General Debate 6 November 2018

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krazykiwi

Hello. Thanks for calling the Labour government helpline. Please choose the option that best helps us to serve you.

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November 6, 2018 8:00am
- kevn
  
  @KK… Best yet. Good work.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:04am
  - Biscuit
    
    Indeed, kevn.
    
    I hope my Melbourne Cup horses (Youngstar, Muntahaa and Red Cardinal – pref. finishing in that order!) bring as broad a smile to my face in 9 hours or so!
    
    krazykiwi, I’m only disappointed that you have omitted the hashkey link to order the autographed pics of the First Family!
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:10am
    - kevn
      
      @biscuit… or top end guest speaker option being the first fisherman.
      Trudeau does a line in photo calendars featuring …. him.
      
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      November 6, 2018 8:14am
    - pdm
      
      Shit I just boxed 5 Biscuit and don;t have any of those.Good luck – but not too much lol.
      
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      November 6, 2018 8:19am
      - Biscuit
        
        pdm, I sucked during Maths at school (and did equations during Sex Ed. You can see why I struggled with later life, ha) but I calculate that with 24 runners there are 12,144 (24 x 23 x 22) possible 1-2-3 finishing permutations.
        
        Still better odds than Lotto!
        
        Good luck to you, too!
        
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        November 6, 2018 8:31am
- oldgolfer
  
  Brilliant.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:11am
- softail 1450
  
  krazykiwi,,LOL ,that won’t be bettered today….
  Thats my laugh of the day already chosen……
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:17am
- slightlyrighty
  
  My only regret is that I have but one uptick to give.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:32am
- RF
  
  Pure gold. 1000 up ticks
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:27am
- LisaGinNZ
  
  BRILLIANT!
  
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  November 6, 2018 11:59am
- The Heat
  
  Post of the year
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:28pm
AgainstTheFlow

The NZ Left is pushing hard for dentistry to be a mainstream part of the health system, with a lot more government subsidy for dentists.
Bryce Edwards had a big write-up yesterday and he’s backing the change.

Nowhere did a single Leftist ask why NZ dentistry is so expensive, or suggest we free up the supply of dentists and bring prices down.

I don’t expect this government to be brave enough to reform a professional occupation.
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November 6, 2018 8:01am
- peterwn
  
  Any idea how much it costs to set up a one chair dental practice? A 6 figure sum and the chair and equipment probably needs replacing each 10 years or so.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:10am
  - waikatogirl
    
    If people cleaned their teeth properly every day, their dentist bills would be reduced significantly. A cheap toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste are not out of anyone’s financial reach. Dentists recommend it takes a full 2 minutes to properly clean your teeth. Feeding babies OJ or coke in their bottles and not taking time to clean their teeth is obviously bad parenting.
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:20am
    - brett68
      
      If you brush your teeth properly you only need brush once a day, not twice.
      Over brushing wrecks your gums.
      
      https://www.deltadentalins.com/oral_health/overbrushing.html
      
      They only say twice a day is because the average person does such a half arsed job, brushing your teeth twice a day will hopefully equal one proper clean.
      
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      November 6, 2018 8:35am
      - waikatogirl
        
        I’ll give you that brett. An electric toothbrush does an even better job. ? ? ?
        
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        November 6, 2018 9:01am
      - brett68
        
        Electric toothbrushes are great , they even have a built in 2 minute timer.
        
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        November 6, 2018 9:03am
      - Fletch
        
        I had one of those Oral B type electric brushes for a few years where the head goes round and round in circles. It’s OK, but I recommend a Sonic toothbrush that vibrates. I think I got mine from Farmers. I feel like it cleans so much better than the ones with the tips that go round.
        
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        November 6, 2018 9:16am
    - Komata
      
      Waikatogirl
      
      It’s nothing new.
      
      FWIW, a story in that regard which might interest:
      
      Many years ago, when newly married, I had occaision to visit a member of my bride’s family and her four year-old son; people I had never previously met. I was from a white middle class professional family, my wife, although Kiwi-born had come from one of the Pacific Island cultures, with a bit of Maori mixed-in for good measure.
      
      We duely arrived at said reletive’s home and was introduced to the family. A great time was subsequently had, but something bothered me, although I couldn’t define what. something about the child.
      
      Eventually I DID define it; the four year old had no teeth, yet DID a dark purple/ grey-coloured line where they should normally be. Very, very strange.
      
      Eventually we departed and on the way home I told my wife what I’d observed, expressing my puzzlement as to the cause.
      
      ‘Oh, that’s just what you get from drinking CocaCola; it’s very, very common. almost normal’, was her reply!
      
      This was something totally outside my cultural experience and was, to put it mildly, startling. Coke? For small children; even for babies??
      
      Observation over the years since that first encounter, has indicated that indeed, within ‘Polynesian’ culture feeding ‘littlies’ ‘coke’ is very, very common; evidently the children love the taste, it ‘fills them up’, stops them crying and makes the mum’s task easier. What is there not to like?
      
      And the teeth? Not a problem; after they fall out there’s another set, so no worries.
      
      And the ‘toothless’ four year old?
      
      He’s now 1.93 metres tall, built like the proverbial, and yes he DOES have all his (second set of) teeth!
      
      He survived, shame about his first set of fangs…
      
      As I said, FWIW. Toothbrushes BTW, are invariably in short supply within such families (They don’t usually stop small, hungry, children from crying…) …
      
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      November 6, 2018 10:22am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Yes, horrendous Komata. I am aware of coke used as a pacifier, but like you, such behaviour is beyond belief.
        This morning there was a lot of fuss being made about adults smoking in cars with children captive in the back seat and how the PM should condemn it and change the law. Coca-Cola given to young children is in the same wheelhouse. Add it to the list of bad-parenting…
        
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        November 6, 2018 2:00pm
    - kowtow
      
      ‘A cheap toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste are not out of anyone’s financial reach.’
      
      That’s not true.
      
      Capts Cook and Hobson made sure only whiteys have that access.
      
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      November 6, 2018 2:08pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Yes the chair costs $80,000, but that is funded (circa $130,000 incl interest exp.) over 10 years & amortised over 10 years. Over that period, assuming 220 working days per years * 6 consultations per working day that equals 13,200 consultations over 10 years or less than $10 per consultation to pay for the chair.
    
    Like you I’ve heard numbers thrown around to just high costs, but when you are charged $200 plus to see a dental hygienist (not the dentist) you realise the profession is milking their protected status.
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:34am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      less than $10k for a dentist chair:
      https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/dental-chair.html
      
      The charge a lot because it is a shitty boring job. Dentists have high suicide rates
      
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      November 6, 2018 8:39am
      - stephieboy
        
        UN, high suicide rate? NZ ?Citation, please.
        
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        November 6, 2018 9:02am
      - Tall Man
        
        Have a look at steffy girl’s reference to suicide.
        
        3) Dentists are 1.67 times more likely to commit suicide
        
        2) Physicians are 1.87 times more likely to commit suicide
        
        Remember during the election campaign how Ardern, with her pouting face, declared we have the worst suicide rate in the world. All the softies were worried but only labour would fix it.
        
        Well, rates have risen and incidentally NZ was 53rd in the world at that time so is that 1 lie or 2 lies from Ardern? It’s really hard to keep count with her isn’t it.
        
        Hey, steffy girl…
        
        Is Ardern a liar?
        
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        November 6, 2018 10:12am
      - DJ Ward
        
        No that’s the women who get into a relationship with them for money not love.
        They make their lives miserable because it wasn’t love.
        They pop out a few kids and refuse to work.
        The relationship eventually ends.
        The dentist has 50% plus property ruling made agianst then because she didn’t work.
        She gets the kids full custody because he works to hard etc, think of the children (mum).
        A maintenance ruling is made against him plus child support.
        While he was working she was having an affair too.
        
        Ultimately he looses everything for what?
        Or it was about to happen, knew he was screwed, did it anyway.
        What happened? I didn’t see that coming? Everything was wonderfull according to the wife.
        
        When your in a dark space it’s hard to see far into the future where things can be far better.
        
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        November 6, 2018 12:26pm
    - fluffykiwi
      
      Don’t forget the student loan getting your Degree in Dentistry.
      
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      November 6, 2018 6:18pm
- brett68
  
  If you took away the subsidy for Doctors they’d be the same price.
  
  Must say health care in this country was far better when all the GPs worked as government employees instead of running their own private practises.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:10am
- KevOB
  
  Dentists incomes have always been at the top of the professional ladder with orthodontists in outer space.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:13am
- MCos
  
  Perhaps you could ask a dentist why they are so expensive.
  For that matter why are lawyers so expensive?
  Why are real estate agents so expensive?
  I would say I would have spent far more on real estate agents over the years to sell three houses than I’m ever likely to spend at the dentist.
  I’ve heard that dentists start their career with 100-150 thousand dollars student loans after all those years at Otago. Equipment costs a fortune. Then they have to look down people’s gobs all day long.
  
  Having said all that I’m all for taxpayer subsidised dental treatment for all. Those buggers are so expensive!
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:21am
  - sooty
    
    What, you would rather look at their ass, all day!
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:32am
  - KevOB
    
    I know that 60 years ago dentists income outstripped all the others professional classes. It has continued.
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:07am
    - VicParking
      
      But in those days they made horse shoes and sharpened knives as pulling teeth was only a sideline. Maybe if they sharpened mower blades as well they could drop their dentistry charges.
      
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      November 6, 2018 10:14am
      - KevOB
        
        No they were just regular dentists.
        
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        November 6, 2018 12:33pm
  - Fletch
    
    I wondered about this the other day as well. It goes against what just about every other profession charges. And lawyers can charge thousands of dollars just to read over a contract for you.
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:19am
  - rangitoto
    
    I notice that that magazines in dentists waiting rooms are usually about luxury cars and yachts.
    
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    November 6, 2018 10:07am
- krazykiwi
  
  Not so fun fact: In the US dentists at the third most likely professionals to take their own lives, at 1.67x the population average.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:30am
  - AgainstTheFlow
    
    I’ve seen lots of professions claim theirs’ as the most likely to commit suicide.
    
    It’s usually followed by a claim for higher salaries and better conditions.
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:39am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  People go too often. I haven’t been since 1987 and my teeth are fine but probably every five years is a good idea if you brush properly. If you make taxpayers pay, you will lock in excessive and wasteful use of dentists. There would be a lot more mileage in paying for everyone to have a checkup at the doctor every two years.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:41am
  - MCos
    
    I know people who like to have their hair done or feet massaged, but I’ve never met anyone who’s walked into a dentist because they fancy having their teeth drilled.
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:00am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      Most people I know go once or twice a year regardless of the condition of their teeth, because they think they are supposed to.
      
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      November 6, 2018 9:52am
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    “I haven’t been since 1987”.
    The last person who proudly told me something similar nearly melted my face off with his breath.
    
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    November 6, 2018 10:23am
- Harkman
  
  Dentistry wouldn’t be affordable unless GST was 22%.
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:00am
- kaykaybee
  
  Dentists around the country will be rubbing their hands together at the thought that they’ll not only be increasing their patient load, but they’ll have a guaranteed payment up front.
  
