the minority of Maori will dictate to the rest of us that we MUST learn it.
    
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    May 14, 2018 10:33am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      PS….I am not against learning or keeping it alive as a language.
      I am against COMPULSION.
      
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      May 14, 2018 10:34am
    - KevOB
      
      Wise Maori elders rejected their language as suitable for future use by their people other than on the Marae. That was in the 1930’s. It doesn’t have the root words except by borrowing. Why pidginise both Maori and English?
      
      I am now encountering in schools English phrases rendered into Maori. What language is that?
      
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      May 14, 2018 10:48am
      - rockape
        
        Yes it worked so well in Wales!
        
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        May 14, 2018 12:43pm
- Kiwi Dave
  
  It was quite an incoherent rant.
  
  Had he been less confused about the difference between compulsion and choice, he might have asked himself why the language is declining (so he claimed) even when the Maori population is increasing, it is available in schools and no one is being beaten for using it.
  
  If he reads the comments, he should notice that large numbers of readers don’t share his language and cultural preferences. Well, we can’t have that.
  
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  May 14, 2018 4:57pm
Chris R

The National Party sent an e-mail around during the weekend. Its apparent purpose was to bolster Bridges’ image. I responded stating that Judith Collins ought be the leader…immediately. Bridges may be a nice guy and reasonably competent but he isn’t at all a leader, in fact he seems to be National’s version of Bill Rowling right down to the indifferent voice.
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May 14, 2018 8:15am
- Inandout
  
  I am beginning to agree with you about Simon. He exudes weakness and apologies, hell almost a David Cunliffe. I was prepared to give him a go, but sorry Simon, National needs a forceful person out front.
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:23am
  - RF
    
    Agree.
    
    Very impressed with the way Crusher deals to twyford.
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:44am
    - Piniwi
      
      True RF especially with her recent display of a graph that shows how housing consents plummeted under Labour and didn’t start a recovery until after the 2008 election. A simple graph of lines for Auckland and National consents that shouts more than a thousand words of how the housing crises was born. Or occurred accidentally from complacency.
      
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      May 14, 2018 3:43pm
  - Komata
    
    To paraphrase an infamous advert:
    
    ‘Hi, I’m Simon Bridges; you might remember me from…’
    
    Sorry Simon, we don’t; we don’t know who you are or what you (or the NZ National party) even stand for….
    
    Perhaps you should be telling us exactly what THAT might be (Just so we know).
    
    Thanks.
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:52am
  - tf78
    
    Labour are the Nasty Party, not National. John Key very similar age in the same position – I see a lot of similarities between the two. I’m sure he will make us all proud. You can come across as nasty but it’s very hard then to have that opinion of you changed.
    
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    May 14, 2018 6:50pm
- flipper
  
  Get over it !
  Deal with the World as it is. Not as you wish it to be.
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:31am
- brett68
  
  When a government to tearing apart the country having a status quo, please everyone type politician as opposition leader is not the right choice.
  
  You need a fighter and there’s only one person who fits that bill and that sure ain’t Simon Bridges.
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:39am
  - Happychappy
    
    Same old story from the same whingers every week if you can’t get what you want stir it up to get Judith Collins. You won’t be happy until you see the same type of back stabbing in the National Party like Labour had for the best part of nine years.
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:18am
    - brett68
      
      Simon Bridges cannot beat Jacinda Ardern, he’s already demonstrated that in spades.
      
      He was the worst candidate who ran for national leader and they picked him??? I don’t get it, lost a lot of faith in National after that decision.
      
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      May 14, 2018 9:25am
      - Happychappy
        
        Everyone is intitled to their opinion but like mine it does not mean they are right.
        
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        May 14, 2018 9:31am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Erica Stanford in ECB had only one thing to do . . . . and she followed in McCully’s stupid footsteps
        
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        May 14, 2018 10:17am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Collins is fine where she is. She’s doing an awesome job exposing Twyford’s ineptitude and political posturing, but the National Party would be hopelessly divided if she became leader.
      
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      May 14, 2018 10:19am
      - brett68
        
        No it wouldn’t, shit Nationals stayed in the 40’s with Simon Bridges as leader and he’s useless.
        
        There is nowhere to go for center right voters.
        
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        May 14, 2018 10:33am
      - lifesgood
        
        Totally agree KS. I am getting a bit sick of the anti Simon pro Judith brigade on here. They sound like the idiots on WO who voted for Winston to “teach National a lesson” and look where that’s got us. They need to get in behind Simon not try to undermine him and bring him down. Judith is doing a marvelous job as Nat’s attack dog and Simon is perfectly all right as a stable and likeable leader.
        
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        May 14, 2018 11:08am
      - Paulus
        
        Unlike the Labour Party where the Unions control everything the Leader of National is voted for by the Caucus – hence Judith, whom I like, did not get the confidence of her colleagues. She is still doing an excellent job though.
        
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        May 14, 2018 1:24pm
- peterwn
  
  The problem here is those ‘inside the tent’ begged to differ. The issues could be lack of confidence she would be an appropriate leader, excessive grittiness as leader and caucus members’ feelings on her leadership style. The group of electors who want to see National ‘harden up’, get back to first principles, vote Winston to ‘teach National a lesson’, etc would seem to strongly prefer Judith Collins. But then the things that group want is most probably not an election winning formula.
  As expected, Whaleoil comprehensively trashed Simon this morning – Cam would strongly prefer Judith as leader.
  National is far better off having Caucus rather than the wider party select a leader. Labour’s leaders selected by the wider party have been failures, Jacinda was selected under ’emergency’ rules meaning she was selected by Caucus and this proved successful for Labour.
  Perhaps if Simon does not work out in the next year or so National’s caucus may be prepared to give Judith a go, just like it gave Rob Muldoon a go in 1974, the rest being history.
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:47am
  - waikatogirl
    
    I watched Judith tear into Cindy and the COL the other day in the House. Behind her sat Gerry Brownlee who wished he was anywhere else but watching Judith successfully rip into the COL. Seriously Gerry, it’s about National’s success, not your personal feelings about Judith.
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:02am
    - Inandout
      
      Gerry loves his food, but little else now.
      
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      May 14, 2018 9:10am
    - KevOB
      
      Unfortunately many prefer their politicians to be seen to be well behaved. To combat Labour the battle axes are going to have to be used. Labour fight dirty and underground. It won’t be pleasant or agreeable to all but National are going to have to counter in kind. Having an agreeable leader is good–the dogs can work the sides or run in the background without muzzles.
      
      We cannot let this wrecker of a govt continue.
      
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      May 14, 2018 10:54am
  - brett68
    
    The problem with National is that they’ve forgot they’re a political party first and not a business, the John Key approach to politics will destroy the right if they carry on along that pathway.
    
    Compare that to Labour they’re socialist ideologues they’ll smash and destroy everything National has put in place, unless National realizes this and takes the same approach to Labour policies we”re fucked, the right may as well give up now.
    
    You can’t have a managerial, don’t rock the boat, consensus approach to politics in NZ when the other side runs around with a wrecking bar when they get a go.
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:04am
  - Inandout
    
    Peterwn, a year is too long and the horse will have bolted by then.
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:09am
  - Gravelroad
    
    So Peterwn, the rank and file NatParty members, and those who generally support them, should just be good sheeple, ask no questions and offer no opinions to those “in the tent” bubble?
    Is the National Party only for an elite few in the office because you don’t trust the supporters?
    Must say, that attitude is strongly reflected in the local party hierarchy here.
    Who is the National Party actually for?
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:33am
    - peterwn
      
      Have you got involved with the local hierarchy? If you charge in, get on a committee and start throwing your weight around, you will not get far. Kiwi Keith’s ‘breathe through your nose for the first three years’ advice to new MP’s still holds good, at party branch level one year will usually suffice but listen and learn before opening your mouth.
      
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      May 14, 2018 10:34am
      - KevOB
        
        National needs activist supporters outside the Party. Such people exist they just need opportunity and discrete co-ordination.
        They will need to make their own running and there is plenty of ammo available.
        
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        May 14, 2018 10:59am
      - Gravelroad
        
        Sir Keith Holyoake was last Prime Minister in 1972
        Peterwn- 45 years ago.
        Isn’t it a shame when times change and uppity people have different ideas and expectations – and fresh talents to offer?
        My recollection of meeting Sir Keith a couple of times during his term as PM was that he was a very old fashioned, patronising gentleman indeed.
        
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        May 14, 2018 12:41pm
      - rockape
        
        i am inside the party and before the leadership election sat in a room with 100 or so party members. There was a vote on leadership. One hand up for Collins, 2 or 3 for Joyce and the rest evenly divided Adams/ Bridges. So if your “outside the party” dont winge about who those inside elect as party leader!
        
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        May 14, 2018 12:48pm
      - peterwn
        
        Gravelroad
        Kiwi Keith won FOUR elections in a row! Apart from being patronising and old fashioned he was in many regards pretty ordinary. He walked to work from his Ministerial house at 41 Pipitea St (since purchased by the Nats as their HQ), the phone number for 41 Pipitea St was in the phone book (he declined advice from his officals to unlist it), went to an ordinary barber in Molesworth St for haircuts, etc. He was a very good PM IMO.
        
