General Debate 13 March 2019

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Keeping Stock

Nice day for it!
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March 13, 2019 8:01am
- MT_Tinman
  
  It, on a nice day, gives me great pleasure! 🙂
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:18am
- Komata
  
  KS@0801
  
  Exactly:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrTN957WOg0
  
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  March 13, 2019 10:05am
Pascal

Good to see the landlord explain the reasons. Maybe the tenants will begin to understand why their rent is going up and how much more risk and scorn heaped on the landlords are costing them. Remember to say: “Thank you, Labour” when you can’t even afford to rent anymore.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/hamilton-landlord-pumps-up-rent-blames-labour/ar-BBUEN5E?ocid=spartandhp
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March 13, 2019 8:02am
- Longknives
  
  Good on that Landlord!
  We need more people to tell it like it is-
  ‘Sorry mate but you are losing your job because of this lunatic Socialist Government’ etc etc
  People need a jolt and to realise that what has happened in Venezuela is going to happen here!
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:07am
  - Viking2
    
    You mean like this?
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12211789
    
    A developer says he will be laying off staff in Tauranga by the end of the year as a long-heralded land supply crisis is predicted to hit home.
    
    Peter Cooney of Classic Group, one of New Zealand’s largest residential home builders, said other companies in the construction industry – planners, plumbers, architects – would face the same difficult choices without urgent action.
    
    “If there is no new housing supply by the end of this year I will personally be laying off staff,” he told Tauranga City Council yesterday in a presentation with fellow developers Scott Adams from Carrus and Bluehaven chief executive Nathan York.
    
    “This is real. We are in dire straits.”
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:10am
- Evadne
  
  Yes, but do you notice the poor journalism: CGT hasn’t been implemented yet, so where are the extra costs?
  Ignorance of basic economics/ business on display right there.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:18am
  - Pascal
    
    Yup, and if that rental contract had been for longer than a year even standard inflation would account for the rise. Landlords need to make a living too and while Labour continues to push up the cost of living their income shrinks unless they raise rents.
    
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    March 13, 2019 8:20am
  - MT_Tinman
    
    From the little bit I read the slime is just guessing it is CGT driving the landlord’s action and ignores the other bullshit the bunch of clowns has introduced and threatened to introduce at landlords’ expense.
    
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    March 13, 2019 8:21am
  - artemisia
    
    No intimation yet from the government that rental properties will be excluded from a CGT, as is the case with some other assets – explicit or implied.
    
    A possible CGT is a risk. All businesses should be assessing risk and making mitigation plans. Those plans need to also take into account other risks, specifically the review of the Residential Tenancies Act later this year where there are indeed intimations. Like more rights for tenants, including restrictions on rent increase timing and removal of ‘no cause’ terminations of tenancies.
    
    If landlords can raise rents now and still find good tenants, then they are following good business practice.
    
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    March 13, 2019 8:36am
  - marcw
    
    I would like a “journalist” to ask Ardern if she has ever been a landlord – and does she understand the issues a landlord has in protecting their big investment and dealing with sometimes uncooperative and sometimes destructive tenants?
    
    I predict her answer will be along the lines of “I’ve never been a landlord, but I was a tenant once so I know and understand how landlords work.”
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:04am
- CharlieBrown
  
  Pot calling the kettle black here. Did he do the same with the last few increases when national was government? We can thank National for increases due to:
  1 – Record immigration rates growing demand for housing stock.
  2 – Requiring scaffolding for simple building work
  3 – Several Minimum wage increases
  4 – health and safety rules putting more responsibility on employers with higher fines for non-compliance
  
  This is shit national did do rather than proposals labour haven’t implemented – and they are only a handful I can name. If I was to do some more research I could probably name a bunch more that directly contribute to an increased cost of housing. And I could name even more indirect causes by national that increased housing costs.
  
  The reality is National is more like labour than they are like national from 1999. If I was generous I’d call national centrist.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:24am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    except
    1. Much of the “immigration” measured, was Kiwi’s returning home after being driven out by auntie helens economic disaster. You can’t stop them from coming back under the National inspired “rock star” economy.
    2. Agree on the principle, H&S has got a little out of hand, replacing common sense.
    3. standard minimum wage increases have always happened, I would point to the massive increase in actual welfare payments, though numbers on them fell.
    4, see 2
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:56am
- artemisia
  
  A few days ago Newshub reported
  
  A Hamilton-based landlord took to Facebook earlier this week to encourage fellow property investors to tell their tenants 10 percent rent increases were on the way if Labour wins the next election and introduces a capital gains tax (CGT).
  
  The Standard and some other social media were outraged.
  
  Then yesterday it was reported that Minister Ron Mark, the provider of actual funding to the group he was speaking to, was recorded saying the following –
  
  “To be perfectly honest, when I look at the polling results of my political party New Zealand First, then the veterans, the Defence base, you guys haven’t supported us. At all,” he said.
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  Mr Mark then pitched for a political lifeline.
  
  “If all the Defence Force family and everybody, uh Aaron and everybody else in the Defence Force threw us their party vote we’d probably be at 15 or 16 percent,” he said.
  
  The Aaron he mentions is Aaron Wood – former soldier – founder of No Duff. No Duff got $25,000 in government funding last year.
  
  Waiting for the outrage. Waiting ….
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/03/ron-mark-accused-of-using-ministerial-role-to-get-votes.html
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:29am
  - Pascal
    
    They’re not allowed to be outraged as any criticism of NZF could cost them their turn at the trough.
    
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    March 13, 2019 8:56am
  - Komata
    
    First time in many years I’ve seen a New Zealand polly apealling to the military for votes; don’t think it will have gone down very well, especially as the NZDF is politically neutral…
    
    ‘Making the most of every opportunity’ comes to mind; Mark and NZF must be desperate.
    
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    March 13, 2019 10:23am
    - lifesgood
      
      From what I gather there is very little respect for Mark within the army. After all he lied about his military record, wore medals he never earned and was simply an army cook, no disrespect to the cooks who do a wonderful job, but he claimed to have been a front liner.
      
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      March 13, 2019 12:26pm
    - Tall Man
      
      “Politically neutral”. As are the Police…do you think they are showing that neutrality?
      
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      March 13, 2019 2:35pm
- MCos
  
  Apparently no improvements have been made to the place and whatever costs involved with CGT won’t happen in the next twelve months.
  If these people move the landlord has to foot the fee to find another tenant. Seems he’s charging these tenant for the expenses, which seems a bit unfair to me.
  Put up the rent for the next people.
  
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  March 13, 2019 9:04am
  - artemisia
    
    Perhaps you could show us where in the Residential Tenancies Act it says that rents cannot rise unless there are improvements made.
    
    There is provision for a binding review of rent amount if the Tenancy Tribunal can be convinced that the rent is significantly above the market. Almost never happens, but tenants can apply and it will only cost them $20. And they will have it refunded if they win. Plus if the landlord then tries to turf them out the tenants can apply to have this set aside as retaliatory and good chance they will win that case.
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:12am
    - MCos
      
      “Perhaps you could show us where in the Residential Tenancies Act it says that rents cannot rise unless there are improvements made.”
      I didn’t say that, but the landlord inferred additional costs have been incurred.
      
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      March 13, 2019 9:42am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        No they were saying that it would be going up if there was a CGT, just in case they didn’t think that currently they were going to be impacted by one.
        
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        March 13, 2019 11:39am
  - Than
    
    The new healthy rental requirements have been firmly announced. The exact form of CGT hasn’t been yet, but it’s going to push up costs on landlords. So two additional expenses landlords know they will have to pay in the near future.
    
    There are limits around when landlords can increase rent, so they can’t just time increases to match exactly when these new expenses hit their bank balance or when a new set of tenants move in. Instead they are, quite reasonably, taking best guesses as to how much these will cost them, and passing that on during their next scheduled round of rent assessment.
    
    But it hardly matters whether the increase is passed on to current tenants or the next guys. At best that just delays the impact for a transition period. The fact is both these policies are causing rents to increase. Exactly as Labour were told they would.
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:47am
  - Evadne
    
    You’re making the same mistake as the journalist. There are more costs on a landlord than improvements and CGT. Try adding, for example, rates increases, inflation, regulation, ring fencing, interest rates, compliance costs, increasing cost of tradies for regular maintenance, insurance, management fees… All add a cost to the landlord.
    
    And most of these increased costs are directly or indirectly attributable to Labour policies.
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:58am
  - Tall Man
    
    Well, when you own a rental you can do whatever you want to as well, within the law.
    
    If you are so big hearted, use you vast funds generated by capitalism and buy a few homes and let them out to the poor homeless people at a loss generating rental. 🙂
    
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    March 13, 2019 2:37pm
    - artemisia
      
      A grand idea. I hope politicians and the media give these initiatives plenty of air time. So far, not much publicity for these charitable souls. So sad, they deserve better.
      
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      March 13, 2019 6:18pm
stinkypete

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/111228562/key-hit–run-players-lose-faith-in-government-inquiry-into-sas-raids

looks like the peaceniks toys are exiting their cots

they don’t like the conclusions so enquiry must be biased,
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March 13, 2019 8:09am
- Longknives
  
  Stuff deserve to go under for their disgraceful hitjob on NZDF.
  I honestly hope every single one of those nasty little Lying Lefties loses their job…
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:14am
  - G152
    
    A month under the tender care of a SAS instructor would do wonders for the fake news snowflakes
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:59am
    - Tall Man
      
      Seriously, they would be wailing for mummy or mummies within hours.
      
      “How dare you shout at me”…”my mummies told me I’m special so don’t you forget it”….
      
