General Debate 15 July 2019

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Captain Mainwaring

Yet another fatal crash on that dreadful piece of road between Whangarei and Ruakaka. Yes, a road that National had in their plans for four-laning until it was cancelled by the CoL.
Twyford and Genter, I presume you’re going to the funeral to explain to the relatives why you have blood on your hands.
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July 15, 2019 8:02am
- peterwn
  
  And Winston and Shane – they could have kept the project alive no trouble!
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:04am
- hullkiwi
  
  Captain, sorry they are not listening, no votes for them.
  
  Besides Whinney and Shane are going to deliver a shiny new rail sometime in the distant future?
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:06am
- cmm
  
  It’s a bit far to make that distance on a bamboo bike.
  
  She will just use this as more ammo for her proposed 60 kph nation-wide plan, except for this patch of road where 40 sounds like a safer choice.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:10am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  The road is fine. If drivers keep their wits about them, there should not be any problems.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:48am
  - Inandout
    
    Most NZ roads are fine, it is the bloody useless drivers in the main. Even our car registrations now disregard vehicle safety.
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:30am
  - srylands
    
    With that reasoning any road could be regarded as “fine”. All drivers are capable of making errors. Some have medical events. When those things happen on that road other people can die.
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:34am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    When I say “fine,” I mean that this stretch of road has unobstructed views, it is level, there are no sharp corners or decreasing-radius curves and off-camber corners. The road surface is not pot-holed or lumpy.
    What more do you need?
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:08am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      “What more do you need?”
      Two lanes each way.
      
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      July 15, 2019 12:39pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        That is going to cost a lot of tax-payers’ money. Where do you think the funding should be taken from? The Race Relations Office? The Ministry of Women’s Affairs?
        
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        July 15, 2019 1:09pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Both of those, and there are others.
        
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        July 15, 2019 2:56pm
- BullyHayes
  
  yep i saw that too.
  
  that stretch from the caltex servo through to WEI has had a terrible record.
  
  in the last year or so theyve put plastic sticks down the centreline as a cheap attempted fix to the problem.
  
  personally – at least during dark hours – i feel theyve made it more tricky to drive as they tend to confuse your peripheral vision.
  
  the answer of course – and its desperately needed as everyone who drives it knows – is a four lane highway.
  
  when they finish the section from puhoi to warkworth – just get the roading gangs to keep building north…
  
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  July 15, 2019 9:06am
  - srylands
    
    No no. Once the current pipeline of projects is finished, I would be surprised if you see any new divided roads being built. IIRC the Minister is interested in safety improvements to current roads, but these are about fixing black spots, specifc dangerous bends etc.
    
    Unfortunately if you live in provincial or rural areas, the best you can hope for is marginal improvements to existing roading, not new roading.
    
    When I lived in Wellington I used public transport to go to work but that was purely driven by the cost of parking in the city. Now that I live in Christchurch I would not even contemplate public transport.
    
    Unusually I learned to drive relatively late in life. So I did spend a long time relying on public transport and cycling. When I learned to drive, it dramatically changed my life for the better. So I am now a self confessed “car Nazi” ?
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:46am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      But the government keeps putting road taxes up, whatever can the money be for…..?
      
      Bwuhahahaha!
      
      Hypothecation my arse. Where’s the Auditor-General?
      
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      July 15, 2019 2:48pm
      - srylands
        
        You don’t need the auditor general. The information is published. All fuel taxes need to be spent on transport. They are.
        
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        July 16, 2019 1:26pm
- The Feed
  
  Clearly what they need is a cycle lane. And some e-scooters.
  
  Wondering if I need to add /sarc ….
  
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  July 15, 2019 10:57am
Paulus

Whilst a sad finish the Black Caps have done New Zealand proud.
They can hold their heads up high.
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July 15, 2019 8:02am
- Tony Stuart
  
  It was a magnificent match and occasion. It’s just a shame it had to end in such a contrived fashion, with the Super Over.
  
  Congratulations to England, and well played New Zealand.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:27am
- Rich Prick
  
  I’ve never been so exhausted by a game of cricket. Now I’m wishing I’d set the alarm for 6.15am!
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:34am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    I watched the first hour and from 6.00am to the end.
    I think I saw the best bits.
    
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    July 15, 2019 8:44am
  - Inandout
    
    It was a ‘NOOOO’ moment, but there will always be winners and losers.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDYNVH0U3cs
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:33am
- freemark
  
  Watched the whole thing, bloody exciting/up & down. Feel we were a little robbed however, them’s the breaks however.
  Saw Robbo sitting up in the corner of some box or stand on his own – looked like a sad little f**k – imagine that, no one interested in spending time with this particular Finance & Sport Minister of NZ.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:52am
  - SGA
    
    meh – good luck to him, I hope he enjoyed himself, and that the pain of defeat is somewhat tempered by being at a game that will go down in cricket history.
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:22am
  - GoVege
    
    Thats pretty mean, freemark.
    
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    July 15, 2019 12:09pm
    - Twinkletoes
      
      But true!
      
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      July 15, 2019 1:58pm
  - gregmilnenz
    
    He paid his own way there. Maybe he was enjoying being a guy at a sports match and not a politician being insulted at every turn no matter what he does?
    
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    July 15, 2019 2:08pm
    - mark15
      
      Half a guy
      
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      July 15, 2019 2:44pm
      - gregmilnenz
        
        Are you saying he’s half a guy because he’s gay?
        
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        July 15, 2019 4:43pm
      - GoVege
        
        He’s definitely man enough to take the non-stop abuse any Kiwi male brave enough to come out AND go in for politics is guaranteed to get.
        I salute him.
        So will future generations.
        
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        July 15, 2019 7:15pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Indeed. A tie breaker points award based on boundaries hit is reasonable.
  
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  July 15, 2019 9:15am
  - backster
    
    Why not base it on wickets lost.
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:11am
    - Local Miller
      
      Apparently this is how it was historically done, and they changed it for this series. I agree they should have stuck with the wicket count as the first option, then a super over, then boundaries.
      But a great game throughout.
      
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      July 15, 2019 11:34am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    I think a tie-breaker based on how many wickets they had remaining at the end of their 50 overs would have been fairer.
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:45am
  - calendar girl
    
    Why would you go back to the 50+50 overs part of the contest that had been left behind for the “Super Over” to decide the outcome?
    