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  November 6, 2018 10:11am
fluffykiwi

Interesting times at whaleoil

Gab.ai Time 2 Gab@atkins_juana
Are you a Classic liberal? Are you on the left side of politics and enjoy a respectful debate based on facts? Are you a blogger/writer who would like access to NZ’s largest (by a country mile) blog audience? We want a broader spread of viewpoints. Let’s ‘have a conversation’ 🙂
7:59 AM · Nov 6, 2018 · Twitter Web Client
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November 6, 2018 8:02am
- Happychappy
  
  It’s a pity that you can’t make him back up his assumption that he has the biggest Audience by a country mile in NZ as I don’t think they publish the correct figures anymore.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:18am
  - brett68
    
    They’re quoting figures from 2014.
    
    The guys audience is non-existent and he makes no money from his blog, why do you think he’s now trying to make money on selling meat?
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:37am
    - Biscuit
      
      brett, I’d buy a week-old fish off the country’s First Man before I let BlubberOil flog me anything!
      
      I love, too, the way people (who should know better) misuse words.
      
      Whale Oil has the biggest audience by a country mile …………………. if you open up a webpage timestamped in 2014.
      
      (x) is an award-winning TV programme/journalist /whatever …………………. and the fact that that award was won way back in 2002 doesn’t mean they’re not award-winning, right?
      
      Et cetera…
      
      Ad nauseum…
      
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      November 6, 2018 8:53am
    - artemisia
      
      I have no idea what Whaleoil’s page views are, but if you have eyeballs why ever not diversify. I do get that entrepreneurs are not flavour of the month atm, but thought better of posters on Kiwiblog.
      
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      November 6, 2018 9:06am
      - Biscuit
        
        artemisia, I occasionally give WO a look.
        
        You are right in that we should read many opinions. The Desiderata puts it so well: ‘Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.’
        
        But I was banned – no explanation, not even a First Strike – from commenting on Whale Oil because I, quite reasonably, pointed out that one of the answers in a Quiz he was running was ever-so-slightly unfactual.
        
        Respect works both ways, no?
        
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        November 6, 2018 9:21am
      - All_on_Red
        
        A quick add up of yesterday shows 855 comments made.
        That’s a lot.
        https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/whaleoil.co.nz
        https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/kiwiblog.co.nz
        
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        November 6, 2018 9:33am
      - Surely Knott
        
        That’s an interesting link All on Red. Weird graph for Whale oil. In July his statistics went from like 140k page views to 25k page views and have remained there. I wonder how accurate it is?
        
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        November 6, 2018 9:46am
- tas
  
  We want a broader spread of viewpoints.
  
  Haha. I think team WhaleOil are noticing that their echo chamber is getting smaller and smaller.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:31am
  - Chris R
    
    tas: I suggest you are right. For me the disincentive to contribute there came with the absurd moderation of Pete Belt. He was officious to the point of fascism and is ideally summed-up by the aphorism that “when you give a small man a big discretion, the discretion dies first!” Before the moderation policy entered the scorched-earth range the blog was generally light-hearted entertaining and informative. Now it seems like a tiny closed shop exhibiting repetitive attitudes and the “party-line.” I am genuinely sorry to see it withering as in the past it certainly did hold weight in an otherwise lack lustre media; but all things must pass!
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:52am
    - lemuzz
      
      I agree. I made the comment when Nicky Hager was going on. “Perhaps the mods relax the rules when discussing Hager”. For that I was banned for a month. After a month I applied for re instatement and was told by Belt I was banned permantly for trying to re-apply.
      
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      November 6, 2018 9:08am
      - Chris R
        
        lemuzz: I was banned from there for 6 months for quoting from a Phillip Larkin poem dating from 1961 which contained the “F” word.The poem was in the context of the topic being discussed. I doubt Belt had heard of Larkin. I wasn’t banned permanently but Belt’s pig ignorance permanently tainted the blog for me. Mr Slater ought never have entrusted Belt with the moderator’s role.
        
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        November 6, 2018 9:17am
    - softail 1450
      
      Chris R ,in the bigger scheme of things Google, facebook, twitter etc are slowly but surely heading in the same direction, I believe we are living the horror/fantasy scenario of 1984 in real life being unfolded before our eyes.
      The decision made by the American people tomorrow will be of importance to the entire “free” people of our planet.
      
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      November 6, 2018 9:55am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Don’t worry too much about that. In most midterm elections the House is won by the opposition. Look it up. Styxhexenhammer, who has been right about a lot of things, thinks it won’t matter in 2020 when Trump can sail back in, and meanwhile Trump would make Pelosi look like an idiot and the Democrats would flounder about trying to appease SJWs while pissing off any centrist who actually believes in capitalism and economic success.
        
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        November 6, 2018 3:12pm
    - Flash
      
      I was banned for 6 months (a second offence after a warning, lol)- but I had already decided that I didn’t fit the demographic that was being encouraged. I still go and have a look from time to time though.
      
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      November 6, 2018 4:49pm
  - softail 1450
    
    Tas, that is true, unfortunately some of the more rabid ones are appearing on KB and trying to turn it left…..
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:39am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I don’t think they are turning KB left.
      
      They are convincing folk like me to never ever vote Labour again.
      
      Their personal abuses, smears and outright lies that they post everyday reveal how bereft they are of decency and a philosophy worthy of my support.
      
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      November 6, 2018 9:45am
      - Tall Man
        
        I have also posted that very thought. The rabid biliousness that emanates from them will be having an effect on the more neutral voter.
        
        Ardern’s instructions are to “move” the narrative but the way that it is done alienates many and I have had people confirm that to me. They have said that they couldn’t vote against the party but they will certainly not vote for it.
        
        The “silly girly” brigade who pushed for Adern because she was”so young” “a woman” will grow up and hopefully we can have a government that is selected on the soundness of their policies rather than a spinning of bullshit and an auction of baubles.
        
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        November 6, 2018 10:25am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Re ‘Gab.ai Time 2 Gab@atkins_juana
  Are you a Classic liberal?’
  
  LOL, I kept getting my polite and pertinent comments deleted on WO. Under this very moniker.
  
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  November 6, 2018 3:03pm
artemisia

KiwiBuild the Numbers

The Kiwibuild unit reports the numbers (link below). Have to say there needs to be a lot more progress if Kiwibuild does not continue to be rated a major Fail. Big gap between under construction and contracted, though do we know what ‘contracted’ means? I suspect it is not ‘contracted’ in the usual sense of the word. And a huge gap between pre-qualified and on the mailing list.

At this rate, no need for ballots, just give a place to everyone pre-qualified and use the saved money on street parties.

Complete – 18
Homeowners – 4
Pre-qualified (so eligible to enter a ballot) – 214
Under construction – 73
Contracted – 3,375
On the mailing list – 45,192

https://www.hud.govt.nz/residential-housing/housing-affordability/kiwibuild/folloour-progress/
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November 6, 2018 8:02am
- sooty
  
  Maybe Father Christmas wil bring the idiot a few more houses!
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:18am
- Maxx
  
  These are the sort of numbers I would expect to see from a small to mid sized construction firm – not something that is supposed to instigate change on a national level.
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:14am
- KiWombat
  
  None of these provide additional housing artem. These are all homes that have been developers projects, so would have (or were) been built anyway.
  
  Twitford promised us 100,000 ADDITIONAL homes, so we are still to see additional home number 1, and I for one am not holding my breath !
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:27am
holysheet

Three guys (Asian, American, and a Mexican) are on a hot air balloon trying to get back home. Something punctured the hot air balloon so now it’s going down really fast. The three guys decided to throw stuff that they don’t need away so the balloon won’t fall down too fast. The Asian threw away rice and said, “I have a lot of this in my country.”
The Mexican threw away beans and said, “I have a lot of this in my country.”
The American threw over the Mexican. The Asian was like, “Why did you do that for?” The American said, “We have a lot of these in my country.”
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November 6, 2018 8:06am
- Harkman
  
  Just don’t tell CNN or Morning Joe because they’ll call you a racist. And ABC’s Jonathan Karl will deny the existence of some 500 convicts trying to enter the country.
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:03am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Aw, I thought you were going to say something about ‘keep the beans and eat them – we’ll all make gas’.
  
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  November 6, 2018 3:15pm
Happychappy

Another day and more shit on the horizon from the Media who are more interested in JLR and his secret recordings that the moron blubber is releasing than holding the Government to account on the lies they are telling.
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November 6, 2018 8:07am
- cmm
  
  WO has already drawn his line in the sand to bring Bridges and Benett down, so there is no reason to expect any sanity or balance from that quarter.
  
  Since JLR knew he was being recorded and the others did not, the secret tapes are all acting on his part. They are all set up to get the soundbites he wants – and fails to get.
  
  These were also not all the interactions they had since he cherry-picked and only released recordings that were, in his mind, damaging – not all the recordings he would have made.
  
  Without all the recordings, one or two tapes destroys context. It is like picking a sentence out of a conversation or a paragraph out of a whole book.
  
  One wonders how long they have been running this campaign. Does it go back as far as the last election? Did Slater & JLR help set up Winston by getting him that 7%?
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:18am
  - sooty
    
    So were would Whinney be in the next one?
    No seats and in the position of the greens since entering parliament. Bend over rover!
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:22am
    - Paulus
      
      No – Winnie’s Party will be OK after he uses the secret agreement with Ardern to reduce the MMP 5% limit to 3%.
      Shortly – say Christmas Eve, Ardern will announce a review Committee of MMP led by Geoffrey Palmer and some Unionists and University lecturers from Massey.
      Peters can lose half is 7% and still win.
      See – easy.
      
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      November 6, 2018 8:30am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        Sadly I suspect that level of corruption will actually play out.
        
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        November 6, 2018 8:41am
      - brett68
        
        At the just been Labour conference one of the policy ideas raised and passed was lowering the voting age to 16.
        
        So drop the MMP threshold to 3% and drop the age voting age to 16.
        
        It’s going to be hard to get these pricks out of government, they’ll do whatever it takes to hold onto power.
        
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        November 6, 2018 9:00am
      - Harkman
        
        They won’t reduce the 5% threshold, they’ll try to give them uncontested seats in the north. See what the Labour has repeatedly done over the past two decades is choose the Peter Dunne/Winston option ahead of the Greens to protect the hard left from any coalition fallout/backlash. Dunne/Winston never learned that they are human shields for any bad Labour policies.
        
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        November 6, 2018 9:12am
      - Piniwi
        
        No Paulus page 38 detailed the granting of a safe seat for the old drunk was the price for selecting Labour with Greens on the side to be tossed for best results. Unfortunately with the changed font it became fine print and nobody reads the fine print do they. It is even possible that with the increasing disunity in the NZF ranks he may yet be the last man standing come the next election.
        
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        November 6, 2018 1:02pm
    - Felt
      
      Can we add up how much Winston has cost us? $3B regional slush fund, $950M MFAT, racetracks? pretty horses? the list goes on and on and must cost 1k per each of us
      
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      November 6, 2018 9:32am
      - cmm
        
        Well since Winnie also gave us the whole COL, we can also add the $11bn+counting fiscal hole.
        
