General Debate 7 September 2018

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Right of way is Way of Right

Will Claire Curran receive the email that sacks her in her official parliamentary account or her gmail account?

Asking for a friend.
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September 7, 2018 8:01am
- Longknives
  
  Dann said on TV this morning that he ‘doubts this will cost Curran her job’….
  Jeesus Wept!
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:03am
  - cmm
    
    I hope Dann and all the lefties double down and if that does not work, then triple down.
    
    The digger they deep the more clearly they will expose themselves for what they are: a corrupt and useless government with a complicit and corrupt MSM.
    
    Getting this all out in the open can only be a good thing long term.
    
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    September 7, 2018 8:19am
    - cmm
      
      “digger they deep”. FFS
      
      I’ll blame the new high speed keyboard that can type faster than my brain.
      
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      September 7, 2018 8:33am
      - sooty
        
        Maybe they should investigate to see if Clare was Simons leaker. Before Labour blame it on her as she goes out the door! That would take the pressure off the leaker and saves the ducks arse.
        
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        September 7, 2018 8:40am
      - Right of way is Way of Right
        
        We’ll just refer to it as a ‘Curran-ism’ and leave it at that.
        
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        September 7, 2018 8:45am
      - Fletch
        
        I can’t type using all my fingers (when I was at high school, only girls took typing), I but I am mourning the loss of my 10-year-old Saitek Eclipse II keyboard. I can’t seem to type quickly (with my 3 finger style) on anything else….
        
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        September 7, 2018 12:29pm
  - Paulus
    
    Curren lived with Cindy so there is no way that she will be “Resigned” as she has too much dirt on Cindy.
    Hope she stays on as she keeps on giving.
    Would be a shame if she left as Labour could not afford a Bye Election.
    We will Remember !
    
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    September 7, 2018 8:21am
  - Chris R
    
    How can she keep her job when she seems to have no idea what her job is? Then again; the same conundrum would apply to Dann!
    
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    September 7, 2018 8:37am
  - LTA1955
    
    This is a sterling example of why MSM is totally compromised by Marxists. This will make any change in 2020 very difficult unless the voting public pushes back against this blight on this nation.
    
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    September 7, 2018 8:55am
  - RF
    
    Agree. Ardern has said Curran has not done anything wrong and when answering the question in the house, was “pausing”.
    
    That’s what we are up against, a PM that tells lies.
    
    What a disgusting POS, she has no shame……
    
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    September 7, 2018 9:19am
    - KevOB
      
      Can the whole COL pause too please.
      
      Curran sounded like she was overwhelmed at least temporarily. She may not be well. Winston has been no better at times.
      Melissa may have effected damage.
      
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      September 7, 2018 11:37am
  - gorse
    
    Dann is not the sharpest tack in the box. Still have a vivid image of the look on his face in New York when it became clear his favorite, Clinton, had lost the Presidential election.
    
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    September 7, 2018 3:18pm
- cmm
  
  To answer your question:
  
  I um er am sure that um er you know what I mean?
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:03am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Can I have that in writing from your unofficial e-mail account (no open and most transparent government here then).
    
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    September 7, 2018 8:23am
    - cmm
      
      No, but I’ll hand over to my ex-boyfriend to clarify:
      
      “um, er, and and she um er answered um to er to the um satisfaction of the er house”.
      
      You’d hope the ability to string together a basic sentence would be a requirement for an MP!
      
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      September 7, 2018 8:30am
      - namron
        
        Here are the lyrics for Claire Curran’s theme song – [ sung daily by her at Question Time]
        “Um er um er um er um er ah!
        Um er um er um er ah!
        Um er um er um er um,
        Er ah um er ah!”
        Choose your own tune.
        I think I heard she’s considering recording it.
        Should sell well!!!
        
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        September 7, 2018 8:49am
      - hullkiwi
        
        I was reading the Standard for a laugh. In fairness to some on that site, they do mention Curran as a weak link and needs to go.
        
        Some even admit that some of the cabinet are weak and poor performers and some give an honourable mention to Kelvin. They feel Kelvin needs help with his presentation skills.
        
        However, the funniest I’ve heard is Mike William’s in his interview session on RNZ with Matthew Hooton justifying both Kelvin and Curran.
        
        I’ve heard William’s on at least two occasions telling listeners what a great teacher Kelvin was up north when he invited him to be a candidate. In the case of Curran, William’s told listeners that he chaired the selection panel when Curran defeated Benson-Pope who was the incumbant MP. Given Hooton then replied that her tenure in parliament to date has not been stellar, and judging by her performance this year, leaves you reflecting more and more about the Peter Principle.
        
        In the case of Curran and SLG manure has certainly risen beyond its capacity to deliver.
        
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        September 7, 2018 9:02am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Even the Peter Principle and the theory it espouses would be embarrassed by curran.tard
        
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        September 7, 2018 9:17am
      - hullkiwi
        
        I have thought about my last post too. I think Curran is proving there is a couple of flaws in the Peter Principle.
        
        The principle in general is an incompetent person will rise to the level of there incompetence.
        
        However, as I see it we have witnessed an extension of the Peter Principle on 2 levels. As I see things:
        
        1. Cindy is incompetent and does not know, and with nothing to stop her she has in turn appointed other incompotent people to be ministers; and
        
        2. Some of these she has appointed have been incompotent to an extreme level aka Clare Curran.
        
        Therefore, we have a paradox of the incompotent PM who having appointed the extremely incompotent Clare Curran, is then seen to be so incompotent that she can’t sack the incompotent Clare Curran.
        
        Therefore, I feel I’ve insulted manure, because manure at least has a purpose which is more than can be said for the SLG and Curran.
        
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        September 7, 2018 11:03am
    - MrLovebucket
      
      Sure, but can we meet in a dark alley so I don’t have to worry about all these troublesome OIA issues?
      
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      September 7, 2018 8:37am
      - hullkiwi
        
        …and there must be no minutes of the meeting.
        
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        September 7, 2018 9:29am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Maybe a call from a burner phone?
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:42am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
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    September 7, 2018 8:48am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Perhaps THE burner phone!
    
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    September 7, 2018 9:17am
- oldpark
  
  Back to the future on Clair Curran. Check out the vicious attack on a whistle blower known as Erin Leigh by Curran and her political masters. Find out how and why she is now a Lie-bour MP.
  Check out “The Curran Scandal ” a headline in Kiwiblog November 21 2007. It is starting to look after such a bad vicious attack on Erin Leigh Karma has caught up with the out of control and out of here Curran.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:45am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  HOWZAT, Curran, out for a Duck (Mallard), played on, Bowled Lee. Didn’t wait for the finger, walked, third umpire not required.
  
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  September 7, 2018 1:06pm
Longknives

What exactly do you have to do to get sacked by this Labour Government?
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September 7, 2018 8:02am
- cmm
  
  Not sleep with them?
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:04am
- Yvette
  
  Here’s roughly what is likely to have happened …
  Ardern: Well, Clare, you can be Minister of Broadcasting.
  Implementing RNZ+ as our new television channel should be fun.
  
  Curran: But that Dick Griffin and his mates don’t want a bar of it. What should I do about that?
  