    If the match was still tied after the Super Over, why would a second Super Over not be played? After all, that Super Over format had been chosen as the mechanism for resolving a deadlock in the 50+50 overs game. When it failed to do so first time, what was preventing its use a second time? Five minutes of TV time?
    
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    July 15, 2019 11:31am
- SGA
  
  Great game, but a question (and “no”, I don’t mean this to sound like sour grapes – just genuinely curious).
  
  Is there a good reason why number of boundaries during the full innings decided the result rather than the number of wickets remaining?
  
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  July 15, 2019 10:19am
  - Brian McDonald
    
    Top competition by a top team, the deflection off the bat was the difference in the end.
    
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    July 15, 2019 3:03pm
hullkiwi

What a game of cricket and what a result.

Well done the Black Caps!
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July 15, 2019 8:03am
artemisia

Will the Government increase the personal tax rate?

Opinion piece in Stuff today by Mr Thomas Pippos, who would be one of New Zealand’s top tax experts. Look out you rich pricks earning over $70k pa, the government is probably coming for you.

Again. It’s only fair. Right?

…using projected 2020 figures, 12 per cent of the population pay 48 per cent of all personal taxation. The top 3 per cent of the population pay 24 per cent. Flipping it around, 48 per cent of the population only contribute 8 per cent of all personal taxation. And these metrics are more pronounced when initiatives like Working for Families are factored in.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/114218104/will-the-government-increase-the-personal-tax-rate
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July 15, 2019 8:04am
- cmm
  
  Calculating tax rates without factoring in WFF is pretty much fraud.
  
  I don’t think they can just hike the current tax rate because that will hit too many people. NZ has an extremely low top threshold.
  
  Instead they will likely introduce an extra band (eg. 50% for over $120k).
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:29am
  - hullkiwi
    
    50% for $120k plus, puts NZ back in the dim old days of 1970s up to 1986 and the introduction of GST and the resetting if tax rates by Roger Douglas.
    
    A rate of 50% means people will be discouraged from working (as most of the money goes to the govt and some to pensions or savings). NZ’s productivity per capita will decline further.
    
    Do these people never learn from history? Dismantling WFF is an imperative to get people into work, raising productivity, raising wages and increasing the tax take! Hammering those at the top end only encourages tax avoidance more!
    
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    July 15, 2019 8:45am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Dismantling WFF is just going to complicate the tax administration. Everyone with dependents expects tax relief for them. Previously employers had to deal with that through different tax codes.
      WFF acts as an embedded refund or negative income tax.
      
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      July 15, 2019 9:22am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Kev, why do you want a complex tax system? We have a regime that penalizes work and encourages low productivity.
        
        Rather than pay levels being set commensurate with input and output, we have employers being encouraged to pay low because the employee receives a subsidized benefit paid by the taxpayer. With an associated level of bureaucratic complexity. Why to whose benefit?
        
        Much easier to set a higher minimum tax threshold, get rid of WFF and encourage employers and employees to achieve higher productivity and earnings. This then flows to the government tax take. However, bureaucrats and politicians alike can’t resist creating welfare dependency.
        
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        July 15, 2019 10:35am
    - cmm
      
      WFF might make some sense if it was aligned to the lowest tax rate.
      
      Right now we have people paying the highest tax rate and being on WFF. Something is clearly broken.
      
      But that’s socialism for you. Try fix a problem caused by penalties and subsidies by adding yet another layer of penalties and subsidies.
      
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      July 15, 2019 9:23am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        WFF only incentivises employers to pay as little as possible because they know the Govt. will make up the difference.
        
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        July 15, 2019 10:47am
    - gorse
      
      And the watch our economy crash and burn
      
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      July 15, 2019 4:15pm
  - Hard Cheese
    
    50% owner $120K will never happen (well, without a socialist government it wouldn’t)…that puts it way above Australia’s top rate and there would be a mass exodus and no-one left to prop up all the bennies.
    
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    July 15, 2019 1:04pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      Hard Cheese, with this lot, I don’t share your optimism. Under Muldoon NZ had a 60% rate and as a newly qualified accountant in the 1980s my top marginal rate of tax was 50%.
      
      When it comes to NZ’s socialists, never say never!
      
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      July 15, 2019 5:51pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Nope. I’m done paying for all of our deadbeats. I may just have to stop filling in those annoying IR3’s. Then move permanently to the bolt hold. Sorry bludgers.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:38am
  - Ian Boag
    
    Jobseeker benefit is about 2.5% of the budget. If the numbers were halved and the savings returned to taxpayers you probably wouldn’t notice ….
    
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    July 15, 2019 8:51am
    - Rich Prick
      
      If I could keep $1 back from the leeches I’d notice. It was mine to begin with.
      
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      July 15, 2019 9:02am
    - artemisia
      
      It’s not just those on jobseeker benefits to be taken into account. There’s the 48% paying 8% of income tax, not counting Working for Families and other income based taxpayer transfers. For example Accommodation Supplement and income related rent.
      
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      July 15, 2019 9:04am
    - cmm
      
      What about “sickness beneficiaries”. Somehow sickness beneficiaries can’t get out of bed for a job, but they are the largest “occupation” for burglars etc.
      
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      July 15, 2019 9:25am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        I often read with amusement accounts of how a team of police officers and police dogs chase a “sickness beneficiary” for hours before finally needing all team members to subdue him.
        
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        July 15, 2019 11:30am
    - Swifty
      
      NZers wouldn’t notice over a Billion dollars left in their pockets, annually?
      
      Give me a break.
      
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      July 15, 2019 10:04am
  - artemisia
    
    If the top tax rate is raised, incentives will be created. Bearing in mind that many or most of those folk will be spending, employing and creating exports.
    
    “Time is the new money.” Consequences.
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:07am
- The Proper Ghandi
  
  No tax under $20K pa. Thereafter flat tax rate of 20%. Scrap GST. Scrap WFF. The decrease in rates will be offset by less tax avoidance (why would you bother?) and the massive increase in economic activity overall (i.e. growing the pie). If they cannot run the government on that, they should either become more efficient, or commit mass harikari. Unemployable multi-generational beneficiaries shall be placed into large inflatable dinghies with a compass, some star charts and some cold KFC, and set adrift in the Pacific. Thank you.
  