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        November 6, 2018 10:02am
      - Faroffsound
        
        Let’s not forget the funds made available to him as a party leader.
        
        Unfortunately that expenditure is not subject to the OIA so there’s no way of actually quantifying it.
        
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        November 6, 2018 2:14pm
  - Philview
    
    It is interesting to hear the actually recordings then watch the cherry picked TVNZ reports that weight heavily against Simon Bridges. Most people just pick up the TVNZ report and assume it is fact. Jessica Mutch McKay, lovely but married to Jacinda Ardern’s bodyguard. Such a close association raises a question mark over independence particularly given the distorted reports on this topic.
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:49am
- hullkiwi
  
  You only have to read the dubious opinion piece by a Labour/Green PR spin merchant on today’s Horrid website to see the line the media are spinning.
  1. National are not being a good opposition by attacking the government’s failures (trouble is there are too many – subsidized property speculation via KiwiBuild for middle class kids). He wants National to lay out their policy statements – no chance now with the next election 2 years away;
  2. Attack Bridges and suggest the caucus will topple him, comes with dubious internal Labour poll, suggesting National below 40% and Labour/Greens have 20% gap – unlikely;
  3. Upset National didn’t fall for going full retard on Ardern’s offering 600 teacher aids – why would National respond? The teacher strike next week will show Labour has created a problem for itself. Teacher aids are not a solution to resolving the staffing/pay issue in primary schools.
  4. Attacks Bridges over latest JLR tape. The experts of that tape show Bridges/Bennett were being supportive of someone with big problems. It also shows JLR’s friends are not friends you want.
  
  If that is the media’s line, then after 12 months the CoL are still lost!
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:55am
  - Philview
    
    For a party that campaigned on cutting immigration Labour seem to be announcing policy all over the place that involves bringing people in from overseas. This morning they are pledging to significantly increase the amount of people coming in to do agricultural work.
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:31am
  - Faroffsound
    
    It would be exceptionally stupid of any party in opposition to start releasing policy two years out from an election. They would limit any refining necessary and risk having good ideas stolen.
    
    Calling for policy release now just shows how unaware some “political commentators” actually are.
    
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    November 6, 2018 2:26pm
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At the time the current government was formed, I recall reading here that it probably wouldn’t survive beyond a year. PM Ardern is now one of the most admired leaders on the world stage, while the Leader of the Opposition enjoys a similar level of support among the voting public to Jamie-Lee Ross.

Are there any commentators on this site with the integrity to acknowledge that their predictions for the longevity of the Coalition government might have been a bit off?
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November 6, 2018 8:08am
- waikatogirl
  
  Tick-tock…!
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:12am
  - stigie
    
    You’re gone !!
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:38am
- lifesgood
  
  This government has only survived through the blatant and outrageous bias of the msm. The govt has done absolutely nothing of value to NZ and have trotted out endless lies. How on earth is the general public to know the reality of the col if it is never reported?
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:13am
  - Felt
    
    Can you name another NZ Govt that has achieved less? A former PM who is less experience, has made worse choices or has made less decisions. The cost of the oil and gas decision alone must be in the $30-$40B range, maybe more. That is a greater cost by some margin than the ChCh earthquakes which flattened an entire city
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:36am
- KevOB
  
  Another Intern du jour?
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:15am
- peterwn
  
  A National MP told an electorate meeting it would last the three years since the three parties have a big incentive to hold the thing together.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:16am
- Chris2
  
  What evidence do you have that “Ardern is now one of the most admired leaders on the world stage”
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:16am
  - tf78
    
    I think the Guardian or was it her Mirror that said so.
    
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    November 6, 2018 11:04am
- softail 1450
  
  tom barker “most admired leaders on the world stage”,,,,FFS have the COL closed a nuthouse somewhere ? tom barker is most certainly a dribbling moronic fool if he believes that crap,
  its getting to the stage where im looking forward to the return of the balanced, reasoned posts of ZTEV,
  compared to cretins such as tom barker…..
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:24am
- MCos
  
  I think I was one of those that predicted any coalition with NZ 1st would be short lived.
  My next prediction is that the ABs will romp in on Saturday night!
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:29am
  - Tall Man
    
    50% success….better than the weather guys.
    
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    November 6, 2018 10:30am
- VicParking
  
  When you control the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th estate’s its called an autocracy. For all intents and purposes this is what NZ is becoming.
  When you get socialist Judges and MSM it is only one step away from a Comrade lead Venezuela.
  Expect the electoral commission to start gerrymandering the electorates to ensure secure safe COl seats and a lowering of the percentage for parties to get seats. “Long live our leader for life” billboards are coming.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:33am
  - Paulus
    
    Wait until you hear who the next Chief Justice is going to be – originally ordained by age, femininity etc which reflects the seniority, by Helen Clark and Heather Simpson and Margaret Wilson some years ago. look at all the favourites and tell me who ?
    Well up to Ardern’s liking.
    
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    November 6, 2018 2:19pm
- tas
  
  I didn’t say it would fall apart within a year. I said that the incentives for the three parties to keep it together are too great.
  
  Frankly, I think my expectations have been met. The government is incompetent with Winston adding a sprinkling of corruption.
  
  That said, I didn’t expect how popular Ardern would be internationally. I guess being young, female, and giving birth, will do that. But that does not reflect anything about her doing a good job.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:36am
  - VicParking
    
    38 is not young.
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:50am
    - DJ Ward
      
      The first 19 years supported by taxpayers.
      The second 19 years supported by taxpayers.
      
      I hope she graduates from teenager to adult this time.
      
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      November 6, 2018 9:12am
    - Colinxy
      
      She’s young in comparison to other leaders.
      
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      November 6, 2018 9:17am
  - Colinxy
    
    She’s also left wing, which makes her automatically a darling for most of the media.
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:15am
  - Piniwi
    
    But tas now the silly little girl is saying “she can’t do everything”. The majority would be impressed if she actually did something, anything instead of just waffling on.
    
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    November 6, 2018 1:10pm
- Colinxy
  
  I thought it was foolish to predict the demise of the COL so early.
  
  One thing I know about politicians is they crave power almost more than anything else, so it would have to take an extreme series of events for the COL to fall apart so soon; it’s in their own self interest to remain in power no matter how many dead rats they have to swallow. (We’ve seen this attitude repeatedly most obviously with the Greens).
  
  Whether they retain power after the 2020 election is another matter.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:40am
  - Faroffsound
    
    Brings to mind Benjamin Franklin’s statement, “You must all hang together, or assuredly you shall all hang separately”.
    
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    November 6, 2018 2:32pm
- AgainstTheFlow
  
  I never expected the government to not go full-term and probably be re-elected.
  
  That’s because I don’t under-estimate the gullibility and dis-interest in policy of most New Zealanders.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:45am
- Philview
  
  There has been an orchestrated lie rammed down our throats by this Government and media friends that New Zealand is a broken shit hole country created by 9 years of National Government. Massive socialist transformation now required to fix the mess. I look out my window and the country is ticking along well for most people.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:57am
- Chris R
  
  To Tom Barker:
  
  PM Ardern: “one of the most admired leaders on the world stage?” Please substantiate this statement.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:57am
  - Tall Man
    
    Nah, don’t bother thanks.
    
    Getting sick and tired of labour intern’s bullshit.
    
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    November 6, 2018 10:32am
  - rangitoto
    
    Well the Daily Mail thought she was one of Harry and Megan’s adoring fans trying to hold up a bunch of flowers for them. The flowers fell over.
    
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    November 6, 2018 10:34am
- Fletch
  
  “One of the most admired leaders on the world stage” – by other liberal leaders. Not by the vast majority of the country. Go on Facebook and look under news feeds of News Hub, 1 News, NZ Herald etc of any story that pertains to her and look at the comments ordinary people leave. Sure, there are some who like her, but many who don’t.
  
  Ditto for Trump – look at the Facebook news feeds of any of our main media networks about any stories that are critical of Trump and look at the comments. You’ll see someone making a comment critical of the media and supporting Trump, and the likes will outnumber the dislikes by 10 to one or even more.
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:24am
- alloytoo
  
  After a year inflation has doubled, business confidence has plummeted. No Kiwibuild houses have been built, (Bought yes, from existing projects, but built no.)
  No trees have been planted.
  Millions have have been gutted from invisible primary education projects to increase tertiary student numbers with zero result.
  
  Whole industries have effectively been banned without advice or consultation. Then the advice said that the net effect of the policy would be the opposite of the desired effect.
  
  New regional fuel taxes were introduced to bail out Phil Goff and balance his books, Only for Phil though cause he’s special. This is mysteriously the fuel companies fault.
  
  Criminals who haven’t asked for residency have been granted. Taxpayers have been denied it.
  
  The PM doesn’t know what GDP is, has lied to the public has personally endorsed the decision to give the criminal residency. She has also wasted 80k of our tax money because she doesn’t know how to use a beast pump.
  
  I’m too tired to list rest.
  
  Comments Tommy?
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:32am
  - KiWombat
    
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    I alerted DPF that we had planted three trees down here in Pukekura, and permitted him to amend his tree counter to reflect that. I understand that Shame Jones has also planted three trees.
    
    Accordingly there are only one hundred and seven million six hundred and sixty thousand five hundred and ninety seven trees to go (as of 11:45am today) until we can consider that Jones has even attempted to keep his word !
    
    I’m not holding my breath !
    
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    November 6, 2018 11:47am
- Rich Prick
  
  Yet the average Australian would struggle to name our PM. The average American would struggle to name our country. Cindy most admired? *snigger*
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:40am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Amazing what a “desperation to rule” will do.
  They are, all 3 of them (CoL), hanging on for grim death. They know splitting now will be the death of at least 2 of them and the 3rd would be in critical condition.
  They have to hang on and hope they win Lotto or something, because their “policies/work” is not getting the results.
  Thought:
  Didn’t JA say she didn’t want the job?
  Now, she is behaving like her life depends on keeping it, strange contradiction.
  
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  November 6, 2018 1:43pm
Justitia

Who will give Asia Bibi the asylum she so desperately seeks? So far shamefully no Western country has stepped forward. If she remains in Pakistan she will be killed by the muslim mob baying for her death. She is the very definition of a refugee. Will Jacinda hear her pleas? Or is it only the opportunity to embarrass Australia that fuels Jacinda’s compassion for refugees?
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November 6, 2018 8:08am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  None here will for to do so would be an implicit criticism of Muslims which is totally unacceptable in today’s progressive* New Zealand.
  
  *neo-Marxist
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:46am
  - stephieboy
    
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    SC,
    
    *neo-Marxist
    
    Alt-right Garbage!
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:07am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      So you approve of the threats against Abibi? Is this the same as your tacit approval of the Pakistani grooming/rape gangs in the UK?
      
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      November 6, 2018 9:43am
    - Tall Man
      
      Steffy girl……just garbage. Nothing special about you at all, just plain ordinary useless garbage. Soon to be gone as well 🙂
      
      Is Ardern a liar?
      
