General Debate 17 December 2018

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Captain Mainwaring

So we’re going to get ‘sticking-plaster’ fix-ups to the worst bits of the highway network (along with reduced speed limits) instead of the proper dual-carriageway system that National had in the plans.
The money saved will be spent on a slow tram to Auckland airport.
Thanks Winston and the idiots who voted for you.
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December 17, 2018 8:01am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Reduced speed limits ‘enforced’ by mobile cash register?
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:03am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Yep, speed cameras, like the one already in the Dome Valley.
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:22am
    - Sacha
      
      And in the past week I have noticed a proliferation of driverless little blue cars, shiny new, parked on the side of the road in random semi rural locations.
      Maybe they were self-drive, and just parked up for a rest?
      
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      December 17, 2018 9:14am
      - hullkiwi
        
        If they are parked up on the side of the road, get on to the police and local transport authority and have them removed as a traffic hazard.
        
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        December 17, 2018 9:39am
      - sooty
        
        Maybe the same car?
        Out tending their crops?
        
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        December 17, 2018 10:58am
- Southern Raider
  
  Good to see all the Rodney residents getting up the Govt for slagging off Warkworth and Wellsford
  
  As someone said on the radio today in a couple of years National will be back ripping all those median barriers out to do the job properly
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:04am
  - gorse
    
    That’s if Labour haven’t bankrupted the country first.
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:18am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Yesterday, Twitford & JAG had the crash audacity to do their $1.4bn announcement at the top of the Dome Valley.
    
    Instead of a modern highway linking the north with Auckland, we are getting plaster over a wound that needs surgery.
    
    JAG this morning, saying the road toll is too high & it will take a few years for these measures to have an impact. Unless you are going to have mobile speed cameras every 3 to 5 km and make the speed 60 km Warkworth to Whangarei, you are not going to cut the road toll.
    
    The problem for the dumb yank and Twitford is Auckland Council plan major growth in the region, so the brainless due will snarl up the roads instead.
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:32am
    - kevn
      
      @hull…. JAG, the parking consultant. Yep, well qualified.
      
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      December 17, 2018 9:17am
- Lance
  
  Just think, with NO passing options and traffic down to a crawl everywhere in hemmed in single lanes, now much safer our roads will be.
  
  Yes, Winston enabled blathering idiots in charge
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:06am
  - igm
    
    Where will the cycle lanes be placed?
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:09am
    - sooty
      
      On one side off the two lane road!
      
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      December 17, 2018 8:31am
  - G152
    
    And people are still going to die.
    Having opposing streams of traffic only inches apart at highway speeds isn’t the way to go.
    Put the opposing traffic meters or kilometers apart
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:12am
    - Colinxy
      
      I’m fairly convinced that if private enterprise was in charge of roads, the government would have regulations requiring more than paint on the ground to protect drivers from opposing traffic.
      
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      December 17, 2018 8:28am
      - hullkiwi
        
        They are planning cheese wire medians and those fixed flexible yellow bollard dividers.
        
        They stop nothing.
        
        Working in the Dome Valley is going to cause huge congestion through the narrow areas.
        
        Then there is whatever they are planning to do with SH1 through the towns of Wellsford, Te Hana & Kaiwaka. In each instance SH1 is the main street through the town.
        
        Hey, how Twitford & JAG know better than those of us who live in the area.
        
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        December 17, 2018 8:44am
      - Southern Raider
        
        And cause carnage for motorcyclists
        
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        December 17, 2018 8:49am
      - Tall Man
        
        Really really thick paint…much like the coalition.
        
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        December 17, 2018 10:28am
    - David Garrett
      
      G152: To put traffic everywhere even metres let alone kilometers apart, you will need to re-design the geography of the country. Ever driven Wairoa to Napier? The Waioeka gorge between Opotoki and Matawai? Arthurs Pass?
      
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      December 17, 2018 10:29am
      - G152
        
        And you have a better idea to separate high speed traffic streams ??
        Why then didn’t you advocate and get it into law when you had the chance ??
        
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        December 17, 2018 11:29am
    - srylands
      
      Yes exactly. On major highways in Eastern Australia, that process of building a safe divided roading network is complete. It took 35 years. In the mid 1980s, Australia’s highways between Sydney and Melbourne were pretty much like New Zealand’s today. 35 years later they are transformed or more accurately replaced.
      
      New Zealand could have done the same.
      
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      December 17, 2018 4:38pm
  - srylands
    
    Wait until the now 2 lane “expressway” from Otaki to Levin opens. As the local member why isn’t Nathan Guy slamming that crazy decision. Just think about it. We finally, finally get a motorway from Wellington to Levin, but oops we ran out of money so the last 8 kms is 2 lanes. It is the Terrace Tunnel all over again, the madness of which plagues Wellington every day.
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:14am
    - Tall Man
      
      “Posts
      
      Nathan Guy created a poll.
      October 25 ·
      Big disappointment! The Government consulted on a 4-lane Horowhenua Expressway but it is now only going to build a 2-lane road as the funding is being raided for Auckland trams. What a massive backdown. I’m gutted for our community and region. Which option do you prefer?
      
      93%
      4-lane Expressway
      
      7%
      2-lane Road”
      
      From his Facebook page.
      
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      December 17, 2018 10:30am
      - Tall Man
        
        and…….
        
        ”
        Nathan Guy
        December 11 at 1:37 PM ·
        I’m hearing NZTA have finally made a decision on the Otaki to Levin Road. This process has had a big emotional impact on many residents and I acknowledge how difficult it has been for those affected.
        
        I’ll be pushing hard to ensure NZTA have a pot of money ready to compensate those who want a quick acquisition to get on with their lives.
        
        There is still some funding uncertainty as the community wants and deserves a 4 lane expressway, and it’s frustrating to see it downgraded to only a 2 lane road. This is a result of the Government raiding the funding to pay for Auckland trams.
        
        I also call on NZTA to make urgent safety improvements to this unsafe road before Xmas with all that holiday traffic just around the corner.”
        
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        December 17, 2018 10:32am
      - srylands
        
        Thanks for that. Would be good if National commits to finish the job properly if they form a government.
        
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        December 17, 2018 2:09pm
    - lifesgood
      
      Wellingtonians deserve what they get. I love that city but its residents are nutters. Just look at the consecutive mayors they’ve voted for, and their anglican bishop. Plus the place is infested with loopy greenies and civil servants.
      
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      December 17, 2018 11:29am
      - Dafixeruppa
        
        I did vote, but not for the current bunch of lunatics!
        I take umbrage that you think I deserve the clusterf**k that we have here
        
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        December 17, 2018 11:50am
      - Batman
        
        Hey lifesgood, I would gently remind you that these days it is us civil servants who are keeping NZ back from going full-on third world amateur hour status.
        
        But yes, Wellington city is a hopelessly lefty town, but the suburbs are blue enough to hold the overall party vote for National
        
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        December 17, 2018 1:18pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Not to mention motorcyclicts getting impaled on the posts holding the median wires, or decapitated by the wires themselves…
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:46am
    - Southern Raider
      
      Yes so so dangerous
      
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      December 17, 2018 8:50am
    - KH
      
      Apparently for motor cyclists who fall, the action of all those little posts they encounter as they slide across the road is chop chop chop chop.
      
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      December 17, 2018 9:33am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Remember Captain, these were John Key’s holiday highways. Labour would far prefer people who drive them take a permanent holiday.
  Could someone also please remind me how a rabid Marxist American has ended up in our parliament?
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:06am
  - waikatogirl
    
    I was musing the other day on JAG and her obvious bitter hatred of proper dual-carriageway roading systems. Everyone else who has driven or been driven on one of these wonderfully easy, wide and straight motorways, with the ability to pass anyone tootling along in the slow lane is pleased to finally be able to get from A to B quickly and safely.
    The stupid JAG woman must be hight if she believes the road toll will be reduced by 160 deaths by slowing us all down on 2-way second-rate old roads with a wire cheese-cutter barrier to stop head-ons.
    ABSOLUDELY!!
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:20am
    - oldpark
      
      @waikato girl 8.20am.
      Yes the same wee waste of space import was completely against Wellingtons Transmission Gullys’ new Motorway.
      In fact if the present regime had a choice Transmission Gully Motorway would not have happened. It took a National Government to approve the project. That was against all odds where the Lie-bour sickos held most of the electorate seats.
      Just for laughs and a far left lunatic Greenie like JAG opposition to the Motorway it would be a Christmas Treat if Newstalkzb went into their archives and broadcast the venomous rage from JAG. Talk about stupid comments being stupid even that import excelled herself.
      
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      December 17, 2018 8:50am
      - srylands
        
        When Transmission Gully is complete, I hope that common sense prevails, and that John Key is invited to formally open the road.
        
        In due course I would also like to see a memorial to the approx 200 people who died on the current coastal highway between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki.
        
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        December 17, 2018 9:12am
      - Viking2
        
        When Transmission Gully is complete, I hope that common sense prevails, and that John Key is invited to formally open the road.
        
        Unfortuantely if it is finished in this Govt.’s turn Jacinda will have the affrontery to do the job. Wither her or Twyford if he survives that long.
        
        Total hypocrisy by this Govt.
        
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        December 17, 2018 10:28am
    - Sacha
      
      And don’t forget the benefit for people who just want to ‘tootle along’ in the slow lane.
      I tow a horse float often at the weekends, and passing lanes are a treat to drive along – no pressure from tailgaters to speed up
      Not everyone who travels is in a hurry –
      
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      December 17, 2018 9:21am
      - Wangas Feral
        
        I am with you Sacha. I pull over whenever I can to let people pass me. But still amazes me that even when I give people enough room so they can pass me without going over the centre line there are people who just will not pass. So is it my fault or theirs for the traffic that banks up behind them.
        
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        December 17, 2018 9:30am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Bloody horse floats, the scourge of the weekend highway.
        
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        December 17, 2018 10:32am
      - David Garrett
        
        Sacha: I hope you don’t live out here! There are very few things I don’t like about living in my rural splendour – madams towing horse floats at 70kmh – max – not giving a fuck to who is behind them is my pet hate…along with absurd numbers of road cones and stop/go men for utterly minor bits of tree trimming.
        
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        December 17, 2018 10:34am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      I got a lift from a guy on a trip through Germany: new Merc, always in the fast lane at 130, awesome music. It felt totally safe and was exhilarating.
      
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      December 17, 2018 10:11am
      - rightoverlabour
        
        130 in the fast lane? I m surprised he was going so slow… That’s the speed in the slow lane on South African highways ( or it was when we still had roads)…
        
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        December 17, 2018 11:09am
      - hullkiwi
        
        RoL, I can attest the N roads and major R roads are still good in SA. What is not good is the level to which the SA govt puts their hand in your pocket to pay for tolls. There is nothing consistent about what they charge.
        
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        December 17, 2018 12:46pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        I think he meant MILES per hour.
        
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        December 17, 2018 1:15pm
      - Colville
        
        140 km/hr was ok in the fast lane in Italy recently…but an eye had to be kept out for flashing headlights in the rear view mirror for someone wanting to go fast….!
        
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        December 17, 2018 2:52pm
    - backster
      
      Barry Soper spoke in glowing terms on the two lane proposals and praised the Government policy on afternoon talkback.
      
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      December 17, 2018 12:30pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        Yeh, but Soper lives and moves only inside urban Wellington. So, a beltway commendation of this proposal is nothing less than one should expect from him. Ignorant and nothing less.
        
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        December 17, 2018 12:48pm
      - Paulus
        
        Notice Soper spoke when it was after lunch – probably his usual with Peters.
        
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        December 17, 2018 1:59pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Of course he did. He is a sychophantic scribe for the Col and its whacky policies.
        
        Does Bazza even drive?
        
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        December 17, 2018 4:40pm
- Chris R
  
  Not to forget that the less-than-smart, Julie-Ann Genter claimed she’d have” the road toll reduced to zero.” That worked out well didn’t it! Another Greenie dreamer releasing her idiocy on all of us.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:20am
  - VicParking
    
    This morning, on Red Radio, she explained that we will have to wait three years before the road toll will reduce. I agree with her, When National again gets into power and build realy safe roads.
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:33am
    - kevn
      
      @vic… Hands up all those who find the new expressways smooth and safe driving. Plus economical.
      
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      December 17, 2018 9:19am
  - David Garrett
    
    Chris R: Quite so…that idiotic comment is even worse than Kelvin Davis’s comment that he looked forward to the day when not one Maori was in prison. He didn’t mention whether he planned to let out William Bell, Dartelle Alder, Charlie George Baker….
    
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    December 17, 2018 10:43am
    - sooty
      
      What, they only going to keep honkeys in prison?
      Mind you you would be safer than outside!
      
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      December 17, 2018 11:04am
- Sofia
  
  “Thanks Winston and the idiots who voted for you.”
  
  Under MMP no one will ever know the aspirations of those who voted for Winston – whether they hoped he would put Labour in power, or form a coalition with National.
  There is of course a high chance that the latter is true, that the majority hoped for a NZF/National Government, and Winston has decided contrary to their hopes.
  
  So, I suppose ‘Yes’, it makes them all idiots.
  
  Before the Election, Labour proposed a water tax, but not the rate it would apply – 1 cent or 2, per cubic metre of water for farmers. So with that uncertainty, Ardern saw a major mistake and formed her first committee to consider it for the next Election – the Working Tax Group, about to announce a Capital Gains Tax instead.
  But Ardern avoided an Electoral disaster: asking people to vote for uncertainty.
  