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  July 15, 2019 9:27am
- Liberty
  
  The top 3% pay 24% of tax.
  
  The question is. The top 3% (In Lefty speak Rich pricks )
  Are directly or indirectly responsible for how many Jobs ?
  
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  July 15, 2019 10:55am
  - The Proper Ghandi
    
    Liberty
    To the Marxists if anyone has wealth it was necesarily stolen from someone else. They cannot grasp that wealth is created. They think bosses steal worker’s labour for profit. They don’t factor in that there needs to be risks and burden taken on for there to be employees in the first instance.
    
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    July 15, 2019 11:49am
- MickMac
  
  He doesn’t allow for WFF, just amkes a comment about it. Disinformation for Jacinda, as he does know better.
  
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  July 15, 2019 11:47am
Nukuleka

The Wimbledon Finals: equal pay for equal work?Halep and Djokovic both win 2.35 pounds.

Women’s Final: 52 minutes: 62 62
Men’s Final: 4 hours 57 minutes: 76 16 76 46 1312
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July 15, 2019 8:06am
- theoldbloke
  
  Using that stupid logic. All rock bands should get paid the same for a 1 hour gig????
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:26am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    So do you think it’s fair for women to play best of 3 sets while men play best of 5, yet they get the same prize money?
    
    For the record, I have always been in favour of equal pay, but women have to play 5 setters, just like the men.
    
    You want equality, you get it.
    
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    July 15, 2019 8:56am
  - The Proper Ghandi
    
    theoldbloke
    “Using that stupid logic. All rock bands should get paid the same for a 1 hour gig????”
    
    That comment is also an argument in support of pay disparities. A top band/actor/sportsperson should of course be paid more than a less talented or interchangeable individual/group, because the best in the business command higher remuneration as they provide more value and comprise a tiny percentage of total participants.
    
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    July 15, 2019 7:50pm
    - The Proper Ghandi
      
      Note: To avoid ambiguity, when I said “that comment” I am referring to OP Nukuleka’s comment, but responding to theoldbloke. The Women are not as good (they would be destroyed by the Men) so therefore they should not expect pay parity.
      
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      July 15, 2019 8:19pm
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Bit rough to pay someone less for winning more convincingly. Even if the women played best of five the difference in time taken would have been huge. In any case the prize money should be based on the revenue they are expected to generate.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:30am
- cmm
  
  Not only that, but each men’s hit is harder, faster, better…
  
  The women’s champ would not even make selection on an equal playing field.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:34am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Maybe Roger will now do a Hubbard and win another 20 slams ?
    
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    July 15, 2019 8:37am
    - sooty
      
      He would become a cereal winner, if he was a cock in a frock!
      
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      July 15, 2019 10:43am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Oh God, just noticed that the new Bond, is of course, a Black Woman.
  
  Yup we’ve followed the arc of cool Bond, to emo Bond with the last three movies doing lost love, lost family, and mummy issues. Now of course its time for strong, courageous black women to take charge.
  
  Is there nothing Wokeness won’t infiltrate and destroy. They’ve done in Dr Who, and now we get Bridget Bond, redone as a chickflick by the woman who wrote the fleabag shit.
  
  Great. Still at least we still have the DVDs of Sean Connery (or at least until the “buy-back” is announced of wrongthink media)
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:40am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    It’s an insult to give a hand-me-down character like 007 to this actress.
    
    Better a black woman be given the opportunity to develop as her very own new character within a state organization designed to uphold the interests of the British government.
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:23am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      What, like Camden Council?
      
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      July 15, 2019 10:03am
  - Fletch
    
    Yep. They sneakily slipped it in there, even though Daniel Craig is in it. I wondered why there wasn’t much fanfare around the whole thing. Now all they need to do is make her a lesbian and have an affair with Moneypenny.
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:00am
  - MCos
    
    “we still have the DVDs of Sean Connery”
    
    I’m surprised they still have DVD players in Rest Homes.
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:13am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      No they don’t need them, the old buggers have already loaded them all up into the cloud!
      
      Don’t underestimate old farts, they are plenty smart.
      
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      July 15, 2019 2:00pm
  - freethinker
    
    I don’t do chickflick movies so won’t be going to see .
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:30am
Paulus Gnome

There was a ‘hand of God’ moment that took England out of the FIFA World Cup in 1986.

Thirty plus years the Poms (of which I am one) have complained about this ‘ “symbolic revenge” for the Falklands War.’

How do they feel about Maradona now with Ben Stokes (inadvertently) providing the cricketing equivalent?
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July 15, 2019 8:08am
- emmess
  
  I am okay with that, it is the stupid rule about the winner being declared the team with the most boundries that sucks the most. But hey those are rules, I suppose.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:27am
  - hullkiwi
    
    A rule change for this year’s tournament. The SuperOver was a contrived ending for TV.
    
    The Stokes issue will lead to a change of the rules, but in fairness what happened was a fluke and put the pressure back on NZ.
    
    My question is though how did Stokes face the last ball in the 50th over? With the penultimate ball Stokes and partner ran 1 successfully, but on the second there was a run out. It was always my understanding was that even though the players had crossed, Stokes should have returned to the end he came from, as the run was not completed. Was this an oversight or have the rules changed?
    
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    July 15, 2019 8:59am
    - James Stephenson
      
      No, your understanding is wonky. The batsmen have swapped ends when they cross over – the one closest to the end where the stumps are put down is the one that’s out. A run hasn’t been scored because both batsmen haven’t made their ground but Stokes stays where he is.
      
      It’s the same with any other wicket – if the batsmen cross while the ball is in the air before being caught, then the new batsman goes to the non-striker’s end.
      
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      July 15, 2019 10:11am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      As far as I know it has always been the case that the batsman does not return to the end he came from if they’ve crossed and there is a run out.
      
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      July 15, 2019 10:20am
- cmm
  
  All rules are fair if they apply equally to all.
  
  They are only “stupid” rules because they went against the Black Caps this time. They would have been Ok if the Black Caps had one.
  
  It is very common in all sports to have tie breaker rules.
  
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  July 15, 2019 9:00am
  - cmm
    
    one->won aargh.
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:27am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    The tie-breaker rule is perfectly fair and was just unlucky for us.
    