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        May 14, 2018 2:35pm
  - Piniwi
    
    No peterwn National suffered too many fools deciding to run with the B team of Bridges and Bennett. While the majority will be paying big time for the COL failures there is another term assured by this choice as National suffer the result of this folly. By the time the 2020 election rolls around it will be a very different country than it was going into the last election.
    Thus this term will be a hard fast lesson for those young voters who thought change was the way to prosperity as they battle high inflation and increasing interest rates. Oder voters have seen it all before and while it might not slump to the same depths this time it will be just a tough.
    The flawed MMP system will again favour the weaker contestants even after so many broken promises and failed follies National will run a sure second. If Bridges and Bennett are the answer then it was a seriously flawed question process that rendered up this option. Lets see if there is a shadow budget to offer some modest hope that the new team have what it takes to get across the House in 2020.
    
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    May 14, 2018 4:04pm
- niggly
  
  It doesn’t matter who is National leader folks, the MSM will largely ignore them (or in the case of Judith, dredge up dirt and leftie detractors writing negative article after article) and meanwhile the MSM will continue to give Labour and Jacinda “8 out of 10” (can’t be long before someone in the MSM gushingly gives them “9 out of 10”) despite Curran’s lies, Twyford’s lies, Hipkin’s lies, the cost of living set to increase due to rising petrol and transport costs, taxes, taxes and more taxes, loss of jobs in the regions, drunken dwarf with billions of dollars for overseas, and with Jacinda “at the top of her game and across all her portfolios” overseeing this clusterf*** of a rag-tag disparate bunch of mini-dictators!
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:20am
  - Kabull
    
    Agree. While it might seem a good idea for the Nats to appear as an attack force, there would be a real risk that the public would shut off and regard them as car-chasers – just as we were doing with Angry and co only a year ago. Its far better for the Nats to take their time, clarify their policies (internally – and after listening to the people), and let the CoL tumble. The man in the street doesn’t watch Parliament – or, even, read MSM diatribe. He will only start to react when his pocket is lighter and he is faced with a bunch of new laws, rules, and other impediments to his way of life. And when he sees a big chunk of the population getting fairy dust sprinkled over them while he has to pay more and more in taxes, levies, etc., he will begin to recognise what has happened.
    What’s the old saying? “Softly, softly catchee monkey …”
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:33am
    - brett68
      
      Do you think Collins is as stupid as that complete fuckwit Andrew Little?
      
      Fucks sake she’s by far the best “politician” within National, politicians seem to be in very short supply in National, lots of managers very few politicians.
      
      I think that’s the issue the National caucus has with Collins, she’s not like most of them, she’s actually a politician.
      
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      May 14, 2018 9:45am
  - jonnycomelately
    
    Niggly, Best summary of the situation I have heard.
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:27pm
kowtow

Interesting media priorities.

One dead in stabbing in Paris leads , while three bombed churches in Indonesia doesn’t.
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May 14, 2018 8:21am
- MCos
  
  Were you aware from reading the newspapers that terrorist attacks are almost a daily occurrence in the three southernmost provinces of Thailand and why?
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:31am
  - softail 1450
    
    MCos ,president duterte had a major terrorist city in his own back yard that were starting to cause the philippines some big problems ,so what did he do ?he went in with his army and put the city under siege and with quite a fight killed them all ,when the remaining 50 or so terrorists escaped into the jungle they chased them down and killed every last one of them,,,,,,,big problem fixed forever.
    of course the rediculous UN immediately accused him of possible war crimes…..
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:37am
    - Luke Piewalker
      
      @Softail: Can confirm that is exactly what happened
      
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      May 14, 2018 4:09pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Partly correct softail1450 but El Predidente only really achieved what others have and driven them underground. Now it seems they are being reinforced with a new wave of terrorists spreading from Indonesia and Thailand as the ISIS thrust is spread. Meanwhile he is drawing down very heavily on some ready funding coming from China after have undone some Stella achievements of the previous administration. Must say though he has been the best thing to stop any big loss from the NZ$ cutting pension payments as he drives the Peso value down.
      
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      May 14, 2018 4:20pm
stephieboy

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
A very disappointing effort by KB posters this weekend. Surely the big news item relates to the outstanding award-winning self-portrait inspired by our Prime Minister,

An artist has won a prestigious $100,000 award for a portrait that was inspired by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

Ms Ardern has offered “huge and warm congratulations” to the artist.
Melbourne-based artist Yvette Coppersmith was awarded the Archibald Prize for her painting ‘Self-portrait after George Lambert’, but she had initially requested to paint Ms Ardern.

When the Prime Minister said she was unavailable, Ms Coppersmith chose to paint a self-portrait instead using her as a source of inspiration.

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/05/award-winning-portrait-inspired-by-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern.html

In away immortalising P M Jacinda Adern.

Outstanding!
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May 14, 2018 8:24am
- Duxton
  
  That probably explains why the subject of the painting looks so gaunt and sour: quite unlike our Cindy!
  
  That said, this is on a par with Obama ‘winning’ the Nobel Prize, or Jonathan Hunt being appointed to the Order of NZ.
  
  Meh…
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:31am
- Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
  
  An award for what ?
  I have found many self portraits of the PM
  https://www.shutterstock.com/search/funny+donkey
  
  No award necessary……
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:32am
- Harkman
  
  That’s a lousy painting. It certainly isn’t worth $100,000. Perhaps Labour could tax the woman, $100,000 makes her a rich Prick.
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:34am
  - Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
    
    Likely the artist made a donation to the labour party….nothing to do with the award
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:44am
  - softail 1450
    
    Harkman, they should get helen to sign it .
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:39am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  That is worst picture of horse I have ever seen.
  
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  May 14, 2018 10:30am
artemisia

Help is on the way for horticulture labour shortages. Will Mr Lees-Galloway be requiring robotic systems to join the union? I’m sure the owners will be happy for the union reps to come by for a chat with the systems about union advantages.

Robotic kiwifruit pickers and packers are coming – New Zealand ingenuity in action. Robotic apple packers are here, launching in New Zealand and globally this month.

http://supermarketnews.co.nz/robotic-apple-packer-ripe-for-launch/
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May 14, 2018 8:24am
oldpark

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/rugby/joe-moody-to-pay-price-for-cheap-shot-on-kurtley-beale-but-all-too-late-for-waratahs/news-story/dc447ccec5a1831922059965d6f38bad
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May 14, 2018 8:24am
Harkman

Anyone see Cindy in the press briefing room last night? She’s had her teeth whitened again. This is an obsessive compulsive disorder, a derangement. Her teeth don’t even fit her head. It’ll soon be like when Ross on Friends over bleached his teeth and they glowed in the dark. Good gosh.
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May 14, 2018 8:25am
- VicParking
  
  She needs them to glow so wandering Gayford can find his way home at night.
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:50am
Harkman

Trump on Friday NZ time, “we demand fairness for American patients at home, we will also demand fairness overseas. When foreign governments extort unreasonably low prices from U.S. drug makers, Americans have to pay more to subsidize the enormous cost of research and development….. It’s unfair and it’s ridiculous, and it’s not going to happen any longer.”
This is Pharmac in trouble.
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May 14, 2018 8:30am
- hullkiwi
  
  No, it is Trump being a blowhard in international trade negotiations. US drug companies have multiple problems, starting with a lack of drugs coming to market versus European competition, & then there are the Indians to keep the market honest.
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:41am
  - VicParking
    
    Well blowen hard hullkiwi, pity ita a load of shike.
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:52am
    - tf78
      
      Shike (2-3 parts actually) was a really good book, you should read it – early about very early Japan, tsunamis, China and Mongolia.
      
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      May 14, 2018 7:14pm
  - kowtow
    
    “European competition”.
    
    Serious question . How much subsidy do European pharmacy companies get from the EU?
    
    Is there any “free” trade anywhere?
    
    As to Indian businesses . How environmentally friendly and indeed worker friendly are Indian businesses?
    
    If Indian companies are not hampered by rules that bind American and European companies , can one say there’s a level playing field?
    
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    May 14, 2018 10:16am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Where do you think most of the generic drugs Pharmac buys come from? Certainly not Pfizer.
      
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      May 14, 2018 10:41am
      - kowtow
        
        Are you implying we buy cheap shit from India ,which has stolen western intellectual property to make vast amounts of money?
        
        Is stealing intellectual property also a component of “free” trade?
        
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        May 14, 2018 11:24am
      - Ed Snack
        
        Kowtow, generics are those free of patent, so no IP ripoffs. For those drugs non-US sources are almost certainly less expensive, and as long as appropriate safety and quality checks are made, what’s the problem with that ?
        
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        May 14, 2018 11:58am
      - kowtow
        
        Cheap Indian pharma comes with a high hidden cost.
        
        http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/business/article/2133347/planned-pharma-city-pump-out-cheap-indian-drugs-making-villagers
        
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        May 14, 2018 1:53pm
milkmaid

Bruce Moon on the Nelson City Council’s refusal to allow his speech to the Nelson Institute to go ahead, on “health and safety” grounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNWNMvCMij0&t=1s
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May 14, 2018 8:40am
- Piniwi
  
  Thanks milkmaid had not caught up with this so far and like he said the Nelson Institute is a long established organisation. An interesting example of the imbalance already created was illustrated in an article where a GP was saying the $10 reduction in doctor visits “won’t” help.
  “One (funding model) is called access funding which provides for the vast majority of our population.”
  “We have another one called VLCA, which is very low cost access, and that is if your practice has more than per cent Maori, Pacific or quintiles 5, you get a huge bucket of money thrown in but it’s extrapolated across your whole population (including non-Maori, Pacific or quintiles 5),” he said. How many were aware of that?
  
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  May 14, 2018 4:37pm
  - milkmaid
    
    Indeed.
    