  Ardern: Get hold of Carol Hirchsfeld, she’ll have some ideas.
  Keep it among the sisters. Let’s do this.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:22am
- Rich Prick
  
  I’m pretty sure that with this lot you could be caught hanging out of a goat and the worst that would come if it would be a Cindy selfie.
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:20am
Thought Criminal

A woman is sat at her husband’s funeral when a man leans in and says “Do you mind if I say a word?”
“Go right ahead,” she replies.
“Plethora,” he says.
“Thanks,” the woman smiles. “It means a lot.”
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September 7, 2018 8:03am
- Fletch
  
  Would you say a ‘plethora of pinatas’ ?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ROhP_3-Qk
  
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  September 7, 2018 12:34pm
Sofia

“Here we are in the 21st century and we have a trailblazing young female Prime Minister who’s saying, ‘Well, I can do this, I can be PM, I can be a mum, I’ve got a partner who’s showing through his actions he’s committed to gender equality, he’s going to do his bit looking after the child” – Helen Clark
There’s none so blind as those who will not see

“Draw your own conclusions, go back to how I dealt with things like this, people wouldn’t have kept their jobs” – Helen Clark, on summer camping
We see the world not as it is, but as we are

Why do we suddenly see so much of Helen Clark.
She was a little like Burt Reynolds … no, wait a minute : in that people didn’t realise he was still around until, nec minute, he isn’t.
Has Helen suddenly become utterly bored, or is she angling for something?
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September 7, 2018 8:04am
- cmm
  
  We were sold a “she can do this” PM who would be a fantastic mum without compromising her ability to do her job as PM. In fact, it would enhance her ability since it would give her an affinity with the other family people out there.
  
  In one week we’ve seen:
  * Can’t show up for the flight to Nauru because she can’t be away from baby for over 36 hours.
  * Approx $300k of extra travel costs (and over 100 tonnes of extra CO2 emissions) to allow her to change her schedule around the baby.
  * No show at parliament because she felt like working from home to be with baby. I’m not sure how you can work from home on a debating day…
  
  Cindy, you cannot do it all without compromise. You really do have to make a choice.
  
  Trust me, your leadership skills are not more valuable than your parenting skills.
  
  Go home, be a mum, and come back to politics in a decade or so. You’re young and have plenty of time to make a career.
  
  I hope you choose wisely. Your child is more important than the temporary rush you get from power.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:17am
  - alex Masterley
    
    somehow she also found the tiume to duck around to a local intermediate for a soft sell appearance in front of the kids.
    
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    September 7, 2018 8:24am
    - cmm
      
      Well maybe I’m onto something then.
      
      IMHO she should be bailing out of politics until the kids she’s grooming can vote.
      
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      September 7, 2018 8:31am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Minister for School Visits: Ardern
      
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      September 7, 2018 10:14am
- Scott
  
  Totally agree with your comments. As I said on another post yesterday baby brain is a real thing. Often a new mother will spend lots of time at home caring for her child in those first critical months of life. That bond between the child and the mother are absolutely essential to the child’s sense of well-being and love that he or she has through life.
  
  I am not trying to be mean to the Prime Minister but I really do believe that she would be better served by looking after her child and leaving the running of the country to someone else right now.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:24am
  - calendar girl
    
    Ardern feels that she can’t afford to leave the job on a temporary basis to her deputy, Winston Peters. Why not? It’s not as though she can do much without his personal approval; e.g.
    – repeal the ‘three-strikes’ legislation;
    – lift NZ’s refugee intake to 1,500.
    
    For all his idiosyncrasies, Peters has a much better grasp than Ardern of what New Zealand’s voters expect. He stands in stark contrast to this immature woman and her ‘look at me’ leadership style.
    
    As a result, Ardern’s days as a credible Prime Minister are already well behind her, regardless of how long her woeful coalition clings to its Parliamentary majority.
    
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    September 7, 2018 9:08am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Ardern was never a credible Prime Minister.
      
      She was the promise of utopia with the fairy dust and now it plain to see, what may of us knew, it was socialism (‘we can make it work this time’) with asbestos dust.
      
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      September 7, 2018 9:23am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    My bad.
    For a moment I thought you wrote “…and leaving the ruining of the country to someone else right now.”
    
    My apologies.
    
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    September 7, 2018 10:01am
- Fletch
  
  Helen even looks a bit like Burt Reynolds toward the end of his life…
  
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  September 7, 2018 12:40pm
kowtow

‘Cat-calling and wolf-whistling could soon become a hate crime in Britain after the Law Commission announced it will review acts of misogyny.’

WTF?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6135997/Misogyny-step-closer-hate-crime-ministers-announce-Law-Commission-review.html#comments
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September 7, 2018 8:05am
- cmm
  
  but to balance that, grooming and raping underage girls will likely be added to the school curriculum as part of “diversity studies”.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:22am
- Komata
  
  Kowtow
  
  ‘Won’t stop lads in Barnsley (or woorever) from whistlin a’ pretty grls – an ‘t pretty girls liken it.
  
  It’s oogly ones oo ‘ate it; jealousy en all.,.
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:39am
  - freethinker
    
    No wolf whistles for Female Labour MP’s & Ministers then, more like a bilious feeling from even a quick look.
    
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    September 7, 2018 1:32pm
waikatogirl

Burt Reynolds, 82, charming, handsome, and easy-going, lead actor and megastar Burt Reynolds has died of a heart attack in Florida this morning.
Thanks for the fun movies and memories.
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September 7, 2018 8:05am
- slightlyrighty
  
  He was an embodiment of the sort of masculinity many SJWs now rail against.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:17am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Iagree sr. A different generation when men were allowed to be themselves. Ask Clint Eastwood what he thinks about SJW’s.
    
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    September 7, 2018 8:29am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  I thought Deliverance was his greatest movie.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:38am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    “Squeal like a pig”
    
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    September 7, 2018 8:48am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Preferred ‘Stroker Ace’ – playing his mischievous self.
    
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    September 7, 2018 8:58am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Reynolds was offered the role of Han Solo before Harrison Ford. Can you imagine? He said he wasn’t interest in that sort of role. He later said he regretted that decision!
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:48am
  - Harkman
    
    Those Canonball run movies, just hilarious, Boogie Nights, just classic.
    
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    September 7, 2018 9:03am
    - Longknives
      
      “Aim it at her tits Eddie..”
      
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      September 7, 2018 9:19am
Huevon

So I’ve finally switched to Newstalk ZB rather than Morning Report. I never liked ZB because there are so many ads. But the leftist bias on RNZ has spiralled out of control. It’s got to the point where actually I prefer hearing about the product that will revolutionise cleaning my bathroom, with occasional jabs in between at our clown government. Tough times.
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September 7, 2018 8:06am
- Woz
  
  I may end up following you.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:11am
- slightlyrighty
  
  Both are full of shit, but at least Newstalk will give you some advice on how to deal with it…..
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:15am
- cmm
  
  Morning Report is also full of ads these days: for Labour and Greens.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:23am
- srylands
  
  Yes me too. And I hate the ads. I only really listen to radio in the car.
  
  RNZ has become insufferable. It can’t be fixed.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:28am
  - GazzaW
    
    It’s either ZB’s ads or Espiner’s interminable ramblings in te reo. Take your pick.
    