  I am still amazed and cannot understand why people who would not have voted for an uncertain water tax, voted for Winston.
  There’s my vote, Winston – do with it what you will, although you haven’t told us. 186,706 people did that. Allowed Winston to make his mind up for them.
  
  MMP is often described as the system foisted on Germany after the War to restrain the likes of Hitler ever taking power again.
  Buggered if I can understand how it prevents that, seeing how it works here.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:34am
  - Colinxy
    
    Winston is a chameleon politician. He will say anything that he believes will give him the votes to get into power with no intention of ever implementing any of it (i.e. blatantly lies).
    
    What I don’t understand about Winston First voters is how often they allow themselves to be fooled. I can understand first time voters voting for him, since they might not have seen how willing he is to lie. As for the rest, I guess there is a significant proportion of the population that don’t realise they’ve taken the word ‘gullible’ out of the dictionary.
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:46am
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Alzheimers?
      
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      December 17, 2018 8:53am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Stockholm Syndrome
        
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        December 17, 2018 9:18am
      - kevn
        
        @rol… Dementia?
        
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        December 17, 2018 9:20am
    - Sacha
      
      Perhaps there is a significant proportion of the population which has a similar mindset to Winston, and which doesn’t have any problem with his fluidity of thought?
      
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      December 17, 2018 9:25am
      - rightoverlabour
        
        Fluidity od Though. That’s brilliant. Jacinda is an expert on that. Us plebs call it “lies….”
        
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        December 17, 2018 11:11am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Taxinda gushes…
        
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        December 17, 2018 12:41pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Sofia – I doubt that many NZF voters really thought Winston would be doing deals with the Green Party, but there you go. Thanks for nothing MMP.
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:48am
    - David Garrett
      
      KS: I agree with the first sentiment…but having had a review, we are stuck with MMP for the foreseeable…and as off the wall as they were, was it really democracy when the 20% who voted Social Credit back in the day got 2% of the MP’s??
      
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      December 17, 2018 10:46am
- Fletch
  
  I know that where I live the roading is appalling. I don’t know what they’re spending the tax money on, but it isn’t the roads – unrepaired holes, rough patches, bumps, etc.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:57am
- Raphael
  
  They’re also blaming older cars for all the deaths. We would be all buying brght new shiny shiny cars
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:58am
- Classic Liberal
  
  You guys just don’t get it. JAG has explained, and then Guyon explained to us and to National that:
  
  *it’s all about copying SWEDEN*.
  
  See, to socialists, Sweden does everything right: better road safety, lovely refugee influx, beautiful socialist dream country.
  
  That’s how Taxinda and her team want NZ to be: like Sweden.
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:07am
  - freethinker
    
    So would I if it meant we didn’t havn’t a Govt like Sweden still trying to cobble together a coalition. Have you noticed how smoothly things run when Parliament is on holiday.
    
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    December 17, 2018 10:27am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Hey, I’m all for it
    
    https://www.google.com/search?q=swedens+blondes&rlz=1C1GCEV_enNZ824NZ824&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiG1Nynr6XfAhVLOSsKHZRJB3UQ_AUIDigB&biw=1536&bih=754
    
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    December 17, 2018 11:12am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  The road to Wellsford is already a series of quick fix band aids.
  This Govt is not spending road Tax money on roads, it is all going to their socialist bullshit projects.
  Maybe another working group could sort it out?
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:09am
calendar girl

Manchester United gone for this season.
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December 17, 2018 8:02am
- SGA
  
  🙂 🙂 🙂
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:03am
- Pharmachick
  
  YNWA!!!!!!!!!!
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:17am
  - VicParking
    
    DDDWL
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:35am
    - Pharmachick
      
      Yeah, but we *believe* 😉
      
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      December 17, 2018 4:13pm
- pdm
  
  Watch out for Biscuit.
  
  There are Liverpool supporters and then there is Biscuit – scouser extraordinaire!!
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:21am
- kiwitoffee
  
  An early Christmas present.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:46am
- The only red for me is that of Manchester United
  
  35+ years a fan. We’re going back to the dark days before Ferguson. Mourinho was yesterday’s man when United signed him. He’s destroying the club. No one fears us anymore. Once we crash out of Europe Mourinho will be gone and good riddance to the brat. And it’s painful to watch the Scousers get back on their perch and the noisy neighbours winning. With United where they are and a COL screwing up everything I’m not a happy Chappy.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:55am
  - skyblue
    
    42 years a fan here, it is hard/sad to cheer on Man City. With the EPL the last few seasons it has been anyone but Loserpool.
    
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    December 17, 2018 9:03am
    - The only red for me is that of Manchester United
      
      This current United squad have no knowledge of history or awareness that the North West Derby is the biggest rivalry in English football. I have to admit that Klop is building a very good team. United just have players. Please let us get Zidane. Right back to work.
      
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      December 17, 2018 10:37am
      - Pharmachick
        
        And they need to get rid of Mourinho before the January transfer window, because ether owners simply won’t give him any more money to make bad signings. And YES as a died-in-the-wool, Gerrard Fam, Liverpool fan… I’m supposed to be down on Man U (and generally am), but even with all that, just don’t want to see a club destroy its own shining legacy (well, okay; maybe just for 2 or 3 seasons 😉 ).
        
        Just for God’s sake *don’t* hire Zidane … that would bad for, well everybody that’s not a Man U fan.
        
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        December 17, 2018 4:20pm
  - Sponge
    
    It could be worse… I am a Fulham fan.
    
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    December 17, 2018 10:41am
    - fernglas
      
      I had a dog who used to do a back flip when Fulham lost. Never found out what he would do when they won.
      
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      December 17, 2018 2:40pm
Southern Raider

LMAO

Ministry of Education has changed how English second language teachers are funded and how schools with large refugee % like in Dunedin can’t afford ESOL teachers

Worst govt ever
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December 17, 2018 8:02am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Did it not occur to the government that IF you allow non-English-speaking refugees into the country AND if you want them to be able to integrate and become useful members of society, then they must be able to speak English.
  
  On the other hand, IF you allow non-English-speaking refugees into the country AND if you DO NOT WANT them to be able to integrate, then you will cut funding for TESOL programs for them.
  
  Makes perfect sense.
  
  Or perhaps there is no master plan and this is simply the result of incompetence.
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:22am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Effing clowns, led by the pratt Chippy Fuckface Hipkins.
    
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    December 17, 2018 11:14am
igm

Where is NZ going with this disgusting left-wing CoL and compliant media? We should be furnished with full details of vile and disgusting behaviour in a country once villified for mistreatment of blacks.
We were coerced at that time, by scum in media, and types such as Minto, Richards, et al. Blacks were much better off under the old regime, even getting paid work and food . . . soon they will be starving and lining up for food just like the old Rhodesia.
https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/12/black-land-first-declares-war-on-white-south-africa/
With our current unelected government cuddling up to Islam, who in due course are cuddling up to radical Maori, we had better watch our backs, and be prepared for some rough times ahead!
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December 17, 2018 8:03am
- Southern Raider
  
  And Police have seized record numbe for military guns this year
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:05am
  - Colville
    
    Southern. What is a “military” gun?
    
    A cut down SMLE 303 pig hunters gun?
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:12am
  - G152
    
    RIFLES !
    FFS they’re talking about rifles…….
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:14am
    - Colville
      
      “from my cold dead hands!” 🙂
      
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      December 17, 2018 8:23am
    - lofty
      
      This is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for shooting, this is for fun!
      
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      December 17, 2018 11:08am
      - G152
        
        A couple of hours doubling about the parade ground repeating the above mantra while holding a Number One Mark four fully wooded .303 above their head should disabuse them of ‘gun’
        
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        December 17, 2018 11:36am
      - Jack5
        
        I think the famous British Lee Enfield rifle is the No. 4 Mark 1.
        
        For the nostalgic, here is a retrospective review of the Lee Enfield .303:
        
        https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/01/daniel-zimmerman/gun-review-lee-enfield-smle-mk-iii/
        
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        December 17, 2018 1:51pm
- GoVege
  
  Just recently these racists urged their followers to kill whites’ pets, their cats and dogs.
  How low can you go?
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:16am
secondcumming

They’ve just released the new version of disabled Monopoly.

Every space is free parking.
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December 17, 2018 8:06am
- Brian Marshall
  
  ??
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:23am
- Brigitte
  
  Is that the version with Hotels but no (KiwiBuild) Houses?
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:29am
  - V
    
    Well the government did used to own a hotel chain back in the day. So back-to-the-future?
    
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    December 17, 2018 1:02pm
- Simon
  
  New version of socialist Monopoly
  
  Every space is a gulag or turnip soup kitchen.
  
  When passing GO collect a alcohol ration card.
  
  Win Socialism by being the last to die of malnutrition or alcoholism.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:34am
  - starboard
    
    Fuck you Ardern..Fuck you Peters, push back is comin
    
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    December 17, 2018 11:49pm
hmmokrightitis

Dear AirNZ (and Flipper),

I will never fly AirNZ again, ever. First Class on Emirates is quite the mind blowing experience. Best fun Ive ever had making my way to London. Whilst it wont often be First Class, Business Class isnt too bloody shabby either, the wine selection is brilliant, wonderful service and the food wonderful.

Sorry AirNZ, with average BC seats, high prices, cancelled and nearly always delayed flights, you just dont cut it any more.

Its been real.
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December 17, 2018 8:07am
- Lance
  
  Last flight I had on Air NZ the Air NZ staffer at the gate YELLED at me to get back when BC was called.
  I obviously didn’t look like I was the type that would travel BC. I must admit I was rather gobsmacked at this rather pathetic display. I would have once formally complained, but I tried that last year after a monumental FUCKUP but all I got was a smarmy ‘fuck you’ reply.
  A once great airline is going down the shitter.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:16am
  - fernglas
    
    The worst problem is the service. I always seem to wind up with a retired concentration camp wardress or a balding relic of the Wellington Operatic Society’s male chorus line. The level of condescension is outrageous.
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:51am
    - Tauhei Notts
      
      Take it easy on us Wellington Operatic Society choristers. I am now bald and I was in the chorus for the My Fair Lady production in 1974.
      
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      December 17, 2018 9:14am
    - lifesgood
      
      Air New Zealand, and I have been a loyal passenger for around 40 years, is bloody terrible. Anyone, and I mean anyone is now employed as cabin crew and they are just straight out rude. Recently, on an overnight flight, I went looking for water since none was brought around. I found two crew members sitting at the back of the plane gossiping. They looked at me as if to say “How dare you come back here and interrupt us and sort of “Wadda you want?” Really unpleasant. I asked for water and with a sigh one got up and deigned to give me some. Bloody disgusting. The Koru Lounge has now become a joke with every man, his dog and thousands of kids in there. Not worth the money. I’m leaving ANZ and Koru and will look for an airline that actually cares about its passengers. I have heard Emirates and Qatar are waaaaay better.
      
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      December 17, 2018 11:45am
  - Rich Prick
    
    I like to remind myself that Air NZ isn’t that bad by flying the gulag of the sky, United, domestically a couple of times a year. They are truly awful, not a single redeeming feature. I’ve even had a flight where it had to divert to re-fuel. What airline doesn’t put enough gas in?
    
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    December 17, 2018 9:16am
    - G152
      
      Fly Russian or North Korean.
      ANZ is like a paradise
      
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      December 17, 2018 11:38am
  - dime
    
    lol i always dress like scum when travelling business class. fuck em. shorts & tshirt.
    
    fucking waitresses judging people! should have been replaced by a vending machine years ago
    
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    December 17, 2018 9:42am
    - starboard
      
      Lol..same. A crass thailand tee shirt with ” same same but different ” written on it , boardies and thongs. Then proceed to drink business class dry as the waitresses look down their noses at ya. Heh.
      
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      December 17, 2018 11:51am
      - Batman
        
        I didn’t know you were a James Franco fan ?
        
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        December 17, 2018 1:20pm
    - Paulus
      
      Years ago when travelling first class (before BC) it was dreadful as often a number of families with young children on transfer.
      Moved to Business as it developed as sections larger.
      
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      December 17, 2018 2:05pm
- Southern Raider
  
  And ending up on leased planes all the time
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:18am
- Inandout
  
  I am glad you mentioned Air NZ’s failings, and what a drop in service they are suffering. Our recent mishaps started in having an early morning flight to Sydney suddenly cancelled. Had later flight that day. Sydney to Adelaide with Virgin no problems. Adelaide to Auckland delayed 3 hours by ‘technical problems’, another 20 minutes on tarmac waiting for a clearance, missed connecting flight in AK, got put up in airport hotel. AK to Wellington delayed 20 minutes by ‘technical problems’. Just seemed a total comedy of errors. I spoke at AK with a seasoned business traveller and he said he ‘just rolls’ with the Air NZ delays now, so common are they.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:24am
  - Southern Raider
    
    Maybe it’s because all the AirNZ engineers have really low wages and only 6 weeks holiday?
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:46am
    - Tall Man
      
      Really hard to get by wth only a couple of grand a week and it’s those fucking holidays that cause the problem..I mean you have plenty of money and access to cheap flights but only 6 lousy weeks holiday.
      