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      March 13, 2019 2:40pm
- Evadne
  
  No, it’s because the Defence Force are defending themselves against the accusations. Dreadful, biased, corrupt, underhand organisation that it is, daring to put forward their own explanation and stand up for their staff members. They must have something to hide!
  
  /sarc.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:23am
- alloytoo
  
  Vance ends with :
  
  “It will be hard for the chairs to get to the heart of that truth if they hear only from one side.”
  
  WTF was “Hit & Run”?
  
  Hagar can’t do balanced, it’s not in his ethics.
  
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  March 13, 2019 9:08am
  - artemisia
    
    So Mr Hager’s witnesses have all walked. I thought some at least were current or ex military – not the sort to need the puppy room.
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:19am
    - chiz
      
      Hager’s “witnesses” have “walked” because they don’t exist.
      
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      March 13, 2019 12:17pm
  - pdm
    
    Ethics and Hager are not words that go together.
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:30am
    - Tricati
      
      Like Jacinda and Truth
      
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      March 13, 2019 10:00am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Beat me, I was going to say that.
      
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      March 13, 2019 10:02am
  - Tall Man
    
    If hagar the arsehole told me it was raining and I was in the middle of a thunderstorm I’d still want a second opinion.
    
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    March 13, 2019 2:41pm
- Komata
  
  SP@0809
  
  Thank you. I noted this bit of ‘unbiased’ journalism.
  
  ‘New Zealand’s Defence Force has a disquieting reputation for arrogance and side-stepping scrutiny. It responded to the journalists’ findings with yet more evasion’.
  
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  March 13, 2019 10:27am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    It’s not like the NZDF had to pay damages for defaming on of the journalists or anything. Oh, wait…
    
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    March 13, 2019 11:17am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Where is Ron Mark defending them, or isn’t that his job, unlike begging for votes.
    
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    March 13, 2019 11:50am
Bill felt

I mean really… Give an idiot like Shane Jones $3,000,000,000.00 and what else was going to happen……?
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March 13, 2019 8:09am
- Wangas Feral
  
  He looks like he has spent a fair proportion of it on kai.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:52am
  - stinkypete
    
    3 billion dollars on hand cream and tissues
    
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    March 13, 2019 1:45pm
- kowtow
  
  He’ll spank himself blind.
  
  Like McLean on the Good ship Venus, he invented the wanking machine ,
  
  “He was found on the deck
  A physical wreck
  From playing his sexual organ.”
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:52am
  - SGA
    
    Interesting. The version I remember
    “on the 98th stroke
    the bloody thing broke
    and whipped his balls to cream” 🙂
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:35am
    - kowtow
      
      Yeah . I’m getting old and senile , the memory’s not so good , but happy to report no major problems with eyesight and hearing !
      
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      March 13, 2019 11:22am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Borrowed from “Men in Black”
    ………………..
    rectum?
    Nearly killed him.!
    
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    March 13, 2019 10:04am
Happychappy

The arrogance of Labour and the Coalition is starting to show,you have Shane Jones and his I know best attitude, Damien O’conner and Ron Mark gaming Government money for votes and Chris Hipkins listening to much to his mother on Education instead of listening to those that know.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/proposed-polytechnic-shake-up-could-see-70-per-cent-employers-hire-fewer-apprentices-education-consultant-claims?variant=tb_v_1
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March 13, 2019 8:09am
Simon

Handling donations should be a bread & butter operational matter for any political party. $100,000 donation the paperwork should all be there. Should be able to hand everything over to the Police and make a few people available for Police interview all finished in an afternoon.

But there are issues. Serious Fraud Office issues.

Generally with white collar crime when one dodgy transaction is found there are almost certainly more that can go back a number of years. If SFO anit finished in a short time then the Natz swamp, taking all that CCP money over the years, have got real problems.
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March 13, 2019 8:11am
- All_on_Red
  
  ‘Natz’
  I think it’s pretty clear that when you do this, you are really saying Nazi, which is a despicable smear.
  Just be aware our host has a long record of giving Strikes to those calling people Nazis.
  Remember Team. Six reports and he’s gone.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:39am
- Happychappy
  
  Winston will look after you Simon as he loves halfwit’s like you voting for him and people like you have let him corrupt our political system for so long without saying a word.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:47am
Paulus

I accidentally turned on TV3 and saw ensconced in the Parliamentary lectern (NZ Flags behind her, who I though was Ardern.
No, it was our Tova with all the hand and arm actions of Ardern – she must have studies her.
She was havig a wet over the fact fo th firt time ever the SFO as being asked by the Police to investigate Simon Bridges and Jamie Lee Ross revelation over a donation of $100,000 – thought the SFO was for $2 mill deals.
Why wasn’t Peters done for the $148,000 he stole from taxpayers ?
Tova was all in her glory supporting her mate Ross.
Turned off
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March 13, 2019 8:11am
- madamezucchininz
  
  ….how amazing is it that this SFO …..donations thing came out the day that Shame Jones was in the crap….just a thought…..
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:44am
  - SGA
    
    meh … perhaps. The problem is that there is often something controversial going on – a week ago we could be saying it was intended to distract from Cullen’s continued employment, before that the CGT report, and so on.
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:04am
  - hullkiwi
    
    …and why was Tova not doing the NewsHub report on Skid Mark bagging Aaron Wood, his charity, and NZDF veterans for not supporting NZF. Especially, (as Mark told them) NZF had got them $25k of taxpayer money.
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:07am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Cheap bastard, and for that he wants the whole NZDF
      
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      March 13, 2019 11:53am
  - tf78
    
    Isn’t there a new poll in the offing at this time – that should skew the numbers again.
    
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    March 13, 2019 11:20am
  - Piniwi
    
    @madamezucchininz perhaps it was prompted by the less reported letter to the Speaker from ACT of having the Jones looked at more closely? Just a thought.
    IMHO the blame is the result of inaction by the SLG failing in Leadership 101 from day one to lead by example as well as a steady hand. Steady rather than firm as it is a sign of not just strength but also kindness.
    
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    March 13, 2019 2:13pm
- MrTips
  
  Tova’s thick, arrogant and hopeless. Has she never heard of Taito Phillip Field? Or that “On 29 August 2008, Peters offered to stand down from his portfolios as Foreign Affairs and Racing Minister, pending an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office as to whether the donations from Sir Bob Jones and the Vela brothers reached New Zealand First as intended”.
  
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  March 13, 2019 10:06am
  - ztev
    
    10 years ago …. thats a dead squirrel
    
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    March 13, 2019 3:04pm
    - ABS
      
      I see your dead squirrel and raise you a Double Dipton. Cock.
      
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      March 13, 2019 4:27pm
MT_Tinman

There is a headline on a website this morning (NZ Herald I think) “Maori Man Told to Speak English at Meeting”.

I haven’t read the story but could almost certainly write it – and, given the current standards in journalism, do a better job of it.

I divert.

When are the idiots going to start to understand that this action is correct?

Language has no other purpose than to communicate.

It (language) started when one fellow wanted steak for dinner and needed the cooperation of another steak desirer to get that steak.

The reason has changed (slightly) but the object remains the same.

Speaking stone-age gobbelty-gook to a group of english speakers is like using NZ’s other official language in a braille school – a complete waste of everyone’s time.

Speakers to any group, unless invited specifically, should either talk in the language of that group or provide, at their expense, an interpreter so that those harangued can at least understand they are being harangued.
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March 13, 2019 8:14am
- holysheet
  
  The speaker obviously didn’t think he had anything worth saying and was just there to get the money.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:22am
- DigNap15
  
  Sadly any organization with Maori people in it have to put up with long winded Maori intros and speeches.
  It really is tedious and out of place in a modern world.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:22am
- kowtow
  
  RNZ ran a racist road rage thing yesterday too.
  
  We’re all racist here you see.
  
  Never see stories about some Maori or PI thug giving honkey the bash.
  
  Cos that never happens. /
  
  Mind you we get plenty of stories about wee babies getting the bash , but the media don’t go on about us being a nation of infanticidists , I wonder why not ?
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:57am
- Universal Smith
  
  I am relaxed about speaking in Maori – just ask long as the speaker knows most of the audience won’t understand them, including Maori.
  
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  March 13, 2019 12:31pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  JB Heperi-Smith (the Te Reo speaker, and with a full-face Maori tattoo) was obvious virtue-signalling to the audience if he chose to speak in a language that he knew they could not comprehend.
  
  He wanted to demostrate his superiority (I wonder what he was compensating for…?)
  
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  March 13, 2019 6:37pm
Maggie Pie

When i showed my partner this tweet last night he was sooo furious! That a refugee we welcomed into this country from her own war-torn homeland would now be using her position as a list mp to say it was probaly ok for benes to actually steal from the taxpayer in small amounts. The thing that i also found a bit odd is that a girl bought up Shia would think it was permitted to call men ‘bro’

https://twitter.com/rpcnz/status/1105362673229656064
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March 13, 2019 8:16am
- Inandout
  
  Golly Goldmine is her real name methinks. MMP is such a wonderful system that it throws up such ‘inclusive’ shit.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:22am
- tf78
  
  Another good reason to keep away from social media.
  
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  March 13, 2019 11:24am
  - harvey wilson
    
    She has to talk to Guy Williams on a regular basis, she’s suffering. No wonder she lost the plot
    
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    March 13, 2019 12:12pm
Monique Watson

If Bridges gets through the SFO enquirer unscathed (which I imagine will be the case ) he should enact the waka jumping bill and totally fuck the political career of that grinning moronic frog like sycophantic ? JlR.
Good morning all.
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March 13, 2019 8:18am
- Pascal
  
  I can’t for the life of me imagine anyone apart from Labour or NZF employing JLR in future.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:29am
  - srylands
    
    He would need to leave New Zealand and change his name.
    