    The text of the speech he would have given is here, if anyone is interested.
    
    https://sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/blogs/bruce-moon/nelson-city-library
    
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    May 14, 2018 7:04pm
sooty

Penny Bright, is in court this morning. If the ACC have stuffed it up and she wins, they should be sacked.
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May 14, 2018 8:43am
- VicParking
  
  No the AC lawyers will then be paid to take it to a higher court. “The Trough has no bounds”
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:00am
  - KevOB
    
    Where’s she getting the funding when she can’t pay her rates?
    
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    May 14, 2018 11:04am
    - VicParking
      
      Give a penny to a penny to spend a pound on a penny
      
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      May 14, 2018 12:19pm
    - The Real Tony
      
      It’s not that she CAN’T pay her rates; it’s that she WON’T pay her rates until ACC become more transparent in their spending (according to Ms Bright).
      
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      May 14, 2018 4:01pm
dime

TRUMP on the drug industry.

All we get in NZ is Trump is going to raise prices for Pharmac.

If you have 10 minutes, watch this speech and tell me what part of it as wrong? Imagine you’re a yank.

The man is doing great things. its just that as sad little kiwis at the bottom of the world, we take one point out of a 50 point plan and make it about us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp9e3OMwc2A
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May 14, 2018 8:58am
- Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
  
  Pharmac needs to change. It can no longer be about buying the most number of pills for the least amount of dollars. That approach is best suited for bandages….Pharmac needs to evaluate health outcomes whereby the patient gets the best treatment and patient (and whanau) suffer least stress and can then continue to get back to normal and be contributing members of society.
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:07am
  - KevOB
    
    That is what Pharmac does now. They are pretty careful with our dollars.
    
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    May 14, 2018 11:05am
    - Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
      
      With all due respect it is not. It is a dollar for pills approach. Outcomes to not drive buying decisions.
      
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      May 14, 2018 1:23pm
      - KevOB
        
        There have been much discussion over the years about Pharmac not approving purchases because of lack of proven worth. They seem to consider both treatment and costs.
        
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        May 14, 2018 2:22pm
  - Flash
    
    Bought any cheap bandages lately? Hmmm?
    
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    May 14, 2018 12:27pm
- dime
  
  The lobbying is nuts.
  
  Some quotes for those who dont have time:
  
  We will have tougher negotiation, more competition and much lower prices at the pharmacy counter, and it’ll start to take effect very soon.
  
  We’re also increasing competition and reducing regulatory burdens so drugs can be gotten to the market quicker and cheaper.
  
  Last year, the FDA approved more than 1,000 low-cost generics, the most in history, which has already saved the American people nearly $9 billion.
  
  Next, we’re going to take on one of the biggest obstacles to affordable medicine: the tangled web of special interests. Not too many are sitting here today, but they used to be here all the time.
  
  The drug lobby is making an absolute fortune at the expense of American consumers. No industry spends more money on lobbying than the pharmaceutical health products industry. Last year, these companies spent nearly $280 million on lobbyists. That’s more than tobacco, oil and defense contractors combined.
  
  Health insurance companies and other providers spent another $200 million to protect the status quo and to keep prices artificially high. And they’ve been very successful, doing it for many, many years.
  
  Everyone involved in the broken system — the drug makers, insurance companies, distributors, pharmacy benefit managers and many others contribute to the problem.
  
  Government has also been part of the problem because previous leaders turned a blind eye to this incredible abuse. But, under this administration, we are putting American patients first.
  
  We are getting tough on the drug makers that exploit our patent laws to choke out competition. Our patent system will reward innovation, but it will not be used as a shield to protect unfair monopolies.
  
  The FDA will also speed up the approval process for over-the-counter medicines so that patients can get more medicines without prescription.
  
  It’s time to end the global freeloading once and for all.
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:08am
MCos

The General Debate been going an hour and some obscure sleep in day silliness has aroused the most offense.

Must be a crushingly boring Monday.
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May 14, 2018 9:03am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  I take more offence at ‘offense’.
  Crushing is a good word to describe various groups of shitheads telling me that every day / week / month is ‘such and such day / week / month’. Boring is the endless promotion for them.
  
  How about an international ‘this day is forever reserved for nothing at all day – it’s just a bloody day day’.
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:09am
- kowtow
  
  OK MCos , how about everyone pays attention to your exciting posts then ?
  
  No , I think I’ll go outside and watch my lawn growing…….
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:48am
Rich Prick

News flash: The Police have arrested Labour’s booze camp sexual predator.

Nah, just kidding. He’s safe.
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May 14, 2018 9:15am
- Inandout
  
  Safe because his parent is influential?
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:25am
  - Rich Prick
    
    You have to wonder, after all the guy’s identity should be no mystery to the Police.
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:33am
    - Inandout
      
      The name will eventually leak out, we are a small country.
      
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      May 14, 2018 10:19am
      - lilman
        
        Its well known who he is.
        
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        May 14, 2018 12:12pm
      - calendar girl
        
        Not well enough yet!
        
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        May 14, 2018 2:47pm
oldpark

When the person known as HDPA became Wellingtons Newstalkzbs talkback Queen, everyone was very excited .She started off with a rush and a roar in a very positive way. In fact she was good very very good. Four months later she is fast becoming an also ran. So full of her self she is daily sounding more and a pest broadcaster and a must to avoid listening to her. Oh for the halycon days of Justin Dufrenz and Tim Fowkes.
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May 14, 2018 9:15am
- Gravelroad
  
  I wasn’t very excited, Old Park.
  I thought she would be just another political insider with an agenda to push.
  She was smart enough to disguise that for a while – now not so much.
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:39am
- Duxton
  
  That said, she spent today’s panel discussion with Chris Bishop and Greg O’Connor climbing into O’C about Cindy’s abuse of Trump, and the US. O’C tried to deny there was an issue, but HDPA wouldn’t let it go.
  
  Sometimes, she can surprise.
  
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  May 14, 2018 12:30pm
Philview

Iain Lees-Galloway told small businesses yesterday they will have to shut up shop if they can’t afford the fair pay awards.
Lets say a small business has 5 staff and is compelled to increase hourly pay rates by $5 an hour assuming a 40 hour week, this will add $52,000 per year onto the wage costs. Many small businesses will have to shut up shop or lay off a staff member. This will be a disaster for the economy and I will be really surprised if Lees-Galloway gets his way on this.
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May 14, 2018 9:34am
- Rich Prick
  
  Don’t you just love the way the left label things as “fair”, which of course they also get to define. The moment they do, whatever it is suddenly become virtuous and beyond argument. It also validates appalling consequences. Anything they label as “fair” need extra scrutiny because you can be sure it will be particularly unfair on some one else.
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:43am
- waikatogirl
  
  “Lees-Galloway was born on 18 September 1978 in Auckland, where he attended Kings College. He moved to Palmerston North to study at Massey University where he was president of the Massey University Students’ Association in 2005.
  Professional life Following his term as student president, Lees-Galloway worked for the New Zealand Nurses Organisation as an organiser and subsequently publicity coordinator.”
  
  So Lees-Galloway is a former student president and a union worker and has never run a business. What a surprise!! //
  
  Get back to the business owners of NZ when you have some real experience and knowledge. ?
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:55am
  - Poppa
    
    He is a very nasty piece of work. Typical union man
    
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    May 14, 2018 9:59am
    - lifesgood
      
      Kings College, eh? Privileged background. Bet his parents are proud of him – Not!
      
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      May 14, 2018 10:06am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Aw no, surely not.
        Kings was where that rick prick Key sent his kids.
        Its for – you know – rich prick kids.
        
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        May 14, 2018 12:23pm
      - sooty
        
        Not only got two dads they could not spell his name right.
        
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        May 14, 2018 12:39pm
  - Philview
    
    I wonder how much the MPs talk to each other. Did he say to Cindy? “I am going on TV today and I will warn the small business sector that their days are numbered” Cindy replied “Go for it Iain”.
    
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    May 14, 2018 10:05am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Student pres at 26/27!!! what the hell was he fucking around at for 9 years at uni?
    
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    May 14, 2018 10:57am
    - Rich Prick
      
      The most useless BA’s take that long.
      
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      May 14, 2018 11:26am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Didn’t I hear that he’d only just finished it?
        
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        May 14, 2018 12:24pm
  - VicParking
    
    Iain darling can I change your nappies?
    
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    May 14, 2018 12:23pm
  - Paulus
    
    I though it was said that L-G had a BA at Auckland Uni but no record has been found of that.
    Cannot be a lie so that must be wrong as he never lies.
    
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    May 14, 2018 1:33pm
- lifesgood
  
  Where in the hell does he think all these employees will work when the businesses close? Oh, that’s right, just tax the rich pricks to pay them the dole…and destroy all their hopes and dreams at the same time.
  
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  May 14, 2018 10:08am
- KevOB
  
  Lift pay $200/week –> off to benefit you go. Govt loses business taxpayer too.
  
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  May 14, 2018 11:08am
lilman

Friend came back from Auckland after attending a Govt sponsored workshop on future Education guidelines for the next 30 years.
He sat with some teachers,25-30 yr females,when Jacinda got up and spoke he was shocked at their reaction.
They broke down in tears,I kid you not he said.
They we so overcome with her that even before she spoke one word they were in tears,stating things like,”She is so Brave”
“She is so Beautiful ”
“Im so proud to be a Woman ”
And the best one,”She is everything our children should aspire too”
He ,who isnt a teacher ,couldnt believe how grown adults could react this way.
It show how pathetic Teachers really are.
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May 14, 2018 10:03am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  It would be about 1994; my late Mum was 75 then. She had joined the wrinklies to hear Winston Peters speak. She was astounded at how the old dears wanted to touch “The Emperor’s Clothes”.
  But back to Jacinda; that was a good example of the terribly high hurdle Soimon Bridges must jump over. Those who watched last year’s Great Northern Steeplechase; Wise Men Say that Soimon is not such a good jumper.
  