      They want to be like ardern the liar…more money (lots more money) and unlimited holidays as well as the cheap flights.
      
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      December 17, 2018 8:58am
- dime
  
  I stay with Koru cause most of my travel is domestic.
  
  but fuck i get angry when i have to check a bag in at auckland.
  
  you now print your own ticket and then scan said ticket to load your bag.
  
  i asked Air NZ if i need to do a walk around of the plane next time, maybe gas it up. fuck i could probably drive it while the pilot takes a dump.
  
  apparently i dont get holiday pay or any benefits.
  
  air nz is a disgrace.
  
  and the chick dressed as a boy rapping in their garbage video LOL fuck me.
  
  AIR NZ is lame. they are like a primary school teacher trying to be hip. #sad
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:46am
- Longknives
  
  Agreed- Emirates is superb!
  Though the actual worst part about flying Air NZ is that fucking Transgender ‘Gangsta Rapper’ shrieking away for what seems like twenty minutes in that God Awful Safety Video…
  I asked the stony faced Hostess if she could “Please,please make it stop?”
  All the passengers around me agreed and one poor bloke told me he sits through it six times a week!
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:56am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Oh, I thought the white one was an incel or some such. It’s hard to work out the left’s 53 genders. But yeah, fucking awful video, it seems to be more about hip PCness than safety.
    
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    December 17, 2018 10:38am
  - Paulus
    
    Recently my wife was BC with Emirates to London to see family.
    Her seat didn’t work properly so the upgraded her to First Class to Dubai.
    Not a murmur but profuse apology.
    
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    December 17, 2018 2:08pm
  - Inandout
    
    Horrible long winded ‘safety video’, and you could see the cabin crew looking really bored. In fact it is incredibly embarrassing to watch.
    
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    December 17, 2018 3:22pm
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Emirates are OK. Until they have a plane crash on landing at Dubai closing the airport. And you are with your wife and kids in Lisbon. Wait for hours and hours to be told they will put us up in a hotel. (which is good). Arrive Hotel at 11 p.m. after waiting 8 hours. Said Hotel gives you a plate of rice with some indeterminate muck in it for dinner, paired with a glass of 91 octane masquerading as a glass of “wine”. Then you are woken at 2.30 a.m. to tell you they have a flight. Then, under EU rules, a flight that’s delayed leaving an EU destination pays compensation. Except if you are Emirates. They tell you to fuck off and then don’t respond to any further correspondence. Other than that, they were really good……
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:22am
Sofia

Shaw said one of the single greatest parts of the rulebook was the rules around transparency.
“If you have a robust transparency regime it means the Paris rulebook has a very solid central spine to it,” Shaw said.

So will Shane Jones now have to actually name locations where his trees are planted, how many there actually are, and not add into his total, the numbers on average already annually planted by forestry to replace those that they have just cut down?

Mr Jones said the programme is well on its way to the goal, with this year’s target exceeded by more than 60 million trees planted. – https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/377894/national-accuses-shane-jones-of-misleading-benefits-of-billion-trees-programme

Forestry annual re-plant is usually about 45 to 48 million.
So, is Shane’s lot what is left from 60m – about 10 million?

And because forestry re-plant about 3 to 5 million trees beyond the number they fell, is the net national total really only about 13 – 15 million trees more now, than a year ago?
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December 17, 2018 8:08am
- sooty
  
  That rule book you live under has plenty of blank pages. Whinney saw to that.
  Suck it up petal and paddle home.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:27am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Will James Shaw be transparent enough to tell us where he is planting all the trees to mitigate his carbon footprint for all that air travel?
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:50am
  - waikatogirl
    
    No, but Jimmy has already signalled his next long-haul jaunt to the next “climate change” talk fest.
    
    Jimmy2mums, part of the “do as I say, not as I do” brigade.
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:53am
    - Tall Man
      
      Just another 2 faced lying arsehole. Even that is too mild for the prick but I’m not looking to enter the “wilderness”.
      
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      December 17, 2018 10:25am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Tall Man I beg to differ. Jimmy2mums is too stupid to differentiate between reality and lies, that he does not know what are lies and what is the truth.
        
        Now as there is no reality to the Green policy platform there cannot be any truth, so it is all lies.
        
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        December 17, 2018 10:56am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Such a smug looking prick too. One of those ones you know is full of platitudes but hiding nothing of substance behind his smug greenie smile.
        
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        December 17, 2018 12:35pm
    - Vory v zakone
      
      It is all over for Jimmy2Mums and his international CAGW mates.
      And ‘Carbon Free NZ’ is the next Tui billboard.
      https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/11/delingpole-across-the-world-climate-alarmism-is-in-retreat/
      
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      December 17, 2018 11:15am
    - Paulus
      
      Looks as though the ex Paris “Agreement” will have to be updated every year so another 34,000 attendees will travel the world.
      I think I read we sent 48 people ?
      
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      December 17, 2018 2:11pm
- Sacha
  
  Wasn’t Shane’s planting in addition to the regular replanting? We are already replanting as we harvest, and I really object to him claiming our planting as his –
  It takes 25 years –
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:39am
logan0312

Did I really hear Simon Bridges say on TV last night that National is more ‘Globalist’ in orientation than Labour? So much for our national sovereignty. It seems we are stuffed whatever mob we choose to bully – oops govern – us.
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December 17, 2018 8:09am
- Ross12
  
  I read elsewhere the other day, logan, an argument that the debate (worldwide) is now not about left vs right but nationalism vs globalism. I think that is right.
  By globalism I’m not talking free trade etc. but this open borders , UN agendas etc. BS
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:46am
  - logan0312
    
    My understanding too Ross. A surrender of our historical rights to national self-determination in favour of being ruled by diktat imposed by, generally unelected and undemocratic, global elitists (megomaniacs?).
    Ask the UK and much of Europe how this is working out for them. Not too good from what I understand. Nationalism has pitfalls that we must be vigilant to avoid, but I have never seen an example of where globalist empires have done a better job. Caveat emptor.
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:53am
  - KH
    
    Clearly I am a nationalist. Happy to say so despite the abuse on the media and the rank distortions of that position.
    
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    December 17, 2018 9:39am
    - Ross12
      
      So am I KH. Maybe Bridges should clarify what he meant with his comment.
      
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      December 17, 2018 9:52am
      - Tall Man
        
        I don’t think he does as it is fairly obvious that we are now part of a “global world”. No country remains totally within it’s borders in terms of trade or travel.
        
        That is not a bad thing in my mind and for those lefty loonies that think differently remember your beloved white killing South Africa only changed it’s ways due to “global” pressure.
        
        I thought Sir John Key walked a well balanced line between the obvious demands of our global partners and keeping New Zealand on it’s own national path. Lazy loony lefties will disagree but we will see if they have the mental capacity to discern whether ardern the liar and winston the shithead do much different.
        
        Imagine our country without trade between us and China, the US, Russia, Australia et al.
        
        It wouldn’t be country where many would want to live. Even the greenies would have given up because there would be no BMW’s for them to ponce around in.
        
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        December 17, 2018 10:21am
      - Ross12
        
        Who said anything against global trade?
        
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        December 17, 2018 10:37am
      - tf78
        
        I’m pretty sure Simon was talking about economic policy as far as international trade. Not open boarders because as he has said he doesn’t believe in those.
        
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        December 17, 2018 12:31pm
- Komata
  
  logan0312
  
  Thank you; I hope you didn’t!!
  
  If what you heard is in fact correct (can someone confirm?), at least we now know Simon’s agenda.
  
  Freudian slips are useful aren’t they?
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:54am
  - logan0312
    
    Yes Komata, it is interesting. I didn’t hear all he had to say on the subject, but what I heard worried me somewhat. Perhaps he has his own idiosyncratic definition of the term, but a clear explanation of what exactly he meant would be helpful I think.
    
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    December 17, 2018 11:09am
    - Batman
      
      See Tall Man’s comment above.
      
      He’s talking about economic policy and trade etc. National have very clearly come out against the immigration compact.
      
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      December 17, 2018 1:24pm
Lance

I will state the bleeding obvious, but I must say it.
Auckland Transport are CUNTS

Beware Queen St is now a great big money grabbing zone. If you turn into Queen st you will be in a bus lane unless you break the road rules and turn into the wrong lane you started in.
Once in the bus lane you will INSTANTLY be fined via camera detection.
Avoid Auckland CBD, AT have turned it into a shit hole.
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December 17, 2018 8:10am
- trout
  
  Same happens as you leave the drop off at the Sky City bus terminal.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:15am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Similar happened to me turning left from Symonds St to get onto the motorway.
  
  I argued my point with them: it wouldn’t have been safe for me to do two lane changes within the few 100 metres before my left turn.
  
  They actually accepted it, so complain. They need to know their rules aren’t adding to safety.
  
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  December 17, 2018 1:18pm
Mobile Michael

“Medical” marijuana advocates are advertising in Auckland today. Marijuana/Cannabis is not medicine. It contains medicinal compounds which can be extracted and used as medical treatments.

You don’t chew on willow bark for the aspirin, you don’t eat mould for the penicillin. So why do people think smoking weed/spotting oil should be a treatment option?
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December 17, 2018 8:18am
- Psycho Milt
  
  You don’t chew on willow bark for the aspirin, you don’t eat mould for the penicillin.
  
  Should it be illegal to do those things if you choose to?
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:30am
  - MrTips
    
    Probably not, but the stupidity of doing so should be taxed just after the funeral of the partaker.
    
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    December 17, 2018 9:34am
    - lemuzz
      
      Isn’t that why they want to bring a CG tax? After all you come into the world with nothing you at least will go out with something
      
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      December 17, 2018 11:39am
- Simon
  
  “Medical” marijuana advocates are advertising in Auckland today”
  
  Medical cannabis, what a joke. As soon as the legalize the mental illness that is cannabis this medical crap will be dropped.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:37am
- Classic Liberal
  
  A keen partaker on Red Radio recently was arguing that the law change should be extended to help people use weed even if they can’t grow it themselves.
  
  But here’s the thing, when asked why she uses it for her disease and how it helps, she didn’t really convince me that it was helping her pain or her brain. She sounded vague, and her main point seemed to be that it makes her happier.
  
  Hmmm.
  
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  December 17, 2018 1:25pm
- Garbageman
  
  Well MM i smoke it at home and i have zero medical issues no mental health issues i just like to chill out whenever i choose too i stopped drinking booze some time ago as im now in my 40s and waking up sucks the next day as moderation was never my thing i doubt this will change as i get older, now who exactly am i harming except my waistline mmm icecream btw living alone and having no children also helps ease my sordid criminal mind
  
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  December 17, 2018 2:22pm
oldpark

Trying to comprehend. Which is worse. Two clowns renegade Peters or Angry Andy Little. Guilty of Little things though far reaching, fughing up the Justice Department with his soft soaping instructions to tame Judges to go easy on crooks. Little dosn’t want hurty feelings for the offenders.
Then it is the Chameleon Renegade Peters. Seems by his unforgiveable decision to install such a bunch of no hopers to be in charge of the future and well being of NZs it appears he is cupable for some of the crazy mad dog decisions going on in NZ with the present Government. Even worse he is the Architect signalling to Lie-bour/ Mad dog far left Lunatic Green Party that drug taking and any previous type of law breaking is now up for grabs. That also includes the new directive to Judges by Angry Andys’ Littles gang to keep offenders out of jail,no matter how hideous the crime.
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December 17, 2018 8:20am
- RiP NZ
  
  Lets assume the folks that voted for Peters saw some sort of appeal, god only knows what but lets assume they did.
  Do you think for one minute they considered the absolute talentless wasteland that is the NZ First list? Rivalled only by the Greens for their lack of life achievement and utter unemployable profile outside of fkn MMP politics.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:29am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Like the leader of any cult, Winston is the enigmatic leader, the only draw-card for NZF voters. ?
    The old charlatan charms many unwary souls.
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:39am
  - Paulus
    
    Perhaps for the first time in 20 last years we are able to see the implications and disasters of MMP.
    
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    December 17, 2018 2:14pm
holysheet

A young man excitedly tells his mother he’s fallen in love and that he is going to get married. He says, Just for fun, “Ma, I’m going to bring over 3 women and you try and guess which one I’m going to marry.” The mother agrees.

The next day, he brings three beautiful women into the house and sits them down on the couch and they chat for a while.

He then says: “Okay, Ma, guess which one I’m going to marry.”

She immediately replies: “The one on the right.”

”That’s amazing, Ma. You’re right. How did you know?”

The mother replies,” I didn’t like her!”
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December 17, 2018 8:22am
secondcumming

So, Kevin Barry promised us, “No more Mister Nice Guy! Joe needs to show some *real mongrel* if he’s ever to get another shot at the title……blah, blah, blah”

My missus reckons the best thing Joe could do is STFU for a start. She reckons whenever he’s being interviewed either pre or post match, he comes across like a high-school boy that’s just scored his first feel.

BoL!!
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December 17, 2018 8:24am
- Longknives
  
  Kevin Barry is dreaming if he thinks Parker is going to get a title shot at Joshua, Wilder or Fury.
  Parker is an average journeyman at best- All the ranting and raving in the World from Kevin Barry and Duco about Parker being ‘As fast as Ali’ and ‘More powerful than Foreman’ etc etc ain’t gonna change that…
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:01am
  - secondcumming
    
    So right there Knives. David Tua would have made mincemeat of Parker. Still, the ‘journey’ continues and the ticket keeps getting clipped …..
    