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      November 6, 2018 10:34am
- DJ Ward
  
  She is quite happy to announce places for the mostly economic refugees in Nauru.
  A genuine refugee is not welcome.
  No invitation from the sisterhood.
  
  Ahh I get it.
  
  It was a woman that complained.
  She must be believed.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:58am
  - Paulus
    
    Now that almost all the children from Nauru have arrived in Australia (and their parents) we can take the bubbas and their parents can follow.
    After all it is the 150 per year that we are taking – all children of course. Wot no mummas and pappas ?
    I see that 176 Nauru refugees who wanted to go to the USA have declined to go as they were told that there would be no social welfare, houses or jobs for them – like they will expect in Australia and New Zealand.
    
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    November 6, 2018 2:26pm
- stephieboy
  
  Justitas, has Asia applied for Asylum anywhere?
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:06am
  - DJ Ward
    
    All of Asia would take asylum if we were offering.
    
    Anyway. You think she is being allowed the freedom to do that right now?
    The Supreme Courts ruling is under review. She is not free to do anything.
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:16am
  - Justitia
    
    According to the Telegraph today she is seeking asylum in the UK and other unnamed countries. This should not stop Jacinda offering her asylum here.
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:52am
    - Komata
      
      Justitia
      
      Re: ‘…She is seeking asylum in the UK…’
      
      A nation which just happens to have a high Muslim population, many of that ‘faith’ in positions of power, and a MSM which will deliver her into their arms (for her destuction), with absolutely no qualms, by telling all and sundry where she lives and what she is doing.
      
      ‘Frying pan and fire’ comes to mind..
      
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      November 6, 2018 10:46am
      - Justitia
        
        Sadly too true. And they have their own blasphemy laws.
        
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        November 6, 2018 10:58am
  - Tall Man
    
    Yes dickwit, are you not permitted to use Google at labour HQ?
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
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    November 6, 2018 10:38am
  - rangitoto
    
    Yes and the Paki government is bowing to pressure from the hate preachers to block her from leaving the country.
    
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    November 6, 2018 10:40am
- backster
  
  Even our mainstream Christian church Leaders who agitate for more muslim refugees are silent.
  
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  November 6, 2018 5:50pm
secondcumming

Isn’t it time *President Trump* sorted out this traitorous old prick?

According to the *Voice of Europe*, GEORGE SOROS is providing prepaid debit cards to illegal alien Muslim invaders from Africa and the Middle East to fund their trips into America…….
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November 6, 2018 8:12am
- KevOB
  
  Hard to pin disaffection down. Soros has been funding cards which the UNHCR hand out under their own label.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:19am
- softail 1450
  
  S C, a Hungarian hit squad will sort that old bastard out….
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:27am
- Jules99
  
  I’m taking the optimistic view that he is letting Soros spend all his money before taking him down. In fact, someone else will probably do the deed, e.g. Israel, in return for dobbing in his fellow Jews to the Nazis.
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:02am
  - Paulus
    
    Anything Soros does is only a small fraction of his money – his main money is to get his Nephew, married to Chelsea Clinton, as President.
    
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    November 6, 2018 2:29pm
- Harkman
  
  Just bring him down on tax evasion.
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:13am
  - MCos
    
    Who are we talking about now?
    
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    November 6, 2018 4:11pm
calendar girl

I’m proud of my heritage as a New Zealander (3rd generation), and I value my New Zealand passport, the only national passport that has ever borne my name and personal credentials.

As the years pass, I have become increasingly frustrated by our local news media referring to New Zealanders, sometimes almost invariably, as “Kiwis”. Last evening, for example, our Government-operated TV1 Channel’s 6.00pm News carried a major item about NZ’s liberation, 100 years ago, of the French town of Le Quesnoy. In a commentary of some 3 minutes duration, the term “Kiwi(s)” was used 8 times, while “New Zealand(ers)” received 3 mentions.

There’s nothing objectional about the colloquial term “Kiwi” being used sparingly in informal commentary on this country’s events, news and people. But it is not the national and accepted name by which our country and its people are known and respected internationally. Is it asking too much for our distinctive “New Zealand” name be used as ‘the norm’, with the colloquial “Kiwi” name making much rarer appearances in locally-based news and commentary?
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November 6, 2018 8:13am
- Justitia
  
  Yes the liberation of Le Quesnoy was another great achievement of the Maori Battalion, or so it appeared from the commemorative ceremony. The gross distortion of history continues along with the eradication of our European heritage. Be careful where you step, ethnic cleansing now in progress…
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:18am
  - Paulus
    
    But were there any Maori at Le Quesnoy
    Don’t believe so.
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:33am
    - alex Masterley
      
      There were actually. I wasn’t sure my self so had a ferret around.
      In the NZ Division which assaulted Le Quesnoy there was a Maori pioneer unit. I am not sure what they did but suspect they put the fear of God into the Germans for all the usual reasons..
      
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      November 6, 2018 8:46am
      - VicParking
        
        They supplied the ladder. Without them the white males would not have got to to top of the wall and accept the German surrender.
        
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        November 6, 2018 8:54am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        A Maori the first man in
        
        https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19181126.2.19
        
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        November 6, 2018 9:24am
      - Justitia
        
        The assault on Le Quesnoy was carried out by members of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th battalions of the NZ Rifle Brigade who were part of the New Zealand Division. Many came from the South Island, particularly Canterbury. Few if any at all would have been of Maori descent. Some 2000 Maori served in WWI – a fraction of New Zealand’s overall effort, but there was also much Maori opposition to participation. In addition the authorities were wary of employing Maori directly against a European enemy. Most Maori on the Western Front therefore served in pioneer battalions who were involved in support tasks like tunneling. There are no reports I am aware of that they in any way intimidated the Germans at Le Quesnoy.
        
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        November 6, 2018 9:30am
      - Paulus
        
        In my UK army career the Pioneer Corps dug the Lats and generally cleaned up around for example Tented camps. Did a good job.
        Until it was abolished in the 1950’s I think.
        
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        November 6, 2018 2:34pm
      - Jack5
        
        The Auckland Star report that Maggy quotes in her 9.24 post compares with a more official report from the Government’s New Zealand History web site:
        
        “When a section of the 4th Battalion reached the inner walls about midday on 4 November, they had already scaled the complex network of outer ramparts with ladders, supplied by the sappers (or engineers). But due to the height of the inner wall, the riflemen could only position a ladder on a narrow ledge atop a sluice gate. Led by Lieutenant Leslie Averill, the battalion’s intelligence officer, a small group of men quickly climbed up the wall. After exchanging shots with fleeing Germans, the New Zealanders entered the town. The garrison quickly surrendered.
        
        If this is correct, the Maori soldier might have been the first of the pioneers over the outer ramparts, but not the inner wall.
        Source:
        
        https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/le-quesnoy/the-liberation-of-le-quesnoy
        
        Paulus in his post talks about Pioneers digging latrines. They do more than that. They were parallel to the sappers of engineering units. Nowadays, sappers seem to have evolved into combat engineers.
        
        According to Wikipedia:“All British infantry regiments still maintain assault pioneer units. The Pioneer Sergeant is the only rank allowed to wear a beard on parade.”
        
        The most famous pioneer units surviving are those of the Foreign Legion. Bearded, with leather aprons, and with axes over their shoulders, they lead the Foreign Legion contingent in the big 14 July parades in Paris:
        
        https://youtu.be/yASlGCLkBSw
        
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        November 6, 2018 7:52pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Justita,
    
    “Yes the liberation of Le Quesnoy was another great achievement of the Maori”
    
    Nope and never claimed. it was liberated by Kiwis /New Zealanders who happened to be white!
    
    Idiot!
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:11am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      it was liberated by Kiwis /New Zealanders who happened to be white!
      
      Private George How Chow was not white.
      
      http://gisborneherald.co.nz/lifestyle/3743176-135/gisborne-man-among-liberators
      
      Take your racist, white supremacist muck elsewhere, stephieboy
      
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      November 6, 2018 9:29am
      - Justitia
        
        Thanks for your post at 9.24am Maggy. Pity no one got his name.
        
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        November 6, 2018 9:42am
    - VicParking
      
      Stephie morning, love your new signature, “Idiot” suites you
      
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      November 6, 2018 10:21am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Interestingly, Lloyd Burr from Newshub has absolutely ripped in to the government for not sending a representative to the Le Quesnoy commemoration. As much as it pains me to say so, Burr is right on the money.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:47am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    I did see that the Governor General was there which was appropriate.
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:08am
  - RF
    
    Sorry the ABs game was more important. You have got to have your priorities old chap.
    
    Labour has spoken…..
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:35am
  - alex Masterley
    
    Absolutely typical of this crowd of loosers.
    
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    November 6, 2018 2:40pm
- Prince
  
  Where is this ‘New Zealand’ of which you speak ? Is it close to the ‘Aotearoa’ I hear so much of in our media ?
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:07am
- MCos
  
  Members of the NZ military during WWI were commonly known as Kiwis. From there the usage spread to all New Zealanders.
  
  https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Kiwi_(people).html
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:19am
Simon

Trump / GOP winning big in Merica with lower taxes, reduced regulation and winning worker friendly trade wars. ( Trump is taking apart those CCP turds)

Are National just fucking useless or are they shit scared of Peters because they cant push onto 50%?
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November 6, 2018 8:16am
- Komata
  
  Simon
  
  Re: ‘Are National just fucking useless or are they shit scared of Peters because they cant push onto 50%?’
  
  I’ve also wondered that; what exactly ARE they doing, (Simon B doesn’t seem to be actually doing anything that inspires confidence in his leadership), and indeed what do the Nats actually stand for?
  
  No one can tell me, I can’t seem to find a ‘Statement of policy’, and to all intents and purposes the ‘Labour-lite’ appellation seems to have retained a high degree of accuracy.
  
  Were that it wasn’t so…
  
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  November 6, 2018 11:00am
Hugh Pavletich

… Now … paying the price for grossly excessive pricing and lending ‘multiple stretch’ …

Sydney’s housing market downturn could end up being the longest on record | Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/sydney-housing-market-downturn-mortgage-lending-rba-cash-rate-2018-11

• Sydney home prices have fallen 7.4% over the past year, the steepest annual percentage decline since February 1990.

• Prices have now fallen 8.2% from their cyclical peak 15 months ago, making this the fastest downturn in over three decades.

• It could take years for home prices to return to previous highs without a substantial pickup in household incomes, stronger population growth or additional incentives to bring forward buyer demand. … read more via hyperlink above …
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… It is a long and hard road to ‘normal’ … where detached housing should be at or below 3.0 times annual household incomes (median multiples) …

Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: All Editions

http://www.demographia.com/db-dhi-index.htm
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Falling Australian house prices a warning for NZ: commentator | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/property/108168646/falling-australian-house-prices-a-warning-for-nz-commentator
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November 6, 2018 8:20am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Chinese Investors Lose Millions in Australian Property Deals – AFR /Caixin Global via Interest Co NZ 90@9
  
  https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-11-05/chinese-investors-lose-millions-in-australian-property-deals-101343051.html
  
  (AFR) — John Wang had so much faith in property sales agency Ausin Group that he handed over A$765,000 to buy his third Australian apartment without asking for a receipt.
  