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    September 7, 2018 8:31am
    - RalphT
      
      Easy decision; ZB any day
      
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      September 7, 2018 8:51am
    - jcuk
      
      Apparently it will get worse next week which is Maori Language Week … GHU
      
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      September 7, 2018 9:05am
      - RalphT
        
        Ah excellent! I look forward to each KB contributor starting their comment with a brief mihi…
        
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        September 7, 2018 9:17am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        I suspect you will be disappointed if you are here . . . .
        
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        September 7, 2018 9:26am
- kowtow
  
  Rnz types seem to be trying to outdo each other with Maori greetings . If they weren’t so earnestly lefty I’d have said they were taking the piss , but of course they’re not , they’re like reformed whores . There’s none so pure.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:35am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    RNZ ought to lead in with greetings in Mandarin or Hindi.
    These living languages are far, far more widely used in New Zealand than is the artificially sustained cyborg that is Te Reo.
    
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    September 7, 2018 9:06am
  - Manolo
    
    I look forward to hearing some Italian greetings on RNZ. Hell will freeze over first. 🙂
    
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    September 7, 2018 9:48am
  - KevOB
    
    This is Tongan language week. It sounds very strange being used throughout the House proceedings by the COL.
    
    How is Tongan permissible in the House business when it is not an official language of NZ?
    
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    September 7, 2018 11:44am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Virtue signaling?
      
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      September 7, 2018 12:52pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Ah ha! I wondered why the Labour members of the house were adorned like Christmas fairies in the house this week.
      Others had commented on this as well, but no explanation.
      
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      September 7, 2018 6:36pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Had to turn RNZ off this morning. Some bloke wants mispronouncing Maori to be a broadcasting standards crime. Fine, let’s add lazy bro-spreak to the list.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:54am
  - Evadne
    
    It’s precisely this attitude which will kill the Maori language. Why would you even attempt speaking it a little if all you get for your efforts is ridicule and embarrassment?
    
    If they are serious about encouraging people to learn or speak Maori, then they just need to get people speaking and using it however basic or ill- formed their grasp is, however many mistakes they make. That’s how we learn any skill, but especially languages.
    
    If we have to have perfect accent and grammar before we open our mouths, we’ll never open them.
    
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    September 7, 2018 9:36am
    - KevOB
      
      Sadly there is are so few root words to learn. The grammar would be confusing particularly with all the social-relations pronouns . Polynesia is also moving to English grammar forms. TVNZ frequently used them. Seven tribes means seven dialects.
      A lot of work for little gain.
      
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      September 7, 2018 2:54pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Evadne,
      No living language is spoken in the same accent and pronunciation uniformly.
      Think of the many UK accents. Imagine the difference between the Japanese Kanto-ben accent (imagine plumby 1970s BBC English) and Kansai-ben of Osaka (think Yorkshire English). What about English in the US of A?
      
      Maori is no different. To have the Te Reo police come down hard on those non-Maori who dare insult the Language of the Tangata-whenua will kill the native language like a bullet between the tonsils.
      
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      September 7, 2018 5:37pm
  - greybeard
    
    According to the Wgtn traffic reporter Ivanka Zonich there is a suburb somewhere in the Hutt Valley called “Totterer Park”.
    And Katrina Bennett has found some new places in NZ as well: Arimutaka, Arotorua, Aruahine, Arangatikei etc.
    
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    September 7, 2018 10:44am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Ivanka Zonich is a nightmare. she can’t string three words together without pausing to figure out how to mispronounce them.
      I assume she’s related to someone influential because there is no other reason to hire someone who speaks so badly for a gig on radio.
      
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      September 7, 2018 12:01pm
  - KevOB
    
    Te Reo, the voice, is very poorly developed compared to Samoan or Tongan.
    
    It will be gone within 20 years. It’s inadequate for present use and the elders have rejected it. That only leaves treaty-wannabes as potential nominal users with insufficient teachers. As those teachers age too without support from the dead or dying generation their enthusiasm will wane too.
    
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    September 7, 2018 11:51am
oldpark

Then there is the “Property” management company who mostly specialisies in Commercial and Residential Real Estate in Greater Wellington who are said to be in financial trouble. Many of their contractors have not been paid in months. What is going on. Soon there will be a move to wind them up for not paying their contractors wages. Watch this space.
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September 7, 2018 8:06am
- sooty
  
  Here’s an opening for you Phil, you had better jump in quick.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:53am
holysheet

Donald Trump is walking out of the White House and heading toward his limo, when a possible assassin steps forward and aims a gun.
A secret service agent, new on the job, shouts “Mickey Mouse!” This startles the would-be assassin and he is captured.
Later, the secret service agent’s supervisor takes him aside and asks, “What in the hell made you shout Mickey Mouse?” Blushing, the agent replies, “I got nervous. I meant to shout Donald, duck!”
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September 7, 2018 8:11am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  OK, you win the Internet today
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:01am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    holysheet wins my nomination for the Friday Chocolate Fish award.
    
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    September 7, 2018 9:07am
    - holysheet
      
      OD you tight prick. That’s worth a whole box of chocky fish.
      
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      September 7, 2018 10:25am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Flattery will get you everywhere.
        
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        September 7, 2018 5:44pm
Humble Capitalist

I had a late night at the office last night. My wife asked me where on earth I’d been to get home so late. My answer to clear things up was ‘I um er er ahh I……um I’ve been um er er to the best of my ahhh recollection I’ve um er I’ve er um ummm I’ve been ahh working in the um the errrr the office.’
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September 7, 2018 8:16am
- Komata
  
  HK
  
  Nice to know that you have a grasp of the English language in it’s curren form…
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:44am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    If in doubt about how I might come across I just start quacking wildly
    
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    September 7, 2018 12:06pm
secondcumming

So, I’m sitting in the mancave last night, glass of wine, telly on 1ewes, admiring my latest aquisition…..a cased pair of dueling pistols by H.Nock. Just bought them from a collector in Dunners.

There’s a tap on the door, and in walks the missus. Scrambling to hide the purchase receipt, I ask “Is dinner ready?”

She says, “Not yet. Actually, I was just thinking I really feel sorry for that Clare Curran now…..all those embarrasing questions about her GSpot”

I say, “GMail”

The missus says, “Wotever. I’ll call you once I start dishing up”

I mutter under my breath, “FFS. WIMMIN!!”

She calls back, “What’s that hun!?”

“Nothing dear!”
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September 7, 2018 8:20am
- MCos
  
  Sounds like your wife is probably a lot more fun than you are.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:28am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  I had never ever seen that label before. When Channel One at 6 pm. have a programme that treats the viewers like sheep they call it 1 ewes. It is a pity that channels one and two could not switch around, as 1 ewes is grammatically incorrect.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:47am
- RW Capitalist
  
  After 34 years of marriage I have concluded
  That in 98% of circumstances, involving my wife.
  The only 2 words required are:
  YES DEAR
  
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  September 7, 2018 10:22am
Left Right and Centre

Those lovely Tribal Huk gangsters . . .
Handing out sandwiches

Handing out a cowardly beating
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September 7, 2018 8:26am
- Longknives
  
  Just another form of Whanau…
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:20am
Igotta Numbum

How much is a chaffeured limo drive from Wellington to Dunedin?