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  May 14, 2018 10:11am
- RW Capitalist
  
  How dumb are we???
  We paid for their education and continue to pay their wages.
  
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  May 14, 2018 10:18am
- brett68
  
  Just think of all the shit they’re filling kids heads with.
  
  National needs to wake the fuck up and realize what it’s up against, devise a plan and deal with it.
  
  The left will win because the right let them win.
  
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  May 14, 2018 10:27am
  - Happychappy
    
    brett68 you should stand to be a MP as like most wannabes you think you have the answers to all Nationals and NZ’s problems.
    
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    May 14, 2018 10:50am
- Faroffsound
  
  Not only teachers – I’ve heard of quite a few women in the 25-30 year age group who think that Jacinda is a fantastic role model.
  
  Older women are not as enthusiastic. I still think the crunch will come when she has to combine being PM – min 15 hour days – with being the parent of a newborn – 24 hr days even if you delegate half the job.
  
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  May 14, 2018 2:12pm
- hullkiwi
  
  There is a similar write up in today’s Herald. Senior girl from Rotorua GHS claims when she spoke to Taxcinda. Had the same crap about her being inspiring etc.
  
  Yet, the women in our social circle can’t stand the woman. Is it a “marmite case”, you either love her or hate her, there is no in between.
  
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  May 14, 2018 4:58pm
  - GoVege
    
    I LOVE her!!
    She is so lovely, sincere and kind and sweet.
    She made us so proud wearing that beautiful robe when she visited Elizabeth (my cuzzie BTW.)
    She’s the face of a new generation….and they have plenty to say! 🙂 🙂 🙂
    
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    May 14, 2018 6:28pm
Monique Watson

Apparently Clarke gave away the gender of the baby on radio.
Who gives a shit.
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May 14, 2018 10:04am
- dime
  
  theres a baby?
  
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  May 14, 2018 10:19am
  - Monique Watson
    
    It’s the second fucking coming. Or so the MSM would have you believe.
    
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    May 14, 2018 10:23am
  - alex Masterley
    
    he’s the father?
    
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    May 14, 2018 12:11pm
    - holysheet
      
      Is Cindy the mother?
      
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      May 14, 2018 1:36pm
      - stigie
        
        “Is Cindy the mother?”
        
        I hate fucking rumours..?
        
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        May 14, 2018 2:03pm
      - holysheet
        
        Don’t fuck them then…….
        
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        May 14, 2018 5:40pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    ? ?
    
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    May 14, 2018 12:13pm
  - VicParking
    
    Rosemary’s
    
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    May 14, 2018 12:25pm
Komata

FWIW

Some sort of Bus Driver’s anti-employer demonstration on the corner of Anglesea and Bryce Str. in Hamilton this morning. The usual posters about ‘Fair for fares’ etc along with red and black pennants etc.

Evidently it is some sort of wages dispute (does anyone know?) but as this is occuring on the watch of ‘No industrial actions’ Adern’s watch, perhaps she should invite the ‘protestors’ home for tea, biscuits made from that magical ingrediant ‘Unicorn poo’ and Sprinkles made from fairy dust.

I’m sure that everyone will be MUCH better as a result….
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May 14, 2018 10:12am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Put the wages up
  Put the fares up to cover it
  Only pay drivers for driving FULL buses
  
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  May 14, 2018 10:20am
- Harkman
  
  ‘No industrial actions’
  
  Sort of like “no new taxes” ?
  
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  May 14, 2018 10:56am
- waikatogirl
  
  Go Bus drivers announced a 2 hour strike beginning at 7.30am this morning. Bastards.
  
  So how many workers/kids had trouble getting to work/school today?
  
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  May 14, 2018 12:15pm
  - VicParking
    
    School buses were to be driven by non union drivers
    
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    May 14, 2018 12:27pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      The non union drivers should get paid more.
      
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      May 14, 2018 3:27pm
      - tf78
        
        Funnily enough, non union driver’s would because they wouldn’t be paying the union due’s.
        
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        May 14, 2018 7:27pm
- artemisia
  
  Go Bus drivers want the ‘living wage’ aka a pay rise. Go Bus should easily afford that as it pays no tax on profit. Being owned by iwi charitable trusts. Or should that be “charitable trusts”.
  
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  May 14, 2018 1:03pm
MrTips

All in the name of “equality”: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4527148/Gay-didgeridoo-porn-film-branded-cultural-appropriation.html

These people are just sick.
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May 14, 2018 10:39am
- Rich Prick
  
  This is what happens when diversity goes horribly wrong. The gays should know they sit below the Aboriginals on the identity tree. Now if had been a set of bagpipes there’d be no fuss at all.
  
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  May 14, 2018 10:51am
  - RalphT
    
    Bagpipes are only needed when there’s more than one “recipient”.
    
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    May 14, 2018 11:01am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Lighten up, the headline alone had me chuckling.
  
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  May 14, 2018 11:00am
  - Tarquin North
    
    Don’t know about cultural appropriation but I bet it hurt!
    
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    May 14, 2018 11:02am
Jack5

The ~~Fairfucked,~~ ~~Fairfax~~ Stuffed newspapers the Christchurch Press and the Dominion Post continue to give stick to their old white readers stick today.

It’s another dose of the rather pale Joel Maxwell trying to drum up support for compulsory Maori language in schools. He recounts the “evil” of colonisation. It was compulsory for Maori kids to learn English, so it should be compulsory for non-Maori kids to learn Maori – that’s the nub of his argument.

Pretty boring. By the line, part-Maori Maxwell turns people off support for learning Maori. Someone should send him a copy of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Maxwell might even translate it into Maori as part of his middle-age Te Reo learning programme. Ngai Tahu might subsidise publication.

The Dominion Post, in edition to Maxwell’s emotional piece, highlights as lead letter to the editor someone with a non-Maori name emphasising that discrimination – as in two peoples – is core for Maori. He talks of the “current power imbalance between settlers and colonised.”

If he compared the ratio of MPs in Parliament to population, he would see that the imbalance favours Maori.
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May 14, 2018 10:55am
- KevOB
  
  “It was compulsory for Maori kids to learn English”…
  
  That was because their elders rejected Maori as useful except on the Marae. It’s hopeless in a world where kumara in someone elses pa puha and long pork are deprecated.
  
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  May 14, 2018 11:15am
  - big bruv
    
    The Nat’s need only campaign on the issue of compulsory Maori. That one issue will win them the next election as Toothinda knows she cannot afford to get offside with her dynamic and inspiring Maori caucus by ruling it out completely.
    
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    May 14, 2018 11:20am
    - Jack5
      
      Edit: I meant to say The Dominion Post, in addition to Maxwell’s emotional piece …
      
      My word processor usually fixes my typos. This time, it threw up its hands and took a stab.
      
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      May 14, 2018 11:51am
- brett68
  
  They’re just trolling you, don’t rise to the bait.
  
  You don’t read it, therefore it doesn’t make money so it disappears.
  
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  May 14, 2018 11:22am
  - Jack5
    
    That’s an interesting observation, Brett.
    
    Click baiting works in free internet. Look at the traffic that Milky and Stephiestani Trolls Ltd stimulate on this blog.
    
    But will it work when the readers pay. Do you pay to be annoyed?
    
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    May 14, 2018 1:18pm
- stephieboy
  
  Jack5 , despite your denigration of” The Fairfucked, Fairfax Stuffed newspapers ..” you appear every day, like your” Hooreld” , carefully puruse them.
  
  Whats the attraction?
  
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  May 14, 2018 11:24am
  - Jack5
    
    “puruse … puruse …. puruse…”
    
    Sorry, no speak Stephiestani.
    
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    May 14, 2018 11:45am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  “current power imbalance between settlers and colonised.”
  
  There are settlers in New Zealand?
  
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  May 14, 2018 1:17pm
Manolo

France and the vain attempt to assimilate barbarians.
http://www.bakersfield.com/ap/national/france-defends-anti-terrorism-strategy-after-attack-by-man-on/article_18bec6c0-5d0b-5657-b1bf-acd790984478.html

The French government defended its anti-terrorism measures over the weekend after it turned out that the perpetrator of a deadly knife attack in Paris was on a state security watchlist.

Government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said the man, a naturalized French citizen who was born in Chechnya in 1997, had been on the watchlist since 2016.

A video emerged Su nday online purporting to show the attacker swearing allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In the video, the speaker, wearing a mask that covers most of his face, calls on “my brothers the mujahedeen” in French with scattered Arabic phrases.
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May 14, 2018 11:01am
- Scott
  
  Isn’t it marvellous when people come to Western countries like France as refugees from the “shit hole” country that they came from. Isn’t it marvellous when they show their gratitude to their new country by trying to murder as many of their fellow citizens as possible?
  
  This is the reality of Islam in France. I think it will only go one of 2 ways? Either France will be taken over by Islam and become a Muslim theocracy. Or the people of France will rise up and drive out the Muslim invaders. It is very hard to see in France how Western democracy and millions of unassimilated Muslims can peaceably coexist? It certainly is not happening at the moment.
  
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  May 14, 2018 11:21am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Thus a few attacks represent a grave security risk to the future of France by all its Muslims? ( 5-10% of the population )
    
    Explain, please?
    