  “I had already bought two properties through Ausin and I had such deep trust in them that I didn’t even bother to get a receipt when I paid the full amount on the third property,” said Wang, a retired businessman from Shanghai.
  
  His blind faith in the property sales agent backfired earlier this year when the company’s China business collapsed, resulting in 130 failed residential property settlements in Australia. More than 100 Chinese property investors like Wang have lost millions of dollars in deposits and payments for off-the-plan houses and apartments in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:21am
  - Pateke
    
    Do you know what Huge? I think you start a blog and stick to it. OOOPS you have one. Have you ever wondered why no-one but yourself reads it?
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:56am
    - Cobolt24
      
      I read it
      
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      November 6, 2018 10:58am
      - Cobolt24
        
        But it is an archival site mainly updated not too often, he mostly links housing related stuff here.
        
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        November 6, 2018 11:01am
      - sooty
        
        Because no one else does.
        
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        November 6, 2018 11:18am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Auckland …
    
    Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/11/auction-clearances-crash-unsold-property-listings-surge/#comment-3219722 (nehind paywall) … and below that on Links page thread …
    
    The auction sales rate was unusually low for properties in central Auckland suburbs such as Remuera, Mt Eden and Glendowie | interest.co.nz
    
    https://www.interest.co.nz/property/96726/auction-sales-rate-was-unusually-low-properties-central-auckland-suburbs-such-remuera … and … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/11/links-6-november-2018/#comment-3219731
    
    Sales were achieved on a quarter of the properties marketed for sale by auction by Barfoot & Thompson last week.
    
    The agency had marketed 174 properties for sale by auction and achieved sales on 46 of them, giving an overall clearance rate of 26%. … read more via hyperlink above …
    
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    November 6, 2018 4:25pm
    - Cobolt24
      
      I notice the number of properties on Trademe in Auckland rising significantly, heck, in the past few hours, it was 13,056 now it’s 13,061, up a whopping 84 rise in a single day compared to yesterday (12,977 properties)
      
      https://www.trademe.co.nz/browse/categoryattributesearchresults.aspx?134=1&136=&153=&132=PROPERTY&122=0&122=0&49=0&49=0&29=&123=0&123=0&search=1&sidebar=1&cid=5748&rptpath=350-5748-
      
      And yes I’m keeping a daily record, I started on the 1st of this month and will continue to do so.
      
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      November 6, 2018 8:27pm
stigie

Garner going easy again on the PM with the fake concerned face this morning, a huge difference when Bridges was on being bullied by Garner i thought but took it on the chin.
Keep going Simon, you’re doing ok !~
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November 6, 2018 8:22am
- Keeping Stock
  
  If anything, I think Bridges’ reputation has been enhanced by the events of the last few weeks.
  
  By the way, is it “Dirty Politics” when the political editor of a major news organisation is receiving and publishing leaks from a blogger, in order to undermine the leader of a political party, or is it okay when the Left does it?
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:49am
holysheet

Has the drunken dwarf surfaced yet?
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November 6, 2018 8:25am
- Happychappy
  
  Melbourne Cup today probably on sick leave you would have to wonder whether it is Winston first money laundering day.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:34am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Whether he’s in attendance at QT today will give us the answer to that.
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:23am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      I daresay he’s got a small wager on Who Shot the Barman…
      
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      November 6, 2018 9:57am
- Paulus
  
  Surely he was at Le Quesnoy ?
  He is old enough (and senile enough) to have been there.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:35am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    It would have been a case of “I’m right behind you lads. 20 miles behind you to be precise…”
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:50am
    - Komata
      
      SC
      
      A ‘Bloodnock’ clone then…?
      
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      November 6, 2018 11:02am
      - alex Masterley
        
        No, General Melchett…
        
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        November 6, 2018 2:47pm
- stigie
  
  The low to middle income people seem to be getting handouts from this government, that’s ok but what about a tax cut for the taxpayer that gives these handouts..?
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:01am
  - KevOB
    
    Why give a tax cut when they have promised they can borrow to fund whatever they fancy. Someone has to be surety for public revenues.
    
    The middle group, latte socialists, have been squeezed now they are getting their KiwiBuild property ladder rungs.
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:28am
DJ Ward

Feminism definition.

The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.

So some “feminists” get together.

Feminist: We are going to create Refuge centres.

Men: If we need help, will they help us too?

Feminist: No.
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November 6, 2018 8:25am
secondcumming

The father in-law already knows he’s struck the *Trifecta* in today’s Melbourne Cup.
And he’s praying three roughies get up 😎

He just invested about 14k taking the F/F/F.
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November 6, 2018 8:32am
Odakyu-sen

An elderly Korean man visiting relatives in Whangarei wandered off one day, and now, 14 years later his remains are discovered.

Ref: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12154784

One interesting sentence in the article.
“Metcalfe said the remains were taken to Whangārei Hospital where police carried out victim identification procedures. The scene was blessed by a kaumatua.”

Two points: firstly, why use the Maori place name “Whangārei” in an English newspaper article when the English place name “Whangarei” would do the job.
Secondly, why mention the blessing by a culture totally unrelated to things Korean? I could understand if a Christian pastor (as many Koreans are Christian) were to be involved (at the request of the family), but why the involvement of an alien culture (from the Korean perspective)? If the Maori elder voluntarily did his thing, then okay, but I wouldn’t want him to be funded by the taxpayer (separation of church and state and all that).
It seems to me that the action of “blessing” the site is a move to assert iwi dominance (this is “our land”) and the action of the Herald in mentioning this (and using Maori place names) is in concert to reinforce this political agenda.
Or am I reading too much into what seems to be a standard practice in NZ.

Hypothetically, imagine that a Sunni Muslim were killed in a traffic accident on a beach, and his mates beat up the kaumatua (as a pagan in their eyes and causing offense to them) who came to do the blessing. What would the Herald do?
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November 6, 2018 8:36am
- secondcumming
  
  I’m no expert on things Maori, but maybe the kaumatua was a Korean War Vet and thought it best to exorcise the evil spirits?
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:49am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    What are the odds?
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:59am
    - Tall Man
      
      Probably higher than me getting anything out of the Melbourne Cup.
      
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      November 6, 2018 10:05am
- stephieboy
  
  Odakyu-sen, apathetic and pointless post if there ever was one from our wannabe Nip!
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:14am
  - Disillusioned_Voter
    
    Reported for racial slur.
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:31am
  - stephieboy
    
    Sorry, that should be Jap! The rhyming of the two words can create confusion!
    
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    November 6, 2018 10:04am
- KevOB
  
  a move to assert iwi dominance
  I agree.
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:25am
- Justitia
  
  I think you are right Odakyu-sen. Maori “blessings”, usually paid for by the taxpayer or ratepayers, are it seems mandatory these days. Just the other day Wellington’s Mayor preposterously had one to bless the closure to cars of certain inner-city streets on a Sunday. I have also sat through them before international conferences and at the opening of new offices. It appears neolithic animism is the new State religion and a tidy little money-earner as well as an assertion of ownership and authenticity. The new religion is rigorously policed – if you demur you are given a black mark in the “responsiveness to Maori” box on your personal assessment form. On reflection this forced imposition of religious ceremonial could be a human rights issue – well, good luck with that.
  
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  November 6, 2018 11:12am
  - KevOB
    
    It’s should be opposed by every Christian too. Maori spirit blessings? A moneyspinner.
    
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    November 6, 2018 12:37pm
  - Paulus
    
    Wellington Mayor going to cancel Guy Fawkes night next and pay for the replacement fireworks on some heathen imaginary time of recent invention called Matariki.
    For time immemorial it is named by the Greeks as Pleiades.
    Maori came first I know.
    
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    November 6, 2018 2:41pm
- Dave Mann
  
  Odakyu-sen… you have a wonderful cultural appreciation. I mean this sincerely. You’ve really got a handle on what’s going on here and how repugnant it is to have an alien religion shoved down people’s necks. Great comment, thanks!
  
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  November 6, 2018 1:57pm
- backster
  
  English word for Kaumatua would be witch doctor.
  
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  November 6, 2018 5:58pm
  - Dave Mann
    
    I couldn’t agree more! Good observation!
    
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    November 6, 2018 6:59pm
krazykiwi

Wind turbines are the world’s new ‘apex predators’, wiping out buzzards, hawks and other carnivorous birds at the top of the food chain, say scientists.

A study of wind farms in India found that predatory bird numbers drop by three quarters in areas around the turbines.

This is having a ‘ripple effect’ across the food chain, with small mammals and reptiles adjusting their behaviour as their natural predators disappear from the skies.

Their impact is reverberating across species, experts warned, upsetting nature’s delicate balance.

Greens, where is your outrage?
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November 6, 2018 8:41am
- DJ Ward
  
  Evolution will result in the survivors breeding in risk adversion.
  
  As long as they don’t go extinct first.
  
  Just put the windmills where humans have already killed everything.
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:04am
  - stephieboy
    
    DJ Ward,
    
    “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. ”
    
    Albert Einstein
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:16am
    - Tall Man
      
      Really? Did Ardern approve that irrelevant comment?
      
      Is Ardern a liar?
      
      By the way, your posts have already confirmed human stupidity.
      
      Is Ardern a liar?
      
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      November 6, 2018 10:03am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      What a prediction….and he never met you….
      Man was a genius.
      
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      November 6, 2018 1:52pm
- KevOB
  
  Windfarms trump other claimed green virtues.
  Species kill is only ancillary damage.
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:20am
- Komata
  
  KK
  
  Where is their outrage?
  
  Because it won’t advance the cause of globalism, probably parked at an airfield in Luxembourg.
  
  The gweens have ‘form’ in such matters.
  
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  November 6, 2018 11:05am
toby1845

Q. What is the difference between the First Fisherman and whichever horse wins today’s Melbourne Cup?

A. The horse always snorts after a good, hard ride.
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November 6, 2018 8:42am
- DJ Ward
  
  Cindy’s always on top then?
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:49am
- VicParking
  
  As against before for the Fisherman
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:00am
- Paulus
  
  Doubtful as he is now in third place after Ardern and Bubba – he will be on the prowl now as he has done his job.
  
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  November 6, 2018 2:43pm
lastmanstanding

Memo to the Nats.

In QT Woodhouse to ILG.

Isnt the fact he granted PR to this man all about protecting the Coalition from citizens finding out the customers of this person and that this would be extremely embarrassing for the Government.

Now ILG will answer NO.

If he is subsequently found out to the lying the Nats will have a third scalp.

Supplementary Question.

Woodhouse. The Minister wont reveal the real reason he granted PR because the real reason does not conform to the citizens expectations of a reason to grant PR.
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November 6, 2018 8:54am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Whilst I agree with the sentiment, a question like that would never get past the Speaker.
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:11am
Manolo

Will he win?
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/brazils-next-president-declares-war-fake-news-media-192452131–finance.html

For Brazil’s right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, attacking critical press outlets almost daily on social media is not enough. Once in office, he vows to hit their bottom line.
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November 6, 2018 9:07am
secondcumming

*RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION*

Did this happen during Ramalam?

https://twitter.com/V_of_Europe/status/1058794899758301189
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November 6, 2018 9:13am
Kiwi_in_Paris

Experts should analyse the voice tone patterns of so called “objective professional journalists”, especially the women.