Asking for a friend… via GMail.
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September 7, 2018 8:32am
- cmm
  
  Trick question.
  
  Answer: Who cares, it’s other people’s money!
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:36am
- BassilFawlty
  
  Answer: if it is for a Labour mp, it’s already budgeted for. If it’s a National mp, tens of thousands of dollars.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:59am
minus

The Speaker has tabled a report which proposes a massive ($13 million) increase in funding for MPs, almost all of it to benefit Government MPs, [with] an automatic 3.3% to 3.7% increase every year.

So how is this increase justified when this Government is outsourcing so much policy innovation to committees and working groups (over 125 of them) to do the work that Labour, in particular, didn’t do in nine years of Opposition?

So this current misuse of taxpayer funding is to have a further level of taxpayer funding added to it without any real explanation what it is for.
And is it a little weird following so close on an Ardern captain’s call to freeze politicians pay?

One concession that could be granted is, that having set up all their committees, they do admittedly all have to soon start reporting back, but that excuse is a little lame when a lot of them will be returning decisions Government has already decided, so not such a big deal as it may seem.

Meanwhile
Young Auckland cops are eating 89 cent tins of baked beans for dinner at work, or being supplied food by their senior colleagues because they simply cannot afford life in the city on their current wages.

$13 million would buy a shitload (about 14.6 million cans) of baked beans for cops to go on.
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September 7, 2018 8:36am
- Harkman
  
  F’ing corruption of the grandest order. “Oh no pay rises for us” was a complete joke. Campaign funding by the taxpayer is the other scam, protect existing political parties. They have no right to exist. Drain the swamp.
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:09am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  The greatest crime deterrent of all time!
  
  After 14.6 million cans of cheap baked beans, you sure as shit would not want to be arrested and be in the back of the car with a couple of them, imagine the charge room!
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:32am
Tarquin North

The Herald had an article trumpeting increased sales and how rosy it’s future looks. Everyone else round here seems to think the opposite. Probably just another totally inaccurate click bait article written by a has been or school kid as per normal.
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September 7, 2018 8:40am
- alex Masterley
  
  I monitor out of curiosity local turnover in central auckland. There is a seasonal increase in sales but nothing to write home about in a flat market.
  They are simply trying to talk up a flat lining market.
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:09am
- rockape
  
  My local garage has had a 20% increase in sales without selling one more litre!
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:18am
cmm

What’s this new bullshit in hospitals?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12119760

Camera vests to be issued to staff after staff assaults and a nurse strangled.

Ok, I have absolutely nothing against protecting medical staff – I am all for it.

What I see a problem with is constant video surveillance of patients in hospitals.

I do not really believe this is done to protect staff.
If there was real interest in protecting staff, then HIV/Hepatitis status of would be be made available to staff to allow them to take more precaution around high risk patients. Nope, that info is not provided to protect patient confidentiality.

It also seems strange to me that such a controversial subject is being raised right now. Squirrel bomb maybe?
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September 7, 2018 8:45am
- waikatogirl
  
  “Camera vests to be issued to staff after staff assaults and a nurse strangled.”
  
  It says Camera vests to be issued to SECURITY staff cmm. ?
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:52am
  - sooty
    
    How about giving security a tazer with an extra large battery!
    
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    September 7, 2018 8:57am
  - cmm
    
    Ah, thanks for the clarification.
    
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    September 7, 2018 9:53am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  How about some analysis and focus on the population segments that are the most frequently the causes of these attacks on nurses and other hospital staff?
  The results should be widely publicized in the media to “shame” the perpetrators of these cowardly and deranged attacks.
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:01am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Great idea although he low life you are referring to, and their whanau, have no shame
    
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    September 7, 2018 9:34am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      The social mechanism that has excused the “low life and their whanu” of shame has also robbed them of any mana.
      
      Like the Western concepts of “freedom” be counterbalanced by “responsibility,” in Japan, the notion of “mana” (“face” if you will) is counterbalanced by the concept of “haji” (loss of “face”).
      
      I suspect the Maori system would share commonalities with aspects of East Asian culture. If a man has no mana then he has no shame.
      
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      September 7, 2018 9:44am
Paulus Gnome

A WO video about why socialism does not work.

1.46 but the trick is to see how many words one can recognise that the current shambles are using and how it worked out for Brazil

https://youtu.be/bKhR9i5CGkA

Happy Friday team!
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September 7, 2018 8:49am
Maggy Wassilieff

I don’t often read Matthew Hooton’s columns..
but Today’s has some history that is of interest..

In 2006, a little-known Labour activist called Clare Curran wrote a paper called “Language Matters”, proposing the National Party be publicly positioned as “enemies of the people”.

The Beehive then helicoptered her into the Environment Ministry to run climate-change PR. In the ensuing scandal, the Ministry’s chief executive resigned.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12120467
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September 7, 2018 8:52am
- waikatogirl
  
  Interesting article Maggy,
  
  Labour are the equivalent of Nigerian scam artists! They have ongoing concerted and coordinated campaign to raid the taxpayer for their own troughing benefits. Thieving bastards!!
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:11am
  - Longknives
    
    “Labour are the equivalent of Nigerian scam artists!”
    
    Well said! Jacinda is definitely the Political equivalent of the Nigerian Prince who takes all your money then gives you nothing in return…
    She is also extremely hard to locate when the shit his the fan!
    ‘Working from Home..’
    
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    September 7, 2018 9:23am
    - Tarquin North
      
      Don’t you knock my long lost Nigerian uncle. He is currently organising a large inheritance for me. The few thousand I sent him to speed things along is nothing compared to whats coming!
      
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      September 7, 2018 9:42am
  - Gravelroad
    
    And with Golly G close by to defend them in the unlikely event that they get found out………
    
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    September 7, 2018 10:33am
- Keeping Stock
  
  That was the infamous paper where she talked about how important it was that Labour “captured the language”. On the basis of her now equally infamous answer to Melissa Lee on Wednesday, it’s pretty clear that the language has escaped 😀
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:45am
  - Komata
    
    KS
    
    Tardish ‘Oi’!! (Specifically the last eight words…)
    
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    September 7, 2018 9:52am
Manolo

Twitter has done it:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/twitter-permanently-bans-alex-jones-and-infowars-accounts.html

Twitter has permanently banned accounts for conservative radio host Alex Jones and InfoWars from the platform, the company said Thursday.
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September 7, 2018 8:52am
- Inandout
  
  If Trump didn’t use Twitter it may just quietly die.
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:06am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    He needs it. Gets the message to his audience before the fake news morons can fuck with it.
    eg, NYT
    
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    September 7, 2018 9:11am
- Fletch
  
  That’s bad. I think Jones is a bit of a kook, but you can’t just go around banning people you disagree with…
  
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  September 7, 2018 12:44pm
Maggy Wassilieff

“She was one of the first to prove that you could be a wife and a mother and have a career.”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-06/wheels-in-motion-on-biopic-of-australia-first-female-truckie/10204564
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September 7, 2018 8:58am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  “She was one of the first to prove that you could drive a truck using only your feet, but who in their right mind would want to?”
  