    A couple of other areas could be changed and made fairer, e.g. the ball should be dead if it strikes a batsman while he is running, there should not be run-outs by deflection – only when the impetus of the ball comes from the fielding side.
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:24am
    - emmess
      
      Fair and stupid are not mutually exclusive
      
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      July 15, 2019 2:29pm
- Mobile Michael
  
  That’s the rule – many years ago Andrew Symonds hit a ball straight back the way it came, only to hit the non-strikers bat on the full and have it lolly up for an easy catch at mid on.
  
  This time it went in favour of the batting team, if it had richocheted onto the stumps for a run out would you be complaining? It’s all part of the game.
  
  I do think the boundary countback is stupid – the scores being level should mean either a replay or a joint champion.
  
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  July 15, 2019 9:18am
  - MCos
    
    There has always been a convention that overthrows are not attempted under such circumstances, even though they’re allowed.
    Sort of thing happens all the time; except last night’s occurance whereby the ball carries on over the boundary is rare & the umpire has no choice, but awars four runs.
    The alternative would be for the rule to change so that the ball is declared ‘dead’.
    Won’t happen.
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:24am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Michael the rule previously was the number of wickets lost in the innings and no super over.
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:39am
    - MCos
      
      This was ODI #4192 and the third one where a super over scheduled to resolve a tie. The other two weren’t needed and were the semis.
      
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      July 15, 2019 2:15pm
Yvette

Firearms
$433,000 agreed in compensation on the first of 258 events.
The same agreement for each event would see $111,714,000 spent of the budgeted $200,000,000.
The $ 433,000 agreed Saturday was less than one quarter of one percent (0.0021%) of that $200 million budgeted.

But Council of Licenced Firearms Owners spokesperson Nicole McKee says the figures are underwhelming – there were 900 registered for the event, but only 169 showed up on Saturday.

As the exercise progresses, and budgeted money remains unused, will any change be made in compensation to attract those known “to still be out there”, and will that not greatly piss off the most conscientious owners who have already handed in their weapons?

Should there not be a “Ngai Tahu” payment, if later agreements are more than those agreed to now, so that those who have been conscientious are “topped up” to any higher rate?

(So there is not a repeat of the recent Government dishonesty in exam fees – cancelling those outstanding, but not refunding those who had paid – after some children had got jobs and paid the $76 fee themselves – nice ‘lesson’ they learnt)
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July 15, 2019 8:09am
- G152
  
  I look forward to the Police surrendering their automatic weapons as well.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:28am
  - G152
    
    And further. Just got a letter from Plod about my firearm (which I turned in around 1990).
    You cant fault their non existent record keeping…
    What a pack of bunnies
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:27am
    - cmm
      
      I hope you still have the receipt for when you handed it in otherwise plod might come break down your door for having a Zombie Killer.
      
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      July 15, 2019 11:42am
  - igm
    
    What about gangs and what is secreted away in mosques. Are they not required to surrender their arms?
    
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    July 15, 2019 12:00pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  So. 38,000 firearms owners in Canterbury.
  
  900 register for the event
  
  170 show up. Maybe more on day 2?
  
  Seems maybe 542 firearms collected, sounds double what was being quoted in Stuff, but hey, lets believe it. because the Police never fib (sic)
  
  $1m taxpayers money spent.
  
  Only 398,458 guns to go.
  
  Glorious success?
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:31am
  - 453mm
    
    Success only in that it is the CoL Being Seen To Be Doing Something™. Very little will change, but they will claim they Did Something™ come election time.
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:32am
- cmm
  
  I thought the payment was only for legally owned firearms.
  
  Illegally owned firearms could be handed in under amnesty – not for payment.
  
  Perhaps I got that wrong.
  
  It would be interesting to look at the stats for gang members handing in guns during the amnesty. I’m predicting not many.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:37am
  - Yvette
    
    cmm  –
    The Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines and Parts) Amendment Act came into effect on 20 June 2019. The new regulations allow for the buy-back of newly prohibited firearms and parts from owners within a six month amnesty period (by 20 December 2019).
    To receive compensation for prohibited firearms you are required to have a valid firearms licence. If you are handing in parts and accessories included in the prohibited list, you do not require a firearms licence to receive compensation.
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:21am
    - cmm
      
      Ok thanks.
      
      The “prohibited items” (eg. magazines) did not need any license previously, so that makes sense.
      
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      July 15, 2019 10:42am
  - kowtow
    
    Haha.
    
    The same day the media and gubmint were hailing the safer streets cos of gun confiscation stuff ran this
    
    “Gang activity on a quiet Stokes Valley street is forcing mums to keep their children inside.
    
    One resident of a neighbouring street said he had seen gang members openly carry guns on Hanson Gr four times in the last 12 months.
    
    “They don’t use pop guns. It is 12 gauge shotguns”,”
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/114105329/gang-activity-forces-stokes-valley-mums-to-keep-their-kids-inside
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:54am
- cmm
  
  Why do we keep calling guns weapons?
  
  I suppose they are, or can be, but still it is an emotionally charged term.
  
  We don’t call Mitre 10 a weapon shop or burglary warehouse even though those hammers, screwdrivers, knives, etc can do some damage.
  
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  July 15, 2019 9:03am
  - GoVege
    
    What else are guns used for besides as weapons, cmm?
    
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    July 15, 2019 7:20pm
- freethinker
  
  I really like you reference to a Ngai Tahu payment as it does set a precedent that should be followed unless Mawree are indeed the Special people!
  
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  July 15, 2019 10:35am
Happychappy

Why would you have to front a tribunal to evict a Tennant when he was breaking the Law.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/114234134/landlord-seeks-tribunal-help-to-throw-out-determined-cannabis-grower
Haven’t we got a police force that can make decisions when a Tennant continually breaks the Lawover Marijuana.
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July 15, 2019 8:13am
- WaveyDavey
  
  Because only the Tribunal can issue an eviction order. A landlord can’t unilaterally throw a tenant out on the spot.
  
  https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/TTV2/PDF/4667778-Tenancy_Tribunal_Order.pdf
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:23am
  - WaveyDavey
    
    BTW, a landlord can’t just evict a tenant even if they’re in jail. They still have to go to the TT.
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:05am
- artemisia
  
  The ex tenant Anthony Murrell is now famous, on police and landlord radars, and not in a good way.
  