    Does anyone know if there is a time limit on invoking the Waka jumping law? Hypothetically could Simon Bridges at any time say enough is enough, or is it all to late?
    
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    March 13, 2019 8:38am
    - rockape
      
      Lets do this!
      
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      March 13, 2019 9:22am
    - tf78
      
      JLR should be locked up for being a public nuisance.
      
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      March 13, 2019 11:26am
    - ztev
      
      What crime has he committed ? Are you going to hunt him down if he stays ?
      
      So should he leave NZ like Todd Barclay did
      Releasing your own recordings isnt a crime.
      
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      March 13, 2019 3:06pm
      - mic
        
        It may not be a crime but it’s pretty malevolent and disgraceful, trying and failing to entrap someone who is supposed to be a friend? Would you perhaps be of another mind if say, Ian Lees-Galloway released secret recordings between himself and Jacinda.I’m guessing they would be far more damaging than JLR v SB.
        
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        March 13, 2019 5:32pm
  - septic skeptic
    
    I reckon Newshub will probably take him on as an expert commenter to provide the right wing balance.
    
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    March 13, 2019 8:49am
    - hullkiwi
      
      JLR is only balanced because the chips on both shoulders ensures he dribbles from both sides of his mouth!
      
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      March 13, 2019 9:13am
- MrsAnnie
  
  Soper says someone will be toast, I think it is very possible it could be JLR facing an SFO investigation. He handled enough Chinese money, has shown to have no moral compass. Has made about $1.5 million in his life time before tax and considerable expenses and had less than no family money yet was able to purchase a $4 million house prior to the last election, his wife made about $35k. JLR could keep the SFO busy for some time. Perhaps Bridges has a game plan for JLR…
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:41am
  - burt
    
    JLR might need to join the Labour Party so he can’t be prosecuted.
    
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    March 13, 2019 8:51am
    - Pascal
      
      No doubt with the help of some retrospective legislation.
      
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      March 13, 2019 8:58am
      - oob
        
        Retroactive.
        
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        March 13, 2019 12:22pm
  - freethinker
    
    Could be like Monopoly, pass go, dont collect $ and proceed straight to jail.
    
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    March 13, 2019 10:18am
- SGA
  
  totally fuck the political career
  
  I’d say it’s pretty much irredeemably ruined already?
  
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  March 13, 2019 9:08am
  - Lizziep
    
    I certainly hope so. Smug bastard.
    
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    March 13, 2019 10:15am
- Piniwi
  
  Mayang Buntag MW or is this the thing Simon Bridges has been waiting for to let JLR self destruct as a result of some bad advice?
  Wak a friend we have in Winston?
  He can bring a gummint down.
  Sing it with me now altogether “let Shane take it to the bro’s to share.”
  
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  March 13, 2019 2:28pm
Dafixeruppa

Sorry fat fingers down ticked by error.
We all know that politicians bend the rules and push the envelope as far as they can. Sometimes they go too far and break the law. If Simon has then he needs to face the penalties. BUT if he hasn’t then the press need to apologize, something they don’t actually know how to do.
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March 13, 2019 8:23am
Inandout

It at least proves insanity is not a prerequisite to prevent standing as an MP.
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March 13, 2019 8:24am
holysheet

Apparently, a pair of small jeans have been found in Michael Jackson’s bed.
Billy’s jeans.
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March 13, 2019 8:29am
- burt
  
  It’s a pity Jackson passed away, he’d have been the perfect performer for a Labour Youth camp. The parents and police wouldn’t even need to know he was there.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:49am
  - ztev
    
    More sex in the corridors of parliament and on the desks of nationals offices than a ‘camp’
    
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    March 13, 2019 3:08pm
    - mic
      
      Better than running off in the middle of the night and I betcha a lot of Labour desks have had to be dumped due to overuse of ‘wood’.
      
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      March 13, 2019 5:37pm
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      Why did Darren Hughes leave parliament and the country?
      
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      March 13, 2019 7:11pm
      - Universal Smith
        
        The usual Labour stuff.
        
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        March 13, 2019 7:14pm
waikatogirl

Maligning frogs Monique. JLR is like a slimy Cane Toad, loud, obnoxious and has a detrimental effect on the environment.

Hope the world is great for you and your’s. ?
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March 13, 2019 8:33am
- waikatogirl
  
  A song for Jamie-Lee Ross:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMbE
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:55am
  - SGA
    
    Who’s on the jet-powered motorbike? 🙂
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:27am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Let’s hope it is the SFO!
      
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      March 13, 2019 9:57am
  - Tall Man
    
    I doubt it, the frog makes more sense that that little toad….
    
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    March 13, 2019 10:49am
Yvette

Hon SHANE JONES: On behalf of the Minister, as I said, obviously the member is referring to either the recommendations or the content of Dr Cullen’s report—something which is not the business, or the Cabinet-mandated business, of this Government. – Hansard, Question 11, yesterday

If Ardern wants us to all talk about Cullen’s report, shouldn’t she talk to Shane Jones about it first?
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March 13, 2019 8:36am
- holysheet
  
  I agree, but if they cannot discuss this report, why are we paying that slimey limey call me sir Cullen all that dosh?
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:42am
- mandk
  
  Jones lying again.
  
  Indisputably, the TWG report is the business of the government. The TWG was appointed by the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Revenue: http://taxpolicy.ird.govt.nz/news/2017-12-20-tax-working-group-members-announced
  
  The report also bears the NZ Coat of Arms, which is for government use only: https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/new-zealand/articles/the-meanings-of-new-zealands-coat-of-arms/
  
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  March 13, 2019 9:05am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Ye, but it is the CoL’s latest cunning tactic to avoid answering questions on it. The plot as we saw yesterday was the brainchild of the slime that is the Toxic Gnome. This is because NZF in particular is in a spot of bother over the CGT:
    1. they can’t advocate for it and alienate their supporters; and
    2. They can’t slay of the proposal about CGT because they are part of the CoL.
    
    So instead the Toxic Gnome uses the semantics of the dictionary and the House to get Duckie yo shut down debate.
    
    Well 2 people can resort to the same tactics, and I can assure the Toxic one he’ll never be able to spin enough to shut down debate.
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:26am
- Piniwi
  
  @Yvette expect may missed the Freudian slip when old Winston raised a point of order about the COL composition. He said three (3) support parties in the coalition which might confirm NZF, Greens and MSM as suspected by the majority. Lol
  
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  March 13, 2019 2:36pm
Maggie Pie

WHEN YOU GOTTA GO 🙂

Watch as Nikki Kaye ‘takes the call’ during yesterdays Urgent Debate @ 13min 5sec – lol!!

https://vimeo.com/322977481
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March 13, 2019 8:42am
- secondcumming
  
  Nature’s call? 😎
  
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  March 13, 2019 11:48am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Steady….isn’t she the one with the cancer scare?
  
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  March 13, 2019 12:08pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Nikki just looked bored out her mind and had to take evasive action – exit stage left… ?
    
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    March 13, 2019 12:53pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Hiyaa wg! Beteen you and me how do you do those little larfing emoji things like that? (If you dont get to read this i’ll understand.) Thx
      
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      March 13, 2019 1:44pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        On a Mac the “Emoji & Symbols” is listed under the file menu.
        Lots of ? ? ? ? ? to be had…
        
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        March 13, 2019 4:55pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        aha – i’m pc.
        
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        March 13, 2019 8:21pm
All_on_Red

Again with the’Natz’ = Nazi…
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March 13, 2019 8:43am
- rightoverlabour
  
  exhausting stuff this hitting report, refresh, report, refresh, report, refresh….
  
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  March 13, 2019 9:21am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Lol
    
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    March 13, 2019 11:58am
Manolo

NZF is full of crooks:
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/ron-mark-accused-of-using-ministerial-role-to-get-votes/ar-BBUGBRu
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March 13, 2019 8:48am
Nukuleka

Did others note Wee Winnie’s petulant face when he was rebuffed by Mallard in PQT yesterday? Mallard permitted a question from National that referred to NZF as a ‘government support party’. Poor Winston objected strenuously to being slighted in such a manner- he after all supports no-one but himself! And oh dear, did his wee face crumple at the indignity of it all.
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March 13, 2019 9:07am
lastmanstanding

Let look at retirement savings schemes over the past 45 years the time it takes a 20 yo to reach 65.

In 1974 Labour introduced a national super scheme employee 4% employer 4% access at 60 yo.

In 1975 National scrapped the scheme.

From there on we had a constant tinkering and tampering with private super schemes

In 2007 Labour introduced KiwiSaver. Since them we have had a constant tinkering and tampering with the rules.

Now we have the proposal of a 33% CGT.

An Actuary will tell you that an 18yo should be in a Growth Fund for most of the time until they reach 65.

A Growth Fund will invest in mainly stocks and property. A good Fund Manager will buy and sell stocks on a regular basis the maximise the capital gains and also property to a lesser extent.

So for the thick end of 47 years the KSer will pay 33% tax on the capital gains. Again an Actuary will tell you this will significantly deplete the final retirement pot.

Contrast this tinkering and tampering with a contract between 2 citizens. the rules are established at the outset. Any changes must be approved by both parties.

No imagine an All Black game where the points for a try conversion or drop kick could vary over the 80 minutes from 10 points to zero points at the whim of the referee.

Now you can see why I hold successive generations of politicians in contempt and have no respect for any of them.