  There. Fixed it.
  
  Just because something can be done doesn’t mean that it is a good thing to do.
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:03am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Aw sorry about that SLG – the trail has already been blazed.
  (by more women than you’ll ever meet)
  
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  September 7, 2018 12:47pm
lastmanstanding

To all those self loathing Lefties.

Im White
Im Male
Im a conservative

And Im proud to be so.

So stick that where the sun dont shine Losers.
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September 7, 2018 9:00am
- RalphT
  
  And an extra helping of loathing if you can add that you are old
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:35am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Can you elude to your age in that description please.
  
  I feel you may have described me and I need to be sure.
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:36am
secondcumming

People who can fuck-off today……

Jack Tame
Lycra-clad Cyclists (wankers)
Paul Hollywood
Uber drivers
Old age pensioners with walking stiks in supermarkets.

More as it happens….
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September 7, 2018 9:12am
- Harkman
  
  Jack Tame ✔
  Lycra-clad Cyclists (wankers)✔
  Paul Hollywood✔
  Uber drivers✔
  Old age pensioners with walking stiks in supermarkets.?
  
  People driving in Holdens
  The Metservice
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:16am
  - Flash
    
    Oi! My Holden is as old as me, automobility speaking and I don’t use a walking stick!
    But we both dislike lycra-clad cyclists!
    
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    September 7, 2018 10:19am
  - DigNap15
    
    Jack Tame and any other sickly white liberal apologists!
    
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    September 7, 2018 1:11pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  What have you got against Uber drivers? My brother, bored with retirement, bought a car last year and joined Uber. He absolutely loves it. He works the hours he chooses, gets to chat with some interesting people, and he and his wife have just headed overseas on holiday.
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:48am
  - MCos
    
    I think it’s called mob mentality
    
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    September 7, 2018 10:07am
- krazykiwi
  
  Alas Smith and Jones : Scum Killer III. Based (loosely) on Charles Bronson’s Death Wish movies.
  
  BTW, I was once a MAMIL, but have been informed I’m now A VOMIT – a Very Old Man in Tights 🙂
  
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  September 7, 2018 11:16am
Harkman

Brought to you by the same people who give us climate change and global warming comes the horrendous forecast of a 2°c overnight low in Chch that was bloody -3°c. I’m angry this morning. 5°c out.
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September 7, 2018 9:13am
Monique Watson

I just had a vivitrol shot in my arse to control my relapsed drinking.
Works well, Just sayin’
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September 7, 2018 9:13am
- Inandout
  
  MW, going Muslim will cure your habit overnight. Your brain may cease to exist, but at least you won’t drink; on second thoughts just get the shots.
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:19am
- Longknives
  
  You should join Young Labour Monique- You get free drinks AND the shot in the arse….
  
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  September 7, 2018 9:25am
  - Monique Watson
    
    Hahahaha 🙂 But I might not get Librium and Ativan for my troubles.
    
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    September 7, 2018 9:36am
  - skyblue
    
    Keep it under wraps, do it in the woods.
    
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    September 7, 2018 10:52am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Good for you, from what I’ve read drugs do help rebalance your metabolism so don’t need alcohol to feel normal – can otherwise be a long process.
  
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  September 7, 2018 10:28am
Odakyu-sen

First Typhoon No. 21, and then yesterday’s 6.7 magnitude earthquake in Hokkaido.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw2o7aN5dwM

In the 2-km-long landslide later in the clip, 30 people are unaccounted for in the rural town of Atsuma-cho. I didn’t realize how unstable those low hillsides are.
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September 7, 2018 9:20am
RF

Obviously little squirrel is ok to travel first class to New York along with her entourage so why not to Nauru.

Anyhow it appears that Arderns arrival will be the second coming so truck loads of rose petals are being brought in to cover the street where her dainty tootsies will tread … in her manky boots.

There is an old Maori saying… a Kaka abroad and a weka at home.
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September 7, 2018 9:43am
- Flash
  
  We used to hear awful stories about American celebrities who exploited their children to advance their own careers. I can’t help feeling that this poor child is going to have a hideous time growing up as it realises how little privacy its mother has allowed it.
  Incidently, what will be the extra cost of taking the child to New York, the Prime Minsterial plane, the extra accommodation and so on?
  
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  September 7, 2018 10:29am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Flash – you are assuming that the child’s mother will still be an international media celebrity/ feminist icon/inspirational role model in the medium to long term future.
    Not so sure about that.
    Ms Ardern will have done her dash by the time the baybee is three years old and then will be just another ex/MP’s child like all the rest.
    
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    September 7, 2018 11:03am
    - Longknives
      
      I dunno Gravelroad- Regardless of how long Ardern lasts this kid is going to grow up in a fucking weird space.
      Right from the word go this child has been nothing but a Political Tool used by the Labour Party for Propaganda.
      This kid has had songs written about it, a children’s book written about it, Kids were ordered to sing as it arrived at the Airport (Creepy Goebbels stuff there Labour!), and there are endless Media reports about ‘The Nation’s Baby’ etc etc
      *Oh and I forgot- According to Stuff a whale arrived to celebrate her birth as well!
      
      There is no way this kid is going to grow up ‘Normal’…She has a had a bizarre start to life!
      *And Jacinda chose it to be this way..
      
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      September 7, 2018 11:11am
      - Gravelroad
        
        Yes Longknives, but the baybee doesn’t know any of this yet, and doesn’t care.
        All this baybee fame is a beat-up by the msm and the women’s magazines
        Once the mother is no longer famous – game over for the media and the baby can live a quiet life without being dragged around the world to pointless meetings and photo ops.
        
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        September 7, 2018 12:08pm
    - rockape
      
      Jacinda will be another of those troughers who will end up as a minister then a back bencher then probably a Mayor somewhere. The trough is always there for the left to use.
      
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      September 7, 2018 11:21am
  - RF
    
    Flash..
    
    Suggest you lookup an old film of the Beverly Hillbillies and the intro will show you how the Arderns will arrive in New York.
    
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    September 7, 2018 3:06pm
- Inandout
  
  The baby minder is clear of all drug related rumours, I mean the Police have cleared him, so he can enter the US.
  
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  September 7, 2018 10:39am
MCos

Merkel has her finger on the pulse
https://twitter.com/davemacladd/status/1037443607375081472?s=21
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September 7, 2018 9:46am
- stephieboy
  
  MCos, thanks for that.
  
  MERKEL on Brexit: “We must assume Britain will become a third world country”
  
  Very true.
  
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  September 7, 2018 10:17am
  - Ross12
    
    I bet you cannot explain to us how that is likely to happen, sb.
    
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    September 7, 2018 10:32am
    - RalphT
      
      I can, Ross12; by letting in more of the dross from third world shitholes. A few more decades of that and the Britain of 30-40 years ago will be just a memory. Mind you I hate to think what Germany will be like if Mama Merkel keeps on letting in the mobs from the East and Africa.
      
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      September 7, 2018 10:38am
  - Inandout
    
    Go to London stephie and you will see Third World, but nothing to do with Brexit.
    
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    September 7, 2018 10:36am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Really???
    Brexit will mean:
    No more multi billion pound support payments to Brussels.
    No more 80 billion pound trade deficit to the EU.
    No more eastern Europeans going on the Dole of into low value jobs and send their money back “home”, while the Brain drain into EU from the UK.
    