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    December 17, 2018 10:13am
  - G152
    
    Parker has gone back to the list of losers.
    Look impressive against the easybeats but stay clear of the real boxers
    
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    December 17, 2018 11:44am
- RF
  
  Ahhh. That brings back memories. Instant love and she let me to print my name on her thigh. In turn she printed her name on my jandals and I painted over it with clear nail polish.
  
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  December 17, 2018 4:34pm
tf78

I watched The Outsiders yesterday with Rowan and Pearse – They were talking about all the looney left activists in Aussie – Pearse then said, “what about that Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand – she’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing”. I had to laugh.
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December 17, 2018 8:24am
- sooty
  
  Commie to the core!
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:29am
- Gravelroad
  
  Nah – she’s a sheep in wolf’s clothing – although that might be a bit insulting to sheep which are actually quite intelligent animals in many ways.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:44am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Gravel, she’s lemming in sheep’s clothing. Runs with the lemmings and hunts with the sheep.
    
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    December 17, 2018 10:58am
- Sacha
  
  She’s a would-be ‘wolf’ in sheeps clothing. And some of the sheep believe that looks are everything.
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:43am
rightoverlabour

How come we as a country just accept the fucking the government is currently doing to us?

Every other country in the world says” Fuck it, thats too far…”

So New Zealand protested about Rugby in 1981, (and South Africa is such a delightful place to live in now…)

Europeans know how to say “Fuck it”. It’s about time we started thinking that way before its too late.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46585237

Talking about Souith Africa, Minto I hope you’re proud of this guy…

https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/politics/2048688/mngxitama-says-killing-whites-and-their-pets-is-a-response-to-johann-rupert/
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December 17, 2018 8:36am
- Komata
  
  Rol
  
  Actually Minto still won’t be, as the African doesn’t go far enough. Once the Whites (equivalent to the Kulaks) are gone, you then have to eliminate the other tribes as they are also your enemies. Only then, will you have true equality and ‘true’ Minto-tyoe socialism / communism.
  
  I’m not sure that the Whites will go along with the first suggestion, and the Zulu’s definitely won’t be a party to the second.
  
  Minto will, if course, deny any involvement…
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:19am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Andile Mngxitama is an unhinged attention-grabber.
  
  Most societies have similar kinds of demented thinking as we can see here on KB at odd times.
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:36am
  - Tall Man
    
    Or occasionally in Parliament when ardern the liar turns up…..
    
    steffy girl, you really do not have a working brain do you.
    
    That’s a bit odd as most of the women I know are fairly smart…unlike you.
    
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    December 17, 2018 10:12am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Don’t bother arguing with Stuffy the Rape-Denier.
    
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    December 17, 2018 1:30pm
- JibberJabber
  
  Heh, Minto lost interest in Sth Africa when him and Newman/Newnham or whatever his name was, turned up there after the fall of apartheid to tell the the ANC how to run the country and got told to fuck off.
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:27am
slightlyrighty

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/15-12-2018/the-astonishing-selfishness-of-not-all-men/

I read this yesterday.

I was gobsmacked at the intellectual dishonesty displayed in this piece of writing. Yes, I am aware that women have a genuine fear of the actions of some men. I honestly get this. But it does not, and cannot follow that when a man stands up and says, “I am not one of these men, and it is unfair for you to portray me as one”, you brand him as selfish for saying so.

Assuming that all men are dangerous until proved otherwise is a bit of a poisonous worldview. Imagine the outcry if we were to regard Maori, or Muslims, or Mexicans in the same regard.

The fact is, in every relationship, trust is earned. I hope to raise my daughter so she is not a slave to a culture of victimhood, and that she knows who to trust and how to keep herself safe. To stay in public places, and stay with friends. To call me if she needs help. I know this because the world we live in is mostly safe, but hides monsters, but I do not want her to see the world as being full of monsters because of the inherent sadness that this brings.

I will need to trust her to find her own knight in shining armour, knowing that she can kill her own dragons should the need arise.
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December 17, 2018 8:44am
- tf78
  
  Slightlyrighty – I’d say all women are dangerous until proved otherwise – how’s that for a change.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:54am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Very sensible.
    
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    December 17, 2018 5:27pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Remember Cuntliffe apologising for men? I am sick of the men bashing that is going on in the world today. Eventually, men will just not interact with female strangers, we will just ignore your existence. It’s the only safe option.
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:01am
  - Jack5
    
    Cunliffe apologised for being a man. He made an assumption before apologising.
    
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    December 17, 2018 1:53pm
- graham
  
  Agreed, slightlyrighty.
  
  These women are engaging in outright bullying, oppressive behaviour. They will aggressively tell us, “Women are living in fear of ALL men” and “ALL men need to do something about this, you men are ALL responsible”; then if any man dares to try and defend himself, he gets bullied and belittled and effectively told to shut up.
  
  I wonder if it ever occurs to these women that they are engaging in the same aggressive bullying behaviour that they so loudly condemn in men?
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:03am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Irony. Sweet irony.
    
    It is so weird to be bullied by “anti bullies.” It’s a bit like being beaten up by a militant pacifict.
    
    Extremes are so much alike. I swear that Einstein didn’t go far enough. Political space-time really is curved so that the opposites meet and resemble each other.
    
    I need to lie down (and it’s only 9:37 a.m.)
    
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    December 17, 2018 9:36am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      “It’s a bit like being beaten up by a militant pacifict”
      
      E.g. AntiFa. What a joke those violent authoritarian fascists are!
      
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      December 17, 2018 1:37pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        AntiFa. more like “AuthiFa” (authoritarian Fascist) (whoops, tautology).
        
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        December 17, 2018 3:41pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    I filter them out by ignoring the raving loons, fat ones, the hairy ones, those with pink or blue hair, the trans/dyke types and those who get their clothes from an op-shop. That pretty much covers all of them.
    
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    December 17, 2018 9:36am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      The pink or blue hair is a human version of aposematic coloration.
      
      Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aposematism
      
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      December 17, 2018 9:40am
      - mark15
        
        Well,I’ll wager that someone,somewhere is calling for a ban on anti-aposematism.
        TG,WD,feels free to jump in…
        
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        December 17, 2018 11:47am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Brilliant, Odakyu-sen :).
        
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        December 17, 2018 1:44pm
    - Sacha
      
      And tattoos.
      
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      December 17, 2018 9:46am
      - hullkiwi
        
        And piercings.
        
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        December 17, 2018 11:23am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Now, now, RP, I know many nicely dressed, sensible women who get bargains from Op Shops…
      
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      December 17, 2018 1:39pm
    - Garbageman
      
      Theres always a silver ling RP that leaves more of the fuglys for stephie & morrie
      
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      December 17, 2018 2:44pm
- Albert_Ross
  
  “Inagine the outcry if we were to regard Maori, or Muslims, or Mexicans, in the same regard”.
  
  Dear God, the blindness.
  
  OK, I do not recall much discussion of Mexicans on this forum. But Kiwibloggers regularly bag Maori and Muslims indiscriminately and are enthusiastically upticked for it.
  
  Here’s your challenge then. What do you expect ordinary, law-abiding Maori /Muslims to do about the deplorable activities of some of their number? And why does the same not apply to ordinary, law-abiding men?
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:30am
  - Sacha
    
    Ordinary, law-abiding Maori and Muslims are like ordinary law abiding European New Zealanders. We like to live and let live, and don’t stir to anger quickly. I think it’s because we live in comfortable isolation, remote from the world’s trouble spots.
    So the COL government is getting away with a lot of social manipulation, and we are not yet disturbed enough to act. Words are cheap.
    
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    December 17, 2018 9:52am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    There is a saying. Be the change you want in the world. Highlight the good. Maori leaders such as Hone Harawira derive their status by perpetuating the downtrodden status of their people and then presenting them as their saviour, while doing nothing.
    
    The Lance O’Sullivans of Maoridom need to be praised. For every Malcolm Rewa, there is a Sir Jerry Mataperi, or Willie Apiata. There are hundreds of positive role models for Maori, but that Narrative does not suit Maori who thrive on painting their people as oppressed.
    
    I, for one am a member of a well known organisation that has, as part of it’s creed, a requirement to make a vow to respect women. All women. We do this as an outward expression of what it means to be a good man. And no, it’s not a church.
    
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    December 17, 2018 9:57am
  - Swifty
    
    Some Kiwibloggers regularly bag……..not all.
    
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    December 17, 2018 11:25am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Albert, you are lumping together ‘Maori and Muslims’ in your statement. But there is a big difference: we are born with our ethnicity or gender and there should be no discrimination on something we can’t change.
    
    But faith and culture, while people are born into them, are something every adult needs to have a good think about. Any faith that allows wife-beating, slavery, rape of sex slaves, killing apostates, killing gays and killing or oppressing infidels should be questioned. And in NZ, people are free to leave that faith and find something more in line with our concept of equal rights for everyone.
    
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    December 17, 2018 1:54pm
- Monique Watson
  
  Chicks are primed for the Victim Train today, that’s for fucking sure. She’s pushing the dangerous message that it’s okay to cry wolf, because the wolf will eventually arrive at the door.
  I had to stand up for myself yesterday as per the slow burn I posted up in GD. I can repost if you like.
  
  In the end he got the truncated version. Once I realized he wasn’t going to back down and I had to rephrase to match his compromised intellect, this is how it went:
  
  Stalker sidles up: Trying to frost him out the previous day hasn’t worked.
  
  “Me about to lose my shit but I’d told the supervisor I was going to be good:
  “Stay the Fuck Away From Me”!
  
  I get the puppy dog eyes of a sociopath. He still hasn’t got the message.
  
  Me, anticipating every trick in the book: I’ll say it one more time: “Stay the Fuck Away From Me”!!
  
  Then I ask the supervisor to stay within six feet of me to body block me while I get my breakfast. From his eyesight. I’m not afraid of him, I’m more afraid of my own anger. But I won’t let Redo the Peado feed off me. Then I finish making my bagel and carry on about my day.
  
  I was fucking fuming as I knew he would move on and carry on his Peter Pan bullshit with the younger girls but I hung with whom I call “The Good Guys
  In this case it was a twenty year old Gen ‘Y’ who’s facing serious time but owning his shit and a sixty year old Irish Grandfather who hasn’t had a drink in forty years and in no way did I feel threatened. It all goes back to “The Rules”.
  Rule #1. Count your numbers. Make sure you are flanked by people who would throw down for you and it’s you plus at least one more. A big dog counts as one.
  
  Common sense, right? For guys and gals.
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:36am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I had to stand up for myself yesterday as per the slow burn I posted up in GD.
    I can repost if you like.,
    
    Now that’s interesting, for stephieboy jumped in with his faux-moralising querying if that’s the sort of language you use around your kids..
    
    Did he check for context? Na!
    
    Just another of his ill-considered comments on this blog.
    
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    December 17, 2018 11:04am
- Swifty
  
  We’ve all been told, for decades now, that to ascribe to a whole population the characteristics of a few members is not on and indeed it is called bigotry.
  
  So according to Sophie Bateman (digital producer at Newshub) we can now throw this all out the window? According to Sophie it is now ok to say:
  
  All Muslims are terrorists.
  All old ladies are batshit crazy and fling poo.
  All Jews value money over human life.
  All Maori bash their kids
  All Samoans are lazy
  
  ….and members of these populations are not at liberty to come out and say they’re not.
  
  That’s unless young Sophie didn’t take the time to think her argument through……
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:13am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    She took the time to anticipate a rebuttle, and present her argument with that in mind. I refuse to wear the label of selfish, and continue to conduct myself according to my own moral compass, which is not founded in religion, but in a sharing of values, with like mended men who have ruminated for years on the definition of what a good man is, and have vowed to live according to those values.
    
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    December 17, 2018 10:58am
- igm
  
  The crockery-faced harridan is an expert in dishonesty, but calling her a liar is actually praise. After reading this I can see she should be charged with treason.
  https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/12/we-have-been-lied-to-merkel-admits-migration-pact-is-legally-binding/
  Bloody lovely isn’t it?
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:37am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Much too important to leave to the WhaleFat. Here’s the article in the Voice of Europe:
    
    https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/they-lied-the-un-migration-pact-is-legally-binding-and-could-be-valid-for-all-countries/#.XBVPIR1LQ9A.mailto
    
    Note that Mr. Hebner is of the AfD – don’t believe a word of it when they are called ‘far right’. They are just centre-right, normal people who want some sanity back in Germany regarding borders and immigration.
    
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    December 17, 2018 2:05pm
- hullkiwi
  
  SR, this reminds me of the rubbish we were served up when I was at Auckland University in the period 1979 to 1982. On a weekly basis in Craccum, if you were a white, middle class male. Just by your very existence, you were:
  1. A right wing fascist;
  2. A racist;
  3. A rapist; and
  4. A thief who would eat the babies
  
  Depending on which radical feminist was featured you could be anyone one of or combination of the above. That was 35 to 40 years ago, it still appears there is no intellectual rigor to what the feminist left say, hence any salient points in their arguments gets lost in the noise.
  
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  December 17, 2018 11:34am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Well, I’m halfway there according to a commenter on this blog..
    
    I am white… so perhaps that explains the racist label
    
    And I do have a Germanised surname…. so perhaps that explains the right wing fascist label.
    