  He would have been well advised to quietly move out on the agreed date. Probably did not realise that Tenancy Tribunals are almost all public information.
  
  Stuff has twigged to this.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:28am
Maggy Wassilieff

Who benefits from NZ’s Carbon credits grab-all?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12249470
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July 15, 2019 8:14am
- Ross12
  
  Do not forget the recent articles of how trees emit methane.
  https://www.wired.com/story/trees-emit-a-surprisingly-large-amount-of-methane/
  
  So cattle are bad because of methane so I presume trees are bad as well.
  Back to the drawing board for the anti farmer / alarmist brigade.
  
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  July 15, 2019 10:29am
  - cmm
    
    And never forget the worst.
    
    Compost heaps.
    
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    July 15, 2019 11:40am
MrLovebucket

I see yet another article over the weekend continuing the recent trend of changing the spelling of local place names.

This is usually driven by a “look-at-me” types (not always Maori), who suddenly realise we should be using an A instead of an E, or vice versa.

Surely the same energy should be put into people names and stop the madness of mis-spelling perfectly good names through some misguided belief that if their little darling has a unique name, it will somehow make them rich and famous.
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July 15, 2019 8:17am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Our country name is a mis-spelling. It should be Nieuw Zeeland. If the argument is we are using the English version of the name and/or people are used to it, then we should have stuck with Wanganui and Rimutaka.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:34am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    The prewar Japanese name for NZ was 新西蘭 (literally “New” “West Holland”). The Chinese still use something similar.
    Nowadays, katakana rule for foreign names, so it’s the familiar ニュージーランド (Nyūjīrando).
    
    If Maori wants to survive, it will need to transliterate like crazy and follow the example of Japanese. Having a central Wellington committee to officially synthesize new words is a death sentence for Te Reo.
    
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    July 15, 2019 8:57am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Te Reo implicitly denotes its an oral language. Fossilised about 1835. It’s got some serious use on the Marae for cultural and legal purposes as tribal land rights are included. That is a reserved use.
      
      Elsewhere Te Reo has little purpose. Who wants hu’s and koti’s? Even to use it that way is to bastardise it by not recognising its grammar. With too few root words what is the point in developing a new language. Transliteration would only likely be bad English spelling–imagine tying to teach English in that context.
      
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      July 15, 2019 9:41am
    - Jack5
      
      Given that English is a Germanic language, “Zealand” is close enough to Dutch “Nieuw Zeeland” or “sealand” or German “Neuseeland”.
      
      “New Sea Land” isn’t a bad description for this remote archipelago that was separate from the rest of the world until a thousand years or so ago.
      
      If you wanted to complicate things with diacritical marks (as Maori has been with macrons), we could adopt the spelling from the English language’s closest relative, Frisian: “Nij Seelân”.
      
      According to Google, the Chinese name for New Zealand sounds like “Xīn xīlán” “shin -shee-land”. This sounds to be a phonic approximation of “New Zealand”, and I have heard this is also close to the Chinese term for a type of jade. Perhaps a Chinese speaker can help us with this.
      
      How “New Zealand” got its English name:
      
      https://mentalfloss.com/article/56233/where-old-zealand
      
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      July 15, 2019 3:45pm
  - cmm
    
    Naah, sorry mate. If the Dutch wanted to keep their name they should have won the war.
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:06am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      The English won the war, but the English language does not seem to be able to keep its placenames in this country.
      Could you imagine the uproar if Japanese placenames in Hokkaido were to be renamed in the Ainu language. (Actually, many Hokkaido placenames sound exotic to mainland Japanese because they are derived from the Ainu language. Names like Oshamambe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshamambe,_Hokkaido (sounds like a town in some African country).
      
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      July 15, 2019 9:19am
      - cmm
        
        Like I said yesterday, since the poms stopped using “Great Britain” and started calling themselves “UK”, they have become a bunch of wusses.
        
        Every time someone says Aotearoa the same happens here.
        
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        July 15, 2019 10:46am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        cmm,
        
        On the whole New Zealand passport holders are not very proud of their nation and have little idea of what New Zealand culture is.
        
        Is this that “cultural cringe” that I hear about? Or is it manifested in the way that kiwis obsess about asking foreigners what they think of New Zealand–as if desperate for acknowlegment and affirmation?
        
        I find it strange that this country really doesn’t have an identity (yet). And if it does, it certainly doesn’t want to talk about it, let alone defend it.
        
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        July 15, 2019 1:14pm
- kowtow
  
  Nah , it’s about power on the one hand ( we can stick it up ’em) and virtue signalling on the other ( bleeding heart goodies) and of course to certain Maoris this is a priority , meanwhile the babies still get the bash , with or without a macron…….
  
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  July 15, 2019 10:06am
Maggie Pie

We couldn’t even bear to watch the first half of the ‘Sunday’ program last night.
I was sooo embarrassed and my partner was disgusted.
Although i knew his mum must have seen it – she txt us @7:55pm

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July 15, 2019 8:19am
- freethinker
  
  Two nasty horrible queers, pity the baby.
  
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  July 15, 2019 10:41am
  - GoVege
    
    Have you thought about changing your pen-name, freethinker?
    
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    July 15, 2019 7:23pm
- MCos
  
  At the time of the the 2013 census almost fifteen hundred same sex couples had kids in NZ.
  Personally I’m not particularly interested in watching a TV programme about anybody’s kids, but the surrogate mother process for couples who can’t have kids was fairly interesting.
  I can understand that people from a sheltered background may find same sex couples with kids a bit bewildering.
  
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  July 15, 2019 2:35pm
G152

The ‘Sunday’ program has run out of real journalists and journalistic subjects.
Gone I might say, from Fake news to Flake news, time to sell off the channel to a more real newsy outlet
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July 15, 2019 8:32am
- Rich Prick
  
  Women’s Weekly?
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:43am
- oldgolfer
  
  I’m not sure it ever had any.
  
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  July 15, 2019 9:00am
secondcumming

TBH, this guy is sounding queerer than a football bat…..

https://twitter.com/jacktame/status/1150195043627495424
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July 15, 2019 8:40am
- Inandout
  
  His ‘mate’ is blonde, eh?
  
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  July 15, 2019 10:36am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  He certainly doesn’t know much history anyway.
  