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    September 7, 2018 10:47am
  - rangitoto
    
    Just like NZ and Australia are third world countries because we aren’t in the EU? What a dufus. Mind you Taxinda is doing her best to turn us into a third world hell hole.
    
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    September 7, 2018 11:04am
  - pentwig
    
    stupidthing
    explain how that will happen
    
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    September 7, 2018 11:56am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Really???? maybe Ms Merkel and you need to read the actual state of each economy.
    UK
    GDP last quarter
    0.4%…previous quarter 0.2%
    Unemployment
    4%….previous month 4.2%annualized
    Inflation
    2.5%…previous month 2.4% annualized
    EU
    GDP
    1.6% PA
    Unemployment
    8.4%
    Inflation
    8%
    
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    September 7, 2018 12:13pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  So Merkel is determined to ‘help Britain reverse this (Brexit) madness”
  Oh really?
  British people voted in favour of Brexit.
  How will Merkel assist the British government to thumb their noses at the wishes of British voters?
  Better for Merkel to sort out her problems at home.
  Her open door immigration is ruining all of Europe.
  
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  September 7, 2018 12:15pm
RW Capitalist

Recognize our govt. in any of these quotes from history?
Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good… the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth

The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

The first 3 are from Goebbels and the last 2 are from Stalin
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September 7, 2018 9:47am
- stephieboy
  
  RW Capitalist, two dictators who did not allow any challenges to their propaganda ministries on pain of death or sent to the gulag/ or concentration camp.
  
  Your point?
  
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  September 7, 2018 10:14am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Exactly my point..recognise it???
    Helen Clark wanted a guy done for sedition, for vandalizing her electorate office.
    It all starts with the justification of bad/terrible behaviour.
    Such as. has always been the way of ALL Labour party govt. in my life time ie from c1960
    
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    September 7, 2018 10:28am
    - stephieboy
      
      RW Capitalist, go and pay a long overdue visit to a shrink.
      
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      September 7, 2018 11:43am
Jack5

Yesterday, Hong Kong needed ya, Dame Devoid. Today, it’s Kenya.

Kenya has arrested a Chinese businessman and will deport him for a post he made in a video shared on Twitter. It included this:

“Every one, every Kenyan … like a monkey, even [Kenyan President] Uhuru Kenyatta. All of them.”

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/2163086/chinese-man-arrested-racist-monkey-slurs-involving-kenyan
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September 7, 2018 11:04am
- Jack5
  
  Sounds like Australia needs ya, too, Dame Devoid.
  
  Meanwhile, in far off Melbourne, gangs from Kenya’s neighbour, Sudan, are adding to stress on Victoria’s police.
  
  Here’s an anonymous policeman writing in The Age:
  
  “One side says there is a massive issue at hand, and that our community is in dire risk of moral and ethical destruction. The other side says there is no problem, and anyone who says otherwise is racist. And then there’s us, the police, trying to approach the problem in a fair and balanced way …”
  
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  September 7, 2018 11:14am
- stephieboy
  
  Jack5, tell us how your brain differs that from a Kenyan?
  
  You might as well add a Chinese?
  
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  September 7, 2018 11:45am
  - pentwig
    
    stupidthing
    I cannot understand your unintelligent response to Jack5’s comment at 11.14, could you possibly explain it?
    
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    September 7, 2018 11:52am
    - sooty
      
      Stoopidboy. How does yours differ from your goat?
      
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      September 7, 2018 1:39pm
Anne Glen Eden

Go Cathy Murphy! Tell it like it is.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12120952

Finally….. a modern ‘woman’ worthy of the term in this deceitful, manipulative, virtue-signalling, PC, supposedly ‘feminist’ and utterly compromised world. The emperor has no clothes and is simply naked.

Let’s hope the legal profession either has some maturity or is prepared to acquire it. There should be no ‘adverse circumstances’ for her as a result. And all you can really say is that any who try to effect that, which applies to many in this country who are male but don’t deserve to be called ‘men’, are no more than spiteful, narcissistic little boys playing with themselves, incapable of truly adult relationships.
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September 7, 2018 11:26am
- realityczech
  
  We need true equality. Young men should be able to go to fancy dinners and sleep their way to the top too.
  
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  September 7, 2018 11:35am
  - Anne Glen Eden
    
    Far out. Do you really think some of them are not – in various fields? I promise you – they are, just not yet in the same numbers.
    
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    September 7, 2018 11:49am
Jack5

The latest gadget for spies and investigative reporters.

The South Korean spy who went into North Korea with a microphone hidden inside his cock!

Imagine an interviewee warning John-Gush Campbell: “You’re just going to report a lot of cock, anyway.”

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/meet-black-venus-the-south-korean-spy-who-met-kim-jong-il-1911978
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September 7, 2018 11:27am
- realityczech
  
  Did they get that from Mossad Jacksie?
  
  What do you think we should do about these sub-races you keep ranting and foaming about?
  
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  September 7, 2018 11:32am
  - Jack5
    
    Wouldn’t work ?KRC?… the micro-size battery goes under the foreskin.
    
    But you could get one up a mountain parrot’s arse. ?
    
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    September 7, 2018 11:34am
    - realityczech
      
      Shut up and eat your fish Jacksie, instead of ranting about the untermensch and getting your side locks in a tangle.
      
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      September 7, 2018 11:39am
VicParking

The show of the week has been watching the conformation hearing for Kavanaugh live on Youtube. The COL vs National battle is pussy slapping compared with the GOP vs Democrats ding dong going on over there. The Democrats have been caught paying “mad cat women” to yell and disrupt the hearing. They have asked for some 440,000 documents about Kavanaugh for the period when he work for president Bush. That is twice as many documents that were aked for for the last three nomination hearings combined. The questions the Democrats ask are mostly “When did you stop beating your wife” type ones or “what would you do if” questions. Great watching, two more days to go.
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September 7, 2018 11:36am
Hugh Pavletich

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: Local councils put affordable housing supply in the too hard basket … The Conversation (Australia)

Local councils put affordable housing supply in the too hard basket … The Conversation (Australia)

https://theconversation.com/local-councils-put-affordable-housing-supply-in-the-too-hard-basket-97461

Public concern about housing affordability in Australia is well documented. It would be reasonable to assume our local governments are giving the supply of affordable housing the attention it deserves. However, our national survey reveals that while it’s a growing concern for many local governments across the country, especially in metropolitan areas, most councils do not view the provision of affordable housing as a priority for them.

The survey results strongly suggest that local governments do not feel they have the capacity to intervene in a meaningful way. … read more via hyperlink above …
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… It has only got worse in New Zealand since 2014 (the forced amalgamations of 1989 did the big damage) … when this local government satisfaction survey was finally reportedmid 2015 …

Poll shows local government has a reputation problem | The National Business Review

https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/poll-shows-local-government-has-reputation-problem-b-172979
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… There are two types of local government in this world … the small and the bad.