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    May 14, 2018 11:27am
    - Manolo
      
      You are completely blind to the violence and vileness of your religion.
      
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      May 14, 2018 11:35am
    - lilman
      
      Go fuck your goat.
      
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      May 14, 2018 11:39am
      - VicParking
        
        How rude, Stephie makes love to his goat ??
        
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        May 14, 2018 12:32pm
    - Paulus
      
      It only takes one immigrant – not 5-10%.
      
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      May 14, 2018 1:38pm
    - kloyd0306
      
      As long as France is run by socialists, their security will continue to be at risk.
      
      As for Muslims in France, 5-10% is 5-10% too much. Deport the lot of them until they learn to behave like humans.
      
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      May 14, 2018 1:59pm
  - kowtow
    
    It was once said that Beirut was the Paris of the East, sadly due to Muslim immigration , Paris has become the Beirut of the West.
    
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    May 14, 2018 11:30am
    - stephieboy
      
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      kowtow, this is Beirut at the height of their civil wars,
      
      https://samisarkis.photoshelter.com/image/I0000opsGs63z60o
      
      Paris reduced to rubble?
      
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      May 14, 2018 11:41am
  - RalphT
    
    These people miss their shit hole countries so much that while they can’t afford the airfare back home they do the next best thing; turn the place that gave them refuge into a shit hole.
    
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    May 14, 2018 11:31am
    - stephieboy
      
      RalphT, the bulk of immigration to France was from North Africa ( Postwar and 1950s) with territories like Algeria etc controlled by France.
      
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      May 14, 2018 11:44am
  - Scott
    
    The situation in France is worse than we could imagine-
    “No-go zones are growing rapidly in the suburbs of all of France’s main cities. Shanty towns built by illegal migrants from Africa and the Middle East have sprung up in parts of Marseilles and Paris in the last few years. Islamization is everywhere. In hundreds of mosques, imams deliver fiery anti-Western speeches. Churches are vandalized. The number of rapes is rapidly increasing. Groups of veiled women roam the streets and insult the “immodest”, unveiled, women.
    
    Macron’s most important project since he was elected has been the creation of new Islamic institutions destined to adapt France to Islam — not to adapt Islam to France. Many more mosques will be built, financed with taxpayer money; departments of Islamic culture will open in universities, and imam training centers created.”
    
    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12292/france-ally-united-states
    
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    May 14, 2018 12:06pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Are these “no go zones” economically important to France?
      If not, then simply sequester them.
      
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      May 14, 2018 4:39pm
big bruv

If you want a job where you can go about your daily tasks and decide that you want to ram your forearm into somebody else’s face then the job for you is that of a professional rugby player. Go join the Crusaders, they love thugs.
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May 14, 2018 11:17am
- RF
  
  I see the disgraced druggie Ali Williams is working for Sky.
  
  Great role model……. Not….
  
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  May 14, 2018 1:00pm
  - holysheet
    
    But who will see him?
    Sky is bleeding customers daily.
    
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    May 14, 2018 1:40pm
- Jack5
  
  But what a great comeback by the Crusaders, Big Brug.
  
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  May 14, 2018 1:21pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Might not have happened if he’d got the red card which he deserved.
    
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    May 14, 2018 3:31pm
slightlyrighty

SPOILER ALERT!!

Avengers: Infinity Wars takes on a whole new level when you realise the bad guy is a militant Greenie….
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May 14, 2018 11:22am
- alex Masterley
  
  I took my youngest to see Infinity Wars yesterday after much nagging (from him).
  As I watched it i did wonder if Green policy makers were responsible for the plot line.
  The end of the movie was a bit of a surprise and left me feeling ambivalent…
  
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  May 14, 2018 11:42am
- Longknives
  
  I enjoyed the film but the ‘Wakanda’ storyline is getting a bit nauseating.
  How many references to Black People being physically and mentally superior to White people do we need before the Franchise starts tanking and losing it’s fanbase? (Like the new Feminist version of Star Wars did..)
  I’ve got no time for Political Correctness in action movies…Save that shit for the Lesbian Film Festivals..
  
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  May 14, 2018 4:06pm
Poppa

I had the pleasure at the weekend of receiving a call from UMR the Labour Pollsters.

Some very interesting questions I must say & it was pretty obvious the questioner didn’t like much of what I was saying. Her tone changed rapidly when I gave the princess a flogging
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May 14, 2018 11:34am
- alex Masterley
  
  I used to get those calls when we had a land line. That’s gone now so the calls have stopped.
  Pity. I used to enjoy them.
  
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  May 14, 2018 11:40am
- artemisia
  
  Better to take the subversive approach. 10/10 for everything, 12/10 for the princess.
  
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  May 14, 2018 11:54am
Monique Watson

Check this out:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/103828184/joel-maxwell-compulsory-te-reo-is-nothing-to-fear–its-the-decent-and-civilised-choice

What a load of separatist shite.
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May 14, 2018 11:38am
- sooty
  
  Bets he’s studying on the taxpayers dime!
  
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  May 14, 2018 12:31pm
kowtow

There’s more than a few people out there who should be banned from driving for life.

‘Consumed by rage over the unpaid debt, the defendant drove at the victim, causing him to take evasive action.

Cottle pursued the man as he took off south on the motorway.

When the victim stopped in Mosgiel, the defendant pulled in behind him then proceeded to ram the Toyota Hilux three times.’

‘.Cottle was banned from driving for a year and ordered to pay $400 reparation.’

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/crime/violent-rampage-fuelled-debt-and-jealousy
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May 14, 2018 11:47am
wreck1080

My local new world is selling prepacked garlic as “Product of New Zealand”.

The main labelling says ‘Product of New Zealand’, but , if you closely examine the little packaging tag it says ‘produce of china’ in small print.

I highlighted this to new world staff and they shrugged their shoulders and pointed me to another area where loose pack garlic was situated. Their staff didn’t care and were even a little hostile that I was pointing this out.

Incidentally, you should not buy chinese garlic. The water used to grow chinese garlic is often highly polluted. At least, according to a foodie chef friend of mine.
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May 14, 2018 11:58am
- waikatogirl
  
  Ah, the garlic is Chinese, but the packaging is from NZ. Just like the World T.shirt tag that was produced in NZ while the T.shirt attached to it was made in Indonesia.
  
  I have been told that NZ grown garlic are the bulbs with the purple hue to them, while the Chinese bulbs are totally white and usually larger.
  
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  May 14, 2018 12:28pm
  - kowtow
    
    …….and set off the geiger counter.
    
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    May 14, 2018 2:56pm
- kowtow
  
  No plastic bags (for the customer at check out) , but you can buy false labelled toxic garlic , funny priorities.
  
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  May 14, 2018 2:58pm
Sideoiler

I am not sure I would buy a box of this.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/first-vaginal-beer-bottled-instinct#/
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May 14, 2018 12:00pm
- RalphT
  
  All of a sudden a can of Lion Brown doesn’t sound too bad after all.
  
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  May 14, 2018 12:05pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Reminds me of the old joke about the bloke who developed a spray to make a woman’s pussy taste like an orange.
    
    He took his idea to a panel of investors, one of whom said to him “Tell you what, if you can make a spray that makes oranges taste like pussy, I’ll fund you 100%”
    
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    May 14, 2018 12:34pm
    - stigie
      
      Im surprised Stiffy hasn’t asked why pussies taste like an orange, because all he has done is tasted goat !~
      
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      May 14, 2018 2:13pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stigie:
        
        Im surprised Stiffy hasn’t asked why pussies taste like an orange
        
        Stephieboy has described seeing “honeypots” at St Lukes and, when challenged, said: “According to the Urban dictionary Honey pots has decidedly two different meanings . Mine is the sweet tasting nectar of the gods”.
        
        Maggy debunked his nonsense:
        
        Did any of you folks read the alternative wordings for Honeypot, using stephieboy’s meaning…
        
        sweet tasting source of the nectar of the gods.
        
        See: alcove, bat cave, bear trap, bearded clam, bearded taco, beaver, bermuda triangle, box, bucket seat, cake, chuff box, cockpit, cooch, coochie, coochie-pop, coose, cooter, cooze, crack, crawl space, cum depository, cum dumpster, cuntcake, cunt, cunny, donut, dripping delta, felted mound, fillet-o-fish, finger hut, fish, fish taco, front bum, fly catcher, fuckhole, furburger, garage, gash, gates of Heaven, golden doorway, Grand Canyon, growler, hair pie, hatchet wound, heaven’s door, hole, honey cave, hot box, jaws of Hell, lobster pot, loins, loose meat sandwich, lotus, love box, love canal, lower lips, meat wallet, muff, nooch, nook, nookie, parking spot, peach, pearly panty gates, pocket, poon, poontang, purse, pussy, quiff, quim, rat trap, scratch, sheath, slash, slit, snapper, snatch, space, split, stench trench, tampon socket, temple, thingy, tool shed, tuna, tunnel, twat, undercut, vagina, vertical smile, wishing well, whisker box, womb, x, yoni
        
        Bother, said Pooh, as he realized he no longer had a honey pot to nuzzle his face in.
        
        It’s pretty clear what he was meaning when he referred to Honey-pot.
        
        Stephieboy’s interests may be wider than “small but ample breasts”!
        
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        May 14, 2018 2:58pm
      - kowtow
        
        Nostie
        
        Loved your list.
        
        “Muff” is the name of a village in Donegal , no shit.
        
        http://www.dailyedge.ie/muff-3513569-Jul2017/
        
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        May 14, 2018 4:45pm
    - Monique Watson
      
      Ha ha haha fucking ha! That there is mirth O’Clock.
      Thanks Keeping Stock. That cracked me and hubby right up.
      