    It’s much easier for bigots to shove folks they don’t like into sets of pigeon-boxes without thinking through the fallacies in their reasoning.
    
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    December 17, 2018 11:59am
MCos

Nothing like bringing up the spectre of the 1981 Tour schmozzle to ruin the Festive Season.
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December 17, 2018 8:47am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Only if ruins Labour Supporters’ Christmas Holidays…
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:06am
Inandout

When will Stuff dedicate a section solely to strikes? Today brings two I think.
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December 17, 2018 8:55am
secondcumming

THE BEST LAID PLANS……. 🙁

For the last few months I’d been secretly planning to take the missus to Bali for Christmas

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Di25yrYX4AAg0c6.jpg
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December 17, 2018 8:58am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Shit, Home Detention is such an awful punishment….
  
  No wonder Angry Andy wants to use it more…
  
  What do I need to do to get punished like that???? (with her, as a cellmate, obviously….)
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:10am
- MCos
  
  Why go to Bali when she looks perfectly comfortable in your home pool?
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:20am
Manolo

The UN, the wonderful UN:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46585237

Thousands of demonstrators in Brussels have marched against a UN migration pact, signed in Marrakech last week.

Police deployed tear gas and water cannon as clashes broke out. About 5,500 protesters took part.
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December 17, 2018 9:13am
- Tall Man
  
  Motivating Kiwis has never been an easy task.
  
  Laziness led to the coalition because they promised more “feelz” but the winning formula was more money for less effort.
  
  I was in Thailand a couple of times during the “red shirt yellow shirt” times. Now they are motivated to make change.
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:06am
tf78

Does anyone else think it’s rather fishy that Carol Sakey’s petition against the Migration Compact has only reached 6,433 signatures – it finishes today.
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December 17, 2018 9:16am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  tf78, what fishiness might that be?
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:22am
  - tf78
    
    The signature numbers started off rising in number quite quickly – then barely anything. I don’t believe that people just stopped signing.
    
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    December 17, 2018 9:35am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Let’s hope the National Party one does better.
      
      It’s here if you haven’t signed yet:
      
      https://www.national.org.nz/say_no_to_un_migration_pact
      
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      December 17, 2018 2:17pm
Left Right and Centre

You’re not ‘plus-size’, you’re just plus-fat
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December 17, 2018 9:21am
- Inandout
  
  Reusable bags mean less shopping, means less overeating, means less weight. I love my new shopping regime.
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:24am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Inandout , put yourself on starvation rations?
    
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    December 17, 2018 9:25am
- Ultima
  
  I don’t hear any complaints from “plus-size” people paying the same price at buffet restaurants.
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:44am
- Rich Prick
  
  Yet a “plus-size” will happily help herself to half of that plane seat you paid for.
  
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  December 17, 2018 11:23am
- dime
  
  ha i didnt watch cause im at work. but she’s not plus size. she is morbidly obese and will die young.
  
  wait til they take a foot cause of her diabeetus. then she will tell me i have feet privilege
  
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  December 17, 2018 11:26am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Saw a woman at the pie shop the other day sitting down to devour a plate piled high with pies, fried chicken and chips. Three rolls of gut spilling over her knees. I don’t know how she walked in there.
    The plus side of this is that we won’t have to pay her the pension.
    
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    December 17, 2018 1:20pm
    - dime
      
      lol true that!
      
      https://imgur.com/gallery/dl09rDa
      
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      December 17, 2018 1:21pm
      - Garbageman
        
        Top comments a beaut
        “I was surprised her fridge was so small until I realized this is her bedroom”
        
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        December 17, 2018 2:54pm
Chuck Bird

A young person from the New Conservative speaks sense. The New Conservative is an ideal coalition partner for National.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1324853644219436/?multi_permalinks=2058981674139959%2C2058886367482823&notif_id=1544957445590894&notif_t=group_activity
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December 17, 2018 9:22am
- Batman
  
  No.
  
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  December 17, 2018 1:32pm
stephieboy

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Manolo, reading between your lines can I detect some of your disappointment at the turnout?
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December 17, 2018 9:24am
- pentwig
  
  oh goodie
  the stoopidthing has arrived
  the kiddie humour can begin
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:53am
Harkman

So I caught the last few bits of Michael MacIntyre last night, then on came Corin Dann and he let Robo take the piss. Measuring loneliness ahead of GDP. To quote McEnroe, “You cannot be serious.” A distraction from the 0.4% per person growth rate (which means zero productivity). For the first time I actually liked Bridge’s positions, less lefty centre nonsense, not joining up to the UN is good.
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December 17, 2018 9:24am
- Poppa
  
  Yeah what a fantastic initiative by Robbo. We can all be happy as larks while we all go down the gurgler together
  
  What could be better?
  
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  December 17, 2018 9:31am
  - Tall Man
    
    “Stoopid is as stoopid does”………
    
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    December 17, 2018 10:03am
    - fernglas
      
      While the key to a long life and a successful country is personal happiness, it cannot be legislated for by politicians. It needs to come from within, not be imposed from without. It needs to be a natural consequence of a civilised society, not some arbitrary political imposition. Good target, wrong weapon
      
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      December 17, 2018 10:49am
- dime
  
  lmao fucking idiots.
  
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  December 17, 2018 11:46am
Poppa

We have another girl reported missing I see. Hopefully that does not end the same way as the recent case, the family must be very worried given all of that publicity

I hope for a good outcome
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December 17, 2018 9:36am
Hugh Pavletich

President Xi Jinping’s Next Moves Dictate China’s Economic Future – Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-12-15/president-xi-jinping-s-next-moves-dictate-china-s-economic-future

China’s Economy Slows Sharply, in Challenge for Xi Jinping – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/business/china-economy-xi-jinping.html

China’s economy losing steam, East Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-economy-losing-steam
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December 17, 2018 9:36am
Fletch

It turns out that 19,000 text messages between Sztrok and Page were recovered, but the DOJ deleted them all (probably to save themselves).

The Department of Justice wiped text messages between former FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strozk from their cell phones before the Office of the Inspector General could review them, a new report from the DOJ watchdog reveals.

The 11-page report reveals that almost a month after Strzok was removed from Mueller’s team, his government-issued iPhone was wiped clean and restored to factory settings by another individual working in Mueller’s office. The special counsel’s Record’s Officer told investigators that “she determined it did not contain records that needed to be retained.”

http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/13/doj-destroyed-missing-strzok-page-text-messages-before-ig-reviewed-them/

Sounds like a case of saving their own asses. As corrupt as it gets.
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December 17, 2018 9:45am
- Tall Man
  
  Looks like ardern the liar will be following suit.
  
  Seriously, who has a mate called “hardcore”.
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:01am
  - sooty
    
    Ex boyfriend!
    
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    December 17, 2018 11:20am
- KevOB
  
  The Inspector General commeth.
  
  Trump may have more cunning than credited. The Clinton-Obamas may be silently being trapped by the IG. Military spending may be be fraudulent too–auditors.
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:36am
  - stephieboy
    
    KevOB, “may be “?
    
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    December 17, 2018 11:37am
    - KevOB
      
      I might do better next time. Perhaps become a politician.
      
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      December 17, 2018 1:16pm
  - gump
    
    “Trump may have more cunning than credited.”
    
    He’s doing a very good job of hiding it.
    
    The only cunning thing I’ve seen him do so far is appoint Mike Pence as VP – because nobody will ever impeach him if it results in Pence becoming President.
    
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    December 17, 2018 1:31pm
- Batman
  
  Well for one thing, his texts will be backed up on his iCloud account, so they’re not gone. Unless he had a specific iCloud account for work and that got closed down too.
  
  But more importantly, this is a complete and utter non-issue given the avalanche of evidence that the Trump organisation and campaign stink to high heaven and have been proven to have broken 100+ laws in their pursuit of power.
  
  The Mueller steamroller is coming, and it’s going to run down a fair few of Trump’s swamp creatures, including Trump himself I would bet.
  
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  December 17, 2018 1:37pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    “have been proven to have broken 100+ laws”
    Lol
    
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    December 17, 2018 2:05pm
  - Vory v zakone
    
    What’s that up my arse Batman?
    Cock Robin
    
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    December 17, 2018 2:53pm
  - Fletch
    
    Mueller is way overstepping his original mandate, which was to see if there is any collusion between Trump and the Russians. Now it has devolved into looking into the financial dealings of anyone associated with Trump and charge them with lying to the FBI.
    
    Justice Department careerists, led by special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, have now served notice that they are targeting the presidency of Donald J. Trump.
    
    Not over his behavior regarding Russians, which was their legal rationale for rooting through the business dealings and personal lives of his campaign manager, lawyer, and family. No, prosecutors are seeking to criminalize Trump’s extracurricular activities with American women, two in particular: Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
    
    This would be laughable if people weren’t going to prison as a result, not to mention its subversion of democratic self-government. If it succeeds in driving Trump from office, it will set not merely a grim precedent for future elections. It will be a clear and present danger to every person in this country.
    
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/16/a_justice_department_coup.html
    
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    December 17, 2018 6:11pm
Sofia

A who’s who of prominent women challenge men and the Government to act in the wake of Grace Millane’s murder.

The Herald says court documents list the murder suspect as living at the same address as CityLife Hotel where Millane was last seen alive.

This raises the question, which will certainly be interested to see answered –
Even if born in New Zealand, what recent time has this person lived here, given his accommodation?

Which goes to address the “prominent women’s challenge” –
What contact have New Zealanders had with this man to be attuned to his attitudes, let alone contribute to them, to be condemned as bearing collective male shame?
Is this man even a ‘product’ of the ‘Kiwi’ society the open letter demands change of?

And since suppression rules means this aspect of the accused is currently the same status as Schrödinger’s cat, is Government comments welcoming this letter, not just adapting the entire tragedy to fit a current agenda.

The Undersecretary for Domestic and Sexual Violence Jan Logie said she was “very pleased” with the letter.
“People making this call gives us clear partners in this effort and we’re grateful for it,” she said.

Let’s do this … anyway
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December 17, 2018 10:10am
- KevOB
  
  Such prominent women having lost sense is a concern.
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:41am
- rockape
  
  When will we have a campaign against women killing children.
  
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  December 17, 2018 11:13am
Dave Mann

STOP PRESS: Testosterone fuelled opposition leader comes out with all guns blazing. Read more…

More than 103,000 people have signed a petition asking the Crown to appeal the punishment handed down to 19-year-old Rouxle Le Roux, who killed 15-year-old Nathan Kraatskow in a hit-and-run in May.

Le Roux was sentenced to 11 months’ home detention and 250 hours’ community work, and was banned from driving for two-and-a-half years.

Mr Bridges, a former Crown prosecutor, said he was wary of criticising the judiciary, but told RadioLIVE on Monday “you do have to say though this does feel very light, in light of the circumstances”.

He said National justice spokesperson Mark Mitchell will receive the petition on behalf of Parliament on Tuesday.

“You’ve got a Government at the moment that you know, with good intentions is looking to have fewer people in prison. The worry is with that is you get more victims. I for one, although it’s never going to be perfect, I’d go with more in prisons and fewer victims.”

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/12/rouxle-le-roux-case-home-detention-a-hard-sentence-top-lawyer-claims.amp.html?espv=1

Fuck me. This Simon Bridges character must be one of the soppiest dribbles ever to have found himself in a political leadership position in NZ. Is this what we are relying on to save our country from becoming the next Venezuela? Geezus.
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December 17, 2018 10:13am
- Dave Mann
  
  So you downtickers really think that Bridges is the right man for the job, given his almost total lack of communication ability and his floppy lack of any commitment and passion? Really? This is what you want?
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:42am
- KevOB
  
  We don’t yet do mob rule about Court sentencing in NZ. The Police are the proper people to appeal if concerned.
  
  How is government possible if every Tom, Dick, Harry, female or other peculiar homo sapiens or psuedo homo sapiens is to have their identitarian view fully and explicitly considered?
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:49am
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    I’m not suggesting mob rule. However, the judiciary is there to administer the law, and the law is set by parliament, who are the people’s representatives.
    
    If the leader of the ‘opposition’ feels uncomfortable criticising an obvious failure by a judge, then watch out because mob rule will be coming sooner than you think. Mobs form when all else has failed. Look at France.
    
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    December 17, 2018 11:01am
    - KevOB
      
      Parliament has not defined a code of sentencing as a schedule. There are ranges defined and it is left to the Judges to work within those. That allows for justice, mercy and the wide range of seriousness. Those not present in Court can never know all the circumstances. I understand that Judiciary as a whole has developed guidelines which aim to ensure similar sentencing in different Courts for similar offences. We cannot ask much more. They have internal review processes and I have known Police and Probation Officers to give sentencing recommendations. Sentencing varies over time with changes in attitudes. It is important that in any period there is consistency.
      I don’t feel at present anything is out of order except possibly the time it takes for Judicial outcomes. Why can’t a criminal matter be disposed of within 3 months? We hear reports of appeals as the internal reviews take place and judgements out of line are quickly criticised.
      
      Politicans in NZ do not comment on judicial decisions. Likewise the Judges on Parliamentary matters.
      