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  July 15, 2019 2:10pm
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    But, in hindsight, typical womens day journalism style – I know someone, personal anecdote = Feelz ™ far more useful that truth or historical accuracy.
    
    Sooner that weird little boybot is sent away, the better.
    
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    July 15, 2019 2:11pm
  - Jack5
    
    Tame says in a post: “The Crusades made for single worst event in Jerusalem’s history.”
    
    According to Wikipedia, Jerusalem has been attacked 52 times and destroyed twice.
    
    The city has had a lot of bad days.
    
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    July 15, 2019 3:58pm
Tall Man

“Kate Hawkesby: Government ‘don’t have a clue’ when it comes to rural living”

Fixed it for you Kate

Kate Hawkesby: Government ‘don’t have a clue’.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/early-edition/opinion/kate-hawkesby-government-don-t-have-a-clue-when-it-comes-to-rural-living/
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July 15, 2019 8:46am
- WaveyDavey
  
  She wouldn’t have written the headline and despite the quote marks it ~~don’t~~ doesn’t appear in the piece.
  
  Blame the intern where there used to be a sub.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:55am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  That was a really good column. Exactly the same in the small town I live in. It’s 17kms to the nearest bus stop. Sheep don’t fit in a Leaf well (well the ponsonby green voting ones might), the old flat-deckm, or double cab ute or the tradie van are the vehicles of choice out here. Everybody tows.
  
  The horror is that the town iteself, despite having had all its industry destroyed, still thinks of itself as tribal labour. Much as I imagine Hutt South did…..
  
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  July 15, 2019 9:02am
- stephieboy
  
  Tall Man seems Hawkesby is a bit of a sook when it comes to choosing a rural lifestyle as of last year,,
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/latest/107055255/hosking-and-hawkesby-have-bought-a-country-property-in-matakana
  
  Both could afford to commute by Helicopter!
  
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  July 15, 2019 1:39pm
Hugh Pavletich

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New Zealand at risk of a house price crash: Bloomberg … Stuff NZ

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/114227809/new-zealand-at-risk-of-a-house-price-crash-bloomberg

New Zealand and Canada are the two countries with the most unsustainable housing markets in the world, according to Bloomberg.

Bloomberg economist Niraj Shah’s “housing bubble dashboard” showed the two countries holding the top spots.

They have the highest cost of housing compared with wages, beating Australia, the UK, Norway and Sweden – which are also vulnerable. … read more via hyperlink above …
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… Blasting the government for dithering at sorting land supply and infrastructure financing … mid 2018 …

Govt criticised for moving slowly on Auckland growth boundary … Michael Daly … Stuff NZ

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/105295016/govt-criticised-for-moving-slowly-on-auckland-growth-boundary
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The government knows exactly what needs to be done … Urban Development (then Housing) Minister Phil Twyford’d important late March speech …

New Zealaned Housing (now Urban Development) Minister Phil Twyfords speech to the New Zealand Initiative Members Retreat … New Zealand Government / Beehive

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/speech-nz-initiative-members%E2%80%99-retreat

… extract …

… In our view there are three big challenges that have to be addressed:

1. A broken system for financing infrastructure

2. A planning system based on urban containment

3. The failure of governments until now, both local and central, to actively work with the private sector to enable urban growth and expansion.

… concluding …

… I talked about the land banking and speculative economy, and the pressure cooker that has given us some of the most obscenely expensive housing in the world.

These moves are designed to change that. …

… If we do these things we can truly flood the market with development opportunities. We can break the land banking economy, and drive down the cost of urban land.

We can achieve more competitive urban land markets. And industry that is more focused on development and building places of enduring value instead of land banking and speculation.

That is the pathway to more affordable housing, and a systemic fix of the crisis that has caused so much hardship, and sucked so much of our national wealth into residential property instead of the productive economy. … read more via hyperlink above … and read more at http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org …
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Above posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/07/links-15-july-2019/#comment-3391184
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July 15, 2019 8:50am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
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  New Zealand Property Institute (formally Valuers Institute) CEO Ashley Church in panic mode … watch video …
  
  New Zealand housing market at risk of crash, Bloomberg research shows … NZ Herald
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12249413
  
  Back during 2004 the monthly RE transaction volumes peaked at about 11,000 a month … and it has been pretty much downhill all the way from there, as investors (speculators) have ‘fled for the hills’ … so that the most recent month was about 5,900.
  
  Expressing this ‘monthly churn rate’ on an annual basis and taking account of the lift in the population base through this time … means that the churn rate per 1000 population per annum has gone from about 34 to 14.
  
  The declines underway in income for real estate agents, valuers, solicitors, and those associated with them, is massive.
  
  And this is just the start of it.
  
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  July 15, 2019 9:08am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Can’t you just spit it all out in one go and be done with it?
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:15am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      There needs to be a pause, and then a re-clench.
      
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      July 15, 2019 9:25am
      - Rich Prick
        
        Dulcolax is the answer to the question that didn’t need asking.
        
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        July 15, 2019 11:24am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Hugh:
    
    And this is just the start of it
    
    You know, Hugh, the tagline “But wait, there’s more!” worked for Suzanne Paul and her Natural Glow product back in the day. But, judging by your customer feedback (lots of downticks), I’d say you lost your Natural Glow a long time ago!
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:28am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The declines have nothing to do with land availability. See Aus for a leading indicator.
    
    So valuers have been taken over by property magnates.
    One of these days they will learn that value is independent of price. Also that price is related to money supply which includes global credit creation.
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:50am
  - freethinker
    
    Downticked but agree with last sentence and I will cry Crocodile tears for them .
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:43am
Maggie Pie

Last night i found out ‘little people’ dont like being called Midgets.
And they certainly don’t like being called ‘People McNuggets’.
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July 15, 2019 9:01am
- Komata
  
  Maggue Pie@0901
  
  Thank you. We will not, of course, ask what research you undertook to come to that conclusion…
  
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  July 15, 2019 9:33am
- srylands
  
  Did you get kicked in the shins?
  
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  July 15, 2019 9:58am
  - stinkypete
    
    headbutted in the shins ?
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:31am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    LOL! No, silly.
    There’s a ‘little person’ that works as an Orderly on the night shift.
    The other night he was standing close to me in the lift and as we both exited he told me my hair smelled nice.
    