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      May 14, 2018 5:44pm
      - Monique Watson
        
        @kowtow. Can you imagine? Guy calls home to his friends. “Hey how ya doin’?
        “Me?”
        “I’m in Muff”.
        
        Nostie. That’s an exhaustive list. Well done. You missed one. Coyote lips.
        
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        May 14, 2018 6:00pm
      - kowtow
        
        Piss flaps is another.
        
        And some wag opened a diving club in Muff , see the link. They sell gear that says , yes , “Muff Diving Club”.
        
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        May 14, 2018 9:04pm
Nostradamus

Public service announcement for Stephieboy: Undies you don’t have to wash for two weeks

A Danish company has invented underwear that doesn’t need washing for two weeks. That’s right – you can wear it day after day and it doesn’t get icky. Silver woven into the fabric kills 99.9 per cent of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes.

Now you can stock up on food and drink, retire to your underground bunker, and troll Kiwiblog for 2 weeks at a time!
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May 14, 2018 1:00pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Nostra, it should be a God send for ztev and gabby when they slither back on deck.
  
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  May 14, 2018 2:33pm
Gosman

Why did Simon Bridges allow himself to be suckered in to promoting a left wing meme around ‘trickle down economics’ ?

Such an idiotic statement to make.
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May 14, 2018 1:04pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Gosman:
  
  I criticised Nanaia Mahuta for speaking gobbledygook last week, but in the interest of balance, I have to criticise Simon Bridges for this disjointed mixture of verbs, nouns and pronouns:
  
  “I live in Tauranga, we’re seeing [homelessness] there – it’s very worrying. So I say you know, money, but more than that you’ve got to get in and do the smart stuff. We’re talking to the Prime Minister and the Government about that when it comes to the Child Poverty [Reduction] Bill. Because at the moment the fear is it’s just the money, it’s just that the targets, actually you’ve got to get in there and do the hard work that’s required, otherwise it’s… intergenerational… If you’ve grown up in a gang lifestyle… it’s very hard to get away from that, isn’t it?”
  
  Er…
  
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  May 14, 2018 1:16pm
  - Gosman
    
    Yes he seemed to have a particularly bad interview this morning.
    
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    May 14, 2018 1:29pm
  - thedavincimode
    
    It’s fair to say that in light of his background as a Crown prosecutor, I’m somewhat surprised at the extent to which Bridges generally fumbles the ball and trips over with the line in front of him. Perhaps operating in Tauranga meant he didn’t have anything more challenging than double-parked zimmer frames to deal with.
    
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    May 14, 2018 2:36pm
- kowtow
  
  “Suckered” or just another centre left progressive.
  
  And yes for a supposed top flight lawyer type ,comes across wishey washey and rather inept.
  
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  May 14, 2018 2:55pm
Left Right and Centre

Seriously ?

Am I really meant to humour some dress and wig wearing dickhead like him ?
Worst case non-girl mentally or physically you’ll see (he’s at 00:50)

This is actually an uptick for Saudi Arabia – fark me.
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May 14, 2018 1:17pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Drag queens coming to a primary school near you. Teaching ‘tolerance’.
  
  And maybe how to have a lot of sex with a lot of different people while stoned ?
  Creepy, disgusting, vile, ridiculous – a sick joke.
  I’m glad I missed this pukefest modern crap at school . . .
  
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  May 14, 2018 2:20pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    And that folks, is how tomorrow’s SJW snowflakes are made. I’d rather call it child abuse.
    
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    May 14, 2018 4:28pm
- waikatogirl
  
  I lost interest when he claimed her/his right to change in the girls’ changing room was not being accepted by the other girls. What about the girls’ right to privacy while getting changed. Oh dear, a clash of whose rights trumps whose, the odd individual or the group?!
  
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  May 14, 2018 2:45pm
- Longknives
  
  Christ what a fucking trainwreck! (Note how it seems to like exposing itself as well..)
  That thing has Mental Illness/Drug Addiction/Probable Suicide written all over it..
  
  *Good on the Girls for standing up for themselves and not wanting this walking freakshow in their bathrooms..
  
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  May 14, 2018 4:01pm
Nostradamus

Penny has her day in court:

Ms Bright has asked the High Court in Auckland to halt the court-ordered sale process, while a judicial hearing is carried out.
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Her voice trembled as she spoke of the stress caused by Auckland Council’s decision to recover nearly a decade of unpaid rates and legal costs. Ms Bright has declined council offers to defer rates payments indefinitely until the point at which she might sell her home, whatever the reason.
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She told the court there was a link from the stress, to her diagnosis with incurable ovarian cancer.

The article notes that tenders from prospective buyers have been lodged with the court.
Graham McCready must be wondering when he’ll find out if his $150,000 tender offer will be accepted!
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May 14, 2018 1:38pm
- sooty
  
  But what is the result?
  Still for sale or not?
  
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  May 14, 2018 1:59pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Sooty:
    
    This article provides further information:
    
    Bright returned to court seeking a further interim injunction, and suggesting a charging order be placed over her home to recover the unpaid rates instead.
    
    Auckland Council lawyer Kelly Quinn said that would not be an option as a charging order would allow Bright to apply for a further rates postponement. “With a charging order, Miss Bright’s rates would continue to accumulate, as do the penalties,” she said. Bright would then be facing an additional $12,000 in rates accumulation each year.
    
    That indicates that Auckland Council wants the High Court sale process to proceed.
    
    The judge will give his ruling on Wednesday.
    
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    May 14, 2018 2:11pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Sorry for the broken link – here is the article.
      
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      May 14, 2018 2:15pm
      - stigie
        
        I guess at least what the AC can do is let Penny stay in her house until such time the inevitable happens.
        Fuck me, she’s had 11 years rates free so why not let it go a bit longer..?
        
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        May 14, 2018 2:22pm
      - MT_Tinman
        
        “I work from home,”
        
        At this stage why was it not immediately charged with perjury?
        
        Was it because the bloody judge has no idea what work is either? Is that why the judge needs until Wednesday?
        
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        May 14, 2018 6:09pm
      - sooty
        
        Or the taxman after her. Working from home. Christ, even the ACC could be after her for a range of unconsented uses!
        
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        May 14, 2018 6:42pm
    - alex Masterley
      
      Nostradamus,
      It looks like the council does want to press on but as has happened before the court sometimes comes up with a result that no-one sees coming.
      
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      May 14, 2018 2:22pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      What is the point of a charging order? Rates are already a charge on the property and she can’t sell the property to avoid the debt. I think what she is actually seeking from the the court, in a rather circular way, is an order injuncting the Council from enforcing its rights under the Local Government (Rating) Act. Can’t see that happening, but as Alex Masterley says, stranger things …
      
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      May 14, 2018 3:15pm
      - alex Masterley
        
        RP,
        Thats what actually gives me the shits, the thought that the Court may buy into Ms Brights case and give her another chance simply out of sympathy.
        This when she has had ample opportunity to make an arrangement or settle with Council.
        
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        May 14, 2018 3:34pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Alex:
        
        the thought that the Cour may buy into Ms Brights case and give her another chance simply out of sympathy
        
        Penny has said on Facebook:
        
        I will be arguing that this was a malicious prosecution by Auckland Council CEO Stephen Town who has already tried to destroy my reputation; is trying to destroy my livelihood by forcing me out of my home from where I live and work; is trying to ruin me financially by forcing the rating sale of my only asset, my freehold home valued at $1,040,000 by potentially accepting a tender of $750,000 [it’s a closed tender – how could Penny know this?]; and because of the huge stress that this blatantly unjust municipal bullying and harassment has caused me – is destroying my health.
        
        If the case is decided on legal grounds, then I don’t see how Penny’s health issues can be included as a relevant consideration, even if you stretch the balance of convenience test to its outer limits.
        
        Penny has also said:
        
        I will be also be arguing that all that was required by Auckland Council to secure the Judgment Debt over my disputed rates was to get a Charging Order placed over the title of my freehold property. That was never done.
        
        This amounts to an argument that Auckland Council shouldn’t exercise its statutory right under local government legislation – an express statutory right based on a process specified in that legislation – despite Auckland Council having used that same process against another recalcitrant ratepayer – Charlotte Marsh.
        
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        May 14, 2018 3:43pm
      - alex Masterley
        
        Nostradamus,
        While I do visit facebook, the thought of visiting Ms Brights facebook page is a step too far so I accede to your greater knowledge of her case (as she reports it).
        I quite agree with your proposition that her case is at the very outer limits of the balance of convenience and a court if it dispassionately applies the law will find the Auckland Council is entitled to proceed to sell the property. But we have made such assumptions in the past about this matter and have been proved wrong.
        As an aside I just checked who heard the case. I see it was Justice Downs who, in my humble opinion is still wearing trainer wheels, but is a judge if pointed in the correct direction by counsel should get the right answer. Unlike some of his judicial siblings.
        
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        May 14, 2018 4:40pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  I’m truly sorry to hear that Penny Bright is suffering from incurable ovarian cancer. However if it has been brought on by stress, Penny has to bear some responsibility for that.
  
  Auckland Council has given her abundant opportunities to sort this out, but she has refused to do so. It’s time now to sort the matter out once and for all, settle her debt to the ratepayers of Auckland, and live out whatever time she has left with dignity.
  
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  May 14, 2018 3:21pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    I’ve given up even thinking about Penny’s ongoing fight as it’s nonsensical.
    Penny is one of those who revels in their own created drama. You can’t help such people as they can’t see the wood for the trees. ?
    