I have noticed a pronounced scowl tone when they mention Simon Bridges, compared to a dreamy tone when they mention Jacinda Adern.

The same of course applies to Trump and Obama.

It’s so nice that the mainstream media is putting in so much effort into telling me how to think politically, and ultimately how to vote.

I mean who cares about objective journalism right?
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November 6, 2018 9:15am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  I suppose in world affairs you practice what you preach?
  
  Yeah right!
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:18am
  - Tall Man
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
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    November 6, 2018 9:54am
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      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      NO!
      
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      November 6, 2018 9:59am
      - Tall Man
        
        And there we have it. From this point on you have no credibility at all. You are a complete idiot, self labelled in an earlier post I see, who doesn’t have the ability to see what is right in front of you.
        
        Ardern has been caught lying on so many occasions that is now an embarrassment so I will now leave you to be consigned to where you are obviously suited, the garbage bin.
        
        Arden is the biggest liar as a PM that New Zealand has ever had the misfortune to experience.
        
        Ardern is a liar.
        
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        November 6, 2018 10:44am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        From this point on? You must be new here….
        
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        November 6, 2018 10:57am
      - rangitoto
        
        Prove it.
        
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        November 6, 2018 12:11pm
      - Swifty
        
        To be fair to Tall Man, she certainly has told a few porkies in the last year Stiffy, in case you missed them.
        
        Even the media has called her out on them.
        
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        November 6, 2018 12:45pm
    - MickMac
      
      Err Yes to that one.
      Stephieboys a muppet just downtick him…
      
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      November 6, 2018 10:09am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Is stephieboy an A-Grade pillock?
        
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        November 6, 2018 10:40am
    - Tall Man
      
      Perhaps our host needs to open a page to list Ardern’s little lies as it seems a few diehards are needing proof.
      
      As I previously said, when they’re down don’t let them up so maybe a few of us need to list a few of the bullshits that have emanated from her mouth…silly me, may need a couple of pages.
      
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      November 6, 2018 1:08pm
- Colinxy
  
  [quote]
  Campbell makes no apologies for this style of advocacy journalism, rather than straight news coverage, campaigning for the underdog, with his trademark heart- on-your-sleeve, we’re-all-in-this-together- New-Zealand style. It’s an approach that divides audiences.
  
  “I think that’s our point of difference,” Campbell, 48, says.
  
  “Isn’t it funny, I’ve never met a journalist who didn’t want to change the world and make it a better place. And without exception, that’s why they get into journalism. And yet when they get there, they are asked to be dispassionate and objective. Who came up with that rule?
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  http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/culture/television/8170752/John-Campbell-The-Jolly-Journo
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:26am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Did he also wear his arse on his sleeve after John Key handed it to him?
    
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    November 6, 2018 10:58am
Jack5

How’s this for multiculturist bullshit?

A taxpayer-funded “professor of diversity” in Auckland is quoted in Stuff as saying: “large countries such as India or China, where a lot of migrants come from, are “so heterogenous”.

The speaker: Edwina Pio, described as “New Zealand’s first and only professor of diversity and director of diversity at AUT”. ( AUT is the Auckland polytechnic transformed into a university).

Wow! But perhaps what you might expect in an article with the subheadline “Beautiful Diversity and Ugly Prejudice in Auckland”. It’s a report by Stuff on a survey its made on the ethnicity of Auckland students. Diversity is divine is the theme.

Pio seems to be one of three things: she is ignorant of the state of life in India and China, or she’s tailoring her message, or she’s been misquoted.

Consider China’s “heterogeneity”. Han Chinese are absolutely the dominant ethnic group. Not only in traditional China, but they are absorbing other ethnic groups in Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, and Tibet.

In what used to be Sinkiang, the majority population of the ethnic-Turkic Uighurs are being “re-educated” in huge detention camps.

One language, Mandarin, has been imposed on the country, and local languages such as Cantonese are being squeezed out of TV. (They are languages, often mutually unintelligble, though they use a common written language).

China isn’t into diversity and multiculturism.

Then consider India’s “heterogeneity”. It has a vicious, and enduring caste system, which includes murder, rape, and home burning of people of lower designated groups who infringe their birth-assigned classes. Social justice warriors who would say, “ah, but this isn’t racism”, should note the varying hues of skin in the different castes, from the light-coloured Brahmins down to the typical dark skins of the lowest castes. (For those who doubt that, see the link at the bottom of this post).

This is as rigid and cruel as the race barriers of America’s southern states until the 1960s. The treatment of Dalits, the bottom group, is appalling. There are some fine movies and books about the cruelty, but obviously they haven’t reached Diverse Auckland.

Christians are among the people being persecuted by Indian nationalists. The religious groupd, Open Doors UK & Ireland, was reported a year or so ago as estimating that estimated that a church was burnt down or a cleric beaten on average 10 times a week in India in the year to 31 October 2016.

On Indian castes and skin colour:

https://www.quora.com/Why-skin-color-of-Indians-goes-darker-when-we-move-down-the-caste-hierarchy-How-much-of-it-is-genetic
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- EAD_TWO
  
  What B/S – who would have ever thought there could be a “Profesor of Diversity”. That is some serious horseshit❗
  
  …………………………………………
  
  This is as rigid and cruel as the race barriers of America’s southern states until the 1960
  
  Stop your bleeding heart Kalegri clap trap Jacksie.
  
  Have you ever been for a walk in an American city that has seen “Blacks” integrate? I doubt it as your still alive.
  
  “Integration” in America, just as in South Africa has been a total disaster for both whites and blacks.
  
  How many more Hannah Corneliuss must be slaughtered at the hands of black savages before you stop peddling your nonsense?
  
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6293729/Two-foot-82lb-rock-used-smash-South-African-student-death-gang-raped.html
  
  Blacks are a cancer on white socities whenever they reside in even moderate numbers.
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:42am
- Jack5
  
  Sorry! Hang on!
  
  Well excuse me folks, I put the wrong link at the bottom of that piece.
  
  I linked to someone talking about working in the sun being a cause of different skin colours of Indian castes.
  
  Here’s the one I meant to include!
  
  https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Skin-colour-tied-to-caste-system-says-study/articleshow/55532665.cms
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:44am
Harkman

This One News US correspondent “Rebecca Wright??” is a real lefty hack, she walks up to Brian Kemp yesterday and asks him “are you suppressing the vote?” The poor guy is thinking “WTF is this?” Democrats don’t want id’s to vote because their little century old scam of voting 4, 5, 7 times might come to an end. This same Rebecca reporter after Len Brown’s affair became public, went up to his losing competitor and harassed him on Campbell Live, when the guy never disclosed it on the campaign trail. She’s been a joke ever since.
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November 6, 2018 9:25am
- Jack5
  
  Rebecca ~~Rottweiler~~ Wrightweiler?
  
  It’s a wanton waste of taxpayer subsidies for TVNZ to keep a reporter in New York then whisk them around the country. There’s so much video news, and so varied, and so quickly available.
  
  Leftist spin is the only thing Wrightweiler and Lame Jack and other TVNZ hacks have added to what we already have read on the Net.
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:31am
  - Jules99
    
    I wouldn’t mind so much if she didn’t just parrot the views of CNN and the Washington Post. There are other opinions in the US, but she seems unable to find them.
    
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    November 6, 2018 10:47am
- MCos
  
  ‘The poor guy’
  Yeah right.
  I very much doubt there’s any chance that Kemp chap is going to be caught off guard by a reporter from NZ. He would have answered hundreds of questions about those tactics of his from Americans.
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:48am
MCos

I see some airline in Oz wants to give veterans priority boarding and acknowledge them over the tannoy system on the plane.
This has gone down like a lead balloon.
My father who spent the entirety of WWII over there would have loathed that sort of thing.
He wasn’t one of these blokes who wouldn’t talk about what had happened, but neither did he make a big deal out of it. He went over there, did what he could, made it back and didn’t dwell on what might have been.
(The depression probability had a more profound effect on the way he lived his life.)
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November 6, 2018 9:39am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Let’s identify our veterans so the beansprout-munching peaceniks can spit on them.
  
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  November 6, 2018 9:59am
Chuck Bird

Does anyone here believe liberalising late-term abortions would be an improvement on the present regime, bringing the law up to date with real life?

Editorial: Abortion law needs to catch up with real life

In submissions to the commission, most health practitioners favoured the first option, making abortion purely a matter between the woman and her doctor. Labour will probably prefer that option too. The public may be divided on whether to liberalise late-term abortions but any of the options would seem an improvement on the present regime, bringing the law up to date with real life./blockquote>

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12154868
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November 6, 2018 9:44am
- KevOB
  
  Isn’t late term abortion specifically outlawed in NZ? If not, that murderous practice should be.
  
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  November 6, 2018 12:44pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  Kev, If you check the link I posted you will see that the Law Commission has recommended allowing it without breaking the law in all options.
  
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  November 6, 2018 5:14pm
  - KevOB
    
    Let them do the butchery themselves then.
    
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    November 6, 2018 5:18pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Huawei handing passwords for international telecoms infrastructure to Beijing:
https://pocketnow.com/australian-intel-huawei-chinese-government

That’s their business fucked then.
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November 6, 2018 9:48am
- Jack5
  
  Spark’s CEO, Simon Moutter, wants Huawei to be in consideration for NZ’s (eventual, coming, whenever) 5G mobile network.
  
  https://www.computerworld.co.nz/article/649100/ceo-nz-spark-defends-huawei-potential-5g-role/
  
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  November 6, 2018 10:28am
- KevOB
  
  NZ hands intercepted data to the Americans. Five eyes or double tongues?
  
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  November 6, 2018 12:43pm
igm

So the unelected unemployable unmarried mother is telling major banks it is a privilege, not a right to trade here.
Once again this imbecilic and commercially illiterate socialist communist is on its path to fuck NZ and turn it into a Venezuela.
Toxic Gnome you will go down as NZ’s most hated politician and may you never rest in peace!
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November 6, 2018 10:02am
- Jack5
  
  Most hated politician? There’s some hot competition for that title at the moment, IGM.
  
  The problem with NZ First is you can’t work with it, but you can’t work without it. Who will be National’s coalition partner?
  
  Thank you MMP.
  
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  November 6, 2018 10:24am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    The New Conservative Party is a possibility. You will not see National rule them out.
    
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    November 6, 2018 10:43am
    - All_on_Red
      
      The gap in the market is an Environment Party
      
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      November 6, 2018 11:19am
      - Tall Man
        
        That is an accurate statement.
        
        The greens gave that role away a long time ago and their “rat” munching has proven that.
        
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        November 6, 2018 1:22pm
    - MT_Tinman
      
      A Conservative Party will go nowhere unless they can get a Bob Jones-type leader.
      