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    July 15, 2019 10:35am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      oops! you should have cracked the creepy little fXXXxer with your handbag…. 🙂
      
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      July 15, 2019 2:12pm
    - Rob2
      
      You really do need to wear your after shave then. 😆
      
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      July 15, 2019 8:42pm
- MrLovebucket
  
  I think the official term is Oompa-Loompa
  
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  July 15, 2019 11:07am
  - Tall Man
    
    That’s only the fat ones….
    
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    July 15, 2019 12:58pm
- Rob2
  
  I call mine dwarfs.
  Makes for great mirth around the workplace espescially as I’m not that tall myself.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:41pm
Happychappy

Five and a half years of spewing this shit and all that’s happened is Labours con was found out,how many houses have they built after promising Thousands.
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July 15, 2019 9:07am
- Rich Prick
  
  Not many, if any.
  
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  July 15, 2019 11:26am
Swifty

If a few Maori bash their kids does that make all Maori kiddie-bashers?

If a few Chinese swindle NZ banks does that make all Chinese bank swindlers?

If a few Indians rort their immigrant staff does that make all Indians slave traders?

I believe the answer to these questions is no – and if I did, then I would be rightly labelled a bigot.

However, what seems to be the case is that if we have a few white (the only example given) racists in NZ then the whole country is RACIST!!!!!!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/114098683/tvnz-has-angered-many-for-their-doco-thats-a-bit-racist-good-job-tvnz
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July 15, 2019 9:35am
- igm
  
  This man is on the money every time he tweets:
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/114235346/trump-tells-democratic-congresswomen-of-colour-to-go-back-to-where-they-came-from
  We need someone of this calibre here, not the sickly wimps we have ruining NZ currently.
  
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  July 15, 2019 12:03pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Perhaps Trump should be told to ‘go back’ to his mother’s country and his own spawn should be told to ‘go back’ to their mothers’ countries.
    But the president doesn’t see the immigrant Trump women as a problem because?
    
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    July 15, 2019 12:42pm
    - WaveyDavey
      
      Hahaha, sucked into the obvious trap.
      
      Look Pelosi has been trying to put AOC back in the box along with Ihlan Omar because every time they open their mouths they cost the Dems votes.
      
      Along comes Trump knowing full well that if he tweets what he did (which btw was more nuanced than you make out) they’ll be leaping out of the box to do more damage to the Dems chances.
      
      This absolutely does good to Trump’s chances and absolutely damages the opposition. Anyone who clutches their pearls over this were never going to vote Rep anyway.
      
      You generally seem smart if a little misguided mike so I’m not sure how you missed that.
      
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      July 15, 2019 2:15pm
      - Batman
        
        It doesn’t change the fact that it’s a disgrace for the President of the United States to be tweeting such petty schoolyard rubbish.
        
        Same goes for AOC and her fellow newbies. They should learn that great piece of NZ parliamentary advice for first termers, “breathe through your nose.”
        
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        July 15, 2019 2:57pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Oh sure, I get that Trump’s fan base will have only praise for his openly racist taunting.
        
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        July 15, 2019 3:19pm
      - WaveyDavey
        
        Okay Mike, since you’ve doubled-down (to use that god-awful phrase), here’s the quote in full”
        
        “So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly…
        
        …and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how….”
        
        So no mention of race, ethnicity or colour there whatsoever. Hardly racist to suggest that someone maybe put what was their own house in order before criticising someone else’s. Actually biblical almost, something about motes wasn’t it?
        
        Amazingly, Stuff headline doesn’t actually reflect the content. Who’d have thought it?
        
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        July 15, 2019 3:54pm
      - WaveyDavey
        
        And Batman. So what? A disgrace to who? Those who weren’t going to vote for him anyway, what does he care?
        
        He’s appealed to his existing base and will have probably added several thousand to to his vote count on the basis of that tweet. Currently his job it to get re-elected and he’d doing pretty well, helped in no small part by the woke stupidity of the Dems.
        
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        July 15, 2019 3:57pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Ha ha. The whole point was to pretend that those representatives are not from the US. They are just as American as Drumpf and his brood. His whole point is to associate political opponents who hapen to be persons of colour as soomehow not real Americans. It’s Racism 101. And it’s wildly popular with his ‘base’.
        
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        July 15, 2019 4:52pm
Swifty

If we are to be consistent in these matters, would this mean that all spouses, children and rellies of tourists killed in NZ can automatically gain citizenship?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/114204889/lets-do-the-right-thing-by-all-the-mosque-widows

Killed in a traffic accident? Fall off a cliff? Drown in a river?

Yep no worries, you can all now come over.

Might even become a cottage industry.
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July 15, 2019 9:47am
- burt
  
  If you see a traffic accident, you get $5,000, if you are hurt in one you get $15,000. But don’t forget that after getting that money you need to complain that other peoples money wasn’t handed out according to what you wanted.
  
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  July 15, 2019 11:02am
- Tall Man
  
  I can see it solving more than one problem at a time…..
  
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  July 15, 2019 12:43pm
- GoVege
  
  Swifty: accidents are part of everyday life.
  Being singled out because of your religion, and deliberately slaughtered by a white supremacist in your place of worship surely constitutes exceptional circumstances.
  
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  July 15, 2019 4:44pm
  - Swifty
    
    If that is the case then let’s hear CoL Ministers come out and say it – plainly – that this is a one off and not setting a precedent.
    
    And let them also explain the cost to the country over the next, say, 20 years. You know, just to be open and transparent – and so that we can make informed decisions.
    
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    July 15, 2019 5:50pm
    - GoVege
      
      Exactly, swifty.
      But why do you think it would cost that much?
      It seems most of the victims were trying to better and educate themselves in their new country.
      One poor teenager who was murdered had dreams of becoming a vet.
      
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      July 15, 2019 7:30pm
frankflintstone

I think the only fair way to decide the cricket result is to now have a peoples’ vote…it seems like a popular thing to do right now
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July 15, 2019 10:17am
- Tall Man
  
  Or legal action with a “go fund me” page.
  
  I actually think there may well be a market for a “go fuck yourself” page.
  
  People could crowd fund and the proceeds could be used to send “apt” messages….
  