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    May 14, 2018 3:36pm
    - GoVege
      
      Just a pity all that energy couldn’t be applied to something a little more useful.
      
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      May 14, 2018 5:11pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    My prediction:
    The court will take pity on her and allow her to live in her dump until she goes to the hospice.
    Then the sale will proceed and her estate will get what’s left.
    
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    May 14, 2018 3:37pm
    - sooty
      
      No. I do not agree with you. If the ACC have done all the correct processes. The court will up hold the sale. She’s an idiot and can’t expect special treatment, just because she’s Penny. Sell it and chuck her out or let everybody off paying rates.
      
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      May 14, 2018 4:01pm
      - sooty
        
        I have to laugh she says that the ACC was trying to ruin her reputation. She has none, she ruined that years ago all by herself!
        
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        May 14, 2018 4:07pm
    - Longknives
      
      My Predictions-
      1)The Court will take pity on her and back down.
      2) With the ‘weight off her shoulders’ Penny will make a ‘miraculous’ recovery and will outlive most of us.
      
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      May 14, 2018 4:08pm
      - Steve (North Shore)
        
        And the Quack that treated her will become famous, with all of the hypochondriacs wanting their share of placebos. Especially out Remers way.
        There comes a new meaning for ‘spray and walk away’ Just one quick spray every morning and you will be cured of whatever I told you your illness was. Pay by credit card and get your second year supply free! But wait, there’s more, order in the next 30 minutes and get a second supply free – two for the price of one.
        Btw, I also have a bridge for sale
        
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        May 14, 2018 6:29pm
      - renderer
        
        I find it hard to have any sympathy for Penny. She has been the master of her own destiny. However given that she is now playing the poor me card, has any proof been furnished proving her health is as bad as she claims. It would be sickening if she got of the hook and then staged a miracle recovery.
        
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        May 14, 2018 7:13pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      I agree Captain that she will be allowed to live there until she has no option to leave due to her bad health. Penny seems determined to stop even the council who are being lenient with her, particularly now she has a possible short life expectancy, but she is caught in her own vortex of false belief and believes everyone is against her. It’s very sad.
      
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      May 14, 2018 4:51pm
Jack5

At last, a report of Myanmar-Burma’s 70-year persecution of the Kachin people, many of whom are Christian.

Meanwhile, 2000 Christian Kachin are trapped in desperate circumstances in the Myanmar jungle.

Only when Myanmar turned on its small Muslim minority did the Western media take any interest, and the Leftist, Islam-biased United Nations begin streaming Myanmar refugees – Muslims – into the West.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/14/slow-genocide-myanmars-invisible-war-on-the-kachin-christian-minority

AND

http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2018/april/2000-kachin-christians-trapped-in-jungles-of-myanmar
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May 14, 2018 3:05pm
- Jack5
  
  How the West betrayed its Kachin allies of the Burma campaign:
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/11954670/Plea-for-the-forgotten-Burmese-war-heroes-who-secured-British-victory.html
  
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  May 14, 2018 3:07pm
rangitoto

Some clickbait from the Horrid. We are working too hard chaps:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12050967&ref=NZH_tw&ref=NZH_Tw
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May 14, 2018 3:07pm
wreck1080

“Cost of living rising fastest for beneficiaries and Māori
Stats NZ consumer prices manager Geraldine Duoba said this was largely a result of annual tobacco tax increases”

This is crazy, cigarettes are not a ‘cost of living’.
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May 14, 2018 4:25pm
- cmm
  
  So people who make shit decisions have shit outcomes.
  
  Wow.
  
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  May 14, 2018 4:31pm
- GoVege
  
  If you’re addicted to ciggies they are.
  More like the cost of dying really.
  
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  May 14, 2018 5:01pm
- GoVege
  
  Don’t forget, the #1 factor influencing whether a person takes up smoking is whether their parents smoke.
  If your own parents didn’t smoke, or at least admitted it was bad for you, that’s got a lot to do with being a non-smoker.
  We need strong incentives to encourage parents especially to quit.
  
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  May 14, 2018 6:32pm
- ex-golfer
  
  C’mon Wreck, you know that ciggies, booze, a full Sky subscription and an annual overseas holiday are all costs of living that the poor and downtrodden need to cope with!
  
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  May 14, 2018 6:33pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Geraldine Duoba? Another trougher that wants free stuff for all.
  Drain the Swamp
  
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  May 14, 2018 6:36pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  More like the “cost of dying”…
  
  Sorry GoVege beat me to it…
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:41pm
GazzaW

Ali Baba, the giant Chinese interline retailer has told Stu Nash to fuck off (politely) with his GST proposals.

Where to now Stu? Ban imports from Ali Baba? That would just buy NZ a big scrap under the FTA. Once word of this intransigence gets out other large Asian interline traders such as wish.com are bound to follow suit.
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May 14, 2018 4:29pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Brilliant. I always thought the Chinese would tell Nash to get stuffed. What we going to do, Nuke China? FFS This Labour of Morons are dumber than I ever thought. We desperately need trade with China. They wouldn’t notice if disappeared off the map. China GDP 11.2 Trillion US vs NZ GDP 185 Billion US, . i.e we have 1.65% of their GDP. But Labour will TELL them…
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:40pm
Nostradamus

And so it begins: PM issues ‘boring’ Budget warning, promises ‘no surprises’

There will be “no surprises” in Thursday’s Budget, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said this morning. “In fact, some might even, unfairly, characterise it as boring,” she told the crowd at the China Business Summit in Auckland.

How wrong she is. Here at Kiwiblog we’ll have lots of fun on budget night, listing all of Labour’s election promises, comparing them against the budget, and giving our report card on the number of broken election promises!
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May 14, 2018 4:44pm
- Piniwi
  
  Well N it seems it will be easier for NZ to support the increased US sanctions on Iran than many other trading nations. The Iranian Ambassador has warned that it could harm NZ trade if they comply with Donald Trumps request for support of sanctions. It has been made possible by the cull expected from M.bovis to reduce dairy production where we can tell Iran “sorry we are short of product”. With only $100 odd million of which most is dairy we will be better to service safer markets.
  
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  May 14, 2018 5:29pm
Manolo

What do you think of this leader of your religion, stephieboy?
http://www.france24.com/en/20180514-al-qaeda-leader-calls-jihad-eve-us-embassy-move-jerusalem

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri on Sunday urged Muslims carry out jihad against the United States.

In a five-minute video entitled “Tel Aviv is Also a Land of Muslims,” the Egyptian doctor who took charge of the global terror group after its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011 referred to the Palestinian Authority as the “sellers of Palestine” while urging followers to take up arms.
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May 14, 2018 4:50pm
noskire

Barry Soper in today’s Herald Biggest growth industry for this Govt is consultancy

And then on the same day we had the Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta announcing a Productivity Commission inquiry into local government funding.

She figures that rates are rising faster than incomes so simply raising them isn’t the answer.

But when Mahuta was the Minister in the Clark Government with the same portfolio she announced a local government inquiry then.

She apparently received 96 recommendations but her opponents say she introduced none of them. Perhaps she should dust off those ideas which would at least save us the expense of another inquiry.
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May 14, 2018 5:24pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Noskire
  
  National was on to this when it issued this 11 January 2018 media release:
  
  The Local Government Minister needs to get on with her job and tell ratepayers what she plans to do about the Government’s promised review into local government spending, National Party Local Government spokesperson Jami-Lee Ross says.
  
  “The Government promised to hold a public inquiry into local government revenue and funding, yet despite this being the flagship policy for her portfolio it appears Nanaia Mahuta has not started any work or made any announcements on it. Ms Mahuta claimed to be seeking advice on establishing her review, however her answers to parliamentary questions paint a more lacklustre picture. In answer to my written questions, the Minister has claimed to have received no briefings, no reports, no memos, no papers and no aide memoir relating to this review. She has also confirmed that she has not had a single meeting about the proposed inquiry.
  
  I wonder if another inquiry (whether Nanaia Mahuta has misled Parliament) is warranted.
  
  The media release continued:
  
  “Unfortunately this is starting to reflect the way Ms Mahuta dealt with the last inquiry into rates that occurred under her watch between 2007 and 2008. Back when she was last Minister, the Government received 96 recommendations from a public inquiry into local government, but Ms Mahuta refused to implement a single one of them in the year and a half after the review.”
  
  Unbelievable.
  
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  May 14, 2018 5:38pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    I doubt she understands her portfolio, any of the recommendations, nor has any interest in finding out. “Unbelieveable”. No, totally believeable! ? ? ?
    
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    May 14, 2018 5:55pm
    - skyblue
      
      I don’t think Mahuta understands anything.
      
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      May 15, 2018 12:20am
  - ex-golfer
    
    She is one of the few Ministers from the previous Labour government, has one of the lightest portfolios, and yet she is one of the most incompetent. Is it any wonder the Maori King advised people to cast their vote to her opposition.
    
    Who in their right mind thinks its a great idea to do another review less than a decade after a previous one, that went no where.
    
    Wasteful spending and zero ability to think. Another clear indication this Government is totally bereft of ideas. 9 years in opposition really did prepare them for Government huh?
    What a disgrace.
    
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    May 14, 2018 6:45pm
    - GazzaW
      
      Mahuta is in Cabinet because of who she knows not what she knows. There’s always a member of the ‘royal’ family in a Labour Cabinet. A token.
      