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      December 17, 2018 1:39pm
- Dave Mann
  
  With all the failures and total idiots on the Labour side, together with the non-caucus of NZF and the off-the-planet greenies, Ardern must be thanking her lucky stars for the good work done by Simon Bridges, her biggest asset.
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:55am
- peterwn
  
  As I said yesterday, the Crown faces the hurdle of having to show that the ‘final’ prison sentence adopted (before Home Detention is considered) as being manifestly insufficient. The Crown could find this difficult, hence is IMO unlikely to appeal. On the information available, I think the sentence is adequate for deterrence and rehabilitation purposes.
  This is especially as media reports have not indicated what action she took or neglected that contributed to the accident, this would need to be something more than intoxication.
  On the bare facts as known, the deceased cyclist ran a red light and T boned the offender’s car. It can be inferred the offender did not run a red light. Presumably a reasonable motorist driving through the intersection at a reasonable speed could have braked or taken other steps to avoid the accident. So through being intoxicated she was not capable of taking the actions that a reasonable motorist would have been taken.
  Another matter – her lawyer probably obtained a sentencing indication and she pleaded guilty on the basis of that indication out of pragmatism. If an appeal court were to consider increasing the sentence, it would need to give the offender the opportunity of vacating the guilty plea probably meaning a retrial by jury which could well acquit her. This means she could only be sentenced for a drink-drive, failing to stop and failing to render assistance. The consequence would then probably be a community sentence and a 18 to 24 month disqualification. So the Crown may have obtained the best possible outcome in the circumstances and an appeal could backfire on the Crown.
  
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  December 17, 2018 11:09am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    The more the facts of this come out, the more I think the sentence is appropriate. If the deceased T boned the car, there is nothing the driver could have done, in fact, the first she may have been aware of the cyclist is at the moment of impact. Whether she was stoned, pissed or asleep would have made no difference. Where she is totally out of line is her leaving the scene and her inappropriate behaviour after the accident. But neither of those deserve jail.
    
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    December 17, 2018 11:45am
  - KevOB
    
    Thanks for your dissection. Being a Judge is a tough call.
    
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    December 17, 2018 1:42pm
  - peterwn
    
    Interestingly the Crown has indicated that it is considering an appeal against sentence. This is an appropriate move since there is public concern in this case. Generally the Crown contract lawyer would recommend an appeal if the judge is considered to have gone significantly off the rails. Presumably that lawyer would now be asked to report on this for the Crown Solicitor’s decision. Points to be considers would be as I outlined before except that the lawyer would have a better idea of sentencing trends etc.
    
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    December 17, 2018 2:28pm
    - secondcumming
      
      My father-in-law reckons it would *20-1 against* the appeal being successful.
      
      Just saying…….
      
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      December 17, 2018 3:43pm
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      Thanks, peterwn, for helping us lay people understand these issues a little better. Much appreciated.
      
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      December 17, 2018 7:44pm
Nukuleka

I admit that Simon Bridges does seem to want to fence-sit at times rather than lay himself open to the predictable MSM onslaught were he to take a less equivocal stance on issues. That’s the problem with so many in National, and I include our own generous host DPF in this, that they in essence have soppily liberal social attitudes. People wring their hands in horror at the notion of capital punishment lest some innocent be put to death in error but happily endorse the killing of thousands of innocent unborn children and want to extend this to euthanising the elderly and infirm.
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December 17, 2018 10:26am
- KevOB
  
  In an identity driven society fence sitting avoids needless confrontation and diversion.
  The COL are destroying themselves–let it continue. The COL are exhausting their budget, their credibility; their own are turning on them as they can’t satisfy all.
  
  Look forward to next year as a year of strikes and a very irritated public. The CPI will skyrocket but will be ignored in thee newfeelz economics. Treasury will be sidelined. The RBNZ will be controlled by GR and all will be hunky dory except the dollar will be down, prices much higher, voters angry and seeking change.
  Stand firm Simon.
  
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  December 17, 2018 11:04am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Stand firm Simon.
    
    Your loyalty is truly touching. My god.
    
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    December 17, 2018 11:09am
    - sooty
      
      I just hope its a picket fence he’s sitting on!
      
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      December 17, 2018 11:23am
    - Vory v zakone
      
      Fuck off Dave. Concern Troll just like gimpy
      
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      December 17, 2018 1:20pm
      - Dave Mann
        
        And you can fuck off too. I’m not trolling, I’m being very critical of Simon Bridges’ lack of ability and some others (albeit a minority) either agree with me or raise the subject themselves.
        
        Just because you disagree with me doesn’t make me a troll or give you the moral superiority to be abusive.
        
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        December 17, 2018 4:47pm
    - KevOB
      
      I believe a wage price spiral has been set in place. Add a GFC which is underway and an infant Finance Minister who has to manage and disaster awaits. It has all happened before except the GR has now taken control over the RBNZ too!
      
      I’m not sure what I would counsel Simon to do at present. He can’t get reported by a collusive media and I think the COL may be in much worse odour within 3 months. Elements of the media are turning. I expect more that way.
      
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      December 17, 2018 1:54pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    “You’ve got a Government at the moment that you know, with good intentions is looking to have fewer people in prison. The worry is with that is you get more victims. I for one, although it’s never going to be perfect, I’d go with more in prisons and fewer victims.”
    
    And? He got the right message across: more in prison, fewer victims. But he didn’t offend Labour voters who are starting to see the light.
    
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    December 17, 2018 2:43pm
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Courtesy Hobsons Pledge.

Te Ati Awa’s glittering $247m Waitara prize

“The New Plymouth District Council (Waitara Lands) Bill that passed its third reading on Thursday shows how a tribal group managed to expand a grievance into three current settlements totalling over $247 million.

Waitara, a town of 6900 located 16km north of New Plymouth, was where the 1860s tribal rebellions started when one Maori landowner wished to sell his Pekapeka Block to the Government and another chief, who didn’t own the land, forbade him and triggered hostilities.

Te Ati Awa and two sub groups – Manukorihi and Otaraua – will get $28 million from property sales on Waitara land over the next two decades, plus $28 million more to go to projects co-managed by the tribe and the Taranaki Regional Council, according to Radio New Zealand. (See https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/378150/long-running-land-dispute-resolved-as-parliament-passes-waitara-lands-bill.

They’ll also get 120 hectares of land, mostly in reserves. Another $34 million will be allocated to Waitara River and environmental projects, co-governed by the council and tribe.

In 2014 the Crown settled with Te Ati Awa, the tribe which built the pa that triggered the 1860 fighting. They received $87 million and an apology. Te Ati Awa participated in the Taranaki Iwi settlement of 2015 which included $70 million in financial redress.

Te Ati Awa had been offered in the 2014 settlement to buy Waitara lands for $23 million, but the tribe hung out for more and got a further $90 million plus 120 hectares.

It appears that the current Government is even more generous with taxpayers’ money for tribal interests than the former Government was and there is not a peep out of Winston Peters, who garnered the one-law-for-all vote in 2017.

Waitara is mostly leasehold land, and most of the leases are residential. The ongoing dispute has had a devastating effect on land valuations. Residential leaseholders are often stuck with homes that they can only sell under valuation.”
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December 17, 2018 10:39am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Never, ever buy on leasehold.
  
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  December 17, 2018 2:44pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Maori leasehold or any, they are not all the same.
    
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    December 17, 2018 6:09pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      There have been some terrible news stories in Auckland about people’s church-owned leases becoming unaffordable.
      
      However, an affordable, extremely long-term lease could make sense if one understands that there might not be much to sell or leave to heirs.
      
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      December 17, 2018 6:40pm
Maggy Wassilieff

One good thing that RNZ does is broadcast BBC clips called Witness just after the 5am news report.

There was a particularly harrowing episode this morning on Englandspiel.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswslz

What a bloody balls-up.
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December 17, 2018 11:20am
- stephieboy
  
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  MW, yes BBC Witness is an excellent series including both disasters and triumphs
  
  One example of the latter is,” How the World woke up to Climate Change “,
  
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswsfj
  
  Well worth a listen!
  
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  December 17, 2018 11:43am
Sofia

Simon Bridges should be well aware of a press campaign being run against him.
He should be loath then to talk to some Newshub “journalists” in particular let alone tell them things that allow them t print the following –

Simon Bridges has revealed the kind of shows he likes to watch when politics is on the backburner.

The National Party leader told RadioLIVE on Monday morning he’s “got to keep moving” until after Wednesday night’s “infamous Parliament press gallery party” – then it’s time to chill in front of the TV.

“I hate to say this on like, a MediaWorks station, but it’s all Netflix, man. I’m sorry. It’s just all Netflix,” he told hosts Mike Puru and Carly Flynn.

“I can’t even think what it’s called, but the one I’m watching at the moment that’s really good, it’s not Vikings, but the Danes come over to England. It’s something-or-rather Kingdom. It’s good.”

Mr Bridges appears to have been talking about The Last Kingdom, a critically acclaimed show about the Saxon resistance against Viking invaders, currently in its third season.

“Blood and guts and sex, that’s the way to go,” Mr Bridges added.

The headline of course is
‘Blood and guts and sex, that’s the way to go’ – Simon Bridges

In the general context of current events, how “fucking useless” – to use a phrase as he, apparently, can do.
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December 17, 2018 11:20am
- Surely Knott
  
  Actually, if it wasn’t for the side-eye picture they use of him this article wouldn’t be too bad. Lots of the people who fled to Winston Peters wanted a less sanitised politics, more entertainment,. And a tell it like it is politician. (Even if Winston is a duplicitous and dodgy dude) So Simon saying that he watches viking films filledd with blood and guts on netflix will resonate with plenty of guys. It also makes him less boring. I know my husband is also glued to the Vikings series. I think being less careful with what he says will be good for Simon. More authentic vs brand labour virtue signalling.
  
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  December 17, 2018 12:01pm
  - realityczech
    
    Well observed Surely Knott. We need more like you to roll the current authoritarian regime occupying parliament.
    
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    December 17, 2018 12:32pm
  - Sofia
    
    I would in fact agree to some extent with you, Surely Knott – it is just the timing and that Newhub places the headline next to that for the Missing North Shore Teen – but she now seems to suddenly not be headlines.
    And as far as Simon goes, “If people drive you crazy, why give them the keys?”
    
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    December 17, 2018 1:32pm
  - Longknives
    
    Bridges just went up a few more notches in my estimation!
    Could you imagine anyone from Labour admitting they watch Vikings on Netflix?
    
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    December 17, 2018 2:13pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      I haven’t seen it, but isn’t it full of ‘strong women’? Labour might be all for them slaying those bad, white men…
      
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      December 17, 2018 2:50pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  OMG, these people can’t even spell ‘something-or-other’, instead they write ‘something-or-rather’.
  
  Unbelievable!
  
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  December 17, 2018 2:48pm
Lance

Huge congrats to Rocket Lab with their launch last night. Deployed 13 micro-satellites for NASA

Freakin amazing.

Almost nothing from MSM in NZ, they are more interested in shallow drivel.
International MSM have published it though, go figure
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- stephieboy
  
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  Lance, you’d be wrong there. MSM NZ Herald prominently featured the launch which I agree does make a welcome change from some of the NYP, Daily Mail, Mirror etc shallow drivel,
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12177742
  
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  December 17, 2018 11:49am
  - Lance
    
    Unfortunately that was last night and I doubt many people wouldn’t realise it was covered. It would have hurt to put in this morning.
    The last launch was ignored by TV1 news, tonight will be telling.
    
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    December 17, 2018 12:24pm
- mark15
  
  You could see it from Napier.Not me,I was mowing the lawn and forgot.
  
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  December 17, 2018 12:13pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    thats what happens when you do “lawnmowing” Ask Jethro, or Cindy, it adles the mind, and people can’t recall clearly…
    
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    December 17, 2018 12:48pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    You couldn’t see it from Kaiti Hill….not even a wispy vapour trail.
    
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    December 17, 2018 1:51pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes I am so proud of Peter Beck – years ago I doubted that he could do it.
  I am also proud of Sir Peter Jackson for all the things he does that puts NZ on the world map.
  
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  December 17, 2018 12:15pm
  - howitis
    
    https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/peter-jackson-s-epic-flop-set-to-lose-over-140-million-at-box-office-20181217-p50mom.html
    AUD
    
    https://variety.com/2018/film/news/peter-jackson-mortal-engines-box-office-flop-1203090907/
    With a budget of just over $100 million and tens of millions in global marketing costs, executives at rival studios estimate that the movie will lose upwards of $100 million. Some even project that number could float to more than $125 million. “Mortal Engines” has so far made a paltry $42 million globally. The sci-fi epic came into a crowded marketplace at a competitive time of year, opening against the well-reviewed “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and “The Mule,” a Clint Eastwood thriller that had a better start than expected. “Mortal Engines,” on the other hand, launched below estimates, generating just $7.5 million when it debuted in North America.
    “This is a true Christmas disaster and a lump of coal for Universal,” said Jeff Bock, an analyst with Exhibitor Relations. “They took a big swing, and they struck out.”
    in USD
    
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    December 17, 2018 4:27pm
- realityczech
  
  Great stuff. Those Kiwis are actually doing what that con artist Musk says he will do… if you just give him a few billion more.
  
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  December 17, 2018 12:29pm
DigNap15

And the girl that killed the guy in Hamilton trying to protect his car from being stolen gets jail and permanent name supression!
Why!
We nee to know who this worthless peice of sh.. is to keep us safe in the future.
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December 17, 2018 12:13pm
- Philview
  
  Stabbed the poor guy to death and she gets 2 year for manslaughter. The Andrew Little class of 2018. Apparently she has Mana!
  