      Someone who is well known for sensible, non-religious comment using humour to get his point across.
      
      Too many conservative wanna-be pollies have blotted their copy book by either sexual peccadilloes or by being simply boring for another to fly.
      
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      November 6, 2018 11:36am
      - Tall Man
        
        Nah, they’re just good at getting caught!
        
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        November 6, 2018 1:23pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        The man is Mark Richardson, but he might be busy as the Nat candidate for Botany.
        
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        November 6, 2018 2:53pm
- Chris R
  
  igm: I heard the idiotic PM telling the Banks that they must “put their customers first!” The Banks are companies and have shareholders. Does she not know this? Amongst the shareholders of Australian banks are NZ Kiwisaver investors, does she not know this? She truly is an idiotic embarrassment. I detest the CoL.
  
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  November 6, 2018 12:08pm
  - igm
    
    Chris: She does not even understand GNP, and has never heard of gross and net profit . . . can see why she only handed out fish and chip packs at Te Aroha, not being entrusted with taking cash or operating the till.
    She is a real bloody embarrassment to this country and its decent citizens.
    
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    November 6, 2018 2:01pm
  - Jack5
    
    The fact that our banking system is so heavily dominated by Australian banks, may indicate that NZ economically is only marginally big enough to be independent.
    
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    November 6, 2018 3:20pm
  - artemisia
    
    What does it mean to put bank customers first? Sounds like she is singing from Mr Jones regional-bank-branches-for-all songbook. Too bad about the owners, ROI or servicing financially illiterate and profligate customers.
    
    Simple answer – set up a wholly owned government bank and put the branches wherever they like. Simplest just to buy back Kiwibank and tell them what their job is.
    
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    November 6, 2018 5:55pm
    - simpleton1
      
      Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac government guarantee formulas.
      When it all went wrong, it was found that their borrowing setups and liabilities were not declared in the federal budgets until 2013.
      
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      November 7, 2018 12:23am
MickMac

I concur with both your statements
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November 6, 2018 10:06am
cmm

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12155215

So PriNZess won’t blame ILG and won’t blame the INZ officials for the hug-a-Czech-crim problem.

So who are you going to blame sweetie? Captiatism? The “professional arsehole” Trump?

Or is this just cudda happunend to anybody?

I still think there’s a wee pile to be dug trough yet. Like Handley was gigs4mates, was this just fixing probs for mates too?
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November 6, 2018 11:28am
- Tall Man
  
  Sir John Key. I’m sure he did because labour think he can do anything, or as Ardern says…anythink.
  
  Shame he’s still not in Parliament isn’t it?
  
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  November 6, 2018 1:17pm
sooty

Comrade Cindy going full retard trying to save Slease Galloways arse.
Come on Comrade just admit it, he’s tits. Always has been, always will be!
Off to the backbenchers for him! Out next term.
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November 6, 2018 11:31am
- Sofia
  
  Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she is not blaming officials or Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway for the botched handling of the Karel Sroubek residency saga.
  She said the main issue for her now was figuring out why important information about Sroubek was not put in front of the minister in the first place.
  – https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12155215
  
  If Ardern does not have the information in sentence two above, how can she come to the conclusion yet that she does in sentence one?
  Does Ardern think we are straight off stupid, or is it a brain-washing attempt to tell us the answer before, by her own admission, she knows what it is?
  
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  November 6, 2018 11:47am
  - KevOB
    
    Was ILG not told about the Parole Board’s decision?
    
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    November 6, 2018 12:40pm
- igm
  
  He is becoming very unpopular in his electorate due to his crawling to Islam. That is the reason the vile liar has grown facial hair.
  
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  November 6, 2018 11:57am
  - Swifty
    
    Er, that’s not true igm, to be fair.
    
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    November 6, 2018 1:01pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Are you sure?
      
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      November 6, 2018 1:19pm
      - Swifty
        
        Yep.
        
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        November 6, 2018 1:30pm
    - igm
      
      He is even seen in the company of imams.
      
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      November 6, 2018 3:37pm
      - Swifty
        
        He may well be but I can assure you the beard is nothing more than a personal grooming choice – and one which is quite common these days.
        
        Believe me.
        
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        November 6, 2018 4:00pm
EAD_TWO

Self-deception regarding the causes of anti-Semitism is one of the oldest features of Judaism, but it never ceases to amuse and surprise in new examples:

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/antisemitism-is-no-reflection-on-the-jew/
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November 6, 2018 11:40am
- Tall Man
  
  Mate, I lived in Oz for a while, I don’t like anyone so fuck off.
  
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  November 6, 2018 1:11pm
  - DJ Ward
    
    Humour!
    
    Were you returned recently?
    
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    November 6, 2018 1:44pm
- DJ Ward
  
  All religion is self deception.
  
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  November 6, 2018 1:29pm
Fletch

Don “American Pie” McLean, aged 73, has a girlfriend aged 24. Good for him, I guess….

https://people.com/music/don-mclean-girlfriend-paris-dylan-confirm-romance/
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November 6, 2018 11:46am
- Tall Man
  
  Lust not love, greed not love but hey, as long as they both get what they need and want.
  
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  November 6, 2018 1:15pm
  - stephieboy
    
    The PM never lies!
    
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    November 6, 2018 2:06pm
    - starboard
      
      LOL !!
      
      LOL!!
      
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      November 6, 2018 2:29pm
    - igm
      
      Yeh, and you don’t interfere with kid goats!
      
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      November 6, 2018 3:36pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Will you sack Curran…..No no her job is safe.
      
      Ardern is a liar.
      
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      November 6, 2018 4:49pm
- DJ Ward
  
  She would make any 40 year old plus (does my bum look big in this) feminist cry.
  Next thing they will be calling him a Pedo for betraying the sisterhoods rules on male behavour.
  How could he say no.
  Clearly he’s the victim, and enjoying it.
  
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  November 6, 2018 1:39pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oral Questions – 6 Nov

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/order-paper-questions/list-of-oral-questions/oral-questions-6-november-2018/
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November 6, 2018 11:59am
- Tall Man
  
  Looks like a day of bullshit coming with the speaker running blocks.
  
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  November 6, 2018 1:15pm
- DJ Ward
  
  Is that the 3% threshold announcement?
  
  News media, all teachers this, children that.
  
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  November 6, 2018 1:28pm
- Piniwi
  
  Perhaps MW but 1 and 4 will set the platform for number 7 as the light shines on ILG.
  
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  November 6, 2018 1:33pm
waikatogirl

I was speaking with someone who has resigned from their very lucrative position in a large company to move to a govt job in Wellington. Offered the position a month ago but has just been informed the appointment has been challenged by another of the applicants who lost out on the position. How is anyone to make a decision to change their job if this is likely to happen? If challenging a decision is legitimate, surely a time limit of 48 hours to do so would be sufficient?
How is anyone to trust a job offer???
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November 6, 2018 1:47pm
- stephieboy
  
  Find it difficult to give credence to someone move from a lucrative position to a Government one unless there was an element of public service involved.
  
  I think the government job would have given the position only provisionally subject to appeal. Otherwise, that said person is a fool!
  
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  November 6, 2018 2:05pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Ardern is a liar.
    
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    November 6, 2018 4:47pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Guess what steffy girl, nobody gives a fuck about what you think.
    
    You are now clearly identified as a labour intern regurgitating soundbites from Ardern the liar. Does that then make you a liar, maybe, but more likely just a poor little girl trying to play with the big boys.
    
    Ardern is a liar.
    
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    November 6, 2018 4:57pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  There is typically a two week time limit on putting in appeal against a Public Service appointment.
  
  Timeframe for Lodging Application for Review
  27 Typically there should be a deadline of no more than two weeks, from the date of
  notification of appointment, for an application for review to be lodged together with
  written representations. However, this deadline may be extended on reasonable request.
  
  http://www.ssc.govt.nz/upload/downloadable_files/guidelines-review-of-public-service-appt-procedures.pdf
  
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  November 6, 2018 2:35pm
Woz

Now, please forgive me if I’ve got the wrong end of the stick. Planting 250,000 native trees is always a good idea, even if a Labour government thinks of it, but how can they claim this as a win for the billion trees goal, which I thought was all about the forestry industry?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12154619
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November 6, 2018 2:06pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Projects of 250,000 trees costing $2.2 M works out at a costing of $8.80 / tree.
  
  The 1 billion tree project looks like it will be costing around the $8-9 Bn mark.
  
  Expensive forests.
  
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  November 6, 2018 2:28pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Not if we use the firewood to burn the bloody lefties Maggy! 🙂
    
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    November 6, 2018 5:03pm
waikatogirl

Did I hear Simon Bridges correctly, asking the PM at QT “if the Czech crim/drug importer was the reason a whole family had been put under witness protection”?
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November 6, 2018 2:31pm
- starboard
  
  yes !
  
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  November 6, 2018 2:38pm
starboard

Jay-sus..Grunter R needs to leave the knife and fork alone for a while.
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November 6, 2018 2:31pm
starboard

Mallard is being a complete front bum.
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November 6, 2018 2:40pm
Captain Mainwaring

My god that Megan Woods is an unpleasant, rotund bag of wind.
Where do the left find such people?
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November 6, 2018 2:57pm
Jack5

The “Central American” caravan headed for the Mexico-United States border includes Middle East and South-East Asian people.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-secretary-nielsen-some-caravan-migrants-come-from-middle-east
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November 6, 2018 3:10pm
- DigNap15
  
  And its mostly young men!
  Build the wall, send the army, turn them back.
  And for everyone that tries to come send ten back!
  
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  November 6, 2018 3:26pm
Ross12

Looks like Nate Silver is backing down on his very recent “blue wave ” predictions and now has reduced the number of seats the Democrats will win to 19 and will not be surprised if the Republicans hold the House.
I think this is called “having a bob each way” to preserve his image.
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November 6, 2018 3:18pm
Johnboy

Fuckme… Poor old Jim! 🙂
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/108381227/kiwibank-not-doing-its-job-to-counter-big-bank-profits
How can the haters and wreckers pull down a mans legacy so quickly? Faster than OBummer and Trumpie even! 🙂
If only the sad bastard had stuck to shopping trolley design he would be a bloody national hero! 🙂

ps: Luv Taxcinda’s photo….. She’s hidden her teeth for once!! 🙂 🙂
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November 6, 2018 3:40pm
- DJ Ward
  
  Its the look people have on game shows when they get the question wrong.
  