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      May 14, 2018 8:12pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    This Hansard extract shows how Nanaia Mahuta is out of her depth:
    
    Jami-Lee Ross: How can we have confidence in any of her answers when she has twice stood in this House and said she stands by her written answers and then her office withdraws 67 answers for written question and then, after correction, she still can’t provide accurate answers to this Parliament?
    
    Nanaia Mahuta: We ensured that we were accurate. In terms of the extent of the administrative response to the requests, we have included correspondence that otherwise might have been considered purely administrative so as to improve the answer to the member.
    
    Jami-Lee Ross: How does the Minister stand by her answer that it is purely an administrative error when in her answers to written questions she told me she had received no correspondence from any council for the first month that she was Minister of Local Government? Does she think that was plausible? Was it her error or an administrative error?
    
    Nanaia Mahuta: At the early stages of becoming a Minister, the clarity around emails and the nature of whether they were considered correspondence or not is a matter which—
    
    Jami-Lee Ross: You’ve been a Minister before.
    
    Has Nanaia Mahuta ever had an original thought in her life? Or is she prone to “bureaucratic capture” by her officials?
    
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    May 14, 2018 7:06pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Very Believable. She is waiting for some poor whitey with a guilty conscience to do the work she is incapable of ever doing. Oxygen thief, if there ever was one.
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:24pm
    - Poppa
      
      When the brains were dished out Mahuta was sick that day
      
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      May 15, 2018 2:05pm
Brigitte

NZ MUSIC MONTH

Tonight Sharon O’Neill with Maxine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3L_TSVkl28
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May 14, 2018 5:49pm
Nostradamus

Labour Party media release

New Zealand’s gift to the Royal wedding of His Royal Highness Prince Harry and Ms Meghan Markle will be a donation to Pillars, a New Zealand charity supporting the children of prisoners, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today. … A donation of $5000 will be made to the charity on behalf of the people of New Zealand.

I’m sure, secretly, Harry and Meghan wanted a stuffed Kiwi toy for their future family. It would’ve cost NZ taxpayers a lot less than $5,000 too!
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May 14, 2018 6:17pm
- sooty
  
  What a crap gift! That’s going to get laughed at. Just as well she did not get an invite. Embarrassing. Is what it is.
  Could have it least given the money to the princes charity.
  
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  May 14, 2018 6:33pm
- nasska
  
  They could have got that half-witted woman who wove a mat featuring Andrew doing his Rambo pose to knock something up.
  
  Maybe a tasteful toilet mat featuring Jacinda’s visage to provide extra stimulus when straining doesn’t quite do the trick.
  
  Works for me! 🙂
  
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  May 14, 2018 6:34pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Nasska:
    
    that half-witted woman who wove a mat … extra stimulus when straining doesn’t quite do the trick
    
    This may be counterproductive – the “stimulus” may produce nausea, with by-product from mouth to mat, instead of what was intended!
    
    Works for me!
    
    You do realise you’ve just admitted to having a full=frontal image of Jacinda plastered on to your toilet mat…?
    
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    May 14, 2018 6:40pm
    - nasska
      
      ……”the “stimulus” may produce nausea”….
      
      I feel that it’s worth the risk Nostra. 🙂
      
      …..” you’ve just admitted to having a full=frontal image of Jacinda plastered on to your toilet mat…?”…..
      
      It was that, or laxatives!
      
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      May 14, 2018 6:42pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Sorry to put you in a spot of bother there with my edited comment, Nasska. I see you’ve linked “worth the risk” to the earlier part of my comment (stimulus) and not to the latter part (your mat). Nice recovery!
        
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        May 14, 2018 6:47pm
      - stigie
        
        “Nice recovery”
        
        From the comments over the years and there’s been 21,119 of them Nostra, Nasska has always made a better than nice recovery especially in the years of the keyboard warrior Reddy !~
        
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        May 14, 2018 7:40pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stigie:
        
        Nasska stood his ground in the face of Redbaiter’s adversity when many would’ve given up!
        
        Example:
        
        May well be what you would do Narsey, but being up there in straw chewin weed smokin cousin kissin hound doggin inner tube collectin hillbilly country, what would you know of how civilised people behave?
        
        This was a thread about a “Sunrise over Moeraki Boulders” landscape photo!
        
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        May 14, 2018 7:44pm
sooty

How many days after sweetcheeks releases his budget do you think Commie Chick will be in the house?
Do we have a state holiday when she pops.
I think it’s name will be Helen.
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May 14, 2018 6:23pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Thursday 17 is the day, no Parliament on Friday, so gone by lunchtime Monday 21.
  No? Just remember how quick H1 and Cullen got out when they lost. Cindy is going downhill, knows it and will make it her own Party’s fault. Think of the children.
  Hey! I have been wrong before.
  
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  May 14, 2018 6:44pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Yes you are onto it. TV1 reporting tonight that Winnie is on standby just in case Cindy goes early, and that he believes he is nearly ready to be stand-in PM because he did the job nearly 20 years ago. Cindy says “she will be reachable by phone. That Winston may phone her and she, may on occasion phone Winston.”
    
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    May 14, 2018 7:06pm
    - sooty
      
      You can qaurante that Whinney aint ringing her.
      
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      May 14, 2018 7:21pm
    - Piniwi
      
      But waikatogirl it is all set down in a letter made public to the old drunk to ensure he consults her on “serious” issues. Her insecurity is becoming as public as her limiting his boundaries.
      
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      May 14, 2018 9:19pm
- brett68
  
  Nah it will be some really pretentious Maori name.
  
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  May 14, 2018 7:05pm
nasska

…..”I think it’s name will be Helen”…..

Not inclusive enough & doesn’t embrace Treaty principles. Try “Herene”.

http://www.whakapapaclub.nz/lists/maori-english-name-translations/?name_directory_startswith=H
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May 14, 2018 6:38pm
- waikatogirl
  
  But isn’t Cindy “the daughter of Nuie”. The nations baby will need to have a string of suitable names just like the royals do!
  
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  May 14, 2018 7:09pm
  - sooty
    
    Her ene. Christ talk about an arse.
    
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    May 14, 2018 7:20pm
RW Capitalist

So, on the news tonight, the unions are saying employers are stealing time from employees. Working into lunch, after work etc.
EVERY employer I have ever spoken to, for the past 40 years, calculates that if they are lucky, they can count on about 75% productivity by time.
ie 30 actual hours worked in a 40hr week.
Lets do a time and motion study and see who comes out on top?
In MY experience the unions are talking bull shit…AGAIN.
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May 14, 2018 7:23pm
- Kabull
  
  When I owned a small business many years ago, I put in 60-70 hours every week (as I’m sure most other small business owners do). Trouble was, I could pay my dozen staff all they were entitled to, but couldn’t achieve the cash flow to pay myself. As expected, the business didn’t survive – it was the late 80s when the rural sector had a downturn – and I came out of it with nothing except debt. So I have no sympathy whatsoever for employees who are asked to do that little bit extra – and how can 15 minutes a day penalise anyone??
  
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  May 14, 2018 9:39pm
Hair Removal Specialist

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12051248

How cool is this lady. Bang bang bang. Do not do that (to the robber)!
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May 14, 2018 7:38pm
- nasska
  
  From the link HRS supplied:
  
  ….”Governor França commended Sastre saying she had shown “dexterity, technique and courage”.”…..
  
  If she had reacted thus in a soft cocked society such as NZ she would probably be remanded in custody while her kids were taken into care.
  
  One day the crim cuddling left will realise what they have enabled but by then it will be too late.
  
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  May 14, 2018 7:46pm
  - Hair Removal Specialist
    
    I would not look forward to such a circumstance happening in NZ. They would say that:
    – despite his gun being drawn, threatening the lives of those he was wanting to rob, she could have and should have backed away and let him take the articles of property that he was after;
    – he was a “good boy” and did not deserve being killed for a minor crime such as drawing a gun on someone.
    
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    May 14, 2018 8:37pm
rightoverlabour

God, I’m so glad the Herald warned me I’d might find the video disturbing! Good result, the perp died and the cop got commended. Now if this was New Zealand….
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May 14, 2018 8:19pm
Nostradamus

This is an interesting article: Court document sheds new light on alleged money laundering case involving former South Sudanese military general

Many Australians struggle to save a deposit for a home, let alone pay for a property in full.

So how did then 22-year-old Ngouth Oth Mai manage to buy a $1.5 million property in Melbourne upfront in 2014 when he had only ever earned welfare payments and lived in housing commission?

That is the question he must now answer in the County Court of Victoria, where the AFP launched civil action under the Proceeds of Crime Act (but not criminal charges).

Ngouth Oth Mai is the son of James Hoth Mai, the former chief of staff to Sudan’s People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), who was sacked in 2014.

The article provides some interesting insights into money laundering by so-called “politically exposed people” – including, it seems, from African countries.
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May 14, 2018 8:26pm
rightoverlabour

I replied to one of Nostradamus exposes of the stupid tart. It’s awaiting moderation. Why? I did not suggest assassination, just that she is an oxygen thief. I’ll say nice things about our special people from now on, like umm, well, Ahh Yes they do the Haka really well!
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May 14, 2018 8:28pm
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  Rightoverlabour:
  
  It’s awaiting moderation
  
  This is a known glitch with Kiwiblog that happens randomly. It has nothing to do with any words or phrases that you used. You can do nothing and wait 15 minutes or so (the comment should automatically appear). Or you can copy the comment text, delete your moderated comment, and post the same text in a new comment (your new comment will appear immediately).
  
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  May 14, 2018 8:35pm
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    Your comment has now appeared.
    
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