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  December 17, 2018 5:23pm
starboard

Barely Sober talking shit as per usual. Plonker.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12177945
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December 17, 2018 12:19pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Fuck right off Barey Sober. I read the headline and nearly puked. Still got my hands in bleach….
  
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  December 17, 2018 12:49pm
- Woz
  
  He’d been quaffing the hard sauce when he wrote that drivel.
  
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  December 17, 2018 2:43pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Doesn’t the Herald get money each time one of us clicks? If so, if you see a stupid article it might be best to summarise the salient points here, instead.
  
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  December 17, 2018 2:53pm
DigNap15

Re the Climate Change Meeting in Poland.
For the last 10 days, we have heard about 20 countries that will not agree to the deal and to just acknowledge it, and not agree to the deal.

Now they have made an agreement, mainly just rules.

But there is no word on the 20 countries.
Did they cave in or what?
Piss poor reporting.
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December 17, 2018 1:12pm
- Komata
  
  DN
  
  While I can’t answer your question, what did NZ do?
  
  Sign or decline the invitation to do so?
  
  The NZ MSM seem to be quiet about it.
  
  Thanks.
  
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  December 17, 2018 2:11pm
DigNap15

Question – on the roads.
Do you want them to build a few more new 4 lane motorways like the Te Puke bypass and Cambridge bypass or add median lanes to more roads.

Just a quick answer please. One or the other.
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December 17, 2018 1:14pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  What is a median lane? Do you mean median barrier (as in wire rope?) If that’s the case, no.
  Replicate the TePuke bypass for Tauranga-Katikati, Chch-Ashburton, Cambridge-Piarere, Otaki-Sanson and Warkworth-Whangarei.
  That’ll do for starters.
  
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  December 17, 2018 1:28pm
- DigNap15
  
  Oops Median barriers (prferably not cheese cutters but concrete walls or steel barriers)
  
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  December 17, 2018 1:45pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  4 lanes.
  
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  December 17, 2018 2:14pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Crikey!
Another fraud cheating our immigration wallahs.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/109410669/ministry-of-transport-fraudster-joanne-harrison-to-be-released-from-jail-and-deported-to-united-kingdom
We really are a basket-case of a country.
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December 17, 2018 1:55pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Once we’ve signed the Migration Pact and the CoL weaves it into our laws and policies, a case like this will look like small change.
  
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  December 17, 2018 2:57pm
- rangitoto
  
  She could have avoided deportation by selling lawnmowers.
  
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  December 17, 2018 3:04pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Joanne Harrison had so much previous form that the mugs who chose her to be an employee should all be sacked forthwith. Their negligence is palpable.
  
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  December 17, 2018 4:25pm
  - howitis
    
    The gutless geezer who may or may not have been getting sexual favours from Harrison (or whatever her name is this week) while at MOT wanted to be the Auditor General of New Zealand.
    This Office (AudGen) oversees the more than $70 Billion annual Govt expenditure.
    Martin Matthews.
    Do not forget his name.
    We will not know the details of how he was manipulated by Harrison [insert any other name] because the Maartin Wevers report was suppressed.
    
    The NZTA/MOT sideshow is quite a disgusting carry on.
    https://www.transport.govt.nz/assets/Import/Documents/Relationship-Protocol-20NZTA-MoT-May-2011.pdf
    NZTA failings exposed this year alone:
    -Failure on the Kapiti Expressway surface;
    -Warrant of Fitness cock up;
    -Driver licensing cock up.
    Bring in third worlders and let them ‘self regulate’.
    What could go wrong?
    Just rename NZTA the ‘Monty Python Dept’.
    Corruption Free NZ. My Arse.
    
    The Aussies still want a crack at Harrison and the plonker Martin Matthews ignored requests from the Australian Federal Police.
    The Australian Federal Police deal with high level crime like Drugs from Thailand and Malaysia.
    They were not contacting the fool Matthews about overdue parking tickets.
    It makes one strongly suspect his dick was where it should not have been.
    Release the report and we will know!
    
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    December 17, 2018 5:06pm
mandk

More utter madness from the progressives: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2018/12/uk-primary-school-to-teach-kids-that-all-children-can-have-periods-including-boys.html

Actually, it goes beyond madness. It is evil.

No one can have a period unless they have a functioning uterus as well as the right hormones.

(This message was brought to you by COF: the Campaign for Objective Fact).
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December 17, 2018 1:58pm
- Woz
  
  That’s really terrible. These people should be put in the stocks.
  
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  December 17, 2018 2:40pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Ah Brighton, that explains everything. I wish the media would, rather than blindly repeating the insanity, ask these tranny activists just how a boy menstruates. Is it possible that these people have more than one mental health issue?
  
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  December 17, 2018 2:40pm
Longknives

Nice play from Simon Bridges again today.
The Media, and the Left in General are losing their shit over him saying he likes ‘A bit of blood and guts’
(After being asked what he likes to watch on Netflix)
Predictably- There are braying and overly dramatic headlines and I just read some fuckwit actually make a connection to the Grace Millane murder “It’s a bit insensitive- How must Grace’s family feel?”.

My God the Left are pathetic losers!
Great answer Simon- Though I prefer Vikings to Last Kingdom as it has more nudity and slightly hotter Viking women…
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December 17, 2018 2:08pm
MrTips

Tova O’Brien in quite possibly the most scathing article I’ve read from her on anything CoL. And she’s shot straight for the core of the DeathStar. Cindy will NOT like that article at all.

And O’Brien actually highlights another issue: the Ombudsman is going to need a bigger hammer. Boshier needs to MAKE the CoL release info – they currently tell everyone “ItsTooMuchWork&Difficult™”. B.S. This is the crap Clark and Cullen used to pull.
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December 17, 2018 2:19pm
- mic
  
  I was gobsmacked when I read this article. Has Tova fallen out with Jacinda?
  
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  December 17, 2018 2:23pm
- mandk
  
  Good piece by Tova.
  
  I especially like the final para:
  “Ms Ardern promised to lead the most open and transparent Government New Zealand has seen. That doesn’t mean picking and choosing to be open and transparent when it benefits her.”
  
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  December 17, 2018 2:38pm
  - RF
    
    Ardern is nothing but a cheap liar who thinks of no one other than herself.
    
    Her father Ross Ardern will be very disappointed with her.
    
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    December 17, 2018 3:53pm
    - thedavincimode
      
      Her father Ross Ardern will be very disappointed with her.
      
      #NotMyDaughter
      
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      December 17, 2018 5:43pm
- Poppa
  
  A temporary lapse, normal transmission will be resumed in the New Year
  
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  December 17, 2018 2:42pm
- waldonz
  
  I think it’s safe to say that Tova can expect a phone call from the 9th floor of the Beehive very shortly.
  
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  December 17, 2018 3:47pm
- DigNap15
  
  Great article.
  In it Tova said that Ardern said that it was ok for her to use her private email as we could access it anytime by using a OIA request.
  Tova said that they have made several requests already!
  
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  December 17, 2018 3:49pm
- Ross12
  
  My guess is Tova O’Brien might be “reading between the lines” and is desperately trying to get onto the ride side of the bun fight heading our way.
  
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  December 17, 2018 4:52pm
- KevOB
  
  Tova, who may be a rallie, has just signed her death warrant. She smells a rat and has politely said so within her journalistic measured words.
  Expect more.
  
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  December 17, 2018 5:35pm
- Tall Man
  
  I was slow, only read the article after two visits with the Jamesons family in my cupboard but I cam here immediately as I was certain that I must have lucked into a bottle of the OP stuff because that was not the crazy Irish lady we love to hate.
  
  Maybe she’s showing me the love because I prefer whiskey to whisky..but what ever her motivation, I like her comment and I hope it gets picked up and shared because the more it’s shared, the more it’s read….
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/12/tova-o-brien-she-may-not-be-but-jacinda-ardern-looks-dodgy.html
  
  Cheers and back the my green Irish friend.
  
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  December 17, 2018 7:20pm
Manolo

Are pampered’ Eurocrats concerned? Not a bit!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-protests/brussels-police-arrest-hundreds-in-yellow-vest-riot-idUSKBN1O70OP

Belgian police detained more than 400 people on Saturday after “yellow vest” protesters inspired by riots in France threw rocks and firecrackers and damaged shops and cars as they tried to reach official buildings in Brussels.

In the second violence of its kind in the capital in eight days, a crowd which police estimated at around 1,000 faced riot squads who used water cannon and tear gas to keep people away from the European Union headquarters and the nearby Belgian government quarter. Calm was restored after about five hours.
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December 17, 2018 2:51pm
secondcumming

*BREAKING!*

The NZH reports that a 64-year-old *Samoan national* has been arrested and charged with black-birding and slavery. INZ Assistant Manager Peter Devoy said, “….this is a low for New Zealand, the combination of human trafficking and the treatment of these people sets this case apart……”

https://spartacus-educational.com/USASships.jpg
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December 17, 2018 2:55pm
- secondcumming
  
  Additional link…….
  
  https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1074412063534080000
  
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  December 17, 2018 3:34pm
  - Jack5
    
    Migrant slavery in NZ isn’t new. Both National and Labour have been disgraceful in letting our borders weaken.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/84236855/likely-thousands-of-migrant-slaves-in-new-zealand-expert
    
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    December 17, 2018 3:39pm
- cmm
  
  Bloody colonialism!
  
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  December 17, 2018 4:26pm
gump

I see Simon is doing his best to lose the next election. John Key would have done a better job reading the political tea leaves.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/378430/legalising-cannabis-simon-bridges-says-he-would-vote-against-it
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December 17, 2018 3:32pm
- waldonz
  
  Simon Bridges needs to step into the 21st century.
  
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  December 17, 2018 3:54pm
nasska

From gump’s link:

…..””I worry about the harm, I see the debilitating effects in all manner of communities, I worry about the mental health and I think the messaging of saying ‘look decriminalisation, no issue in term of harm’ will mean harm rises.””…..

Crap! National are ignoring their founding principles & running scared of a pack of religio/conservative freaks.

Freaks who make a lot of noise, threaten & bluster but have no political options other than wasting their votes on Colin Craig’s phoenix.
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December 17, 2018 3:56pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  National’s founding principles of encouraging drug use?
  
  If I were convinced that people were just going to use drugs without any harm or cost to others (e.g. dangerous driving, child neglact, health costs, damaging rented homes), then I’d be all for people taking whatever crap they want. Just as suicide is not a criminal act.
  
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  December 17, 2018 4:26pm
  - nasska
    
    Let’s pick those points apart:
    
    1) Dangerous driving. Already legislated for & policed accordingly.
    
    2) Child neglect. Blame the shitty parents…..not a drug.
    
    3) Health costs. Already covered. Neither ACC nor hospitals decline to treat drug related illnesses now.
    
    4) Damaging houses. How?
    
    Note that I’m addressing possible downsides to use of marijuana (not meth which isn’t the subject of the current proposals). Additionally scant mention is made by opponents of the fact that everyone who wants to use marijuana is already using it albeit illegally.
    
    Edit: National’s founding principles include “individual freedom and choice”. No mention is made of exclusions for the social drug of one’s own choice.
    
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    December 17, 2018 4:45pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      “everyone who wants to use marijuana is already using it albeit illegally.”
      
      I disagree. Once it’s freely available far more young people will become addicted and far more health problems will have to be dealt with.
      
      The rental housing issue is smoke stench for the landlord to deal with.
      
      However, if you can show me meta studies proving that marijuana has no bad health effects, I’d like to see them.
      
      Trying to reduce tobacco and alcohol use gives us plenty to do. I don’t see the logic of legalising other harmful substances.
      
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      December 17, 2018 6:10pm
      - nasska
        
        …..” Once it’s freely available far more young people will become addicted”…..
        
        Unlikely. Marijuana is not the drug of favour amongst young people who prefer MDMA or similar. In any case addiction rates are low…..9% & it is not a difficult drug to quit. (By comparison 32% of tobacco users will become addicted, 23% of heroin users, 17% of cocaine users & 15% of alcohol users).
        
        https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-teenage-mind/201012/is-marijuana-addictive
        
        Additionally, consider that if marijuana is not available people are not going to sit down & have a cup of tea & a biscuit instead. They’ll be out looking for some other way to dull the pain of life.
        
        ….”The rental housing issue is smoke stench for the landlord to deal with.”….
        
        You’re reaching……really! Is the next step demanding that tenants use charcoal underwear to reduce the damage caused by farts?
        
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        December 17, 2018 6:31pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Reaching? No, I really don’t want my rental to stink of tobacco or weed smoke.
        
        I still don’t see the logic in legalising even more damaging substances, and you haven’t shown me any meta studies proving that marijuana causes no harm.
        
        However, it’s all a moot point because the Taxinda team are all for it and we’ll soon have to smell the revolting gunk on every street corner. You’ll love it, I’ll hate it.
        
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        December 17, 2018 6:51pm
- KevOB
  
  We have enough pot pushers in Parliament already–how about a govt that works?
  
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  December 17, 2018 5:38pm
cmm

Venezuela at 1 million % inflation!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/garthfriesen/2018/08/07/the-path-to-hyperinflation-what-happened-to-venezuela/#61d08f2015e4

Let’s do it socialist fucks!
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December 17, 2018 4:26pm
- mandk
  
  And I understand that Comrade Maduro will break open the country’ s store of corn husks (gifted by Cuba) to help the people celebrate another glorious milestone in Venezuela’s ongoing revolution.
  