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  November 6, 2018 5:02pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh dear,
Whitirea Polytech going down the tubes…

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/375301/proposed-polytechnic-merger-would-spell-job-losses
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November 6, 2018 4:21pm
- Johnboy
  
  Place’s of higher learning have all gone downhill since they started to adopt Murri names as their main purpose Maggy….just like the Police…the Army…the Navy….the IRD…WINZ…….Shit I should stop repeating myself! 🙂
  
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  November 6, 2018 4:26pm
  - DigNap15
    
    These Maori educational place names should all be reversed NOW.
    Who want a degree from Toi Ohomai in the Bay Of Plenty.
    You can just imagine a prospective employer glazing their eyes!
    Sorry Maori names have no place in education.
    They never had any! (education that is)
    
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    November 6, 2018 6:43pm
Happychappy

If you are to believe what Tracey Kirk writes it sounds like JLR is teamed up with blubber and the other ex National spin doctor in releasing tapes that have been recorded over the past year on Bridges, Bennett and other National MP’s. After seeing and hearing comments from blubber from before the last Election I would have no doubt that this is a orchastrated move to take down the Leadership of the National Party and do irreparable damage to the National Party brand. Hate consumes people and this is not going to stop until these selfish arsoles get the job finished.
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November 6, 2018 4:25pm
- KevOB
  
  WO may find himself in Court again & again & again… He dosen’t seem to know when to stop.
  
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  November 6, 2018 5:27pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Hope so. He doesn’t seem to learn, does he?
    
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    November 6, 2018 6:24pm
    - Souvlaki
      
      1.”Never Go full retard “2.” Explaining is losing.”….two tenets he has banged on about for years…has succumbed to himself, seemingly ” unaware”.
      
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      November 6, 2018 8:56pm
- howitis
  
  Slater is a completely mental asshole.
  That part is easy to explain.
  What is Lusk’s motive?
  
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  November 6, 2018 10:13pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Tv One News – 1st item – 6 minutes of Yank B.s.

Less than 1 minute on our dodgy czech resident…
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November 6, 2018 6:09pm
- igm
  
  Czech resident coverage is not assisting CoL so it will not be run as lead again, possibly like the perverted carryings-on at the Labour indoctrination camp it will be dissed.
  This has Gutless Little Andy’s influence all over it . . . his union sycophants still do as the weasel orders.
  
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  November 6, 2018 6:15pm
- waikatogirl
  
  TVNZ gotta hate on Trump when there are accusations to help the COL minimise. The Czech crim now accused of being part of a group of Hells’ Angels threatening a family, who had to be taken into Witness Protection for their safety. Let ILG and Cindy justify that.
  
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  November 6, 2018 6:21pm
  - Longknives
    
    I would also have expected the latest shocking revelations about the Labour Party’s Czech friend would be headline news!
    Seems TVNZ have been warned…
    
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    November 6, 2018 6:33pm
- itstricky
  
  6 minutes of Yank B.s….Less than 1 minute on our dodgy czech resident…
  
  Isn’t that a win for JLR though?
  
  The media can’t win with you lot.
  
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  November 6, 2018 7:29pm
DigNap15

“Last year, Whitireia posted a loss of more than $8 million and WelTec lost about $2m”

Funny that the one with the Maori name lost 4 times as much as the other, which sounds more like a medical centre.

Time to ditch all Maori educational names and Aeoteroa this and Aeoteroa that!
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November 6, 2018 6:46pm
- itstricky
  
  Aeoteroa this and Aeoteroa that
  
  True that. No one should use ‘Aeoteroa’
  
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  November 6, 2018 7:28pm
  - nasska
    
    …..”No one should use ‘Aeoteroa’”…..
    
    Eh boy! 🙂
    
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    November 6, 2018 7:38pm
    - itstricky
      
      Eh, DigNap’s got the hots for Judith, eh.
      
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      November 6, 2018 8:23pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      ‘Aeoteroa’ is a made-up Maori word.
      
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      November 6, 2018 8:52pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Looks Latin to me
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86
        
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        November 6, 2018 9:04pm
DigNap15

Labour is removing standard on teachers English etc.

They have aleardy removed Health Board standardsand school standards.

Next it will be doctors standards

Can you use a stethoscope?
Great you are in.

Did you buy your certificate on ebay?
Great come in.

The COL have no standards, just look at their female MP’s!
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November 6, 2018 7:36pm
- itstricky
  
  You’ve got the hots for Judith and Paula? Well I never…
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:01pm
  - nasska
    
    Paula’s a sweetie! 🙂
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:03pm
    - Morrissey
      
      ???!!?!?!?!?
      
      https://drmelissawelby.com/8-questions-you-need-to-ask-to-get-the-best-psychiatrist/
      
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      November 6, 2018 8:38pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Well who would you rather have?
    I’d take any female National MP over the best Labour one!
    
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    November 6, 2018 8:21pm
    - Morrissey
      
      ??!!??!?
      
      https://tenor.com/search/hahaha-gifs
      
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      November 6, 2018 8:39pm
- Morrissey
  
  A fantasist writes:
  
  Labour is removing standard on teachers English etc. …. They have aleardy removed Health Board standardsand school standards. …. Next it will be doctors standards
  
  ?????
  
  Arrant nonsense. I hope you’re not so stupid as to believe the rubbish you’ve just posted.
  
  But I’m sure you know as well as anyone else that the only party in New Zealand that believes in zero standards is the ACT cult. Shamefully, and fatally for its reputation, National indulged those fanatics from 2008 until we were mercifully shot of them a year ago.
  
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  November 6, 2018 8:18pm
Morrissey

GROPERS
No. 54: Michael Breslin

****MELBOURNE CUP DAY SPECIAL***

When the man in the bar put his hand under the young woman’s dress, she froze. The fear held her in place. She would later tell a racing industry body how she was petrified, unable to move, “playing dumb” in the hope he would stop.

Horse trainer Michael Breslin, then 54, was drunk. It was November 5, 2016, the first day of the prestigious week-long New Zealand Cup Meeting at Christchurch’s Riccarton Park. Breslin, an established trainer whose horses have topped $5 million in earnings, had raced three of his dozens of horses at the track that day.

The then-18-year-old woman – a track work rider whose name is suppressed – immediately recognised who he was when her fiance, a jockey, introduced them around midnight at the Racecourse Hotel, “the go-to” bar after race day.

Shortly after the meeting, Breslin started to grope her buttocks and silently slid his hand underneath her dress. “I just froze. I didn’t know what to do,” the woman said. She managed to text her partner, playing pool nearby, to ask for help. When her fiance saw what was happening, he confronted Breslin. “Sorry, sorry,” Breslin is alleged to have said. ……

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/108321403/horse-trainer-michael-breslin-sexually-assaulted-woman-but-penalty-not-tough-enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q3_52t8eFI

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November 6, 2018 8:08pm
- howitis
  
  Are you in Canada?
  Sounds like that newly legalised weed is pretty powerful medicine!
  
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  November 6, 2018 10:23pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Stop boozing you old buggas

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/06/alcohol-misuse-by-over-50s-on-rise-in-australia-and-new-zealand-study-finds
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November 6, 2018 9:41pm
- Monique Watson
  
  Hahaha! Some people never learn! I did through a few stints. Once fell down trying to get into bed. Hubby just threw me a pillow and I thought, “What the hey and went off to sleep. 🙂
  
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  November 7, 2018 4:36am
Hugh Pavletich

How prepared are we to withstand the massice changes currently underway in the Australian housing market ? …

Soaring listings, credit concerns cloud Melbourne, Sydney housing market outlook | afr.com … behind paywall …

https://www.afr.com/real-estate/soaring-listings-credit-concerns-cloud-melbourne-sydney-housing-market-outlook-20181106-h17kcv

Falling investor and owner-occupier demand is prompting economists to predict deeper falls in the key Sydney and Melbourne housing markets than they expected six months ago.

Prices in the two largest cities are now falling at an annualised rate of 10 per cent … read more via hyperlink above …
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Sydney’s housing market downturn could end up being the longest on record … Sydney Morning Herald

https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/sydney-s-housing-market-downturn-could-end-up-being-the-longest-on-record-20181106-p50e7h.html

Sydney home prices have fallen 7.4 per cent over the past year, according to CoreLogic’s latest Home Value Index, the steepest annual percentage decline since February 1990.

As seen in the chart below posted on Twitter by Cameron Kusher, Research Analyst at CoreLogic, prices in Australia’s largest and most expensive housing market have now fallen 8.2 per cent from their cyclical peak 15 months ago, making this the fastest downturn in over three decades, at least in this point in the price cycle. … read more via hyperlink above …
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… To rate as ‘affordable’ detached housing should not exceed 3.0 times annual household income (median multiple) … with apartments pricing being about 70% of detached or therefore 2.0 times gross annual household incomes (median multiple) … to illustrate … refer latest Houston Association of Realtors monthly report …

MLS Press Releases and Archive – HAR members – HAR.com

https://www.har.com/content/mls

Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: All Editions

http://www.demographia.com/db-dhi-index.htm
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… When can we expect the politicians of Australia and New Zealand to do as their betters (the public) are telling them … by JUST ALLOWING affordable new housing to be built … that’s all …

New Zealand Issues Monitor – Concerns about housing grow

https://www.ipsos.com/en-nz/new-zealand-issues-monitor-concerns-about-housing-grow
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November 7, 2018 5:47am
Monique Watson

COL are idiots. It’s the Councils that have caused a land stranglehold that have caused the house prices to rise.
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November 7, 2018 6:27am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  MW … You are spot on …
  
  Mike Hosking (Popular Conservative Commentator): Housing Minister Phil Twyford right to bulldoze his way through councils – NZ Herald
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12118208
  
  COMMENT:
  
  Given the way the week ended for the Labour Party perhaps we can begin this one with some good news.
  
  The Unitary Plan for Auckland is being overridden, at least in part, and that is a move to be acknowledged.
  
  It should have been done several years ago. …
  
  … National should have owned it, they threatened Auckland but they lacked the gonads to act.
  
  Twyford to his credit clearly doesn’t hold the same fear.
  
  And in that is another twist, the reason he’s so gung ho is his 100,000 house promise is a myth, but he’s not going to die wondering so he’s need every bit of land he can get his hands on. … VIEW & READ MORE via hyperlink above …
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  … NOTE HOW GUTLESS THE NATIONAL LED GOVERNMENT WAS IN 2016 …
  
  Labour, National both tell council Auckland city growth limits should be abolished | Stuff.co.nz
  
  https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/80113578/labour-auckland-city-growth-limits-should-be-abolished?rm=m
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  (Auckland Mayor) Phil Goff cautiously welcomes authority set up to fast-track housing projects | RNZ News
  
  https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/365412/phil-goff-cautiously-welcomes-authority-set-up-to-fast-track-housing-projects
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  Urban Development Authority a long overdue initiative … Auckland Business Chamber of Commerce | Scoop News
  
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1808/S00741/urban-development-authority-a-long-overdue-initiative.htm
  
  Setting up an Urban Development Authority with powers to get houses built faster in Auckland “is a long overdue initiative,” says Auckland Business Chamber head Michael Barnett. …
  
  … concluding …
  
  … With Government needing legislation to establish the UDA, Barnett said this should be put through Parliament under urgency to ensure the Authority is up and running by the end of the year. “Time is ticking.” … read more via hyperlink above
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  How to get a (NZ)$650,000 KiwiBuild-style house down to an affordable (NZ)$300,000 – Stephen Sellwood of Infrastructure New Zealand – NZ Herald
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12107783
  
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  November 7, 2018 6:37am
  - softail 1450
    
    Hugh ,if being in love with yourself made a person live longer you will still be around when the earth explodes in a few billion years .
    
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