The have no respect for the hard working citizen trying save from their retirement after being gouged to pay for politicians to bribe the slothful and lazy to vote for them.

A plague on all their houses.
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March 13, 2019 9:07am
- Tall Man
  
  Harsh, but fair.
  
  When I joined the work force many years ago, I did not trust any government to provide for my retirement. I made myself prepare for that and have succeeded.
  
  Now, when the government does start to give me a few bucks per week I will take it. Will it make a difference, of course it will but would it be enough alone….no need to answer that.
  
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  March 13, 2019 10:40am
Manolo

Chaos is the word:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/brexit/8615679/brexit-deal-vote-latest-theresa-may-fails-majority/

Britain was tonight plunged into chaos once again as MPs voted to kill off Theresa May’s Brexit deal by 391 votes to 242.

Now 993 days after the referendum, and with just 17 days before Brexit, Brits are still in the dark about when or if we will ever leave the EU.
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March 13, 2019 9:08am
- Jules99
  
  There’s no doubt they will leave in 17 days – it’s whether they leave with a deal or without one. The deal was really bad and binding, which was bad for the UK. No deal is better and chaos will last around one day, unlike any proposed deals so far, which could have extended chaos for years to keep the gravy train rolling.
  
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  March 13, 2019 9:12am
  - DigNap15
    
    They’ve lost the poly.
    What people wanted was to leave the EU with all of its socialist rules and immigration, bureacrcy etc.
    They still wanted to keep the trade deals.
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:52am
Gravelroad

Two time Kaikoura electorate Labour candidate, Janette Walker, is throwing in the towel and moving to Taupo.
She is reported as saying that she is “too working class” for Marlborough and has been told that the region needs a white, middle class male as their MP.
However, if Labour had put her higher up on their party list (as I believe she was expecting), Ms Walker would be in parliament now.
That is her problem – too low a ranking on her own party list.
But, OK, blame the white, stale males.
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March 13, 2019 9:12am
SGA

Just looked at the Stuff videoclip of the Brexit vote. For a second there, I wondered if Griff Rhys Jones had been made Speaker of the House. The appearance was a little off, but the mannerisms…
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March 13, 2019 9:17am
rightoverlabour

doesn’t look like the CGT “light” is getting much support either..

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/111204349/surprise-card-could-help-labour-sell-a-capital-gains-tax-light
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March 13, 2019 9:32am
- Inandout
  
  As Jacinda’s face gets more gaunt, her teeth feature even more. Thank goodness for Next magazine ‘facial improving’.
  
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  March 13, 2019 9:40am
  - RF
    
    Seriously Ardern does not look well.
    
    She appears very stressed and lost weight.
    
    Female associates believe it’s well overdue that she makes a decision – PM or mother.
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:54am
    - auckwood
      
      Why start being PM now?
      
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      March 13, 2019 10:15am
      - sooty
        
        Inanout, I think the word is photoshopped.
        Her aunty Helen had so much done.
        
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        March 13, 2019 10:22am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Sooty, yes but to this day Klarkula still looks like a sock puppet with a hair piece.
        
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        March 13, 2019 2:55pm
    - Lizziep
      
      She does look ill and time she left the halls of power and rested up. Its all too much for her, she has no idea what she is doing and that fact is taking its toll, the country is ill as well she has given us her disease.
      Lies catch up with you in the end.
      
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      March 13, 2019 10:27am
    - Swifty
      
      She’s looking more and more like Shelley Duvall by the day.
      
      https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F06%2Frs-the-shining-599ad3d1-548f-419e-ad50-0c5162e07680.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fmovies%2Fmovie-news%2Fflashback-shelley-duvall-and-stanley-kubrick-battle-over-the-shining-188549%2F&docid=F74SRLqxS6T17M&tbnid=pLQamb0C-Fn6dM%3A&vet=12ahUKEwi28NOD0v3gAhWs7XMBHek6BG44ZBAzKD4wPnoECAEQPw..i&w=1500&h=1287&bih=625&biw=1366&q=shelley%20duvall&ved=2ahUKEwi28NOD0v3gAhWs7XMBHek6BG44ZBAzKD4wPnoECAEQPw&iact=mrc&uact=8
      
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      March 13, 2019 11:31am
    - Longknives
      
      “She appears very stressed and lost weight.”
      
      She is a fucking skeleton.
      And Jesus that gaunt face…
      I don’t think it is work stress- Let’s be honest she only freaking works part time! (Turning up occasionally for photoshoots/talks at Kindys etc)
      I think there are other things pressing on her mind…
      
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      March 13, 2019 1:39pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes I voted on that and its 2 to 1 against a CGT or a watered down CGT and a tax neutral CGT
  
  I think most people realise that its just a tax grab and that the COL want all the tax they can get to give away to NEETS and other bludgers.
  
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  March 13, 2019 9:50am
RF

I see ole spider fingers is letting NZ First MPs do as they please.

Jones & Mark have told her to keep playing with her toy tea service and let them and the doddery old fella run the country.

How embarrassing.

Jethro would not like that……

speaking of Jethro where is he. Has he foul hooked a mermaid ?
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March 13, 2019 9:41am
skyblue

RIP democracy in the UK.
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March 13, 2019 9:57am
- mikenmildagain
  
  It’s a terrible thing when the country’s MPs are so divided on crtitical issues that they cannot agree to do anythnig at all.
  Omnishambles.
  
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  March 13, 2019 10:08am
  - Inandout
    
    CoL comes to mind m&m.
    
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    March 13, 2019 10:11am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I’m sure you will agree that our coalition tiffs have nothing on the fundamentally irreconciliable postions of the parties and the factions within those parties in the UK
      
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      March 13, 2019 10:47am
      - mandk
        
        I agree that there are no irreconcilable positions in the CoL.
        
        The three parties do exactly what Winston Peters wants.
        
        The Greens and Labour know they can do nothing else.
        
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        March 13, 2019 12:06pm
  - Tall Man
    
    It’s a terrible thing when the government of a country is lying to it’s constituents, allowing personal greed to triumph over honesty and spends it time ignoring the very real issues that face a government in favour of gaining world recognition for justin’s wife, you know…ardern the liar.
    
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    March 13, 2019 10:36am
DigNap15

kowtow

RNZ ran a racist road rage thing yesterday too.

We’re all racist here you see.

Never see stories about some Maori or PI thug giving honkey the bash.

Cos that never happens. /

Mind you we get plenty of stories about wee babies getting the bash , but the media don’t go on about us being a nation of infanticidists , I wonder why not

The reason some people in NZ are slightly racist (like me) is that Maori are bringing us all down.
They cause most of the violent crime, they are high on the unemployment benefit (lazy and costing us all money
They rob and bash our tourists.
Their language is mostly street talk and aggressive.
Their “culture” is archaic and Violent.
They are the only race in the world that can’t adapt to western education and want it dumbed down.

Fix those things, then there will be less racism.
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March 13, 2019 9:58am
- sooty
  
  Some educated shelia gets upset and follows the man for seven kms while filming. I would have read her pedigree as well after that.
  That’s greepy! Has she got a highly opionated self worth because she is an educated born again with a extra large bone carving. I think she goes around going look at me. It’s all about me! Don’t know did not read it or watch it. Not going to!
  
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  March 13, 2019 10:18am
- Inandout
  
  BigNap, my wife and I were sitting on the Napier foreshore enjoying lunch. Within earshot were a group of Maoris enjoying the sunshine and unemployment. Other than the loud voices and the trademark Maori laugh, the language was peppered with swearing. There were little kids playing on swings and would have heard everything. Hawkes Bay is a lovely area, with good climate, but has a rubbish element.
  
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  March 13, 2019 10:19am
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes and visitors to NZ from Europe and Asia and Latin America can’t believe how low class our Maori people are.
    They ask me
    Why do they do so much crime
    Why do they speak so poorly
    And why do they smoke so much maruajana.
    They all work that out after a few weeks here.
    I just tell them to watch their behavior when Maoris are nearby and to keep an eye on their stuff.
    
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    March 13, 2019 12:33pm
  - lifesgood
    
    I always thought I would like to live in HB but wouldn’t entertain the idea now. It is packed with low lifes, dole bludgers and drugged up crooks. And the fruit packers can’t get workers. Flaxmere has to be just about the worst suburb in NZ. It’s such a shame, HB is such a lovely place.
    
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    March 13, 2019 12:40pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      HB is such a lovely place, and you don’t have to spend your days in Flaxmere, Camberley, or the ‘nui.
      Much like you don’t have to visit Mt Roskillstan, or little Cape Town if you live in Auckland.
      
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      March 13, 2019 1:55pm
- Tall Man
  
  Was in a supermarket up North recently and a very large and well tattooed maori pushed his heavily loaded trolley up to the “express” checkout. The fellow behind me looked at the trolley, looked at the “15 items only” sign then looked at me.
  
  I said..” you fucking tell him”.
  
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  March 13, 2019 10:33am
  - starboard
    
    Living in Thailand, one thing I do not miss is the sight of an obese, heavily tattooed, lazy, uncultured, unemployable, pissed, foul-mouthed, bone carving wearing Murri shuffling down the street…and the blokes are even worse.
    
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    March 13, 2019 11:38am
  - auckwood
    
    Tall Man – I’ve started amusing myself as I’ve got older by calling these types out in public these days…. Granted as I’ve aged I ended up a solid 6’2″ and completely tattooed from my collar to my toes so I probably look like the whiter/colourful mirror image of themselves and usually just get a glare back if anything!
    