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  December 17, 2018 4:54pm
rangitoto

Good to see serious pushback against the loons at AT:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12178136
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December 17, 2018 4:27pm
cmm

South African land reform rhetoric ramping up…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHHqV7C8epQ

The date has been set for March 2019.

Massive rioting etc at Hermanus – a wee town near Cape Town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLywNljd88g

Note the first time there were black people in Hermanus was probably 50 or so years ago. The closest pre-colonial black people got to this area was the East London/ Grahamstown area – approx 700km away.
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December 17, 2018 4:41pm
Chuck Bird

I just got from climbing the Hakarimata where I met some very nice Mormon Sisters from Utah. There were well aware that Cindy had been baptized and will pray for here. I wonder if her parents would be more proud of her if she became a Morman again rather promoting all sort of liberal causes.
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December 17, 2018 4:59pm
fernglas

Helen Winkelmann as next Chief Justice. Good choice.
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December 17, 2018 5:00pm
- KevOB
  
  Surely it’s a male turn or are we now in a femocrazy?
  
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  December 17, 2018 5:40pm
  - fernglas
    
    This is on merit.
    
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    December 17, 2018 5:46pm
    - realityczech
      
      Only if you call feminism merit.
      
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      December 17, 2018 7:49pm
    - KevOB
      
      I don’t deny the ability of the appointee. This is a very significant constitutional office and I think rotation is in order. The CJ stands in as Administrator of the Government when the Gov. General is unable to function in official capacity.
      
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      December 17, 2018 10:46pm
- secondcumming
  
  *KDC* will be delighted! 😎
  
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  December 17, 2018 6:54pm
burt

Dear Jacinda

Tourists should be safe in NZ, why do we let these kinds of men into our country ?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/109417263/jail-for-man-who-raped-young-canadian-working-in-new-zealand
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December 17, 2018 5:01pm
- cmm
  
  Manus Islanders are from shitholistans where the stats are worse, way worse.
  
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  December 17, 2018 5:06pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  “During the night he texted the victim asking if he could come cuddle. She was dubious – but he said she could trust him.
  When she tried to get out of the bed he pulled her back and raped her, at one point putting his hands around her throat.”
  
  A friend in another room texts you to come and “cuddle” and you believe that is all that is on the menu.
  The word naïve or gullible springs to mind.
  
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  December 17, 2018 5:31pm
  - Jack5
    
    The mongrel probably won’t be deported. Our attitude to violence, notably rape, by refugees and migrants is weak and contrasts with the rising indignation about attacks on women.
    
    Refugees and migrants likely make only a small proportion of all such offenders in NZ, but how we treat them is usually widely reported, and signals how seriously the country regards such attacks.
    
    The Immigration and Protection Tribunal is notoriously liberal. It has several women members.
    
    Are women being hypocrites when they protest against violence against women then give violent offenders soft punishment?
    
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    December 17, 2018 5:48pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    “Friend” is the key word.
    
    She decided she could trust him, after believing they were friends. Just as every one of us does every time we get into bed with another person whom we trust. We trust that they understand ‘no means no’ to any touching we don’t want. We trust that they aren’t crazy and violent.
    
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    December 17, 2018 6:27pm
    - Stars And Stripes
      
      None of my friends from work have ever asked me to go the committee room for a “cuddle”.
      If they ever did I would definitely assume they want to ride me.
      
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      December 17, 2018 7:07pm
cmm

Herald thinks the Grace Millane murder has something to do with domestic violence

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12178027

What bullshit: the White Ribbon people (including PriNZess’s mate Hardcore) have been shamelessly milking this murder for their domestic violence nonsense.

Apparently domestic violence is a national shame.

Get stuffed! I feel no shame toward Grace’s murder or domestic violence.

If the domestic violence problem is going to be taken seriously the first thing to do is point a finger at the communities who do the most of this – not everyone.

Time to recognise that Maori commit domestic violence at almost 6x the rate of non-Maori.

Time to also recognise that the people from shitholistan countries that PriNZess wants to import are much worse than Maori.

Let’s be honest and make it a Brown Ribbon, not a White Ribbon.
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December 17, 2018 5:04pm
- Jack5
  
  They even have the Telegraph running with New Zealand’s “domestic violence record”.
  
  Let’s have the latest statistics from the OECD. Then take into account that the OECD represents less than 15 per cent of world’s countries.
  
  If Jacinderella can show us figures that establish NZ is internationally worse than similar countries when it comes to family violence, then surely the answer lies in kick-arse penalties, starting with death for murder.
  
  Of course, women murderers as well as male ones would have to die on the scaffold.
  
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  December 17, 2018 5:36pm
  - cmm
    
    The worst areas in the world for DV are pretty much, in order:
    A) Africa
    B) Middle East
    C) Micronesia
    D) Pacific
    E) Caribbean
    F) South America
    and way down the bottom:
    Europe, USA, Oz, NZ.
    
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    December 17, 2018 5:47pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      But cmm, Leftards are fine with DV in most of those countries, because it’s just a wonderful aspect of a culture or religion that we must respect!
      
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      December 17, 2018 6:32pm
- Longknives
  
  The Left’s answer to this is- ‘White Males commit most of the crime but it goes unreported’
  *See that revolting ‘Aunties’ organisation’s astonishing attack on white men last week…
  
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  December 17, 2018 7:13pm
Chuck Bird

“Time to recognise that Maori commit domestic violence at almost 6x the rate of non-Maori.”

I know it is higher but did not think it was that much higher. Would you have a link please?
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December 17, 2018 5:25pm
- cmm
  
  https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/journals-and-magazines/social-policy-journal/spj33/33-ethnic-identity-and-intimate-partner-violence-in-a-new-zealand-birth-cohort-p126-145.html
  
  50% of DV cases from Maori who are 15% of the population, therefore rate is almost times
  
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  December 17, 2018 5:49pm
  - cmm
    
    That’s Intimate Partner Violence.
    
    Other DV (kid bashing) numbers are worse yet.
    
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    December 17, 2018 5:50pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Some more up-to-date statistics in this infographic put out by TPK
    https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/46902/maori-and-family-violence
    
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    December 17, 2018 7:28pm
  - DigNap15
    
    And what are our Maori MP’s doing about it?
    Trying to close Charter Schools
    Aiming for lower sentences
    Blaming the Europeans 100 years ago
    
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    December 17, 2018 7:59pm
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Which Maori MPs? I do not think any Maori National are doing what you say.
      
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      December 17, 2018 8:19pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    cmm, Thanks for the link. The late David Ferguson was a very good researcher. I have listened to him on more than one occasion.
    
    The question is if the reason for the higher rate violence of those who have some Maori family violence genetic, cultural or other factors.
    
    One thing that is missing is marriage. This is something that few want to address including the political Children’s Commissioner.
    
    I believe that the one reasons for the higher rates of family violence with Maori could be cultural and possibly to a far lesser degree to genetics.
    
    Where I think we would agree is that it is white heterosexual males are the only group it is acceptable to attack.
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:05pm
Tauhei Notts

Cricket.
Kasun Rajitha 0 for 144.
That is possibly the worst bowling figures of any bowler against New Zealand in New Zealand’s test cricket history.
If so that man deserves a lovely hand crafted wooden spoon made from swamp kauri.
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December 17, 2018 5:57pm
- Colville
  
  What about the chap Latham. ?
  That is quite some steady as she goes batting. 🙂
  
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  December 17, 2018 6:34pm
- Longknives
  
  Rajitha has a way to go before he challenges Imran Kahir’s superb 0-260 against Australia a few years ago!
  
  Great knock Latham by the way..
  
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  December 17, 2018 7:08pm
- Brigitte
  
  There are two worse, I Sharma Ind v NZ at Basin 2014 with 0-164 and S Gabriel WI v NZ at Carisbrook 2013 with 0-148.
  
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  December 17, 2018 7:34pm
DigNap15

If we did not have Maoris or Islanders (and nwo Indians) her in NZ we would be at the best of all statstics.
Health, education, non violence, non corruption.

It is those groups who make us look bad!
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December 17, 2018 6:57pm
realityczech

But wait !

I thought Jacinda and her band of socialists were going to stop climate change by planting some trees and taxing everyone.

How can this be?
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December 17, 2018 6:59pm
realityczech

Once again we are seeing every key constitutional position in NZ filled by a man hating feminist. Just as we did under the dark years of the Clark regime.

The appointment of Helen Winkelmann was made by our feminist PM on the recommendation of THIS man hating dyke the Solicitor General.
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December 17, 2018 7:54pm
- DigNap15
  
  We need someone like Trump to appoint some hard right judges! To keep us safe!
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:06pm
  - realityczech
    
    No we just need to appoint on merit, not gender. The last thing we want are politically appointed judges. Which is actually what is happening now.
    
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    December 17, 2018 8:11pm
    - sooty
      
      She was the reason the maori terrorist were free!
      
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      December 17, 2018 8:37pm
- softail 1450
  
  R C, Jeeeez thats one ugly man.
  
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  December 18, 2018 6:52am
DigNap15

There has always been Climate Change since the earth was formed and it started to rain for about a million years.

If they are worried about man made pollution then tell India to stop breeding billions of useless people who contribute absolutely nothing to the world.

China has a large poulation and lots of polltuion but it does make most of the stuff that the world uses.

NZ may prodcue lots of methane gas.
Bt we only have 15 million cows, Argentina has 50 million.
And we produce food for the whole world.

So please give up this and crusade and work on India, Nigeria, Pakistan and other over populated basket cases.
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December 17, 2018 8:05pm
- realityczech
  
  You missed Africa. Are you going soft? 🙂
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:12pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    I thought Dig said Nigeria. Does your atlas not have that in Africa?
    
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    December 17, 2018 10:04pm
- krazykiwi
  
  tell India to stop breeding billions of useless people who contribute absolutely nothing to the world
  
  A touch sweeping, don’t you think? Of about 5 million students who received their bachelor’s degrees in 2012 in STEM subjects worldwide, 29.2 per cent were from India.
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:06pm
  - DigNap15
    
    OK so that’s 1.5 million Indian students doing OK.
    What about the other 1.3 billions useless breeders.
    
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    December 17, 2018 10:58pm
Odakyu-sen

In New Zealand, there is such poor coverage of East Asian events.
Like that major explosion in Sapporo City, Hokkaido yesterday.
Ref: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/japan-restaurant-explosion-sapporo-injures-42-buildings-collapse-11037134

NHK news thinks that gas was involved, or that some improperly warehoused chemicals caught alight.

Nothing about it in the NZ Herald.
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December 17, 2018 8:17pm
- realityczech
  
  They would just blame Trump.
  
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  December 17, 2018 8:29pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Yes, I guess so.
    The NZ Herald never seems to have anything good to say about Trump. Oddly enough, they seemed to like that part-white guy who was in the White House before him.
    
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    December 17, 2018 9:48pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Nobody died (yet), so not big news. But it did look spectacular on TV.
  Speaking of Japan, I’ve been there a few times and was constantly amazed that there are not more incidents like this.
  Went to a restaurant once in a wooden building about five stories high with gas burners going on all over the place, Bloody Hell.
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:09pm
sooty

Comrade Jacinduh! Are you going to work tomorrow or will it be another no show!
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December 17, 2018 8:42pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Holiday time sooty. Bonding with Neve. See you in February if I’m still up to it.
  cheers, Cindy.
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:12pm
- DigNap15
  
  No, shes looking for some time off and spending it with her babee.
  (and hiding from any questions about her txt messages)
  
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  December 18, 2018 6:40am
Hugh Pavletich

AUSTRALIA: Sydney and Melbourne home prices have tumbled 1.6% in a month | Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australia-property-market-sydney-melbourne-prices-2018-12

• Sydney and Melbourne home prices have fallen 1.6% in a month.

• That’s significantly faster than what was seen earlier this year, and may reflect vendors are lowering their price expectations in order to secure a sale.

• Prices in Perth and Brisbane have also fallen over the past month, albeit by a smaller amount. Adelaide is the only Australian mainland state capital where prices rose over this period.

• Property listings in Sydney and Melbourne have surged by more than 20% over the past 12 months. Listings have also increased in all other capitals except for Adelaide and Darwin. … read more via hyperlink above …
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December 17, 2018 10:32pm
- starboard
  
  Merry Xmas Hugh.
  
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  December 17, 2018 10:53pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Starboard:
    
    I think I can guess what Hugh wants for Christmas: lots of hits on his tumbleweed blog!
    
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"Seymour is only doing openly what M?ori nationalists and their Pakeha allies have been doing, quietly for the past 50 years."
Not PC
More young offenders will get boot camp, bus drivers will get some protection – and there’s relief for southern farmers
Point of Order
The transgender agenda sunk Kamala
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What does “reciprocity” mean in New Zealand laws?
Croaking Cassandra
A Day of Reckoning
NZCPR
Media Link: “A View from Afar” on the US elections.
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This will not end well
Offsetting Behaviour
Top 14 Predictions for Round 10
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Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet
The Civilian
The Accidental Engagement
Imperator Fish
Legal Beagle: Election '23: The Special Votes
Public Address
Making this movie might have been a mistake
Liam Hehir
Why I am retiring from political blogging
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