Once you take the ‘local’ out of it you buffer it … illustrated by the smaller and therefore functional local government units of Waimakariri and Selwyn on the one hand … the bureaucratically bloated basket case of Christchurch on the other … graphs 5 & 6 below via … http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/2017%20Information.html …
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… Listen to this recent outstanding interview where local Christchurch Ilam electorate MP and former Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee deservedly blasts the ‘bureaucrats protection service’ Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel …

Democracy questioned at Christchurch City Council … Christchurch NewstalkZB

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/christchurch/canterbury-mornings/audio/democracy-questioned-at-christchurch-city-council/

… Change to workable and functional structures … then the culture … then the laws …
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September 7, 2018 11:44am
- Ross12
  
  I may have missed it Hugh, but I am surprised you have not commented on 3 of the big 4 banks in Australia raising mortgage rates. Westpac a few days ago and Commonwelth and ANZ over night. Small increases ( around 0.15%) but still it is an increase.
  
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  September 7, 2018 5:38pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Ross12 … Check out MacroBusiness Australia for reporting / comment on this issue … http://www.macrobusiness.com.au
    
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    September 7, 2018 5:46pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Update on the Aussie Mortgage situation from Martin North …
      
      On The Mortgage Industry Front Line
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jrfpVKjW64
      
      Published on Sep 6, 2018
      
      Discussing the current state of the mortgage industry with Founder and CEO of Hashching Mandeep Sodhi.
      
      https://www.hashching.com.au/
      
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      September 7, 2018 6:46pm
srylands

I just walked past a building in Wellington. There is a large conference room at ground level. About 30 people practicing Maori singing. Good on them. But, and I have seen this before, a few looked like they were really into it. But most of them looked to be in various degrees of discomfort, like they could not wait for it to end. These of course were all white people.
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September 7, 2018 11:57am
- GoVege
  
  Poor bast*rds…… 🙂
  
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  September 7, 2018 1:23pm
- kowtow
  
  Maori cultural immersion .
  
  I’d be uncomfortable at the prospect of Part Two of the proceedings , chowing down on some Long Pig.
  
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  September 7, 2018 2:28pm
  - Jack5
    
    These reports of compulsory waiata singing in Government departments, are they true?
    What’s going on?
    
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    September 7, 2018 4:25pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  That is “cruel and unusual punishment” no?
  
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  September 7, 2018 5:53pm
ex-golfer

Meanwhile over in delusional world……
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/106891779/minister-at-centre-of-staff-bullying-claim-back-in-parliament

No Meka – they were there because they can smell the sweet taste of free money in the air.
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September 7, 2018 11:57am
Maggy Wassilieff

Clare Curran has resigned..
4 hours earlier than I expected.
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September 7, 2018 12:08pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Making Ardern look foolish.
  Less than 4 hours after Ardern saying Curran was safe.
  Curran undermines the PM in her last act as an MP!
  
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  September 7, 2018 12:14pm
  - DigNap15
    
    I don’t think she did it to undermine Ardern on purpose, she has not got that much intelligence!
    
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    September 7, 2018 4:55pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Scalp to Melissa Lee.
  Well played Melissa.
  
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  September 7, 2018 12:29pm
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  She was actually gone by lunchtime!
  
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  September 7, 2018 1:54pm
waikatogirl

Yipee!
Is that from Parliament Maggy?
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September 7, 2018 12:11pm
Fletch

Nike favorability drops by 35% – wow.

A new poll from Morning Consult shows that Nike’s brand favorability has dropped 34 points from a net +69 favorable impression (76% favorable, 7% unfavorable) among consumers to a net +35 favorable impression (60% favorable, 24% unfavorable).

https://morningconsult.com/form/nike-kaepernick-report/

Looks like their gamble failed.
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September 7, 2018 2:18pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh Yay,
might be getting a new rubbish bin on my hill
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/365924/govt-announces-152m-investment-for-gisborne-area
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September 7, 2018 3:00pm
Jack5

The Poles are putting the squeeze on Germany for hundreds of billions of euros for World War 2 compensation.

The Poles have already had compensation.

This is a bit like the never-final “Treaty” settlements in NZ.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/poland-we-have-the-right-to-discuss-reparations-says-foreign-minister-a-1226483.html
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September 7, 2018 4:22pm
- Inandout
  
  The more Germany gets hit with reparations the more the German people will begin to display long awaited anger. They have remained relatively mute following the Muslim invasion.
  
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  September 7, 2018 4:58pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes I cannot believe how accommodating the German people have been to the muslim invasion.
    The young German people I have met believe that they need more people to work in their factories and pay their pensions!
    What happened to automation and the digital revolution?
    
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    September 7, 2018 5:06pm
    - simpleton1
      
      Many of the young Germans fully believe in the green melon agenda, and that to be totally tolerant is to be divine.
      
      When the pressure comes on they will eventually become willing converts to a “religion of peace”, where they will happily move up that ladder of knowledge, to then ultimately enforce all those new laws and teachings.
      
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      September 7, 2018 5:13pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Hopefully, robots, automation and the digital revolution will be the salvation for Japan.
      
      Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppPLDEi82lg
      
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      September 7, 2018 5:56pm
- simpleton1
  
  Compensation pressure?, possibly a political trade off on the Immigration “economic refugees” pressure from Germany and the EU?
  
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  September 7, 2018 5:02pm
DigNap15

ex Minister of Communications that couldn’t even communicate.
Its a shame
I liked watching her squirm
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September 7, 2018 4:57pm
DigNap15

Kim Richmonds, was not blameless, she was having an affair!
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September 7, 2018 4:58pm
- ex-golfer
  
  I don’t think that is a good defense to use for murder.
  
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  September 7, 2018 5:39pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  That doesn’t justify any form of violence.
  
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  September 7, 2018 7:21pm
Inandout

Shocking Jacinda interview with HDPA on ZB. The PM ummed and ahhed so many times as to why she lied. Flatting with Clare has rubbed off.
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September 7, 2018 5:12pm
- DigNap15
  
  Ardern does not know how to answer a straight forward question.
  The Honeymoon and the baby shower should be well over!
  
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  September 7, 2018 5:17pm
DigNap15

Claire Curran (or any other minister) should not have used GMail at all for government business.

It should be in the cabinet manual and be an immediately sackable offence
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September 7, 2018 5:13pm
DigNap15

Maori Vocab Lesson no 23 (which I posted to Sep 6 in error)

Todays word is Construct.

As its not in my printed dictionary, please make up a word yourself
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September 7, 2018 5:15pm
- itstricky
  
  http://maoridictionary.co.nz/search?idiom=&phrase=&proverb=&loan=&histLoanWords=&keywords=construct
  
  Today’s tip: get a new dictionary.
  
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  September 7, 2018 8:04pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Today’s Tip #2: Stop being blatantly racist with your constant mocking of the Maori language
    
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    September 7, 2018 8:33pm
    - DigNap15
      
      I’ll stop my language lessons when Stuff and the Herald and TVNZ and the government stop trying to ram the language down our throats, and threaten to make it compulsory in schools.
      
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      September 8, 2018 6:14am
  - DigNap15
    
    OK, I will try to buy another printed dictionary.
    
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    September 8, 2018 6:18am
Viking2

Carpenters to be paid a living wage on 4 year construction site in Brisbane.