    I know, one day I’ll lose a few teeth when I saw something to the wrong person, but for now its fun
    
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    March 13, 2019 1:41pm
    - Tall Man
      
      A 70 year old mate of mine saw a large maori guy through his rubbish out the window while parked up. He went up to the rubbish, picked it up and threw it through the window onto his lap. The expected violence was threatened and my mate stepped well back laughed and said,
      
      “I’ll just run down the road a bit and a fat fuck like will have a heart attack chasing me”….
      
      He was at least 300kgs so my mate was right.
      
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      March 13, 2019 5:26pm
Jack5

The Australian Government has given warning about 13 Beijing-funded “Confucius Institutes” at Australian universities.

These China-state backed institutions are also at Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago universities.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/china-funded-confucius-institutes-targeted-under-new-foreign-influence-scheme-20190312-p513i1.html
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March 13, 2019 10:22am
auckwood

Im trying to figure out the justification/reasoning/madness with the Auckland council and stadiums/sports venues…

From Philofshit Goff spending millions of secret reports for a waterfront vanity project, also wanting to shut up Eden Park, to shutting down nearly a century of speedway at Western Springs (against from what I can tell public opposition to this move) and also this little greed/power tripping move shutting down the Mt Wellington kart track for no reason other to earn a few more bucks in rent (which is still un-leased)

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/111085218/motorbike-club-shut-out-by-auckland-council-as-old-track-sits-idle

How do they come up with this shit?
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March 13, 2019 10:32am
Jack5

Hot water for Christchurch’s Labour mayor, Lianne Dalziel.

Christchurch councillors have been questioning the city’s Labour Mayor, former Cabinet Minister Lianne Dalziel, over her husband’s law firm’s relationship with a Chinese water bottling firm.

Dalziel’s husband, Rob Davidson, is also the father of a Christchurch city councillor, Mike Davidson.

Rob Davidson’s law firm has been actring for Cloud Ocean Water since October.

There have been demonstrations in Christchurch over Cloud Ocean Water’s plans to sink deep bores for artesian water. Cloud Ocean Water bought water resource consents that formerly belonged to an NZ company that previously serviced the export agriculture industry.

Stuff has reported that Rob Davidson’s firm had scrapped an offer to lobby nationally and locally on behalf of the Chinese bottling company.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/111228531/lianne-dalziels-family-business-links-to-cloud-ocean-water-concerns-council-colleagues

and

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/111123912/law-firm-run-by-christchurch-mayors-husband-scraps-offer-to-lobby-politicians-for-water-bottler-cloud-ocean-water
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March 13, 2019 10:58am
- Poppa
  
  I am quite shocked that she is married! I thought she batted for the other team
  
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  March 13, 2019 11:36am
  - Inandout
    
    Poppa, remember Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater?
    
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    March 13, 2019 11:54am
    - sooty
      
      Stepson , a councilor too?
      
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      March 13, 2019 12:48pm
  - RF
    
    I have heard that her husband is a former bikie.
    
    Not confirmed but appears to be common knowledge.
    
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    March 13, 2019 1:25pm
- Longknives
  
  A Lefty Hypocrite?
  Surely not???
  
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  March 13, 2019 12:50pm
Fisiani

JLR is no longer a National MP and the voters in Botany have the chance to be another Epsom The opposition uses MMP to make 2,3and4=1 so we should use MMP wisely.
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March 13, 2019 11:02am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  People in Botany are taking their electorate issues to the neighbouring Pakuranga electorate. Ross has taken to mail outs to remind constituents that he is still there and acting on their behalf. It seems the constituents think otherwise. He is toast at the next election.
  
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  March 13, 2019 11:44am
Inandout

I don’t think the UK will have another referendum, because it could rub off on our pricks in parliament. We want another MMP referendum….if only…
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March 13, 2019 11:56am
Fletch

Well worth the 5 min watch. AOC tries to play the heavy in questioning Wells Fargo’s CEO. It doesn’t go well for her. She comes off looking as stupid as she is.

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1105534121093283840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

She starts out ‘why did you do this and why did you do that….’ and when he answers that he didn’t, she ends up resorting to ‘hypothetically, if…’

SHe was trying to make the case that because Wells Fargo was one of 17 banks that financed the builders of a pipeline that (might) leak, that Wells Fargo should be held responsible for any cleanup. I don’t see the logic in that, but then again, AOC has never been that logical.
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March 13, 2019 12:07pm
- Inandout
  
  Fletch, the longer this woman remains in the spotlight the more people move towards the right.
  
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  March 13, 2019 1:10pm
  - Tall Man
    
    She’s what you get when the backers send out a “casting call” for a congressman.
    
    Supposedly 10,000 applied and she was the best?
    
    The world is slowly getting fucked.
    
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    March 13, 2019 2:28pm
hullkiwi

See Jan Bogie is pressing the SLG for a new department.

A Department of Rainbows and Alphabet Soup – when is someone going to wake up to this stupidity?

At this point of time, the SLG has said no to the idea and said she “does not think it appropriate at this time.”
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March 13, 2019 12:09pm
- Tall Man
  
  “she does not think”.
  
  That’s all you needed.
  
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  March 13, 2019 2:26pm
mustlovedogs

Phil Twyford has just polished his marble for his new job when he gets ejected from Parliament. Meet Phil…… your brand new spokesman for Mike Greer Homes… call 0800PHIL for a glossy brochure, a price list and a beginner’s guide to Monolithinc Cladding.
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March 13, 2019 12:16pm
DigNap15

I like us trading with China etc.
But we do have to be careful with their brain washing and their “softpower”.
Why do we have 3 Chinese tv stations on our Freeview?
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March 13, 2019 12:28pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  I’ve actually watched those. They are sooo igmorant – they dont enen have the courtesy to put up sub-titles!
  
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  March 13, 2019 12:56pm
- Tall Man
  
  Because they pay for them, unlike NZ where we have to pay for all the channels, especially the maori channel.
  
  Awesome eh?
  
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  March 13, 2019 2:25pm
dime

My god, Jaconda has to be the thickest PM in history.

Heard it on Hosking.

Shes basically on par with this:

https://youtu.be/qOH9trJLedk?t=25
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March 13, 2019 12:34pm
- Longknives
  
  Ha Ha Good old Matt Damon….
  But you are dead right- Ardern seriously seems to think that if we end Capitalism now the world will instantly become a magical Socialist Pixieland of Rainbows and Unicorns!
  
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  March 13, 2019 12:49pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    She should watch what is happening in Veneuzela. Seriously!!
    
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    March 13, 2019 1:01pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Ardern is a bit like, you know, like AOC speaking, like, here, you know, at SXSW the other day
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=X-TL6COp3h8
  
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  March 13, 2019 12:53pm
  - Tall Man
    
    When, like ardern the liar, you like live for likes on your page it’s like really hard to not like the likes…whatever 😉
    
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    March 13, 2019 2:24pm
secondcumming

We’re now about 40 minutes into the *Pell sentencing* live on Sky….. I’d say he’s fucking lucky crucifiction is no longer an option !
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March 13, 2019 12:39pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Have they stopped disembowelment?
  
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  March 13, 2019 12:41pm
  - secondcumming
    
    Not the way I’m feeling 😎
    
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    March 13, 2019 12:46pm
- DigNap15
  
  I’m just as bit concerned that they only had two young men as witnesses.
  From what I remember other catholic priests offended with lots of young boys.
  I also think that kiddy fiddling is one of the worst crimes there is.
  It affects the victims for the rest of their life.
  
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  March 13, 2019 12:54pm
  - lifesgood
    
    I agree, it is an utterly reprehensible crime with absolutely no justification. I’m just not convinced in this case having read the details.
    
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    March 13, 2019 2:11pm
- Fletch
  
  The whole thing was a fit-up from the very beginning. I am well aware of charges against priests, etc, and that the Church has many things to answer for, but they set up this man for a fall.
  
  https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/why-the-case-against-cardinal-george-pell-doesnt-stand-up/
  
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  March 13, 2019 3:53pm
alex Masterley

JLR has a question today. The question reported suggests that he will be using parliamentary privelege to try to kneecap the nats.
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March 13, 2019 12:45pm
- secondcumming
  
  Saw that…..wonder who wrote it for him?
  
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  March 13, 2019 12:49pm
- MrTips
  
  He’s gonna have to draw a long bow. His question looks like it starts in local govt:
  
  JAMI-LEE ROSS to the Minister of Local Government: Is she satisfied that an overseas person that is not a New Zealand citizen or resident cannot lawfully make a donation of an unlimited amount to a candidate standing for local government election, and is she satisfied that the Local Electoral Act 2001 provides sufficient safeguards to ensure local government election candidates and local authorities are free from foreign influence by way of electoral donations?
  
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  March 13, 2019 1:20pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Wasn’t there some fuss about alleged foreign dontations to Goff’s mayoral campaign last time? Could that be what Ross is on about?
    
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    March 13, 2019 1:25pm
    - MrTips
      
      You might be right. Geez, don’t tell us Ross has his eyes on the Auckland Mayoralty?
      
      DEE LIEU DEAD
      
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      March 13, 2019 1:32pm
    - Tall Man
      
      It’s jlr, who knows and who cares.
      
      I imagine labour are holding their collective breath that he will by some remote chance, almost as remote as adern the liar telling the truth, that he will destroy their most feared opponent.
      
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      March 13, 2019 2:18pm
Jack5

Peter Cullen, of Wellington employment law firm of the same name and frequent writer on employment matters, is in Stuff newspapers today defending positive discrimination in employment.

In part, Cullen writes:

” …we need to encourage a society where all elements are involved in leadership positions and positive discrimination, provided it is applied in accordance with the rules.”