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  July 15, 2019 12:42pm
sooty

Is Cindy taking the Airforce home from Raro, and on to Melborne to speak at a conference on “Good Governmance” (which is an Oxymoron in her case) Reported on the 9 news.
Will she pose next to the silo for a photo shoot?
She certainly is doing a lot for the climate change. But it’s a case of do as I say, not as I do. Cause I am more important than you! She could just skype the speech. But then she misses out on shopping and smashed avos with the jetset!
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July 15, 2019 1:03pm
Swifty

A direct attack on New Zealand’s way of life – the very way of life that have attracted these filthy scumbags to want to move to NZ in the first place – and all for their dirty personal gain.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/114237829/auckland-driver-licence-bribe-scheme-ringleader-sentenced-to-prison

Dirty corrupt rotten scumbags.

But this is of course what happens when you import en masse from corrupt cultures and all in the name of diversity.

(Oh, and one of them wants us to cut him some slack so that his punishment doesn’t hamper his career aspirations!)
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July 15, 2019 1:06pm
- Swifty
  
  * or his travel plans FFS.
  
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  July 15, 2019 1:46pm
- GoVege
  
  Who are you calling “filthy rotten scumbags”?!
  FYI most immigrants to our fair shores are more hardworking than many of the Kiwi-born.
  And at least the dude HAS career aspirations…unlike many born here.
  
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  July 15, 2019 2:16pm
  - Swifty
    
    Christ you write some crap sometimes.
    
    Is it not effing obvious who I was referring to?
    
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    July 15, 2019 3:04pm
    - GoVege
      
      We’ve got plenty of fraudsters here you know, my grumpy swifty.
      My mum told me that during WW2, the NZ and Australian forces were dubbed “the 40,000 thieves”.
      And we’re supposed to “know better”. 🙂
      
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      July 15, 2019 4:39pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  He is going to be deported as soon as he completes his sentence, surely?!
  
  … Sounds of crickets chirping…
  
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  July 15, 2019 2:18pm
  - Jack5
    
    One of these crooks has been sentenced to home detention. They have endangered perhaps thousands of people with their fraudulent licences.
    
    Our shamefully weak Immigration and Protection Tribunal will probably let them stay in the country.
    
    Meanwhile, in Christchurch, a boy aged 16 spent months in custody on charges related to the mosque massacre video.
    
    Finally on bail, he has been charged with having possession of the terror video, as well as another charge of breaching a remand order by smoking cannabis.
    
    An interesting aspect of his bail conditions were that he was barred from contact with a paint-ball group.
    
    Being held in prison was a tougher fate than that imposed on the Muslim lad who planned a car and knife massacre of Christchurch citizens.
    
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    July 15, 2019 4:20pm
sooty

Courier companies.
Do they have to deliver to the door or letterbox?
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July 15, 2019 2:58pm
MCos

Tweet of the day
https://twitter.com/jimmyneesh/status/1150562893777244160?s=21
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July 15, 2019 3:11pm
- Vory v zakone
  
  No this one easily beats it ?
  
  https://twitter.com/JamesDelingpole/status/1150474883865993217
  
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  July 15, 2019 5:17pm
Happychappy

Mods can you delete my post above please.
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July 15, 2019 3:33pm
john1234

Is it just me, or does it seem more and more clear that Cameron Slater is posting on WOBH under the SB handle?

Looking at the writing style and terms used, it looks that way to me. There’s post about Banksy having another tilt at the Auckland mayoralty that refers to Boag “poo fingering” campaigns. Well that term has Cameron written all over it, and Boag is clearly one of his hobbyhorse topics.

Just waiting now for SB to post about deer hunting or utes.
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July 15, 2019 3:41pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Your not one of Pete George’s relations are ya? 🙂
  
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  July 15, 2019 5:24pm
  - john1234
    
    Hell no! 😀
    
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    July 16, 2019 10:57am
- Martin Williams
  
  You mean he didn’t have a stroke, and his is a manufactured illness so he doesn’t have to face up to his debts and responsibilities?
  
  How the voice of the right wing has fallen!
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:11pm
- Tall Man
  
  Gosh.. don’t know.. don’t care.
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:35pm
Happychappy

Any bets this is more of Winston’s bullshit leading up to 2020 Election, this is the same sort of bullshit that he pushed about going to North Korea to sort out Kim-Jong and what happened there.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12249650
Winston Peter’s is all piss and wind many better than him have failed so this is just more Political drivel to encourage his oldies to vote Winston.
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July 15, 2019 4:20pm
Ross12

Can it get any more stupid?
Bob Brown , former Aussie Greens leader, lead a caravan up the East Coast to Queensland during their last election to protest the Adarne (sp?) coal mine development.
Now he is protesting the development of a very large wind farm on an island off Tasmania –visually not good, will kill birds etc.

http://joannenova.com.au/2019/07/former-greens-leader-bob-brown-campaigns-against-wind-farm/#more-65241
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July 15, 2019 5:43pm
Swifty

‘St. Louis Park city council members voted to stop reciting the pledge of allegiance before council meetings because it might “offend” some people. ‘

‘Note how the council members are reading from a prepared text as they attempt to explain their anti-Americanism. They repeat how they want to focus on “issues that matter” as if having a governing body turn its back on the foundational principles of what it is to be a citizen of this country isn’t an “issue that matters” while then throwing out the topics of “climate change” and “sustainability” as examples of issues they feel are far more important.’

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=yvgJ_1563151003

Note from Swifty – Liveleak, but quite suitable for work etc.
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July 15, 2019 6:42pm
- nasska
  
  I found myself considering the use of an adverb the other day & my mind immediately turned to our still absent friend ‘Kimbo”.
  
  What’s the latest on our old friend & ex combatant? 🙂
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:35pm
  - Swifty
    
    He Lives!
    
    🙂
    
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    July 15, 2019 9:11pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    He was frequenting Pete George’s YourNZ a couple of months back.
    
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    July 16, 2019 4:20am
Maggie Pie

BREAKING – cereal offender strikes again 🙁

https://twitter.com/RKEV3131/status/1150363428508377088
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July 15, 2019 6:57pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  It’s enough to put you off your breakfast (all those fruits, nuts and flakes…)
  
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  July 15, 2019 8:39pm
- sooty
  
  Why don’t the females walk out!
  Why would they share a dressing room with him?
  
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