CARPENTERS working on Brisbane’s multibillion-dollar Queen’s Wharf project will get up to $288,500 a year to make sure they don’t strike.

The astonishing deal is contained in a confidential Enterprise Bargaining Agreement brokered by the CFMMEU and leaked yesterday to The Courier-Mail.

The wages are three times those earned by Queensland teachers and nurses.

The Courier-Mail can also reveal the workers will get a 5 per cent a year increase in their wages up until the completion of the project in 2022 – taking their salaries beyond $330,000 a year, more than what a Queensland Cabinet Minister earns.

If a carpenter is engaged on shift work and begins ordinary-hours work after 1pm, the 46-hour rate totals $288,500 a year, including super.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/queens-wharf-carpenters-to-earn-288500-a-year/news-story/d73f3f69f22070404159beb711ad0788

These rates do not include on-costs for annual leave, public holidays, personal leave, wet weather, lost time, long service leave, Sunday loadings, WorkCover and payroll tax, which adds 30 per cent on top of the wage.
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September 7, 2018 5:35pm
- DigNap15
  
  This is why Australia has the highest wages in the world. Unions etc!
  And we can never compete.
  Our wages are quite high.
  
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  September 7, 2018 5:39pm
DigNap15

I note that Newstalk ZB is now referring to the PM as “Ardern”
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September 7, 2018 6:01pm
- Inandout
  
  https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/larry-williams-drive/audio/jacinda-ardern-i-was-not-misleading-when-asked-about-clare-curran/
  
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  September 7, 2018 6:42pm
Johnboy

Here’s some interesting news:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wairarapa/106915360/Group-rescued-from-Remutaka-Forest-Park-after-being-stranded-for-four-days
Apart from the fact that stuff can’t spell “Rimutaka” correctly 🙂 the photo of the intrepid police rescue squad going to rescue the poor chaps seems to show them heading south towards the coast? Apart from that the poor wee tramping luvies that got trapped for that long by not being able to cross the Orongorongo due to flooding could have easily walked down the same 4wd track the cops used back to the road!!!
Fake news anyone? 🙂
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September 7, 2018 6:25pm
- nasska
  
  If you could get one of the shitty, underpowered, Police 4WDs into the area there’s a good chance that the no-hopers could have roller-skated out! 🙂
  
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  September 7, 2018 6:30pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Fucking walked it forty years ago when the Orongorongo flooded nasska! All the way down from Bains to Orongorongo station, round the coast and halfway up the coast road till we hitched a ride. Took us two days as we had to camp for a night to drink our piss!
    These are just lazy pricks! 🙂
    
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    September 7, 2018 6:39pm
    - stigie
      
      There was no such thing of taking your empty piss bottles out in those days..?
      
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      September 7, 2018 6:47pm
      - nasska
        
        You surely wouldn’t expect the man to carry out full bottles stigie? 🙂
        
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        September 7, 2018 6:51pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Jesus stigie! Where the fuck have you been? We had cans in 1978! Leopard I think. 🙂
        
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        September 7, 2018 6:58pm
    - Viking2
      
      No roads there last time I was in there. up the gut buster over to Butterfly Creek. Now you drive there.
      Used to enjoy going in there.
      
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      September 7, 2018 7:16pm
      - Johnboy
        
        You must have had your compass 180 degrees out V2. Butterfly Creek is in between Eastbourne and the Wainui river. The Orongorongo river is a tad further east mate. BTW you still can’t drive to Butterfly Creek! 🙂
        
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        September 7, 2018 7:22pm
  - Johnboy
    
    I have to say how much I do admire the way murri have developed from an illiterate stoneage culture to the delicate use of vowels in such a short time old chap!
    They should pray to Captain Cook every day for the gift of civilisation. 🙂
    
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    September 7, 2018 6:43pm
    - nasska
      
      I’m certain that thousands of cartographers & signwriters get down on their knees of evenings & give thanks for the sensitivities of the Maori JB. 🙂
      
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      September 7, 2018 6:49pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Is that you, Bob Jones?
      
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      September 7, 2018 6:50pm
    - simpleton1
      
      “delicate use of vowels”
      Some like to speak with a large “plum in the mouth” as I was told by my father, who was told by his father, about the old father, who acted as a translator for Maori.
      
      He was bought up as a lad, on a river bank, and swimming in the the river with the locals who resided in a nearby pa.
      
      My grandfather as my Dad recalls, would startle some locals, by speaking the lingo, and be quite conversant.
      
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      September 7, 2018 6:52pm
      - nasska
        
        My old man could speak Maori fluently from his WW2 army days but he never advertised the fact. That was when we lived up on the East Coast.
        
        He always reckoned it was best to know what they were thinking.
        
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        September 7, 2018 7:02pm
      - Johnboy
        
        I bet the silly old bugger never knew when he should have stuck his macrons in though nasska? Just the bayonet I guess! 🙂
        
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        September 7, 2018 7:31pm
      - nasska
        
        I don’t think they’d invented macronised Te Reo when the old boy wore khaki JB.
        
        He was employed in the Post & Telegraph offices as a telegraphist before the war. In the army you went where you were told & as a good morse operator he ended up in signals from 1940 onwards. Much of the time he spent at a communications post on Kaiti Hill with a couple of stints on Pacific islands.
        
        They were locked up for six (?) weeks at a time & only got leave when the codes were changed. I do know that when the war ended he didn’t want to hear another dit or dot for the rest of his life & ended up working for a stock & station agency.
        
        From what I can remember of what he told me he learnt Maori from fellow servicemen to break the monotony.
        
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        September 7, 2018 7:49pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Oh nasska,
        you must come & visit…
        
        The hubby is a bit concerned that the Gizzy geek aerials (amateur radio) are going to get the boot from Kaiti Hill when the big refurbishment of the summit takes place in the next few months.
        Can’t imagine that the Big Telecoms satellite dishes will go… but you never know…..
        Seems all the WW2 history of the hill is being forgotten.
        
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        September 7, 2018 7:59pm
      - nasska
        
        ….”Seems all the WW2 history of the hill is being forgotten”…..
        
        It’s the price paid for the Maorification of everything Maggy. If it didn’t directly involve the Tangata Whenua then it might as well not have happened. My older brother inherited all of Dads WW2 personal papers & a couple of diaries. He’s undertaken to pass them on to the Gisborne RSA to do as they see fit with them so I dare say they’ll be available for research.
        
        The interesting thing about personal records is that they give insight to the thoughts & consequent actions of the time. From modern history we can learn every detail of a battle but understand little about why people engaged in it.
        
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        September 7, 2018 8:15pm
Jack5

Invercargill car owners locked out of cars by radio ham’s transmissions on same frequency as their key remotes.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/106902631/dozens-locked-out-of-car-in-invercargill-cbd-because-radio-equipment-blocked-car-remotes
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September 7, 2018 10:48pm
Manolo

U.S. economy is on fire:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-adds-201000-jobs-as-wage-growth-accelerates-to-nine-year-high-2018-09-07

The numbers: The United States created 201,000 new jobs in August, keeping the unemployment rate at an 18-year low and generating the fastest increase in worker pay since the end of the Great Recession.
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Manolo

The incompetent has form:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/7/president-obama-jumps-back-political-fray-calls-ou/
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