Mmm. Have a look at the Cullen firm web site. Two white guys are partners, and the other lawyers picture look, well, white.

https://www.cullenlaw.co.nz/Site/People/Default.aspx
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March 13, 2019 12:45pm
- waikatogirl
  
  What does he say to Dr Jordan Peterson, clinical psychologist, who says it is not possible to train all people to achieve in all areas? (or words to that effect)
  
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  March 13, 2019 1:06pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Why would he want to talk to some random clinical psychologist about employment law?
    
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    March 13, 2019 1:18pm
    - starboard
      
      English please, Michael.
      
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      March 13, 2019 1:20pm
      - starboard
        
        Good save Michael.
        
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        March 13, 2019 1:32pm
      - Tall Man
        
        He’s just obfuscating as always. No one mentioned employment law but they did mention positive discrimination.
        
        He’ll be waffling about ponytails shortly or something equally trivial, once he’s looked up trivial in the dictionary
        
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        March 13, 2019 2:15pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Have you formulated a defense of tugger the thief yet?
      
      Have you formulated a defense for genter flicking $360,000 to her sperm donor?
      
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      March 13, 2019 2:11pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Peter Cullen is Michael Cullen’s brother.
  
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  March 13, 2019 1:10pm
  - Tall Man
    
    The rules are for you…not me says the socialist.
    
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    March 13, 2019 2:12pm
Surely Knott

From the Herald: “Caracas elites drink whisky and dance as ordinary Venezuelans fester in Darkness” How confusing. How can this be? I thought socialism would deliver equality and prosperity?
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March 13, 2019 12:48pm
- DigNap15
  
  Thats not fair!
  Have you told Ardern?
  
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  March 13, 2019 12:51pm
  - auckwood
    
    She’ll get the update when she watches the 6pm news, as per her usual intake of important information and matters
    
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    March 13, 2019 1:11pm
Viking2

The Government has a trump card that could make a capital gains tax less unpopular and far harder for any future National government to reverse.

Tax Working Group chairman Sir Michael Cullen has proposed making a tax on capital gains “tax neutral” by handing back the $8.3 billion in revenue it is expected to generate over five years, mostly through income tax cuts and improved KiwiSaver incentives.

But a well-placed source believes the Government is likely to propose slashing the rate of a capital gains tax (CGT) and introducing significant exemptions to get the tax in place, while still offering all the major “carrots” and keeping the change tax-neutral.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/111204349/surprise-card-could-help-labour-sell-a-capital-gains-tax-light

Watch out for another dirty deal from Cullen & Co.

Nasty bitch.
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March 13, 2019 1:04pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Except…..No CGT anywhere, collected any significant money in the first 5 yrs of it’s implementation.
  So $8.3 billion is a gross exaggeration.
  Australia collected less than $4.5billion in their first 5 yrs and their economy is 5x the size of ours.
  
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  March 13, 2019 1:10pm
- Tall Man
  
  It’s very simple to introduce a tax @ 10% then immediately push it up to whatever their greedy little noses desire
  
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  March 13, 2019 2:09pm
- KevOB
  
  Once the COL are booted out sanity will be restored.
  
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  March 13, 2019 5:21pm
Swifty

6 years for Pell.
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March 13, 2019 1:14pm
- secondcumming
  
  Back on the streets in 3. Filthy low bastard.
  
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  March 13, 2019 1:17pm
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    March 13, 2019 6:12pm
- MrTips
  
  He’ll be out in 1yr after his appeal. And that’s not just my opinion.
  
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  March 13, 2019 1:19pm
fluffykiwi

Judith Collins enjoying the company of back benchers in various parts of the country, latest the Wild Foods Festival with Maureen Pugh. So good of a senior MP to give time to the lower ranked, help educate them etc., Will she be rewarded?
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March 13, 2019 1:29pm
- Tall Man
  
  She is probably doing a little bit of mentoring.
  
  How sad it is that there is no one in labour or the greens with enough brain and experience to mentor anyione.
  
  “what’s in it for wynston” will not even be the slightest bit bothered.
  
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  March 13, 2019 2:06pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Or turn up.
    
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    March 13, 2019 4:54pm
starboard

Another violent feral native.
They really should try and educate their people that violence is not the answer.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/111209360/man-pleads-guilty-to-roadrage-assault-on-teacher
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March 13, 2019 1:29pm
- Longknives
  
  That’s a disgusting Assault.
  I would tell that Judge to shove his Crim-Hugging ‘Restorative Justice’ up his ass…
  
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  March 13, 2019 1:41pm
  - Tall Man
    
    At the meeting he will turn up with all rellies who will threaten the teacher again and the facilitator will do nothing.
    
    They will accuse the teacher of whatever comes into their heads and this will not be the end of it.
    
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    March 13, 2019 2:05pm
    - Longknives
      
      “At the meeting he will turn up with all rellies who will threaten the teacher again and the facilitator will do nothing.”
      
      You’ve been to one as well then?
      
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      March 13, 2019 3:33pm
- secondcumming
  
  Makes you wonder what these soft cock judges are afraid of? Maybe this one resides in the area or something. Restorative ‘justice’….what a fucking joke. No wonder the police hardly bother turning up to incidents like this any more. Hours of wasted time and paperwork – for what?
  
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  March 13, 2019 1:54pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Under orders.
    
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    March 13, 2019 2:03pm
DigNap15

Ten years instant jail for unprovoked assault would be a good way to start to educate these thugs.
Who do they think they are?
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March 13, 2019 1:41pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Define provocation?
  
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  March 13, 2019 10:19pm
waikatogirl

I see the Polish family being refused residency despite running a successful and popular cafe in Auckland have been told they have to leave the country in July. Guess they don’t provide lawnmowing services to Auckland’s beautiful people.
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March 13, 2019 1:52pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  I am just so so sad to hear that 🙁
  They are wonderful people who me and my partner have gotten to know quiet well during our frequent visits while going on our morning walks round the waterfront.
  I wonder where else we’ll be able to go for a crepe?
  
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  March 13, 2019 2:03pm
  - Tall Man
    
    I don’t know but if you have a local labour office nearby I have an idea where you can go for a crap.
    
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    March 13, 2019 5:18pm
- lifesgood
  
  Ukrainians. I cannot believe they have been denied residency. This is insanity, they run rings around the thousands of indian dairy owners and taxi drivers who have been granted residency.
  
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  March 13, 2019 2:14pm
  - Jack5
    
    Maybe they’re too white for the mob in Immigration New Zealand.
    
    Shades of the Otago case where two families appealed to stay in NZ because a family member had a serious illness that contravened their entry applications.
    
    The Sri Lankan family was allowed to stay, the white South African family went.
    
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    March 13, 2019 2:27pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Their only hope is a review by Chris Faafoi but apparently, that is a long-shot at this stage in the process. Very sad for them and their community who rallied to support their application for residency.
    
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    March 13, 2019 2:56pm
- Longknives
  
  Maybe if Richie ‘Hardcore’ had sent a text message supporting them they would have been allowed to stay??
  This is a fucking disgusting decision and the Immigration Minister needs to hang his head in shame…
  
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  March 13, 2019 3:32pm
  - Tall Man
    
    The words Immigration minister and shame need a bit of arranging…
    
    It’s a “shame” we have such a weak and gutless minister of Immigration that he prefers drug dealer mates of ardern the liar over genuine immigrants who want make NZ their home and help make it a better place.
    
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    March 13, 2019 5:20pm
- Inandout
  
  Yes waikato, a cafe in a National area. There must be hundreds of disgusted cafe customers though.
  
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  March 13, 2019 3:53pm
Jack5

Where the money goes …

The financially troubled Southern District Health Board has been award $40.3 million of “equity support” by the Government.

Meanwhile, the board, and the Dunedin City Council, are setting up a special translator service in Dunedin to help Arab refugees access the health service, which is proudly being declared as the first in the country.

Dunedin has been declared an official destination of refugees accepted in New Zealand, and 400 have settled there in the last three years, and more are arriving at the rate of 150 a year. They are largely Muslims.

Dunedin was a site for Scottish Presbyterians settling in New Zealand.
It’s interesting that while plenty of folk are patting themselves on the back as do-good multiculturists, there seems to be no voice in Dunedin for NZ’s discrimination against Christian refugees from the Middle East. Why is Otago prejudiced against Christian refugees?

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column/iraqs-christian-refugees-face-double-discrimination-3748

AND

https://www.factcheck.org/2017/01/christian-refugees-unfairly-kept-out-of-u-s/
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March 13, 2019 2:05pm
- Tall Man
  
  My concern is how will a refugee integrate if they are not going to learn the local language.
  
  Doesn’t this leave them exposed to predatory behaviour from wthin their own community…..
  
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  March 13, 2019 5:17pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Ghettos develop when people don’t integrate.
    
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    March 13, 2019 6:16pm
Toko

The developer for KB Wanaka and Te Kauwhata sure seems to like gag orders in his contracts.
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/wanaka/residents-fear-speaking-out-northlake-development
Bet he has an awesome transparent and open KB contract from Phil Twyford. Would love to see it.
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March 13, 2019 2:07pm
Harkman

That Sara Carter is smoke’n hot. What a woman, wow!
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March 13, 2019 2:37pm
Jack5

Human rights lawyer Deborah Manning would put NZ defence forces in a strait jacket. Manning says:

“There clearly needs to be a procedure created by the New Zealand state for automatic right to life investigations for civilians killed during any NZDF operations.”

Manning was the lawyer for Ahmed Zaoui when he gatecrashed into New Zealand, and was a friend of the secretary of the NZ Refugee Council, Kaileshan “Kailesh” Thanabalasingham, who died in an unexplained house fire in Auckland in December 2017.

Thanabalasingham was of the same ethnicity, age, and name, of the leader of a violent ethnic gang who was deported from Canada.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/384624/new-legal-action-taken-against-hit-and-run-inquiry
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March 13, 2019 2:46pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Oh you silly. We can’t worry about the terroristic culture of fear, high body count and misogynistic enslavement of all females. What matters is that these noble tribesmen come from a culture that is equally good as ours with a religion that is peaceful and respectful of anyone who is wealthy, related to the right people, >20 years old and has a penis. And anyway they are committing their atrocities 10000km from my nice leafy green suburb and I have a media profile to maintain.
  
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  March 13, 2019 3:39pm
  - Jack5
    
    David Fisher, reporting in the Hooerald on Manning and her latest campaign, against the NZ Defence Force, includes this:
    
    It’s a grim place for a human rights lawyer recognisable for the high-profile fight against the internment and persecution of Algerian refugee Ahmed Zaoui over a decade ago.
    
    It took years of bloody-minded stubbornness and faith in the law to cut through the obfuscation and stone-walling of the intelligence agencies who claimed her client was a terrorist.
    
    FFS, Zaoui was a politician, a member of the Islamic Salvation Front (the FIS), who had fled Algeria and gatecrashed into New Zealand. He was believed by countries to which he had earlier fled, to have terrorist associations.
    
    I’ve lifted this from the web site linked to below:
    
    In March 1994, Belgium charged him with being “the instigator or the head of a criminal organisation” and two charges of using false passports. He was acquitted at his first trial but was convicted on appeal and received a four-year suspended sentence.
    
    While still under a Belgian home detention order which limited his movements to the street he lived on, he travelled illegally to Switzerland. The Swiss authorities refused his request for asylum due to his ongoing political activities, and made a deal with Burkina Faso to deport Zaoui and his family there, while still providing Zaoui with a 1500 Swiss franc monthly allowance.
    
    2000–2002: Travel to Asia then New Zealand
    Zaoui left Burkina Faso and travelled to Malaysia with his family in 2000. He engaged in political activity with the FIS in exile.
    
    In 2001 France convicted him in absentia for “participation in a criminal group with a view to preparing terrorist acts”.
    
    During his time in Malaysia, the head of the Algerian police services visited to observe Malaysian policing methods. Zaoui believed that this was a pretext, that the real reason was his presence in Malaysia, and that the Malaysian authorities were preparing to detain him. He decided to leave Malaysia, and on 2 December 2002 he arrived in New Zealand via Vietnam on a fake South African passport.
    
    Source: https://upclosed.com/people/ahmed-zaoui/
    
    Zaoui was allowed to stay in NZ, despite families such as the Ukrainian restaurant owners facing deportation.
    
    Some in Belgium remained convinced of terrorist associations by Zaoui:
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/ahmed-zaoui/news/article.cfm?c_id=549&objectid=3562471
    
    NZ’s Refugee Status Appeals Authority, which is mentioned in a report quoted, was replaced by the Immigration and Protection Tribunal in 2010.
    
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    March 13, 2019 7:22pm
DigNap15

@Jack 5
There has been collateral damage to civilians in wars since they began.
Our boys were there to try to help the Afghani people.
What does Deborah Manning think about the Taliban that executes girls for going to school?
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March 13, 2019 2:52pm
- mandk
  
  The Taliban also executes women for adultery.
  
  Men, not so much.
  
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  March 13, 2019 3:33pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  If they were her clients probably plenty $.
  
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  March 13, 2019 4:42pm
DigNap15

So great listening to Shaun and Ryan Bridge talking about the left wing social agenda on Magic Radio right now.
I like the way Shaun took that sickly liberal principal apart about climate change.
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March 13, 2019 2:54pm
MrTips

A new type of GiveALittle………..

Every day, little ztev has to comb through the mountains of shit left by the CoL, especially DearLeader©. Each day, it gets harder and harder for ztev as the CoL demand more and more squirrels and they are getting harder to find. None of the $3B available from Jonesy is left for poor ztev. In frustration, poor ztev is having to spend more and more time on Kiwiblog (but only between 9-5) for less and less return.

Won’t you please consider helping poor ztev? Are you ready to free him from the shackles of unfrutiful squirrel hunting? Can’t you spare one or maybe two words for him? Words like…..
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March 13, 2019 4:06pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Beggar’s bowl?
  
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  March 13, 2019 4:37pm
- Tall Man
  
  “Go fuck yourself”… too strong?
  
  “Fuck off”… too short
  
  “ardern is a liar so fuck off”…ahh, just right.
  
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  March 13, 2019 5:12pm
  - sooty
    
    That sounds nice!
    Are you sure you would not like to repeat it?
    
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    March 13, 2019 7:54pm
    - Tall Man
      
      You mean the ardern is a liar bit?
      
      But is ardern the liar a liar?
      
      Nah, I’m good…but thanks 🙂
      
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      March 13, 2019 8:35pm
- niggly
  
  How sad, never mind?
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:01pm
waikatogirl

Dr Shane Reti, National Whangarei, was asking during QT the Minister of Health why children in Whangarei are not eligible for funding for the mengacochal vaccine when the NZ taxpayer has funded vaccinations in Vanuatu to the tune of $10m?

That’s a good question! Why? I’m sure I heard Clarke reply that it isn’t up to NZ to fund vaccinations in other countries?! ?
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March 13, 2019 4:37pm
- Harkman
  
  There could be a white kid amongst them, white kids are privileged and don’t deserve government funding, remember ?
  
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  March 13, 2019 4:39pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Silly me! ?
    
    The schools up north are fundraising for the kids who are ineligible. If only someone had thought about charity beginning at home. The COL can’t save the whole Pacific.
    
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    March 13, 2019 4:42pm
    - nasska
      
      Dr Reti has promised to make himself available to do the immunisations at one school & source the vaccine at near cost price.
      
      We could see a few conflicted teachers & other assorted lefties in the next few weeks.
      
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      March 13, 2019 4:47pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Interesting fact:
        Teachers in NZ don’t have to have had the required childhood vaccinations before gaining their teaching certificate.
        
        That seems ridiculous and potentially dangerous to the health of their students.
        
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        March 13, 2019 6:28pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Nurses can’t be forced to have flu jabs I believe nor other shots either.
      
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      March 13, 2019 10:07pm
RF

Remember when spider fingers went to the islands and could not take the Royal Bub because she was not vaccinated. Cost the country a pretty penny for aviation fuel and crew time.

There was a suggestion from someone that spider did not believe in vaccinations.

With the measles scare in Auckland & Christchurch can anyone confirm if the Royal Bub is vaccinated. I believe this is something the public should know.
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March 13, 2019 4:50pm
- Tall Man
  
  Fairly sure I heard ardern the liar say today that her child was vaccinated but, as we all know…she is a liar.
  
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  March 13, 2019 5:09pm
  - nasska
    
    In Chomper’s defence (& it hurts to do it) there’s a schedule of vaccinations & Neve wasn’t due for most of them when the Pacific jaunt occurred.
    
    https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/preventative-health-wellness/immunisation/new-zealand-immunisation-schedule
    
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    March 13, 2019 5:29pm
    - RF
      
      Bugger. I was so confident she was an anti vax.
      
      For dear wee bubs sake I hope she is vaccinated.
      
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      March 13, 2019 5:52pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Breast pump…
      
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      March 13, 2019 8:32pm
  - Viking2
    
    15 months is the timetable.
    
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    March 13, 2019 5:52pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The Prime Minister has called for all folks in Canterbury to get vaccinated.
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/03/jacinda-ardern-s-strong-message-to-everyone-on-canterbury-measles-outbreak.html
    
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    March 13, 2019 6:42pm
    - sooty
      
      So she should. Kids not vacinated should not be allowed off the property!
      
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      March 13, 2019 7:50pm
gump

Eric Watson is having a very bad day.

It’s good to see the IRD successfully prosecuting deadbeats for not paying their tax bills.
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March 13, 2019 5:58pm
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Now if we could only get the multitude of other deadbeats to contribute to the tax system of New Zealand instead of being net takers in a time of high employment.
  
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  March 13, 2019 7:21pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Half pay nothing…
    
    How’s that fair?
    
    Ask ardern the liar when I can have a turn at being PM when “what’s in it for wynston”. After all, isn’t that “fair”, we all have a turn.
    
    I just want to know when it’s my turn to never pay tax…isn’t that “fair”?
    
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    March 13, 2019 8:31pm
- KevOB
  
  Eric Watson is no deadbeat. Almost certainly he, or his advisors, have tried to minimise his taxes and IRD have disputed their interpretation and application of the law. Normal commercial practice.
  IRD can only collect tax according to the law and it is well settled that it is not illegal to attempt to reduce your taxes by considering the law. If unsuccessful, additional taxes and interest can result.
  
  CGT is going to provide a feast for advisors.
  
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  March 13, 2019 9:27pm
secondcumming

Heard *Jack Dame* on with Larry trying to defend that low pedo George Pell…….playing ‘devils advocate’ maybe?

Just saying.
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March 13, 2019 5:59pm
Viking2

Across the midwest, the rise of factory farming is destroying rural communities. And the massive corporations behind this devastation are now eyeing a post-Brexit UK market
How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/american-food-giants-swallow-the-family-farms-iowa?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

An interesting read. Worth the time.
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March 13, 2019 6:01pm
rightoverlabour

WHAT THE FUCK?????

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/111254584/teacher-who-sexually-abused-young-pupil-allowed-to-have-contact-with-children

Read the story and ask yourself, if you were the father of the girl, if an apology would suffice????
Salient quote below:

“He pulled her on top of him and kissed her several times, felt her bottom and exposed himself.

“She was scared and wanted to get away. She prised herself off you and ran,” he said.

The girl told her mother and the teacher apologised to the principal and the girl’s father the next day.”

I fucking give up.
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March 13, 2019 6:27pm
- cmm
  
  Teachers’ union is stronger than dads’ union.
  
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  March 13, 2019 6:43pm
  - Longknives
    
    Certain Political Parties have even more influence than the Unions…*Cough
    
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    March 13, 2019 6:46pm
  - DigNap15
    
    As a guy said on talk back today.
    Teachers and Priests should have a higher duty of care than others when around children.
    
    Where is the Sensible Senencing Trust?
    We need a few good vigiliantes.
    
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    March 13, 2019 8:10pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Judge Neave has quite a light touch…
  Home D for a 2wice banned driver who killed a young woman with his dangerous driving
  
  Community Service for rich banker who ran over a chap’s legs (and broke them) in a spot of road rage…
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10831274
  
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  March 13, 2019 6:52pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Maggy, This statement in the article is bizarre to say the least:
    
    ‘During sentencing, Judge Neave criticised media for referring to the offence as a “hit and run”, saying Hallwright was driving “away” from the situation.’
    
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    March 13, 2019 7:13pm
- JibberJabber
  
  There are more than a few dudges out there that need their computers forensically examined.
  
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  March 13, 2019 6:56pm
- Universal Smith
  
  The pedo has friends in the right places of that we can be sure. We can also be pretty confident in guessing what party he is a member of.
  
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  March 13, 2019 7:08pm
- Tall Man
  
  WTF is right.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:21pm
Longknives

Doesn’t make sense.
He indecently assaulted and exposed himself to a 9 year old child?
Yet the Judge is letting him off? Without even putting him on the Sex Offender’s register??
Clearly this person is ‘prominent’ and has ‘connections’…
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March 13, 2019 6:43pm
- nasska
  
  Sooner or later judicial decisions like this will mean that parents won’t bother reporting sexual assaults against their children. If this occurs there are two possibilities:
  
  1) The offenders get free rein
  
  OR
  
  2) We descend to a state of vigilante justice. This used to be the norm in NZ in cases of kiddy fiddling up until recent times & it could very easily come back.
  
  No parent worth their salt is going to put up with the current crap.
  
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  March 13, 2019 6:58pm
  - Universal Smith
    
    If he was guy who works on a rubbish truck, and had no connections, would he have been treated the same?
    
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    March 13, 2019 7:10pm
    - nasska
      
      Not a hope. It really worries me as to what goes on in the heads of our judges. To rationalise a sexual assault on a nine year old kid takes some doing.
      
      But it’s the parents that I really feel for. They’ve done everything right & told their daughter that the legal system will punish the paedo & make sure that he doesn’t do it again.
      
      Then afterwards when the kid asks what punishment he got they have to tell her that the creep will have to read books to old people for a few hours & spend a bit of “time out” at home.
      
      Call it what you will so long as it’s not “justice”.
      
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      March 13, 2019 7:21pm
      - Swifty
        
        Something for NZers to chew on:
        
        https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/unholy-family-the-psychopath-who-was-the-fifth-paedophile-priest-sent-to-town/news-story/e23032a3a1e03721086bee8750a653a0
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAZmxkphdwU
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZeWEEzkZI8&t=790s
        
        There may come a time when these people, these ‘Fathers’ of the community, will be accorded the punishment they deserve.
        
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        March 13, 2019 7:36pm
      - starboard
        
        Collateral damage I think Little mentioned some time ago. A taste of what’s to come maybe?
        
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        March 13, 2019 7:47pm
- Tall Man
  
  Funds have been exchanged….
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:22pm
starboard

Mark up another one boys.
They really are a despicable race.

“A man has been charged with the murder of a 4-week-old baby in Northland.

Police launched an investigation after Maree Takuira Mita Ngahere was found dead in February and a post mortem examination revealed she had died of non-accidental injuries.

Northland CIB Acting Detective Inspector Lloyd Schmid said on Wednesday that a 22-year-old man faced one charge of murder. He also faces a charge of assault on a child in relation to a separate matter.”
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March 13, 2019 7:03pm
- sooty
  
  What. He bashed another kid, as well?
  
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  March 13, 2019 7:46pm
- DigNap15
  
  yes is there any other race in the world that kill so many of its children.
  And I think most kiwis have given up on it.
  Years ago there was a hue and cry for weeks. And on talk back for days
  Now its just in the news for I day.
  There’s been two or three already this year.
  And one in December where they are not talking to the police.
  I personally don’t care.
  
  I just despise them when the beat up or rob an adult European or Asian or tourist.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:06pm
  - starboard
    
    You have to embrace the tongue a too fen eww a and all things murri. Learn stoneage..shit in the garden, wave ya bare arse around and poke ya tongue out! Ton of cocoa tin of cocoa.
    
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    March 13, 2019 8:29pm
RW Capitalist

Measles?????
How dangerous is it?
Before vaccination, we were sent to play with the kids who had it. 2 weeks we were over it. Immune for life.
If most kids are vaccinated, how are kids who are not, a danger to them?
Didn’t our last govt. set targets above 90% of vaccinated under 5’s and achieve them. So what happened?
Questions that don’t appear to be answered.
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March 13, 2019 7:08pm
- gump
  
  Modern measles vaccines confer immunity on approximately 93% of the people who receive them. Kids who aren’t vaccinated provide a real and deadly threat to the 7% who have no immunity and infants who are too young to have received vaccines.
  
  Putting aside the completely avoidable and terrible suffering that accompanies measles infections, approximately 0.2% of measles infections result in death and the majority of thoses deaths are children aged under five. Other non-fatal cases can result in serious complications such as encephalitic swelling of the brain that can cause severe and permanent disabilities.
  
  The questions you asked all have answers.
  
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  March 13, 2019 7:25pm
- MrTips
  
  Precisely. 93% of the time it’s relatively benign. It’s avoidable of course, but not zombie inducing. Vaccination people!
  
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  March 13, 2019 7:28pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Before vaccination, we were sent to play with the kids who had it. 2 weeks we were over it. Immune for life.
  
  Not so for babies (less than 1 year old)… they could become very ill and risked permanent brain damage..
  Not so for pregnant mums…. likely to miscarry or have an early delivery.
  
  These are things we wouldn’t have noticed as kids growing up… but the medical fraternity had to deal with those who got the nasty side of measles.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:13pm
  - nasska
    
    There was a higher level of inevitability or acceptance in decades past Maggy when there were large families closely spaced in age.
    
    It was considered a guarantee that kids would be exposed to measles sooner or later so “let’s get it over & done with” was the prevailing attitude.
    
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    March 13, 2019 8:22pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Immigration has weakened our herd immunization.
  
  The Philipines is apparently rife with measles.
  
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  March 13, 2019 9:51pm
Happychappy

Winston’s lacky slapping Ron Mark with a wet bus ticket while the Coalition circus keep performing for the corrupt media.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12212350
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March 13, 2019 7:13pm
Happychappy

How sickening this media in NZ is a bird shots on Neve and daddy Clark gets upset so they do a column on it .
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12212397
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March 13, 2019 7:36pm
- sooty
  
  That’s just the level that journalism in NZ has fallen to!
  Shit!!!
  
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  March 13, 2019 7:43pm
- Inandout
  
  All birds in that suburb should be eliminated forthwith; fouling our first born is intolerable. I shall immediately contact the Forest & Turd Society.
  
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  March 13, 2019 10:32pm
DigNap15

And a daily make the honkey feel guilty about racism against Maori column.
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March 13, 2019 8:01pm
rightoverlabour

Stuff “censorship” in full swing. This morning the article on the light CGT had three polls, One has disappeared, the one on the support for the “light CGT” Also, the comments have disappeared completely. Now when I looked at the comments (I did not read the crap article), the govt was getting a right royal spanking. All gone now… Strange?
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March 13, 2019 8:14pm
- JibberJabber
  
  Bugger, voted over me phone this morning and intended to vote again once I got home on the desktop.
  They`ve permablocked me can`t even use the search function on the website or view comments.
  
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  March 13, 2019 8:48pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Joseph Goebels the Nazi propoganda minister couldo have done bedda.
    
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    March 13, 2019 10:04pm
Cobolt24

AUSTRALIA: Mortgage crash signals more sharp house price falls
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https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/03/mortgage-crash-signals-house-price-falls
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March 13, 2019 8:58pm
- starboard
  
  Ok Hugh…”NURSE”..” !Hughs morphed into Cobolt24
  
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  March 13, 2019 9:00pm
  - Cobolt24
    
    REINZ says sales were down at a time when they are normally strong; Auckland had lowest number of sales in a non-January month since 2010
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    https://www.interest.co.nz/property/98608/reinz-says-sales-were-down-time-when-they-are-normally-strong-auckland-had-lowest
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    ENDS
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:34pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Hughs morphed into Cobolt24
    
    Hope so…
    imagine if there’s a gang of Hugh’s followers waiting to bombard KB at a heavier rate than the Lefty Troll Troupe.
    
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    March 13, 2019 9:58pm
- DigNap15
  
  A Steady fall of 5 to 7% over the last year or so is not a CRASH.
  To my mind its just what is needed to correct the over priced houses.
  To me a crash is 10 or 20% in a few months!
  
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